MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Eisenstein | 2025-11-10 14:34:51+00:00
> The dollar is being devalued every time more money is injected into the system,

I was pointing out somewhat pedantically that 'devalued' has a specific meaning and 'to lose purchasing power' is not it.

> When the total amount of currency in circulation goes up my money was devalued, prices will always go up when the money supply increases.

If you got more of that money to cover increased costs then it wouldn't be a problem, so it really only matters if you don't get a bump in income that covers the decrease in purchasing power.

The problem is not money supply increasing -- it is that it is being misallocated. The money supply has to increase in order for economies to grow otherwise it would deflate, and that cause all sorts of worse problems.
by WindyMiller | 2025-11-10 14:34:57+00:00
> 1 car in 3 on the roads in the UK is funded via PIP

In 2024 there were about 34 million cars registered in the UK and Motability had a fleet of 815,000. Are you telling me that the 3.5 million PIP recipients are using their payments to fund 2-3 cars each outside the Motability scheme?

(Motability buys about 1 in 5 of the new cars registered in the UK.)
by alisonatwork | 2025-11-10 14:35:02+00:00
I'm wondering about diminishing returns, because up until switching to FLAC about 10 years ago I ripped all my CDs to 320k and thus only have about 20 files in my "low bitrate" auto playlist that are weird indie or bootleg things that I couldn't bring myself to delete for nostalgia reasons. Is FLAC really all that much better? Can anybody hear the difference? I don't want to spend months awkwardly moving thousands of files around just because it's more useful to a hypothetical future archaeologist version of myself with hearing that got better with age instead of worse...

That said, I wouldn't mind going back and retagging my genres in particular because one of the annoying things is that over the years my perception of the genre of certain tracks has changed, so it might be easiest to just roll back to ID3v1 "we got both kinds: house and techno" genres for the broad category and then cram subgenre keywords into the comment field instead... but it's been so long since I used CDJs that maybe all these hacks to maintain compatibility with different players are moot now. I saw that the latest and greatest DJ equipment just hooks up direct to online streaming services so I wouldn't be surprised if it also had a feature to sync everything to MusicBrainz as soon as you plug in a USB, which makes all the fussing around with legacy tags kind of pointless for a casual who mostly just listens or mixes at home.
by ramses0 | 2025-11-10 14:35:28+00:00
He literally says he "discovered" it!?!?! https://nofluffjuststuff.com/blog/douglas_crockford/2008/01/...

...primary source: """I do not claim to have invented JSON. I claim only that I discovered it. It existed in nature. I identified it, gave it a name, and showed how it was useful. I never claimed to be the first to have discovered JSON. I made my discovery in the spring of 2001. There were other developers who were using it 2000."""

I see value in this semi-simplistic representation of DEC64, and to respond to a peer comment, consider "DEC64-norm", where non-normalized representations are "illegal" or must be tainted/tagged/parsed like UTF-8 before processing.

His other "useful" contribution which I lament not seeing anywhere else is "The Crockford Keyboard" another "near-discovery" of existing useful properties in an endemic standard (the English alphabet): https://www.crockford.com/keyboard.html

I really wish that the X-Box onscreen keyboard used this layout! You could imagine that if you could "hot-key" back to the left row (vowels), and have "tab-complete" (ie: shift-tab/tab) it could be a pretty comfortable typing experience compared to the existing "let's copy QWERTY(?!)".

...I feel him as a kindred spirit of pragmatism and complexity reduction (which necessarily) introduces more complexity since we live in a world where complicated things exist. Compared to IEEE floating point numbers, this DEC64 or "Number()" type seems like a breath of fresh air (apart from normalization, as mentioned!).
by cess11 | 2025-11-10 14:35:39+00:00
'Both capitalism and its nemesis arose in the mid 1900s, when humanity was obsessed with modernist thinking about "solving problems once and for all". And in that context, the people fell in love with these two "clean systems". A more perfect set of rules.'

All of this is junk. Karl Polanyi famously puts the birth of capitalism very late compared to other important thinkers, in 1834, by defining it as characterised by markets of fictitious commodities, i.e. stuff like labour, land, money. More mainstream would be to point to the Renaissance or british 16th century.

The idea that capitalism and communism would be dependent on an art movement of the early 20th century is quite bizarre, the Communist Manifesto was published in 1848 and by the late 19th century when modernism started to form unions and communist parties were already common.

