MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alenmangattu | 2025-06-29 09:35:49+00:00
I recently came across Soul by this AI startup Higgsfield, and it produces some of the most photorealistic images I’ve seen from a generator so far. Unlike many tools that go for a stylized or synthetic look, this one focuses on realism, lighting, texture, and detail are all handled in a way that makes the results almost indistinguishable from actual photos.

What stood out to me is how convincingly it replicates the look of real photography. The images feel like they could’ve come straight from a high-end camera. Not sure what they’re doing under the hood, but it’s a noticeable step up from most models I’ve used.
by hopelite | 2025-06-29 09:36:02+00:00
That is not at all the same in Germany. German states do not have sovereign jurisdiction over their territory. It is a common illusion of Europeans about how America at least is supposed to work, even if things are rather penetrated currently due to such ignorant perceptions and the propaganda that was pushed by the ruling class to cause your kind of confusion.

Think of it this way, the USA in its current corrupted form is far more like the EU that has been effectively conquering the sovereign countries through simply elbowing and corrupting its way into power through its weight. The USA is supposed to be more like the EU was up to about 2010, even though this corrupted and rotten state of the EU was always inevitable, because it was the very objective of the bait and switch operation, that especially the young of Europe have no clue they were conned with to deprive them of their freedom.

You should maybe read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as a starting point and then think about how they outline a structure that is different than what exists today in the USA and especially how it is extremely different from the illegitimate and proto-tyrannical EU.
by pumplekin | 2025-06-29 09:36:24+00:00
If you ever need a quick hack to get v4 connectivity over a true v6 only setup, you can use a public DNS64+NAT64 Gateway. You can find a list at https://nat64.net/public-providers. So for most regular use, all you are doing is changing DNS servers.

This is the combo.

** 1. DNS64

Synthesis of AAAA DNS records for things that don't have them to a NAT64 box.

$ dig +short @2a00:1098:2c::1 AAAA github.com

2a01:4f8:c2c:123f:64:5:141a:9cd7

** 2. NAT64.

Will take this traffic thats been sent to it because of DNS64 and protocol translate + NAT it for you.

$ curl --resolve github.com:443:[2a01:4f8:c2c:123f:64:5:141a:9cd7] https://github.com/

<loads github>
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-29 09:37:10+00:00
The theory is, I guess, that creating an MCP API is a lot easier than creating a regular API. A regular API is a very costly thing to develop and it has on-going costs too because it's so hard to change. You have to think about data structures, method names, how to expose errors, you have to document it, make a website to teach devs how to use it, probably make some SDKs if you want to do a good job, there's authentication involved probably, and then worst of all: if you need to change the direction of your product you can't because it'd break all the connected apps.

An MCP API dodges all of that. You still need some data structures but beyond that you don't think too hard, just write some docs - no fancy HTML or SDKs needed. MCP is a desktop-first API so auth mostly stops being an issue. Most importantly, if you need to change anything you can, because the LLM will just figure it out, so you're way less product constrained.
by npinsker | 2025-06-29 09:37:36+00:00
I can see the appeal of football Scorigami -- there's a story, an interesting one, behind some of the scores. Some seem impossible, but are barely doable. Some were only feasible in a different time, when the game was played differently. Many have to do with obscure rule clauses. It all makes for a great way to appreciate football from a different angle.

Here I'm not really invested in any of the numbers... the website is beautiful though.
by passwordoops | 2025-06-29 09:38:09+00:00
From industry analysis:

"Apple does have a traditional advertising business, and it does appear to be growing: The folks at Business Insider's sister company EMarketer think it will hit $6.3 billion this year, up from $5.4 billion last year.

And that's not nothing. For context: That's more than the $4.5 billion in ad sales Twitter generated in 2021, its last full year before Elon Musk bought the company; it's also more than the $4.6 billion Snap generated in 2023."

