MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andy99 | 2025-08-15 14:06:24+00:00
Much like the old "piracy" nonsense, I wonder if banning ad blockers would be a net gain for advertisers (if it was possible). Personally I wouldn't go to a site that had any remotely intrusive advertising, even if I wanted to I get too distracted to read the real content.

Less views means fewer network effects - for a small example, fewer people posting and discussing on sites like HN or reddit. And therefore less pull in of those unfortunate people who don't block ads, and less views overall.

I don't know if it actually works out that way, but I do think forcing people to accept the full bore of your annoying site or not use it at all is a double edged sword.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-15 14:06:38+00:00
You'll have to explain that to the Israeli intelligence services, which surveiled Gaza Health Ministry staff (e.g., listening to their phone calls) and determined that they were working in good faith.

Just because the governing political party carries out terrorist attacks against Israel, that does not mean that literally every institution in Gaza is unreliable. The IDF carries out war crimes all the time and is known to be extremely unreliable,[0] but there are still many institutions inside Israel that are reliable.

0. There are way, way too many examples of this to list here, but I'll just highlight one. The IDF attacked a convoy of Palestinian ambulances in Rafah, killing almost all of the paramedics. When this came out, the IDF put out a statement claiming that the ambulances were actually being used as a cover for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and had approached an IDF position with their lights off. Then, a video surfaced of the incident, showing that the ambulances were flashing their emergency lights, and that the paramedics were unarmed and had been gunned down by the IDF. It also came out that the IDF had subsequently buried the ambulances, in order to try to hide the evidence. In other words, the IDF committed a war crime, tried to cover it up, and then concocted an elaborate series of lies that they put out for public consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_paramedic_massacre.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 14:06:42+00:00
SPOILERS FOR MORT BELOW:

To me, what made Mort so good is the coming of age aspects of it, both for Mort and Death.

Death is having a bit of an existential crisis and trying to figure out what being a human actually is, and the main issue of the story is teenage Mort being unwilling to accept the unfairness of the world and as a result saves the princess who was slated to die.

The genius part to me is when, at the end, when Death and Mort are fighting, upon seeing Mort’s willingness to die for something he believes in, Death finally realizes the most important part of being a human: compassion, and he ultimately redeems himself and achieves some level of humanity by deciding to spare Mort purely out of compassion. To me it ended the story so perfectly; it was an ending that felt earned and ultimately felt very in tune with the themes that the book (and Discworld as a whole).

Thus far what I have liked about the series has ultimately been a rejection of cynicism. The heroes of the story become heroes almost entirely out of their willingness to believe in something.
by MindSpunk | 2025-08-15 14:07:07+00:00
The firmware flashing story for the drives is even funnier because some of the really common LG bluray drives that get used for ripping UHD blurays doesn't support reading UHD discs "on the box", but if you flash the firmware from a different drive it reads them without skipping a beat.

The 4K standard didn't bring any new disc formats to my knowledge. It just started using the higher layer count formats that were already available but the firmware on the cheaper drives wont read them.
by kevingadd | 2025-08-15 14:08:06+00:00
> Since the 1980s, parents have grown more and more afraid that unsupervised time will expose their kids to physical or emotional harm. In another recent Harris Poll, we asked parents what they thought would happen if two 10-year-olds played in a local park without adults around. Sixty percent thought the children would likely get injured. Half thought they would likely get abducted.

> These intuitions don’t even begin to resemble reality. According to Warwick Cairns, the author of How to Live Dangerously, kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger.

I wonder how we ended up in a situation where people think Stranger Danger is this bad. Is it just from TV and the internet inflating the danger to drive views/clicks?

In many areas crime has been trending down but people seem to think things are more dangerous than ever, in general. It baffles me.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-15 14:08:12+00:00
Bic.

They make pens, lighters and razor blades, at least.

For their lighters, they use engineering resins instead of simple plastics. They have their internal standards stricter than EU ones for temperature and drop resistance.

They make their own inks for their pens according to their own standards instead of getting from someone. Their razor blades last at least 25% longer than their competitors, and they sell for much cheaper.

They are a company of contradictions. Their items are disposable, yet put many "higher tier" items to shame by being better, longer lasting and cheaper at the same time.
by MostlyStable | 2025-08-15 14:08:16+00:00
I think there is an important difference between "AI can be bad" and "AI will be bad by default", and I didn't think anyone was making it before. One might disagree but I didn't think one can argue it wasn't a novel contribution.

Also, if your think they had solutions, ones that work or otherwise, then you haven't been paying attention. Half of their point is that we don't have solutions. And we shouldn't be building AI until we do.

Again, I think that reasonable people can disagree with that crowd. But I can't help noticing a pattern where almost everyone who disagrees is almost always misrepresenting their work and what they say.
by badestrand | 2025-08-15 14:08:23+00:00
Traditional news media and print media are really strong in Germany (and for example Spain).

