MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cubefox | 2025-09-18 13:59:49+00:00
I believe the algorithm in the video works by flipping the pixel color when the pixel changes from foreground (some shape) to background, or from background to foreground. If the shape doesn't move, there is no such change, so it disappears.

In the OP the foreground pixels continuously change (scrolling in this case) while the background doesn't change. That's a different method of separating background and foreground.
by ignoramous | 2025-09-18 13:59:54+00:00
> you don't have interest in truth or discussion

Yeah, okay?

The documents presented here reveal an important, and, until now, unknown aspect of the efforts the Israeli government made to deflect criticism over human rights violations which were part of the occupation since the very beginning. The documents describe events that took place during the first decade of the occupation, but they echo a practice that is still in existence today – manipulative efforts to undermine the work of human rights organizations.

https://www.akevot.org.il/en/article/appropriate-tools/?full
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-18 14:00:25+00:00
At least for me, the printer is never "done", but it isn't in the "I just need to tweak the blah blah setting every time" sense.

Rather, there's just always something to make better even if the current solution is fine. Say, swapping out the toolhead for a lighter or more modular one, or building another MMU because it can handle softer materials that I print maybe once a year and don't have to use the MMU for, or replacing the hotend with a higher flow or sturider one, or adding more lighting and cameras, or switching the motor mounts to a double shear design to be able to dial accelerations up, etc. Right now I'm working on building a TradRack MMU while planning out a teardown and rebuild of my backup Voron0.2.

I could stop at any point and still have a printer that's near the top end of what's accessible on the market, but the open source 3d printer community moves incredibly fast and it's nice to be able to participate in it.
by 3036e4 | 2025-09-18 14:00:41+00:00
I vaguely remember GEM in MS-DOS because it was the only software I knew of (iirc) that supported the mouse we had. One of those early optical mice with a metal mousepad with a grid of tiny reflective dots. No one else I knew that had a PC had a mouse back then.

It also had graphics programs. One for bitmaps and one for vectors, iirc. Me and my friend used to play with those. I don't even remember what else GEM was for. To me it was just a way to launch those editors to draw things and I did not have access to any other graphics applications in DOS until years later.
by danans | 2025-09-18 14:00:42+00:00
> In this metaphor we're all going to the gulag together

You are wearing the metaphor thin.

The point was that intimidation by government of media organizations has been happening for months, this is the latest.

Suppression of free speech by government is applied unequally. Hypocrisy is a feature.

> Then does it matter if I notice it or not?

That's up to you, but it doesn't change the reality.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-18 14:01:09+00:00
I'm sure those individuals will be fine without your pity. The point remains. You'll have a harder time understanding their motives if you start with demonization. "Well, he's a member of the naughty class so his behavior is by definition incomprehensible. No further examination is required." vs. genuine curiosity about what drives an individual's behavior.

That isn't to say that I enjoy everything they've done. One of the big asks and core areas of empathy is to be understanding of other's faults. Sometimes recognizing our own is a good first step.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-18 14:01:12+00:00
GNOME is pretty, but it’s not great when it comes to progressive disclosure – what you see is what you get; there’s no depth in which power user features can be found.

macOS is nearly the opposite in this regard. I wouldn’t mind giving it a facelift but doing it GNOME style would mean it losing much of what has kept many users on it.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-18 14:01:12+00:00
You don’t need that many customers to design and ship an SBC. The hobbyist market is enough to sustain these companies. They can sell accessories to increase their margins. Their contract manufacturer can incrementally build batches of the boards.

Many of these boards serve as development boards for the parts they include. If you want a dev board to try this part or you need a cheap RISC-V system to test RISC-V things on, buying one of these is an easy choice.
by mlyle | 2025-09-18 14:01:13+00:00
> Went to jail for abusing his kids and wife

> Got out, was arrested for beating his pregnant wife again

> Got charged again for beating a kid

This, as best as I can tell, is false. There was testimony from his ex-wife about violence during his murder trial, which is very different from your claims. His prior convictions were for writing bad checks and burglary; the sources I have read claim he has no violence in his prior criminal history.

