MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 16:58:15+00:00
> It solves some problems! For example, if you want to run a camgirl website based on AI models and want to also prove that you're not exploiting real people

So, you exploit real people, but run your images through a realtime AI video transformation model doing either a close-to-noop transformation or something like changing the background so that it can't be used to identify the actual location if people do figure out you are exploiting real people, and then you have your real exploitation watermarked as AI fakery.

I don't think this is solving a problem, unless you mean a problem for the would-be exploiter.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-20 16:58:32+00:00
This is far too simplistic a viewpoint. First of all it depends what you're trying to do. Web dev? AI works pretty well. CPU design? Yeah good luck with that.

Secondly it depends what you're using it for within web dev. One shot an entire app? I did that recently for a Chrome extension and while it got many things wrong that I had to learn and fix, it was still waaaaaay faster than doing it myself. Especially for solving stupid JS ecosystem bugs.

Nobody sane is suggesting you just generate code and put it straight into production. It isn't ready for that. It is ready for saving you a ton of time if you use it wisely.
by CrimsonCape | 2025-11-20 16:59:17+00:00
Looking at the web page is kinda ironic. A yacht builder proclaiming how much better the materials are for the environment. We could just build less yachts, for example. Nobody needs a yacht.

There has to be an interesting commentary here regarding the necessity of productive endeavours that pay taxes and fund local governments and drive investors portfolios into the black, all funded by useless largesse.
by mjg59 | 2025-11-20 16:59:43+00:00
The final order implementing the judgement isn't out yet so I'm not going to go into too much detail here as yet, but there's additional publicly available information I can share:

The original claim: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/case/Claims.pdf

The defence and counterclaim: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/case/Defence_Counterclaim.pdf

The associated schedule of harassment: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/case/Schedule.pdf

The reply to the defence and counterclaim: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/case/Reply.pdf
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-11-20 17:00:28+00:00
It shouldn’t be that we panic about it and regulate the hell out.

We could use the opportunity to deploy robust systems of verification and validation to all digital works. One that allows for proving authenticity while respecting privacy if desired. For example… it’s insane in the US we revolve around a paper social security number that we know damn well isn’t unique. Or that it’s a massive pain in the ass for most people to even check the hash of a download.

Guess which we’ll do!
by Chris2048 | 2025-11-20 17:00:48+00:00
Do you consider my post to be condescending or patronizing?

Also, it appears that tclancy is also male, so I don't think it qualifies on that count either.

As for the accusation of sea-lioning, assuming this definition:

"..a form of online harassment where someone persistently and politely pesters a person with a relentless stream of questions and requests for evidence, all while feigning sincerity and ignorance"

What here do you think applies to me or my post?
by chris_wot | 2025-11-20 17:01:02+00:00
I feel for Matthew. Apparently there is an entire chapter about me on an anti-Wikipedia website that advances some quite literally absurd claims. I’ve been aware of it for some time, being simultaneously amused and disturbed by the unhinged nature of both the material and the originator.

If this is how I feel about a discredited and largely uninfluential website, one can only imagine how Matthew feels given how widely read the unhinged claims on tuxmachines were against him.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-20 17:01:14+00:00
No, the greater tensile strength of basalt fiber versus glass fiber is due to it being partly crystallized, similarly to the greater strength of glass-ceramic vessels (i.e. which are made from a glass for easier formability, but then they are crystallized by a heat treatment) versus glass vessels.

While there are glasses much stronger than ordinary glass, there are a lot of even stronger ceramics, which are (poly-)crystalline.

Glasses have many advantages vs. other materials, e.g. easy processing for making any shapes, including fibers, no porosity, chemical resistance, optical transparency and so on, but strength is not one of them.

The glass content of the basalt fibers is useful for allowing them to be drawn into fibers, by being soft enough for this even at a temperature under the melting point of the basalt.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 17:01:38+00:00
> We will always have local models.

