MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtpg | 2025-11-06 04:24:40+00:00
>I'm sorry for how you and the Japanese community feel about the MT workflow that we just recently introduced. Would you be interested to hop on a call with us to talk about this further? We want to make sure we trully understand what you're struggling with.

- No apology

- No "we stopped the bot for now"

"We're sorry for how you feel" is enterprise for "we think you're whining". Maybe not what the person meant but how anyone is going to read it.

The original sin here is Mozilla just enabling this without any input from the active translation community.

This isn't a new problem, loads of Japanese translations from tech companies have been garbage for a while. People sticking things into machine translation, translators missing context so having absolutely nothing to go on. Circle CI, when they announced their Japan office, put out a statement that was _clearly_ written in English first, then translated without any effort of localization. Plenty of UIs just have "wrong text" in actions. etc etc.

Anyways the point is just that one side of this relationship here clearly cares about the problem way less, and _even when presented with that fact_, does not even pretend to be actually sorry for the damage they are causing.
by solid_fuel | 2025-11-06 04:24:41+00:00
> Yes they would, as they have been doing so far.

Yeah? Where have they been doing that so far?

You're seriously claiming that Trump, or his administration, would act with class and offer condolences if an opponent were killed or died? He couldn't even be bothered to say anything about the Hortmans being murdered by a MAGA lunatic [0].

He and his shitty son both publicly mocked Paul Pelosi multiple times after another MAGA nutjob attacked him with a hammer. [1][2]

> You should widen your sources of information.

You should reevaluate yours, you are in a cult.

[0] https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/trump-condolences-... [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-shares-video-m... [2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-mocks-nancy-pe...
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 04:25:30+00:00
> felt entirely tone-deaf and corporate in nature. Especially in context of this being in response to the Japanese team

The person is a "Support Community Manager" in Indonesia if you click on their link. They're not the CEO of Mozilla who is supposed to be an expert in intercultural communication. I think you're being kind of harsh on someone who is presumably not high-level and just trying to do their job and get more information to be helpful.
by shagie | 2025-11-06 04:26:07+00:00
I read this not as "you can't ask ChatGPT about {medical or legal topic}" but rather "you can't build something on ChatGPT that provides {medical or legal} advice or support to someone else."

For example, Epic couldn't embed ChatGPT into their application to have it read your forms for you. You can still ask it - but Epic can't build it.

That said, I haven't found the specific terms and conditions that are mentioned but not quoted in context.
by viega | 2025-11-06 04:27:11+00:00
That's interesting. I agree with you that the standards text is pretty vague. I think that's why other attempts to show how to do this kind of thing don't get deep enough on the semantics, and why I adopted a "try it and see" strategy.

I do try to avoid this kind of thing unless necessary, so I don't have experience as to where the different compilers will fall down on different corner cases. I'd find it very interesting though, so please do share if you kept any record or have any memory!
by saghm | 2025-11-06 04:27:14+00:00
Yep, and the logical chain itself can often be pretty clear where the discrepancy lies. In order for it to have a noticeable effect, you'd need to be looking at people smart enough to correctly identify circumstances that will make them happy in advance and then be able to influence things in average more than factors outside their control influence them. I don't think most "smart" people are more smart than life is random, without even getting into how common the requisite level of self-awareness is.
by bitexploder | 2025-11-06 04:28:22+00:00
I like smaller more focused tools on the terminal. You can make these all work together pretty reasonably with a little glue. Hurl, mitmproxy, httpie with http-prompt. I tend to prefer mitmproxy sessions and massaging that with Python/curl as needed for repeating and tweaking. User friendly is relative, but these tools work well. Python for tweaking http streams in mitmproxy is powerful and rather friendly for what you get in return. Mitmproxy lets you easily save flows with a bit of Puthon glue to output httpie commands giving history, and you can save mitmproxy sessions.
by anordin95 | 2025-11-06 04:28:41+00:00
I know it and do like it! Even for those that follow Diataxis, in my experience the "Explanation" sections are often lacking, especially compared to the "How-To" or "Tutorial" ones.

