MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jbstack | 2025-11-03 15:11:11+00:00
It's not about my victory or yours. It's merely the recognition that people can have all sorts of reasons for doing all sorts of things, and one person can think nothing of doing a thing which the person next to them would never dream of doing.

The fact that you personally would be happy to be an organ donor but would draw the line at having an ECG while dying is a perfectly valid position to take. Many people would no doubt take the same position. It's unlikely though that 60-70 million people per year would all react that way. Neither of us has to be right or wrong here (about the difference between the two scenarios), because it's other people's motivations we're talking about.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-03 15:11:49+00:00
Where does it store metadata like the additional file properties you can add? Does it use Alternate Data Streams for anything?

Does the AI run locally?

For anyone who might find it useful, here's a Reddit thread from 3 years ago on a few concerns about SeaFile I'd love to see revisited with some updated discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/wzdp2p/are_ther...
by jerf | 2025-11-03 15:12:04+00:00
The modern meaning of "geometry" may not change, but cutting and gluing space definitely break Euclidean geometry, as in, specifically the one defined by Euclid. You can't break a mathematical system much harder than to kill it at the axiomatic level. 4 out of 5, if not 5 out of 5, axioms do not hold if you include portals. That's pretty dead.
by Bogdan197 | 2025-11-03 15:12:16+00:00
Building an app that turns any Android into the ideal "dumbphone". For people that want an unbypassable, no compromises app blocker that guarantees to keep them off social media (any form of doomscrolling, really).

It works on the basis of a whitelist, only apps in there can be run on the phone. It contains a lot of useful tools and is continuously expanded based on user needs.

The difference maker is that the app can't be simply uninstalled. It uses Android's MDM system for that. It can only be removed if you wait for a specific number of days that you choose at installation. So when motivation fails, the app won't.

For anyone curious, all details (and download) are available at https://thekaizenapp.com
by randomtoast | 2025-11-03 15:12:21+00:00
> most places just don't have enough people walking far to make them worth it

I would place them in the city centers of major cities, as there should be more than enough potential users.

> They also block people who are trying to cross the street.

Cities could be redesigned by banning cars from their centers, as is already the case in several places around the world.
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-03 15:12:28+00:00
There were plenty of regional wars among the native Americans. None of them resulted in widespread genocide and construction of concentration camps and reservations. In the initial Spanish 'not western colonization' nearly 8 million people died. By the 1900s there was nearly an 80% reduction in population and western populations were in possession of their resources.

Western nations came, they defeated their enemy, and they took their territory. What else do you call that?
by righthand | 2025-11-03 15:13:48+00:00
> My other advice is a one-size-fits-all food equation, which is, simply, to know where it came from. If you can't place it, trace it, or grow it/raise it/catch it yourself, don't eat it. Eat aware. Know your food. Don't wait on waiters or institutions to come up with ways to publicize it, meet your small fishmonger and chat him or her up at the farmer's market yourself.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-pescatores-dilemma_b_2463...
by wunderwuzzi23 | 2025-11-03 15:13:59+00:00
Good point. Few thoughts I would add from my perspective:

- The model is untrusted. Even if prompt injection is solved, we probably still would not be able to trust the model, because of possible backdoors or hallucinations. Anthropic recently showed that it takes only a few hundred documents to have trigger words trained into a model.

- Data Integrity. We also need to talk about data integrity and availability (full CIA triad, not not just confidentiality), e.g. private data being modified during inference. Which leads us to the third....

- Prompt injection which is aimed to have the AI produce output that makes humans take certain actions (not tool invocations)

Generally, I call the deviation from don't trust the model, the "Normalization of Deviance in AI" where seem to start trusting the model more and more over time - and I'm not sure if that is the right thing in the long term.
by seec | 2025-11-03 15:14:19+00:00
Yes I'm always a bit dumbfounded by this behavior as well. They always use weird stuff and I never have the intuition of the actual size, especially since the definition can vary depending on context.

