MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dathinab | 2025-08-14 22:46:07+00:00
France is worse in the index.

UK, Canada, Spain are similar ranked.

Norway is better ranked, sure so are most other Nordic countries.

But the difference between a (using their terms) "full democracy" and a noticeable better (in the index) "full democracy" is much less noticeable then the difference between a "full democracy" and a "flawed democracy".

The other thing is that is a more then imperfect index. To be able to create such an index you need to select metrics and criteria which are strongly oversimplified. Weather or not this can lead to a bias. Also there is a time delay e.g. 2025 stats are not yet out.

Anyway I'm really getting off topic. The more relevant thing is, that it doesn't matter too much if there are better (or worse) of countries in the index. What rally matters is that you see where your country can improve an try to push for it, even if it's just with voting, otherwise you will stagnate improvements once you reach a relative high standard.
by mitchellh | 2025-08-14 22:46:08+00:00
We also use gir to auto-generate our bindings. But stuff like this is not represented in gir: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/7548dcfe634cd9... It could EASILY be represented in a wrapper (e.g. with a Drop trait) but that implies a well-written wrapper, which is my argument. It's not inherent in the safety Rust gives you.

EDIT:

I looked it up because I was curious, and a Drop trait is exactly what they do: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/blob/b7559d3026ce06838... and as far as I can tell this is manually written, not automatically generated from gir.

So the safety does rely on the human, not the machine.
by missedthecue | 2025-08-14 22:46:31+00:00
Hmm. Doesn't include ongoing costs. The yacht for example will cost $1-4m a year simply to own it, and that's ongoing cost forever. The jet will have a similar figure. A $45m mansion isn't cheap to keep running either. Purchase these things and suddenly you're on an unsustainable financial path with a $1b completely liquid net worth. Forget about charitable giving. $20m of gifts annually put you deep in the red.
by stargrazer | 2025-08-14 22:46:51+00:00
I wouldn't have minded the newly inserted ads in Netflix or Prime Video. But they just throw the ads in during mid-sentence. Are they putting ads in using a random number generator? What happened to the accepted practice of putting in ads where they natural break occurs? It really throws out the flow of the moment. Major irritation. You know, how TV and Cable typically have done it.
by arghwhat | 2025-08-14 22:47:49+00:00
Water availability is a regional climate change impact, which does not apply everywhere due to differences in water sourcing and weather patterns and how climate change affects these.

It's very stupid to evaporate potable water on purpose in dry regions, but note that many numbers in this area are highly sensationalized by taking e.g. the maximum design capacity of the cooling system instead of the actual load, and that there are several other cooling solutions. Most proper facts die tragic deaths before they make it to mainstream news media. :/
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-14 22:48:51+00:00
Bitcoin does seem like a great store of value, but as far as I know transacting with it is still quite expensive, and obviously not accepted in most places. Watching the USD be devalued in real time while BTC or Gold maintain value does drive home its utility as a store of value for sure.

But I can't buy groceries or pay rent with it, so i don't see how it works for the usecase I was talking about above. There's lots of ways to convert back and forth but you pay fees on each conversion so it's not economical to use for payments.
by zeeZ | 2025-08-14 22:49:33+00:00
There's:

-the ID card which trusts the government PKI and has its own private key and certificate

- the application that does some certificate checks and facilitates communication between the card and an eID server

- an eID server which is connected to the PKI and regularly received short lived certificates to present to the card, does revocation checks, validity checks and a bunch of other stuff. Also provides a list of fingerprints of TLS certificates of eID services allowed for the session

- an eID service which opens a session with the eID server indicating requested data and ultimately receives this data from the eID server. They own the legalese certificate of which data they have access to.

- maybe another provider wrapping all this and the required certifications,. compliance and hardware into an easy to use API. But could also all be the same.

It could be argued that the government has influence on the eID server providers - which do the actual communication with the card and are the first to receive the data before passing it on - via access to the necessary PKI, but they're not directly involved in the communication.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-14 22:49:38+00:00
>What is the mathematical formula for a valid court order?

