MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jraph | 2025-08-14 20:15:23+00:00
> inane takes like "Musk isn't an engineer, he doesn't have anything to do with the success of SpaceX" or "Jobs doesn't deserve any of the credit for Apple's products" are common

I haven't seen these things said, but apart from HN I don't do social media. I'll believe you that these claims are stated. They are of course shallow.

I bet it depends on how you present stuff. How you "sound". Or when you choose to present facts.

Here, for instance, it looked like you dismissed the criticisms towards those guys. You stated that these guys have their flaws like everybody. You diminish their issues and that's exactly what will make people strongly disagree with you. In many people's heads, those guys are huge assholes, really not comparable to your random person. You'll need to have this in mind when discussing this stuff. If you do it like this, people might not listen because you may sound like a guy who is a fan of two huge assholes at the same time to many of us (even if it's false).

Even if what you state is true, if it sounds like you take the defense of these billionaires whenever they are criticized for other things, I can certainly believe you will be shut down. They have / had a lot of power, it can seem way off to defend them, they really don't need your help.

There are good and bad timings, and effective ways to state facts and others, not.

You'll need to read the room. Of course.

And toxic places also can't be saved. Just flee.
by Lammy | 2025-08-14 20:15:42+00:00
Akshully to be a swastika it would have to have four-way rotational symmetry, which this kinda looks like but isn't. The Sun logo is a swastika: https://dogemicrosystems.ca/pub/Sun/media/logos/Sun-Microsys...

I am also fine with calling things swastikas in a non-judgemental purely-heraldic way. Being a swastika doesn't mean something should be compared unfavorably to that swastika lol <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Swastikas_in_her...>
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-14 20:16:06+00:00
if you, like Cory Doctorow, are an activist there's two options. One you scream from a soapbox with no regard for what other people think in which case it's evident you're doing it for self-aggrandizement and attention, or you take into account what the sensibilities and problems are of the people you try to convince and work within that frame of reference.

If you're campaigning for technological and/or political change you're in the business of changing peoples minds and if that doesn't matter to you, you've chosen an odd way to spend your time.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-14 20:16:21+00:00
I consumed https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-...

And I consumed many people's "unsafe" experiences, similar to YOUR "safe" experiences.

As I said, N = ~4 saying "it's safe" means fuck all, just like N = ~4 saying the opposite.

So... you appear to be another person who invalidates and completely disregards other people's experiences (and your own Government's publishing) in favor of yours, because somehow yours is more valid. It is not.

You need to stop painting London as a safe place, because that it is not. Maybe it is on the routes you take in your car, but in general, no, not really. Hell, even Budapest is safer than London.

> Hungary's national crime rate in 2021 was approximately 0.77 crimes per 100 residents. This figure represents a significant decline from 0.82 in 2020, indicating a 5.86% decrease . Specific data for Budapest is limited, but the city's overall crime index is reported at 33.99 out of 100, which is considered low.[1]

> In contrast, London's crime rate is significantly higher. The annual crime rate in the London region is approximately 30.1 crimes per 1,000 people, which is about 86% of the national average for England and Wales . Violent crime constitutes 22.6% of all reported crimes in London . Notably, Westminster, a central borough in London, recorded a staggering 432.3 crimes per 1,000 residents, largely due to its high daytime population from tourism.[2]

So, by the available numbers, Budapest has about 0.77 crimes per 100 people, while London has 3.01 per 100. That makes London's crime rate ~3.9x higher, meaning Budapest is roughly 74% safer per capita.

[1] https://diaklakas.hu/en/blog/public-safety-budapest/

[2] https://www.plumplot.co.uk/London-violent-crime-statistics.h...
by unsignedint | 2025-08-14 20:16:26+00:00
Yes, but that too is nuanced. There are, of course, clear-cut cases of unacceptable behavior that are already moderated as such. However, when you have people coming together from hundreds, if not thousands, of cultures and backgrounds, I doubt there’s a single set of rules that works for everyone. It ultimately becomes another question of where we draw the line.
by Swizec | 2025-08-14 20:16:28+00:00
> Why does that feel naive to you, though?

