MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palata | 2025-09-26 09:53:44+00:00
If they suspect that you own CSAM material, law enforcement will check your devices. Actually if they have convincing arguments, the way they get access to your devices may touch your physical integrity.

You don't have the liberty to avoid that, today. By design.

My point being that if one could prove that the ChatControl detection is only running locally and that it is only reporting what's acceptable to report, then it wouldn't hurt your freedom (except for your freedom to do illegal stuff, but that's the whole point).

The problem is that it is not possible to prove this. Fundamentally. We need to talk about that. Not throw some "it will kill democracy because you should trust me when I say it".
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-26 09:54:06+00:00
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but in case it isn't: Semver was mostly created so users of libraries could judge if a new release would break the API interfaces or not, by just looking at the version. So unless the first number changed, you're good to go (in theory, in practice this obviously didn't work as expected).

With that in mind, what exactly would semver (or similar) represent for AI models? Setup the proper way, your pipelines should continue working regardless of the model, just that the accuracy or some other metric might change slightly. But there should never be any "breakages" like what semver is supposed to help flag.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-26 09:54:29+00:00
> barbershops, nail salons, takeaway joints

There's an old saying where I'm from that the barbershop is the safest line of work because everyone needs their hair cut.

Where I am, admittedly in the Netherlands but I grew up in the UK and haven't noticed a huge difference, nail salons are always quite full when I pass, and I see food delivery drivers almost every time I look out the window. Similarly the barbers always seem to have clients. Could be the time of day you look?

Just going to throw it out there that it's a bit disconcerting to see these kind of criminal stereotypes associated with a certain people on HN.
by spapas82 | 2025-09-26 09:56:41+00:00
I remember that I was playing the DOS version of PoP on a computer with Hercules Graphics Card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card) so I suppose the DOS version also supported Hercules (beyond CGA/EGA/VGA).

The music, even though was playing from the PC beep speaker haunts me to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcI8lQvX8Ng

Finally, after all these years I still remember running it with "prince megahit" to enable cheat mode so I'd be able to pass the levels using ctrl+l...
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-09-26 09:56:55+00:00
The growth of Cloudflare is what makes the law possible.

Several countries have stupid laws around online child protection, that are universally ignored and universally not enforced simply because there is no reasonable way to comply. Others might be tempted to introduce new stupid laws once they become feasible.

That doesn't make it Cloudflare's fault, but the centralization is still a problem.
by merlindru | 2025-09-26 09:57:31+00:00
It's not necessarily "blaming", more a combination of:

- Apple released macOS 26 - This version was in testing for many months - During this time, Apple has apparently not tested how Slack, VSCode, Discord, work - Or they have, but haven't bothered to reach out to Electron maintainers - The overriding of the private API was in order to fix a bug with a public one

Combine all of these and there is some onus on Apple for this. If you don't fix your broken public APIs, don't be surprised when people start using your private ones that do work.

But easily the worst point is that QA apparently is limited to their own applications only. Do they really care about the user if they don't test applications found on nearly every mac setup out there? Don't they use Slack internally?!
by palata | 2025-09-26 09:57:40+00:00
If you care about the tiny fraction of the total number being stored by the government, frankly you should care a lot more about all the data being stored by TooBigTech.

Feels a bit hypocritical to accept one and not the other.

Really, I think that the problem with ChatControl is that it is a weapon for surveillance. Not because of the false positive, but because whoever controls it can decide what gets reported. Depending on how a government evolves, that could be very dangerous. And we have examples of governments evolving like this in history.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-26 09:57:59+00:00
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it. Revision was a one click install on my handheld from the Steam store, but it looks like I'll have to figure out how to install GMDX by hand into the Proton directory for the game.

Worth it though I think, I prefer to play as true to original as possible with only QoL changes.
by jsheard | 2025-09-26 09:58:49+00:00
Modders have put a ton of effort into fixing and restoring this game. The developers originally wanted to let players choose the protagonists gender, but they didn't have the resources to make it happen, so of course the community ended up redubbing JCs entire script and editing the rest to bring it back almost seamlessly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDOv1W6-Cc
by Antibabelic | 2025-09-26 09:59:43+00:00
- I am using "intent" and "intentionality" in their everyday manner, which, ironically, would've been clear to you if you paid attention to my intent, rather than the "words" that you seem to loathe so. From Dictionary.com: intent — the act or fact of meaning to do something; intentionality — the fact or quality of being done on purpose or with intent.

