MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codethief | 2025-10-07 21:50:44+00:00
Thanks for your thoughtful response!

> I just don't think any other way of doing it is really feasible to truly preserve your privacy. I am likely wrong, but if so, I also imagine it's very tedious, nuanced, error-prone, and restrictive.

It's certainly not easy but I wouldn't go as far as saying it requires homomorphic encryption. Have you had a look at what the Ente.io people do? Even though everything is E2E-encrypted, they have (purely local) facial recognition, which to me sounds an order of magnitude harder (compute-intensive) than building a chronological index/timeline. But maybe I'm missing something here, which isn't unlikely, given that I'm not the person who just spent a decade building this very cool tool.

> It acts as a backup, and it ensures consistency, reliability, and availability.

Hmmm, according to you[0],

> Timelinize is an archival tool, not a backup utility. Please back up your timeline(s) with a proper backup tool.

;)

I get your point, though, especially when it comes to reliability & availability. Maybe the deduplication needs to happen at a different level, e.g. at the level of the file system (ZFS etc.) or at least at the level of backups (i.e. have restic/borgbackup deduplicate identical files in the backed-up data).

Then again, I can't say I have not had wet dreams once or twice of a future where apps & their persistent data simply refer to user files through their content hashes, instead of hard-coding paths & URLs. (Prime example: Why don't m3u playlist files use hashes to become resistant against file renamings? Every music player already indexes all music files, anyway. Sigh.)

> Especially since it's not just obvious what changes, it's encryption so it's kind of a black box.

Wouldn't you rather diff the data after decrypting the archive?

> Just to reiterate, one of the main goals of Timelinize is to have your data. It may mean some duplication, but I'm OK with that. Storage is getting cheap enough, and even if it's expensive, it's worth it.

I suspect it will lead to duplication of pretty much all user data (i.e. original storage requirements × 2), at least if you're serious about your timeline. However, I see your point, it might very well be a tradeoff that's worth it.

[0]: https://timelinize.com/docs/importing-data
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-07 21:51:13+00:00
I had known of stalemate (both causing and preventing it), but there are others as they mention there.

One other I think I have read about (I do not entirely remember) is that someone promoted to rook because promotion to queen would have taken more time due to not having a extra queen to promote to so they would have to go to another table to borrow it (or ask the tournament officials for it).
by flobosg | 2025-10-07 21:51:20+00:00
> The article has very low scientific value.

The article is a perspective. According to Nature’s guidelines:

> Perspective articles are intended to provide a forum for authors to discuss models and ideas from a personal viewpoint. They are more forward looking and/or speculative than Reviews and may take a narrower field of view. They may be opinionated but should remain balanced and are intended to stimulate discussion and new experimental approaches.

> which is why I provided a better article on the subject

They are not mutually exclusive. Readers will profit from both, as they present the topic from different perspectives.

> So?

It directly contradicts your previous claim, namely: “All those building blocks (…) can only come from existing living cells”

> The result is the same and it doesn't make the cell any different than one with edited DNA.

Exactly. Not sure why you’re focusing on gene editing, though. The perspective doesn’t address that point at all.

> Why go through all the trouble (…)?

The article lists several reasons, …

> Contrary to their claims, it won't really help understanding how the cell works.

…which could be more difficult to achieve using existing cellular machineries, such as enabling non-canonical chemistries, alternate macromolecular architectures, and allow for more control and fine-tuning, given the minimalism that these systems could reach. “Understanding how the cell works” is only a small fraction of the potential applications presented in the perspective.
by counters | 2025-10-07 21:51:37+00:00
> In fact, I was under the opposite impression because of the benefit that sulfur enriched shipping exhaust had for our climate.

It isn't quite accurate to state that ship tracks have/had a "benefit" on our climate. Their existence creates a transient decrease in OLR and increase in albedo. If anything, they simply masked some GHG-induced warming that had a much longer half-time, and cleaning up ship emissions has "unmasked" some of that hidden warming. But, again, the warming was already committed.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-10-07 21:51:41+00:00
Why does China have the right to "develop" when they are already one of the most advanced countries on the planet?

