MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hxtk | 2025-12-07 00:27:40+00:00
I'm making this distinction post-hoc, so I already know how it turned out: they ultimately decided to stop making those smaller devices. I assume that means it wasn't enough sales to be a financially viable product, and to me, selling "enough" would mean that Apple found it profitable to maintain the supply chains and assembly lines for those smaller devices and continued to invest in the product.

Arguing against myself, Apple could be discontinuing the smaller models because they did market research and found that most buyers of smaller, cheaper devices could be converted to buyers of larger, more expensive devices if those smaller devices didn't exist. Auto manufacturers are doing just that, discontinuing or enlarging smaller light trucks in favor of larger models that are subject to less regulation and therefore can be designed and manufactured more cheaply and might offer even more profit.

If Apple has or had that strategy, then my assumptions are flawed because no matter how many mini iPhones they sell, they would still want to get rid of the line as long as most of those customers could be converted to full-size iPhone customers.
by t_mann | 2025-12-07 00:27:47+00:00
> there is no way to make the distinction in an interview

Just ask?

Some online degrees state that they're equivalent, but interviewers may still have their own opinions. I would discourage anyone from failing to mention the online nature of a degree in their CV. You're really not doing yourself a favor. A rigorous online degree is something to be proud of. I see people with PhD's proudly announcing their online course certificates on LinkedIn. However, 'discovering' that an education was of a different nature than one had assumed based on the presented materials may raise questions.
by squigz | 2025-12-07 00:28:25+00:00
https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

> Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"

> AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu

> AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
by infotainment | 2025-12-07 00:28:29+00:00
The AI integration in question, from the Calibre changelog:

- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library.

- Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"

- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu

- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

It seems pretty harmless really.

I understand some people feel that AI is overhyped and don't particularly like it, but this level of weird knee-jerk "anything AI is the devil incarnate" response is just as ridiculous, IMO.
by Ukv | 2025-12-07 00:29:13+00:00
> Build failures from this change will typically look like "some `extern` functions couldn't be found; some native libraries may need to be installed or have their path specified"

Given this breaking change is known and understood in advance, and 1.5% of Rust projects still sounds like quite a lot to be affected, I feel the error could be specialized into something more useful/correct - suggesting to update their dependency on libc, or temporarily downgrade to Rust 1.92 (since upgrading may be out of their hands if it's a transitive dependency).

Though I guess most will search the error message and find the same advice either way.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-07 00:29:46+00:00
Exactly. Even after Vietnam, in this century. Iraq war 2 was all false pretenses. And the resulting power vacuum created ISIS. Afghanistan accomplished absolutely nothing, things are back to the way it was and all the deaths were for nothing.

The only fairly recent war that the west was involved in that was slightly justified was the first gulf war. But even that wasn't really any of America's business. It wasn't that they actually cared about the Kuwaiti people. Just the oil.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-07 00:29:53+00:00
Yea, people tend to forget that even in the US we had long bread lines during the depression and that during WWII there were just a lot of items you couldn't get.

>everything was fresh from the garden

And this just goes to show that the writer doesn't understand how gardens work. For the vast majority of the year any particular plant in the garden ain't producing a damned thing. You can get some things like fresh tomatoes that produce from late spring through summer. And some herbs will produce all growing season. But fresh peas, well, they all pod out at around the same time. You better start canning them, oh and trying to freeze any amount of them in the past would cost you an absolute fortune in electricity.

Simply put, the amount and quality of vegetables you can get at your local store would stun most cooks of the early 1900s. They would walk in the store and be unable to move for a moment, stunned, at the vast selection of non-rotten, non ate up by bugs, large vegetables and ones they'd never seen before.
by outime | 2025-12-07 00:30:37+00:00
>(...) because their entire position rests on them being unbiased, but fact checkers are biased

Sorry but this completely misses the point. I can't speak for everyone who dislikes the whole fact-checking thing but I can speak for myself since I'm the OP. What I'm saying is that nobody is truly unbiased, not that fact-checkers are biased.

In fact, I go further and openly state that not only are they biased, but many of them even have an agenda. Yes, media outlets have an agenda, and that agenda may go against your interests - why is this a shocking point on this forum? @wakawaka28 has expressed this much more clearly than I have below, anyway:

Nobody is actually free of bias. That absurd pretense of impartiality is only in the conversation because "fact-checkers" claim to have it, and that claim is used to promote censorship. Though it matters when journalists are biased by personal views and their funding sources, that is inescapable and consistent with their rights to free speech. Censorship is not.
by tomhow | 2025-12-07 00:32:05+00:00
Can you point to any links that demonstrate this?