The 3 ladders. People on the sociopaths (Elites) ladder think of everyone else – the clueless (educated gentry) and economic losers (labour) – as naive.

The clueless ladder comes off as most naive. Labour knows they're losing and focuses on their own thing. Sociopaths know they're winning and focus on power accumulation. The clueless don't notice any of this and focus on bettering the world or whatever.

https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of...
by which | 2025-08-14 20:16:47+00:00
It would seem that accumulating stuff is a waste of time at a point much lower than one billion. On the other hand, giving every Debian maintainer $500 a month is ~$5M a year. Add in Gentoo, Alpine, and other things I like and you're looking at probably double that total. Ivy admission for kids is a few million a year for 5-10 years... Retaking Artsakh would be north of $3 billion
by snapetom | 2025-08-14 20:17:01+00:00
The standalone camera market outside of SLRs is too small to make significant impact on Kodak's bottom line. There's also substantial hardware manufacturing investment that they can't afford to make. Maybe they partner with a manufacturer and license the name with a lot of software control, but at the end of the day, the hardware (and software) costs are going to shave off any substantial profit. High risk, low reward.

Kodak is a chemical company these days with modest profits. They need to double down on that. Cameras are not in their wheelhouse.
by davorak | 2025-08-14 20:17:11+00:00
I did not see it either until it was pointed out. I probably would not make the connection again if I saw the logo after a reasonable gap of time. Projects are brought down or are less than they could be other wise because logo choice or name choice though so this case is hard for me to immediately brush it off without doing research/survey/etc, (edit) mostly because I am not familiar with the area.
by jcuenod | 2025-08-14 20:17:15+00:00
So I had a similar experience with your prompt (on the f16 model). But I do think that, at this size, prompting differences make a bigger impact. I had this experience trying to get it to list entities. It kept trying to give me a bulleted list and I was trying to coerce it into some sort of structured output. When I finally just said "give me a bulleted list and nothing else" the success rate went from around 0-0.1 to 0.8+.

In this case, I changed the prompt to:

---

Tallest mountains (in order):

```

- Mount Everest

- Mount K2

- Mount Sahel

- Mount Fuji

- Mount McKinley

```

What is the second tallest mountain?

---

Suddenly, it got the answer right 95+% of the time
by yobbo | 2025-08-14 20:18:05+00:00
Many cities have rechargeable public transport cards.

Famous Japanese example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica

The plan:

1) Build correct and cryptographically sound open protocol for NFC cash-cards 2) Offer tech to public transport (as free open source) 3) Boom. Millions of users of an open payments system
by the_snooze | 2025-08-14 20:19:19+00:00
What voting machines are we talking about? To the best of my knowledge, most states and municipalities have moved onto some kind of paper-based machine-read balloting system. Those often take the form of scantron sheets where voters bubble in their choices by hand and feed it into a scanner+box for tallying and safekeeping. Even if the tallying machines were broken or compromised, the paper ballots retain a direct record of voter intent.
by vkou | 2025-08-14 20:19:30+00:00
They were the first to market, though. That's my point. Being the first is a small advantage that can be lost for a ton of reasons, most of which don't require gross mismanagement.

And Bell's telephony network (which unlike consumer devices has a moat) was split up by the courts. I'm talking about telephones. Those devices with a base station, a handle, and a dial pad or a rotor (or sans all that, a switching board lady who will connect you to whomever you need to talk to).

Bell was the first to market with the personal telephone, but for some reason, didn't corner the market for consumer devices.
by stripe_away | 2025-08-14 20:19:34+00:00
inflation was double-digits in the 70s.

and the S&P was flat at 1.6% for the decade

despite some pretty amazing technical innovations pocket calculator and microcomputer (Altair 8800), first email, pong, floppy disks (they were the standard for 20 years), VCR, cell phone (1973 Motorola), barcode scanners, rubiks cube, ...

https://www.modwm.com/lost-decade-of-the-1970s/
by sofixa | 2025-08-14 20:19:34+00:00
> I completely reject the notion that direct democracy is bad because Politicians Know Better

Not politicians, experts and administrators.

