MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grepnork | 2025-08-13 17:49:23+00:00
>Then what happens if you don't have ID

On arrest, you're required to provide your name and address, not proof. For the absolute majority of UK adults, it takes exactly 2 minutes to verify that data against public records - passport, driving licence, council tax, voter registration.

Lying in that situation is a separate criminal offence all of its own.

>satisfy some shit algorithm that misidentified you as some known threat

Matches with a confidence rating of <0.64 are automatically deleted >0.7 is considered reliable enough to present to a human operator, and before any action is taken a serving police officer must verify the match, and upon arrest verify the match against the human.

>What if your child falls victim to a false identification

The age of criminal responsibility is 10, and absent any personal identification parental identification is the standard everywhere.

>15-year-old Child Q

The good old slippery slope fallacy. Both the officers who strip searched that child were fired for gross misconduct. North of 50,000 children are arrested each year and this happened once.

>Do you really want more unnecessary interactions with the police for yourself or those you care about when your "suspicious behaviour" was having an algorithm judge that your face looked like someone else's?

Thing is 12 months on, 1035 arrests, over 700 charges, and that hasn't happened because the point of testing the scheme thoroughly was to stop that from happening.

What proof do you have that it doesn't work.
by bangaladore | 2025-08-13 17:49:25+00:00
> For a true master of the art, see 3blue1brown.

I agree. Rather than (what I assume is) E2E text -> video/audio output, it seems like training a model on how to utilize the community fork of manim which 3blue1brown uses for videos would produce a better result.

[1] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
by mrtksn | 2025-08-13 17:49:57+00:00
Such a sad development, Young people need to drink more and socialize. No wonder the virginity rates are skyrocketing. You don't get into situations by getting stoned at home.

Sure it is bad for your body but when used in moderation the benefits are much much more than that risk. What a scam the weed culture is. Maybe we should ban it again together with the social media to save the birth rates and the society in general.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-13 17:49:59+00:00
In my experience, a small/tiny whisper model has pretty okay English decoding speed on something relatively modern even without GPU support. There's a bunch of latency in the process (because of technological limitations) but the optimised C++ version shouldn't pose too much of a problem unless you're running in power saving mode. Battery life may be a problem on older laptops, though.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-08-13 17:50:02+00:00
> This means that investors are pricing companies as if though interests rates can be lowered. I don't think they can, because inflation in the US already quite high despite the 4.5% interest rates and with these tariffs upon that, it probably can't be lowered.

This is why Trump is replacing people doing the statistics with people who very publicly say that they will print what Trump wants. He really wants to cut rates, and I think he will eventually get his way.
by jadamson | 2025-08-13 17:50:21+00:00
> Those 'niche' forums you mention are explicitly excluded from the Act.

No, they are not.

> Our research indicates that over 100,000 online services are likely to be in scope of the Online Safety Act – from the largest social media platforms to the smallest community forum. We know that new regulation can create uncertainty – particularly for small organisations that may be run on a part time or voluntary basis.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...
Show HN: Tool that helps you improve DR 10x cheaper and 1,000x faster
by rokbenko | 2025-08-13 17:50:46+00:00
Hi, I’m Rok! I recently started my solopreneur journey and quickly realized how much Domain Rating (DR) impacts traffic and growth, so I looked into existing directory listing services.

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by jvanderbot | 2025-08-13 17:51:01+00:00
COL adjustments are not labor supply/demand. You don't pay a high COL because you want a candidate from SF Bay Area (unless you have your office there). Companies pay a lower salary in lower COL areas (relative to their target salary), because they have an excuse to and can save money. That's just how it is, I've been on that side of the table. Senior leaders saying "We're not going to pay them the same salary if they're living in nowhere kansas!!"

Thought experiment: Get a job, then move to a higher COL area, do you expect a raise? No. Move to a lower COL area: Somehow we expect lower salary?
by inanutshellus | 2025-08-13 17:51:11+00:00
This guy's website is missing the requisite twenty-plus advertisements, and auto-play videos and overlays (and AI-generated content) that I've become accustomed to from niche websites.

It's so prevalent and horrible that going to real websites is painful now.

... from a user perspective, ironically, the answer seems to be "talk to an AI to avoid AI generated junk content".
by delbronski | 2025-08-13 17:51:45+00:00
Wow, I was skeptical at first, but the result was pretty awesome!

Congrats! Cool product.

Feedback: I tried making a product explainer video for a tree planting rover I’m working on. The rover looked different in every scene. I can imagine this kind of consistency may be more difficult to get right. Maybe if I had uploaded a photo of how the rover looks it may have helped. In one scene the rover looks like an actual rover, in the other it looks like a humanoid robot.

