MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by munificent | 2025-12-10 19:33:40+00:00
Having a longer life gives you a greater total capacity to do and create meaningful things. But the meaning of any given fixed-time act is less if the lifespan is shorter.

Spending half your life writing a book makes that book more meaningful than spending a tenth of your life doing it. But you can only write two of the former versus ten of the latter.

Either way, this is a simple and dumb mathematical model, not a literal equation for calculating the actual value of a life's work.
by immibis | 2025-12-10 19:34:23+00:00
That's probably because there is no answer. Many laws apply to the total thing you are creating end-to-end.

Even the most basic law like "do not murder" is not "do not pull gun triggers" and a gun's technical reference manual would only be able to give you a vague statement like "Be aware of local laws before activating the device."

Legal privacy is not about whether you intercept TLS or not; it's about whether someone is spying on you, which is an end-to-end operation. Should someone be found to be spying on you, then you can go to court and they will decide who has to pay the price for that. And that decision can be based on things like whether some intermediary network has made poor security decisions.

This is why corporations do bullshit security by the way. When we on HN say "it's for liability reasons" this is what it means - it means when a court is looking at who caused a data breach, your company will have plausible deniability. "Your Honour, we use the latest security system from CrowdStrike" sounds better than "Your Honour, we run an unpatched Unix system from 1995 and don't connect it to the Internet" even though us engineers know the latter is probably more secure against today's most common attacks.
by jrowen | 2025-12-10 19:34:28+00:00
I often have a vision in my head of a library (museum?) archive in a basement. Every so often someone comes down with some books that they want to keep but don't know exactly what to do with at the moment. Over time, of course, it becomes a big mess that is useful to nobody, and the task of making it useful grows and grows.

I think this applies to a lot of things in contemporary life. Today, we can always move forward. Everything around us is pulling us forward. The tendency to hold onto things makes sense, but it's largely becoming hoarding. If you're saving something, you should be damn sure that it's special and you're doing it for a reason, with intention and follow through. Otherwise, just move on, let it go.
by yannyu | 2025-12-10 19:34:36+00:00
This is just "might makes right" but modern. I don't know that this is the consistent, wide-held belief that you seem to think it is. Plenty of people would rather our governments not engage in clandestine disruption and undermining of foreign governments.

Competition is inevitable, especially between geopolitical rivals, but we don't have to engage in Minitrue-style "the enemy has always been our enemy" rhetoric.
by themafia | 2025-12-10 19:34:42+00:00
Once again. It's great you earned money. Does it not bother you that you could have earned TWICE as much if the company didn't make so many stupid bets?

To completely ignore this obvious and clear point from the outset to crow about your stock market gains is absolutely the type of irrationality I was describing.

I'm not dismissing you. You've just failed to address the actual point.
by neaden | 2025-12-10 19:34:43+00:00
I don't really agree with this authors analysis of Austen. Like on Pride and Prejudice, "Elizabeth Bennet wants to marry for love and respect, but in her world marriage is fundamentally about economic security and social alliance." Elizabeth grew up with her parents fairly disastrous marriage (where her Dad doesn't respect her Mom) and inability to think in the future which put the girls in such a bad situation (her father should have saved money up instead of just assuming he'd have a son eventually). She is reacting against that, wanting a husband that will have mutual respect AND the economic security of someone who is responsible. She wouldn't just want to marry someone for love who wasn't able to provide her economic security, just like she doesn't want to marry Darcy she doesn't respect him. This article makes it sound like she is rejecting the social expectations of her society, but only her mom really wants her to marry Mr. Collins and as seen by her own marriage and support of Lydia's marriage she is a pretty bad judge of what's going to make a good life.

