MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-28 22:12:12+00:00
From the article, it seems like the woman had in fact driven her car to the town where the theft happened at roughly the same time for unrelated reasons, which isn't surprising because it's a neighboring town, and there was additional non-Flock camera footage of what she was doing there. It doesn't seem like any camera system mentioned here was actually recording anything inaccurate - the cops just claimed that the (non-Flock) camera footage from the package theft victim was evidence that the woman stole the package, and that's the camera footage the cop refused to show her at the time of delivering the summons. It also seems like this is exactly the footage that the woman later found online and used to exonerate herself, although that's not 100% clear from the article.

It really doesn't seem like any surveillance camera system, Flock or otherwise, did anything wrong here. Flock (accurately) suggested her car was in the general area when the theft happened, a non-flock camera did record a person stealing the package who was apparently not her, and have no idea how reasonable it was for the cops to think that footage justified charging her (although the fact that they would not show her the footage is very suspicious).

It doesn't seem like there's any particular policy on use of surveillance cameras that would've prevented this false accusation, and this is purely about the cops (or maybe just this one cop) charging someone based on bad evidence; which is problem in and of itself and isn't directly related to Flock or any other brand of surveillance cameras in particular.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-28 22:12:28+00:00
> But now it seems like it is moving more and more to online hosted models.

It's mostly because image model size and required compute for both training and inference have grown faster than self-hosted compute capability for hobbyists. Sure, you can run Flux Kontext locally, but if you have to use a heavily quantized model and wait forever for the generation to actually run, the economics are harder to justify. That's not counting the "you can generate images from ChatGPT for free" factor.

> George's hair, for example, looks over the top, or brushed on.

IMO, the judge was being too generous with the passes for that test. The only one that really passes is Gemini 2.5 Flash Image:

Flux Kontext: In addition to the hair looking too slick, it does not match the VHS-esque color grading of the image.

Qwen-Image-Edit: The hair is too slick and the sharpness/saturation of the face unnecessarily increases.

Seedream 4: Color grading of the entire image changes, which is the case with most of the Seedream 4 edits shown in this post, and why I don't like it.
by prmoustache | 2025-10-28 22:12:31+00:00
I think it also depend if you only use it to sync and share files or if you want to use the included web apps.

But to be honest office 365 also struggle at times when using the web version of the office tools. Last week I had to do reporting on a small excel document with 4 sheets, the biggest one having less than 30 lines and 6 column and every time I had to insert a line it took 5 to 10 seconds for that line to appear and the whole excel web app was unresponsive until it appeared.
by hinkley | 2025-10-28 22:12:57+00:00
When the Thunderbolt Display came out I was in a raid group and I wanted a display with great refresh rate and low delay (melee character, don’t get stuck standing in the poo). So I researched and researched and the only monitor that had equivalent response times to that dumb Thunderbolt Display was only $60 cheaper, had a plastic shell and I’d have to fight UPS over getting it.

Or I could drive across town and have a monitor today and pay $60 for the aluminum shell that hides dust better.
by Spivak | 2025-10-28 22:13:41+00:00
This is just how Intel names their CPU generations. It's far more boring than you're imagining. It's presumably named after https://snohomishcountywa.gov/5383/Panther

Comet Lake, Elkhart Lake, Cooper Lake, Rocket Lake, Adler Lake, Raptor Lake, Meteor Lake.
by davidcbc | 2025-10-28 22:13:50+00:00
No I didn't, that is in state, it's right there on the page.

Directly from the page:

> Illinois Resident

> Tuition & Fees: $18,046-$23,426

> Food & Housing: $15,184

> Books & Supplies: $1,200

> Other Expenses: $2,500

> Total: $36,930-$42,310

I literally looked at the exact school you used in your example and you are just wrong
by jaredklewis | 2025-10-28 22:14:28+00:00
> The science however is not saying it's pseduoscience. It's saying that the Qi and meridians and that sort of stuff is wrong. Whereas the actual needles are scientifically based as providing pain relief in a small and short term effect.

You seem to be conflating the concepts acupuncture and needling as well as the concepts of science and efficacy. Qi and Meridians are a part of acupuncture and it is entirely fair to point at that these systems are unscientific. The Grokipedia entry certainly considers qi and meridians to be parts of acupuncture.

Also, for something to be scientific, it has to be based on scientific methods. If acupuncture wants to be a science, it needs to discard all the baseless qi, meridians, and yin-yang explanations and there needs to be more widespread and rigorous investigation of the therapies.

