MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gnyman | 2025-10-24 17:40:24+00:00
Neal Krawetz of fotoforensics (and others probably) disagree that C2PA "is a well thought out solution"

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F10... (search his blog if you want more of his thoughts on it)

I don't have a know enough bout this but I've been reading his blog for other topics a while and he does seem to know a lot about photo authenticity.
by mort96 | 2025-10-24 17:40:26+00:00
They haven't exactly been quiet about it. Here are some links;

* https://x.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1960029405067313546

* https://x.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1975721241345728683

* https://bsky.app/profile/frame.work/post/3lvm6ahbrf22n

* https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-righ...
by spoaceman7777 | 2025-10-24 17:40:27+00:00
Why do people care? It's nice, been using it since Nightly. And you have to actually hook it up to a service for it to do anything.

The toggle for the popup is in (as you might expect) the settings hamburger menu in the AI Panel. There's even a remove button! Lots of new things have been added to browsers over the years, and these AI features are becoming incredibly popular as more users recognize the utility (and what they actually are).

This just seems like some more anti-AI hysteria.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-10-24 17:40:59+00:00
Very excited to see how this progresses! Honestly, it's always a little surprising to me that event store architectures aren't more widely used. The article is extremely correct about why:

> there's absolutely no clear cut way of approaching it for new projects

That's definitely my experience - there's no open source "batteries-included" event store where you can just `docker compose up` and start sourcing your events right away. (Maybe KurrentDB née EventStoreDB might offer something like this? But unfortunately, it has a weird license and feels heavily pivoted towards SaaS). And if you want to implement it yourself, a lot of the writing about event stores comes from the the Enterprise Design Patterns™ world.
by madrox | 2025-10-24 17:41:15+00:00
Design moves at the speed of culture; not technology. It took 3 years of people messing with mobile phones before it occurred to someone to implement "pull down to refresh" and much longer for it to be common practice that people just expect from UX. I think people are still learning what they want from an AI experience.

I do think you have to be pretty targeted with your predictions, though. Consumer product design seems to be evolving differently from B2B and at a different pace. Growth curves are different for each.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-24 17:41:19+00:00
What LLMs? In my experience they do a terrible job with Typst. Very frequently ChatGPT and Gemini will produce code that doesnt work. Im not sure if it's using an older syntax or just hallucinating. Additionally, it's rarely able to fix it after I provide the error and even copy-past docs.

Maybe I was just unlucky or you had better luck with another model. But I was very surprised to here this because Typst is my chief example for a language that LLMs are bad at.
by pankalog | 2025-10-24 17:41:24+00:00
> I do most of my work over SSH on big metal machines, maybe that's the disconnect?

Yeah, I believe that's where the disconnect is. I moved from a Thinkpad to the 16in Macbook Pro with the M3 Pro chip, and I am able to reliably build and write code that runs locally on 5 different Docker containers, for at least 10 hours. I once did a 48hr hackathon with this laptop and I only had to charge it I think 4 or 5 times. I need to be very mobile as I'm going to different locations to attend meetings or write code, and it's able to do everything reliably for a (very extended) workday.

I would have to move from wall socket to wall socket on my old Thinkpad, but something to note is that I was using Windows 10 at the time. The Macbook's best-in-class (in performance-per-watt and per-kg) hardware combined with the software was something that became unbeatable for my workflow.

That being said, my next laptop will be a reliable, non-Apple, but Apple-like performance, ARM64 laptop, and I'll be using some Linux distribution on it.
by perihelions | 2025-10-24 17:41:57+00:00
I was literally just reading about this (see in particular "arguments in favor of")

https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/mfaknot.pdf ("Geometry and Physics of Knots" by Atiyah)

It's interesting that the mathematical theory of knots was initially developed in response to Kelvin's proposal (i.e. Tait's work), because people were motivated trying to work out its implications for atomic theory. A branch of mathematics created by wrong physics.
by rovolo | 2025-10-24 17:42:14+00:00
Fauci said the following on 2020-03-08: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/outdated-fauci-video-on-fa...