In this case, what is actually considered to be a small dog? To me it would be something that is close to the size of a cat but since it's about 13kg, it can't be that small, so that's more like a medium dog (I'm not certain, but I have a feeling that if you lay out things statistically this is what you would end up with). On the other hand, 13kg is very easy to get, that's just 13 liters of water, and it's quite easy to make a mental image for both volume and weight "feeling" that way.

American units feel so impressive and random, it is the reason they always add those weird comparisons but often they make it even worse.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-03 15:14:54+00:00
This would simply not be possible, if basic web browsers were more popular. The React / Next.js app wouldn't run, and then the users would complain, and the Frontend People would try to say "just use the WHATWG VM", and then the Enterprise People would say "we've blocked that so people can't play video games at work: fix your end" (ignoring that they only blocked programs named chrome.exe, and everyone's got Firefox or a renamed Chrome installed), and then the Frontend People would have to fix it because that's what the client demands. (For B2B, at least, but B2B is lucrative enough that best-practices proliferate.)

It's a chicken-and-egg problem. The harmful consequences of Postel's principle are well-known, but the solutions are also well-known. We only need to get past a certain threshold before the problem's effectively solved, and that can be done by starting in a particular domain and working our way outwards.
by susam | 2025-11-03 15:15:01+00:00
> The size of the circle on the contour integral is a matter of personal preference, but it just depends on the typeface and is orthogonal to the choice of LaTeX/MathML.

Indeed! That was precisely the point of my previous comment.

I agree that switching to Latin Modern resolves some of the minor issues I mentioned earlier. However, it does not resolve all of them. In particular, it does not address the spacing concerns I mentioned earlier. For example compare the following on <https://mk12.github.io/web-math-demo/> with Latin Modern selected:

\sum_{q \le x/d}

Or:

\sum_{d \le \sqrt{x}}

The difference in spacing is really small but it is noticeable enough to bother me. Also, this is just one of several examples where I wasn't happy with the spacing decisions in MathML rendering. The more time I spent with MathML, the more such minor annoyances I found. Since KaTeX produces the spacing and rendering quality I am happy with, out of the box, I have continued using it.

Also, my goal isn't to replicate LaTeX's spacing behaviour faithfully. I just want the rendered formulas to look good, close to what I find in print or LaTeX output, even if it's a bit different. It so happens that I find myself often bothered by some of the spacing decisions in edge cases when using MathML, so I tend to just stick with MathJax or KaTeX.

But that's just me. All of this may seem like nitpicking (and it certainly is) but when I'm spending my leisure time maintaining my personal website and blog or archiving my mathematics notes, I want the pages to look good to me first, while still looking good to others. If MathML output looks good to others with certain fonts, that's a perfectly valid reason to use it.
by charles_f | 2025-11-03 15:15:15+00:00
All these platforms go for scale. They can't have individualized relations with people and have the rentability of a drug lord, especially when said people aren’t part of some world-scale enterprise who provides a sizeable chunk of their revenue. If they catch one good person for every bad one they eliminate, it’s seen as an unfortunate side-effect, a necessary cost, and they’re fine with it.

Yesterday was a wise account(1), the week before was GitHub (2)

Companies are fiefdoms, they’re not democracies with a judicial system. If one of the automated sheriffs identifies you as a criminal, it doesn’t put you on trial, but directly sentences you to jail. Your process from there is never clear and it's anyone's guess to what the outcome will be.

1: https://shaun.nz/why-were-never-using-wise-again-a-cautionar...

2: https://x.com/vmfunc/status/1978079375183536440
by delichon | 2025-11-03 15:15:23+00:00
The taste difference isn't from muscle size. Predator flesh tends to be darker, coarser and gamey from high nitrogenous waste and lipid oxidation. Carnivore diets include secondary compounds like amines and fatty acid derivatives that add strong odors. Prey animals have a milder, sweeter flavor and tender texture due to lower metabolic by-products and more stable lipids. Slow twitch flesh tastes better than fast twitch flesh.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-03 15:16:26+00:00
You could say there is no fundamental barrier to humans doing anything that is allowed by the laws of Physics, but that is not a very useful statement, and doesn't indicate how long it may take.