I am an avid yoga practitioner (I do yoga 4 or 5 days a week) and I think it has all kinds of health benefits. That doesn't mean that yoga is "scientific." Indeed, if someone described yoga as pseudoscience I would probably agree (though it varies a lot between studios), because it is common for teachers to go off on unscientific explanatory tangents involving "chakra," "energy," "detoxification" and so on. Is yoga beneficial by various benchmarks? Yes. Is it based on and further developed by scientific inquiry? Not so much.

So it seems to me like you've misinterpreted a sentence in the wikipedia article. It is actually stating something like: "the acupuncture system is unscientific." You've interpreted it to mean something like: "needling therapy is ineffective." And from that misinterpretation, you've drawn lots of invalid conclusions.
by MentatOnMelange | 2025-10-28 22:14:29+00:00
I have a hunch California is going to a more competitive state next election cycle than people are assuming. Several democrats I know there are absolutely open to voting independent/republican and the tech industry (from the outside) almost reminds me of Michigan a decade ago, where democrats were so confident it was a sure thing. Then Trump came out of nowhere with anti-immigration rhetoric and promising formerly-comfortable auto workers more jobs.

The H-1B via changes he's making, if they go through, will turn some cali voters towards republicans, or have zero motivation to vote democrat.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-10-28 22:14:29+00:00
Not only that, they also have some nice words for Clinton, Obama and "Biden/Harris".

Unbelievable stuff. If you (US) guys think you can get back to normal after that, you are crazy. Trump will never leave again, unless forced to. And even if he is forced to, the moral damage to your country will take decades and probably some blood to resolve.
by herval | 2025-10-28 22:15:10+00:00
Gemini is great when it gets it right, but in my experience, it sometimes gives you completely unexpected results and won't get it right no matter what. You can see that in some of the examples (eg the Girl with the pearl earring one). I'm constantly surprised by how good Flux is, but the tragedy is most people (me included) will just default to whatever they normally use (chatgpt and gemini, in my case), so it doesn't really matter that it's better
by blueg3 | 2025-10-28 22:15:39+00:00
It is the latter. The app has to be signed, and the signer has to register "real" identity with Google. Approval of the app itself is not a part of the process.

Yes, sideloading will still be viable from known developers.

Probably malware developers will still be free from prosecution -- what moron is going to distribute malware with their own identity attached to it? But it means when the malware gets caught (which it does) you can't just roll a new APK with a different signature. You've burned a developer identity and need a new one. Those are harder to come by, and so it rate-limits malware distribution.
by marcprux | 2025-10-28 22:16:15+00:00
adb is a developer tool. You need a tethered and trusted computer to be able to transfer an app using adb, and you need to enable "developer mode" on the device, which is an arcane dance that involves navigation through an obscure tree of settings and then quickly tapping a mystery spot 5+ times. Google can't block adb, because that is how Android apps are developed and tested, just how Apple cannot block their developer tools from being able to transfer apps onto an iPhone.

This is so far from a realistic and acceptable substitute that I question the honesty of anyone who claims that "adb will still work, so no problem!"

I hope that explains my seemingly critical omission.
by geerlingguy | 2025-10-28 22:16:25+00:00
Clever! I know I talked to the folks at Masterclock in St. Louis recently about one of their clock displays; they intentionally default the separators to flash if the clock is not synced to NTP, and then they go solid once the connection is established.

It's a quick way to know if something is down, using context clues that are already there to begin with!
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-28 22:16:47+00:00
>There is a vast gulf between "GPT-5 can drive a car" and "a neural network using the transformer architecture can be trained to drive a car".

The only difference between the two is training data the former lacks that the latter does so not a 'vast gulf'.

>And I see no proof whatsoever that we can, today, train a single model that can both write a play and drive a car.

You are not making a lot of sense here. You can have a model that does both. It's not some herculean task. it's literally just additional data in the training run. There are vision-language-action models tested on public roads.

https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-28 22:16:52+00:00
Hm, I can agree with your take as well on not calling this out but at the same time, I can't help but think if this is all we can do ourselves without govt.

Since, Although I like people criticisizing, since in their own way, they care about the project or the idea. But, still, Maybe I am speaking from personal experiences but when somebody shot down my idea, maybe naive even, I felt really lost and I think a lot of people do. I have personally found that there are ways to use this same thing to steer the direction towards a thing that you might find interesting/really impactful. So let me ask you, what do you think is that we can do regarding this situation, or the OP should do regarding his license?

I personally feel like we might need govt. intervention but I don't have much faith in govt.'s when they are lobbied by the same AI people. So if you have any other solution, please let me know as it would be a pleasure if we could discuss about that.

