MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwanem | 2025-07-29 17:24:18+00:00
It's worth going deep more than broad, in my view, and taking an intentionally instrumental interest in the tool; fountain pens have never been a hobby for me, but rather a means in support of my practices as a notetaker and diarist, to the tune of 25 A5 volumes and about 4100 pages' worth since early 2018. These days it takes me four or five pages at once to notice any tiring or discomfort, and no pen that insists on itself even slightly could hold up to that kind of expectation. (Indeed I judge the Decimo more favorably than the 51 precisely because the latter pen tries my endurance much more, especially when I post its overweight and unbalancing cap.) Think of it like photography or high-end audio; here too we see the same sharply unfavorable knee in the middle of the price/performance curve, past which returns rapidly diminish and one mostly ceases to impress the savvy with anything beyond one's readiness to spend. (D850, not M10 Monochrom; HD6XX, not HD 800 S.)

I mean, I wouldn't turn my nose up at a $1000 handmade Pilot Urushi but I surely also would not buy one, not at least unless I meant to try to make flirting with ambassadors more than a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It's a beautiful pen and I'm sure it functions superlatively! Just that it belongs in far finer and less hardly used hands than mine. Good grief, I sometimes feel I make even my Decimo look like a sewing needle, and that isn't really at all a small pen, being by mechanical necessity about as long as its thicker, heavier sibling. But it also by far is the tool best fit to my hand of all the ones I've ever tried, and that's what counts, right?

(One final note worth making: the Decimo and Vanishing Point bodies are designed around the same nib unit, which I believe originated with the initial "Capless" models in the sixties. If you order a Decimo with the next nib size up from what you have in your Vanishing Point, then, the nibs and bodies will be fully cross-compatible!)
by consumer451 | 2025-07-29 17:24:26+00:00
> You're looking for a fight.

Not at all. That is not my style. I am looking for a discussion.

> There's nothing regarding individuality in that.

I must have miscommunicated.

If you are to be truly replaced by an AI agent, how is that not the loss of individuality? A drop-in AI clone of everything that you could do, would imply the loss of individuality, would it not? How could it not?
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-07-29 17:24:27+00:00
On Android at least, even if you know a device's PIN and can add new fingerprints, doing so will cause all apps to reject all future fingerprint authentication attempts (and force you to go through a manual reenrolling process that will require another type of authentication, which depends on the bank).

It makes the conclusions of types 1 and 4 very different.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-29 17:24:47+00:00
A friend of the family gave my son a guitar years ago, he didn’t take it seriously until few months ago —- our friend tried to get him to play Sugar Mountain by Neil Young which is simple but difficult. He struggled until he discovered grunge and bar chords and he plays what he likes like David Bowie and Prince and just went to PortalBurn and had people singing along when he played When Doves Cry.

The thing is he plays guitar a few hours a night. He is now collecting guitars, has a bass, has electric and a few acoustics and he mashed up a Ukulele with a Guitar. It’s the motivation more than anything.
by triceratops | 2025-07-29 17:24:53+00:00
> If someone has a net worth of $500k and another person has a net worth of $10mil, is that bad? Of course not.

If both have the same level of political and social influence: not bad at all.

> Oligarchic abuse of wealth for tyrannical purposes is

Bang on.

> We should absolutely not be aiming for equality

It's a rough barometer to tell us how close we are to an abusive oligarchy.
by jpc0 | 2025-07-29 17:25:16+00:00
Shoulder surfing a passcode isn’t failure of two factor back down to a single factor.

This would be the same as shoulder surfing your card pin and then stealing or cloning your card. There were two factors, the attacker just has access to both.

They needed an authenticated app and the pin at that point which is two factors. Because both are related to your iPhone means nothing, both your card’s pin and your card are related to your card and both can be compromised by the exact same attack with the exact same consequences.
by mindslight | 2025-07-29 17:25:19+00:00
Sure? I would say that "many people" have concluded the system is a negative due to political propaganda fueled by general feelings of powerlessness, and are now trying to backfill justifications as if this is about anything more than the "culture war".

Your argument would be appropriate if we were debating the amount of spending in the context of other spending, or relative to itself. But in isolation as some heuristic it's "not even wrong". The larger context is this same movement blindly destroying our scientific research institutions also just added $5T of new debt, with a large chunk of that being spent on nothing more than a spectacle of performative cruelty (ICE).

