MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shandor | 2025-10-27 12:57:11+00:00
I think it is also possible to just acknowledge the emotions in the heat of the moment, "process" them quickly as unproductive for the situation, and let them go their way.

Like the grandparent comment, I agree that this naturally requires training and effort. I also find that to be a more constructive way than to "suppress" your impulses/emotions for an unpacking later. Not saying you were necessarily directly advocating for that, just something that your comment made me think.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-27 12:57:48+00:00
You're describing a perfectly normal and healthy development arc.

An initial study into a problem poses a preferred solution.

Time and effort is put into deep study of the solution path. Unfortunately, in this case the study proves it is far less ideal than initially assumed.

The project is switched to Plan B.

Granted, sometimes this kind of early change in direction is for dumb or dishonest reasons, but one cannot perfectly know the results before the studies are completed.

I am in rail design. We are currently designing things for needs in 2030-2060. The world is complicated.
by aragonite | 2025-10-27 12:57:48+00:00
Fun fact: both HN and (no doubt not coincidentally) paulgraham.com ship no DOCTYPE and are rendered in Quirks Mode. You can see this in devtools by evaluating `document.compatMode`.

I ran into this because I have a little userscript I inject everywhere that helps me copy text in hovered elements (not just links). It does:

[...document.querySelectorAll(":hover")].at(-1)

to grab the innermost hovered element. It works fine on standards-mode pages, but it's flaky on quirks-mode pages.

Question: is there any straightforward & clean way as a user to force a quirks-mode page to render in standards mode? I know you can do something like:

document.write("<!DOCTYPE html>" + document.documentElement.innerHTML);

but that blows away the entire document & introduces a ton of problems. Is there a cleaner trick?
by mrob | 2025-10-27 12:58:02+00:00
I'll try some. For a long time I've been wary of organic oats because of concern about mycotoxins. I first thought about this after buying some Tesco non-organic oats that tasted of mould. I thought maybe pesticides reduced that risk and organic oats would be even worse. I later tasted mould in non-organic Sainsburys oats (which I suspect were from the same supplier as the Tesco ones), and then again from non-organic Mornflake oats (which were presumably not from the same supplier because they tasted different). I eventually switched to non-organic Quaker oats, which for several years had no perceptible mould taste, but not so long ago I had a box of Quaker oats that tasted of mould too.

It now occurs to me that the mould could have grown post-harvest, and maybe reliance on herbicides to desiccate crops could encourage a sloppy attitude toward drying. Maybe organic crops actually have lower risk of mycotoxin contamination because the farmers are forced to take more care with moisture levels. I carefully taste a small portion of each new batch, but I don't think taste is a reliable means of detecting mould contamination. It's also possible that mould grew because of improper storage after the oats were packaged, which is made worse by the modern trend of cardboard/paper packaging.

I'm still not confident with any brand, but I like oats too much to stop eating them.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-10-27 12:58:12+00:00
Even if this isn't Enrony, this sounds so Enrony (if you know anything about the Enron accounting scandal)

"How Microsoft has managed to avoid disclosing such basic details is baffling. The company in its financial reports identifies OpenAl as an equity-method investment. That means OpenAl, by definition, is a related party of Microsoft under the accounting rules. Microsoft, however, doesn't identify OpenAl in its financial reports as a related party, and doesn't say anything about its transactions with OpenAl in its related-party disclosures."
by mike2872 | 2025-10-27 12:58:15+00:00
It's possible to have the devices in-wall, but it might not be that practical as you point out. Or at least they would have to be taken out once for flashing, then OTA updates would reduce or eliminate the need for reflashing further.

The real benefit from the sensors working through walls in my opinion is to be able to hide the devices away (e.g. in a closet or drawer) + being able to create zones that crosses walls. Image wanting a zone called 'upstairs', 'downstairs', 'garage' etc. which consists of multiple rooms divided by walls. Instead of having a sensor in each room you might just need one on each side of the total area.

Thanks! I agree with the PiR and mmWave limitations. Right now I think this project can replace motion sensor. Hopefully mmWave when stationary presence detection is added (planned Q1 2026).
by incomingpain | 2025-10-27 12:59:12+00:00
>Good. There's nothing else stopping EVs from mass adoption besides these artificial barriers.

EVs arent able to function in -40c That happens in Canada every year.

Anything under 0c has risk of freezing the lithium battery's electrolyte and will have very very significant capacity loss; not to mention damaging cells. That's a huge problem for Canada.

I look forward to solid state batteries having far better low temp performance.

Our northern most cities like Edmonton get to -40c and -50c regularly: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-extreme-cold...

Fair, yes, my city only ever really gets down to -20c. Yes I own an EV that's outside 365.

To expect much EV adoption in Canada is foolish though.

>hey should feel upset, because their government hasn't addressed the global shift to EVs sooner.