Can you please substantiate what you are saying with a reliable source? Alternatively, can you retract the apparent falsehoods you're saying here?

(Not going to rebut the later stuff, which indeed are the facts in question on appeal).
by chatmasta | 2025-09-18 14:01:14+00:00
It’s also self-referential because there is no objective measure of “racism,” so how can you even measure whether someone is “more racist” based on reaction time to stereotypical stimuli?

“No objective measure” pretty much sums up the whole field, to be honest. I started on a CS & Psych double major, did about eight psych courses, and then decided it was mostly a joke once I got to the quantitative portions. But those courses were very useful for general life skills. Developmental psychology in particular was packed with dense lessons about how we learn as children… social psych was a good overview of all the “well-known” experiments… etc.
by mcdonje | 2025-09-18 14:01:22+00:00
Extensibility can be nice, but the experience has a lot of friction. If you want something that isn't bog standard, you need to get or make an extension.

Making one is more work than what I can do from basic configuration settings in KDE. I want to spend my time on other projects. The marketplace suffers from the same problems as most marketplaces. Plenty of unmaintained extensions. No guarantees of quality. Now I need to do research on extensions instead of just changing a configuration setting.

The existence of extensions allows gnome devs to figure they don't have to support basic features because someone will make an extension for it.

Extension configurations don't live in the same place as standard configurations.

The experience is fragmented and has friction.
by bitlax | 2025-09-18 14:01:30+00:00
I'm sorry, I didn't know that this was a rule and I apologize for breaking it. I do occasionally overstep my bounds but I generally try to go with the flow of traffic around here.

In my defense, I linked to a very recent exchange that I had with that exact same person about nearly the same topic. In a normal conversation or debate that would be considered totally appropriate, and I imagine I was caught by an automated rule, since I was immediately throttled.

But I understand the reason for the rule and I will attempt not to break it again. Sorry to give you more work and thanks for the site.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-18 14:01:36+00:00
Taking pictures of small kids is a different thing altogether.

Many of the shots you want are very fleeting moments that you won't get after you took your phone from the other room. Then holding a phone will often redirect attention on the phone or hide your face, and again you'll have lost the moment.

The best alternative is someone else taking the picture (that can include auto photographing devices, like the one Google made and discontinued), the second best is you taking the pictures/videos with the most intrusive and practical device you can get. Smart glasses sound pretty good for that.

On the music part, I see a niche where glasses are unbeatable: most buds need to either stick into the ear canal or hook on the external ear, or both. If you hate things in your ears and also wear glasses, having the glass act as headphones is the best of both world.

None of that is mainstream IMHO, but there will be a sizeable public clamouring for these.
by flkiwi | 2025-09-18 14:01:50+00:00
I tend to prefer gnome's simplicity and its desktop metaphor, though I'm a niri guy now. But KDE is excellent. It's fast, pretty, customizable, and enjoyable to use. My gripe with it is that the sheer number of options and their constant presence in the UI does not play nicely with my gently spectrum brain. It's not even that I can't resist the urge to fiddle--I can, no problem--but that the presence of all the options causes anxiety. (There are also a few, to my eye, inelegant spacing quirks, but nothing I can't ignore.)

Having said that, it's a marginal difference. KDE is on my kid's computer and I use that from time to time without imploding in a ball of emotional-intellectual panic.
by kjksf | 2025-09-18 14:01:56+00:00
You try to pin this (hypothetical) as fascism.

Let's assume Trump admin pressured Nvidia to invest in intel.

Chips act (voted by Democrats / Biden) gave Intel up to $7.8 billion of YOUR money (taxes) in form of direct grants.

