MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2025-11-20 13:16:11+00:00
You think that's an important one? To me, that's just a creative liberty; the need for visuals in the seconds before the explosion led to a choice to visualise it like the top of a boiling kettle.

To me, there are more substantive issues, e.g.

* Claiming that nobody survived watching from the Bridge of Death, when it hasn't even been confirmed there was a gathering of people on the bridge, let alone any of that group dying from it. But Voices of Chernobyl contained accounts from survivors who claim they were there and happened, and it makes excellent drama, so into the show it goes.

* Raising the idea that Vasily Ignatenko was giving off dangerous radiation to his wife, but her baby "absorbed" it, killing it and protecting her. This is a complete myth, and it comes directly from Lyudmilla Ignatenko herself. It's gripping testimony, but it's simply not true, and one doctor who was there, reflected on how the myth of people being "contaminated" led to a lot of evacuated children not being accepted by families in Moscow because of this fear. (https://www.vanityfair.com/video/watch/radiation-expert-revi...)

But overall, I agree with your point, the irony is not lost. This series was utterly compelling to me, and had such amazing drama. It's almost certainly not the case that Valery Legasov gave an eloquent speech berating his own government in the middle of the Chernobyl trial, but it felt so good when he did that in the TV show. It's a lie that comforts the viewer, telling them that there is a just world, and the liars and self-serving bureaucrats and dysfunctional governments of this world will be held to account, by good people, truthtellers.

There was no mass funeral with victims buried in concrete. But the spectacle of the TV show moved me to tears. Again, dramatic license. There were victims buried in lead coffins, in regular graves: wouldn't that imagery have been enough? No, because once the show has brought you to your knees with a row of lead coffins and mourning families, the cement mixer arriving over the hill then pushes you right over the edge. The concrete flowing around the coffins is such a visually powerful scene. Even though it's false, I wouldn't ever take it out of the show.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-20 13:16:14+00:00
Eh. Overnight, an entire field concerned with what LLMs could do emerged. The consensus appears to be that unwashed masses should not have access to unfiltered ( and thus unsafe ) information. Some of it is based on reality as there are always people who are easily suggestible.

Unfortunately, the ridiculousness spirals to the point where the real information cannot be trusted even in an academic paper. shrug In a sense, we are going backwards in terms of real information availability.

Personal note: I think, powers that be do not want to repeat the mistake they made with the interbwz.
by steveBK123 | 2025-11-20 13:17:03+00:00
And Tesla pumps don't even realize how poor the camera specs are on Tesla's for their "we don't need lidar/radar, all we need is vision" strategy.

Front camera is sub-4K, the rest of the cameras are 1440p.. all of which are processed at 24fps. We are talking 10 year old iPhone specs here.
by hnbad | 2025-11-20 13:17:24+00:00
> What matters is can your decisions be defended in front of a judge. I am not qualified to figure that out, and unless you're a lawyer, neither are you.

It's not a lawyer's job to answer that question because the answer is necessarily "yes" unless you intentionally did the illegal thing (i.e. intentionally did what the law explicitly tells you not to do) - and even then you might be able to defend it somehow.

The question is whether you have a good enough case for a ruling in your favor. And again, lawyers can't answer that because the question is always "it depends" - they're not in the business of fortune telling.

If you ask a lawyer for legal advice, it's their job to give you sufficiently good and accurate enough advice that if you tried to sue them over giving you bad or inaccurate advice they'd have a good enough chance of winning that lawsuit. How much they're willing to speculate about things like what's good enough for you and how high they'll set the bar depends on a variety of factors again.

There's literally no guarantee you can successfully defend something in front of a judge. The law is the law and the facts are the facts. If you end up in court, it helps if you have solid paperwork and a solid papertrail you can use to demonstrate you did everything correctly and in good faith - this is about creating facts that can be used to your advantage.