> When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.

> But, when you think masks, you should think of health care providers needing them and people who are ill... It could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it.

He said that there's a shortage, and that he didn't trust that people would wear the masks correctly. I remember that most of the early anti-mask guidance I heard was claims that they weren't likely to prevent yourself from getting infected because: the mask would become an infectious surface; and people wouldn't handle the mask as infectious.

Opinions started to shift over March, and the CDC put out guidance on 2020-04-03 to wear cloth masks in public. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

> It is mainly to prevent those people who have the virus — and might not know it — from spreading the infection to others.

> U.S. health authorities have long maintained that face masks should be reserved only for medical professionals and patients suffering from COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the coronavirus. The CDC had based this recommendation on the fact that such coverings offer little protection for wearers, and the need to conserve the country's alarmingly sparse supplies of personal protective equipment.

I used wikipedia for dates and sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_masks_during_the_COVID-19...
by SkiFire13 | 2025-10-24 17:42:26+00:00
With a quick search I can see that the `in-dexter` package [1] provides something quite similar, though I'm not sure if it covers all usecases.

If you want to handroll this yourself you can probably have your `index` emit some `metadata` [2] which you can then `query` [3] for in your `printindex`. All of this would work inside the typst compiler and there would be no need for running an external `makeindex` command.

[1]: https://typst.app/universe/package/in-dexter

[2]: https://typst.app/docs/reference/introspection/metadata/

[3]: https://typst.app/docs/reference/introspection/query/
by mcfry | 2025-10-24 17:42:39+00:00
Something which I haven't been able to fully parse that perhaps someone has better insight into: aren't transformers inherently only capable of inductive reasoning? In order to actually progress to AGI, which is being promised at least as an eventuality, don't models have to be capable of deduction? Wouldn't that mean fundamentally changing the pipeline in some way? And no, tools are not deduction. They are useful patches for the lack of deduction.

Models need to move beyond the domain of parsing existing information into existing ideas.
by angelgonzales | 2025-10-24 17:43:11+00:00
About a decade ago some guy thought I was taking a picture of him and his girlfriend, they were very uninteresting subjects and I didn’t take any pictures of them but he followed me and sucker punched me. He was caught quickly and I pressed charges and since he had priors he didn’t make bail and was sentenced to 2 years in prison which I don’t think was enough because even a soft punch could kill someone. After that I began carrying non-lethal and lethal tools for self defense and stopped worrying about hurting people’s feelings when I take pictures. If people tell me off I tell them off because ultimately our conflict is based off of differing arbitrary opinions. I concluded that art is a human right and I should never feel guilty or bad about making it. Art is noble and it’s a high pleasure and part of being human. I have a short time in this life to create art so I should just do what I feel is pure and what I want. I’ve also concluded that if I did what everyone told me to do (or what they told me not to do) I’d be eating ten pounds of spinach a day, waking up a 5 AM, drinking a gallon of milk a day, buying timeshares and joining the Marines! Obviously I wouldn’t be doing what I want, my point is that artists need to listen to their inner voice and follow wherever that takes them.
by whycome | 2025-10-24 17:43:14+00:00
Public education is one thing. But kids aren't protected from the ads and can't even have reasonable discussions about it. They're just being brainwashed around it. They see superstars and celebrities endorsing it all. Then all the language around it is "play" and "game" and "fun" and "win" which has very specific appeal to children. The prominence also makes it seem vetted and okay in a kids eyes (if it were bad, it wouldn't be in these places). I'd legitimately rather my kids see ads for smoking cigarettes. The conversations to be had around it are much much easier. Gambling and other psychological addictions are tougher to convey, but potentially very damaging nonetheless.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-24 17:43:39+00:00
In the long term, on-device won't save us from a biased assistant. It might notice we seem tired and insinuate that we could use Mococoa, all natural beans straight from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua.