Our government has heavily invested in EVs for like 15 years. This is a bizarre take.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-10-27 12:59:33+00:00
> It's as if all pro-Israel bots and fan accounts are reading the exact same guide.

Historically, many pro-Israel talking point guides/handbooks have been created and used, yes [1][2][3][4]. It would thus be unreasonable to assume that they are not currently being coordinated.

[1] http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf

[2] https://rac.org/sites/default/files/2024-12/Israel_Talking_P...

[3] https://www.scribd.com/document/77298173/Israel-s-Hasbara-To...

[4] https://i-gnite.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hadassah-talk...
by fainpul | 2025-10-27 12:59:41+00:00
So there's our misunderstanding. I skipped the tutorial, because I already saw your demo video. Then I clicked on the US on the map and played the first challenge called "Tutorial: Cipher salad". After that I always got the "Buy now" popup when I tried to play another challenge.

But you're right, the tutorial is playable too and it consists of the same kind of challenges, not just simple explanations how to play. So my initial statement was not correct.
by amrocha | 2025-10-27 12:59:45+00:00
First, dependence on the US hasn’t exactly worked out very well for us the past year. As a smaller nation, Canada has to be dependent on its trade with more powerful nations, and that comes with risks regardless of what nation we’re dependent on.

Second, I don’t buy your fear mongering about China. There’s not much fundamentally different about China and western nations in 2025. They’re a capitalist society prioritizing growth at all costs, same as every other western nation. China is not interested in war, and has stated that consistently over the years.

Third, as far as “critical manufacturing supply chains” go, extremely inefficient luxury personal vehicles don’t fit that definition.
by a4isms | 2025-10-27 12:59:53+00:00
> Exporting your manufacturing base to a nation that opposes the fundamental values of a nation is completely suicidal

How do you feel about integrating your manufacturing base with a nation that opposes the fundamental values of our nation, and constantly fantasizes about annexing our nation?

Unless you're arguing for Canada to make its own EV manufacturing industry independently from both China and America?
by tokioyoyo | 2025-10-27 13:00:00+00:00
What's the alternative to Canada? To be depended on the states who, very openly, threaten them on every possible occasion?

Unfortunately, it's not 2000s/2010s anymore, and rules of the game have changed. Most countries realize that there is a future that's not purely Pax-Americana (including USA as well). Sovereign nations will choose what's best for them and their future, especially in the cases of a neighbouring bully.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-27 13:00:09+00:00
Fascinating. "The second paper, published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), specifically looks for signs of possible extraterrestrial artifacts in orbit around Earth, before the first human satellite launch in 1957. The researchers looked, among other things, for instances where multiple flashes of light were along a line or in a narrow band—something that indicates reflections from flat, reflective objects in motion. Two interesting examples were identified, one of which occurred on July 27, 1952, the same night as the notable sightings of UAP in Washington, D.C."

Info about July 27, 1952 UFO/UAP sighting in DC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_inci...
by lapcat | 2025-10-27 13:00:59+00:00
> The moment gaming became genuinely profitable, console manufacturers realized they could control their entire ecosystem. Proprietary formats, region systems, and lockout chips were all valid ways to ensure companies could levy hefty licensing fees from developers.

This is historically inaccurate. All console games were originally produced in-house by the console manufacturers, but then 4 Atari programmers got wind that the games they wrote made tens of $millions for Atari while the programmers were paid only a relatively small salary. When Atari management refused to give the programmers a cut, they left and formed Activision. Thus Activision became the original third-party console game development company. Atari sued Activision for theft of trade secrets, because the Activision founders were all former Atari programmers. The case was settled, with Atari getting a cut of Activision’s revenue but otherwise allowing Activision to continue developing console games. I suspect this was because the 4 programmers were considered irreplaceable to Atari (albeit too late, after they already quit).

The licensing fee business model was a product of this unique set of circumstances. The article author's narrative makes it sound like consoles switched from open to closed, but that's not true. The consoles (like the iPhone) switched from totally closed to having a third-party platform, after the value of third-party developers was shown.

> Consumers loved having access to a library of clean and functional apps, built right into the device.

How can you say they're "built right into the device" when you have to download them? Moreover, you were originally able to buy iPhone apps in iTunes for Mac, and manage your iPhone via USB.

> Meanwhile, they didn’t really care that they couldn’t run whatever kooky app some random on the Internet had dreamed up.

I'm not sure how you can say consumers didn't really care. Some people have always cared. It's a tradeoff, though: you would have to care enough to not buy an iPhone altogether. That's not the same as not caring at all. Also, remember that for the first year, iPhone didn't even have third-party apps.

> At the time, this approach largely stayed within the console gaming world. It didn’t spread to actual computers because computers were tools. You didn’t buy a PC to consume content someone else curated for you.

