MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sevrene | 2025-12-10 20:04:01+00:00
>I feel like you haven't really been listening to the arguments against these types of age-verification-for-websites laws.

Or maybe I just have a different conclusion to you? Because I do care, I do try to listen to the arguments. I'm no stranger to advocacy for civil liberties, they are important to me. I think all else being equal, freedom should be valued more over harm prevention. So if I'm for these laws, consider that a sign of how bad these sites have become, not how uninformed I am.

> I mean, there's some similarities, of course. But I think there are some very stark differences.

Yep of course it's not a 1:1, I agree. I don't mean to imply that people saying the same arguments today are wrong simply because people in the past were, but it does make me think more about it when I spot the same rhetoric.

Often both sides have very reasonable concerns, as an example, the question isn't "should we have all or no freedom" Either extreme creates issues, yet both sides have valid arguments worth our time considering. We settle somewhere in the middle.

Here's one vox pop with the introduction of breathalizers in UK (1967): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_tqQYmgMQg
by johngalt | 2025-12-10 20:04:20+00:00
FYI, the included cartridges in a new printer are typically a 'low capacity' type. This has been true for 20+ years. You may find yourself both spending a large amount of money, and generating a significant amount of e-waste if you pursue this strategy.

It is important to check consumable cost when buying a printer. They aren't all the same in this regard.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-10 20:04:32+00:00
Well, they don't count, really.

If people were honest, we'd likely discover that unprovoked snake bites are almost unheard-of.

Likewise, if every drowning victim were routinely checked for BAC, I think we'd discover that sober people are much more drown-resistant than the stats would indicate. Unfortunately, water + play correlates highly with beer/wine cooler/hard seltzer consumption, in the US at least.

People make a lot of bad decisions, and it has effects.
by beedeebeedee | 2025-12-10 20:04:37+00:00
It shouldn't be the case that people acting in bad faith can disrupt meaningful discussion between people acting in good faith. I am at a loss to suggest a better forum. Town halls, protests, talking to people on the street, Congress, etc, are not able to have these discussions either.

Maybe this is not the forum, but then what is? A philosophy class you took ten years ago?
by readyplayeremma | 2025-12-10 20:05:20+00:00
The models are right here, one of the first links in the post: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-omni

edit: Nevermind, in spite of them linking it at the top, they are the old models. Also, the HF demo is calling their API and not using HF for compute.
by henwfan | 2025-12-10 20:05:23+00:00
Thanks for buying it and mentioning this. You are right that the current checker is still too strict about matching my variable names and structure, and that is not where I want it to stay.

I am working on a Python validator that compares the parsed code as an AST instead of raw text, so you can use your own variable names and small structural changes as long as the logic is the same. I am aiming to have the first version of this in by the end of December.

After that I want two clear ways to practice. One mode tracks the editorial solution for people who want to drill that exact version, while still allowing harmless differences like different names and small adjustments in structure. The other mode treats your own code as the reference and lets the objectives and feedback adapt to the way you wrote the solution, instead of holding everyone to one fixed template.

If you have thoughts on what would make the checker feel natural and fair for you, feel free to share them here and I will keep them in mind as I make these changes.
by atmosx | 2025-12-10 20:05:33+00:00
Can you name a referendum of a country within the EU that has to do with the EU in some form or capacity and received a positive vote? Netherlands, France, Italy and Greece all voted at a certain point in time. The result was always a “no”.

The EU is not popular, within Europe, at all. Maybe the idea is great, but the implementation is certainly not.
by esafak | 2025-12-10 20:06:18+00:00
They do. Where did you get this? All the providers have clauses like this:

"4.1. Generally. Customer and Customer’s End Users may provide Input and receive Output. As between Customer and OpenAI, to the extent permitted by applicable law, Customer: (a) retains all ownership rights in Input; and (b) owns all Output. OpenAI hereby assigns to Customer all OpenAI’s right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output."

https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/
by immibis | 2025-12-10 20:06:25+00:00
I suspect they should say "this machine is not confidential" and have good reasons for that - you can't just impose extra restrictions on your employees just because you want to.

