MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sedawkgrep | 2025-09-14 15:48:40+00:00
I think it's much bigger than racism.

Take a look at the administration's first term and all the involvement and ties (financial, political, etc.) there are to Russia (and Russian-related objectives like Ukraine). It sounds bonkers, but the more you dig in and see how closely tied the relationships have been, and then see how totally soft Trump has been towards Putin/Russia - including direct actions towards Ukraine like removing the long-term diplomats, stopping weapons sales and aid, and recently killing USAID (whose #1 beneficiary was Ukraine) - it all coalesces into a single coherent view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...
by isodev | 2025-09-14 15:49:13+00:00
In other words, a lightweight form of DRM. Here come the reasons why we shouldn’t all deploy CloudFlare and similar as gatekeepers to the web.

Is there even one example of a “tech mega corp” that has grown to control more than 1/5 of its market without this circling back to hurt people in some way? A single example?
by righthand | 2025-09-14 15:49:30+00:00
Moderates being the majority platform on both sides blaming their minority “extremeist” wing for their failures is step one of most US political debates.

It’s those dang progressives and their policies that moderates push through for election appeal then turn around and partially implement and defund and finger point and blame when those policies then fail after being setup to do so.

If you can’t blame progressives then you can’t get elected in this country.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-14 15:49:47+00:00
> Do you approve of Biden doing everything he could, including ultimately trading one of the most well known arm's dealers alive (and the person who Lord of War was based on), for her?

Mostly I dont care at all. It's one of a thousand tiny decisions every world leader makes every day that would have been on page 15 of the newspaper 25 years ago. However, I can see why you would disapprove. It's reasonable to disagree with politicians, unless you're doing it because you're some kind of bigot.

Now explain why Griners genital preference is relevant if the point wasn't to enrage people and imply that a black lesbians life is worth less than a hetero mans. Again, he was comparing people and these were the attributes he chose as important qualifiers.

> Calling a WNBA player famous is very arguable

Is it your stance that actual spies are more widely known than WNBA players? I mean, that's a hilarious burn towards the WNBA, but it's literally not true. It's only anecdata, but i knew more about Griner than the other person. Still do.

It's also weird that you focus on this one person as if they were the only possible alternative to Griner. They weren't. That's just the one the right trotted out because it was the only one anybody had ever heard of at all.

Both sides were playing politics with lives, and it was gross. It was worse that Kirk made it about how black and gay Griner was. He did it to get views and it worked, but it had a cost.

>William Elliott Whitmore

Frankly, I also wouldn't care about whoever he is unless someone framed it to be a comparison between a black, gay, pot smoker and a 'normal' person just to piss me off. Identity politics are evil.
by UmGuys | 2025-09-14 15:50:43+00:00
Currently, if there were any resistance, they would swiftly be gunned down in the street. Hasn't the orange goon made that clear enough to you? The problem is we didn't enforce justice after the civil war or the coup on January 6. The cult of domestic terrorists has a monopoly on violence.

Edit: Also, most of the politicians in both parties get money from the same interests (oil, Israel, tech). So the leadership of Democrats basically wants the same thing as GOP, so there's only voiced resistance.
by manyturtles | 2025-09-14 15:50:51+00:00
In the mid-90s our CS department got a lab full of Indys, which undergrads weren't allowed to use until their 3rd year because those were the serious kit. We could only imagine how cool it would be to have Indigo2s to play with.

In about 1998 a friend gave me a Casio PDA (E-15?). It was surplus because it wasn't great, and sluggish. CPU was a close relative of the on those Indy workstations used.

In 2002 I was working for a visual effects shop in the Bay Area. Among the chaos of wires, Wacom tablets and GeForce cards in the IT bay were two large stacks of Indigo2 Maximum Impact workstations. The ones with the MIPS R10k CPU and fancy graphics option. We complained when we had to move them because they were so heavy, and nobody could be bothered to take them to e-waste.
by PhantomHour | 2025-09-14 15:51:15+00:00
> While this likely has no legal weight

I wouldn't be quite so sure about that. The AI industry has entirely relied on 'move fast and break things' and 'old fart judges who don't understand the tech' as their legal strategy.

The idea that AI training is fair use isn't so obvious, and quite frankly is entirely ridiculous in a world where AI companies pay for the data. If it's not fair use to take reddit's data, it's not fair use to take mine either.

On a technological level the difference to prior ML is straightforward: A classical classifier system is simply incapable of emitting any copyrighted work it was trained on. The very architecture of the system guarantees it to produce new information derived from the training data rather than the training data itself.

LLMs and similar generative AI do not have that safeguard. To be practically useful they have to be capable of emitting facts from training data, but have no architectural mechanism to separate facts from expressions. For them to be capable of emitting facts they must also be capable of emitting expressions, and thus, copyright violation.