They also made laws happen that limit how Google can link to news sites to prevent Google News from stealing readers.

And they tried to make Google pay each time a user clicks a link that leads to a German news site.

Also there are surcharges on printers (around $50 or so per piece), laptops etc because you might copy copyright-protected texts with it.

And the German online news websites know they lose a lot of money to adblockers so of course they want to ban them.
by xphos | 2025-08-15 14:08:39+00:00
I don't know Stagflation persists into the 1980s and well into it thanks to austerity even after the oil crisis is settle its a classic there is a crash the supply shock is over lets not spend money approach that lead to another recession in 1982. Iran's war ends in 1979. And most of the 1980s see a massive glut of oil[1] yet the US entered the Reagan Recession from 1982-1985. It is resolved by 1985 but austerity in that time is the opposite response needed and it shows in the GDP growth lagging. It might be poorly timed linked in name calling stagflation in Reagan stagflation since the inflation mostly ends by 1981 but its certainly not a Reagan boom

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut
by sokoloff | 2025-08-15 14:09:18+00:00
I find it interesting (in a dismaying sense) how many people are perfectly comfortable or even in favor of government oversteps by “their” team that are aligned with outcomes they like but act shocked and indignant when the “other” team does it.

IMO, the solution is to demand constitutional and law-following behavior from both/all teams, but to be particularly careful to do that with your preferred side, as you might be prone to overlook those excesses.
by letsrift | 2025-08-15 14:10:17+00:00
I built a tiny web app that delivers 30-second interactive experiences — quick mental jolts that mess with your perception and make you see things differently.

Not a test. Not a game. Not self-help.

Play one here: https://riftapp.netlify.app

At the end, you can sign up (free) to get the next ones by email.
by eoskx | 2025-08-15 14:10:20+00:00
Also, does not help that the US Army does NOT want this FMECA document released. From the article that is cited the US Army's project manager & legal counsel gave this response to help Sig justify keeping the document sealed:

> The Army position would be to oppose the distribution to the public of the > FMECA document as it potentially reveals critical information about the > handgun (design, reliability, performance, etc.).
by _verandaguy | 2025-08-15 14:10:52+00:00
> Corruption definitely crosses the aisle.

While I won't defend corruption, there are orders of magnitude of difference in the intensity and harm caused by the current US government's corruption vs the type most people have grown accustomed to. Both sidesing this is insane.

And all that aside -- in what world is the appropriate response to perceived misdeeds by a political opponent to crank the dial up to 11 on running the government as your combination personal slush fund, army, and all-encompassing bureaucratic warfare organization?
by rayiner | 2025-08-15 14:10:56+00:00
Awami League started as a socialist party, but had become pretty neo-liberal by the 2010s. The uprising ended up with Yunus in power, but the students had no real ideology. And Yunus id a smart guy who has no skill as a leader. That’s created a power vacuum that will be filled by Islamists, who Hasina had banned. The opposition party, BNP, definitely doesn’t have a majority, and they can’t win a fair election without the Islamists.
by bigmadshoe | 2025-08-15 14:10:57+00:00
I’m work in ML and I don’t understand your point. Transfer learning usually refers to leveraging data for a different task to help with a task for which you have limited data.

You’re saying that the knowledge gained from the other languages transfers to English? I don’t think for a 270M parameter model the bottleneck is the availability of enough English language training data.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-15 14:10:59+00:00
They are very short books, and written at about a 6-8th grade reading level. As a prolific reader you could churn through them in a year or less. It's not unusual for me to read one in a single sitting, but I am a very quick reader. Regardless, I would instead recommend savoring them a bit rather than trying to read the entire series at once and making yourself crazy.

They generally don't build on each other or require that you have read the prior books, so if you put them down for a few years and come back you won't be too lost.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 14:11:29+00:00
I have been unemployed for a few months and there’s only so much YouTube I can take between interviews, so in my particular case the large volume of work actually served in its favor.

I needed something that would entertain me for very long periods of time, and I had bought the Discworld Humble Bundle about a year ago.

I have only finished the first eleven books, but with the exception of the first two, the books are more or less self-contained so you can read them in pretty much any order.
Show HN: Development Journey on Game Decompilation Using AI
by macabeus | 2025-08-15 14:11:33+00:00
Hey, ever wanted to fully understand or tweak a nostalgic game that you love?

So, I’m documenting my journey on matching decompiling a retro game, step by step, using AI and self-made tools. Three chapters are done, and the fourth is in progress.

Matching decompilation is a fun reverse engineering challenge that paves the way to learn more about a game and fully customize it.

Let me know your thoughts about my posts and the VS Code extension that I'm developing, called Kappa!

