MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulnpace | 2025-09-10 18:37:46+00:00
> oh the humanity, maybe on the order of a few minutes. that changes nothing. we should be inconveniencing human drivers more, if anything.

> that you feel obligated to use words like "sophistry" tells me everything i need to know about you.

You are evaluating one traffic light in a long series of traffic lights. At this moment, the grocery store is 2.8 miles and 17 minutes from my house. This is a typical short trip in this valley. Everyone complains about the congestion and terrible drivers (who, BTW, will not be replaced by self-driving cars). Driving here sucks, and self-driving cars make it just that much worse.

That you naively make assumptions and express opinions from these assumptions tells me everything I need to know about you.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-10 18:37:49+00:00
I generally find ARMs non-delivery and then lack of drivers to be super grating as well. That said, I believe this video package is non-arm, is 3rd party.

Maybe also worth mentioning that the rk3588 uses Cortex A76 cores, which arm announced in 2018, so this was a 4 year old design at time of release. At this pace it seems to take the better part of a decade to get an arm core out & generally usable.

I really really hope some of this video encoding work helps lay some foundation for further mainline vpus to be easier. I bought a cute small rk3566 board hoping to make a cheap low power wifi video transmitter, and of course it requires a truly prehistoric vendor provided kernel to take advantage of the vpu, alas. Scant hope for this ever improving but maybe some decade drivers won't be a scythian nightmare.

Its nice seeing a second player come to the GPU/video space at least. Imagination GPU's are in the new Pixel phone! And a bunch of various designs here & there. Maybe they can get religion & work a little harder than others have at up streaming. There were some promising early mainlineings, but I've not seeing much in kernelnewbies release logs for a while now: troubling silence.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-10 18:37:54+00:00
Salaried software dev work is a waste of time. The juice ain't worth the squeeze and even FAANG-level comp and work conditions aren't what they used to be (and those were basically unique to the US - in Europe they were never particularly life-changing).

Software dev as a tool in your toolbox to fix business problems is a superpower and will actually earn you decent money.

(also, if you use software on your own then it doesn't matter how good you are or whether you conform to any given day's "best practices". Your client pays to get their problem solved, they don't care if it's solved by duct-tape and hot glue)
by dinfinity | 2025-09-10 18:37:57+00:00
The world is indeed not static. That it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't.

Predictions about self driving were off, but far from "comically wrong". Waymo's operations are proof of that.

And to conclude things based on the state of the replacement of programmers after only 2-3 years of ChatGPT being a thing is folly.

The reality is that AI has far fewer limitations and legacy cruft than humans to deal with. Don't get me wrong, I like humans, but our performance is very close to the peak of what it could ever be. That of AI not so much. Remember that AI has been evolving for less than 100 years and it is already where it is today. That took us/biology orders of magnitude more time.

The only real question is how fast it will replace (which) human labor.
by jtbayly | 2025-09-10 18:38:11+00:00
Does this provide education or care? Being in childcare in and of itself is not correlated with better outcomes. Only high-quality care produces such results, and greater hours in non-family-member childcare results in long-term negative outcomes in for example impulsivity and risk-taking, regardless of the quality of the care.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2938040/
by stuff4ben | 2025-09-10 18:38:50+00:00
A few issues I see. First is what does it do when you come across a no-haggle dealership? Next is does this negotiate the value of your trade-in? Finally, the initial negotiation up front on the sale price (and trade-in value if applicable) is only the first hurdle. When you have to come in and sign the paperwork and get your keys, that's when a lot of dealerships really try to tighten the screws. Oh you need an extra warranty! Or you need paint protection and nitrogen filled tires! How about that one-time fee for lifetime oil changes and maintenance?
by ch4s3 | 2025-09-10 18:39:16+00:00
I've tried at least 4 other tools/SAASs and I'm just not seeing it. I've tried training models in other tools with input images, sketches, and long prompts built from other LLMs and the output is usually really bad if you want something even remotely novel.

