MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-02 18:16:50+00:00
And things that are a net improvement do not preclude other things that are net improvements. It is a tactical blunder to attack people who are improving things, for not improving them "enough". The journey of a thousand miles, etc etc.

Rather, become one of the people who's improving things – or, if somehow your only skill is attacking, attack the people who are making things worse.

By the by, "net zero" is not enough. The vast majority of offsetting schemes are little more than accountability laundering and on-paper games, not translating to any concrete offsetting in the real world. We need gross zero.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-02 18:17:01+00:00
Exactly, that is my question too. If you can detect the lighting variations to read and verify the code, then you can also extract them, remove them, reapply to the edited version or the AI version... varying the level of global illumination in a video is like the easiest thing to manipulate.

Although there's a whole other problem with this, which is that it's not going to survive consumer compression codecs. Because the changes are too small to be easily perceptible, codecs will simply strip them out. The whole point of video compression is to remove perceptually insignificant differences.
by mgraczyk | 2025-08-02 18:17:05+00:00
First, young people make a lot more than they did 10 years ago (both nominally and inflation adjusted).

Second, no it does not cost 5x as much, closer to 15-20% more based on all the data I could find. Anecdotally in San Francisco, NYC, and Austin it is maybe 2x more at the most expensive places.

EDIT: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252882200Q
by kccqzy | 2025-08-02 18:17:15+00:00
Riding a bike lifts my mood certainly but it doesn't let me experience my neighborhood. I zoom past the neighborhood and at 15mph you can hardly experience it. You might have some vague ideas about architectural styles in the neighborhood but that's it. If the neighborhood has shops, you can't easily visit them without first parking the bike. You need to walk to really experience a neighborhood.
by ankit-skyfire | 2025-08-02 18:17:22+00:00
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In engineering we focus on dependencies not deadlines - If you have done your homework and figured out all you need to figure out, then you will probably be done quickly.

Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/skyfire-systems

Senior BE: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4255416262

Senior FE: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4263617362
by antisthenes | 2025-08-02 18:17:23+00:00
> Evolution is not perfect. We are still better at running long distances for long stretches of time than any other animal.

Not really. We are on par with many animals, or rather they are on par with us, with some tradeoffs on both sides (e.g. humans are better in hotter weather).

Wolves, wild dogs, horses (and other fast hoofed herbivores) are all roughly on par in pure ability to run.

What made us even more successful is the ability to plan and organize (wolves have this), sweat (only humans can do full-body) and use of tools.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-02 18:17:48+00:00
Phew! I thought I was weird or something?

Parks, public pools, libraries and museums are the main things we do as a family. We also live in a metro of about 1.5 M. Maybe other metro areas charge for parks, libraries and museums?

Especially museums now I think about it? Museums in small metro areas can be free. Likely because there's nothing in them. (Still fun, just not as many exhibits as museums in large metro areas.) I mean, just imagine trying to run something like the Museum of Science and Industry, Museum of Natural History, or the Field Museum for free. I'm thinking at some point they would break down and have to start charging?
by avoutos | 2025-08-02 18:18:04+00:00
What is more 1930s Germany were the checkpoints and human-chains set up around UCLA to limit the movement of Jews around campus.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-09/are-you-...

All UCLA has to do is strike up a deal with the gov't that presumably entails eliminating affirmative action and preventing pro-Hamas factions from taking hold of the university.

Columbia made a deal and they have their funding back now.
by gosub100 | 2025-08-02 18:18:44+00:00
Why not open more medical schools? And eliminate the matching system? If you want to be an ____-ologist, here is the list of requirements. Meet the requirements and you are the ___ologist. Not whether or not a practice group likes you, or your parents knew which colleague to talk to. Don't allow the supply of MDs to be constrained.
by kennywinker | 2025-08-02 18:19:30+00:00
Slate: $27k, 150 mile range

Telo: $41k 350 mile range

Slate: 2 door with bed, or 4 door no bed.

Telo: 4 door with bed.

I’d hardly say telo isn’t a viable option compared to slate.

Anyway what really matters is if any of these companies can get a vehicle to market, and at what price point. I’m not about to buy an imaginary car, and neither are you.

Fwiw if they were for sale i would strongly consider buying a telo. It looks perfect for my needs - slate less so, but if they’re all that’s available i’d strongly consider it
by LeftHandPath | 2025-08-02 18:19:47+00:00
What a lovely essay. Reminds me of the way I loved the liberal arts growing up. I missed having classes like that in college (AP'd and ACT'd my way out of most requirements).

English teachers seem especially prone to that friendly and sporting demeanor the author has. Professors from the engineering schools are far more prescriptive, probably due to the nature of the material.
by kaivi | 2025-08-02 18:20:00+00:00
> Remixed = created from already existing physical artifacts, like sampling a song, copying a piece of an image and transforming it, etc.

