MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lokar | 2025-09-30 22:58:35+00:00
Why is it absurd?

IMO, the law should establish some parental rights over their children, I don't think this is controversial. You can argue with what the limits of the rights are, how they interact with the rights of the child, and how that changes as the child ages, but the basic ideas is pretty sound.

And then given that, it is the role of an elected government to determine all these factors, subject to review of the courts. That all seems to be working here.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-30 22:58:53+00:00
I agree. It's really interesting that computers can make videos from sentences.

This, however, isn't the first AI capable of doing that correct? Didn't Sora 1, Veo, and others come out before this making videos from sentences?

Surely what makes this impressive isn't "This does what other people have done, including us Open AI".

Since you edited, I will to respond to your inflammatory edit

> Shocker lol

> Like a guy who hates tomatoes, bread, cheese, and pepperoni going, “This pizza sucks.”

This is a technology, don't reduce it down to preferences. There are obvious flaws with the video generating tech and one of the most annoying parts of talking to AI enthusiasts is the fact that they are unable to engage in honest dialog. All AI is amazing alien tech, it's always flawless and perfect.

What I've seen with AI video in the past is that they can make impressive on first glance looking videos but when you dig into them things are "off". Further, the continuity only lasts for 1 continuous shot. That creates videos where every 5 seconds you see a new shot and in the same setting things tend to drastically change.

Sora 2 appears to have all those problems, it doesn't appear to have solved any of them. That's why I ask "What's super impressive about this".

The same way I'd ask "What's super impressive about ChatGPT 5 vs 4". Snarkly saying "What are you talking about, it is a fucking realistic chat that can write a short story!" doesn't convince or impress me or anyone else that's a skeptic.

I'm not enthralled by AI. I'll happily use it when it makes sense and as it improves I'll probably use it more. For this, I don't see a significant improvement over the prior state of art.
by Onavo | 2025-09-30 22:59:31+00:00
What problems were there with the 787? IIRC it was the first major composite airliner and they had the advantage of hoovering up all the unemployed post Berlin Wall cream of the crop Soviet aerodynamicists to work on it for them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/26/business/boeing-s-russian...
by btbuildem | 2025-09-30 22:59:47+00:00
They're really playing loose with copyright: you have to actively opt out for them to not use your IP in the generated videos [1]

Tangentially related: it's wild to me that people heading such consequential projects have so little life experience. It's all exuberance and shiny things, zero consideration of the impacts and consequences. First Meta with "Vibes", now this.

1: https://www.gurufocus.com/news/3124829/openai-plans-to-launc...
by protocolture | 2025-09-30 22:59:56+00:00
Ok, but a completely fair and honest answer is to google it. Or review internal documentation/asbuilt for the system. Or to ask your mate steve.

You don't need to understand the technical detail in the hypothetical, to extract search terms and research it.

The answer of "I dont know that system so I wouldnt know where to start" is failing the hypothetical. You have many starting points for all technical research. It means you cannot even imagine where to begin.

If you are so shocked by the appearance of technical term you don't understand, that you wont even take the first step of putting that term into google, you really shouldn't be applying for technical jobs.

The most common answer I get, if I fight the interviewee, and reposition it as a technical issue they do understand, is that they relay to me an anecdote from a time when they did complete the troubleshooting. IE, they still dont engage with the hypothetical, they just use recall.
by mythrwy | 2025-09-30 23:00:03+00:00
It's a simple business arrangement. Corporations give you money, you provide work.

Yes it's possible and maybe even common to be taken advantage of in a business arrangement but that doesn't negate the concept of honer. You have agreed to provide work for a set amount of money. If the other party isn't acting honorably you can leave the arrangement but otherwise you should fulfill your part of the deal as best you can.

When most parties act honorably society does well. When the concept of honer breaks down into lying, cheating and scamming as a way of life, society will collectively not do well.

