MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by albert_e | 2025-12-13 12:07:55+00:00
I want the ability to add my own picture-in-picture display or overlay of text and other dynamic content.

Example: watching a movie but want the live score of a sports match scraped from a public website to be displayed in a corner.

OR while watching a sports match -- i want a overlay feed of text from a chat stream for a select web source

Looking forward for some public experiments / open projects in this space i could leverage. Dont have the skills to attempt it myself from scratch.
by wiether | 2025-12-13 12:08:28+00:00
It's a thing and it's convenient as a smart TV is convenient for people who don't care much.

But as a "power user" of a TV, I want to compose my own setup.

In the same way, "power users" of coffee don't use a coffeemaker. They use things like French press.

(I use instant coffee myself in my non-heating mug so in this comparison I would be the person not owning a TV and watching everything on their phone?)
by hexaga | 2025-12-13 12:08:48+00:00
I don't think it matters, to be quite honest. Absolute tractability isn't relevant to what the analogy illustrates (that reality doesn't bend to whims). Consider:

- Locating water doesn't become more tractable because you are thirsty.

- Popping a balloon doesn't become more tractable because you like the sound.

- Readjusting my seat height doesn't become more tractable because it's uncomfortable.

The specific example I chose was for the purpose of being evocative, but is still precisely correct in providing an example of: presenting a wish for X as evidence of tractability of X is silly.

I object to any argument of the form: "Oh, but this wish is a medium wish and you're talking about a large wish. Totally different."

I hold that my position holds in the presence of small, medium, _or_ large wishes. For any kind of wish you'd like!
by amarble | 2025-12-13 12:09:18+00:00
Looking for contract / freelance

Location: Canada - travel is fine

Willing to Relocate: Looking principally for contract work, I would be open to relocating for a long term opportunity, particularly to Europe.

Technologies: Most recently AI evals, past includes computer vision for manufacturing, explainability, general AI/ML research, usually business focused. I'm mostly an IC but can field a team as required to deliver AI projects across a broad range of specialties.

Resume: https://www.marble.onl/resume_nov_2025.pdf
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-13 12:10:06+00:00
>A "Sparschiene" ticket from Vienna to Graz typically costs between 10€ and 25€.

I've never seen it below 19 Euros.

Are Austrian residents excempt from the "full regular price"?

Then it's ripping me off too not just tourists.

Actually the entire country is a ripoff.
by closingreunion | 2025-12-13 12:12:52+00:00
Unfortunately, polyester sheds microplastics (https://unric.org/en/from-petroleum-to-pollution-the-cost-of...), so while recycling is good, we need to get non-biodegradable plastics phased out of as many industries as possible, as quickly as possible, for the sake of future generations and the environment.
by mjlee | 2025-12-13 12:13:46+00:00
Why? AWS manages to do it (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/). Smaller companies too - https://macstadium.com

Having used both professionally, once you understand how to drive Apple's MDM, Mac OS is as easy to sysadmin as Linux. I'll grant you it's a steep learning curve, but so is Linux/BSD if you're coming at it fresh.

In certain ways it's easier - if you buy a device through Apple Business you can have it so that you (or someone working in a remote location) can take it out of the shrink wrap, connect it to the internet, and get a configured and managed device automatically. No PXE boot, no disk imaging, no having it shipped to you to configure and ship out again. If you've done it properly the user can't interrupt/corrupt the process.

The only thing they're really missing is an iLo, I can imagine how AWS solved that, but I'd love to know.
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-13 12:13:50+00:00
Great project! This resonates with me - been using ESPHome for a year now and it's solid. One tip: if you're concerned about reliability, pair it with a PoE switch for your ESP devices. Makes recovery much easier if something goes wrong.

Also curious about your power consumption - did you measure watts before/after switching from Xiaomi's cloud solution?
by sillyfluke | 2025-12-13 12:15:03+00:00
>And it's ironic that we seem to talk about the Turing Test less than ever now that systems almost everyone can access can arguably pass it now.

Has everyone hastily agreed that it has been passed? Do people argue that a human can't figure out it's talking to an LLM if the user is aware that LLMs exist in the world and is aware of their limitations and that the chat log is able to extend to infinity ( "infinity" is a proxy here for any sufficient time, it could be minutes, days, months, or years)?

In fact, it is blindly easy for these systems to fail the Turing test at the moment. No human would have the patience to continue a conversation indefinitely without telling the person on the other side to kindly fuck off.
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-13 12:15:11+00:00
The Vizio litigation is encouraging, but hardware-level hacking is still the most reliable way forward. Been running Linux on an old TV with HDMI-in for years - basically a dumb display with full control.

