MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-14 23:19:23+00:00
"Lesson" SP.

For real. For Lot, was wondering about if there was supposed to be some message here.

Others noted. It was more anti-propaganda. Lot was part of adversaries of Israel so this was painting them in a bad light. Just funny how we are still reading this holy book, and here is really some very local, very time specific propaganda that we are still reading.
by aanet | 2025-08-14 23:19:49+00:00
Here's my Woz story... (from a ~decade ago)

I had gone to SFO to drop off my mom at the airport. After dropping her, I saw somebody who looked like Woz at the Delta First Class queue. I hung back to let him do his chat with the airline agents.

As soon as he was finished, he turned around and I was sure it was him. He had his trade-marked backpack full of electronics on his torso.

Approached him gingerly to ask, "Are you, umm, Mr Woz?"

If he seemed surprised / annoyed, he didn't show.

Then I got tongue-tied... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In a brief second, the entire history of Apple came flooding to me...

I blurted at him that he was a boyhood hero of mine and just thanked him for his contributions, etc. (which is true, I do admire him)

He seemed surprised. He said folks these days have sports heros, and was glad to hear what I said. Inquired about me / my work (also tech), my brief journey, etc. Exchanged a few pleasantries. That was it.

I didn't have any elevator pitch or anything. I came away genuinely happy having met him in person.
by crote | 2025-08-14 23:19:53+00:00
The Netherlands has the same tax, but they managed to ban the "sharing media" part.

First they outlawed uploading media (you could make a copy for your own use, but as you didn't hold the rights you weren't allowed to offer it to anyone else), then they outlawed the downloading as well (you can still make a copy for your own use, but you can't obtain it from someone who doesn't have the rights to offer it to you).

You aren't even allowed to download a copy of a piece of media you already legally own, so the only thing left is making a copy of a physical disk - which is of course made nearly impossible by copy protection.

The organisation behind it is now even claiming that you should pay the tax when a streaming service uses storage space on your device to temporarily make an offline copy...
by gerdesj | 2025-08-14 23:21:19+00:00
My grandad's family on my dad's side was driven out of Dublin by some folks who went on to set their house on fire, back in the day. They were warned off by a maid and legged it to England. A few generations earlier, on the same line, my ancestors were German immigrants to London.

I will upvote your comment nonetheless. I see it has been DVd which I don't like to see - we all have our views.
by Levitz | 2025-08-14 23:21:34+00:00
Absolutely.

Anecdotal but I lived in Krakow, Poland for some months years ago, back then, for some goddamned reason, the vast majority of the room rentals for foreigners were advertised and managed through Facebook. I didn't have a Facebook account and it was required to verify my ID to make one.

I spent more than a goddamned month living in hostels before biting the bullet and I still dislike that I ended up making one. The day any of these services require an ID is the day I drop it, I don't consider this a preference, I consider this ethics. It's not about me liking it or not, I honestly believe that anyone going through with that is making a worse world.
by tzs | 2025-08-14 23:22:35+00:00
The main problem with that approach I believe is that since proving your age to the porn site involves an interaction with the government site and the porn site which will occur at close to the same time.

If the porn site and the government site both keep logs and someone is able to get the logs from both they might be able to match up timestamps to unmask some porn site users.

A system that allows this is called "linkable".

It might be possible to mitigate this by introducing delays and noise. Wait some random amount of time before giving the finishing the verification with the porn site. Have a process running on your computer that frequently generates nonces and has the government sign them.

Probably better is to use a protocol that is unlinkable. There are ZKP systems that are unlinkable.
by jacobgkau | 2025-08-14 23:23:30+00:00
Sounds almost like we need something similar to Google+'s circles, but instead of just being able to tag followers/followees into categories, it'd also be useful to be able to tag your own posts into different feeds that people can individually follow or avoid (hashtags aren't really robust enough for this).

Of course, if you see everyone following you for topic X but that nobody wants to hear your opinion about anything else, I can imagine that making it feel like people are just using you as a tool, and that decreasing incentive to participate in the whole thing. But it'd be interesting to try at scale.
by stianlaa | 2025-08-14 23:23:52+00:00
A very interesting article, although i get 404 when following the OP post, i found the article here: https://martijnhols.nl/blog/how-much-traffic-can-a-pre-rende...

My impression of nextjs is pretty mediocre already, and perhaps this article hits because I'm confirming my preconceived notions.

Thanks anyway!
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-14 23:23:55+00:00
> they’re specialised tools and this one is not designed to have broad “common sense” in that way.

Except the key property of language models compared to other machine learning techniques is their ability to have this kind of common sense understanding of the meaning of natural language.

> you don’t understand the use case of this enough to be commenting on it at all quite frankly.