Do they get to advance until they're in first place? And then what? It stops there or does India get a shot at being first place? Then Nigeria?

Meanwhile what does the climate look like if every single country executes the China 1945-2025 playbook?
by davidrossaudio | 2025-10-07 21:51:54+00:00
In Australia there's the OP-59 loudness spec that any piece of broadcast content has to meet. It dictates maximum average loudness level across the program as well as short term loudness and true peak loudness. It's also the standard in the UK I believe. Is there not a similar spec for TV in America? If I mixed something for TV here and it didn't meet the OP-59 standard it would get rejected by the broadcaster.
by kace91 | 2025-10-07 21:52:12+00:00
This is completely anectodal, but I have a friend who works there and he talks about a very change-averse culture.

He has to sit through talks about how Ikea is a bussiness that already works very well and the most important thing is to avoid any changes that have even a 0.001% chance of making it not work. Many relatively trivial deployments have to be approved by a lengthy international bureaucracy, with a focus on preventing any automation that can eventually result in workforce not being needed. Things like that.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-10-07 21:52:12+00:00
I support prohibiting people from accessing the internet IF they're proven to be dangerous to others if they access the internet. But this applies to any public space or commons, internet or otherwise, and we already have the means of accomplishing this... With a due process.

Why would it makes sense to remove that process, while introducing an incredible opaque decision-making process in its place, which totally bars anyone from knowing why they were excluded from accessing the internet? It even prevents wrongfully excluded individuals from receiving compensation.

For example, I could be cut off from the internet which I need to do my job. Say I'm unable to work for a week or two and then it's determined that I can access the internet because an error was made... Well, as far as I can tell, I'd be SOL. That doesn't seem right...

Worse still is that this seems about as technically competent as using an IP address to determine a person's location. Any serious threat vector, human or otherwise, will find other ways to access the internet or perpetuate their threat if they care to. If they're a serious threat, why wouldn't prison be a better solution than... Calling their ISP and banning them from the internet?

All of this seems very short-sighted, undemocratic, and naive.

And while the 'human or otherwise' phrase I used might seem odd (I know someone's dog isn't shit-posting on X), what I mean to say is something like... What if an LLM is posting from an unsuspecting person's computer and was placed there as a virus? Once it's cut off from that poor person's computer, it's very likely it will eventually or already be functioning from some other unsuspecting person's computer, server, or whatever other device. Their toaster. My point is that we live in an age where there are non-human agents causing harm online. The machine they operate from will not always be OpenAI's or Anthropics, and indeed, will probably rarely be so.

This was already the case with human actors, but it made much worse with the advent of AI-based agents.
by anymouse123456 | 2025-10-07 21:53:02+00:00
This news is making me much sadder than maybe it should.

Arduino is what pulled me into electronics. I have such fond memories of those old chonkers blinking LEDs. It felt like magic.

Unless they've had a major staffing and leadership shakeup, there is a zero percent chance Qualcomm is going to suddenly become some kind of open, sharing, culture. The company DNA is patent troll.

The recent joint ventures are a perfect example. I got so excited by those newish super powerful penta-whatever Qualcomm chips from Arduino a few years ago.

Then learned the chips were unobtainable outside the Arduino modules.

Complete garbage move by a garbage company.
by EA-3167 | 2025-10-07 21:53:29+00:00
I’d argue that people lose the moment they sign up for an account, deluding themselves into believing that the problem with the last nth iteration of the same thing isn’t them.

The format is the problem. The medium is the problem. Poorly moderated groups of anonymous people voidscreaming as some “this will be monetized once we hit critical mass” exercise is the problem.

