MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bayindirh | 2025-10-11 21:15:56+00:00
Even KDE's Digikam can run "somewhat expensive" algorithms on your photos without melting your PC and making you wait a year to recognize and label faces.

Even my 10(?) year old iPhone X can do facial recognition and memory extraction on device while charging.

My Sony A7-III can detect faces in real time, and discriminate it from 5 registered faces to do focus prioritization the moment I half-press the shutter.

That thing will take mere minutes on Azure when batched and fed through GPUs.

If my hunch is right, the option will have a "disable AI use for x months" slider and will turn itself on without letting you know. So you can't opt out of it completely, ever.
by Sanzig | 2025-10-11 21:16:09+00:00
My guess is it'll eventually be traced back to improperly disposed of Cs-137 source. This wouldn't be the first time [1] [2].

There was also a famous case in the 80s where a scrapyard in Mexico sent some steel contaminated with Cobalt-60 to a foundry where it was melted down into rebar. It was detected when a truck transporting rebar to a construction site took a wrong turn and ended up at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where it triggered contamination alarms. By that point, the rebar had been used in a whole bunch of construction that had to get torn down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerinox_accident

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c...
by kbolino | 2025-10-11 21:16:11+00:00
And not caring as much about those things doesn't mean I don't understand that video games are a visual medium.

This is just one type of graphics. And focusing too heavily on it is not going to be enough to keep the big players in the industry afloat for much longer. Some gamers care--apparently some care a lot--but that isn't translating into enough sales to overcome the bloated costs.
by Gigachad | 2025-10-11 21:16:28+00:00
E-Ink is a specific company’s name which can’t be used to describe the same display technology when used by any other company.

Today e paper is widely understood to mean the display technology which companies like e ink and waveshare use for displays which don’t need power to retain an image.

You’re right that historically it’s been confusing. Historically e ink was the only company making these displays since it was all patented so using their brand name as the technology name worked better back then than it does today.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-11 21:17:10+00:00
"ISO noise" is a thing I've heard on a few different film sets and it's a convenient shorthand for "the noise that becomes really apparent only when you crank up the gain". Now that I'm thinking about it, there's a good chance this is more of a thing where I'm from, since our native language doesn't have different words for grain and noise, so we have to diffentiate between them with a suffix, which we then incorrectly also use in English. I guess on a film set with mostly native English speakers, noise and grain is clear enough.

Next, no shit aesthetics are subjective, I never said this is the one objective truth. I said this is a thing that many people believe, as evidenced by the plethora of resources talking about the difference between noise and grain, why tasteful grain is better than a completely clean image and how to add it in post.

And finally, come on, it's obvious to everyone in this thread that I'm referring to digital, which is also not "just a subset" it's by far the biggest subset.

So idk what your point is. Most things are shot digitally. Most camera companies try to reduce sensor noise. Most camera departments try to stick to the optimal ISO for their sensor, both for dynamic range and for noise reasons, adjusting exposure with other means. In my experience, most people don't like the look of sensor/gain/iso/whatever noise. Many cinematographers and directors like the look of film grain and so they often ask for it to be added in post.

Besides the many/most/some qualifiers possibly not matching with how you percieve this (which is normal, we're all different, watch different content, work in different circles...), where exactly am I wrong?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 21:17:23+00:00
> Surely the more relevant metric is the percentage of households with at least one gun?

Why?

> Similarly, it surely is better to compare the same country over time instead of comparing different countries which differ in many additional respects?

Mass shootings are a distinctly American phenomenon. (One happened today. It probably won't make any front pages [1].) It absolutely makes sense to ask what we're doing wrong relative to other countries.

> If your thesis that the availability of guns causes school shootings is true, you should expect to see school shootings going down in the U.S. as the practical availability of a gun goes down

One would expect to see more school shootings in states with "more permissive firearm laws and higher rates of gun ownership" [2]. One does.

I also challenge the notion that fewer households with more guns makes guns less available to kids. A household with one or two guns is probably keeping track of them in a way one with a new gun every Christmas is not.

82% of school shooters don't grow up in stable homes [3]. Practically all of them are from gun homes. More critically, the prevalence of two-parent households has been going up since the mid-2000s [4]. So have mass shootings.

(Kirk's assassin grew up in a stable home. He used the rifle his family gifted him to do the deed [5].)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gvgr7w2yko

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35449898/

[3] https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/shooters_myt...

[4] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-resurgence-of-the-two-parent-...

[5] https://people.com/tyler-robinson-received-rifle-as-gift-use...
by idiotsecant | 2025-10-11 21:17:54+00:00
Is caring for a helpless infant objectively good if it is infected with an extremely virulent plague that will undoubtedly kill any human who comes in contact with it, or a human who comes into contact with them, or them, many layers deep? What if that infant has 2 days to live no matter what, but millions of people will die if it's cared for?

