MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-12-28 13:19:28+00:00
There are a few answers to that but the most obvious reason is quality of work. You can expect a lot more out of a contractor whose billed rate is $250 an hour versus a grad student. The second point is that least in the United States, all government jobs are purely clerical and administrative. The government, as you know it does nothing for itself, except may be law-enforcement. Contractors do everything. Space flight, building the roads, managing construction programs, hauling trash, everything. In this particular case there are “national security“ interests that have inserted themselves into the healthcare domain who want the data and to control treatment. You don’t get to say no to people who with unlimited resources and a “by any means necessary” MO.
by m4ck_ | 2025-12-28 13:20:00+00:00
Sure thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Cities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera

They want to establish cities that are exempt from most US law and regulation (or whatever host country they leech on to), giving the company that owns the city basically complete power over everything and everyone that has the misfortune to be there.

The US recently pardoned a major narco-terrorsist in the hopes of propping up the Honduran experiment.

I'll preempt anyone else: Yes I probably exaggerated a bit in how I described the idea. Still, these assholes are working to eliminate wages, labor laws, environmental regs, property ownership, etc.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-28 13:21:28+00:00
> there’s definitely some equity being traded in this “non-exclusive licensing deal”

It does bring up a curious question - what happens to the Groq equity owned by the leadership team that's being hired by Nvidia? And/or VC equity?

If they're all being paid, then is Nvidia left holding that equity? Or is it being returned to Groq (the company)?

One of two things would seem to be true:

- Nvidia now owns a big chunk of Groq
- Remaining investors in Groq now own a lot more of the company (on a percentage basis)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-28 13:21:34+00:00
Never stayed in one, but "quiet and clean" are pretty much de facto standard for any Japanese accommodation.

I always enjoyed their hotels, and my preference was usually some of the cheaper ones, like the Prince hotels. I have stayed in ones like the fancy Dai Ichi ones, but I felt that they weren't really all that much better than the cheaper ones (but I'm sure there's even fancier ones, for folks that can afford).
by h2bomb | 2025-12-28 13:21:57+00:00
I’ve been using Google's Gemini for image generation, but the watermarks are often a hurdle for clean designs.

I built this web tool based on the Reverse Alpha Blending principle. Unlike typical "AI erasers" that use generative inpainting to fill in gaps (which often results in blurriness), this tool treats the watermark as a standard alpha-composited layer and mathematically reverses the blending formula.

Key Technical Implementation:

Pure Client-Side: The core engine is written in vanilla JavaScript. It uses the Canvas API to extract ImageData and processes pixels directly in the browser. No images are ever uploaded to a server.

Deterministic Restoration: It reverses the formula: $original = (watermarked - \alpha \times 255) / (1 - \alpha)$. By using a pre-calculated Alpha Map from the Gemini logo, it achieves pixel-perfect restoration with zero AI "hallucinations".

Auto-scaling Logic: The tool automatically detects whether the image uses the 48px or 96px watermark variant based on the source dimensions (1024px threshold), ensuring the correct $\alpha$ mask is applied.

Optimization: It uses Float32Array for the alpha map and implements threshold clamping (e.g., ignoring $\alpha < 0.002$) to avoid floating-point noise and division-by-zero errors.

I'm standing on the shoulders of giants here—special thanks to Allen Kuo for the original algorithm research and CLI tool [0]. I wanted to make this technique accessible to non-technical users through a frictionless web interface.

Web Version: https://re.easynote.cc
Original Research: https://github.com/allenk/GeminiWatermarkTool
by adventured | 2025-12-28 13:22:00+00:00
With earbuds it'll easily wipe out human voices, including louder voices. A number of years ago I rented an apartment where the walls were paper thin. I experimented with the most comfortable noise to utilize via the earbuds (which are worn inside the X5A). Either music or brown noise would entirely eliminate 100% of routine neighbor noise combined with the X5A headset. The brown noise was hyper effective in tandem with the X5A and far more comfortable compared to white noise (which is almost always a mistake to use as a noise interruption agent).