Or—and this happens—it "summarizes" the same text differently, depending on whether the author's name happens to fit a certain ethnicity.
by babypuncher | 2025-10-24 17:44:17+00:00
So much about Brave raises scammy red flags every time I look at it.

However, my main reason for ditching Chrome years ago was the fact that I think a browser engine monoculture is bad for the web as a whole, especially if that engine is primarily controlled by a single corporate entity.

Manifest v3 and other Google nonsense came later, and are extra reasons to stay away from Chrome, but I still feel strongly that a good alternative needs to use a different engine.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-24 17:44:33+00:00
> Your post strongly reinforces Rust's reputation as a language whose language designers are willing to break compatibility on a whim.

> Your post itself reinforces the OP's claim.

Again, I think it might be worth elaborating precisely what you think "on a whim" means. To me (and I would hope anyone else with a reasonable command of English), making a bad decision is not the same thing as making a decision on a whim, and you have provided no reason to believe the described change falls under the latter category instead of the former.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-24 17:44:36+00:00
Where I live the city is trying to crack down on children riding fast scooters/bikes in the streets and in the city center and doubling and tripling up on them etc. I do regularly see teenagers and tweens engaging in unsafe activities on scooters and I understand.

So they passed a bunch of strict laws which only apply to the city, but they aren't allowed to override state law on Class 1 and 2 bikes, so the law is very clear and simple for them and they mostly can't pass anything. State law allows localities to implement more restrictons on class 3, so it's a little bit murkier for class 3 bikes here.

The city ordinance is actually very difficult to understand, because it's broadly written, so you might think that some things are illegal because it's not totally clear where it's overridden by state law. It's clear as mud, not simple english and you have to be an attorney and do some research to understand it.
by The_President | 2025-10-24 17:44:56+00:00
The intel is correct, as fentanyl is currently considered an extreme top priority threat to eliminate by the government (due to this being on ongoing operation, information given will be limited.) If this were some false flag or CIA op they'd just stage the boats getting blown up rather than destroy random innocent boaters. There's enough chain of command between the missile and the brass that this action would be executed correctly and with precision.
by f1shy | 2025-10-24 17:45:19+00:00
If I could only make this comment more visible. I worked in 2 extrema of the spectrum. Ones would say nothing personal, strictly professional, never curse, like robots (any experience in Japan) The others would come, curse constantly, even calling a college would imply calling him literally “you son of a b*”, people would loudly talk about sexual encounters, and other private things (south Italy, south America). I asked both groups (as I have friends in both camps) what do they think about the other way of interacting: both think the other group is abnormal, awkward, and would not like to work in “such a terrible place”
by interloxia | 2025-10-24 17:45:21+00:00
It looks like it should be possible to use a local model with a custom prompt.

Selecting text and having a action with a custom prompt/tool without needing a browser extension might be nice. It need not even be a llm.

https://nilsheuman.github.io/TIL/2025-04-17-custom-firefox-a...
by tyleo | 2025-10-24 17:45:36+00:00
It isn’t clear that TSMC is all the special sauce here. The Apple chips are uniquely good in my experience so far.

Maybe another chip has similar power/performance but:

1. I haven’t seen real-world examples showing that

2. It might not run the desktop workloads I care about

Maybe some other TSMC-based device is out there that suits my needs but if it is, it at least has piss poor advertising.
by virgoerns | 2025-10-24 17:45:44+00:00
FYI, ctrl-d isn't a shortcut to exit terminal. It sends EOF (end of file) character which, when reaches shell, closes stdinput file of shell. It generally closes any active interactive input, like all repls, interactive input to sed etc. When interactive shell loses possibility to get more input, it closes as soon as possible and then its parent, the terminal window, also closes. More-less :)
by yoavm | 2025-10-24 17:45:59+00:00
Feels like people making a big deal out of it. You can also just, you know, not use these features. I can't remember the last time I use the "Print" dialog, the "Manage bookmarks" or the "Homepage" button. But these things don't have AI in their name, so people aren't so obsessed with removing them.