What's the significance of "physical" song or image in your definition? Aren't your examples just 3rd party latent spaces, compressed as DCT coefficients in jpg/mp3, then re-projected through a lens of cochlear or retinal cells into another latent space of our brain, which makes it tickle? All artist human brains have been trained on the same media, after all.

When we zoom this far out in search of a comforting distinction, we encounter the opposite: all the latent spaces across all modalities that our training has produced, want to naturally merge into one.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-02 18:20:15+00:00
Personally, I'm not seeing how this can possibly have any risk-reduction from a professional standpoint.

You rely upon the permissions model not being broken, but once you have a local login, even with limited perms...a large attack surface is suddenly opened, and the nature of attack surface is the odds immediately go up that there is some piece of code running locally that will allow local priv escalation.

Its relatively simple a lot of times to either escalate local privileges, or trick a green admin to escalate privileges for the attacker (i.e. bind-mount namespaces/ebpf).

If you aren't doing a one-way offline backup, it carries the same risks as replication and all the ransomware related risks through rolling/resource exhaustion.
by jon-wood | 2025-08-02 18:20:54+00:00
I took up climbing a couple of months ago and for the first few weeks felt really rough, it took me that long to realise there were days when between the actual climbing and walking to and from the gym I was burning an extra thousand calories. I’ve since started making an effort to track how much I’m eating and how much I’m burning and feel tons better, if slightly full on the days I get home and realise dinner should be as much as I’d eat in a typical day before I was exercising.
by kubectl_h | 2025-08-02 18:21:00+00:00
I'm certainly not arguing against your point. I didn't work at Medium but I had insight into their operations at the time and they didn't really seem to have a coherent vision to make money 12 or so years ago. My comparison of the two is more around their similar goals and audience, which was giving great (or interesting) writers a home for their projects and audiences and somehow make money. Medium was saying the financial part would happen down the line and it was a can they kicked for a long time. Medium seemed more interested in talking about their technology and aesthetics than they did on figuring out the crucial parts. Substack got it right doing what Patreon (and even Twitch) had already proved, people will pay up front for the writers/creators they love.

That said Medium did pay higher profile writers and publications to move to their platform (in some cases quite a bit of money) in a similar way that Substack has, which was to dip into the VC funded bank account.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-08-02 18:21:29+00:00
That still doesn't help, because the flashes are independent of the content of the video. To illustrate:

echo "This comment was posted at 18:21 UTC" | sha256sum 4f51109e71ec4df85a52affec59a9104837664be3008d1bd70cb8b4fbe163862 -

You could easily copy those flashes of light into your next comment if you wanted, without reversing the hash.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-02 18:21:56+00:00
The US government has all sorts of schemes that fund some groups whilst not funding others, so this rule you think exists doesn't really.

That's part of why Trump admin is on the warpath. They ended up funding educational schemes that discriminate openly against certain groups.

And are you claiming that academics are some sort of protected group, that the government can't exercise any agency inner which academics it gives money to? Because that's just not true, if so.
by mips_avatar | 2025-08-02 18:21:58+00:00
I think you might feel differently if you spent some time in sub saharan Africa. I went for the first time this year and was amazed at the warmth and generosity of the people I met. I was also shocked at how solvable most of their problems are with even just a little bit of money. Like I felt guilty, not in like a pay back way but in a "wow i can't believe how much time this lady would save if this village had can openers" kind of way.
by macNchz | 2025-08-02 18:22:37+00:00
I think it makes sense to want that, but at least for me personally I’ve had dramatically better overall results when manually managing the context in Aider than letting Claude Code try to figure out for itself what it needs.

It can be annoying, but I think it both helps me be more aware of what’s being changed (vs just seeing a big diff after a while), and lends itself to working on smaller subtasks that are more likely to work on the first try.
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-02 18:22:40+00:00
I'm the target market.

- I think it looks fine

- I don't need a full sized bed for anything I'd be transporting

- Tricked out it's a little over half the cost of an R1T Dual and $10K less than a comparable F150 Lightning upgraded to the long range battery

- The wheels are small because it's a small truck. Big wheels would look ridiculous.

- This isn't a truck for off roading or unmaintained dirt roads.

What would I use this truck for?

