MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brulard | 2025-09-18 00:07:31+00:00
I don't think its because of being different to photoshop. I tried Gimp many times during the last maybe 15 years. The UI used to be so chaotic I could not find my way around. If I tried very hard, I was basically able to do everything I needed, but with so much effort. Years ago the UI was just bunch of floating toolbars on the desktop without the possibility (or at least I couldn't find a way at that time) to have a common backdrop. All the little settings and modals were just so hard to use it was very frustrating. I had the very same experience with Inkscape over the years. I want to like those project so much, I know a lot of effort is going into that, but it didn't work for me. Same experience was with blender before the big redesign. Now blender is simply awesome and pleasant to use. I hope for such transformation for Gimp and Inkscape. (and Audacity)
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 00:07:46+00:00
Which "this" are you referring to, the shooting, the endorsement of it or the firing over the endorsement of it?

All of them are bad but the ones on the left end of the sentence are more bad than the ones on the right.

Edit: The endorsements and firings broadly speaking, not regards to anything specific to Kimmel or ABC
by mindcrime | 2025-09-18 00:07:55+00:00
One thing about the US, is how we handle settings where one could conceptualize a contract as being needed, but where it would be way too inefficient and impractical to negotiate, write out, understand, and sign, a written contract. In those cases, which includes things like retail sales, restaurants, and may other cases, the UCC or Uniform Commercial Code[1][2] applies. Not sure offhand if that relates to the medical example or not, but I expect that at least some similar notion applies. So there are binding laws that cover these transactions, it's just not done the same way as a "full fledged contract".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code

[2]: The UCC also covers other things, but these cases are a lot of what it's best known for.
by godelski | 2025-09-18 00:08:22+00:00
I definitely need help with the second part. It is a much harder claim to verify or dismiss. I also want to stress (as I do in several other comments) that this could be done even without sleeper agents (see Anthropic paper) but just with censoring.

What I want to fight the most is just outright dismissing what is at least partially testable. We're a community of techies, so shouldn't we be trying to verify or disprove the claims? I'm asking for help with that because the stronger claim is harder to conclude. We have no chance of figuring out the why, but hopefully we can avoid more disinformation. I just want us to stop arguing out our asses and fighting over things we don't know the answers to. I want to find the answers, because I don't know what they are.
by stonogo | 2025-09-18 00:08:30+00:00
I don't disagree with that assessment, but I'm not sure docker's any different. It's just a different arcane set of tools that introduces as many failure points as it fixes (with the added problem of supply chain attacks) on top of having to use all the distro stuff anyway. So, while I use the hell out of docker, I don't really regard it as an improvement on (or really an alternative to) distro packages. I think it's a better tool for solving complex deployments, but e.g. irssi isn't really in that camp.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 00:08:34+00:00
>Stop criticizing large corporations as moral entities. They have no other incentives other than money. Corporations are amoral (not good or bad). Only money matters.

Not just corporations, every institution from the church to every silo in your government to big nonprofits. The latter ones just have less measurable goals than profit, but they sociopathically seek their goals all the same. Beyond a certain scale organizations staffed by humans no longer act human.
by omnicognate | 2025-09-18 00:09:07+00:00
Do you want to do it or not? If you actually want to do it you should be able to obtain some satisfaction from getting it done, however distasteful the task itself. Sometimes it's as simple as that: either realising you really do want to do it or realising you really don't and reconsidering why you're trying to make yourself do it in the first place.

But sometimes the problem isn't motivation. Sometimes it's energy. Sometimes you really do want to do it, to the core of your being, but you're just too fucking tired. That's a very different problem.
by whizzter | 2025-09-18 00:09:35+00:00
Like I wrote, references could be managed with shims (basically a getter-setter interface per-referenced-value-type that's then implemented per-target type) and yes it'd be a painfully "expensive" variation, but for 90% of the cases those can probably be rewritten by a compiler to an inlined variation without those performance penalties.

My argument is that, code that goes on the web-side mostly would adhere to the subset, many of the ref-cases can be statically compiled away and what remains is infrequent enough that for most users it'll be a major win compared to avoid lugging along the GC,etc.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-18 00:09:43+00:00
The hard part is it has to keep moving, and it has to keep that up for a long time.

The easy part is that it largely keeps itself moving, and that you have a thousand times fewer obstacles to avoid.

Both situations are very hard, and both have very hard aspects that only apply to that situation but not the other one. The plane is not "strictly more difficult".

As a car, finding a safe place to stop in an emergency is over a lot faster than in an airplane, but it's far more dangerous per second and per meter.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-18 00:10:01+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

> During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country.

