MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-09-11 17:14:49+00:00
> Your brain is rotten. [...] You degenerate, vile scum.

Obviously you can't post like this to HN, and you've done it repeatedly in this thread ("you propaganda pusher", "your last remaining brain cell", etc). This is well over the line at which we ban accounts. I actually banned yours briefly, but I took a closer look at your commenting history and I didn't see you being this abusive in other threads, so I've unbanned your account for now. But please don't post like this, or anything remotely like this, to HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Hizonner | 2025-09-11 17:15:03+00:00
> I don't think it is laziness per se

You forgot the "stupid" part.

> It's a combination of having far too many models (just look at Samsung's line-up, more than ten models per year if we don't count all the F and W variants), using many different SoCs from different vendors > [...] > This across a multitude of kernel versions, AOSP versions (for older phones), OneUI versions (for phones that haven't been updated yet to the latest OneUI).

Those are choices. If you want to do that, you need a process that can support it.

I suppose it could be that they just don't care and are deliberately screwing their users, but never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence and all that.
by badc0ffee | 2025-09-11 17:15:04+00:00
I don't know anything about the PICO-8, but that is an interesting palette. It reminds me of a more saturated version of the C64.

Other systems of the time either used a simple RGBI formula with modifications (IBM, with its "CGA brown"), or a palette evenly spaced around the NTSC hue wheel (Apple II, or again the CGA in composite output mode)
by superkuh | 2025-09-11 17:15:12+00:00
Yep. I feel the same about all the various wayland compositors. Even 15 years on none of them have managed to implement accessibility support for existing linux applications. No screen readers support on any but GNOME's compositor and that doesn't work with existing applications; GNOME invented 2 new incompatible protocols that only their compositor works with (which doesn't work with existing applications).

No HDR or high DPI is an annoyance. Not supporting accessibility is real deal breaker. Especially for commercial settings where things like Americans with Disability Act compliance matters. And even more for me with my retinas slowly tearing apart and losing my eyesight: the entire waylands ecosystem is extremely inconsistent and buggy.
by mv4 | 2025-09-11 17:15:34+00:00
The upside is clear - vibe coding to test the market, get an MVP defined etc. The downside is that sometimes non-technical business owners decide that something is good enough to launch with non-existent security guardrails, and then a bunch of unsuspecting people get their private data stolen (like happened recently with that dating app).

I know this is not the case here and the game is very cool, I was primarily replying to the comment about the new trend.
by ankrgyl | 2025-09-11 17:15:51+00:00
(Author here) I can certainly appreciate having an alternate perspective, but I think it's unfair to say it's DOA. I've personally used this workflow for the last 6 months and shipped a lot of features into our product, including the lowest levels of infra all the way to UI code. I definitely think there is a lot to improve. But it works, at least for me :)
by duskwuff | 2025-09-11 17:16:09+00:00
Not to any meaningful degree. Lynx (or other terminal-based browsers) would be an extraordinarily poor choice of browser for a non-sighted user, as it lays text out visually in the terminal (e.g. using color and indentation to distinguish between types of text) and does not provide accessibility cues. Those users are much better served by standard GUI web browsers.
by westurner | 2025-09-11 17:16:18+00:00
/? pancreatic: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=pancreatic

Thanks for JSON-LD (and YAML-LD) and your contributions to so many W3C specifications over mailing lists and ReSpec specification documents!

Now I'll have to finish a PR to pydantic_schemaorg to build data validators for Linked Data that - by conforming to W3C Standards - enables industry and research to describe all of the things in a giant LODcloud.

yml2vocab also processes RDFS vocabularies.

JSON-LD, for example, makes it possible for all of us to find the website URL and phone number and business hours and accessibility info for an Organization > LocalBusiness Place on the map with :latitude and :longitude fields, find and annotate CreativeWorks, ScholarlyArticles, PDF DigitalDocuments, SoftwareApplications, FHIR JSON-LD,.

JSON-LD foregoes XML parser complexity (and vulns), but because JSON-LD maps to RDF with an @context, you can use vocab URIs for XML XSD types like xsd:boolean and xsd:float64 and so on. But there's yet no standard way to express a complex number like 0.8+0.8j with XSD or RDF or JSON-LD.
by adfm | 2025-09-11 17:16:24+00:00
You’re conflating concepts. FWIW, Web3 is snake oil or wishful thinking at best. As much as people like to bang on the old Web 2.0, it still holds up conceptually. And if you only know it as a buzz word, I suggest you go back and familiarize yourself with it if you’re looking for incremental change.