But still, super impressed!
by snapetom | 2025-08-13 17:51:46+00:00
This is not limited to Canonical. This is happening across the board because it's a buyer's market for labor. The game is stacked against job applicants. A posting on LinkedIn will attract hundreds of applicants, and as recruiter friends tell me, they'll get dozens of qualified people that can do the job. Blame the internet, blame globalization, blame remote work.

At best companies act in good faith but are dysfunctional/incompetent to make this an efficient process. At worst, employers are exploiting the current labor situation to their advantage.

Will this ever change back? I don't think so unless you can eliminate the internet and AI systems.
by whimsicalism | 2025-08-13 17:51:48+00:00
i think it’s pretty clear GP is not saying it is worthwhile and is actually implicitly criticizing the practice.

> high school performance is a statistical proxy for class (wealth). In the US, it is a statistical proxy for ethnicity as well.

the degree to which this claim about wealth is true is impacted by confounders. it is generally less true than commonly stated. outside of the public sector, that a measure is correlated with race/ethnicity/class does not make it a priori illegal to hire based on.
Show HN: AI Inbx – The Email Inbox for Your AI Agents (Free Beta)
by paukraft | 2025-08-13 17:52:07+00:00
I’m launching AI Inbx — an email inbox purpose-built for AI agents.

For developers: this is a service to integrate into your agents via SDKs/API (TypeScript & Python) and webhooks.

Problem: email threads break in the real world (missing In-Reply-To, subject drift, replies from different addresses). Agents lose context.

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by symbolicAGI | 2025-08-13 17:52:09+00:00
Grok says you are right (https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_ddbace62-c299-4b7b-9...) however...

https://github.com/iluwatar/java-design-patterns

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework

https://github.com/apache/kafka

https://github.com/neo4j

https://github.com/inforkgodara/store-poshttps://github.com/...
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-13 17:52:41+00:00
A lot of subtitles from commercial media use a subtitle format that's essentially a bitmap that the video player overlays on top of the video. There are tools to decode this using OCR, but it's not something I'd enable by default.

For text/srt subtitles, translation would probably be easier. There's a plugin for that already if you're okay with online translation services: https://github.com/nopium/vlc-trans-lua
by legohead | 2025-08-13 17:53:11+00:00
We didn't set out to hide our GDPR requests, we put them behind our Support/Legal button. But we got sued anyway, and we lost.

Now we have to have the "delete my data" and "request my data" as part of our main settings list. Result: flooded with requests. People are clicking the buttons just because they are there. For me it's not a big deal, I automate all the requests. But, I still feel like this went too far.
by yesfitz | 2025-08-13 17:53:12+00:00
Whatever the closest shared government you have pays more to provide services to sparsely-populated areas than densely-populated ones.

But frequently, those governments do not charge people who live in sparsely-populated areas enough to cover those increased costs.

For example, a mile of urban street/utilities might serve 40,000 people, while a mile of suburban street/utilities may serve 400.

There's a decent amount of writing and videos on the subject, both for[1] and against[2]. The "for" arguments have convinced me because they use data and are presented by experts in urban planning and government, while the "against" arguments rely on appealing to principles/emotion and are frequently presented by politicians who treat the suggestion as a cultural threat.

1: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

2: https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/do-cities-really-subsidiz...
by const_cast | 2025-08-13 17:53:34+00:00
No, that sense is not there, because we don't have any "no drugs for children" laws. Those don't exist - drugs are illegal across the board, unless they're prescribed, but prescription drugs are good for kids.

The closest thing we have is tobacco and alcohol. But that's still very far off.

Its true children can't buy alcohol, but they can't buy Internet access either. But, they can drink alcohol, and they can view the internet.

There's nothing stopping a parent from just giving little Timmy wine. All bets are off once you show ID at the corner store and go home.

Similarly, all bets are off after you show ID and proof of residence to your Teleco and they install Internet connection. ... Until now.

This is an entirely novel and never before seen type of law and type of reasoning. It may seem, on the surface, reasonable or done before. But if you think about it, it's not.

This isn't your typical brand of "think of the children".
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-13 17:53:43+00:00
I am admittedly biased here as I slowly seem to become a heavier LLM user ( both local and chatgpt ) and FWIW, I completely understand the level of concern, because, well, people in aggregate are idiots. Individuals can be smart, but groups of people? At best, it varies.

Still, is the solution more hand holding, more lock-in, more safety? I would argue otherwise. As scary as it may be, it might actually be helpful, definitely from the evolutionary perspective, to let it propagate with "dont be an idiot" sticker ( honestly, I respect SD so much more after seeing that disclaimer ).