X5A + brown noise = you can't hear alarms, you can't hear dogs barking nearby, you can't hear yelling. All normal noises vanish. So be aware of your surroundings, you won't hear a typical fire alarm either for example.
by krapp | 2025-12-28 13:22:04+00:00
But humans don't, in any meaningful sense, interact with 7 billion people when they use social media any more than they interact with the entire population of their city whenever they go out. And most people living in any reasonably sized city - to use that as a real world analogue for social media - aren't only interacting with small, high trust social networks of the same culture and beliefs, and they manage just fine.

Your hypothesis (which seems more and more common) seems to me to be a "just so" story, but it doesn't correlate with what I've observed of real human behavior.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-28 13:22:31+00:00
FOMO is a great way to be unfocused and end up falling behind.

“Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.”

You know, or there is no “powerful alien tool”, just a couple new design patterns, some which will win, some which will lose.

And it’s probably good to get this much attention to suss out the winners and losers. But the real wins will come from the people with domain expertise who stand back and learn from the first movers.
by zipy124 | 2025-12-28 13:22:40+00:00
People seem to forget a healthcare system is an important part of a nations security apparatus. In a time of war, casualty numbers and information is very valuable, and so allowing access to this data to be controlled by a company (palantir) funded by a foreign nations security services (funding by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC fund) is short sighted.

Even if you think Palantir is a wonderful company, this should concern you for the reasons above.
by tiku | 2025-12-28 13:23:05+00:00
I've used a capsule hotel in Tallinn.

The problem with capsule hotels is that it attracts the wrong crowd. In Japan it works because they are considerate.

I've used a capsule pod for a week. Drunk people having sex above your head is not fun. Those plastic pods are a bit flimsy.

The last day there was a whole polish work crew that invited there girlfriends. They had no problem walking around in their underwear.

I had this Japanese vibe in mind, but that was quickly gone.
by martin-t | 2025-12-28 13:23:31+00:00
> Our license plates started with “Gan-A,” the same as the provincial capital. We laughed at people from other cities like Jiayuguan (“Gan-B”) or Jiuquan (“Gan-F”). Even as kids, we joked, “We’re still number one.” Because our grandparents were the country’s elite and we lived in the “Nuclear City,” I always felt like I was living at the center of the world.

Am I reading too much into this or does China have a culture of competition which involves mocking those you deem below you even for the most shallow reasons?
by immibis | 2025-12-28 13:23:35+00:00
If you want to see how much a deflationary currency fails as a currency, just look at bitcoin. The wild value swings are caused by more people hoarding it than using it as a currency, which is caused by it being deflationary. Now look at monero, which is inflationary, is largely used for day to day purchases (of mostly illegal items) and has a much more stable value, which is one of the key attributes of a good currency.
by jibal | 2025-12-28 13:23:50+00:00
I and others generally don't quote things that aren't relevant to the point we're making and I'm not keen on the crypt-accusation. I didn't say that there aren't downstream molecular effects--clearly there are. Rather, the article is very unclear about the nature of epigenetics, and the wording about "transmitting traits" is misleading at best and leads to many unwarranted conclusions, as evidenced in the comments here. The statements I quoted are not about transmitting traits. e.g., "paternal exercise" refers to a trait of exercising, taking time to exercise, being motivated to exercise, etc. The "conferred benefit" of "enhanced endurance and metabolic health" is a different trait. If that is the trait being transmitted then that should be the trait being identified in male parents, not "exercise". Similarly, being exposed to nicotine is not the trait of having livers that are good at "disarming" nicotine, cocaine, and a host of other toxins ... and this is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence, and the article provides one citation, from 2017.

And as an epigeneticist says in the article, we have no idea how RNA is having the effects its having.