Actually, modernism is a reaction to the apparent stalling of 'progress', WWI and nostalgia for the optimism of the early modern period. I.e. from 1500 to late 1800s. In part it was also a reaction to what is usually called modern physics, i.e. things like newtonianism and ether hypotheses breaking down in due to Michelson-Morley and early study of quantum phenomena, relativity and so on.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-10 14:35:43+00:00
I'm gonna take it a step further.

Garbage in. Garbage out.

Our institutions and organizations are bad because they're running on bad morals, bad culture and bad people. If these institutions were not staffed with bad people with bad morals peddling bad organizational culture, they would no so readily produce bad results.

The bureaucrat cooking up the absurd rules, the academic writing the conclusion of some study to lead the bureaucrat to that conclusion, the politician doing the haranguing, the executive shipping it all overseas knowing it's not a long term solution, they all either a) believe in what they're doing b) know it's bullshit and don't care as long as the paychecks don't bounce. And these organizations adopt rules and policies that result in just about anyone who isn't one of those two types washing out or becoming one before they're senior enough to do anything about it.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-10 14:35:47+00:00
> So let me get this straight: The US government directly buying stakes in Intel is A-OK

For America, yes. For China, no.

> but any involvement from the CCP in any form in any company is Not Good ?

For America, yes. For China, no.

This isn't a case where the "principled high road" has any practical meaning. This is a "You want your side to win but you want their side to lose? You're a hypocrite!" situation.
by robterrell | 2025-11-10 14:35:52+00:00
Lee will be speaking next month in San Jose at an event for the 50th anniversary of the Byte Shop computer store. Incredible opportunity to hear from the man himself. For computer designers of the 8-bit era, I’d say he ranks next to Woz in terms of importance: the Sol-80, Osborne, Homebrew Computer Club, member of the Berkeley free speech movement. Curious to hear his thoughts on the industry today.
by dpark | 2025-11-10 14:36:16+00:00
> but the rights of individuals are protected versus other individuals, corporations, and general organisations; just as they are in all civilised countries

Kind of. In the US there is no protection of free speech when posting in Twitter or Facebook, for example. There isn’t even a consent issue here. There’s no need for you to consent that Facebook can sensor your speech because you have no right to free speech in that context at all.

This is exactly what the poster was presumably referring to. Many rights in the us are in fact only protected from infringement by the government.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-10 14:36:26+00:00
Yes, its greatly important to never forget that opinions aren't at all facts. They're opinions and (particularly when it comes to artistic things) they're subjective.

It's also true that just because you have an opinion doesn't automatically mean it should be expressed. That friend who is raving about some movie (or whatever) that you hate? Volunteering that you hated it is unnecessary and corrosive. Just let your friend enjoy what they enjoy without throwing cold water all over them. Your opinion of it is no more valid than theirs. If they want your opinion, they'll ask.
by alerighi | 2025-11-10 14:36:28+00:00
You can't shut down 2G, because there are a lot of devices, mainly embedded systems like alarms, lift emergency call button, GPS trackers, etc. that still use 2G. Also 2G is the only reliable network connection in a lot of areas that are not otherwise reached by 3G/4G/5G, mainly because a 2G connection is more tolerant to low signal and noise, and also is low frequency, thus 2G is the only option available in situations such as on top of mountains and stuff. And finally there is still a lot of people, maybe elders, that don't have/want a smartphone (mainly because they are more complex to use etc.) and still use an old Nokia with 2G networks (they only need to call or send SMS in the end).

Also: VoLTE is not a thing since a lot of years, and probably there are even a ton of smartphones out there that does not support it (and thus switch back to 2G/3G to place voice calls).
Show HN: Promote your tool for Black Friday 2025
by arthur_sav | 2025-11-10 14:36:53+00:00
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by shevy-java | 2025-11-10 14:36:56+00:00
Somehow the UK is really in a downhill trend. For decades. BREXIT kind of accelerated that; people such as Nigel Farage won't follow on their promise. There won't be noteworthy economic growth for the common man.

The naval situation is even worse, because the UK totally depends on the USA now for its own nuclear arsenal. The UK has basically stopped being independent. Changing this will be hard and I don't think anyone in the UK wants to do that. There is no way for the UK to compete against South Korea's production; Canada will buy more equipment from South Korea. UK has never been in the race for competition (only Germany has). The UK kind of went into decline ever since Thatcher ruled, with a (too) few years in between that were not terrible.

