MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mappu | 2025-11-03 05:29:30+00:00
This isn't my place to argue, and certainly he was involved at the time, but LibAV wasn't really "his fork". Reading the full list of names who signed off https://lwn.net/Articles/423703/ I'm more interested in some other names, including darkshikari's deadname and the other heavy hitters of x264.

And if you browse through the ffmpeg mailing list of that historic month https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/ you'll find his name mostly attached to esoteric video game format patches and not in the big flamewar threads.

Actually - it looks like you can also see in that same month, his post of the first SMUSH codec implementation, that we're discussing in this thread. That's probably a bigger emotional factor than LibAV.
by ericzawo | 2025-11-03 05:29:50+00:00
Over the years I've thrown many parties, from house parties, surprise parties, keggers, to corporate events, concerts and DJ events that are ticketed, underground, invite-only in cities like Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto and Miami and can 100% stand behind every one of these rules. There is an art and a science to hosting good events and this post breaks it down really well.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-03 05:30:26+00:00
The issue is fake documents. People in the country illegally have already shown a willingness to break the law and the typical consequence for presenting fake documents is nonexistent - it's deportation, exactly as if they didn't even bother trying. So we've created a scenario where fake documents are widespread, especially in areas with high numbers of illegal immigrants where they are readily available.

So how do you discourage this? We could start prosecuting and imprisoning people with fake documents, but that would send our already absurd prison population through the roof and cost immense amounts of money. An alternative way is exactly what this article is about.
by jonway | 2025-11-03 05:30:27+00:00
Yeah I feel ya, but a year into GW bush part 2 isn’t on the horizon of a democrat administration it was a year into the reelection, the weirdos in the Mark of the Beast camp weren’t the party yet.

This is part of the thread that became FEMA camp conspiracies and birtherism after Cambridge Analytica helped make conspiracy theorists the mainstream. What I’m asking is where are the mark of the beast weirdos now?

Well, they’re telling themselves that Domald Turmp was sent by God!
by kybernetyk | 2025-11-03 05:30:33+00:00
Heh, funny. I recently implemented a countdown for a teleprompting app and that's exactly what I ended up doing to make the countdown "feel right".

The countdown in question doesn't display fractions of a second so it would immediately switch from "5 seconds left" to "4 seconds left" which just doesn't feel right. Adding 0.5s solved the issue.
by jacobolus | 2025-11-03 05:31:08+00:00
They hunted down all of the libraries, collected all of the books inside, and burned them in massive bonfires, accidentally saving a total of like 3 books which had already been shipped back to Europe as trophies. I think there are also some remaining fragments of a few others. One Spaniard wrote about it:

> We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which there were not to be seen superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.
by userbinator | 2025-11-03 05:31:58+00:00
A friend recently got a (carrier-supplied) phone and has been complaining about how it would often have no reception despite showing a good signal; taking mine to the same areas on the same carrier and doing a comparison, mine was indeed showing no bars on the signal indicator. The difference is, mine predates this stupidity, and I can also see the details in the MTK Engineer Mode app, which shows the actual signal strength --- it was around -140dBm when it was showing 0 bars.

The signal strength measurement is actually standardised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_signal#ASU
by businessmate | 2025-11-03 05:32:21+00:00
The notion that a handful of dominant assistants will monopolize discovery stems from search-era habits. Google once molded consumer intent; a few enterprise platforms dictated institutional workflows. Centralization produced a single axis of visibility and a lone optimization lever.

That world is gone. The generative layer obliterates the economics of centralization. Models deploy for pennies, retrieval modularizes, and inference runs at the edge or inside host applications.
by rswail | 2025-11-03 05:33:21+00:00
Semver is semantic. It tells you about the changes in the API, not in the implementation. So it's relevant to the users (ie developers) of that API.

If I fix a bug in the implementation that doesn't affect the API itself, the semver doesn't change.

So it works to define the versioning of an interface.

