MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by to11mtm | 2025-07-20 20:08:42+00:00
> Some countries like Australia permit it, but “extreme” content (aka anything not “vanilla”) is technically illegal regardless of the age of the viewer.

As a curious case, South Park: The Stick of Truth had a scene that was censored in a few countries (Australia and Germany among others) due to it's BDSM content...

I will also note the odd case back in the day of Germany having such strict rules with violence/etc that many of the Command and Conquer games had humans replaced with robots. [0]

Or even names of things. FF8 had 'nunchaku' changed to 'shinobu' because nunchucks are illegal in the UK [1] and "Castlevania: Bloodlines" for the Genesis/Mega Drive was named "Castlevania: The New Generation" in europe (although that also had a lot of blood removed).

> UK, Australia, and now the US with age gating, payment processor refusal, or other restrictions.

But also, I should note that Australia has had fairly strict laws on the book for quite some time and has a long history of using Refused Classification when they get the itch, hell the Re-release of Westwood's Blade Runner is RC. And unlike the UK (at least for now) there's not the digital/import loophole [2].

[0] - My Austrian friend on IRC said that at least the voices were really cool.

[1] - Perhaps someone assumed the whole world of FF8 was a British Colony?

[2] - My understanding is that somehow downloads and 'importing' never got covered in the law.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-07-20 20:08:56+00:00
I don't use an adblocker.

I use a pretty regular Firefox albeit in PortableApps form for... at least 7 years? The only thing is what I select the strict option for the 3rd-party access.

The amount of times of times the sites guilt-trip me into "you are using the adblocker you scum" is quite amusing.

I like the idea of 'pay with money or views' so I'm totes fine with seeing the ads... but apparently the site owners don't want to burden themselves with serving the ads from their own systems which is the reason I don't see half the ads in the first place.

No, I don't have a solution for the current situation but I certanly can say - I'm glaf to see the ads what supports you if you are okay to serve them yourself.
by Calavar | 2025-07-20 20:10:00+00:00
> The transition from GPT-2 era models to now (GPT-3+) saw the transition from novel models that can kinda imitate speech to models that can converse, write code, and use tools.

Which is fundamentally about data. OpenAI invested an absurd amount of money to get the human annotations to drive RHLF.

RHLF itself is a very vanilla reinforcement learning algo + some branding/marketing.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-20 20:10:09+00:00
There's a really good talk about the history of OOP going back to the early 60s that goes over this point. The whole "90s style OOP isn't OOP as it was originally intended" thing is largely a myth. When Kay and other OOP pioneers were describing Smalltalk and OOP to professional developers, they all used 90s Java style "compile-time hierarchy of encapsulation that matches the domain model" OOP to explain it. Smalltalk-80: The Language, a book by some of the original designers of Smalltalk, even uses the same shape class inheritance example you'll see in every introductory Java textbook. Here's a link to the talk, timestamped to when he goes over this. https://youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI?t=785
by satyrun | 2025-07-20 20:10:33+00:00
Isn't it ultimately a cost trade off? I mean I can't see a valid argument against LiDAR and cameras if the cost of the vehicle is no concern.

If building a mass market product though the cost is a big deal.

I would assume LiDAR is much more expensive so it would be a big win to get the same performance out of cameras in the long run. I have always just assumed that was the bet.
by simonebrunozzi | 2025-07-20 20:10:40+00:00
I'd agree with you, and mention that there's always the option to short TSLA stock, if you believe that the fans will stop being fans soon enough.

A lot of people have lost a ton of money shorting TSLA.

It's not a stock, nor a company. It's a religion. Quite hard to bet against a religion. You never know if it's the one that's going to last 2,000 years.
by kuschku | 2025-07-20 20:11:24+00:00
> It sounds like they found better PMF than Beyond with a more sustainable, incremental growth model.

Indeed, and I believe the flaw is that food products are a low-margin, zero-sum market with no potential for moats and limited growth opportunities.