Aside for the terrible name, what does comfyUI add? This[1] all screams AI slop to me.

[1]https://www.comfy.org/gallery
by pempem | 2025-09-10 18:39:37+00:00
"We want women's energy and time" seems to indicate "not women" want women's energy in time.

If you will not pay "women" to take care of "their children" rather than, say..."the future of society" or "our children" then women will not have a child.

And that is exactly what you're seeing happen. Women worked in all times. Every single time period you can think of. Population is dropping because

a/ we have rights as women and are outstripping men on every measurable term within just a couple generations of access

b/men are not stepping up to create something more equitable

Men have been offered the chance to step up and change the current (and yes its current, not a "natural state" of affairs) dynamic.

The idea that you're striking on is defining my life for me and quite frankly, with your benefit in first position.

That's not going to work.
by catigula | 2025-09-10 18:40:23+00:00
I'm going to address your hypothesis of "unknown technologies". It's something that widely seems credible but really isn't.

These phenomena have been documented, in-depth, for many, many decades. Credible sources note that certain materials and devices (I don't want to use the term 'craft') have been in government possession for going on 90 years, since the end of WW2. The notion that some country had achieved technical supremacy such that we still find their technology unidentifiable for 90 years isn't tenable.

Everyone involved in what the public knows about this are largely credible people who have undergone a classification briefing of what information they have, carefully vetting what they're able to share. They seem to feel that this topic is relevant to Americans and their civil liberties, they simply don't want to go to jail. I would tend to agree with these people.

Now, the government can actually just say whatever Dave Grusch knows about these entities can be declassified. Just say, "Dave is not bound by classification for any claims relating to contact with entities, deals with entities, specific information about entities, etc." This would instantly discredit his claims, because he'd be free to make outlandish and absurd claims without being able to hide behind the veil of "it's classified, we have to discuss this in a SCIF".

If they don't exist, what's the problem? This is a man we know was at the highest levels of the actual stuff he's talking about. He's a credible source. If he's making outlandish claims, just lift the veil of secrecy.

Of course they don't do that because it is classified.
by tracerbulletx | 2025-09-10 18:40:24+00:00
"In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC[13] and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model.[14] In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.[15]

In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Evernote.[16] The acquisition was concluded in January 2023.[17] In July 2023, Evernote laid off all of its existing staff."

Oh great.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 18:40:43+00:00
You don't need police to trespass someone in private transit though. You can just tell them to leave, and if they don't they can be made to leave (depending on the state). If you're familiar with bouncers you understand this function.

Expecting a police to be available to every transit disturbance, I agree, is not going to end with a functional outcome.
by saagarjha | 2025-09-10 18:40:51+00:00
Yes, there’s usually no guarantee on how different hardware does operations (for example, even if the hardware is correctly rounding intermediate results, different hardware may use different tile sizes). The reproducibility here is for runs on the same machine.

Compilers can also reorder operations but in practice this is rarely an issue because kernels typically synchronize frequently and this limits the ability for compilers to reorder things. This isn’t to say it doesn’t happen, but even if it does happen it’s likely because the compiler changed because the code they generate is generally run-to-run identical.
by annodomini2019 | 2025-09-10 18:41:28+00:00
Out of curiosity I looked for the house that couple is selling. Believe it's this: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/30206-Telluride-Ln-Evergr... Notice the price history. 83k in '97, which is about 170k now. Being sold for a 10x profit. Sigh.
by absurdwebsite | 2025-09-10 18:41:42+00:00
I’ve been making small absurd projects at Absurd.website

This one is Sexy Math — an experiment to make math feel passionate and engaging, instead of dry and boring.

The thought behind it: in school, many students struggle with motivation. What if math came with emotion — even desire? Something that pulls you in, instead of pushing you away.

When I was in high school, I would have loved a program like this. It doesn’t replace teaching, but it reframes math as something that’s playful and attractive.

