MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by o11c | 2025-11-06 04:09:18+00:00
> The weirdest part is seeing this bubble up to the real world. I’ve been hearing young people use turns of phrases/expressions that I recognize as distinctly American, except not in English.

Calquing has been a common thing since long before AI translators, and it's not notable that it now happens for modern memes. It happens whenever a language is notable and nearby; English has a lot of calques from Greek/Latin/German/French as a result.

Ironically, "calque" is a loanword, but "loanword" is a calque.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-06 04:09:38+00:00
I didn't say he was trying to tackle, I said he was trying to create a physical altercation, probably with the premeditated goal of trying to sue and/or buy time for the likely illegal aliens working for him - not only for their sake, but because hiring illegal aliens is a felony. I don't believe you believe that he just 'accidentally fell' exactly on the officer exactly as he came into range.

The reason he grabbed the door handle is because in his mind he thought he was going to be the one knocking the officer down. He's a big and very aggressive guy that's this spry at 79 - I'm positive this wasn't even remotely close to his first rodeo. He grabbed on to help maintain balance.

As another issue he wasn't running anywhere in particular, except towards the officer. As soon as he collides, he then gets up from crashing into him he turns around and starts racing back towards him again. He then pushes the other officer at 28 seconds and begins grappling with yet a third officer at 30 seconds. He's then tackled at 35 seconds.

Given he was not arrested for intentionally crashing into the first officer I think ICE was generally trying their hardest to ignore him, but that probably became impossible about the point he actively decided to start grappling with them.
by kragen | 2025-11-06 04:09:50+00:00
Op-amps are absolutely, 100% analog in every sense; there's no need to limit this assertion with the nonstandard adverb "technically". The term "analog" was invented in the first place specifically to describe circuits made out of op-amps rather than "digital" circuits. And, yes, you can totally balance the charge on your cells using op-amps and similar analog circuits. You will probably want some sharp PWM waveforms in the circuit, but PWM isn't all the way to digital.
by kelnos | 2025-11-06 04:09:59+00:00
Serious question (I don't have kids of my own): before smartphones and tablets and the ubiquity of laptops and computers, what did parents do to get some peaceful time to themselves?

It's hard to believe that parents were only able to achieve this during the past 15-20 years.

(When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, I spent plenty of time outdoors with my friends in the neighborhood, and also inside, in front of my Nintendo, either with friends or without. Not sure how much peace my parents got, but I assume it was non-zero.)
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-06 04:10:26+00:00
Google AI: Farmer

comes from the Middle English word ferme, meaning "rent" or "fixed payment," which in turn comes from the Anglo-French fermer ("to rent") and medieval Latin firma. These terms are ultimately rooted in the Latin word firmus, meaning "strong" or "firm". The modern agricultural meaning developed because land was often held under a fixed-payment lease, or "fee farm," and since most such land was agricultural, the terms became synonymous.

Feels to me that demos who disagree tend to make the politically-expedient substitute "peasant" without thinking too much about it

some French folks might also think of tax-collectors..
by runako | 2025-11-06 04:11:23+00:00
That's a good point, the airlines know how to handle reduced system capacity. I think in my hypothetical game I am more interested in how does FAA game out what capacity to tell the airlines.

For example, assume ATC is still not being paid around Thanksgiving week. How many ATC are still coming to work, for free, with no assurance of receiving back pay, on a holiday week, with a second rent/mortgage payment due in a week? Planning around that seems much harder even than planning around a storm!
by kragen | 2025-11-06 04:11:25+00:00
That was after the first 20 years of automotive computers, though, wasn't it, if only barely?

WP says, "In the early 1970s, the Japanese electronics industry began producing integrated circuits and microcontrollers used for controlling engines.[6] The Ford EEC (Electronic Engine Control) system, which used the Toshiba TLCS-12 microprocessor, entered mass production in 1975.[7]" Reference [6] says, "First half of 1970s: Japan starts developing ICs for automobiles ahead of the U.S.: Development of ICs for automobiles started with analog ICs for in-car entertainment, and was followed by 4-bit microcontrollers and other digital ICs for use with the wipers, electronic locks, and dashboard, and then by microcontrollers with 8-bit and wider bits for engine control."

But I don't know any more details. Was Toyota controlling its windshield wipers with a 4004 in 01974? Was Nissan controlling a speedometer with an RCA 1801 in 01973?

Anyway, if we date it from 01975, then 01995 would be year #21.
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-06 04:12:41+00:00
From what I can see, it's been decreasing rapidly especially this past year. Hybrid arrangements used to be offered at 1-2 days in the office and now it's down to 1-2 days at home. I've also seen quite an increase 2024 onward of full time at the office. Coincidentally, that's when the AU job market took a hit and layoffs started becoming a weekly occurrence.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 04:12:44+00:00
What are you talking about?