The article goes on to specify it's only 6% of Apple revenue. But 20% comes from Google and looking at how the antitrust trials are going, that source may soon dry up. The logical conclusion is Apple will aggressively move to make up for the loss by exploiting their captive audience.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-advertising-google-sea...
by mandmandam | 2025-06-29 09:38:56+00:00
> as far as I know, the universe is finite.

I don't think we know that. We don't even know how big the universe really is - we can only see so far. All we have is a best guess.

There may also be a multiverse out there (or right beside us).

And, creating universes might be a thing.

... I don't expect Moore's law to hold for ever either, but I don't believe in creating unnecessary caps.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-29 09:39:47+00:00
The only good SQL tooling I am aware of, really good with compilers, debuggers, IDEs, is MS SQL Server.

Then stuff like distributed transactions, raw disk access for databases, among other niceties that people reaching to Postgres or MySQL probably never heard of, but many Fortune 500 enjoy, even if one for checking bullet points on RFPs.

Postgres comes second, after getting all puzzle pieces together, some of them also commercial.
by josephg | 2025-06-29 09:40:14+00:00
Current Paris looks the way it does because of central planners who had a vision for the city. In my opinion, it’s beautiful. I don’t know what it’s like to live there, but as a visitor walking though all those brownstone buildings? I love it.

Central planning is a risky move - you’re essentially putting all your eggs in one basket. When it works well, we all benefit. When it works badly, we all suffer for it.
by scoofy | 2025-06-29 09:41:52+00:00
This one of the reasons I always preferred Janeway to Picard in Star Trek. Picard goes on to defend Data's rights when he's effectively just a machine Maddox wants to take apart in The Measure of a Man. Janeway by contrast never really treats the EMH as human throughout the series, even while other crew members start to. She humors him, yes, but she always seems to remind him that he is, in fact, a machine.

I have no idea why I ever thought that mattered, I just felt like it was somehow important.
by gylterud | 2025-06-29 09:42:23+00:00
With Haskell code it is often so that the code which actually does something is expressed in terms of combinators. These combinators are often very general, so one must do a bit of mental work to understand what they do in this particular context.

Once you understand what the combinators do in a particular context the code often reads very easily, and what it does is very intuitive and natural.

Best example I can think of is applicative parsers, where there are scattered <*> and <$> operators around, but if you just ignore them the parser just looks like a very intuitive description of what the expressions you want to parse look like.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-29 09:42:52+00:00
Well, Finnish is native to the place I live, because I also live in Finland. My experience even here suggests that even this exception is only true for maybe 10-15% of immigrants, which is already a small pool of people.

Part of this, of course, is that we're now talking very different goals with different levels of commitment required. You can pick up enough of any language to be fun at a bar in a single digit precentage of the time it takes to become professionally fluent with it. The opportunity cost really is at least one, and maybe two, orders of magnitude lower here, depending on how much "My practice needs to be fun" matters to you.

Empirically, from both personal experience and personal observation: Most people who move countries, if they're not already moving as working class professionals with a preexisting command of the native language, just find it much easier to settle into enclaves of similar immigrants and try to interact with the broader society with help from that community. This was as true in the US as it is in Finland, and I've known a lot of immigrants from a lot of different backgrounds throughout my life. Like seeks like everywhere alike.

My attempt at being the opposite of this person puts me at odds with most other immigrants I have known. I'm actually the only person I've met here so far who has actually read a complete, non-selkosuomi book in Finnish without being a native or heritage speaker, for example. "Can read an ordinary book written for adults" is not exactly a high bar to pass in absolute terms for any language, but it's higher than what the vast majority of people will ever do in one they didn't grow up with.
by eru | 2025-06-29 09:43:28+00:00
As you've figured out, you can't sustainably raise a lot of money via printing. At least not in real terms when adjusted for inflation. (Of course, in nominal terms you can raise arbitrary amounts by printing.)

Now how to finance a UBI is a good question.