If you feel like that there might be nothing that we can do about it, something that I can also understand, I would personally suggest to not criticize people trying to do something but that's a big If, and I know you are doing this conversation in good faith, but I just feel like we as a human should keep on trying. Since that is the thing which makes us the very human we are.
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by ssdevproject | 2025-10-28 22:16:56+00:00
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by rekabis | 2025-10-28 22:17:16+00:00
When you truly examine it, true end-stage democracy (and _not just_ a Republic) - which would be “by the people, for the people”, allowing everyone direct participatory contributions via technology - is the political expression of communism. It puts political power into the hands of the people in the same way communism puts economic power into the hands of the working class.

Which is why so many “tech bros” are rejecting democracy: they have bought into the toxic cult of the charismatic and talented leader. Which, when you scratch the surface, has absolutely nothing to do with charisma or talent, and everything to do with luck, intergenerational wealth, and societal power.

They seek to be a part of the elite that comes out in control on the far end of democracy’s destruction, not understanding that kings and emperors don’t suffer rivals or threats to their power.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-10-28 22:17:55+00:00
I found myself just never using my PC after getting a steamdeck. I had the deck plugged in to my TV most of the time. I recently just installed Bazzite on my PC and moved it to the TV so now I play on that all the time. What Valve has done to make gaming on linux work is remarkable.

I remember the days of having to manually install steam in Wine and how only a few games would work like that.
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-28 22:18:16+00:00
A chip scale atomic clock (with a handy 1Hz output) can be yours for barely over five thousand euros and half that if you buy 250 of them. https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/csac-sa65

It's a bit larger than a 555, but it should keep you within a small handful of microseconds per day until the aging effects start to add up which make getting more than a millisecond a year dicey, even if the thing doesn't die on you: https://www.ipgp.fr/~crawford/2017_EuroOBS_workshop/Resource...
by seemaze | 2025-10-28 22:18:20+00:00
I can't say that the feedback causes damaging levels of noise, and its possible that my hearing is still protected, but the feedback that is produced is so uncomfortable that I involuntarily pulled them out of my ears.. which is not a great reaction with power tools in hand.

Apple does market 'Hearing Protection' as a feature of the AirPods Pro. https://support.apple.com/en-us/120850
by fluoridation | 2025-10-28 22:18:41+00:00
No, that's very much not the position of the church. There are no parts of Jesus that are not divine, nor parts of Jesus that are not human. That's what "wholly" means, and that's where the contradiction stems from. Without necessarily falling into a contradiction, Jesus could be partly divine and partly human, or wholly divine and wholly non-human, or wholly human and wholly non-divine. It's him being both things wholly that is nonsense.
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-28 22:19:08+00:00
> Considering the much smaller size of the countries (biggest one is 70 million vs 330 million in the US), the opportunity for "unlimited" growth is limited.

If you manage to get 10 million customers, your business is already successful on a gigantic scale, and you should have all the know-how in taking on the world. The success of other people is rarely the reason why you are failing in your own life. Start somewhere, do something.

> The money being thrown around the US is like nowhere else on the planet.

That's true and it's awesome. In Europe money is only thrown to real estate owners and any enterprising people with a dream are cordially invited to fucking forget about it, shut up, and fall back in line. Even if they already have a proven track record. They take their idea to the United States and are treated incredibly well in comparison. Even if their business will only be a niche business with limited reach, like 99% of businesses.
by geerlingguy | 2025-10-28 22:19:33+00:00
Could they also use power grid sync? Not sure as I haven't talked to anyone in wind power, but grid sync would be pretty close to 1 Hz at least in the US.

Building a product that would sync at 1 Hz via GPS that works in the US and other countries with 50 Hz power would be a little easier than syncing to grid phase though.
by gmuslera | 2025-10-28 22:19:33+00:00
The problem is that you don't see the averages. What you see is that in some places for some days the temperature was 40°C over what they used to have in that time of the year (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/24/parts-of...), the heat dome of 2021 should be a good warning (or warming) of the kind of extreme weather that 1.5°C could bring and increase frequency. Or the disruption of the polar vortex bringing extremely cold temperatures.

What you see in your normal everyday life is that things that you were used to are not that way anymore. And that there are some activities (like agriculture) that depend on some stability on weather. At least till we cross another threshold and things not seen in human history start to happen enough to be noticed, but by then it will be too late. What we need is to trust the measurements.
by hinkley | 2025-10-28 22:20:23+00:00
That’s partly the difference between making your own components and getting them from a vendor. Sure Intel can send select vendors prerelease prototypes but the feedback loop will never be as efficient as in house.