For budget-conscious setup: even older plasma/LCD displays that predate the "smart" era are increasingly available secondhand. Pair with a Raspberry Pi or similar and you get a system you actually own.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-13 12:15:14+00:00
This is also one of the reasons the government is fond of gag orders. If companies could tell you "sorry we closed your account because of government pressure" then at least you would know why, but then you would know why. Which could give you standing to challenge it or create bad PR for the government and generate public outrage sufficient to make them stop doing that.

So instead they censor the company from telling you the reason, because everyone whose account is locked is guilty of Terrorism, obviously, and the people actually committing fraud would be unable to discern that they've tripped the detection system from the fact that their account is locked unless you told them that was why. Certainly not because it would make people unsympathetic to what the government is doing.
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-13 12:15:32+00:00
The regulation vs innovation framing is a false dichotomy here. Most developed economies have found that thoughtful regulation enables _sustainable_ innovation - see GDPR and data privacy innovation, or pharma regulations driving R&D.

For AI specifically, baseline standards around model documentation, data sourcing transparency, and compute auditing would actually help larger players (who can afford compliance) and reduce race-to-bottom dynamics that harm smaller developers.
by eliasdejong | 2025-12-13 12:15:34+00:00
The main difference between Lite³ and JSONB is that JSONB is not a standalone portable format, and therefore is not suitable for external interchange. Its purpose is to be an indexable representation of JSON inside a Postgres database. But sending it as standalone messages to arbitrary consumers does not really make sense. JSONB can only be interpreted in a Postgres context. This is different from for example BSON, which can be read and constructed as a standalone format without Mongo.

Another difference is that JSONB is immutable. Suppose you need to replace one specific value inside an object or array. With JSONB, you would rewrite the entire JSONB document as a result of this, even if it is several megabytes large. If you are performing frequent updates inside JSONB documents, this will cause severe write amplification. Despite the fact that offsets are grouped in chunks of 32, Postgres still rewrites the entire document. This is the case for all current Postgres versions.

On the other hand, Lite³ supports replacing of individual values where ONLY the changed value needs updating. For this to work, you need separate offsets. Postgres makes a tradeoff where they get some benefits in size, but as a result become completely read-only. This is the case in general for most types of compression.

Also JSONB is not suited to storing binary data. The user must use a separate bytea column. Lite³ directly implements a native bytes type.

JSONB was designed to sacrifice mutability in favor of read performance, but despite this, I still expect Lite³ to exceed it at read performance. Of course it is hard to back this up without benchmarks, but there are several reasons:

1) JSONB performs runtime string comparison loops to find keys. Lite³ uses fixed-size hash digests comparisons, where the hashes are computed at compile time.

2) JSONB must do 'walking back' because of the 32-grouped offset scheme.

3) Lite³ has none of the database overhead.

Again, the two formats serve a different purpose, but comparing just the raw byte layouts.
by inesranzo | 2025-12-13 12:20:45+00:00
Assuming you're a builder just do 1 and 2 as small side projects, no need to go full on in an industry that is going to crash anyway.

1 and 2 are now trending essentially to 0.

3. Will get harder to get a job in the years to come.

Stay at your role, build a small side project if you can. Don't leave.
by phony-account | 2025-12-13 12:21:31+00:00
This is a great product, and without meaning to underestimate the value of a ‘makers’ project I really wish it could be manufactured at scale with a metal body and a mount that could take a wider range of lenses.

Anyone currently interested in this breadth of formats would need to spend maybe 20 thousand dollars to buy cameras like the Hasselblad Xpan, the Plaubel Makina 67, and one of the Fujica 690 bodies.

Putting all this into one body is almost miraculous.

Lomo have recently released a nicely featured 35mm film camera[1]. I wish something like the MRF2 could also be produced in this way.

[1] https://shop.lomography.com/us/lomo-mc-a-35-mm-film-camera-b...
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-13 12:22:36+00:00
> Because the financial regulators have the ability to simply close down your business

You misunderstand how business regulation works in free countries. Financial regulators can't just "simply close down your business" however they want, unless you live in a country that is primarily authoritarian.

Again, I'm not saying closing down accounts isn't easier than turning of functionality, but companies could chose the "harder route" if they did care about the users themselves. Alas, most companies priority remains "make more money above all".
by mannykannot | 2025-12-13 12:24:00+00:00
> You even admitted it was a poor argument.

"Creative" re/misinterpretation is becoming quite a thing here - what I actually did was agree that rgmerk had a more defensible position after he pivoted away from his original ~2% claim to a more reasonable one.

