MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bcrosby95 | 2025-07-25 20:20:11+00:00
Maybe it's different now, I have no clue, but I'm in my 40's now and don't make a habit of hanging out with 20 year olds.

But I was friends with my wife's friends before we got married, and in a sample size of ~20 women my age, every single one of them has experienced inappropriate and unwanted touching in social settings. And a large number of them were victims of outright rape.

In comparison, I have many male friends and of them, I only know one who has been wrongly accused of sexual assault (the lady openly talked about doing it to help with a promotion...)

So even if both sides may have a few bad apples, one side is a much more prevalent problem when it comes to the number of victims.
by TomWhitwell | 2025-07-25 20:20:12+00:00
A favourite paper: “ A Microfluidic D-subminiature Connector” “ Standardized, affordable, user-friendly world-to-chip interfaces represent one of the major barriers to the adoption of microfluidics. We present a connector system for plug-and-play interfacing of microfluidic devices to multiple input and output lines.” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3786702/ Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32886596
by danielhanchen | 2025-07-25 20:20:20+00:00
Oh 1bit reminder isn't 1bit, but a mixture of 1 to 8bit! I would still use 2bit dynamic - 1bit dynamic sometimes can go into weird repetitive loops, but it still does produce reasonable output.

Larger models with 1bit do better - for eg 480B Coder 1bit actually does very well!
by ImJamal | 2025-07-25 20:20:48+00:00
I don't even know what you are trying to get at this point. 99% of people would also not have clue.

> So it's not really about the wording itself, it's more that the phrase "biological man" is standing in for something you're not quite saying directly?

I am trying to say exactly what I am saying. When I said biological man that is exactly what I meant to say.

> It kinda feels like you're using the term to push a specific idea, but you don't want to say that idea out loud. Which is fair, I guess. People do that all the time.

Perhaps you can enlighten me about what idea I am refusing to say outloud?

As far as I can tell, the idea I was trying to convey was exactly what I said so if you know what I truly meant it would be great to hear it.

> It's just that, when asked to explain, it all starts to sound a little wobbly, like the logic doesn't hold up under even basic questions.

I refused to answer because I was under the impression you were just trolling.

Since biological man is a common phrase I used it. Apparently using common phrases is now insidious.

> It's interesting though. Like, if the phrase only makes sense when nobody asks what it means, is it actually meaningful? Or is it just a way to say something without really owning it?

Nobody defines what blue or banana means to adults. We all just know what they mean. Using biological man is the same.

I am left two possible conclusions. You have no idea about basic terms or you are trolling.

If you are trolling then thanks for wasting my time and everybody else who reads through your nonsense.

If you actually don't know the term, I am sorry that I assumed that everybody here had graduated from middle school.

Just to prove how dumb your argument is, do not respond to me unless you can define every word in your post I am replying to. If you do not then I am left with the conclusion that you're arguments only make sense if you aren't asked to explain.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-25 20:20:53+00:00
According to the UNODC[1], in 2023, the rate of all murders of women in the US was 0.00205%. (2.05 per 100,000) Partner violence appears to account for ~34% of violence against women[2] (but vs. 6% for men), so that would be 0.697 per 100k or ~0.0007%, or ~1190 women/yr in the US[3]. Assuming I've done the math right… the risk is more than two orders of magnitude smaller than what you came up with.

> Partner violence appears to account for ~34% of violence against women[2] (but vs. 6% for men)

And this is sort of the point of the comment higher up: when you cut the stat this way, it seems like men are wildly dangerous creeps. But it is a statistic comparing one group to another group. We need to instead look at the absolute rate of partner violence to decide if men are on the whole violent murders or so, and there, the overall risk is low.

[1]: https://dataunodc.un.org/dp-intentional-homicide-victims

[2]: https://bjs.ojp.gov/female-murder-victims-and-victim-offende...

[3]: (I've assumed a round population of 340M for the US, with 50/50 gender, just an approximation.)
by 1659447091 | 2025-07-25 20:20:59+00:00
I can't remember where exactly in Indonesia now, but went to a place that was completely segregated by: locals | tourist/non-locals. We paid 3-5x the entrance fee, completely separate entrance, locker area to store bags etc, separate bar areas and spaces, but the two area could still see each other. It was jarring and as an American from the south(aware of our jim crow history) it was a really uncomfortable experience (the locals area was not as nice)
by xhkkffbf | 2025-07-25 20:21:08+00:00
I'm sorry and I'll be voted down for this, but I do think that it will attract plenty of fibbing and deliberate or not-so-deliberate stretching of the truth. Anyone who is rejected tends to be a bit angry about it. In this case, women who are ghosted can say whatever they want.

