MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VorpalWay | 2025-11-22 11:19:20+00:00
Yes, fuzzy skin does that, in order to create a rough texture. But your idea won't be perfectly conforming to the original shape either, the physics of molten plastic means you will likely get unevenness still.

You could consider writing a post processing script, or perhaps experimenting with https://github.com/FullControlXYZ/fullcontrol (not a slicer but a toolkit for generating gcode from python). I suspect that a full on slicer in pure python would be rather slow though.

I don't think IdeaMaker is abandoned, but it is closed source freeware.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-22 11:19:30+00:00
There are a few big ones like Blackstone/KKR/Goldman, but the point is all these investors have to beat SP500 for taking on the risk, and so if SP500 is getting 10% for no risk, then the only way the PE deals make sense is if over leverage and it inevitably results in changes that adversely affect customers, for any business that can’t scale with technology.
by krapp | 2025-11-22 11:19:57+00:00
Hacker News is for human beings to share stories they find interesting so that other human beings can discuss those stories to gratify their intellectual curiosity. Automating that process with the goal of maximizing visibility and karma defeats the intended goal of the forum.

Not the actual goal, of course the actual goal of Hacker News for many people is gaming SEO and startup juice.

That said, I don't doubt for a second you're right. Trust a forum of tech bros and nerds to minmax away what little joy there is left to posting here.
by gizajob | 2025-11-22 11:20:18+00:00
One of the issues is that you're mixing up consciousness, sentience, intelligence, and aliveness (you're far from alone in this). We know these are all linked things but it's hard to neatly delimit them and clarify the terms, yet they're something we have certainties about at a deep level. A machine is clearly demonstrating parts of intelligence, but going further into sentience and consciousness is much harder, and aliveness even harder still.

We know that a cat has sentience of a certain kind, and consciousness of a certain kind different to ours in some ways that would be hard to test and verify, and intelligence that is suited for its purpose but it seems that the cat "doesn't know it knows", and it is definitely alive up until the point it dies and all these properties fade from its body. The textual machine then has mechanised properties of our intelligence and produces outputs that match intelligent outputs as ours. Yet going further into sentience and consciousness is much harder – it seems to also "know it knows" or can at least produce outputs that are not easily differentiated from a human producing textual outputs. But we know intrinsically that sentience and consciousness are connected yet separate from intelligence, so having limited degrees of machine sentience doesn't necessarily allow a jump to consciousness, and certainly not aliveness because the machine isn't alive and never was, and never can be. As humans these things are important to us, particularly because suffering and feeling emotions are a crucial part of human existence (and even intelligence). A machine that can be turned off and on again, that isn't alive, and doesn't suffer or have our kinds of conscious experiences isn't really going to meet our criteria for what we find most valuable about being intelligent (sapient), conscious, sentient, alive beings, even if it outputs useful amounts of rational intelligence.

I'm also not sure what you say by "It's not our brain that's conscious" given we can't have conscious experiences without one. A baby in the womb has a degree of consciousness (at some point) without those years of "fine tuning the networks". Hence at this point you seem like you're mixing up consciousness, sentience, and sapience.
by matthews3 | 2025-11-22 11:20:20+00:00
At the silicon level, it is the same.

Each memory DIMM/stick is made up of multiple DRAM chip. ECC DIMMs have an extra chip for storing the error correcting parity data.

The bottleneck is with the chips and not the DIMMs. Chip fabs are expensive and time consuming, while making PCBs and placing components down onto them is much easier to get into.
by tinco | 2025-11-22 11:21:14+00:00
Yeah, it's obviously just a crude razor. What I meant is that if it's not on Nintendo, it's a sign you should be more diligent as a parent. Obviously you should always monitor and ideally play the games your kids play yourself, but I can imagine not all parents do that. The Nintendo test is a reasonable alternative, my mom did it in the 90s and I had enough fun games even if I missed out on a bunch of cool PC and Sony titles.
by roryirvine | 2025-11-22 11:22:19+00:00
Yeah, my 3-ish year old 13.4" XPS Plus is currently consuming 3.9 W with around 150 open tabs across four Firefox windows, 3 active Electron apps, Libreoffice Writer & Impress, a text editor, and a couple of terminals.

