MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by desas | 2025-08-13 10:55:07+00:00
To "fall foul", i.e. be required to add highly effective age assurance, there's a number of tests you have to pass

One of the tests is:

> Are there a significant number of children using the service or is the service likely to attract a significant number of children.

I'd guess that HN would be in scope for the act overall - they provide user-to-user functionality and have a lot of users in the UK. Either they answer no to the questions above, or they answer yes and should have performed a risk assessment where they look at things like what kind of content is allowed, how the site is moderated, how do users contact each other etc etc.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-13 10:55:10+00:00
The ffmpeg code seems to default to three second chunks (https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#whisper-1):

queue The maximum size that will be queued into the filter before processing the audio with whisper. Using a small value the audio stream will be processed more often, but the transcription quality will be lower and the required processing power will be higher. Using a large value (e.g. 10-20s) will produce more accurate results using less CPU (as using the whisper-cli tool), but the transcription latency will be higher, thus not useful to process real-time streams. Consider using the vad_model option associated with a large queue value. Default value: "3"
by rcxdude | 2025-08-13 10:55:49+00:00
It's not particularly unusual, though. See the various kinds of 'Realist' groups, for example, which have a pretty wild range of outlooks. (both Realist and Rationalist also have the neat built-in shield of being able to say "look, I don't particularly like the conclusions I'm coming to, they just are what they are", so it's a convenient framing for unpalatable beliefs)
by perihelions | 2025-08-13 10:55:53+00:00
> "The Chinese are very busy launching their own satellites into LEO."

The Chinese (correctly) view these satellite constellations as a key military capability, and have gone all-in on creating their own version. (I mean, I don't see how that's even debatable at this point—having seen the influence of Starlink in Ukraine. Future conflicts will only amplify the gap between the haves and have-nots).

They haven't yet launched a large number (~120); they don't now have the launch volume for large-scale satellite constellations. Their race is to first catch up in launch capability. They have dozen private startups—heavily subsidized and favored by the state—in the race to build a viable, reusable launcher comparable to Falcon 9, that they would then use to launch Starlink-like constellations at the same cadence.

Some starting points:

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-own-elon-musks-are-ra... ( https://archive.is/Ukmoa ) ("China’s Own Elon Musks Are Racing to Catch Up to SpaceX / Private sector takes bigger role in building reusable rockets, advancing Beijing’s goal of independence from Western technology")

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/23/world/asia/st... ("This Was Supposed to Be the Year China Started Catching Up With SpaceX / It’s looking unlikely. Here’s why")
by wink | 2025-08-13 10:56:29+00:00
I think you might be biased by where you live. In Germany an electrician's apprenticeship is ~3.5 years (and can sometimes be shortened). So while I am not an electrician and have no deeper insight than what friends who are told me, I am reasonably sure our electric installations are not 40%-50% as complex as the ones in your country.
by re | 2025-08-13 10:57:15+00:00
I've heard that, but that doesn't sound like a useful approach for videos where (1) non-speech segments can have plenty of other sound (music, noise) and (2) you want timestamps to match up with the original video, like for subtitles. But maybe there are known mitigations for both of those issues that I'm not aware of. And if they do exist maybe they can be included in the ffmpeg whisper integration.
by level3 | 2025-08-13 10:57:28+00:00
These sequences are also known as "cubefree," so you might want to continue researching along those lines.

In particular, the game discussed is trying to find cubefree words over a two-letter alphabet. The sample infinite game seems to agree with the listed sequence on OEIS for the lexicographically earliest infinite cubefree word, though your method of generation appears to be different from the one in the comments. (I haven't analyzed it in detail.)

https://oeis.org/A282317
by Arech | 2025-08-13 10:58:00+00:00
Ah, com'on, spare me from these strawman arguments. Good enought is good enough. If F-Droid wasn't worried about that, you definitely have no reasons to do that for them.

"A tiny group is holding back everyone" is another silly strawman argument - all decent packaging/installation systems support providing different binaries for different architectures. It's just a matter of compiling just another binary and putting it into a package. Nobody is being hold back by anyone, you just can't make a more silly argument than that...
by MrGilbert | 2025-08-13 10:58:10+00:00
In Germany, that‘s usually part of the "Kiosk"-Culture. You can select an assortment of candy for a fixed price (say, 3€), and the owner will ask you what you want and pick it for you in a small bag. At least that was the way it worked when I was younger, some 25-ish years ago.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-13 10:59:40+00:00
There is no royal "we" that "has to" do anything. There's just groups of people and countries making use of a shared resource, LEO.

Your underlying question as to why some of those are launching satellites is much easier. They are apparently quite useful for things like communication, providing internet, etc. And people are willing to pay for that kind of stuff. It's not more complicated than that.
by XorNot | 2025-08-13 10:59:45+00:00
If you think the internet is a big deal, you haven't run into how happy the military is to have high bandwidth low-latency communications anywhere on the planet.

