MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-09 23:23:23+00:00
There is a big difference between interpolation (dealing with the bayer or xtrans array and delivering a 3 layer image file in your choice of format and bit depth using your choice of algorithms), shooting for white balance or tone mapping with a color card and calibrated monitor if you care about that level of accuracy, and what Apple is doing which is black box ML subtly yassifying your images and garbling small printed text. Especially when the commenters use case is building out the family archive and not posting selfies on Instagram.
by cyberax | 2025-09-09 23:23:48+00:00
I have an e-ink display that's now 15 years old. It's definitely a bit less clean, there is sometimes mild ghosting even after doing a full refresh. Doing two refreshes in quick succession fixes that.

I also have another display that was exposed to full sunlight through a window for about 8 years. It's now a bit faded as a result.

All in all, I consider it pretty good.
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-09 23:24:00+00:00
Edit: You work on that stuff, right? Then this armchair experting feels silly, just imagine it's for other readers.

It seems much more practical (if a little less power-efficient) to implement the no diff -> no refresh logic for screen regions in the display hardware. The RAM and logic for a display-side framebuffer can't be expensive today, a couple of Euros for the extra board space and chip(s). If that stuff takes off, just additional transistors in the all-in-one ASIC.

For the whole screen, that more or less already exists in laptop hardware: "panel self-refresh". HDMI and DiplayPort might need a new extension or something? Is there anything?
by spicyusername | 2025-09-09 23:24:44+00:00
I noticed.

Books written with WYSIWYG could have been written by hand just fine, it would have just been more painful and taken longer. What WYSIWYG unlocks is more books, not new kinds of books. And sure, you might argue that more books is new books, which is fair.

So it is with LLMs. We're going to get more code, more lesson plans, etc. Accelerating.

Do people writing code with AI today have anything comparable?

Like every fourth post on here is someone talking about their workflow with LLMs, so... I think they do?
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-09 23:25:08+00:00
> This isn't the world of BBSes where everyone had a corner or two that they hung out on.

That's exactly what Mastodon is. The whole reason mastodon exists is because a whole lot of people wanted exactly this experience.

Mastodon won't win because they aren't playing. Which again, is the whole point. It's extremely deliberate and intentional. People use mastodon because the "game" is abhorrent and objectively extremely bad for people individually and society as a whole.

So mastodon eschews the gamification and like farming and fake notifications. One of the most common jokes throughout the whole network is "wow, this post blew up and is doing Real Numbers" and the post has like ten boosts and twenty likes. It's extremely rare to see more than a couple hundred notes on any one post.

It's on purpose. Mastodon users like and actively want it to be this way.
by cassianoleal | 2025-09-09 23:25:13+00:00
I'm not sure I'd call it a curve.

Small phone vs. larger phone is a very simple tradeoffs calculation.

Large phone: good screen, bad ergonomics Small phone: small (thus worse) screen, best ergonomics

I'm willing to pick the second option above.

Unfortunately the Mini is somewhere in the middle: smaller screen than the larger phone - thus worse in that aspect -, combined with worse ergonomics than an actually small phone. It's the worst of both worlds.

I don't know about other things, but ever since the iPhone 5 I've been wanting another model that I could use with a single hand. The Mini was never that, so why would I sacrifice a good feature (larger screen) for... nothing in return?
by AdventureMouse | 2025-09-09 23:25:29+00:00
> If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, then the era of viable local LLM inferencing is upon us.

I don't think local LLMs will ever be a thing except for very specific use cases.

Servers will always have way more compute power than edge nodes. As server power increases, people will expect more and more of the LLMs and edge node compute will stay irrelevant since their relative power will stay the same.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-09 23:25:33+00:00
> he's trying to publish his findings at "the annual meeting of the Ankh-Morpork Caged Birds Society". [...] Trying to commandeer the attention of the attendees like that is simply disrespectful;

Ah, I see the confusion, no, these are two people running an actual newspaper.

