MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-03 18:27:56+00:00
I mean, yeah why not? Journalism should surface both perspectives, and readers should understand that any perspective is clouded (biased if you will) one way or another. No matter whose quotes you include, they will be biased because we as humans inherently is. Some articles/opinion pieces will only have one perspective, and that's OK too, you shouldn't take everything you read at face value, go out and search for more perspectives if you wanna dive deeper.
by dns_snek | 2025-11-03 18:28:23+00:00
> pick some numbers for the employer paid health plan

Don't forget to account for real annual healthcare costs, insurance premiums are just one part of the story, but you still need to pay out of pocket for deductibles and copays. It feels like there are so many benefit that we take for granted in much of EU (even if not all of them apply universally) that you have to budget for in the US and they also incur poorly understood but very real psychological cost.

I'm not in France but I graduated from university with 0 EUR in student loans because there were no tuition fees and the accommodation, food, and public transport were heavily subsidized and easily paid for with a part-time job. I don't need a car because we have a decent and safe public transport.

When I took a sabbatical from work and quit my job I didn't qualify for benefits which means that I had to pay around ~50 EUR a month for health insurance. I could continue seeing specialists the same as I did before and I didn't pay a single cent out of pocket all year. I've seen people talk about how they pay $100-$200 a month for the same medication and that's with expensive insurance and then hundreds more for appointments, how they're having to fight insurance companies, scavenge for deals on medications at various pharmacies and it all sounds so exhausting.

If I lived in the US, I think trying to repeat what I did here would've put me at serious risk of homelessness and inescapable life-long debt, especially if I had some bad luck with my health.
by tptacek | 2025-11-03 18:28:24+00:00
So does Strang! (I just checked, Linear Algebra & Applications 4E).

Also: sir, this is a blog post. It's wild seeing people say "if you really want to understand this topic, pick up Axler". I mean, yeah, also if you were serious you could just enroll in your local community college's Linear Algebra course.

My feeling is that a lot of the critique here is really signaling. For whatever reason, linear algebra is super high-status in this community, and people want to communicate that they've done something serious with it. (I'm sure I'm guilty of that too.)
by ziotom78 | 2025-11-03 18:28:32+00:00
I run Kitty and use this feature regularly. Most of the time, I rely on it within Yazi [1], a TUI file manager, but I can also display plots within the Julia REPL, thanks to the KittyTerminalImages.jl package [2]. It's even more crucial when I'm navigating a remote directory and need to check an image file, as I usually have timg [3] installed on those servers. Once you discover how valuable this is, it becomes a permanent part of your workflow.

[1] https://yazi-rs.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl

[3] https://github.com/hzeller/timg
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-03 18:28:32+00:00
> It creates a simulacrum of the world which does not correspond to the tangible reality I see around me.

5–10 years ago I would have agreed: “The real world is so different from the terminally-online space.” But the terminally-online space has seeped into real life all over the world. For example, I have traveled the developing world a lot in the last two years, and it’s unbelievable how many young men want to talk to me about Andrew Tate and related things when they see I’m a man from the West. Even in countries with shaky English skills, certain online memes are big.

Or take when I bikepacked a remote route down Mexico that is popular with Americans: in spite of this route being largely a two-month break from being always online, the conversations when those American cyclists met up were often indistinguishable from the social or political outrage that engagement-maximizing platforms stoke. Even if you disconnect, you can’t repair the damage.
by ATMLOTTOBEER | 2025-11-03 18:28:53+00:00
There’s no opposing view you’re just right. Also having a lot of Anki cards is bad, regardless of the fact that the reviews become less frequent as time goes on. You want as few cards as possible with as high a quality standard as you can get. With a few thousand cards it’s very easy to get into a cycle of spending a half hour or more per day doing reviews.
by lizknope | 2025-11-03 18:28:53+00:00
Are we at the Pets.com stage of the bubble yet?

I started working in 1997 at the height of the dot com bubble. I thought it would go on forever but the second half of 2000 and 2001 was rough.