It never made sense to start a typical VC funded startup in this space.

But it certainly makes sense for a food manufacturer to expand into the vegan market, increasing their market share and improving their margins.

> It also sounds like they might not be trying the same one-for-one raw ingredient strategy. Curryworst and packaged meals are already a value-added, prepared product with unique flavor profile that seems more amenable to substitution.

Ah, maybe that wasn't clear. I wasn't talking about prepared, pre-packaged meals. Just the same like for like replacement products beyond meat products.

e.g., 250g veggie minced meat: https://www.ruegenwalder.de/de/produkte/vegane-produkte/vega...
by ezst | 2025-07-20 20:11:34+00:00
> This is literally the first time i’ve heard someone accuse Element X of being clunky, buggy or unappealing

I mean, picked from the top of THIS comments section

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44627333

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617565

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617604

(the linked article being a fourth)
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-20 20:12:32+00:00
With articles like these popping up all the time, oh-my-zsh is seriously harming zsh's reputation. It's giving the wrong impression of zsh being slow and bloated.

zsh doesn't need configuration frameworks or plugins. All it needs is a change in the default settings so that its powerful completion works out the box. It currently needs more than ideal amount of tweaks to the defaults, which is probably why people flock to these frameworks.
by tmnvix | 2025-07-20 20:12:42+00:00
My own theory is that we used to make the trade off between quality and cost.

Now we make a trade off between quality, cost, and convenience - with convenience being heavily weighted.

Consider the rise of bottled water, or Apple (it just works...)

People have shown that they will pay a huge premium for convenience. That premium might be paid in the form of sacrificed quality or it might be paid in dollars.
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-07-20 20:12:50+00:00
All we need is fast ACH (seconds, even low minutes will do) with no charge back. From there you can develop single-charge ephemeral accounts and you're good to go. Sadly crypto will get us there faster. It just speaks volumes that a pseudo decentralized solution will beat the logical and easier centralized solution because of misaligned incentives
by ownagefool | 2025-07-20 20:12:56+00:00
It's a complicated subject.

Like you're talking about fairness, but you're also arguing that other people should pay taxes to give your parents money, in order for them to keep their property, whilst many of those paying their taxes, will never get on the ladder, and if they do, will never afford such a lovely house.

Where's the fairness in that?

Further, most folks are aware of equity release and your parents could borrow against the house and not move. The main outcome is you wouldn't get it. Now I've bought such a house but I didn't get it from my parents, I got it by earning the money which I've paid income tax on, so it's literally required 2-3x in earnings to get there.

What's fair in that?

For the record, I have a kid in private school and will try my best to pass on as much as possible, so I totally get both your parents and your own position. I'm just poking fun on "fairness" because fairness in politics never seems to consider the person the money comes from and when you consider all angles, it's rarely fair.
by Animats | 2025-07-20 20:13:04+00:00
Some articles. [1][2]

For a while, this seemed to be associated with COVID, but it's continuing.

[1] https://www.edwardconard.com/macro-roundup/just-5-of-young-m...

[2] https://opa.hhs.gov/adolescent-health/physical-health-develo...
by kennywinker | 2025-07-20 20:13:11+00:00
I have some experience manufacturing things with sustainability as a goal.

One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that the “clean” and “minimal” look that we associate with high end “well designed” products (think apple, teenage engineering) is almost completely opposed to sustainable materials and design.

The more minimal your design the more it shows blemishes. The more you see blemishes the more parts will be rejected and scrapped during manufacturing.

Similarly, the most sustainable materials to use are waste products of existing manufacturing - offcuts or upcycled/recycled scrap. But those will have inconsistent finishes that will show on minimalist designs.

I think an important step in actually moving towards ethical manufacturing is a change in aesthetics - so markers of sustainability are markers of cool / “good design”

I’m not sure that is why the panels have partial holes - but it might be a factor.
by overgard | 2025-07-20 20:13:27+00:00
Well, I was hedging a bit because I try to not overstate the case, but I'm just as happy to say: LLM's can't reason. Because it's not what they're built to do. They predict what text is likely to appear next.

