MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jensson | 2025-09-18 03:38:30+00:00
> yeah, for now - it was always close. And they need to succeed only once.

What do you mean, this can just be reverted it isn't like these laws can't be changed. Currently most people don't vote in EU elections, so you don't need much to affect those even if just 10% hates this proposal and go out to vote it would massively effect the outcome.

Therefore its much harder for unpopular things to persist at EU level than country level so far. Until EU has stable parties that is, but currently there is nothing stable at EU level, a tiny thing can change it all.
by wvbdmp | 2025-09-18 03:38:41+00:00
Honestly I find Blender much more offensive as a term, considering it actually comes up in daily life. I never hear anyone say “gimp”. But in context, neither usually bring up the wrong association for me…

In general I think naming is a vastly overblown issue. If bike shedders had their way, we would never have names as nondescript as Apple or Amazon, or as obscure as Google, yet they are wildly, unreasonably successful.

Gimp’s adoption problem lies elsewhere.
by michaelmrose | 2025-09-18 03:39:04+00:00
It is unproven that Trump is literally a Russian spy although that was not at the time even asserted. The entire issue was that Trump's campaign met with literal Russian spies at a time when Trump was in fact in the building although not verifiably at said meeting. The Russians received data useful insofar as targeting the American people with disinfo.

Subsequently Trump called for the Russians to attack the Democrats. They did. They also appear to have targeted the American people with disinfo which could have been aided by the data supplied to them. Ultimately Trump's position towards Russia has evolved into an uncharacteristically and uniquely favorable position for an American president.

If he isn't an actual asset he certainly at least collaborated and communicated with them as a fellow traveler with similar aims at odds with the actual geopolitical aims of America as a nation.
by arp242 | 2025-09-18 03:39:30+00:00
You don't really. I think that's the big worry.

The way to fix it is to change the constitution (for example [1], although bigger changes are probably needed, IMHO anyway, but this is a good start) but the constitution is so hard to change that this is not really feasible in the short to medium term. And making it easier to change the constitution is a catch-22.

And while the Democratic party is obviously tons better than the Republican party, that's only because the Republican party is so awful. The Dems seem to have only tepid interest to fix this at best.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-constitutio...
by Telaneo | 2025-09-18 03:39:36+00:00
> but that doesn't mean we should just delete everything.

Where did this come from? This has nothing to do with anything.

> We still need mechanisms to pay them for it, the more direct the better.

Patreon is a good option, although I wish we had better ones. It's not like Youtube's paying any significant amount to any content creator other than maybe the top 0.01%. Anyone who's tried that has discovered that Youtube's payout is some extra pocket change rather than anything you can actually sustain a business with; hence why everybody who's on Youtube and does it as a business also has a Patreon or does sponsorships, or something else, as that's the only way to make ends meet.

> The value of digital content comes from more than just the final sequence of bytes.

I fail to see what else I would derive value from. I just want the damn file in most cases, with minimal interference., but Youtube seems to always want plop their schlong inbetween the content creator and their audience, to everyone's displeasure.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-18 03:40:40+00:00
>"Leader of the free world", "greatest country on earth" etc.

I don't see Americans referring to their country that way anymore. I think you're arguing with an interlocutor who peaked in the Reagan era and has been on a downtrend ever since.

Personally speaking, as an American, I don't want to lead the free world anymore. I don't want to be the "greatest country in the world" either. I'd rather the US just stick to solving its own problems, and let other countries solve theirs. The whole hero act has clearly been a mistake.
by teleforce | 2025-09-18 03:42:00+00:00
Yes, it seems that the gesture detection is based on the raw time-frequency sEMG signals with data and code for model implementation from the Nature paper available here [1],[2].

[1] sEMG data:

https://fb-ctrl-oss.s3.amazonaws.com/generic-neuromotor-inte...

[2] Code for exploring surface electromyography (sEMG) data and training models associated with Reality Labs' paper:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/generic-neuromotor-inter...
by SR2Z | 2025-09-18 03:42:03+00:00
> I think Bosch is trying to maximize complexity of a safety-critical system by deeply integrating it into all the other bits of the car.