Who knows, maybe a Web 3.1 will deliver us from Enshitification.
by moffkalast | 2025-09-11 17:16:42+00:00
The question is how much less efficiently. The point on which it all hinges is that it needs to be a little less efficiently, but the reality is probably that it's so much less that it's no longer really viable.

Like, Digit costs a quarter mil and is rated for 10 thousand hours. It can stack boxes. For that price you can turn every box in your warehouse into an AGV and they'll last you forever.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-09-11 17:18:07+00:00
It’s actually going faster because it does not require public approval the same way that driving cars do because you’re in public space.

We’re seeing a lot of robotic trials happening in private warehouses and on private test ranges at pretty rapid scale

Beyond that the methods for transfer learning behavior cloning behavior authoring are very robust so that I can get joint angles directly from a human via instrumentation through vision or even commodity sensors which captured trajectories that can be immediately applied to robotic joint positions.

The real challenge is actually capturing demonstration recordings from humans because it’s the hardest thing to instrument. The core task is instrumenting data capture of existing human tasks that are not done through machines, such that they can transfer to machines.

This is easiest done with existing human operated robots because the instrumentation is free, so data can go directly into real2sim2real pipelines.

There might seem counterintuitive but most of the actual technical bits and bites are already there it’s re-orienting the economic and logistical process of labor execution that is the major challenge.

I will say though, I’m seeing less and less barriers there as time goes on. Employers really want to not have to hand human employees
by kulahan | 2025-09-11 17:18:17+00:00
I just want to make clear what the other commenter said: type 2 is completely reversible in its early stages. Lose weight, eat a more healthy diet, and you should see your body return to normal.

Unfortunately, there's a serious time limit on this news, as the disease does permanently damage your cells, but in a way that's not terrible. It's probably easier to be shocked by a diagnosis into a lifestyle change than to find out now and undo 30 years of living with daily insulin injections anyways.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-11 17:18:18+00:00
If there was a usable microkernel, then its filesystems would almost certainly be implemented in userspace; that's kinda the point of a microkernel. I can't speak to how Darwin does things, but I will point out that Linux and the BSDs have filesystems as userspace processes courtesy of FUSE; in their architecture that has a performance hit (caused by the context switching needed, I believe recently improved by use of io_uring), but it is a worked example of what you want.
by computerdork | 2025-09-11 17:18:26+00:00
Interesting. Just looked into it and it seems like there are some researchers who estimate the lockdowns saved a lot of lives, but the economic toll and subsequent deaths from this toll may not have been worth it (as you mentioned). But they also said that now, "we have more tools to battle the virus. Vaccines and therapeutics are available, as are other mitigation measures." Implying we wouldn't have to do lockdowns in future pandemics.

https://record.umich.edu/articles/lockdowns-saved-lives-but-...

So yeah, I do see your point in the lockdowns were probably unnecessary, but as others have mentioned, pandemics were new to the US at the time, and we didn't have the knowledge and procedures on how to best deal with it. Yeah, we did probably go overboard, but what happened is understandable given how deadly Covid was.

We know now that social distancing and masks (for those that are willing) would probably have been enough, as other countries used to pandemics already know, like South Korea.
by bux93 | 2025-09-11 17:18:51+00:00
This is essentially what you do as step 1 when color correcting in Davinci Resolve, but only for white (or, anything that's grayscale). Select a spot that's white/gray, click on the white balance picker, and the white balance is set.

It's not perfect of course, but gets a surprisingly good result for close to zero effort.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-11 17:19:05+00:00
Do you think that "anonymous comments" are not backed by real humans? Do you think that the internet is a magical bubble with no relation to the real world? Touch all the grass you want, roll in it, eat that grass, mulch it up and drink it, I'll stick to understanding humans by what they SAY on the internet, thank you very much.
by ankrgyl | 2025-09-11 17:19:19+00:00
(Author here)

Hi everyone, thanks for the spirited debate! I think there are some great points in the discussion so far. Some thoughts:

* "This didn't work for offshoring, why will it work all of a sudden?" I think there are good lessons to draw from offshoring around problem definition and what-not but the key difference is the iteration speed. Agents allow you to review stuff much faster, and you can look at smaller pieces of incremental work.

* "I thought this would be about async primitives in python, etc" Whoops sorry, I can understand how the name is confusing/ambiguous! The use of "async" here refers to the fact that I'm not synchronously looking at an IDE while writing code all the time.

