MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by renewiltord | 2025-11-21 06:35:57+00:00
The one great commonality I've noticed about California Democrats and Online Indians is that each region's problems seem exclusively the fault of some long dead fellow.

Apparently this Nehru chap has been dead for 60 years. In fact, India has only been a country for 80 years so he's been dead for most of the time India has been around.

Likewise with Ronald Reagan. Supposedly he's responsible for all the woes of California since.

I've got to be honest. It's not that convincing.

It reminds me of those engineers who you hire and one month in they don't have anything to show because of "tech debt" and shit like that. It's always the fault of some guy who has long left. Then you hire other engineers and they just nail it. Such is life. There's blamers and doers and the two are not usually the same.
by overfeed | 2025-11-21 06:36:51+00:00
That's true Qualcomm in general, but is fortunately outdated for the Snapdragon Elite X (and only the X). Qualcomm has been upstreaming patches to Linus' tree[1] - but only for the Elite X - the Elite P processors get the classic Qualcomm treatment.

1. https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...
by pie_flavor | 2025-11-21 06:37:43+00:00
I didn't say 'utopia'. I can name exactly the things I want changed, and exactly what the proximate effects will be of doing so, good and bad.

Yes, agencies are people. If you think that it's dishonest to castigate the SFHA for taking one action and not taking another because the one action was a little while ago and therefore there's been some personnel churn since, you are being unserious. Have you ever complained about past and present actions of e.g. Microsoft?
by tsoukase | 2025-11-21 06:37:57+00:00
Antidepressants benefit specific populations, those that have a predominant "internal" stress/depression and not due to a profound external trauma. They will not help a child that is continuously bullied, but one that has inherited a depressive trend. This holds for children and adults, barring some differences due to age maturity. Saying "no difference from placebo" for a treatment that is used by hundreds of millions is poor science, if not misinformation and malice.
by js2 | 2025-11-21 06:38:27+00:00
I've been running docker apps via podman inside alpine containers on Proxmox. Works for me with homebridge, scrypted, and plex.

I created an alpine container per app with "nesting=1". Inside each alpine container I installed podman (`apk install podman`). Then it's a couple init scripts inside each alpine container, one to work-around a cgroups issue, the other to start the app via podman:

https://pastebin.com/raw/W8YPKGjG
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-21 06:41:38+00:00
The claim that something is hard to do properly is an argument for doing it less often, i.e. limiting it to the cases when the benefit is unambiguously large and staying away from borderline cases where overhead and collateral damage will leave you underwater.

It's also an argument for requiring the government to internalize the costs it imposes, e.g. if it wants testing done then it should pay for it from general revenue so that the cost of it is accounted for in the government budget instead of imposing an unfunded mandate. Then if the cost is reasonable this isn't a problem and if the cost is unreasonable the government is causing a problem for itself instead of innocent third parties, which puts the incentive to fix it in the right place.
by bombdailer | 2025-11-21 06:41:52+00:00
No one using these tools will produce anything even a tenth as impressive as what was born out of the Renaissance, since their efforts were born of mastery, understanding, patience, a keen eye, and a love of nature and life. One who outsources their creativity and thinking to a machine will produce meaningless 'art' as empty as the shrinking contours of their mind as it withers away from non-use. Our world is not want for more quantity as we already drown in excess, and the quality and meaning inherit in masterful works of art born out of ones own hands will one day once again find their way to the center of our consciousness, as the world learns again that the value of art lies not solely in its appearances, but in its revelation of the human soul by means of Beauty, by which a human endeavors by great effort and skill to impart some aspect of their fleeting glimpse of the divine and sacred nature of being, by which our being here now as people of this earth and time consists of, which binds us all, now and through our history and our future.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-21 06:42:23+00:00
What an utterly vacuous statement saying nothing. Making no refutable claims. Typical hot air, full of nothing. Boring as fuck, nothing here.