When the coworker says "this is a report" it's because they're holding it up in their hands to display it, as an example of something their average working-class reader might care more about than estoeric politics.

Alas, the 2-hour edit window is closed, but:

> She held up a piece of lined paper, crammed edge to edge with the careful looped handwriting of someone for whom holding a pen was not a familiar activity. "This is a report of the annual meeting of the Ankh-Morpork Caged Birds Society," she said. "They're just ordinary people who breed canaries and things as a hobby. Their chairman lives next door to me, which is why he gave me this. This stuff is important to him! My goodness, but it's dull. It's all about Best of Breed and some changes in the rules about parrots which they argued about for two hours. But the people who were arguing were people who mostly spend their day mincing meat or sawing wood and basically leading little lives that are controlled by other people, do you see? They've got no say in who runs the city but they can damn well see to it that cockatoos aren't lumped in with parrots. It's not their fault. It's just how things are. Why are you sitting there with your mouth open like that?"
by jongjong | 2025-09-09 23:25:37+00:00
I just made a very similar comment. Spot on. It's laughable to think that this trivial opportunity that literally any developer could pull off with a couple of thousand dollars is a one-in-a-million. North Korea probably has enough money to buy up a significant percentage of all popular npm dependencies and most people would sell willingly and unwittingly.

In the case of North Korea, it's really crazy because hackers over there can do this legally in their own country, with the support of their government!

And most popular npm developers are broke.
by sothatsit | 2025-09-09 23:25:39+00:00
It seems like a pretty logical conclusion that if you removed copyright, then book manufacturers would just copy author's books and sell them without paying the author. Or ebook services would just distribute their books for free.

Author's could potentially get a couple months of sales by working with manufacturers themselves and being the first to sell their books. But as soon as untrusted parties can get their hands on the book, someone will start selling their own copies of it.
by wredcoll | 2025-09-09 23:25:47+00:00
I can't find a chart that is literally just number/year, but the chart at the top of https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm... is about the closest I can find.

If you look at it, you'll see that, yes, a million or two million or whatever immigrants arrived during the last year biden was in office.

However, if you're not trying to use statistics to lie, what you'll also find is that millions came every year for the past fifty years, including the years trump was president.

There might be some specific "record number" but only in the sense that the total population of humans increases every year so when the same percentage does the same thing as last year, the absolute number is now larger.

And of course this all ignores the part where immigration is a huge benefit to america.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-09 23:26:36+00:00
I went back pretty easy. The real thing is the pixel viewing distance. At laptop viewing distances I couldn't see the pixels on the low res screen anyhow. The only real noticeable difference was ui text was a little bigger. Refresh rate you stop noticing fast. I personally can't tell when my m3 mbp is on 120hz on the power adapter or 60z on battery, maybe if I hunted for it specifically by scrolling at lightspeed.
by turtlebits | 2025-09-09 23:26:36+00:00
Not all coding is interesting, I would say the majority of it is a chore.

One shotting small utilities that I have no interest in writing (for me, front-end JS, chrome extensions, web scraping selectors) is wonderful. I just vibe coded a "crop a pdf" web UI and it worked with no intervention. It doesn't have to be meaningful, just useful.
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-09-09 23:26:48+00:00
I have about 6 months of actual coding knowledge via bootcamp. But I’ve seen enough repos that I know what good practices look like.

That’s about enough for me to build out fairly complex products very fast with AI (Claude Code). Claude Code often makes some fundamental mistakes that you wouldn’t be able to catch if you didn’t have any coding experience (like today, it was trying to save large images directly in the database instead of using file storage).
by arcane23 | 2025-09-09 23:27:11+00:00
>Statements like "I'm not going to explain it to you, you'll see exactly what it does" and "This is when it's zoomed out, you can still see it traveling" seem to be careful wording meant to lead people to a conclusion without actually claiming it.

Also saying "orb" which further mystifies it, that's just a visual translation of the gear tracking it.

