MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwawaypath | 2025-12-28 23:43:42+00:00
>That's funny, your own statements are in contradiction with your conclusions.

Your failure to understand basic anthropology does not constitute a contradiction. There is not contradiction.

>You say the English are descendants of west germanic tribes from the continent, and "Romano-British" groups (do you think the Romans were an Indigenous people? of the British isles?)

It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous Britons, a people of Celtic language and custom. [0]

>then you say this proves they are indigenous.

"Indigenous Britons" QED.

>Please do the minimum effort and connect the quote you did to what you claim it states.

I just did and have, multiple times.

>This does not contradict anything in my previous post. QED? Nothing was demonstrated. Demonstrate, please.

It directly contradicts your erroneous claims. Everything has been demonstrated with facts and links. You have nothing.

>It is funny, because I did not introduce the term indigenous to this discussion, you did (for some strange reason).

I did, what's your point? You failed and making any claim to the contrary.

>The term "indigenous" refers to a non-dominant, often colonized group of people with a connection to the land and traditional living on that land [1]

Hilarious because White Brits are no the dominant group of people in London, foreigners are. The English are the "people with a connection to the land and traditional living on that land."

Oops, you just proved my point for me! QED!

>The English are neither.

The English are both, native and indigenous, as proven above.

>The Celtic people, if anyone, has a claim to this status on the British isles.

The English descended from the Britons, they're literally British.

>They were living on the land for hundrds of years before they were colonized by the Romans (and other groups later, including the English).

This is hilariously incorrect. As proven above, the English descended from the Celtic Britons. It's quoted directly above.

>I think it's sweet that you're trying to muddy things up by claiming I "finally agree" about skin tone being unrelated to culture or the adjective native.

Glad that you agree DHH isn't a White supremacist since it has nothing to do with skin color.

>You are the one stating that "White British" is the same as "Native Brit".

From your source that defines " indigenous people":

"peoples in independent countries who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonisation or the establishment of present state boundaries and who, irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions."

That is literally the definition of the English people, in England, which is part of Great Brittan.

They are by definition indigenous.

QED with your own source.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano-British_culture
by Sean-Der | 2025-12-28 23:43:52+00:00
You have done such an amazing job on this, it's been such a joy watching you improve SCTP. Better Bandwidth Estimation has been the big list of things everyone has been wishing could be better for 5+ years.

I can't wait to see where your going/what you end up building :) I absolutely didn't have the skills you had at this point in my career.

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* What is the best way to get people interested/involved in Open Source/contributing? I am always looking to attract more people. What is Pion doing right and what could it be doing better?

* Doing this project what was the most surprising technical thing you learned? I haven't gone deep on Bandwidth Estimation, but it's super cool to me that loss + latency are really just heuristics. I get why it isn't possible, but it's a shame middle boxes can't just tell software 'You can send this much' :)
by uolmir | 2025-12-28 23:44:03+00:00
This is a great write up. It's also weirdly similar to a video I happened upon yesterday playing around with raw Hubble imagery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gBXSQCWdSI

He take a few minutes to get to the punch line. Feel free to skip ahead to around 5:30.
by hellokenny | 2025-12-28 23:44:45+00:00
You can configure it in the `.env`.

By default it's randomly polling between every 7 and 10 minutes, but I set it to poll between 3 and 7 minutes personally - still haven't been blocked.

I can't say what the best aggressive polling interval is... I just wouldn't want to deal with Apple blocking my account so it's set to something "conservative" by default.
by imiric | 2025-12-28 23:44:50+00:00
I understand what you and the article are saying, but what GP is getting at, and what I agree with, is that there is a difference between a photo that attempts to reproduce what the "average" human sees, and digital processing that augments the image in ways that no human could possibly visualize. Sometimes we create "fake" images to improve clarity, detail, etc., but that's still less "fake" than smoothing skin to remove blemishes, or removing background objects. One is clearly a closer approximation of how we perceive reality than the other.