Curious if others here think such "absurd reframing" can actually help learning, or at least spark curiosity.
by pfooti | 2025-09-10 18:41:50+00:00
These little front-back symmetric buses (as well as engineering-outfitted minivans) are pretty common in the mission in SF as well. I see them all the time in a very small (four or so blocks around 16th and folsom where my pottery studio is) area, but I think they're all still just test driving.

As a waymo user, I'm looking forward to a little more competition in the market. I quite like waymo, but driving price down woudl be great.
by mg | 2025-09-10 18:42:24+00:00
I really hope we will get deterministic LLMs in the future. Even if it causes slightly slower response times.

Nondeterminism is what currently keeps me from working with other developers.

As I wrote in "Prompt Coding" [1], these days I am not looking for good code. I am looking for prompts that create good code. But how do you share prompts among developers when they produce different code every time? You cannot simply state "Here, I found a prompt that makes gpt-5-2025-08-07 output a solution with all the desired attributes".

Similar with images. At the moment, for most image models, you cannot outsource the task of writing prompts that create the desired images. Because most image models will not create the same image when given the same prompt and parameters.

[1]: https://www.gibney.org/prompt_coding
by lucianbr | 2025-09-10 18:42:25+00:00
Why? What exactly makes it possible or impossible to have a coalition government, in your opinion?

A naive look tells me if a majority can agree to support a government then it can work, and it not not. What "system setup" helps or hinders a majority made up of different parties? To me it seems the important part is the willingness of parties to compromise. Which may or may not be there regardless of the "system setup".
by neonrider | 2025-09-10 18:42:33+00:00
> That has to be attributed to the newer generations. They are more skeptical of propaganda than ever before. To them, the high production value media outlets are just a quaint legacy variety of content slop.

Right. The skeptical newer generation knows better. It's the generation that is immune to influence. They're so resistant to it that they've finally driven advertisers to realize that spamming YouTube, IG, TikTok, with ads peddling some new hype every week is pointless.

Sarcasm aside, the newer generation, in any generation, is always as naive as they're said to be. You're not born with wisdom and your parents can't save you from the candle fire, no matter how much they try. Sooner or later, you'll have to burn that finger to learn. Life is an experience game. No way around it.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-10 18:43:06+00:00
Really wish Apple would allow us to lock our phones to 5g standalone so we can choose to make fake cell towers a thing of the past.

Update: I quickly searched this to see if it was available on the latest version of iOS and you can mostly use it on T-mobile USA with ios 17+. As they have enable support for 5g SA nationwide. if your SIM card has enabled 5G SA provisioning and if you set the iPhone to 5G On, it will not fall back in any area that has good T-mobile reception meaning they would have to turn off T-mobiles towers or you to be in a deadspot for the IMSI catcher to work. If you enter field test mode you can confirm that you are provisioned for NR SA in area that T-mobile has it’s own good towers with good reception. If it shows up you are provisioned. If not you can call t-mobile and ask that they provision it but many newer sims are provisioned with 5g SA by default and you can use 5G On setting instead of auto to only be vulnerable to downgrade attacks in weak signal areas and deadzones. I’m not an expert on this so if I’m wrong please comment.
by EnigmaCurry | 2025-09-10 18:43:15+00:00
This is at least a limitation in Android itself:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnServi...

"There can be only one VPN connection running at the same time. The existing interface is deactivated when a new one is created."

Note this is not about routing some traffic to the VPN and other traffic to the clear net. This is about running two VPN connections simultaneously.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-09-10 18:43:46+00:00
>[Taxes] are already some of the highest as a percentage of GDP in the world.

Is this the right metric: "Tax revenue (% of GDP)"?[0]

If so, France ranks 28 at 23.1% of GDP. The highest non-island developed country is Denmark at 31.4%. Denmark's GDP per capita is 1.5x France. New Zeland's GDP per capita is similar to France and their GDP to tax rate is 29.6% which is the fifth highest. Does New Zeland face similar problems as France? I think I agree with your implication that simply increasing the tax to GDP ratio is not a magic bullet.