That's in an extremely vanilla Debian stable install, running in the default "Balanced" power mode, without any power-related tuning or configuration.

That compares reasonably well with my 14" M3 Macbook Pro, which seems to be drawing around 3.5 W with a similar set of apps open.

Sure, the XPS is flattered in this comparison because it has a slightly smaller screen, but even accounting for that it would still be... fine? Easily enough to get through a full day of use, which is all I care about.

There's nothing special about this XPS, and I'd expect the Thinkpad models that have explicit Linux support to be equally fine. The key point is that the vendor has put some amount of care and attention into producing a supportable system.
by danielvaughn | 2025-11-22 11:22:24+00:00
A couple of comments:

1. I really wish Dreams had kept going, expanded beyond PlayStation, and tried to take the market from Roblox. They were infinitely more safety-minded with their content. It would be great to see a Roblox competitor.

2. Kotaku on mobile is a horrid experience. There’s like 20% of the screen allocated to content, the rest are ads. My god.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-22 11:22:28+00:00
> If you are eluding the cops at 100mph you are a danger to the public, they are not going to let you go home.

They would not even try to reach those speed if they weren't chased. A criminal who thinks he escaped the police will try to not attract attention. They would just follow the normal flow of the traffic and you can follow their path thanks to the millions of cameras and the helicopter mentionned earlier. We are not in the 70's anymore.

You can follow them from a distance they can't spot you so you can lock the road if they turn back and dispatch police force form in various exit points of an highway without starting an high speed chase.

High speed chase is about cops endangering the public for the thrill and adrenaline really. They do that because they like it, not because they need it to arrest criminals.
by ForOldHack | 2025-11-22 11:23:36+00:00
"However Gd is also retained in the brain, bone, skin, and other tissues in patients with normal renal function, and the presence of Gd can persist months to years after the last administration of a GBCA."

This is therapy. May persist... I want to throw this here, because there is a lot of discussion here by not only a few patients but a few very knowledgeable researchers which is surprising for such an extremely niche field, and the discussion is amazing.
by actionfromafar | 2025-11-22 11:25:27+00:00
The solution has been throughout the ages, content moderation and community policing. The village used to be that. We were promised the Global Village, but got the Global Content Farms.

If you can't run forums and chats because moderation is too expensive, then don't run 'em. Roblox is like the Pleasure Island in Pinocchio.
by noitpmeder | 2025-11-22 11:25:51+00:00
Let the facts speak for themselves. I agree the interview sounds damning. However it reduces the quality of the article to introduce Roblox as a "pedophile hellscape" right off the bat, or tell me how it was so impressive how the interviewer "kept his cool" in response to the answers.

It's honestly the same style of writing anytime Fox news reports on any democratic action, or vice versa for other rags. Except this has a nice dose of "think of the children" that further lets them pull on heartstrings.

Again, fuck Roblox and their lack of an ability to improve on these issues, but this is just trash writing and editing.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-22 11:26:25+00:00
I mean, the only difference we care about is how much of it is actual RAM vs HBM (to be used on GPUs) and how much it costs. We want it to be cheap. So yes, there's a difference if we're competing with enterprise customers for supply.

I don't really understand why every little thing needs to be spelled out. It doesn't matter. We're not getting the RAM at an affordable price anymore.
by fidotron | 2025-11-22 11:26:51+00:00
It's very simple: if it's a company run service that's free to access it's because it's one massive commercial break. (So is news.ycombinator.com of course).

How anyone on here does not immediately see Roblox for what it is is beyond me. They have to be one of the clearest cases around, and yet their PR apparently is strong enough you believed it was kid-friendly and kid-safe.
by latexr | 2025-11-22 11:27:18+00:00
Reminded me of an exchange I saw decades ago in some TV show or movie (I forget where it was from but it stayed with me):

Person A: “We’re going to be so rich.”

