MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lanyard-textile | 2025-12-29 09:40:45+00:00
Jovially -- you simultaneously believe that they're a victim of a psy-op *and* that their attitude is self formed?

;) And you wanted to go ape shit on him... For falling for a psy-op?

My friend, morale is very very low. There is no vigor to fight for a better tomorrow in many people's hearts. Many are occupied with the problems of today. It doesn't take a psy-op to reach this level of hopelessness.

Be sick of it all you want, it doesn't change their minds. Perhaps you will find something more persuasive.
by danhau | 2025-12-29 09:42:06+00:00
Yup. I had the same revelation when I learned that many of the colors we perceive don't really "exist". The closest thing to hue in nature is wavelength, but there is no wavelength for purple, for example. The color purple is our visual system's interpretation of data (ratio of trichromatic cone cell activation). It doesn't exist by itself.

It's the same reason that allows RGB screens to work. No screen has ever produced "real" yellow (for which there is a wavelength), but they still stimulate our trichromatic vision very similar to how actual yellow light would.
by ckardaris | 2025-12-29 09:42:38+00:00
Interesting project. Thanks for sharing.

I am also a fan of DDG bangs and I see two missing features:

1. DDG supports bangs at any place in the query (even in the middle of it). I can search "topic !wiki" and it will work as expected.

2. DDG also supports following the first result in a query if a bare '!' is present in the query. Searching " hacker news !" will land me in the actual website without having to click anything in the results page.

Maybe you can consider adding these.
by kouteiheika | 2025-12-29 09:42:43+00:00
(Not OP)

It depends on the model, but from my experiments (quantizing one layer of a model to 2-bit and then training the model with that layer in 2-bit to fix the damage) the first layer is the most sensitive, and yes, the last layer is also sensitive too. The middle layers take the best to quantization.

Different components of a layer also have a different sensitivity; e.g. the MLP downscale block damages the model the most when quantized, while quantizing the Q projection in self attention damages the model the least.
by curtisblaine | 2025-12-29 09:43:02+00:00
Norwood vs UK was about Norwood displaying an "Islam out of Britain" sign.

Samuel Melia was jailed 2 years for publishing downloadable stickers saying "Mass immigration is white genocide," "Second-generation? Third? Fourth? You have to go back," and "Labour loves Muslim rpe gangs".

Are those messages controversial? For sure. Should originator of these messages be prosecuted? I don't think so. Are anti-christian, "dead men don't rpe" or "eat the rich" messages treated the same in uk? Absolutely not.
by Toutouxc | 2025-12-29 09:43:06+00:00
I think you’ll find that there is no clear line between what you call fake bullshit and the rest of the process. The entire signal path is optimized at every step to reduce and suppress noise. There’s actual light noise, there’s readout noise, ADC noise, often dozens or hundreds of abnormal pixels. Certain autofocus technologies even sacrifice image-producing pixels, and simply interpolate over the “holes” in data.

Regarding sharpening and optical stuff, many modern camera lenses are built with the expectation that some of their optical properties will be easy to correct for in software, allowing the manufacturer to optimize for other properties.
by mrtksn | 2025-12-29 09:43:55+00:00
Sounds like Russians learned their lesson.

There's similar phenomenon in safety stats. In the stats Istanbul appears to be vastly safer than London but having lived in both, I can tell you why Istanbul is safer: Because public spaces don't exist and private spaces are guarded with bars and steel doors.

In London, there's pubs etc. everywhere, in Istanbul you are limited to few centers to be outside after 10. The places where people go are bustling because they serve a city of 16 million, so they are well lit and guarded.

In London, there are parks and guard free public spaces everywhere. In istanbul there are very few such places.

In London people mostly live in homes that don't have bars on the windows but in Istanbul there's bars on the first floor on every window on any building that's not a gated community. People with money live in gated communities or one of the very few upscale district.