I believe that eventually people will sort ourselves out into the masses who never really understand or accept that, and those of us who choose not to subject ourselves to something so obviously poisonous.
by ragequittah | 2025-10-07 21:53:48+00:00
I find there is often very much a why with lots of the AI art I see. I often use it to try and visualize a dream I or one of my friends had. When I get the prompt just right it's sometimes striking how close I get to what I was seeing.

My friends will often use it for humorous situations that are happening to us in the moment. Overexagerations or putting one of us in a crazy situation. That's about as meaningful as using a gif keyboard, sure, but it gets a pretty good laugh out of me sometimes. There are recurring ones that have become a type of shorthand for us.

I've used it for highly personalized Christmas cards and anniversary invites for other people that they just otherwise would never have made because they don't have $500 to pay an artist and Clipart is too impersonal to bother with.

I've turned my mother's drawing into a beautiful realistic picture that she absolutely adored. I turned a baby picture from decades ago into a movie of a kid laughing which made my mother instinctively grab the phone from my hand with a big grin.

To me AI art is only about the why. It brings entertainment, comfort, hilarity and agency. I would never charge anybody for it I'm just doing it because I find it a neat set of tools to mess around with. And the tools aren't just asking chatgpt to make something. You can spend months refining the craft of it similar to learning something like Photoshop.
by silvestrov | 2025-10-07 21:54:01+00:00
Also: why can't they show all sizes of a product jusst like when choosing t-shirt size on a normal shop?

e.g. this dresser is available in many sizes but you wouldn't know from the product page: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/storklinta-3-drawer-chest-white...

At best you can then search for "STORKLINTA" but the result list has the other sizes mixed with all sorts of other products such as beds: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?q=STORKLINTA
by pdntspa | 2025-10-07 21:54:10+00:00
I find gemini 2.5 pro starts losing its shit around 50K tokens, using Roo Code. Between Roo's system prompt and my AGENTS.md there's probably about 10k used off the bat. So I have about 30-40k tokens to complete whatever task I assign it.

It's a workable limit but I really wish I could get more out of a single thread before it goes crazy. Does this match others' experience?
by apeytavin | 2025-10-07 21:54:43+00:00
Absolutely, the link I sent you has these specs you mentioned listed.

And yeah, I agree this mid-market is indeed tough, but this is the upper price I was looking for when I started with my AI background and bought a similar-price turtlebot then struggled to put a cheap arm on it. Anything under this is really bad for algorithms, although you can reduce it with just the arm and clamping it to your workspace as you suggested but then you don't have mobility.

I will keep your comment in mind, and thank you for the thoughtfulness. You might be interested to know that we intend to show something bigger not long from now. But this is, as you said, more for investors.

For now I'm content if there's enough people that want this one
by layman51 | 2025-10-07 21:54:46+00:00
Yes, it sounds very cool and sci-fi, but having a humanoid control the car seems less safe than having the spinning cameras and other sensors that are missing from older cars or those that weren't specifically built to be self-driving. I suppose this is why even human drivers are assisted by automatic emergency braking.

I am more leaning into the idea that an efficient self-driving car wouldn't even need to have a steering wheel, pedals, or thin pillars to help the passengers see the outside environment or be seen by pedestrians.

The way this ties back to the computer use models is that a lot of webpages have stuff designed for humans would make it difficult for a model to navigate them well. I think this was the goal of the "semantic web".
by apollo-watson | 2025-10-07 21:54:47+00:00
Apollo GraphQL announced the official GraphOS MCP Server with a set of tools that enables an Agentic workflow to build a graph. The URL links to the timestamp of my demo, but it shows bringing together Flightradar24 and the Aviation Weather REST API from the FAA using only the OpenAPI spec that the GraphOS tools.

The tools include an ApolloConnectorsSpec tool that provides a concise doc set to the LLM for integrating any REST API. The tool response contains the right context plus additional Apollo documentation links. There are also two additional tools for searching and reading Apollo docs that enables an LLM to gather further context.