* "You can only do this because you used to handwrite code". I don't think this workflow is a replacement for handwriting code. I still love doing that. This workflow just helps me do more.
by anp | 2025-09-11 17:19:38+00:00
(I work on a project that uses Chromium’s commit queue infrastructure)

I think there’s a big difference between Chromium’s approach and the “not rocket science” rule. AIUI Chromium’s model there are still postsubmits that must pass or a change will be reverted by a group monitoring the queue. This is a big difference in practice vs having a rotation or team that reorders the merge queue and rolls changes up to merge together. In the commit queue model you land faster at the expense of more likely reverts than in the merge queue model.
by b112 | 2025-09-11 17:19:39+00:00
I think some of the car role will port to robot role.

Vision for cars already includes object detection, and the better that is, the better robot object detection gets. The same for "human ran out on road" would work for "walking in house, small human is now in front of me, stop!".

I wonder how much of the one will port to the other. A house has paths aka "roads", inside and out. Places the robot may walk, and not. So path navigation is a thing too. Maybe 'getting around' is mostly solved, while of course other challenges are still there.

Sort of replying to others in this part, the reason people are all hung up on humanform, is that our entire world is made for humans. Whether stairs, doors, sidewalks, doorknobs, cupboards, or even space to walk in a small kitchen... it's all made to work with human shape and size.

(Yes, while there is wheelchair access mandated, that doesn't extend to the inside of every home, and all the spaces in homes, and even then everything we have is designed to be operated by fingers/arms/hands.)

So if you solve humanform, the robot can go anywhere and manipulate/do anything a human can. That means no change to the environment when you get one. Right or wrong, that's why everyone is after humanform.
by microtonal | 2025-09-11 17:20:10+00:00
Those are choices. If you want to do that, you need a process that can support it.

I suppose it could be that they just don't care and are deliberately screwing their users, but never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence and all that.

I think for a long time Android users did not really care. Until a few years, Android security support was abysmal with many vendors only doing 1-2 years of updates. Users bought the phones and didn't care, so I guess it was a smart business move to not care.

This changed in recent years due to a mixture of the (then) upcoming EU requirement for supporting devices multiple years with security updates, Apple being able to tout this as an advantage, causing Google and Samsung to enter into a competition to promise the largest number of years of security support, etc.
by sandworm101 | 2025-09-11 17:20:13+00:00
Dont look at the robot making the sandwich at a restaurant. Look at the robots already being used at food processing facilities. The robots are already doing it, they just dont look like robots. My dishwasher also doesnt look anything like a hired dishwasher.

https://youtu.be/U2sN5g6wOBU
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-09-11 17:20:29+00:00
AI is not going to be able to grow geometrically forever. OpenAI and Oracle just signed a $300 billion contract. OpenAI doesn't have $300 billion. Oracle doesn't have enough chips on hand nor enough cash to buy them in order to fulfill these obligations. Based on RPO, Oracle is estimating that their cloud revenues will grow from roughly $10 billion now to $144 billion by 2030. That's insane, and yet it was enough to send their stock price up 25%.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-11 17:20:30+00:00
The whole idea of making employer-sponsored health insurance tax-free but not out of pocket medical expenses is a problem in need of fixing. As things currently stand, you can only write off medical expenses that exceed 7.5% if your adjusted gross income, and only if you use itemized deductions rather than the standard deduction.

This public-private healthcare system as it currently exists in America combines glacially-slow subpar public services with the rent-seeking behavior of private insurance.

More than any other group, it screws small business owners, i.e. the people the politicians usually claim to run for office on behalf of.
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-09-11 17:21:02+00:00
He absolutely shouldn't have been murdered and the rise of political violence is terrifying for the country's future.

However, he has directly stated that empathy is bad and that shooting victims are an acceptable price to pay to avoid gun control.

I refuse to feel sympathy for someone who vigorously argued against doing anything to prevent what happened to him and who vigorously argued against caring about the people it happened to.
by 1659447091 | 2025-09-11 17:21:13+00:00
Not sure if you are saying this as snark, but yes, trump is on the side of "who is paying me today". Not sure how this is not blatantly clear by now. And Russia, China, et al., who have a real interest in weakening the US understand they have been given a gift by overly sensitive and angry American-hating magas in trump.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-11 17:21:21+00:00
But then you need one robot that's got 9,999 specializations. A human can't actually do 10,000 things. You need 10,000 humans, each that goes through a specialization process (training, developing muscle memory, etc) that builds both physiology and mental capability specific to the skill. Not only does the robot need to be capable of every incredibly difficult physical skill we learn, it needs a matching program.

It's impossible to do this in a general way. This could theoretically be scalable (produce the robot and have 10,000 companies all develop their own specialization routines), but the hardware (both the parts as well as neural interface) needs to be as capable as a human body, which isn't even remotely true. The physical robot will always limit what skills it can learn, on top of the difficulty of programming the skill.