Since nobody has yet figured out how to build an artificial brain, having that as a proof it's possible doesn't much help. It will be decades or more before we figure out how the brain works and are able to copy that, although no doubt people will attempt to build animal intelligence before fully knowing how nature did it.

Saying that AGI "just needs some different code" than an LLM is like saying that building an interstellar spaceship "just needs some different parts than a wheelbarrow". Both are true, and both are useless statements offering zero insight into the timeline involved.
by sklarsa | 2025-11-03 15:16:46+00:00
I'm very surprised to see all of the negativity toward Cloudflare's usability and value here.

It's been relatively painless for me to set up tunnels secured by SSO to expose dashboards and other internal tools across my distributed team using the free plan. Yes, I need to get a little creative with my DNS records (to avoid nested subdomain restrictions), but this is not really much of a nuisance given all of the value they're giving me for free.

And after paying just a little bit ($10-20 per month), I'm getting geo-based routing through their load balancers to ensure that customers are getting the fastest connection to my infra. All with built-in failover in case a region goes down.
by bluGill | 2025-11-03 15:16:57+00:00
I know plenty of people who lack imagination who I believe never did drugs (I don't know for sure of course) so I can't call it proof.

It is very common for the addicted to ignore obvious signs of their addictions and the downsides thereof so it probably is a sign, but it isn't enough to be proof. (I'm thinking of an alcoholic who "had a bad ice cube" and now won't drink their whisky with ice)
by anastasija2504 | 2025-11-03 15:16:59+00:00
It’s no longer about fixing syntax errors - it’s about figuring out why a billion-parameter model did something totally unexpected. Developers are facing a whole new breed of bugs and these aren’t syntax errors you can catch with a linter. We’re talking unpredictable model outputs, data drift, or hidden biases in training sets.

When your “code” is a neural network with billions of parameters, traditional debugging tools barely scratch the surface.

So, the real challenge has shifted from fixing deterministic code to making sense of probabilistic behavior.

To explore this, we spoke with Zvonimir Petkovic, Senior Software Engineer at Infobip.
by amluto | 2025-11-03 15:17:00+00:00
There are some advantages to hub motors in an e-bike, and if the motor and an appropriate gearing system could be made light enough the disadvantages would be reduced.

Oddly, a very large majority of current fully suspended e-bikes with rear cargo racks have those racks unsprung, which suggests that most e-bike manufacturers don’t actually care about the handling of anything other than their pure e-MTBs.
by bogwog | 2025-11-03 15:17:04+00:00
Nextcloud is bloated and slow, but it works and is reliable. I've been running a small instance in a business setting with around 8 daily users for many years. It is rock solid and requires zero maintenance.

But people rarely use the web apps. Instead, it's used more like a NAS with the desktop sync client being the primary interface. Nobody likes the web apps because they're slow. The Windows desktop sync client has a really annoying update process, but other than that is excellent.

I could replace it with a traditional NAS, but the main feature keeping me there is an IMAP authentication plugin. This allows users to sign in with their business email/password. It works so well and makes it so much easier to manage user accounts, revoke access, do password resets, etc.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-03 15:17:08+00:00
My grand parents were (Black) rural farmers who grew up in the segregated Jim Crow south. My parents also grew up in Jim Crow South and graduated college during the time of integration - my mom is a retired teacher who is now 81 and (semi)retired [1] at 55. My dad got a degree in an accounting after doing one tour in Vietnam and decided factory work was more his liking. He is 83 and retired at 57.

I graduated from a no name state college in 1996 with a degree in computer science and have worked for everything from startups, to small and medium lifestyle companies, to BigTech to now customer facing consulting.