> During World War II, the camps were referred to both as relocation centers and concentration camps by government officials and in the press. Roosevelt himself referred to the camps as concentration camps on different occasions, including at a press conference held on October 20, 1942.

> In a 1961 interview, Harry S. Truman stated "They were concentration camps. They called it relocation but they put them in concentration camps, and I was against it. We were in a period of emergency, but it was still the wrong thing to do."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

> Not to be confused with Extermination camp. A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.
by furyofantares | 2025-09-18 00:10:07+00:00
Yeah man, and it would be wild to publish an article titled "Ford Mustang and Honda Civic win gold in the 100 meter dash at the Olympics" if what happened was the companies drove their cars 100 meters and tweeted that they did it faster than the Olympians had run.

Actually that's too generous, because the humans are given a time limit in ICPC, and there's no clear mapping to say how the LLM's compute should be limited to make a comparison.

It IS an interesting result to see how models can do on these tests - and it's also a garbage headline.
by davesque | 2025-09-18 00:10:32+00:00
Lol, yes. I don't want one thing, therefore I must want the complete opposite. Can you imagine for a second that I just want for the things people say to actually be consistent, rational, and defensible? No, I hate far-left talking heads just as much as I hate people like Steven Crowder. I hate them because they don't advance the conversation and their entire livelihood depends on misrepresentation and attention seeking.

There is no defensible argument that Jimmy Kimmel should have his TV show suspended based on the comments he made in that monologue.
by mcphage | 2025-09-18 00:10:33+00:00
That sounds like an awful lot of people who will want to buy food, houses, televisions, mobile phones, automobiles, ziploc bags, photocopiers, vinyl siding, and so on.

Where would we find the people to build all those things, and do all that work? Why, we’d need like 1 billion more people to do all that!

And what would that do to our GDP? Multiply it by 4 or 5? How horrible!
by acdha | 2025-09-18 00:12:04+00:00
Yes, trade wars suck but overall if you’re a young Chinese citizen today you’re doing better than your parents or grandparents could’ve dreamed:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

Yes, I’m fully aware that’s starting so low because of horrible governments in the past and that the current government is far from great, but that’s still moving in the right direction at the time the United States is trying to speed run to a Russian-style oligarchy and most people under 50 think it’s getting worse.
by defrost | 2025-09-18 00:12:18+00:00
It's a tough one, even without the Supreme Court issues, Kimmel alone is circumstantial at best; sure, the current POTUS is on record saying that Kimmel would be next to get the chop, but that proves nothing- any actual action taken would, I assume, be just pressure with no paper trail - classic intimidation leverage made famous by Scorsese.
by wyldfire | 2025-09-18 00:12:23+00:00
> ... document browser ... document reader ...

I'm going to assume you're being sincere. But even the crustiest among us can recognize that the modern purpose for web browsers is not (merely) documents. Chances are, many folks on HN in the last month have booked tickets for a flight or bought a home or a car or watched a cat video using the "document browser".

> If we think we need a more thoroughly virtualized machine than traditional operating system processes give us (which I think is obvious)...

Like ... the WASM virtual machine? What if the WASM virtual machine were the culmination of learning from previous not-quite-good-enough VMs?

WASM -- despite its name -- is not truly bound to the "document" browser.
by xmichael909 | 2025-09-18 00:12:57+00:00
Personally not a fan of Windows 95 in the browser, however the browser stoped being a “document reader” a decade ago it’s the only universel, sandbox runtime, and everything is moving in that direction ... safe code. WASM isnt a worst VM; it’s a diffrent trade off: portable, fast start, capability scoped compute without shiping a OS. Raw device still have their place (servers). If you need safe distribution + performance thats “good enough” WASM in the browser is going to be the future of client.
by afavour | 2025-09-18 00:13:07+00:00
Not quite as simple as that. The FCC chief threatened ABC just today:

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-...

If Nexstar was acting in reaction to what Carr said there’s a First Amendment argument to be made. They also require FCC approval for a merger right now, it’s not difficult to see the quid pro quo potential.

The argument would at least be heard by a judge.
by Telaneo | 2025-09-18 00:13:22+00:00
> do you expect that to be free too?

The seating and good screen and audio? No.

The digital file? I don't expect Disney to provide that free of charge, or at all for that matter, but I do believe it should be free. Copyright has gone way too far of one end of the scale, and I'd like to pull it as far as possible to the other side, then hopefully we can meet in the middle in a position we can both respect. The current position taken by Society™ is one I don't respect.
by pitpatagain | 2025-09-18 00:13:26+00:00
Read the table of examples in the article. Other companies report crashes with significant detail visible to the public that Tesla is redacting.