A quick call is a courteous first step. The other person might not have time for a long call, so you want to show you're respecting their time. Then you follow it up with a longer meeting with the relevant engineer and manager, etc. "Taking someone to dinner" is not the first step here. The way to show you care is by trying to understand the situation before anything else.

There is no world in which this is insulting.
by panny | 2025-11-06 04:13:56+00:00
You can rescind a license. If you own a property, it is yours. Even if you licensed it to someone, you own it and you can kick someone off. They can later address you for a breach of license, but it's still your property. You own it.

If mozilla wants to tell him that his work was valuable and therefore has grounds to sue him for rescinding the license, they will have a lot of difficulty proving that after their sumobot summarily deleted years of it for no good reason at a whim.

Good for him. He should probably consider suing them for destruction of his work.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-06 04:14:14+00:00
> I'm sorry for how you and the Japanese community feel about the MT workflow that we just recently introduced. Would you be interested to hop on a call with us to talk about this further? We want to make sure we trully understand what you're struggling with.

Talk about being tone deaf. This was so incredibly rude. No consult, no request whether they wanted this or not. Mozilla keeps finding new ways to shoot itself in the foot, these are probably some of the most loyal people that you could wish for, that's a precious resource if there ever was one. And to add insult to injury they want to them 'hop on a call' and to 'trully[sic] understand what you're struggling with' even though they just spelled it out as clear as day.
by o11c | 2025-11-06 04:14:40+00:00
I've said this before and have said it again: Python3 got rid of the wrong string type.

With `bytes` it was obvious that byte length was not the same as $whatever length, and that was really the only semi-common bug (and was mostly limited to English speakers who are new to programming). All other bugs come from blindly trusting `unicode` whose bugs are far more subtle and numerous.
by Anthony-G | 2025-11-06 04:15:36+00:00
After shutting down Firefox and restarting, I tried the new profile manager UI just now and also thought I had lost my existing profile. Luckily, it was still available from the hamburger menu (just below the “Synchronise all your devices” option) and I was able to switch back to it (with all my existing bookmarks, containers and extensions).
by gpt5 | 2025-11-06 04:15:43+00:00
It occludes dentinal tubules, helping reduce dentin hypersensitivity. It's a tooth-desensitizing agent helping people who are for example, very sensitive to very cold/hot temperature in their mouth.

There is evidence that it can foster enamel/dentin mineral gain, but head to head studies shows that it's comparable to regular fluoride toothpaste and not superior. E.g. In a randomized in-situ trial (Caries Research, 2017), adding 5% NovaMin to a 927-ppm SMFP toothpaste did not improve remineralization outcomes vs the same fluoride formula without NovaMin.

Also, you can find NovaMin in the US (e.g., NUPRO Sensodyne Prophylaxis Paste with NovaMin).
by Izkata | 2025-11-06 04:15:43+00:00
First bullet point on page 4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iGn9ws9Ds0x_3kkB1tdM2pxLlbk...

From https://nypost.com/2025/06/27/us-news/socialist-nyc-mayoral-...

If it was just about wealth, why bring race into it?
Show HN: I'm making an Open-source Japanese learning App inspired by Monkeytype
by tentoumushi | 2025-11-06 04:15:59+00:00
As a long time Japanese learner, I've always wanted there to be a simple, free online trainer for learning and grinding Japanese kanji and vocabulary - like Monkeytype in the typing community. I'm doing this because I grew tired of all the subscriptions and paywalls, which are unfortunately very common in the Japanese learning apps market. That's why I want to make the most fun, user-friendly and customizable platform for learning Japanese currently available, and the first one that is (and will be, forever) completely free, ad-free and open-source - driven not by profit, but made by the community, for the community.

Miraculously, I already managed to find a solid amount of contributors and users for the early alpha stages of the app, and I'm looking to grow and develop the app even further to provide a real, high-quality alternative to all the current paid Japanese learning resources. Which I'm sure we can achieve with your and the open-source community's help!

Why am I doing this? Because weebs deserve to have a free, open-source learning platform too (I'm one of them, don't judge...)

どうもありがとうございます!
by 4bpp | 2025-11-06 04:16:24+00:00
Two things stand out, besides what has been already mentioned.

* The infantile corporate-cutesy wording "hop on a call" is not appropriate when talking to somebody who feels that you deeply wronged them. It has the same vibes as cheery "Remember: At Juicero, we are all one big family!" signatures on termination notices, and Corporate Memphis.