This is a political / social issue. A human has to decide.

>How does it look different from a court order signed by a judge held at gunpoint?

It doesn't. You could similarly hold developers at gunpoint to push malicous updates too or at users to give them their messages. Putting people at gunpoint is illegal.

>How does it look different from a court order signed by a dictator's minion?

Judges could have their own private key so it would be noticeable that the minions private key would not be trusted.

>How does it prevent someone from tricking a judge into signing an order to decrypt message 2421425241 instead of 2421475241?

It doesn't. This is solved by laws that make such an action illegal to do

>What is stopping the service from accepting invalid court orders?

They want to protect the privacy of their users so they should reject invalid court orders.

>What is stopping the service from just decrypting everything for convenience?

They would not have the keys LE has. So it could be setup such that LE's keys are required to decrypt something.
by Eupolemos | 2025-08-14 22:49:58+00:00
What, in your opinion, is wrong with a bit of monetization?

I know it can produce some posts of less value, but it also pulls the blogger back in and allows professionals in certain areas to not feel they give put high quality out there for absolutely nothing.

I just mean, I can see the pros, but not really serious cons, so I'm wondering what your take is?
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-14 22:50:15+00:00
Yes!

I remember first implementing this in Planimeter Game Engine 2D, we got a massive resolution list from SDL (through LÖVE, which is what we're built on).

If I remember correctly, we filtered the list ourselves by allowing users to explicitly select supported display ratios first, then showing the narrowed list from there. Not great. Technically there's a 683:384 ratio in there.[1]

But it did enough of the job that users who knew what resolution they wanted to pick in the first place didn't have to scroll a gargantuan list!

[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/game-engine-2d/blob/v9.0.1/eng...
by antod | 2025-08-14 22:50:30+00:00
Agreed. I find LLMs incredibly useful for my work and I'm amazed at what they can do.

But I'm really worried that the benefits are very localized, and that the externalized costs are vast, and the damage and potential damage isn't being addressed. I think that they could be one of the greatest ever drivers of inequality as a privileged few profit at the expense of the many.

Any debates seem neglect this as they veer off into AGI Skynet fantasy land damage rather than grounded real world damage. This seems to be deliberate distraction.
by tzs | 2025-08-14 22:53:12+00:00
IDPs and certificate authorities can be the same with no problem if you design your protocol so that the porn sites do not see your certificates. E.g., IDP issues you signed identity credentials. To prove age to the porn site a ZKP is used to prove to the porn site that you have signed credentials that give you age as 18+ but without giving the porn site any information other than that.

The ZKP approach is what the EU is doing.

Note that in the article the objection to ZKP systems is not that they don't work correctly (because they do work). It is that it can be hard for some people to obtain IDs, it may cost to much for some sites, it could be hard to regulate IDPs effectively, and things like that.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-14 22:53:26+00:00
The chart was based on 2022, the first election after redistricting. Since it wasn't a presidential election, and Trump wasn't present as a polarizing influence, it makes sense that the numbers would change greatly in 2024. You can do the math on your own for Maryland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Re...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Re...

In both cases the Republicans win one house district in a very boring district boundary. The republican advantage comes from local senate and house election results.
by shekhar101 | 2025-08-14 22:53:40+00:00
FYI: owhisper pull whisper-cpp-large-turbo-q8 Failed to download model.ggml: Other error: Server does not support range requests. Got status: 200 OK

But the base-q8 works (and works quite well!). The TUI is really nice. Speaker diarization would make it almost perfect for me. Thanks for building this.
by arjie | 2025-08-14 22:53:45+00:00
Obviously not. I did the experiment with a finger pulse ox and a Garmin device to check. You just hold your breath. My Apple watch was pretty good at it too. It's very uncomfortable and you'll get visual snow but I'm not dead, super or otherwise. Use your hand to clamp over your mouth and shut your nostrils if you want to try.
by arghwhat | 2025-08-14 22:54:23+00:00
The water cycle refills drained reservoirs - the "carbon cycle" is not one we want to be part of.

