skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to tell that a video isn't worth my time is if after the intro they say "To tell this story, we need to go back to 1724" or whatever. If they're going way back in time to explain a modern concept, they're often just doing it to pad the runtime. Obviously doesn't work for all topics; like I expect a history video about the american revolution to go back to at least the mid 1700s.
Reddit app has no permissions on my phone, but the feed suggests communities based on my location never the less. I've been traveling for the last two months, every city I've been has been suggested
Ignoring the hilarity who in their right mind is replying to job denial emails? What the hellll…
> find an exec and buy their details for pennies and call them up on their cellphone

There is a vendor for this very thing in relation to business and government position called “zoominfo”
A universal, absolute, and infinite theory of vibes
What if the traveler is a celebrity on a chartered jet bringing home a shipping container's worth of souvenirs? Where do you draw the line?
While humans seek “profit”.

It is important that “profit”, comes in various forms, which exchange rates are problematic to calculate (or maybe there can’t be any): not hungry, not thirsty, tastes good, not cold, feel safe, feel excited, feel righteous, feel powerful, listen to music, watch a movie, get curious, satisfy curiosity, laugh, love, sex, rock n roll.
Me neither. But it’s very much in keeping with other seriously-intended suggestions I’ve heard. Optimism is fine until it becomes just dreaming and wishing out loud.
There is nearly an unlimited amount of data. For example, feed real world video/sensory data into LLMs and they can learn how real world physical objects behave. Simulate physics with a physics engine and then feed that data into the LLM.

The internet represented easy/low hanging fruit data. It doesn't seem like the transformer algorithm is limited to pure text training data.
Ah yes. Dullingshires law
This headline is truly awful. They had a single Stars Hollow poster on the wall, among many other things, and the headline plays on that instead of the crimes. The headline reads like Gilmore Girls fans were organizing to commit crimes in the name of Lorelai or something.

I don’t know where The Register previously ranked for me, but it just went down several pegs.
This paper is basically statistical mechanics with a quantum veneer. Two major issues:

1. Scale: They're simulating just 13 qubits with QuTiP and making grand claims about quantum thermodynamics. The computational complexity they're glossing over here is astronomical. Anyone who's actually worked with quantum systems knows you can't just handwave away the scaling problems.

2. Measurement Problem: Their whole argument about instantaneous vs time-averaged measurements is just repackaging the quantum measurement problem without actually solving anything. They're doing the same philosophical shell game that every "breakthrough" quantum paper does by moving around where they put the observer and pretending they've discovered something profound.
Are you seriously arguing against the use of ideograms? User interfaces without them would be unusable.
I would like to be paid though. What do I care about the terms of the interview as long as they hire me?

What is being suggested here is not participating in the mind numbing process that is called ‘applying for a job’.
They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man.
Anthony Bourdain supposedly found the best restaurants by using this trick

> Get online and write something along the lines of, “hey guys, I just had the absolute best chicken rice at [restaurant x] in Singapore, no questions asked, hands down, everything else pales in comparison,” then sit back and enjoy the show as the internet foodie elite each jump into the fray to defend their own picks to the death. You’ll get a much bigger response, more passionate praise, and it’ll probably end up being a little fun to boot.

https://au.lifehacker.com/news/58784/find-the-best-food-in-a...
It's been all downhill since "The Flight of the Old Dog".
Yes there is, it's "non-pregnant woman". You can still say pregnant woman if you want to or need to, it's not banned.
It speaks a lot about tiling. One thing I hate about the current "tiling" options in mainstream desktops, like windows, Mac and even KDE, is that they're so half baked. You can tile windows side by side but then if I make one window a bit narrower to make an uneven split, I still have to manually resize the other one :( That's not tiling.
I was wondering why the 10 backed up out of no where. Either way, not a way to gain supporters in LA.
There’s really not.

I frequently travel in places where I don’t speak the primary language — and having to hunt down a menu in a language I can’t read sounds a lot worse than having a flag I know visible on the main page.
>I listen to a few hundred audio books a year while working.

What do you do that you can immerse yourself in novel and get work done at the same time? I want that job. I've never had a job that was mentally so untaxing that I could listen to a book at the same time.
This is the real reason why they can afford to give you cash back.
Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force
Unfortunately not available in the US.
I have to wonder how you are using ChatGPT to get a lot of hallucinations or run into issues with limited context.
Swapping fingerprint details is different than your example since it happens immediately and out of view. You could change fingerprints very often/create a new set for every browser tab. Additionally, as I pointed out before, they won't adjust until there is enough usage and when there is enough usage then the random settings are hard to distinguish because it isn't 1 in 1m. I get that they will keep trying to track down things that make browsing specific, but that is what updates are for. We need to at least make it hard.
shocker /s
I don't see how the proposed solution improves matters. Even without the second optimisation, it seems that the third could still occur and cause issues. I suppose the compiler must only recognise the potential for a pointer writing arbitrary data when it is first cast to an integer.
Here's the thing I don't get about post-finale annoyance at Lost -- how does the lack of plot resolution impact all of your enjoyment previous to the finale?

