MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by minimaxir | 2025-12-16 18:19:57+00:00
I have a Nano Banana Pro blog post in the works expanding on my experiments with Nano Banana (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875). Running a few of my test cases from that post and the upcoming blog post through this new ChatGPT Image model, this new model is better than Nano Banana but MUCH worse than Nano Banana Pro which now nails the test cases that previously showed issues. The pricing is unclear but gpt-image-1.5 appears to be 20% cheaper than the current gpt-image-1 model, which would put a `high`-quality generation in the same price range as Nano Banana Pro.

One curious case demoed here in the docs is the grid use case. Nano Banana Pro can also generate grids, but for NBP grid adherence to the prompt collapses after going higher than 4x4 (there's only a finite amount of output tokens to correspond to each subimage), so I'm curious that OpenAI started with a 6x6 case albeit the test prompt is not that nuanced.
by rileymichael | 2025-12-16 18:19:59+00:00
hoping for some disruption here. gha is an absolutely horrid platform for anyone trying to build optimized workflows. so many bugs / rough edges that haven't been addressed for years, the hosted runners feel like decade old compute. missing all of the modern features (like dynamic pipelines) other providers offer.

to top it all off, they round up to the nearest whole minute instead of billing for actual usage which i assume they'll use for this new charge.
by NemoNobody | 2025-12-16 18:20:13+00:00
"Offloading the cognitive work" - maybe some people become less with AI - think of akin to a calculator.

I'm brilliant.

I do math better with a calculator. So does everyone, my brilliance doesn't change that I am human, a calculator will not forget to carry a one to oversimplify, it is smarter to accurate use a calculator to do math problems... is there something wrong with that?

Why is this different?
by maxglute | 2025-12-16 18:20:28+00:00
No the problem is not process but sheer absence of NSL law and ineptitude or indifference of HKers to implement one for 20 years despite being their 1C2S obligation. If they couldn't pass NSL law in 20 years they don't deserve full democracy full stop, which btw they didn't functionally have. Also BTW know PRC killed less HKers than British did in HK during past protests. Now HK simply getting the less lethal more benevolent boot. PRC human rights in HK > UK.

> A quick search states otherwise

That's literally what I said, a 3 judge speed run. As for jury requirement, tell that to authoritarian Netherland.

> no reason any western country would put sanctions on a democratic entity

I'm just going to leave this trivially disproven quote here for posterity. It's 2025, you can trivially ask an LLM for a list, and we're not talking about western countries, we're talking about US dollar system access which US has been sanction happy with.

> mere political speech

Again, I literally distinguished between collusion vs speech. Lai working with Pompeo to sanction HK legistlators is collusion beyond speech. Which he called for publically. Plenty of cases of people thrown in jail for just speech not even in realmn of treason in west. Anyway, this is my last response, seperate libtard fantasy with libtard reality. Reality is HK is finally a normal jurisdiction with NSL coverage, which regardless of butmuhdemocracy in execution is still more accepted normal than not.
by watermelon0 | 2025-12-16 18:20:39+00:00
Self-hosted runner regularly communicates with the control plane, and control plane also needs to keep track of job status, logs, job summaries, etc.

8h job is definitely more expensive to them than a 1 minute one, but I'd guess that the actual reason is that this way they earn more money, and dissuade users from using a third party service instead of their own runners.
by buellerbueller | 2025-12-16 18:20:39+00:00
The "trackers" (in the sense used by the parent post, i.e., those who govern us) are there as our representatives; it is our right to observe what they do in that role.

Judging by the downvotes, there are a lot of surveillance state apologists/quislings in here! Oops, I mean "founders".
by jabl | 2025-12-16 18:20:41+00:00
Air-source heat pumps are also somewhat common in retrofits where the remaining expected lifetime of the building isn't big enough to be worth spending some 20-30k€ (?) that installing a ground source heat pump costs. A significant part of the cost being drilling the hole.