Also note that there's other cooling solutions than evaporative cooling, such as closed loop water cooling with chillers, cooling with sea water, using heat pumps to redirect the heat to district heating loops (making use of the heat!), just building in colder places requiring less cooling, etc.
by Terretta | 2025-08-14 22:54:23+00:00
> I've never actually heard of anyone being declined for not having social media

In late June 2025, the US announced that for inbound students from abroad it will be screening socials, and lack of an unlocked social footprint may be a disqualifier.

This brings the gov in line with private industry, as employers that do actual background checks (as opposed to, say, credit checks) are shown flags if socials are all locked or none exist.

This matters most in industries which are required by their regulators to do and/or maintain backgrounds.
by Levitz | 2025-08-14 22:54:35+00:00
>It's not the fault of BlueSky or their users

I'd actually argue against this. although I'd probably blame Reddit more.

It is now normal for social media to be composed of echo chambers and that's because administrations and users enable and seek that. If someone's to blame more than Twitter/Reddit and their respective users I'm missing it, and on that note, blocklists as a functionality in BlueSky are there precisely to protect echo chambers.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-14 22:54:42+00:00
For reference:

Season 1: Amazon Prime Video (also, Netflix)

Season 2: Amazon Prime Video Channels

3-5: Prime Video

6-13: Prime Video Channels (with 10-13 also available on the Roku Channel)

14-19: Prime Video (with 17-19 also on Netflix)

20-22: Prime Video Channels (and Hulu, and the Roku Channel)

23-25: Prime Video (and Netflix)

So, they're all on Amazon in some sense. I was aware that there was some kind of concept of Prime Video Channels, but when I tried to find an explanation on Amazon's website, I failed.
by agentcoops | 2025-08-14 22:54:52+00:00
I'm biased, but very fond of the open-access introductory textbooks used where I studied. The department was very much pure maths, but the intro classes were accessible to general liberal arts students. I think the texts are relatively unique in that they're very proof oriented, yet with a pedagogical style that doesn't assume the reader is a future graduate student.

For calculus, three options to see if you like a particular author's style of explanation: http://people.reed.edu/~mayer/math111.html/math111.pdf - the most pedagogical http://people.reed.edu/~mayer/math111.html/math111.pdf - the most beautiful https://people.reed.edu/~jerry/111/calc.pdf - the most technical

For introduction to mathematical analysis and proof: http://people.reed.edu/~mayer/math112.html/math112.pdf

For multivariable calculus: https://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/notes_papers/math/calcul... [1]

For linear algebra, we used the relatively standard Friedberg Insel and Spence [2], but I hear good things about https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/.

[1] Link is off university domain, since apparently it was at some point turned into a bit more hardcore textbook oriented towards those going onto graduate studies in mathematics. If curious: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Analysis-Euclidean-Undergrad...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-4th-Stephen-Friedberg/...
by sdesol | 2025-08-14 22:55:35+00:00
> It's all pretty subjective I think.

This is very measurable, as you are not measuring against others, but yourself. The baseline is you, so it is very easy to determine if you become more productive or not. What you are saying is, you do not believe "you" can leverage AI to be more efficient than you currently are, which may well be true due to your domain and expertise.
by Aunche | 2025-08-14 22:57:10+00:00
> The exact same thing is true in reverse.

This is an odd thing to say when Steve Jobs achieved most of his success after parting ways with Woz. Jobs was the product guy at Apple. He laser focused on every detail to make sure that the experience was perfect.

Jobs wasn't an engineer, but there were plenty of talented engineers at Microsoft working for years on Windows Mobile (before Windows Phone) because it was so unintuitive. By contrast, the original iPhone was a decade ahead of it's time in terms of design. It had pinch-to-zoom, a proximity sensor to prevent accidental touches during calls, a light sensor that adjusted brightness, and an accelerometer for landscape and portrait mode. These features were originally considered gimmicks, but it turned out to be indispensable.
by anon191928 | 2025-08-14 22:57:24+00:00
sure but all of those are not that sustainable long term. Denmark made retirement age 70 and that will change in the future because your social economy is not sustainable. This also includes a lot of government things in USA.