Wait until you hear about how the brake pedal works in hybrids and EVs!

I'm only joking a little. There are good reasons to integrate the brakes with electronics in the car, with regenerative braking being the smallest of them.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-18 03:42:11+00:00
> But that was a super power influencing things

Who said superpowers aren't influencing American discourse today - such as DRAGONBRIDGE [0][1][2] which has made Reddit borderline unusable.

[0] - https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/prc...

[1] - https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/pro-ccp-spamouf...

[2] - https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/google-disrupted-d...
by giardini | 2025-09-18 03:42:24+00:00
SPAM and theatre all-in-one! Believing your child can deflect bullets effectively by holding an 11" x 14" piece of armor is ridiculous. If you want a Captain America shield go ahead and pay the full price for one of vibranium.

What should your child protect? His/Her legs, head, arms or butt (choose only one)?
by hdjrudni | 2025-09-18 03:42:25+00:00
I dunno, if these worked perfectly I don't think it'd be awful to be able to open my fridge and say "what can I make with this" and it could rattle of some suggestions based on my known preferences and even show me images in their new display.

Hands-free while cooking (not having to touch my phone with messy hands) is not a bad thing either.
by dmbche | 2025-09-18 03:42:32+00:00
No, that's the last queried answer. There is no ai in the glasses without a connection, so all it (edit1:it here being the program being run on the glasses, client to the ai between other things)can do (seemingly) is loop around and re-read the last queried answer, which was the mistaken "you've already...".

In the glasses is just a client to the ai. Like there is no ai in your phone when you talk to chatgpt, you are querying it and it will not keep talking to you if you cut off the wifi

The prerecorded responses I speculated about would have been things like "i'm having some connectivity problems, I'm unable to chat at this time, I'll let you know when I'm back." - the same kind of prerecorded things your earbuds tell you when they're low on power.
by laborcontract | 2025-09-18 03:42:50+00:00
Big worry indeed. What puzzles me is that, for all the claims of the death of monoculture, how is it that politics has resisted these fragmentations? How has Trump managed to consolidate power so strongly within the power? I don't keep up with politics, but I suspect even those in the know have no clue either.

Thanks for this link. I wonder how the USA would have fared with that one change in the sentence.
by vunderba | 2025-09-18 03:43:03+00:00
It is surprising!

Unified English Braille which has replaced the older English Braille American Edition uses a lot of "contractions" ('ea', 'be', etc.), shortform words which are combinations of braille (like the braille for 'ab' which can mean 'about'), and wordsigns ('k' for 'knowledge', etc.) in the Grade II forms.

Grade I Braille is closer to what you thinking of.

It's kind of like when you first start studying American Sign Language and realize that a lot of the grammatical structure comes from French Sign Language.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-18 03:43:13+00:00
I had a HTC Vive and I really loved playing VR games, particularly a shooter called Pavlov. Felt pretty social with a ton of absurd custom maps where the actual game was almost secondary to experiencing the immersive and strange maps.

But since I moved I didn't want to screw the base stations in to the walls again and haven't played in a long time. I feel like I probably still would like VR gaming but haven't been tempted enough to buy any of the newer systems since it seems like Meta has fully captured the market and it all seems pretty distasteful now.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-18 03:44:22+00:00
Truly meant without offense, but I'd say if you haven't had a Prusa since the MK2S (which I think predates Bambulab entire existence?) your opinion is outdated and not really relevant anymore.

The out of the box experience between a Bambu printer and a modern Prusa is not noticably different. You'll be onto your first print in 10 minutes with either.

Prusa's product history simply goes back longer to when 3D printers were more hobbyist kit. But they've grown up just the same.

It's a bit like saying a 2025 Lexus is superior to a 2025 Maybach because Mercedes' first car in 1886 was a rickety afair.
by hnfong | 2025-09-18 03:44:54+00:00
I think you're projecting your negative past experiences and trying very hard not to understand the GP's point.