Further, your point is spoken from the perspective of a company, a single entity. Companies are utterly unable to bank on Bazaar practices, to embrace the multitudes way of finding answers. They lack the hackerly blood to try many approaches. They are not creative enough to do anything but build their one Cathedral.

As a company, no, you should not try to build interoperable protocols to foster internal completion on. Duh, no shit. But strong command and control-while it may be good for a company-is not going to be how a much broader ecosystem finds the best paths to take.

It's incredibly impressive how much Wayland compositors compete/cooperate for better. Sway/wlroots for one example has a new Vulkan backend. They could just go try and do new things. There's protocols to implement and they made new implementations, and now there's a half dozen Wayland compositors that have new cutting edge tech they are trying out. Innovation at the edge, but working together, is the shit. Yeah it's not a model that helps the corpo's but that's because open source is searching a much wider field of options, looking much better for wins, and the cathedral model isn't going to get you any of that.

I'm still impressed what vacuous say nothing piece of shit useless Fear Uncertainty and Doubt folks can spread. This era has such a virulent pox of hatred, built around such empty words. None of these bitter words actually say anything, this whole discussion is filled with rabid useless disdain. Piss on ye, say something contestable you villainous cowards. What does you are, saying nothing, but trying to dynamite it all. A pox.

The calculus of what some team does is totally different than what open source does.
by energy123 | 2025-11-21 06:42:51+00:00
> Regulations exist for a reason.

Regulations exist for different reasons, not one reason. Some of those reasons are good reasons, like regulations against dumping or against contract killers or for food safety. Some of those are bad reasons, like regulations of parking minimums implemented to appease the property owning class. Some of those are for bad reasons pretending to be for good reasons, like the regulations that block renewable energy which are allegedly for the environment, but the true motives are more about aesthetic displeasure or ideological hostility.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-21 06:42:54+00:00
> To begin with, no it isn't. There are a lot of existing regulations that serve no legitimate purpose.

Citation needed. Specially referring to TFA.

You know what there is a lot of? Organizations trying to push onto the public hazardous and subpar products. Those are the ones mostly affected by regulation, because that's precisely what regulation is designed to shield society from.

So it comes as no surprise that there are companies complaining that regulation prevents them from doing business. That's by design, and represents a much needed market pressure to prevent bad actors from screwing everything and everyone around them.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-21 06:43:04+00:00
As evidenced by the confusion of at least one commenter, I do not think it is a good didactic way to introduce vectors by how they can be written in a particular basis.

It is just unhelpful in many ways. It fixates on one particular basis and it results in a vector space with few applications and it can not explain many of the most important function vector spaces, which are of course the L^p spaces.

In most function vector spaces you encounter in mathematics, you can not say what the value of a function at a point is. They are not defined that way.

The right didactic way, in my experience, is introducing vector spaces first. Vectors are elements of vector spaces, not because they can be written in any particular basis, but because they fulfill the formal definition. And because they fullfil the formal definition they can be written in a basis.
Show HN: Nano Banana Pro – Next‑gen AI image model playground
by bryandoai | 2025-11-21 06:43:34+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with the image model a lot of folks in the Google/Gemini ecosystem casually call “Nano Banana 2” (aka Nano Banana Pro), and built a small web playground around it:

https://www.nanobananapro.site

Nano Banana Pro is a next‑generation image model focused on higher fidelity and better reasoning. Compared to the earlier “Nano Banana” image API, it aims to improve in a few specific areas:

- Native 2K output with clean 4K upscaling - Sharper micro‑details and more realistic materials - Much more stable text rendering (labels, UI, posters, etc.) - Intent‑driven composition for complex prompts - Flexible aspect ratios (1:1, 4:5, 16:9, 21:9, 9:16, …) - Better character identity and style consistency across generations - Stronger inpainting/outpainting with scene‑aware edits

The site is meant as a simple playground for:

- Testing prompt engineering for complex scenes (multiple characters, actions, and constraints in one prompt) - Trying typography and layout (banners, UI mockups, posters with multi‑line text) - Exploring editing workflows like masking, extending a scene, or refining parts of an image - Comparing how it handles physics/spatial logic vs. other image models you’ve used

I’m particularly interested in feedback from:

- People building production‑grade creative tools or UGC pipelines (avatars, covers, marketing visuals) - Folks who care about text rendering and layout quality - Anyone who’s been hitting limits with current image models on aspect ratios, consistency, or editing

Questions I’d love feedback on:

- What’s missing for this to be useful in a real workflow? - Which knobs (guidance, composition controls, aspect‑ratio presets, editing tools) would you want exposed? - What would make it easier to plug something like this into your own product or pipeline?

If you try it and manage to break it (or find cases where it fails badly), I’d really appreciate examples and thoughts.
by bjoli | 2025-11-21 06:43:43+00:00
Isn't this pretty obvious if you spent more than three weeks writing python? There are lots tricks, but these listed here seem relevant to all languages. There is an almost an incountable amount of ways to write bad and slow python code that are not as obvious.

I remember the day I realized how much I dislike python. I have never had it click for me, despite writing it in and off since the python 2.0. There are always some new arbitrary places for it to bite you, and it always feels a little yucky. And then one day I saw something like this:

# b is not defined here if blahblah(): b = gronk() # might raise an exception do_stuff(b)

That tingles in all the wrong places. Ruby has other issues, but the core is still feels elegant. I still prefer scheme, though.

Edit: and maybe someone can explain to me why anyone would make it so that the simplest way to iterate through a collection is not the fastest? This is the case for most languages, but it still feels dumb. Just allow a slightly more obtuse syntax like

for a in b<list>

and make that case just as fast as doing it with a while loop. The iterator protocol is imho for when we frankly don't know/care what we are iterating over, or when we elwant to be generic, or when the data structure can't expose the most efficient way of doing it (like a tree). There is no reason why for a in b: should be slower than while when b is a list or string.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-11-21 06:44:33+00:00
Covid policy was bad mostly because it was driven by economic interests, not because of "bad science."

The only major scientific lapses I can think of in the US were the initial insistence that masks don't work and that the virus isn't airborne. The mask issue was influenced by the fact that they wanted to conserve masks for healthcare workers. I strongly suspect the airborne issue was heavily influenced by no one wanting to deal with the consequences: that stronger measures would be needed to reduce the spread of the virus.
by kamaal | 2025-11-21 06:44:42+00:00
>>the manager is not politely savvy enough to ensure their team is being recognized for work that grows or is valuable to the business.

Actually in most companies, no ones watching whats happening, no ones watching who performs, who slacks, or anything for that matter.

Companies are basically a kind of a loosely assembled random crowd, where no one cares a thing about anything. In this kind of a set up both hardwork and laziness go unnoticed, which is why a persistent level of mediocrity is all pervasive. People do the bare minimum needed to keep lights on.

Getting rewards, or not getting punished in this kind of set up, largely depends on who you know, how they view you and what they are willing to do for you.
by verdverm | 2025-11-21 06:44:51+00:00
Search has become so bad that zero hits is not the indicator it used to be, even DDG is struggling now.

It's really evident in situations like this where you are looking for something specific. Seems like they all pushed too hard on the AI and the results are for averaged search queries. Using quotes and -term have become less helpful

Conspiratorially, I wonder if this is intentional to drive more traffic to ai. I find myself using Google Deep Search more, which is honestly a better UX if it would stop writing damn reports and just give me a brief with links. Alas it ignores any instructions to change it's output format
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-21 06:45:22+00:00
The reason why using a CDN is so effective for improving the perceived performance of a web site is because it reduces the length (and hence speed of light delay) of these first 7 round trips by moving the static parts of the web app (HTML+JS) to the "edge", which is just a bunch of cache boxes scattered around the world.

The user no longer has to connect to the central app server, they can connect to their nearest cache edge box, which is probably a lot closer to them (1-10ms is typical).