These tools are all built on top of a strong foundation with the ability to have an LLM fix any errors it has until it has a complete working graph with your integration. This workflow was designed to help teams quickly bring their REST APIs to the graph with little effort.

Would love any feedback on the direction we're taking this!
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-07 21:54:58+00:00
I'm not a fan of "consultants" at all. In my experinance all they ever do is either muck things up by black boxing the thing they were paid to do. Or more often simply leave a huge list of "you should do this" that will be $500k, and then leave.

What I've heard as a counter to their uselessness is that they function as a sort of legal corporate espionage. You should do this because my other customer that I cant name but I'll just call Mr.Faang is also doing that.
by xethos | 2025-10-07 21:55:01+00:00
> Trying to contrain them with laws ex ante hasn't worked since like Cicero

This isn't so much about making Chat Control illegal (thereby containing or limiting future authoritarians) as it is not setting up the infrastructure for them to wield as soon as they win an election.

I'd argue the current stance of being opposed to Chat Control is more like "Don't collect religious affiliation on the census" - meaning we can both agree with your comment I partially quoted, while also recognizing that Berlin's public oppostion can be meaningful.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-07 21:55:38+00:00
>Yes, you read that right. German law is especially protective of politicians,

As Lee Kuan Yew pointed out, the idea that you should be able to slander anyone in power is a nice underdog philosophy (particularly popular in the US, where the underdog is always right) but what it gets you is a post-truth environment in which reputation means nothing.

And as a German what a lot of people don't get, we're very much an honour based society, not an English or French liberal society. People in power aren't suspicious just because they have power, the crank is not correct just because he's the little guy. I think Lee Kuan Yew was largely correct if one looks at Anglosphere media and politics, where truth and reputation have entirely been replaced by conspiracy and tantrums. Far from the wisdom of the crowds being some truth finding mechanism you just enable the most charismatic nutjob.
by gdulli | 2025-10-07 21:55:42+00:00
Don't be obtuse. I can tell the difference between yt-dlp with 130,000 stars on github and some AI/crypto shovelware or a Spotify unlocker downloaded from a .ru site.

And the point isn't that it's impossible for me to get it wrong, it's that it should be my choice and my business and I'll accept the responsibility if it's less easy than I thought. The Apple types can have an easy mode where Apple decides what's safe. We can have it both ways.
by thaack | 2025-10-07 21:56:54+00:00
"Umberg’s bill faced resistance from Hollywood giants this summer. The Motion Picture Association and Streaming Innovators Alliance, which together represent entertainment conglomerates including Disney, Paramount, Amazon and Netflix, initially opposed the law, arguing that streaming ads come from multiple different sources and are hard to control. The MPA claimed in-house audio engineers were already working on a fix and needed time to solve the issue without facing legal threats. However, the group dropped its opposition after Umberg added legal provisions shielding streamers from lawsuits brought by private parties, leaving enforcement up to the state attorney general’s office. The amended bill passed California’s state Legislature with overwhelming support from Democrats and Republicans."[1]

Wouldn't be shocked if it was a huge nothingburger enforcement wise.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/dial-it-down-califo...
by elevation | 2025-10-07 21:57:05+00:00
> federal minimum wage not be a set minimum but instead it should change and vary based on the economic health of the city, state, and county that the worker works in

You're right here -- we need a complex, multivariate analysis to determine fair wages across regions that accounts for average and personal economic health, transportation costs, food costs, housing costs, difficulty of the work, and even the prestige of the job and the mood of the worker.

This determination should be updated frequently, ideally in real time, so that the prevailing wages don't fall behind reality.

Even if this determination is governing the wages around you, you should always be allowed to negotiate something better for yourself.

When wages are finally determined correctly, then every worker should be able to say "this job benefits me more than any other opportunity available".
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-07 21:57:09+00:00
I have an autistic child. I know exactly what it means. I understand the motivation to appear somehow different than they are, but nonetheless it is a form of active ritual deception that becomes habit. It does not matter how well intended any given deception may be the audience still sees it as a lie.