And yes, most people are limited in knowledge and vision. Look no further than Brexit, where the average UK citizen couldn't comprehend the complexity of the situation or the question, yet voted. The most asked question on Google the day after the vote was what is the EU... And it took years to begin to untangle the mess.

And again, look at Switzerland and their human rights travesty of not allowing half their population to vote because the existing voters said no.
by preommr | 2025-08-14 20:19:42+00:00
I really do wonder if this is still the case.

As a younger millenial I am somewhat familiar with the legends of yore. But not as familiar as someone older that was around when the tech world was much smaller and more intimate. Where people casually met a wild Stallman at random conferences.

Given how much bigger the software and tech world has gotten, with how much time has passed, and how much things have changed, I wonder if people still see Wozniak as tech hero and as part of casual tech culture knowledge.
by nozzlegear | 2025-08-14 20:19:44+00:00
The government can decide what to teach in its curriculum – it already does that. But the school library doesn't exist solely to deliver curriculum materials directly into the heads of students; it's one of the places where students are supposed to be able to explore ideas and concepts beyond their official lesson plans. The courts have ruled over and over that removing books from school libraries based on the ideas or viewpoints within is a First Amendment violation.

So to answer your question: the government can stock the libraries, or the school board can stock them, or the librarian can stock them. The courts have even said they can select books based on age-appropriateness, accuracy and educational value. But if anyone selecting books is making a judgement call about which books go in the libraries based on the ideas/viewpoints within the books, it's a violation of the students' First Amendment rights.
by mijoharas | 2025-08-14 20:20:00+00:00
Ok, cool! I was actually one of the people on the hyprnote HN thread asking for a headless mode!

I was actually integrating some whisper tools yesterday. I was wondering if there was a way to get a streaming response, and was thinking it'd be nice if you can.

I'm on linux, so don't think I can test out owhisper right now, but is that a thing that's possible?

Also, it looks like the `owhisper run` command gives it's output as a tui. Is there an option for a plain text response so that we can just pipe it to other programs? (maybe just `kill`/`CTRL+C` to stop the recording and finalize the words).

Same question for streaming, is there a way to get a streaming text output from owhisper? (it looks like you said you create a deepgram compatible api, I had a quick look at the api docs, but I don't know how easy it is to hook into it and get some nice streaming text while speaking).

Oh yeah, and diarisation (available with a flag?) would be awesome, one of the things that's missing from most of the easiest to run things I can find.
by devjab | 2025-08-14 20:20:38+00:00
> Not familiar with that but I imagine that is going to be a controversial statement.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it rigging, but there was a massive smear campaign against a judge nominated for their constitutional court. Leading to the nomination being withdrawn when it really should've been an appointment as usual. Which is likely the first massive step toward Germany politicising one of the foundations of their democracy, similar to how the USA supreme court seems like it's red vs blue when looked on from the outside.

I'm guessing this conference is rather left leaning, which is why they'd called that rigging, but there wasn't election fraud. It's an issue of course, since this means that rich people can essentially buy massive influence on the German democracy by clever use of social media and lies. Which may seem like the norm to a lot of people on HN, but that's not how it has traditionally been in Germany.
by ribelo | 2025-08-14 20:20:40+00:00
He basically just described the FCIS[0] architecture—the same one Gary Bernhart laid out thirteen years ago. We love reinventing the wheel. Chaplicki did it with ELM, Abramov with Redux, day8 did it with re-frame, and the beat goes on.

I’m still amazed it isn’t obvious: every piece of software should be a black box with a pin-hole for input and an even tinier pin-hole for output. The best code I’ve ever touched worked exactly like that and maintaining it was a pleasure, everything else was garbage. I push this rule in every project I touch.