The law (as executed) will weigh the normal interest in employee privacy, versus your legitimate interest in doing whatever you want to do on their computers. Antivirus is probably okay, even if it involves TLS interception. Having a human watch all the traffic is probably not, even if you didn't have to intercept TLS. Unless you work for the BND (German Mossad) maybe? They'd have a good reason to watch traffic like a hawk. It's all about balancing and the law is never as clear-cut as programmers want, so we might as well get used to it being this way.
by dundarious | 2025-12-10 20:06:50+00:00
I believe 972mag.com have reported on Palentir tech involved in the "AI target selection" programs that the Israeli military has used in Gaza. My recollection is they use a logic similar to the subprime ratings agency scandal: collate info on individuals (cell tower proximity, movement patterns, social media leanings), and find the top 5% of target candidates, call those "high quality" regardless of any absolute metric of quality, and then rubber-stamp approve air strikes on their homes by the human lawyers "in the loop" -- then repeat with the next top 5% and call those "high quality" again. The implication was that Palentir worked on the ranking system itself. (The 5% is arbitrary here, a stand-in for whatever top slice they do use)

There are a couple such systems, and I am speaking without the ability to take the time right now to find those articles to confirm/counter my recollections, so consider this a prompt for a proper review -- ironic.

This comment may be a good stepping stone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222724
by observationist | 2025-12-10 20:07:00+00:00
It's four horsemen of the infocalypse 101. Look at the platforms they allowed to continue - discord and roblox, the specific worst of all socials with the most predators, least effective countermeasures.

The purpose of a thing is what it does. Australia's policies do not protect children. They quite brazenly and blatantly leave children vulnerable and exploited. The question of what those actions accomplish has a simple answer - narrative control, censorship, and weaponization of public discourse against dissent.

The real solution to these problems are cultural. If you want the best outcomes for kids, then reinforce stable loving family environments, empower a culture of resilience and competence and capability, impose accountability for wrongdoing, negligence, and careless operation. If teachers and families are leaving kids vulnerable, the solution is better education and more information.

None of the policy Australia crafted does anything good. It's just another power grab using "won't you think of the children?!" as the excuse. Next year it will be terrorism or drugs or money laundering, and they'll keep constricting around civil liberties until they have absolute control.

They'll also put various racial and ethnic officials in prominent positions, so that you may not criticize anything lest you be deemed a racist or bigot (super effective social engineering.)
by lisbbb | 2025-12-10 20:07:09+00:00
I don't see the danger of pornography, tbh. Oh, much of it is sick, sure, but violent video games are far more harmful. Would it be better to depict loving, caring relationships? Hell, yes! But there are so few of those these days.

My teenage son struggles to have any meaningful dialog with any of the girls his age. It's like he doesn't exist. The few kids who are "dating" is basically the exact scenario that MGTOW depicts--girls only go for the elite jocks and ignore everyone else like they don't even exist. Everyone is miserable. Many will eventually grow out of it, but I don't think the females will ever view themselves as doing anything but "settling" because of the nonsense programmed into their heads. And yes, social media is largely responsible for how extreme the situation has become. In the 90s, girls were picky, but nothing like now. So all that young men have left is like AI chatbots and porn and it's better to not take that away from them, too.
by seneca | 2025-12-10 20:07:26+00:00
> It's very unfortunate. As a parent, I feel like it requires regulation at the national level because I can't win against Meta (FB, Insta), Google (Youtube), Snapchat and TikTok.

Sorry, but this just isn't the case. I have children very much in the target age here, and they only have a passing understand of what social media even is due to us explaining how unhealthy it is to them.

It's unfortunate you feel incapable of achieving the same, but abdicating your responsibility as a parent to the state isn't the answer.
by biophysboy | 2025-12-10 20:07:35+00:00
The original comment suggests that the policy is politically motivated. The commenter replied with other reasons for the policy other than political agitation. I think its a valid response.

