MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by serf | 2025-11-26 16:54:01+00:00
>"Linux" does not force anything on you right?

>It's the community that has by and large decided to move to maintaining other solutions. If you still want to use fvwm you can still run it on arch with x11 until x11 is not maintained and the kernel breaks it somehow

well you just framed it perfectly; it's still forced on the end-user regardless of whether or not you want to call it 'linux' or 'the community that controls and steers linux" .
by neogodless | 2025-11-26 16:54:27+00:00
> not only regained significant amounts of the weight they had lost on the drug, but they also saw their cardiovascular and metabolic improvements slip away. Their blood pressure went back up, as did their cholesterol, hemoglobin A1c (used to assess glucose control levels), and fasting insulin.

This does sound like "reversion to the mean", but saying it's "regaining weight" may be missing the bigger picture. More like "losing all previously gained health benefits."

It's less clear how "unsafe" those regressions in health markers are.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-11-26 16:54:40+00:00
> X11's client-server model doesn't work with hardware accelerated graphics

I really wish they would figure this out. It just feels like with Threadripper etc the time is perfect for a return of thin-clients/not-so-dummy terminals running X11-like applications over the network on a server. Especially for development where many of us are running under-powered laptops and could use the boost to compilation from a beefy machine.
by trenning | 2025-11-26 16:54:40+00:00
This is how I look at Meta as well. Despite how much it is hated on here fb/ig/whatsapp aren’t dying.

AI not getting much better from here is probably in their best interest even.

It’s just good enough to create the slop their users love to post and engage with. The tools for advertisers are pretty good and just need better products around current models.

And without new training costs “everyone” says inference is profitable now, so they can keep all the slopgen tools around for users after the bubble.

Right now the media is riding the wave of TPUs they for some reason didn’t know existed last week. But Google and meta have the most to gain from AI not having any more massive leaps towards agi.
by squigz | 2025-11-26 16:54:58+00:00
> When it comes to CRTs this is probably more true today that it was when this was written. I can imagine a future though where more people seek to repair their non-CRT monitors as stores stop selling normal computer monitors to push "smart" monitors filled with ads and anti-features.

I sort of doubt this will happen. Computer monitors are used by professionals in every industry all over the world. Going the way of smart TVs - which are more consumer-facing - would not make any sense.
by vunderba | 2025-11-26 16:55:13+00:00
The site is broken up into "Editing Comparison" and a "Generative Comparison" sections.

Generative: https://genai-showdown.specr.net

Editing: https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing

Style is mostly irrelevant for editing, since the goal is to integrate seamlessly with the existing image. The focus is on performing relatively surgical edits or modifications to existing imagery while minimizing changes to the rest of the image. It is also primarily concerned with realism, though there are some illustrative examples (the JAWS poster, Great Wave off Kanagawa).

This contrasts with the generative section though even then the emphasis is on prompt adherence, and style/fidelity take a backseat (which is honestly what 99% of existing generative benchmarks already focus on).
Show HN: I built a standalone .mdb to Parquet exporter to avoid ODBC driver hell
by NabilChiheb | 2025-11-26 16:55:13+00:00
I’ve been stuck maintaining a legacy project that relies on massive .accdb files. I wasted two days trying to get the 64-bit ACE.OLEDB drivers to play nice with my Python environment without breaking other dependencies.

Access also kept segfaulting when I tried to export tables over 1GB to CSV, so I wrote a dedicated tool to handle the extraction.

The Tool:

Standalone: Doesn't require a local install of Office/Access. Streaming: Uses a stream reader so it doesn't OOM on large tables.

Parquet Support: Preserves data types better than CSV (and much smaller file size).

I threw in a basic SQL query window just to check data before dumping, but the main goal is just getting data out of Access and into a modern warehouse/dataframe as fast as possible.

It’s Windows-only for now (Access file locking is tricky on *nix), but let me know if it breaks on your specific schema.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-11-26 16:55:52+00:00
> I think there's a similar issue with Marvel after Thanos. Not as much that Endgame was a bad movie, just that the continuity was derailed and never grounded itself. Did Vision come back? Did Loki? Is the Fox Quicksilver canon now? Eh, who knows, the "real" state of the world has moved so much that it doesn't matter anyway.

In a way, I feel like this makes it the comic-book movie that's spiritually closest to the comics.
by vee-kay | 2025-11-26 16:56:02+00:00
You made the mistake of allowing PIP to be invoked on you for a fake reason given by your manager, and you made the even more serious mistake of getting fired because you "stole equipment".

If you were innocent of that dangerous charge, you should have fought hard against it, and ensured the top management, HR head and Ombudsman became involved in the investigation.