Similarly for small houses the cost of the hole drilling might not be worth the reduction in electricity consumption.
by rahmanyoo | 2025-12-16 18:20:59+00:00
Running off rails never worked out. I personalized differently for different LLMs. To truly get LLMs to suit your personal style takes time and often have to redo with every new major version release. Gist of common instructions are to make it ask clarifying questions, TLDR of every response at the top, To be direct and Rewards for showing true confidence scores for every response (this becomes critical in long conversations).
by jstak | 2025-12-16 18:21:14+00:00
This is a collection of classic short stories written as parallel texts, i.e. each paragraph next to its translation. It's mainly in Spanish, English and French, but the UI is in Spanish.

https://albalearning.com/ListadoParalelos.aspx

This is my favorite short story, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde:

https://albalearning.com/TextosParalelos.aspx?id=7061&idB=70...
by laserbeam | 2025-12-16 18:21:26+00:00
How will this hit OSS projects which rely heavily on github actions? I’m thinking of projects like nixpkgs, which is the backbone of nixos and always has dozens of actions queued or running. (I am using nix as an example for scale, but I am not involved in the project and my description might be inaccurate. I’m also not familiar with nix’s financials at all.)
by Amezarak | 2025-12-16 18:22:05+00:00
> But Americans do not want that. Americans want to put down $50k for 80 months for a MANLY man truck for MANLY MAN things. Or the same money for a stupid box on the same frame as an """SUV"""

I’ve driven a Corolla in the last year. Despite not being particularly tall, my head is jammed against the roof. I have to put the driver’s seat all the way back, into the knees of any rear passengers.

The owner’s manual states the car should not be used to tow anything, eliminating the claim throughout this thread of “just buy a trailer when you need to move something big.

Why is it so hard to just admit that trucks and SUVs do in fact offer greater utility and convenience in most situations than small sedans? And that this utility and convenience, even if not needed all the time, is the main reason people are buying them?

I mean, your contention is that the average American, no doubt hard up for money, is so dumb they are willing to pay a 25k+ premium to feel “manly”. Does this really make sense? Economics are not people’s primary motive but they do have an impact.

Despite driving and loving the Honda Fit for 15 years, I bought a large SUV. Can you imagine no other reason for this than I am a madman?
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-16 18:22:27+00:00
Price conscious consumers have been out of the "New" car market for a very long time. New cars have a massive premium that never makes sense.

Instead of buying a brand new Geo Metro like you would in the 90s, you just buy a used Corolla or Civic. You end up with a better car and it lasts longer anyway.

That means the majority of the "New" car market has already decided price isn't that important.

Which is why the "average" new car price is $50k and people are signing up for 80 month loans on trucks.
by ajross | 2025-12-16 18:22:30+00:00
And that answer is precisely why (1) Windows 95 was such a revelation to the market and (2) nerds like us remain oblivious to that[1] even three decades on.

Yeah, yeah, I know CUA allows for a window close. No one knew. I worked IT at the time (as did lots of us here in our youth I'm sure) and was constantly teaching and re-teaching this trick to the poor people trapped with their CUA environments.

But suddenly with Windows 95 you could see how it worked.

[1] Even if we knew in our bones, c.f. this very discussion about the popularity of a cloned hack on Linux, that it was the Right Thing.
by bonestamp2 | 2025-12-16 18:22:37+00:00
Legally, you're absolutely right. But as camera technology, data transmission, data storage, and automated data analysis progress, maybe it's also reasonable that privacy laws progress with the technology. I expect any police officer or other person to freely view my license plate as I drive around and I have no problem with that.

But, I do not think it's reasonable for an automated system to systematically capture, store, and analyze all of my movements (or anyone else who is not suspected of a serious crime). If they suspect I have done something illegal, they should have to get a warrant and then the system can be triggered to start tracking me.

I understand the desire for the data... sometimes I would like to know if my kids are following the rules at home, but I have a stronger conviction that I don't want my kids to grow up in a home where they feel like they are under constant surveillance. It's a gross feeling to be under constant surveillance, like you're living in a panopticon built for prisoners, which is an unfair side effect when you've done nothing wrong. Mass data surveillance of everyone is a totalitarian dystopian that I don't want to live in.
by nunez | 2025-12-16 18:22:39+00:00
I sympathize with this so deeply:

> "Requiring a smartphone to exist in society is not inevitable."

