MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-11 18:30:05+00:00
> The ROC also believes in one china, including one day resuming sovereignty of the mainland, no?

The ROC isn't a one-party state like the PRC and different parties in Taiwan have different positions on that. The KMT and other parties generally aligned with it mostly favor unification under the ROC (or a one-country, two-systems end state), the DPP and parties aligned with it tend to favor both Taiwanese nationalism and independent statehood. The DPP currently holds the Presidency and the KMT has the larges legislative bloc, so...?
by nathan_compton | 2025-11-11 18:30:12+00:00
This take is bad.

The "erosion of trust" which you think is a natural reaction is, in fact, a constructed one created by rhetoric which holds science up to unreasonable standards of reliability and then complains about how it can't get everything right.

Its absolutely true that public health authorities didn't get everything right during the pandemic. Its also absolutely true that studies have less epistemological power than people often make them out to have (which is what the replication crisis is really about). But it is a rhetorical angle that the appropriate response to either of those states of affairs is a rejection of science or trust in authority. People should understand the limits of science and put an appropriate amount of credence in it, but the idea that scientific authority should be outright rejected is a cultural movement with very little attachment to reality and one which is astroturfed and exploited, primarily by the political right, to whip up their base.

More broadly speaking, I think its wrong to blame the institutions themselves when elements of the american political system have been working tirelessly to discredit institutions and science for decades. It isn't a spontaneous, natural thing.
by munificent | 2025-11-11 18:30:36+00:00
It can be, depending on your thought process while playing. If you're indulging in feeling like your willpower can affect what cards get drawn, then yes. If you're just thinking about betting strategy and your opponents, then less so.

My own magical thinking indulgence is fishing. I'll tell myself dumb stuff like "the next cast will be the one". I think any sort of gambling-like experience where random chance is heavily involved can be an outlet for magical thinking, healthy or otherwise.
by simoncion | 2025-11-11 18:30:59+00:00
> ...at least make a valid argument about it ;)

Like other folks have said, show the equivalent C program and then we can have a discussion about implementation complexity and comprehensibility.

Do note that the equivalent C program permits IPC between two instances of the program that could be either running on the same machine or could be running on different machines connected by an IP network.

Edit: For general information, here's an Erlang implementation of increment and swap. Swap is made a bit complicated because Erlang doesn't support multiple returns... returning a tuple or list is the way that's handled, so I had it accept a two-element tuple for consistency with what it returns:

increment(A) -> A + 1. swap({A, B}) -> {B, A}.
by notmyjob | 2025-11-11 18:31:45+00:00
No. They lied, well one person specifically who I’ll refrain from naming because he is a lightening rod for controversy, lied by implying that herd immunity was possible and that it was the goal. It was the precise reason I took the vaccine and the precise reason I tried hard to convince many younger low risk friends to take “the” vaccine. It was 100% a lie, and that’s a matter of record.
by mooreds | 2025-11-11 18:32:26+00:00
It's hard to give suggestions on your next steps without knowing:

* where you are

* what you want to accomplish

For instance, if you wanted to be a bootstrapped indie hacker, then maybe this is a product to start marketing and selling.

If, on the other hand, you want to be a FAANG engineer, then you might want to keep using this yourself, but do nothing else with it.

Or, if you wanted a job at a normal software product company, you could open source this and use the lessons you learned building it as material for interviews and proof you can do the job of a software engineer plus other aspects.
by angiolillo | 2025-11-11 18:32:41+00:00
Fair enough, and honestly I agree with you that supporting the n==1 case is the bare minimum of care I'd expect from an application developer.