Being fired for theft or such serious crimes, can and will leave a permanent black mark on your employment record with the HR, and it may get pulled up during BGV (Background Verification) invoked by a prospective employer evaluating your candidacy for hire, thus seriously affecting your career and life.

I think you should now reach out to that company HR and clear the conspiracy and black mark against you. Perhaps, you can hire a lawyer who deals with employment matters, so he or she can legally get the matter resolved in your favour.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-11-26 16:56:12+00:00
I would assume that generative AI will be able to make endless hours of personalized reality TV content that will hit a surprisingly large demographic. And then it can use recommendation algorithms to distribute that reality TV AI slop to all the people that might or might not want it in order to turn it profitable. Evidence: all the god-awful foreign reality TV on Netflix currently.

It's a bit harder to replace Disney at this point, but give it 20 years. I'm bullish on AI slop on par with The Apple Dumpling Gang or Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo within a decade or so. Evidence: The rapid evolution of AI generated video in the past few years extrapolated into the future.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-26 16:56:24+00:00
We need to change the underlying system.

We do not need to do things no one needs. We do not need a million differen webshops, and the next CRUD application.

We need a system which allows the earth resources being used as efficient and fair as possible.

Then we can again start apprechiating real craftmanship but not for critical things and not because we need to feed ourselves but because we want to do it.
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-26 16:56:34+00:00
> that ad placement is actually easier for chat than search

Yes, but the reason why people are turning to chatgpt is because the time to actual info that _I want_ is much much lower.

The point of advertising is to displace the thing that you actually want with something they are paying the company to promote.

You can handwave about personalization, but do you want adtech people having access to your life's context?
by miiiiiike | 2025-11-26 16:56:59+00:00
I've been tracking tracking my work down to the minute for the past seven years. (timer and log book.)

I started out trying to get to five "hands on keyboard" coding hours a day, five days a week, and realized that it was unrealistic after the first few years.

Four hours of coding time, five days a week works for me. If I'm a little under I work Saturdays, if I'm a little over I take off early on Friday. Unless I'm sick I put in 20 hours of coding a week. You would not believe how nice this way of working is.
by toast0 | 2025-11-26 16:57:24+00:00
> I guess the difference being that people expect the HDD to fail suddenly whereas with a solid state device most people seem to be convinced that the failure will be graceful.

This is exactly the opposite of my lived experience. Spinners fail more often than SSDs, but I don't remember any sudden failures with spinners, as far as I can recall, they all have pre-failure indicators, like terrible noises (doesn't help for remote disks), SMART indicators, failed read/write on a couple sectors here and there, etc. If you don't have backups, but you notice in a reasonable amount of time, you can salvage most of your data. Certainly, sometimes the drives just won't spin up because of a bearing/motor issue; but sometimes you can rotate the drive manually to get it started and capture some data.

The vast majority of my SSD failures have been disappear from the bus; lots of people say they should fail read only, but I've not seen it. If you don't have backups, your data is all gone.

Perhaps I missed the pre-failure indicators from SMART, but it's easier when drives fail but remain available for inspection --- look at a healthy drive, look at a failed drive, see what's different, look at all your drives, predict which one fails next. For drives that disappear, you've got to read and collect the stats regularly and then go back and see if there was anything... I couldn't find anything particularly predictive. I feel disappear from the bus is more in the firmware error category vs physical storage problem, so there may not be real indications, unless it's a power on time based failure...
by musicale | 2025-11-26 16:57:27+00:00
> Obtaining without payment or consent

Usually "obtaining" is just making a bunch of HTTP requests - which is kind of how the web is designed to work. The "consent" (and perhaps "desired payment" when there is no paywall) issue is the important bit and ultimately boils down to the use case. Is it a human viewing the page, a search engine updating its index, or OpenAI collecting data for training? It is annoying when things like robots.txt are simply ignored, even if they are not legally or technically binding.

The legal situation is unsurprisingly murky at the moment. Copyright law was designed for a different use case, and might not be the right tool or regulatory framework to address GenAI.

But as I think you are suggesting, it may be an example of regulatory entrepreneurship, where (AI) companies try to move forward quickly before laws and regulations catch up with them, while simultaneously trying to influence new laws and regulations in their favor.

[Copyright law itself also has many peculiarities, for example not applying to recipes, game rules, or fashion designs (hence fast fashion, knockoffs, etc.) Does it, or should it, apply to AI training and GenAI services? Time will tell.]
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-11-26 16:57:37+00:00
"the people who did the work, did this" is basically the answer to most things, and I think here you're right - ultimately, working on X sucked and more people were willing to rewrite a whole new windowing system than to keep working on X.

There is some interesting reasoning behind that (which I will let more learned people expand on) but since I'm not doing the work I'm pretty zen about just accepting the decisions of the people who did.
by apelapan | 2025-11-26 16:57:46+00:00
I don't feel that AQI in reasonably normal ranges corresponds at all to the subjective experience of how nice the air feels to breathe.