This isn't all of the people, but in my experience in life it's more than enough to make this app impossible to filter.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-25 20:22:08+00:00
> But sharing facts about other people is potentially defamatory speech

Yes, and? The service is protected in the US by Section 230, and Tea doesn't operate anywhere else currently. Individual users who use it defame are, in principal, subject to defamation liability, but in the US (and, again, that’s the only jurisdiction currently relevant), the burden to proving that the description was both false and at least negligently made (as well as the other elements of the tort) falls on the plaintiff (it is often said that “truth is an absolute defense”, but that’s misleading—falsity and fault are both elements of the prima facie case the plaintiff must establish.)

Sure, in a jurisdiction with strict liability for libel and where truth is actually a defense, and/or where the platform itself, being a deep pockets target, was exposed, Tea would be a more precarious business. But that’s not where it operates.
by jimbob45 | 2025-07-25 20:22:13+00:00
they're targeting payment processors

They're not "targeting" payment processors. Payment processors have to deal with significantly more problems due to the nature of porn games and chargebacks. Fix those problems and the payment processors won't have a reason anymore to ban porn (or anything). What's the point of a capitalist economy if not for startups to target market needs like these?
by Aurornis | 2025-07-25 20:23:37+00:00
> This all took me very much by surprise coz almost everything that was revolutionary about the iPhone... I was already doing all of that while it was announced.

I remember my friends and my tech fiend cousin sneering at the iPhone when it was launched for this reason. I got heckled for “overpaying” for an inferior product when they learned I bought an iPhone.

Yet my actual phone computing experience was mostly better than theirs with a few notable lags (copy and paste). They had a different idea of what the iPhone was like than my actual experience and they refused to believe anything else.

It was like they lived in a world where your phone choice was your identity. They saw themselves as being at the top of the phone ecosystem and having made the right choice. They simply would not allow any other phone to be good because it was an attack on the narrative at the core of their identity.

At the time I just didn’t care. My iPhone worked well and I wasn’t interested in endless playing with all the customizations and changes they were doing on their phones. It got the job done and I liked how it worked.

I think self hosting is similar: The people drawn to it think their setup is the pinnacle of computing, but many of them have been so out of the loop on modern cloud services that they’ve forgotten what it’s like to use a cloud service that works well. They’re stuck believing it’s all useless eye candy on an inferior product.

I even see the same thing when I use Mastodon. The whole federation thing is a massive drag. Having to do the dance to follow someone on a different server gets old. I miss being able to one click follow someone and not have to pay attention to what site I’m on. Yet bring it up to fediverse fans and many will scoff at the idea that it’s a hassle at all. They might argue it’s a small price to pay. So many refuse to admit that it’s not a good experience. Situations like this run deep in every self-hosted or distributed project I’ve seen. They cater to people who enjoy fiddling with projects and debugging things.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-25 20:24:05+00:00
The blog post talks about our self-hosting movies, photos, and podcasts, in nice Netflix-like interfaces. Sharing photos. That sort of thing.

You are talking about preserving intellectual independence.

Both are nice to have, but they are sort of different problems, right? Yours seems more important. And yours could probably be solved by a local copy of Wikipedia and an FTP server full of digital textbooks.

IMO one dangerous misstep we can make with self-hosting is to assume we need to start by matching the centralized services look-and-feel and polish (which is getting worse every year anyway).
by danielhanchen | 2025-07-25 20:24:07+00:00
The trick of llama.cpp and our dynamic quants is you can actually offload the model to RAM / even an SSD! If you have GPU VRAM + RAM + SSD > the model size (say 90GB for dynamic 2bit quant), then it'll run well!

Ie you can actually run it on a local desktop or even your laptop now! You don't need a 90GB GPU for example, but say a 24GB GPU + 64GB to 128GB RAM.

The speeds are around 3 to 5 tokens / second, so still ok! I write more about improving speed for local devices here: https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/qwen3-how-to-run-and-fine-tun...
by dahart | 2025-07-25 20:24:29+00:00
What, exactly, is relevant about the perception and cognition systems if the signal from rods and cones is clipped or distorted? By ‘blown out’ we are talking about the rods and cones being saturated and unable to respond meaningfully. Your question doesn’t make sense, and I’m neither making claims about nor arguing over what happens in the perceptual system to bad/saturated inputs.