Compare Waymo report:

"On [XXX] at 10:31 PM PT a Waymo Autonomous Vehicle ("Waymo AV") operating in San Francisco, California was in a collision involving a scooterist on [XXX] at [XXX].

The Waymo AV was stopped at the curb facing north on [XXX] for a passenger drop-off when the passenger in the Waymo AV opened the rear right door. As the rear right door was being opened by the passenger, a scooter ....

Waymo is reporting this crash under Request No. 2 of Standing General Order 2021-01. Waymo may supplement or correct its reporting with additional information as it may become available."

Tesla reports is:

"[REDACTED, MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION]"

Tesla has consistently tried to have it both ways saying they are "not autonomous" and therefore don't have to report, but also then claiming in other contexts that they are driving huge numbers of "autonomous" miles.

So now they finally do a handful of reports and it's all REDACTED? They are finally doing barely what's required but also not being forthcoming at all.
by m463 | 2025-09-18 00:13:32+00:00
That's the way the model s worked. pull the handle a little way and it electronically opens. continue pulling the handle further and it mechanically opens the door.

I think the later models 3, y, cybertruck were severely cost-reduced (either for part cost, or repair cost) to the point that poverty comes to a premium car.

I can see the idea - a part that doesn't exist can't break, but for safety you need redundancy but they went for deletion.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-18 00:13:56+00:00
How do you square that with the objectively terrible results of all the times in the last 100 ish years that ppl justified the use of violence to eradicate the concept of profit or self-interest? This time it will be different?

Anyone acting in good faith can find plenty to dislike about markets and prices and systems built on top of them.

But the problem is that anyone acting in good faith can also find plenty to dislike about collective systems built no allowance for markets or pricing.

I hear a lot of people talking about the former, a very rarely do I hear any collectivist or socialists speak openly and honestly about the latter.

Markets and prices are not perfect, but they are useful. Many other concepts are useful too.

As I age, the transformation that I notice in my thinking is simply that I no longer believe there is some perfect socioeconomic system, waiting for us out there. There’s only us, and a bunch of imperfect concepts and ideas. It’s up to us to put them together in ways that work, but I don’t think there’s some perfect arrangement that will solve all our problems for all time.
by tzs | 2025-09-18 00:14:09+00:00
>>> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel

Last I checked, the FCC is part of the government.
by xp84 | 2025-09-18 00:14:14+00:00
This is the best counterargument I've seen for why YouTubers might be vexed by this, however I've felt it was pretty fair to expect that adblocked views don't really "count" in the "game" that you can argue YouTube is operating with the "View Count" metric and therefore I don't see much room for anyone to feel indignant or wronged.

Imagine a creator whose viewers all watched with ads blocked (and without YT Premium either). That creator is, objectively speaking not partnering with Google in any way, they're just using the platform as a free CDN. So the failure of Google to provide that person with accurate metrics for him to operate his business (that Google isn't a part of) isn't all that offensive.

So someone losing visibility to their "views" if it's because of non-monetized views (adblocked ones) seems proportionally fair.

There's always self-hosting your videos, but yes, that's expensive. It's a tradeoff the content creator has to make: A cut of your revenue + a ton of content restrictions, in exchange for discoverability + free CDN.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-09-18 00:14:42+00:00
Hi Alon! It's been a while.

Can't bounds checks be avoided in the vast majority of cases?

See my reply to nagisa above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283102). It feels like by using trailing unmapped barrier/guard regions, one should be able to elide almost all bounds checks that occur in the program with a bit of compiler cleverness, and convert them into trap handlers instead.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-09-18 00:14:59+00:00
Remember the Tetrapharmacos - three part cure to life. 1. Things that make you happy are easy to otain. 2. Things that are painful are relatively brief. The greater the pain, the shorter the duration. 3. Don't fear god. This doesn't mean don't fear consequences - it means don't live life afraid of what will come.
by xp84 | 2025-09-18 00:16:06+00:00
I'd worry that if this is really caused by an adblocker, it's possible YT uses these same view counting mechanism that's being blocked to increment their Premium views, meaning Premium subscribers who don't explicitly turn their blocker off on YouTube could be being undercounted. If so that should be fixed, for Premium viewership, as that's not really fair to anyone.
by estearum | 2025-09-18 00:16:40+00:00
Also this only matters if the Fed is independent. If it’s not, the President can direct it to purchase unlimited treasury bonds, effectively printing unlimited money to fund any program it wants.

Paired with this administration’s assertion of impoundment powers and the pocket rescission, the Congress’s power of the purse is completely neutered in both directions. The executive can decline to spend whatever it doesn’t want to, and it can fund anything it does want.