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
by brandall10 | 2025-08-14 20:20:44+00:00
I encourage anyone who is fascinated by Jobs to study the life of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

There's a good argument that FLW was a supercharged version of Jobs - wildly charismatic, visionary, uncompromisingly obsessive about the most minute of details, and could be manipulative and cruel. What we see w/ Jobs and Lisa, FLW was even worse as in 1909 he just up and abandoned his family of 7, seemingly out of the blue, to travel through Europe w/ his mistress. This was a national scandal at the time.

In his houses, he did all decorations (including providing art from his large personal stash) and built all the furniture and would go on tirades against his clients if he found out if they moved or replaced anything after they moved in, usually cutting off all further ties if they did not give into his demands. Also a fun fact is FLW had an obsession w/ Japanese woodblocking, similar in a way to Job's thing w/ calligraphy.

On top of that, their life took a similar arc where each had incredible success early in life that eventually crumbled under their own ambition, spent a time out in the wilderness, then went through a resurgence toward the end that greatly eclipsed their early success. Regardless, throughout his lifetime he maintained he was the best architect in the world, perhaps in history.

FLW actually wrote an autobiography during his time in the 'wilderness' (basically running an architecture cult in the desert) in the early 30s, and much of it is fanciful bluster, a bunch of half truths and exaggerations, almost as a means to save his legacy. You read it and kinda feel sorry for the guy. Yet, five years later as he turned 70, he created Fallingwater which led to so much work, that the last 20 years of his life he produced over twice as many commissions than he had done to that point. In fact when he died he was in the middle of actively working on 60 projects, most notably overseeing the construction of the Guggenheim.
by kulahan | 2025-08-14 20:20:54+00:00
So? Who cares why he died? Is it wrong to die for a reason you disagree with? If the world is no worse off without him, then wasn't his judgement neutral at worst, and good at best?

It's weird how much he gets under the skin of people so desperate to pretend they're at the top of the moral totem pole, or at least definitely above the one guy they've ever seen a tell-all story on.

edit: it's almost like, in the current social meta of "doing no wrong is more important than doing good", there is a need to denigrate any approach that doesn't feel extra cozy and warm and loving. But I dunno - he headed up some of the most iconic products in history. He had a helluva team and made things work. I gotta be honest, I don't really care if he said scary and mean things.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-14 20:21:10+00:00
The same thing as every election that involves voting machines: that its results cannot be trusted, and that their very presence erodes what little trust Americans can have in their failing democracy.

Now, if you want to trust that the private militia with a budget higher than every single army in the world is definitely not going to intimidate voters and that the machines being "re-certified" are going to have accurate results, boy do I have a bridge to sell you.
by nimbius | 2025-08-14 20:21:35+00:00
its honestly not, but younger developers can be forgiven for assuming traefik is all you need. the learn-to-code camps really did a number on kids these days :(

use DSR and 50% of your traffic is taken care of. https://www.loadbalancer.org/blog/direct-server-return-is-si...

explore load balancing lower in the stack based on ASN to preroute stuff for divide and conquer. (geolocated, etc...)

weighted load balancing only works for uniform traffic sources. youll need to weight connections based on priority or location, backend heavy transactions (checkout vs just browsing the store) and other conditions that can change the affinity of your user (sometimes dynamically.) keepalived isnt mentioned once, or .1q trunk optimization, or SRV records and failover/HA thats performed in most modern browsers based on DNS information itself.
by cnst | 2025-08-14 20:22:13+00:00
Yes, it's true, but it's simply impossible to find a paying job doing BSD or Solaris these days.

I mean, even if you get a job at Oxide Computer, what do you do if you decide to move on because of your manager or whatnot?

Literally all the sectors are Linux now, you'd think BSD would be huge in embedded because of licensing, yet it's still Linux. OpenWrt is Linux, Android is Linux, OpenIPC is Linux, not to mention the entire data-centre stacks being all Linux now.
by gruez | 2025-08-14 20:22:28+00:00
>At the time of [1 (your footnote)] the only defendant listed in the matter was Flo, not Facebook, per the cover page of [1], so it is unsurprising that that complaint does not include allegations against Facebook.

Are you talking about this?