Note that stateful API calls will still need to go back to the central app server, potentially an intercontinental hop.
by al_borland | 2025-11-21 06:47:00+00:00
I view these online platforms as the modern town square. If they are silencing people, that’s a problem in my book. Who is deciding what is acceptable? Who put them in change of what people are and aren’t allowed to say?

Provided the person isn’t breaking any laws by saying what they’re saying, leave the post up and they can get their repercussions, positive or negative, based on their post being available.

I know people like to take a hard line view and say a violation of free speech is only happening if the government is arresting you for what you say, but in my opinion it’s everyone’s responsibility. To have the privilege of free speech means one must also be tolerant to hearing things they don’t like from time to time. After all, free speech doesn't exist to protect popular opinion, it exists to protect the unpopular.
by nickpp | 2025-11-21 06:48:04+00:00
Actually building in Turkey is strongly regulated - it’s just that corruption in government allows bad players to easily ignore it.

Just another way regulation fails to do what is supposed to, while its downsides (diminished competition, deterring startups and supporting incumbents) still apply.

This is why blindly relying on regulation and ignoring its trade offs is just foolish.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-21 06:48:16+00:00
I don't have an issue with an employee maximizing profit. I do have an issue with employees banding together and bargaining collectively. Exactly the same way I don't have an issue with a company maximizing profit, but I would have an issue with companies banding together and negotiating collectively.

A difference is that there's not necessarily an inherent size limit on companies while there is an inherent size limit on individuals because you can only be one person. One person can only be so economically valuable.

However, that's why we have the whole system of antitrust to say when a company gets too big, as soon as we can show that it's having some kind of negative effect on consumers, we split it up. And that's exactly what we should do. And we definitely should prevent more mergers as well. What I would do differently w.r.t. antitrust is say that instead of only looking at harm to consumers (those who a company sells to), we should also look at harm to workers (aka those who a company buys from).
by distances | 2025-11-21 06:48:28+00:00
I don't think your salary negotiation position is diminished by having some kind of a lower bound. Skilled employees should be able to get a higher salary if the employers value their skills, and that does happen all the time also in countries with strong unions, like those Nordics.

Even without unions Europe wouldn't have US tech salary levels, those numbers come from other market dynamics.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-21 06:48:45+00:00
Yep. UL & CE certification to standard X. The lack of retail marketplace and manufacturing regulation enforcement are the problems that are fixable similar to lack of safety standards in automobiles in the US prior to 1966. Safety regs are written in blood and so people can winge and whine all they want about headaches, cost, red tape, and paperwork but too bad.
by IronyMan100 | 2025-11-21 06:49:24+00:00
This Has it's use. The continouus Fourier Transform is is based on that. You are asking what frequencies is this continouus signal made of. Time is normally defined as a real number in that context, but If you have a continouus time you need continouus frequencies to map time space to frequency space. You can think about an Index as a lego Block, that you need to construct Something.
by jjuran | 2025-11-21 06:49:27+00:00
If you're okay with a System 6 appearance, I've already made one <https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/tree/master/68k/modules...>, for Advanced Mac Substitute <https://www.v68k.org/ams/>.

I do appreciate Alan Kay's thinking, in particular his talk "Normal Considered Harmful" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc>

My own high-level language, Varyx, has somewhat LISPy internals and is very dynamic — for example, you can annotate a variable with a type that's determined only at run time — and has an eval() that insulates the caller from the payload and vice versa. You can sequester mutable state within a closure, which can't be cracked open. Using an experimental Varyx build with some bindings for Apple's Core Graphics API, I wrote a script that rendered an arrow cursor (which I donated to the ravynOS project).

Perhaps we should talk. :-)
by al_borland | 2025-11-21 06:50:24+00:00
I’ll take a look. I’ve used some of those purpose built tools before and I was never much of a fan. Usually due to how the furniture was handled.

