MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TRiG_Ireland | 2025-12-06 11:35:13+00:00
Last night, I came across a video with a title in English and an "Autodubbed" tag. I assumed it would be dubbed into English (my language) from some other language. But it wasn't. It was in French, and clearly the creator's original voice. The automatic subtitles were also in French. I don't know what the "Autodubbed" tag meant, but clearly something wasn't working.

I am by no means fluent in French, but I speak it well enough to get by with the aid of the subtitles, so that was fine. In an ideal world, I'd have the original French audio with English subtitles, but that did not appear to be an option.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-12-06 11:35:33+00:00
A lot I expect. There were stories about VPNs being top of the App Store, etc. when the law kicked in.

Lots of people using Brave's Tor or Opera's VPN in their browsers, and free VPNs like Proton (which seems like a negative security outcome for the country to me).

I'd have thought the intel agencies would be pissed at all that data going dark, but haven't heard a peep in the media.
by gmac | 2025-12-06 11:35:36+00:00
I’m in the UK and have been using a self-hosted VPN for years, since the Investigatory Powers Act obliged ISPs to keep records of what you browse and gave public bodies warrantless access to those records (which I think on principle is entirely wrong).

Originally IKEv2 and more recently WireGuard, configured like so:

https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup

https://github.com/jawj/wireguard-setup
by miohtama | 2025-12-06 11:36:45+00:00
Yes!

If you want to get into the deepest detail there are several decentralised perpetual futures exchanges.

Here are some open source codebases on Github:

https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega

https://github.com/dydxprotocol/v4-chain/

https://github.com/gmx-io/gmx-synthetics

https://github.com/0xOstium/smart-contracts-public/

Vega is a stalled project, but they have good documentation:

https://docs.vega.xyz/release/concepts/new-to-vega
by strogonoff | 2025-12-06 11:38:22+00:00
That is a good point. Linebreaks are an extra channel of meaning, sort of like body language and intonation going hand in hand with speech.

Sometimes I would visually separate a short bit of code from its surroundings (and usually add a comment on top) to make it clear that it is a controversial bit that needs attention of the reader. The same mechanism applies in less extreme cases, lifting baseline legibility.
by kaelwd | 2025-12-06 11:39:23+00:00
That's the same as regular css variables unfortunately

padding: 1em; padding: var(--padding);

With no fallback value that resolves to padding: unset if the variable is not defined. The only ways I know of to work around this are style queries:

padding: 1em; @container style(--padding) { padding: var(--padding); }

Or cascade layers:

@layer base { padding: 1em; } @layer override { padding: var(--padding, revert-layer); }
by qcnguy | 2025-12-06 11:39:59+00:00
They want to reduce censorship, not force people to "coddle" them. Anyone on the left can still criticize the current US administration if the censors give up. The only difference is, people on the right will be able to do the same to the next Democrat administration. If you don't think that's fair, you're the one who needs coddling.
Show HN: WDP – A protocol where data migrates to survive seizure
by __VECTOR | 2025-12-06 11:40:14+00:00
In modern distributed systems, static data is vulnerable. If data resides on a specific server (even in decentralized networks like IPFS), that node becomes a target for censorship, seizure, or physical failure. Static storage = Single Point of Failure. Wanderer Data Preservation (WDP) is a protocol where data is never static. It exists as a "traveling wave" across the network topology.
by phoronixrly | 2025-12-06 11:42:50+00:00
Sorry, RAM is too expensive these days to run two instances of Chrome on the same system. Maybe the time has come for some VC-backed startup to start a rent-seeking business for streaming your development environment from the cloud?

I know there were attempts for this before but they were just banking on the fact that the average dev env is an absurd collection of hacked together tools that is both fragile and nigh impossible to set up for new devs. Now they have a financial angle as well /s
by teekert | 2025-12-06 11:44:41+00:00
Really? I'm a biologist, just do some self hosting as a hobby, and need a lot of FOSS software for work. I have experienced containers as nothing other than pervasive. I guess my surprise is just stemming from the fact that I, a non CS person even knows containers and see them as almost unavoidable. But what you say sounds logical.
by sethammons | 2025-12-06 11:45:31+00:00
I'd tell you a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

More seriously, you are confident and very incorrect on your understanding of distributed systems. The easiest lift, you can fix being very incorrect (or at least appearing that way) by simply changing your statements to questions.