Objective good does not exist, context is king.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-11 21:19:02+00:00
TIL that they can get stuck in no-man's-mand with 2 pairs. That seems stupidly-incompatible, and it isn't something I've witnessed myself, but it makes sense that it can happen.

My intent wasn't to dissuade anyone from trying to make existing cat 3 wire work (which I've never encountered in any home, but I've not been everywhere), but to try to set reasonable expectations and offer some workarounds.

If a person has a house that is still full of old 2- or 4-pair wire, and that wire is actually cat3, and is actually home-run (or at least, features aspects that can usefully-intercepted), then they should absolutely give it a fair shot.

I agree that the as a practical matter, the specifications are more guidelines than anything else.

I've also gone beyond 100 meters with fast ethernet (when that was still the most commonly-encountered) and achieved proven-good results: The customer understood the problem very well and wanted to try it, so we did try it, and it was reliable for years and years (until that building got destroyed in a flood).

If the wiring is already present and convenient, then there's no downside other than some time and some small materials cost to giving it a go. Decent-enough termination tools are cheap these days. :)

(Most of the cat3 I've ran has been for controls and voice, not data. Think stuff like jails, with passive, analog intercom stations in every cell, and doors from Southern Steel that operate on relay logic...because that was the style at the time when it was constructed. Cat3, punch blocks, and a sea of cross-connect wire still provides a flexible way to deal with that kind of thing in an existing and rather-impervious building -- especially when that building's infrastructure already terminates on 25-pair Amphenols. I'll do it again if I have to, but IP has been the way forward even in that stodgy slow-moving space for a good bit now.)
by baxuz | 2025-10-11 21:19:19+00:00
It's not all about the interaction, but also the visual representation which can be much finer and granular in small spaces with a knob.

I can make a 16x16px knob where you can see almost the entire 320° of the range.

It's also easier to see fractions, such as 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4.

Sliders, especially in 16px possess none of those.
by zbowling | 2025-10-11 21:19:26+00:00
synology doens't even compete with synology anymore because all the new hardware requires locked in synology drives now.

It's creating a void that is getting filled with Ugreen, Minisforum, beelink, Aoostor for invoative platforms from China and classic competitors like Qnap, Asustor, Teramaster, etc for innovation for the small to mid-tier needs. 45drives in the larger spaces for folks wanting to manage things more on their own but have enterprise scale needs. Dell and HP have always competed on the high-end enterprise space and also becoming a better option, even though synology is so easy as an appliance.
by less_less | 2025-10-11 21:20:53+00:00
Do the standards require strong primes for RSA? I think FIPS doesn't ... it gives you that option, either for the legacy reasons or to get a proof with Pocklington's theorem that (p,q) really are prime, but just choosing a random (p,q) and running enough rounds of Miller-Rabin on them is considered acceptable IIRC.
by duped | 2025-10-11 21:20:54+00:00
It's a fixed size slider which uses the rotation of the indicator to tell you its position, instead of the position of a thumb in horizontal or vertical position.

If you replaced it with text or a bar that filled the area it would be the same.

It's better than a linear sliders because it takes up less space. It's better than a bar slider because you have more range to display (the length of the arc of the indicator is longer than the horizontal and vertical dimensions). This in turn makes it better for putting into tighter spaces.
by imiric | 2025-10-11 21:20:59+00:00
> Instead what we're getting is straight up vodoo nonsense.

It always has been. Starting with the term "AI" itself.

Articles like these read the same way to me as any OpenAI announcement from the past 5 years. A bunch of technical mumbo jumbo laced with hyperbole, grand promises of how the technology is changing the world, and similar platitudes. I've learned to filter most of it out.

Occasionally I'll stumble upon an actually useful and practical tidbit of information which I can apply in my own workflow, which does involve LLMs, but most of the time it's just noise.
by rzwitserloot | 2025-10-11 21:21:50+00:00
OpenJDK redesigns massive swaths of the compiler every other month.

The true explanation, at least the way OpenJDK says it, is that designing language features is more complex than a casual glancer can fathom, and there's 30 years of "Java is in the top 5 most used languages on the planet, probably #1 especially if focussing on stuff that was meant to be supported for a long time" to think about.

From personal experience, essentially every single last "Just do X to add (some lang feature) to java; languages A and B do it and it works great!" would have been bad for java. Usually because it would cause a 'cultural split' - where you can tell some highly used library in the ecosystem was clearly designed before the feature's introduction.

Even if you introduce a new feature in a way that doesn't break existing code, it's still going to cause maintainability headaches if you've cornered the pillars of the ecosystem into total rewrites if they want to remain up to date with the language. Because they will (or somebody will write an alternative that will) and you've _still_ 'python 2 v python 3'd the language and split the baby in the half.

