MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-03 02:40:54+00:00
This “study”, with three of the authors being Chinese (and therefore likely biased on this subject), is making the flimsiest of claims, and frankly it is unbelievable that this opinion is being laundered through science.org as some kind of interesting finding. Those same graduate students that provided teaching positions also took graduate degree spots (and the teaching positions) away from others. Program expansion could have happened even otherwise. And the lift to local businesses is so minor, and again would have been true with other students who could have instead admitted.

What’s missing is the assessment of the value and risks of taking on these particular students relative to other alternative students. Taking in students who are Chinese nationals could be a strategic mistake given geopolitical issues, with many of those students taking knowledge (from their degrees and from research) back to China, where it lends strength to the CCP effectively. Maybe that was still worth it due to other unique benefits, but that’s not really explored here.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-03 02:41:16+00:00
> The lye boiling process is not special

It’s one element. The result, however, is highly perishable. You can make it last a full day in the counter, but that fucks with the texture.

> it's just one kind of bagel that you can prefer or not prefer

Sure. Same with various cheeses. Or beef.

Kobe beef is predominantly consumed in Japan. A bit makes it out. But you can generally serve someone who hasn’t spent a lot of time in Japan other wagyu and they’ll be happy. You won’t get away with that with a Kobe aficionado, and there are simply more of those in Japan for self-reïnforcing reasons. (I personally like a range of beef, and while Kobe is great, it’s not something I seek out.)
by titanomachy | 2025-11-03 02:41:22+00:00
> Once an event crosses a threshold (maybe 70%?) of male-or-female dominance, most people of the other gender are likely to decline (or just not-come to your next party) as a result.

I’m not sure that this one is true. Once, as a single guy, I got invited to a party that turned out to be 80% women, and I would definitely have gone to that guy’s parties again.
by Arcuru | 2025-11-03 02:42:27+00:00
Unfortunately I can't find the reference now, but I remember reading that even though binary search was first described in the 1940's, the first bug-free implementation wasn't published until the 1960s.

The most problematic line that most people seem to miss is in the calculation of the midpoint index. Using `mid = (low + high) / 2` has an overflow bug if you're not using infinite precision, but there are several other potential problems even in the simplest algorithm.
by bitl0cked | 2025-11-03 02:43:39+00:00
It seems to me like ease of use and user 'sovereignty' are on a slider, Nostr certainly leaned hard towards the latter. Not that I don't like a good cipher punk protocol, but easy onboarding is not its strong point.

At least the outbox model fixed the relay issues though. Fetching users posts from the relays they set, as opposed to the relays you use, did a big jump towards fixing relay issues. Though not all clients support the outbox model as of yet.
by danielodievich | 2025-11-03 02:44:22+00:00
In Russian written languages, the quotes for the people speaking are prefixed with em-dash, instead of double-quoted like it would be in typical English book:

Instead of

"The time has come," the Walrus said,

"To talk of many things:"

... it would be spelled as

— The time has come, — the Walrus said,

— To talk of many things:

I wonder how much of russian language content was in training model.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-03 02:45:17+00:00
> the software simulation or translation layer will never be as good as DXVK/VKD3D

> every Windows game wrapped in a translation layer will be significantly worse

That's not wholly accurate, though. Apple Silicon has reverse-engineered drivers that do perfectly well keeping up with immediate-mode multiple-pass graphics pipelines, MoltenVK is not SOTA anymore: https://youtu.be/BbJMPfXTbbE?t=447

You're correct that tile-based deferred rendering is more efficient. That's not the issue, though. Apple can (and already does) support traditional raster APIs on the desktop, because they have to for compatibility's sake. Thousands of Mac apps will never use TBDR or Metal and will never be updated to use it. And there's no good reason to stop supporting those applications, because OpenGL runs perfectly well on Apple Silicon. The same goes for DirectX, whether you're willing to acknowledge it or not.