I would say this was largely due to Steve Wozniack, who insisted that the Apple II be an open platform. If Steve Jobs—who always expressed contempt for third-party developers—originally had his way, the whole computing industry might have been very different. Jobs always considered them "freeloaders", which is ridiculous of course (for example, VisiCalc is responsible for much of the success off the Apple II), but that was his ridiculous view.
by helloooooooo | 2025-10-27 13:02:16+00:00
China is always willing to dump, tariff and subversively coerce its way into hollowing industries. This is not stable nor reliable. It is aggressive and a national security threat.

They infiltrate civil society through their networks of “police stations” and the Confucius Institute with the aim of placing sycophants in positions of power.

They aren’t our friends, and Canadian civil society needs to recognize that.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-27 13:02:17+00:00
And like, with the ubiquity of this tech, I have to kind of concede at least some of the point. A smartphone is just shy of essential for modern living these days. Banking, purchase of goods and services, managing your relationship with your city and state, filing taxes, getting directions, ALL communications, all occur via your phone. Your phone is not MERELY a computer, a CPU with memory attached that you can make do things, for most people, I'd say it's an essential piece of IT hardware. Most people would prefer, I think, to lose their computers, TV's, consoles, etc. far before their phone. A phone is CRITICAL now, for better and worse.

So it sucks ass that a greater and greater share of what we consider computing has to occur in platforms that are utterly locked down to the core, but again, at the same time, putting my "regular user" hat on here: I don't want my phone to run anything from an untrustworthy source. My computer? Shit yeah, I'll try just about anything with a healthy skepticism as required, but not my phone. Losing a computer is irritating. Losing a phone is a fucking MESS.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-27 13:02:26+00:00
They can also be incoherent. Don't know about Canada, but here in France we also have a bunch of auto manufacturers and the government seems completely lunatic with these policies.

On the one hand, there's a very strong push to reduce car usage. In Paris, the speed limit has been reduced to 30 km/h, 50 on the ring road, many lanes and parking have been removed to improve bike infrastructure. Then, when sales drop and jobs are on the line, those same people are absolutely shocked.

Now, personally, I'm all for reducing traffic in cities. I'm not particularly keen on breathing exhaust all day every day or getting run over by two tons of steel. Sure, a whole debate can be had on specific use cases, people living where there's no public transit, etc. But my point is that you can't, on the one hand, push for something, then be angry when you obtain the consequences.

Up until a few years ago, there was a very hard push for diesel engines. Local companies invested a lot in those. Now these engines are practically banned, and even gasoline ones aren't faring too well. So, automakers have to scramble to move to electric, but it takes time. While other companies, built from the ground up to this, already have models head and shoulders above what we can produce. And politicians, true to nature, come up with all kinds of weird incentives. They've recently introduced a weight tax on vehicles [0]. On the face of it, it's an "SUV-tax" to limit "gas-guzzlers". Cue surprised faces when they realize a Tesla weighs as much as an SUV (I'm talking European models here, so no absurd Escalades or what have you).

[0] This is France, so laws have exceptions. Electrics get an "allowance", which basically reduces the mass considered for the tax. But it's not entirely clear how that works. Ditto for hybrids.
by pankajdoharey | 2025-10-27 13:02:27+00:00
People are specialists not generalists, creating a AI that is generalist and claiming it to have cognitive abilities the same as an "well-educated" adult is an oxymoron. And if such system could ever be made My guess is it wont be more than a few (under 5) Billion Parameter model that is very good at looking up stuff online, forgetting stuff when not in use , planning and creating or expanding the knowledge in its nodes. Much like a human adult would. It will be highly sa mple efficient, It wont know 30 languages (although it has been seen that models generalize better with more languages), it wont know entire wikipedia by heart , it even wont remember minor details of programming languages and stuff. Now that is my definition of an AGI.
by Insanity | 2025-10-27 13:02:44+00:00
Huh, that’s a funky statement because having “Azure”, one of the largest Cloud Providers outside of China is definitely a different camp than Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE.

Although I don’t particularly like their cloud services they are undeniably an important part of Microsoft’s business. (And they also own a large chunk of the gaming industry nowadays).
by icegreentea2 | 2025-10-27 13:03:09+00:00
Maybe not -40C, but honestly that's not required to capture a huge chunk of the Canadian market (BC around Vancouver, and SWO Ontario).

China has significant climatic variation, and Harbin (for example) at around 45 degree latitude is right in line with Montreal.

https://english.news.cn/20230712/a56c80cac8e749f0bcf02579463...
by vitus | 2025-10-27 13:04:23+00:00
> Are you saying I am being unnecessarily cautious?

Yes.

If a game is marked with Linux, that means it has a native Linux port. However, Proton has gotten so good in recent years that some of the native Linux ports actually perform _worse_ than just downloading the Windows exe and running it with the compatibility layer.

