MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by josephg | 2025-10-14 03:44:13+00:00
End user license agreements are a huge part of the problem. Ideally users could sue if our data is leaked - and the threat of being sued would put pressure on companies to take security more seriously. Ie, it would become a business concern.

Instead we're constantly asked to sign one-sided contracts ("EULAs") which forbid us from suing. If a company's incompetence results in my data being leaked on the internet, there's no consequences. And not a thing any of us can do about it.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-14 03:44:37+00:00
As with anything in life, when it's what you know and do on the regular, that simple thing can look like magic to others. I met an old timer in the satellite business that came out to help install our receiver for a new TV channel the company I was at was getting off the ground. He found out what bird we were using and what its slot was. Based on that, he knew how many satellites over from the satellite he knew and used as his base. It was a long time running TV channel that he could find very quickly. Once that bird was located, he just manually (literally pushed the dish with his hand) counting the number of satellites that came in/out of view until he landed on "our" bird. Once there, connected our receiver and baddaboom baddabing, there it was. Once the satellite was pointed at the proper angle to the south, it took less than five minutes from him connecting his receiver to verify his base signal to packing up and heading off the roof.

His base satellite signal was unencrypted and a main reason he used it for this purpose. Our channel was scrambled, and only verifiable after our receiver with the decoder was connected. It was impressive seeing someone that good at their job make it look so easy, but after he explained the layman's version of orbital slots it became less magical. This is why magicians are meant to not tell you how the trick is done.
by mallowdram | 2025-10-14 03:45:02+00:00
We're already verging on decentralized, and we've been horizontalizing since 1995. If you're not aware of these trends leaving behind models, discarding politics, recognizing the narrative seclusions of economic policy, then you have your head in some 20th C think-tank or consultancy immobility syndrome.

These things are dinosaurs. States are looming as extinct, religion, history, myth, storytelling are ancient tools. I'd start looking around outside of the C suite.

Think what's already under development that disintegrates out stodgy ideas of "wealth", currencyless societies, tokens, analog measurement replacing binary, syntax instead of grammar.

Ye olde Friedman-Galbraith (and any edgy sounding theorist) promoting currency, quant, interest, game-theory about economies are witch doctors that have already been unmasked by scientists. I've linked one above a few entries up.

Think for yourself, don't toe the line into senescence. Don't replay your father's tired ideas about wealth.
by gwerbret | 2025-10-14 03:45:41+00:00
From one of the reviews:

> You also pay 15 dollars after the first 60 minutes [for] another 15 min.

Really? 1-900-CALL-SANTA, only $1 a minute, must be under 18 and have stolen your parent's credit card, no refunds whatsoever? Merry Christmas to you, too!
by wyager | 2025-10-14 03:46:15+00:00
I see no issue with the satellite backhaul itself being unencrypted; anyone using the satellite provider should assume they're hostile and encrypt+authenticate everything they send anyway. I don't trust my ISP's fiber to be snoop-resistant just because they nominally have some shitty ONT encryption.

Obviously the specific examples of end-users failing to encrypt are bad, but that's not really a problem with the satellites.
by shtzvhdx | 2025-10-14 03:47:04+00:00
I don't see how Egypt's claim against Israel was wrong.

The waters have been internal waters literally for three millennia (or more) until foreigners came in and built a canal connecting what is actually a very narrow gulf to the Mediterranean.

Foreigners come in, unilaterally build a canal and now the locals lose national sovereignty over their waters?

Also, why does Egypt have to agree to the freedom of navigation of a state it did not (at the time) recognize?

Furthermore, why must Egypt agree to the laws of freedom navigation it did not sign?

The answer, of course, is that there is no such thing as international law, or a "rules based order". There's only power makes might.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-14 03:47:53+00:00
> [Smart]phones are almost pure consumption.

This might depend on one's age/generation. There are tons of internet-connected people today growing up without ever owning (or knowing how to use) a PC at all. They do everything on their phone, including the creative stuff. I didn't believe it either until I saw my friend's high-school age kid writing an entire 15 page writing assignment on her phone. Us PC people are kind of dinosaurs.
by Franklinjobs617 | 2025-10-14 03:49:30+00:00
Perfect, that’s great to know. Thank you for clarifying!

Your use case confirms that the plain text (TXT) output needs to be highly optimized—meaning we must ensure the final TXT file is as clean as possible:

No empty lines or spurious formatting from the original subtitle file.

No redundant tags (e.g., speaker or color codes).

Just a single, clean block of text ready to be fed into an LLM or analysis script.

We will prioritize making the TXT output option the "cleanest data" choice for users like yourself who are moving the content directly into analysis or RAG systems. This confirms the value of offering both SRT (for video viewing) and TXT (for data analysis).
by DiabloD3 | 2025-10-14 03:49:45+00:00
I have a diet entirely free of ultra-processed foods.

