MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stinkbeetle | 2025-07-30 09:27:28+00:00
> It ended up associated with the far right, because poster child for "defending speech" was only and exclusively far right. Really.

It ended up being associated with the far right by far leftists. Really. Go outside internet bubbles and ask normal people on the street. People don't think free speech is "far right". Really.

> It was never "I strongly disagree with an annoying progressive, but I will defend their right to say it". It was always "how dare you criticize far right or call someone far right, you are preventing their speech by opposing them".

I've heard that a lot, so that's false.

> Funny enough, far right and conservatives were openly against free speech again and again and again. Including in very practical ways. And we see that right now with Trump, Thiel, Musk, Vance and the rest.

I'm not seeing where the humor is.

> People "on the right" nor self styled free speech advocates never minded that.

Also wrong, many free speech advocates have greatly minded conservative efforts to censor speech in the past.

> There was never any fascist movement for freedom,

No, but that appears to be a strawman of your own construction by equating free speech advocates with fascists.
by cycomanic | 2025-07-30 09:29:21+00:00
Some variation of QAM will always be used in communication. As soon as you deal in with EM-waves, be it physics, engineering or even biomedical stuff you will have to deal with complex numbers, which by extension is dealing with I/Q signals. You probably don't need this for programming a server or a website, but it's indispensable for signal processing.
by yawpitch | 2025-07-30 09:29:27+00:00
… though with the caveat that the body that’s empowered to do the enforcing, Ofcom, is required to factor size of the surface and risk of harm into ensuring that enforcement is proportional.

If you’re a blog with a small number of UK users, you’re not obviously appealing to children, and you haven’t allowed people to upload arbitrary images / video / files to your other users, then the realistic odds are you’ll be at no more actual risk here than you are / were from the cookie law or the GPDR.

This law sucks for so many reasons, and is inane, but the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil.
by jmiskovic | 2025-07-30 09:29:36+00:00
You ask for vegan recipes from a website. AI ignores actual content and instead offers "helpful" tip. This qualifies as hallucination. The system should help you access the web and instead it implies that the content is missing. This is actually why I prefer Edge over Chrome, they are similarly hostile to users but they are also utterly incompetent.

I agree about the nutritional yeast. Tastes great but has only a single texture that can't really stand in for most of cheese types. Apparently there was a recent breakthrough with E coli producing milk proteins that sounds very promising.
by patrakov | 2025-07-30 09:30:14+00:00
> So, those 5 golf players look better on the camera but their picture will be taken and shared with a phone 99.9999% of the times.

The point not in the article is that a phone camera, when used correctly (i.e., not defaulting to 1x zoom, maintaining a proper distance from the subject, and choosing wisely what's in the background), can produce photos of the same kind as a real camera in terms of composition. And that's what should be shared 99.9999% of the time. The extra resolution does not matter online, as most people will not zoom beyond what the platform, such as DeviantArt, offers as the default viewing experience - which is approximately 50% of the screen width, i.e., 1920 pixels on 4K displays.
by thyristan | 2025-07-30 09:30:22+00:00
I was comparing the USian president to the German chancellor. Both head up the government made up of ministers they appoint. It's only the name that is different, and the order in protocol. The USian president is first and head of state in protocol order, the German chancellor is third after the German federal president and the president of the Bundestag (one chamber of parliament).

Sorry for my being imprecise here, Germans tend to skip their own president(s) because, as you correctly state, they are mostly unimportant figureheads.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-07-30 09:31:32+00:00
I asked because I have ADHD myself, and I just don't see VR as any kind of danger to my attention. It requires conscious decision to carve out some space and time to start playing, even more than a regular console, and exploring in games tends to only be fun while its novel. I've never finished any superlong open world game, not even BoTW, these just get boring after a while. I have played shorter games - those that pose challenge in which you can keep improving - over and over again, but with those it's much easier to decide "ok, enough for today".

Compared to some other things, such as social media feeds, gaming is pretty much benign. Social media is always there, one click away, and you suddenly end up noticing that you're wasting time on one without getting anything in return, feeling like a dopamine junkie. I never "find myself playing a game" like that, it's a conscious decision to start playing and VR only adds a few more "do I really want to do this right now?" checkpoints due to its whole physical nature. The goggles won't suddenly appear on my face with me standing in a safe distance from room's furniture unless I choose to.

Maybe it's because I've been always more focused on creation rather than consumption. It's easy for me not to start watching a TV series, because I know that if I do, I won't be doing anything else for several days until I finish the binge, and I know that merely watching a thing made by someone else won't be as rewarding and engaging as creating something by myself, so it usually seems like a poor way to spend my time. As a result, I get most of my mainstream media literacy from memes.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-30 09:31:48+00:00
Sudafed in the US is an odd exception in that it's regulated but doesn't require a prescription. In comparison you can pick up an opiate prescription without ID (or at least I was able to several years ago).