> It is the same effect when people think they are good at spotting a liar.

That is another Dunning-Kruger moment. The only way to be excellent at detecting liars is to be good at convincing liars to expose their own deception either through a confession or through conflicting testimony, and some people are really good at that. Perceptions without evidence are just bias.

> People that think they are good at communication

Again, self perception does not matter. What matters is the result and this is measurable, as proven by Paul Ekman.
by Reason077 | 2025-10-07 21:57:19+00:00
IKEA likes to find ways to get you into their physical stores because they know you’re going to end up buying more than just the items you came for.

So they have a website that sort of teases you, but isn’t actually good enough to replace the physical stores.

You’ll start on the website, but get frustrated with it and eventually just drive over to IKEA to find the items you want. And you’ll also come home with some candles, picture frames, and a couple packs of frozen meatballs.
by apollo-watson | 2025-10-07 21:58:28+00:00
I work on DevRel at Apollo. We built this because we kept running into the same problem: getting LLMs to reliably call GraphQL APIs without either (a) dumping the entire schema into context and burning tokens, or (b) hoping the LLM correctly orchestrates multiple API calls. MCP standardizes how agents connect to tools, but you still need to bridge your actual APIs. Apollo MCP Server does this for GraphQL specifically.

We announced the GA release of Apollo MCP Server v1.0 today with Auth and OpenTelemtry support.
by moogly | 2025-10-07 21:58:57+00:00
Even if Disney+ has been restored for everyone (I don't know if it has), any app could be removed by a manchild for any reason and that's unacceptable: https://apple.news/A8If_BNgyS-mqPcq25GK-Rw

I use neither Apple Music nor Spotify and I'm not alone.
by evnp | 2025-10-07 21:59:00+00:00
Aren't the impacts perpetual if we're creating new contrails every single day?

Taken from another comment, this seems pretty clear:

> Contrail cirrus may be air traffic's largest radiative forcing component, larger than all CO2 accumulated from aviation, and could triple from a 2006 baseline to 160–180 mW/m2 by 2050 without intervention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail#Impacts_on_climate

The original article describes associated costs in time and fuel usage in the realm of 1% increase.
by chimeracoder | 2025-10-07 21:59:25+00:00
> I'm sure that Hacker News would love to delve into the arguments instead of trying to downvote or flag your posts into non-visibility because they disagree with you.

I've been a member of this site for fifteen years. I know that nearly any material - not abstract - defense of transgender rights will get downvoted into invisibility, as will any attempt to name transphobia, no matter how civilly presented or exhaustively-cited.

For that same reason, I also know that it's not a worthwhile use of time to delve into substantive "debate" on these topics in this thread, or any place where transphobia is being trafficked openly, for that matter (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508592).
by seadan83 | 2025-10-07 21:59:33+00:00
The 14th amendment: "prohibits states from denying any person "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law""

The US constitution applies to all persons (people) inside of the USA regardless of citizenship. The amendment says PERSON, not CITIZEN.

Therefore it should not matter at all how that person got here, they are due the same rights and process as __anyone__ else on American soil. That is the 14th amendment of the constitution, further backed by multiple ultra-important and historical supreme court precedents that rights apply to ALL 'people' and not just 'citizens'.
by IngoBlechschmid | 2025-10-07 22:00:08+00:00
A good friend of mine was recently sentenced to prison for publicly using this kind of phrase during a protest for climate justice. When Germany's equivalent of the Supreme Court, the Bundesverfassungsgericht, learned of this case, the court immediately ordered their release and declared the original verdict void: According to the Bundesverfassungsgericht, (in the specific situation at hand) this phrase is more a value judgment and less a factual claim.

Together with a fellow activist, who also served as informal legal counsel, they gave a talk on this case at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5RmTOGucZo