Not only have I done this for almost a decade, given how high food prices are now, I'm surprised normal people can even afford the Standard American Diet (SAD). Cheapest and highest nutrition food is just buying normal everyday boring raw meat and raw vegs, put some spices on it, tada, food.

In Trump's America, dumping the silly garbage brands is the best thing you can do.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-14 03:50:10+00:00
As you say, it's just difficult to tell, the tile loss seems less dramatic than many used to expect back when the heat shield was relatively early in design, but ultimately only SpaceX knows how much they're passively losing during the coast phase.

All I'm saying is that that's one more factor besides relight that I think will need to be sorted (it might already be sorted, I wouldn't know) before orbit.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-10-14 03:50:55+00:00
because government regulators are backstopping the loan that young adult took for that sauna.

There's no free lunch. Its not a free market when a 17yr old with zero job experience can enter loan agreements of 100k per year.

And you know that's true because in any other scenario, the same 17yr old will get laughed out of any loan office. I'm not even sure a 17yr old would get a 400k bank loan if the kid showing up at the bank as the patent holder of Wegovy, for example.
by resters | 2025-10-14 03:50:56+00:00
It's a tradeoff. Suppose you are relegated to trading once per minute and you need to allocate $x per trade to make a profit. If you can trade 100 times per minute you need $x/100 to make a profit.

Or, maybe your strategy doesn't make money when you can trade once per minute, but does at a higher frequency.

What is fair about saying someone has to have 100x the capital to participate? You are focusing only on one dimension of cost, when there are several.
by mannyv | 2025-10-14 03:52:08+00:00
The reason you don’t this in psql is that for some versions of Postgres case is significant and you need to use quotation marks. I ran into this at one point and it drove me bonkers.

Older versions of pg let you create cases identifiers without quotes. I don’t care enough to look which ones.

https://sqlpey.com/sql/postgresql-identifier-case-sensitivit...
by Gigachad | 2025-10-14 03:53:30+00:00
Tbh the link problem is common for everyone. I sent a tiktok link to a non tech friend and they couldn’t view it because they didn’t have an account. So I used a downloaded tool to send the video directly. All of the major social media sites are locking out users who aren’t signed in with the app. So you usually just screenshot or use an external tool to rip the content.
by DavidPeiffer | 2025-10-14 03:54:41+00:00
I work in manufacturing. There are a few instances where watching YouTube may not be a huge hazard, but 98% of the roles I've seen the are reasonable reasons to not permit that. If nothing else, it'd be easy to let quality suffer which causes many bigger headaches.

I went to a panel discussion at a conference last year. Operations managers agreed labor was their biggest challenge. The manager for the promotional materials company who was probably around 60 discussed how he has loosened up a bit the last ~15 years. If someone sends a couple texts and it slightly impacts the units they (personally) do per hour, it was better than being super strict and losing employees. He had to adapt because the mentality was far different than when he started in the workforce.
by Franklinjobs617 | 2025-10-14 03:55:14+00:00
This is absolutely gold, thank you for sharing the exact script!

That specific ffmpeg silenceremove filter is exactly the type of pre-processing step we were debating for handling those massive, lengthy live stream files before they hit the LLM. It's a huge performance bottleneck solver.

We figured ffmpeg would be the way to go, but having your tested parameters (especially the start/stop thresholds) for effective noise removal saves us a massive amount of internal testing time. That's true open-source community value right there.

This confirms that our batch pipeline needs three distinct automated steps:

URL/ID Harvesting (as discussed)

Audio Pre-Processing (using solutions like your ffmpeg setup)

LLM Transcription (for Pro users)

We will aim to make that audio cleaning step abstracted and automated for our users—they won't have to fiddle with parameters; they'll just get a cleaned transcript ready for analysis.

Thanks again for the technical deep dive! This is incredibly helpful for solidifying our architecture.
Show HN: Hexecute, a gesture-based Wayland launcher
by andromedaM31 | 2025-10-14 03:56:34+00:00
Hexecute is yet another Wayland launcher, but using gestures instead of a menu to select options!

This started as a silly project for a 10hr hacking challenge (the theme was "magic"), but the end result was a lot more usable than I expected.

Stroke recognition is performed using the $1 Unistroke Recognizer algorithm from the University of Washington.
by astrange | 2025-10-14 03:57:37+00:00
To be clear there is exactly nothing you're required to submit to the government as a US service provider, if that's what you mean by authorities.

If you see CSAM posted on the service then you're required to report it to NCMEC, which is intentionally designed as a private entity so that it has 4th amendment protections. But you're not required to proactively go looking for even that.
by aaplok | 2025-10-14 03:57:40+00:00
> I love when people label politics they disagree with as “ethical” problems.