Was it more of "Mussolini-style corporatism" to you or not?
by sombragris | 2025-09-18 14:02:10+00:00
I have been a KDE user since KDE 1.x in Red Hat Linux 6.2, back in 2000, and used KDE almost exclusively for my Linux desktop since KDE 2.2. Right now using Plasma 6.4.5.

In all that time, I was quite disappointed to see major distro after major distro (and even Sun Microsystems back in the day) choose GNOME over KDE/Plasma as their default desktops. How could they choose GNOME when KDE/Plasma is/was (in my very subjective opinion) way better? Go figure. Still until today, and with the exception of Steam Desktop, it's disappointing to see that Plasma is not the default/preferred desktop environment in (almost?) all major distros.

So, it's really refreshing to see posts like these. I like when someone finally "gets it" and realizes the advantages and potential Plasma offers.

In case you can't use Plasma, I'd recommend (in no particular order) LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE or XFCe as adequate options. But if you haven't, try Plasma, and customize it to your heart's content. More often than not, you'll end up liking it quite a bit.
by suzdude | 2025-09-18 14:02:30+00:00
He showed a clip of the president. And he said:

> We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it

Which is factual. It does not make assertions about Mr. Robinson. It represents a factual observation that many of the "MAGA gang" are attempting to distance themselves.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-18 14:03:11+00:00
It was implied, but apparently, not clearly enough.

The issue is emphatically not that "Kimmel dissed our boy. He needs to be raked over the coals!" Nor is it "Kimmel had it just right! Fuck those MAGAts!"

The current controversy, while relevant to the above, is not the problem. What people think and believe and most[0] of what they say is, at least under current law in the US, not punishable by the state.

A government official (Brendan Carr) publicly threatened legal action, using the weight and resources of the Federal Government (don't believe me, listen to him say it yourself) against ABC/Disney[1] in retaliation for the legal (however you may feel about it) speech of Jimmy Kimmel.

Now you might think, "well so what? that jackass is always harassing the President and his most patriotic team. And now he's doing so about our beloved cultural ambassador, gunned down by some tranny loving freak just a few days ago. That sack of crap deserves whatever he gets!"

And you have every right to think that. And to speak it or write it or take out web/TV/print/billboard/etc. ads.

And you think, "Damn straight! I got rights. The First Amendment says the government can't punish me for what I say or think! And it's not a coincidence that it's the First one, is it?" And you're right.

If all that is true, especially the First Amendment[2] bit:

Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; [...]

Which, as centuries of jurisprudence have confirmed, aside from a few (none of which apply in this particular context) exceptions[0], the government may not punish folks for what they say.

Which is exactly what Brendan Carr threatened to do with the resources of the FCC if ABC/Disney didn't take action against Kimmel.

Which is facially a violation of the Constitution (of which the First Amendment is an integral part), which is the supreme law of the land.

And so whether you think Kimmel was out of line or not, something we all should be able to get behind is that the government has no place telling us what we can or cannot say.

A right that Charlie Kirk took advantage of and was proud to extol. And good for him -- whether you agree with him or not. And if we (want to) live in a nation of laws, then Jimmy Kimmel (or you or me) should have the same rights and latitude.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/fcc-chair-levels-threat-agains...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_...
by morkalork | 2025-09-18 14:03:31+00:00
The bit about google employees willing to step up and work on the project is kind of disgusting: The company is too cheap to fund the project with money, but don't worry, they've got an endless supply of eager developers looking to 'pad their résumé' and deny you all the reward and satisfaction of what you built. It almost reads like a threat "work for free or we'll fork it and take it away from you". Wow
by Hilift | 2025-09-18 14:03:59+00:00
There was a really good "chain" in the 1960s southeast US called Davis House (or Davis Brothers). It was a more upscale version of a restaurant that served mainly Kentucky Fried Chicken, although there was many other dishes.