Python is one example that comes to mind. They do have explanations here: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/index.html. And, to be fair, they are generally excellent in my opinion! But they're far from front and center and there's much less overall content compared to the other Diataxis types I think (granted, I haven't rigorously checked).
by krick | 2025-11-06 04:29:33+00:00
(Unlike GP) I don't actually have a problem with your assumptions. They seem likely to me. But I still have a problem with the whole sentiment of, uh, people on your side of the discussion.

Let's just assume it is how you say it is. (The only assumption I am not willing to make is that people at Mozilla are already convinced it was a bad idea after all.) What in your opinion would be the right move now, after they rolled this bullshit auto-translator out and pissed off a lot of people in the community, including a major contributor for the last 20 years? Surely they could just ignore him and go on with this auto-translation initiative (BTW, thay don't even have to worry about whatever he wants to "prohibit" to do with his translations, because he waived off his rights by posting them). Would it be better than trying to set up a call and discuss things, try to find some compromise, gather a number of recommendations she may then pass onto people working on the auto-translator initiative (because surely this Kiki person, whoever she is, is not the sole person responsible for this and cannot magically just fix the situation)?
by kcplate | 2025-11-06 04:30:14+00:00
> We know that fossil fuels release pollution that we have no technology to clean up. We we should not be using it.

The irony is that without them, you (wherever you are) and I (wherever I am) could not be trading messages. Every bit you send and every pixel lit has a fossil fuel cost associated with it.

Our world 100% runs on fossil fuels and right now there is no alternative that rids us of them that can be made without them. No replacement technology can be developed that won’t employ fossil fuels even further to excess in its creation. So “not using it” is not an option. Cutting back is not an option. The only way to replace them is to extract, refine, and burn more and hopefully that investment can be the one that gets us the returns we need to hopefully one day eliminate our dependency.
by BronxVoice | 2025-11-06 04:30:44+00:00
By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice November 5, 2025

QUEENS LOCAL NEWS - Cops are looking for a man who made derogatory remarks to a woman and then punched her in the face in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man wanted in connection with a hate-motivated assault that took place late Tuesday night in Queens. Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man wanted in connection with a hate-motivated assault that took place late Tuesday night in Queens. According to the NYPD, the incident happened around 10:38 p.m. on September 30, 2025, on an eastbound Q83 MTA bus near Farmers Boulevard and 113th Avenue.

Investigators say a 22-year-old woman was sitting on the bus when an unidentified man sat beside her and began making remarks about her sexual orientation. Moments later, the man allegedly punched her several times in the face, leaving her with a cut. The attacker then ran off the bus and fled on foot, heading eastbound on Farmers Boulevard.

The victim suffered a minor injury. She refused medical attention at the scene but later went to Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital on her own.

The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is leading the investigation.
by stopbulying | 2025-11-06 04:31:16+00:00
https://schema.org/WebPage

https://schema.org/accessibilitySummary

Schema.org Accessibility Properties for Discoverability Vocabulary :: 4.1: The accessibilityFeature property: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/a11y-discov-vocab/CG-FI...

' :: 6. The accessibilitySummary property: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/a11y-discov-vocab/CG-FI...
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 04:31:17+00:00
> But he fairly in depth described the problem and his reasoning for why it is a problem. There's nothing really to "jump on a quick call" about without actually first addressing the issues.

No, he didn't. I'll repeat a comment I made elsewhere:

The problems are nowhere near actionable. A lot more information is needed. E.g. literally the first bullet: "It doesn't follow our translation guidelines". OK -- where are those guidelines? Is there a way to get it to follow them, like another commenter says works? Does the person need help following the process for that? Or is there a bug? Etc.