But even if they can appear to reason, if it's not reliable, it doesn't matter. You wouldn't trust a tax advisor that makes things up 1/10 times, or even 1/100 times. If you're going to replace humans, "reliable" and "reproducible" are the most important things.
by riffraff | 2025-07-20 20:13:27+00:00
I heard from reputable sources that modern "little chemist" kits[0] have become quite boring, mostly for safety reasons (there's some nice single-use kits like Mel science but that's different).

Still, looks like you can still make a bunch of fun experiments in school? I've tried to engage my kids in some simple experiments (ph identification with cabbage, showing how bones can become brittle or rubbery depending on which components you remove, the classic soda&vinegar experiments etc).

University level treatment, dunno, seems like it should be fun but I had one chemistry class and balancing reductions is not that entertaining and that's most of it.

[0] I'm not sure of the actual English name, I mean those kits with a dozen things to combine, a becher, a Bunsen burner etc.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-20 20:13:36+00:00
Churchill's democracy in Britain has social housing and social healthcare. Glad to know you'll take it though, because it looks like lot's of Americans are 'taking it', in a pretty brutal and ugly way.

FYI American police kill more people than any other country at 1100 people a year. Guess that's also 'democracy' and not, you know, just America:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
by numpad0 | 2025-07-20 20:14:20+00:00
You don't need payment processors to exchange Bitcoin, or rather, the processors are P2P'd and compensated by code enforced transaction fee. I guess those can be banned by manually correlating wallet addresses with known "terrorist" groups, but we haven't reached that stage yet.

The downside of not using commercial "off-chain" processors for Bitcoin or most true decentralized cryptocurrencies is that latency of a proper, classic, fully secure, "on-chain" transaction is something like up to 15 minutes. At least it was that much last time I looked at it.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-20 20:14:42+00:00
(Maybe I'm too old, or have failed to keep up on current PC-speak - but I don't equate Sinophobia and bigotry. Either way, it's orthogonal to my point.)

I do not see a meaningful difference between (1) China buys the facility, bottles Nashua's water, and ships it off somewhere, and (2) Larry Ellison (say) buys the facility, bottles Nashua's water, and ships it off somewhere. Nashua is SoL either way, for lack of water. #1 does not get China a meaningful supply of any scarce resource. #2 still leaves Nashua screwed.

I'm not sure why you care about the site's proximity to some strategic facilities. China won't be basing any air wings or armored brigades there. And as the Mossad recently demonstrated in Iran, any competent hostile would base small assets (drones, missiles, operatives, whatever) in secret locations - not spots that'd be obvious for the DoD to suddenly raid, if the cold war with China seemed to be getting warmer. Or if (say) Trump just felt like doing some posturing.
by joseda-hg | 2025-07-20 20:14:43+00:00
You can engage with Crypto and to some degree it's been normalized as a weird investment, but the minute you try to justify usage in a more "normal" setting, to the public eye, you're placing yourself alongside money laundering, drug trafficking and Ponzi Schemes

Crypto's been associated with illegality almost since inception, and that associations lends the power that be carte blanche in ignoring or even blacklisting anything surrounding it
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-20 20:14:54+00:00
I think an awful lot of this could be solved by requiring the ports to export the information they get to the device, and requiring that if the devices can reasonably be able to display the information that they do so. PCs, phones, tablets would all tell you about the cable and the connection. Things without screens and interfaces would not be required to add them, though.

It's not that the cables support varying specs (which I actually have no problem with--you shouldn't have to pay for features you don't need, and some features trade off vs cable length), but that we have no easy way to find them out or test them.
by DrewRWx | 2025-07-20 20:15:04+00:00
I have a hammer and am looking for a nail, but every day something sparks Marshall McLuhan ringing in my head.

The medium truly is the massage. The physical form in which information is being delivered (screen with notch) is beginning to work us over on a concept as old as the terminal.