I know a lot of people designing AI accelerator chips. Everyone over 45 thinks we are in an AI bubble. It's the younger people that think growth is infinite.

I told them to diversify from their company stock but we'll see if they have listened after the bubble pops
by freefaler | 2025-11-03 18:29:09+00:00
I've read a lot and I have been in the buisness since I was 21 years old, almost homeless student in a big city that had to postpone my degree to survive so I've had years to think from the both sides of the "inequality" divide and I got a degree in economics.

You assume that if there is a price on it than there is a free market for it. It's not true at all...

Compare the freedom of the markets that are inefficient in your example:

- housing: one of the most regulated and non-transparent markets with zoning laws and NIMBYism blocking new supply to the market

- healthcare: even more regulated market for practitioners (licence to heal), medical supplies (licences for medicines) and a brocken system that incumbents can't enter (check cost+drugs Mark Cuban's post about how shitty the system is and how far away from normal free market)

- enivronmental impact: that's what the taxes are for and to have a good tax base you tax the polutants, but it's not "the market" it's "the people who consume" in any market free or not you'll get the resources used. In non-free markets you will just use more resources, because the encumbents will extract +400$ for 8Gb ram upgrade of your macbook pro or 10000 USD for a broken leg, that could've done much more if it wasn't inefficiently extorted.

- enshittification: this happens only in the "ecosystems" with no markets inside.

If you go to the freeer markets you'll see that the prices got down, not up. (check the price of computers, electronics and clothes for example).

There are some areas where the market is not the answer, but there humanity hasn't found a better way to optimize resources and ensure freedom unless the people have the ability to change their goods freely without restriction of the third party.
by catapart | 2025-11-03 18:29:20+00:00
My last remaining social media account was with bluesky and when many of their visible employees took the opportunity to belittle and dismiss their community with that "waffles" horseshit, a month or so back, I dropped off of that one too.

I really thought they were on to something with the "make it a protocol" thing. Now I see that no social media will satisfy me. I don't WANT a platform where "everyone can say anything (so long as its legal and you don't say anything bad about fascists so the fascist government will leave us alone)". I WANT a platform where productive people show what they produced and discuss it along with the things other people produce. Even if that product is "jokes" or "writing". I just want a marketplace of ideas that have some grounding in practical reality. Not a hyper-void filled with nonsense thoughts and ideologies that can withstand rounds and bouts of academic scrutiny but would wither instantly in any practical application.

I don't want a place of arguments and gossip and attention. I want a place of content and challenge and speculation and application. I don't want social media, even for what it purports to offer. I don't want to "be in a room with everyone in the world". I want to "be in a room with people who are doing wild an interesting things and want to do so in a community of others like them."

I don't want the unwashed masses. I want self-selection and communities.

tl;dr: I want forums that work like feeds. Small groups of like-minded people engaging with one another. I just want it to WORK like social networks, with following, and topical follows (hashtags), and content feeds.
by nooktoday | 2025-11-03 18:29:21+00:00
I've built a proof-of-concept for a local-first search engine that indexes personal data across multiple sources.

*What makes Nook different:* - *Local-first:* Your data stays on your machine, searchable offline - *Full-text search* across Gmail/Outlook/IMAP, Slack, local files (PDFs, docs, code) - *Fast:* Sub-second search across your documents - *Private:* No data leaves your computer (except optional E2EE sync between your own devices)

*THE CHALLENGE:* I'm building it in public and betting I can ship the full MVP in 45 days (January 1, 2026). I'm running a pre-order campaign at $99 to validate demand. Once I hit 50 pre-orders, I'll commit to developing it full-time.