I also don't buy the implied claim from the original commenter that age-limits are paternalistic/suppressive with regard to political thought/speech. Large tech platforms control political thought/speech on a regular basis, a lot of which is executed by state actors. Even in the absence of devious actors, algorithms are editorial by nature; they are not neutral infrastructure by any means.
by camel-cdr | 2025-12-10 20:07:36+00:00
> Ventana's cores are more like Cortex A76 kinds of things

More like Neoverse-V3: https://www.ventanamicro.com/technology/risc-v-cpu-ip/

BTW: "Silicon platforms launching in early 2026."

I wonder if this will be delayed due to the acquisition.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-10 20:07:38+00:00
> especially in such a complex codebase

You accidentally put the finger on the key point, emphasis mine.

When you have a memory-unsafe language, the complexity of the whole codebase impact your ability to uphold memory-related invariants.

But unsafe block are, by definition, limited in scope and assuming you design your codebase properly, they shouldn't interact with other unsafe blocks in a different module. So the complexity related to one unsafe block is in fact contained to his own module, and doesn't spread outside. And that makes everything much more tractable since you never have to reason about the whole codebase, but only about a limited scope everytime.
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-12-10 20:07:40+00:00
Indeed. I'm pretty sure the issue is that the HDMI Consortium wants some kind of royalty for each device sold with a proper HDMI designation, whereas VESA doesn't care if you sell one device or a million devices with DisplayPort. You owe them nothing extra beyond the initial legal access fee.

Oh yeah, and the burdensome NDA that the HDMI Consortium requires its partners to agree to is another serious problem for the Linux driver.
by taylodl | 2025-12-10 20:07:44+00:00
That’s looking only at the supply side and ignoring the demand side. Sure, founders might not need laborers - but they still need buyers. If nobody has a job, where does the money come from to buy products and services? Nowhere. The whole system collapses for everyone. Economic collapse leads to monetary collapse, and even your millions won’t save you. You may "own" things, but only as long as you can defend them. See where this goes?
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-10 20:07:51+00:00
The relevant question is 'What is a custom Meta AI datacenter valuable for, after a hypothetical AI crash?'

Crypto -> LLM -> Repurpose Crypto Power Contracts to Feed LLM Datacenters -> AI crash -> Repurpose LLM Hardware/Power for Crypto ?

Would be curious if anyone has run the numbers on what LLM hardware capacity (including upcoming) would do to blockchains, if a big chunk were reallocated.
by benhoyt | 2025-12-10 20:07:53+00:00
That's a good caution. However, traversing a flat AST (iterating a "struct of arrays" rather than a pointer-based tree) is also going to be faster. So the next steps of the compiler, say type checking and code emitting, will also be faster. But how much, or whether it's worth it even then, I'm not sure.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-10 20:09:03+00:00
This is something I see a lot in science skepticism.

Someone incorrectly conveys a simple science concept, and people blame the scientist, not the communicator.

Like, News says "New revolutionary battery" and people roll their eyes and say "Oh but this will never make it to prod" and decide that scientists are liars and conveniently ignore that lithium battery density has like doubled over the past 20 years or so.

The person who was wrong was the unaware journalist taking a PR person's claims at face value, and having no context to smell test such a claim, and having no time or interest to treat the claim with skepticism anyway because "Batteries slightly improve" never sold newspapers.

But they blame science!
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-10 20:09:14+00:00
> I feel like everyone in this thread is assuming this is a good faith move by Australia to help kids in school and with socialization.

I mean... you can say that about most of things in life. Behind every social movement or policy, it's always a mix of good faith, cynical fearmongering, and opportunism by people or organizations who stand to gain something from it. Does it matter?

If you think that social media and smartphones are harmful to the youth, you (a) should probably be glad that someone is doing something decisive about it; and (b) you get a large-scale experiment that will hopefully prove or disprove that.
by eimrine | 2025-12-10 20:09:22+00:00
Open a new YT account then feed it with [1] for few hours at least then you will unleash the full power of Youtube... unless you missclick even once into some popular blog typically they very clearly aimed at low-IQ people which accidentably might be your kid or somebody else like you know who I mean. But to prevent that slippery slope at least partly, just increase the feeding time of your YT account with the best requests possible which are carefully stacked at [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com
by TimorousBestie | 2025-12-10 20:10:23+00:00
> Maybe this is not the forum, but then what is? A philosophy class you took ten years ago?