And so I have to ask - do you really want to be making an argument in support of indulging the mob in their desire to see people hurt instead of actually advancing as a species?
by no_wizard | 2025-07-29 17:25:23+00:00
They have yet to block the Apple email relay. Granted, I haven't used it or tested it on every site. That said, Apple has one advantage other filters don't have, which is people who own Apple devices tend to be desirable to very desirable customers, which means adding friction to this would drive away higher average spenders.

I also use the fastmail.com masked email address for things, and that has not yet been an issue either.
by terhechte | 2025-07-29 17:25:36+00:00
So interesting to read all these negative comments. I'm actually considering installing Edge because this something I've really been wanting for some time. I run Safari & Firefox and I know there're some plugins, but this deep integration (e.g. across tabs) is missing. I usually open 15+ tabs when I'm researching something, and then being able to ask an LLM questions across these tabs is awesome.

The main reason for me not to install this, honestly, is that I've heard that OpenAI is working on something similar and I already have their subscription. I might just wait a bit longer, but I really can see the appeal of this product.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-07-29 17:26:26+00:00
"Next up is LEARNING first, then remembering."

This is true for many things, but there are exceptions.

For example, my son studied the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) using Anki, without any prior exposure. Now, when he uses a dictionary (paper or online), he can verify the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word.

Another example: foreign language vocabulary. These are rote facts. There's no meaningful distinction between 'learning' a foreign word and 'remembering' that word. You cannot say you've 'learned' a word if you cannot already 'remember' it.
by dguest | 2025-07-29 17:26:36+00:00
I've seen a lot of services (none banks so far) move over to requiring a One Time Password in addition to a password or private key as a way to get "2 factor authentication".

Problem is, people catch on that with some `expect` scripting and a few open source packages you can still just automate it to be 1 factor, just adding a bit more complexity to eventually leak the user's credentials.
by cayleyh | 2025-07-29 17:26:43+00:00
Wild life path really. Started as a socialist and syndicalist, and then stuff happened (waving hands) and he joined the Mussolini fascists and died before he could see what fascism would do to Europe. Looks like he got more involved with eugenics and elite theory and blue pilled himself to accept fascism as the solution to the problems with democracy and socialism he focused on earlier in his life.
by toisanji | 2025-07-29 17:27:00+00:00
I truly believe AI will change all of education for the better, but of course it can also hinder learning if used improperly. Those who want to genuinely learn will learn while those looking for shortcuts will cause more harm to themselves. I just did a show HN today about something semi related.

I made A deep research assistant for families. Children can ask questions to explain difficult concepts and for parents to ask how to deal with any parenting situation. For example a 4 year old may ask “why does the plate break when it falls?”

example output: https://www.studyturtle.com/ask/PJ24GoWQ-pizza-sibling-fight...

app: https://www.studyturtle.com/ask/

Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723280
by yencabulator | 2025-07-29 17:27:12+00:00
> After executing a lot of commands, it starts to really be in the mood to help out. It is then even possible to simply ask to download files or tar entire folders and provide them for download. Definitely don’t try this as the first command in a fresh session. It will throw a tantrum!

System prompt going out of context window maybe?

This is your regular reminder that in-LLM safeguards never work. At best they can be used to give prettier messages about hard security boundaries on tool calls.
by fragmede | 2025-07-29 17:27:14+00:00
Yeah I guess we just don't agree on what's practical. For a million dollars over the course of, let's say, five years for support, you could get someone to do this job.

AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, Virtualbox, VMware, Dell, and Realtek using DKMS for their closed source drivers today, is also where I'm coming from.
by czhu12 | 2025-07-29 17:27:28+00:00
I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you.

Now, everyone basically has a personal TA, ready to go at all hours of the day.