Person B: “How many times do I have to tell you? It’s not about the money.”

Person A: “It’s about all the things we’ll be able to buy with it.”

Person B: “Exactly.”
by graemep | 2025-11-22 11:27:43+00:00
It says that non EEA immigrants are higher skilled than EEA (page 11) although immigrants from rich member states are higher skilled an non-EEA.

It includes students. They clearly benefit the country by spending lots of money but they do not have income of their own (usually funded by parents) so pay little tax - but the subsidise universities by paying high fees, and inject money into the economy from living expenses on top of that. Fees alone can be many tens of thousands of pounds a year for a STEM subject at a good university (IIRC computer science at Oxford is £60k/year). The definition of overseas students also includes many British citizens, even some of those who have been back long enough to pay UK fees.

It excludes visa fees, NHS charge etc.

A lot of the revenue contribution is estimated.

It says non-EEA immigrants make a much larger contribution then UK natives.

The big expense for non-EEA immigrants is educational expenses because they have children. If those children remain in the UK as adults that is an investment and benefits the country in the long term.

That reflects a fundamental flaw, in that it only looks at direct effects for revenue, not the total economic effect. A skilled worker is of far more value to the economy than just their taxes.

On the other hand they do include "public good" as a cost.

It looks very much like a consultancy company telling the client what they wanted to hear. It was commissioned when Theresa May, who was pro-EU and anti-non-EU-immigrant, was Prime Minister.
by _n_b_ | 2025-11-22 11:28:30+00:00
Their SNM license was for “up to 93.5% enriched”[1] and their decommissioning plan describes them as MTR-type Al-clad plates. So I’d take a reasonable guess that these are at 93% nominal enrichment, like ATR and HFIR fuel plates.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0900/ML090080661.pdf

[2] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0816/ML081690374.pdf
by lukan | 2025-11-22 11:28:59+00:00
"And I do not know how to solve it except more censorship and control."

That has (almost) always been part of raising children. The important question is, who has control and with what intentions? The intention of roblox they say out in the open, bind kids to their plattform, increase their engagement (addiction) and introduce gambling as soon as legally possible. And pretadors they don't see as a problem despite independent research very much say it is. Trusting them in any way sounds like madness or lack of care. So I am not in a position yet, that I am pressured by my toddler to allow roblox, but he is hooked on minecraft now. Just singleplayer, but also no idea how it works in that universe with public servers. I am not generally against the idea, that adults can talk with kids, but random adults from the internet? No way.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-22 11:28:59+00:00
The "official" wasi-sdk is quite similar, a prepackageded clang toolchain to compile c/c++ code to wasi. What makes emscripten more complicated is the browser integration (eg compiling into a ready-to-run html/js/wasm bundle and providing C API wrappers for various web apis), and Zig also only manages the "compile to wasm" part but lacks Emscripten's JS interop features (that's why in my zig+wasm experiments I use the Emscripten SDK as sysroot and linker).

What the Zig toolchain provides that neither the wasi-sdk nor emsdk have is a package manager and build system which are both much nicer than what the c/c++ ecosystem offers.
by kopirgan | 2025-11-22 11:29:13+00:00
I mean updating it. Often the update are just windows only..

For example I've had this dell Elitebook where I've installed Debian wiping out Win. While on windows system prompts Bios update practically every week but been years in Linux on same bios. IIRC updates were win only or jump thru some complex rings of fire. Haven't bothered looking up in a while..

I've also had to disable some protection such as security before I could install Debian though I guess there's a way if I research hard enough.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-11-22 11:29:20+00:00
> I had always heard Roblox presented as kid-friendly and kid-safe.

Yeah, no. I have kids and have walked this path over the last few years. Roblox is, as a company, your standard big org. That is, completely amoral, extracting cash in whatever ways are possible, protecting users (kids) only to the minimal extent required by law or perception that might harm business.