> Presumably online alcohol or marijuana sales would also require some retained evidence that a dl was presented.

Why? Is that required for in person purchases where you are? I thought violations were typically caught with sting operations. I don't see why online should be any different.

> Maybe car insurance too.

Why? I guess the provider could choose to for due diligence if they felt there might be fraud. But I'm struggling to come up with any realistic scenarios. For what it's worth I've never once been asked for any official documentation in order to purchase car insurance. Simply provided information over the phone and received documents in the mail a few days later.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-30 09:31:49+00:00
I think it is a shame when kids get Lego kits and only ever follow the instructions to build the intended model. They should be encouraged to use their imagination and build their own inventions.

Tip: You can often buy random loads of Lego for cheap from Ebay or similar. Put it in a string bag and wash it in the dish washer on low heat. Good as new.
by zarzavat | 2025-07-30 09:32:18+00:00
It's common in London, phones are being stolen for the access to financial accounts, not the value of the phone itself. They steal the phone out of your hands while it is unlocked. For example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8y70pvz92o.amp

I'm not sure exactly how they get around security features, perhaps by social engineering customer support, if they have enough PII.
by brainwad | 2025-07-30 09:33:48+00:00
1.8 probably would produce a non-integer number of CSS pixels. The browser needs (wants?) to pick a number that divides both the width and height without remainders. For 1920x1080, 1.8 doesn't (works for the height, but not the width) but 1.8̅1̅ does.
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-30 09:34:47+00:00
This PR has no purpose whatsoever that benefits the project. No open source maintainer should have to put up being spammed with 128k line AI slop made without any concrete purpose. It's mind blowing that AI zealots are now demanding people to be supportive of such spam with an air of moral superiority. Won't somebody please think of the spammers!

If someone wants that green Github contribution graph, they should at least take the time and effort to learn software engineering. They shouldn't steal open source maintainers' time with AI slop and expect them to clean it up. It's beyond offensive. It's telling the maintainers that is what their projects are worth.
by gpderetta | 2025-07-30 09:35:59+00:00
Interestingly copy elision in C++ originally exists as a language feature because copy and move constructors are user-overridable and thus observable, so an explicit elision rule was required to allow the compiler to call the copy constructor fewer times than expected.

Rust doesn't have overridable copy/move, so elision could be treated as QoI issue.

More interestingly, now that C++ has guaranteed copy elision in some cases, in addition to allow returning non copyable objects, code that doesn't override constructors can rely on the address of an returned object not changing that open up some possibilities. I assume rust wants this.
by easytiger | 2025-07-30 09:36:19+00:00
> This law sucks for so many reasons, and is inane, but the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil.

A little naivety methinks. You should say rather

... the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil. ...should the bloggers not publish opinions contrary to the state and its current objectives.
by jemmyw | 2025-07-30 09:36:23+00:00
I'm 42 and I drink 1 diet ginger beer every day. I don't have a problem with sugar (eating chocolate as I write this), I just didn't want the extra calories. I'm in good health otherwise, slightly overweight but 4-6 hours intense sport a week plus walks and runs and some weight lifting at home. Diet soda tastes fine to me. I know people who love the taste of diet coke.

I don't necessarily disagree with you in general, but you're also pulling ideas out of the air. Better to point out the problems with the study than claim that people only drink diet soda for XYZ reason because I think you'd need a whole study to figure out the edges of who drinks what and why.
by shakow | 2025-07-30 09:36:42+00:00
All that you said is perfectly valid for your usecase. But you can't just make your use case a generality.

Some people have a camera because they want to take better pictures than their smartphone but don't want to bother with post-processing, some have tried manual processing and found that the work/result balance was not doing it for them, some think that JPEGs look perfectly fine, some just don't have the time to do the processing... there are myriads of reason for which people would like to land somewhere between “let iOS do it” and “I systematically chose my ISO according to this Darktable script I developed these last years”.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-30 09:37:37+00:00
>and you haven’t allowed people to upload arbitrary images / video / files to your other users

I believe it applies equally to text as to images / video / files.

>This law sucks for so many reasons, and is inane, but the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil.

Agreed. But small companies could face substantial fines. Whether any small companies are prosecuted remains to be seen.
by jwr | 2025-07-30 09:39:03+00:00
Comparing Cassandra to FoundationDB is like comparing a spreadsheet in Google Sheets to PostgreSQL.