$10M and more buys true freedom and reach to global travel and countries. All of those free things in Europe require certain level of native labor and population aging fast is not helpin that across globe.
by LambdaComplex | 2025-08-14 22:57:59+00:00
I like Linux because it gives me the freedom to make my system behave how I want. The GNOME devs seem to think that GNOME should only behave how they want. For example, last time I checked, GNOME required a third-party plugin just to move the clock from the center of the status bar to the side.

I'm not at all surprised to see that this mindset extends to GTK.
by exe34 | 2025-08-14 22:58:28+00:00
I'm sorry to say, the first few are all bullshit. Landlords will absolutely pass on interest rates to you, whether or not they have a mortgage. "muh market rates".

the only things that make sense is if you're planning to move in the next ten years and "risk tolerance", which is an issue if you expect to lose your job in the next few months.

or you can budget such that you could still pay off your mortgage on minimum wage - it won't be a big expensive house, but it'll be yours.
by rprend | 2025-08-14 22:58:35+00:00
Apple does not only gain by disintermediating Visa. Apple takes a cut on every purchase through Apple Pay (.15%), which is more than Visa's cut (.14%). Apple probably hasn't made a payment network because it would have to either create a settlement network (which is hard even for Apple, and Visa/Mastercard as settlement networks get less of a cut than Apple does without bothering), or Apple would have to buy a bank and become an issuer. Why don't they buy a bank? Maybe Visa / Mastercard scared them away from it. Maybe they don't want to deal with underwriting and return risks and all of that. It does deviate quite far from their core business.
by justsid | 2025-08-14 22:58:41+00:00
Not just that, we actually ship Zink with our Vulkan based game because for absolutely insane reasons many years ago the decision was made to expose a GL context to plugins for graphics work. The hardest part was to provide a couple of required extensions and massaging Zink to use our Vulkan device with our extensions and also stub out its memory allocator for ours. Oh, and making sure we get to get dibs on loading opengl32.dll/libgl.so that translates into Zink.

It weirdly sounds crazier than it is. Mike is an absolute legend for all of his work on Zink.

Edit: Clicked on your link and they are directly talking about work there. Serves me right for not reading it first.
by card_zero | 2025-08-14 22:58:46+00:00
Ironic, because we didn't know the art was improved by the subtle texture of imperfections. We were totally going for maximum hyperrealism and clean precision. I had the same experience of craving an airbrush, obtaining an airbrush, then within a year seeing a demo of 32-bit color graphics editing (a museum had a computer set up for the public to try it out) and feeling silly.
by kragen | 2025-08-14 22:59:17+00:00
Yachts and houses are boring. Can't you think of anything you'd rather do with your life than live in a house and go sailing? You can do that without money!

A million dollars is, roughly speaking, a person-year of dedicated professional services from a world-class professional of almost any profession. There are a few exceptions, like stockbrokers, surgeons, and some kinds of lawyers. But a billion dollars buys you, say, 1000 person-years of the best professionals.

For millions of dollars, you could have your own vaccination program, your own particle accelerator, your own web browser, your own steel mill, your own religious cult, your own pyramid, your own AI research lab, your own permaculture experiment station, your own rare book collection (which you could digitize), and so on.

That's leaving aside personal consumption of things like a diplomatic passport from a foreign country, a private doctor, a comfortable apartment in a former missile silo, and a helicopter to get to it with. Your yacht isn't going to do you much good if you get arrested in a foreign country on trumped-up charges because you unintentionally insulted the wrong guy's daughter, or if your cancer goes undiagnosed until stage 4.
by wiredpancake | 2025-08-14 23:00:13+00:00
Now you are delving into small intricacies and "gotchas" which are just meaningless.