Though if you support languages other than English even the decision to simplify pluralization logic to n==1 seems like a form of "...meh, whatever" given various pluralization rules: https://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/plural-rules
by TheJoeMan | 2025-11-11 18:32:59+00:00
The iPhone calculator, for example, only recently added parenthesis. However, with prefix notation you have to plan out your open parenthesis, and if you forgot one you have to back up. With postfix, the parenthesis are implicit. Which is faster? “2 2 + 2 x” or “2 + 2 = x 2 =“ for 2(2+2)
by op00to | 2025-11-11 18:33:41+00:00
You got played, but not by scientists. You got played by pundits who turned evolving data into a culture-war slogan. Early messaging about herd immunity was based on what vaccines normally do: reduce spread enough that outbreaks die out. That worked against measles or polio, where the virus barely mutates. SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t like that. It evolved too fast, so the realistic goal shifted from elimination to control.

The definition of “vaccine” never secretly changed. It was clarified to include immune responses that reduce severe disease and transmission rather than guarantee sterilizing immunity. That’s immunology, not conspiracy. Every major vaccine like flu, pertussis, rotavirus all have that same property.

mRNA COVID vaccines still saved tens of millions of lives worldwide and sharply cut hospitalization rates, even after variants eroded transmission blocking. Boosters are needed because immunity wanes and variants keep changing, just like flu shots.

So yes: “trust, but verify” is good advice. But the verification process already happened through global trials, regulatory review, and post-marketing data. The people misleading you are the ones pretending scientific self-correction is the same as deceit.
by MBCook | 2025-11-11 18:33:48+00:00
Isn’t the frame rate of film something like that?

The industry decided on 24 FPS as something of an average of the multiple existing company standards and it was fast enough to provide smooth motion, avoid flicker, and not use too much film ($$$).

Overtime it became “the film look”. One hundred-ish years later we still record TV shows and movies in it that we want to look “good” as opposed to “fake” like a soap opera.

And it’s all happenstance. The movie industry could’ve moved to something higher at any point other than inertia. With TV being 60i it would have made plenty of sense to go to 30p for film to allow them to show it on TV better once that became a thing.

But by then it was enshrined.
by tmtvl | 2025-11-11 18:33:51+00:00
Without an ad blocker and JavaScript blocker the average website would be 100GB in size and take several years to load. If I really cared about tracking protection I would just not use the regular internet and stick to Gemini. CanvasBlocker is just because the Tor browser itself has one implemented (source: <https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#...>) so I figured I might as well.
by toast0 | 2025-11-11 18:34:31+00:00
Did you get your serial ports working? :)

If it doesn't take much time, it's worth trying to get it to run in v86; it's so much easier to send people a link to a web page to poke at your OS than to send them an image and tell them to run qemu against it.

Edit: I misinterpretted --- you'll carve your OS up, not mine, that makes more sense!

Old comment: Feel free to carve away, just be aware that just because it's committed doesn't mean it works... I wouldn't take my memory management code, for example. There's some fiddly issues I haven't tracked down because it doesn't break consistently.
by mgkimsal | 2025-11-11 18:34:42+00:00
i'm not sure i get the point here. at some point, i don't want to be carrying something by holding it in my hand. i might need to use my hand for something else. so I put the item down, or put it in a container that I bring with me (pocket, shoulder bag, etc). Are they 'admitting' that people move around with things and sometimes have more than one purpose for their hands during an outing?
by metalman | 2025-11-11 18:35:04+00:00
algae eats jet fuel, fast enough that there are algasides added to discourage them.

plastcics are more or less like liquid hydrocarbons, with there lack of porosity as the thing that keeps them from bieng eaten, so that unlike most things plastics present a 2 dimensional surface where engulfing single or small groups of molecules is impossible, so other sort of feedingmechanism* must be at play to eat plastics.*

*off the cuff conjecture from a non specialist
by ozb | 2025-11-11 18:35:21+00:00
I think there are much better argument for mandatory jury duty, like the fact that it's an inherent and explicit part of the preexisting Constitution, and that was not explicitly repealed nor (as far as I know) considered.

But the Court chose not to use those arguments, perhaps because they are less absolute and don't apply as cleanly to the draft.

Personally, I think that jury duty as it is today (no real pay, sometimes very long trials, "hardship" completely at the discretion of the judge) is actually a substantive violation of the principles of liberty that the 13th Amendment (along with the rest of the Constitution, notably the 5th Amendment) was meant to protect; (though I myself would likely enjoy actually being on a jury, and am fortunate that I can afford it/my work would likely pay).