Add in how GenAI tends to directly compete with the market of the works used as training data in ways that prior "fair use" systems did not and things become sketchy quickly.

Every major AI company knows this, as they have rushed to implement copyright filtering systems once people started pointing out instances of copyrighted expressions being reproduced by AI systems. (There are technical reasons why this isn't a very good solution to curtail copyright infringement by AI)

Observe how all the major copyright victories amount to judges dismissing cases on grounds of "Well you don't have an example specific to your work" rather than addressing whether such uses are acceptable as a collective whole.
by api | 2025-09-14 15:51:17+00:00
The market is already full of ARM development boards that are pretty powerful. Just need to scale these up and put some real power on them.

Put something with the power of an M series or a Graviton on these and you have the start of a great ARM PC market.

There's nothing inherently not-open about ARM, or at least it's no less open by nature than x86. The fact that most ARM devices are locked down is a secondary effect from most of them being phones.

RISC-V would be more open than either of these but it still lags on performance. I have a RISC-V board but it's kind of slow. Not terrible but wouldn't make a good PC for anything but basic uses.
by The28thDuck | 2025-09-14 15:51:22+00:00
The equivalent in the US is Vint Hill Farms, Virginia. Cold War CIA base used as a listening post primarily, but also to test things like fire suppression and rumored to be a home of Agent Orange. It was an EPA Superfund site (aka so horribly polluted that they needed to do something about it) decided to do nothing and then build a ton of home on and around the heavily contaminated area. I don’t have data but anecdotally cancers here are insanely high in prevalence.
Show HN: TNX API – Natural Language Interaction with Databases, Now Open Source
by Marten42 | 2025-09-14 15:51:38+00:00
Hi HN, time for another round, I’m Lasse. For years I’ve been frustrated by classical ERP systems being closed, rigid and expensive to change (or just not changeable at all xd).

Last year I already posted my first attempt ("PORT", an OSS ERP), but due to better and better AI models, this approach already seemed outdated. So we iterared and today I’m sharing TNX API, an now open-source execution layer that lets AI read and write your business data, on your own server, with guardrails and logs.

We went from "full ERP" to an execution layer ("your database + AI" as a power employee). Everything runs on your own dedicated server, to support also legacy systems. Every AI action is logged and permissioned, admins and users have different rights. We leaned into tasks people actually do: generate PDFs (invoices/offers), bulk edits, charts, uploads -> extract -> write back and made them as simple as possible.

You simply ask in natural language -> AI crafts code -> our API Nexus checks/sanitizes -> Stargate executes that code against your DB -> result goes back to chat/forms/emailbot/shop. The system keeps audit logs for every step.

LINKS landing page: https://www.tnxapi.com/UI/LandingPage.php code: https://github.com/StultusEstQuiHocLegit/TNXAPI4

If you’re tired of ERPs that won’t bend to your business, kick the tires, file issues, and tell me what’s broken and I’ll fix it. I really hate how limited current ERP systems are and I’m going to do everything in my power to change that.

Always at your service, Lasse Tramann : )
by tensor | 2025-09-14 15:52:00+00:00
Well, the facts are that this administration will always, without fail, without a single exception, do the opposite of what has been shown to be good for the US people. This isn't a property of authoritarianism either, no other authoritarian state is so uniformly across the board against science, medicine, and technology.

If you have any other suggestion than the reason they do this is something related to money, please be my guest and volunteer. Because otherwise it is the most baffling and self destructive policy making that has ever been documented in the history of humankind.
by benoau | 2025-09-14 15:52:42+00:00
> Do you consider designers part of “we” or is it only the computer people that count?

Well you're not going to build a web application if you're a designer, at best you can contribute to one.

Of course that's changing in their favour with AI too - and it's fantastic if they can execute their vision themselves without being held back because they didn't pursue a different field or career choice, without having to go on a long sidequest to acquire that knowledge.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-09-14 15:52:46+00:00
For those looking for the rest / other side of the story: the Trump EPA is actually the same EPA that established these PFAS rules to begin with. Municipal water associations have pushed back because they need more time to comply with some of the rules. EPA is responding to that, still adding additional requirements, but giving more time to comply with others.

https://www.awwa.org/AWWA-Articles/epa-announces-changes-to-...
by Jaygles | 2025-09-14 15:53:10+00:00
I think this is the core of the issue for the Democra)ts. Conservative groups are focused on figuring out what actions are effective in gaining power and executing on that. They don't shy away from unethical methods like spreading misinformation and gerrymandering. They've understood this for a very long time and have been planting seeds for decades, such as taking over AM radio to entrench a conservative mindset in rural populations.

From my observations the liberal and progressive groups seem to take on strategies where they claim the moral high ground and treat anyone not following their way of thinking as opponents and not as potential allies/converts. So even in cases where they are technically or morally "correct" in their stance, they aren't effective in bringing outsiders to their side. One example was the "recognize your (white) privilege" thing. While it was arguably based on sound ideas, proclaiming an entire demographic is receiving more than they earn is never going to bring people over to your side.

