MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsmith45 | 2025-09-04 16:19:52+00:00
> Actual CS research is largely the same as EE research: very, very heavy on math and very difficult to do without studying a lot.

That is largely true of academic research. A critical difference though is that you don't need big expensive hardware, or the like to follow along with large portions of the cutting edge CS research. There are some exceptions like cutting edge AI training work super expensive equipment or large cloud expenditures, but tons of other cutting edge CS research can run even on a fairly low-end laptop just fine.

It is also true that plenty of software innovation is not even tied to CS style academic research. Experimenting with what sort of perf becomes possible via implementing a new kernel feature, can be very important research but isn't always super closely tied to academic CS research.

Even the more hobbyist level cutting edge research for EE will have more costs, simply because components and PCBs are not exactly free, and you cannot just keep using the same boards for every project for several years like you can with a PC.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-04 16:20:06+00:00
Discord is known for banning accounts that participate in servers that get flagged for illegal activity: https://www.reddit.com/r/BannedFromDiscord/

It's also illogical to encourage this behavior if your goal is protesting. Smart protesters would practice the most basic of OPSEC practices, like not joining random Discord links shared without context.
by bondarchuk | 2025-09-04 16:20:10+00:00
>It's a turn of phrase that's emphatic about the felt quality of qualitative experience. And in I think it's quite a good one, because in English it has just the right amount of cross-sections of connotation that it brings out this being felt quality that everyone reading it seems to understand.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. It's an effective way to codify a metaphysical intuition held by many people. That it would in any way constitute a proof for this intuition of course does not follow at all.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-04 16:20:35+00:00
I didn't amuse your goal-moving example because it's not related and you're not bringing it up in good faith.

I have never met in my entire life, in America, a family that engaged in religious starvation fasting. Not Catholic, not Jewish, not Muslim. Their fasting rules were eating bland food or only at certain times of the day. And it's for a limited period of time.

But if a family makes a child go without eating for any prolonged period of time not for a medical necessity (pre-surgery, for instance), yes, they should get a a check-in from social services.

And to go even further, if you only feed your child bad foods on purpose - like only bread and potatoes every day, when you can afford real food and diversity - you should also get a visit from social services.

I seriously don't get why you're defending people like the Turpins. Do you genuinely not understand why these laws are necessary and why it is pivotal we have basic protections for children from their parents? You don't even need to look past Hollywood with Honey booboo and Justin Bieber and all that lot to see how dangerous parents can be, let alone the insidiousness and commonality of the lower-profile cases.

Again, a number of sitting members of legislation in 2025 are arguing that children as low as the age of 12 should be allowed to be married off to adults who then (if they haven't already) rape them. And that child cannot legally get divorced without their parent's consent!

In one hearing the politician admitted to knowing an example! So you can't even say "well it never happens."

I can't believe it needs to be argued: in any just and equitable society, children have a right to a basically healthy upbringing. That means socialization, education (both physical and mental), healthcare, nutrition, and protection from those who would do them harm.

They are not "lesser people" or property of their parents. It is a practical reality that some of their rights must be ceded because they are incapable, but their parents are meant to be guardians and not owners.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-04 16:20:37+00:00
The hydraulic analogy always sort of confused me because, like, fluid mechanics are real complicated. So, I always had this gut feeling question of like, can we actually end up with a hydraulic analogy that is exactly as complicated and electricity and magnetism? If we push the analogy beyond what is intended?

Is it an analogy or are both models expressions of some underlying model of potentials and flows, and we happen to have more hands-on experience with water?
by jraph | 2025-09-04 16:21:06+00:00
Well, the reality is complex and OSM wants to be precise :-)

Apps shall then make it easy to look for stuff and OSM labels are quite low level, they usually have their specific/internal representation of things. All this to say:

- I doubt CoMaps allows searching for "amenity:drinking_water", at least I haven't found a way to do this.

- That's what the higher level and more user-friendly Water category is supposed to be for. This will limit possibilities, but optimize for the common cases. If the Water category surfaces wrong things or doesn't surface things it should, it's a bug that needs to be fixed.

- You might have better luck with apps for editing OSM for working with OSM labels directly but appart from basic use of Street Complete and Every Door, I haven't explored complex OSM app editors like Vespucci on mobile.
by hashbig | 2025-09-04 16:21:15+00:00
I just couldn't love it, and frankly I don't get the hype around it. I recently found that all my use cases can be served by either:

1. A general purpose LLM chat interface with high reasoning capacity (GPT-5 thinking on web is my go to for now)

2. An agent that has unrestricted token consumption running on my machine (Claude Code with Opus and Amp are my go to for now).