These are the things a call can clarify. It's the necessary first step, so why are people complaining?

> Calls require focused attention which if you are used to multi-tasking are a huge drain.

Solving important problems requires focused attention. Which is why you get on calls to solve them when they're urgent and important, and not something that can be multitasked.
by pdonis | 2025-11-06 04:31:18+00:00
> Why is a shutdown even possible?

Because much of what the US government does, including paying most of its employees, is funded by annual appropriations, which are only valid for one particular fiscal year. As soon as that fiscal year ends and a new one starts, if new annual appropriations haven't been passed for the new fiscal year (or something else that provides funds, like a Continuing Resolution), all those things have to stop because there's no money to fund them any more.

There's no Constitutional requirement for all those things to be funded by annual appropriations; the only restriction the Constitution imposes is that no appropriation "to raise and support Armies" shall be for more than two years. It's just how the budgeting process has evolved.

> If there’s no agreement just use what was already law before

That won't work quite as you state it because "what was already law before" expired at the end of the last fiscal year.

A Continuing Resolution is an attempt to extend "what was already law before" for some period into the new fiscal year (in the case of the one passed by the House in September that was until November 21). But it still has to be passed as a law--it doesn't just happen automatically. Congress could put something in place to do that (since there's no Constitutional bar to that--see above), but they never have.
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS | 2025-11-06 04:31:27+00:00
> This is a gentle fiction. The GOP has the 51 votes to change this rule by lunchtime tomorrow and proceed to govern according to the mandate they claim. They may choose not to do that, as is their prerogative.

You're correct, of course, but they're doing something that's exceedingly rare these days: they're thinking about the ramifications for when the shoe is on the other foot.

Which is kinda dumb, because Democrats have shown time and again that they're willing to throw the rulebook out when it suits them (but they'll cry crocodile tears when it's done to them).

It's all moot anyway; now that the election is over, and they don't need to leverage their constituents well-being for votes, Democrats have indicated a willingness to pass the bill.
by pinnochio | 2025-11-06 04:31:43+00:00
I don't think we can say it's "better" based on a bunch of anecdotes, especially when they're coming exclusively from people who are more intelligent, educated, and AI-literate than most of the population. But it is true that doctors are far more rushed than they used to be, disallowed from providing the attentiveness they'd like or ought to give to each patient. And knowledge and skill vary across doctors.

It's an imperfect situation for sure, but I'd like to see more data.
by pols45 | 2025-11-06 04:33:02+00:00
Well not surprising. National security/national infra is involved. Private companies will not fund/build nukes, missiles, aircraft carriers, fighter jets etc if there aren't certain guarantees from the State. Not just in US, all over the world.

Think about what would have happen if the Manhattan Project was run by the private sector. As soon as national security/infra becomes a risk the state will start getting more involved whether the private sector wants it or not.

The banking system/telcos/utilities in most countries have the State providing some kind guarantee to keep the lights on in case something unpredictable happens.
by webnrrd2k | 2025-11-06 04:33:09+00:00
I think that a lot of people here at HN have had bad web interfaces and GUIs inflicted on them for a long time, that a TUI is a welcome change and a big improvement. TUIs are limited, which make it hard to create great interfaces; but those limits also make it hard to create really bad interfaces. Also the TUI is genuinely good at simple-to-moderate complexity software. For an example, try out Midnight Commander.
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-06 04:33:13+00:00
Real time position tracking, CCTV streaming/archiving, automatic diagnostics logging, there's many reasons for a modern bus to have wireless data connections and I'd be shocked if most modern buses in the US and Europe don't already have such systems (i know here in Chicago the CCTV feeds can be viewed remotely by staff and most buses have their real time position available via public REST API, though i don't know what tech the buses themselves use to transmit that data)
by ModernMech | 2025-11-06 04:33:39+00:00
Ratatui is neat but the way it's architected, you need to take on third party dependencies for each individual widget. And we're talking basic things like spinners, checkboxes, text areas, etc. -- there aren't too many widgets built into ratatui itself. I didn't like the idea of taking all that on so instead I went with something more handrolled.
by rtpg | 2025-11-06 04:33:51+00:00
long and slow consensus building that weighs existing stakeholder's opinions heavily vs doing "the right thing" from the outset. So you move slowly and end up having very annoying conversations and compromises instead of just pushing something through. And the formal process is just a formality anyways, so then anyone not in the informal chatter just gets to experience the capriciousness anyways