>As one of the largest advertisers in the nation, Facebook knew that the data it received

>from Flo Health through the Facebook SDK contained intimate health data. Despite knowing this,

>Facebook continued to receive, analyze, and use this information for its own purposes, including

>marketing and data analytics.

Maybe something came up in discovery that documents the extent of this, but this doesn't really prove much. The plaintiffs are just assuming because there's a clause in ToS saying so, facebook must be using the data for advertising.
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-08-14 20:22:31+00:00
There is some novelty, to me at least, in matching the plate to a similar make / model. a 3d printer isn't ostensibly needed to make a fake plate but perhaps makes an "attractive nuisance", or perhaps is just more widely available skill among the criminally inclined than traditional manufacturing techniques.

From the article it's not clear entirely how you'd set about to clear your name / title if you were on the receiving end of a fine issued on the basis of a fake plate. Similarly not clear whether drivers could claim fake plates to get out of legit traffic citations.
by jodoking | 2025-08-14 20:22:34+00:00
I know right? I mean the timing is great. I love MCP but cant stand how unsafe it is. I think there are greatness ahead if we are able to fix this security issue. This was made around the idea to be as seamless as possible, as we built a dashboard, drop in a GH project MCP server link, and have a local DB to show what you ran. We have more great things ahead. But give it a try and let us know what you think!
by entelechy | 2025-08-14 20:22:40+00:00
Love it! We did something similar using strace/dtruss back in 2018 with https://buildinfer.loopperfect.com/ and were generating graphs (using eg. graphviz and perfetto.dev) and BUCK files on the back of that

Whilst we regrettably never came around to package it as a propper product, we found it immensly valuable in our consulting work, to pinpoint issues and aid the conversion to BUCK/Bazel. We used graphviz, https://perfetto.dev/ and couple other tools to visualise things

Recently we cicled back to this too but with a broader usecase in mind.

There are some inherent technical challanges with this approach & domain:

- syscall logs can get huge - especially when saved to disk. Our strace logs would get over 100GB for some projects (llvm was around ~50GB)

- some projects also use https and inter process communications and that needs ot be properly handled too. (We even had a customer that was retriving code from a firebird database via perl as part of the compilation step!)

- It's runtime analysis - you might need to repeat the analysis for each configuration.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-14 20:23:11+00:00
Stephen Miller is an ordinary nationalist who wants to slow down immigration enough so that everyone assimilated into Anglo-American culture and norms, instead of of changing U.S. culture.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stephen-mi...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-is-what-we-thou...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/stephen-millers-racist-email...

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/stephen-miller...

There are dozens of similar articles.
by vkou | 2025-08-14 20:23:17+00:00
The definition of authoritarianism has widely expanded into uselessness, because it colors with the same brush concepts as disparate as:

* Throwing a bag over your head and sending you to a tropical gulag for life without trial or access to a lawyer, contrary to the explicit ruling of a judge reviewing your case.

* Requiring you to wear a piece of cloth on your face in the middle of a deadly pandemic that's killing millions of people.

(Its not that we can't tell the difference between them, any child above the age of 8 can grasp the distinction, it's that people who love the former and are mildly annoyed by the latter are being deliberately obtuse about it.)
by youngtaff | 2025-08-14 20:23:25+00:00
The poster implied there is an active cover up whereas the case went to court, was prosecuted and became the subject of a judge led enquiry

The accusation that immigrant men from Muslim backgrounds are sex offenders is a well worn trope pushed by the far right and people like Farage and Yaxley-Lennon

If you actually look at crime statistics in the UK sex offenders, including grooming gangs are overwhelming white men — if you look closer you often find that a reasonable proportion of people on the far-right have convictions for sex offences
by antx | 2025-08-14 20:23:36+00:00
that's a wild theory, considering that Tolkien himself described Gollum to be "a small, slimy creature" after the revisions, probably because of Jansson's depiction of him. and although the parallel is clear between many characters of the Hobbit and the Bible, do you have any credible sources that Tolkien took inspiration from apocryphal texts (or in this case the Hadith) ?