A land value tax would be an interesting choice. Especially since a UBI will probably lead to higher rents.
by gsliepen | 2025-06-29 09:43:32+00:00
Interesting, I never heard of Futamura projections before. Looking at the definition, it seems like the first projection (specializing an interpreter for given source code) is already handled pretty well by today's compilers, just by unrolling and inlining. And they can go even further and evaluate parts at compile time, see for example https://github.com/IoanThomas/constexpr-chip8. I can see how the second and third projections are not handled by compiler optimizations though.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-06-29 09:43:42+00:00
> If tomorrow Mr Zuckerberg got 100x better healthcare, but everyone else only got 10x better healthcare, that would fix the problem you mentioned, but would technically make inequality worse.

No, because we outnumber Mark Zuckerberg by more than 10 fold

Anyway, I would argue that having guaranteed healthcare is 10293762397697x better than not having guaranteed healthcare
by rbanffy | 2025-06-29 09:45:33+00:00
I can easily see a new generation of Silicon Graphics machines powered by something like a MI300R (R because the amd64 cores would be replaced by RISC-V ones, which are the natural heirs to MIPS).

Or we could repurpose the SGI acronym to be Silicon Graphics and Intelligence to catch the AI wave.

And, of course, publish OpenIRIX under GPLv3. Including the screensavers.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-29 09:47:13+00:00
Actors and singers do it by hiring a voice coach - someone who doesn't just know the sounds, but can explain how to adjust your mouth muscles to make them correctly.

Most classes and individual teachers won't do that. They'll either think "Eh, good enough for a foreigner" and shrug, or they'll say "That's wrong" and repeat the correct sound at you, which won't fix the problem.

Sometimes changes happen in one language. There is a huge difference between the Received Pronunciation (RP) version of British English that was the standard up to around the early 90s, and the Estuary English that became mainstream after that.
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-29 09:47:48+00:00
i strongly disagree with p1anecrazy original claim that this was clickbait.

I wouldn't even call that exaggerated whatsoever given these circumstances. If you say no, it still has access to them. the headline in no way claims that there is no way to disable access (likely temporarily) - it just says that if you disabled access before, gemini will still get access now.

> But these are turned on by default, even if you’ve disabled tracking in the past.
by hamilyon2 | 2025-06-29 09:47:59+00:00
Confusing everyone about java license situation is another example.

I think lawnmower metaphor never was accurate or helped to get it.

Oracle is an alligator or a snake. A reptile. If you move, it will probably eat you alive. It wants to eat you, or part of you.

It also lives in the waterhole, hoarding an essential resource. Not guarding or developing it, just sitting there.

It is ancient and will never change.

It's not alligator's fault for being predator. It is it's nature
by krapp | 2025-06-29 09:48:10+00:00
By "capitalists" I meant people who only want to use the fediverse as a commercial platform like an influencer or entrepreneur. Thus far platforms using the fediverse aren't as optimized for addiction and emotional manipulation as mainstream social media platforms are, so they remain unattractive to those interests.

But yes, there are a lot of self-described communists, socialists, anarchists and other leftist types there as well.
by eru | 2025-06-29 09:48:36+00:00
That doesn't make a difference to how land value tax works. If a landlord doesn't own the land, he leases it from someone who does.

But to make LVT simpler to understand (and economically equivalent): you can imagine the government owns all the land, and rents out plots for eg 20 years at a time to the highest bidder. To help people plan better, the auctions can be done 5 years ahead of time. So leases for 2036 - 2056 will be auctioned off in 2031.

You can stagger the auctions, so a few leases get auctioned off every week.
by TheDong | 2025-06-29 09:49:28+00:00
The worse abuse of market power there is that Apple Music doesn't have to pay the 30% to the app store for subscriptions made on the device, but but spotify etc do, so Spotify can't charge a comparable price on iOS, and also wasn't allowed to tell the user in the app that they can subscribe for $x online.