I mean, both kind of store data, and multiple users can change the data that is being stored. The story of what you'll get back and when (if ever), however, is rather different.

I would respectfully suggest that anyone that wants to comment in distributed database discussions should be familiar with https://jepsen.io/consistency/models and https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/ and use the wording found there.

If your eyes gloss over, because there is a lot of complex stuff there, it is likely that your comments will not have much value.
by lucumo | 2025-07-30 09:39:11+00:00
That one's cool. It started out wrong, so I just kept asking it "You sure?" until it decide to break out the calculator (Python). After that it's answer didn't change anymore and it was very sure.

I tried again, in another chat with different numbers. And got the same pattern, and a message that my data analysis limit was exceeded. I guess that's why it doesn't always break out the calculator.

In very limited testing (due to the limit) telling it to use the calculator for difficult calculations works fine. I guess OpenAI could use that in their student mode.
by LeonM | 2025-07-30 09:39:51+00:00
Either he had some money available, or he just financed. It's not that hard to get a small business loan/financing for this kind of equipment.

I don't know how many he sold, what his production capacity is, and what margin he makes, but I recon he could definitely make his investments work from the sales of the cases alone. And even if it does not, then there are also future products that this equipment enables. So a good investment if you ask me.
by fsflover | 2025-07-30 09:40:21+00:00
> Using the same hardware for both would be super useful, but the software stack from the desktop environment upwards should be entirely different (yes, including most of the applications!)

Phosh (Phone Shell) already exists and works quite well. I'm writing this comment from desktop Firefox running in Phosh on Librem 5 smartphone.

See also: https://videos.puri.sm/pureos/l5-convergence-purism.mp4
by Lio | 2025-07-30 09:40:53+00:00
It may not be recent but it is something that Labour MPs have said before in the context of the OSA.

The Labour think tank Labour Together also recently brought up a manditory goverenment ID called BritCard, ostensibly for government services but to be rolled out else where.

At the same time they've just set up an elite police force to monitor social media.

Labour must know people are rattled by all this, they just published a response to the petiion they recieved.

They're not addressing any concerns though, it's all we know best or shutting down debate with slurs.

In the absence of anything new we just have to take Labour policy on the last things they've said or done.
by BSDobelix | 2025-07-30 09:41:19+00:00
I would really like to have those pkg's and the programm (pkg) separated, for example:

For the system the program "pkgs" ("s" for system) can write to /bin /sbin etc, and can only install/remove .pkgs (system packages)

For port's (can only write to /usr/local) pkg and .pkg

With that we can have the same separation as we have now, for me that's a big plus on the BSD side of things. BTW Windows, Android and MACOS have some kind of that separation too.

pkg delete -af removes all "port" pkg's

pkgs delete (has no option -a but options like IDS from freebsd-update where every installable file IN the package (a *.pkgs) has a checksum instead just the pkg itself)

Drivers/Firmware will then have to move to pkgs, also we can have different groups for maintaining the system and port (root/wheel for pkgs and operator for pkg)

Also packaging error's in port packages cannot damage your system.
by hilbert42 | 2025-07-30 09:41:39+00:00
"What a bizarre statement."

Exactly, I don't have diabetes and I always choose the sugar-free ones because of their reduced calories.

I'm not implying that artificial sweeteners are completely safe as I simply don't know—and that's the real problem.

What's damn annoying about these studies is that there are many artificial sweeteners with vastly different chemical structures but generally they're all lumped together. If the gut microbiome is affected and it increases diabetes risk then it's hard to believe that these vastly different chemistries would all have the same effect.

On the other hand, if the body responds badly to the sensation of sweetness then that could explain the result—all other factors being equal.

It seems obvious to me the first job is to determine whether sweetness itself is a factor before anything else.

The 'debate' over artificial sweeteners has been raging for many decades and it's high time it was resolved to avoid confusion. For example where I am the star rating system gives artificially sweetened drinks typically 3.5/5 versus a worse figure of 1–2/5 for those sweetened with sugar.

We need to have faith in officially sanctioned government health warnings.
by venngage1 | 2025-07-30 09:41:39+00:00
If you’ve got ideas but no time to design, Venngage’s AI Infographic Generator might help. It turns plain text into structured, editable infographics in seconds—just describe your topic (e.g. a startup pitch, marketing summary, or explainer), and it builds a visual layout with suggested copy and icons. You can customize the design further or export it right away—no design experience needed.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-30 09:42:02+00:00
I am cynical as the next guy. However, I think the UK government is just trying to protect people (children in particular) from what it considers harmful content. They are just being heavy-handed about it.