BREXIT accelerated this but isn't the root cause - the root cause has to do with structural problems: https://www.ftadviser.com/uk/2025/7/21/the-uk-is-losing-weal...
by maxsilver | 2025-11-10 14:36:59+00:00
> A 4K netflix stream caps out around 15mbps

Yeah, but that's just because Netflix streams are ridiculiously over compressed -- they use extremely low quality encodes. It's technically a "4K" stream, sure, but at a bitrate only realistically capable of 1080p.

An actual 4K stream (one capable of expected resolution at 4K) is around 30 to 40mbps.
by rahulcef | 2025-11-10 14:37:03+00:00
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by Levitz | 2025-11-10 14:37:05+00:00
It goes beyond that, a lot of content really shouldn't be translated to begin with.

I'm Spanish, yet I set my system to English because I know that at some point I'm going to look something up or I'm going to come upon some error, and it doesn't matter if the system is perfectly translated, the information I'm going to be able to find is different. There's a flexibility, a leeway for words that go from one language to another that distort terms and make finding information harder.
by exe34 | 2025-11-10 14:37:14+00:00
I think it's a personality trait. He actually enjoys talking to dozens of people every day. He's friends with pretty much all the professors at the local uni because he turned up to random events as a student, and somehow he met a director level person at my company at the dry cleaners and they have regular catch-ups. he keeps a notebook of small facts about everybody in his network. COVID lockdowns were devastating for him.

In contrast, my Dunbar number is about 5. I need a few days to calm down from meeting new people. I can't imagine putting in the effort that he does in collecting people. COVID lockdown was a welcome break for me.
by immibis | 2025-11-10 14:37:17+00:00
How it actually works, every single time:

A majority of (or at least, enough) Democrats decide they want something unpopular.

They calculate exactly how many Democrats need to vote for the thing they want to happen. Notice how it always passes by one vote.

They figure out which Democrats who want the unpopular thing and will suffer the fewest consequences by voting for it. Notice how the Democrats who voted for the unpopular thing are always ones who are either unable to be voted out soon, or are guaranteed to be voted out because they hit term limits soon, and in either case they have nothing to lose by being unpopular.

Only those Democrats vote for the unpopular thing, and the remaining Democrats and the party as a whole suffer minimal reputational damage.

In this case, the Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer, despite voting against the unpopular thing because his reputational damage would not be minimal, was almost certainly involved in organizing it.

They may or may not compensate them for being the fall guys. Possibly the thing itself is enough compensation. Politicians love when their private jets are allowed to take off because air traffic controllers are getting paid (or forced to work for no pay).
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-10 14:38:26+00:00
>My ancestors were riveters and boiler fitters in Glasgow from about the 1860s to the 1920s - they lived 30 to a room in tenements, three generations atop on another, and had to start work aged 5 or 6 to prevent the family from falling into destitution. The economics essentially demanded that you crank out descendants, as only by pooling a number of incomes could you survive. Everybody had horrific injuries of one variety or another. Most died before reaching 50.

So basically the same situation as the prior generations of peasants toiling away to pay their taxes to the lord.
by kingstnap | 2025-11-10 14:38:31+00:00
This ~10 to 20 Mbps is enough nonsense is like claiming that 24 fps is enough to play games.

I mean sure, its usable, but its not good. You can notice the differences in buffering / scrubbing speed well into the 100+ mbps range.

Plus being able to download and upload files quickly. Particularly from something like a home NAS, is important. 15 mbps is like using a shitty USB 2 stick for everything!
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-11-10 14:38:41+00:00
googling, I think I had the nomad zen extra first then the zen vision w the built-in divx player for watching videos (which I never did, and it was an expensive way to learn that I'm not gonna watch a movie on a handheld screen)

I loved them both very much, much more than I love any gadget I own now
by dahart | 2025-11-10 14:38:49+00:00
Sure it is, and your own comment above about gmail to gmail being fairly secure demonstrated that. Using a photocopier is intentional, and everyone knows what a photocopier is. Most people don’t know what IMAP is, and an email sender does not know if the recipient uses IMAP.

And this is still irrelevant to sending email to the wrong recipient, so I don’t know why you’re stuck on infra security.
by Tyrek | 2025-11-10 14:40:04+00:00
Why take the chance that the food you buy from the grocer may be contaminated? I have respect for human creativity, and the limits of farmers. It's not easy to keep constant vigilance against all sources of contamination. Easier to restrict food to only what you produce yourself.