Seeing smartphones morph from super neat computer/camera/music players in our pockets to unfiltered digital nicotine is depressing to think about.

Notifications abuse is _entirely_ to blame, IMO.

Every app that you think of when you think of "addictive" apps heavily relies on the notifications funnel (badges, toasts, dings) for engagement. I'm disappointed that we as a society have normalized unabated casino-tier attention grabs from our most personal computing devices.

Growth through free, ad-subsidized tiers also helped create this phenomenon, but that strategy wouldn't be nearly as effective without delivery via notifications.

Big AI (more like LLM/Stable Diffusion as a Service) is going to prey on that to levels never seen before, and I'm definitely not here for it.

Obligatory end-of-post anecdote: My phone stays home most of the time when I work out. I only bring my Apple Watch.

My gym bag has an iPad mini and a BOOX eReader, but I only use the iPad to do Peloton stretches and listen to KEXP Archives, as those can't be done from my watch (though I'm working on something for the latter).

Using this setup has given me a lot of opportunities to soak in my surroundings during rest periods. Most of that is just seeing people glued to Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. TV addiction on steroids, in other words.

Thanks to this, people like me who use their phones as tools are forced to carry huge, heavy black slabs because small phones aren't viable and, as market analysis is showing, thin and lightweight slabs won't cut it either.
by ArkhamMirror | 2025-12-16 18:22:39+00:00
TL;DR is it should be fine, and thank you!

There's an isolated venv/ in the project folder, so no global packages or system python mods.

If your python is 3.11+, the install should recognize it. If you have 3.10 or lower, it's going to prompt you to install 3.11 for the project environment through winget or python.org. If you are running multiple pythons, it uses py -3.11 to pick the version.

For Docker, the app is going to want you to already have docker running, and will want to make and utilize 3 containers (PostgresSQL, Qdrant, Redis) in their own isolated docker-compose project. It uses nonstandard ports, but there could be conflicts there if you have stuff running on 5435, 6343/6344 or 6380. The backend wants to run at 8000, and the frontend wants to run at 3000, so those could conflict potentially as well.

The script is going to check if docker is running - if it is, you should be set. If it's not, it's going to prompt you to start it up.

Nothing in the install should touch your docker daemon config or your existing containers.

Let me know how it works for you!
by nickff | 2025-12-16 18:22:49+00:00
The statistics for sexual abuse in educational settings are not quite as clear as those for police-involved homicides (and I am not a subject-matter-expert), but the numbers which do exist are quite alarming.

The Wikipedia article includes a claim that sexual abuse in public schools is 100x the abuse by priests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment_in_education...

This NIH study finds 1% of students reporting grievous sexual misconduct by educators: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35499558/

This Ontario study finds a much higher prevalence of abuse (internationally): https://www.learningtoendabuse.ca/resources-events/pdfs/Teac...
by kergonath | 2025-12-16 18:23:03+00:00
> Mac UI as generally understood didn't involve moving windows around yet, not really[1]. "Window management" at the time was limited to the paradigm you'd see on the mac plus screen where you'd have one app window and some dialog boxes.

When Windows 95 was released, the top of the line was the PowerMac 81000 and the remaining Quadras, and 1024x768 was common. Overlapping windows and multitasking were not particularly unheard of… The Mac Plus had not been sold for half a decade. System 7 was released 5 years before, and 7.5 at about the same time. I mean, sure Windows 95 was successful, but let’s not rewrite history.
by renhanxue | 2025-12-16 18:23:16+00:00
Those are some big heatpumps, but in terms of installed capacity at a single location they have yet to beat the Stockholm municipal heating utility's installation at Hammarbyverket, which since its most recent expansion in 2013 has a total of 7 heat pumps capable of extracting up to 225 MW of heat energy from treated sewage. The utility claims it is (still) the world's largest heat pump installation. Notably it actually uses both the hot and the cold side of the heat pumps; the cold side is sent into the district cooling network.
by somat | 2025-12-16 18:23:31+00:00
While trying to find earlier information on type design I stumbled on this gorgeous 1878 guide for sign painters.