While my mom got a pension, my dad just slowly saved and invested through his career. They’ve been living a good life that didn’t require working for over 30 years.

What my parents didn’t do was try to keep up with the Jones - they had their house built in 1978 and have been there ever since and added on to it in 2002. My mom has a few more cars only because she has given older ones to relatives when she felt a slight itch to get a new one. But my dad has had only three cars his entire life.

But simple math that I’m sure you have seen shows how continued automated investing over years won’t make you “rich” but will give you a comfortable retirement.

And it’s no “myth” especially for producing physical goods, that keeping the factory open longer and producing more widgets to sell increases profits. Paying people more money won’t have them producing more widgets when there is a constant amount of factory capacity that someone has.

People in all industries get promoted all of the time and make more money eve. Adjusted for inflation. You can find plenty of statistics where older workers make more than younger workers.

Other people making more than you do, doesn’t mean that you don’t make more money than you would by not investing.

[1 she was willing to volunteer for various education programs to help at risk students. But the grants were required to pay her but she negotiated a lower pay so she could work more hours and still not affect her pensions. She could have cared less about the money.
by electrograv | 2025-11-03 15:17:20+00:00
> In 2025, after a £12m investment, YASA opened the UK's first axial-flux super factory, in Oxfordshire.

It’s a little sad to me that fundamental innovations in electromechanical engineering like this get just a few million in investment, yet if this had been yet another derivative software startup with “AI” in the pitch, they’d probably have 10x+ or more investments being thrown at them.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-03 15:18:06+00:00
What due process is being skipped? People are arrested all the time when they are innocent, and that is not widely considered to be skipping due process. If they are jailed for a crime without appearing before a judge for example then due process has been skipped, but whether someone has committed a crime requires a judge to check, whereas I imagine whether someone is in the country legally just requires checking some databases. Have citizens been deported by accident? I haven’t seen any reports of that.
by nucleardog | 2025-11-03 15:18:24+00:00
> Sadly for the general Dropbox replacement I haven't found anything either.

I had really good luck with Seafile[0]. It's not a full groupware solution, just primarily a really good file syncing/Dropbox solution.

Upsides are everything worked reliably for me, it was much faster, does chunk-level deduplication and some other things, has native apps for everything, is supported by rclone, has a fuse mount option, supports mounting as a "virtual drive" on Windows, supports publicly sharing files, shared "drives", end-to-end encryption, and practically everything else I'd want out of "file syncing solution".

The only thing I didn't like about it is that it stores all of your data as, essentially, opaque chunks on disk that are pieced together using the data in the database. This is how it achieves the performance, deduplication, and other things I _liked_. However it made me a little nervous that I would have a tough time extracting my data if anything went horribly wrong. I took backups. Nothing ever went horribly wrong over 4 or 5 years of running it. I only stopped because I shelved a lot of my self-hosting for a bit.

[0]: https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
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by moseg | 2025-11-03 15:18:38+00:00
For years, brands have paid per click, per view, per impression — even when no sale ever happened.

But what if you only paid after real results?

AI agents and dynamic tracking now make it possible to run performance-based campaigns that charge only when a deal is completed — a real outcome, not attention.

If that becomes the standard, would CPC, CPM, or influencer budgets even make sense anymore?
by spiderfarmer | 2025-11-03 15:18:49+00:00
What you see as cozying up to the CCP is irrelevant if people perceive the USA as being the same as China.

Trying to gain independence from the USA is sorely needed. Smaller countries have no choice but to play both sides.

The US consumer base is driven by debt, which is unsustainable. So it just makes sense strategically: https://impaxam.com/insights-and-news/blog/us-consumer-healt...

The US also doesn't have freedom of speech anymore. Daily attacks on the free press, wrongful arrests, censorship of government agencies, extortion of Universities. Also, ICE has disappeared activists who were legally in the US. It's becoming Trump's gestapo real quick.