Personally, I recommend studying. Start with the two generals problem. Read Designing Data Intensive Applications; it is a great intro into real problems and real solutions. Very smart and very experienced people think there is something to distributed systems. They might be on to something.
by ycombinete | 2025-12-06 11:45:37+00:00
Ah yes. I do get those, but also just get migraines (as well as hypnic headaches) which caffeine is a wonder at ameliorating.

I quit caffeine for about 2 years and the headaches never subsided (except the caffeine withdrawal ones of course).

They are just a fact of my life I’m afraid.

As much as I’d like to get off of caffeine I am very grateful to have is as a remedy.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-06 11:45:53+00:00
>it's not an industry where you save 10$ on parts and are able to pocket that

Why not? If you pay the suppliers 20 dollars less for those parts for each car, that is pure profit.

Keep in mind that cars are priced and developed for specific market segments. Cars aren't developed and then a price is decided based on what the components cost. Also keep in mind that some of the most exclusive and luxurious cars in the world (Lamborghini and Bugatti) share parts with some of the most mundane mass produced cars from VW.
by Etheryte | 2025-12-06 11:46:47+00:00
There is a simple solution to this problem, but it's not very popular: do the same thing Workers do, require using a separate file. All the tooling works out of the box, you have no issues with lexical scoping, etc. The only downside is it's (currently) clunky to work with, but that can be fixed with better interfaces.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-12-06 11:48:03+00:00
Surely the sheer number and amount of different PFAs being distributed around the planet without knowing about long term effects is the ridiculous bit. The argument that because we dump a lot of it must mean that it's safe is just wishful thinking. Remember when lead was added to fuel and large amounts of lead were then pumped into the air? It had very noticeable effects on criminality in people.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-06 11:48:23+00:00
FYI, the slogan ""WE'RE SORRY WE UPSET YOU, CAROL" on a yellow background is from the Apple TV Show "Pluribus" (Or "PLUR1BUS"). It would be an ad for that show. It is indeed creepy at times.

The main character is called "Carol". As also, it seems is the person who saw it here.
by andrewaylett | 2025-12-06 11:49:06+00:00
I don't know about very rich — our spare room is set up as an office for WFH, along with a sofa bed, and I put a 100" projector screen on the wall opposite the sofa. A second hand projector, new (but not all that expensive) Denon surround sound system with speakers from an otherwise-junk 5.1 PC speaker set, and the experience is better than regular cinema. The best bit? I can turn the volume down as much as I want to.
by everdrive | 2025-12-06 11:49:42+00:00
It's a bit trite, but also true -- a significant portion of reddit is totally made up. It's worse than it was a few years ago, but I have no way whatsoever to measure it. Occasionally I bump into youtube videos which are just narrations of reddit posts which tell some interesting or controversial story. They all really sound fabricated. There's no way for me to know with certainty, but I think extreme skepticism is the safer assumption for any large reddit.
by splatter9859 | 2025-12-06 11:50:48+00:00
I get that and it makes sense. What distinguishing features does it have that keeps you coming back to Brave that, say, Edge or Chrome or even Firefox doesn't bring? I ask because most of the items you listed could be accomplished in other browsers with extensions.

Just trying to find the secret sauce that keeps people coming back specifically to Brave.

I really appreciate you engaging and listing your reasons! Thank you for sharing your viewpoint and why you enjoy Brave.
by spease | 2025-12-06 11:51:37+00:00
> It is the first model to get partial-credit on an LLM image test I have. Which is counting the legs of a dog. Specifically, a dog with 5 legs. This is a wild test, because LLMs get really pushy and insistent that the dog only has 4 legs.

