MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dongcarl | 2025-10-07 20:07:01+00:00
We've had many reports that it works. In fact, one of our users told us he took an hour video call over Obscura in China and things worked smoothly!

Unfortunately, because we don't identify users we cannot offer a free tier (since that would allow anyone to use it freely indefinitely).

However, you can always just top-up for 1 month to see how it works for you! Would love to hear your experience.
by jmclnx | 2025-10-07 20:07:08+00:00
I think it can happen. The big question, how often a player at a high level gets to a point where a promotion can happen ?

For highly rated players, I think a resignation would occur before a promotion happens. So in general, promotions themselves are rare.

Now me, the only way I would win is to promote 3 pawns to 3 queens, and even then ... :)
by layer8 | 2025-10-07 20:07:08+00:00
Yes, for example:

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2021/kw02-de-p...

https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/textarchiv/2018/kw08-de-v...

https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/304/1930412.pdf

https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/111/1911127.pdf
by nonconstant | 2025-10-07 20:07:11+00:00
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by paulbjensen | 2025-10-07 20:07:12+00:00
I saw that Robin Williams setup a deed to prevent his image or likeness being used for film or publicity that covers a period of up to 25 years after his death.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/31/robin-williams-...

I don't know if it could be extended further, but I feel like there is merit for it to be considered in this case.

In Denmark people own the copyright to their own voice, imagery and likeness:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes...

I think that it is probably the right way to go.
by irq-1 | 2025-10-07 20:07:13+00:00
> Is there a model could we create to bolster out the middle?

Extend Copyright? (no, no..)

I have two ideas:

- Recommendations. Publishers connect with private LLM/Agents for custom recommendations. They'd need to keep reviews private, but could trade them among themselves.

- Insurance Pool. Authors could add works to a pool of books, and the profits could be split. Publishers would need to maintain the quality of books or authors won't join.
by ulinycoin | 2025-10-07 20:09:04+00:00
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by Telemakhos | 2025-10-07 20:09:06+00:00
> There's so many high quality books being published each day.

Great is the stream of the Assyrian river, but much filth of earth and much refuse it carries on its waters. And not of every water do the Melissae carry to Deo, but of the trickling stream that springs from a holy fountain, pure and undefiled, the very crown of waters.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-07 20:09:24+00:00
I watched the video right before seeing this post and I wasn't surprised at all. They don't care. AI script, graphics, voice over. There was 0 skin in the game. To paraphrase Michael Scott, if you cancel the channel over fake news they'll just make another one and another one and another one. It's effortless to make slop, so they have no incentive to care
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-07 20:10:49+00:00
Yes and no. For portraiture, sure. But photography also made it possible to capture images that would be totally impractical to do with painting or drawing. Sports action, as one example. Photojournalism in general, though in certain niches drawing/painting is still done (e.g. in some courtrooms).

And there was still a lot of human skill involved in film photography: timing the shot, framing the shot, selecting the proper lens, exposure time, focus, depth of field, film speed. And then processing the film, and making the prints.

Current photography has removed almost all skill requirements. AI can remove distracting background elements, crop, enhance, blur, whatever you want. Therefore as art, it's not very interesting.
by burkaman | 2025-10-07 20:11:08+00:00
Greenhouse gases only interact with specific wavelengths of light. A lot of sunlight comes in as visible or ultraviolet light, mostly passing through those gases. It hits the surface of the Earth and is absorbed and then re-emitted as infrared light, and a lot of that is just the right wavelength for greenhouse gases to interfere. Here's a good article about the physics of this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-mechanics-of-gree...
by dongcarl | 2025-10-07 20:11:08+00:00
> should Chat Control not pass

Unfortunately in the world we live in no single jurisdiction is good enough anymore, laws can always change and Chat Control can be re-proposed over and over again.

Luckily, an MPR like Obscura with hops across different jurisdictions (Obscura in US, and Mullvad in EU) give you a much better scenario than just being in one jurisdiction.

> it would be great if you prioritized accepting Monero as payment

Definitely prioritized, one of our engineers is working on it right now.

> Also, how much control do we have over the features Mullvad offers (e.g. DAITA, quantum resistance, DNS filters, IPv6, integration with Mullvad Browser)?

We're limited by the Partner API that Mullvad offers right now, but we'll be looking into many of these soon. For example, we're implementing DNS filtering as we speak!
by constantcrying | 2025-10-07 20:11:11+00:00
This might sound insane to every American, but German law especially protects politicians from insults, slander and libel. (See https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__188.html for the actual law)

Yes, you read that right. German law is especially protective of politicians, which is why politicians are very active suing random supporters of their opponents, because that is an effective way to police speech, open specifically to politicians.