So there are levels of image processing, and it would be wrong to dump them all in the same category.
by gerdesj | 2025-12-28 23:46:08+00:00
"Wow, there's a lot of anger in some of these posts."

If I was OP I'd retire happy knowing that a very thankless job is well done! Given what it does: the more outrage the better. Projects like Mockito call out the lazy and indolent for whom they are and the hissing and spitting in return can simply be laughed at.

10 years this bloke has given his time and effort to help people. He states: nearly a third of his life.

I'll raise a glass and say "was hale" or perhaps wassail as an Englander might.
by the_af | 2025-12-28 23:46:21+00:00
It's completely plausible, which is the most convincing kind of unverifiable stories.

It also caters to the usual biases of the HN crowd: China, nuclear projects, secrecy, etc.

How come the Chinese post is from 2016 and complete but now we're getting it in English and in parts?

Of course, none of it means this is fake. It's just, like the parent commenter said, "slightly off".
by blargey | 2025-12-28 23:46:28+00:00
Lurking between the lines in arguments about AI writing/code/art is that whether or not an activity is "gym" or "job" is often in the eye of the beholder.

People who never "went to the gym" in a field are all too eager to brush off the entire design space as pure Job that can and should be fully delegated to AI posthaste.
by vittore | 2025-12-28 23:46:38+00:00
I've been ruminating on this past two years, with life before AI most of the compute staying cheap and pretty much 90% idle , we are finally getting to the point of using all of this compute. We probably will find more algorithms to improve efficiency of all the matrix computations, and with AI bubble same thing will happen that happened with telecom bubble and all the fiber optic stuff that turned out to be drastically over provisioned. Fascinating times!
by gametorch | 2025-12-28 23:46:51+00:00
I have a morning routine. Usually I go for a walk and read for an hour before doing anything else. But I almost never eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning.

By midday I'm on an adventure. Some days, it takes me in a direction where it makes more sense to skip lunch than to stop and have it.

When I'm hungry and it's convenient, I eat. When I'm not, I don't.

It's almost never the case that I'm hungry for a meal three times a day.
by ahlCVA | 2025-12-28 23:47:19+00:00
This is a per-credential setting, so you can have your SSH signing key be a no-touch key and still use touch confirmation for everything else.

(see "uv" option here https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-ps-20190130/fido-cl... - the -sk key types in SSH are just a clever way of abusing the FIDO protocol to create a signing primitive)
by Animats | 2025-12-28 23:47:31+00:00
> The thing which stands out about VLS systems is the salvo fire capability of them: VLS tubes can launch an entire ships ammo complement in as little as 60 seconds or so.

And then it has to go back to base to reload. Reloading at sea is marginally possible. The U.S. Navy has demonstrated it recently, in harbor. But it's not done routinely with live ammo yet. This is a known weak point.
by xvxvx | 2025-12-28 23:47:37+00:00
I'm a little surprised that car manufacturers pay Apple for CarPlay licensing, and not the other way around. For me at least, Apple benefits from me using CarPlay for music, Siri, maps etc. Would I have still purchased my car if it didn't have CarPlay? Yes. I'd just be using a phone mount. Maybe the car manufacturers are ready to redress this balance.
by mort96 | 2025-12-28 23:48:09+00:00
I spend a lot of my time in Neovim in a terminal. I have spent a lot of time on the setup, but everything (including the theme and colors) is optimised for legibility, not beauty. Most of the rest of my time is spent in Firefox (well, Waterfox these days) with the default dark theme.

This is true whether I'm on my laptop running macOS or my desktop running Fedora.

Incidentally, if I was using some native-ish editor like Xcode and a native-ish browser like Safari, I would probably care way more since I'd be interacting with Liquid Glass more as a primary UI. Now it only really touches the stuff surrounding what I care about, while my terminal, editor and browser are all blissfully non-native.
by cantalopes | 2025-12-28 23:49:27+00:00
It looks like a fun toy and i don't mean to disrespect but isn't this kind of a snake oil that's bordrline with placebo?