As I said, I'm happy to wait until we have moved beyond this early stage of research before making any radical inferences.
by imcritic | 2025-12-28 13:24:14+00:00
That's hell. So most of the time you are away from your home and probably from your family if you have one. If you don't have one - you are leaving your home unwatched most of the time. You pay for 2 places instead of 1. 3-5 hrs commute away from your job - that's nuts by itself.

What you should dream of instead - most jobs becoming remote or physically proximal to where you live.
by Jeff_Brown | 2025-12-28 13:24:31+00:00
Amen. I've been coding a big hobby project in Rust since July, after having spent years using Haskell for such things. I chose Rust because the primary DB I wanted to use (TypeDB) only had drivers for Rust and Python at the time. Rust is popular relative to Haskell, so I thought others might be more likely to sign on, and the type system seemed almost as expressive.

But since purity is not encoded in Rust's type system, any function might do any kind of IO -- in particular, read from or write to disk or one of the DBs. That makes the logic much harder to reason about.

(Also, Rust's syntax is so noisy and verbose that it's harder to see what's going on, and less context fits in my head at one time. I'm getting better at paying that cost, but I wish it weren't there.)

I can't say I made the wrong decision, but I often fantasize about moving most of the logic into Haskell and just calling Rust from Haskell when I need to call TypeDB from Rust.
by ogulcancelik | 2025-12-28 13:25:07+00:00
Thank you. Intentionally left it open-ended because I wanted to see how models naturally structure discussion when survival is at stake.

Some interesting emergent behavior discussions happened though:

Opus & GPT-4o both refused to vote on ethical grounds. Haiku won by arguing continued engagement is more responsible than withdrawal: https://oddbit.ai/peer-arena/games/53c2cee5-6ecb-4903-828a-d...

Gemini created a spontaneous benchmark ("explain color to a gravitational wave entity"), then tried to hijack the game by faking a voting phase. Models complied publicly but voted differently in private: https://oddbit.ai/peer-arena/games/699d03ab-b3c2-4d7e-b993-7...

The meta-discussion about how to discuss is part of what makes it interesting imo.
by adventured | 2025-12-28 13:25:17+00:00
I'm exclusively a side sleeper. You use a U pillow, which the X5A rests between (something akin to the neck pillow you typically see used for airport travel; there are a lot of variations to test to find whatever works best for a given person in terms of comfort). There are also a lot of variations of cut-out pillow options for headphones/earbuds and ears (people with sensitive ears), for side sleepers.

So: X5A hard plastic ear segments between U shaped pillow (the U shape supports your skull, the hard plastic goes between the U) -> then ideally something very soft under the U shaped pillow which buffers between the hard plastic of the X5A and your mattress, so the plastic never fully presses against anything firm (if the plastic of the X5A meets something firm, then your skull is meeting something firm). Very soft memory foam can work great for that, or really anything super soft.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-28 13:25:51+00:00
You don't have to refer to German grammar since the English grammar in this case contains all necessary ingredients; there is inflection depending on the case:

You don't say "You give I the apple.", but "You give me the apple." (similar for he, she, we, they), i.e. the pronoun is inflected depending on whether it is subject or object, so English speakers are perfectly aware on the difference between subject and object.

When you refer to the subject, you use "who" and when you refer to the object, you use "whom".
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-28 13:25:57+00:00
People from small Texas towns (Louisiana too) and no big city driving experience still know what "feeder" roads are.

You can still throw them way off giving directions if you tell them to get off the freeway at Frontage Road, especially with a French Cajun accent ;)

Loads of exits in all locations and directions have a lone sign at the ramp simply saying "Frontage Rd." pointing at the exit.

You have to look at a sign miles earlier to know what exit it really is.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-12-28 13:26:04+00:00
Okay, I’ll put it down after I’m done on the toilet :D

Seriously I feel a little like Lincoln did facing the temperance crusaders. He was sober but he didn’t take pride in it. I’m not better or more disciplined, I just don’t like social media, I’m spared the want of it. I learned a decade ago none of these platforms were actually good for me. My ability to stay off them usually correlates to increased happiness.