*TECH STACK & ARCHITECTURE:*

*Desktop App:* - *Electron* for cross-platform support - *React/TypeScript* for UI

*Search & Storage:* - *SQLite with FTS5* for full-text search - Exploring semantic search options for better query understanding

*Indexing Pipeline:* - Email: IMAP client for Gmail/Outlook - PDFs: Text extraction with OCR fallback - Office docs: docx/xlsx parsing - Code files: Syntax-aware indexing - Incremental indexing (only changed files) using filesystem watchers

*Technical Challenges I'm Working Through:*

1. *Email indexing speed:* Gmail IMAP throttling requires careful connection management

2. *Search ranking:* Basic keyword search works, but "find that email about Q4 budget" needs semantic understanding. Exploring: - Local embedding models - Hybrid scoring approaches - Balancing relevance with performance

3. *Cross-platform differences:* - Windows, macOS, and Linux all handle file watching differently - Need to optimize for each platform's quirks

4. *Memory management:* Need to keep RAM usage reasonable while indexing large email archives

5. *Privacy-preserving sync:* Optional E2EE sync is planned but raises questions about key management and SQLite replication

*What's Working (POC status):* - Successfully indexed test email archives with reasonable performance - Search returning results in sub-second timeframes - Basic UI and indexing pipeline functional - Runs locally without cloud dependencies

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by ringer | 2025-11-03 18:29:56+00:00
Except when it's not implemented properly and it breaks other workflows. For example, if it only shows a button (not a link or a tag) and copies the link to the clipboard via JavaScript, consider this scenario: I want to send this "link" to my other computer using Firefox's built-in Send Page to Device feature. I have to click Share, click the copy to clipboard button, open a new page, paste the URL, and only then can I share it.

If the state were stored in the URL, I could do it in two steps: open context menu -> Send Page to Device, and I'm done.
by lxchase | 2025-11-03 18:30:03+00:00
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by th0ma5 | 2025-11-03 18:30:09+00:00
I think about facets of this a lot. The conservative ideals of thinking only in zero-sum characterizations of political problems, that someone must go without in order for someone to gain, or that a conservative ideal is to be led by some authority both don't comport with how knowledge can also be gained in society through peer to peer relationships or the very idea that wealth can be created. That the world doesn't have to follow conservative ideals is how a statement like that becomes so funny since it is the current conspiratorial reflex of the right.
by DevOpsMaster | 2025-11-03 18:30:21+00:00
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by mrsteveman1 | 2025-11-03 18:30:26+00:00
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by dvvalia | 2025-11-03 18:30:31+00:00
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Data/Backend engineer for the past ten years (Java, Python, SQL). Experience building data platforms (from scratch!) and ELT pipelines for financial data. Currently working on agentic AI projects, but happy to work at any level for any problem that needs solving. Open to work on product management, solutions architecture, agentic AI or customer engineering. Remote is preferred for time zones spanning Europe to India; onsite/hybrid in Mumbai is also great. Unfortunately cannot relocate.
Show HN: Word Wolfer, Number Wolfer – educational games inspired by Munchers
by memalign | 2025-11-03 18:30:44+00:00
Hi HN! I just shipped a handful of educational games playable in your web browser. I hope you will give them a try and consider sharing them with the students in your life. I labeled each game with the target grade level (from TK up through middle school, and even high school for Spanish).

I've wanted to bring this style of educational game back to life for a long time.

In the early 90s, my grandmother had a Macintosh with educational games. She was a teacher who specialized in teaching reading. She showed me how to play Word Munchers and I had a blast munching words with the right vowel sounds.

Wolfers games should look good on phones, iPads, and can also be installed as progressive web apps on your home screen. I recently found a simpler way to make PWAs thanks to this minimal-pwa[0] project (via HN). I made this a bit more dynamic and self-contained in Wolfer's pwa.js and added offline PWA support in sw.js. I go as far as to dynamically generate the icon for each game variant using JavaScript. I didn’t realize browsers supported this!

I shared more development details and links to the source code here[1].

0: https://github.com/chr15m/minimal-pwa

1: http://memalign.github.io/p/wolfers.html
by iwanttocomment | 2025-11-03 18:30:53+00:00
I've given up on Costco.

Most meats are now more expensive there - in bulk! - than at the local grocery, of similar quality. It used to be you could buy at Costco without price shopping and assume you'd get a premium product at a low price. Now I can get a better deal at the local supermarkets, or Sam's Club, which now beats Costco on price in my market every time.