And if it helps, I am saying this as mildly concerned parent.

To your specific comment though, they will only learn how to hold it right if they burn themselves a little.
by ysavir | 2025-08-13 17:53:51+00:00
Thanks for sharing the link, I hadn't seen that before! Very serious allegations there.

> Calling in the guard is not overreach when a city is demanding it through inaction.

Is the city calling for protection, though? There's a big difference between police departments fabricating data and a need for intervention, whether through taking control of the city police or bringing in the national guard. What's the actual situation? Why is the Trump administration militarizing the city instead of running statistics to get actual crime numbers?
by thaumaturgy | 2025-08-13 17:53:59+00:00
FWIW I have been using and relying on Dehydrated to handle LetsEncrypt automation for something like 10 years, at least. I think there was one production-breaking change in that time, and to the best of my recollection, it wasn't a Dehydrated-specific issue, it was a change to the ACME protocol. I remember the resolution for that being super easy, just a matter of updating the Dehydrated client and touching a config file.

It has been one of the most reliable parts of my infrastructure and I have to think about it so rarely that I had to go dig the link out of my automation repository.
by sgammon | 2025-08-13 17:54:27+00:00
This is great, but you should post it to: https://github.com/oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata

... as a PR, so that, when merged, other users can pull it into their build automatically, merely by looking up from the relevant dependency's maven coordinates.

You can also ship this metadata as part of the library artifact itself[1], by placing configurations at the JAR resource path `META-INF/native-image/<group-id>/<artifact-id>/reachability-metadata.json`, etc

[1]: https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image...
by crazygringo | 2025-08-13 17:54:39+00:00
I mean, subtitles are mostly the same.

Sometimes they're edited down simply for space, because there wouldn't be time to easily read all the dialog otherwise. And sometimes repetition of words or phrases is removed, because it's clearer, and the emphasis is obvious from watching the moving image. And filler words like "uh" or "um" generally aren't included unless they were in the original script.

Most interestingly, swearing is sometimes toned down, just by skipping it -- removing an f-word in a sentence or similar. Not out of any kind of puritanism, but because swear words genuinely come across as more powerful in print than they do in speech. What sounds right when spoken can sometimes look like too much in print.

Subtitles are an art. Determining when to best time them, how to split up long sentences, how to handle different speakers, how to handle repetition, how to handle limited space. I used to want subtitles that were perfectly faithful to what was spoken. Then I actually got involved in making subtitles at one point, and was very surprised to discover that perfectly faithful subtitles didn't actually do the best job of communicating meaning.

Fictional subtitles aren't court transcripts. They serve the purpose of storytelling, which is the combination of a visible moving image full of emotion and action, and the subtitles. Their interplay is complex.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-13 17:54:40+00:00
This is actually why I always considered Brave New World to be much closer in predicting the future, at least in spirit if not in hard details. Let people access personal distractions, conveniences and pleasures on your road to total surveillance, and attempts at social control, and you can apply them with very little need to ever enforce miseries like those of "1984"
by NelsonMinar | 2025-08-13 17:54:48+00:00
AxiDraw from Evil Mad Scientist was what a lot of us were buying a few years ago. He's now part of Bantam Tools and is making a thing called the NextDraw. Same design but better built and a lot more expensive. https://bantamtools.com/collections/bantam-tools-nextdraw

There's a world of cheaper unbranded Chinese plotters that folks are using that seem to work well. Quality does matter, you want something very precise and stable.
by riazrizvi | 2025-08-13 17:55:04+00:00
Laws have to be enforceable. When a technology comes along that breaks enforceability, the law/society changes. See also prohibition vs expansion of homebrewing 20’s/30’s, censorship vs expansion of media production 60’s/70’s, encryption bans vs open source movement 90’s, music sampling markets vs music electronics 80’s/90’s…
by creesch | 2025-08-13 17:55:05+00:00
> When I'm reading a transcript

That's the thing though, subtitles aren't intended as full transcripts. They are intended to allow a wide variety of people to follow the content.

A lot of people read slower than they would hear speech. So subtitles often need to condense or rephrase speech to keep pace with the video. The goal is usually to convey meaning clearly within the time available on screen. Not to capture every single word.

If they tried to be fully verbatim, you'd either have subtitles disappearing before most viewers could finish reading them or large blocks of text covering the screen. Subtitlers also have to account for things like overlapping dialogue, filler words, and false starts, which can make exact transcriptions harder to read and more distracting in a visual medium.

I mean, yeah in your own native language I agree it sort of sucks if you can still hear the spoken words as well. But, to be frank, you are also the minority group here as far as subtitle target audiences go.

