MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsimpson | 2025-11-06 04:39:20+00:00
Wall St was an actual (medieval) wall until the turn of the 18th century. It's at the very south of Manhattan, a ten minute walk from the tip of the city it was built to protect.

NYC's postal names are a mess: Manhattanites can write "Manhattan" or "New York". Brooklynites are supposed to write "Brooklyn." Queens denizens write the historic names of the farm towns that used to be there. "Astoria" is actually part of New York City, even though seeing a letter addressed there might make you think it's a town upstate.

The postal service is older than the current boundaries of New York, and they never updated the mail routing to reflect the unified city.

Before the bridges were built, much of what's now NYC was very rural.
Show HN: Track Your Brand in ChatGPT
by gtmbandit | 2025-11-06 04:39:45+00:00
After being asked about it a million times, I built a tool that tracks how you and your competitors show up in chatgpt queries.

We analyze your site, figure out your ICP and competitors, then ask llms questions that your customers would be asking.

Would love some feedback on what's good and what's missing
by ezoe | 2025-11-06 04:40:28+00:00
There are some discussion if the whole concept of "license" fits under Japanese law. I think it's understood as "a contract to allow the usage of otherwise restricted work by copyright etc under conditions"

But I'm not a lawyer so I don't know and in real business, they casually use the word "license" in Japan. But in my opinion, everything is contract under Japanese law.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-11-06 04:40:42+00:00
$44k for something useless.

Why are you guys ignoring that part of the equation and only talking about $44k as though it's the same as the $44k everyone else spends on that Hyundai that they actually need to be useful and haul kids and tools and furniture around a country that's bigger than the Netherlands all day every day like a mule?

Those are two entirely different $44k.
by innagadadavida | 2025-11-06 04:41:33+00:00
Is there data on what site search engine they use? This is hard to get as it is sitting deep in the backend but will be super useful information. built with doesn’t have this, but they do have a list mapping search engine (Bloomreach, Coveo, Algolia) to the website probably based on private data dumps. Being able to look this up for a website will be very useful.
by totetsu | 2025-11-06 04:42:12+00:00
FWIW I recently was watching something that i did not realise had been auto translated from Chinese to English. It was kind of a technical topic, but still it seemed perfectly natural. It struck me that .. as much as conflict hawks and clash of culture theorists might want to do their best to construct an enemy, if we get past the disorientation of language barriers, then mostly people are the same. If AI translation can help with that its a benefit.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-11-06 04:43:01+00:00
Bilingual English and Spanish here and I absolutely hate this.

I can read both just fine. Platforms defaulting to always showing one or things like youtube auto-translating titles all to English or all to Spanish is frustrating because I always have to do the math in my head as to "Why does this thing I'm reading sound weird as hell" and realize its because it was lost in translation.

Hell, I watch creators/consume content where the creator or writer themself speaks/writes interchangeably in both languages often within the same sentence because Spanglish is very common, and that just destroys most of these automated generators brains.
by epistasis | 2025-11-06 04:43:18+00:00
Battery production capacity grows by 10x every five years. It was four years ago when I first heard that, and we are exactly on track still. In 2031 we will be at 20-30 TWh/year production capacity.

There are few things that grow this fast when it comes to manufactured things, atoms are far harder to arrange and scale than bits. But it's happening at a tremendous scale. Natural gas turbine production capacity is tapped out with long order queues, and so is battery production well into 2026, but only battery production capacity is expanding at breakneck speed.
by cbull | 2025-11-06 04:44:15+00:00
There's loads of things at Microcenter you CAN hold in your hand though, plenty of keyboards, mice, game controllers out on display you can handle and see what you think. Their 3d printer section usually has all the printers running and printing something so you can see the speed and judge how noisy it is. Same with their computer cases, out on display so you get a feel for how big it is or how easy it is to get to the drive cages for example.

There's a lot of products there you can inspect in a way that online just doesn't do.
by radium3d | 2025-11-06 04:44:34+00:00
You need to think hard and understand that it is irreversible before you publish your content under certain licenses.

My problem with this type of gate keeping is that machine learning does open up translations that are accurate to the masses. It is quaint having a real human do your translations though. Kind of like having a real human drive your car or do your housework. Not everyone can afford that luxury. But, on the other hand, having a singular organization own the training data and the model and not publishing the model itself is where the gatekeeping continues.
by Eiriksmal | 2025-11-06 04:44:35+00:00
I saw Penske Truck Leasing trailers on fire at Kentucky Truck on WHAS"s helicopter footage from last night. 15 years ago, I'd be there once a week doing parts runs from the PTL branch off Newburg. The security cam footage of the plane rolling from Kentucky Truck was insane. Thanks for working the scene. That smoke looked incredibly toxic.
by jogu | 2025-11-06 04:44:38+00:00
I'm not sure if just this individual is upset, or if he's speaking on behalf of the entire community he's the leader of.