The sort of consensus building ultimately involves having to do stuff to make people's opinions feel taken care of, even if their concerns are outright wrong. And you end up having to make some awkward deals.

Like with all this "Japanese business culture" stuff though, I feel like it's pretty universal in some degrees or another everywhere. Who's out there just doing things without getting _any_ form of backchannel checking first? Who wants to be surprised at random announcements from people you're working with? Apart from Musk types.

But of course some people are very comfortable just ripping the band aid off and putting people in awkward spots, because "of course" they have the right opinion and plan already.

Why context matters in judging whether some practice is good or not.
by zhivota | 2025-11-06 04:34:10+00:00
Pretty simple really, we're basically all [1] addicted to smartphones, so we basically all [1] advocated for this. After all, to admit it was a problem for our kids, we'd have to also admit it could be a problem for ourselves.

Even I find myself holding onto my phone during most of the day when not on my computer, I don't even know why. It's an incredibly addictive piece of technology.

[1] - to a first order of approximation, yes I know you're the exception
by qudat | 2025-11-06 04:34:30+00:00
Charm was my introduction into the world of ssh apps which prompted me to create https://pico.sh

SSH apps serve a similar UX to web apps which I just think is a great idea for many use cases. Needing to install a cli tool just to upload some files is tedious when you can just use rsync, sftp, piping, or even sshfs
by jcranmer | 2025-11-06 04:34:31+00:00
The electoral college was originally intended to have the states appoint some grandees who would get together and discuss whom the best candidate for president would be (for an election system that actually works like this today, imagine the papal conclaves). This system worked like this approximately once, and failed catastrophically by the fourth election, which prompted the slight adjustment that we see today. Electors weren't regularly selected by popular vote until after that change, largely complete by the 1820s.

Meanwhile, the reason for the electoral allocation reflects one of the most fundamental compromises in the design of the federal system: is the national government be representative of the people, or is it representative of the states? The answer is it's both--that's why there's one house for the people and one house for the states (the Senate). And the number of electors for the president is similarly a compromise, giving one vote for each member of both houses. (Again, recall that senators were not elected by popular vote until the 20th century).

There was no concept of a rural/urban political divide, because urbanization really wasn't a thing in 1787. The overarching concern of the people who wrote the Constitution was balancing the powers of a state like Virginia versus Rhode Island--the small state/large state divide is the major focal point of discussion--although there was also a contentious issue over the role of slavery (of course, in 1787, most states were slave states--only Massachusetts had fully abolished slavery by that point, although the rest of New England had just adopted a gradual abolition program) which yields the ⅗ compromise.
by sandspar | 2025-11-06 04:34:32+00:00
I haven't found this to be true. For marriage, sure, pick someone close to you. But I've found that IQ is mostly irrelevant for friendship. Character and compatibility matter more than IQ.

I've noticed that many smart people have never learned how to enjoy spending time in mixed-IQ settings. I feel a bit sorry for smart people who were raised with smart parents and smart siblings and smart friends etc. I find their perspectives very limited.
by laserbeam | 2025-11-06 04:35:19+00:00
> What is the renewed interest?

We just don’t have good desktop GUI platforms anymore. Qt and GTK are massive beasts, Windows changes theirs every 4 years (and no one wants to be tied to a single platform anyway), we don’t want to deal with Electron, and writing your own GUI from scratch is hard.

