MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slashdev | 2025-07-26 22:00:25+00:00
Huh, video proof that they do: https://nypost.com/2024/10/10/world-news/hamas-steals-humani...

Again how widespread that was is lost to the fog of war. I don't trust what anyone is saying about the subject, including Israel right now.

Btw, as we speak Israel just announced they will be resuming airdrops of aid into Gaza, with Israel taking the first shift and foreign organizations being permitted to take over after Sunday. This is not the actions of an entity intent to commit genocide.
by ckrapu | 2025-07-26 22:03:44+00:00
I do know my writing style has problems. My writing teacher said my style was pretentious, and I try to tone it down.

I sort of take this as a compliment, because I've been writing like this my whole life and if it reads like LLM slop, then there's the implication that the result of all of OpenAI's A/B testing and post-training leads to something like my style which at least means it gets people to engage with it!
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-26 22:04:52+00:00
Isn't there a contradiction between luxury experiences being personalized and luxury experiences being legible as luxury experiences? That is, something that is private doesn't put you on display as a luxury consumer.

I've read a lot about luxury car, watch and other brands that make ultra-rich customers jump through hoops, other than financial, to prove themselves to be worthy to buy their most wanted products. Makes no sense to me -- luxury for me is spending my money and being served, but hey, I'm not ultra-rich.

I've also read that luxury brands have resisted selling their wares online, I mean, they assume that if you want their products you're going to go to their intimidating stores on 5th Avenue.
by QuantumGood | 2025-07-26 22:05:16+00:00
There is no strong method for predicting the future. Acquired/could have acquired in particular doesn't have predictive ability.

"Acquiring" is meaningless. Even "plans for the company after the acquisition" is meaningless. Credible reports of motivations that would lead the acquiring company to take a hands off approach to the company acquired means at least a little bit, having now seen companies taking that approach not immediately killing the golden goose.
by tacostakohashi | 2025-07-26 22:05:30+00:00
I think online tools is not a bad idea, but a lot of the tools there are low quality and gimmicky, like anything that can be done in your head, or using a pocket calculator / trivial spreadsheet:

https://www.kodytools.com/commission-calculator https://www.kodytools.com/half-your-age-plus-seven-calculato... etc...

Perhaps it would be better to split out the financial tools (bonds, cagr, interest) from the programmer/text tools stuff.

I do actually think online / browser based tools that people hit via search for very occasional / niche uses is a good idea, e.g.:

https://everytimezone.com/ http://gc.kls2.com/

For these, they do non-trivial things, and are also a combination of a tool / logic plus some embedded reference data (timezones / DST, airport locations, etc) - I think that's the key. Maybe try fewer, higher quality tools with dedicated domain names instead of quantity.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-26 22:05:58+00:00
carbon fixation is a completely separate process. in principle you could hook up a sufficiently engineered cell to electrodes and do the carbon fixation part in the dark by supplying it with juice from the mains.

accordingly there is no particular reason for purple photon assimilation to not be attached to carbon fixation... though i suppose as the electron energy levels dont quite match up it might be a schlep to get purples to make sugar.
by ajross | 2025-07-26 22:06:14+00:00
Not really the right metaphor. A $5 wrench isn't a "vulnerability" because it's $5! Tools that are accessible to everyone are part of the threat model, not something you can eliminate or avoid. This trick is novel and new.

Like, consider your personal cult was built around an "unopenable" bolt-tighted box. Then someone invents the wrench in an attempt to open it. That would be a clear "security vulnerability", right?
by Zak | 2025-07-26 22:06:23+00:00
I have considerable experience with guns, and I disagree that the benefit has much to do with speed.

Instead, it's easier to shoot accurately with a short, light trigger pull than a long, heavy one. It's also easier to shoot subsequent shots accurately if the trigger pull is the same between every shot. Furthermore, it's easier to teach people to operate a gun if there are fewer states it can be in where it operates differently.

I haven't seen data suggesting that striker-fired pistols that aren't defective have a higher rate of inadvertent discharge than hammer-fired pistols. People had that concern when the Glock became popular, but that was 1982 and it is not a common concern now.
by ktallett | 2025-07-26 22:06:36+00:00
I completely agree with the "freehold" principle, and it's how I exclusively release any of my work however how we get back there for the majority I just don't know. The only apps I know that are a success in the modern day that are using that model is Goodnotes that saves repurchase for significant updates which I think is acceptable, and Affinity design apps. I sense many feel their business model is better suited to subscriptions and the lapsed subscription fee is also valuable. It's likely a societal change whereby many are not happy to spend significant upfront costs on software now. Even a small amount on an app can be thought of as too much.
by bluebarbet | 2025-07-26 22:07:03+00:00
>There's no value to this website if we're talking to LLM's we can do that on our own

There's at least one value to LLM content: it always outputs correct grammar and punctuation. Unlike this human sentence of yours, which took me two attempts to parse because it's missing a necessary clause separator.