Yeah, Yakuake; TotalTerminal; and others kept the Quake terminal flame alive, but now that game UI choice interacts with physical reality!

Which reinforces my spicy take...

Spicy take: Skeumorphism is a necessary and probably effective guard rail against tech usage unmooring us from physical reality.

Plus, this augmented reality take on the concept is taking that idea to at least eight strange new places.

Thankfully you don't see an artistic representation of a 3.5 floppy representing an app's "save" function yes-and-ing people into messiah complexes and public mental breakdowns.

All that being said, I am giving this a spin when my work laptop arrives! (Worst case I use the, mostly(?), iTerm2 functional equivalent because that worked pretty well for my needs when I set it up many moons ago.)
by globular-toast | 2025-07-20 20:15:05+00:00
I'm a long time magit user and jj is basically just how I just git! At least close enough. I owe most of my git proficiency to magit. I understand how people are confused by just using the CLI. So I'm all for higher level tools like jj. Don't think I could give up the magit interface, though, unless there's something similar for jj?
by BizyDev | 2025-07-20 20:15:20+00:00
Uh, every Google search already shows me sponsored links to competitors’ sites at the top of the results.

What would you say if in 5 years with Waymo, you want to go to Burger King but before taking you there, it suggests ‘hey, why don’t you go to this McDonald’s instead?’ At first you’d get a discount on your ride if you accept the suggestion, and then once everyone gets used to it, no more discounts and everyone ends up paying more than human taxis cost today.
by gruez | 2025-07-20 20:15:26+00:00
>remember guys, cut your beef consumption, drive less and have fewer foreign holidays (preferably none)

>this will allow the hyperscalers to build more DCs [...]

This juxtaposition makes zero sense because the datacenters are getting built regardless of whether people are eating beef or not. By and large, there's no global cap on carbon, so everyone is free to emit whatever they want, and someone eating less beef isn't allowing amazon to train more AI models or vice versa.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-07-20 20:15:53+00:00
> There is no contradiction between patriotism, nationalism and science or progress.

In the abstract, no, I don't believe there is a conflict between nationalism and science. However, nationalism and populism can lead to belief systems and policies that are absolutely in conflict with science. For instance, when nationalism means "our universities should only be for our people", that is directly in conflict with science. Most famously, Hitler purged Jews from German universities, after which David Hilbert said "there is no mathematics at Gottingen". The Trump administration is trying to prevent universities from recruiting foreign students and researchers, and even arresting researchers who advocate for ideas they disagree with. Fundamentally this is incompatible with science. Limiting who can do the research to a small percentage of the world's population, and intimidating and persecuting researchers who express unfavored opinions does not produce good science.
by eukara | 2025-07-20 20:16:22+00:00
while that may be true, the QuakeNotch logo uses trademarked iconography, at least avoid that:

QuakeNotch Logo: https://quakenotch.com/_next/static/media/QuakeNotch.84f1df8...

Trademarks:

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75350547&caseSearchType=U...

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75350175&caseSearchType=U...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-20 20:16:37+00:00
The issue is that their “understanding” following an explanation is quite shallow. They often miss many connections and underlying principles that a human would grasp right away, needing to be spoon-fed these things to fill the gap.

That’s not to say they’re not useful in their current state. They are. However, I believe it’s becoming clear that there’s a hard ceiling to how capable LLMs in their current form can become and it’s going to take something radically different to break through.
by edwardbernays | 2025-07-20 20:17:38+00:00
It's also noteable that most of the history of Western civilization has been dominated by religiousness, primarily owing to the militancy of religious institutions. Secularization is still a relatively new phenomenon, and has yet to outstrip religiosity as a dominant societal force. Considering that the absolute boom in intellectual achievements seems to be both highly correlated to and fueled by secularism, I don't think this is a very convincing line of reasoning. While Catholic theologians navel-gaze over the precise nature of their God or hunt pagan heresies within their corpus, the secular activity of science advanced. Science and empirical methods are, at best, secondary motivations in the history of our religious society, and usually only to the degree they are instrumental towards coming to knowledge about their sky daddy.
by queenkjuul | 2025-07-20 20:18:01+00:00
Bush stole an election, lied to the UN to start an illegal war, and killed a million innocent people.