Speaking of Sam's Club, the combination of their curbside pickup and "scan and go" make every visit a breeze. Costco has the most chaotic parking lot, crossed with the most chaotic checkout lines in the industry. It used to be that you could wave away the inconveniences of shopping at Costco because, as above, they used to have premium products at good prices. Now that those are largely gone, going just doesn't make sense at all.

I drive electric, so I have no use for their gas.

Their tires are no longer competitive with Tirerack.

Their toilet paper used to be great and now is kind of bad. Same with the paper towels.

Costco in my state does not carry liquor.

They've become a premium-priced brand without improving their products or experience, and the value isn't there for a membership any more. My local supermarket is generally known for being a fair employer, so Costco doesn't even have that going for them. I'm surprised given former positive feelings how much I've resented going there the last several times.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-03 18:31:10+00:00
>And we had to live under the ambiguity for more than three decades because the law was so poorly considered, and it's still not clear exactly what it covers.

No, we lived with that ambiguity because the US system of laws purposely chooses to let Judges in the court system decide those ambiguities (and create "precedent") but only after something has happened, only after that happening leads to a court case, and only if that court case is not settled or dismissed.

That means everyone can just settle cases that would lead to a precedent they don't want.

US law ambiguity is purposeful. The solution is that we should have judges and courts that emphasize the outcome to normal people, and endeavor to improve justice to normal people, but all the people who get law degrees seem to be somewhat sociopathic and prefer instead to waste millions setting precedents on what individual words mean (that don't match at all what a normal and reasonable person would understand) and police syntax.

Judges who try to do just that are labelled "Activist" by politicians.

Meanwhile, when we have agencies who take it upon themselves to take a vague law and turn it into much less vague rules and clear recommendations, they are accused of being unelected bureaucrats writing laws.

If you want less ambiguity, you need to elect people that don't punish agencies for putting out clear documentation, and you need to reform the entire justice system to prioritize clear readings of plain language law over our stupid system of treating english as a programming language for law, which it can never be.

Human language is ambiguous. Law will always be ambiguous. If you suggest instead we should use more strict language in law on a forum full of programmers, you should hopefully understand how that is a cure far worse than the disease. You will end up with law exactly as unambiguous as it can be to an army of specialized lawyers and nobody else.
by gf000 | 2025-11-03 18:31:32+00:00
Well, unless you believe in some spiritual, non-physical aspect of consciousness, we could probably agree that human intelligence is Turing-complete (with a slightly sloppy use of terms).

So any other Turing-complete model can emulate it, including a computer. We can even randomly generate Turing machines, as they are just data. Now imagine we are extremely lucky and happen to end up with a super-intelligent program which through the mediums it can communicate (it could be simply text-based but a 2D video with audio is no different for my perspective) can't be differentiated from a human being.

Would you consider it sentient?

Now replace the random generation with, say, a back propagation algorithm. If it's sufficiently large, don't you think it's indifferent from the former case - that is, novel qualities could emerge?

With that said, I don't think that current LLMs are anywhere close to this category, but I just don't think this your reasoning is sound.
by tptacek | 2025-11-03 18:31:50+00:00
What graphical illustration do you think this is missing? How would that make things better? Have you ever seen http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/? Great graphical illustration. Also: a really unhelpful way to understand matrix multiplication.

This is part 2 of a series, all under the same name; the first part is extensively illustrated (and I'm not sure the part 1 illustrations are all that helpful).
by dktp | 2025-11-03 18:31:58+00:00
I am also in the camp believing they will sell ads the second they find a viable way (churn worth it, base infrastructure for it built, enough people trusting ai with product recommendations...)

I think the queries will fall into profitable (product recommendations) and non profitable (writing an essay or code) just the way they do for Google. Probably former will have a generous free tier and latter will be largely paywalled. I don't know how they'll do that, but I imagine they'll find some way

It's a mass consumer (software) product and they need new revenue venues and ads have a history of working well. Even Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Prime, ... Companies that historically don't have the ad infrastructure of Google or Facebook have increasingly profitable ad tiers
by pastjean | 2025-11-03 18:32:03+00:00
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