I mean, strobing light at specific hz will definitely have some effect on increased hz activity in your brain somewhat, and perhaps even relax me, but whether would that translate to "deep work" or just flshing light in my face would vary from person to person. And the gained benefits would be probably very dimnishing (like the whole "premium bineural beats" scams)

Plus the "unlock pro for targeted emotional regulation" souns veeeeery far fetched and fishy.

But if it gets popular i'm pretty sure some people would buy it (hell, people buy "good energy stones for good aura" to protect from reptilians or something)
by spicyusername | 2025-12-28 23:49:29+00:00
I can't think of a job that is less automatable.

The entire job is almost entirely human to human tasks: the salesmanship of selling a vision, networking within and without the company, leading the first and second line executives, collaborating with the board, etc.

What are people thinking CEOs do all day? The "work" work is done by their subordinates. Their job is basically nothing but social finesse.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-12-28 23:49:31+00:00
>How are we going to know when the news is lying to us?

On every day of the week ending in 'y'. People did know that before social media I'm pretty sure, and they still do.

You want to know whether something is true? Stop taking peoples word, demand capital 'P' Proof, and infer exclusively based on that proof.
by empiko | 2025-12-28 23:49:54+00:00
My skills are alright, nothing too crazy. I've had messages that were more spammy/scammy, but the volume was not crazy high, they were usually fairly obvious, and I resolved by simply ignoring them. I would say that the random chance of getting an interesting job offer, however small, is probably worth it for most professionals.

However, one thing I haven't mentioned is that I am based in Europe. My small sample size of people reaching out to me is showing that US contacts are usually less serious (e.g. ghosting). Maybe the US experience is so much worse overall due to this?
by andy99 | 2025-12-28 23:50:43+00:00
If you’ve ever taken a sales or business or networking course, and seen the people that take the advice literally and act like creepy wooden weirdos, you know why. Business “skill” is intangible, partially luck obviously but partially “game” that you can’t just systematize. It’s the same reason you can’t automate sales. An AI ceo would just be the composite of all the lame business advice you find on the internet - like a lot of wannabe CEOs that also don’t succeed.

You might as well ask why people don’t use AI pickup coaches.
by skeptrune | 2025-12-28 23:51:05+00:00
Should have (2023) in the title. This is an old post.

Also, I think it misses the critical point. C-suite executives operate under immense pressure to deliver abstract business outcomes, but the lack of clear, immediate feedback loops and well-defined success metrics makes their roles resistant to automation. AI needs concrete reward functions that executive decision-making simply doesn't provide.
by BobbyJo | 2025-12-28 23:51:48+00:00
> Could you point to the date range you’re referencing?

The last two months. There was a rate cut in October and again in December, but since late October long bond yields have been rising.

> Of course there is. Loads of options.

For instance?

The US debt is currently rolling over into higher rates bringing the average yield of our debt up. The only way around that, if long bond yields don't come down, is to roll the debt into short term treasuries where the rate is tied more to fed funds rate. That would be inflationary.
by steveBK123 | 2025-12-28 23:51:58+00:00
In its most raw form, camera sensors only see illumination not color.

In front of the sensor is a bayer filter which results in each physical pixel seeing illumination filtered R G or B.