Glibness aside, there's clearly a continuum to the concept of 'we live in a society', and to how far the monkey brain's tribe extends. But the argument against routers is clearly arising from a biased set of priors, whether fairly or unfairly.
by sevensor | 2025-11-10 14:40:08+00:00
Hilarious and apt.

Either you want fixed point for your minimum unit of accounting or you want floating point because you’re doing math with big / small numbers and you can tolerate a certain amount of truncation. I have no idea what the application for floating point with a weird base is. Unacceptable for accounting, and physicists are smart enough to work in base 2.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-10 14:41:00+00:00
When I was shopping for one, I decided to get the one most favored (as you point out, the delta might be $150—fortunately that was not an obstacle for me). My worry was that if I got the less-favored model (or worst, a non-functioning one) my impression of the whole line might not be a fair one.

And FWIW, I like the machine. But I have barely used mine. But that has more to do with my procrastination at sitting down and writing in general.
by mallomarmeasle | 2025-11-10 14:42:12+00:00
Thanks for that, super interesting about sieches. A standing wave not directly from the moon or waves.From the wiki:

Lake seiches can occur very quickly: on July 13, 1995, a large seiche on Lake Superior caused the water level to fall and then rise again by one metre (three feet) within fifteen minutes, leaving some boats hanging from the docks on their mooring lines when the water retreated
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-10 14:42:34+00:00
Sexism and racism aren't politics, they're bigotry and ignorance and hatred and character flaws.

But to take you at face value: Are you sexist and racist because of politics, or is it simply because you're a bigot?

If it's politics, then just which political party do you subscribe to that has sexism and racism and bigotry as its guiding principles, hmmm?
by simondanisch | 2025-11-10 14:42:35+00:00
I'm excited to announce Raycore.jl, a high-performance ray-triangle intersection engine with BVH acceleration for both CPU and GPU execution in Julia.

Raycore will power a new raytracing backend for Makie, bringing photorealistic rendering to the ecosystem. We factored out the Ray intersection engine since it can be used in many different areas, so we're very curious to see what the community will create with it and how far we can push the performance over the years. The package includes interactive tutorials covering everything from basics to advanced GPU optimization.
by Rochus | 2025-11-10 14:44:05+00:00
> "If you use AI to replace your mind, you're training the model. If you use it to extend your mind, you're training yourself."

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking is an excellent tool for all kinds of philosophical discussions and interactive (Socratic) acquisition of knowledge. It's like discussing with an omniscient, infinitely patient sage. But you always have to ask questions and challenge things in order to reach the interesting depths, away from the common, superficial narratives.
by sulicat | 2025-11-10 14:44:06+00:00
I'm making an HID translation dongle.

In programming mode, its a flash drive you can put LUA scripts on.

In run mode, you can select a lua script to run. Lua scripts can take HID input and produce HID output.

All open source, hardware and software: https://github.com/cedarhacks/ReMapper

It can do things like keyboard -> joystick mapping, key logging, macros, mouse wiggling etc etc
Show HN: I built AI Native contact management and anti social networking app
by Asadlambda | 2025-11-10 14:44:15+00:00
About the app:

Contact management is broken.

Too many apps, too many QRs, too much noise.

We’re reimagining it fast, agentic, and private.

One QR. One network. Infinite control.

It’s not social. It’s sovereign. Built for the ones who still value privacy and precision.

Imagine owning your network not feeding someone else’s.

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Welcome to the network under the network
by sph | 2025-11-10 14:44:35+00:00
Tired of having my notes spread everywhere, on uncomfortable software, I'm writing my own Notational Velocity desktop app clone in Godot:

https://share.combo.cc/-Z7hBzNbaCc

(work in progress prototype, design is not final)

Intentionally made simple and centered around plain text files and editing speed. I've spent a week on the prototype, now it's good enough to dog-food. Would like to eventually distribute it as a multi-platform app.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-10 14:44:35+00:00
Society can't ignore the cost.

But the bad faith peddlers of the costs sure can.

You can't go an hour without some HN comment just hand waving away the costs of some regulation, some additional labor overhead, some procedural change, some tweak of input sourcing or other reduction of outputs relative to inputs as being "amortized" over the course of whatever to much applause from the comment section.

And yet these same people are smart enough to recognize these sorts of dishonest "the solution to pollution is dilution" type arguments when applied in other contexts. It ought to make you wonder how much malice is sailing under the flag of ignorance.