I don’t know what you mean by ‘in the sun’ != ‘at the sun’. I’m the one who said ‘in the sun’ and I was talking about staring at the sun. I’m not sure what your point is, but if you’re trying to say that a game render of looking at the sun is different than the experience of actually looking at the sun, then I wholly agree. A game will (rightly and thankfully) never fully recreate the experience of looking at the sun. If you’re trying to defend &carlosjobim’s claim that human vision doesn’t have an absolute upper luminance limit, then I think you need to back that claim up with some evidence.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-25 20:24:57+00:00
>whether or not it's moral and appropriate to advocate for and work towards its abolition in what you see as the best interest of everyone?

That lines creates justification for anything and even everyone to be banned, sadly.

>Is "Don't like X? Don't buy it" as far as we should go with... AI-produced child porn?

My line is "is there a victim harmed with the action". Shooting a gun? Yes, someone is often harmed and killed. We should and do regulate gun usage.

simulated CSAM is repulsive but does not have a victim, in theory. The jury is out on how you train such content, so I won't saw "AI porn has no victim", but the animated stuff within Steam definitely has no victim (and Steam pretty much forbids live actors of any form for such content. They dealt with such a case in 2023)
by waldopat | 2025-07-25 20:25:50+00:00
Moxie Marlinspike nailed this in his web3 critique from a couple years ago: "People don't want to run their own servers, and never will. The premise for web1 was that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer of content as well as infrastructure... However – and I don't think this can be emphasized enough – that is not what people want."

That said, the discussion seems stuck in a false binary between the control of self-hosting and the convenience of corporate services, but I think what the market wants is a third way that provides both control and convenience.

And to be honest, public libraries already do this, y'all. GO GET A LIBRARY CARD. You can stream from Kanopy at home.

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-25 20:26:03+00:00
> When does pumping that stock up go from fiduciary duty to fraud?

Musk has already been in hot water more than once for that in the past.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/business/elon-musk-sec-fine-d...

"In 2018 the SEC reached a settlement with Musk and Tesla after finding that Musk had deceived investors when he tweeted out that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private. Under that settlement Tesla and Musk both paid fines of $20 million, and Musk agreed to have his tweets about material events at the company approved by others at Tesla. He also gave up the title of chairman of Tesla, although he retained the CEO title."

"In April 2022, Musk disclosed he had purchased 9% of the shares of Twitter ahead of his purchase of the entire company later that year. The SEC sent him a letter wanting to know why he had not disclosed those purchases within 10 days of crossing the 5% threshold of shares owned, as required by securities law."
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-25 20:26:14+00:00
Similar to how almost-pi-squared meters-per-second shows up in the constant for gravitational acceleration near Earth's surface because the meter was originally "the length of pendulum that ticks once a second" and there's a pi in the pendulum motion equation.

(... it's not exactly pi-squared because the French yanked it around a bit before settling into the modern number based on light in a vacuum and cesium atoms).
by neutronicus | 2025-07-25 20:26:34+00:00
LLMs slot into this conversation in a really interesting way.

The things the author set up are technologically mature enough that, as long as you have the media, or as long as you can get your friends to use it, the self-hosted versions are largely better than the commercial ones. The last decade or so of innovation has really been about figuring out how to monetize these technologies, at the expense of UX.

This is in contrast to LLMs, where the commercial ones kind of wipe the floor with the self-hosted options.

On the other hand, LLMs essentially give average people superpowers for self-hosting mature technologies. My wife used Claude Code to vibe-code an educational game for our five-year-old, tailored to his preferences and the skills he needs to work on (she's a UX designer and now, a couple weeks in, reads enough Javascript to understand when Claude is doing something stupid).

If we want to buy a computer to use a server, write, and host a bespoke family to-do-list / photo store / knowledge base / calendar that syncs my wife's Google Calendar with my .org files ... we are so much more able to do that than we were even two years ago.
by fn-mote | 2025-07-25 20:26:39+00:00
The idea that deer need to be protected is hilarious. All around the Midwest (USA) you can see obvious signs of deer overpopulation. Every doe gives birth to twins. The understory in the forest is bare.

This guy is selling 60 deer decoys a year? The DNR is just playing a power game.

If the focus of the article were about poaching an animal that isn’t as common as mice, I would be more sympathetic.

Instead it seems like the focus is on the easiest poaching to catch (because of the massive numbers of infractions), not the greatest impact.
by johng | 2025-07-25 20:27:05+00:00
If I were to choose a business it would be Chick-Fil-A. They are super fast, efficient. Their employees seem to be leaps and bounds smarter, nicer and more efficient than other fast food restaurants.

Whether you like it or not, the fact that they are willing to sacrifice a butt-load of profit to close on Sundays because of their beliefs is quite amazing.

I've never had a bad experience at Chick-Fil-A... that's quite a statement as far as fast food goes.
by crq-yml | 2025-07-25 20:27:18+00:00
It's a question of verisimilitude, not realism: we are looking for experiences that we can believe in.