From there the software onboard the camera or in your RAW converter does interpolation to create RGB values at each pixel. For example if the local pixel is R filtered, it then interpolates its G & B values from nearby pixels of that filter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

There are alternatives such as what Fuji does with its X-trans sensor filter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujifilm_X-Trans_sensor

Another alternative is Foveon (owned by Sigma now) which makes full color pixel sensors but they have not kept up with state of the art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor

This is also why Leica B&W sensor cameras have higher apparently sharpness & ISO sensitivity than the related color sensor models because there is no filter in front or software interpolation happening.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-28 23:52:01+00:00
so we were in a farm-it-by-hand bubble until we invented tractors? :)

I am not trying to disprove the bubble because that is as impossible, you can’t disprove something which doesn’t exist other than in people’s figments of imagination. and whatever happens in the future the bubble people will find a way to justify that it was a bubble all along and non-bubble people will say it is a normal market correction after yeeeears of bull market. makes the entire bubble discussion meaningless
by Sniffnoy | 2025-12-28 23:52:25+00:00
20% is a lot of people! If 20% of people think something is true, that's something worth arguing against!

"Straw man" strictly speaking means something you invented, although, yes, that is likely overly strict, since you can find someone saying just about anything. But 20%? That's a substantial fraction of the relevant population!

The other thing worth noting here is that the point of a straw-man fallacy is. In a straw-man fallacy, you replace your opponent's argument with a ridiculous version, and argue against that instead of what they actually said. Or, alternatively, it's where you are arguing against some general nebulous concept, and you instantiate it as something ridiculous -- which maybe someone is actually saying! -- and use your argument against the ridiculous version as an argument against the more general concept, tarring other versions by association. (The real solution here of course is to not argue about nebulous concepts like that in the first place, it's not a useful way of arguing, but that's another matter.)

But if you're not performing either of these types of substitution, if the ridiculous position is actually out there and you're simply arguing against it as it is and not trying to use it to substitute for something else or tar something else by association... then that's not a straw man, that's just people believing ridiculous things and you having to argue against them.
by delecti | 2025-12-28 23:52:39+00:00
I have a related anecdote.

When I worked at Amazon on the Kindle Special Offers team (ads on your eink Kindle while it was sleeping), the first implementation of auto-generated ads was by someone who didn't know that properly converting RGB to grayscale was a smidge more complicated than just averaging the RGB channels. So for ~6 months in 2015ish, you may have seen a bunch of ads that looked pretty rough. I think I just needed to add a flag to the FFmpeg call to get it to convert RGB to luminance before mapping it to the 4-bit grayscale needed.
by troglo-byte | 2025-12-28 23:52:59+00:00
The article might be a modest proposal [1], but sooner or later we're going to have to answer questions like these.

An even more interesting one is: What will we reward?

We've been rewarding labor quantity, as well as quality via higher wages - as motivation and as incentives for more education. This reflected the productivity primacy of knowledge work in modern economies, but that might not be the case down the road.

We've also been rewarding capital. Originally this was a way for the elites to keep themselves in place (a.k.a. economic rents), but in modern times it's been more of an entrepreneurial incentive (a.k.a. economic profits.)

Without the economic profit rationale, there's no reason to reward capital accumulation. Only pro-profit decisions are good for society, pro-rent decisions are awful. If there's no profit to incentivize, capitalism is just bad all around.

If AI becomes a better profit decision-maker than an entrepreneur, any humans left in the loop are nothing but high-rollers gambling with everyone else's money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
by exabrial | 2025-12-28 23:53:12+00:00
Mock is effective when developers keep applications at 4-5 layers deep (and honestly, you don't need more than that 97% of the time: initiators, controllers, services, transports, and cross cutting concerns).

The problem is, engineers love to solve problems, and the funnest types of problems are hypothetical ones!

Yep, I was guiltily of taking DI and writing a spider web of code. It's not the tools fault, it was my attitude. I _wanted_ something hard to work on, so I created something hard to work on. Nowadays, my team and I work on a 4-5 layer deep limit and our code base is tight, consistent, and has near 99% test coverage naturally. We use mock testing for testing the single class, and of course integration test for testing requirements. Not everyone will do it this way, and that's fine, but the most important thing is actually just creating a plan and sticking to it so as to be consistent.

In the end, don't blame the tool, when you (or your coworkers) simply lack discipline.
by NewUser76312 | 2025-12-28 23:54:31+00:00
Interesting indeed. Does such a finding suggest any worthwhile easy-to-try 'treatments' that may help alleviate symptoms?