Starlink is nothing compared to the value Starshield provides, and the civilian product drives costs down.

With drone warfare being the next thing, the US probably can't afford to not have a company running a major LEO ISP.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-08-13 11:00:03+00:00
Where I grew up, candy by weight was also popular, but as we seized being a high trust society it just no longer worked and the supermarkets stopped selling candy by weight. The same thing will happen in Norway.

Not sure I get why it's a good thing to not have high trust societies but it's been decided that we can't have that anymore. Maybe it reduces obesity … thought that was somehow also less of a problem before.
by kivle | 2025-08-13 11:00:21+00:00
A more sensible approach to this law would be to require adult sites to include a clear marker in either an HTTP header or an HTML meta tag. For example:

<meta name="OnlineSafetyAct:SiteClassification" content="adult;nudity">

This would allow locally run browser content blockers to automatically detect such sites without blocking them individually, and it would be trivial for site operators to implement. Since it would be mandated by law, sites that refuse to comply could be subject to legal action.

Of course, this would still rely on parents taking the basic step of setting up a content blocker before allowing their children unrestricted internet access.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-13 11:00:22+00:00
The modern Qualcomm Windows laptops also come with binary translation that's fast enough that you can use most amd64 programs just fine. Qualcomm had some GPU driver issues, but other than that things like gaming on aarch64 work just fine (and I imagine most video games put more varied strain on the GPU than Blender).

Windows RT is dead and buried. Blender won't run on it either, because RT never got to Windows 11.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-13 11:00:42+00:00
> to finally masks don't work (or some masks work; I can't remember where we ended up).

Most masks 'work', for some value of 'work', but efficacy differs (which, to be clear, was ~always known; there was a very short period when some authorities insisted that covid was primarily transmitted by touch, but you're talking weeks at most). In particular I think what confused people was that the standard blue surgical masks are somewhat effective at stopping an infected person from passing on covid (and various other things), but not hugely effective at preventing the wearer from contracting covid; for that you want something along the lines of an n95 respirator.

The main actual point of controversy was whether it was airborne or not (vs just short-range spread by droplets); the answer, in the end, was 'yes', but it took longer than it should have to get there.
by weitendorf | 2025-08-13 11:00:43+00:00
Of course everything is a product of its time, and in 1999 or any other world where the Internet is more of a cool new thing than serious business, it makes sense. But that was 26 years ago.

I am pretty sure the guys charging hundreds of dollars for IP addresses that cost them nothing to produce should be able to set up stripe, an identity verification product, and otherwise automate onboarding. Also, instead of writing giant process documents and slow-walking such wildly difficult problems as "allow domains to end in .cool" through infinitely nested committees they could try wielding their supreme governance over Who Owns Numbers And Names by killing off IPv4.

As long as ICANN/IANA remain in charge of Internet governance and operate with >$100mm budgets [0] "it made sense 25 years ago" is not a valid excuse IMO.

[0] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fy24-funding-sou...
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-13 11:00:57+00:00
The source states that the UEMR SpaceX causes in this spectrum is currently not regulated but interferes with astronomical observations.

The claim stands whether a regulation will be put in place which will require SpaceX to fix or switch off their (thousands) of satellites polluting the spectrum or the band will simply be handed to SpaceX.

"This UEMR is not currently regulated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the organization responsible for managing and allocating the radio spectrum for various uses"
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-13 11:02:38+00:00
We found running a recent Intel pen tablet is nice for some applications like the full blender plugin ecosystem support, commercial and free offerings.

Some treasure:

https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases

https://krita.org/en/

Avoid in commercial use-case: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

Seems ridiculous, but the 2nd paid seat you get works well for portable non-intensive tasks: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

The perpetual CSP or CS/EX license for iPad/MS Surface/Wacom is pretty much a necessity for the users, as in a commercial setting it is the only practical option for many use-cases (Wacom often included a free 2 year trial): https://www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/

---

Blender plugins:

"Blob fusion" similar to ZSpheres with Metaballs/SDFs: https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/ahwvli

3D Normal Map Painting: https://tradigital.gumroad.com/l/brushflow

Sanctus Procedural Textures: https://sanctus.gumroad.com/l/SLibrary

CC0 Assets: https://polyhaven.com/plugins/blender
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-13 11:02:56+00:00
> the required SNR

Require by who and on what authority?

My point here was not to contest that but make the point that the cat is out of the bag and that it is indeed impacting SKA-Low EoR science and the people involved with that have to deal with that.

Getting the cat a little bit back in the bag via policy and other means is maybe worth trying (good luck) but I don't give it a very high chance of success.
by Lio | 2025-08-13 11:03:10+00:00
Once local transcription is in more places hopefully we can persuade content creator not to burn bouncing sub-titles into their videos.