The problem is simple. People don't want to switch between 10 different streaming services, pay 10x a month, swap every second month, unsubscribe from X and re-subscribe to Y after going through a torturous process of unsubscribing. Different sites with different DRM, some might block Firefox, some might not work on an older MiniPC, some might not work or exist on the built in apps on my TV.

We as consumers shouldn't have to go through all these hoops just to watch stuff. Originally, I would buy a DVD (or even rent it) and then plop the DVD in the DVD player and it would work. It would work 10 years from now (assuming no disc-rot). It would work on my PC's DVD player, it would work on my TV. It wouldn't tell me my OS is out of date or that my internet connection is unstable. I could then go give you the DVD and you could watch it. It was simple.

For the sake of your argument, even if piracy was 100x harder and 10x more expensive than Subscriptions services (which its not), watching the entire series of Pokemon is still a pain and is still stupid and deserves to be called out for it.
by ayhanfuat | 2025-08-14 23:00:21+00:00
I also switched to the sport one and I like it because I sweat a lot and use it while swimming and it dries quickly. But if I don’t wear it uncomfortably tight while sleeping it gets looser probably because I move a lot while sleeping. One thing I noticed is that the biggest drops in measured o2 levels happen while I wake up to go to the bathroom. Normally it only measures while your wrist is flat and the watch is facing up but it is probably not able to detect it that quickly.
by jychang | 2025-08-14 23:00:27+00:00
Why not? It takes models of a certain size to contain xyz neuron/feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkfIQ4IGaM

That's not a mirage, it's clearly capability that a smaller model cannot demonstrate. A model with less parameters and less hidden layers cannot have a neuron that lights up when it detects a face.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-14 23:00:27+00:00
> 2. Highest resolution/bitrate/quality that was available at the time of the work's original release.

I paid for Disney+ to watch Andor at 4K, only to find out that you can't - Disney+ prohibits anything over 1K on computers whether you use the app or a browser. Went back to piracy very quickly after that. More fragmented experience is annoying, not even being able to get the highest quality as a paying customer is insane.
by arjie | 2025-08-14 23:00:43+00:00
It's kind of nostalgic. Man, back in the day people would flip out on you if you used the wrong technology: "You fucking microserf!"

There's a strange sense of joy I feel about someone being upset that he made a blockchain app. In some parallel universe we're still in the old world of the '90s culturally and engineers go online to yell at each other for which data structure they use. "You asshole! Did you just use distributed hash tables?!"
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-14 23:00:45+00:00
Even people with sleep apnea don't know they are waking up multiple times an hour all night. You really have no clue how you're sleeping until you put it to the test.

Also, I don't think most people are in a position where they feel like they have amazing sleep every night. Yeah, maybe those people have nothing to gain from gadgets kind of like a person at ideal weight doesn't gain anything from counting calories: but what about the rest of us?

My wrist device was critical in helping me realize how few hours I was sleeping despite being in bed with my eyes closed for 8 hours.
by foldr | 2025-08-14 23:01:19+00:00
That’s an example where there’s not much point in arguing against your proposal precisely because of the impossibility of establishing any kind of shared frame of reference. If people are trying to put you in concentration camps then the time for reasoned argument has most likely passed. On the other hand, people who support and oppose these sorts of age verification laws might actually have a lot of common ground, if they’d take the time to find it.
by llm_nerd | 2025-08-14 23:01:36+00:00
You have to share your contact information, including DoB, and then be approved access, to obtain the models, and given that it's Meta I assume they're actually validating it against their All Humans database.

They made their own DINOv3 license for this release (whereas DINOv2 used the Apache 2.0 license).

Neat though. Will still check it out.

As a first comment, I had to install the latest transformer==4.56.0dev (e.g. pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) for it to work properly. 4.55.2 and earlier was failing with a missing image type in the config.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-08-14 23:01:42+00:00
> Because of the decentralised nature it is very difficult to discover new users. You have to think of it as a technology similar to email or RSS feeds. The natural flow to find new addresses, URLs, or nodes, is because you have been given the address or because you have seen a link on a website. Org-social is the same. You have to share your address with your friends or on social media.

Feels like it's missing the point.