As far as I'm aware, nobody ever improved the situation of society by acting dishonorably. The Reddit complainers should try forming their own Reddit society and see how it works out.
by more_corn | 2025-09-30 23:00:19+00:00
Parking in an implicit crosswalk. (Go look it up, I had to). Parking for 3:14 in a 3:00 while picnicking in the park. Parking in church service overflow.

All things I’ve been ticketed for or towed for in SF. Those mfuckers just out to make money. They literally write more tickets when sfmta has a budget shortfall. It’s not about public order it’s about revenue.
by Weves | 2025-09-30 23:00:21+00:00
Don't mean to hijack (one of the Onyx founders here), but the example you described should be doable with Drive service accounts. Admittedly, our permissioning system is only implemented for a handful of connectors like Drive.

Congratulations on the launch Rauf & Lennert! Always great to have more innovation in the open source AI space :D. It looks like Airweave works well with Cursor, something we don't have nailed down yet!
by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-30 23:00:45+00:00
People perhaps don't like the word desirable here. What I meant is not just pretty streets, but many other factors, such as nearby industry, infrastructure, educated workforce (in the thing you need), reasonable weather/sunshine, etc.

Yeah, you can find something cheap, but often it is cheap for a reason. Especially when the whole country has a housing shortage. I'm sure Alaska is beautiful, for example.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-30 23:00:56+00:00
My kid is an above average and pretty articulate writer for her age, and I'm just waiting in dread for the first time her school accuses her, with no proof of course, of using AI to write an assignment. We'll have to sit down and dumb it down, make some mistakes, and use smaller words so it passes the school's AI filter. It's 100% going to happen, I've never been so certain about anything.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-30 23:01:12+00:00
The great-grandparent of my comment was arguing that it’s absurd to suppose that the UK has grounds to go after a company on the basis that the company did business with its citizens on servers located outside of the UK. The UK is effectively making a claim of international jurisdiction on all transactions made by its citizens. The EU does this too with GDPR, the difference (as you noted) is that the EU has enforcement capabilities whereas the UK (like Afghanistan) doesn’t.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-30 23:01:28+00:00
If the 770 was anything like the N900 then the screen was resistive and the stylus was passive. So you could use your fingers but in my experience, for any finer task, you needed the stylus.

Damn, I really miss the N900. I was seriously using it as recently as about 4-5 years ago.
by duxup | 2025-09-30 23:01:35+00:00
Ukraine's ability to push the Russia's back initially was / still is a big achievement.

Having said all that:

>At the rate they have been going in 2025, it would theoretically take the Russians around 100 years and tens of millions of casualties to conquer the rest of Ukraine.

I don't think Russia needs / ever intended to take all of Ukraine, and they don't seem to have any serious wavering of public support.

If Ukraine can't realistically push Russia out I'm not sure they're "winning" just yet.

> it is already clear that Putin has failed to achieve his chief war aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation.

I think they likely just intended to install a puppet friendly to Russia along with claiming some land as a token prize, that's a goal that can still be accomplished by lots of means sadly.

Russia's strategy is mass volume of soldiers and in theory at least, they still have lots of population to draw from.
by prawn | 2025-09-30 23:01:54+00:00
I think there's a difference between a typical website chat window and how many people would use ChatGPT. The latter has tables, images and links which is enough to build up comparisons, order sheets and then ultimately have a format for confirming a purchase. I use it a lot for doing basic home construction comparisons (materials, volumes, etc) and could definitely see it getting to the point that it organised an order for me to submit, and eventually to where the submission and payment were within the chat.

A voice assistant doesn't give you that option to review, but maybe it'd work for ordering fast food. A small chat window could grow to work for simple purchases like takeaway food or small hardware, etc.
by xormapmap | 2025-09-30 23:02:06+00:00
Comprehensible input does seem to be the most effective way. i.e. get a lot of input that is only slightly beyond your current level (i+1).