Character assassination has always been against the guidelines here, and also very much against the tastes of all the moderators I know. That applies regardless of who it’s about or what they’ve done, because it’s nothing to do with the them, it’s all about what HN is and the kind of people we want to be.
by roxolotl | 2025-12-07 00:33:35+00:00
Anecdotally vegetables I grow are wildly more flavorful than ones you can buy. Like think grape tomatoes as sweet as grapes. Green beans that a have complex flavor almost like green tea. The butternut squash that I accidentally grew this year from seeds that survived the winter in my compost tastes like a pumpkin pie. Corn that you can eat raw and that putting butter on feels like a waste.

That’s not to say you cannot get really good food that’s not “farm fresh” but food right out of the ground absolutely on average is better.
by runarberg | 2025-12-07 00:34:24+00:00
This is impressive. 43000 lines of CSS. Do you know how this works?

EDIT: For the record, while I am very impressed, and this is a wonderful work of art we can all enjoy, I am not convinced this is proof of the Turing completeness of CSS. At most this would prove that CSS + HTML is Turing complete (which still better then CSS + HTML + User instructions in natural language). But I wonder if in these 43000 lines of CSS the entire state space was encoded (with some clever compression obviously), and I am not sure if that would count as proof of Turing completeness.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-07 00:34:51+00:00
Hey this one over here [1] has a virtual desktop minimap on the top right. That person mentions fvwm which has this [2] website with screenshots, but I don't see the minimap there. Could someone help me find a reference to it?

Update: Also on the bottom left here [3]

[1] https://anders.unix.se/images/desktop_warren_toomey.gif

[2] https://www.fvwm.org/

[3] https://anders.unix.se/images/desktop_jordan_hubbard.jpg
by syntaxing | 2025-12-07 00:34:56+00:00
I had to look into the changelog to see what they meant but it’s not too intrusive IMO [1]. That being said, I find it way easier using calibre-web-automated [2]. Everything is through a web server, has usual control, and syncs with Kobo. All it takes in one docker compose and you’re up in less than 10 minutes.

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new [2] https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
by Manuel_D | 2025-12-07 00:35:52+00:00
I'm still not following. Ads for a pickup truck are probably more likely to feature towing a boat than ads for a hatchback even if they're both capable of towing boats. Because buyers of the former are more likely to use the vehicle for that purpose.

If a disproportionate share of users are using image generation for generating attractive women, why is it out of place to put commensurate focus on that use case in demos and other promotional material?
by quantumfissure | 2025-12-07 00:36:00+00:00
It's been a long, long time. I think Red Hat 8/9 (from 2002-2003) had a default KDE build. Even in Fedora Core 1 Gnome was default.

Now, there's a separate build to download for KDE. It's likely because Gnome is default install for Red Hat Enterprise Workstation.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-07 00:36:15+00:00
>would have had nicer sets for special functions like church or weddings.

It's likely they would have one set of church clothes at least, but if you ever look at 'old' houses, closets are tiny because even modestly wealthy people didn't have that many clothes.

In 1900 you've have spend something like 15% of your yearly income on clothes, now it's around 3%.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-07 00:37:19+00:00
I don't know why people take him so seriously. He said some decent things about software freedom, and the rest of his entire existence seems to be him being deliberately obtuse and generally off-putting. I find it bizarre that there's this strange carve-out here for him, especially considering that he would absolutely loathe 99% of the software that gets discussed here.
by your_sweetpea | 2025-12-07 00:37:20+00:00
I'd like to see this given a bit more structure, honestly. What occurs to me is constraining the grammar for LLM inference to ensure valid C89 (or close-to, as much can be checked without compilation), then perhaps experimentally switching to a permuter once/if a certain threshold is reached for accuracy of the decompiled function.

Eventually some or many of these attempts would, of course, fail, and require programmer intervention, but I suspect we might be surprised how far it could go.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-07 00:38:14+00:00
>no scripting options at all on Windows that come close to the fearsome power of File Explorer’s copy and paste out of the box

You can use Powershell.

$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application $shell.Namespace("C:\Source").ParseName("myfile").InvokeVerb("copy") $shell.Namespace("C:\Destination").Self.InvokeVerb("paste")
by gerdesj | 2025-12-07 00:38:39+00:00
Nowadays we (UK) have a notion called "fuel poverty" which is formally defined (1) It is similar to the more generic notion of energy poverty. Basically, if spending out on fuel for heating takes a household below the official poverty line, then that is considered fuel poverty.

I'm old enough to remember houses without any form of central heating - mostly farms and cottages but even modernish town houses of the 70s/80s might be a bit remiss on the modern touches. I'm 55 so born 1970. My family lived in at least one house with an out-house bog (toilet) - it got a bit nippy (cold) in winter. If you had to use it then piss first to break the ice and then go in for a dump!