There are hundreds of thousands of games that do not support TBDR and will never be ported to Mac in their lifetime; and Mac owners could be playing them regardless. The only one holding them back is Apple, because they'd rather Mac owners play Genshin Impact and earn Tim a few RSUs with a gachapon pull.
by Animats | 2025-11-03 02:45:27+00:00
(This is going to upset some people.)

A successful escort who is into statistical data analysis and market research talks about the details of organizing an orgy.[1]

Aella's thing is to ask questions that lead to "what do women really want", and go from there to design events. She has about 800,000 raw survey responses, so there's enough data to look for patterns. The answers will upset some people. The conventional wisdom appears to be way out from where the data leads.

[1] https://aella.substack.com/p/a-girls-guide-to-a-data-driven-...
by ppaanngggg | 2025-11-03 02:47:18+00:00
Hello everyone,

I ran into a common pain point while looking for specific design resources for my new website: I needed a variety of posters, Twitter Open Graph images, and website illustrations, but the existing solutions often fell short of my needs: 1. Overly Complex UI: I found many tools too complex to use; I dislike dragging and dropping elements on an infinite canvas when all I need is a quick result. 2. The Subscription Pain: Many of the existing high-quality tools require a subscription. For a side project, I really dislike the idea of paying a continuous monthly fee for occasional or very specific usage.

This issue made me realize: I needed a simple, efficient, and non-subscription-based tool. So, I decided to build one myself. This past month, I built and released the first official version of design0.ai.

The Core Problem design0.ai Aims to Solve: 1. Extreme Simplicity: The operation is extremely simple, and can even be completed smoothly on a mobile phone, allowing you to focus on content, not dragging design elements. 2. A New Payment Model: Focusing on a pay-as-you-go or a freemium model to completely eliminate mandatory monthly subscriptions. You only pay for the designs you actually use.

I'm currently collecting feedback to see if this can help other community members facing similar frustrations.

Please try it out and let me know your thoughts: https://design0.ai
by whatshisface | 2025-11-03 02:48:11+00:00
As far as I can tell, the biggest difference between areas where the literature is a nightmare and areas where it's like math is the degree to which things self-correct due to the interlocking of disparate parts. If you publish a bad end-result study, say you're measuring the effect of an environmental toxin on human cognitive decline, that's it. If it's right it's right, if it's wrong it's wrong. In contrast, if you discover a fundamental pathway in secondary metabolite biosynthesis, nobody else's research will make sense unless you get it right.
by red369 | 2025-11-03 02:51:38+00:00
I never had a very strong opinion about HP products either way, so I can't really discuss how much they have declined, but are they so dead?

I am typing this message on very average HP keyboard, connected to an HP EliteBook and some HP monitor. The other monitor is Dell, and sure, it's nicer, but it's also newer. I see the mouse is also HP. None of these are amazing, but none of those are particularly bad. When I have a permanent desk, I do often bring my own peripherals into the office to use, but I don't mind any of these enough to do that semi-regularly. If my company were to ask what corporate laptop I would want instead, I would need to look on notebookcheck.net to see what I am missing out on. I wouldn't even bother trying to improve on the keyboard, mouse or monitor.

Sure, I didn't purchase a single one of the products above, and I can't think of anything I own right now which is HP, but I don't intentionally avoid their products. I tend to use refurbished corporate laptops for personal use, and at least one has been a refurbished EliteBook.

Apart from their printers, which other comments say I should particularly avoid buying, are they much worse than their competitors? (I think printers are a problem area and I would just buy the Brother printer anyway)

Edit: I just want to add, this might feel argumentative, but I am just genuinely asking. Maybe their products are a significantly worse experience and I've just not noticed. Or maybe they produce products that feel similar but don't last. It all feels similar pretty similar to me, with some ergonomic differences which mean I prefer some to others, and some breaking and some lasting forever. I've never noticed a pattern, but I've never looked either!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-03 02:53:01+00:00
> that are baked and stocked daily

But not multiple times a day. A New York bagel noticeably stales after a couple hours.