But the amount of expense required to do literally everything perfectly to the letter of the law and reliably document that you did so would make running a profitable operation impossible regardless of what laws we're talking about, so you necessarily have to strike a balance. And where you strike that balance is a business decision because it's about managing the risk of doing business. And that's not something your lawyer can decide for you - that's something you have to decide for yourself if you run the business. Because at the end of the day it's about your personal liability - whether through financial risk if your business is held liable or direct liability if you get personally held liable for your actions.

But this is not legal advice, I'm not a lawyer. I just know enough about (EU privacy and general German) law to be dangerous and accidentally trick actual lawyers into thinking I have a law degree.

By the way, that's also where that line comes from: it's saying "you can't hold me liable for decisions you make based on what I told you" - even when what a lawyer says is perfectly reasonable and sound to them they'll likely tell you it's "not legal advice" unless you are willing to pay the price tag of being able to hold them liable for what they said.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-20 13:17:36+00:00
Even if one believes everything should be possible with cameras, the goal posts are moving. Other automated vehicles use radar or lidar. Even if Tesla achieves fatality levels comparable with human drivers, other vehicles will outperform them. There's not going to be a great market for the most fatal automatic vehicle. It makes more sense to chase state of the art rather than the state of the median human.
by 50infivedays | 2025-11-20 13:18:04+00:00
Many friends who have a lot of messy devices must have encountered problems with data transfer and file transmission, and there are usually several methods:

Transferring files through IM， account is very inconvenient, as it requires many mini accounts. Using services like Airdrop or Localsend, some have network restrictions, and some require apps, which can be quite annoying.

Some websites for uploading and syncing data, I am very worried about data loss or leakage, which could cause trouble So, with the help of AI, I've made a direct transmission based on webRTC:

https://webdrop.online

It only supports direct transmission and is absolutely secure The web application is cross-platform, but it will request permissions on mobile phones. Rest assured, I don't do anything other than make it convenient for everyone to transfer things No registration or login required
by sitkack | 2025-11-20 13:19:01+00:00
> But you can see a lot of frustration shine through towards the owners who even in light of the preliminary findings had changed absolutely nothing on the rest of their fleet.

Between making money, perceived culpability and risks offloaded to insurance companies why would they?

> The problem is that there are a thousand merchant marine vessels operating right now that are all doing great

Are they tho?

I generally think you have good takes on things, but this comes across like systemic fatalistic excuse making.

> The recommendation to inspect the whole ship with an IR camera had me laughing out loud.

Where did this come from? What about the full recommendations from the NTSB. This comment makes it seem like you are calling into question the whole of the NTSB's findings.

"Don't look for a villain in this story. The villain is the system itself, and it's too powerful to change."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_colla...
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-20 13:19:11+00:00
IMO, Watterson stopped at just the right time to preserve his legacy and keep the strip associated with childlike wonder and innocence. In the last years of C&H there was a certain curmudgeonliness creeping in, as Waterson started to mock modern commerce and art. I think the cartoonist was naturally growing older and more disillusioned, and his strip faintly started to sound like Calvin’s dad instead of Calvin.
by afandian | 2025-11-20 13:19:11+00:00
> I've been to a German factory where robots could not distinct between humans and objects bc Datenschutz.

It sounds interesting but I'm not sure what it means. Could you clarify this?

Related, recently in the UK news. British Transport Police won't even look at CCTV for bike theft at train stations (because of resource constraints, but the presence of CCTV doesn't automatically mean it will be used).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jm3wxvlkjo
by ben_w | 2025-11-20 13:20:05+00:00
Sure, but saying that such a person "is Jesus" is a strong claim.

I mean, ignore the name itself[0], and the iconography[1], and the things that can be justified by misunderstandings[2], and that the reason he got stabbed in the belly by the Roman soldier was because dying that fast was incredibly suspicious: do you really think there's evidence for someone in that era, actually making genuinely lame people walk, actually blind people see, and actually coming back from the dead?