My mum was a Devonshire (Stoke Fleming, nr Dartmouth) farm girl and one anecdote she had was visiting another farm that even her parents considered a bit old school. The bog in the other farm was situated above a shippon - ie where cows are kept. The house adjoined the shippon and a fancy modern "indoor" bog had been built by bashing a hole through an exterior wall and an extension added over the shippon. It even had a sink to wash your hands - which was from a rain capture tank ... . The floorboards were a bit sketchy and apparently you could end up nearly eye to eye with the bull, whilst sat on the throne.

OK, back to fuel poverty and the old days not being cute. My mum's anecdote would probably be considered laughable to an Elizabethan (not QEII - QEI).

The world spins and we move on. I can remember being seriously cold in a house and basically wearing a lot more clothing and having a lot of blankets and later a hefty TOG rated duvet on my bed.

I think I prefer progress but don't think of the past as somehow regressive.

(1) https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-stati...
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-07 00:39:46+00:00
Same.

There was a time when my diet was consistently full of very sweet things -- in particular, with beverages: More soda? Another mocha latte swimming in sugar? Another quart of orange juice? Yes, please.

But also food: How can a person walk past a selection of fresh donuts without having one?

Eventually, for reasons that initially were budgetary more than anything else, I discovered some coffee that I really liked the natural flavor of at a local place. I started getting that -- plain, black -- instead of a latte, mostly because $2.10 is a lot less than $3.75.

That coffee was Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. This particular one had its own distinct, subtle sweetness that hit the spot for me and was part of a basically-daily feel-good routine for years until their roaster stopped selling it.

But by then, I was a black coffee convert. And I didn't even notice at the time, but I'd also stopped buying soda in bulk -- it became a rare entity in my life instead of a daily fixation.

I also stopped buying things like cookies and donuts. I began to skip the pie at gatherings.

That all happened in my 30s.

Nowadays, motivated only by what I feel like eating or drinking instead of some desire to make healthy choices or something, my intake is good-tasting spring water (the tap water here sometimes tastes of mud), decent black coffee, inexpensive tea, and [of course] beer.

My food has taken a turn for the bland, too.

I buy carrots and celery at the store to munch on, instead of a bag of cookies. Things like rice and beans and fish have an abundance of flavor that I wasn't able to appreciate before. For gatherings, I make a big relish tray full of fresh vegetables -- and I munch on them more than anyone else does.

I seldom buy breakfast cereal now, but I used to eat a lot of it -- and I'd load it up with more sugar. Last year I did buy some store-brand raisin bran but I found that it was too much of a sugar bomb to really enjoy as a meal. I couldn't make myself finish it; most of it wound up in the compost. (I did find some very plain bran flakes that I liked a lot better -- 12-year-old me would not have been impressed.)

This is all a bit weird to describe because the only deliberate decision involved was to try to save a bit of money on coffee-house coffee in my 30s.

But did that decision actually have anything to do with it? Or is this instead a tale as old as time itself, wherein: Tastes simply change?

(But yeah, I do enjoy an occasional sugar bomb. But only literally-occasionally. For instance: A single 12-ounce bottle of Coke is very nice sometimes. I probably drink as many as 2 or 3 of those in a whole year.)
by sunshine-o | 2025-12-07 00:39:58+00:00
This got to be the final scream of a dying regime.

Not so long ago we were told a serious army has now to be a professional and highly trained army. Everything else was useless.

But they seem to plan to just draft young people and fight some sort WWI a bit like the nightmare in Ukraine.

But today Western Europe countries are not Ukraine. If they would engage in a war they would collapse into total chaos very quickly. Those are old, very divided and absolutely not resilient societies.

Just cutting the electricity for a week would collapse the cities. Starting with people putting the buildings on fire because they do not know how dangerous candles are.

"Training" young people for 6 months wouldn't change that.

This is a bit like what happened in WWII when Germany attacked country like Belgium or France. They went right through it because there were a dissymmetry between the German who had it really tough for 20 years and the Belgian or Frenchman at the time.

But the current head of NATO is a former HR at Unilever, so I guess he knows better.
by squigz | 2025-12-07 00:40:23+00:00
"Unpleasant" is a fairly good word for describing Calibre's UI (as much as I love Calibre)

It's not terrible, but it's not great. You get used to it very quickly, but it's still clunky.

