MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9dev | 2025-11-06 14:29:45+00:00
They are: But now you've expanded the definition of "a single monolith with postgres" to multiple replicas that need to be updated in sync, you've suddenly got shared state across multiple, fully isolated processes (in the best case) or running on multiple nodes (in the worst case), and a myriad of other subtle gotchas you need to account for, which raises the overall complexity considerably.
by input_sh | 2025-11-06 14:29:45+00:00
I love the idea behind it and the visualisation indeed looks awesome, but the RA data behind it is messy to say the least.

For example, 3/7 "nightclubs" it lists in Croatia are not nightclubs. I would also group Kalypso and Zrće Beach together as Kalypso is one out of 4 nightclubs located on Zrće Beach, but the beach itself is not a venue. Similarly, Barbarella's is kind of an afterparty destination for festivals organised at the Garden Resort. They only match 6%, but I wouldn't call them completely separate. This is the kind of "lore" that's impossible to catch from raw data.

I like the Essential Mix visualisation even more! It's such a shame most of the other ones appear dead due to API changes.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-06 14:30:02+00:00
> But, it's a pretty typical EU play. Protecting more established interests but kneecapping progress.

It's funny that as soon as anything European (not even related to EU one bit) is mentioned, people find a way of pinning it on the European Union. The article has literally nothing to do with EU, and everything to do with individual European countries, yet you somehow found a way of blaming EU for it :)

Sincerely, Spanish internet user who gets blocked from half the internet every time a semi-popular football match is played in this country.
by martin_a | 2025-11-06 14:30:17+00:00
I find pairing my IKEA bulbs and switches and whatnot to my Conbee 2 stick sometimes hard to do.

I'm thinking about buying a Dirigera hub instead, using that for the IKEA devices and using the Conbee stick only for non-IKEA products.

Does that work flawlessly when being controlled via HA or are there other issues to be expected?

edit: Maybe even ditch the Conbee stick after all, build some ESPHome devices as replacements (temperature/humidty - or wait for the IKEA version of that).
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-06 14:30:31+00:00
Using the word is implies you have definite, conclusive proof, but the only one is a number of phrases that you believe are tells for AI generated stuff, but is it really or are you only now paying extra attention to it?

It's better to stay neutral and say you suspect it may be AI generated.

And for everyone else, responsible disclosure of using AI tools to write stuff would be appreciated.

(this comment did not involve AI. I don't know how to write an emdash)
by neilv | 2025-11-06 14:31:00+00:00
> G(nome)T(ool)K(it). It always was.

I believe it was the "Gimp Tool Kit" originally, and Wikipedia agrees:

> GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit[3] and GTK+[4]) is a free open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs)[5]

Maybe the confusion is that it was sometimes called "GTK+" in the brand name originally (though most people just said "GTK" anyway, and that's what the code identifiers said).

Gimp (the photo/image editor) was already pretty sophisticated for years before Gnome was even started.

The first Gnome-branded library that I recall in the GTK space was Gnome Canvas.

The earlier commenter's point stands. Though my impression was that GTK was de facto taken over by Gnome around GTK 3 (though you could still write GUI apps without bringing in the fleet of Gnome desktop services).
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-06 14:31:01+00:00
A 2.8x price increase (compared to what I pay per tablet) for a product made and packaged in the US compared to a mass manufactured product made in a cheaper country by companies with thousands of other products and massive marketing departments seems completely normal.

The thing about Hank Green is that he has been doing this sort of stuff (good things) for long enough time that I don't have trouble believing that this stuff a: pays fair and not over inflated salaries, and b: all the profits really do go to charitable causes.

I also don't think Alec is getting paid per sale, maybe he got some kickback for the consultancy, no idea. He would be obligates to disclose if he was getting a kickback, so I guess well see. If he is lying about such an affiliation, these things have a good chance of bubbling up especially for a channel the size of his.
by StarGrit | 2025-11-06 14:31:09+00:00
Your reply is exactly the preachy response that causes people to be defiant and resentful.

> Yes, people do all sorts of nasty and cruel things because they think it's kinda amusing. That doesn't justify the behavior.

Blowing a bit of soot up in the air isn't in itself cruel. It is just a bit naughty. Now doing it in someone's face like I've seen in videos deliberately is not very nice and can be dangerous. I think it should go without saying that I don't condone anti-social and dangerous behaviour.

> The act of riding a bicycle in and of itself is not "preachy". That happens. "six bicyclists training for a road race were run over by a 16-year-old who was rolling coal", at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal .

Who said anything about riding a bicycle is preachy? BTW, I am a cyclist that spent 3 months out of work because of a hit and run accident that left me with a permanent weakness in my right shoulder as a result. The reason I don't spend a lot of time with other cyclists, is because everything started to become a political issue against drivers, a lot of my fellow cyclists are preachy. I heard people saying that owning a pet was akin to slavery and other such nonsense. As someone that enjoys both driving and cycling, it left a bad taste in my mouth.

