MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echend | 2025-11-12 03:04:29+00:00
you might also know that LLM works on probability so if you ask it again it might reponce something else. but use claude for coding its amazing, I started to code 22 years ago, belive me not using AI for coding its like going back to when poeple used horses instead of cars. but if you are interested send me an email (echendeligani@gmail.com) and I will share you the link to talk to the avatar and test it. or book a private demo at website NeoClerks.com/en with proper email so I can send you the link
by lilwobbly | 2025-11-12 03:04:53+00:00
The culture of feedback has the infected your brain. The "strong objections" framing is just collaboration cosplaying as decisiveness. You're still waiting for permission, just with extra steps and passive-aggressive phrasing designed to shame people into silence. It's corporate theater. You've invented a mechanism that still makes one person wait on others, fragments their attention, and creates the expectation that decisions are collaborative by default.

Why not just: ship it, get feedback from actual usage, iterate.
by t-writescode | 2025-11-12 03:05:09+00:00
It's the AI stuff that's making me seriously look at Linux options for when my Windows 10 support finally ends.

Until it impacts their bottom line - and sadly, I think most people buy prebuilts, so they're coming with Windows on them whether we want it or not; and most people aren't going to switch OSes - I don't think they're going to move away from this.

I'm grateful that we have other options that are very robust at this point. There's really only a couple programs I use that I need Windows for, everything else I'd be perfectly happy in Linux-land.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-12 03:05:10+00:00
For what it’s worth, you don’t need a randomized controlled trial if you can offer an explanation for how microplastics affect human health.

Hence the classic joke “As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data.”
by ikiris | 2025-11-12 03:07:42+00:00
No, it is a notice to others that your software as-is is insecure in some way. The pre notice is again a courtesy if you want to fix it.

What you do with the notice as a dev is up to you, but responsible ones would fix it without throwing a tantrum.

Devs need to stop thinking of themselves as the main character and things get a lot more reasonable.
by rk06 | 2025-11-12 03:08:01+00:00
No, you are not alone.for non-tech population, it may make sense that .NET 5 is continuation of .NET 4. But the tech crowd knows .net 5 is to .net 4 is what angular 2 is to angular 1.

With .net 4 still in active use, the naming makes it harder
by TZubiri | 2025-11-12 03:08:17+00:00
>The ones with strong tech industries would be Russia, China, and India

As a side note, I wouldn't put it past a company of any of these countries to effectively resell the software to US companies, effectively bypassing the sanctions in a similar partnership fashion.

On another note, how do you distinguish between a well meaning iranian asking you to do something illegal for money, and an iranian that is just trying to scam you. I'm not saying that this is the case, but the very intense regime would force anyone participating in this to forego the legal mechanisms that would make doing business somewhat safe to begin with. How do you bring a dispute to court if it arises? You would have to confess to a federal crime?

Sorry man, I wish you luck, but nothing we can do here.
by apatheticonion | 2025-11-12 03:09:25+00:00
Tauri is pretty awesome. Rust backend, WebView front end. Nothing uses native desktop elements of course.

To be fair, there is no practical way to write native desktop applications using stylistically consistent UI elements AND have it be portable AND in a language that you enjoy using.

As far as I can tell, Windows 11 doesn't even have a toolkit with platform UI elements.

GTK on Gnome is pretty okay and GTK-rs is not dissimilar to React. Who know what MacOS uses but something something Swift XCode.

But I agree, just use web technologies. Write once, ship everywhere (and hum loudly when people complain about poor performance - joking, it's the vendors' fault we have to use web technologies).
by skhr0680 | 2025-11-12 03:09:25+00:00
1. I had never even heard of an uncut developed roll of film before, so I guess it's useful for that.

2. Time is money, but who is honestly shooting that much 135 film that it's worth 1600 Euros to buy a faster scanner for it? I don't think a museum wants to feed degraded film through a fast scanner, and surely pros who still shoot film would use a larger format, since that's where it has some differences / advantages compared to digital?
by gus_massa | 2025-11-12 03:10:58+00:00
If you ever post again, I recommend to add:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9062356/ (It looks difficult to fake. You are a human!)

https://echend.github.io/website/#works (A few nice old projects! People like to see a few real projects.)