Terminals just got good lately and it’s way easier to make something higher quality in them than as a GUI. It’s just too hard to make a good small desktop app.

It’s the same reason why it’s easier to make something look great with LEGO than if you want to mold clay. I’d also wager that devs today on average know more about good UX than devs did back in the 80s when clunky terminal apps used to be made.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-06 04:37:05+00:00
> We don't usually talk about "economy of a city" because it's not that meaningful

You cited “economies of scale and ability to exert control at the levels of government these policies usually exist at.” New York has those.

The point at which it becomes “not meaningful” is well after the point that most countries in the EU turn into rounding errors.
by gpm | 2025-11-06 04:37:08+00:00
I don't think it's at all clear that some foss licenses (MIT for instance) are irrevocable. Not in the US, and certainly not in any possible relevant country... It's not clear that they are revocable either. As I understand the law it at least in part rests on the question of whether there was consideration in exchange for the license, which might even make it a case by case analysis.

CC licenses (and some other foss licenses, e.g. Apache 2.0) are explicitly irrevocable... which is probably enough for US law though I still wonder to some degree if there isn't some country that would take issue with that term... especially a country which recognizes "Moral rights".

Some other FOSS licenses (GPL for instance) contain explicit terms allowing revocation under certain circumstances (but otherwise claim to be irrevocable).
by bitexploder | 2025-11-06 04:37:30+00:00
This gets to the heart of why visualization works. When you’re conscious mind visualizes outcomes, around say work or sport performance or really anything, your subconscious mind can’t differentiate it from reality; the better you are at visualizing the harder it is for your subconscious mind to tell this. It is why visualization is such a powerful performance technique. Negative self talk is really bad for you.
by brokenmachine | 2025-11-06 04:37:40+00:00
There's been quite a few videos on youtube about the creative accounting going on where Nvidia funds OpenAI to buy stuff from Nvidia, etc.

Like snakes eating their own tail. If you or I did it, we'd go to jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCujAQtdfQ

But the big end of town apparently thinks it's worth a government investment of a trillion dollars for all that repackaging of stolen content.

It'd be really interesting to see how the books actually look. I'm guessing it's not pretty.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 04:38:00+00:00
> - No apology

- No "we stopped the bot for now"

"We're sorry for how you feel" is enterprise for "we think you're whining".

Anyways the point is just that one side of this relationship here clearly cares about the problem way less, and _even when presented with that fact_, does not even pretend to be actually sorry for the damage they are causing.

This is just a single initial reply from a "community support manager" in Indonesia. It's not from the Mozilla CEO or the leader of the project. They surely don't have the power to stop the bot. But what they can do is find it more over a call, and then who to escalate it to. Then maybe it does get turned off before it's fixed or changed.

You seem to be confusing someone in customer support with someone who holds power over entire projects. I don't understand how you think a customer support person should be able to just turn off software across the globe in response to a single short message on a forum with few details.
by NoPicklez | 2025-11-06 04:38:12+00:00
Not a great comparison, record stores sell exactly that, just records and each record uses the same player to play. They're not going to let you unwrap a $2000 graphics card, but they might let you touch a mouse you're looking to buy. There are clear differences here where not everything at these stores is just their shrink wrapped boxes, but are often on display, its all all black and white.

There's nothing stopping people from doing all of their Youtube research then walking into their Microcenter and buying it in person.

Its not like PC gamers who often use online stores have just forgotten to do any prior research when buying in store as opposed to online. So yeah I would do loads of research, then I'd go instore and buy it and look at what else they have on offer.
by hashiyakshmi | 2025-11-06 04:38:40+00:00
You're able to disable the pin feature to prevent that data from being saved though, so it definitely isn't a requirement.

I'm also not sure where you've read that they collect the contents of messages, because as far as I'm aware they still aren't doing that and I can't find any info online that indicates that they are (other than their secure backup feature that's opt-in only I suppose)