I'm learning Ukrainian and there is a podcast "Ukrainian Lessons Podcast". Seasons 4-6 are not so much lessons but more just discussions about life, history, culture in 100% slow comprehensible Ukrainian. In one of the episodes Anna talks about how she spent most of her life getting English lessons at school and university, but still couldn't use the language freely. Finally, she watched Friends and by the time she'd finished every season, she felt she at last had a good command of English.

Sitcoms are good because they depict a lot of everyday situations, are rich in dialogue (i.e. real language people use daily), and there is a lot of slang and cultural references. Of course, you first need to develop enough of a base in the language to understand what's going on.
by chris_wot | 2025-09-30 23:02:22+00:00
Well, look at Wikimedia.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_Is_Fine_(meme)....

Here is a direct example of a derived work, to the point where the prompt is "n orange-brown anthropomorphic dog sitting in a chair at a table in a room that is engulfed in flames, happy dog sitting on chair at a table viewed from the side, dog with a hat, room is burning with fire all across the room".

That's covered by Fair Use, I suppose they will argue this if they get sued. Interestingly, commons doesn't allow Fair Use, but the according to commons, "this is not a derived work".

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests...
by hahayup | 2025-09-30 23:02:23+00:00
I completely agree. I've worked on the Whisky project and am fairly familiar with WINE, Proton, and CrossOver. Proton uses the underlying technology of WINE, which is largely supported by CodeWeavers, who mainly create CrossOver, essentially Proton for MacOS. CodeWeavers also supported the creation of GPTK, which uses WINE as well. CrossOver, considering it's live-translating Windows x86 calls to MacOS x86 calls, and then piping that through Rosetta, works INCREDIBLY well on my M1 Pro. Elden Ring was easily out-performing there than on my Steam Deck.

As far as I can tell, the main issue for putting CrossOver on iOS is a lack of API support and an inability for iOS software to start new processes. AltStore and emulators on iOS are exciting, and with iPadOS and MacOS becoming increasingly similar, I hope to see someone give WINE on iOS a shot.

I would love to see a world where I can play my Steam library on my iPad or my iPhone, considering the wild amount of performance they can output, but the limitations of iOS make it very difficult or likely impossible.
by heymynameisrob | 2025-09-30 23:02:38+00:00
This is the problem with everything being 'chat'.

It's not designed for having single-concern conversation or managing priority or intent. It's there for call-reply.

We switched to cushion.so which is async. We use posts, pretty much like a post here, for most conversations. It uses a message board-like approach where it makes sense. You don't need to be pinged constantly for everything. Especially when theres 10 people all discussing the same thing that might not be a priority for you right now.

Then you can just use chat for direct high shit-is-on-fire messaging.

Problem is Slack is designed to get to you to constantly chat, chat, chat. So that's what you end up doing.

Made our lives 10x easier.
by ThrownOffGame | 2025-09-30 23:02:46+00:00
I suppose if they are comfortable with confusing foreigners with this lingo.

In all my years on the Internet and written forums, as well as watching British TV for 50 years, there has been no notable usage of “Blighty” that caught my attention.

If I had been aware of the usage, (other than archaic slang) I would’ve learned it sooner. But it’s notable that this Anglophile hadn’t been bothered until the Year of Our Lord and Reign of His Majesty Charles III, 2025.
by kelnos | 2025-09-30 23:02:58+00:00
I agree with you in general with your automatic skepticism with something DHH might say on this topic, but:

> Normal people shouldn't take issue with the mere existence of a markdown document that basically says "don't be a dick to people because of who they are".

But that's not what it says. Maybe you can in some squinty way reduce it to that, but that's not all these sorts of documents say, and that's the problem. Most CoCs are fairly specific and strict in what they say people should and shouldn't do, and some of them (like the Contributor Covenant) even includes a process for submitting complaints, and addressing those complaints.