I wonder if “How many legs do you see?” is close enough to “How many lights do you see?” that the LLMs are responding based on the memes surrounding the Star Trek episode “Chain of Command”.

https://youtu.be/S9brF-wlja8
by GaryBluto | 2025-12-06 11:52:04+00:00
Part of the same project as Bazzite (Universal Blue) so it's just a static Fedora with some added programs and bash scripts.

"Aurora is a paradigm shift for Linux." "Dream about the stars" "Launch a space rocket" - everything about this, down to the choice of the crudely drawn desktop wallpaper, suggests to me that this was done by very young people. If a few kids want to make themselves a "distro" like this, go for it, just don't advertise it as anything more than a simple pet project, let alone a "paradigm shift".
by Arcanum-XIII | 2025-12-06 11:52:28+00:00
Try to buy a new TV without « smart » features. It’s nearly impossible and all of them will come with some kind of ads on it. I fear it will become impossible to buy a fridge without screen and ad if we don’t find a way to stop this. It’s pure profit for manufacturers and the consumers are fucked since fridge are basic necessities.
by michaelt | 2025-12-06 11:53:48+00:00
Video filters aren't a radical new thing. You can apply things like 'slim waist' filters in real time with nothing more than a smartphone's processor.

People in the media business have long found their media sells better if they use photoshop-or-whatever to give their subjects bigger chests, defined waists, clearer skin, fewer wrinkles, less shiny skin, more hair volume.

Traditional manual photoshop tries to be subtle about such changes - but perhaps going from edits 0.5% of people can spot to bigger edits 2% of people can spot pays off in increased sales/engagement/ad revenue from those that don't spot the edits.

And we all know every tech company is telling every department to shoehorn AI into their products anywhere they can.

If I'm a Youtube product manager and adding a mandatory makeup filter doesn't need much compute; increases engagement overall; and gets me a $50k bonus for hitting my use-more-AI goal for the year - a little thing like authenticity might not stop me.
by randoomed | 2025-12-06 11:55:11+00:00
Jill Bearup posted a video about this a while ago, showing a short and the original side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd692naF-Cc (note the short is shown at 0:31)

Edit: The changes made by the ai are a lot more vissible in the higher quality video uploaded to patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/136994036 (this was also linked in the pinned comment on the youtube video)
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-06 11:55:18+00:00
> is severely disabled by schizophrenia but at the same time can afford a £2000 fridge.

The fridge has been on sale for a few years and schizophrenia can come on very suddenly. People's lives can change in a day because of it. You and I don't know the truth of it and can't reasonably jump to conclusions like that.
by dijit | 2025-12-06 11:56:07+00:00
Roko’s baselisk exists in other areas.

A company who I used to work for (whom I will not name) purged all management that did not vote in a particular initiative; after said initiative had been in force for a while and put more people in positions of authority (because of said initiative).

Its not just a thought experiment, its a statement about what could happen if you stay politically neutral and fascists take power.
by conartist6 | 2025-12-06 11:56:19+00:00
That's what's interesting. You probably had to give code that wasn't itself licensed as GPL because that code was covered by the terms of the GPL license (through linking, i presume). That's the entire purpose of GPL! It makes-free any code that directly touches GPL code. Ya know, like Midas and gold.

That's why it's such a powerful force for software freedom if the terms hold up.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-12-06 11:56:32+00:00
Manufacturers for 100 years didn’t try to wrap their fridges in ads, or tune the compressor sound to a commercial jingle. They sold mostly honest products to cool your food efficiently.

But when they add an LED display and Internet connection, suddenly they forget about cooling your food and impulsively add a bunch of adversarial functionality, meaning functions that monetize the consumer rather than keeping the food cool.

It’s like the Internet advertising ecosystem is a virus intent on infecting anything and anyone with an Internet connection, making them do bizarre customer-hostile things they never would have done otherwise.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-06 11:57:11+00:00
> the schizophrenic sister's name happens to be Carol ... Obviously made up.

Why? because no-ones' sister is ever called "Carol" ? Or because people of that name don't get schizophrenia?

I consider myself sane, but if I saw a billboard addressing me by name, I would do a double-take at least. I can easily understand how it would have an impact and look like a schizophrenic symptom.

