MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chartered_stack | 2025-09-19 05:24:48+00:00
Honestly, it would be great if it were "Gemma in Chrome" instead.

A local model capable enough to do the things that this is designed to do? Yes please.

Gemini in Chrome is a way to increase adoption. Gemma in Chrome is an innovation - a platform that allows developers to build stuff leveraging the local model. A step closer to a world where we can talk to our computers and have them do what we mean instead of what we say.
by justlikereddit | 2025-09-19 05:26:15+00:00
Social media reflects a silicon valley perspective and US domestic news have contaminated the entire eurozone since over a decade.

Movies are also a distillate of a local culture often with a rather uniform ideological slant.

AI being a clone army of corporate spokesmen from the US west coast brings sparsely little new cultural homogeneity to the already very smoothed table.
by tgma | 2025-09-19 05:29:34+00:00
Well, First Amendment protects your rights to obscene speech too, so you just affirmed here the license terms are controlling, not First Amendment. I am not litigating this exact incident (which in all likelihood had most to do with business decisions as WSJ reports,) nor suggesting that I think what was said was overly offensive, just pointing out that the airwaves in question are much more restricted than general speech in the United States and debates over what is allowed would not automatically escalate to a constitutional concern.
by ghssds | 2025-09-19 05:34:00+00:00
For one second, I thought Chrome now supported the Gemini protocol. Then I came back to reality.

> To use Gemini in Chrome on your computer, you need to: Be 18 or over and in the US. Use a Mac or Windows computer. Use the latest version of Chrome. Learn how to update Chrome. Sign in to Chrome. This feature isn’t available in Incognito mode. Learn how to sign in to Chrome. Have Chrome’s language set to English (United States).

Why can't I set Chrome to whichever language I may want and still have that Gemini thing in english?
by thomassmith65 | 2025-09-19 05:34:45+00:00
It seems a bit off to me, too. It would be much improved if they clarified which of the names they invented, and which are canonical. They know about the 'Memphis' esthetic, which suggests they didn't just wing everything. The other names are unfamiliar to me, and I'd like to know if it is ignorance on my part or invention on theirs. The site is a great idea, at any rate.
by dlenski | 2025-09-19 05:36:08+00:00
> The way they used to handle that at a FAANG I worked for was they had this app installed on each machine issued by IT, that would ask you a question daily about some aspect of your workplace.

I presume you're referring to "Amazon Connections"?

Had to be the most-hated bit of corporate enforcedware around. Every Linux laptop user had a different hack for hobbling or removing it.
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-19 05:37:01+00:00
I spent 10 mins trying to find a clear statement of whether Google uses information submitted to Gemini for training and I couldn't find one. It is hard not to come to the conclusion they actively try to obfuscate it because there are many statements that vaguely sound like they should address it but then don't properly do that.

So I would have to suggest, use these features with extreme caution on any page you consider private if you aren't prepared for your private information to get sucked into Google's Gemini training data.
by lmm | 2025-09-19 05:37:17+00:00
We get the project management we pay for. You can outsource implementation but you can't outsource accountability; ultimately, the only way to get effective government is to build up project management expertise in-house, and to do that you need to be willing to match the pay and conditions (including but not limited to reliable long-term employment) that skilled project managers could obtain in private industry.
by Lio | 2025-09-19 05:37:34+00:00
Ha! Great minds think alike.

We have something that makes genuine links look malicious at work too.

I think it’s called Microsoft Safelink or something. Its purpose is to go through your Outlook inbox and obscure the origin of every link because, obviously, being able to understand what you’re clicking on is bad.

Remember kids, no one ever gets fired for buying Microsoft. ;)
by balder1991 | 2025-09-19 05:37:51+00:00
I think the “secret explanation” can simply be things you don’t know (or that most people don’t know) because they’re not interesting per se, but when combined they make an interesting whole.