- towing a motorcycle trailer

- Picking up stuff from Costco that won't fit in my trunk

- Buying and transporting dirt, gravel, and stone for my yard

- Going up to my cabin with my partner and two friends and having enough room to seat everyone and have room for all the luggage
by OskarS | 2025-08-02 18:22:55+00:00
This is not an obscure theory, it's called the "Endurance running hypothesis" [1], and it does seem that humans are one of very few species exceptionally well-adapted to very long-distance running (though dogs and wolves are another one). The idea is that ancient hominids in Africa practiced "persistence hunting"[2], where they would hunt e.g. antelopes and similar species by repeatedly chasing them down. The prey would sprint off when humans got close, but doing this repeatedly causes the animal to exhaust their energy or die of heat stroke, humans being much better adapted to running for many hours on end (this kind of hunting is known to happen to this day). It's plausible that persistence hunting also contributed to evolving our other super-powers, as it requires good spatial awareness, tool-use and communication.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
by mystraline | 2025-08-02 18:23:37+00:00
Look on a US 2024 county voting map ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/2024_Uni...), and look for democratic counties in republican dominant states. Obviously the big cities are easy to spot, but look for smaller areas.

These democrat counties usually try to offer better homeless support either at the local government or NGO level. In doing so, all the red/republican counties ship their homeless using Greyhound Therapy.

Helping to make homelessness not suffer as much gets more homeless, thus flooding the system.

We've increased our homeless population by 4x in the last 5 years. It popped up hard after the ban on evictions disappeared. Turns out kicking people out of housing makes them (drumroll)... Homeless.
by jcynix | 2025-08-02 18:23:48+00:00
The C2 machine is fine, I use it regularly in a nearby studio besides other training and it's perfect for training. If the studio wouldn't be easily available I would buy a C2. And, by the way, my wife too started to be an avid rower after giving the machine a try.

I was rowing on real boats during my school and university days, but sadly never found the time afterwards to get join a club and row in teams.

Rowing machines with a water container are en vogue, but they are heavier (if filled with water) need regular water maintenance and the training effect isn't better.

Edit: here's a good intro to using such a machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHy0KpFKvE
by Towaway69 | 2025-08-02 18:24:33+00:00
> Eventually, you stop trying to be elsewhere. You begin to realise the Way was never hidden up a mountain. It’s right here, buried far beneath your own ideas about who you should be.

An honest account of engaging with Zen Buddhism. Particularly interesting is that the author breaks with the conventional thinking that enlightenment is worth striving for.

The author tries to present a more lenient form of how to practice Buddhism.
by _se | 2025-08-02 18:24:39+00:00
Most people who injure themselves exercising go to PT and then go straight back to exercising because they know how important it is and how good it feels.

You're physically lazy and unmotivated, we get it. Hiding behind "but maybe I can get hurt" is not going to make you better or improve your health. Go do something hard and stop being afraid of living life.
by fumar | 2025-08-02 18:25:04+00:00
This is a breath of fresh air. Modern pick up trucks post-2017 are giant vehicles with high danger to pedestrians. They are often touted as off road capable with high utility, and I see them in pristine condition on city streets hauling a totality of one human.

Good overviews of the truck https://youtu.be/aEq-vTLimrQ?si=fS-UhjndoWuxwBip

https://youtu.be/1OgN_qctcGs?si=nEysWQHzafRpxfRp
by spencerflem | 2025-08-02 18:25:04+00:00
Oh totally, again 100% with you that they are intentionally (and sadly it seems, successfully) breaking down democracy in the US and elsewhere.

I also believe that there is astroturfing in online comment sections and occasionally embedded agents in opposition movements to push extreme and hostile "wedge" views that would split otherwise potential allies.

But a lot of it is natural resistance to being attacked- Am I "polarized" against Trump and Trump voters because of a deliberate campaign, or because they are working to make my life unlivable, y'know? That sort of polarization I don't really have a problem with.
by josephcsible | 2025-08-02 18:25:41+00:00
> Actually, the app doesn’t request those permissions from the user at runtime.

The reason I don't like those permissions is that if they're listed for the app, it just automatically gets them without needing to request them at runtime.

> I’ll double-check if they can be stripped out in the next version to avoid confusion

They can definitely be stripped out. I have a lot of other apps installed that don't have them. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr... is an open-source example of one.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-02 18:25:58+00:00
It would be pretty cool to live in that word, where a maliciously edited video can be met with a better verified, full version of it.

I don’t think that’s where we are, right? People are happy to stop looking after they see the video that confirms their negative suspicions about the public figure on the other team, and just assume any negative clips from their own team are taken out of context.
by matthewfcarlson | 2025-08-02 18:26:01+00:00
You can go on YouTuber and find reviews of the car and most people seem to say the backseat is fairly roomy (the one 6'5" reviewer said he fit). I put a reservation down a few months ago and at 6' (1.9 m for the sane people), I'm really banking on that one off-hand comment.
by rane | 2025-08-02 18:26:46+00:00
Aider will follow through a single, rather specific request, from the user, which will generally result in changes one or more files that you need to explicitly add to the context.