The previous and current UK government have also been steadily hacking away at UK citizen's right to peaceful protest. But I think that it is a different issue, and it doesn't help to conflate the two.
by judithxxy | 2025-07-30 09:42:39+00:00
Just gave it a try—really impressed. One of my biggest frustrations with most AI assistants has been privacy concerns and rate limits. Running locally and connecting to your own model solves both elegantly.

Also love that it works across tabs. I often research in multiple tabs and other tools would lose context or break—this one has been solid so far. Looking forward to seeing more automation features in future updates!
Ask HN: Protobuf in TS/JS, Terrifying?
by joeycumines | 2025-07-30 09:43:53+00:00
I'm asking for a quick, well, scream check, because the ecosystem concerns me.

From what I've seen, protobuf-es is the clear winner in terms of API and general usability. I also burnt two full days resolving an off-by-typically-1 parsing error: https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es/pull/1183, which impacted production significantly. If that implementation is the most compliant as it claims, well, I have concerns.

This recent experience is consistent with my past experience - that JS is the oddball of the ecosystem. I'm just hoping it doesn't have to be.
by dspillett | 2025-07-30 09:43:53+00:00
Though that requires rm to know what objects are fundamental. While there are some obvious static choices there are many others that are going to vary between installations. You could add extended attributes to indicate what is what, but that is an extra complication for distro maintainers. You could use the immutable flag though again that will be a faf for upgrades (remove flags, update files, replace flags). Once rm is protecting users in this way, there might be an expectation that other tools will too, but the time you get to this point rather than reinventing the while, perhaps just use something like selinux (I assume BSD has an equivalent capabilities based option?) and other existing control features.

rm having --preserve-root on by default is I think a simple mitigation that protects against the most common potential accidents than any of the above would protect from, and if something more than that is wanted then things like the immutable flag already exist and would cover far more than just rm.
by midenginedcoupe | 2025-07-30 09:44:32+00:00
There's a reason why I call BDD a Billion Dollar Disaster. I've not yet seen a Cucumber or equivalent suite not permanently broken on a mature codebase. Typically a dedicated testing team will fight tooth and nail that this is what the customer needs, even though nobody from the business side has ever looked or wants to look at the test definitions or even the output. Then of course it can't match changes to app behaviour and some poor sod has to go in periodically to fix it up after the fact.

BDD in whatever implemenation is a gigantic waste of everyone's time.
by Paradigma11 | 2025-07-30 09:44:41+00:00
You need different heuristics for LLMs. If the answer is extremely likely/consistent and not embedded in known facts alarm bells should go off.

A bit like the tropes in movies where the protagonists get suspicious because the antagonists agree to every notion during negotiations because they will betray them anyway.

The LLM will hallucinate a most likely scenario that conforms to your input/wishes.

I do not claim any P(detect | hallucination) but my P(hallucination | detect) is pretty good.
by jmiskovic | 2025-07-30 09:45:03+00:00
Very informative!

How difficult is it to clean the syringe after the liquid passes through it? Does the leftover gum stick to metal and glass? Would it be possible to just pour the liquid into the mold (maybe through a a metal funnel), and use vibration on the mold to make sure all the creases are filled in? How important is the pressure?
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-07-30 09:45:17+00:00
Is it that noteworthy ? That has been the entire silicon valley playbook for the past.. decade ?

Grow at all cost with VC money, grab the market by offering unsustainably cheap prices, and when you have a monopoly, offer a slightly better or slightly worse version of the previous service (but hey, with an app that runs react!), at a slightly higher or same as before price (turns out profitability is important!), with much much worse working conditions for everyone involved (VC needs their money back, has to come from somewhere!)

Then look around confused when there is insane wealth inequality and social unrest.
by redeyedtreefrog | 2025-07-30 09:45:42+00:00
I just bought my first synth, not very originally a Minilogue XD. A much cheaper mid-life toy then a sports car or pilot's licence! I'm interested in any recommendations for learning resources. Synthorial is often mentioned, and various videos on YouTube, plus just messing around or focusing on general music theory. But I'd love a comprehensive website or blog post series that I could gradually work through.
by hoyd | 2025-07-30 09:45:56+00:00
Interesting to read this article again now, after the raise of LLMs. The bot vs. bot then could perhaps be read as llm vs. llm today?

"The paradox is that this bot glut could eventually push most human interaction offline again; news (real news, that is) will be shared by talking, jobs will be found through connections, and friends will discover major life updates about one another at events and reunions. This is the best case. Another option is that we will have bot-free zones online."

"As more components of our lives become automated, we may want to give some extra thought to which of our routine human interactions are ok to reduce to a bot, and which are worth doing the old-fashioned way, with our own voices, hands, and eyes."