After getting "hit", there seem to be what looks like three drones still flying, sort of like those ultra fast racing drones: https://youtu.be/EtRXay2kqtc Even their movement is similar. They could have carried some sort of mesh, and could be some kind of missile deflecting tech test or whatever. Or maybe a 4th drone is still attached to that mesh and keeps dragging it along.

Insisting on the UFO angle, along with the rest of the wording they use seems they want to strongly suggest the viewer comes at particular conclusions without actually saying it.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-09 23:27:43+00:00
The bond between a mother and her child is very special and intense. That doesn't happen with a paid caregiver. Heck, I was glued to my mom till I was 4.

I'm sad for you that you don't seem to understand this, with words like "shunted".

My parents are decades gone, but I miss them every day. Not so for any paid caregiver.

My grandmother died when my dad was 9. In his 90s, he forgot that she was dead, and would cry wondering why she didn't visit him.

The notion that this can be replaced with the state is absurd.
by chamomeal | 2025-09-09 23:27:59+00:00
Idk I honestly feel like it makes junior developers more valuable. Junior are devs are often a cost as make as an asset, cause they take a lot of time and attention away from senior devs.

Now a junior can ask an AI like 90% of questions that would otherwise occupy a senior:

- Why does this dockerfile copy these files first? - how can I find the entrypoints to this service? - is there anything related to image processing in this entire project?

LLMs let juniors punch above their weight, and it lets seniors go faster. Of course if everybody is twice as efficient, you don’t need as many devs (debatable), but I don’t think junior devs are going anywhere. I hear a lot of CEO hype posts saying junior devs are outdated, but idk it doesn’t make any sense to me!
by Esophagus4 | 2025-09-09 23:28:32+00:00
Yeah, I’ve just never really liked the carry costs of a house… taxes, maintenance, utilities, transaction costs, etc. and never wanted to deal with being a landlord.

Plus, while the real estate market on a whole might go up, I have a hunch the chances of one individual house appreciating are more varied than the chances of one of the big tech stocks appreciating… as they are the market at this point.

Edit to add: I think for the average American, real estate is the only plausible way to invest on margin, as you’ll never get 5:1 leverage at your brokerage, if you even have a brokerage.
by hibikir | 2025-09-09 23:28:44+00:00
I know of a certain large company I will not name that is sending people back to office while also having a huge percentage of staff augmentation consultants living outside of the US. So you can find teams that have two people in the office, working side by side with another 10 people in the team that are remote, and interacting with teams that might be a 7, 8 timezones away.

You can imagine how well those people feel about RTO, and how it helps their collaboration.
by glitchc | 2025-09-09 23:29:04+00:00
I'm not a fanboy, far from it. I'm not affiliated with the lab or his work. I'm not even a big fan of machine learning. But Hinton's contributions to the field cannot be understated. He single-handedly kept it alive for two decades amid a massive lack of funding. Anyone who has worked in research will attest that this is an incredible feat.

People on Hacker News seems to idolize the lone genius who somehow pulled himself up from his bootstraps. That person does not exist. The truth is that great minds are made, moulded into shape. That the best people behind our AI technology emerged from his lab is no coincidence. Those trash-talking Hinton on this forum are unlikely to achieve 1/100th of what he has accomplished.

“The housecat may mock the tiger,” said the master, “but doing so will not make his purr into a roar.” [1]

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/end-user.html
by MBCook | 2025-09-09 23:29:09+00:00
> FWIW, I presume this is "from experience"--rather than, from first principles, which is how it comes off

I interpreted that as what they came up with when first looking at/starting to implement MTE, not their plan since $longTimeAgo.

Apple has certainly gotten better about security, and I suspect things like what you listed are a big part of why. They were clearly forced to learn a lot by jailbreakers.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-09 23:30:04+00:00
>Were you really confused by “your contract” at any job?

I live in California and many things have changed over the years in terms of labor laws. So yes, I don't know if what I signed is relevant today (e.g. non-competes).

>There was nowhere in my contract that I would never be expected to return to office and in fact AWS did tell all of their “field by design” roles that they would have to come into the office by the beginning of the year.