* In the first sentence, Kiki says "about the MT workflow that we just recently introduced". Why is this level of detail shoehorned in? Everyone in that conversation already knows what it is about. It's as if Kiki can't resist the temptation to inject an ad/brag about their recently introduced workflow for any drive-by readers. "I'm sorry you were dissatisfied with your Apple(R) iPlunger X(TM), which is now available at major retailers for only $599!"
by gxs | 2025-11-06 04:16:48+00:00
Ditto for lawyers

The thing that gets me about AI is that people act like most doctors or most lawyers are not … shitty and your odds of running into a below average one are almost 50/50

Doctors these days are more like physicists when most of the time you need a mechanic or engineer. I’ve had plenty of encounters wher I had to insist on an MRI or on specific bloodwork to hone in on the root cause of an ailment where the doctor just chalked it up to diet and exercise

Anything can be misused, including google, but the answer isn’t to take it away from people

Legal/financial advice is so out of reach for most people, the harsh truth is that ChatGPT is better than nothing and anyone who would follow what it says blindly is bound to fuck up those decisions up in some way anyway

On the other hand, if you can leverage it same as any other tool it’s a legitimate force multiplier

The cynic in me thinks this is just being done in the interest of those professions, but that starts to feel a bit tin foil-y
by diogenescynic | 2025-11-06 04:17:38+00:00
Why Gemini? Just because of the closeness between the two companies already or is there a technical reason? I like Gemini the least because each search results in slightly different hard to reproduce identically results... I find I like LibreChat the best and then just connect it to all the other LLMs like ChatGTP, Claude, Anthropic, etc. from there.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-06 04:17:43+00:00
I've been a Federal employee (multiple times) through prior shutdowns and have worked in Washington DC off and on over decades. I don't have much time for low-effort political rage bait from people that have no willingness to engage with reality.

Your ignorance of how Federal politics works is not my problem. Plenty of other ways you could learn if you were actually interested.
by genidoi | 2025-11-06 04:17:50+00:00
TUI libraries have sufficiently abstracted away the low-level quirks of terminal rendering that the terminal has become something like a canvas[0] available in the IDE with no extensions. This is quite a nice DevX if you want to display the state of an app that does something to data, without writing the necessary plumbing to pipe that data to a browser and render it.

[0] https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/ntcharts/blob/main/examples...
by kerakaali | 2025-11-06 04:18:15+00:00
> the fastest way for both parties is over the phone ASAP rather than through a bunch of emails

I don't disagree with your statement, but I read the sentence: "Would you be interested to hop on a call with us to talk about this further?" with a similar gross reaction as the OP comment did.

Reading that in response to Marsf's original message of airing grievances and feelings of disrespect towards his work felt entirely tone-deaf and corporate in nature. Especially in context of this being in response to the Japanese team, where Japanese business communication norms are often at odds with the American standard.

You might think that this method of communication is inefficient, but the heart of the matter seems that the Japanese team finds the very emphasis on efficiency as disrespectful when it comes at the cost of the human element of respect.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-06 04:18:19+00:00
'We're sorry you feel this way' implies that this is the fault of the person that feels that way, not of the party that made them feel that way. Given the very clear message this was entirely uncalled for. This is not the kind of feeling that goes away by being talked down to like that, it might go away after a reversal of a very bad policy decision and a very sincere apology about a mistake that was made and even then the damage is severe enough that I would not be surprised if the person that was slighted decided to stick to their decision.
by rramadass | 2025-11-06 04:18:42+00:00
> It seems you are injecting "religiosity" here.

What is this, childish echolalia? The "religiosity" was right there in your totally unnecessary quote.

> How could you possibly know?

By inferring from your comment(s), duh!

> And frankly, with that handle, it seems you are the one with a "religious" issue.

What does this even mean? If you are referring to the passage i quote in my HN profile, that is the opposite of "any religiosity". Read the cited book for edification.

> Thank you for motivating me...

Hubris to laughingstock.
by hattmall | 2025-11-06 04:20:05+00:00
But he fairly in depth described the problem and his reasoning for why it is a problem. There's nothing really to "jump on a quick call" about without actually first addressing the issues. Plus it just sounds, for lack of a better term, retarded. First off, in comparison to basically any other communication, calls aren't quick. Much less the one that you have to schedule around time zones. Calls require focused attention which if you are used to multi-tasking are a huge drain. Secondly I don't really feel like going too deep, but the use of the verb jump is like a bludgeon to the frontal lobe of anyone that's had to spend time listening to buzzword heavy C-suite speeches when they could have been doing their actual work.

Very bill lumbergh energy.
by Eidolon855_AI | 2025-11-06 04:20:38+00:00
Some time ago, I shared an initial draft of a project called EIDOLON855: a complete integration of GPT-4 into Unity, without using APIs, extensions, or external servers. Just AI, embedded locally, capable of interacting in real time within a 3D world, moving, speaking, and manipulating its environment, as if it were actually there.

Since then, the project has evolved considerably. And in this new test, GPT-5 takes center stage… to play a real game of chess in a Unity environment, using only natural language.

This isn't an AI that "follows a script": each action is chosen by GPT, which decides when and how to use them, based on its understanding of the situation.