Sorry I can't help. Good luck!
by orbital-decay | 2025-11-12 03:12:15+00:00
Revision should be much easier than generation, e.g. reflection style CoT (draft-critique-revision) is typically the simplest way to get things done with these models. It's always possible to overthink, though.

Nano Banana is rather terrible at multi-turn chats, just like any other model, despite the claim it's been trained for it. Scattered context and irrelevant distractors are always bad, compressing the conversation into a single turn fixes this.
by kragen | 2025-11-12 03:13:12+00:00
If widely deployed infrastructure software is so full of vulnerabilities that its maintainers can't fix them as fast as they're found, maybe it shouldn't be widely deployed, or they shouldn't be its maintainers. Disabling codecs in the default build that haven't been used in 30 years might be a good move, for example.

Either way, users need to know about the vulnerabilities. That way, they can make an informed tradeoff between, for example, disabling the LucasArts Smush codec in their copy of ffmpeg, and being vulnerable to this hole (and probably many others like it).
by forthwall | 2025-11-12 03:14:29+00:00
There's definitely two bay areas that exist, one full of the people who think SF as an idea of pure capitalism and hedonism who wish to build a tech orgy utopia and then the one where everyone else lives, screaming too $hort's favorite word in a market street interview, commuting 3 hours from antioch to sweep the floors at a hillsborough estate, or going to "the view" with their SO after eating a oreily autoparts taco truct in their localities preferred hilltop
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 03:14:41+00:00
This is a weird argument. Basically condoning security through obscurity: If nobody reports the bug then we just pretend it doesn’t exist, right?

There are many groups searching for security vulnerabilities in popular open source software who deliberately do not disclose them. They do this to save them for their own use or even to sell them to bad actors.

It’s starting to feel silly to demonize Google for doing security research at this point.
by thelastgallon | 2025-11-12 03:14:57+00:00
Rent in Dharavi is $4/month[1]. Not $4000 - $5000 for pretty much the same square footage and nearly identical neighbourhoods. If you are a resident of Atherton or Los Altos Hills, you probably never noticed how the rest of Bay Area is. Dharavi also has functional public transport. Bay area has 'bullet' trains that take 1 - 2 hours to go 30 miles. Almost all of bay area is in the mobile home parks/zones, which is for all intents and purposes considered slums anywhere in the US and are pretty far off from the main city and suburbs (and horrible school district). Usually, rent at these places is a couple of hundred dollars, but in bay area, these are a few thousand dollars.

Source: I lived in the bay area (all 3 bays). I also lived in ~20 other cities all over US.

[1]From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/dharavi_slum/...

Today's Dharavi bears no resemblance to the fishing village it once was. A city within a city, it is one unending stretch of narrow dirty lanes, open sewers and cramped huts.

In a city where house rents are among the highest in the world, Dharavi provides a cheap and affordable option to those who move to Mumbai to earn their living.

Rents here can be as low as 185 rupees ($4/£2.20) per month. As Dharavi is located between Mumbai's two main suburban rail lines, most people find it convenient for work.

Even in the smallest of rooms, there is usually a cooking gas stove and continuous electricity.
by randyburden | 2025-11-12 03:15:41+00:00
For what it's worth, the startup I currently work for is built entirely in C# and .NET, as was my previous employer. Both startups are based in the Dallas, TX area. Across both companies, applications were hosted on Azure and AWS using a mix of PaaS services and virtual machines running Windows and Linux. We've consistently found this stack to enable strong productivity and high-velocity release cadences.
by tombert | 2025-11-12 03:16:26+00:00
I've grown a bit disillusioned with contributing to Github.

I've said this on here before, but a few months ago I wrote a simple patch for LMAX Disruptor, which was merged in. I like Disruptor, it's a very neat library, and at first I thought it was super cool to have my code merged.