I'll state it plainly: rgmerk's subsequent pivot in his stated claims does not retroactively make my response to his original claim wrong! (Not even if the subsequent claim more accurately reflects what he really meant to say.) I am having trouble figuring out why anyone would think otherwise.
by DesiLurker | 2025-12-13 12:24:54+00:00
Did you miss the last sentence or had your mind made up already by then?

the reason I don't want a typical union is because they work out well where there is a clear separation of labor & capital. labor get paid wages & capital makes money off the invested assets. problem with tech is that in a tech ventures labor is a part owner and capital too (engineer equity). introducing a 3rd party (unions & union leadership) in these situations will likely have the worst effect on the capital portion of labor & possibly eroding the incentives altogether. Imagine having a set of union rules to follow when distributing equity to early stage engineers? how do you decide equitable when by definition you are on cutting edge of tech & innovation. & if you think that wont happen you are mistaken, that is where the biggest pie is and unions arent exactly 'shining beacon of honesty and integrity' either. Look all I want is just some basic labor laws are followed and tech employees dont feel the panic when they hear slack-chime on a weekend night.

there are other mechanisms like state level enforcement of labor laws and punitive fines. you know the good old law enforcement. its really not so hard if you actually want to do it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-13 12:25:26+00:00
The theory is that if you give someone cash, they're just going to put it in the bank or buy gas with it, but if you give them gift card to e.g. a game store then they're going to buy a game, without you having to know which game they want.

It's the same premise as buying someone any gift instead of just giving them the money so they can buy whatever they want.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-13 12:25:29+00:00
The age 40 includes childhood mortality! It's difficult to get records from prehistoric humans for obvious reasons, but as early as Ancient Greece you had the upper class living about as long as we do now a days. A study of men of the time found the average life expectancy to be 71.3 years. [1]

And while the Bible includes plentiful mythological components, it also includes many historical and contemporary accounts. And this verse is certainly of the latter: "The length of our days is generally seventy years, or eighty years if one is strong, yet even the best of these years are filled with toil and sorrow, for they pass quickly and we fly away." That is part of the Old Testament (Psalms 90:10) that is believed to have been written somewhere from 1400-1200BC.

If you want more contemporary stuff that's completely indisputable you can also take random selections of people of renown. For instance the main Founding Fathers are a great example because they all were relatively young when their names become inexorably etched into history, yet their final life expectancy is again well into the 70s. The youngest major founding father to die was Hamilton, in a duel - at 49. Then Hancock died at 56 - likely of gout which can be caused by things like excessive indulgence. Next up was Washington who died at 67, probably more of the cure than the disease - he was leeched to the point of being pale as a ghost on his death bed. Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Sam Adams, John Jay all lived to their 80s. John Adams made it to his 90s.

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I am not trying to claim these samples are representative. These were wealthy individuals who would be relatively immune to famine, war, and other such factors that could have a catastrophic effect on lower classes. But when speaking of life expectancy, I think we are implicitly asking the question 'how long could somebody reasonably expect to live xxxx years ago without access to modern medicine and technology.' And that's what this sampling of people answers.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18359748/
by seanhunter | 2025-12-13 12:25:31+00:00
…and is now being taught in combined “Formal Real Analysis”[1] courses to undergrads, and the lean prover community has a joint project to formalize the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, which is a lot of work but is progressing. It’s sort of weird to say there is no progress. It seems to me when you have a fields medal winner publishing lean4 formal proofs on github[2] to go with one of his books you are making a lot of progress.

[1] eg https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs6rMe3K87LHu03WWh9rEbEhh...

[2] https://github.com/teorth/analysis
by mft_ | 2025-12-13 12:30:29+00:00
Related: I've posted similarly recently, but I wanted to share again how much improved I've recently found FreeCAD. I'm self-taught with CAD, and have repeatedly tried and discarded FreeCAD for several years. I've frequently recommended against FreeCAD here and elsewhere based on my bad experienced.

However, after finding a video [0] in which someone successfully --and without difficulty-- passed a Solidworks professional certification using FreeCAD, I gave it another go.

I've since been trialling FreeCAD via the 'bleeding edge' weekly development builds [1]. It's not perfect, and some functions are still very unintuitive, but within boundaries, it's now super-usable for relatively complex hobbyist-level CAD. In some areas, it's actually better than the competition I've tried, IMO - for example making and cutting threads.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEfNRST_3x8

[1] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases
by amiga386 | 2025-12-13 12:31:34+00:00
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35252948

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978356

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979681

Hector does active work to try and prevent being associated to his Lina persona, mainly by continuing his vendetta against former associate and co-creator of the Lina character, Luna the Foxgirl.
by tete | 2025-12-13 12:32:06+00:00
You miss something critical here. For that to happen that GenAI would have had to be trained on another "Ghibli".

So your question isn't whether Ghibli had an AI, but whether Ghibli had a whole time traveling machine with it.

Your question feels like asking whether Einstein, Plato, etc. were secretly time travelers and copied someone else's style.

Something that is a general problem with all GenAI is that they copy and imitate. And just like with code being messy and dumb you'll find that Stable Diffusion in pieces of art does stupid and dumb stuff. Things it wasn't trained on. You can most prominently see that in big detailed fantasy (as in not just a photo) pictures, and looking at details. While the overall thing "looks cool" you don't get the details that artists do and you notice a lot of silly, dumb and what for a human author would be a "strange thing to invest time in and still do so badly" kind of situation.