IMHO just like many companies are obsessed with adding AI features, some users are obsessed with rejecting them. Both seem mostly senseless to me, especially when it's a local-first AI implementation.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-24 17:46:02+00:00
It’s a legitimate issue in one sense, but another way of seeing it is that outside of a select few programs that actually need to be that way, Windows-tray-style apps are something of an anti-pattern. Most apps would be better as plain old dock apps or maybe headless daemons with HUD style UI summoned by a keystroke and thus not need menubar icons. It’s genuinely weird that we’ve ended up in a place where more than a fractional number of users have a bajillion menubar icons to contend with.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-24 17:46:36+00:00
> I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do then.

Refocus you're attention. The problem is not with the pardon power. You said:

> That bad actor is Trump. But the warnings from abusing these limitations

But that's the thing, the pardon power is not supposed to be limited. How would you limit it? Who would actually tell the President "No" and on what authority? The obvious choices are Congress and the Courts but they already checks to balance the the President. That's why they can't check it -- the pardon power is the President's check on them (along with the veto power).

Hamilton said:

"Without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel."

That's what it's for. After all the process, if justice is not done, and there's no way to undo it, then justice will not survive and there will be no confidence in the system. But with great power comes great responsibility, so you need someone very responsible in that position or else it doesn't work.

So then how do we fix it if not by adding laws and rules? We don't elect people like Trump, who think they are above the law. That's it. I know it seems kind of glib but it's not a high bar to just avoid malignant narcissists.

The reason Trump is abusing the pardon power is because he does not consider what he's doing an abuse. He sees that he has the "right" to do it under the Constitution, and to him, anything he has the right to do, he can do. And you know what, despite him being abusive he does have the right. But that's the thing, we gave him that right, and we can take it away and give it to someone else who won't abuse it.

That is the actual check on the pardon power, but that's on us. It's on us because Trump abused the pardon power in his first term by dangling pardons in front of Paul Manafort when he was being investigated by the DOJ, so none of this should be a surprise to anyone. Obama's "abuses" and Bidens "abuses" are on everyone's lips here, but not a single word for Trump's 1st term abuses (mine is the first mention of the Manafort pardon in over 1000 comments). So if you really want the root cause of his power abuse beyond his psychopathology, it's that -- because not only did we not care he did that, we actually reelected him as he promised to abuse his power during the campaign, so why wouldn't he actually do it?
by everdrive | 2025-10-24 17:47:12+00:00
>I feel bad for anyone who doesn't see this as obvious.

I don't mean this in a rude way, but inexperienced, or socially-immature, or spectrum-y people really fail the most with regard to this kind of advice.

There's a (correct) stereotype that spectrum-y people are overly-literal. However, from the perspective of a spectrum-y person this is totally perplexing. Why do people frequently state literal facts which have a secondary, contextual and metaphorical meaning? "Bring your whole self to work" has a really straightforward and literal meaning. It's not a metaphor which requires interpretation. However "bring your whole self to work" is quite obviously not meant to be taken strictly literally. So then why the hell say it like that? Why would people go around saying things which are definitely incorrect and rely wholly on subtext or cultural knowledge? It'd be like if I said, "hey by the way it's safe the change the lawnmower blade while the spark plug is still in" or "looking at the sun won't blind you quickly enough to be risky." And then people are just supposed to know I didn't mean my very literal statement literally.