That's true that I don't understand the use-case for a language model that doesn't have a grasp of what first/second/third mean. Sub-1B models are supposed to be fine-tuned to be useful, but if the base model is so bad at language it can't make the difference between first and second and you need to put that in your fine-tuning as well as your business logic, why use a base model at all?

Also, this is a clear instance of moving the goalpost, as the comment I responded to was talking about how we should not expect such a small model to have “encyclopedic knowledge”, and now you are claiming we should not expect such a small language model to make sense of language…
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-14 23:24:22+00:00
> It’s unfortunate that the airbrush has been cast aside by many artists in favor of Photoshop or Illustrator.

I don't think so. I used to do a lot of airbrushing, in the 1980s. I even had one of these[0].

I don't miss them at all. They were a huge pain in the ass.

[0] https://paulbudzik.com/tools-techniques/Airbrushing/paasche-...
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-14 23:24:29+00:00
Not really. If you compare it to gaming rigs, they bear radically different architectures, so you can't really compare them by TDP or power requirements. They don't emit the same hear or require the same amount of power per TFLOP. And I wouldn't be surprised if tflops also wouldn't translate to actual compute room for shaders.

Even if they did, 100w should be room enough to play relatively recent titles, specially indie ones. Nothing really excuses Apple from this contempt it has for the gaming market.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-14 23:25:17+00:00
GPT-5 at its strongest is as good as any model we've seen from any provider. However, while these models aren't parrots, they are most definitely stochastic. All it takes is for a few influencers and journalists to experience a few conspicuous failures, and you get articles like this one and a growing (if unjustified) perception that the GPT-5 launch is a "flop."

I think their principal mistake was in conflating the introduction of GPT-5 with the model-selection heuristics they started using at the same time. Whatever empirical hacks they came up with to determine how much thinking should be applied to a given prompt are not working well. Then there's the immediate-but-not-really deprecation of the other models. It should have been very clear that the image-based tests that the CNN reporter referred to were not running on GPT-5 at all. But it wasn't, and that's a big marketing communications failure on OpenAI's part.

One of several, for anyone who sat through their presentation.
by modeless | 2025-08-14 23:25:50+00:00
> I also think there's a clear sense in which asking whether machines can think is a question about capabilities, even though we would need a more precise definition of "thinking" to be able to answer it.

The second half of the sentence contradicts the first. It can't be a clear question about capabilities without widespread agreement on a more rigorous definition of the word "think". Dijkstra's point is that the debate about word definitions is irrelevant and a distraction. We can measure and judge capabilities directly.
by prepend | 2025-08-14 23:25:54+00:00
Don’t forget that piracy allows for front ends that actually want to make the user happy and have good UX.

I use Plex and it shows what I’m currently watching first. So continuing to a new episode is easy. If I sub to 50 episodes they just show up on my first line. Hulu makes me scroll down a few rows to continue watching.

It also shows cast and crew and other movies with the same.
by LelouBil | 2025-08-14 23:25:55+00:00
> led to me thinking more critically about what I want to spend time downloading and watching rather than just flipping mindlessly through endless amounts of readily available garbage

For me it's a bit different. I have the *arr stack fully automated (with 22Tb of storage for now maaaaybe it's overkill), for friends and family too.

And the experience is nice because it makes content "crowd sourced". If something is on the server it means someone else purposefully added it, so you can still browse, but it's curated based on your friend/family circle.

But also the automation part can be a bit "mindlessly click download on everything even stuff I probably won't watch", but disk space constraints force you to delete it if nobody's watching.
by RhysU | 2025-08-14 23:26:09+00:00
Long ago, if you had to drive to go anywhere, your house must have been surrounded by oodles of other houses and hence friends existed to hang out with before some friend could drive. Once someone could drive, the friend crew was good to venture elsewhere.

The problem today is the nanny states don't allow a 16-year-old to transport other kids in their car until many hoops are cleared. We collectively decided that such social/transportation kneecapping was riskier than having our kids be lame during their sophomore/junior year of high school in the suburbs.
by nozzlegear | 2025-08-14 23:26:24+00:00
To be clear, I'm not defending Project 2025, Trump or the RNC. I don't need any convincing that Trump and republicans are following the plan, it's plain to anyway who's passingly familiar with it. What I'm trying to point out is that there's a strange trend for people to place all of the blame for our current state of affairs squarely on democrats and the DNC, ostensibly because of their failure to precisely match the steps of the RNC – steps the RNC didn't even take, in this case.
by crote | 2025-08-14 23:26:43+00:00
> On a ROI basis of adults with disposable income "buying" (aka personal licenses, ideally shareable with some other accounts what some might call a family) 4-5 movies for like 5 dollars on platforms like Apple TV each a month is actually cheaper than pirating.

Yes, and I still pirate. It's more expensive, but the user experience is substantially better. It has always been a supply issue,
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-14 23:27:30+00:00
I recently had a discussion with a sibling -- not an old person -- who was taking medical advice from ChatGPT. They were like "we should X because ChatGPT", "well, but ChatGPT ...". I could hardly believe my ears. Might as well say, "well, but someone on Reddit said ..."