In London you can walk ro everywhere, it has wide sidewalks and not many hills. In Istanbul sidewalks are tiny and often interrupted and the city has hills, as a result very few people walk more than a few hundred meters and people with bicycles are rounding error level non existent.

In Istanbul there's simply not many opportunities for crime, so when it happens it happens differently that the way it happens in London. No one ill grab your phone and run but if you wander in a non-commercial location or location that is not well lit after dark, you can be raped or stabbed just like that.

You can't really compare the realities of these cities by simply looking at some numbers without proper context.
by chimprich | 2025-12-29 09:44:20+00:00
That's a stupid perspective. That's presumably Russia's self-reported numbers, not the actual numbers of people who were detained for speech Putin's regime didn't like. For example, in 2023, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in a special regime colony, his lawyers were arrested, and then Navalny was murdered in prison.
by goku12 | 2025-12-29 09:44:55+00:00
Okay, but what about the rest? The ones that aren't embedded in someway and use industrial grade PCs/control stations? Or ones with large buffers like network routers? I'm also wondering about the supply of the alternate nodes and older technologies. Will the manufactures keep those lines running? Was it micron that abandoned the entire retail market in favor of supplying the hyperscalers?
by tuetuopay | 2025-12-29 09:46:54+00:00
This sounds a bit like the GrapheneOS shenanigans in France recently: it's an opensource project with no product per-se. There's no supplying to anyone; rather people help themselves to grab it. The debate would be should opensource projects like Tor or GrapheneOS prevent sanctioned people from grabbing the freely (as in both beer and speech) available project from the shelf.

(writing this message, I realized how hard it is not to write "product" for the thing graphene and tor make)
by omnimus | 2025-12-29 09:47:21+00:00
Mac have been certainly picking up in usage worldwide but it's been always pretty openly premium luxury product? Especially in the past. It is even marketed like that. They might be changing their reputation since their entry Macbooks are pretty great price/performance but people simply buy cheaper.

Marketshare of MacOS is like 15% worldwide (curiously declining in US). That's a minor platform.

Also stop with Chromebooks. It might dominate schools in US (often mandatory) and it is popular in specific countries like India. But in majority of the world it's absolutely unknown with global marketshare of like 1%.
by fleabitdev | 2025-12-29 09:47:27+00:00
Protanopia and protanomaly shift luminance perception away from the longest wavelengths of visible light, which causes highly-saturated red colours to appear dark or black. Deuteranopia and deuteranomaly don't have this effect. [1]

Blue cones make little or no contribution to luminance. Red cones are sensitive across the full spectrum of visual light, but green cones have no sensitivity to the longest wavelengths [2]. Since protans don't have the "hardware" to sense long wavelengths, it's inevitable that they'd have unusual luminance perception.

I'm not sure why deutans have such a normal luminous efficiency curve (and I can't find anything in a quick literature search), but it must involve the blue cones, because there's no way to produce that curve from the red-cone response alone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficiency_function#C...

[2]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cone-fundamentals-wi...
by roryirvine | 2025-12-29 09:48:33+00:00
The Thames Tideway Tunnel might be a better comparator.

It's similar in scope to this recently-completed second phase of NYC Tunnel #3, albeit carrying sewage rather than fresh water: 25 km long, 7.2 m in diameter in London vs 29 km long, 4.9 m diameter in NYC. Flow volumes are likely similar (a sewage tunnel will rarely run full).

Planning started in 2001, with construction beginning in 2016. It opened in May 2025, at a cost of around £5bn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tideway_Tunnel
by tovej | 2025-12-29 09:48:54+00:00
Are you seriously claiming that White Brits are not the dominant ethnic group in the UK? Who's running the country? Out of the last twenty PMs, how many have been people of color? One?