You still enjoyed thinking of all the plot points after the second to last episode, no?

And after the end of the first season?

Those moments existed independent of how it ended.

Sure, people having an issue with the ending and plot threads is maybe a reason not to start watching it now (I'd say it's still worth it...), but behaving as though somehow the ending invalidated all the realtime enjoyment is weird.
> As a canadian, i know what EN means. However when sites use flags its a mystery.

As an Australian, I somehow manage not to be entirely baffled by a US/UK flag icon in a language screen.

> Maybe im supposed to pick the american flag, but eww feel like a traitor and i want the u's in my words.

The purpose of a language selection screen is not to stroke your ego?
macOS also really had great keyboards shortcuts. Maybe even more than Windows. But Apple also plastered them over :(
Apple's 2010 MacBook Air (11 and 13 inch) Thoroughly Reviewed
Any time someone says ‘should only take a few hours’ they’re far underestimating the time it actually takes.
interestingly germany came to the opposite conclusion. many people came from countries that did not allow the renouncement of their citizenship at all. i don't know how big of a factor it was but a year ago the law changed and now germany allows dual citizenship.
I made a top-down 2D survival horror game with doors that could be opened, closed, locked, unlocked, and peeked through. Zombies could open them when unlocked. Sincerely hope to never make a game with doors that aren’t proximity activated in the future!
For me personally, It's not a moral thing. It's more of the militant nature of the current state of gambling advertising in the UK. It's predatory and aimed at the very people seemingly unable to have fun gambling. Those spending a little on a flutter now and then aren't really a concern of mine, it the ones struggling with gambling addictions having all this garbage shoved in their faces 24/7.
Debugging a complex PEG is a nightmarish task. I use various tools, but I couldn't find anything out there that will let you set a breakpoint in a file that's being parsed and let you explore the parsing state.

The most useful tools I found were adjacent to the cpp-peglib library: https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib

This comes with a PEG playground: https://yhirose.github.io/cpp-peglib/

I really liked pegdebug: https://mqnc.github.io/pegdebug/

With sample output here: https://mqnc.github.io/pegdebug/example/output.html

pegdebug is nice for small sets of data, but it rapidly gets swamped by anything over about 50 lines.

If anyone has other suggestions for debugging PEGs, please reply and let me know,.
Thank you for referring to that review [0]. I think it is a pretty standard compatibilist argument, which accepts that everything about a person, including the degree of "willpower" one has, is determined by prior causes, and yet still attempts to salvage a notion of free will out of it.

This argument doesn't engage with the fact that the common understanding of free will is as a fundamentally supernatural belief, and also intricately tied to moral responsibility. So compatibilists might be better served by tabooing the phrase—which some do, replacing it with "free choice" or similar.

There's also this bit:

> Still, when you act with indifference to the rights and needs of others, we can blame you for what you do—unless you have a good excuse. What counts as an excuse is a question of morality, not metaphysics.

When developers write code with security bugs, there are sometimes "good" excuses for it and sometimes not. We tried apportioning blame for many years, and it never worked. What worked is large-scale tooling and environment changes. I believe this generalizes quote broadly.

[0] https://archive.is/20231223221002/https://www.theatlantic.co...
Ask HN: How Do You Retain Anything from Podcasts?
In my experience, we consume a ton of great insights from podcasts, but don’t retain or apply them.

I'm building a product to help with this problem and would love to hear if it's an issue for others and how they solve it.

Reasons why I think it is hard to actually learn or apply knowledge from podcasts:

1. Podcasts are passive consumption.

- Episodes don’t pause for reflection, and most people don’t take notes.

- Even if you hear something valuable, the episode keeps going, and you forget to act.

2. No natural retrieval mechanism.

- Listeners rarely revisit old episodes.

- Without recall & reflection, even the best ideas fade fast.

3. Application requires intentional effort.

- Many insights are useful only if acted upon, e.g. protocols for health & fitness

Possible Solutions

1. A web app that generates short quizzes from podcasts to reinforce key takeaways and includes spaced-repetition quizzes that blend insights from older episodes.
- Turns passive listening into active learning.

- Strengthens retention through self-testing.

2. A podcast app designed to track and apply insights through multiple features:

- Intentional reminders (e.g., “Did you try cold exposure this week?”) to encourage action.

- Quiz recaps for each episode that you can take on-demand to reinforce learning (similar to the web app, but included at the end of each episode by default).

- Transcript integration to easily view the episode text and bookmark key insights.

How Do You Retain Podcast Insights?