3. A fine-tuned, single purpose LLM like v0 that is really good at one thing, in this case at generating a specific UI component with good design aesthetics from a wireframe in a sandbox.

Everything else seems like getting the worst of all worlds.
by jsheard | 2025-09-04 16:21:52+00:00
> Recently, I started re-watching Dexter's lab. It's great. No CGI at all, no computer-assisted calarts.

"CalArts" as a pejorative really has lost any meaning, if it ever had one beyond "animation I don't like". The creator of Dexter's Lab literally went to CalArts and made the first iteration of it as one of his projects while he was there.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-04 16:21:58+00:00
> Additionally, they're the only law enforcement officer directly accountable to the people, since they're elected.

Usually this is probably a good thing, but sometimes their need to be popular with locals means the position gets filled by loud mouthed showboaters who even get themselves into national news with their not always harmless antics. Most of the most famous/notorious police in America have been sheriffs for this reason. Joe Arpaio, Mike Chitwood, etc.
by ghaff | 2025-09-04 16:22:00+00:00
Yet:

1.) "Every time" is 10+ years apart for a lot of folks

and

2.) If you look at the requirements for things like PEs (at least the last time I looked at them), you have requirements like 4-year degrees, having worked under a PE for some number of years, etc. in addition to the tests, which I assume a lot of people here would object to.
by Pxtl | 2025-09-04 16:22:19+00:00
As much as artists see generative AI as a goddamned abomination for a variety of good reasons, classical animation is a place where it can do a lot, such as inbetweening or providing alternative backgrounds to an existing scene.

Imho the big failure of AI for real artists (besides IP rights concerns and the fact that it automates art instead of tedium) is mostly a UI one right now. The first studio to figure a good workflow for doing inbetweening using AI or the ability to feed character sheet and storyboards to get back rough keyframes will have a total game changer.
by mindslight | 2025-09-04 16:22:48+00:00
The current difference in the US context is bureaucratic authoritarianism vs autocratic authoritarianism. They're both authoritarian, and they're both oppressive and stifling. But their actual specific dynamics/mechanisms/effects can be quite different. For example autocratic authoritarianism has a much higher variance (for better and for worse) - look at the current autocrat in the White House coming up with idiotic ideas by the week/month, It's done in the name of unchaining greatness, and it would be nice if that were indeed the outcome. But in reality the chaos from the unrestrained terrible ideas is actually quite stifling. Whereas bureaucratic authoritarianism is more of a beige tyranny of the mediocre, which creates a drag on greatness, but at least provides a stable foundation for building on (as long as you can outrun the bureaucrats)

(disclaimer: I've gotten more conservative as I've gotten older. It will happen to you, too)
by i_c_b | 2025-09-04 16:23:04+00:00
A few years ago, I was feeling dispirited about being middle-aged and had come around to the conclusion that, at least when playing games, my general dissatisfaction and "meh" response to the games I was playing was probably a function of my age rather than anything about the games themselves. I was enjoying some games to an extent, but I wasn't being really grabbed by anything, and I was having a hard time sticking with much that I was playing. It seemed like a reasonable just-so story, and a particular exhausting one if you make games and theoretically are supposed to like them.

And then I picked up Hollow Knight, was utterly sucked into it in a deep way, couldn't put it down, and came out the other side doing the Principle Skinner meme - "Am I so out of touch? No, it's all those other games that have been wrong..."

So thank you Team Cherry, for helping remind me that 1) I really can love games deeply, even in my tired middle-aged-ness, and 2) sometimes the problem isn't that a person is being too judgmental, the problem is that the the lofty potential of their ideals really is, perhaps, justified, and other creative people (for a variety of understandable reasons, really - making games is a hard and costly business) mostly aren't even really aiming for such things.
by konz | 2025-09-04 16:23:37+00:00
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by perihelions | 2025-09-04 16:23:52+00:00
Also,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561716 ("Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds (sfstandard.com)", 563 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222649 ("Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance (newsobserver.com)", 143 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979258 ("License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars (wired.com)", 24 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33994205 ("Flock is Building a New AI-Driven Mass-Surveillance System [pdf] (aclu.org)", 15 comments)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety (YC S17)
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-04 16:24:06+00:00
> Should bosses also get one free insult for their employees too? Obviously not.

If their employment contract requires it, sure. This worker's contract guaranteed them a warning in this scenario. They are protected by that legally binding contract. That's the entire point of it.

Even outside a contract, consequences for actions should be proportional to the harm of those actions. "You called me a mild insult in the heat of the moment after years of productive employment, so I'm removing your livelihood" is not.
by jawilson2 | 2025-09-04 16:24:10+00:00
> What about the ad for your kids' school fundraiser? My kids should come home with a flyer for it.