And I don't think it would've been crazy to require an Amendment to institute a compulsory military draft, or better yet interpret the 13th Amendment to allow the draft (and jury duty) on narrower grounds but use it to better protect soldiers against various abuses inherent in the current military power structure and lack of exit option.

I do think that mandatory road duty is about as direct a violation of the purpose of the 13th Amendment as anything else the state could do. I think the (explicit) argument that the takings and due process clauses protect your money but not your labor is patently ridiculous.
by GaggiX | 2025-11-11 18:35:55+00:00
If you're referring to Pan-Scandinavism, there was never a serious proposal to conquer Finland. In fact, the opposite is true: Sweden sent soldiers to help Finland during World Wars I and II, making no attempt to annex the country. I have no idea how "Scandinavia" could possibly be compared to the many "Greater Nation" out there. Maybe you should take your own advice and read some history books as your example is fundamentally different.
by riazrizvi | 2025-11-11 18:36:13+00:00
Thoughts by someone who doesn’t make a living by songs?

I’m guessing you’d want to restrict lyrics to encourage more plays of the song by people who are motivated to understand them. Along with the artist’s appreciation of that experience of extracting what you’re fascinated by. Burdensome processes generate love and connection to things.

Not everything is a functional commodity to be used and discarded at whim.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-11 18:36:48+00:00
I didn’t. I use a 13 mini, and will for as long as I can because it was the smallest phone that was sufficiently productive for me.

My response was to these statements:

> But why are we needing a phone to be productive?

> So they may be more "productive" with larger screens, but we never asked whether they SHOULD be more productive.
by mock-possum | 2025-11-11 18:37:17+00:00
hey I got to play around with it a bit in vscode, and my main takeaway is - the content is generates is good, and the experience of taking a tour/walkthrough is a positive one - but the UI for actually generating and launching tours feels a bit wonky.

I could only get the MCP to work via Claude, not Copilot or Codex - and I couldn't find an easy way to get back to the 'setup' screen where it provides the config, so I had to keep resetting the extension so that that prompt would come back up - removing that friction seems essential, if the initial configuration doesn't work, then getting back to that screen is a necessity

I feel like I'm missing a GUI button to launch a tour/walkthrough - asking the LLM to do it for me feels weird, when the markdown file is sitting right there. I'd much rather just right-click a markdown file, and select "Intraview: Launch Tour" or something.

I'm less of a terminal guy, so this appearing to lack a solid GUI, or integration with the GUI of my IDE, is discouraging for me personally. But the fact that it generates solid info is encouraging, and the process of giving feedback and refining the walkthrough steps also feels (and works) pretty good.

I'd probably wait til there's a little more polish before playing with it again, but I'll keep it in mind! Cool thing!
by RealityVoid | 2025-11-11 18:37:39+00:00
Let me give you some examples that I saw in my professional life and make me angry enough that I am genuinely miffed you can't see this.

Here, check out this hash. Snip! Screenshot! Here, try this code snippet. Screenshot! Here, go to this absurdly long URI. Screenshot! Try configuring your XML this way. Screenshot! (Bonus point for underspecified location)
by electroly | 2025-11-11 18:37:41+00:00
On a basic four-function calculator, you can do "2 + 2 x 2 =" to get 8 without the extra = in the middle. RPN really shines when you use the stack for real. "(2 + 3) x (4 + 5)" is "2 3 + 4 5 + x" in RPN, but on a four-function this requires the stateful memory buttons and gets out of control fast. You may need to spill out to pen-and-paper with a four-function calculator, but you never need that with RPN. I'm less certain that the comparison works out in RPN's favor if you have a calculator with parentheses--where are you getting the complex expression that you're entering? If it's on paper, then it's already in infix notation and you had to mentally convert it to RPN inside-out. Entering the infix notation may be more keystrokes but likely less mental effort because it's more of a direct transcription. I taught a sibling how to use an HP-12C and I don't think they're ever gaining that time back in efficiency.
Ask HN: Spent 2.5 year working on a Side Project. How should I continue?
by montague27 | 2025-11-11 18:37:48+00:00
TL;DR: It's a Todo app I use personally every day. It solves my own problem and has taught me a lot about software development, design, and product management. While it's complete, it hasn't been publicly launched yet, and I'm struggling to decide on the next step. I hadn't considered monetization until now since it started as a passion project. There’s a slim chance it could attract paying users (and maybe earn some pocket money), but at worst, I’ll remain its only user.