This is a disingenious portrayal of what people you disagree with are saying. It is not like someone is calling pro-capitalist or socialist views unethical.

"Politics they disagree with" means racism, homophobia and ableism. There certainly is an argument that each of those is ethically problematic, because each denies some human beings' basic rights to be considered human.

You may well argue that dhh doesn't hold those views, or argue that the community should accept that some members have toxic views and move on. It is best to avoid claiming that racism is just another respectable political opinion.
by dpark | 2025-10-14 03:58:29+00:00
> I think that designers are reluctant to do this because it increases the overall weight of the device.

This is the SurfaceBook. The base has extra battery, extra GPU, and the hinge “unwinds” to extend the base a bit to help with balance.

Nice concept but it definitely makes it heavier. I’m not really sure the market for this kind of device is very large. But then I feel the same way about 13” tablets and Apple sells enough of those to justify keeping them in the lineup so what do I know.
by ciconia | 2025-10-14 03:59:00+00:00
I'm somewhat surprised the comments here talk about the difference between "savages" and modern culture, yet no one talks about racism. It is clearly a western civilization thing to regard all other cultures (and species) as culturally and morally inferior. Hence the amazement expressed in the OP:

> Yes, there is some evidence suggesting that interpersonal care was practiced in earlier periods of Patagonia.

As if western civilization has invented interpersonal care.
by stock_toaster | 2025-10-14 03:59:00+00:00
I always figured it was a combination of the volcanic winter of 536[1] and the Justinianic plague[2] (which happened right as the eastern roman empire was reconquering the western empire to reunify).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536 and https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-ye...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
by lmm | 2025-10-14 04:00:41+00:00
> Containers (meaning Docker) happened because CGroups and namespaces were arcane and required lots of specialized knowledge to create what most of us can intuitively understand as a "sandbox".

That might be why Docker was originally implemented, but why it "happened" is because everyone wanted to deploy Python and pre-uv Python package management sucks so bad that Docker was the least bad way to do that. Even pre-kubernetes, most people using Docker weren't using it for sandboxing, they were using it as fat jars for Python.
by stevefan1999 | 2025-10-14 04:00:45+00:00
I'd say the problem is that the fiat currency keeps inflating and thus decreasing in value day-by-day, while AI does not bring that much productivity gain compared to last few decades.

Internet boom does substantially decrease communication cost and bring more people together, making much more liquidity. AI, meanwhile, is not only not flawless (and sometimes fatal, see some horror stories of LLM here in HN doing an oopsie deleting production database and do nothing about recovery), but also a costy beast that only corporations or rich individuals could own, in other words, most people can "download" the "means of production", but not totally use and own it.

And the biggest problem for AI, still, that compared to Internet, is that AI does not make you that much gain in productivity. Back when we are in the office we use pen and paper, now we use Word or LibreOffice depending on where you are, and PC is therefore a must. Now I don't think AI is going to be a must, and they are still shoveling NPU that would end up being a waste in silicon space, if not vaporware.
by JonathanFly | 2025-10-14 04:01:15+00:00
> Batch size of 8 would imply 20gb mem, no?

I'm running it now and I had to go down to 4 instead of 8, and that 4 is using around 22-23GB of GPU memory. Not sure if something is wrong or if batch is only scaling part of the memory requirements. (Edit: I restarted running the training script directly instead of torch run, and 8 still doesn't fit, but 4 is now using 16-17 instead.)

On my 4090 the tok/sec is 523, which is 1/2000 of the 1,000,000 tok/sec of the 8 80GB H100s. That feels too slow so maybe something is wrong. The 4090 is about 1/3 of the raw compute. I'm sure there's other losses from less batching but even if it were 1/10ths as fast, I'd expected something more like 1,000,000 / 10 / 8 so at least 10,000 tok/sec.
by motorest | 2025-10-14 04:01:27+00:00
> It gets a lot less contradictory when you realize the principles are window dressing for the interests.

I don't think this is the epiphany you think it represents. The whole point of laws and regulations is to protect interests.

Do you think that any regime passes and enforces laws that are detrimental to their best interests?

In free market economies, laws and regulations are put in place to foster competition, and antitrust legislation is in place to prevent anticompetitive practices. However, laws and regulations are also in place to prevent strategic interests from being captured or even threatened. The motivation is rather obvious and to the point. Where is this window dressing you speak of?

> Nation states will use whatever words are necessary to justify their actions, but the game is and always has been power, leverage, and interest.

Your post shows some degree of confusion, specially by the way you imply inconsistencies. There are none, and the whole point is rather on the nose. Internal competition and level playing fields are promoted as they pressure companies to improve their competitiveness. "Competitiveness" is the operating principle. Having a rival third-party perform an action that threatens your competitiveness is obviously not acceptable.
by dangus | 2025-10-14 04:02:11+00:00
So are you saying China doesn't have smartphones or social media?