Okay, and some employees may have argued for those protections in their contract during negotiations. I'm not that high up, but I imagine some MSFT workers in Seattle may be.

> Don’t you think you would have heard at least one case of a successful lawsuit by employees of at least one of these companies?

It may be out there, but we may not have heard of it. I'm not a lawyer, I don't spend my time digging through court cases, and anything I may find may only be regionally valid and not matter to where you or I live.

>You think a local lawyer “recommended by a family friend” is going to successfully take on a trillion dollar+ market cap company?

Sure, that happens all the time in minor cases. You'd be surprised how sloppy offices can be with compliance. There are still cases of discrimination that courts fine to this day.

Again, that's not for me to determine, though. That's for a firm to analyze, accept or reject. I don't know why you're questioning me about a sector I'm not involved in. Ask your "family friend" lawyer to dig up cases for you. They are much better at that than me.
by abustamam | 2025-09-09 23:30:16+00:00
The western idea of individualism and the villification of the lower-class has really fucked American society. "I don't wanna pay taxes for [insert thing that doesn't benefit me]" or "if you're poor it's your fault" in a country where costs of basic necessities like medical care, insurance, food, housing, school, are skyrocketing is insane to me.

I thought everyone had the right to life, liberty, and property, but it seems like if one can't afford to live then they are just left by the wayside.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-09 23:30:18+00:00
Well, there are damages torts and there's also an unjust enrichment tort. In the paradigm example where you make funding available to your treasurer and he makes an unscheduled stop in Las Vegas to bet it on black, you can sue him for damages. If he lost the bet, he owes you the amount he lost. If he won, he owes you nothing (assuming he went on and deposited the full amount in your treasury as expected).

Or you could sue him on a theory of unjust enrichment, in which case, if he lost, he'd owe you nothing, and if he won, he'd owe you all of his winnings.

It's not clear to me why the same theory wouldn't be available to Adobe, though the copyright question wouldn't be the main thrust of the case then.
by evgpbfhnr | 2025-09-09 23:30:23+00:00
bwrap.

I don't run AI, but anything I don't fully trust 200% runs without access to my home, and if it doesn't really need internet without internet either. bwrap commands can be a mouthful so I suggest making a script for things you commonly do, e.g. "run with this directory as $HOME" or "run with empty home, keeping just this directory as is", with a couple of flags to enable networking or wayland/sound... Once you have this there really is no benefit to not sandboxing. It's probably not as good as running in a full VM, but it's good enough for me.
by kumavis | 2025-09-09 23:30:37+00:00
> all the malware did was modify the destination addresses of cryptocurrency payments mediated via online wallets like MetaMask

A clarification: Despite MetaMask depending on the compromised packages it was not directly affected because: 1) packages were not updated while the compromise was live 2) MetaMask uses LavaMoat for install-time and run-time protections against compromised packages

However the payload did attempt to compromise other pages that interact with wallets like MetaMask.

Disclaimer: I worked on LavaMoat

LavaMoat: https://github.com/lavamoat/lavamoat
by kube-system | 2025-09-09 23:30:44+00:00
There's no need for a pissing contest here. Neither the US nor the EU has a "stricter" set of vehicle safety standards than the other. They simply have different standards.

Sometimes the differences are very minor. Sometimes it's a matter of requiring different standard equipment. Different markets around the world take different regulatory approaches in requiring active safety features versus passive safety features. Some markets focus on the safety of the occupants within the vehicle, other markets balance that safety with other road users or people outside of the vehicle. The EU tests what happens when a vehicle hits a pedestrian but the US doesn't. The US tests what happens when somebody's not wearing their seatbelt, but the EU doesn't. The EU and US crash test vehicles into different objects at different speeds and in different directions. Saying that one system is "more strict" than the other is really a gross oversimplification of the global vehicle regulatory landscape.