Release versioning (like vyyyy-mm-dd) is about SRE and configuration management, it's about documenting what is actually operating in production.

User versioning is about user expectations. If you're doing a security bug fix, then a) it should be free to users affected, and b) it should be documented as the reason for the release.

For a security bug fix of v2023-11-02, you can add a "hotfix" extension to the numbering so v2023-11-02.001 or equivalent.
by astrange | 2025-11-03 05:34:29+00:00
The article says that people who eat a lot of garlic smell better than without it.

(Although maybe not their breath. Last time I was in Japan I tried an iekei ramen place and smelled so much like garlic to myself I was too embarrassed to go outside for the next day or two.)

IIRC the lingering curry cooking smell is from fenugreek.
by mlmonkey | 2025-11-03 05:35:47+00:00
Maybe I don't want to doxx myself. As I said, it's been a couple of years and I'm over it. I stand nothing to gain by reopening old wounds.

Take it FWIW. But ask yourself: is this the first time you've heard that Wiki editors gang up upon people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not...
by wtallis | 2025-11-03 05:36:56+00:00
> It is either fast-enough, or impossibly-slow. It's very binary, and the bar graph at the top never told me a damned thing about what I should expect.

A few months ago, I was in a remote area at anchor on a sailboat, about 6.5 miles from the nearest highway through the swamp, with only a few farms and a handful of houses within that radius. With my phone up in the cockpit of the boat and tethered over WiFi to my laptop, I was able to download a movie. As the boat swung on anchor, the download was occasionally interrupted, but when data was flowing it was consistently 5-10 MB/s over a claimed 5G link; the movie downloaded in much less time than its runtime. I assume I wasn't competing with much other traffic on that tower, wherever it was. So my experience was even more binary than yours.

The phone's signal indicator did seem to accurately indicate when it had no usable signal at all, but beyond that I'm not sure it was providing any useful information. And I'm not sure if it could have told me anything of use other than "connected" or "not connected". The very marginal connection was still faster than I had any right to expect for those conditions.
by d--b | 2025-11-03 05:37:03+00:00
A little bit of overthinking in there, no? I mean this is kind of stressing me out that I’ve not been doing this properly.

It feels like the person writing this is constently rating the quality of his/her parties, like she’s being judged. Perhaps it’s a NY thing. The ‘flake rate’ also feels very New York-y

My experience is that some parties will be good others won’t, and you can’t really know why. General mood can’t be steered. It’s ok.
by lifestyleguru | 2025-11-03 05:37:20+00:00
Moving to Germany from countries where mobile networks function is traumatic. My welcome experience was USB stick with faulty drivers, balance zeroed immediately because of not activated packet, then sipping expensive 1GB data packets over choppy connections. Of course that was all my fault. The only reliable thing was monthly billing and enforcement of contract length by the telecom. When I heard before arrival "there is no internet in the apartment but you can simply buy USB stick" I had subconsciously felt there will be problems. Fuck, I hate these memories so much. Fuck everything about it and everyone involved.
by hamstergene | 2025-11-03 05:37:24+00:00
Endless volume escalation is known as Lombard Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_effect

At parties it is mainly due to room's echo.

The best and cheapest is open-air, where voices fly into the sky and never return, it would take like a thousand of people before it stops being enough.

Second best are large open windows, missing walls (porch/balcony) or multiple rooms.

Beyond that I don't think there can be a solution without some sort of room soundproofing, which is usually no-go for rented spaces and private houses. The closest one can get is to maximize soft surfaces (rugs, curtains esp. along walls).

Speaking of which, I wish bars, restaurants and other venues were required to place echo reducers on the ceiling, such simple and cheap measure would dramatically improve ability to talk there when they're full.
by saghm | 2025-11-03 05:37:30+00:00
From looking at the bottom of the linked post (which says it was edited, not sure when in relation to your comment), it sounds like they wanted something that worked across arbitrary times split across units (hour/minute/seconds) without having to handle carry-over. I'm not sure I would choose to alter the times themselves over making the math a bit more complex, but the author has obviously thought about this a lot more than me, and it's nice that they at least considered that alternative.
Would you trust an open-source savings tool that earns yield without app fees?
by mihaelavr | 2025-11-03 05:38:45+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’m helping build an open-source platform that aggregates high-yield savings opportunities (from 10% APY) from protocols like Beefy Finance and similar smart contracts.