I think it's clear that Mozilla wants machine translation to take a bigger role in producing localized content, and this new process will be a large shift in the way things have been done. I think it's fair for Mozilla to do this, but I also think it's fair for the maintainer to be upset with this decision and no longer want to volunteer his time to clean up slop.

The initial response feels premature and tone deaf which is why people are irked by it.

Given that Mozilla "shot first" so to speak, the onus is on them to take action first e.g. disable the bot, revert changes to articles, etc. Only after doing this can discussion on a path forward happen.
by rramadass | 2025-11-06 04:44:42+00:00
Simple; It is because they Think, Read, Reason and Experience too much. They cannot let well enough alone. We are the only species who can torture ourselves solely through our mental means.

The best explanation for this was given by Jack London in his novel The Sea-Wolf through his fictional antihero Wolf Larsen.

“Do you know, I sometimes catch myself wishing that I, too, were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight, living is a worthless act. To labour at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me.”

He shook his head slowly, pondering.

“I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you.”

He stopped abruptly, and then on his lips formed one of his strange quizzical smiles, as he added:

“It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart. My reason dictates it. The envy is an intellectual product. I am like a sober man looking upon drunken men, and, greatly weary, wishing he, too, were drunk.”

“Or like a wise man looking upon fools and wishing he, too, were a fool,” I laughed.

“Quite so,” he said. “You are a blessed, bankrupt pair of fools. You have no facts in your pocketbook.”

“Yet we spend as freely as you,” was Maud Brewster’s contribution.

“More freely, because it costs you nothing.”

“And because we draw upon eternity,” she retorted.

“Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.”

More on reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1jqpar/what_book_sin...
by WalterBright | 2025-11-06 04:45:06+00:00
D doesn't have macros, quite deliberately.

What it does have are two features:

1. compile time evaluation of functions - meaning you can write ordinary D code and execute it at compile time, including handling strings

2. a "mixin" statement that has a string as an argument, and the string is compiled as if it were D source code, and that code replaces the mixin statement, and is compiled as usual

Simple and easy.
by Groxx | 2025-11-06 04:46:04+00:00
many (vast majority I've seen) have a heater, but won't heat the water sufficiently for the pre-wash cycle from cold. or, frequently, the second / wash cycle, unless you set it to a high temp mode, and even then it's questionable / often just a timer and not thermometer-based.

check your user manual. huge numbers of them tell you to run your nearby tap until it's hot before starting a cycle because of this exact reason. this is also part of the video, and it has been true for literally every washer I've lived with (I read essentially all manuals), including the "good" ones.
by handoflixue | 2025-11-06 04:46:06+00:00
> where are those guidelines?

It's entirely possible that such information is well-known to everyone involved in the translation community.

I would consider it outright insulting if someone who ostensibly "wants to help" doesn't know basic information like that - if the people making decisions about SumoBot are NOT aware of basic information like "where to find the local translation guidelines" then they are presumably not qualified to release a tool like SumoBot in the first place.
by sarchertech | 2025-11-06 04:46:08+00:00
ChatGPT is effectively an unlimited resource. Whether doctor’s appointments take weeks or hours to secure, ChatGPT is always going to be more convenient.

That says nothing about whether it is an appropriate substitute. People prefer doctors who prescribe antibiotics for viral infections, so I have no doubt that many people would love to use a service that they can manipulate to give them whatever diagnosis they desire.
by x86x87 | 2025-11-06 04:46:09+00:00
Pleasure and happiness aren't the same thing, but most people chase pleasure while calling it happiness. Pleasure is the quick hit—good food, sex, scrolling your phone—it feels great but fades fast. Happiness is something else entirely, and what it means changes drastically depending on how smart you are. Less intelligent people tend to equate happiness with basic pleasures and getting their needs met. Average intelligence ties it to status, money, keeping up with others. But higher intelligence complicates everything: some people find meaning in ideas, creativity, or purpose; others overthink themselves into misery, seeing through all the goals that used to motivate them. Intelligence gives you better tools to understand happiness but can also strip away the simple certainties that make it easier to actually feel happy. You gain clarity but lose the blissful ignorance that makes chasing straightforward goals satisfying.
by samtheprogram | 2025-11-06 04:46:16+00:00
Idk why you are getting downvoted.

To elaborate on your comment, if you just ship sourcemaps in production, that means you can ship minified code and track down what _actual_ source that you _aren't_ shipping to users is getting called, is in stack traces, etc.