BTW, In the story he caused a collision while rolling coal. The issue was dangerous driving. Not blowing some soot up into the air itself.

> Rolling coal nearly always implies deliberate intent, not coincidental timing.

In my case it was, it was because I was stuck in the wrong gear. My vehicle is currently in a garage being repaired for that very issue now (clutch is worn). It was funny in the sense of "OMG that is embarassing".
by miroljub | 2025-11-06 14:31:36+00:00
> Orgs can do multiple things at the same time.

In principle this is true. In the concrete case of Firefox, they have proven they focus more on side quests than on making a quality browser.

I lost any hope they'll go for technical excellence instead of virtue signaling and branding after the Brendan Eich disaster. They feel now like a Microsoft, Google, Apple, or any other big corp.

I used Firefox since it was called Firebird and finally gave up and switched to another (non big corp) browser and couldn't be happier.
by ac29 | 2025-11-06 14:31:41+00:00
Anchorage International

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International

Boston Logan International

Baltimore/Washington International

Charlotte Douglas International

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International

Dallas Love

Ronald Reagan Washington National

Denver International

Dallas/Fort Worth International

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County

Newark Liberty International

Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International

Honolulu International

Houston Hobby

Washington Dulles International

George Bush Houston Intercontinental

Indianapolis International

New York John F Kennedy International

Las Vegas McCarran International

Los Angeles International

New York LaGuardia

Orlando International

Chicago Midway

Memphis International

Miami International

Minneapolis/St Paul International

Oakland International

Ontario International

Chicago O'Hare International

Portland International

Philadelphia International

Phoenix Sky Harbor International

San Diego International

Louisville International

Seattle/Tacoma International

San Francisco International

Salt Lake City International

Teterboro

Tampa International
by tda | 2025-11-06 14:31:56+00:00
If you haven't been to a school recently where >99% of kids all direct >99% percent of their attention during breaks I can see where you are coming from. But I was at a highschool with a lax phone policy (allowed in breaks etc), and I was amazed and appalled. A no-phones policy is really important to me, because there seems to be no middle ground possible.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-06 14:32:15+00:00
I have tried Doom Emacs in a Debian VM on Windows host, because that was the opportunity to install a new Emacs thing for me (to code while playing a game). There Doom Emacs was not stable. Sometimes it just crashed and one time I even lost a whole function I wrote, because somehow it doesn't do the same backup file thing Emacs usually does. The keybindings were nice, but the stability requirement I have overrules it. So I am back to standard Emacs and currently using evil mode.
by myth_drannon | 2025-11-06 14:32:42+00:00
Unfortunately that's not what happens. BBC, Al-Jazeera, RT, CBC are all propaganda sources and are not sources of information. The other family members will get the information from those sources so family will not be trusted as well. And the sources I consider as trustfull, my opinion of them most likely skewed by my bias and others will consider it propaganda as well.
by cpfohl | 2025-11-06 14:33:01+00:00
Yeah, my son's issue was rare and congenital. I wish I still had the conversation, but I can't remember which LLM it was and it's not in either my Claude or GPT history. It got it in two shots.

1. I described the symptoms the same way we described it to the ER the first time we brought it in. It suggested all the same things that the ER tested for. 2. I gave it the lab results for each of the suggestions it made (since the ER had in fact done all the tests they suggested).

After that back and forth it gave back a list of 3-4 more possibilities and the 2nd item was the exact issue that was revealed by radiology (and corrected with surgery).
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-06 14:33:24+00:00
I purchased my first hybrid, last year: a Toyota Camry. It has helped to completely change both how I drive, and my driving temperament.

My brother has driven Honda hybrids for over a decade (he's owned four identical G1 Insight, designing major electric upgrades); he recently purchased a Toyota Prius, conceding "the drivetrain design of the Toyota is MUCH better".

Just as one example: while in electric mode, the Toyota engine stops, to 0RPM; the Honda engine must always be moving (when the wheels are) — resulting in increased mechanical friction / wear.

Toyota has used the same transmission style (allowing for the above cessation) since the Prius was first introduced, over two decades ago. The "CVT" [planetary gearsets] is rock-solid.

My only complaint with the two Toyotas I've owned has to do with the Emergency Brake: the Camry simply doesn't have one (it has a "parking pawl," which if you lift either of the front wheels up is entirely defeated; god help you if you need to stop moving after a brake failure [you can't]); the Tacoma has a physical parking lever (left of brake pedal), but its push-to-release mechanism isn't exactly re-assuring... if you need emergency braking while moving, the damn thing will lock up your back wheels with no recourse.
by ddxv | 2025-11-06 14:33:29+00:00
This has been slowly growing as a topic in the back of my mind lately. The past couple days I had some awkward interactions with ChatGPT that made me realize how it can remember conversations from last year, and certainly everything is logged.