I enjoyed some books that don’t have anything unknown in its parts but that brought a lot of shift in perspectives for me, such as “Man’s Worldly Goods”[1] and “The Drunkard’s Walk”[2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Worldly-Goods-Wealth-Nations/dp/... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules-Lives...
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-19 05:38:23+00:00
> IMO burying digital tone controls in multi-level menus in cars is user-hostile and unsafe.

Forget the tone. The other day I was in a Renault Megane with two friends and the radio's F/R balance was out of whack, with the rear speakers, placed near my ears, going full tilt. We had to stop the car and figure how to change this, since the controls were not at all intuitive, including for the car's owner of multiple years.
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-09-19 05:40:24+00:00
Meh. I haven't seriously considered GTK ecosystems since 3 got released. Between the increased usage of screen real estate, feature minimalism as a philosophy, becoming infested with ever more JavaScript that hampers performance, the continuous API instability that strangles extension development, and "my way or the highway" approach to workflows... I just don't get why people like it.
by scrubs | 2025-09-19 05:42:20+00:00
Having watched Israel deal with their neighbors since the 80s, I am generally inclined to give the benefit of doubt to Israel.

However over the last 5 years my attitude has changed. Israel and the Palestinians (focus esp on Palestinian kids) are two screwed over peoples screwing themselves over from a place of stubbornness, reprisal.

Who's right depends on how far you wanna go back in tit for tat, which is rhetorically arbitrary.

The US stance should be:

- Israel will recognize Palestine as a state and Israel stay the hell out their business. Israel will remove their camps from palestine.

- Palestine gets the control they want/need and with it commeasurate accountability.

Therefore,

- US support is withdrawn until two state done

Palestine needs to:

- provide governance for their citizens without playing footsies with terrorists. It's time for them to put up or shut up.

From a US standpoint and as a US citizen I'm pissed at the idiocy we've done to the middle east. I'm also sick and tired of having entanglements from Israel or oil. We've got to get our act together and focus.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-19 05:42:49+00:00
I wanted to hack something around this, since my amp, speakers, speaker placement, room and listening position are constant. But I have no idea how to actually go about this.

I can fetch the pre-amp level, but the actual sound level will be dependent on the source's actual volume which isn't constant (see: loudness wars). I could react according to a "measured" level, but how should I deal with a quiet portion (think classical music)? The closest I came was to use replaygain, but then that won't work with spotify...

I wonder if anybody came up with a solution to this.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-09-19 05:43:53+00:00
They made this claim in a peer reviewed paper submitted to Nature, but it’s not clear how peers could evaluate the truth of this claim.

If it’s true, and the consensus is that we are hitting limits of how to improve these models, the hypothesis that the entire market is in a bubble over-indexed on GPU costs [0] starts to look more credible.

At the very least, OpenAI and Anthropic look ridiculously inefficient. Mind you, given the numbers on the Oracle deal don’t add up, this is all starting to sound insane already.

[0] https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
by noisy_boy | 2025-09-19 05:43:58+00:00
> Additionally, she is going to join us in-person at #athena-award's 200-person hackathon in NYC in November!

Please don't enable this kind of company in their branding exercise. They just shit on your nonprofit and backpedalled only due to online outrage and you are rewarding their throwing a few pieces of silver to quiet things down by giving them a platform.

All this does is allow them to whitewash their greed and brainwash the next generation.
by ivell | 2025-09-19 05:45:04+00:00
I don't think there is any malicious intend when pharma produces those drugs.

The drugs are also effective in controlling some symptoms and enable people to go on with their life.

We had many centuries without those drugs, I don't think our ancestors had any better quality of life without those meds.

Psychiatric illness is complex and multiple techniques need to be employed to get some control over it.

If we are looking for a silver bullet, I agree there is none.
by hakfoo | 2025-09-19 05:45:51+00:00
Aren't a lot of those cards sold for the audience that needs more display heads rather than necessarily performance?