I don't know much about the biochemistry here, I assume this is not something like GABA that can be directly supplemented. But maybe there are precursor nutritional and supplemental substances that can help these people upregulate how much of the glutamate molecule in question the body can produce.
by hackyhacky | 2025-12-28 23:54:43+00:00
> CEO's at least in the USA have multiple legal obligations under federal law.

Lots of people have legal obligations.

In this case, I assume that in this case you're referring to a fiduciary duty (i.e. to act in the best interests of the company), which is typically held not by the CEO, but but by the directors.

Ultimately the responsibility to assign daily operation of the company rests with the board, both legally and practically, as does the decision to use a human or AI CEO.
by bhawks | 2025-12-28 23:55:14+00:00
| My personal take is that folks involved with the change severely underestimated the societal impact that it had. The fact that proper build support is non-existent to this day shows that agents are not a priority. That's okay if it isn't a priority, but when it was communicated with Mockito I perceived it as "Mockito is holding the JVM ecosystem back by using dynamic attachment, please switch immediately and figure it out on your own".

Id like to hear the platform team's perspective on this. As it stands, it is a pretty sad state of affairs that such a prominent library in the ecosystem was made out to be the scapegoat for the adoption of a platform change. It is not a healthy thing to treat the library maintainer community like this.
by jinfeng79 | 2025-12-28 23:55:17+00:00
Good question.

A Skill is basically a markdown file with instructions + maybe some scripts. You can literally read what it tells the AI to do. Line by line.

So when something goes wrong, you open the file, see exactly what instruction caused it, fix it. Version control like any code.

Compare to raw agent—you give it a prompt, it does... something. Next time, slightly different something. Hard to debug, hard to fix.

That's the difference. Skill = you can see it, test it, fix it. Agent = black box.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-28 23:56:36+00:00
For those who are curious, this is basically what we do when we color grade in video production but taken to its most extreme. Or rather, stripped down to the most fundamental level. Lots of ways to describe it.

Generally we shoot “flat” (there are so many caveats to this but I don’t feel like getting bogged down in all of it. If you plan on getting down and dirty with colors and really grading, you generally shoot flat). The image that we handover to DIT/editing can be borderline grayscale in its appearance. The colors are so muted, the dynamic range is so wide, that you basically have a highly muted image. The reason for this is you then have the freedom to “push” the color and look and almost any direction, versus if you have a very saturated, high contrast image, you are more “locked” into that look. This matters more and more when you are using a compressed codec and not something with an incredibly high bitrate or raw codecs, which is a whole other world and I am also doing a bit of a disservice to by oversimplifying.

Though this being HN it is incredibly likely I am telling few to no people anything new here lol
by mmooss | 2025-12-28 23:56:55+00:00
> What most people think when they say "fake", though, is a photo that has had filters applied, which makes zero sense. As the post shows, all photos have filters applied.

Filters themselves don't make it fake, just like words themselves don't make something a lie. How the filters and words are used, whether they bring us closer or further from some truth, is what makes the difference.

Photos implicitly convey, usually, 'this is what you would see if you were there'. Obviously filters can help with that, as in the OP, or hurt.
by chb | 2025-12-28 23:57:02+00:00
I'm in the same position and understand your complaints about the lack of uniformity across applications in Linux DEs. But I use the Linux desktop as a daily driver because I absolutely despise the lack of customization in macOS, especially as it relates to "virtual workspaces" or "virtual desktops." In Linux, I can have multiple different desktops, each named intuitively, and each with its own set of applications. In macOS, I can't even _name_ the virtual desktops. What's more absurd is the "logic" around when an application has focus when it's minimized, and how its window behaves when you Cmd-Tab to it. Utterly exasperating that Apple, a company who has long prided itself on HCI, falls so far short of the mark in intuitive interface behavior.