Very very little of their user-base are actually making games, and of those, 99.99% are getting nothing for the work they put in. That whole side of things is one part of the scam (exploit the labour of kids with the idea of making it big, but ensure the reward tier is high enough to avoid needing to cash out for nearly everyone). This is the least problematic part though.

Essentially, Roblox is the wild west internet I grew up on in the early 90’s. Sure, your friends are there, but it’s chock full of pedophiles offering candy if you just sign up to this discord channel. Free Robux might be the common lure, but they can be far more sophisticated. The sad fact that most parents don’t like to think about is that the pedo networks are large, sophisticated, and constantly, actively, hunting for any opportunity. Roblox is a platform of choice. The moderation and level of care from this company may as well be non-existent. It’s just enough to convince the public that they are doing the right thing.

Then there is the never ending stream of gambling games. The currency is Roblox, and that can be converted to cold hard cash, so there are infinite games just built around trying to addict kids and use that to extract the almighty Robux. It’s every evil trick you see with mobile game trash, just sometimes more transparent.

All in all, it’s a terrible place, but at first glance, fine. Your kid playing the popular games with their friends; it’s just like Nintendo. But wander off the happy path, just a little, and the monsters are waiting.
by tclancy | 2025-11-22 11:29:27+00:00
Rethinking the problem? Engaging with the questions like a human being and not a snake oil salesman? Falling back on the Scunthorpe Problem and how easy it is for people to move chat to another platform comes across as not actually concerned at all. You could just make up stuff on the spot and sound more reassuring and human. For example: “one thing we track is users who predominantly engage in chat, which is common enough, but we then filter for people constantly contacting new strangers and then focus on the kinds of conversations”, blah blah blah.

Once he gets to the high five stuff, it’s clear the person is a twelve year old themself. Skibidi toilet.
by yreg | 2025-11-22 11:31:22+00:00
Fair enough, but I think creativity can usually escape the box and make it possible to communicate within the limitations imposed by the game.

And if not, then what even is the value of playing online as opposed to locally with AIs?

If children want to play together with their friends, isn't it much better to spin them a Minecraft server or such for friends they know from real life instead of playing games limiting them by "very narrowly specific interactions" anyway?
by sitkack | 2025-11-22 11:31:43+00:00
The article doesn't even directly mention Schlep https://www.youtube.com/@RealSchlep/videos whom Roblox kicked off the platform for catching pedophiles.

Roblox Is Threatening to Sue Me For Protecting Kids (Schlep) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMqAw_NjHK8

Roblox, Take a Seat (ft: Chris Hansen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIcVPPOB8TQ

#freeschlep

It was awesome seeing the kids on Roblox revolt against Baszucki for doubling down on supporting pedophiles.

The leadership team at Roblox is so entirely tone deaf, if I were the the board, I'd remove them all. I watched Baszucki and

This is in addition to the money laundering and dystopian hellscape that is the whole game publishing platform that has been documented here on hn.

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

My own child says that no parent should allow their child on Roblox. Smart kid.
by squigz | 2025-11-22 11:32:57+00:00
If PE causes so many problems and needs to be controlled, why not... control it? Regulate it heavily, or ban it outright, or make it very difficult for them to own a large portion of businesses in any given area, etc, etc

It's just the "remove barriers to do X" arguments tends to be used to justify removing important regulations that protect consumers, or the environment, or institutional integrity - all of which may indeed help the little guys, but it also certainly helps the big guys.