I'm not aware of a point of sourcemaps otherwise.
by teepo | 2025-11-06 04:46:42+00:00
often around here in texas, when the gas is turned off due to an issue, the gas company disables the meter, or even removes or bypasses it. And I live in gas land, where we have natural gas piped in to the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, outside for grills, as well as the furnace. We've seen it a lot, if you call the gas company about smelling gas, they come and remove your gas meter until you hire a plumber to go find the leak.
by TJSomething | 2025-11-06 04:47:34+00:00
It seems like there are two sides to this problem, both of which are hard and go hand in hand. There is the HCI problem of having abstractions are rich enough to handle problems like parsing and scheduling on the GPU. Then you need a sufficiently smart compiler problem of lowering these problems to the GPU. But of course, there's a limit to how smart a compiler can be, which loops back to your abstraction design.

Overall, it seems to be a really interesting problem!
by rtpg | 2025-11-06 04:49:49+00:00
CS comms are tricky, I agree! You have to reply to stuff, often before you have any form of full picture. Just think you gotta be careful then, and the message they posted was not good on that front.

I do get what you're saying, and it's not like I think the CSM should be fired for the message. I just think it's bad comms.

Here are some alternative choices:

- post nothing, figure out more internally (community support is also about vouching for people!)

- post something more personal like "Thank you for posting this. I'm looking into who is working on this bot to get this information in front of them". Perhaps not allowed by Mozilla's policies

- Do some DMing (again, more personal, allowing for something direct)

But to your point... it's one person's message, and on both sides these are likely people where English isn't their native language. I'm assuming that community support managers are paid roles at mozilla, but maybe not.

And like... yeah, at one point you go into whatever company chat and you start barking up the chain. That's the work
by JimDabell | 2025-11-06 04:49:49+00:00
I think in the context of that link, they see React as a failing of the web. If the W3C/WHATWG/browser vendors had done a reasonable job of moving web technology forward, things like React would be far less necessary. But they spent all their time and energy working on things like <aside> and web components instead of listening to web developers and building things that are actually useful in a web developer’s day-to-day life. Front-end frameworks like React, on the other hand, did a far better job of listening to developers and building what they needed.
by fragmede | 2025-11-06 04:51:47+00:00
But I want it nowwwwwww.

But seriously, online shipping takes longer than driving over to the store and picking the thing up. It's not just being impatient, but sometimes eg your headphones break but you have an important meeting coming up soon.

The other one is, Amazon, especially, the pictures lie about the object's size after shipping. Especially for. a TVs. Sure you can use a measuring tape, but some people really do just want to see it in person to get a proper feel for how big something is.

Then there's laptops to try out how the keyboard does.
by petre | 2025-11-06 04:52:08+00:00
> What in your opinion would be the right move now, after they rolled this bullshit auto-translator out and pissed off a lot of people in the community

In Japan? Sincere appology followed by resignation.

No, the Japanese absolutely do not set up a call to discuss things after you've scerwed and disrespected them. They respectfully give you the cold shoulder.

Mozilla should not be surprised if their market share dwindles in Japan after this.
by runako | 2025-11-06 04:52:25+00:00
> Democrats have shown time and again that they're willing to throw the rulebook out when it suits them

Notably, not for healthcare! (Older person's perspective: the pseudo-requirement for 60 votes is quite possibly why the US didn't get universal healthcare in 2010.)

Anyway, yes it is good if parties who win at the ballot box are able to enact their policies into law. The filibuster prevents this and as such is a cancer on representative government.

The GOP should be able to install armed checkpoints on every city block and eliminate the ACA, returning us to the status quo of 2009[1]. They won the most recent election, that is their prerogative. They should be bound by existing law, but beyond that there should be few checks on them realizing their wish list.

By the same token, when Democrats win, they should be able to offer a Medicare For All and universal preschool[2].

Parties that win should be able to enact their policies. Let the voters decide which policies they prefer. Which brings me back to

> they're thinking about the ramifications for when the shoe is on the other foot.

If they have conviction that their constituents will like their policies, they needn't worry. They should actively want to be able to enact their policies, so that voters can choose them again to get more of the same. What leader of conviction would intentionally neuter their own capabilities?

1 - taken loosely from current enactment of policy and https://prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf?_gl=1...

2 - taken loosely from https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democr...
by orionblastar | 2025-11-06 04:53:45+00:00
It is a good movie to watch if you are too young to see it when it came out. David Lightman hacks on his Altair 8800 computer, his grades at high school, and war dials until he finds Protovision's BBS instead, and he finds a mysterious computer prompt that asks for a Password. If you get it wrong, it hangs up on you. Little does he know it is the WOPR federal government computer that uses an AI program to chat with him after he guesses the right password.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-06 04:54:17+00:00
What you linked says:

The property tax system is unbalanced because assessment levels are artificially capped, so homeowners in expensive neighborhoods pay less than their fair share.