The best breathing I've done was in Mumbai. Felt like a silk blanket both in the lungs and on the skin. I'm sure it would be bad for me if I stayed there a few decades, but it didnt feel bad at all when visiting.
by bookofjoe | 2025-11-26 16:57:57+00:00
no paywall: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/sleep-apnea-parkinsons-s...

>Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Positive Airway Pressure, and Implications of Early Treatment in Parkinson Disease

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...
by ragequittah | 2025-11-26 16:58:25+00:00
Openai doesn't care about my iot rules. They aren't going to hack my small home network. It's like saying the people who wrote the guide to set up an iot and guest network know your firewall rules if you follow the guide. Sure. I'd wager they probably know most of the rules for my admin lan too because they're self evident. And turns out most people configure unbound and dnsmasq in the same way too.

Moreover the fact that the AI knows my setup now makes it effortless to troubleshoot.
by TomasBM | 2025-11-26 16:58:30+00:00
You're objectively wrong.

"Sanctioned individuals" from Russia would have a hard time working in Belgrade, since it is under a lot of pressure and scrutiny from "the West". These individuals would have an easier time in Hungary, Moldova, Turkey, Malta or UAE.

The vast majority of Russians affected by the war, especially those with technical expertise to be Kagi employees, are not "sanctioned". Many situated people (which software engineers and adjacent roles often are) who left Russia have also reached the EU.

The US is also "openly flirting" with Saudi Arabia, Israel and (even) North Korea, if you like that language, but geopolitically controversial relationships between state officials don't and shouldn't determine the relationships between the people.

You are, and should be, free to employ and associate with individuals coming from China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, or US, even if the state you're a member of designates their (former) state as adversarial, unless you have reasons to believe that particular individual is adversarial or bad.

Hope that helps.
by byko3y | 2025-11-26 16:58:57+00:00
>I'm curious how you came to that conclusion. It seems wrong both on a theoretical level (Drop/unwinding/catch_unwind should obviously suffice for at least some cases?) and on a practical level (tokio can recover from worker thread panics just fine?).

Tokio provides crash-resistant synchronization primitives, but it cannot recover complex structures you've been handling — you either need to write panic-handlers that would revert your data to more-or-less manageable state or employ ready-made libs that do it for you. Languages designed for crashes don't require ad-hoc recovering — they just automatically clean up everything. That's what I've called "viable".

I mean you could have written crash recovery in C++, but it's just not viable because of how many things can go wrong.
by tyleo | 2025-11-26 16:59:00+00:00
This reasoning is not flowing through for me. It feels like you are saying:

1. There is an off ramp for TRTs but some people have, “true permanently lowered levels of hormones.”

2. For GLP-1s, “there is no off-ramp, but the only effects I’ve noticed are a return to my baseline.”

To clarify my original post, I consider the ability to return to baseline to mean there is an off-ramp and permanently impacted to mean there is no off-ramp.
by naasking | 2025-11-26 16:59:02+00:00
> I’m convinced math would be better without infinity. It doesn’t exist.

I agree finitism and ultrafinitism are worth more development. Infinity is a hack in the sense that it effectively represents a program that doesn't halt, and when you start thinking of it this way, then all sorts of classical mathematical arguments start looking a little fishy, at least when applying math to the real world. For instance, I do think this is at the heart of some confusions and difficulties in physics.
by matkoniecz | 2025-11-26 16:59:06+00:00
> Or, what's so wrong with anything so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it?

not claiming that it applies here, but I wrote some small programs where writing my own library from scratch too less time than I spend on trying to understand existing one

In another case I was unaware that existing solution exists and I tried writing my own one (then migrated when I realized that surely this kind of thing was done and people on local hackerspace chat pointed out that it sounds like Ansible).

For that matter running joke on hackerspace chat is about spending 500 PLN and 20 hours on building a chair to save 400 PLN. Because in this case hobby playing with a wood was actual point, not maximum effectiveness.

Similarly, this year I planted basil - and fixed costs for pots etc are large enough that it will never make economic sense. But looking at plants growing from seed (and then eaten prematurely by some caterpillars) was really cool. LARPing a farmer and seeing how plant grows from tiny seed to about 50 cm plant was really cool and I recommend it.
by treis | 2025-11-26 16:59:06+00:00
They're both all in on being a starting point to the Internet. Painting with a broad brush that was Facebook or Google Search. Now it's Facebook, Google Search, and ChatGPT.

There is absolutely a moat. OpenAI is going to have a staggering amount of data on its users. People tell ChatGPT everything and it probably won't be limited to what people directly tell ChatGPT.