And to be honest, if they were fully verbatim, I'd wager you quickly would be annoyed as well. Simply because you will notice how much attention they then draw, making you less able to actually view the content.
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 17:55:15+00:00
Fair enough - but the humans and the need for a cab is not significant. Those weights are still added based on the implement, and removed for other operations. They are also heavier than the cab + human in many cases. They are also added in front of the front axle, or behind the rear, while the human weight affects both axles (not evenly, but close enough)
by bdcravens | 2025-08-13 17:55:46+00:00
I can only speak to my personal experience, in Vegas, but the electronic machines have become pretty unfriendly to casual players who just want to enjoy themselves. Gone are the true 1-25 cent machines, replaced with games that pretty much require you to wager dollars at a time. Plus Vegas has gotten more entertainment oriented over time, so that the casinos really aren't that interesting anymore. The trend away from smoking probably plays a role, with few casino floors being smoke-free.
by exe34 | 2025-08-13 17:55:56+00:00
> Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, has no such inherent ceiling. It can develop far beyond the capabilities of our own minds, and perhaps that’s where our focus should be.

Basically bicycles are limited by muscles, and we should move straight to jet engines. In practice, we often have to go through the intermediate steps to learn how to do the bigger thing.
by x0x0 | 2025-08-13 17:56:09+00:00
Because employees are very expensive, and I don't live in magic pixie land where money is free. Every penny spent on an employee is a foregone opportunity to hire more employees, or require less sales to break even, or deliver dividends to the owners of the company, ie rent for the capital borrowed from them.

You can see this in how engineers don't volunteer to take pay cuts so janitors and fast food employees get paid the same...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-13 17:56:14+00:00
No deaths have ever been reported from an overdose on Marijuana [1], and about 10k people a year die from DUI deaths in the US [2]. There is no safe level of alcohol consumption [3] [4]. There is strong evidence alcohol use leads to cancer [5].

[1] https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/marijuana

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving

[3] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...

[4] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256931v...

[5] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
by didibus | 2025-08-13 17:56:18+00:00
Yes exactly.

The text of human natural language that it is trained on encodes the solutions to many problems as well as a lot of ground truths.

The way I think of it is. First you have a random text generator. This generative "model" in theory can find the solution to all problems that text can describe.

If you had a way to assert if it found the correct solution, you could run it and eventually it would generate the text that describes the working solution.

Obviously inefficient and not practical.

What if you made it so it skipped generating all text that aren't valid sensical English?

Well now it would find the correct solution in way less iterations, but still too slow.

What if it generated only text that made sense to follow the context of the question?

Now you might start to see it 100-shot, 10-shot, maybe even 1-shot some problems.

What if you tuned that to the max? Well you get our current crop of LLMs.

What else can you do to make it better?

Tune the dataset, remove text that describe wrong answers to prior context so it learns not to generate those. Add more quality answers to prior context, add more problems/solutions, etc.

Instead of generating the answer to a mathematical equation the above way, generate the Python code to run to get the answer.

Instead of generating the answer to questions about current real world events/facts (like the weather). Have it generate the web search query to find it.

If you're asking a more complex question, instead of generating the answer directly, have it generate smaller logical steps towards the answer.

Etc.
by ivankra | 2025-08-13 17:56:20+00:00
My favorite trick: NaN boxing. NaN's aren't just for errors, but also for smuggling other data inside. For a double, you have whopping 53 bits of payload, enough to cram in a pointer and maybe a type tag, and many javascript engines do (since JS numbers are double's after all)

https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/05/18/value-representatio...

https://piotrduperas.com/posts/nan-boxing
by tptacek | 2025-08-13 17:56:30+00:00
This is a thread about what appears to be a very significant breakthrough in a major human cancer, and a majority of the comments on it are litigating a political point --- one I agree with you about, for what it's worth --- that doesn't pertain directly to the story and has been hashed out about 7 dozen times on the site this year already.

When you write comments like this, you are literally begging people to take the other side of your argument, which will inevitably have less to do with the technical details of why TB treatments are first-line therapies for bladder cancer and more to do with the First Amendment and visa protections. It's a way of having exactly the same tedious argument on every story, no matter what the story is about.
by littlexsparkee | 2025-08-13 17:56:33+00:00
There's always tisanes like rooibos and herbs (mint, etc). I read that with regular consumption of caffeine you don't tend to notice it anymore (sensitivity aside) which has been my experience. It helps my workouts and getting up but I've never felt like I needed it or it keeps me up (still try to not have it past 3 or 4pm). Agree on tapering liquids near bedtime.