Biden let hundreds of thousands continue to die not taking serious action about COVID (Trump of course did the same, and they both did it previously for Line Go Up reasons). He crushed strikes, he failed to pass promised reforms despite congressional majorities.

Nobody here has said they're equivalent. Nobody. Biden not being as bad as Trump does not mean Biden was working for the interests of the working class, is what is being said. If your political project refuses to engage with the working class, you can't blame them for not voting for you.
by nvch | 2025-07-20 20:18:34+00:00
It's enough to stare at anything for a few minutes without moving eyes to get similar effects and hallucinations.

We see with good resolution only a small part of our visual field. Perhaps the brain starts to "invent" what's there it we don't give it information by constantly moving eyes.

As a more advanced version, they say that fire kasina practice may produce very interesting visual effects.
by spankalee | 2025-07-20 20:18:36+00:00
I'm trying to build something very much like this, except that it's based on standard HTML, web components, and signals - it's called Heximal: https://heximal.dev/

I think HTML with expressions, templates, reactivity, and components is a really great substrate for these very modular, declarative apps and pages. And a lot of the things added on top of HTML could conceivably be standardized.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-07-20 20:18:43+00:00
> Wasn't Crypto supposed to solve this like a decade ago?

In a purely technical "I can send/receive payments without worrying about charge backs or random middleman restrictions", it has solved it. But it hasn't solved the issue of having the vast majority of merchants accepting crypto, the issue of crypto price volatility (or associated risk of stable coins), or the friction/unreliability of turning cash into crypto.

Particularly, the last 2 issues go hand-in-hand as an issue. You can get around cash->crypto friction/unreliability by only having to do it infrequently, but that exposes you to the volatility of the crypto price.

And that's not even getting into the issues of crypto UX as a form of common currency for the average person. It is not a simple process to know how you should create wallets, manage your wallets, what information should you or should you not expose, what networks can/can't you send certain coins over, what coins should you be using, why are there hundreds of different coins, etc, to not fall for scams.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-20 20:18:51+00:00
I've been through 3 public AV launches. I don't lead with that because "resume" measuring contests are boring and what I write should be evaluated on its own merit, not by who says it. This account is readily identifiable to anyone who knows me.

With that out of the way, it's much easier to write a hardware safety case than one for software. It's easier to write a software safety case for a traditional software architecture than one based on ML. It's much easier to write a safety case for focused models than an E2E system. None of these should be controversial statements.

You're arguing that Tesla is deliberately jumping to the hardest safety case in order to avoid the simpler safety case. I know many people who have worked on the relevant teams at Tesla. I don't think they're ignorant of the difficulty of Tesla's choices or making decisions based on what's easier to validate.

Sensor fusion is not the difficult part. You only have to look at the fact that virtually every other company in the industry (even the ones using E2E and not using LIDAR like Wayve) does it. Either we have to accept that everyone else is stupid, or there are other factors involved in Tesla's decision-making.

For what it's worth, I'm not sure if I could write a safety case about Tesla's system that meets my own personal standards. It's pretty clear from their actions and the various regulatory/legal inquiries that they don't have what I consider an effective safety process regardless.
by mhuffman | 2025-07-20 20:19:26+00:00
>I don’t really get why anybody would want to rule over an uneducated populace.

I would guess (I am not in that cohort) that they would claim that their argument is that they are not arguing for an uneducated populace, but arguing against a "mis-educated" or "indoctrinated" populace.

>What’s the long term plan?

My guess here would be that the long term plan is to return to a "nicer" before-time that doesn't include things they don't like but does include things like helpful new technologies.

I have found that people can rationalize nearly anything if they are allowed to define the constraints of their argument.