Would either of these tools help you get more out of your podcast listening experience? I’m testing whether there’s demand and would love your thoughts!

How do you personally ensure you remember and apply key takeaways from podcasts?
How about a no/limited internet setting? So many apps spy on you and they don’t need network at all to function.
Which apple always sets an example for by not following.
Notion sucks in PDFs, Apple Note is ugly and doesn't have Markdown – what else?
Notion is such a weird product. I like 80% of it, but the other 20%... The biggest issue is how bad it is with PDFs. It doesn't even search them, and there are no annotations. Apple Notes is just miles ahead - while way too simple elsewhere (no markdown, ugly typography).

My work involves writing a lot of notes, and then working with a bunch of PDFs (mostly papers) and web pages / articles. Currently, I collect everything in Apple Notes - I embed PDFs, and copy text versions of the web articles into notes as well. To get text versions of articles, I use Bear web clipper - it turns pages into pretty nice markdown notes.

Now, on one side, Apple Notes is great in combining all these different types of data. It also syncs well across all of my devices, and as it is pretty simple, to use it is generally pretty convenient. Its search is the best I've seen - searches through text, PDFs, images, and search is generally very fast.

However, I have 3 main issues with Apple notes:

1. no paragraph spacing - any long text is just ugly and hard to read. This is especially relevant for web clipped articles.... The workaround I am using right now is generally turning them to PDFs before I add them to notes.

2. No good AI support. Apple Intelligence is a joke. Notion has great AI, and I enjoy using it in our work Notion instance - I would've loved to have something like that.

3. No version control, and no version history. Once again, Notion has a great version history that gives certain peace of mind when dealing with a lot of notes, at least I always know there is some backup. I have my Time Machine backups for Apple notes, but it is not the same.

Generally, Notion is a very nice product, and it would've been perfect if not for its PDF handling... No search within PDFs, and no annotation capabilities just make it unusable for me, which is a great shame.

At the same time, I am wondering if there is a software that solves all my problems, I am just not aware of it yet. Is there something better that you would recommend?
I have made exactly one actual bet for money.

In December 2020 I bet that Donald Trump had lost the US Presidential Election, which he had done the previous month.

Ordinarily of course you can't make bets like that because nobody wants the other side of the bet†, but there were plenty of takers for "No, Donald Trump actually won" so I got paid off, it wasn't a huge profit but it was meaningful.

† There are two ways you could be betting, sometimes you can bet "against the house". A company is trying to adjust the odds such that whoever wins, they end up benefiting, it can be tricky to do this and requires expertise so... the other way is you're betting against other punters like you, which works like the buy/sell orders on a stock exchange and the house just gets a percentage no matter what happens. Political gambling tends to be on the latter basis.

[Edited: I originally wrote December 2021, but obviously it's December 2020 when I made that bet, he lost in November 2020, not November 2021]
There was a post from someone a long time ago who has an email address and name similar to Make Cuban but not quite. He got quite a few cold call emails meant for Cuban. A lot of them were quite sad (people asking for money for medical procedures and such).
Do you remember when Presidents disclosed their finances and avoided things that could look like gifts/bribes? When they didn't fire prosecutors for getting too close to their business? When trial-balloons about becoming "President For Life" were taboo? When their lawyers didn't argue they had presumptive immunity to literally assassinate the other candidate?

This news item is just one more previously-unthinkable line crossed in an unambiguous trend towards more-crazy.

___________

> "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next."

-- They Thought They Were Free: The Germans The Germans, 1933-45* by Milton Meyer, published 1955.
TIL Canada is actually larger than India and it's not just a projection artifact!
Sure, but there must be some relation as they cover the cost of drugs and any novel procedures, which are at least somewhat priced according to how much research to develop them cost.

I was just looking for how much research is funded by federal government, and that number came up as somewhat unrelated — it was harder to come up with a total medical research cost number, so this was the best I could do in a couple of minutes.
What are you supposed to ask chatGPT if you can’t just ask it the answer? That’d confuse me too.
Personally I prefer rendering country codes over flags because it allows me to spot and scold anyone who uses the flag of Chad to represent Romania (they look pretty much the same as emojis).
On the other hand, this is very helpful when things are already in a language you don't understand.
That's hilarious if true.

First, Elon's free speech stance is basically whatever he likes/dislikes. Second, Reddit CEO gets a taste of his own medicine.
Proxy WireGuard UDP Connections over HTTP(s)
In most cases, I would think the SCOTUS would point to Congress in a situation like this.

It's Congress' role to step up and provide checks and balances for a president that goes off the rails.

As long as a president has support by their fellow party members in congress to be immune against impeachment, I doubt the SCOTUS would step in.