But after a few minutes, I started thinking: I just donated my time to help a for-profit company make more money. LMAX isn't a charity, they're trading company, and I donated my time to improve their software. They wouldn't have merged my code in if they didn't think it had some amount of value, and if they think it has value then they should pay me.

I'm not very upset over this particular example since my change was extremely simple and didn't take much time at all to implement (just adding annotations to interfaces), so I didn't donate a lot of labor in the end, but it still made me think that maybe I shouldn't be contributing to every open source project I use.
by rossjudson | 2025-11-12 03:16:26+00:00
FFmpeg and a thousand fixes:

https://j00ru.vexillium.org/2014/01/ffmpeg-and-the-tale-of-a...

"While reading about the 4xm demuxer vulnerability, we thought that we could help FFmpeg eliminate many potential low-hanging problems from the code by making use of the Google fleet and fuzzing infrastructure we already had in place"
by kryogen1c | 2025-11-12 03:16:43+00:00
We had... the cheap version of procurement? I mean... that's just fucking not true.

My ship threw tools and parts overboard before pulling into a long shipyard overhaul because they knew they would get more.

I knew shipyard workers who got told to come to work and do nothing so they could mark billable hours (worker gets paid, contract is making money on the workers hourly, so who loses? Not counting the dipshit American taxpayer, of course)

New equipment installed with copy and pasted filters, except new equipment has 100x flowrate so filters last weeks instead of years.

Whole system overhauls descoped from the shipyard maintenance plan so the ship could be delivered "early" and bonuses paid.

Cheney and Halliburton?

Stories too numerous to mention. Only someone who's never seen this up close could think we're doing the cost efficient, safe thing.
by strken | 2025-11-12 03:17:33+00:00
Socialist Alternative is an Australian political org. They're one of the tiny Trotskyist factions that always seem to form any time two or more Trotskyists work together. That's why it's on a laptop next to a bunch of other far left political stuff. They're pretty much the opposite of "Yay Nazism!"

Or were you drawing an equivalence between the two?
by hyperadvanced | 2025-11-12 03:17:44+00:00
Obviously we’re not ever going to see “infinite value”. I think it’s instructive to think of this on the margin or in terms of limits: would a putative AGI have an inflection point at which more of it produces less value, and even if it’s productive capacity were high, it could not be “infinitely high” (which would make it an economic absurdity).

Additionally, for the AGI producer (or platform host), there would have to be some way of price function that would cover the costs of operating or providing the AGI service.

Thus, a more realistic look at this is “purchasers of AGI would have no reason to purchase “more” of it beyond a certain threshold, after which it is no longer useful to their ends, however purchasing shares of the AGI producer would expose them to value from new customers who could use it better”
by estebank | 2025-11-12 03:20:12+00:00
You're forgetting about the shutter angle. A large shutter angle will have a lot of motion blur and feel fluid even at a low frame rate, while a small shutter angle will make movement feel stilted but every frame will be fully legible, very useful for caothic scenes. Saving private Ryan, for example, used a small shutter angle. And until digital, you were restricted to a shutter angle of 180, which meant that very fast moving elements would still jump from frame to frame in between exposures.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-12 03:20:58+00:00
For raw data type of applications, it's definitely important to be able to preserve pipeline oriented use-cases like `cat img.png | convert-stdin-to-jpg | convert-stdin-back-to-png | imgcat`. But in the hypothetical world where all CLI I/O moves towards JSON, I'd still argue this is not only possible but now strictly easier because you can just explicitly embed mimetype info + b64 instead of assuming/detecting encoding or requiring user to specify it, or working with heuristic file-magic. (Jupyter notebooks work like this to persist images instead of just flat text.) And presumably a smarter suite of JSON oriented tools like jcat/jless would either actually display that data, or notice the type and avoid spamming the screen with raw b64.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 03:21:11+00:00
> cant file bugs without an $X contribution, and cant expect a response in under Y days

A license to define that nobody can expect a response? Or file bugs?

None of this has anything to do with the issue. They can just turn off Google’s access to the bug tracker. No license needed.

However Google is free to publish security research they find.