I'd argue if we had AI in the sense that it had actually understood things and it could actually show creativity, etc. the story might be different, but as of today it is unknown whether that's possible. It would make sense, just like alien life would make a lot of sense. But for both actually thinking systems and alien life we have no clue how close we are to seeing one.

Every time someone takes an unbiased look at it (and there are many papers) it is shown that there is no understanding of anything, which to be fair is far from surprising given what the "training" (which is just a term that is an allegory and something that is kinda simulated, but also not really).

There might very well be hard and pretty obvious limitations, such as to feel and express like a human you need to be a human or provide away to simulate that and if you look at biology, anatomy, medicine, etc. you'll soon realize that even if we had technical means to do so we simply don't know most things yet, otherwise we could likely make Alzheimer, artificial brains, etc.

The topic then might be aside from all the ethical parts (when does something have human rights), whether a superhuman as all the futurists believe there will be even be able to create something of value to a regular human or are the experiences just too different. It can already be hard to get anything out of art you cannot relate to other than general analytical interest. However on that side of things Spirited Away already might be on the "little value" side.

This isn't to defend human creation per se, but to counter often completely off understanding of what GenAI is and does.

One final comparison: We already have huge amounts of people capable of reproducing Gibli and other art. Their work might be devalued (even though I'd assume some art their own stuff into their work).

People don't buy a Picasso, because they can't find a copy or a print that even has added benefits such as requiring as much care, being cheaper. Einstein isn't unimportant today, because you learn about his work in school or on Wikipedia.

But your question is like asking whether Einstein's work would be without value, if he secretly had Wikipedia.
by ifh-hn | 2025-12-13 12:32:10+00:00
This stuff is out of my frame of reference. I've never used Go before and have never had the need to go this low level (C APIs, etc); so please keep this in mind with my following questions, which are likely to sound stupid or ignorant.

Can this binary not include compiled dependacies along side it? I'm thinking like how on windows for portable apps they include the DLLs and other dependant exes in subfolders?

Out of interest, and in relation to a less well liked Google technology, could dart produce what they are after? My understanding is dart can produce static binaries, though I'm not sure if these are truly portable compile once run everywhere sense.
by hopelite | 2025-12-13 12:33:46+00:00
It is technically illegal if that is how it is configured. Go get ‘em.

But kidding aside, who are we even really kidding anymore, even if you were provided the TOS would you simply not use the device of there were something in the TOS you disagreed with? How about when you’ve been using the device and all the sudden they change the TOS and force agreement as you are about to start a tv evening with the family?

The people simply accepted their enslavement, the taking of your agency, because we all allowed or were overwhelmed with it.

They take our agency through process just like they’ve taken our freedom and rights in so many different ways, just like through YC funded Flock, where treasonous mass surveillance cameras just show up over night and most here seem unaware it’s a YC company that now provides a mass surveillance network to the government and global government tightening its noose around humanity’s neck.
by Sharlin | 2025-12-13 12:33:47+00:00
Amusingly, here it is also BitMap [1]. Why they use an obsolete noncompressed proprietary format instead of PNG I don't know.

Edit: looks like it's because BMP supports 1-bit packed pixels and ~~PNG doesn't~~ (Edit to edit: this is wrong). The file sizes are almost identical; the 8x difference in the number of bits is exactly balanced by PNG compression! On the other hand, PBM [2] would've been a properly Unixy format, and trivial to decode, but I guess "the browser knows how to render it" is a pretty good argument for BMP. macOS Preview, BTW, supports all the NetPBM formats, which I did not expect.

[1] eg. https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-17.0.03/unifont-1...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm
by trinix912 | 2025-12-13 12:35:45+00:00
> It sounds like they were “all in” on Apple with zero backups, which shows some questionable judgment

iCloud literally encourages users to opt for storing originals only in the cloud. It's marketed as such, it nags you about this every now and then, and iCloud is the preinstalled default cloud storage on every iPhone. Consider non-techies dealing with this too.
by xg15 | 2025-12-13 12:36:13+00:00
When I signed up with them, they were actually trying to withold access to the config web UI from customers and then charge extra just to enable Wifi. My response was exactly that - "fuck that" and put my own router in front of theirs.

(That was years before the other incident - since then they had dropped that idea and "generously" given customers access to the config UI)
by smusamashah | 2025-12-13 12:36:38+00:00
Few images I have looked at include the characters as well. When I watched "When Marine Was There" I loved the background stills and wanted to use them as wallpaper or something. The house with the lake looked otherworldly to me.

I don't know how to navigate this website and if it even contains the backgrounds only. Does it have those, are Ghibli movie backgrounds available anywhere else?