I think the future is something like how everyone built their website with Google Analytics. Everyone will use OpenAI because they will have a ton of context on their users that will make your chatbot better. It's a self perpetuating cycle because OpenAI will have the users to refine their product against.
by Hamuko | 2025-11-26 16:59:16+00:00
Yeah, I have a hard time believing that there’s a massive demand for AI-generated videos and images. Like, why would the news industry want to generate images and videos with AI? It’s not news. The advertising industry maybe, but even then it’s probably not your top brands that go full in on it. If you see that all of Apple’s adverts are generated with AI, it’ll probably lower your brand perception.

We already put more importance on handmade goods vs. factory-made, even if the latter is cheaper and better quality. I have my doubts about humanity collectively embracing content generated from prompts by black boxes.
by Noaidi | 2025-11-26 16:59:19+00:00
I definitely choose the second of your two outcomes. That it includes all sorts of things that you think are not meaningfully alive. But these things are actually life.

Yes, living things locally decrease entropy and that’s my point.

And maybe I should’ve been more clear for people who cannot grasp new understandings, anything that can decrease its own entropy is living.

I mean, do you think life has nothing to do with the organization matter into a lower entropy state?
by zamadatix | 2025-11-26 16:59:27+00:00
With current probes being so "slow" (peak speed of the Voyager probes was on the order of 0.005% the speed of light) I wonder if even doing 10 probes at once per decade gets you more data back than working towards faster probe for less total time.

You could use this to create a relay in reverse order, but I also wonder if having a 50-100 year old relay would be any better than just using modern tech directly on the newest, fastest probe and then moving on to the next when there are enough improvements.
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-26 16:59:34+00:00
It's great that opportunities like this exist. Doing a project like this at all is such valuable experience. You must have learned a ton and can take that with you for all future projects. The only real quibble is the experimental setup is not really scientifically valid. UV light on its own kills algae, so you're going to detect a monotonic effect roughly equivalent to the altitude increase assuming a reasonably constant rate of altitude increase just from the cumulative exposure. That's not the same thing as detecting a change purely because of altitude.

Who cares, though? Scientists train for many years to learn the details of experimental methods in their specific domain. The engineering and hacking experience on its own is what really matters here.
by razingeden | 2025-11-26 16:59:38+00:00
so i could. say.

have a squid proxy on a $5 unmetered vps, referring to WP as a content-origin and then just use this to rewrite the image URL without using cloudflare at all?

(also possible with an apache directive but , doing it in WP could be useful)

and could you not .. just do the same for your $2.99 customers so you dont get a surprise $2000 bill or find yourself told by cloudflare that its time to pay up?

although if youre allowing uploads youre not in control of youd really need something like sightengine (or to roll your own) sooner or later to make sure no CSAM uploads and then theyll just get you in fees that way.

otherwise one person who does that might get your account canned and take every single blog using this service out

thats why id be a proponent of steering them to sign up and use their own CF R2 bucket , or self hosted minio (s3), or other s3 provider… or the squid thing for technical users who dont like cloudflare and its ilk. then theyre responsible for what they upload and host.

most wordpress static site plugins will configure the s3 hosting.

i just am not familiar with any that would easily let me plug in my own base URL for images. they probably exist… and if not then good job for tackling it. at the moment im going about this a different way and it works? but i wouldnt know how to go about packaging and shipping this up in a way thats accessible for everyone.

maybe a crude squid.conf generator you put your real wp url and your new cdn url into. but then youll want https on it too

i do know a lot of people would love to have “cdn” features without taxing the i/o and bandwidth on wordpress but who ALSO dont want to get cloudflare into their hosting for one reason or another. (im not there yet but i get it.)

the hug of death on stock wordpress is real which is why im already doing this in practice. with extra steps. (specifically a cloudflare rewrite rule for /wp-uploads/* to the alternate base URL which could also be done in vhost directives)

imo WP needs a third option under site URL and admin URL , for the base image URL.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-26 16:59:45+00:00
There are 3 ways I see it happening:

1. Applications or toolkits only supporting Wayland. An example of this is Waydroid, though thankfully that's the only example I'm currently aware of.

2. Desktop Environments only supporting Wayland. Examples now include GNOME and KDE.

3. Drivers only supporting Wayland. I think this may be the case of some "exotic" systems; I believe there are some postmarketos systems that don't have graphics with anything else. Thankfully, the existence of Wayback means this is probably a non-concern.
by chritsopherh | 2025-11-26 16:59:47+00:00
It depends how you wanna bypass it. (https://roundproxies.com/blog/bypass-cloudflare/) e.g. I found out that they track TLS, HTTP headers and Javascript JS fingerprinting. There are def some ways, personally using browsers but yeah. maybe take a look at that guide above foudn that helpful as a good starting point tho