I think we're hundreds of years away from making a robot that's as capable as a human. We would get there faster with synthetics or cyborgs. Create a human body without a brain, use Neuralink to operate it. Until then, specialized robots are the only thing that will scale to 10,000 skills.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-11 17:21:42+00:00
My concern is that historically some of the conflict over bcachefs was because work on it touched code outside the filesystem area. If a year from now they show up and say "okay, here's the new bcachefs code that's 100% formally verified and has zero bugs and is good to go!", then it still could fail to get merged because they rewrote parts of (say) the block device system and the maintainers of that part of the kernel don't like the changes.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-11 17:22:27+00:00
I wonder if this is not like including in the photo a Macbeth Chart [1] and then trying to color match your image so that the swatches on the Macbeth Chart look the same digitally as well as in real life.

One bottleneck of course is that the display you are on, where you are viewing the image, is likely not to have a gamut rich enough to even display all the colors of the Macbeth chart. No amount of fiddling with knobs will get you a green as rich as reality if there is an intense green outside the display's capabilities.

But of course you can try to get close.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_chart

(I seem to recall, BTW, that these Greytag-Macbeth color charts are so consistent because they are representing each color chemically. I mean, I suppose all dyes are chemical, but I understood that there was little to no mixing of pigments to get the Macbeth colors. I could be wrong about that though. My first thought when I heard it was of sulfur: for example, how pure sulfur, in one of its states, must be the same color every time. Make a sulfur swatch and you should be able to constantly reproduce it.)
by dennisnguyen | 2025-09-11 17:22:29+00:00
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by zzzeek | 2025-09-11 17:22:42+00:00
This links to a super long winded blog post that sounds more like a toast at a wedding, so I went to the main page to try to see what their product is, and you just get a blitz of fancy animations of table diagrams and things and lots of very cheap sounding slogans pushed out like "Works with any data! Fully XYZ 2.0 compliant! Ties your shoes!"

basically im not sure where the product is hiding under all of this bluster but this doesnt feel very "hacker"-Y
by mothballed | 2025-09-11 17:23:24+00:00
I don't really know much at all about the guy's political views, the bit about gang shootings is the only thing I've ever heard from his mouth. I am curious why the world is in a better place now that his wife and kids have to deal with the trauma and aftermath of picking up the pieces of their life and moving on. Sounds like he must have been a pretty bad guy.
by rfoo | 2025-09-11 17:24:46+00:00
> It still seems strange. A big part of GrapheneOS is to provide a safeguard from Googles data hoarding, yet it works primarily on Google phones.

That's the most confusing part. IMO GrapheneOS is not mainly about "provide a safeguard from Googles data hoarding", instead this is more like a side quest.

GrapheneOS is about creating a mobile OS that is more secure against advanced threats [0] than anything else, including stock Pixel OS and iOS.

[0] Currently my rule of thumb is, anyone who can find and write exploits for new memory corruption bugs for the wanted attack surface, or who can buy such capability, qualifies as advanced threat. Hence Cellebrite qualifies as a borderline "advanced threat".
by cs702 | 2025-09-11 17:25:27+00:00
Direct link: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#apple-intell...

Live translation with AirPods is not available (quoting) "if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU."

As I understand it, if your Apple Account country or region is not in the EU, live translation with AirPods will work for you in the EU.
by capitainenemo | 2025-09-11 17:25:42+00:00
I suspect a large contributing factor to a growing gap between the 1% (and the 0.1%) and everyone else, is the enormous amounts of money pumped in by the Fed which go directly to those groups first. First crack before inflation...

I remember reading an essay by a former Fed member proposing to do this by inserting cash directly into bank accounts issued to every American instead, but I don't think these ideas have gone anywhere, probably not too popular amongst those currently benefiting for one thing.
by procaryote | 2025-09-11 17:25:44+00:00
I'm not sure human cognition is that clear cut or linear.

I guess if you define all rapid cognition as Intuition and all slower conscious cognition as Rational Thought, you're right by definition, but while that might provide a happy feeling, it might not give you any useful insights upon deeper inspection.

For instance, it doesn't support or disprove the "less emotion is bad for thought" idea
by saghm | 2025-09-11 17:25:51+00:00
You could, and then presumably still not be paid severance despite being fired, and then have to decide whether it's worth trying to fight them legally. I don't pretend to know the right choice for everyone, but when presented with this exact choice, I pretty quickly realized that it wasn't going to be worth the effort. It sucks, but given the option to spend energy on fighting this battle or saving it to put towards finding a new job to support myself and my family (or trying to do both and likely burning myself out from trying to take on more than I could reasonably handle), it wasn't much of a choice. Sometimes being right doesn't mean that you don't lose.