A CoC that just says -- explicitly, without a huge amount of other language -- "don't be a dick" is more or less what ESR and DHH are advocating for. The article goes into detail as to why the author believes that a long, detailed CoC is harmful, and why even if it does essentially just say "don't be a dick", that can cause lots of problems for projects.
by II2II | 2025-09-30 23:03:09+00:00
> I discovered the pointer to the next line wasn't a good idea, because it needed to move every pointer after a line insertion.

I get the impression that they were storing everything sequentially in memory, rather than having a linked list of instructions. Why? I can only speculate. Perhaps it is to make memory management simpler (don't have to keep track of which addresses are in use), or to avoid memory fragmentation in system with limited memory (any modification of code would introduce unusable holes). If that's the case, what you want is an offset rather than an absolute address.
by dpark | 2025-09-30 23:03:23+00:00
> Of course, the real issue is parents giving their children unrestricted access to the internet.

I agree and yet blaming negligent parents doesn’t help the children. These sorts of mandates don’t make any sense when I think about my kids, who have devices quite locked down. These sorts of mandates make a lot of sense when I think about all the kids who have unfettered access to the worst parts of the internet.
by agedclock | 2025-09-30 23:04:06+00:00
You are probably talking about the YouGov poll. The poll asked a clearly leading question IMO.

You can get any result you want by asking leading questions on polling. This was of course satirised by Yes Minister.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA

I can counter any of the iffy polls by simple point to the official online petitions service. There were a huge number of signatures to revoke OSA and two million signatures to abolish the plans for the Digital ID. While the Digital ID is technically a separate issue, many of the same privacy concerns are present.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903?pubDate=2025...

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

The number of people that signed these petitions is far more representative than any polling.

On top of that, recently I've seen reportrs of both the Liberal Democrats and Reform (the two largest parties after the main two) recongising the OSA as unpopular and are likely to suggest reforming/removing it.

On top of that. The labour government and the conservative government that proceeded it which created the OSA were/are both deeply unpopular.

So any notion that there is a popular mandate for this is nonsense.
by grepfru_it | 2025-09-30 23:04:07+00:00
Fun fact the 707 had the first implementation of “MCAS” because the plane had a tendency to pitch up in a certain flaps configuration. They added a stick nudger which applied light pressure in said config. Not a stick pusher, as it did not alert the pilots, it simply applied an extra input independent of the pilots. However this was made aware to all pilots of the plane and likely contributed to its certification.

Also the 707 tail was extended by 40ft to give it better minimum ground speed control, this was retroactively applied to already built planes. Very interesting to see how this was applied in the past with a lawyer at the helm vs the current ceo during the launch of the 737Max
by lisbbb | 2025-09-30 23:04:35+00:00
My former employer, a consulting company, just bought out a small dev consulting firm in...wait for it...Guatemala! Yes, Guatemala. Because as you all well know, Guatemala has such a long and cherished history of providing skilled software developers to the world. Oh, oh, wait, no, sorry, it's because they're really, really cheap. The main advantage of Guatemala over India is the time zone, that's it. And $5/hr or whatever those chumps are getting. I don't even think Guatemala has electricity 24/7 in most parts of the country.

It's all over for American tech dominance. MBAs sold us all out.
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-30 23:04:56+00:00
The 757 was powered by rb211-535e4 which had about 40k pounds of thrust each.

https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/civil-aero...

The 737 MAX is powered by CFM LEAP which has about 30k pounds of thrust each.

https://www.cfmaeroengines.com/leap
by Aeolun | 2025-09-30 23:05:26+00:00
Damn, if I ever needed a reason to stay away from that whole ecosystem this is it.

Sounds like it’s either some enterprise, or a bunch of volunteers that see an opportunity to be little tyrants.

Love how they simultaneously decided that this had been going on for years, that nothing bad had happened, and that they had to act now without any prior consultation.
by CharlesW | 2025-09-30 23:05:35+00:00
My apologies, I thought the "IMHO" was implied.