This has been somewhat improved-- some mainboards will have HDMI and DisplayPort plumbed to the iGPU, but the classic "trader desk" with 4-6 screens hardly needs a 5090.

They could theoretically sell the same 7xx and 1030 chips indefinitely. I figure it's a static market like those strange 8/16Mb VGA chipsets that you sometimes see on server mainboards, just enough hardware to run diagnostics on a normally headless box.
by noduerme | 2025-09-19 05:46:02+00:00
This is hilarious. I wish I'd thought or doing it to my 85 year old father. Maybe I could have saved him the last 10 years of following spam email links into hellish conspiracy holes and identity scams. It didn't matter how many times I told him never to click on an email.

There should be a white hat phishing service you can hire to target your elders. Then when they give up their social security number, someone shows up at their door with a big cake with all their personal details in frosting.
by smittywerben | 2025-09-19 05:46:24+00:00
Ah, the ol' Dropbox risk management tactic where they show you a random selection of your photos when you open the page. Or any page on the site. Suggested: "Remembering Summer Vacation 2020". By the way, do you want to compress your whole photo library to achieve Instagram quality while offering to consume more of the photos of your computer, disillusioned by the last few pennies of value that already fell. What's that? Your iCloud or Android device is out of space because the two ProRes videos your iPhone took after the commercial convinced the Apple user to engage the Apple proprietary video encoding button to maximize their Instagram engagement. The Samsung folds itself into a rolly-polly bug shell form. Eventually, all of your photos will be sent to Instagram, the final destination. Once there, after compressing your photos without asking, they will insist on your choosing ZSTD as the coffin.

So, on the consent-quality-useful triangle (WIP), Google is clearly eliminating quality and consent to provide you with a useful interface to the Google consentless compression box. Just what everyone wanted. The future is now.

Notification: You have 2 new views (details button: 2 ad-consenting views, 0 other views) on the photo you took of the compression artifact on a video that you suspect Google might have accidentally compressed without your consent, confusing itself to be Instagram. Unfortunately, your comparison photo gets equally confused and is compressed to be equally as bad as the compressed one. Now the photos look identical, and you look like a conspiracy theorist tweeting about "video encoding" from your Sesame Street Elmo phone, just like everyone else, with no issue at all. "We're in the Ourobouros. Maybe Paramount isn't the issue. Maybe it's Paramount Plus." The Samsung rolly-polly bug interrupts and insists this issue will have to wait because it's 2pm on Friday. Now, your Elmo phone is now the only device still working in the office, as you try to convince your wife why you have to stay late, "Because you're different than the rest of the people posting compression artifact-laden photos."
by djtango | 2025-09-19 05:46:55+00:00
Slack is a giant company at this stage. Is it so impossible to see that countless billing disputes both valid, invalid and injust happen multiple times a day without ever reaching senior teams because they have entire departments for that.

Slack are hardly going to hang out to dry an overzealous junior hire but so often that is the root cause in these situations and so the fix is processes and training...

For as much as it could be Slack's culture to hold hostage your data, it can also be a slightly reckless sales rep looking to strong arm to meet their aggressive targets to save their own job.
by usef- | 2025-09-19 05:46:57+00:00
This isn't about GPU competition, it's about fab competition (which is in far more dire of a situation).

Intel can no longer fund new process nodes by itself, and no customers want to take the business risk to build their product on a (very difficult) new node when tsmc exists. They're in a chicken and egg situation. (see also https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/ )
by shmerl | 2025-09-19 05:48:14+00:00
> Both of which NVidia does a lot better in practice!

Correction - if they care. And they don't care to do it on Linux, so you get them dragging feet for decades for something like Wayland support, PRIME, you name it.

Basically, the result is that in practice they offer abysmally bad support, otherwise they'd have upstream kernel drivers and no userspace blobs. Linux users should never buy Nvidia.
by reader9274 | 2025-09-19 05:48:38+00:00
Just tested it and it works flawlessly!