I get the commentary that it makes learning too easy or shallow, but I doubt anyone would think that college students would learn better if we got rid of TA's.
by metalman | 2025-07-29 17:28:11+00:00
there are a number of variants of the A380, one has 853 seats for passengers on both floors, other configurations have "residence suites", and a spa with showers and therapy tables, and also an open bar and lounge. nothing but nothing could get me to work on all of the systems criss crossing through the airframes, and compromises in the optimal airodynanic configuration to meet airport limitations, have edged out any real chance of profitability......flying white elephants
by pornel | 2025-07-29 17:28:24+00:00
You've previously emphasised use of blocks in video codecs, as if it was some special distinguishing characteristic, but I wanted to explain that's an implementation detail, and novel video codecs could have different approaches to encoding P-frames. They don't have to code a literal 2D vector per macroblock that "moves pixels around". There are already more sophisticated implementations than that. It's an open problem of reusing previous frames' data to predict the next frame (as a base to minimize the residual), and it could be approached in very different ways, including use of neural networks that predict the motion. I mention NNs to emphasise how different motion compensation can be than just copying pixels on a 2D canvas.

Motion vectors are still motion vectors regardless of how many dimensions they have. You can have per-pixel 3D floating-point motion vectors in a game engine, or you can have 2D-flattened motion vectors in a video codec. They're still vectors, and they still represent motion (or its approximation).

Optical flow is just one possible technique of getting the motion vectors for coding P-frames. Usually video codecs are fed only pixels, so they have no choice but to deduce the motion from the pixels. However, motion estimated via optical flow can be ambiguous (flat surfaces) or incorrect (repeating patterns), or non-physical (e.g. fade-out of a gradient). Poorly estimated motion can cause visible distortions when the residual isn't transmitted with high-enough quality to cover it up.

3D motion vectors from a game engine can be projected into 2D to get the exact motion information that can be used for motion compensation/P-frames in video encoding. Games already use it for TAA, so this is going to be pretty accurate and authoritative motion information, and it completely replaces the need to estimate the motion from the 2D pixels. Dense optical flow is a hard problem, and game engines can give the flow field basically for free.

You've misread what I've said about optical flow earlier. You don't need to give me Wikipedia links, I implement codecs for a living.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-29 17:28:46+00:00
I'm saying they don't sell.

Some times people want them so badly that they will self-organize and collaborate outside of a market to make them. But a market won't supply them.

And yes, it's a mix of many people not being competent enough to see the value on them, markets putting pressure on companies to listen disproportionately to those people, publicity having a very low signal to noise ratio that can't communicate why a tool is good, and companies not respecting their customers enough to build stuff that is good for them (that last one isn't inherent to a market economy, but it near universal nowadays).

Either way, the software market just doesn't sell tools as useful as the GP is talking about.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-29 17:28:47+00:00
It's funny but I've been turning Github CoPilot off more often than on... it's absolutely been fantastic with some boilerplate SQL, and other tedious things, but any time I've tried doing complex things it seems to just get in the way more than help.

As to interviews, I'd be happier if whatever tool they're using actually had working API code sense working... so many of the tools I've had to use in interviews just had broken LSP results. I've also had issue when a given question requires specific domain knowledge over a third party library as part of the question.
by graemep | 2025-07-29 17:28:49+00:00
I suspect this happens in the UK too, although doctors (in my very limited experience of this) do tell families the truth about what they can do.

I think there is a cultural problem about facing up to death, because people do not talk about it. It is a taboo subject to many, and people use euphemisms a lot (which is always a sign of a topic people do not want to talk about).

We need much better end of life care. Hospices seem to do a great job (no experience from the patient and family end, but I knew someone who used to work in one) but there are not enough of them.
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by ashtonanderson | 2025-07-29 17:28:50+00:00
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by benoau | 2025-07-29 17:29:01+00:00
What constitutes a "business"?

I think publishing an app or game isn't really a "business" except in rare cases where they can grow to support ongoing development and multiple people. Same with many open source projects.

Passion-projects like solo-games can take years before they manifest as anything public too, pretty easy to keep something like that private. If "pre-launch" projects were also considered a business.
by anonymars | 2025-07-29 17:29:05+00:00
Agreed, I think at the far end "left" and "right" turn more into a circle than a line: "people shouldn't be allowed to think this way!"