The account can be fictional even when the person exists. Consider how there's a lot of people today, even on Hacker News, who say that Elon Musk "single-handedly" did all the things done by the companies he owns and the people employed there, and then imagine those "single-handedly" accounts became a book, and people deified his memory a century later based on the "single-handedly" claims in that book — even though there's a real Musk behind it, the person in the book would be a fiction inspired by the truth.

[0] Which will obviously be wrong, given a few layers of mis-hearing, phonetic transcription, ambiguous reading of that transcription, and the way that even William Shakespeare wrote his own name a bunch of different ways none of which is the currently mandatory one to avoid getting dinged points for mis-spelling in an English exam

[1] ironically meaning that almost all Christians will be worshiping a false idol: https://youtu.be/9nPLAlqsWgM?si=spnKIDohGNsocTXm

Also, the Cult of Mithras would have things to say if they were still around…

[2] Take the feeding of the 5000, and apply the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect on the reporting: you could have an actual reality of lots of people bringing their food, not wanting to share, the disciples being told to share what they have, that creating social pressure from everyone else to share, and it's entirely plausible for this kind of thing to be reported as a "miracle" even today, if you look around at the parts of the world press willing to use that kind of language.

Then there's walking on water, where you get the punchline to the old joke about the Priest, the Rabi, and the Wiccan who go on an inter-faith fishing trip together…

Virgin birth: First, the joke about Joseph being a gullible cuckold who just believed the excuse Mary cooked up; second, the possibility of Mary being assaulted while she slept and genuinely not knowing it happened; thirdly, "virgin" having other meanings besides current use; fourthly, pregnancy is possible from dry humping, so technical virginity may be preserved: https://www.allohealth.com/blog/reproductive-health/pregnanc...
by devsda | 2025-11-20 13:20:23+00:00
Ah, the good old days of browsing wap sites to download "apps". Installing some of them only to find that my budget phone doesn't support the j2me profile required to run them.

The java ecosystem of those days had similar terms like the servlet (still surviving), applet & midlet. Is there a significance of the suffix "let" or somebody thought let's add "let" to everything.
by howardshaw | 2025-11-20 13:20:43+00:00
i get the appeal of vibe coding, but in practice it often shifts the hard work instead of removing it. you write less code, but you spend more cycles reconciling what the AI produced with how the system actually works. for small experiments it’s great, but once a product has real users, the cognitive load comes back with interest. the speed is real, but so is the debt.
by thyristan | 2025-11-20 13:22:24+00:00
Nonetheless, you are expecting other people to know the manpage and read it for you. That is a game you may be able to play with paid support, but usually not even there: They will be more wordy and polite, but in essence tell you to RTFM as well.

Bugs in Perl modules that are documentation related are normal bugreports and patches in the normal patch flow because documentation is embedded as POD within the source code.

Your example is very specific and weird (and maybe not even Perl-related). From which you deduce that it is OK to waste the time of volunteers because once one manpage failed you and you decided to never read any manpages again. You only seem to care about your own time, not anyone else's. That is not how anything works on this planet, either you deal with volunteers, where you have to make them care about your query by being considerate, friendly and respect their time as well as you would like yours respected. Or you are dealing with paid support, in which case you have to make them care by paying them for their time by the hour.
by Thossndjsj | 2025-11-20 13:22:38+00:00
I did. My family doctor was aware of my plan, and I can assure you he was quite unhappy about it.

Between him and the psychiatrist he got involved in my case I was on paxil, zoloft, lexapro, and prozac for about 4 years with no effect. And I did follow dosages correctly according to instructions. No change in my mindset, just the unpleasant side effects when we changed or discontinued my medications.

The family doctor eventually retired and the psychiatrist said that there was not much else that could be done. And that was the last time we met.
by sitkack | 2025-11-20 13:23:07+00:00
Doesn't mean that nothing can be done. https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/nr20250320.as...

> The NTSB found that the Key Bridge, which collapsed after being struck by the containership Dali on March 26, 2024, was almost 30 times above the acceptable risk threshold for critical or essential bridges, according to guidance established by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, or AASHTO.