Have you ever heard of matching decompilation, by the way?
by goku12 | 2025-08-15 14:11:39+00:00
> Is open hardware even possible at some point?

Think about this question for a second and you'll realize that it's rooted in consumerism. We always want 'quality and speed', but most of all, convenience and apparent low cost (that 'apparent' part is important). What if the product wasn't cheap or the best you could get? What if the product requires more attention than being just a consumer? Conventional wisdom says that they'd be dead on arrival. But consumerism also comes with consumer exploitation.

There are numerous examples of this today. People yearn for dump large LCD panels (cheaper ones, not the ad panels or large monitors) instead of the sluggish, invasive, ad-ridden, irreparable and annoying smart TVs that we have today. Configurable modular laptops and phones like the Framework and Fairphone are enjoying a comeback today after decades of soldered-on components (even the battery), individually paired modules, glued on casings (instead of the convenient screwed on ones), horrendously costly repairs and depressingly short service life. The (paper) printer market is so rife with exploitation that their CEOs consider their customers as 'investments' that are lossy if they don't buy ink cartridges on subscription! Similar story in the automotive sector. People annoyed by full touch screen control panels, heated seats on subscription, parts that cannot be serviced by anyone else.. I could go on for hours.

It's very tempting to give up the reparable and open hardware in favor of mass produced better performing products on account of the cost, effort and time needed to deal with the former. But as their market dries up, the inevitable enshittification of the latter sets in. In pursuit of the continued satisfaction of the shareholders, it's no longer enough for the producers to take hefty margins on each unit you purchase. They move to squeezing every last penny off of you by seeking rent on products that shouldn't be under subscriptions in the first place. Eventually, you end up spending more than if you were using the dumb devices. And then predictably like clockwork, people start lamenting about the feature creep, loss of serviceability, loss of quality and greed.

It's at this point that dumb devices market open up again. The market is small and products are costlier owing to the low scale of production. But they grow a dedicated customer base and healthy revenues that improve over time. So with this hindsight, how about we stick with the open and reparable hardware? If their market doesn't crash, their costs wont rise either. This long term strategic decision can help consumers protect their rights and their savings. But that never happens. This is one scam that the world falls for again and again and again, no matter how many times it plays out.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-15 14:11:50+00:00
You can even cut out parts of the text to re-sell, which is exactly what press clipping services did for newspapers. No copies were made, so no copyright infringement (that simple logic was fine until someone managed to get DRM-circumvention added to copyright laws).

"The first press clipping agency in London was established in 1852 ... Early clipping services employed women to scan periodicals for mentions of specific names or terms. The marked periodicals were then cut out by men and pasted to dated slips. Women would then sort those slips and clippings to be sent to the services' clients".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_monitoring_service
by jader201 | 2025-08-15 14:12:06+00:00
> In many areas crime has been trending down but people seem to think things are more dangerous than ever, in general.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, or that I disagree that Stranger Danger is overblown.

But is it possible that part of the reason crime is down is because of Stranger Danger?

I’m not suggesting it is, just that I can’t say with certainty that it isn’t.
by sunir | 2025-08-15 14:12:57+00:00
A lot of clerical work was managed by SaaS which managed clerical workers. As AIs can do these internal jobs you don’t need the software seat licenses any more.

Word processors and Spreadsheets did the same thing and remain powerful today.

I don’t see the world lacking in software or bureaucracy.

The Tower of Babel is the reason. Idle humans diverge develop and complicate every domain in order to compete with each other. Nothing truly ever gets simpler until there is a replatforming; and then things get complicated again. There are more and deeper rabbit holes every day.

Many old SaaS products from the last cycle are shrinking. However whatever. Keep going. Still more work to do until the world is perfect.
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-15 14:12:57+00:00
Fair enough, forget the example. I'm saying that "just go find food" isn't possible when there is no food around, either because of a famine or because of deprivation, in the case of Gaza, or because you are past the point where you have enough energy to fetch and digest. So that argument doesn't hold not because of the example, but because your generalization doesn't account for the extremes of the human experience.
by eoskx | 2025-08-15 14:13:02+00:00
Keep in mind, too, that the US Army does NOT want this FMECA document released. From the article that is cited the US Army's project manager & legal counsel gave this response to help Sig justify keeping the document sealed: > The Army position would be to oppose the distribution to the public of the > FMECA document as it potentially reveals critical information about the > handgun (design, reliability, performance, etc.).
by giraffe_lady | 2025-08-15 14:13:11+00:00
It's not particularly expensive for professional music gear, which enough professional musicians use it as that I think I have to consider it that as well. Whatever else teenage engineering sells I don't really have an opinion about but that thing gets serious use by serious professionals so I feel obligated to take it seriously. Compared to a nord piano or a cello or a rhodes or a stage mixer or whatever it's not among the most expensive pieces of gear you will routinely see on a stage.
by bananapub | 2025-08-15 14:13:22+00:00
it really is just continually amazing that the American elite is almost entirely fine with the executive ending the rule of law and the pretence that the President isn't meant to use the powers of office purely to enrich himself and reward favoured courtiers.