But on the substance of your comment, I (generally) agree.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-26 22:08:01+00:00
This is a very long article to say that the author had a bad interaction, got the attention of their instance admin, and they blocked the griefing instance.

Which highlights one of the problems with Mastodon discussions: People interchangeably refer to “Mastodon” and “my specific server instance” as the same thing, but they’re not.

In fact, the Mastodon challenges I’ve seen have been relayed to instance admins who started with good intentions but then got tired of admin-ing, leaving the instance to drift. Some instances even disappear when their operators lose interest.

It’s a situation that feels great when you’re on a good, small instance in the early days with engaged admins. The opposite happens if time passes and your instance is no longer receiving the same attention or maybe even uptime.
Ask HN: I built an ML pipeline automation framework – how can I improve it?
by burakcvlk | 2025-07-26 22:09:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m working on an open-source ML automation framework called MLFCrafter.

It’s designed to help build modular, reusable machine learning pipelines using components like CleanerCrafter, ScalerCrafter, ModelCrafter, all connected via a MLFChain.

Here’s the repo: https://github.com/brkcvlk/MLFCrafter

I’d love feedback on:

What features would make this more useful for real-world ML projects?

How can I improve usability and adoption?

Tips on growing an open-source project from solo development to a widely used framework?

Thanks in advance for any advice or thoughts!
by Aurornis | 2025-07-26 22:09:16+00:00
> The safety issue with the SIG P320 is real. I’ve seen footage of multiple instances of a P320 discharging in the holster without the trigger being touched; in fact you can find much of that footage on YouTube.

Can you share them?

This is the second time I’ve heard the same claim that the videos exist, but then nobody ever has links.

The article refers to one attempt to replicate the issue where the person was unable to make it happen.
by const_cast | 2025-07-26 22:13:21+00:00
> You said there are no sex workers or people paying for sex in the US. I said, prove it. You can't because you're just talking nonsense.

Well, that's not what I said, it appears you're trying to be dishonest.

You said there's people who "spend all their money" on porn and that daughters are increasingly becoming sex workers. I said this is rare, which is true.

What you're trying to do is say porn is bad by appealing to a worst case scenario. It's a common argumentative tactic people who don't really know how to argue use.

For example, cars are bad because people fly through windshields and paint the freeway with their brains. This is true, and does happen, but without a qualifier for how often it happens, it's worthless. This statement says absolutely nothing about how good or bad cars are.

But, to be clear, even if it did, that alone would not be enough to sacrifice any and all privacy and security. See, the problem here is you're making multiple levels of arguments, of which you cannot even justify the lowest level.

Making the argument that porn is bad is one argument, making the argument that this means we should sacrifice privacy or security is another argument, and a much more difficult one. You haven't even proved the more fundamental argument, so certainly you're a long way away from proving the more stringent one.
by evrimoztamur | 2025-07-26 22:13:28+00:00
Considering assembly theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_theory) for a possible explanation. The OP does state retinal is simpler, but it's significantly more basic and is organic.

On the other hand: Chlorophyll(s) all have a single magnesium caught at the center of a chlorin 'net'. It seems significantly harder to manufacture!
by pseudo0 | 2025-07-26 22:16:39+00:00
Because people can reasonably predict whether they will be happy doing something before they do it. Like for example, if you polled people who had gone skydiving and asked whether they enjoyed the experience, I'd expect many would say yes. After all, they voluntarily signed up for it and paid money to do it. But if you randomly selected people and made them jump out of a plane, the results would be very different.

Also, people who have had negative experiences raising a child with Down Syndrome are presumably far less likely to be involved with non-profit organizations related to Down Syndrome.
by Macha | 2025-07-26 22:16:59+00:00
> In inclined to believe that neither would have become trillion dollar companies if they had been acquired by Yahoo.

Having worked for Yahoo, I have to agree. Acquisitions were always seen in terms of "what can they do for the Yahoo brand?" and "How can we cut costs by migrating this to Yahoo tech?", not "How can we grow this business?". A Yahoo owned Facebook would have been suffocated like Tumblr and Flickr were.
by bradlys | 2025-07-26 22:17:12+00:00
What’re you doing to move the pan all the time? If you’re working with a wok and doing a lot of fast paced work you’d find in a restaurant, I’d understand because induction wok surfaces are hard to come by in the US.