But, the trouble is, there's no right answer, only trade-offs. Personally I do prefer dialogue over "canceling." But I also recognize that can also basically allow for an intellectual "denial of service," so to speak. AKA "flooding the zone"

That said, seems voters on both left and right oppose these laws more than support them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Public_opinions_...
by agent531c | 2025-07-29 17:29:20+00:00
I read a comment on here a while back that highlighted EoL care as the main way The Machine has to sap resources between generations, and it makes a lot more sense when looked at through that lens. I don't see it going away any time soon since its a guaranteed process for every person that moves wealth away from the lower/middle classes into the industry at a grand scale.
by khedoros1 | 2025-07-29 17:29:22+00:00
Especially if this is going to continue on for a long time, it seems like have a paid opportunity to do a job hunt, looking for something better, rather than rotting at "work". If things seem like they're going south, you want to get out of there.

In the meantime, before jumping ship: Are there other teams that you could try to transfer to? Other products within the company? Do you have a skip-level manager you could talk to about your concerns? You say you have "ideas and energy". Would any of that be applicable within your current company? Anything that you could start building that would either help out the state of things, or at least get some positive attention for yourself?
by GloomyBoots | 2025-07-29 17:29:34+00:00
Not the same ethically. I’m not arguing that. But it’s the same mechanics. Browsing a dump floating around on the Internet isn’t the same as stealing someone’s personal info.

The data is already there. You’re not depriving anyone else of it, and as long as you’re not hosting nor seeding it, you’re not sharing it, either. Most of us pretend not to see it, but it’s there regardless.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-29 17:30:44+00:00
I stand by what I said at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43492940 - and if you only read one thing, read the harrassment an atop contributor was subjected to by "eslerm": https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/issues/330#issuecomment-275...

I bring it up because of the unmissable parallels. Google are trialling a policy to see what will happen, but this incident shows already what can happen.

RbtB is a trusted blog by the HN crowd, and her vaguepost unexpectedly whipped up hysteria. It was only quelled by a post with more details the next day. Google Project Zero has enormous levels of trust, intends to vaguepost as policy, and not post more details the next day to satisfy the mob.

It does not look good for volunteer maintainers to suffer an entire world of talentless clowns rifling through every commit and asking "is this the bug Project Zero found?"
by mft_ | 2025-07-29 17:31:10+00:00
(While I'm not arguing that motor doping was widespread) I don't think that's how it would be used.

Firstly, in 2025 (let alone a decade ago) LiPo batteries are pretty heavy for a meaningful amount of power. Even if you could hide them in a frame, there would be a disadvantage to pulling a lot of weight around for hours. (Try riding a ebike with the engine turned off.) It's therefore most likely that their power capacity would be relatively small - a lot less than today's consumer ebikes.

Secondly, a top pro rider can output an average of ~350-380 watts for 4-6 hours. [0] The limited capacity of a small battery is likely dwarfed in comparison. It's therefore most likely that (per the Cancellara example) they'd keep the battery power for a limited number of short attacks at a crucial moment which might help them drop an opponent and then allow them to ride clear for a win.

If this logic is correct, then the impact on overall times would be negligible as they're not using it for a significant proportion of a race, but the impact on a rider's liklihood to win might make it worthwhile.

[0] https://www.cyclistshub.com/mathieu-van-der-poel-statistics/
by frollogaston | 2025-07-29 17:31:48+00:00
I don't like any tech gadgets, don't care a lot about digital privacy, prefer imperial measurements, think dynamic types are the best for high-level code, am opposed to ipv6, think Golang is pointless, want an official Linux desktop OS (not just kernel) to exist, think adults shouldn't be playing video games. And have said all those things repeatedly here.

If that all sounds too non-spicy, well, even mentioning the smaller things like JS vs TS on a mainstream Reddit page got people calling me a moron and my comment hidden because the score got too low. If I said it on a different page, maybe it would've been +100 score and everyone disagreeing with me booted instead, but that's not any better. Learned quickly not to bother with there.

HN isn't really a place for plain political discussions, so I don't participate in those. They do exist though, and end up getting locked. I'd probably be more right-wing than most.
by cm2012 | 2025-07-29 17:31:50+00:00
The Cambodia - Thailand conflict is more like Gaza pre-10/7. Cambodia shot some rockets, killed some innocent Thai, and Thailand responded with overwhelming firepower. Same as when Gaza used to shoot rockets and kill civilians, then get destructive counter attacks from Israel.

The equivalent of the current Israeli-Palestine war would be Cambodia breaking a ceasefire to kill, torture and rape 1,000 civilians, and took hundreds back as hostages.