Unless, perhaps, the actions of the president were to be bad enough to introduce imminent risk to the whole system of government. Like pardoning people who (provably) organize large scale voting fraud, etc.
For the goal of the interview - showing your knowledge and skills - you are failing miserably. People know what LLMs can do, the interview is about you.
I don’t understand your comment in the slightest.
The difficult part here is getting something through Apple's blockades.

The crazy part is that, out of the box, the adapter runs unix: https://hackaday.com/2019/07/30/apple-lightning-video-adapto...
Your friend needs to youtube review them - preferably honestly and decently. Experience across a market of products is valuable!
Autothrottle: Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices
Yeah in case of the beard trimmer it's because it uses quite a lot of power so you need a beefy adapter to run it. These often still use NiMH cells and trickle charge with 100mA or so.

For a mouse this is all irrelevant because it uses so little power that it can easily be powered by a regular USB.

Also, many bathrooms don't have sockets anyway. At least not nearby (and cooper is expensive too these days)
Is that my personality or my looks? :-)
Show HN: AI-Powered Audio Sample Generator (VST/AU)
Hi HN! I’m a part-time music producer who got tired of rummaging through sample packs to find just the right sound. I decided to build a plugin that generates audio from text prompts using a diffusion-based model. You can try it in your DAW (VST3/AU) or via a web app. The plugin itself is free to install, but you must pay for any generated audio (credit based at the moment, no subscription required).

*Why I Built This*
After messing around with generative AI for images, I kept wishing something similar existed for music production. A weekend hack turned into a journey of building a real plugin, dealing with DAW quirks, GPU infrastructure, and figuring out a fair monetization model.

*What Makes It Different*
- Integrated directly into DAWs: you can drop generated clips right onto your tracks. This allows you to stay in flow state
- Quick iteration: type a prompt, wait a few seconds, and get your WAV.
- Credits-based: $0.01 per second of generated audio.

*Ways to Try It*
1. Download the beta plugin on macOS (VST3/AU). Windows support is in progress.
2. Or use the web app (no installation, but you can’t drag directly into a DAW).

[*Website*](#) (https://text-to-sample.com)

I’d love to hear your feedback—especially if you produce music or have ideas for how to make AI-generated audio more useful. Feel free to ask questions; I’m around to discuss details of the implementation or to chat about generative AI for music in general. Thanks!
Nintendo would rather dump endless amounts of money into law firms, waste time, bully small time players; rather than invest their profits into the company and fixing their god awful network/servers/net code used for multiplayer on the Switch.

Glad they lost.
No it's because AI shifted power over to the applicant.
Still funny to imagine. But if you replace “dog” with “bear” it would make more sense for my locale and experience.

Do you hike in Chernobyl?
cf Mickey S.R.L. in Paraguay
MAID = IDFA on ios + GAID on Android [https://www.start.io/glossary/mobile-ad-id-maid/]
Google Translator lists languages' names, and the list is pretty reasonable. I'm confident that designers could make it work even on interfaces where the language is a more subtle option.
Also, credit where credit is due that Babylon 5 is almost exclusive in that era in terms of almost every episode having at least something that contributes to the main plot.

So much so that Star Trek had to pivot TNG and DS9 from problem of the week formulaic writing to something similar.
That's what I do, but I assume some stores like Target also track you by Bluetooth, facial recognition, etc, and can correlate any past or future cash purchases if you use your credit card once for maybe a large innocuous purchase.
The problem with that simile is that to conduct science requires a commitment to an objective reality to guide progress. There is an ideal to strive towards. If English was something encoded into the very fabric of reality itself then there would be such a thing as unaccented English or at least objective standards of accent.
Just another interview methodology pulled out of someone's ass. They don't know.
> Where you're likely to connect to a plethora of synths from the 80s that have the combined computing capacity of a pregnancy test.

In 2025, the most likely use for MIDI to connect very contemporary control surfaces with deliciously formed rubber pads and smooooooooth endless rotary encoders to synth plugins that use so much CPU they couldn't have run on an 80s computer, and likely not even one from the mid-2000s.

> Where DIN plugs are the state of the art, like on your oldest Model M.

Almost all current MIDI devices use USB. A few don't even offer DIN anymore.
That's the direction things are going, yes. It's being made clear that the old rules no longer apply, and that might makes right. What's more mightier than a nuke?

Would Ukraine have been invaded if it had nukes? Unlikely.

Will trump invade Canada? The odds are >0%, so nukes are pretty good defense mechanism.
Ask HN: PhDs/students, how do you come up with viable problems/solutions?
While I do have the support of advisor, and in general know the bigger research direction, coming up with a relevant doable+innovative research problem is still somewhat upon me and hard. I wanted to read on other researchers' perspective on how they do it, what works and what doesn't. Thanks!
True but this is why most tiling interfaces have paging. Scrolling is an interesting alternative though.
I'm interested in why the linked implementation is different or enhanced. There is nothing on the readme and I guess I would need to track down a summary of the talk