But I don’t get it otherwise. I’m rarely moving the pan so much that induction wouldn’t be usable.
by Zak | 2025-07-26 22:18:40+00:00
> Other striker-fired pistols (e.g Glocks and S&W Shields) have lighter strikers and/or less tension so even if their striker safety failed, it wouldn't be enough to cause a primer detonation.

This is true of the Glock and some others; the striker is not fully cocked when the gun is ready to fire but the trigger is not being pulled. The trigger must be pulled to fully compress the striker spring, giving it enough energy to fire the primer. It does not appear to be the case for the Shield; the striker is fully cocked before the trigger moves.

Many popular striker-fired handguns operate like the P320 and Shield, including the S&W M&P, Springfield XD series, Walther PPQ/PDP, H&K VP9, and the Sig P365. None of those have a reputation for firing without something pulling the trigger, which suggests that the P365 is uniquely flawed in its design or manufacturing process.
by Clamchop | 2025-07-26 22:18:41+00:00
I understand the complexity of time, but this scenario doesn't seem all that difficult. Any user expects (I won't get into what they want) to be shown _their_ day, and they expect it to be local calendar time. You _might_ want to show wee hours events, from midnight to just short of 5am. Apps like Teams do a good job of spacially illustrating time as it matters to you _and_ as it matters to others.
by owenversteeg | 2025-07-26 22:19:30+00:00
The most interesting part of this is the map of census tracts that shows how most vacation homes are tightly grouped.

For example, Florida has a lot of vacation homes (8% of the state's housing vs 3% nationwide), but the vast majority of Florida census tracts have a tiny proportion and vacation homes are the majority in a few small areas. In some areas, the proportion of vacation homes seems to follow population density (gulf coast of Florida), and in other areas it follows the _inverse_ of population density (northern Maine.)

What I think would be really interesting is a map of distance to primary home by census tract. Obviously Florida vacation homeowners are mostly from far away and in New England they live closer, but what about all the other areas?
by grishka | 2025-07-26 22:20:01+00:00
My hypothesis is that it's just the continuation of the development program that starts with conception. It just turns self-destructive at some point, because natural selection didn't do anything about that because when humans were living in caves, no one lived to these kinds of ages anyway.

So, to rejuvenate the body, you would have to find where the current state of that program is stored, and overwrite it to a younger one, as if using a debugger. So far there are two promising developments about that: Michael Levin's research about bioelectricity, and Harold Katcher's research about exosomes (he seems to have abandoned it, but other people are picking up).
by bradlys | 2025-07-26 22:20:34+00:00
With electricity hitting rates around $0.70/kwh with PG&E - gas isn’t usually a more expensive way to heat water.

PG&E in CA is criminally expensive. If you’re lucky to be in one of the cities in the bay that isn’t on it, you get incredibly cheap energy in comparison.

There are plenty of water heaters that use a pilot light. I’ve been in many homes where they all use pilot light based gas water heaters.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-07-26 22:20:49+00:00
> "Python was invented as a language for newbies."

Yeah, but so was BASIC. If Edsger Dijkstra were alive today to write an updated edition of his infamous "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?" essay, he'd probably just just reuse his quip for BASIC for Python.
by spauldo | 2025-07-26 22:21:49+00:00
I have a .net domain that used to point to the nameserver at my house. It works fine, although if your IP changes you have to update your glue records and whatnot. You can get free secondary DNS service from a several places. All I paid was the cost of the domain registration.

These days I have a Debian instance running at DigitalOcean that costs me $6/mo that acts as my primary DNS, with my home server as the secondary. I'm paying more, but I use that Debian instance for a few other things as well so I don't mind. The major benefit is I no longer worry about my IP changing at home, but it's not absolutely necessary.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-26 22:22:17+00:00
not exactly the same, the ux cleanup has dumbed some of them down a bit

I play the original untangle on 600 or higher, that "friendly" UI doesn't allow that

I play the original Dominosa 6-extreme but friendly doesn't offer that either, unless it's set them all to extreme

the Net doesn't not allow custom sizes, and it's also broken the mouse buttons, it only allows rotation in one direction

not going to look further into the vandalism
by philwelch | 2025-07-26 22:23:37+00:00
If you don’t have the attention span for nine minutes of video I found a YouTube short for you: https://youtube.com/shorts/cOUfurKIjnI

This same footage was in at least one of the compilations, as is footage of other discharges, and I shared the compilations largely to underscore the sheer number of incidents. If it’s not worth your time to watch it’s not worth my time to handhold you through it.