Deceptive app naming has nothing on that.
by eru | 2025-06-29 09:49:30+00:00
I agree that Wikipedia wasn't the best source to go for criticism: Wikipedia is very sympathetic to the claims like in the book, so the criticism section is very weak sauce.

It is indeed noble that the authors responded to the criticism, but unlike what Wikipedia seems to imply, they didn't manage to rescue their argument.

See https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/th... from another comment.
by keiferski | 2025-06-29 09:50:03+00:00
Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand.

I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company.

More on taste and Apple: https://www.readtrung.com/p/steve-jobs-rick-rubin-and-taste
by Rygian | 2025-06-29 09:50:28+00:00
Taking for example the one listed as https://hackerone.com/reports/2871792.

With the advantage of hindsight, the issue should have been entirely dismissed, and the account reported as invalid, right at the third message (November 30, 2024, 8:58pm UTC); the fact that curl maintainers allowed the "dialog" to continue for six more messages shows to be a mistake and a waste of effort.

I would even encourage curl maintainers to upfront reject any report that fails to mention a line number in the source code, or a specific piece input that triggers an issue.

It's unfortunate that AI is being used to worsen the signal/noise ratio [1] of such sensitive topics such as security.

[1] http://www.meatballwiki.org/wiki/SignalToNoiseRatio
How to counter act negativity bias in social media
by worldsayshi | 2025-06-29 09:50:34+00:00
Simply put, negativity bias in social media is the tendency for social media algorithms to promote negative content, simply because humans tend to more easily get drawn towards negative information.

This seems like one perspective of what is currently wrong with the world. If we primarily promote negativity we are making it very hard to coordinate around positive developments at scale.

Another aspect of this is that by their nature social media companies are inherently driven down this path for the sake of profit motive. And perhaps whatever company pursues profit most ferociously will end up dominating.

So I wonder what your ideas are here? What are viable strategies for any particular person with some ability to make an impact to steer the trend into another direction here?

Also, can decentralised social media protocols make a difference over time?
by tanh | 2025-06-29 09:51:05+00:00
Yes and in the British system names can be fluid, changed at will with no declarations being made. That’s how my mother was able to register my birth with the surname of her mother’s third (!) marriage. Birth certificates are also immutable in certain ways but not entirely everything on it is immutable.

Not to mention the passport office has forgotten previous decisions for my own passport where this sort of surname discrepancy has been explained away. (Including one passport where I am listed on a page of her passport!)

The NPCs are infuriating. I called, emailed and received a different answer every time. It was like a poor LLM.

After applying I had to explain to my mother that within the same batch of applications, one daughter required additional UK documents but the other one didn’t (the passport came), purely because one was born in the UK and the other one wasn’t. She rightly flipped out, raised it with an MP and it was resolved within a day.
by jorvi | 2025-06-29 09:51:13+00:00
No.

The reason why people call it the "AI dash" (technically an em dash) is because it is very rarely used in day-to-day writing. You mostly see it in longform things like articles or books.

It's a classic example of "people are good at telling you where the problem is, but wrong about what the problem is". The em dashes are not natural, but they are human. Just the wrong human context.
by weird_trousers | 2025-06-29 09:51:43+00:00
I don’t think you took a look at the different reports :)

All are wrong, with hallucinations, and reviewers clearly loses their time with that kind of things.

AI is here to accelerate people’s job(s). Not losing their mind and time.

Please read the news before responding. An AI can do that, why don’t you do that too…?
by alexprengere | 2025-06-29 09:52:01+00:00
I never realized how easy it was to put all this together. ~100 lines of CSS, ~100 lines of JS.

All the Python code execution is happening in your browser using Pyodide (a port of CPython to WebAssembly), so once the page is loaded, it should work even without internet.

You can even use GitHub pages to serve this statically. So I did: https://alexprengere.github.io/python_playground/

Sources: https://github.com/alexprengere/python_playground
by devjab | 2025-06-29 09:52:57+00:00
> Which is why they picked the name ...