Oh well. I suspect that sort of update would be a lot of refactoring. Supremely happy with Calibre altogether :)
by jacquesm | 2025-12-07 00:40:32+00:00
Absolutely, but that's how this starts. Boats too started as ferries, it took many, many years before boats purposefully went into blue water. Ferries are a great testbed, they have lots of cycles and they are a pre-cursor to coastal and then eventually larger ocean going vessels, which I predict will go diesel-electric before they go all electric.
by globalnode | 2025-12-07 00:42:01+00:00
What I dont like about computer todo or task lists is that they kind of describe you pretty well to prying eyes. As a privacy enthusiast im not that keen on having that info get out, especially with recall and possibly multiple other ai agents running around in the background looking through my stuff. I dont know what the solution to this is and Im not sure Linux will be free from this either in the future. Perhaps a disconnected linux box purely for todo lists that i manually ssh into to get access to? (but that would then be connected, hmm... perhaps through a physical firewall intermediary?)
by cratermoon | 2025-12-07 00:42:30+00:00
As best I can tell Goyal started adding AI-related code to Calibre back in August, merging the LLM tab work from https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/2838, and created the chat widget in November with commit 41d0da4267dc6f7f7e48fb9bb7e8609a2e251cb7.

I looked at forking the project myself: the challenges are that it's a very quirky application, its design and implementation doesn't share conventions with any other application, and the build system is complex and unique to Calibre.

It's a shame there's no good open source ebook library application with a more conventional design. Shoving AI into everything, even when it defaults to "off" (for now), is getting old.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-07 00:43:52+00:00
> does the suspension make the current state in Germany similar to the Selective Service requirement in the US?

I don't know how the Selective Service requirement in the US works, so I can't answer this question.

> Or is it “easy” for the German government to establish a draft?

Such a (temporary) suspension can hypothetically terminated at any time by the government. The question is basically how the population will react. I guess if the suspension of the general conscription would be terminated by the government, there would be really furious public rallies (and I am rather certain that my boss would immediately attempt to approve a vacation request if I wanted to attend such a rally in Berlin if it happened during the work week - just as an "innocent" kind of support for this cause from behind the lines :-) ) because multiple generations got really radicalized against compulsory military service (I wrote about this topic at https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=46177817 ).

This is why the German government currently attempts to approach the whole topic of quitting the suspension of compulsory military service so indirectly.
by gerdesj | 2025-12-07 00:44:15+00:00
"trads and neo-monarchists on the right, and greens and anarcho-primitivists on the left"

Where would I find formal definitions of that scatterfest of terminologies?

I'd like to engage but I'm not up to speed on the lingo. I think PSA means Public Service Announcement - am I on track there at least?
by zozzle | 2025-12-07 00:44:45+00:00
I'm not jumping between definitions, I'm using the single definition that is relevant for women's sport: anyone who went through male puberty retains an irreversible performance advantage and therefore should be excluded from the female category.

Women with PCOS or similar are highly unlikely to exceed the testosterone limits that some sporting bodies implement as proxy for detecting male advantage, and indeed are explicitly exempted in such policies and have never been barred under any DSD regulation.

The true edge cases aren't athletes like Semenya and Banda, but the very rare individuals with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS), who don't respond to testosterone at any point in their development. Most sporting bodies carve out an exemption to exclusion for them.
by ctln | 2025-12-07 00:45:05+00:00
Well, I was expecting another type of content.

I’m looking for a job (software engineer) since two months ago and I haven’t landed a single interview. 0. Null. Nothing. I don’t know if the problem is my age, or the fact that people are not reading cv’s anymore because an AI recruitment software is analyzing the applications, or if there aren’t enough jobs out there.

Back in the days, finding a new job was always super easy for me. Not just as a programmer. Before that I was working on another industry and even without formal qualifications, I was always hired because I had all of the skills needed. The difference is that during that time (2012-2018) interviews were face to face, on site, so it was easy to check if a candidate was a fit. And I was younger. I guess that was a thing that helped.

When I switched to engineering, same thing. I always had a job at good companies, with recognized clients, or building widely used software products.

This is the first time I’m struggling with being unemployed. It’s a huge change. I even miss the small talk with a recruiter before the interview questions. I was not fired, I quit. I thought it was going to be easy to find something (as always!) but I was wrong.

Oops I mixed a lot of things. But I am sooo frustrated rn.
Show HN: Kiwi Notes – Simple audio-powered vocabulary app
by hussein-khalil | 2025-12-07 00:45:38+00:00
Hi everyone! I built Kiwi Notes because I needed a simple tool for learning vocabulary with natural audio and my own custom word lists.

Most vocabulary apps are overloaded, gamified, or locked behind subscriptions. Kiwi Notes is intentionally minimal:

– Add your own words and phrases – Hear natural pronunciation instantly – Train with multiple quizzes (typing, flashcards, matching…) – Track difficult words automatically – Import vocabulary lists (CSV/TSV/Excel)

It’s available on iOS and works offline for most features. I would love feedback from the HN community — especially ideas on UI, onboarding, spaced repetition tuning, or anything you think would make it a better tool for language learners.

Website: https://app.copiaviva.com App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/kiwinotes/id6755745191

Thank you!
by jack_nclx | 2025-12-07 00:45:45+00:00
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