You seem to love to write QED after a quote. That makes you look dumb. The English did not "fuse" with an indigenous people, they colonized or dominated an already colonized people, and in the process removed their "social, economic, cultural, and political institutions" [1].
This in turn does not fit in with the definition of Indigenous people. No scholar would ever claim that the English are indigenous to the British isles. That would be absurd. The same is true of the Romano-British. Whenever settlers "fuse" with an indigenous culture by importing their customs, the result is not an indigenous culture, it's a settler-colonial one.

Did you see the part underneath what you quoted in the UNESCO definition?

"According to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the system has instead developed a modern understanding of this term based on the following:

Self-identification as indigenous peoples at the individual level and accepted by the community as their member.
- Historical continuity with pre-colonial and or pre-settler societies
- Strong links to territories and surrounding natural resources
- Distinct social, economic and political system
- Distinct language, culture and beliefs
- Form non-dominant groups of society
- Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as distinctive peoples and communities"

Does that sound like the English to you? Hardly. There is no continuity with pre-settler society. The Anglo-Saxon settlers replaced pre-existing culture.

And, again, skin tone does not relate to culture. Which is why the fact that DHH tries to claim it does makes him an ethnonationalist, a fringe far-right position.

It is funny to see you fail to argue like an adult. All the "QED"s and "erroneous claim" make you sound like a tiny Ben Shapiro in my mind. I wonder why you would subject yourself to this kind of humiliating self-own. You are constantly misinterpreting terms, simply saying "No" or "False" without ever citing anything but wikipedia. It's obvious you have no understanding of either anthropology nor of where to find information or how to interpret it. Thank you. It heartens me to get to confirm that racists are idiots.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Brit...
by energy123 | 2025-12-29 09:50:05+00:00
It's lame how a timeless Buddhist principle is derided as "privilege" by contemporary leftists. So closed minded and presumptuous towards something so effective and universally applicable.

My personal observation is that those with the least engage in this practice the most, partly because they don't have the bandwidth to bother. It's the middle and upper-middle class who are the terminally online cynics.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-12-29 09:51:16+00:00
If you have 25gb of executables then I don’t think it matters if that’s one binary executable or a hundred. Something has gone horribly horribly wrong.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 4gb binary yet. I have seen instances where a PDB file hit 4gb and that caused problems. Debug symbols getting that large is totally plausible. I’m ok with that at least.
by phkx | 2025-12-29 09:51:19+00:00
Looking into the situation in the UK specifically, I found a description of the potentially underlying issues [1] and those are indeed worrisome. I still fail to see why one would raise it in the way GP did to comment on the TOR post.

Others have pointed at the funding of TOR through the US. If there is actual evidence that this impacts the stated purpose of TOR (non-discriminating access to the internet, I‘d say), please share. Otherwise, my impression is still that TOR works as advertised and is working on solutions where it is not.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police...
Show HN: ReadyData – Automated AI Data Extraction from Documents
by lcorinst | 2025-12-29 09:51:49+00:00
I built ReadyData to remove the pain of manual data extraction.
You can upload documents, images, audio, or videos, and get clean, structured data you can actually work with — instead of copy-pasting for hours.

I’m using it myself for invoices, statements, and messy files that don’t fit traditional parsers. Would love feedback from the HN community.
by fartfeatures | 2025-12-29 09:53:18+00:00
This take is pure Luddite nonsense. AI "lowering labor value while boosting capital" ignores centuries of automation: productivity gains cut costs, expand markets, create new jobs, and raise real wages despite short-term disruption.

Steam engines, electricity, computers displaced workers but spawned far more opportunities through new industries and cheaper goods. Same pattern now.

The "jobless masses stuck with 1GB phones eating slop" fantasy is backwards. Compute keeps getting vastly cheaper and more capable; AI speeds that up.

"Terrible for indie creators and startups"? The opposite: AI obliterates barriers to building, shipping, and competing. Solo founders are moving faster than ever.

It's the same tired doomer script we get with every tech wave. It ages poorly.
by berkes | 2025-12-29 09:53:28+00:00
Certainly. But the problem here wasn't "we want flags", but that the client (via the designer) demanded something that couldn't fit in a select box and so we had to build our own.