I do think a lot of people care, but censorship in Germany does a lot to protect the people who could change the law. That law obviously needs to be abolished, politicians are uniquely unworthy of protection when it comes to speech.
by prerok | 2025-10-07 20:11:18+00:00
I think part-time is indeed the only option and has been for a long long time. The e-books only shortly promised a disruption until it fell apart. As you say, partly due to advertising, but partly also due to being no editor. Editors can be both an annoyance but they are also a blessing, because they can advise as to what works and what does not.

If most people will just read one book per year, or better yet, will choose which one book to give to someone else (not having read it at all), of course they will choose #1.

I vividly remember the disappointment I felt when I gave #2 to an acquaintance (where I read both 1 and 2 and genuinely liked the one I gave better), only to be told that I gave the #2 and why didn't they receive the #1, and if that meant anything. Ok, off on a tangent, but geez that still hurts :(
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-10-07 20:11:21+00:00
I was in Malaysia and used the toilet in my hotel room. The handle was broken and was just turning idly. Since I was leaving for dinner, I told the reception desk that it was broken. They told me it would need fixed right away.

I got back two hours later, check the toilet and it is still broken. Call the desk, they're sending an "engineer" right away. The guy comes in, goes to the toilet, I show him that the handle is just turning idly.

He looks at me, surrounds my shoulders with his arm and tells me "I will show you".

Proceeds to turn the handle the other way round and, tadaam, the water flushes...

Awkward you said? :)
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-07 20:12:10+00:00
> Anytime similar argument is brought up for Apple, people always say "Their platform, their rules". Isnt that the case here?

Apple told users in advance that they would be buying into a walled garden.

Google, on the other hand, fraudulently marketed Android as open.

Fraud is illegal. Walled gardens are not.
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 20:12:38+00:00
No, solar panels do not contain "all sorts of heavy metals," they leave the land open to all sorts of use afterwards (unlike fossil fuel infrastructure) and disposal is no more difficult than shipping the panels somewhere.

When a site is repowered with new panels, the old panels are often reused, as well, and there's a robust secondary market for panels.

In short: disposal costs are well in line with other technologies, at least according to this consultant (top hit on a web search):

https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/solar-power-decommis...
by multiplegeorges | 2025-10-07 20:12:42+00:00
> their homemade JS solutions (Stimulus, Hotwire, JS import maps) should be the default choice instead of industry standards like Intertia and Vite.

Funny you should list those out. JS Import Maps (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...) are literally an industry standard while Inertia and Vite are decidedly NOT standards in any way, shape, or form.
by thijson | 2025-10-07 20:12:44+00:00
It's kind of like how the Rhino was endangered in Africa, until ownership was allowed. Who owns orbits?

I'm not sure if this would be practical. I wonder if a laser fired from a higher orbit at the debris as it approaches over the earth horizon would slow it down, and gradually push it to lower orbits and eventually reenter. This could possibly work for the small stuff anyway.
by Lio | 2025-10-07 20:12:46+00:00
To my mind this is no different to other forms of spam or harassment.

Back in the 00s I remember friends being sent “slimming club” junk mail on paper made to look like a handwritten note from “a concerned friend”. It was addressed but random.

Unfortunately it can be very distressing for those with body image issues.

We’re going to have to treat this slop like junk mail as it grows.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-07 20:13:39+00:00
You get a fixed return on that infrastructure, but you need to keep pace with inflation in all other areas of the business. Storms, errant vehicles, animals, fires, all sorts of things cause that same infrastructure to require maintenance personnel and equipment, and that equipment needs its own maintenance, as do the offices for the personnel, and so on. It becomes a balancing act because you only get to adjust the rates every so often, and with regulator approval.
by cycomanic | 2025-10-07 20:13:47+00:00
Where does your 20% for 1000km come from? Transmission losses for long distance lines are much lower, e.g. the below is from wikipedia:

> Depending on voltage level and construction details, HVDC transmission losses are quoted at 3.5% per 1,000 km (620 mi), about 50% less than AC (6.7%) lines at the same voltage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
by nofriend | 2025-10-07 20:13:49+00:00
We can draw analogy between any two things. An encrypted chat is not a letter in the mail or a call on the telephone. It is an entirely new thing. Backdooring such chats is not "bringing technology in line with existing laws" it is, very clearly, passing new laws, and creating new invasions of privacy. It must be justified anew. The justification for wiretapping was not that there was no way to fight crime without it. Otherwise, when the criminals became wise to it, and began to hold their conversations offline, there would have been a new law, requiring that all rooms be fitted with microphones that the police could tap into as necessary. No such law was passed. Instead, the justification for wiretapping was simply that, once police had identified some transmission as relating to the committing of a crime, they could obtain a warrant, and then tap into the communication. The physical capacity without any effort by uninvolved individuals was the entire justification. That capacity does not exist with encrypted chats. The analogy is therefore much closer to the "mandated microphones" described above. Everyone is being required to take action to reduce their own privacy, regardless of whether they are subject to a warrant.