Baguettes are the same, by the way. The little handies? If made plainly, correvtly, they change immeasurably once they cool.

When perishability is measured in tens of minutes’ intervals, your economics require a large city of aficionados. (Not applicable to cheese, obviously.)
by dangus | 2025-11-03 02:53:12+00:00
It makes sense in that there’s already a dollar value companies are willing to pay to help employees work faster or better or what have you.

I can pay X company $N dollars to make my employees work Z amount faster, or maybe make my work compliant with Z regulation while avoiding Y amount of work to achieve it.

AI tools are basically “they might make your employees faster or slower or make mistakes or maybe not.” That’s why they only cost $10-100 a month per seat.

They don’t directly solve a problem like the most expensive enterprise software.

Like I said AI is cheaper than really boring stuff like basic PAM tools or password managers. Why is AI so cheap when it’s so expensive to deliver and supposedly delivers revolutionary productivity gains?

This is why I said that until AI is actually replacing whole humans, the infrastructure cost is too insane. Alternatively, they can suddenly reduce costs by a crazy amount somehow.
by nc00a | 2025-11-03 02:53:59+00:00
We've been playing Fortnite by "streaming" from xbox cloud gaming (for free) over the last couple of months. For the most part it's worked great. Sessions are limited to one hour, resolution is relatively low, and depending on the day/time... there can be more than a little input lag.

But this truly was the one game my kids couldn't play from Linux that they wanted to.

Amazon prime gaming and GeForce Now also allow linking epic accounts to stream games. I've read GeForce now offers a free, somewhat limited tier as well... but we haven't tried it yet.

Is strange using a game streaming service from proper Linux-only gaming rigs... but I think that’s the only real option right now. :)
by strix_varius | 2025-11-03 02:55:44+00:00
> No reason to use command line for them, ever.

That hasn't been my experience. I suspect that most others who also daily drive linux would find it remarkable if someone used Linux every day for a year and never needed to open a terminal to install anything, fix anything, reset anything, update anything, follow any instructions given by any software they found and wanted to use, etc.
by burntsushi | 2025-11-03 02:56:27+00:00
So then your original comment should be amended to say, "and this is actually all fine when the authors use a license I personally like." So it's not actually the rewriting you don't like, but the licensing choices. Which you completely left out of your commentary.

You also didn't respond to my other rebuttal, which points out a number of counter-examples to your claim.

From my view, your argument seems very weak. You're leaving out critical details and ignoring counterpoints that don't confirm your bias.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-03 02:57:51+00:00
> You could transition back to cash but there would be enormous switching costs

How much of a switch this would be depends a lot on the country: in quite some countries cash is the common method for payment:

> https://www.forex.se/en/travel/forex-index/cash-index/

> https://dailypassport.com/countries-that-still-rely-on-cash/

> https://www.travelex.com.au/travelex-hub/travel-inspiration/...
by samuba | 2025-11-03 02:59:25+00:00
shameless pluck: In my friend circle im the only one throwing real parties. The most annoying thing always was the logistics of keeping track how many people come and what they might bring (cuz usually it's a, bring your favorite food/booze party). group chats are super messy and get taken away by chit chat, so I build a simple, clean product that helps me with all that. it's basically a virtual invitation card with extra features, like comments when people rsvp, image upload for after the party etc. never shared it outside my circles but it's pretty polished. hope this could be of some use for you: https://create.party
by xaun | 2025-11-03 02:59:29+00:00
I had a weird hypothesis: what if you could HEAR the difference between a pump and a crash before you see it on the chart?

So I built a system that converts Bitcoin price action into audio by mapping technical indicators to musical tones.