But it’s like a margin call. Everything is great until it completely sucks. Of course a lot of that comes down to TSMC. So if Apple falls it’s likely others will too.
by wpm | 2025-10-28 22:20:41+00:00
I have a PC on the other side of my wall from where I'm sitting with a 7800X3D and an nvidia 4090. It's for gaming only most of the time, though I do take advantage of the 4090 for some basic LLM stuff, mostly for local audio transcription and summarizing (I take a lot of notes out loud, I speak faster than I can write). The rest of the time it's playing AAA gaming titles at full tilt at 5120x1440, full res, getting 60fps on basically anything I throw at it, all while sucking down 600W (400 for the GPU alone while playing Cyberpunk). It's a beast. I love it.

I have an M4 Mac Mini on my desk. At full tilt it pulls 30W. It scores higher in benchmarks than my gaming PC. It cost less than my 4090 did on its own, and that's including an upgraded third-party iBoff storage upgrade.

Of course, trade offs and process size differences abound; the M4 is newer, I can pack way more RAM into my PC years after I built it. I can swap cards. I can add another internal SSD. It can handle different kinds of load better, but at a cost of FAR more power draw and heat, and its in a full tower case with 4 180mm fans moving air over it (enough airflow to flap papers around on my desk). It's huge. Lumbering. A compute golem, straining under the weight of its own appetite, coils whining at the load of amps coursing through them.

Meanwhile, at idle, my Mac mini uses less power than the monitors connected to it, and eats up most of the same tasks without ruffling its suit. At full tilt, it uses less power than my air purifer. It's preposterous how good it is for what it costs to buy and run. I don't even regret not getting the M4 Pro.
by pksebben | 2025-10-28 22:20:55+00:00
As far as I'm concerned, it did. Linux is far and away the best OS for my needs so I'll keep using it.

Did it "win" more of some metric of perfusion / capital versus the other big two? Perhaps some, mostly not. Who cares. The market is dumb.

What matters here is whether the capability exists at all. When it comes to phones, I'm still leery about linux. Support isn't quite wide enough and for a device that I need 110% reliability out of we ain't there yet.

I do know one thing - the effects of closed ecosystems that caused 99.99999% of servers to use linux, will eventually come for interface hardware. Companies have periodic bouts of psychosis that make their walled gardens inherently unreliable. It's just a whole lot slower in a realm that doesn't iterate at web-speed. Will that mean everybody uses linux phones in the future? Of course not. But I do hope it will mean I get to put my own phone together with an OS I own, someday. That would be an unequivocal good.
by xondono | 2025-10-28 22:21:00+00:00
> "Features aren't rights" > see: Consumer Rights.

Consumer rights aren’t features, and they’re very intentionally written to not be.

> "Force of the state making sideloading mandatory is bad" > ...Except we have antitrust laws?

Then sue them over those.

> Listen, either it's the case that "sideloading" is a threat to normies or it's not. Are normies your 1% or 99% of users? I thought according to you 99% of users won't sideload.

I meant that 99% of users aren’t afraid by the term “sideloading”. That you’re not using something doesn’t mean you’re afraid of it, it just means you don’t want it.

> you're right, why not let corporations be corporations and do anti-consumer things, they'll be very good to us (while they lobby the state).

Because corporations tend to die when they do anti-consumer things, but governments keep doing anti-citizen things without much trouble.
by mbajkowski | 2025-10-28 22:21:40+00:00
I can relate. Same for my parents. Washer and dryer still going strong after 30 years, same for the fridge which has been relegated to the basement since the paint has begun to chip. Microwave still works. And out of the three AC units they have, only one needed service. Maybe they are just exceptionally lucky compared to me. And these were not very expensive appliances for that time. I used to offer washers and dryers in rental properties for convenience, but their reliability has become so bad lately that it is not worth it.
by anyfoo | 2025-10-28 22:21:45+00:00
Well, yeah. I was sort of assuming that you won't use a TCXO or even just a cheapo quartz crystal, because it doesn't make a lot of sense: You've now thrown money at something that will relatively quickly desync anyway.

I mean, sure, the TCXO will mean that you only start seeing a phase difference between the two after weeks instead of minutes, but what's the point of that? I you want them to be at the same phase, you'll need to sync them at some point, and you do that by using a common clock source.

So either you shell out some effort for a real solution (power line is nice, and also qualifies as a common clock source as I've predicated), or you don't. And if you don't, there's no point in using a precise-ish clock at all, and you'll likely end up with very quick desyncing.
by maccard | 2025-10-28 22:22:01+00:00
No support for opentofu, so I had to write a custom hook for tofu instead of terraform. Then the hook itself didn’t work because tofu fmt didn’t like the full list of files being passed on instead of just the tf files. Then I had an issue with tflint. It wasn’t clear that hk would install in the current directory and not the git repo. Writing pkl was awkward - vscode has no support.

That’s just off the top of my head.