If watermarking becomes a legal mandate, it will inevitably include a prohibition on distributing (and using and maybe even possessing, but the distribution ban is the thing that will have the most impact, since it is the part that is most policable, and most people aren't going to be training their own models, except, of course, the most motivated bad actors) open models that do not include watermarking as a baked-in model feature. So, for most users, it'll be much less accessible (and, at the same time, it won't solve the problem.)
by rst | 2025-11-20 17:01:50+00:00
Ummmm... yes. The problem with versioning file systems is that they only kept the last few versions; for files under active development, it was usually difficult to recover state older than a week or two.

(SCCS handled collaborative development and merges a lot worse than anything current, but... versioning file systems were worse there, too; one war story I heard involved an overenthusiastic developer "revising" someone else's file with enough new versions that by the time the original author came back to it, their last version of the code was unrecoverable.)
by stefl14 | 2025-11-20 17:01:53+00:00
First model I've seen that was consistently compositional, easily handling requests like

“Generate an image of an african elephant painted in the New England flag, doing a backflip in front of the russian federal assembly.”

OpenAI made the biggest step change towards compositionality in image generation when they started directly generating image tokens for decoders from foundation llms, and it worked very well (openais images were better in this regard than nano banana 1, but struggled with some OOD images like elephants doing backflips), but banana 2 nails this stuff in a way I haven't seen anywhere else

if video follows the same trends as images in terms of prompt adherence, that will be very valuable... and interesting
by kragen | 2025-11-20 17:02:00+00:00
That's interesting! I think of butyl rubber as being fairly expensive stuff compared to building materials—here on Earth, construction sand costs maybe 4¢ per kilogram, while polymers typically cost around 200¢ per kilogram. I'm not sure how much to expect that higher cost to transfer to Martian and asteroid ISRU, because I don't really understand where it comes from. Are you thinking that the composite you're describing would have major advantages, even if it's more expensive?
by mixmastamyk | 2025-11-20 17:02:12+00:00
The skydiver is me, and parses fine. I could remove all personality, but would that really help? I was successful with this resume five years ago, not now.

Actually one person was quite excited about it recently, but he worked for a company that had zero money for developers. :-/

So, please put your money where your mouth is and get in touch for one of those SRE jobs, which I could certainly do with one hand behind my back. Am highly motivated.
by kagakuninja | 2025-11-20 17:02:12+00:00
A friend of mine spent some time living in homeless shelters. Even having one room mate was a problem at times, as many of the people there have mental issues (my friend included).

We need tiers of low cost housing. Some people could make a communal space work, they would need to be able to vote to kick people out. People who are difficult to deal with need their own place, maybe a less dystopian form of mental institute. More like a dorm with mental services and security.
by hamdingers | 2025-11-20 17:02:21+00:00
What is your proposed alternative? If the options are "people have conflict over who cleans the kitchen" and "rampant street misery" the decision is obvious, at least to me.

Drug use and mental health are also problems that need to be addressed, but you cannot cure someone of their issues while they're sleeping on the street. Unlike shared apartments, homeless shelters, or the street, SROs provide each resident with a private room and a locking door. If those were the four options I could afford, I would choose the SRO every time.
by patja | 2025-11-20 17:03:29+00:00
Why isn't it a privacy and security problem if it is just done for a single phone number?

What is this was not WhatsApp, but it was a website or service dedicated to something unethical or illegal or just extremely embarrassing? Something that could ruin a marriage or career if it was known someone was a registered user? Would it be OK if someone could punch in phone numbers to find out who is registered on these sites?

What if someone automated and correlated this information to produce a profile for a phone number of all the shady/embarrassing services that phone number is associated with?
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-20 17:03:40+00:00
> you both are in a bubble.

I did say the "uniparty", right? So on what basis do you make this claim?

In case you're not familiar with the term, it refers to both the Republicans and the Democrats, viewing them as effectively one party with two factions (with the former merely trailing behind the latter, typically).

In this particular case, MAGA is showing that it's okay with hypocrisy, because, hey, didn't Democrats rationalize Clinton's misdeeds and throw his victims under the bus for the sake of the party?