You'll be happy to know that checkboxes still exist and work like you'd expect. https://imgur.com/a/p2Xe1WL

Apple provides HIG guidance on switch vs. checkbox toggles here: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... It boils down to, "Use the switch toggle style only in a list row".
by tacticus | 2025-09-30 23:05:41+00:00
> The 787’s problems were mostly in its supply chain

Which was a decision of boeing to outsource to their suppliers the design and development of those components. this combined with boeing doing some interesting pricing decisions lead to suppliers being rather screwed on the project.

> The actual plane experienced fairly normal growing pains for a clean-sheet design

Other than the design by vibes that boeing leading to spec issues.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-09-30 23:06:15+00:00
Yes, claiming to feel harassed or uncomfortable by other people with the aim of forcing a moderator to threaten them with expulsion from the space if they don't recant a political statement is absolutely, 100% a way that many people attempt to push their political views on a community. Making any judgment at all about what moderators should do in this situation is equivalent to asking moderators to take sides in the political conflict at hand.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-30 23:06:22+00:00
> CloudFlare can shut you down if you go against their interests as a supranational gatekeeper

They already can.

> Smart thinking Batman.

“Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by FrostDream | 2025-09-30 23:06:47+00:00
Hi HN,

A while back I shared my free AI toolbox (background removal, upscaler, cartoonizer, text-to-image). I’ve just added two new tools:

- Text-to-speech (type text → hear audio instantly) - Image colorization (turn black & white photos into color)

My goal is to keep building a collection of simple, free AI tools that anyone can use right away — no signup, no ads, no limits.

My server is still on the weaker side, so if a lot of people try it at once, it might get slow or even crash. I’ll keep upgrading as usage grows.

Here’s the site: https://imagepeel.com

I’d love feedback — do these new tools work well for you, and what should I add next?
by cubefox | 2025-09-30 23:06:50+00:00
But modern AI could create images which are basically indistinguishable from a real Monet if you are not an expert. So the fact that you like Monet's pictures, but not Monet-like AI pictures, shows that part of what you like is the fact that an image is made by a specific human instead of being generated by a diffusion model.
by tonyabracadabra | 2025-09-30 23:07:50+00:00
If Sora 2 is aiming for AI‑Tok, ScaryStories Live is the jump-scare cousin: real‑time POV horror from a photo + a sentence. No film school, no GPU farm—just “upload face, pick fear level, go.” It’s less cinema, more haunted mirror, and it ships in seconds. scarystories.live
by tim333 | 2025-09-30 23:08:22+00:00
>the limits of LLMs will be hit long before we they start to take on human capabilities

Against that you have stuff like Deepmind getting gold in the International Collegiate Programming Contest the other week, including solving one problem where "none of the human teams, including the top performers from universities in Russia, China and Japan, got it right" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/17/google-de...

There's kind of a contradiction that they are nowhere near human capabilities while also beating humans in various competitions.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-30 23:08:32+00:00
> If you have normal cholesterol though - we have long known that people with normal cholesterol also have heart attacks.

Just to continue on this line, we also know that people with a genetic disposition for low cholesterol have a significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease than people with ostensibly normal cholesterol levels. It is one of the most proven, obvious correlations (more cholesterol increases the incident of CHD) in medicine.

Some snake-oil merchants, usually pitching a book or supplement, have often tried to muddy the waters by pointing out that someone at death's door often has very low cholesterol (they usually aren't eating, and cancer often "eats" cholesterol and leads to low levels), trying to then extrapolate this out.
by xormapmap | 2025-09-30 23:08:33+00:00
The idea that child brains are better at learning languages is a myth. Adults struggle with languages because traditional language education is not fit for purpose. If you took a child and isolated them in such a way that they never got comprehensible input, and instead only gave them traditional language lessons (think textbooks, grammar drills) - they too would struggle. The good news is that if you take an adult and give them comprehensible input like you would a child, they will learn at least as effectively as a child.