I've seen professionally produced recordings on dry and technical subjects with good sound quality where they've decided to use distracting sub-titles with no way to disable them.

It seems so unnecessary if you're not making novelty videos about cats.

Also local transcription allows for automatic translation and again overlaying subtitles on top of an existing burnt in set is a really poor reading experience.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-13 11:03:22+00:00
So far, loong64 seems to outperform RISC-V, and it also has the benefit of a large existing user base. If any new player is going to hit the desktop market, I expect it to be Loongson at this moment.

I want to believe RISC-V is just around the corner, but I've been promised the same about POWER9 and RISC-V over the years.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-13 11:03:45+00:00
So in the past month we've had

- gold at IMO

- gold at IoI

- beat 9/10 humans in atcode heuristics

- longer context, better models, routing calls to cheaper models, 4-6x cheaper inference for 90% of the top models capabilities

- longer agentic sessions while being coherent/solving tasks (30-90min)

Yet every other post here and there are about "bubble this", "winter that", "plateauing this", "wall that"...

Are we in the denial stage, or bargaining stage? Can't quite tell...
by rkomorn | 2025-08-13 11:04:25+00:00
> but one of its strengths is its relative clarity

How you define "relative clarity" in a way that isn't "so subjective" and not immediately due to familiarity?

To me it seems like you're saying it's all subjective except for Go's relative readability, but I'm not sure what's making said relative readability any less subjective.

Am I reading your comment wrong?
by cess11 | 2025-08-13 11:04:30+00:00
I think most people would consider the Myrdal couple winners in the battle regarding eugenics, which were proponents of a strain of thought they called 'social hygiene' that was the main opposition to the eugenicists. One outcome was that the social democrats started to financially strangle the eugenicist institutions.

Swedish diplomats and politicians did quite a bit in international politics during large portions of the 1900s, and the country spawned some quite successful corporations and innovations. Dag Hammarskjöld, Folke Bernadotte, Nobel dynamite, Ericsson telecom, things like that.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-08-13 11:05:25+00:00
The estimate was based on a battery of 750Wh (bikes seem to range .5-1 KWh) and CA prices are around 30 cents/KWh. That's 2.25x your meanly worded estimate.

I did learn how simple the cost calculation is though (capacity * $/KWh), thanks.
by graemep | 2025-08-13 11:05:26+00:00
Most Christians? I very much doubt it.

It is NOT the teaching of the Catholic church for a start:

https://uscatholic.org/articles/202212/what-does-the-church-...

https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_coun...

Nor do they believe hell to be a place of torture, but a state of separation from God. Read CS Lewis's Great Divorce if you are interested in a better metaphor than flames and torture.
by londons_explore | 2025-08-13 11:06:16+00:00
so if "I scream" is in one chunk, and "is the best dessert" is in the next, then there is no way to edit the first chunk to correct the mistake? That seems... suboptimal!

I don't think other streaming transcription services have this issue since, whilst they do chunk up the input, past chunks can still be edited. They tend to use "best of N" decoding, so there are always N possible outputs, each with a probability assigned, and as soon as one word is the same in all N outputs then it becomes fixed.

The internal state of the decoder needs to be duplicated N times, but that typically isn't more than a few kilobytes of state so N can be hundreds to cover many combinations of ambiguities many words back.
by kbrkbr | 2025-08-13 11:07:31+00:00
I find LLMs incredibly useful for some very specific cases: summarizing text for example. Even dialogues to learn something.

Now there are n use cases (10 <= n <= 50?). There is no real moat.

What we don't know is, if there will be significant advances, and how useful they will be. But we also don't know that for any other area.

What we do know however is that breakthroughs are rare.

Everybody is now in the hype train. AI here, AI there. I find most of it just annoying.

My guess is this that a reckoning is more probable than the new super feature.
by logicprog | 2025-08-13 11:07:55+00:00
Thanks for responding! I wonder if one of the differences between our experiences is that for me, if the LLM doesn't give me a correct answer (or at least something I can build on) — and fast! I just ditch it completely and do it myself. Because these things aren't worth arguing with or fiddling with, and if it isn't quick then I run out of patience :P
by jll29 | 2025-08-13 11:08:37+00:00
Not sure where you are based, but if you were in the EU and had no commercial intentions, you might want to consider adding the crawls from OpenWebSearch.eu, an EU-funded research project to provide an open crawl of a substantial part of the Web (they also collaborate with Common Crawl), its plain text and an index:

https://openwebsearch.eu/

It would be fantastic if someone could provide a not-for-profit decent quality Web search engine.
by lproven | 2025-08-13 11:08:46+00:00
:-)

Still one of the single most impressive tech demos I've seen.

There are other tiny multitasking GUI OSes, such as Oberon and RISC OS. There were even some on x86, such as the original Psion EPOC from the Series 3/3a/3c/3mx line.