"The restaurant was originally named Johnny Reb's Chick-Chuck-'N'-Shake, and was sold in 1966 to A. T. Davis, Tubby's brother, who became a franchisee of Col. Harlan Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken."

http://www.highwayhost.org/DavisBros/davisbros1.htm

https://mistercola.com/products/vintage-placemat-davis-broth...
by simonmic | 2025-09-18 14:05:17+00:00
> When Gnucash did something, I was never sure what actually happened. And sometimes it would crash. Was all my data safe? Hard to tell.

You express it exactly, I felt the same way with Gnucash, Quicken, and all the other non-plain-text accounting apps I tried. Finance was stressful enough without also worrying about messed-up data. That was perhaps the biggest motivation to switch to Ledger, when I found it.

Later, I often could not figure out how to make Ledger do something I knew it could do, and I often was surprised by a crash or wrong behaviour when it saw some new combination of features and data that hadn't been tested or implemented yet. This was a big motivation to write hledger.
by DoctorOW | 2025-09-18 14:05:36+00:00
This is close to being correct, but it isn't. Server side ad insertion is possible, and the tech already exists. See, your browser by default sends cookies to the server with every web request, no JS required. Simply* add the ad videos to the list of chunks.

*By "simply" I mean it's technically possible, I know it's not simple to implement.
by em-bee | 2025-09-18 14:06:01+00:00
that's an interesting point about unions in the US. if true. because in europe (at least in austria and germany, but i suspect it's the case in most countries) unions do not do any validation of their members. having a job in an industry IS your validation to be a union member. the union then negotiates work conditions and pay on your behalf. figuring out whether you are qualified is the companies job.
by nwellinghoff | 2025-09-18 14:06:30+00:00
Its totally unacceptable that a customer, albeit a very skilled one, has to reverse engineer ASUS's code to solve this problem And even more unacceptable that all an executive would have to do is hand their engineering team this article and they are hand held through fixing it.

Asus has what looks like some great offerings and they are just loosing customers over the simple stuff. Dell has the same kind of problems. I have had a XPS with dual graphics since 2017 and only in 2023 did I finally get the magical combination of drivers and "old" firmware such that its perfectly stable. Of course its thunderbolt dock has a firmware issue where it detects external TB drives wrong about 50% of the time when it wakes from sleep. I just know its some bone head firmware code similar to this issue.

Message to the CEOs of these companies: Stop outsourcing your firmware dev to the lowest bidder! One can argue its kinda of the easiest part to get right! And then have a support channel that recognizes technically gifted people and fast track their issues to the top of your backlog! It will pay for itself in sales I promise!
by IceDane | 2025-09-18 14:06:38+00:00
Slack is easily the worst platform I can think of using for something like this. Why would you not be using discord instead? You know, the free platform that every teenager is already using? You could archive your messages using any number of bots.

Slack is fundamentally wrong for this kind of thing. Every time I find out the support channels for anything is a slack server, I groan. The whole workspace setup is awful.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-18 14:07:07+00:00
It's a Substack by a member of the Teamsters.

That said, the wage premium of a college degree has decreased but it is still in the 70-80% range [0]

The issue is the wage premium has racialized because Hispanic, Black, and even White Americans are less likely to major in fields where the wage premium is pronounced (think STEM) [0], but even then it's a wage premium of 60-70% versus 130%:

"The college wage gap is also somewhat larger for Black workers than for Hispanic and White workers, although the premiums for those groups have largely converged in recent years. The higher college premium for Asian workers likely reflects differences in their choice of college majors, attainment of post-graduate degrees, and subsequent occupations"

If you majored in sociology but didn't try to upskill into a STEM (you don't really need a CS degree to become a SWE), a STEM adjacent field or support role, or a business services field like accounting or actuary, then you weren't able to take advantage of the wage premium which was a result of higher margins in STEM versus non-STEM fields.

Even manufacturing fields today require some tertiary STEM knowledge and education today. Those guys and gals assembling iPhones in India and China today tend to have STEM bachelors degrees as well (they're called Graduate Engineering Trainees).