Firearms in games tend to be less real because they prioritize making you believe in the power fantasy of a gun: it looks and sounds fearsome, and enables the bearer to dispense death. Running and jumping, likewise: there's no need to explain in an empirical sense how or why Mario jumps extremely high - it's an aesthetic choice that highlights the thing the game is about.

We tend to get stuck on portrayals of physics, camera, and photorealistic rendering in games because in those instances, we have tools that are good at systematizing verisimilitude: the car can behave more like a real car by fastidiously emulating everything we know about real cars. Those simulations can be made comparable to ones used in industry.

But many aspects of games can't take that approach and have to be cartooned to some less grounded approximation: the way in which human figures move and talk, or how a national economy works, or the pacing of combat.

As makers of designed products, we're meeting players in the middle by making choices that cohere with the rest of the game's goals while staying believable to their expectations. There are lots of ways to achieve verisimilitude while destroying the overall structure of the game, and that's a classic newbie-designer pitfall: "do X but with more detail".
by lucb1e | 2025-07-25 20:27:48+00:00
I'm having trouble finding what this means. Does IA now have new obligations, or gets new information, or something else, or all of the above?

The submission says:

> These records account for “millions and millions of pages” that can take up entire floors of public libraries, Kahle said. San Diego’s public library gave up its federal depository status in 2020 because its government documents took up so much space and often went unused. [...] The GPO [...] has ramped up efforts to digitize the Federal Depository Library Program.

Does IA now have to store floors upon floors of paper copies of information, at least until it got digitized? Or are they now merely obliged to host the digital materials insofar as they already exist? That sounds like what they are doing already for the whole web, and also apparently since 2022 when they started "Democracy’s Library, a free online compendium of government research and publications", just that now they're legally obliged to do this or something?

What I find on doi.gov[1] is "The mission of Federal depository libraries is to provide local, free access to information from the Federal government" and nothing really further on what this concretely means. Sounds like just an obligation though?

What I find on gpo.gov[2] is "The Federal Depository Library Program [ensures] that the American public has access to Government information in depository libraries". Could mean anything. The program ensures that, but let's assume that means the designated libraries ensure that, so then do these libraries get extra info that the public doesn't get (but in order to disseminate them to the public)? Makes no sense either

The GPO page and the submission also say that "Members of Congress may designate up to two qualified libraries." Did they get picked and now it's IA's obligation, or did IA ask for this? What do they get out of it?

[1] https://www.doi.gov/library/collections/federal-documents

[2] https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/agency/services-for-...
by kentonv | 2025-07-25 20:27:51+00:00
Yeah, I used to hear all the time that "a startup is worth $1 million per engineer in a pure acquihire", but learned the hard way this is a myth.

When we were talking to various companies about acquiring Sandstorm.io (my startup) in 2017, one of the companies told me, essentially: "We aren't interested in your IP, only the employees. We'll give you a set of job offers for them. We will then sum up the salary and equity grants from these offers, and call that the acquisition price. If you want to take some of that money and redirect it to your investors instead, that is up to you."

I was a bit taken aback. Obviously I wasn't about to take a cut of my employees' future comp and give it to investors.

Instead we ended up going to Cloudflare, but not as an acquisition. Cloudflare told us very honestly that they couldn't justify buying the IP, but they would be willing to acquire the company for $0 to wind it down for us. I decided to just take the job offers but keep the company independent as an open source side project, thinking maybe I'd revive it eventually. Turned out to be a mistake as some guy who was mad we didn't hire him sued Sandstorm six months later, and that was then my problem instead of Cloudflare's, oops. Should have sold for $0.

(Once it became clear to the plaintiff('s lawyer) that we weren't going to settle, they stopped pushing the case forward, but didn't drop it, so it just sat in limbo for 5 years before the judge finally threw it out it 2022. Meanwhile I couldn't dissolve the company and had to keep filing taxes for it. Ugh... lessons learned.)
by dang | 2025-07-25 20:27:59+00:00
Related:

My website is one binary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345752 - June 2025 (1 comment)

My website is one binary (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37964917 - Oct 2023 (168 comments)

My website is one binary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937515 - April 2022 (67 comments)
by ttepasse | 2025-07-25 20:28:08+00:00
Some modern electrical solutions seem to be very near this ideal. Take a look a Mahle, their rear hub motor and small in-frame batteries only seem obvious I you take a close look.

https://mahle-smartbike.com/ebikes/

(What I'd love to see are more cheap bikes and bike components. I'm currently searching for an “acoustic” commuter bike and I find solid bikes are rather soon outside my preferred budget.)