> Or the ad for a used car that your cousin would love. I will actively seek out and research a car.

> Or the poster for the concert at your local community hall. Presumably this physical paper poster doesn't give me malware/AIDS if I look at it or tear off a slip.

My overriding personal objective is to be able to exist without being expected to consume and spend constantly every moment, waking or otherwise. In an ideal world, I should have to give consent to be advertised to, and should be able to operate in public without being bombarded with companies trying to take my money.
by mrkramer | 2025-09-04 16:24:23+00:00
>A secure browser was never a concern.

Because majority of malware if not all was written for PCs. Nowadays still most of the malware targets PCs but now attacks targeting web users are more prevalent. Attackers attack through compromised websites or phishing websites using social engineering techniques or exploit kits[0]. Websites are dominant attack surface not web browsers because it is hard to find 0-day exploits and usually they are found and used by state sponsored attackers. Chrome is still the most secure browser because it has enormous market share and everybody is attacking it, both whitehat and blackhat actors so Chrome team is constantly fixing and patching Chrome.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_kit
by DSMan195276 | 2025-09-04 16:24:39+00:00
IMO the article is being a little unfair to being highly misleading by only talking about box-office numbers, they're a much more complicated discussion than the article treats them (especially so since it includes a number of pandemic years). Additionally it's ignoring the reason _why_ CG is so popular and there's so many flops - you can make then a lot quicker than hand-drawn animation.

Tons of hugely successful CG movies came out in the past few years that are not mentioned in the article (Inside Out 2, Frozen 2, Mario movie, Moana 2, Spider-man, etc.) - all of those movies had a higher box-office gross than every hand-drawn animated movie ever except for the Lion King in '94. I'm not saying they're _better_, but rather that box office numbers aren't a great reason to argue for hand-drawn animation, I don't think Disney and other companies are very concerned about the flops when the successes rake in so much money.
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-09-04 16:24:42+00:00
The United States is far from an anarchy. There are a huge number of regulations governing employer-employee relationships.

The topic is flexibility in hiring/ firing decisions and whether this flexibility is a good or bad thing overall. The empirical data between US and Europe - where the US has much higher wages and generally lower unemployment - suggests but does not prove this flexibility contributes to a better overall job market. In the US employers may be quicker to fire you, but they are also quicker to hire you.

Personally, as an employee I like the flexibility. If I do a good job, it’s rare to get fired, and I have more ability to jump ship if don’t like my current job.
by dbg31415 | 2025-09-04 16:24:46+00:00
Like grandpa always said: "When a company lays off staff so the founders can buy an island, it's time to move to GitHub Projects." Ha!

Here are the real reasons to drop Atlassian:

1 -- You're already paying for GitHub. Atlassian has no alternative to GitHub Actions, and nothing else matches it at scale.

2 -- GitHub works better with AI coding tools, most dev tools, and most CI/CD pipelines. Open source is ~5x more likely to be on GitHub than anywhere else.

3 -- Your devs like GitHub more. Honestly, everyone does. The only person who tolerates Jira is the guy who thinks changing fonts on TPS reports counts as productivity.

4 -- And the best part: you can close an issue with a pull request. If you can't tie a task to the code commit, and show clean automated tests before merging, that's not project management -- it's project theater.
by lossolo | 2025-09-04 16:25:18+00:00
A long time ago, you would only interact with humans from your own tribe. Most of your actions had direct consequences for you, and you interacted with these people every day. Your life and wellbeing depended on that group and your social status. Then came local communities, followed by the global village, with access to eight billion people you will never meet or know. You can say whatever you want to them and face no real consequences, you can simply block them if you wish.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Nvidia hoard GPUs and create their own foundational model?
by vincefutr23 | 2025-09-04 16:25:53+00:00
Is Nvidia's upside greater by hoarding their GPUs for themselves and developing the leading foundational model in house?

They are printing money selling shovels to goldminers, but any blacksmith could make a shovel if shovel co. stopped selling. Whereas if Nvidia stopped providing GPUs its far more difficult to source replacements, spelling doom for its customers.

OpenAI etc would have a far harder time finding or developing a new source of GPUs than Nvidia would have poaching ~50 researchers that could bring it to model performance parity.

With all the GPUs going forward, Nvidia would have the best model and be market dominant over Claude Chatgpt etc. Wouldn't a certain shot at being the "winner of AI" be a better outcome long term than being a highly compensated enabler?
by r0m4n0 | 2025-09-04 16:25:54+00:00
No, I donate a lot of money on top of the time I volunteer for free. Someone has to spend maybe an hour every few months to deposit a single check for $50.