Back in high school I had extensive experience with AutoCAD R14 (3 years with it, after 2 years of board drafting), and then in college I had some more experience with a couple other packages. But this was all a couple decades ago now.
by kamaal | 2025-11-21 06:51:26+00:00
The deal about India is this.

Its a brutal zero/negative sum game, at a country level, but plays out in every individual's life, and at a punishing pace, intensity and frequency.

Anybody who doesn't prioritise their self interests at any and all costs, suffers.

Just stubbornly refuse to do a thing that isn't beneficial to you. You will come out fine.
by pempem | 2025-11-21 06:53:02+00:00
Collectively decide and easily are carrying lots of weight here.

Americans (citizens that is) have held fairly consistent opinions on healthcare, guns, education, war and yet very little changes because all voices are in fact, not equal. We are not collectively deciding. There are massive thumbs on the scale, often in favor of private profit that keep things as they are now.

Some might even, surprise surprise, be owned by the companies investing in the companies that use this technology.

This is, as the OP noted, a gross invasion of privacy and not avoidable in a country that largely requires cars and their registration for day to day life.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-21 06:53:55+00:00
To me (and it’s my personal experience) I read it as tech people have a bias for systemic thinking, and usually lack skills and/or experience in human social dynamics, especially when young, which makes laissez faire capitalism / libertarianism attractive. I’m a bit on the spectrum and to me it has a video game like quality (e.g. humans that are robot like rational actors) that was appealing and reassuring when trying to make sense of the world.

In short don’t find it condescending to say a bias exists, independently of the agreement with the political line of thinking.

In fact when I was younger I was condescending the other way: surely if you are not into libertarianism your systemic thinking must be limited.
by happymellon | 2025-11-21 06:55:22+00:00
ARM were perfectly fine getting the bad press for suing Qualcomm for releasing the Snapdragon that was finally performing enough despite these companies paying them a lot of money.

They seemed quite happy to destroy their eco system if they won.

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20251001/business/qualcomm-arm-2
Show HN: Datamorph – A clean JSON ⇄ CSV converter with auto-detect
by sumit_entr42 | 2025-11-21 06:57:21+00:00
Hi everyone,

I built a small web tool called Datamorph because I kept running into JSON/CSV converters that either broke with nested data, required login, or added weird formatting.

Datamorph is a minimal, fast, no-login tool that can:

• Convert JSON → CSV and CSV → JSON • Auto-detect structure (arrays, nested objects, mixed data) • Handle uploads or manual text input • Beautify / fix invalid JSON • Give clean, flat CSV output for real-world messy data

It’s built with React + Supabase + serverless functions. Everything runs client-side except file parsing, so nothing is stored.

I know there are many similar tools, but I tried focusing on:

• better handling of nested JSON, • simpler UI, • zero ads / zero login, • instant conversion without waiting.

Would love feedback on edge cases it fails on, or features you think would make this actually useful for devs and analysts.

Live tool: https://datamorphio.vercel.app/

Thanks for checking it out!
by pdpi | 2025-11-21 06:57:31+00:00
The DMA forced Apple to move all of their P2P Wi-Fi stuff from their proprietary AWDL stack to the current Wi-Fi Aware-based implementation. Whatever work Google did to reverse engineer Airdrop was based on the Wi-Fi Aware implementation of Airdrop, rather than the older AWDL. They didn't get the whole stack for free, but it's not nothing either.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-11-21 06:58:14+00:00
This is interesting posturing, but ultimately I think the Ukraine drone war has made an invasion of Taiwan by China virtually impossible.

- Surface naval assets are extremely vulnerable to drones, so a blockade probably can't be maintained

- a marine assault will get utterly obliterated by drones as well as conventional military defenses

- urban warfare with drones is now even more difficult

- wars like this expose governmental corruption on a massive scale, so the mainland military won't want it to happen

- the Malacca Straits will be blockaded by a deep water navy (ours) that can't be reached by Ukraine-style drones, so China's economy collapses without oil for fertilizer, energy, and transportation