Now, I think part of the problem is that such elements weren't architectured properly when invented. Like many other HTML elements, they should've had some way to style and/or improve them.

E.g. an H1 Header, I can apply CSS to and change it from the default to something matching the business style. I can add some behaviour to it, so I can bookmark it's id anchor. I can add some behaviour to turn the H1-6 into a nice table-of-contents. Or an image can be improved with some CSS and JS to load progressively. But most form elements, and the dropdown in particular, is hard to improve.

And, yes, I am aware of the can of worms if "any element is allowed inside an <option>". Or the misuse designers will do if we can add CSS to certain <options> or their contents. Though I don't think "webdevs will abuse" was ever the reason not to hand power to them. It was mostly a disconnect between the "designers of the specs" and the "designers/builders of websites".

Because that "abuse" is never worse than what is still done en-masse: where we simply replace the "select" with hundreds of lines of CSS, divsoup, and hundreds or thousands of lines of JS. Where entire component libraries exist and used all over the place, that completely replicate the behaviour of existing (form) elements but with divs/spans, css and js. And despite the thousands of hours of finetuning, still get details wrong in the area of a11y, on mobile platforms, on obscure platforms, with a plugin, with a slow connection and so on.
by thrance | 2025-12-29 09:53:46+00:00
Please do not equate demands for more taxations with calls to do more genocides of jewish people. The far right is uniquely problematic in our modern political landscape.

And I disagree, free speech is a liberal value, you don't get to say nazi shit and hide behind free speech. Being a groyper is not a crime, but calling for genocide is and should be punished. Else we run the risk of normalizing these abhorrent ideas and repeating the worst times of our history, like the US seems on a course to doing.
by LoganDark | 2025-12-29 09:56:09+00:00
I hope emerging research that divides the autism spectrum into four phenotypes[0] eventually gets recognized and incorporated into research like this. I still believe comparing the entire spectrum at once is the wrong approach, especially since the variants of autism express so differently.

As an example: I'm autistic and I learn inside-out, building larger new concepts out of smaller existing ones; those with Asperger's on the other paw, learn outside-in instead, breaking down larger existing concepts into smaller new ones; both are part of the "autism spectrum", but differ very fundamentally.

Given that the origin of "autism" is simply "thinking that differs from usual", there's no evidence that there is a single underlying cause to find, nor that generalizations across the entire spectrum will reveal much of anything other than coincidence.

I believe we need to individualize new research to the variants that we now know exist, because otherwise we will continue to all-but erase anything that isn't common to the entire spectrum.

[0]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.15.24312078v...
by RobotToaster | 2025-12-29 09:56:18+00:00
A person without legs does not stop being disabled because they have no need or desire to walk. The fact remains that should they need or desire to walk in the future the hinderance will still very much exist.

A similar example could be made of someone with gluten intolerance. If they do not eat foods that contain gluten they are still gluten intolerant. They are however still disabled by needing to stay in that situation.
by GuB-42 | 2025-12-29 09:57:20+00:00
You can, but maybe you shouldn't.

If, for some reason the CSS doesn't load, your site may break completely instead of degrading gracefully. Maybe it will mess with people who have an unusual browser configuration too. It may look nice on your side, but on the user side, I only see disadvantages. It may look like it saves a few bytes, but with compression, it may not.
by soldthat | 2025-12-29 09:58:10+00:00
> Israel is attacking all of their neighbours.

That’s a bit of an exaggeration. Israel has not attacked Egypt or Jordan.

It has attacked Lebanon after the north of Israel had been evacuated for many months due to relentless rocket attacks from Lebanon.