Later they say "They also both, mostly, focus on characters who have enough privilege to have choices, but not enough power to escape circumstances. Characters in both aren’t peasants without agency, but they’re also caught in larger systems they can’t opt out of" But that just describes basically everyone, none of us have no agency, but all of us are also caught up in larger systems we can't opt out of. But even within Austen you have Emma, who is entirely economically and socially secure and doesn't need to worry about anything and Fanny who lives entirely at the whims of others.
by jfindper | 2025-12-10 19:35:26+00:00
>You may be "in michigan" but are you "from michigan".

I have literally 0 reason to answer this, it has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation, but to placate whatever weird obsession you have, yes. I was born in Michigan.

>Why would you say north america unless you have ties to canada.

Why do you care? Is North America offensive now or something?

I said "North America" because, for the purposes of this specific conversation, it doesn't matter at all. Except to you, apparently. For some unknown reason.

I try not to be super US-centric on international forums. First time someone's ever started questioning me about it, though.
by red2awn | 2025-12-10 19:35:51+00:00
This is a stack of models:

- 650M Audio Encoder

- 540M Vision Encoder

- 30B-A3B LLM

- 3B-A0.3B Audio LLM

- 80M Transformer/200M ConvNet audio token to waveform

This is a closed source weight update to their Qwen3-Omni model. They had a previous open weight release Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct and a closed version Qwen3-Omni-Flash.

You basically can't use this model right now since none of the open source inference framework have the model fully implemented. It works on transformers but it's extremely slow.
by judah | 2025-12-10 19:35:55+00:00
The Lebanese Ministry of Health stated that the attack had killed a confirmed 12 civilians, while killing 30 Hezbollah members. 1 civilian death for every 2.5 combatant deaths.

For comparison, in World War II, there were an estimated 2 million civilian deaths and 5.3 million combatant deaths. 1 civilian death for every 2.6 combatant deaths.

Those are remarkably similar ratios. Take that as you will.
by feb012025 | 2025-12-10 19:36:02+00:00
I would reject the notion that shifting public sentiment is a result of foreign influence campaigns, which is not to say it doesn't exist to an extent.

I've seen plenty of real information, from non-anonymous American journalists that I'm certain are the largest factor in any sea-change amongst Americans.

And despite the claim, I've yet to see solid evidence of large, pakistan-based accounts wielding massive influence on twitter. Most anonymous accounts that focus on current events tend to be located in America, Europe, or Canada from what I've seen.
by plipt | 2025-12-10 19:36:17+00:00
The link[1] at the top of their article to HuggingFace goes to some models named Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B that were last updated in September. None of them have "Flash" in the name.

The benchmark table shows this Flash model beating their Qwen3-235B-A22B. I dont see how that is possible if it is a 30B-A3B model.

I don't see a mention of a parameter count anywhere in the article. Do you? This may not be an open weights model.

This article feels a bit deceptive

1: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-omni
by hackthemack | 2025-12-10 19:36:18+00:00
I noticed the Hall of Fame grading of predictive comments has a quirk? It grades some comments about if they came true or not, but in the grading of comment to the article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654216

The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber "accurate account of LeMay stripping turrets and shifting to incendiary area bombing; matches mainstream history"

It gave a good grade to user cstross but to my reading of the comment, cstross just recounted a bit of old history. The evaluation gave cstross for just giving a history lesson or no?
by sdoering | 2025-12-10 19:36:21+00:00
Can confirm. My garage is marked double the height of my actual house. Both are incorrect. My shop building on my property, next to the garage is actually missing.

The positioning of the shapes in relation to each other are also wrong. And not in a subtle way.

Looked at the house my father built in 1985. A few hundred kilometers from my current location. The shape is wrong (as are the shapes of all neighboring buildings. As are the positions toward each other (distance between houses, rotation of shapes). The heights are also significantly wrong. The two story houses on the opposite side of the road are said to be slightly above 2 meters in height.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-10 19:36:51+00:00
I’ll give an example in more familiar with. In the US, HIPPA has a bunch of rules about how private health information can be handled by everyone in the supply chain, from doctor’s offices to medical record SaaS systems. But if I’m running a SaaS note taking app and some doctor’s office puts PHI in there without an express contract with me saying they could, I’m not suddenly subject to enforcement. It all falls on them.