It doesn't matter what the person hired thinks. The important part is whether those making hiring decisions are hiring people with "stellar reputation".

In your case, "everyone knows he can't code", so he doesn't have stellar reputation. If we apply this scenario to what the GP said, no company would have hired a person where "everyone knows he can't code".

You said "He got hired because he was friends with our engineering manager." That's nepotism.

GP says hire somebody with stellar reputation. That's a totally different situation.
by chupchap | 2025-09-18 03:45:03+00:00
I've been using the RayBan Meta glasses for a while now, and the main reason I like them is because they do not have a display (https://balanarayan.com/2024/12/31/ray-ban-meta-long-term-re...). Another screen to glare at is the last thing I need, but I can imagine there are people who want one of this.

I use them for taking videos when I'm out and for listening to music without putting on headphones or earphones. While it is not the best at anything, it is definitely capable of doing a lot of things well enough and that is what matters a lot of times.
by nine_k | 2025-09-18 03:45:21+00:00
It's even worse: "Because of the nature of these Actor tokens, they are not subject to security policies like Conditional Access". This goes against all principles of good security design. A token that gives root access instead of specifying a particular action allowed just invites misuse, erroneous or malicious.

I would expect these tokens to be like JWT or macaroons, carrying specific permissions within specific bounds / tenants. Alas.
by goku12 | 2025-09-18 03:45:45+00:00
While national security work consists of more than just intelligence, I assume that all of those were already either under the NRO or shared between the NRO and other similar agencies. What is NASA supposed to do under the new arrangement? And isn't the assignment of multiple agencies to the same work actually inefficient and detrimental to national security due to inter-departmental conflicts?
by hdjrudni | 2025-09-18 03:46:02+00:00
> (I didn't have control over temperature settings.)

That's...interesting. You'd think they'd dial the temperature to 0 for you before the demo at least. Regardless, if the tech is good, I'd hope all the answers are at least decent and you could roll with it. If not....then maybe it needs to stay in R&D.
by vunderba | 2025-09-18 03:46:41+00:00
Agreed. You can get an 2nd hand Orbit Reader for a couple hundred dollars if you search around. There's no substitute for a device which allows you to read the language as it was intended - tactically.

I personally use a Brailliant which has a 40-cell braille display. It's portable so you can load a bunch of BRF books on it and read on the go - and unlike other portable eReaders doesn't suffer from screen glare in the bright sun. :)
by nofriend | 2025-09-18 03:47:28+00:00
Where these competitions differ from real life is that evaluating a solution is much easier than generating a solution. We're at the point where AI can do a pretty good job of evaluating solutions, which is definitely an impressive step. We're also at the point where AI can generate candidate solutions to problems like these, which is also impressive. But the degree to which that translates to practical utility is questionable.

The sibling commenter compared this to go, but we could go back to comparing it with chess. Deepblue didn't play chess the way a human did. It deployed massive amounts of compute, to look at as many future board states as possible, in order to see which move would work out. People who said that a computer that could play chess as well as a human would be as smart as a human ended up eating crow. These modern AIs are also not playing these competitions the way a human does. Comparing their intelligence to that of a humans is similarly fallacious.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-18 03:48:29+00:00
I zoomed out to 90% and could make out something was there but wasn't easy to read. Zooming out further went back to just being noise. I also tried zooming in but with no success. What zoom level did you use and I guess we have to ask the standard what browser/version/OS/etc?? My FFv142 on macOS never took a screen grab like you did
by x2tyfi | 2025-09-18 03:48:40+00:00
Huge nostalgia wave seeing some of these. Many of them are hard for me to pinpoint but unmistakably familiar.

My first website was a geocities site back in ~1999, which was dedicated to StarCraft. I wish I could find it now; I remember it being really aesthetically pleasing - it would be funny to see how it held up.
by jryle70 | 2025-09-18 03:49:35+00:00
Are you using Chinese brands? Tiktok, AliExpress, ByteDance, Binance, Tencent? If you have no problems with them but with Meta, that's hypocrisy on your part.