> Over the last year, the NTSB identified 68 bridges that were designed before the AASHTO guidance was established — like the Key Bridge — that do not have a current vulnerability assessment. The recommendations are issued to bridge owners to calculate the annual frequency of collapse for their bridges using AASHTO’s Method II calculation.

Letters to the 30 bridge owners and their responses https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/H-25-003
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-20 13:23:55+00:00
It's understating the lag. Faster will always be better, but even "real time" still requires the other person to complete their sentence before getting a translation (there is the edge case of the other language having similar grammatical structure and word order, but IMHO that's rare), and you catch up from there. That's enough lag to warrant putting the whole translation process literally on the table.

I see the real improvements in the models, for IRL translation I just think phones are very good at this and improving from there will be exponentially difficult.

IMHO it's the same for "bots" intervening (commenting/reacring on exchanges etc.) in meetings. Interfacing multiple humans in the same scene is always a delicate problem.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-20 13:24:28+00:00
Nah, we definitely can.

Plan the bridge so any ship big enough to hurt it grounds before it gets that close. Don't put pilings in the channel. It's just money. But it's a lot of money so sometimes it's better to just have shipping not suck.

Alternatively, the Chunnel will almost certainly never get hit with a ship.
by buster | 2025-11-20 13:24:53+00:00
Thanks, but do you realize that you explained it to me using agent systems and ecosystems and open collaboration but i still don't know what it does for the user?

Can it book flights for me? Is it supposed to be some kind of autonomous intelligent bot that does "stuff" for me? What stuff? From the sibling comments it sounds like "we" are putting LLMs together and hope that something emerges? What?

Ultimately, i ask what openagents.org does for me as a user.
by mentalgear | 2025-11-20 13:25:09+00:00
> But I think the insight lies between these positions. Even if a new application starts as a wrapper, it can endure if it lives where work is done, writes to proprietary systems of record, builds proprietary data and learns from usage, and/or captures distribution before incumbents bundle the feature.

Basically the same as MS & Social Media did: build a proprietary silo around data, amass enough data, so it will become too big an inconvenience to move away from the first provider.

It's good that the EU has laws now to ensure data interoperability, export & ownership.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-20 13:25:35+00:00
Sure, they probably should implement it to be able to make it private, but then again, I do not trust Meta and I do not think you should trust it either, so if you get sent to jail for using it, you should probably be wary of it either way.

There are many alternatives to WhatsApp, you may want to try them. Briar, Ricochet Refresh, Session, Matrix (Element), Jabber (with OMEMO and whatnot), among many others.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-11-20 13:25:58+00:00
isnt it more embarrasing that they believed the sun needed help to reappear? that they mistook the feelings in their head to be real, kind of how people think they can feel or talk to a god? we love to pat ourselves on the back but never take a look at how stupid we actually are, most people most of the time. i feel regularly embarrassed at the mistakes we make
by daveoc64 | 2025-11-20 13:26:43+00:00
Firefox uses a widget to make it work.

I've never had an issue with it, and have been using it for years. I use it for X (Twitter) so that I can avoid ads.

Looks like support for installing a PWA on Android was added in Firefox 58 back in 2018:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/progressive-web-apps-firef...

Video demo:

https://youtu.be/heSvwQgEMLM?si=5X0iky_uVDAS6eE1

Developer and user documentation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-web-apps-firefox-an...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
Show HN: Vigil – AI Chatbot Data Leak Mitigation in the Browser
by PAndreew | 2025-11-20 13:26:56+00:00
As a developer I've caught myself copy-pasting large chunks of text into AI chatbot input fields. From time-to-time API keys, private URLs, etc. slipped through and probably baked into one of the nicest and shiniest models weights - forever. So I created a little browser extension that tries to mitigate such accidents by intercepting the pasted data and redacting it with structure-preserving but dummy values. The tool is heavily a work in progress, but I still find it useful, and only mildly intrusive. Enjoy!
by The_President | 2025-11-20 13:27:21+00:00
If you’re on the interstate in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, and hope off of it to take some back road, you’ll throw a flag.