I'm also wary of the idea that regulations and the like are the real issue small businesses have a hard time of things - and not just that operating a business has become more expensive/difficult in the modern age (even after taking out regulations), as well as the simple fact that big businesses can, for example, tank losses for a lot longer than a small business in order to win out a market. How would less regulation for the smaller businesses help situations like that?
by ForOldHack | 2025-11-22 11:33:30+00:00
I suspected this was blahtering AI, and this confirms it: "By solving this equation, they were able to capture the full spectrum of molecular motion and relaxation." The equation is solved buddy, and has been since Plank solved it. It's the discreet calculation of its values give is a digital image that can be contrast enhanced by differing molecules, the physics has not changed, and the equation has not changed. <Downvote>
by pjmlp | 2025-11-22 11:34:06+00:00
The extent PCs are open is an historical accident, that most OEMs would rather not repeat, as you can see everywhere from embedded all the way to cloud systems.

If anything, Linux powered devices are a good example on how all of them end up with OEM-name Linux, with minimal contributions to upstream.

If everyone would leave Windows in droves, expect regular people to be getting Dell and HP Linux at local PC store, with the same limitations as going outside their distros with binary blobs, and pre-installed stuff.
by rubyfan | 2025-11-22 11:34:19+00:00
When I was a kid, I loved BBSs and the technicality of building a computer and the wild west that was the internet. Now that I have kids of my own, I won’t let them go near some of this stuff. It’s not because I’m worried they will do something dumb on their own but because I think tech has become predatory of all users and society in general.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-11-22 11:34:59+00:00
Yeah, no. Nintendo, as the other poster said. Random stranger interaction == bad. Can’t verify age == bad.

Can only add your friends for chat? Is fine.

I feel like this same strategy is sane for adults also. Before the internet, we did fine making friends and playing games with people we actually know. So much of the awfulness of the modern online space comes from anonymous interactions with strangers. I don’t think human social connections are able to scale in the way the internet enables.
by kiba | 2025-11-22 11:35:59+00:00
Real estate(the land, not the mansion) is a really good long term storage of wealth as it is fixed, finite, and doesn't depreciate in value except through market trend and it basically only go up as long as the economy itself grow.

However, this causes land speculation which drives the price of land up, and people do not want to develop properties because it would means investing in buildings which costs money to build and maintain and entails risk and ongoing effort.

The correct solution to this is a land value tax, which if implemented correctly, should drive down the price of land down to zero and force Jack Ma's family to either commit to actually investing in UK's economy or park their wealth elsewhere.
Show HN: PolyGPT – ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity responses side-by-side
by ncvgl | 2025-11-22 11:36:31+00:00
I built PolyGPT to solve a problem I had: constantly tab-switching between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to compare their responses.

It's a desktop app (Mac/Windows/Linux) that lets you type a prompt once and see all three AI models respond simultaneously in a split view. Useful for: - Comparing technical explanations - Getting multiple perspectives on code problems - Fact-checking answers across models The app is free, open source, and runs locally - your credentials stay on your machine. Download: https://polygpt.app Source: https://github.com/ncvgl/polygpt Would love feedback from the HN community. What other features would make this more useful?
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 11:36:56+00:00
What I don't get is how what they do is even legally possible, since the libraries have all F/OSS licenses (MIT, LGPL, GPL, APL), and they don't even own the sole copyright to most things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985663
by trhway | 2025-11-22 11:37:08+00:00
I think in part it is a system level response to the widespread just-in-time approach of those businesses' clients. A just-in-time client is very "flexible" on price when supply is squeezed. After that back and forth i think we'll see return to some degree of supply buffering(warehousing) to dampen down the supply levels/price shocks in the pipelines.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-22 11:37:48+00:00
You are right. I just plain don't care. Maybe I am misinformed. Maybe you are misunderstanding my requirements. Either way, it doesn't matter.

You seem to be missing the point - there is an entire ecosystem of things built in Rust, a community of developers using it in related fields to where I am working, and a vast store of experience and knowledge to draw upon.

Outside of aviation or defense, does Ada have that? No, it does not.

That is why no one uses it.

PS: This subthread started when someone made an assumption that Rust activists would pounce on this for not being written in Rust. I chimed in to say that, as a "rust activist" seL4 is actually pretty cool and that's fine. Then you butted in preach the Ada gospel. Not a good look.