In general, the data here is really interesting. Germany and the US have a pretty similar value, both averaging at about 11% in recent years. I would have assumed that Germany would have a higher rate. I wonder if this data is misleading somehow or if my assumptions were just wrong here. I guess one variable missing here is government debt, which is not a tax but is still used to pay for government expenses.

[0] Global: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS?most_...

France over time: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS?most_...
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-10 18:43:57+00:00
Absolute irony: Pittsburgh has a privately-owned museum of computers (actually in New Kensington, a suburb). A HUGE amount of big old boxes. PDPs, Cray, some early home computers and printers. Some have been actively used by the owner/maintainer, so we know they work.

But there's no digital displays. There are screens - that are off.

The owner can barely make rent, even in that desolated section of real estate, so there's not going to be any snappy big screens or interactive software. But it's literally a museum of computers where no computers are computing.
by rob | 2025-09-10 18:44:02+00:00
> Notably, the service isn’t free. Customers pay $40 for a month of access without auto-renewal.

This makes it seem like this "AI negotiator" is $40/month, but it looks like it's not included at all for that plan. Seems like it's $399 or $999:

https://caredge.com/plans

https://caredge.com/plans/insights

https://caredge.com/plans/concierge
by natalie3p | 2025-09-10 18:44:11+00:00
I think a lot of the time, museums really want to be "immersive" and give kids (and adults) something interactive. The problem is that "interactive" defaults to a touchscreen because it's easy to implement and maintain and looks flashy, even if it doesn't actually teach anything or spark curiosity the way a hands-on exhibit does. Honestly though, I think these kids do want to interact with the real world but lack the chance to. Screens are seductive and safe, but nothing beats the thrill of making something move with your own hands and actually seeing the physics happen.

As an example, one exhibition I found pure joy in that doesn’t involve screens is the Museum of Illusions. It's hands-on, mind-bending, and utterly delightful.
by Yokolos | 2025-09-10 18:44:11+00:00
You say this like their viewers don't want long videos. They do. I am one of them. So if they started doing what you suggest, I'd stop watching them.

There is no sweet spot. Different people have different preferences. Not every Youtuber needs to make 10 minute videos. Not every Youtuber needs to make hour long videos. It depends on their audience.

If you don't like hour long videos, that's fine. You're not the intended audience. Stop trying to make every content creator abide by your preferences and just look for those who already cater to your preferences.
by dinfinity | 2025-09-10 18:44:15+00:00
Tip for enrolling in the Extended Security Updates for Win10:

https://github.com/builtbybel/Flyoobe/releases

> What’s new in Flyoobe 1.7.284

> This update is especially important for everyone still on Windows 10 who plans to stay there and take advantage of the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program.

Also in 1.10 stable, of course.
by ninininino | 2025-09-10 18:44:42+00:00
If you are not diversified, diversification is always safer than "doing nothing" because doing nothing financially means choosing whatever you currently have your wealth tied into unconsciosuly, whether that's just cash sitting in a bank account, stocks or stocks and bonds, etc.

Get some gold (ideally a bit of physical gold but also put some of your investments into gold or broad commodities ETFs) as a hedge against inflation/monetary devaluation, keep some of your wealth in cash or short-term/liquid bonds/treasuries/money market funds if you predict an equities and real estate crash, buy some real estate or real estate ETFs to get a bit of real estate exposure if you have zero, buy stocks if you have none. Shift a bit of your equities into international ETFs if you only have US stocks.

Splitting up into equal buckets of cash, real estate, stocks, bonds, gold/commodities, hell even a bit of crypto, hell buy some goods upfront to hedge inflation like dry, shelf stable food - this is ultimately gonna be a less volatile ride than just sitting around and doing nothing.