It would be most concerning if projects started including “Nobody is allowed to do security research on this project” licenses. Who would benefit from that?
by addaon | 2025-11-12 03:21:24+00:00
I wasn't able to get through the low information density and AI narration, but from the description: "70% for greater efficiency and power." How is this possible for an inverter that's normally 94% - 98% efficient to start with? I might guess they mean 70% lower losses (so going from, say, 94% to 98% efficiency), but I might also guess it's just garbage?
by nradov | 2025-11-12 03:21:29+00:00
I don't know about ExxonMobil but Walmart, UnitedHealth Group, and JPMorganChase employees do actively contribute to open source projects. Maybe just not the ones you used. They have also published some of their own.

https://github.com/walmartlabs

https://github.com/Optum

https://github.com/jpmorganchase
by bguthrie | 2025-11-12 03:21:37+00:00
The problem with no collaboration is that it can lead to fragility. Context transfer is costly, but without it work bottlenecks around key individuals. When those individuals are explicitly disincentivized to transfer knowledge preemptively, you lose the slack in the system. Vacations and exits become more fraught. Deadlines are harder to hit reliably. You have less systemic resiliency.

Instead, encourage targeted collaboration (in particular, pairing: collaboration with a goal of accomplishing something) within the scope of a team, and avoid cross-team collaboration, which is the expensive part.
by MBCook | 2025-11-12 03:21:50+00:00
This really isn’t my area but it sounds like nothing is fast. DSLR may be fastest without just flat out hiring someone else to do it. But even with thousands of shots that would still take quite a lot of time.

And yeah, workflow is the thing that seems the worst. That seems like a great place to try to improve things to get a sale.
by tombert | 2025-11-12 03:21:54+00:00
Nearly everyone here probably knows someone who has done free labor and "worked for exposure", and most people acknowledge that this is a scam, and we don't have a huge issue condemning the people running the scam. I've known people who have done free art commissions because of this stuff, and this "exposure" never translated to money.

Are the people who got scammed into "working for exposure" required to work for those people?

No, of course not, no one held a gun to their head, but it's still kind of crappy. The influencers that are "paying in exposure" are taking advantage of power dynamics and giving vague false promises of success in order to avoid paying for shit that they really should be paying for.
Show HN: General Intelligence – Active knowledge framework for machine learning
by marksun130 | 2025-11-12 03:24:13+00:00
A framework where knowledge instances actively participate in learning and reasoning, rather than being passive data.

Key ideas:

- Learn structural patterns through similarity, not gradient descent - Knowledge reacts to being learned and forms relationships with other knowledge - Hierarchical pattern matching works with nested structures - Event-driven responses for compositional reasoning - Fully interpretable - every decision traceable to learned patterns

Built this after months researching abstract reasoning (ARC challenge) and interpretable systems. Traditional approaches felt too rigid - this uses active, self-organizing knowledge as primitives. Early stage but core works. Applications: ARC, interpretable AI, few-shot learning, autonomous agents. pip install general-intelligence
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 03:24:46+00:00
Honestly it seems kind of weird that HN comments are becoming so hostile toward a company hiring security researchers and having them do free security research on popular projects, then giving away the results for free.

There are many groups and companies that do security research on common software and then sell the resulting vulnerabilities to people who don’t have your best interests in mind. Having a major company get ahead of this and share the results is a win for all of us.

A lot of people in this comment section don’t understand the broader security ecosystem. There are many vendors who will even provide patched versions of software to work around security issues that aren’t yet solved upstream. Some times these patches disable features or break functionality, or simply aren’t at a level where upstream is interested yet. But patching known issues is valuable.

Getting patches accepted upstream in big open source projects isn’t always easy. They tend to want things done a certain way or have a high bar to clear for anyone submitting work.
by Animats | 2025-11-12 03:26:14+00:00
Nietzsche is one of those thinkers who did a good job of identifying a major problem of their time. Then he went on to propose a solution, which didn't work out. (The same could be said of Marx, who was also active in the middle of the 19th century. The two apparently never met.)