And this person is fairly savvy professional, and not the type of person to just believe what they read online.

Of course they agreed when I pointed out that you really can't trust these bots to give sound medical advice and anything should be run through a real doctor, but I was surprised I even had to bring that up and put the brakes on. They were literally pasting a list of symptoms in and asking for possible causes.

So yeah, for anyone the least bit naive and gullible, I can see this being a serious danger.

And there was no big disclaimer that "this does not constitute medical advice" etc.
by slg | 2025-08-14 23:27:41+00:00
I'm incredibly skeptical of the idea that Trump stole the election, especially when stuff like that video is used as evidence. Trump is clearly referring to the 2020 election. He is saying that if that election wasn't "rigged", his second term would be over by now, but since it was (in his opinion) "rigged", he will still be president during the World Cup.

All that said, one thing I can't get out of my mind is perhaps the most consistent trait of Trump's political career is him projecting his weaknesses and crimes on others as a preemptive defense for when those same criticisms are made about him. So any time he accuses his opponents of something, it should probably raise red flags for his own behavior.
by incompatible | 2025-08-14 23:27:45+00:00
Various, but including The Guardian and ABC News (Australia). I don't think they knowingly post misinformation in news reports, but there's still selection bias (I usually just read headlines, there's little I really need to know in depth). Their opinion and fluff pieces may or may not be interesting on the day.

I lost interest in "right-leaning" when they basically went mad some time before the first Trump term. Neoliberalism was already on its last legs as a credible doctrine. I'm more or less an anarchist at this point.

Edit: the ABC is somewhat right-leaning, and the Guardian doesn't really lean very far left.
by NobodyNada | 2025-08-14 23:28:29+00:00
In general: whenever you call into C, you get all the safety of C, because C code can trivially have memory corruption bugs that corrupt memory "belonging" to Rust as well, inducing undefined behavior across your whole program [0].

In addition, it's often considered permissible for C APIs to exhibit undefined behavior if their API contracts are violated. This means that a bug in Rust code that calls into a C API incorrectly can (indirectly) cause undefined behavior. For this reason, all FFI calls are marked unsafe in Rust.

The typical approach to using C libraries from Rust is to create a "safe wrapper" around the unsafe FFI calls that uses Rust's type system and lifetimes to enforce the safety invariants. Of course it's possible to mess up this wrapper and have accidental undefined behavior, but you're much less likely to do so through a safe wrapper than if you use the unsafe FFI calls directly (or use C or Zig) for a couple reasons:

- Writing the safe wrapper forces you to sit down and think about safety invariants instead of glossing over it.

- Once you're done, the compiler will check the safety invariants for you every time you use the API -- no chance of making a mistake or forgetting to read a comment.

[0]: This could be avoided/mitigated with some kind of lightweight in-process sandboxing (e.g. Intel MPK + seccomp) to prevent C libraries from accessing memory that they don't own or performing syscalls they shouldn't. There's some academic research on this (and I experimented with it myself for a masters thesis project), but it generally requires some (minimal) performance overhead and code changes at language boundaries.
by alisonatwork | 2025-08-14 23:29:18+00:00
Speaking as someone who used to visit specific pages on Twitter and use it to follow breaking news by hashtag, at some point a few years ago it became impossible to see new posts in the former case and a login wall was put in front of the latter case. Even when someone shares a direct link to a post nowadays only a small part of the thread is actually visible, which makes visiting the site pointless. So, yes, X is now a dumpster fire. When I go there I don't see great tech conversations, I either see a weird algorithmic top post from years ago, or nothing at all.

Mastodon and Bluesky are intrinsically more valuable, not necessarily because of the quality of the content itself, but because it's actually possible for people to read and search said content.
by jmward01 | 2025-08-14 23:30:08+00:00
I remember when netflix had the dvd by mail option and you could get basically anything that way. It was amazing. Even the local blockbuster had way more available than today's streaming services. I watched way more then. Now I watch almost nothing and only have a single streaming service because the family wants one...and doesn't watch much on it. We are loosing access because of the thing that promised us instant access to everything.
by belden | 2025-08-14 23:30:15+00:00
I'm not sure that's the (sole) rule for "Y as vowel". It acts as a vowel in "fly", "spy", and a few other words. And it seems pretty darn dipthong-like when clustered among vowels, eg "voyeur", "vying".