I don't have much confidence that the Democrats will be able to turn things around in short order. The Democratic leadership seem stuck in their ways with no long term vision
by tombert | 2025-09-14 15:53:39+00:00
I have no doubt that the administration's motivation are weird and Russia-oriented.

I was referring to the voters. I think a lot of the voters claimed grocery prices were the reason, but a lot of them really wanted to get rid of Mexicans. Trump used a lot of racist rhetoric during all three of his campaigns.

The fact that conservatives seem unwilling to condemn the president and ICE for detaining naturalized citizens indicates this to me.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-14 15:54:09+00:00
If you have the UI layer able to grant root access, it has root access itself and is not sandboxed. If the UI layer can grant it, an attacker gaining slight control over it has root access. An accessibility service trivially has root access. A keyboard can probably get root access, and so on. Instead of a tiny little portion of the OS having root access, a massive portion of it does.

In the verified boot threat model, an attacker controls persistent state. If you have persistent root access as a possibility then verified boot doesn't work since persistent state is entirely trusted.

A userdebug build of AOSP or GrapheneOS has a su binary and an adb root command providing root access via the Android Debug Bridge via physical access using USB. This does still significantly reduce security, particularly since ADB has a network mode that can be enabled. Most of the security model is still intact. This is not what people are referring to when they talk about rooting on Android, they are referring to granting root access to apps via the UI not using it via a shell.
by jpc0 | 2025-09-14 15:54:22+00:00
There’s been no market discussed here, the discussion up to here has been about a hobby project, there is no reason to find market fit or market tolerance.

You can have awful art and develop a good gameplay loop, during play testing with friends/testers you can then get feedback that what you are doing is actually worth spending some money on assets and at that point you have a much better understanding of what that should even look at.

Having an AI available to generate art seems a lot more like shaving the yak than an enabler. You never needed good art to make a good game, you need it for a polished game and that comes later.
by Stevvo | 2025-09-14 15:55:35+00:00
New customers will be defined as "high-risk" with, a separate classification from "vulnerable" which is for under 15s and over 65s. The limit for these "high-risk" customers is 50000 baht a day, which is surely going to be inconvenient to deal with if you ever need it, e.g. for medical bills.
by thwarted | 2025-09-14 15:55:44+00:00
> Unfortunately, like most adverts which are memorable, I have absolutely no idea what it was selling.

A friend of mine liked to point out that if you couldn't remember what the brand was or what was being sold, then it wasn't effective advertising. It failed at the one thing it needed to do/be.

And there's a lot of ineffective advertising. Either people don't notice it or they don't remember it. Massive amounts of money are poured into creating ads and getting ad space, much of which does very little in the getting you to buy sense.

By this measure, advertising is generally very inefficient. Large input for small output. The traditional way to make this more efficient is to increase the value of the output: things like movement of digital billboards (even just rotating through a series of ads) to draw the eye and overcome lack of noticing it among miles of billboards. There's another way: decrease the cost of the input. If I can get the same output—people don't see the ads (bad placement) or people don't remember the product/brand (bad stickiness)—by not using human creatives and using genAI to make my ads, I've improved efficiency.

Unfortunately, this doesn't make advertising more effective or more efficient as an industry and does flood the market with slop, but that's not any individual's goal.

The people who are creating ads that don't work, despite getting paid, are in Bullshit Jobs (in the David Graeber sense). Replacing bullshit jobs with genAI, where the output doesn't seem to really matter anyway. It would be great if people/companies didn't commission or pay to place ads that don't work, but since they do, they might as well spend the least amount possible on creating the content. The value of the input then approaches the (low) value of the output. No one is going to remember the ad anyway, it impacts no buying decision, why bother spending to make it good?
by staminade | 2025-09-14 15:56:04+00:00
Any new regulation the EPA introduces results in litigation. Some of the previously introduced PFAS regulations weren't done in accordance with how the Safe Drinking Water Act says they should be (regulations were introduced without the necessary public consultation), so they're applying to partially vacate the previous ruling. Notably, they're _not_ applying to vacate the regulation of PFAS chemicals where they say the process was followed correctly.

So, the legal reasoning might be to cut their losses litigating to defend rulings they think they'll lose due to the administrative error. I also suspect that being seen to roll back some regulations likely gives Lee Zeldin (the EPA admin) some political room to maneuver. He's historically be associated with anti-PFAS efforts (in Congress he represented a district with contamination problems and he voted for anti-PFAS legislation), but he's also part of an administration with a strong anti-regulation agenda, so he needs to walk a fine line.
by MandieD | 2025-09-14 15:57:12+00:00
I wonder if there’s any connection to getting and maintaining (“filling”) artificial nails. It would be interesting to also look at lung cancer incidence in nail salon workers, by which I mean “probably horrifying.”