"We're fucked but there's nothing we can do" is a defeatist attitude if you sense financial turmoil but can't predict what type, just don't put all your eggs in one basket, and maybe reduce your diversification once you sense things are getting better.
by ta1243 | 2025-09-10 18:45:09+00:00
French private wealth has increased $2,300 billion since 2020 according to that page.

In the last 5 years French public debt has grown $750b [1]

Had that growth in wealth been taxed at the rate income was taxed (45%), that would have seen France's debt decrease - even with the covid mess.

[1] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/france/national-govern...
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-10 18:45:14+00:00
> Scandinavia though, where they are years ahead in that respect and have already begun taking digital devices out of the classrooms again

While I personally suspect that social media and by extension phones are detrimental: what you're writing here is opinion, not fact.

Just like adding tech was an experiment which seems to have been accepted all over, removing the tech again is - at least to my knowledge - in experiment phase, too.

And because a real experiment would take roughly 12-20 years (students performance from start to finish, until they're gainfully employed)... Neither of these approached have really been validated. It's all speculation, because there are so many other reasons that could explain the issues we currently have in our schools

And frankly - even though I honestly believe that social media is bad for them - I sincerely think its nowhere close to being the main reason for dropping performance, inability to take responsibilities or whatever else people are saying about the current children.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-10 18:45:44+00:00
most students are going to college because many jobs require it, or because they were “pushed” into it by teachers or parents. Not because they value education in the slightest.

I went to a state school and was one of the “weirdos” that didn’t party or join a fraternity. IMO some of us are there to learn and socialize on the side. Others are there to socialize and learn on the side.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 18:45:55+00:00
I don't have any reason to believe a paranoid schizophrenic capable of buying and maintaining a scooter is going to be any more persuaded to use public transit than anyone else. They are going to use alternatives for the same reason the rest of us do.

The ones using public transit are generally the ones with functional issues to the point they can't even get to that point of having a functional e scooter to crash.
by mips_avatar | 2025-09-10 18:46:09+00:00
It’s amazing what indie builders are doing with vector search, but I’m not sure how long it will last. Pure vector search works well today largely because no one is seriously trying to game it yet. Once adversaries start targeting it like they do SEO, we could see the same problems. You can already glimpse the risk in Pinterest, where roughly half the results for many queries are AI slop - since their primary search is image vectors
by jacquesm | 2025-09-10 18:46:23+00:00
Sure, but over Belarus their guidance and comms are not jammed. So either they were autonomous and not jammed when they flew into Polish airspace or they were guided and flew there on purpose. The 'unguided but jammed' combination does not work for the flightpath that they took.

BTW, they can be taken over post launch as a rule, this is one of the things that makes them a bit harder to take down, they don't follow a predictable trajectory and can react whilst underway. There are also jet powered versions that are a lot faster that are harder still to take down. The ones over Poland this morning all seem to be the prop based ones. There is also talk of at least one missile.
by bravetraveler | 2025-09-10 18:46:40+00:00
And that's totally fine! Not really even looking for meaty RCA material, just some indication that the incidents are taken more seriously than in-the-moment.

To be fair, too, it's likely been mentioned. I'm biased towards an unreasonable standard due to my line of work.

A status page without some thorough history is glorified 'About Us' :P
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-10 18:47:31+00:00
Do you live in a world where money is infinite? I'd rather have very good public transport, which is accessible to everyone, safe and can give physical workers so rest and a quiet time after work, than bike lanes everywhere.

And the problem with removing cars from the city center is that many users still need cars, either because they have families, or because they work and need a motorized vehicle (e.g a plumber).
by nadermx | 2025-09-10 18:47:58+00:00
Does no one remember vine? They showed there was a niche for a certain type of content. I think it all generally boils down to a sort of comparison of cell phone vs desktop vs maybe even laptop. It's not that when one came out the other was used less. It's instead that each was used now for different purposes, so usage in total basically 2-3x'd.