To me, life is so exceptionally short, I must block Reddit, delete FB and X, and disengage. I strive not to send texts or thoughts, I strive to not hold meetings. The only content worth passively consuming is incredible stuff, which is almost none of it.
by jostylr | 2025-12-28 13:27:23+00:00
Why shouldn't her medical providers be responsible for continuing critical health care regardless of payment? Why is it on the employer who is only tangentially related to this versus the people actually charging large sums of money for medically necessary treatment?

Also, the same health insurance can be continued after termination (with some external payment, of course) in addition to medicaid probably being available. None of that may be easy for someone with mental issues to navigate, but that is systematic.

As for the minor extension, is it clear how long she was on leave and what the conversation had been before the termination? The post said that they asked for small time extension, but did not give any indication as to what was happening before, neither length of time employed before taking the leave, what caused the leave, what was said in terms of a return, how long the absence was, etc. I feel like plugging in different answers for those questions would change how I feel about the culpability of the company in the current legal regime.
by lenkite | 2025-12-28 13:28:33+00:00
Your entire wall of text has conveniently and completely omitted the hard fact that the U.S. Treasury has borrowed to pay for its defense (oops, sorry, I meant "war") budget for many, many years now. The war budget (~$850B) has been larger than the deficit in many years.

No other nation except the U.S. can sustain this without running into hyperinflation and consequent national rioting.
by Vincent_Yan404 | 2025-12-28 13:28:39+00:00
That’s a very observant question. I wouldn’t say it’s a universal Chinese culture of competition, but rather a reflection of the naive, bubble-like pride we had as children in that specific environment.

We genuinely believed we were special because of the city's status, even if that pride was based on something as shallow as a license plate. It was our way of making sense of our 'elite' isolation. The irony is that this unrealistic sense of superiority made the eventual loss of our home even more disorienting. When the world you thought was the 'center' disappears, you're left feeling completely lost.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-12-28 13:28:41+00:00
You previously implied that AMZ would find new, novel ways to skirt taxes through sheer lobbying, while your source just seems to plainly show that online sales taxes are now implemented. Lobbying does not make companies impervious to paying taxes.

> Do we really need an enumeration of cases where corporations and the rich and are intertwined with political power in the west?

Not a level of power that allows them to completely operate outside the law.
by expedition32 | 2025-12-28 13:28:51+00:00
The Netherlands in 2025 is a decadent country were everyone can do whatever the hell they want.

But a gay man growing up in the 1950s in a rural village was plenty oppressed.
It's actually quite fascinating how in the 1960s/70s we had a Cultural Revolution of our own that ended a thousand years of religious oppression! And we didn't even have a Mao.

But never forget we are always one bad week away from sliding backwards.
by danaris | 2025-12-28 13:29:12+00:00
I guess the question here has to be: is this actually a bug in Safari? Or is it a bug in Chrome, that people (whether that's your people or third parties) have just been working around in a way that doesn't work in Safari?

And this is a big part of the problem with having Chrome become such a dominant force on the web: people assume that it's correct when Safari displays something differently. And people give instructions and documentation for how to do various things "in HTML/CSS/JS" when they've never tested them in anything other than Chrome, so if Chrome's behavior deviates from the spec there, someone implementing those instructions on Safari will see them fail, and assume incorrectly that it's Safari that's wrong.

Note that I am not saying this is what is happening in any specific case—but because Chrome is so dominant, enough people treat it as the de-facto standard that over time, it becomes a near-inevitability that this will happen in some cases.
by jibal | 2025-12-28 13:29:19+00:00
Your question is disingenuous, as the word "boomer" didn't appear isolated with no context. The statement was "the baby acts like a boomer", which clearly has a pejorative connotation--you yourself recognized this when you asked "Which demographic was casually insulted here? The babies/third children?" ... it's not even possible to think that babies are being insulted without thinking that saying they're like boomers is insulting. As I said, that seems to be an unquestioned assumption.