The TV show advert with that text actually does exist, I've seen it.

Given that, what are the odds that some day a) it is seen, b) by someone called Carol, c) who is susceptible to being affected by it. I would say substantial.

We don't know the truth of this at all.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-12-06 11:57:16+00:00
I guess one point of confusion is exactly what data is shared, because I understood it to be general access to things that are already publicly available.

Furthermore, X offers paid access to the same data through their enterprise API program, so you're already giving access to unrelated third parties. Is there a significant distinction between the data that researchers could access and what's available through enterprise API?
by metalman | 2025-12-06 11:58:45+00:00
while I loath all things "AI", I also see it as an inevitable phase in humanities adoption of digital technology, and the sooner it dies under it's own failures, the better. The doom loop of self referentialism, and forced engagement has ended real growth and is reducing actual human productivity and efficiency, while making it painfully obvios that "economic performance" (ha!), only applies to rich people
by dwattttt | 2025-12-06 11:59:04+00:00
Underscore acts as a wildcard, denoting that you don't want to bind a variable. Quoting the Rust reference[0]:

> Underscore expressions, denoted with the symbol _, are used to signify a placeholder in a destructuring assignment.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/expressions/underscore-e...
by finaard | 2025-12-06 12:01:02+00:00
I think the right way to do this is with snapshots, the way opensuse microos is doing it, for example. You get the best of both worlds that way - you still can easily install packages into the OS to customise it, and you do get painless updates and rollbacks. There's a very narrow use case where you _do_ want images, but for that you'll want to control the complete secure boot chain for attestation, so I'd dismiss it here.

Fun fact, a bit over a decade ago we were probably the first one ever to publish a distribution to rely on btrfs snapshots per default with the Jolla phone. Sadly that did bite us due to reliability of btrfs at the time, and later phones switched to ext4, but with a stable filesystem it's a nice mechanism for handling updates and factory reset.
by 3rodents | 2025-12-06 12:03:03+00:00
The western view of China’s Internet censorship often flies in the face of reality. A lot of people seem to think China has an impenetrable firewall.

Bypassing internet restrictions in mainland China is a normal part of life for people who want to access the western internet. China is able to censor the Internet effectively because Chinese people are most comfortable using apps that cater directly to Chinese people, through language and culture. The Chinese government has a lot of control over these companies because they’re based are located in China.

The English speaking west is so dependent on the U.S. internet that it is impossible to copy the Chinese model.
by Jnr | 2025-12-06 12:03:11+00:00
Wireguard is great, I have personally donated to it and have used Wireguard for years before it became stable. And I still use it on devices (routers) where Tailscale is not supported. But as Jason stated - it is quite basic and is supposed to be used in other tools and this is what we are seeing with solutions like Tailscale.

Tailscale makes it simple for the user - no need to set up and maintain complex configurations, just install it, sign in with your SSO and it does everything for you. Amazing!
by renegade-otter | 2025-12-06 12:03:17+00:00
Immich is a Google Photos clone, and when they say "self-hosting", they mean SELF-HOSTING. You need to be a web dev or a sys admin to be able to wrangle that thing. Nightmare upgrades, tons of weird bugs related to syncing.

If your solution to an issue is "just reset the Redis cache", this is when I am done.

Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos - I don't want to host a Google Photos for others.
by lrvick | 2025-12-06 12:04:13+00:00
I have heard of malware like this, and engineers that found it at Google were instructed by higher ups to ignore it and never talk about it without explanation.

Good luck getting anyone close to this to go on the record about it though given such things normally come with corporate or government gag orders.

There are hundreds of privileged vendor binary blobs on most flagship devices not even Google gets source code to though so supply chain attacks should be assumed.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-06 12:04:53+00:00
> SpaceX is profitable.

Strange. For me profitable means money_out > money_in, over the whole company history. OpenAI stock is worth 137 billion. Of this, at least 20B was actual money put in (some "free" by the US government). So let's say $18B investment, although that should really be increased by whatever investments were made in Starlink, which is also >$10 billion.