Funny that you mention it, but Israel/Palestine was also a banned topic in the “Ethics and International Law” course I took circa twenty years ago.

I advocate concerning yourself with the things you can control, which does not include this forum’s idiosyncratic moderation style.
by kqr | 2025-12-10 20:10:49+00:00
Optimally queueing SCVs and marines and supply depots requires an APM of 11 or so in the early stages of a Brood War game on the fastest setting. Add a couple more APM for scouting, and we'ree still not talking crazy levels of multitasking.

Dealing with your opponent is a fact of every strategy game!
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-10 20:10:51+00:00
Are there numbers to back this up?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing_in_New_York... says "By July 2025, there were 67,000 fewer daily vehicles in the congestion zone compared to before implementation. The same month, one study found that travel times within the congestion zone had decreased, and that delivery companies were opting to use smaller vehicles (which were charged lower tolls) in the toll zone".
by triceratops | 2025-12-10 20:11:00+00:00
The insistence on perfect age verification requires ending anonymity. Age verification to the level of buying cigarettes or booze does not.

Flash a driver's license at a liquor store to buy a single-use token, good for one year, and access your favorite social media trash. Anonymity is maintained, and most kids are locked out.

In the same way that kids occasionally obtain cigs or beer despite safeguards, sometimes they may get their hands on a code. Prosecute anyone who knowingly sells or gives one to a minor.
by mlyle | 2025-12-10 20:11:22+00:00
I haven't seen a report of 4000 civilians injured. I have seen a report of 4000 people injured across the two attacks, but presumably some fraction of these are targets.

42 killed, of whom Hezbollah said 12 were civilians (later admitting some of the 12 were fighters).

Historical average is about half of the wounded or killed in conflicts to be civilians. < 12/42 would be a relatively "good" ratio.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-10 20:12:16+00:00
Sure, but that also drives the question of "why don't we have functioning public transit?" or "why aren't we building out our public transit?".

There will be a stop and balance struck everywhere, but this sort of thing really does make people that deal in the car industry nervous.

I'd gladly ditch my car tomorrow if I could catch a bus within walking distance.

I'm unfortunately 5 miles from the nearest bus stop.
by Trung0246 | 2025-12-10 20:12:37+00:00
Standard link to download: https://dokumen.pub/download/hdmi-specification-21-high-defi...

Alternative: https://annas-archive.org/md5/4dd395c749519a36cb755e6ebbe488...

Alternative (incomplete, only couple first page): https://device.report/m/91235972e8cbf6d6ce84f7cf84ca0ac12623...

Other HDMI stuff: https://pdfhost.io/v/YidEvBDkS_EP92A7E_EP91A7E_DS_V04

Older available here: https://glenwing.github.io/docs/
by guyomes | 2025-12-10 20:12:44+00:00
Here is an overview of related restrictions in other countries [1]. Actually, in many European countries, Google does not grant access to Gemini for people under 16yo [2,3].

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/clyd1dvrll1o

[2] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409

[3] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16109150
by hearsathought | 2025-12-10 20:12:58+00:00
> 1. Israel's stated goal is to neuter Hamas and return the hostages, not kill civilians.

And yet so many dead civilians. It's almost like a genocial terrorist country like israel always lie. Also, I was referring to israel's genocide of the semites in palestine to found "israel" up to present day. You conveniently forgot about it.

> 2. Arabs speak a semitic language; the "semites" in "anti-semite" has always referred to Jews.

Arabs are ethnic semites who speak a semitic language. "Israelis" are non-semitic europeans pretending to be "jews". Ethnic europeans are not semites and can never be semites because they come from an entire separate branch of the human family tree.

> 3. Jews, including white Ashkenazi European Jews, are levantine in origin. Their lineage traces to Judea.