So, yes, the uniparty is rotten.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 17:04:04+00:00
> SynthID seems interesting but in classic Google fashion, I haven't a clue on how to use it and the only button that exists is join a waitlist. Apparently it's been out since 2023? Also, does SynthID work only within gemini ecosystem? If so, is this the beginning of a slew of these products with no one standard way

No, its not the beginning, multiple different watermarking standards, watermark checking systems, and, of course, published countermeasures of various effectiveness for most of them, have been around for a while.
by astroflection | 2025-11-20 17:04:10+00:00
> The people we now call “chronically homeless” were once simply low-income tenants, housed by the private market in cheap rooms rather than by public programs. Once that market was dismantled, the result was predictable: the homelessness wave of the late 1970s and 1980s followed directly from the destruction of SROs. Today’s crisis—nearly 800,000 unhoused people in 2024—is the long tail of that loss, compounded by decades of underbuilding in expensive cities and soaring rents. As one advocate put it, “The people you see sleeping under bridges used to be valued members of the housing market. They aren’t anymore.”
by epolanski | 2025-11-20 17:04:15+00:00
> European starts with a vowel in spelling, but actually phonerically begins with a consonant

Ah makes sense.

In my head it's never "you"ropean, but "ew" uropean as I'm not a native english speaker and phonetically it's a consonant in english only. In greek, slavic languages, german or latin-derived it's always "ew".
by minimaxir | 2025-11-20 17:04:19+00:00
I was going off the footnote of "Image input is set at 560 tokens or $0.067 per image" but 560 * 2 / 1_000_000 is indeed $0.0011 so I have no idea where the $0.067 came from. Fixed, and this is why I typically don't read docs without coffee.
by tim333 | 2025-11-20 17:04:25+00:00
The human number seems iffy. 700,000 miles is about what the typical driver does in a lifetime and they tend to have more than one crash. Maybe for professional drivers working? I've had several crashes and still usually qualify for the cheapest insurance group. Some of the minor ones aren't worth reporting - it's cheaper to just fix the car or ignore the dent.
by losvedir | 2025-11-20 17:05:05+00:00
I was actually just thinking of that "cow milk" one the other day. I remember when I read C&H as a kid thinking that one was absolutely hilarious and oh so true. Then I realized, now that I'm older and more experienced in the world, and have had kids, that the idea of drinking cow milk is not actually that far-fetched. Udders look weird, sure, but you know what they are.

In other words, it's kind of amazing that Watterson was able to put himself in the mind of a child so well for that strip.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-20 17:05:22+00:00
Xerox/Venue tried porting Interlisp (the Lisp machine environment developed at Xerox PARC) to both Unix workstations and commodity PC hardware, but it doesn't seem like that was a commercial success. Venue remained a tiny company providing support to existing Interlisp customers until its head developer died in the late 2000s and they wrapped up operations. The Unix/PC ports seem to have mostly been used as a way to run legacy Interlisp software on newer hardware rather than attracting anyone new to the Lisp machine world. I don't see why Symbolics doing the same thing as Xerox would have produced any different results. The real problem was that investment in expert systems/Lisp dried up as a whole. I don't know whether any of the Lisp vendors could have done anything to combat those market forces.
by ninthcat | 2025-11-20 17:05:25+00:00
The probability is exactly zero by definition. The maximum score on a test is a raw score of 100%. Tests are normalized to have the reported scores fit a normal distribution. An out-of-distribution score indicates an error in normalizing the test.

In other words, the highest IQ of every living person has a defined upper bound that is dependent on the number of living people and it is definitionally impossible to exceed this value. Reports of higher values are mistakes or informal exaggerations, similar to a school saying a student is one that you would only encounter in a million years. By definition it is not possible to have evidence to support such a statement.
by prmph | 2025-11-20 17:06:05+00:00
Around Nile excludes sub-saharan Africa? Seems your knowledge of geography is a bit lacking. The Nile runs through 11 African countries.