I’m trying to understand the GDPR equivalent of this, which seems to exist since every text fields in a database does not appear to require the full PII treatment in practice (and that would be kind of insane).
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-10 19:36:52+00:00
My understanding has always been that serif fonts read better for long text, and sans-serif for short text - so signage in Arial and policy statements in Times New Roman.

And Comic Sans for letters sent to friends finishing design school, obviously.

There are all sorts of statistical rules falling out of studies about where the long/short divide is, ambient lighting, blah blah blah - but human vision is even more variable than most biological quantities, so in the end general rules are the best one can really do.

Here of course, it's nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs, while the captain targets the next iceberg "to teach the ice a lesson!"
by knollimar | 2025-12-10 19:37:00+00:00
BIM just shuffles the problem around. There are firms that do "one source of truth" BIM models but the real issue is conflicts and workflow buy in.

How do you get architect to agree with engineer with lighting designer with lighting contractor when they all have different non overlapping deadlines, work periods, knowledge and scope?

edit: if you don't work in the industry, BIM helps for "these two things are in the same spot", but not much for code unless it's about clearance or some spatial based calculation
by slg | 2025-12-10 19:37:14+00:00
This is a perfect example of the power and problems with LLMs.

I took the narcissistic approach of searching for myself. Here's a grade of one of my comments[1]:

>slg: B- (accurate characterization of PH’s “networking & facade” feel, but implicitly underestimates how long that model can persist)

And here's the actual comment I made[2]:

>And maybe it is the cynical contrarian in me, but I think the "real world" aspect of Product Hunt it what turned me off of the site before these issues even came to the forefront. It always seemed like an echo chamber were everyone was putting up a facade. Users seemed more concerned with the people behind products and networking with them than actually offering opinions of what was posted.

>I find the more internet-like communities more natural. Sure, the top comment on a Show HN is often a critique. However I find that more interesting than the usual "Wow, another great product from John Developer. Signing up now." or the "Wow, great product. Here is why you should use the competing product that I work on." that you usually see on Product Hunt.

I did not say nor imply anything about "how long that model can persist", I just said I personally don't like using the site. It's a total hallucination to claim I was implying doom for "that model" and you would only know that if you actually took the time to dig into the details of what was actually said, but the summary seems plausible enough that most people never would.

The LLM processed and analyzed a huge amount of data in a way that no human could, but the single in-depth look I took at that analysis was somewhere between misleading and flat out wrong. As I said, a perfect example of what LLMs do.

And yes, I do recognize the funny coincidence that I'm now doing the exact thing I described as the typical HN comment a decade ago. I guess there is a reason old me said "I find that more interesting".

[1] - https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-18/index.html#article-...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10761980
by setopt | 2025-12-10 19:37:15+00:00
I actually haven’t tried DavMail (but have heard about it), so if it manages to get around this sort of shenanigans I’ll happily give that a shot.

In my previous org I could also use offlineimap and msmtp to connect to their Microsoft mail server via standard protocols. But in this org I’ve so far tried the built-in Exchange support in Thunderbird as well as in Evolution Data Server based exchange clients (Evolution and KMail). All of them manage to connect to the server, kinda, but then I get an error message saying basically that my mail client is not approved and I’ll have to contact my admin to use it.

EDIT: I might add that the IT deliberately blocked non-Outlook mail clients a year ago or so, other Linux users told me that it worked fine before that. It’s supposedly a crackdown on people using shady third-party apps that they are concerned might exfiltrate data, but somehow they don’t allow exceptions even for reputable clients like Thunderbird.
by squigz | 2025-12-10 19:37:18+00:00
Ah yes brilliant. Let's keep trying to solve these issues that we've been trying to solve for centuries. That's clearly going well. Instead, let's put a bandaid on it so we don't have to look at the issue for a little bit.