The word "eye" is an interesting one. It seems to be only vowels, based on pronunciation.
by tough | 2025-08-14 23:30:16+00:00
yes that's the benevolent take,but in a market for attention, it feels like a bit of a vampire attack to a brand to spun off OpenBrand.

seems some what of a template now, OpenCut was recently on HN because some chinese company already owns their trademark, which is a pun/open version of CapCut, so things are getting a bit hairy at least, lol
by card_zero | 2025-08-14 23:30:29+00:00
Ooh you had the Paasche Turbo. I nearly went for that one but decided to be sensible and got a Badger. Floating dual-action though, of course, and a stupidly overpowered reservoir compressor. Lots of stripdowns and cleaning fluid and cutting out frisk film with a scalpel. It was terrible. I should take it up again, it's probably a more artistic thing to do now it's not popular.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-14 23:32:03+00:00
Back in the 90s, people just had no concept of today's media offerings. Content was edited specifically to work with the only home media they new of at the time, and that was interlaced TV at frame rates of 29.97 or 25. There was no concept for progressive displays. The only home video format that was in wide use was VHS, and TV shows just didn't find their way there. That was something for theatrical releases. TV shows were much more concerned about trying to make it to syndication. When it came time to licensing, that's all the producers had on their radar.

What's the point? This was much less a malicious thing than it is made out to be. Once the licensing ran out, that's it. They can't just YOLO their way through it, or they'd have been sued. It's possible they tried to negotiate new terms for the music, but terms couldn't be agreed. When it came time to release on DVD, the person involved for the music might not have been available or interested in doing it again. At that point, the music would never feel right when replaced. The last point being these producers would be doing this on the cheap, so your <$30 CD library wouldn't have been far off, except the music libraries would have been much more expensive than that. Decent royalty free music has only been a thing within the past 10-15 years.

Edit: one more thing about the music, it is a large expense for the production. the studios are usually willing to pay for it to air, because they know how much ad sales they have and build it into part of the per episode expense. negotiating for DVD release with no known amount of money to earn makes it difficult to negotiate a license for "real" music
by jchw | 2025-08-14 23:32:37+00:00
> If your kid, or anyone else really, steals your ID then age verification is the least of your problems. They could transfer all your money, move house, get married, change your name or a myriad of other much more serious things. Willingly letting your kid use your ID would be borderline illegal and not an insurance in the world would cover it.

Yes, for most people, your kid absolutely could accomplish all of that. I absolutely could've done that as a kid. This is well-documented, you can find many cases of it actually happening. Kids can also steal your car keys and crash it, they do that. It's just that most kids don't just randomly go and commit crimes like steal all of your money, but they absolutely lie about being 18 and bypass restrictions meant for them. (Like for example, clicking 'I am 18' on websites when they're not. I've never done that, of course.)

> These people have never borrowed a book, visited a doctor, paid taxes or opened a bank account? There are many things in society that require validating who you are. Surely they have some form of ID. Perhaps just a more insecure one than a cryptographically signed.

> I don't think a federal identity is as far fetched as you make it sound, for better and for worse.

There's a lot of Americans who would have some choice words about that, and I suspect that is why we have 2.5 million Americans with no form of photo ID.

Also, I actually agree a federal ID is generally doable. I don't think it's a good solution for this problem, and I think it will be very difficult to enforce this one in the U.S. for cultural reasons.
by ethansinjin | 2025-08-14 23:32:55+00:00
If you have a watch that was imported into the US before the restriction went into effect, you never lost the (original, watch-only) Blood Oxygen functionality and this update doesn't affect you.

Up to mid-2024, Costco was selling 2 separate SKUs of Apple Watch Ultra 2: watches with the blood oxygen feature and watches imported after the cutoff which were missing the feature.

A limitation of this workaround is that it only works on recent watches. If you are in the unfortunate position of getting a Series 6, 7, 8 watch replaced by Apple, they'll give you a replacement with the feature missing, and this update doesn't "fix" it..
by MengerSponge | 2025-08-14 23:33:27+00:00
Taste is hard to cultivate. You have to care about things like art to cultivate it. As a result all of these dweebs are trying to ape Steve Jobs and they're just succeeding at his worst traits: arrogance and cruelty and a lack of empathy.

> The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

https://libquotes.com/steve-jobs/quote/lbm0q6a
by Lerc | 2025-08-14 23:33:37+00:00
This is just the one model of time travel, isn't it? It's a bit weird how it uses the notion of rewriting to continue until there can be no rewriting. If there could never be any rewriting then you still permit the single universe model of time travel. Things can only ever happen the way they happen, if that was because of a time traveller, it always was. It permits the grandfather paradox, but I can't help but think that this papers argument could be reshod to say the the grandfather paradox is self-suppressing.
by rayiner | 2025-08-14 23:34:29+00:00
Each of those articles is sourced from the same SPLC hit piece, and SPLC embraces cultural relativism.

I’m curious why you won’t answer my question. Does non-racism, in your view, require people to accept immigration that changes America’s culture? Is there a non-racist lane for people who want Vermont or Salt Lake City to remain culturally Anglo-American (regardless of ethnicity)?