Don't close your eyes to the harsh reality. The US has had mass incarceration on the same footing as slave labor camps for decades now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

There might be freedom of religion, for now. But there's no freedom from religion: https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-terrible-10-church-...

Nobody believes the current trend will end with Trump. The corruption, internal divisions, feelings of grandeur and bullying will not end with this regime. And there are a lot reasons to believe Trump will not cede power.
by withinboredom | 2025-11-03 15:19:11+00:00
You put the timeout on the socket, not your application. Your application shouldn't care how long it takes, as long as progress is being made, which the socket will know about, but you won't. If you put a timeout on your application and then retry, you'll just make the problem worse. Your original packets are still in a buffer somewhere and still will be processed. Retrying won't help the situation.
by dnpls | 2025-11-03 15:19:29+00:00
Maybe because fish predators are still fish? So they still taste like fish. It seems fish-eating birds taste fishy, which is not really a desirable flavor in a bird. Maybe mammal predators are also not as tasty - then also what do you feed a farmed bear or a fox, they need to eat meat... So you'd feed them cows that we could eat ourselves? Or we raise rabbits just for them?
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-03 15:19:40+00:00
I have a gmail account that is connected to my Android phone. I don't use it for anything else, so it's unlikely that I would run afoul of Google for anything I do with it.

Any hosted email, paid or free, is going to have terms and conditions and you will be able to find anecdotes from people whose service was suspended "for no reason" but it's that or buy your own domain and host your own email.
by thimkerbell | 2025-11-03 15:19:57+00:00
Urban planning provocateur here (me). The writer: (kindaquote) "Create as much circulation at your party as you can. ...take away chairs from tables, leave shelves and counter-tops open for people to rest their plates and drinks" IMO there are parallels here with cities and parking. If noplace satisfactory to leave your car, you circulate less.
by seanhunter | 2025-11-03 15:19:59+00:00
If you actually want to learn linear algebra, don't use this blogpost. It's real weaksauce compared to the wealth of free information and resources available online.

Firstly, the real illustrated guide to linear algebra is the youtube series "The Essence of linear algebra" by 3blue1brown[1]. It has fantastic visualisations for building intuition and in general is wildly superior to this, which seems fine but extremely superficial.

If you're done with 3b1b and want to take things further, then the go-to is the excellent 18.06SC course by the late and legendary Gilbert Strang. It's amazing, it's free. [2]

Still want more? OK now you're talking my language. If you are serious about linear algebra (Up to graduate level, after that you need something else) then you want the book "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Sheldon Axler. It's available for free from the author's website[3] and he has made a bunch of videos to supplement the book. There's also an RTD Math full lecture series[4] that follows the book and he explains each thing in a lot of detail (because Axler goes fast, so it's beneficial to unpack the concepts a bit sometimes).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011...

[3] https://linear.axler.net/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkx2BJcnyxk&list=PLGAnmvB9m7...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eggsIan2Y4&list=PLd-yyEHYtI...
by pjmlp | 2025-11-03 15:20:04+00:00
In those two alone, Java.

There is no reason I would care about borrow checking implementing a compiler, and besides all the tooling, Java also has stuff like ANTRLR and MPS, and naturally Graal is a good playground for compiler backend tooling.

However in general, I would rather look into OCaml, Haskell, F#, Scala.
by evanjrowley | 2025-11-03 15:21:02+00:00
If I want something designed to boot from a USB stick that runs VMs off of ZFS pools, the only option where this is the "happy path" is SmartOS.

It blows me away that since it's inception, no other hypervisor-focused distributions have arisen to do the same. Yes, you could tailor some minimalistic Linux distro to boot from USB, expose KVM, and store VMs on ZFS, but the plumbing for all of that is the user's burden. It could probably be done elegantly from NixOS, as long as you accept the added complexity of storing and using /nix.

Could it be that only Illumos and FreeBSD users understand the importance of saving your SATA/SAS/NVMe slots for actual workloads instead of booting the host?