But this was for a generic x86 COTS PC.
by macartain | 2025-08-13 11:08:59+00:00
Where else might we find narcissistic, man-children elevated to dangerous levels of authority?!? (most likely that was your point)

I saw a fascinating documentary addressing the fact that the 3 primary leaders of the belligerents in WWI were competitive cousins - amazing that Nicky, George and Little Willi all knew one another as children! And yes, the analysis was that Wilhelm felt excluded and was never very mature - sorry I don't remember the documentary title but there is a summary of the facts here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/cousins_...
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-13 11:09:49+00:00
This is what your brain does when it processes language.

I find that in languages I don't speak well, my ability to understand degrades much more quickly as the audio quality goes down. But in my native language, even with piss poor audio quality, my brain fills in the garbled words with its prior expectation of what those words should be, based on context.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-13 11:10:01+00:00
> No, it does not. It assumes there will be progress in AI. It does not assume that progress will be in LLMs

I mean, for the specific case of the 2027 doomsday prediction, it really does have to be LLMs at this point, just given the timeframes. It is true that the 'rationalist' AI doomerism thing doesn't depend LLMs, and in fact predates transformer-based models, but for the 2027 thing, it's gotta be LLMs.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-08-13 11:10:05+00:00
There are simple indicators that can tell you how hydrated you are.

1) When did you last urinate, and was it a light or deep colour?

2) Can you make saliva easily in your mouth, or does your tongue rasp around?

That and "Have I had any water yet this morning / afternoon" keeps me hydrated.
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-08-13 11:10:06+00:00
The whole point of BLISS was to reason from object-code optimizations to language features. The goal was to build a compiler that would emit code competitive with handwritten assembler: then ask, what kind of high-level language constructs would facilitate or impede that goal? The language was not allowed to have or do anything that would subvert the optimizer. It is at least an interesting approach and I do not know of any other language that has explicitly adopted it.
by fsociety | 2025-08-13 11:10:09+00:00
It’s pretty easy to change jobs on an H-1B if you are high skill. I love hearing folks, who aren’t on an H-1B, tell me things like this. Or that I’m paid less when I’m paid more.

I know these abuses happen, no system is perfect. But I feel the bias in the US against H-1Bs from random citizens not from employers. And the government today has quite strong bias against immigrants.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-13 11:11:19+00:00
I was too young at the time, but people who were there at internet companies in the 2000s what was it like? Did people think the same way as today where there is too money going in and not enough value coming out? Was it obvious to insiders only or to the general public as well?

These days it seems even a significant porting of the general public is aware of the overhype. But back then internet wasn't much of a thing so information didn't spread as fast so I imagine a lot of people didn't even know there was a huge hype around the internet.
by Embeddable | 2025-08-13 11:12:08+00:00
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by throwaway290 | 2025-08-13 11:13:03+00:00
If we had a trusted powerful peacekeeper with a track record then we wouldn't need to. But now that masks are off everybody is busy launching dual purpose sats and whoever launches the least can literally get nuked from orbit if they don't do whatever the guy with more sats wants.

Then whoever has the most sats will say "that's it guys, LEO is full and you need our approval to launch more" and if someone raises a stink you guessed it, they can get nuked from orbit
by sebst | 2025-08-13 11:13:24+00:00
Absolutely!

When I was in my twenties, a friend of mine had a catering lease at a golf club. I never worked seriously in the catering industry, but I always enjoyed helping out there (in service, in the warehouse, in the kitchen). It was a welcome change from constantly staring at a screen, and at the end of the day, it was a different kind of tiredness (the physical kind, you know).
by rkomorn | 2025-08-13 11:13:27+00:00
True, but (as someone who not infrequently has to rewind content on just about all streaming apps because it decided one particular subtitle only needed to be display for less than 200ms this time around) sometimes burned-in seems like a good idea.

I don't understand why the problem seems so pervasive (I've seen it on Netflix, Viki, and Apple TV, at least) and so transient.
by lproven | 2025-08-13 11:13:39+00:00
I have no special insight, but I know of 2 possible factors:

* the NetBSD "rump" unikernel is out there:

https://rumpkernel.github.io/

https://thamizhelango.medium.com/netbsds-rump-kernel-framewo...

* Secondly, this exists because NetBSD is much much smaller and simpler than Linux, which has undergone decades of enterprise-focussed optimisation.
by ivape | 2025-08-13 11:14:03+00:00
The computer is not empathetic. Empathy is tied to a conscious. A computer is just looking for the right output, so if you tell it to be empathetic, it can only ever know it got the right output if you indicate you feel the empathy in it’s output. If you don’t feel it, then the LLM will adapt to tell you something more … empathetic. Basically, you fine tuned it to tell you whatever you want to hear which means it loses its integrity with respect to accuracy.