For what its worth, I think the OpenJDK team doesn't take this seriously enough, and a number of recently introduced features have been deployed too hastily without thinking this through. For example, `LocalDate`, which has 'this should be a record' written all over it, is not a record. Or how the securitymanager is being ditched without replacements for what it is most commonly used for here in the 2020s. (To be clear: Ditching it is a good idea, but having no in-process replacement for "let me stop attempts to access files and shut down the JVM, not for security purposes but simply for 'plan B' style fallback purposes" - that's a bit regrettable).

I'm nitpicking on those points because on the whole OpenJDK is doing a far better job than most languages on trying to keep its ecosystem and sizable existing codebase on board _without_ resorting to the crutch of: "Well, users of this language, get to work refactoring everything or embrace obsoletion".
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-11 21:22:10+00:00
There isn’t a significant difference between “enterprise” and “consumer” in terms of fundamental characteristics. They have different firmware and warranties, usually disks are tested more methodically.

Max operating range is ~60C for spinning disks and ~70C for SSD. Optimal is <40-45C. The larger agents facilties afaik tend to run as hot as they can.
by Sanzig | 2025-10-11 21:22:28+00:00
Cs-137 is commonly extracted from fuel used as a source for radiation therapy, although less so these days, due in part to incidents with misplaced sources.

The poster child for Cs-137 incidents is the Goiânia accident where four people died when a Cs-137 capsule was stolen from an abandoned hospital and sold to a scrapyard. Four people died of radiation poisoning, including a six year old.

My guess is this probably has a similar root cause, someone didn't dispose of a medical Cs-137 source properly and it ended up in the scrap metal stream.
by fnicfnac | 2025-10-11 21:22:42+00:00
"20X the usage of pro" still sounds like quotas where the hammer could fall as it becomes less of an experiment for a limited number of power users..

The costs of self hosting some reasonable size models for a development group of various sizes is what I would want to know before investing in the skills to do a high usage style that might be being mostly bankrolled by investors for now.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-11 21:23:48+00:00
I don't understand. Weren't we told that these age checks are "privacy-preserving"? So why was there anything for hackers to steal? Or do they mean "privacy-preserving" only against other random users of a service, but not against the service itself, the corporation running it, it's subsidiaries and parent conglomerate, their "trusted partners", the process of legal discovery if that corporation ever gets sued, legal subpoena by the police and intelligence agencies of every jurisdiction that conglomerate conducts business in, local councils [1], every government agency you can think of including ambulance service providers [2], and of course data breaches?

"Privacy."

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-councils-used-ripa-conduct...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016#...
by georgehopkin | 2025-10-11 21:23:54+00:00
Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil forecast that medical advances will enable humans to gain more than a year of life expectancy for every year lived by 2032, delivering his signature optimistic predictions while accepting MIT’s Robert A. Muh Alumni Award.

Kurzweil, who graduated from MIT in 1970, presented a lecture titled “Reinventing Intelligence” on Wednesday at the Thomas Tull Concert Hall, emphasising his confidence in accelerating technological progress and artificial intelligence’s transformative potential, reports MIT News.
by phil21 | 2025-10-11 21:24:16+00:00
I ran an old Thinkpad as a home router and small home server/NAS device for quite a long time, usually swapping out my old work upgrades every 3 years or so.

They all had onboard gige so it worked fine - native vlan for the inbound Comcast connection, tagged vlans out to a switch for the various LAN connections.

They were from the era of DVD drives so I was able to put an extra HDD in the DVD slot to expand storage with. One model even had a eSATA port.

They worked great. Built-in UPS and they come with a reliable crash cart built-in!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 21:24:35+00:00
For what it's worth, I don't think the science on this is settled. I think the evidence swings towards too many irresponsible Americans having too many guns. But the single-family bias in school shooters is something I hadn't read about before.

One takeaway from that evidence, however, could be that single-parent homes should have restrictions on how many guns they can own, what kind of guns those can be and how they must be stored. The fact that American single-family kids turn into school shooters, while the rest of the (rich) world's do not, continues to speak to a uniquely American nexus. The most obvious and evidenced one is our prevalence (and loose regulation) of guns.
by duped | 2025-10-11 21:24:37+00:00
I was able to debug and fix someone's MainStage patch last night over SMS when they sent me pictures of their screen, where all the knobs were visible.

Being able to see the full state of the thing is important. Hiding it behind interactions is just as bad as hiding it behind menus.

Sidenote, you have to do this on native because pointer lock/warp is not universally supported in web browsers.
by jayknight | 2025-10-11 21:24:57+00:00
I have it set to open in private mode by default, and there's no easy way to then open that site in a new regular tab. Like if I get to a reddit link that I want to comment on, I have to copy the URL, then open a new public tab and open that URL (five touches). Why is there no "Open in normal tab" option?