It doesn’t have fancy features, but they’re executed well enough to meet my workflow needs:

- Every todo list is text-based, allowing external work with .txt files. - Extremely responsive UX, as most data syncs locally. - Minute-level analytics to track time spent on tasks and projects.

If I decide to monetize it, it could provide valuable experience in running a business, though it might also become a significant time sink. I’d feel very proud if others used my work, but I know how competitive this field is, so that might not be realistic.

However, I realized I might already be doing it wrong — as the old saying goes, “build and validate early.” I wonder how might one navigate in this scenario?

I’d greatly appreciate any recommendation or sugesstion! :) My website: https://mglogi.com/

Note: I'm based in Canada, no ambition to join a FAANG company, having a job at a normal software product company or being a digital nomad is good enough for me.
by Animats | 2025-11-11 18:38:10+00:00
That GTA demo isn't about control. The user, not the net, is driving.

That's more like the demos where someone trains on a scene and the neural net can make plausible extensions to the scene as you move the viewpoint. It's more spatial imagination, like the tool in Photoshop that fills in plausible but imaginary backgrounds.

It does handle collisions with the edge of the road. Collisions with other cars don't really work; they mostly disappear. One car splits in half in confusion. The spatial part is making progress, but the temporal part, not so much.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-11-11 18:38:16+00:00
The people shocked by this are the same people who still believe Apple can sell a normal sized phone but isn’t doing so possibly just to piss us off. The thing is there are millions and millions of suckers out there who will suck these Sock™s and Pocket™s up in possibly dozens - some for the colours and some for the mere satisfaction of getting to pay Apple. If you venture across iForums and iSubs you will slowly start seeing comments about these fabric things are already curing haemorrhoids and insomnia, in anticipation (even before shipping starts).
by wat10000 | 2025-11-11 18:38:21+00:00
It's good to have a choice. I know I'm going to drop my phone from time to time, and sometimes it will be onto a hard surface, so I always get a case. I once managed to shatter the back glass while it was in a case, not sure how I managed that. Other people may be less clumsy, or more tolerant of living with damage, or more willing to pay for insurance or replacements.

It's also nice to be able to choose a texture. In my latest iteration, I got Apple's techwoven case, and I really like the feel compared to the usual silicone stuff, or bare metal. The texture also makes it easier to grip so maybe I'll drop it less. I can hope.
Show HN: Project AELLA – Open LLMs for structuring 100M research papers
by funfunfunction | 2025-11-11 18:38:48+00:00
We're releasing Project AELLA - an open-science initiative to make scientific knowledge more accessible through AI-generated structured summaries of research papers.

Blog: https://inference.net/blog/project-aella

Visualizer: https://aella.inference.net

Models: https://huggingface.co/inference-net/Aella-Qwen3-14B, https://huggingface.co/inference-net/Aella-Nemotron-12B

Highlights: - Released 100K research paper summaries in standardized JSON format with interactive visualization.

- Fine-tuned open models (Qwen 3 14B & Nemotron 12B) that match GPT-5/Claude 4.5 performance at 98% lower cost (~$100K vs $5M to process 100M papers)

- Built on distributed "idle compute" infrastructure - think SETI@Home for LLM workloads

Goal: Process ~100M papers total, then link to OpenAlex metadata and convert to copyright-respecting "Knowledge Units"

The models are open, evaluation framework is transparent, and we're making the summaries publicly available. This builds on Project Alexandria's legal/technical foundation for extracting factual knowledge while respecting copyright.