1. Enable: General > Sharing > Remote Management

2. After reboot, when trying to SSH you get this message:

"This system is locked. To unlock it, use a local account name and password. Once successfully unlocked, you will be able to connect normally."

3. Once you successfully ssh, the ssh connection is closed, and this message is shown:

"System successfully unlocked. You may now use SSH to authenticate normally."

4. You have to re-ssh and you're in!
by tomnipotent | 2025-09-19 05:48:46+00:00
> Slack changed the terms of a special deal

"Slack" didn't do anything. A uninformed sales process included a customer it should not have, which was eventually resolved. Terms did end up changing, but for the better.

I'm willing to bet money that no one from the team or even area of the org chart that made that deal are still in that part of the org, or that any of them would have been involved in any situation that would have brought awareness of what was going on. Sales team have relatively high turnover, over like 25% anually. In my experience it's usually the least stable org chart in the company.

> Unlikely to be generations of execs.

There's probably been no less than ~6 executives that have been responsible for sales operations in that time frame, and that the sales process has been revamped and changes to how revenue is generated just as many times.
by lsbussell | 2025-09-19 05:49:00+00:00
After about 5 years away from desktop Linux, I have now been using Bluefin/Bazzite for the past few months as a Windows/MacOS replacement on my personal desktop and laptop.

I knew that Bazzite was supposedly good for gaming but never looked into it any more than that. When I eventually learned about Bluefin, I was surprised to find that it, Bazzite, and all the other Universal Blue “distros” are built with the same container-native tech that I use every day at work. Needless to say I was immediately sold.

I have been very impressed so far. I don’t find the immutable OS limiting in my day-to-day work at all. I guess I’m all about that “defaults lifestyle” now.
by branko_d | 2025-09-19 05:50:08+00:00
Hram Svetog Save (Church of Saint Sava) in Belgrade/Serbia started construction in 1935 and the exterior was finished in 2017. I haven’t been there in several years, but my understanding is that the interior is still being worked on and will continue for some years to come…

So not quite “over a century” but getting close. :)
by taneq | 2025-09-19 05:50:28+00:00
You're just moving the question from "confused" to "think", and I think you're also conflating "to be confused" (which was what I said) with "to feel confused" (which is a whole other thing.)

I guess my definition of 'to be confused' is something like 'to have a significant mismatch between your model and reality', so yeah, you could argue that a PID controller is "confused" by a workload with significant inertia. And 'to feel confused' would be 'to identify a significant mismatch between your model and reality', of which clearly a PID controller is not capable, but most multicellular life forms are.
by lovehashbrowns | 2025-09-19 05:50:54+00:00
I think for me personally although I don’t use maths often enough in any practical sense, the one thing I think has stopped me progressing in life how I feel I want to has been my lack of maths knowledge. I don’t mean in a career sense but in an enjoyment sense. I watched a video about proving that the square root of two is irrational and that made me irrationally happy, and I’d love to keep going but a lot of the maths in other proofs or concepts gets absolutely insane. I don’t know how to express that to kids learning maths for the first time, though. It also almost feels like the world of math is so vast there’s something for everyone to enjoy casually. That feels like a video game analogy to me with all the different genres built around basic fundamental concepts.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-09-19 05:51:15+00:00
I came to suggest this (also mentioned in the article). Not just engineers, I would suggest this to designers and managers too. A few of the books I always suggest to people involved in Product (the manager, engineers, and designers) are “Good Enough Design” (List Apart), “Refactoring UI” (this is actually a pretty recent addition), and the classic “Don’t Make Me Think.”

For anyone in the trenches long enough will know that most of the facts, such as the ones from “Refactoring UI” are common sense. Unfortunately, I’ve realized that it is NOT, even for many designers.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-19 05:51:50+00:00
> If the subject matter isn’t something the kid has a natural aptitude or interest in, and it’s not practical, and it’s not being taught in an unusually captivating way, why wouldn’t kids push back?

Agreed.