What is most striking about our "mandated microphone" analogy is the utter futility of it. Criminals have no issue breaking the law, and hence have no issue outfitting a room with no microphones in which to carry out their dealings. The same is true of any law targeting encrypted chats.
by singlepaynews | 2025-10-07 20:13:50+00:00
Very cool. I jumped in here thinking it was gonna be something else though: a packaged service for distributing on-prem model running across multiple GPUs.

I'm basically imagining a vast.ai type deployment of an on-prem GPT; assuming that most infra is consumer GPUs on consumer devices, the idea of running the "company cluster" as combined compute of the company's machines
by Crespyl | 2025-10-07 20:14:01+00:00
Feature branches that have been cleaned up and peer-reviewed/CI-tested, at least in the last few places I worked.

Every so often this still means that devs working on a feature will need to rebase back on the latest version of the shared branch, but if your code is reasonably modular and your project management doesn't have people overlapping too much this shouldn't be terribly painful.
by chermi | 2025-10-07 20:14:30+00:00
I'm certainly no electrical engineer, and I see how the nice duality was lost in my description. Yes, I was thinking about the ones I'd actually worked with, where the resistance was the control knob. I haven't done much electronics since, so my recollection isn't perfect. I have recently been doing some esp-32 control projects where I just used some power supply I bought. I should look into how it works!

Edit- I just looked up switching power supplies and remembered that I did actually know about those!
by tim333 | 2025-10-07 20:14:30+00:00
There's a chart here for the UK https://auronum.co.uk/gold-vs-bricks-how-many-ounces-you-nee...

It fluctuates a fair bit but starts and ends at ~150oz/house

And the US https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-estate-gold-ratio/
by JamesSwift | 2025-10-07 20:14:42+00:00
The core rails philosophy has been, and continues to be, "reasonable defaults out of the box". In other words, if you are running `rails new` today, you should just start day 1 with the things that are preconfigured. One day you may need React/tailwind/etc, but vanilla rails will ship you to prod just fine on day 1 without configuring anything.

That doesnt mean you should rewrite an existing app to a more 'vanilla rails' config. You've already eaten the migration cost.
by ho_schi | 2025-10-07 20:14:49+00:00
The CDU/CSU is doing something good. That didn't happened for a long time? I appreciate it.

Ausgerechnet Spahn. Manchmal glaubt man seinen Augen und Ohren nicht. Wir müssen Wachsam bleiben. Mit dem Argument das es böse Menschen gibt, wurde schon viel böses getan. Massenüberwachung zerstört jede Gesellschaft. Deutschland hat mehrfach darunter gelitten. Und die Versuche Massenüberwachung einzuführen wiederholen sich.
by legitster | 2025-10-07 20:15:01+00:00
> These hybrid setups, which combine solar panels with batteries, are now standard in many regions and allow solar energy to be stored and released when needed, turning it into a more reliable, dispatchable source of power that helps balance grid demand.

On one hand, I think people underestimate how much energy our grids demand in a 24 hour cycle. The amount of lithium it would take to handle an unusually cloudy week would be astronomical.

On the other hand, one of the ironies of electric cars is that they are one of the least effective uses of battery capacity. A Tesla with a 60kwh battery is probably touching less than 20kwh of capacity every day.

So theoretically if you use the batteries for grid storage and actually cycle them regularly from 80% down to 20%, the battery capacity would be well over 2x - 4x more effective at offsetting carbon sources. (Even more so if you are offsetting worse sources like coal).
by _pdp_ | 2025-10-07 20:15:15+00:00
This isn't actually a Gemini - a copy of the file was already stored locally by Cursor. Most modern editors, including VS Code, can recover files from local history without needing Git.

The interesting thing here is the common misconception that LLMs maintain internal state between sessions which obviously they don't. They don't have memory and they don't know about your files.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-07 20:15:23+00:00
You might believe SCOTUS has abdicated their duty, but that doesn’t make it illegal. The whole reason the Supreme Court exists is because there is no such thing as “clearly illegal” without some kind of adjudicating body that can decide if something breaks the law. Laws aren’t like math axioms; you can’t prove or disprove that a law has been broken with pure logic, you have to have humans interpret the words and apply it to a situation.

By definition, the supreme courts decisions are the law, unless the legally prescribed measures to overrule them are taken.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-07 20:15:25+00:00
> Try loading up some food you cooked in your kitchen and selling it out of your car, door-to-door, and watch what happens.