Why is raising caps on property taxes in richer neighborhoods, regardless of ethnicity a bad thing? Why should a home worth $500,000 be taxed almost the same as a home worth $2,500,000?

As for "richer and whiter" neighborhoods, the median income for "white" folks is ~$108,000 and everyone else is 35-51% less[0]. As such, given the income breakdowns, "whiter" neighborhoods are richer neighborhoods.

Or are you arguing that more expensive properties should have a lower tax rate because more "white" people live there?

What's more you (and the NY Post, that racist rag) take a single word and completely ignore the actual intent of the proposal, which like pretty much every other tax, isn't set by the mayor, but by the state legislature and the governor.

Thanks for repeating white supremacist talking points. If I need more, I know where to find them.

[0] https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/new-york-ny-median-househ...
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-06 04:55:24+00:00
After my last horrible domestic flight experience, several trips to Japan, and watching an ungodly amount of Miles in Transit videos, I actually considered just doing 100% Amtrak for an upcoming trip.

Problem is, I live in Utah. The daily California Zephyr pulls into Salt Lake Central at 3AM, way after all the connecting public transit has shut down for the night. So just getting to the train will probably involve a night Uber at what I assume is extraordinary expense. Not to mention it's in the run-down industrialized car park part of downtown, not the nice part with the mall and LDS temple.

Additionally, Utah's class 1 railway is Union Pacific, a dogshit hedge fund running a decrepit railroad that clogs up downtown with shittons of long, slow freight trains[0]. Which means the California Zephyr is one of the most frequently delayed Amtrak services, even with Amtrak levels of padding. So that 3AM train could easily wind up being delayed several hours, and any connections through Chicago are almost certain to get missed. Not to mention it's a three day ride, which is a lot of time to spend on a train without access to a shower[1].

So Amtrak here is the worst combination of inconvenient and slow. I've heard the scenery on the Zephyr is absolutely amazing, though.

I ultimately wound up booking SLC - JFK and a connecting Amtrak from Penn Station to Pittsburgh, which turns out to be about the same time as SLC - JFK - PIT by air. In fact, the air layover is so long JetBlue won't sell you a connecting ticket.

However, I'm now afraid that itinerary is going to get wrecked by this stupid government shutdown, and if that happens I'm pretty sure I'm just out the money for both the plane, train, and hotel.

With infrastructure like this, why would anyone want to vacation in this awful country?

[0] To the point where pedestrians often ignore grade crossing warnings, expecting a slow freight train they can outrun, only to be turned into a fine red mist by a FrontRunner train going 80mph.

Also, if you're reading this and live in Utah, please tell your local representatives to support the Rio Grande Plan: https://riograndeplansaltlakecity.org/

[1] Please correct me if it turns out there are public showers for coach passengers.
by ninkendo | 2025-11-06 04:55:50+00:00
> 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

Not that I entirely disagree with the conclusion here, but…

It feels like that same sentiment can be used to justify all sorts of shitty translation output, like a dialog saying cutesy “let’s get you signed in”, or having dialogs with “got it” on the button label. Sure, it’s so “human” and has “heart”, but also enrages me to my very core and makes me want to find whoever wrote it and punch them in the face as hard as I can.

I would like much less “human” in my software translations, to be honest. Give me dry, clear, unambiguous descriptions of what’s happening please. If an LLM can do that and strike a consistent tone, I don’t really care much at all about the human element going into it.
by sarchertech | 2025-11-06 04:56:06+00:00
>I think it's fair to consider talking to ChatGPT to be the same as talking to a random person on the street

That’s not how companies market AI though. And the models themselves tend to present their answers in a highly confident manner.

Without explicit disclaimers, a reasonable person could easily believe that ChatGPT is an authority in the law or medicine. That’s what moves the needle over to practicing the law/medicine without a license.
by rendall | 2025-11-06 04:56:24+00:00
You misread what I wrote. My point remains and has always been: when executive offices with regulatory or funding leverage lean on intermediaries to manage public discourse, as both Democrats and Republicans do, it raises the same constitutional concerns Bantam and Backpage warned about.

It's astounding to me that there are people who will excuse or deny almost any behavior when it's their team doing it, and be mad when it's the other side doing the same thing, yet here we are.

With enough partisans doing that, institutions stop constraining power because every side convinces itself that its use of coercion is "protecting democracy" from the other.

If the FBI under Trump colluded with social media to suppress a story during election time about his son doing crack and hiring hookers, would you rightly see it as alarming abuse of power? That shouldn't change just because you like the side who did it.