Heck, sometimes European manufacturers have to remove safety features from an equivalent EU-market vehicle to meet US safety standards. (e.g. Audi matrix headlights) So, just because something doesn't meet US standards doesn't mean I'm calling it bad.

Although I'm not so sure in this case... the Dacia Spring EV has a one-star Euro NCAP rating. So even the EU thinks it kind of sucks. And if you look at where it struggled, you'll see it lacked in occupant protection specifically. Which is probably not good for it being imported into the US, because US standards for occupant protection are generally more difficult to meet.

And does it really keep up with Autobahn traffic? I'm guessing it probably does fine in urban areas. But even the higher trim takes 14 seconds to get to 62mph. This is about 40% slower than the slowest car currently sold in the US. This would not be received well in the US market -- the average vehicle sold here is twice this quick. Also the top speed is 78 mph. This is slower than maximum posted highway speeds in 20% of US states. And prevailing speeds on many non-urban highways in the US are 80+.

That's not to say these are dealbreakers in usability. But nobody's gonna pay 100% tariff to import one, when you could get way better vehicle for sub ~$37,000.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-09 23:31:00+00:00
Well, swappable batteries has the UX advantage of being able to swap in full charges.

I don't really understand all the complaining since it's merely a variant of the iPhone for people who prioritize thinness over battery.

For over a decade, HNers have complained that they don't want thinness to be forced on them and that there should be a separate SKU for it. Yet when it finally happens, HNers complain about the trade-off.
by netsharc | 2025-09-09 23:31:23+00:00
Isn't it a subset of "understanding".. AI as we have them currently emulates something that understands us. If you ask it to write a program, how would a non-coder know if the output of the emulated understanding is accurate enough as code, or a miss?

Reminds me of the joke:

int getRandom() {

return 4; // chosen by a dice, guaranteed to be random }
by notahacker | 2025-09-09 23:31:34+00:00
> You went straight to what people "need" but then ignored the whole schtick we're discussing was NM going from means-tested to universal childcare even for people that don't "need" it.

Nope, I'm the one explicitly not ignoring the major rationale behind providing universal free childcare, which is that it removes a massive disincentive to using childcare (it's expensive), with the result that parents are less likely to work or take on other responsibilities some of the time and less likely to take their kids to nurseries to help socialise them.

People who mostly look after their own kids still benefit from the free care when they do need it, and those who would prefer to look after their children 24/7 regardless are essentially unaffected[1], unless of course they are the sort who upon seeing others enjoying a free lunch, become preoccupied by the thought the food supplier should probably pay them for having a full stomach.

[1]I mean, someone's paying a little more tax at the margin, but that's spread over a lot more people and the stay at home mums barely feature...

> I don't see at all how a mom taking care of a child "needs" the money less than a daycare worker/company taking care of the child.

You don't understand why daycare centre employees would like to earn a living? Or you don't understand that paying some trained professionals to look after your kids in a big building might cost a bit more than staying at home with them and maybe buying an extra meal or two?

I mean, if there is some stay at home parent that finds looking after their own children during the daytime such a burden they "need" an extra $1k per child per month to do it... they should probably just use the free childcare.

> What you're proposing is just yanking the money away from them in a tax, then lording it over them that they have to take the latter if they want the cash back

Nope. Actually, when it comes to yanking money and telling people they can get the cash back if they do something (have an infant kid and quit their job to look after it) that sounds rather more like your proposition of giving indiscriminate cash handouts to parents. I am pointing out that subsidising the amount of third party childcare parents actually want to consume requires considerably less tax money to be yanked away and has a different set of incentives.
by MBCook | 2025-09-09 23:32:20+00:00
Even without going conspiracy theory it fits very well as a simple marketing message. “We try hard at security and we do a good job of it. Here’s our newest tool.”

Personally I didn’t read it as a swipe against Android. If it was I don’t personally know what attack(s) it’s referring to outside of the possibility of malware installed by the vendor.

But if it’s installed by the vendor, they can really do anything can’t they. That’s not really a security breach. Just trust.