Revenue for SpaceX, with starlink split out (because starlink pays in equity). Obviously, these are guesses.

2024: $14 billion revenue, of which $10b is Starlink investment

2025: $15 billion revenue, of which $11b is Starlink investment

Starlink, when some figures were publicly discussed, in 2023, had $55 million profit on $1.5 billion revenue (but that was counting Starlink shares as cash), about 3.7%

Let's very generously say they doubled that in the past 2 years, and hey, we're being generous, round up. Say they're at 10% margin (Musk's claim, of course, is 60%).

So:

2024: $140 million profit, of which $10b was invested in Starlink

2025: $150 million profit, of which $11b was invested in Starlink

Cashflow:

2024: $-10 billion

2025: $-11 billion

So I think I can be very comfortable in saying that SpaceX is not profitable, it's deep in the red, getting worse over time, only supported by Starlink valuation. With somewhat less confidence I can say it's actually getting less profitable over time, rather than more.

They would need to at least 5x the launches they did in 2024 to just breakeven (while potentially reducing starlink launches to zero, which would make it close to 15x), and they only increased the launches by 20% (138 in 2024 vs 129 launches in 2025 up to october). 20% is generous. There is the question of how much of these launches were Starlink, and for 2025 there is no good data, but up to 2025 Starlink launches increased by over 40%.

My assessment is unless Starlink takes over global internet, SpaceX is bankrupt and will have to sell it's designs and launch technology for pennies on the dollar.

Oh and can I just add, I've interviewed at Starlink and received a (pathetic) offer, which people on reddit claim was pretty typical. Which told me one thing: Starlink is already very aware of the need to drastically save money.
by pas | 2025-12-06 12:05:37+00:00
Well, when was it last free? A few millena ago?

China did not let US companies establish completely foreigner subsidiaries, yet the US granted it MFN status.

However, the US had protective tariffs since ever too.

Not to mention the controls on migration and remote work (which is a very significant drag on economic growth, as it prevents more efficient allocation of labor).
by ricardonunez | 2025-12-06 12:06:42+00:00
This is a crazy story.

Others insisted business simply wasn't Ms Hansen's forte. "I truly believe she wanted the best for everybody, I truly believe she wanted to be able to deliver, I truly believe she wanted to be able to pay everybody," said Sarah Rowe, an artist who used to collaborate with Ms Hansen and is not owed any money. "I really believe she had good intentions to do all those things, and I also believe business is not her jam."

She was a scammer and the empathy part was because people like her know how to manipulate people.

The group didn’t cause the issue, she was failing and the group was just the final nail that brought the issue to the public’s eye.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-12-06 12:07:23+00:00
I was just telling a nonprofit the other day, who in the name of “self hosting” was running their business on a 73 plugin WordPress site:

Move to Shopify and LearnWorlds. Integrate the two. Stop self hosting. (They’re not large enough to do it well; and it already caused them a two week outage.)
by gregoriol | 2025-12-06 12:07:48+00:00
You are way off: it's just about money. For a long time, making appliances was an ok business, making good stuff, selling them, factories running, employment, margins ok, ... and there was progress/innovation to do.

Now that there is not much to update or innovate with, and companies have already squeezed workers in Bengladesh to the max, the only current innovation and additional money source are "connected" and "ads".
by bmacho | 2025-12-06 12:08:10+00:00
Why can't I read it too? Replies act like it was something over-the-top great, yet HN isn't showing it to me?

Which brings us back to the topic: why would anyone use HN when it is not good for its single purpose: sharing text between users? It's not even like a fridge with ads, where an ad is an additional annoyance, but fridge functions still work. HN sucks at its very purpose.
by yonatan8070 | 2025-12-06 12:09:51+00:00
My setup has Immich in a Docker container, which is itself in a Proxmox LXC container.

I then have Proxmox back it up to Proxmox Backup Server running in a VM, and it has a cron job that uploads the whole backup of everything to Backblaze B2.

The backup script to B2 is a bit awful at the moment because it re-uploads the whole thing every night... I plan on switching to something better like Kopia at some point when I'll get the time