Is that really true though? As I understood it JavaScript was mainly adopted because Java was popular at the time. JavaScript originally shipped as LiveScript, and they changed it to JavaScript later. Here is a nice quote on it from Brendan Eich:

“The name JavaScript was chosen when Java was hot, and we were doing LiveConnect to hook up JS to Java applets.”

Here is one from David Flanagan:

“JavaScript was originally developed under the name Mocha… It was renamed JavaScript in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun Microsystems.”
by daqnz | 2025-06-29 09:53:15+00:00
Completely disagree, for many people it was the only track in iTunes. And when things triggered iTunes to play it played that.

I was in an older man’s car last year. It started playing the album. He remarked “oh that always plays, I don’t know why” as I reached for the volume.

A decade later that album is still annoying people. Bluetooth triggered play or something like that and the only music on the old iPhone started playing.
by surgical_fire | 2025-06-29 09:54:09+00:00
> Approximately no one has vaults of gold like Scrooge McDuck

Yeah, I also like to be pedantically literal when I don't have good counter arguments. I feel your pain, brother.

You can replace my "vaults of gold" analogy for propety, yachts, real estate, company shares, etc. Whatever someone holds in their own name that constitutes wealth above a certain threshold should be taxed.

> So you are suggesting to raise the cost of capital for companies?

Corporations also should contribute to society, as they also benefit from the common infrastructure.

There's this pervasive idea that "if we tax the rich they will stop investing in companies and us filthy peasants will be out of jobs" which is the bullshit of the ages. If there is demand for goods and services, there will be those that supply them.
by eru | 2025-06-29 09:54:19+00:00
The US isn't the richest country in the world (per capita). What makes you think so? However, Americans are on _average_ pretty rich per capita.

And in any case, I'm saying absolute prosperity of individual people matters. Not the average per capita absolute prosperity of a country.

So people who go into medical bankruptcy in the US are obviously not individually rich. And I hope you and me agree, that if you could find a way to make them better off, that would be a good thing?

Whereas if you found a way to make them worse off by 20%, but make Mr Zuckerberg worse off by 50%, that would not be advisable, even if it technically decreases inequality.
by jorvi | 2025-06-29 09:54:20+00:00
This is one of the more insidious things of LLMs.

I'm relatively witty with wordplays and can write pretty well. Before, people thought I was clever. Now, there response is often "ha nice prompt".

Same with being knowledgeable. I just have a good memory, but these days often when someone asks something and I give them a fairly official definition, I get an "okay but now a real answer not the Google AI one". Feels even worse when it's actually you being smart and thinking up the answer based on knowledge.

I'm not really an artist but you see it everywhere on the internet too: people post something, and the first assumption is that it's AI-generated or 80% of the work has been sketched by AI and the final effort was by the human.

Weird times..
by jdkoeck | 2025-06-29 09:54:47+00:00
It’s not an insult, if you think for loops are commonplace in modern JavaScript and React isn’t the dominant frontend framework by far (twice more used than the next in line, vue), you’re out of touch, it’s just a statement.

How can you not realize that producing a string or a tree of elements is a purely functional operation? There’s no side effect here. Are you familiar with the concepts of functional programming?
by 082349872349872 | 2025-06-29 09:55:13+00:00
As a US emigrant, the joke I was told when I first arrived (with B2 german and nearly nonexistent french and italian) in my adoptive country went as follows:

Q. What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? A. Trilingual Q. What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? A. Bilingual Q. What do you call someone who speaks 1 language? A. American Q. What do you call an American who speaks multiple languages? A. CIA
by johnisgood | 2025-06-29 09:55:22+00:00
People seem to use the down-vote on my comment, why? I pasted it for discoverability. It is exactly what the parent is talking about, and it indeed is sickening, go check out some videos where many people say disgusting shit. If you do not think it is disgusting, then please imagine they are talking about your children?

And if you disagree with the guy, go dislike his videos.