Recklessly funding the government off of the Fed’s balance sheet will of course cause all sorts of nasty economic effects, but that’s exactly why you need to print money! So your massive immigration enforcement apparatus (newly full of ideological minions thanks to the current hiring surge) can go and assert powers of process-free expedited removal throughout the entire country (per DOJ memo from week 1).

So the economic consequences hardly matter: you simply deport whoever complains.
by thatswrong0 | 2025-09-18 00:17:00+00:00
> it's nonsensical to believe that someone beloved by most people in the right wing would be targeted by a fellow right-winger

Look up groypers and Nick Fuentes - he's a right winger who was NOT a fan of Charlie Kirk and amassed a following about it. There is _some_ very mild evidence to believe that it's possible (I personally don't think that's the case FWIW)
by vunderba | 2025-09-18 00:18:31+00:00
Complete anecdata, but the one thing that was very obvious that something had changed last month was the number of times Claude Code would fail to respect guidelines or blatantly ignore rules clearly laid out in the CLAUDE.md file. This problem was occurring long before the "Context Window" had been filled to capacity as well.

It got to the point where I actually added a line to the top of the CLAUDE.md file as follows:

To verify that you have read and understood these guidelines, please output the following text "CLAUDE.MD HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED".

Just to get a sense of whether it was failing to ingest it.
by imoverclocked | 2025-09-18 00:19:01+00:00
There are projects to run WASM on bare metal.

I do agree that we tend to run a lot in a web-browser or browser environment though. It seems like a pattern that started as a hack but grew into its own thing through convenience.

It would be interesting to sit down with a small group and figure out exactly what is good/bad about it and design a new thing around the desired pattern that doesn't involve a browser-in-the-loop.
by xp84 | 2025-09-18 00:19:10+00:00
Yeah it's absurd to me how much people bitch about YouTube advertising and don't pay. To me, either you don't watch enough YouTube for the complaints to be warranted, or you do watch a lot, and you're just torturing yourself to save $15 and blaming YouTube for your choice. It's like complaining about a Quarter Pounder "not coming with cheese" and constantly trying to steal cheese, when you could just pay the dollar and get cheese every time.
by in-silico | 2025-09-18 00:19:21+00:00
The point is that up until now, humans were the best at these competitions, just like horses were the best at racing up until cars came around.

The other commenter is pointing out how ridiculous it would be for someone to downplay the performance of cars because they did it differently from horses. It doesn't matter if they did it using different methods, that fact that the final outcome was better had world-changing ramifications.

The same applies here. Downplaying AI because it has different strengths or plays by different rules is foolish, because that doesn't matter in the real world. People will choose the option that that leads to the better/faster/cheaper outcome, and that option is quickly becoming AI instead of humans - just like cars quickly became the preferred option over horses. And that is crazy to think about.
by davesque | 2025-09-18 00:19:41+00:00
You don't have to disregard what Kimmel said, because he hardly even said anything. Relevant portion is the first 8 mins of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk

What, in the clip, could reasonably be referred to as "the sickest conduct possible?" No one with a healthy, functioning mind could possibly use that language to talk about Kimmel's comments in that clip.
by cleartext412 | 2025-09-18 00:19:59+00:00
With delicate task like this, if I were to trust a technical solution I would rather have it open source, reviewed by myself, hosted on my terms and with appropriate degree of redundancy.

If I were to trust a person or organization, I would prefer them not talk about technical details at all, and instead ask me as many ways to get in contact as possible (phone number, facebook profile, maybe even physical address), not just single email, and promise to do everything reasonable possible to get in contact within defined term if delivering email fails. And I would also prefer them to be in this business for a few decades at least.
by enlightens | 2025-09-18 00:20:15+00:00
The summary at the top of the page says

> ABC said it was pulling the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

but the article says the following, which is entirely different:

> “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,” Kimmel said.

>

> “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” he added.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-18 00:20:17+00:00
I mean, they don’t. Just like True Conservatives don’t leverage the government to interfere like this.

People are more contradictory than pure theory. FDR was progressive in some aspects, regressive in others. A leftie, he wasn’t, and there’s more to politics than mere left/right, or we wouldn’t have trans Trump supporters.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-18 00:20:31+00:00
I am largely neutral on this particular assassination, as I knew almost nothing about Mr. Kirk prior to his departure (just name recognition & basic political associations).

But I do think, after decades of reflection, that comedians are correct when they point out that stereotypical humor shouldn't be off limits to any performer (of any background/color), but is... e.g. Owen Benjamin, Chappelle, Seinfeld.