And if everyone who's normal and socially well adjusted understands that you're not meant to take "take your whole self to work" then what work is this phrase even doing? Why does anyone even say it?
by pas | 2025-10-24 17:48:02+00:00
... sounds like a trivial job for bare metal instances

and that EC2 local NVMe encryption keys are ephemeral is nice against leaks, but not a necessity for other clouds (and not great for resumability, which can really downgrade business continuity scores), and I expect for all the money they ask for it, to be able to keep it relatively secure even across reboots
by ASalazarMX | 2025-10-24 17:48:18+00:00
Dictators, like Maduro (and wannabe dictators), are notoriously coward. They won't risk their life against an enemy that will certainly bomb them from afar, but they would happily risk their whole country if that kept them safe.

Hell, even Trump wouldn't be that bold if he didn't know Venezuela has no will, or means, of putting him at risk.
by tb_technical | 2025-10-24 17:48:31+00:00
Depends on your metrics of "dominant country" tbh. In terms of GDP the US is leading. In terms of purchasing power parity China is leading.

In terms of military prowess the US is superior, if you believe their advertised weapons capabilities. That being said, if we believed what countries said about their own weapons, then Russia has a number of world ending superweapons - clearly they're the leader here /s.

If you believe total number of naval vessels determines might, the Chinese Navy's numbers make them superior. If you believe damage control and logistics determine naval might, the USA has one of the most sophisticated support fleets in the world with world class damage control (combat survivability - but this is a meme).

If you believe technological development makes a nation superior, the USA maintains it's edge with trade allies South Korea and Taiwan.

If you believe total production is what makes a nation superior... China.

Look, you get what I'm saying. The dollar is still the primary reserve currency (for now) and the US still ensures safety in international waters while projecting power regularly.
by isoprophlex | 2025-10-24 17:49:19+00:00
Everyone who did NLP research or product discovery in the past 5 years had to pivot real hard to salvage their shit post-transformers. They're very disruptively good at most NLP task

edit: post-transformers meaning "in the era after transformers were widely adopted" not some mystical new wave of hypothetical tech to disrupt transformers themselves.
by g-b-r | 2025-10-24 17:49:44+00:00
If it really isn't useful, which I imagine means you committed somewhat haphazardly, ok, of course.

If there might be some usefulness hidden there (for example, trying something and then reverting it shows that you did explore it), it's also possible to place the old stuff in another repository or another branch (better the latter, unless it increases the repository's size too much)
by mrandish | 2025-10-24 17:49:47+00:00
> NY families must have fallen a long way

I spent a fun few hours a couple years back deep diving into what has become of the old-school "Goodfellas"-style mob these days. Looking into both media reports as well as posts by 'mob fans' - niche forums of those who obsessively follow mob and mob adjacent activities via open-source intel methods - I got the sense the traditional Italian mob families have indeed shrunk to a smaller, sadder version of what they once were due to being eclipsed by new, different kinds of organized crime.

Guys who are known "made men" getting out of prison after doing 10-15 and then ending up doing relatively nickel and dime crimes like daylight armed robbery of a jewelry store themselves for lack of enough income. 25 years ago guys like that wouldn't normally do that stuff themselves. Others have even sunk to basically LARPing being old-school mobsters on social media.

It seems there are two key drivers behind the decline: the real money in organized crime has shifted to new kinds of activities which scale better and can grow much larger. That's attracted new competitors. Some are smarter, some more brutal and some which are both. There's also an aspect that these new, bigger opportunities are far more complex, long-term and can also require successfully operating legitimate businesses as one necessary component. I guess it's not surprising. Even illicit industries undergo accelerating change over time. The old crime families still exist and can certainly still be dangerous - they're just no longer the top of the criminal food chain in terms of earnings.
by somat | 2025-10-24 17:50:21+00:00
Hell, you could run a high quality airline on the tech of the 60's. You could run a high quality airline on the tech of the 30's nothing except radios and the planes.

It's not a tech problem, it's a culture problem. Just because the infrastructure is old does not mean that it is bad. The main deciding factor is how well it is maintained. But that is to hard for many people. So much easier to say "It'S bAd bEcAuSe iT is oLd" and walk away.