They sent someone out to intercept me at 3 am. Just drug traffic monitoring. Once I was cleared by having “just as surprised to see you as you are to see me” conversation, I was on my way. Two things about being near the border at night: 1) don’t ride dirty, 2) you will get pulled over just speed anyway.
by n4bz0r | 2025-11-20 13:27:45+00:00
> Big reason why I wanted AMD is that Intel officially supports only 16GB RAM on these N series chips.

I've read reviews from people who put 32GB sticks in these boxes no problem. Not sure why they put "16GB max" in the specs, that's just misleading. But the CPU you ordered is way more powerful so no grief there.
by dbatten | 2025-11-20 13:28:20+00:00
At least based on some of the things he's written in some of the anthologies, it seems like a lot of that disillusionment was not just because of age, but rather because of his battles with the publishers and what not that were pushing him to make changes that he felt would compromise the integrity of the strip. A lot of the comics include subtle jabs about corporate greed, artistic integrity, etc. because he was actively fighting with the corporations that distributed his strip over such matters...

Still, 100% agreed that he stopped at the right time, both because of the creeping cynicism, but also simply because he was running out of fresh ideas...
by tcfhgj | 2025-11-20 13:28:48+00:00
> There is an infinitely more effective and trustworthy solution: an adblocker that blocks trackers. You don't have to spend minutes daily on dark-pattern banners. You don't risk the broken implementations that still track you no matter what you click, that regulators can't oversee on billions of websites.

try untangling the tracking code from the rest of the javascript code which is required for the sites to work - simply unrealistic.
by torginus | 2025-11-20 13:28:54+00:00
GPUs are a good example - they started getting traction in the early 2000s/late 90s.

Once in the mid 2000s we figured out that single-thread perf won't scale, GPUs became the next scaling frontier and it was thought that they'd complement and supplant CPUs - with the Xbox and smartphones having integrated GPUs, and games starting to rely on general purpose compute shaders, a lot of folks (including me) thought that the software in the future will constantly pingpong between CPU and GPU execution? Got an array to sort? Let the GPU handle that. Got a JPEG to decode? GPU. Etc.

I took an in depth CUDA course back in the early 2010s, thinking that come 5 years or so, all professional signal processing will move to GPUs, and GPU algorithm knowledge will be just as widespread and expected as how to program a CPU, and I would need to Leetcode a bitonic sort to get a regular-ass job.

What happened? GPUs weren't really used, data sharing between CPU and GPU is still cumbersome and slow, dedicated accelerators like video decoders weren't replaced by general purpose GPU compute, we still have special function units for these.

There are technical challenges sure to doing these things, but very solvable ones.

GPUs are still stuck in 2 niches - video games, and AI (which incidentally got huge). Everybody still writes single-threaded Python and Js.

There was every reason to be optimistic about GPGPU back then, and there's every reason to be optimistic about AI now.

Not sure where this will go, but probably not where we expect it to.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-20 13:29:06+00:00
Depends on the use-case, anyone that has seen the commercial host scaling cost of options like MATLAB usually ported to another language. lesson learned...

Commercial licensing is simply a variable cost, and if there is another FOSS option most people will make the right call. Some commercial licenses are just Faustian bargains, that can cost serious money to escape. =3
by boudin | 2025-11-20 13:30:58+00:00
I'm doing this with Tesla's on the road already. When I see one i'm extra-cautious.

This company is so shaddy around all the driving assistance and FSD issues that i have 0 trust and will not until it is thoroughly investigated. They are quite behind other manufacturers on simple stuff like line assistance and automated breaking already, they are going out of their way to make every reported incident sounding that others are to blame, it just looks bad from end to end.

Rushing those robotaxis is just trying to hide the fact that they are quite behind the competition on all those fronts.