The idea: instead of each DeFi platform taking a percentage, Analog acts as a pure SaaS layer — users interact directly with the underlying contracts, and we only charge a flat subscription fee for the interface and analytics for contracts that are providing much higher yield (10% to 40% APY), but are more risky and in need of constant rebalance.

I’m the co-founder from the product side, not a developer, so I’m trying to better understand what concerns or red flags the technical community might have about this kind of setup.
by measurablefunc | 2025-11-03 05:38:46+00:00
McCarthy wasn't infallible & the initial founders of the field were so full of themselves that they thought they were going to have the whole thing figured out in less than one summer. The hype has always been an established part of the AI culture but the people who uncritically buy into it deserve all the ridicule that comes their way.

Computers can't think. Boolean logic is not a sufficient explanation for cognition & never will be.
by lynx97 | 2025-11-03 05:40:33+00:00
Sure, I life with a disability, that my country categorizes as "100%" since 40 years. I am working 40h/week since more than 25 years. However, I have never made use of "discrimination laws", simply because I am convinced, if a workplace is toxic enough to force me to do that, it is best to leave. You might win the battle, but you will definitely loose the war. People, and upper management, will make you pay for playing crybaby.
by skydhash | 2025-11-03 05:41:58+00:00
FreeBSD is a complete OS, while debian is a distro, i.e the Linux kernel + a lot of programs including the utilities from GNU. So almost everything in debian comes from a package while in the BSD world, there's a split between the system utilities (called base) and the third-party projects (called ports). The port system itself is a collection of recipes to build those projects.

But the nicest thing about the software in the base is that they are developed in sync with the OS, so their code can be simpler.
by mmooss | 2025-11-03 05:42:09+00:00
That is partly attributed to being by far the largest single market for much of the 20th century - European countries have at most ~30% of the population - and being the only major economy not destroyed by the end of WWII, which resulted in the US producing half of world GDP at the time.

US businesses have had a much larger market to sell to, and that attracts investment and talent.
by bitwize | 2025-11-03 05:42:54+00:00
Yeeeeah, except we're living in the DevOps era, which means things like "thinking about how this will be built and deployed" is now the devs', therefore the whole organization's, responsibility, and so you have to think about whether your CI/CD pipeline can accommodate, or be made to accommodate, the Clojure compiler, leiningen, et weary cetera.

There's another, orthogonal, aspect: I half-jokingly suggested Clojure as a substitute for one of the DSLs we use at work, and my idea was shot down by a teammate based on the reasoning that Clojure is hard and most of the Java devs (not my team, of course) in the shop are not up to learning it or coding in it. So that's another thing to consider: when you leave the company, who else will be up to maintaining what you produce?

Both of these considerations weigh strongly against attempts to "sneak Clojure in through the back door".
by saghm | 2025-11-03 05:43:57+00:00
> Speaking of which, I wish bars, restaurants and other venues were required to place echo reducers on the ceiling, such simple and cheap measure would dramatically improve ability to talk there when they're full.

It's possible they aren't aware, but I have to wonder if it's sometimes intentional. As someone who doesn't drink, I find most bars close to if not entirely intolerable as places to hang out in, not because I mind being around other people drinking, but because they're always so loud. I've always assumed that drinking is what makes this tolerable to people, so now that you bring this up, the idea that this could be a way to sell more alcohol occurs to me. Probably a silly conspiracy theory, but who knows!
by _carbyau_ | 2025-11-03 05:43:58+00:00
Better coverage may be claimed. But as you know, Australia is a big place.