The only preemptive attack on a neighbour was Syria, after the fall of the Assad regime.
by thiht | 2025-12-29 09:58:31+00:00
LinkedIn has been high value to me. You just need to ignore the whole social feed, games, and garbage notifications. Use it as a resume platform and let recruiters / founders reach out to you. I’ve had great job offers in the last few years with basically zero time investment. 3 years ago I +50%’d my salary and went full remote on my tech stack of choice just thanks to LinkedIn. And I absolutely suck at networking and invest no time in it at all.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-29 09:59:30+00:00
This is an excellent list. Compared to the paper dictionaries and flashcards I saw expats struggling with 20 years ago, these tools feel almost like magic for the "Software" layer (Vocabulary/Kanji).

However, as a loan officer living in Japan, I see many people master the "Software" but fail because of the "Hardware" (Audio OS).

In Japanese, vowels (a, i, u, e, o) are standalone signals. We process them as language. But I've read that Western brains often filter them out as mechanical noise.

My advice: Use these tools to build your database, but don't forget to "update your BIOS". Unless you retune your brain to treat isolated vowels as Signal instead of Noise, the software won't run smoothly.
by Defletter | 2025-12-29 10:01:32+00:00
Yeaaaah, the Communications Act 2003 is not fit for purpose in the modern information age where [seemingly] the vast majority of conversation is taking place in digital spaces. Sidenote, I do think it's amusing how, prior to the Online Safety Act 2023, it was an offence to Cunningham's Law someone (posting a knowingly-false statement online to annoy someone into correcting you). That said, I'm more or less ambivalent about "grossly offensive" speech: most of the examples I find people moaning about are people being gratuitously abhorrent and should have known better. But again, there are examples of police and prosecutors getting it wrong.

But I think the leap from acknowledging that to "speech should never be infringed", as many freeze peachers would advocate, to be infinitely more destructive: just see what it's doing to America. Just look at what the infiltration of American-style freedom of speech principles is doing to this country: we have people defending Lucy Connolly, the woman who publicly advocated for the burning down of hotels housing asylum seekers, calling her a "political prisoner", that the government is "silencing the right".

One part where I agree with you is "From the river to the sea": there are two versions of this (more than two, but they are variations of the same thing), the first being "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", and the other "between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". Guess which one our government finds objectionable. And guess which one is being used to justify a genocide. It does bother me that the government can chill and punish speech that objects to its foreign policy. But I feel as if (this is just vibes, feel free to correct me) the most harm being done is through anti-protest laws, not grossly offensive digital communications: I personally know of multiple people who regularly post abrasive, if not downright virulent "silence is violence" type content online, but do not go to protests because they fear arrest, detention, and being fired.
by tirant | 2025-12-29 10:01:39+00:00
What regulation are you expecting to be passed and why do you believe monopolies are bad?

If a monopoly appears due to superior offerings, better pricing and quicker innovation, I fail to see why it needs to be a bad thing. They can be competed against and historically that has always been the case.

On the other hand, monopolies appearing due to regulations, permissions, patents, or any governmental support, are indeed terrible, as they cannot be competed against.
by fleabitdev | 2025-12-29 10:03:02+00:00
The rods are only active in low-light conditions; they're fully active under the moon and stars, or partially active under a dim street light. Under normal lighting conditions, every rod is fully saturated, so they make no contribution to vision. (Some recent papers have pushed back against this orthodox model of rods and cones, but it's good enough for practical use.)

This assumption that rods are "the luminance cells" is an easy mistake to make. It's particularly annoying that the rods have a sensitivity peak between the blue and green cones [1], so it feels like they should contribute to colour perception, but they just don't.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_cell#/media/File:Cone-abso...
by BatteryMountain | 2025-12-29 10:03:23+00:00
No, we need one level lower & zero mono. I want the sdk or runtime to be installed in the same way (and executable) the same way on android as on other linux distro's. .Net has ARM builds so it will work fine. This is without any specific framework dependencies (like aspnet, maui, avalonia etc) - just plain .net 8/10. It would actually be nice if android just bundled the runtime to begin with so we don't have to. They can just pin it to latest LTS versions and let it auto update now & then, same way as WebView/Google play services etc.