Nietzsche wrote as the era of the landed aristocracy was ending. A society with an agrarian peasantry and an armed land-owning class can be stable for centuries. Especially with a church that tells people that this is the way things are supposed to be.

Then came industrialization, and this long stagnation came unglued over a few decades. Industrialization replaced the centrality of land ownership and tenants with the centrality of the employer and the job. This is all well known.

Now, we see society's centrality of the job declining. What does that mean? That's the question to address as AI eats into jobs.

I'm not suggesting an answer. Recycling Nietzsche probably won't help, though.
by perihelions | 2025-11-12 03:27:50+00:00
This seems to be a distinct but similar magnetometer network, with global reach,

https://intermagnet.org/data_download.html

Example data, (Neumayer Station III in Antarctica)

https://imag-data.bgs.ac.uk/GIN_V1/GINForms2?observatoryIaga...

I wonder why there doesn't seem to be any website with a map view of all of the planet's magnetometers. Looks like there should be more than enough data to make an interesting livemap.

Here's a list of the sites,

https://www.gfz.de/en/section/geomagnetism/infrastructure/ge...
by nettalk83 | 2025-11-12 03:27:50+00:00
I wrote a short essay called “AΩ Consulting – Human and Technology Resonance.” (https://dotnetone.com/ao-consulting-manifesto.html)

It’s not a pitch — it’s a reflection on how consulting might evolve when humans and AI begin to think and create meaning together.

Instead of diagnosing problems and offering solutions, what if consulting became a process of redefining the problem itself — even creating new paths entirely?

The idea is that real consulting could be a mirror process: humans and technology resonating, shaping each other’s understanding.

I’m curious — do you think consulting, or expertise itself, can evolve into this kind of conscious collaboration?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-12 03:28:03+00:00
> Their whole reason for not funding open source is it essentially funds their competitors who use the same projects. That's why they'd rather build a closed fork in-house than just hand money to ffmpeg.

So the premise here is that AWS should waste their own money maintaining an internal fork in order to try to make their competitors do the same thing? But then Google or Intel or someone just fixes it a bit later and wisely upstreams it so they can pay less than you by not maintaining an internal fork. Meanwhile you're still paying the money even though the public version has the fix because now you either need to keep maintaining your incompatible fork or pay again to switch back off of it. So what you've done is buy yourself a competitive disadvantage.

> that's how executives think.

That's how cargo cult executives think.

Just because you've seen someone else doing something doesn't mean you should do it. They might not be smarter than you.
by Breakthrough | 2025-11-12 03:28:48+00:00
If you're willing, could you try using AdaptiveDetector? It should have better defaults for handling fast camera movements a bit better.

The threshold values themselves can be tuned if you generate a statsfile and plot the result, but that can sometimes be tedious if you have a lot of files (thus the huge interest in methods like TransNetV2). Glad to see the real world applications of those in action. You can always just increase/decrease the threshold by 5-10% depending on if you find it's too sensitive or not sensitive enough as well.

Thanks for the response!
by tonymet | 2025-11-12 03:30:13+00:00
Given the cost of discovering these issues, and the massive risk of exploitation, it’s likely that Google/Amazon/etc have them fixed in their private forks.

Fixing a private fork takes 1/5-1/10 the time of shepherding a PR to meet the maintainers expectations. And why spend 5x dev time to contribute fixes to your competitor?
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-12 03:33:16+00:00
What I am curious about is whether women in France, Greater China, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, and the U.S (where this product is going to be launched) don't use hand-bags? If not, do they hold the phones in their hands or keep it in their pockets? In India or the middle-east, I've never seen women carry their phones in anything but their hand-bags / clutches.
by mcswell | 2025-11-12 03:33:30+00:00
Not sure, but to me this sounds a lot like the song from Paint your Wagon. (I was thinking that it came from The Way the West was Won, which would be more ironic.)

Where am I goin'? I don't know! Where am I headin'? I ain't certain! All I know is I am on my way.

When will I be there? I don't know. When will I get there? I ain't certain. All that I know is I am on my way.