I myself don't really have problems with them, and neither with Meta. I don't think they have a brand problem other than in bubbles like HN.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-18 03:49:44+00:00
I used to kinda buy these things until I started getting to know religious people in the last few years. An average secular couple living in Brooklyn has all the problems you're describing, and then their religious Jewish neighbor lives in the same world but has 6.6 kids on average.

The thing that I think is different - even when I was an atheist, I had the value of "children" very strongly - that they are my way to bring life and perpetuate my ideas and contribute to the world. This was always strong with me, and I see similar concepts strong with my religious friends. Meanwhile my secular friends are much weaker on their motivation "oh... yeah maybe I'll be OK with kids if it happens" - because the value is not there, they aren't motivated to deal with the things you're listing - even though these things are NOTHING compared to what people dealt with in history and still had kids.
by energy123 | 2025-09-18 03:50:24+00:00
But it wasn't working. It only stopped when Trump did something. The elephant in the room is that nobody can even acknowledge this truth, citation: this whole thread. Until liberals grapple with this unfortunate truth, there's going to be a large cohort of affected people who are unsure as to whether this is credibly in their interests, when it's them being harassed, and they're being lectured to by people who aren't being harassed and don't have to pay the costs of being wrong.
by zikero | 2025-09-18 03:51:27+00:00
Another idea I had with this concept is to make an LLM-proof captcha. Maybe humans can detect the characters in the 'motion' itself, which could be unique to us?

- The captcha would be generated like this on a headless browser, and recorded as a video, which is then served to the user.

- We can make the background also move in random directions, to prevent just detecting which pixels are changing and drawing an outline.

- I tried also having the text itself move (bounce like the DVD logo). Somehow makes it even more readable.

I definitely know nothing about how LLMs interpret video, or optics, so please let me know if this is dumb.
by Glyptodon | 2025-09-18 03:51:36+00:00
It's a mix. Some had proper visas, some had "wrong" visas, depending on nuances of what you can or can't do under particular visas, which has a range of ambiguity, and and some had clearly wrong visas. (Or at least that's my understanding.)

That said, "willful action on the part of the individuals" is likely not the case - this is a large Korean conglomerate, all of them will have been doing what the company told them to do. This is part of why it's such a big deal to Koreans: workers who were doing what they were supposed to do correctly from a social perspective were treated like criminals, which is a major issue culturally.

And the company will probably have understood that the USA understood that for cases where no proper route, or only ambiguous routes, existed, everyone else will be part of cooperatively addressing ambiguity advantageously.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-09-18 03:51:42+00:00
I wonder whether they allowed humans input for the AI besides the initial generic prompt? Could they provide guidance for the AI?

We all know that by this kind of problems, intuition/guiding principles to transform the problem is all you need. The human may not be fast enough or error-free to sample correctly the already restricted solution space, but machine can. And for them, it’s a huge advantage. So did they allow human input (as part of a centaur team!) input or not?

These AI teams often have one of the best (ex-) competitive programmers.
by vFunct | 2025-09-18 03:51:58+00:00
Because it would be in the Hamas-massacre.net site if it was real. That's an IDF run site. They can't even confirm any rape victims on that site. They only have non-confirmed allegations on that site.

And, no, they didn't get permission from any of the other victims families to publish on that site.

So, the IDF literally has no direct confirmation of rape.
by bix6 | 2025-09-18 03:52:12+00:00
What gets you fired up?

Sounds like your job is boring, maybe take a risk?

You won’t be hungry unless you’re hungry which you likely can’t do without putting your family at risk. So maybe focus on the ambition aspect and find something that lights your fire. What’s a challenge or stretch goal you would have fun working towards? Maybe start small and then scale up as you rebuild the muscle.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-18 03:52:35+00:00
Great writeup but surprised the author didn’t try patching the ACPI table. I believe the GRUB bootloader can do this, and Microsoft seems to have its own way too: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/b...