[0] - https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...
by Theodores | 2025-09-18 14:07:25+00:00
In the 1990s I needed my mum to check something on my dad's computer. So I phoned her up and talked her through the arduous process of turning on the computer and clicking on a few icons.

However...

This was going nowhere, and, after about half an hour of struggle, I asked my mum which way the mouse was in her hand. She had the 'tail' coming out the back, which made sense to her.

Before working this out I was wondering if the light from the window was making it through the flimsy plastic of the mouse, to prevent the sensors from working. Or maybe something else was plugged in, robbing the MS-DOS PC of enough interrupts. Or maybe the ball was clogged with cat hairs.

We got there in the end, however, it was a lesson in not jumping to conclusions. I had just been temporarily defeated by my mother's lack of computer literacy.
by albertzeyer | 2025-09-18 14:07:39+00:00
Long time ago, that was actually very easy on Mac, via SIMBL (https://github.com/albertz/simbl) and Afloat (https://github.com/rwu823/afloat) and you could hack around using FScriptAnywhereSIMBL (https://github.com/albertz/FScriptAnywhereSIMBL) or Pyjector (https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector).

But that doesn't work anymore since a while (I guess due to SIP).
by TheRoque | 2025-09-18 14:07:51+00:00
It's true that I haven't been a hardcore agent-army vibe coder, I just try the popular ones once in a while in a naive way (isn't it the point of these tools, to have little friction ?), claude code for example. And it's cool ! But imperfect, and as this article attests, there's a lot of mental overhead to even have a shot at getting a decent output. And even if it's decent, it still needs to be reviewed and could include logical flaws.

I'd rather use it the other way, I'm the one in charge, and the AI reviews any logical flaw or things that I would have missed. I don't even have to think about context window since it'll only look at my new code logic.

So yeah, 3 years after the first ChatGPT and Copilot, I don't feel huge changes regarding "automated" AI programming, and I don't have any AI tool in my IDE, I pefer to have a chat using their website, to brainstorm, or occasionally find a solution to something I'm stuck on.
by codingdave | 2025-09-18 14:08:08+00:00
This is the epitome of the type of "How do I..." question that really needs to first answer "Why would I..."

What change will ambition bring to your life? Are you not feeling fulfilled? Need more income? What is the actual problem in your life that you are trying to solve?

Answering those questions not only will help HN give you deeper insights... the answers in and of themselves might solidify your goals and thereby put your ambition on-track to where it needs to be.
by Acubemy | 2025-09-18 14:08:11+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a side project called Acubemy. Its an Web-app that connects to Smart Cubes (Bluetooth Rubik’s Cubes like GAN, MoYu, Rubik’s Connected, etc.) and helps to train more effectively.

What it does: - Connects to most Smart Cubes via Bluetooth

- Offers algorithm training with personalized suggestions to target weaknesses and an interactive flash-card system to learn new algs step by step

- Includes a timer with detailed stats & analytics

- 1v1 battles against friends or random solvers

- Tracks your progress over time by comparing your solves against a large dataset of cubing performances, highlighting in each step where you’re slower than average and what you’d need to improve for a faster overall time

Why I built it: As a cuber myself, I noticed that while Smart Cubes have become quite popular, the apps that come with them are often limited or tied to a single brand. I wanted a single platform that supports all Smart Cubes and focuses on training, competition, and learning.

It’s still early days, so I’d love your feedback on the idea :)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-18 14:08:39+00:00
The numbers are readily available, you don't need to make them up other than to prop up a bad argument.

Youtube pays $5-$15 per 1000 views. Youtube premium gives a 55% cut of the monthly fee to creators. It's split among them based on who you watch and how long you watch them. If you watch one creator only, they will get the full 55% of your subscription cost. Creators readily acknowledge that yt premium viewers are by far the most valuable.

Generally less than 5% of viewers ever donate, and less than 1% ever give more then $5. It's not a viable income method.

I suggest following pitchfork mobs less, they are usually blind with rage and detached from reality, with a few kernels of truth in the middle.