why has no CEO of any, even medium sized, company come out and just said "fuck this, fuck you, fuck 33% of voters, we'll continue to try to operate like a normal country in our little corner"? I'm sure some absolutely fucking vile sociopaths will buy one share and then launch a shareholder lawsuit demanding the CEO be as pathetic as the rest of them and that Not Bribing The President is a new form of securities fraud, but you need at least one person to loudly say no to this nightmare if you want any hope of it ending.
by mrala | 2025-08-15 14:13:25+00:00
> He added, however, that it is important to remember the limitations of such studies: "We used point/money to represent the real-life costs associated with actions like campaigning or going on a protest march. Experiments like these are only meant to simulate aspects of the real world, not perfectly represent its complexity."

> Behavior may be different if participants had earned their points rather than simply received them, or both Proposers and Responder shared a common identity or wider goal.

> "Still," Dr. Gordon continues, "it is a reminder that we should be mindful of attempts to limit the ability to hold power to account. For example, through anti-protest, anti-strike, and voter suppression laws. In an era marked by growing global inequality, this study offers critical insights into the psychology of power, and the mechanisms that can promote more equitable societies."
by therealpygon | 2025-08-15 14:13:32+00:00
None of them are paying the cost to create the content for movies and TV, except for their own original shows. I also have no problem paying a company to watch their original content…that’s completely fair. I also have no problem paying toward the “cost of creating content” as you say.

I have a problem with how media is carved up to make sure you have to use multiple services and maximize profit. I have a problem with the ads they want to force me to watch…and charge me to watch them. I have a problem with their ever increasing prices for worse and worse catalogs. I have a problem with, despite paying for the right to watch it, they still decide how and when I can watch.

None of those things are the “cost” of creating content.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-15 14:13:39+00:00
This.

I mean billionaires don't even go to prison for engaging in pedophilia. Which is just about the worst crime you can commit. If anyone thinks liberals or conservatives will put them in prison for bribery, they're being a little naive.

This nation is owned by the billionaires. In all honesty, they don't even need to be in alignment with the government. There's next to nothing the government can do to rein in giant banks. If anything, the government has to be certain to make sure the banks are appeased.
by dddgghhbbfblk | 2025-08-15 14:13:54+00:00
The one they were talking about (based on scans of original film prints) is called 4K77/4K80/4K83 for the three films.

I believe the first project of this type for Star Wars was Harmy's Despecialized Edition but I think these days most people prefer the 4K77 versions, although it varies by film and by person.
by KaiserPro | 2025-08-15 14:14:12+00:00
Yes, but as the news piece clearly points out, it was incorrect and cost the police £20k.

> Sigh, I was half expecting drivel like that.

Look I have been railing against this shit for _years_ the Public Order Act 2023 is the latest in a looooong line of laws that have actually and practically curtailed our rights to protest.

I have organise, I have petitioned, I have shouted and screamed, and yet here we are. I have given up.

I look over at the states and just have to hope that it reeks enough that it puts people off the badenoch/jenrick/farage wank fest.

Sadly with the underfunding of courts, and the move to bench trials, means that we are probably fucked, no recourse unless you're rich
by next_xibalba | 2025-08-15 14:14:25+00:00
I suppose it depends on how the suspicions are impacting one's life and those around them.

If I suspect my wife is cheating on me (without evidence) but keep that suspicion to myself and treat her no differently than before, that might be OK. But if I treat her accordingly and tell her friends, family, and colleagues about my suspicions, that is probably not good!
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-15 14:14:38+00:00
Are there a number of police shootings where the officer claims his gun "went off"?

One of the first rules of gun safety is never point the weapon at something you aren't intending to shoot. So by the time they are pointing their guns at a suspect, actually firing probably happens a lot? Or are cops actually trained to hold a person at gunpoint (I don't believe the TV dramas and movies where this happens constantly are realistic in this regard).

If so, it seems very risky, considering potential manufacturing or design defects such as discovered with the Sig.
by delichon | 2025-08-15 14:14:54+00:00
IMHO Outcome Based Funding is a better model for public education.

https://freopp.org/whitepapers/aligning-state-higher-educati...

As you might imagine this is favorable to STEM and unfavorable to the humanities. But I think that expensive private institutions are a better venue to educate students who are more insulated from economic disadvantage in disciplines with a low return on investment. It's a good thing to bias the opportunities of disadvantaged students in favor of greater earning capacity. In higher education, the lower the expected pay for a skill set, the more it should be treated as a luxury good.