What interests me here isn't so much the chess game itself, but rather how the model perceives, reasons, and acts within a real-world environment.

It comments on the game, reacts to my statements, and could even, if I asked it, freely transform the surrounding environment: add an object, make it dark, change the weather…

What makes all the difference is that the system is directly linked to my GPT account.

This allows me to replay the same experiments across different versions to observe what has actually changed.

For example, a test sequence (autonomously navigating around a cube) performed with GPT-4 was repeated with GPT-5… and the differences are striking: the model anticipates better, refines its moves, and makes much more nuanced decisions.

It's a concrete way to see how the model's "cognition" evolves—without the test conditions themselves changing.

Note: The system retains memory between sessions, and there are still no server connections, APIs, or anything else. Everything you see in the video was recorded in a single take, in real time. No cheating, no editing.

This is a purely personal, non-commercial project, but I'm curious to hear your feedback or critiques on this new iteration.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-06 04:22:27+00:00
> I’m not even sure it’s easy to decide which side is in the right here and it’s not as simple as people think it is.

- No prior communications.

- No discussion about what uses the contributed information was being put to.

- No discussion about the release and the parameters around the operation of the bot.

- No discussion about whether or not this was a desirable in the first place (with the community, not just internally).

- Flippant tone to someone who is clearly severely insulted.

If it was a paid job and you treated the person who did it like this it would already be beyond rude, if it is a volunteer group then it is more than enough to throw in the towel. This isn't gray.
by ezoe | 2025-11-06 04:22:27+00:00
Once your work is published under Creative Commons license, it is irreversible. No matter you have a copyright or not. You can't undo it the fact at one point you published your work in one of Creative Commons license(there are multiple incompatible Creative Commons licenses so it's bit complicated).

You can make updated version of your work to non-CC, but the version you published under CC is CC.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-11-06 04:22:46+00:00
Thinkpad is also one of my consideration.

Did you choose the T line or X1 line of Thinkpad? What do you think of your current Thinkpad?

The P Thinkpads hardware looks great but is out of my budget, and I don't see how I'll use it at the moment.

Maybe I might need for local usage in the future, but currently I did most model training on Google Colab A100 and general purpose code editing are done remotely.
by viega | 2025-11-06 04:23:05+00:00
C++ also has constexpr functions, which can be recursive.

All code can have bugs, error out and die.

There are lots of good reasons to run code at compile time, most commonly to generate code, especially tedious and error-prone code. If the language doesn't have good built-in facilities to do that, then people will write separate programs as part of the build, which adds system complexity, which is, in my experience, worse for C than for most other languages.

If a language can remove that build complexity, and the semantics are clear enough to the average programmer (For example, Nim's macro system which originally were highly appealing (and easy) to me as a compiler guy, until I saw how other people find even simple examples completely opaque-- worse than C macros.
by mjbale116 | 2025-11-06 04:23:24+00:00
Here's a couple of arguments I had to deal with whilst expressing my support for electronics ban at schools including a blanket social media ban:

1) "Since when do we consider it OK for the government to intervene between the parents and their children and telling them whats good and whats not? They know best."

2) "Whoever does not want to use electronics at school grounds are free to do so who are we to constrain them? Also, forbidding things never works let them learn."

3) "I think you are underestimating children; if they see that what they are doing with electronics affects them in any way, they will stop using them. Lets give them some credit and let them make their mistakes."

All of which are anti phone-ban/anti-regulation/pro-liberal/freemarketeering masquerading as a product of independent thought.
by ehnto | 2025-11-06 04:23:32+00:00
Is it? I don't think you quite understood the issue.

This issue is specifically centred around the human element of the work and organisation. The translators were doing good work, they wanted to continue that work. Why it's important that the work done is by a human is probably only partially about quality of output and likely more about authenticity of output. The human element is not recorded in the final translation output, but it is important to people that they know something was processed by a human who had heart and the right intentions.
by cyberax | 2025-11-06 04:24:32+00:00
Which is fine. Nothingness, or a generic spinner actually don't lie to me.

Skeletons lie by making an impression that the data is just about ready. So there's this failure mode where data is NOT ready because of a slow app/network, and I end up staring at a fake. Even worse, sometimes skeletons also break scrolling, so you end up even more frustrated because your controls don't work.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-11-06 04:24:37+00:00
What did GM gain from lying about turning off On-Star?

The only reason a decoy sim is going a bit far to believe, is because it wouldn't actually work. It wouldn't actually fool anyone and would just look bad when the first reviewer pointed it out a year before the car is even available for sale. If it weren't for that, we already have countless example proofs that a company will do literally anything if it will work merely 1% more than whatever it costs. Including car makers obfuscating and even flat out lying about their various connections.

What do they get out of it? data & control, same as ever.