No they do not. Maybe a handful.

> 4. "Antisemitic" means anti-Jew.

No it does not because semite doesn't mean "jew". A semite and a jew are two different things.

> You are using it to mean anti-Arab, but arabs are not semites

No. I'm using semite to mean semite. Arabs surely are semites. Europeans are not though.

> 5. You did make all that up!

If arabs are not semites, then what are they? You say arabs are not semites and I'm the liar? I'm making shit up?
by gusgus01 | 2025-12-10 20:12:58+00:00
I mean at some point arguments like this become more akin to Russell's Teapot. If you're making an almost unfalsifiable claim, then the burden of proof is on you to prove it and not others to disprove it.

From a political standpoint, the statement "from a state where they won't be heavily punished for that specific vote" is a weird way to put it, since if you framed it in a positive light it would sound more similar to "the state population falls on both sides of the issue and thus either vote could make sense from their legislator depending on exigent circumstances and other factors" or any number of other explanations depending on the vote and populations.
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-10 20:13:18+00:00
We parse symbols using a mix of vector geometry, OCR, and learned detection for common architectural/MEP symbols. Cross-discipline checks are a big focus as we already flag mismatches between architectural, structural, and MEP sheets, and we’re expanding into deeper electrical/mechanical spec alignment next. Would love to hear which symbols matter most in your workflow so we can improve coverage.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-10 20:13:20+00:00
Every political party ON THE PLANET has always had to manage internal factions, it doesn't matter if you're talking the Soviet Communist Party, the Democrats, the Republicans, The Tea party faction.

There's absolutely nothing new about parties having internal divisions. Even the fact that at the moment everything is so partisan is nothing new, history has shown that several times over the past century that politics has followed a penudulum that swings from partisan extremes, back to centrist moderates, and then back to the extremes.
by biophysboy | 2025-12-10 20:13:38+00:00
The thing with those alternative communities is that they sort of orbit around the larger tech platforms. Their agenda is set by the news-of-the-day within certain X/FB/YouTube subcommunities. Its sort of analogous to wire services in traditional media.

Additionally, people that post on those platforms originally gained notoriety on the bigger tech platforms, and took their audience with them.
by port11 | 2025-12-10 20:14:03+00:00
Each other.

Christmas is a holiday of the family, especially if you reject the consumerist overtones. It's — for me — a lovely week of spending time together, eating too much, and watching bad old movies.

I really like everything about that atmosphere, so the McDonald's ad felt shitty, heartless, and cynical. Why bother making the holidays better for others, just come to McDo!
Show HN: RepoSquirrel – Identify Code Ownership and Subsystem Contributors
by reposquirrel | 2025-12-10 20:14:14+00:00
Hi HN!

I built RepoSquirrel originally for myself as a team lead. I wanted a simple way to understand what’s actually happening across our repositories:

• Which repos and subsystems are actively developed? • Who is contributing where? • Who really knows a particular subsystem or owns most of the code? • Who is building competence in a repo or area? • What subsystems are not maintained or under-staffed? • How is the code evolving over time? • Does the team have enough capacity to maintain the products they’re responsible for? • What languages and technologies are used across the codebase?

I couldn’t find a tool that answered these questions without sending all our code to a third-party SaaS platform or locking us into GitHub/GitLab analytics. So I built RepoSquirrel.

RepoSquirrel is a local, self-hosted Git repository analytics and code ownership tool. It analyzes repos on your machine and generates dashboards showing:

• Subsystem ownership based on git blame/history • Contribution timelines by developer, team, or directory • Hotspots and churn over time • Orphaned / rarely touched areas of the code • Cross-repo analytics (who works where) • Language and technology breakdowns • Team maintenance load and competency patterns

My goal was to get visibility into knowledge distribution, bus factor risks, onboarding needs, and how engineering effort is spread across products.

Repo link: https://github.com/reposquirrel/reposquirrel

I’d appreciate feedback — especially from engineering managers, tech leads, and people working with multiple repos or large codebases. What insights would you want it to surface next?