I hope that local models will become efficient enough that more private llms will become available without heavy GPUs, but that seems a long ways off still.
by flyinglizard | 2025-11-06 14:33:51+00:00
That one is also wrong, because Jews before the war of 1948 largely bought their land, not expelled anyone by force. Most expulsions happened during the violence of the 1948 war (started by the Arabs). There were several Jewish institutions and donors which facilitated buying the land (like the JNF which lives to this day). And it started back at the time of Ottomans, not Brits.

I take it that you have strong feelings about it, but there's also established history that should be respected.
by wlesieutre | 2025-11-06 14:33:54+00:00
Might be an upgrade if you're using devices through Ikea's hub, but if you've been buying Ikea's zigbee devices for use with some other zigbee network it's a bummer that you won't be able to get them anymore.

Even if you're all in Ikea's ecosystem it will still mean whatever new devices you add from now on are a separate mesh network and can't use the existing zigbee products as repeaters. If the next thing you want to add is at the far end of your house from the hub, it won't have reception there with Matter until you put other new devices in between.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-11-06 14:33:59+00:00
At least in my experience poorly. As a reference I speak one of the smaller European languages and what is interesting that newer models tend to do worse, but what all of them struggle with and is very hard to control using prompting is tone.

Formal language in American English is very friendly, very sweet, to an extent that my language is not. Any piece of text therefore sounds like a psychopath is trying to manipulate you.
by conductr | 2025-11-06 14:34:05+00:00
I’m so glad my wife and I are aligned on the manual rinse thing as I don’t think I could suffer silently. We’ve had enough silly disagreements about other things like how to properly load the dishwasher. After a few decades, she does it her way and I do it my way. The dishes come out clean for both of us so we both deal.

I think we both grew up in households that did full manual washes most of the time even though the dishwasher was there; it was reserved for special occasions like Thanksgiving or Christmas when there really was a lot of dishes.

But are you saying you force yourself to eat all your food, even if you are full or don’t like it, just to avoid scraping it into the trash bin?
by luis_likes_math | 2025-11-06 14:34:16+00:00
We introduce a geometric framework for understanding Transformer language models through an analogy with General Relativity. In this view, keys and queries define a curved “space of meaning,” and attention acts like gravity, moving information across it. Layers represent discrete time steps where token representations evolve along curved—not straight—paths shaped by context. Through visualization and simulation experiments, we show that these trajectories indeed bend and reorient, confirming the presence of attention-induced curvature in embedding space.
by latexr | 2025-11-06 14:34:54+00:00
> Indeed if those graphic designers hadn't been wasting time drawing a cute fox they'd have been waste deep in 15 year old code fixing bugs.

That’s not the criticism I’m making.

> Orgs can do multiple things at the same time.

Of course they can. But they should also prioritise—allocating money and resources appropriately—and Mozilla has for far too long not prioritised Firefox itself. That’s the issue. If people felt Mozilla were a good steward of Firefox, they wouldn’t mind most of the tangential stuff they do. The issue is that Mozilla has a history of getting distracted with irrelevant side projects that go nowhere and are summarily abandoned (meaning they were a waste) while Firefox doesn’t get as much attention as it could and should.

One sentiment I often see on HN is “I would like to donate to Firefox but Mozilla only lets you donate to the organisation as a whole, and I don’t like the other things they’re doing”. Unlike every other major browser, Firefox is the main product of its parent company. It should be the best at what it’s for, yet far too often I see people saying they use Firefox not because they prefer it but because it’s not from Microsoft/Google/Apple.
by naveen-zerocool | 2025-11-06 14:35:15+00:00
I am learning and trying to grow my website from 0 to 50K MAU organically without any budget. I am currently getting 1,2 new users every day, but they are not engaging; they leave in 20 seconds. I would love to get feedback from the community, what is going wrong, what I need to change or fix, which will help my website grow.
by 9dev | 2025-11-06 14:35:18+00:00
> I don't see how you solve this with microservices.

I don't think I implied that microservices are the solution, really. You can have a replicated monolith, but that absolutely adds complexity of its own.

> But sure let's make our app 100 times more complicated because maybe some time in the next 10 years the complexity might save us an hour of downtime.

Adding replicas and load balancing doesn't have to be a hundred times more complex.

> I'd say it's more likely the added complexity will cause more downtime than it saves.