> I think adults should be able to justify why we’re using what boils down to the threat of force (if we’re honest) to make them sit in classrooms and listen to us.

Disagree. The justification for why they should learn $FOO may never be understood by a mind that we are teaching $FOO to.

There's good justification for learning to read, but not one that would be understood by a 6 year old.

There's similarly good justification for teaching Maths, but you'd be hard pressed to convince a 16 year old of the value in practicing abstract reasoning, using Maths as the vehicle.

Sometimes, the only good answer to give a kid is "you'll see the value when you're older".
by uncircle | 2025-09-19 05:53:31+00:00
There is a lot of weird discussion on English-speaking forums that you should always always wear sunscreen, even if the day is grey, because skin cancer is a constant risk.

I do not get if it’s a massive and long-running marketing campaign that has brainwashed the entire population, if it’s because many living in US and UK have a very white skin tone thus burn easily, or what else. Skin cancer is a fact of life, but for a species that evolved in the sun, I do not believe one bit that sun exposure, which incidentally is linked to many benefits because it’s so bloody normal, is something that can only be dealt with modern technology and we should be deathly afraid of it. Sure, UV radiation can cause mutations, but our immune system has evolved over billions of years to deal with this exact problem.

By all means use sunscreen if you have to spend a lot of time in the sun and risk a very unpleasant sunburn, but I wish someone would explain the Anglo obsession with daily sunscreen routine.
by exfalso | 2025-09-19 05:53:31+00:00
Wow one of the most insightful takes I've read in a long time, hidden in the depths of a HN thread.

The mechanism you talk about is all too real, and it can be semi-consciously exploited. A bit off-topic, but the way genocides happen is via a similar mechanism. A group is depicted as base, a disease, faults are attributed to it. It becomes a moral imperative to clean the body.

This feeling is thus rationalized, and people start to reinforce each other's conviction. It becomes a twisted status game: the more you lean into the mentality, the higher you rank. Often times the goal isn't even to "address" the original trigger, it's to show your peers your approval and distance yourself from "those people". They the immoral, we the moral.
by superice | 2025-09-19 05:53:47+00:00
Starting from 'what looks good' is putting the cart before the horse. Making a UI usable and well laid out first is key. Practical UI and Refactoring UI are great resources, as long as you read them through a lens of 'what works well?' instead of 'what looks pretty?'. The author is absolutely right in that alignment and consistency are important, but that should really be your starting point.

Building a good user interface is fundamentally an engineering challenge. I see roughly two camps in building UIs, one designing a pretty picture and then tweaking the CSS until it looks like the picture, the other treating the CSS as rules of how the UI should behave. A simple example would be using display: flex; gap: 32px; on a parent of two elements instead of margin-right: 32px; on the left-most element. While the end result is identical, specifying the gap on the parent is better, because it puts the responsibility for spacing in the correct place. This also goes for the way you define CSS classes and rules, if two values are linked, like the height of your buttons and the height of your input fields, then try and capture that in a single rule, or extract it out to a variable.

A lot of building good UIs becomes much easier once you adopt the engineering approach. Consistency is almost built-in at that point, and that automatically makes your UIs better and easier to understand. It keeps your CSS more maintainable too.

While I'm sure there are ways to achieve this with Tailwind, generally I tend to see developers do the exact opposite when they use tools like that: just define everything with atomic classes inline, and forget all about the relations of styling rules to eachother. Tailwind has some great concepts, like defining a limited set of values to choose from, but be careful to keep the engineering, rules based way of building UIs.

There are so many times we've gone a direction in our products only to figure out that while we could make the page look pretty, it never would work well. It always ends up being some version of 'if we go direction X, then features Y and Z will have to be shoe-horned in and it'll look ugly'. When you get that feeling, take a step back, come up with some different approaches, and go with a better one.

The "make it pretty"-step should really be the last thing you do. If you design your UI with heavily visually simplified components and in black and white, it should still work and feel right. Make it work right, and the pretty will come.