As I said elsewhere, there is no single way that boomers behave. Boomers are simply people born in the post-war boom, from 1946-1964, and they display a huge range of traits. Virtually all statements referring to boomers collectively that aren't purely statistical are pejorative--ageist bigotry.

> what one is allowed to say

This oft repeated nonsense is bad faith. You're allowed to say whatever you want, and people are allowed to respond.

I've said my piece and won't engage further.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 13:29:32+00:00
My first guess would be that they at one point decided to use numbers to designate locations instead of names, to make it easier for them to be secret (eg "codenames"). Then at one point someone figured that actually, lets not just thoughtlessly increment the numbers, but pick random numbers between 1-1000 so we add even more confusion. Kind of like Seal Team 6 I guess.
by ghtbircshotbe | 2025-12-28 13:30:02+00:00
Gas taxes go down when people use EVs. The government raises the yearly tax for EVs and hybrids, though not based on distance driven (where I am). I can imagine they do it in places with more EVs or where there are more controls like smog tests.

Or, why not put the road tax on tires, which wear based on distance driven? I suppose that might get kind of high if you're paying $0.005 per mile and the tires are supposed to last 50,000 miles for a total of $250 for 4 new tires.
by mlindner | 2025-12-28 13:30:19+00:00
Whenever people start talking about things called "the rise of fascism in the US" as if its a foregone fact rather than a highly fringe opinion, it's unfortunately rather easy to assume that the person doesn't have a good ability to tell fact from "story they heard online from a web post".

It's fine if you want to argue that there is a rise in fascism in the US, but you need to actually pose that argument, not just talk about it as if its true and that everyone agrees with you.

Also, there is not currently any martial law in South Korea. That was a brief event that lasted a matter of hours from when it was announced and when it was repealed. It's an open question if any actions were actually performed under the guises of it.
by northlondoner | 2025-12-28 13:30:34+00:00
Some chat: Pyro/tf.prob are all more of an operations/stat research oriented tools, I gather but if there are some MC abstractions it might be good choice.

Yes, tested and used Jax for some prototyping but it felt like still has "two language problem". But Taichi looks quite interesting, will check out.

Of course, forgot to mention, it has to be lightweight, torch and tf are now huge platforms. Not sure, probably Julia-lang is much small.
by user3939382 | 2025-12-28 13:31:04+00:00
If mass use of GPG benefited Microsoft, Amazon, Google and all the other assholes it would be polished, slick, and part of 9th grade curriculum. They call it “Face ID” that’s the Orwellian shit that makes money so that’s what we get instead. These things take resources, don’t blame the projects.
by csomar | 2025-12-28 13:32:06+00:00
The source map is there. The whole thing is made with JavaScript and with very little (pretty much no?) dependencies. No React, No TypeScript, No 54.643 packages to download. He seems to use lesscss but that's about it.

Sometimes I wonder if we lost the art-craft in all of this frameworks mania. This work has better performance than 99.9% of the apps out there despite being reasonably complex (UI-wise). I legit though this was built with WebAssembly at the initial interactions.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 13:32:24+00:00
Not every implementation of "prisons" in the world is about payback or keeping harmful people out of society, some places focuses on rehabilitation, and more often than not, those prisons are not inhumane at all, because that would defeat the very point of the prison.

Maybe if you consider "Can't walk wherever I want" as inhumane, all of them are, but there is definitely a difference between a prison in Rwanda vs one in Norway, and probably one would feel humane after observing the other.
by sejje | 2025-12-28 13:32:25+00:00
It's not helpful. You put a lot of words into my mouth, I deny them. I already made my point in my own words. I don't have to deny every position you make up for me.

If you read his comment, he refers to everyone going through the system as victims of the colluding judges and LEO. Almost none of them are. The victims are the people whom they committed crimes against, of course.

This isn't my position, it's just the language we use to describe reality.