Edit: I should have predicted this. If I share a compilation of videos, I get complaints about the format, and if I share a single short, I get nit-picked. This isn't a good faith disagreement, this is a couple of people playing a shitty game of "winning arguments on the internet" at best. ummonk shared a clearer example in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697503
by tim333 | 2025-07-26 22:23:53+00:00
Brit here. I'm ambivalent about it. We'll have to see how it works in practice. I don't think the idea is that it's impossible to access harmful content, just that it's trickier so kids see less porn, self harm advice and so on.

So far the only thing I've noticed was Reddit asking how old I am. We've had a 'ban' on piracy sites for years which remains trivially circumvented.

We also ban online paedophile networks but I think all countries do that? That one you go to jail for.
by IanCutress | 2025-07-26 22:24:03+00:00
This content wasn't sponsored. I spent time with the CEO and listened to his explanations, and did some digging of my own. I reported on the announcement and added in some of my own thoughts and opinions. I spent a decade doing exactly this at AnandTech, but now it's in video form (or on my substack).

So I'm not really sure where you're getting that feeling from. I've always done this. If I do sponsored content, it's listed as such.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-07-26 22:24:23+00:00
Both. I'm a one man shop. Not sure how many customers I've lost for not having an iOS app but I'm not positive it'd be a net ROI either. It is niche but not so niche that I don't have a few competitors. If an app is a must have ... It might be better to lose that customer and focus on the parts that set me apart to win others.
by ookdatnog | 2025-07-26 22:26:12+00:00
That does not resolve your problem, it only shuffles it around.

You are defending the case that personhood begins at conception, and your argument supporting this case is "It's a unique living organism. A life. Different from a skin cell which isn't a unique organism."

If I get a kidney from someone else, and that person dies, according to your own argument, that kidney is a person. These cells are metabolizing and dividing, therefore alive, and they are unique with respect to the rest of my body.

Perhaps you'll argue that the kidney isn't an organism because it has no means of reproducing itself. To that I have two counterarguments:

- The argument implies that infertile humans are not persons.

- Nature contains every horror imaginable, including clonally transmissible cancers [0]. If my body develops such a cancer and it jumps to someone else, then I die, according to your definition my cancer that's colonizing someone else's body is a person.

I won't claim to know what defines personhood, but an obvious prerequisite (in the context of human life) is the existence of a centralized nervous system. If I am beheaded, and my headless body is placed on life support while my brain is destroyed, I, as a person, am dead, even if my body is alive. If my brain is surgically removed and placed on life support in a vat, and allowed to interface with the world somehow, then I, as a person, am still alive (whether such a life is worth living is a different question).

Accepting this prerequisite resolves the chimera problem, the kidney problem, the infertility problem and the transmissible cancer, and it results in the conclusion that a zygote is not yet a person, as it does not have a nervous system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
by recipe19 | 2025-07-26 22:26:29+00:00
You can make some plausible arguments against glass. It scratches more easily and doesn't shimmer as much. But synthetic sapphire is the same league and costs a lot less.

The modern-day aesthetic of diamonds is just that they are expensive. They're not distinguished by utility, quality, or appearance from cheaper products. The ultimate status symbol, but also obviously a bit of an issue...
by raresAIQ | 2025-07-26 22:27:13+00:00
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by TacticalCoder | 2025-07-26 22:28:18+00:00
> A new, insidious form of social currency emerges: digital blackmail, revenge porn so convincing it's indistinguishable from reality, and customized fantasies that feed the darkest corners of the human psyche.

You cannot have it both ways. Either it's ubiquitous and indistinguishable from reality and hence anybody, anywhere, can always invoke the "it's not revenge porn, it's deepfake" or it's not indistinguishable from reality and hence TFA has no argument.

I have no problem imagining a world where perfect vids can be created of anyone doing anything.

But when this world happen, vids are going to be worth exactly zero. They won't have any value in courtrooms, they won't work as fake revenge porn to pressure people, they won't be worth a lot of money.

Really you don't get to have it both ways: it's either ubiquitous and indistinguishable for reality or it's not.

I don't buy the digital blackmail thing using perfect AI generated porn.

If anything it'd be a godsend: no more digital blackmail using stolen tapes / hidden cameras.

Because even real vids can then be dismissed as AI generated perfect vids made with the sole intent of blackmailing / hurting.
by wgd | 2025-07-26 22:28:52+00:00
It's interesting that someone could write an article about AI writing detectors without mentioning the stylistic cues that humans use to identify LLM output in practice, which are completely different from statistical methods like perplexity: em dash spam, overused patterns like "not just X, but Y", tendency towards making every single sentence sound like an earth-shattering mic-drop moment, et cetera.
by gnabgib | 2025-07-26 22:28:53+00:00
Related:

Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters (139 points, 18 hours ago, 143 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44691312

The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass (68 points, 12 hours ago, 150 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692897