https://archive.org/details/gri_33125007673623

As someone who is not a design snob (I tend to fall into the ontology snob bucket) the bit I liked is the way the types were categorized, there is the roman style and the egyptian style. And while roman was obvious "Ah yes like times new roman" egyptian was not familiar to me. Easy enough to figure out that it is what today we call sans-serif but I wonder when the term fell out of use?
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-12-16 18:24:02+00:00
Everyone in this thread has gone absolutely insane. $5/month gets you 41 fucking _hours_ of continuous operation. If you're not utterly abusing the platform, this falls extremely below the threshold of caring. And if not, what the fuck are you even doing with all those hours? The new per-minute charge is less than one millisecond of engineer labor cost.
by wmedrano | 2025-12-16 18:24:10+00:00
I'm too dumb as well. I flipped this to make it about text editors. Personally, I love my Emacs:

This, like almost all writing about fonts, is bewildering to me. It just doesn't matter. For me, there are just 3 text editors in the world: IDE's, terminal editors, and weird editors (Ed, Teco, etc.)

What's even more strange is reading strong opinions on how great Emacs is, or how terrible NeoVim is ("Gnu good Apache bad", I know.) They're the same thing! I guess I'm too dumb to notice the subtle differences between Lisp and Lua.
by okushigue | 2025-12-16 18:24:30+00:00
Project NAUTILUS-100 presents a comprehensive technical framework for establishing a self-sufficient colony of 100 permanent inhabitants on Mars within a 10-year operational timeline. The system integrates submarine nuclear technology heritage with modular prefabricated construction and closed-loop ecological life support (Artificial Closed Ecosystem - ACE). The architecture employs 135 standardized MARSUB-CELL modules (12m × 4.5m), transportable via SpaceX Starship, featuring plug-and-play interconnection through the ICP-Mars docking protocol. Expandable greenhouse modules (MS-P1-XL) achieve 4× area efficiency using inflatable rigid technology, providing 18,000 m² of cultivation area across 56 units. The integrated ACE combines 18 carefully selected organisms (crops, fish, insects, algae, fungi) achieving >95% food self-sufficiency, 98% water recycling, and 95% nutrient closure. Energy requirements (2-3 MW operational) are met through hybrid nuclear-solar generation: four Kilopower-XL reactors (500 kW each) provide baseload, supplemented by 12,000 m² of photovoltaic arrays and 4 MWh battery storage. Total project cost is estimated at $15.5B over 10 years, requiring 28 Starship flights across four transfer windows (2035-2043). Technology Readiness Levels range from TRL 6-9, with critical path items requiring 5-8 years of terrestrial analog validation. This work demonstrates that permanent Martian colonization is achievable with current or near-term technology, contingent on commitment to modular redundancy, biological-technological integration, and phased deployment strategies.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-16 18:24:37+00:00
I sometimes imagine local laws/contracts with a provision like: "This system may not be operated if there is no state law that makes it a class X felony to violate someone's privacy in any of the Y conditions."

In other words, the "we're trustworthy we'd never do that" folks ought to be perfectly fine with harsh criminal penalties for misuse they're already promising would never happen.

This would also create an incentive for these companies to lobby for the creation/continuation of such a law at the state level, as a way to unlock (or retain) their ability to do businesses in the localities.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-12-16 18:24:38+00:00
a per-job cost instead of per-minute cost for non-compute "control plane" for CI would have made more sense and seemed more reasonable to me -- but don't really know if customers would have liked it better/worse or paid more/less under it.

(I work exclusively on public repo open source at the moment, and get Github actions for free).
by okushigue | 2025-12-16 18:24:52+00:00
https://zenodo.org/records/17943985 https://zenodo.org/records/17929227 https://zenodo.org/records/17927718 https://zenodo.org/records/17919592 https://zenodo.org/records/17909751 https://zenodo.org/records/17896284 https://zenodo.org/records/17885100 https://zenodo.org/records/17870334 https://zenodo.org/records/17809868
by featherless | 2025-12-16 18:24:59+00:00
I run a local Valhalla build cluster to power the https://sidecar.clutch.engineering routing engine. The cluster runs daily and takes a significant amount of wall-clock time to build the entire planet. That's about 50% of my CI time; the other 50% is presubmits + App Store builds for Sidecar + CANStudio / ELMCheck.