Claude Code on the other hand, based on user's request, is capable of:

- researching the codebase to understand what needs to be done

- planning a TODO list for itself

- implementing the TODO list item by item

- running tests or typecheck etc. and iterating until checks pass

Basically if you give a sufficiently detailed plan as markdown to CC, it is capable of autonomously implementing the plan from start to finish, and that could even take something like 20 minutes.
by gabagool | 2025-08-02 18:27:08+00:00
Do you think you could support typing answers in scientific notation? So 8e9 for 8,000,000,000. It would make typing in answers easier considering my guesses always end in a bunch of zeroes!

Does the orange mean your answer is within 25% of the absolute value? Or that your logarithm value is within 25% of the logarithm value of the true answer?

Thanks for making this, this is awesome
by toast0 | 2025-08-02 18:27:16+00:00
> * The bed looks too short to be practically useful.

Have you looked at the mainstream 'small' truck market lately?

Small in quotes, because actual small trucks disappeared, and we're left with mid sized trucks as the smallest. Used to be you could get a 6-ft bed standard and an optional longer bed on a small truck. Fuel efficiency standards now dictate you can't have that without a larger truck and worse fuel efficency.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-08-02 18:27:33+00:00
I think that loneliness is a real problem and a tragedy for many.

I think that loneliness is linked to status, perhaps tenuously. Status is generally zero sum, so those that think it is "easily solvable" (through non-automation means) may not be thinking it through.

I have hope that AI will, in many ways, address the issue. And I think that is fantastic.
by matthewfcarlson | 2025-08-02 18:28:02+00:00
Exactly. I love that it's small. I used to have a 4 door full length bed GMC and it felt like driving a boat. Seattle was particularly awful. My current garage is only 210 inches deep (5.334 m) so most trucks will not fit in my current house (very first world problems I know). But yes, smaller, lower cost, and does everything I need a truck for.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-02 18:28:02+00:00
It would be interesting to know if you could write software to take a video with these flashes in it, post-process them out, morph the video to be taken from another angle, add in a different signature. Then claim the first video is fake and that the 2nd video is the true unedited version.

Total Relighting SIGGRAPH Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUi_q0wkq4

Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJCT3D8t0M

Changing the view point post process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WrG5-xH1_k
by alexharri | 2025-08-02 18:28:09+00:00
Hmm, good idea. There are names that have the exact same pronunciation yet have different patterns of declension, for example:

- Ástvaldur -> ur,,i,ar - Baldur -> ur,ur,ri,urs

The "aldur" ending is pronounced in the exact same manner, but applying the declension pattern of "Ástvaldur" to "Baldur" would yield:

- Baldur - Bald - Baldi - Baldar

The three last forms feel very wrong (I asked my partner to verify and she cringed).

Spoken Icelandic is surprisingly close to its written form. I wouldn't expect very different results for the trie if a "phonetic" version of names and their endings were used instead of their written forms
by kens | 2025-08-02 18:28:36+00:00
I'm not sure what the FM demodulator produces when it's mistuned, but I'm guessing that you'd get pretty much no output, rather than white noise (since there's no frequency for the demodulator to lock onto). The problem for the user is that you wouldn't know if your batteries are dead or if you just haven't found the station. By adding a "hiss" between stations, the radio has better usability
by frankharv | 2025-08-02 18:28:57+00:00
In reality what the article says is they needed adult-sitters.

Family at first but USE PROFESSIONALS. Due to scummy ins company wanting docs.

How is that health care? Babysitting is now health care???

We need a better way to deal with dementia. Not health care.

A literal babysitter to make sure they eat and don't run into the street.

I don't see dementia as sickness. Brain illness maybe.

So we have to warehouse these feeble folk. That is the problem.

We need a more humane way rather than Doctor K's method..

What about the poor old guys girlfriend?
by bee_rider | 2025-08-02 18:29:13+00:00
I think it is a current propaganda or messaging strategy: you say “In the uncut recording of the interview, I made really good points, but they spliced it up to make me look stupid,” or “In the uncut version of the interview, my opponent said a bunch of nonsense, but they cut it out.” This works because the broadcaster isn’t going to play the uncut version, and even if they did, nobody would bother watching it.
by seadan83 | 2025-08-02 18:30:00+00:00
The stats for collisions from rear are surprising, rarest way to get hit on a bike (and most of those are no lights at night).

It turns out, moving closer to the center of the lane reduces the chances of the most likely directions of impact - namely turning traffic. Either turning left as an oncoming vehicle, turning out from a side road or driveway, of someone that is overtaking you and then turns right.

I've found low speed crashes really want a helmet. Things like you roll sideways off the bike. You are not moving fast but are rotating quickly. (So back hits ground followed by back of head)

FWIW, I just noticed the common irrational rational fear of being run over from behind. It is a common mistake. Riding to the extreme right can make it worse, it is an invitation to pass when instead the cyclist is just afraid. Taking a little more room on a road (situationally) can make a person a lot safer.