Technical deep-dive in the post covers our training pipeline, dual evaluation methods (LLM-as-judge + QA dataset), and economic comparison showing 50x cost reduction vs closed models.

Happy to answer questions about the training approach, evaluation methodology, or infrastructure!
by yborg | 2025-11-11 18:39:04+00:00
In my case the single largest contributor to my fingerprint is ... canvas size. I run full screen with a custom Firefox setup that basically makes my canvas size unique :/ The "protection" Firefox uses for this is to always open a new window at a default size, which does nothing in my case since my toolbar config still makes the canvas size unique.

It would be really useful to have something that dithers the reported canvas size by 5 or 10 pixels in different containers to add noise there.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-11 18:39:17+00:00
>But in doing so, we’ve stripped away the very traits they need to survive on their own

Interesting, I wonder if these explains why I do not see pigeons around the small city (~100,000) I live in. 40 years ago, you saw them everywhere, but in the mid to late 90s, hawks started showing up in the city.

Now, you hardly seen any pigeons.
by mothballed | 2025-11-11 18:39:41+00:00
Europeans are in the same predicament as Americans, except since EU domestic olive oil is superior to American domestic oil, there is simply little to no demand to buy olive oil in EU from outside the EU.

Therefore you don't have a largescale problem of importing fake olive oil, not because your laws are superior, but because your domestic natural resources and skillsets don't economically demand such risky import.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-11 18:40:54+00:00
That interpretation is not correct. The owner explicitly denied license to the data and then the company went to a third party to gain access to the data that they were denied license to.

> When building its tool, Ross sought to license Westlaw’s content as training data for its AI search engine. As the two are competitors, Thomson Reuters refused. Instead, Ross hired a third party, LegalEase, to provide training data in the form of “Bulk Memos,” which were created using Westlaw headnotes. Thomson Reuters’s suit followed, alleging that Ross had infringed upon its copyrighted Westlaw headnotes by using them to train the AI tool.
by badlibrarian | 2025-11-11 18:40:54+00:00
VHS-Decode did get a mention in these comments previously but probably beyond the reach (or patience) of even most hackers. But good information on decks and theory:

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/

In the (original) spirit of this site, where people get curious and go off and solve impossible problems, I can point to this guy who gets it. He rants better than I do.

https://www.reddit.com/user/TheRealHarrypm

Read on for my rant if you care.

The last useful decks were built 25 years ago. Even then there's acres of bad advice on the internet, specifically around prosumer decks with built-in TBC that isn't sufficient to provide a proper signal to a modern video capture card.

So find any S-VHS deck that actually runs well, S-Video out into a external TBC. Blackmagic owns the cheap-but-great category for capture. Then ffmpeg to suit your storage budget.

Beyond that, things are so screwed up online around preservation technology and knowledge that my advice is to seek the services of a professional if the material is important. Or go ahead and DIY if you're just doing amateur stuff or you're a hoarder trying to justify your conditions. But try to refrain from posting your secret sauce; it likely isn't. Organize and post the videos instead. Most won't, because they know they look like shit and they can't handle the feedback.

I just did a quick Google search and found this on a formal preservation website: "This means that S-VHS tapes are playable in VHS decks but VHS tapes are not playable in S-VHS decks." https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/videot...

Exactly backwards.

I don't think I've ever read an article about analog media of any type on the internet that didn't have me screaming at the screen.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-11 18:41:20+00:00
Thank you, fixed. And yes, and some cases absurdly, ridiculously so. I think the worst I heard was something like:

> And in several Demoncrat [sic] states, abortion is legal up until one month post-delivery! That is evil!

What do these morons (the ones who might actually believe what they say) think that looks like? Have birth, go home with your child, a few weeks later you're just not feeling it, and you go back to the hospital and hand over your infant and say "I'd like my post-birth abortion, please?"?!?