The few farmers I know have a rough idea of the on-the-ground cell coverage. They say things like "this side of the hill/town" usually. I've seen them deliberately walk to the other side of a silo to make a call.

I assume that the coverage maps are assumed cell-tower-coverage-if-shit-is-not-in-the-way. No surprise radios are common.
by burningChrome | 2025-11-03 05:45:10+00:00
>> but as people get more disillusioned with Meta and X, there is always a space for competing platforms.

Diaspora way back when had a chance to take hold of the flame and do some damage to Meta. Even after it was released, I moved to it immediately. Nobody from any other social platform would join me.

Its one thing to create a decentralized platform, its quite another to overcome the network effect where friends and family and have other friends and family and they can't move now because none of their friends or family will move. This is why there was a very narrow window before Meta became the juggernaut it is today to get people to move to a more decentralized platform.

Now? Close to 100% impossible to win that game - regardless of the opportunity for freedom from censorship and government overreach. There will be small pockets of people moving to them, but there's a good chance we will never see the kind of numbers that Meta, X, YouTube or other platforms have right now. They are just so entrenched at this point.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-11-03 05:46:06+00:00
I'm trying this right now and I don't get it. There's no difference between

HatsService getWearableHats() { return db.query(Hats).toDto() } getThrowableHats() { return db.otherQuery(Hats).toDto() }

and

# wearable.py getWearableHats() { return db.query(Hats).toDto() } # throwable.py getThrowableHats() { return db.otherQuery(Hats).toDto() }
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-03 05:46:58+00:00
> Eliezer and Soares and their ilk are possessed with the fear that we’ll have a superintelligence that’s A) utterly narrowminded and pigheaded in pursuing psychopathic or megalomaniacal goals, while at the same time being B) incredibly deep and broad in understanding the universe and how to get things done – yes, this could theoretically happen, but there is no rational reason to assume it’s likely!

At first, it does seem rather unlikely to get both A) and B) from the same mind. But if we look at humans, we certainly find highly intelligent humans (on the higher of the scale of B), who have low emotional intelligence and empathy, which is, when you think about, it at the core of A) (someone with very low EQ and empathy, who is also very wealthy, and a true believer in their own intelligence boosted by a positive feedback loop from those around them since such people tend to surround themselves with sycophants, is going to exhibit megalomaniacal qualities. We need look no further than Elon Musk for a current example.

If we can find this easily in humans once they get to the point that they have achieved great power, it's not difficult to imagine finding it in an AGI system created by humans and in the image of a "human with superpowers".
by zabumafu | 2025-11-03 05:47:21+00:00
I implemented the same behavior in a different Google product.

I remember the PM working on this feature showing us their research on how iPhones rendered bars across different versions.

They had different spectrum ranges, one for each of maybe the last 3 iPhone versions at the time. And overlayed were lines that indicated the "breakpoints" where iPhones would show more bars.

And you could clearly see that on every release, iPhones were shifting the all the breakpoints more and more into the left, rendering more bars with less signal strength.

We tried to implement something that matched the most recent iPhone version.
by evolighting | 2025-11-03 05:48:10+00:00
The "garbage pile" of papers is not a problem, they are deliverables, representing completed work for which people have been payed.

If we stop paying for those "garbages", the problem might disappear. But what about the researchers or scientists who depend on that funding to live?

What needs to change is the very way academic work is organized, but nothing comes for free.
by mmooss | 2025-11-03 05:50:10+00:00
Can you give an example of that working? The fact is that the 'modern world' - at least before recent phenomena - created by far the greatest expansion of freedom and prosperity, and greatest reduction in poverty, in human history. Way, way beyond anything else, including colonial eras.

Also, when ideas like yours are tried, it turns out that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and powers - including the US - serve their own interests. How could you imagine otherwise at this point?

And without democracy, they can't help it - self-determination provides better outcomes because the people who are subject to the 'help' have a seat at the table and they have power. The issues that others dismiss or make secondary (or tertiary) are the ones the self-determined people can insist on in a democracy.