As I said before, this is an assessment you will need to make for your use case, and balance uptime requirements against your complexity budget; either answer is valid, as long as you feel confident with it. Only a Sith believes in absolutes.
by devinprater | 2025-11-06 14:35:22+00:00
I love Emacs. My first intro to it was on the Braille Plus Mobile Manager back in like 2008 or so. That was a beautiful device that ran Linux and was developed for the blind. There's been nothing exactly like it since. The BT Speak is a poor ematation that runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 and is sluggish because Linux accessibility is hard and not optomized for such low-power devices.

Anyway, I began learning Emacs commands in the Emacs tutorial on that Braille Plus, , and they made sense to me. Unfortunately, Emacspeak only really works well on Linux and Mac, not Windows where all the blind people are. Speechd-el only works on Linux, since it uses Speech-dispatcher. I got Speechd-el talking on Termux for Android last night though, although it was rather laggy between key press and speech. Emacspeak development has paused, though, and Speechd-el seemingly hasn't been updated in half a year. Emacs itself has a lot going on for a normal screen reader to interpret which is why Emacs-specific speech interfaces are so useful.

A few examples:

* On Windows, with Windows Terminal and NVDA screen reader, arrow keys read where the cursor is, but C-n and C-p, C-f and C-b, all that, NVDA doesn't say anything. This is with the -nw command line option because the GUI is inaccessible. * Now, if I do M-x, it does say "minibuf help, M-x, Windows Powershell Terminal". From there, I can do list-package and RET and use arrow keys to go through packages, but N and P don't speak even though I know they move between packages. So it seems like the echo area works. * Programs like the calendar, though, really doesn't speak well with a screen reader. It just read the line, not the focused date. Using left and right jst say "1 2 3 4 5" etc. So custom interfaces don't work well. I shudder to think how it'd read Helm.

Lol maybe I can get AI to make a good speech server for Emacspeak for Windows.
by dustfinger | 2025-11-06 14:35:44+00:00
I have been coding for so long now that I can't have my keyboard any higher than my lap. I code with it resting directly on my legs. A mouse is right out. Any higher, and my hands turn to clubs.

I love emacs because I can do everything with the keyboard. It is faster and a lot easier on your body long term. My advice, start young. Keep your keyboard directly on your lap and use a ortholinear plank keyboard so your fingers don't have as far to travel. I was skeptical at first, but I will never go back.
by dangus | 2025-11-06 14:35:46+00:00
The value in the content is experiencing it.

The moment some long form content comes out we are all TikTok kids who want a five second summary.

Never mind the fact that YouTube provides a compete transcription that you can copy/paste and dump into an LLM, making this entire thread, as I mentioned before, pointless.

The people asking for a summary are lazy people who want to be spoon fed trivia dopamine hits.
by muzani | 2025-11-06 14:35:47+00:00
Maybe a haunted house might be better.

Schachter-Singer theory was formed from on the idea that people will feel emotions based on their physiology and context. A person who is scared will have their hearts pound faster. They meet a person. They find that person attractive because their hearts are pounding quickly. It applies to things like road rage too - fear and anger are physiologically very similar and the body will combine the two. Anxiety is also excitement, and so on.

Things that create fear and anger could possibly improve arousal rates as well.

I'm also thinking team synergy like who's protecting who, who takes lead, who tries to save themselves.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 14:35:48+00:00
It's also well-known language from product managers and UX researchers trying to gather data to improve their product. And well-known language from customer support people trying to gather more information in order to escalate to the right people who can help.

Your knee-jerk cynicism saddens me. If someone doesn't want to help, they generally just ignore. They generally don't suggest hopping on a call ASAP. When they want to call you is when they're taking it seriously.
by freedomben | 2025-11-06 14:35:50+00:00
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. A video call is obviously better for conveying voice, demeanor, and body language, than is written text in a forum.

I absolutely loathe when companies do the "let's jump on a call" thing, but this does seem like a pretty exceptional case where a call would be indeed very helpful. This is also an opportunity for him to get directly in front of people at Mozilla to voice his concerns. There's a high probability of impact here, which to me seems very much worth the 15 or 30 minutes or however long it takes to jump on a call.
by dotancohen | 2025-11-06 14:36:01+00:00
> I have seen more than once people using ChatGPT as a psychologist and psychiatrist and self diagnosing mental illnesses.

I'm working with a company that writes AI tools for mental health professionals. The output of the models _never_ goes to the patient.

I've heard quite a few mouthfuls of how harmful LLM advice is for mental health patients - with specific examples. I'm talking on the order of suicide attempts (and at least one success) and other harmful effects to the patient and their surroundings as well. If you know of someone using an LLM for this purpose, please encourage them to seek professional help. Or just point them at this comment - anybody is encouraged to contact me. I'm not a mental health practitioner, but I work with them and I'll do my best to answer their questions or point them to someone who can. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username.