UAW wages are "good" but you have to realize that you are competing with a service economy's leftover labor pool. All the good candidates left your manufacturing town already to get a job in an office tower where "good" UAW wages aren't really much to write home about.

For the last multiple decades graduating students have been facing a declining manufacturing job market where it makes just about no sense to get into manufacturing when they can get a degree and work a desk job with better pay and actually be in a job market that's growing over time rather than shrinking.

UAW wages are "good" but only compared to other jobs that are probably in the bottom 50% of desirability, and you're under constant threat of plant closures or the shift toward non-union plants in places like Alabama and South Carolina.

And oh yeah, you're stuck in some declining semi-rural rust belt manufacturing town rather than getting to live your best life in a vibrant growing urban area.

A full 35% of Americans have a bachelor's degree or higher, and those numbers are even higher when you are looking at states/counties that have the major population centers. The county map makes it look like basically every urban area has at least 40-50% bachelor's degree attainment, with standouts like the Boston area having some counties with over 60% attainment.

Almost 30% of Americans work remotely at least some time during the week.

So, basically half of the urbanized population has better options than working in a factory.

In China, working a factory is being compared to a much worse prior standard of living that was much more recent. Today's factory workers were yesterday's subsistence farmers. Americans haven't experienced that level of widespread poverty in at least 100 years.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-14 04:02:30+00:00
I think that's a valid question, and has plenty of ways you could go.

Is the process set up so that it's literally "throw it over the wall and you're done unless the test team contacts you"? Then arguably not. You did your job e2e and there was nothing you could've done. Doing more would've disrupted the process that's in place and taken time from other things you were assigned to. The test team should've contacted you.

BUT, well now the director has egg on his face and makes it your problem, so "should" is irrelevant; you will be thinking about it. And you ask yourself, was there something I could've done? And you know the answer is "probably".

Then, the more you think about it, you wonder, why on earth is the process set up to be so "throw it over the wall"? Isn't that stupid? All my hard work, and I don't even get to follow its progress through to production? Is this maybe also why my morale is so low? And the morale of everyone else on the team? And why testing always takes so long and misses so many bugs?

And then as you start putting things together, you realize that your director didn't assign this to you out of spite. He assigned it to you to make things better. That this isn't a form of punishment, but an opportunity to make a difference. It's something that is ultimately a director-level question. Why is the process set up like it is? The director could put together and solve with adequate time, but at that level time is on short supply, and he's putting his trust in you to analyze and flesh out, what really is the root cause for this incredibly asinine (and frightening) failure, and how can we improve as a result?

That said, in an org so broken that something like this could happen, I'm guessing the director is wanting you to do the RCA and the ten other firedrills that you're currently fighting as well, in which case, eh, fuck it. Blame the other team and move on.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-10-14 04:03:12+00:00
>>>The grant committees didn't earn the money, but as practicing scientists of some renown they have earned the right to weigh in on how public dollars should be spent.

No. They have not. They haven't earned anything. If they did, they would have had a connection to a company and thru their technical expertise, chosen exactly what to develop next, with their own (or investor's) dollars at stake.

You can't claim the best at a subject and purport to demonstrate it by writing a book. Say, risk management. Real risk managers open hedge funds. Academics write about other's hedge funds.

One has battle scars. The other is soft. Soft people don't get to make decisions on how to allocate anything. No cowards for leaders, since time immemorial.
by bamboozled | 2025-10-14 04:03:25+00:00
It's interesting though because as a middle class person, I'd say my finances have crashed. I know it's not a big "economic crash" but there is zero way anyone can deny that most people are much worse off then they were 4 years ago. It's not "horrible" but I'd call it a kind of "middle class" economic crash.

Simple example but real. Parmesan cheese. It was just a staple for me, I'd use it like water, now I literally think twice when making pasta because it's so cost prohibitive to use.

So your friends finances may not have "crashed" but he will be much much worse off then he retires and I doubt his wealth has really gained much of anything in the last few years either.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-14 04:03:33+00:00
I had considered adding how HN's darling's CEO, Tim, was also doing his part to support the American gestapo but figured that'd just be whataboutism (I think Zuckerberg gets hated on relatively similarly to Musk).

I just don't think every thread about SpaceX needs to be shitted up. It's unpleasant, like someone barging into a thread about some new exciting development/project in India or other developing country to rain on everyone's parade by saying that they should spend that money on getting everyone a toilet.
by strix_varius | 2025-10-14 04:04:22+00:00
Well no, the iPhone has niceties that Android lacks (as evidenced by its total market dominance for markets who can afford Apple devices). Lots of engineers use Android phones, but the C-suite invariably uses iPhones.

So if the reason you're choosing Android over iOS is freedom and flexibility, once that's gone, why not choose slickness, speed, battery-life, photo quality, and an integrated experience?