Alternatively, letting some kids who struggle to form connections IRL learn to form them online might give some the confidence and self-assuredness to form connections IRL when they want to.

Anyway I'm not sure why you think that I'm suggesting we don't try to address bullying and family abuse. Did I say we should only do one or the other?
by 3rodents | 2025-12-10 19:38:06+00:00
I regularly try to use various AI tools and I can imagine it is very easy for it to produce 95% of your code. I can also imagine you have 90% more code than you would have had you written it yourself. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, code is a means to an end, and if your business is happy with the outcomes, great, but I’m not sure percentages of code are particularly meaningful.

Every time I try to use AI it produces endless code that I would never have written. I’ve tried updating my instructions to use established dependencies when possible but it seems completely averse.

An argument could be made that a million lines isn’t a problem now that these machines can consume and keep all the context in memory — maybe machines producing concise code is asking for faster horses.
by npodbielski | 2025-12-10 19:38:43+00:00
I read it. And this argument is plain silly. Does a kid feels urgency of immediate death? Did you when you were sixteen?

Like the only thing keeping people all around the world going would be though that they are going to die and they need to do as much as they can before that. This is just radicoulous.

If people would be immortal they would just lie down and die because there is no point in leaving! People die on their retirement because they have nothing to work on! And author need the deadline to actually do some work! Those arguments sounds like rants of workaholic with procrastination problems. By the gods! If I would live forever I would live for 200 hundred years in one place and build water mile and garden. The move to some beach and learn surfing. And then maybe I would built a boat and move to another continent. Learn climbing. And then fencing. And then maybe I would join university and become math proffesor. Or join rock band. Or just knit some socks for grandkids. Possibilities are endless.
by rhines | 2025-12-10 19:39:03+00:00
Social media is no longer social - it's just media. At least for most people anyway. The average user, and probably kids even more so, are just scrolling through.

If you're posting as well, or at least commenting on stuff and having discussions with people you know (even if you just know them online), I think that's fine. Like forums, or being in group chats with friends on Facebook, or sharing photos you take with a specific community.

It's when you're only consuming (like scrolling TikTok or Instagram), or when your comments are written for the algorithm rather than for actual discussion (like on Reddit, or even Hackernews to an extent), that social media is an issue.
by freedomben | 2025-12-10 19:39:12+00:00
Exactly my experience. I've been to a lot of McDonald's everywhere from rural to old inner city, and the difference is Stark. The more rural locations tend to be clean and relatively comfortable and enjoyable to be in. The inner city locations tend to be dirty, crowded, and generally not very pleasant to be in.

And it's not just McDonald's, as you mentioned. I've observed the exact same thing with Wendy's and many other restaurants as well.

There are of course plenty of exceptions. It's perfectly possible to find a dirty uncomfortable restaurant in a rural area, and it's also not difficult to find a nice comfortable place in the inner city. But generally speaking the above is what I have observed most
by jmyeet | 2025-12-10 19:39:14+00:00
It's quite clearly a war crime. You're putting booby trapped devices into supply chains where civilians will foreseeably get them and be injured or killed by them. This includes medical professionals and their families, who were both victims [1].

It's the equivalent of blowing up a commercial plane or bus because there's a military commander on it. Or, you know, levelling a residential apartment building [2].

If anyone else had done this we'd (correctly) be calling it a terrorist attack.

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/9/17/lebanons-terrib...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-says-it-struck-hez...
by lizknope | 2025-12-10 19:39:20+00:00
I started working in 1997 and lived through the dot com bubble and collapse. My advice to people is to diversify away from your company stock. I knew a lot of people at Cisco that had stock options at $80 and it dropped to under $20.

Because of the way the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) worked at the time they bought the stock, did not sell, but owed taxes on the gain on the day of purchase. They had tax bills of over $1 million but even if they sold it all they couldn't pay the bill. This dragged on for years.
by cal_dent | 2025-12-10 19:39:25+00:00
I think this gives an excellent framework for how to think of this. Is it a bubble? Who knows is a perfectly valid answer.