- It's great that you mention Stitch, because what I'm trying to tell you is directly related to his theory as presented in e.g. Mindreading. What he terms "desire detection mechanisms" are what I'm referring to as our ability to discern intent, which is how you're able to make sense of other people's actions (whether verbal or non-verbal).
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-26 09:59:54+00:00
It was truly amazing at the time. Currently, I think the OD trailers are showcasing the SOTA when it comes to facial animations (guessing they're on Unreal Engine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi-5xTlWiiM

Wonder if we'll see similar differences in the future between the OD trailer and whatever is SOTA in ~10 years.
by walleeee | 2025-09-26 10:00:09+00:00
The "natural order" is that robots are primitive, fragile, energy- and materials-inefficient contraptions balancing on the knife-edge of entropy deferred for a moment but due as soon as the power goes out or repairs prove too costly.

People are better at all but the most repetitive, precise kinds of manual labor because biological bodies might as well be god-tier alien technology compared to human-engineered robots.

Computers are naturally better at computing. Or, if you want to stand by your statement, I look forward to hearing how you've delegated thought to the machines, and how that's going.

> how the AI-animated robots will feel once they're capable of processing those ideas

"Will" and "once" might collapse under the load of baseless speculation here. A sad day for the English language as I found those words useful/meaningful.
by instig007 | 2025-09-26 10:00:41+00:00
> doesn't let you colocate the types with the leaves of the binding form

Can you elaborate on the effective difference between colocations in your example and this:

transport Kwargs {person = Person{name = who, ..}, options = Opts{..}, ..}

The `Kwargs{..}` alone does imply a non-ambiguous type in the function signature (without explicit but optional annotations), and it binds locally scoped names too. Why doesn't it colocate in the same sense?
by tomhow | 2025-09-26 10:00:45+00:00
I didn't touch any "days+ old" comments. I did flag another comment of yours from about the same time as the one I replied to, but several other community members had already downvoted and flagged it, so I'm not taking any unilateral action here. I'm only seeing your comments because so many community members are flagging them.

> You know, the one that stated literal facts and nothing else

I don't know what comment you're referring to, but it's common for people to claim that they were "just stating facts", whilst sidestepping the fact that the choice of "facts", the context in which they are invoked and the words used to state them can very easily be inflammatory.

> I wasn't trying to be rude, I genuinely didn't understand

It's common for people to underestimate how harshly their words come across by the time they hit the page for others to read. We've had to warn you before, and you're still frequently making comments that are breaking the guidelines and being flagged by many fellow community members. You need to try harder to keep within the guidelines if you want to participate here. This is only a place where people want to participate because others make the effort to keep the standards up. We need to see you making an effort to be one of the ones to raise the standards, rather than repeatedly dragging them down.

> But pretty sure you don't care

My job is to uphold the guidelines and do what I can to keep this place from burning to the ground. That's all I care about when I'm posting comments like these.

> But sure, point taken

I hope so!
by yorwba | 2025-09-26 10:00:55+00:00
I think Gwern was too focused on academic PDFs posted publicly to support some argument. There, it's actually advantageous to make a completely new PDF with your faked data, since it prevents people from finding the original and doing a comparison.

But for official documents used as legal proof, staying as close as possible to the original is required for a forgery to avoid sticking out simply for having the wrong formatting. But you usually won't find those posted publicly on the internet.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-26 10:01:38+00:00
So we have our answer - it wasn't caused by "imperialism", but by specific laws passed by politicians, against the will of natives [1]. And we know how the economics worked out in countries that bothered to look [2].

[1] Between 1962 and 1971, as a result of popular opposition to immigration by Commonwealth citizens from Asia and Africa, the United Kingdom gradually tightened controls on immigration by British subjects from other parts of the Commonwealth. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nationality_Act_1948

[2] https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2024/02/fiscal-impact-of-immigr...
by wvh | 2025-09-26 10:01:42+00:00
I'm fully remote and finding places to get away resonates. I tried the library, but the artificial lighting, lack of infrastructure (especially large monitors) and maybe also the lack of a more social space where you are actually allowed to talk made it a less than ideal experience.

But I concur that libraries as places for people to meet and do some sort of intellectual goal-oriented activity (as opposed to bars and other places of entertainment) are a great idea. I like what cities like Helsinki have done with Oodi, a library that also offers workspaces for people to do all sorts of things.
by meheleventyone | 2025-09-26 10:01:47+00:00
They don't matter as long as the relative values and the relationships hold. For video games where you're making something arcadey you're often implementing the physical behavior in terms of regular old physics but the values used don't have to be real as long as you get the right results. It's just when you're simulating something real it's useful to have units that make intuitive sense and that's often real world units as we've built up a lot of understanding by using them already. In particular with a flight model based on look up tables from real world data it's already in a set of units.
by codingformeal | 2025-09-26 10:02:27+00:00
This was such a refreshing read, thank you for sharing. I really resonated with your reflections on remote work and how the lines between “home” and “work” blur so easily.

I’ve also been searching for an alternative work environment myself, something outside the usual cycle of home office and noisy coffee shops. Your perspective reminded me that libraries are not only underrated but also deeply valuable spaces for focus, creativity, and even joy.