Also, if I use "Add to home screen" to be able to get to a site quickly, there's no way to open that in a normal tab, making it useless for many things.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-10-11 21:25:10+00:00
What you say is "you don't want to end up with mental state because people will hate you" but TBH mental illness, though really harsh on environment, shouldn't be viewed differently than any other illness like broken leg. When person is riding a wheelchair you don't tell them "hey you're a pain in the ass because you drive so slow and cannot jump on the stairs" - we tend to give them hand, help by building ramps and lifts. The same should be with mentally ill. Places safe for them, mabe remembering aids software in a watch?
by rzwitserloot | 2025-10-11 21:25:38+00:00
> For example they used checked exceptions.

Those are from java 1.0 and thus don't appear to be relevant to the part of the discussion I think this part of the thread is about (namely: "Why doesn't java crib well designed features from other languages?").

> Java went with checked exceptions and nowadays they are almost universally ignored by developers.

They aren't.

Note that other languages invented for example 'Either' which is a different take on the same principle, namely: Explicit mention of all somewhat expectable alternative exit conditions + enforcing callers to deal with them, though also offering a relatively easy way to just throw that responsibility up the call chain.

The general tenet (lets lift plausible alternate exit conditions into the type system) is being done left and right.
by al_borland | 2025-10-11 21:25:40+00:00
I think it's more that someone may assume how something works, and it isn't exactly that, so they say it's unintuitive. But there could be multiple assumptions on how it should work on first use. Covering all of those possibilities, and integrating them into a cohesive experience that works the first time, and makes even more sense as you continue to use it and learn the other ways to interact, shows a strong attention to detail and design.

This is opposed to something that may be very intuitive for 30% of people, but the other 70% are lost, and the implementation doesn't scale.
by tzs | 2025-10-11 21:26:29+00:00
> Meanwhile, with a mortgage, the worst that can happen is Chapter 7 liquidation. You lose the house but are no longer liable.

That still can be pretty bad in the US if you are not in a nonrecourse state [1]. If the amount the house sells for in foreclosure is not enough to pay off the mortgage the lender can come after you for the difference. Chapter 7 will protect some of your stuff, but you still could lose a lot of money from your bank accounts and your non-retirement investment accounts.

It's a lot nicer in the nonrecourse states. In those states if you can't pay the mortgage the lender only gets whatever the house brings in foreclosure. They cannot come after you personally for any shortfall.

Being in a nonrecourse state makes mortgages a lot less scary. For those in such states you do have to be careful if you refinance or get a second mortgage though, because it is often only the original purchase mortgage that is required to be nonrecourse.

[1] Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, or Washington.
by wtallis | 2025-10-11 21:27:53+00:00
> I think it's conceivable that you could get much much better results from a custom upscale per game.

> You can give much more input than a single low res frame. You could throw in motion vectors, scene depth, scene normals, unlit color, you could separately upscale opaque, transparent and post process effect... I feel like you could really do a lot more.

NVIDIA has already been down that road. What you're describing is pretty much DLSS, at various points in its history. To the extent that those techniques were low-hanging fruit for improving upscaler quality, it's already been tried and adopted to the extent that it's practical. At this point, it's more reasonable to assume that there isn't much low-hanging fruit for further quality improvements in upscalers without significant hardware improvements, and that the remaining artifacts and other downsides are hard problems.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-10-11 21:28:26+00:00
I was very wrong but on a very deep level, not the superficial sit we’re debating here.

For those who ca read between the lines, here is my moment of realisation:

The way forward does not have to be all about the way forward. The narrative is key, and we need to change the narrative to to be positive so we may move forward without all the chaos and trauma.

AI can contribute to such a way instead of make things worse. I will have some ideas to share. I hope you do, too. We have a chance now. The fog of war is over. And I have to say Trump did what Biden refused to do. I didn’t vote for either, but I am glad as hell he stopped the carnage and found a way to move toward the future, beyond the hate and carnage.

I will bring some ideas forward on how AI can help with peace.

It’s definitely a point of deep recognition.

What happened is huge. We need to stand behind peace and progress.

I’m convinced.

Peace to all those who have lost their lives for us to get to this money, on both sides.
by ehsanu1 | 2025-10-11 21:28:35+00:00
Using Research->Plan->Implement flow is orthogonal, though I notice parts of those do exist as skills too. But you sometimes need to do other things too, e.g. debugging in the course of implementing or specific techniquws to improve brainstorming/researching.

Some of these skills are probably better as programmed workflows that the LLM is forced to go through to improve reliability/consistency, that's what I've found in my own agents, rather than using English to guide the LLM and trusting it to follow the prescribed set of steps needed. Some mix of LLMs (choosing skills, executing the fuzzy parts of them) and just plain code (orchestration of skills) seems like the best bet to me and what I'm pursuing.