You got me on the rejection part because there are some benefits the members get (being able to attend social events, newsletters, etc) but if your donation is a net negative on an organization, I just don’t think they should donate at all. They don’t know it’s a net negative though and maybe would donate with an electronic payment but possibly don’t know? I think it’s mostly old people doing things the way they are used to

But TBH I’m not sure if much of this matters other than the ratio. Time is money and if there aren’t enough people utilizing something, it’s just not worth it to continue. If it’s a government org that’s possibly the only thing that needs to accept all forms of payment
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-04 16:26:13+00:00
I will argue that it was heavily decentralized, but there was never a golden era when the village didn't know what you were up to. Even if someone was well known in the mafia and street goons weren't talking, there were detectives writing down who you were talking to, and putting it all together, and saving it in a filing cabinet.
by rvz | 2025-09-04 16:26:21+00:00
Spent more money on marketing + steve jobs cosplaying than building a browser that is better than chrome but had zero revenue for years to show for it.

They betted on the possibility that OpenAI or Perplexity would buy them. With the Google monopoly suit not requiring them to sell Chrome after all, there was no reason to raise any more money as they continued to lose money.

That looks like an exit on terrible terms, like Humane and HP.
by altairprime | 2025-09-04 16:26:32+00:00
There’s a natural break-even point between the cost of maintaining peak server capacity and the lost revenue of server outages, especially if that peak demand is primarily fixed-quantity for a unique product with a very low chance of giving up. Ticketmaster figured this out decades ago and clearly the major game platforms have learned it as well.

Note to clouders, they could spend on pre-warmed autoscaler pools, but a corporation that spends a single dollar of revenue more than necessary to make the sale is violating its duty to shareholders, and total gross launch revenue will be the same whether they do or not, so they won’t, even though they could.

Note to game developers, for this exact reason you should be demanding launch month bonus targets rather than day or week; any less and you’re being knowingly ripped off by business execs.
by manquer | 2025-09-04 16:27:09+00:00
Is a browser SDK for iOS worth that kind of money targeted users who are comfortable with Objective-C and not C++ even a market of note.

It would be one thing if they said it is for say JS developers or something a-la electron there are plenty of apps from MS teams to slack to linear etc who perhaps would pay for that enough, but swift /objective C dev not comfortable with c++ would be minuscule market ?
by thor-rodrigues | 2025-09-04 16:27:46+00:00
I’m not sure whether I find it more worrisome or fascinating that we live in a world where a company that, as far as I know, has never generated a single dollar in revenue has managed to exist for over five years, employ more than 100 people, and still get acquired for this amount.

This isn’t criticism or sarcasm — I’m genuinely impressed, but also very curious about the rationale behind it.
by saltcured | 2025-09-04 16:27:47+00:00
It's funny, I see it and immediately feel it has too much spacing on that specimen page. On my laptop screen at its default presentation, it approaches where my brain starts to fixate on dissociated letters instead of words.

I've also experimented with custom fonts on my (Garmin) watch and found that taller and narrowly spaced characters seem to increase legibility for me. This is for mostly decimal data, and I want to read with very brief glances, in challenging viewing conditions, rather than linger to appreciate the graphemes.
by Apocryphon | 2025-09-04 16:28:02+00:00
1) Not so much in tech hubs, especially during the long boom of the last decade. And having to take the same test at potentially a dozen different companies every ten years is still a poor experience.

2) Surely an attempt at standardization in this industry, like the similarly hypothetical pipe dream of a widespread software tech worker's union, would include adapting to the unique characteristics and mores of the industry? There's no need to fully copy other disciplines' practices in complete detail. Though we should include the ring ceremony, that would be cool.

The whole point of this is that Leetcode has essentially become a de facto standardized test for many many jobs in this industry, and if we are to recognize that reality, we might as well make it DRY.
by kevinshen56714 | 2025-09-04 16:28:09+00:00
Hi HN! Callum and I built this for a hackathon, and we thought would be fun to share it here! AI stack:

- Speech-to-speech model: gpt-realtime

- Summary model: gpt-4.1

- Video generation: Veo 3

- Music generation: Suno

- Fruit 3D model generation: Hyper3D-Rodin
by rpdillon | 2025-09-04 16:28:14+00:00
> If you get rid of copyright, you’ll see literature vanish as an art that can be pursued seriously by anyone but people with trusts or other sources of independent wealth.

This is already the case. The expected payout from one of the big five publishers for a novel is about $5,000 to $10,000 with the author never seeing any payments based on royalties. Millions of books are published each year and only thousands are commercially successful. Being successful as somebody writing literature is essentially a lottery. I don't think copyright works as well as everybody seems to think it does.