Using GitHub actions to coordinate the Valhalla builds was a nice-to-have, but this is a deal-breaker for my pull request workflows.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-16 18:25:18+00:00
Its not about need for a lot of people. Its about having the money to optimize, aspects of their life, which everyone does in different areas.

Trucks have the following advantages

* Can drive most anywhere due to high ground clearance and 4wd. This comes in handy quite a bit. Having 4wd + weight + all terrain or appropriate tires means being able to leave the place during a winter storm versus being snowed in.

* Can carry big things or dirty things. Motorcycles, mountain bikes, furniture, landscaping supplies, and so on, without being limited in where you can go or how fast you can go while towing a trailer like you would with an SUV.

* They are safer for the occupants. Can't control if other people drink and drive. Can control if you survive or not if you get hit by a drunk driver.
by deanishe | 2025-12-16 18:25:24+00:00
> We only permit pesticides for which there is undisputed evidence that the chemicals do not cause problems for humans/animals/other plants etc.

This is broadly how the EU operates. If companies want to start putting new stuff in/on our food, they first have to demonstrate it's no dangerous.

Not the best approach to everything perhaps, but I'd rather not have capitalists freely innovating on my food.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-16 18:25:26+00:00
I tend to just rely on the platform installers, then write my own process scripts to handle the work beyond the runners. Lets me exercise most of the process without having to (re)run the ci/cd processes over and over, which can be cumbersome, and a pain when they do break.

The only self-hosted runners I've used have been for internalized deployments separate from the build or (pre)test processes.

Aside: I've come to rely on Deno heavily for a lot of my scripting needs since it lets me reference repository modules directly and not require a build/install step head of time... just write TypeScript and run.
by eikenberry | 2025-12-16 18:25:26+00:00
I wouldn't call Linux's stance silly. A working OS requires drivers for the hardware it will run on and having all the drivers in the kernel is a big reason we are able to use Linux everywhere we can today. Just like if they had used a more permissive license, we wouldn't have the Linux we do today. Compare the hardware supported by Linux vs the BSDs to see why these things are important.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-16 18:25:27+00:00
I'll go a step farther. iOS is the only mobile OS that restricts PWA's and I think they do it on purpose to force you out of PWAs and into native apps. I think Apple should 100% support PWAs with no shenanigans, they should work 100% without Apple needing to approve of anything too.

Steve Jobs pitched PWAs way back when, I don't know why all we've gotten is a half-baked solution from Apple other than they want you in their App Store with a native app.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-12-16 18:25:31+00:00
You realize surveillance capitalism is what caused the Andor TV show (and more broadly the entire Star Wars franchise) to exist at all, right? Gigantic corporate entities have made a lot of money from monetizing the Star Wars franchise.

I'll say frankly that I personally object to Star Wars on an aesthetic level - it is ultimately an artistically-flawed media franchise even if it has some genuinely compelling ideas sometimes. But what really bothers me is that Star Wars in its capacity as a modern culturally-important story cycle is also intellectual property owned by the Disney corporation.

The idea that the problems of the world map neatly to a confict between an evil empire and a plucky rebellion is also basically propagandistic (and also boring). It's a popular storytelling frame - that's why George Lucas wrote the original Star Wars movies that way. But I really don't like seeing someone watch a TV series using the Star Wars intellectual property package and then using the story the writers chose to write - writers ultimately funded by Disney - as a basis for how they see themselves in the world poltically.
by tlb | 2025-12-16 18:26:05+00:00
It's probably good for young people to learn to do arithmetic by hand. I think you'd lose some important cognitive ability if you never learned arithmetic other than to punch things into a calculator. Not so much because of arithmetic itself, but because you learn how to do careful step-by-step operations, surely an important general cognitive ability.

Once you can do it by hand, by all means use a calculator for speed and accuracy.