*October 2020 Pump ($10K → $29K):* - Sounds like building momentum - ascending tones, increasing rhythm - Bollinger Band expansion = fuller, richer sound palette - Volume spikes = percussion accents

*2021-2022 Bear Market ($69K → $15.5K):* - Completely different sonic signature - Tighter, more chaotic patterns - Decreasing volume = thinner, sparse composition *Try both full audio tracks:* rhythmrally.net

*Technical Implementation:* - Bollinger Bands (20-period, 2 std dev) → tone mapping at 432Hz base - Volume ratio → rhythm and bass intensity - Band touches → percussion triggers - 487 days of daily candles compressed into ~3 min audio

*The Concept:* Your brain processes audio patterns in different neural pathways than visual patterns. By training BOTH, you might catch setups you'd otherwise miss.

It's like how you can "feel" when a song is building to a drop. Could you develop that same intuition for market moves?

*Looking for Feedback:* Obviously experimental. Not claiming it replaces charts. But after listening to these 50+ times while building the system, I'm genuinely recognizing sonic patterns I'd never notice visually.
by eipi10_hn | 2025-11-03 02:59:51+00:00
Yes, that's right. Nobody has the duty to disclosure the security bugs. It's the security researchers' principles, and if they want to follow that, they can follow that.

But don't take it further that the maintainers have the duty to fix the issues. They choose that career, don't make it sound like ffmpeg is forcing them to disclosure. Maintainers don't "deal" with any security researchers about those, and don't put the confidence that it "benefits maintainers" than "benefit researchers", unless the maintainers declare that themselves. In this case there's no patch, no fix, no PR either, just issue-submission. "You have more benefits" are the claims of the researchers who think that their issue-submission contributions top everything else.

Finding and disclosing the security are issue-submission contributions, and that's it. Don't make it as a gift or something. ffmpeg doesn't have the need to find these issues, and they don't pay for it for it either. And vice versa, they have no duties to fix the issues. They don't force the security researchers to find and disclose things. If security researchers want to do it themselves, they can do whatever they want, but stop at forcing duties to the maintainers. The only thing I don't agree with ffmpeg is bringing those issues social while they can just ignore them, that's it.
by Insanity | 2025-11-03 03:01:46+00:00
Honest question.. where? Most bread seems to be high in additives and promoted as a “healthy food”, like additional vitamines etc.

And even when buying natural bread without these added “benefits”, it often has high levels of sodium (up to like 200mg per slice).

Bread is one of the easiest, most plain things to make, yet finding high quality bread isn’t straightforward in the States. But I do really want to know which shops and which brand you get, I’d love to find good bread lol.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-03 03:02:27+00:00
I'm not sure I buy looking at the numbers of poor people without indoor plumbing but with internet access tells you about what they would actually prefer all things being equal. Internet access seems much cheaper to get and maintain access to than indoor plumbing, both in terms of monetary cost and also infrastructure.

Assuming you don't have indoor plumbing, you need to add more rooms onto your house (or take indoor space away). You also need to plumb both the water supply and the drainage system into your space, which if you're lucky you can already get under your house, and if not requires digging up the floor and foundation. And if you're doing this solo (a la a well and a septic system or similar) you need to acquire the necessary skills (electrical, plumbing, drainage management) and build it all out. I'm not a waste disposal expert, but I suspect the nature of indoor plumbing sending all waste water to the same location makes just running a big pipe to your existing outhouse (assuming you have enough downhill slope) not a good idea. A big hole that can handle the amount of human waste a few people produce is probably would not do great adding a bunch of additional waste water to it every day too.

By comparison, internet can be had with little more than a phone. In fact if you have a wireless phone at all, you probably have internet access, wether or not you intended to get it. And that applies to the homeless people the article mentions too. Let's ignore the fact that a person that is homeless by definition has no home in which to put indoor plumbing, there are also often programs, charities and NGOs providing cell phones and internet connectivity. Basic internet access could be had for $25 / month. I can't think of anything a homeless person could spend $25 on that would secure them indoor plumbing access for a month. Maybe a gym membership? Then again, your internet provider isn't likely to kick you out and call the cops, but a gym might if they catch on that you're just here to shower and use the toilets every day.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-03 03:03:00+00:00
Considering how nicely Weston with SW rendering runs in Fil-C, I bet that the X server will run fine in Fil-C, too.