The smell of the various chemicals is off-putting enough to make me not want to visit a nail salon for a pedicure, and of course that is far less exposure than the employees are getting.
by ar_lan | 2025-09-14 15:57:41+00:00
When I was younger, I thought Gemini was very cool mostly because it was an alternative protocol to the mainstream. It made me feel very inner-circle in the development world, for some reason.

As I've grown, I've come to learn I'm a very visual learner. I've learned that "clear is kind", and for many, image and text are both important, but many images have a way of conveying what is difficult to express in words without being overly verbose.

I agree, illustrations are an essential part, especially when teaching something.
by lithocarpus | 2025-09-14 15:58:15+00:00
I very strongly disagree. Antibiotics are very dangerous at the individual level in how they mess up the individual's gut bacteria which are crucial for health.

Furthermore giving everyone antibiotics as a preventative measure for heart disease complications, given that most Americans are on the spectrum of heart disease (i.e. have hypertension) is a recipe for bacterial resistance and other population problems.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-14 15:58:28+00:00
… did you see how many mainstream popular national politicians came out of the woodwork to support Cuomo despite being the less popular candidate by a significant amount? Did you catch the coordinated drop-out/endorsement of Clinton in 2016 which killed Sanders’ lead? Did you see all of the people in the party rushing to make an issue of Mamdani supporting Palestine in a race for mayor of NYC which is definitely not near Israel or Palestine, physically or through policy, and legally can’t even interact with those countries as a delegate of the US? Yes there is resistance to progressive candidates from the DNC leadership. No, it’s not a conspiracy theory.

And you don’t have to look for second order effects to see how progressive issues poll — look at recent polls on Palestine, single-payer health care, housing affordability, and plenty of other progressive policies, by reputable non-partisan sources.

Centrism is just as much of a political perspective as being anywhere else on the spectrum and can color political perspectives just as easily — it just biased in favor of the status quo so it’s got a much easier job.

Blaming individual voters for voting ‘wrong’ is the first line of defense for people unwilling to take a hard look at the efficacy of the people that are supposed to be mobilizing and representing those voters. If your politician doesn’t represent the voters’ values enough to gain their vote, the problem is the politician. The mainstream dems have just run out of leverage to coerce people into candidates they don’t align with using the “vote blue no matter who” tactic.
by t43562 | 2025-09-14 15:58:44+00:00
I think it's useful to try to always assume the best from others:

- If they aren't being friendly this will irritate them in a way they cannot object to too openly. - If they are friendly it will avoid damage and even start an upward spiral.

When you're not feeling good enough it's sometimes helpful to remember that even people who create negative impacts often get into positions of power and stay there for one reason or another. i.e if they can do something very badly then why are you so worried about whether you are worthy?

Finally, remember that lots of people feel like you - so try to do little things that start them on an upward spiral. The more you do this for other people, the more they will be glad to see you.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 15:59:04+00:00
> I have read one page into your responses in threads on HN and found no clarification as to how my rephrasing misses the point.

I found it for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228530

If you still think this is an argument about people being "expendable", then it appears we simply disagree about what that word means.
by daveguy | 2025-09-14 15:59:08+00:00
> Kinda makes me wonder if politicians and political parties are fishing for engagement and focusing on the most extreme parts of their supporter base too.

They definitely are. The goal for Trump this election was clearly to stoke the base with inflammatory rhetoric bolstered by influencers spouting that same rhetoric.

"They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the pets."
by FortuneIIIPick | 2025-09-14 15:59:10+00:00
Preface

I do prefer light theme sites; the question is am I the only one who can't view a dark theme site without pain for more than a minute or two, including Netflix and similar media sites. In my strong opinion, Netflix doesn't care about accessibility, also Amazon Prime and Steam (yes even Steam hurts my eyes trying to read the game descriptions and discussion forum text).

Example

When I visit https://www.fastly.com/, try to read the high contrast dark theme, within a minute I start developing a headache and my eyes are squinting heavily.

If I do that for a minute, then switch tabs to a normal light themed site; my eyes instantly have a major weird light spectrum shift like when you're in a dark room for several minutes then someone turns on bright lights. After that, my eyes feel normal again and the headache goes away within a couple of minutes.

I asked Gemini, "which is harder to read, a dark or light theme website?", it said, "Overall, a light theme website is generally easier to read for most people, especially in well-lit environments and for long periods of reading. However, a dark theme can be easier on the eyes in low-light conditions. The choice often comes down to individual preference and the user's environment."

My office isn't particularly brightly light folks. So at least for me, that's not why dark theme sites hurt my vision.

I do have Glaucoma but I've never had any degradation (so far, thank God) resulting from it.