The investment in Proton makes sense in retrospect, since SteamOS is based on Arch Linux, and most of these games you mention should run just fine on a Steam Deck.
by falcor84 | 2025-10-27 13:04:30+00:00
> Without a license, you have no rights at all to use the code.

Exactly - that is what copyright was set up for (whereas before copyright, people could copy freely), and then copyleft comes and says that everyone can use and modify the code, and the only thing that the license prohibits is the ability of authors of derived works to apply their own copyright. In this way (known as being "viral"), copyleft uses the legal mechanism of copyright to essentially bring things to how they were before copyright.
by mike2872 | 2025-10-27 13:04:39+00:00
I can understand that. I used to do a lot of game streaming with Parsec and ended up with a similar setup.

Right now, TOMMY only use Wi-Fi and doesn't support using ethernet for the communication with HA and Wi-Fi for peer-to-peer communication. But that is very possible to implement. Just haven't encountered the use case before now.

I'll probably implement an option for split communication (ethernet, wifi) and then allow users to decide the Wi-Fi channel devices communicate on peer-to-peer. That way you'd have full control over possible interference.
by drdrek | 2025-10-27 13:04:40+00:00
Actually Gaza and the West Bank are handled by the "Shabak" agency which is the equivalent of the FBI while the "Mossad" agency is only for foreign operations and is equivalent to the CIA

And asking how did they miss something is like asking how come AWS has downtime. But I'm sure you could come to this conclusion on your own if you didn't really want the answer to be something else.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-27 13:05:07+00:00
Carney also has to play a balancing act of western vs central Canadian interests. Oil & gas & canola are on the table here, and it's a dangerous situation. If we lean hard into trying to prop up Ontario's auto-sector we cause a serious crisis for prairie canola farmers, etc.

Both China and the US know this and are playing cat and mouse with us, fanning tensions, and the US is outright funding western separatists and encouraging grievance politics around their resource exports. The US has aggressively tariffed manufactured goods coming out of central Canada (and forestry out of BC) while leaving potash and oil & gas out of AB/SK untouched while simultaneously outright funding far right groups there that are are agitating against Canadian unity.

At the same time China has slapped tariffs on canola and made it clear that EV tariffs are part of the calculus there.

I don't see an easy way out of this. As a resident of Ontario I'd be sad to see the auto sector here go, and it would lead to massive economic devastation here ... but it feels entirely inevitable at this point. Not just because of tariffs but because the actual products from the Big3 automakers are increasingly mediocre and what they're producing here is on the whole not fine, sustainable, products anyways.

Car parts, and Honda & Toyota plants are another story, maybe.
by speak_plainly | 2025-10-27 13:05:15+00:00
It is an over simplification but Rousseau does paint this picture of humanity's natural goodness corrupted by society, or what the author calls circumstance. This idea is a cornerstone of the Discourse on Inequality and Émile.

Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1755) - “Nothing is more gentle than man in his primitive state… he is restrained by natural pity from doing harm to others.”

Émile, or On Education (1762) - “Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.”

Confessions (1782–89) - “I have displayed myself as I was, vile and despicable when I was so, good, generous, sublime when I was so; I have unveiled my interior being.”

For Rousseau, humans possess innate moral sentiment, society corrupts through things like comparison, and the good life is maintained by being true to one's natural self.

I also think the focus of this little essay is about contrasting two modern identities, the expressive self and the performative and productive self, and isn't steeped in moral psychology. Bringing Aristotle into this is wholly anachronistic and misses the point.
Ask HN: Has ChatGPT suddenly become terrible at generating images?
by Waterluvian | 2025-10-27 13:05:31+00:00
It used to be that I could quickly whip up images, usually for demonstration or just silliness by saying something like, "A cartoon of a bunch of military aircraft at the bottom of the ocean with Poseidon rubbing his hands together and licking his lips while wearing aviator sunglasses."

And now it asks me 6 or 7 follow-up multiple choice questions. And then this time it said, "No more confirmations needed. Rendering the image will take a moment — I will deliver it in my next message." And 10 mins goes by. So I ask, "are you acutally going to?" And this triggers a "expectations reset" and it asks another four multiple choice questions.

The whole UX has just become worse than bad. It feels like they're meddling with trying to get more accuracy out of a system, and they're making the whole experience worse. Which I feel like is one of those classical times where some org obsesses over some KPIs and that obsession sends them entirely in the wrong direction. Perfect being the enemy of good and whatnot.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 13:05:38+00:00
I've no one left to convert, my mums been running Linux since ~2016 when I got tired of her breaking windows (and in fairness it was her doing it most of the time) so I switched her to mint.

Her only requirement for her new computer is "it has to run that minty thing?" (it's actually running Fedora and has been for quite a while but that's the nice thing - she doesn't need to know or care) - it's still the same for her either way.