And, what does sub-saharan even have to do with anything here? Seems like a weird thing to bring up. The people of the Sudan (where Kush and Meroe, etc were located) are one of the blackest people on the planet, nobody is going to mistake them for Mediterranean people, as has been argued with Egypt, itself an African civilization that had strong links to other parts of Africa.

It's kind of funny. Point out that there were advanced civilizations, writing systems, and historical record-keeping in various parts of Africa, and the response for some people is, "ah, but that's not sub-saharan Africa", or, "but, those were not real Africans", etc, etc.

So, the definition of "real" Africa becomes: whatever seems to confirm your biases about what Africa is supposed to be, quite a circular definition.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-11-20 17:06:13+00:00
You can try it out for free on LMArena [0]: New Chat -> Battle dropdown -> Direct Chat -> Click on Generate Image in the chat box -> Click dropdown from hunyuan-image-3.0 -> gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro).

I've only managed to get a few prompts to go through, if it takes longer than 30 seconds it seems to just time out. Image quality seems to vary wildly; the first image I tried looked really good but then I tried to refresh a few times and it kept getting worse.

[0] lmarena.ai/
by mystraline | 2025-11-20 17:06:24+00:00
I know the matrix honeserver I use has taken our recommendations to NOT cache images from matrix.org due to their non-existent moderation. And the admin put out a bulletin to also recommend disable downloading images as well.

There's also the split room bug (feature?) that allows banned users to still be in rooms where the honeserver doesnt ban them. And then, distributes connection shows ongoing banned content (primarily, you guessed it, CSAM) and the better-moderating admins can't do anything about it.

I'm basically in a few well moderated rooms (Gnuradio, other topics). They do extraordinarily well in not getting many trolls, and for garbage collection.

The only one we're seeing spammed is for some cryptocurrency site Liquid something. But its just commercial spam.
by Avamander | 2025-11-20 17:06:26+00:00
There are multiple reasons for this.

One being that it's _my_ $HOME, not some random developers'. I literally had more than 50 different dotfiles and dotfolders in my $HOME at some point. It was a garbage dump and I couldn't even identify the culprit with some of them. Simply disrespectful.

Then there's the issue of cleaning up leftovers and stale cache files. It shouldn't take a custom script cleaning up after every special snowflake that decided to use some arbitrarily-named directory in $HOME.

Not following the spec also makes backing up vital application state much much harder.

In the end, I made my $HOME not writeable so I could instantly find out if some software wants to take a dump. It turns out it's often simply unnecessary as well, the software doesn't even care, just prints an error and continues.
by eredengrin | 2025-11-20 17:06:54+00:00
> I’m also tired of this mentality that nobody is allowed to talk about the problems with the product

I think there's a pretty big difference between constructive criticism vs statements like "The development team seems to not care". To me, it seems pretty clear that the team absolutely cares, but they are also a small and very underfunded team, and things take time. Assuming the worst intentions of a team is the problem and is disappointing to see here.

> I’ve given Matrix/Element an honest try many times because some of the OSS projects I’m involved with use it, but month after month it’s the most troublesome of all of the apps in this space that I use, and it’s not even close.

I don't doubt that, but it does not resonate with me. There have been a few hiccups over the years, eg the database corruption earlier this year (unrelated to the protocol or synapse) resulting in stuck invites, but overall I've had quite a good experience. Far less problems than Teams, and even slack has had issues (mainly, notifications not happening) that I have somehow avoided with Element, although I am aware others have had issues in this area. There are even some things I do with matrix that are simply not possible/practical with the others to begin with.
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-20 17:06:55+00:00
In the US, the plaintiff must prove the statement was false.

In the UK, the defendant must prove the statement was true.

In practice, this makes the UK setup pretty nasty (long, expensive, high risk), even when it arrives at the correct result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd
by Analemma_ | 2025-11-20 17:07:14+00:00
In my opinion, your entire comment is suffering from the "out of sight, out of mind" bias that drives so much policy around housing and mental illness, mostly for the worse. The drug and mental illness you describe are widespread right now, but because they happen in periodically-swept homeless encampments, you can ignore them and pretend they're not real.