There's a lovely grandma in my neighborhood who has been doing exactly this for years. She sells the best tamales around. Just sayin'.

But yes, how viable and/or legal this is depends on where you live.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-07 20:15:40+00:00
> Also, in almost all cases, the home installation doesn’t have enough battery power to actually last through inclement weather

That's true today, but I bet it won't be in 5 years time. Around this year or last year batteries have hit a price point where they make financial sense for ordinary people, and in a couple of years you'd be mad not to have them if you have rooftop (and somewhere to put the batteries of course).

> Any subsidies for solar power should go to utility grade solar.

At this point, it should probably go towards storage, grid capacity, or things like EV charging infrastructure. Solar generation doesn't need it.

> The consumer rooftop solar cost is usually one of the most expensive ways you can generate electricity

This may well be true, but there are positive externalities:

- It has reduced land use compared to other energy generation methods

- Power is produced near the point of use, reducing transmission requirements

- Most of the cost is labour for installation which creates jobs

Given that rooftop solar usually pays for itself despite being less cost-efficient that other forms of solar, I see no reason to discourage it.
by bluescrn | 2025-10-07 20:15:54+00:00
> The problem is that there just isn't a whole lot of money to be made in providing hobby hardware for enthusiasts.

With Arduino, the hardware is probably the least interesting/important part. The software side is more important, providing an easy-to-use IDE and a simplified API and platform abstraction layer to make it super-easy to get started. Then there's the documentation, sample code, and community.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-07 20:16:02+00:00
> I can then use that history to create a sane method for me to create git commits and do other thing without having to worry too much.

It's easier than that. Your jj commits are the commits that will be pushed - not all the individual git commits.

Conceptually, think of two types of commits: jj and git. When you do `jj new`, you are creating a jj commit.[1] While working on this, every time you run a command like `jj status`, it will make a git commit, without changing the jj commit. When you're done with the feature and type `jj new` again, you now have two jj commits, and many, many git commits.[2] When you do a `jj git push`, it will send the jj commits, without all the messiness of the git commits.

Technically, the above is inaccurate. It's all git commits anyway. However, jj lets you distinguish between the two types of commits: I call them coarse and fine grained commits. Or you can think hierarchically: Each jj commit has its own git repository to track the changes while you worked on the feature.[2]

So no, you don't need to intentionally use that history to create git commits. jj should handle it all for you.

I think you should go back to it and play some more :-)

[1] changeset, whatever you want to call it.

[2] Again - inaccurate, but useful.
by fengjiabo2400 | 2025-10-07 20:16:23+00:00
Oh cinematic weddings would be so cool! My friends' wedding in NJ had drone shots and that was a great idea. Although I suspect it wouldn't be hard for Sora 2 / Veo 3 of the world to make.

That said, photography will probably remain a hobby for many. And people at the highest skill level will still be fine.

We need more authentic stuff hand-crafted to perfection.
by continuational | 2025-10-07 20:16:26+00:00
Basic greenhouse effect: Visible light (and ultraviolet light) comes in relatively unhindered. Gets absorbed by the earth and heats it up. The heat is emitted as infrared radiation. This gets absorbed by CO2 (and equivalents) and reemitted in a random direction. Takes a long time to reach space by chance, so the energy stays in the atmosphere for a while.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-07 20:16:46+00:00
Ecuador: my recollection is they did the deportations without process which is probably illegal and was therefore halted by SCOTUS pending a final decision. The administration sent a plane after a lower court had ordered them not to, then claimed incompetence. As far as I am aware, since then deportees have been given enough process that it hasn't required another trip to the shadow docket. I'd personally bin this under "not descriptive of the legality of ICE's campaign in general" because it (afaik) is halted indefinitely. It's terrible, for sure, but that's not the question at hand.

Detentions: I've read a handful of stories of citizens being detained in the dragnet operations, then released. We'll see if they have successful civil rights suits. Depending on the scale, this could disprove the contention that ICE is largely acting within the law. Since this isn't a haphazard operation, they probably have some reason to believe their detention powers cover this.
by k33n | 2025-10-07 20:16:58+00:00
Obama was quite strict about it and deported tons of illegals. An arrest isn't a violent kidnapping. Being arrested by the feds for breaking the law has usually been a fairly unpleasant ordeal.

Most Americans support the idea of deporting people who break our immigration laws, thusly cutting in line while millions of others patiently wait.

This really doesn't have to be an emotional issue. Very few Americans support actual open borders. We can't feed, house or provide medical care to the entire world. That is why there is a process.

Were you this vocal when Obama deported millions, or is this just more "I hate Trump" hot air?