I do think there’s something quite ironic that one of the frequent criticisms of LLMs are that they can’t really say “I don’t know”. Yet if someone says that they get criticised. No surprises that our tools are the same.
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-12-10 19:39:33+00:00
That’s a real shame. It seems like Pulumi is the only alternative for internal DSLs for IaaC? I always found HCL to be quite terrible, slowly becoming less painful, but not really refactoring-friendly.

Terraform CDK had promise as a blessed infrastructure-as-actual-code solution from the official maintainer of Terraform, so easier to sell internally rather than something from a new vendor like Pulumi. I feel sorry for those teams who have migrated to TF CDK.

Internal vs external DSLs explained in the middle of this page: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DslQandA.html
by matsemann | 2025-12-10 19:39:42+00:00
I guess it depends a bit on what you work on. Lately I'm working on algorithm heavy stuff, then testing input=>output is much more valuable than if things run, easier to consider edge cases when calling it directly etc. But if you make a crud app it's often more useful to test a flow. So depends.

As for mocks I don't disagree, hence calling it worst case.

What often works for me is separating the code. For instance if I call a function that first queries the db and then marshall that data into something, it's often easier to test it by splitting it. One function that queries, that one can test with some db fixtures or other setup. And then another that gets a model in and only does the pure logic and returns the result. Can then be tested separately. And then a third function which is the new one, that just calls the first and pass the result into the second. Can be boilerplaty, so again, depends.
by tgtweak | 2025-12-10 19:39:46+00:00
You can probably follow the vLLM instructions for omni here, then use the included voice demo html to interface with it:

https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Omni#vllm-usage

https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Omni?tab=readme-ov-file#laun...
by quxbar | 2025-12-10 19:39:48+00:00
My mother always enjoyed playing Jeopardy! on alexa, it was a novel format and everybody could participate while sitting around and chatting. She happily would have paid for it, even the dreaded monthly subscription, but it was neglected. The service started being buggy (lagging, repeatedly restarting the day's question series) and now they've moved on.

If anyone knows of an open-source alternative I could stitch together, I am all ears!
by uticus | 2025-12-10 19:40:00+00:00
> Those who prefer a fully open-source solution can build an open-source version of IntelliJ IDEA using the source code on GitHub with GitHub Actions.

As far as I can tell, this does not apply to PyCharm, GoLand, Rider, RubyMine, or many of their development tooling - only Intellij IDEA (the Java-specific tooling).

Otherwise I would fork the code and try my own hand at fixing some of the problems that have failed to gain attention from JetBrains for months and years on their issue tracker, despite a heavy appetite for the fixes from the user base.
by janpio | 2025-12-10 19:40:01+00:00
App doesn't load for me. One error in console:

> 20:39:02.367 Content-Security-Policy: The page’s settings blocked a script (script-src-elem) at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js from being executed because it violates the following directive: “script-src 'self' https://js.stripe.com https://www.googletagmanager.com” 2 firebase-vendor-Cs-2scbC.js:1:431979

Not sure if that is the cause of course.
by echelon | 2025-12-10 19:40:58+00:00
We live under economic conditions created by a government that does intervene. And a greater world order established by a hegemon that does intervene.

It would be interesting to see what life would be like today had that not happened. It might be better, it might be worse. Probably a little of both for different groups of people.

As the world returns to multi-polarity, there are signs of increases in violence.

The last time the world had multi-polarity, we had far more wars. Including the worst wars the world has ever seen.
by TurkishPoptart | 2025-12-10 19:41:02+00:00
Long Covid is really not new. It is virtually indistinguishable from the condition long known in the medical lexicon as post-infectious syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Although some have recognized and studied their similarities, it seems no one has made the simplifying observation that they are essentially the same condition.[1]

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/14/long-covid-me-cfs-myalgi...