I’m definitely inspired to give my local library a chance!
by thyristan | 2025-09-26 10:03:24+00:00
Maybe, but there is already that risk of some influence from other doctors, patients, nurses and general circumstances.

When an X-Ray is ordered, there is usually a suspected diagnosis in the order like "suspect sprain, pls exclude fracture", "suspect lung cancer". Patients will complain about symptoms or give the impression of a certain illness. Things like that already place a bias on the evaluation a radiologist does, but they are trained to look past that and be objective. No idea how often they succeed.
by PeterStuer | 2025-09-26 10:03:42+00:00
The LALIGA Official App on Android requires permissions to access Personal Information and Device or other IDs to provide services, send notifications, and facilitate registration. It may also involve location data and audio features, though these are not explicitly listed in the permissions. The app also shares your data with third parties and uses your email for the LALIGA Ecosystem.

Specific Permissions and Uses

Personal Information:

The app collects your personal data, such as your email, to allow you to log in, register for services, and provide you with content and information about your favorite teams.

Device or other IDs:

This type of ID is used to facilitate your registration and access to the app.

Location Data:

The app may use your phone's location to identify establishments showing football matches, potentially for a piracy detection feature.

Audio/Microphone Access:

In the past, La Liga has used the official app to remotely activate the microphone to detect audio from football matches, particularly in bars.
by supongo | 2025-09-26 10:04:02+00:00
I'm a federal employee, working as a software engineer for the Department of Defense on embedded systems which are used on aircraft.

The first few months of DOGE were complete chaos. The senior executive service received conflicting information from one week to the next. Our operations were severely impacted without any benefit. We couldn't even go to test ranges for field testing.In addition to that, the five bullet points were a major security issue due to classification by aggregation.

Although DOGE is gone, we're still experiencing the fallout. There's more red tape than ever before. Everything requires multiple levels of approval - even ordering a replacement capacitor has to go up three levels of management. We're forced to bring defense contractors to our field tests because it's a fight to bring more than one federal employee, almost doubling the cost of any trip. It took half a year for us to even be allowed to mail equipment to various depots. Now, we're effectively forced to pay contractors for tasks we could do organically.

More privatization will drive up cost in the defense industry up significantly. I.E, an unnamed military contractor wants more than 5 million dollars for a line item breakdown for a quote they gave us.
by kouteiheika | 2025-09-26 10:04:17+00:00
You don't necessarily have to store the parameters in fp32 for gradient updates; I experimented with it and got it working (all parameter full fine-tuning) with parameters being as low as 3-bit (a little bit more than 3-bit, because the block-wise scales were higher precision), which is essentially as low as you can go before "normal" training starts breaking down.
by jabl | 2025-09-26 10:04:18+00:00
Well, in the sense of Alpha being the first 64-bit Linux port, and thus having to fix a lot of places where "bitness" assumptions had crept into the codebase.

DEC (Compaq?) had some plans to make cheaper Alpha workstations, and while they managed to drive down the price somewhat, the volumes were never there to make them price-competitive with PC's. (See also the Talos Raptor POWER machines..)
by palata | 2025-09-26 10:04:22+00:00
Agreed. But then you have to explain how you set your boundary. You can't just say that the right boundary is yours.

ChatControl will protect some kids. If your argument is "yeah, shit happens", you won't convince anyone. If your argument is "yes, but at a great cost for society", then you need to explain what the cost is.

Saying "your freedom" is worth exactly as much as "but CSAM" when said from the other side. It's not enough. What is the tangible risk of ChatControl?
by teleforce | 2025-09-26 10:04:25+00:00
>People outside radiology don't get why AI hasn't taken over

AI will probably never taking over, what we really need is AI working in tandem with radiologist and complementing their work to help with their busy schedule (or limited number of radiologist).

The OP title can also be changed to "Demand for human cardiologist is at an all-time high", and is still be true.

For example in CVDs detection cardiologist need to diagnose the patient properly, and if the patient not happy with the diagnostic he can get a second opinion from another cardiologist, but cardiologist number is very limited even more limited than radiologist.

For most of the countries in the world, only several hundreds to several thousands registered cardiologist per country, making the ratio about 1:100,000 cardiologist to population ratio.

People expecting cardiologist to go through their ECG readings but do you know that reading ECG is very cumbersome. Let's say you have 5 minutes ECG signals for the minimum requirement for AFib detection as per guideline. The standard ECG is 12-lead resulting in 12 x 5 x 60 = 3600 beats even for the minimum 5 minutes durations requirements (assuming 1 minute ECG equals to 60 beats). Then of course we have Holter ECG with typical 24-hour readings that increase the duration considerably and that's why almost all Holter reading now is automated. But current ECG automated detection has very low accuracy because their accuracy of their detection methods (statistics/AI/ML) are bounded by the beat detection algorithm for example the venerable Pan-Tompkins for the fiducial time-domain approach [1].