I’m also curious if the debugging of the timing and ACPI events could have m been done under Linux…
by bruce511 | 2025-09-18 03:53:33+00:00
I would add that it's a false equivalence to take the behavior of one party, and then worry about the parties not behaving that way "but they might".

In other words the worth is not "what a future hypothetical democrat" might do, but rather what the "current republican is doing.

To answer your point though, the only real thing you can do is vote. That is your lever of power.

Make no mistake, Americans voted for this behavior. All of it was explicitly telegraphed in the campaign. He is doing exactly what people voted him to do.

Yes congress is weak. Yes the Supreme Court is bought and paid for. That doesn't help. But this isn't some accident. It was done openly, and voters rewarded it.

I get that lots of people didn't vote for him. But more people did. If you're not in love with the outcomes, make sure you turn out when the chance comes along. Encourage others to turn out. Because one side is not like the other, and making a choice matters.

And if you're in the "it doesn't matter who wins, they're all the same" camp, well, I'd respectfully suggest you're wrong. It does matter.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-09-18 03:53:43+00:00
I like the look of the Oakleys better than the Raybans. I get why they want to make their glasses look like Rayban Wayfarers, because they're the most neutral inconspicuous glasses frame style of the last 25 years, but, IMO, they missed the mark pretty bad, and they look pretty conspicuous and pretty bad.

You won't blend in wearing the Oakleys, but they look like what they are, which is an insane mirrorshades cyberpunk HUD, and if the wearer can own that they could actually look kind of sick.

Of course, I'm technically underwhelmed and unimpressed by what I've seen of the actual technology, but that's hardly the most important thing.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-18 03:54:50+00:00
You can block ads. It's never morally wrong. You can look away, it's never morally wrong. Content creators getting paid to include ads is their business model, and no viewer is responsible for a content creators business model. Even in a world were technology allows a creator to get paid more for video evidence of you looking at the ad, you're never in the wrong for looking away. You're never in the wrong for blocking ads.
by Jensson | 2025-09-18 03:54:52+00:00
> Wiretapping requires probable cause and a court order in order to be used chat control does not

Chat control does not allow the government to read anyones messages for any reason, so no that is not true.

> Wiretapping was not retroactive. This system will create records that can be stored for a long time for very cheap.

But storing these messages is illegal.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-18 03:55:41+00:00
Have to ban AIPAC and all PACs first but good luck removing the hogs (elected officials) feeding at the troughs of money, gold bars, and bot army support. John McCain tried campaign finance reform but that didn't fly, and it's all been downhill since the abolition of the Tillman Act and the terrible ruling of Citizens' United.
by kelnos | 2025-09-18 03:55:48+00:00
Glad I don't live in a rural community then. Sounds like a heartless practice, if such a thing is common in communities like that.

In a wooded mountain region I frequent (not sure if it's "rural" by colloquial terms, though the USPS classifies it that way), most people try to avoid dangerous wildlife. Killing them is a last resort, and represents a failure to respect nature.

I don't get the "useless" bit. Why would you kill a "useless" animal? Just let it be.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-09-18 03:55:50+00:00
Have you not been paying attention to what's been happening in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination? The government been foaming at the mouth and clamping down on everyone who dares say anything other than obsequious praise about him. ABC just tonight cancelled Jimmy Kimmel at the behest of the head of the FCC!

And I mean, it's not like this is new. The past two years have seen intense crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech. Look at what happened to Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.
by manco | 2025-09-18 03:56:29+00:00
> Are we going to consume food prepared by a human so incompetent that he needs Live AI to tell him what ingredient to put and how much

Yes, I have cookbooks full of recipes I follow.

> When people eventually crash cars or walk into traffic or fall into pits -- no tech company will so much as acknowledge that the tech they are pushing so hard might have something to do with it.

Adults have agency and I expect them to be held accountable for their actions; not use technology as a scapegoat. If someone drives drunk it's not the alcohol at fault.