> modern world doesn’t have an appetite for

It's not a lack of appetite, it's counter to our goals of freedom and self-determination, and all experience of prosperity.
by skydhash | 2025-11-03 05:51:12+00:00
The nice thing about REPLs is that you can try random snippets code. And as the sibling comments put it, you rarely switch to the prompt interface. Instead you `eval` a bit of code and it got sent to the running state of your program as if you've typed it as the prompt. It's more like brainstorming a program using a mood board.

You kinda have to keep track of the state, but the latter can be easily inspected so there's no need to keep it your head.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-03 05:52:21+00:00
> Switzerland and Norway usually have a higher per capita gdp than the US

And strong currencies. You don’t get this bias in either, generally.

> on the other hand, European countries have far less income inequality than the US, and less poverty

Irrelevant. I’m not saying one is superior to the other. Just that the median European tourist probably isn’t experiencing any American city or town like the median American who lives there.

This is partly due to tourist effects. But it’s also due to cost. After GDP/capita differentials and FX effects, you’re comparing drastically different worlds. (Same for Americans traveling to Europe and, outside a few pricy capitals, generally finding a cheap, luxurious holiday.)
by mmooss | 2025-11-03 05:52:44+00:00
> There's no country on the Earth today with the empire dreams and ability of the British colonial period.

The colonial Brits weren't trying to feed the world, but aggregate power and wealth. Their former colonies didn't do too well, except wealthy ones like the US, Canada, etc.

After the colonial period ended, many of those countries have utterly transformed economically. Look at Brazil, China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, .... all prospered after embracing democracy (or at least moving in that direction, in China's case).
by burningChrome | 2025-11-03 05:52:45+00:00
The Rolling Stone scandal around "A Rape On Campus" article is a good example:

Rolling Stone’s investigation: ‘A failure that was avoidable’: https://www.cjr.org/investigation/rolling_stone_investigatio...

Last July 8, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, a writer for Rolling Stone, telephoned Emily Renda, a rape survivor working on sexual assault issues as a staff member at the University of Virginia. Erdely said she was searching for a single, emblematic college rape case that would show “what it’s like to be on campus now … where not only is rape so prevalent but also that there’s this pervasive culture of sexual harassment/rape culture,” according to Erdely’s notes of the conversation"
Show HN: 1D Pac-Man running on my custom ARM-like fantasy console in the browser
by beep8_official | 2025-11-03 05:53:03+00:00
I built a tiny fantasy console from scratch, inspired by early 90s handheld consoles.

It runs entirely in the browser (JavaScript + WebAssembly), includes a virtual ARMv4-like CPU, 1 MB of RAM, a minimal RTOS, 16-color graphics, and can run games written in C/C++.

To test the system, I created a working 1-dimensional version of Pac-Man: - The maze is just a straight line - Ghosts still chase you - Power pellets and score items work like the original - Runs in real time on the virtual CPU

Demo (runs in browser, no download): https://beep8.org/b8/beep8.html?b8rom=1dpacman

Technical details: - ARM-like CPU (no floating point), emulated at 4 MHz - Custom RTOS (threads, semaphores, SVC interrupts) - 128×240 pixel display, 16-color palette - WebGL-based PPU for tiles and sprites - Games are compiled with GCC into ROM and executed on the VM

This is a personal learning project. Not commercial, no ads, no tracking. If anyone is curious, I can share more about the CPU instruction set, memory map, RTOS, or performance challenges in WebAssembly.

Feedback, criticism, and questions are very welcome.
by Magmalgebra | 2025-11-03 05:54:13+00:00
Standards come from a mixture of culture and attention. The reason SF pizza is so much worse than NY pizza is that SF does not have culture of high quality pizza (I say this as an SF native). Conversely we have higher standards for Sourdough. Seoul has higher standards for Kimchi, you get the idea.

Everywhere is like this to some extent - no people can be an expert in all things.