The cardiologist will rather spent their time for more interesting activities like teaching future cardiologists, performing expensive procedures like ICD or pacemaker, or having their once in a blue moon holidays instead of reading monotonous patients' ECGs.

I think this is why ECG reading automation with AI/ML is necessary to complement the cardiologist but the trick is to increase the sensitivity part of the accuracy to very high value preferably 100% so the missing potential patients is minimized for the expert and cardiologist in the loop exercise.

[1] Pan–Tompkins algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%E2%80%93Tompkins_algorithm
by dns_snek | 2025-09-26 10:05:45+00:00
> Yeah we don't need to compare robots to the best driver or human, just the average, for an improvement.

Sure, in theory. In practice, nobody is going to give up control on the basis that the machine is "slightly better than average". Those who consider the safety data when making their decision will demand a system that's just as good as the best human drivers in most aspects.

And speaking of Waymo, let's not forget that they only operate in a handful of places. Their safety data doesn't generalize outside of those areas.
by Macha | 2025-09-26 10:06:03+00:00
You're talking about a project to write their own OS for ultimately the fun of it. It probably shouldn't be too surprising that attitude extends elsewhere.

The people who just think OSes would be better with more Rust in them, but aren't looking to reinvent from first principles are in the Rust for Linux universe.

And you know what, that's fine. Linux started out as a hobby project with similar origins before it became a big serious OS.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-26 10:06:08+00:00
The idea is older than what we call drones, or robots.

Original GTA had an RC model car you could drive under your target and detonate remotely - that was in 1997, and they didn't invent this trope. US Navy trained dolphins to deploy ordnance in the 1960s; before that, together with the Air Force they played with strapping incendiaries to bats, packing them into a bomb casing and dropping from the air, with hopes of creating what we'd today call a "Slaughterbots" scenario except EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE.

And I doubt these were very original ideas, either - I bet you could trace them back to other such R&D across history, all the way to Ancient China, which figured out gunpowder much earlier than Europe, and like with any general enough scientific discovery, had a field day trying to apply it to everything they could think of. They didn't stop at fireworks, they built land mines and unguided missiles too, even multistage rocket and IIRC (read that in some book long ago, can't find independent source now) rockets that could drop payload and fly back home to be recovered. (And yes, apparently someone was crazy enough to try for manned rocket flight, too.)

Anyway, I digress.

I guess, the larger point I'm making is this: in terms of their relationship with individuals and societies, robots are nothing new. Robots and automation are answers to needs that even first human societies had, and they have not changed. History is full of attempts at fulfilling those needs, many quite successful: domesticating and training animals, forced labor for prisoners, slavery. All these impacted socities, informed laws and fueled imaginations of poets and writers.

Which is to say, humanity has been dealing with robots and AIs for a long time now, we have way more accumulated experience with them at social and economic level than people realize - people just called them by a host of different names. "Slaves" and "servants", "genies" and "demons" and "fairies", etc.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-09-26 10:06:36+00:00
except for some countries, the right to privacy is also written in the constitution, which would require changing said constitution, which is probably a lot harder than just implementing a law.

I can't say what it takes in every country, but in Denmark the procedure is as follows :

- The proposed change must pass a vote in parliament.

- There must then be an election to parliament.

- The new parliament must also vote in favor of the proposed change.

- Finally a popular vote must pass with at least 40% of all eligble voters voting for it. If less than 40% of eligble voters vote (regardless of where they cast their vote), the proposition fails.

It probably goes without saying that changing the Danish constitution is not a task taken lightly. The Danish constitution also explicitly forbids giving up soverenity.
by palata | 2025-09-26 10:06:50+00:00
> Who decides the algorithm, and do you really can believe they won't ever change it to serve other more nefarious purposes like suppressing dissent?

YES. That's the problem. Whoever controls it has that power. We don't want that. That's the argument against ChatControl: "imagine that those who get in power are against you, and imagine what they can do if they abuse this tool".

But saying that "a law enforcement officer may see a false-positive between a parent and their child and I find this insufferable" won't convince many people, IMHO.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-26 10:07:03+00:00
The majority of people seem to offload most of their thinking as is, and actively avoid things like critical thinking, confronting their own biases, seeking push-back against their own beliefs, etc.

As with many other technologies, AI can be an enabler of this, or it can be used as a tool to empower and enhance learning and personal growth. That ultimately depends on the human to decide. One can dramatically accelerate personal and professional growth using these tools.

Admittedly the degree to which one can offload tasks is greatly increased with this iteration, to the extent that at times you can almost seem like offloading your own autonomy. But many people already exist in this state, exclusively parroting other people's opinions without examining them, etc.