And where's this assumption that SROs would have no facilities maintenance or law enforcement? There's no reason why publicly-funded SROs wouldn't have these things, probably at much lower cost than we currently end up paying for the revolving door of law enforcement, jail, mental hospital, regular hospital we have with the homeless right now. Again, I think this is "out of sight, out of mind" bias - you don't think the current spending is "real" because you can't see it, but this hypothetical new spending would be, even though the total cost to the taxpayer would be less.
by waffletower | 2025-11-20 17:07:24+00:00
I liked betamax better, sorry. The tapes were more compact and used less storage space. Can't argue with that. I also liked that you could use betamax with a Sony PCM F1 processor to record digital audio before the advent of the DAT format (digital audio tape). Can't argue with that. But when was the last time I even thought about betamax? Much more front of mind are the vagaries of blu-ray formats; and I rarely think about them either.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-20 17:07:29+00:00
In the 1920's SRO occupants were much more likely to be immigrants, with different cultural values and living expectations. So norms may have declined over time, but norms are much more uniform today than they were 100 years ago.

And while drug use is a problem today, alcohol abuse was a problem 100 years ago.

I think what made it more feasible in the 1920's was two things:

- much higher staffing levels. Hiring a janitor or cleaning or supervisors etc was so much cheaper than it is now due to Baumol's. They had staff cleaning kithcens and bathrooms, and staff warning and kicking out tenants that consistently left a mess. I can't imagine that being feasible today on a $231/month room rent.

- a willingness to kick out problematic tenants. The Y has a zero-alcohol policy, and will kick you out with no notice for violation. Tenant's rights laws and social norms make this much harder today.
by mitchwainer | 2025-11-20 17:08:16+00:00
OpenHands just announced a collaboration with AMD that lets developers run full coding agents locally on new Ryzen AI hardware — no cloud APIs, no data leaving the machine, and zero per-token cost.

The setup uses AMD’s open-source Lemonade stack + Ryzen AI Max series (CPU + GPU + NPU with 126 TOPS) to run models like Qwen3-Coder-30B directly on-device. You can point OpenHands to a local Lemonade endpoint and get full autonomous agent workflows running offline.

Why it’s interesting:

Local inference for real coding agents (not just autocomplete)

Privacy/compliance: IP never leaves your workstation

Cost: no usage-based billing

Performance: NPU/GPU optimized, low latency

Open source stack end-to-end

Given how fast local LLM tooling is evolving (Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, etc.), this feels like an inflection point: true autonomous dev-agents running locally, not in the cloud.

Curious to hear from others:

Who else is running agentic workloads entirely locally?

Is this the beginning of serious local-first dev tooling?

How big will “offline AI” get as hardware accelerates?
by vimall_10 | 2025-11-20 17:08:31+00:00
Customer.io and userlist are more powerful and cover a lot of use cases. For early stage SaaS that can feel a bit heavy.

Yonoma is simpler. It focuses only on a few things: signup, inactivity, activation steps and trial ending. You send events and it sends the right email at the right time. No complex setup.
by krisoft | 2025-11-20 17:08:38+00:00
> How can they distinguish from real people exploited to AI models autogenerating everything?

The people who care don't consume content which even just plausibly looks like real people exploited. They wouldn't consume the content even if you pinky promised that the exploited looking people are not real people. Even if you digitally signed that promise.

The people who don't care don't care.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-20 17:08:46+00:00
> If the options are "people have conflict over who cleans the kitchen" and "rampant street misery" the decision is obvious, at least to me.

Arguing over who cleans the kitchens is the version of the problem for friends who know each other. If you try the same arrangement and add people with severe mental health problems or drug problems randomly into the communal kitchens you would get something far, far worse.

I only brought that up as an example of what happens in the best case of friends choosing to live together, not as a suggestion of what it would be like with public strangers mixing together.