Fil-C exhibits the lowest overhead in code that spends its time on primitive bits.

Fil-C exhibits the highest overhead in code that chases pointers.

I'm assuming X is the former. Weston seems to be.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-03 03:05:20+00:00
> Why would be in their interest something that can be used against them the moment the tide turns?

They are doing this to prevent tide turn and personally, I feel like if both/many political parties agree to something like chat-control and agree that they make it a bi-partisan issue, then they can fundamentally do it and the "they" would be constant

Also the "they" here also refers to lobbying efforts. The billionaires/millionaires/rich people might like these things solely because it increases the influence of govt. and thus the rich people as well

As an example, Let me present to you the UK censorship act which tries to threaten any and every website with a very large price which is very scary to many people who have thus shut down their services / websites to UK at large if they were a niche project/couldn't do it

Internet as we speak, would continue on to become more centralized. I feel like the idea here is that make internet so centralized that you can control the flow of information itself(I mean it already is but there are still some spots left like hackernews as an example)

Its also one step towards authoritarianism. This could be a stepping stone for something even larger which could have a more constant "they" as well but I have already provided some reasonings as to why they do that, simply because they can and chat control gives them a way to do mass surveillance which is something which to me increases the infleunece of both parties or the whole system massively in a way which feels very threatening to freedom/democracy making it thus dystopian.
by mindslight | 2025-11-03 03:05:43+00:00
> Rand Paul introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act which would have banned no-knock warrants if it had passed

Yes, Rand Paul deserves credit for this. But isn't he basically like an exception that proves the rule?

The 2005 vote on the REAL ID ACT was 218 Yea 9 Nay for Republicans, and 42 Yea 152 Nay for Democrats. Ron Paul was one of those Nays. He deserves credit along with the other 8. But overall, it was still a Republican bill. That's what my original comment was referring to.

And it's great that Republican opposition to REAL ID built. But of course the immediate question is how much of that opposition was due to being bored with Bush, and having a Democratic administration on the horizon? Just like the dishonest appeals to fiscal responsibility during Democratic administrations.

Because while it's important to give credit and look to build pro-freedom coalitions, it's also important to call out the rank hypocrisy. And rank hypocrisy seems to be the entire platform of the Republican party these days. For example, I don't see any of these purported 2nd amendment enthusiasts forming militias to defend their states against the federalized abduction squads.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-03 03:06:24+00:00
I was surprised to find out that there are still many indigenous groups with populations in the millions. My California public education made it seem like they were all pretty much wiped out save for those who survived to the various reservation systems.

My favorite group is the Mapuche who managed to hold out against the Spaniards until they were conquered by Chile and Argentina in the late 19th century. They managed to thwart the conquistadors for centuries! It wasn’t until the modern era where military logistics got good enough to unseat them and overcome the advantages they had.
by artyom | 2025-11-03 03:06:38+00:00
Science is very good.

Pseudoscience like measuring cost to fix a bug in a classroom setting is bad. Specially if it literally does "cost" and "classroom" together. That's just a sad way to grab some more research funding to keep the machine going.

The "garbage pile" of papers is not a new problem. It's been plaguing the science world for quite a long time. And it's only going to get worse because the metric and the target are the same (Goodhart's Law).

From the article itself, each mentioned paper scream of "the author never had to write actual functional code for a living" to me.
by nextos | 2025-11-03 03:06:45+00:00
The advantage of small purpose-specific models is that they might be much more robust i.e., unlikely to generate wrong sequences for your particular domain. That is at least my experience working on this topic during 2025. And, obviously, smaller models mean you may deploy them on cheaper hardware, latency is reduced, energy consumption is lower, etc. In some domains like robotics, these two advantages might be very compelling, but it's obviously early to draw any long-term conclusions.