MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by p_ing | 2025-12-16 19:23:34+00:00
I had thought about creating a larger roadside banner with the faces (pulled from voters guide) of the city council members who approved Flock, along with the face of the Sheriff with something along the lines of "These people want to know where your wife and daughter are at all times - deflock.me" and place it right next to the Flock camera.

Gotta tag some political organization on the banner which makes it illegal to remove.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-12-16 19:23:50+00:00
"This article was amended on 26 June 2025 to clarify that the link between AI and the decline in graduate jobs is something suggested by analysts, rather than documented by statistics"

Plus, that decline seems specious anyway (as in: just-about visible when you only observe the top-5% of the chart), plus, the UK job market has always been very different from the EU-they-left-behind.
by montagg | 2025-12-16 19:23:50+00:00
Would you say that about really well-edited scene in a movie, or a photograph that feels perfect, or a joke with perfect delivery?

A lot of those things are defined by timing and the space between moments that aren't exactly fully rational. And, if they're doing it well, they make you feel something, even if you can't describe exactly how they're doing it.

A "beautiful" font is like that. The font itself is not beautiful on its own, imo; it's raw material. The beauty comes out in how it's used, when you can look at A or B completed thing and say, oh yeah, B feels "better," but I don't know exactly why. It's not just because of the font, but the font 100% matters.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-16 19:23:55+00:00
I'm going to follow on a bit from what jawilson said. The idea is this - you can measure blood oxygenation by sticking your head in a big magnet that makes atoms spin really fast and measuring the radio waves that come off. This is imprecise, but reasonably repeatable.

So if I show you a picture of a cat, and you like cats, then a bit of your brain might start using more oxygen because you're thinking about cute furry things, and if I show you a picture of a car, and you like cars, a different bit of your brain lights up showing more oxygen use because you're thinking about fast shiny things.

But really we've only got the barest idea of what bits of the brain do what, and maybe it's a bit of brain that goes "hey I'm happy" that lights up in both cases because you like both cats and cars.

We can kind of see bits we think are associated with muscle movement coming to life if I show you a picture of a bike, and you like cycling, and if I show you a really cool mountain track you imagine belting down it flat out. That lights up differently if I show you something else.

However, we do not really know except in very broad terms what bits of the brain actually do what. We can't "see thoughts", we just know that some bits of brain seem to use more oxygen than others, and from that we guess "this bit of brain is for thinking about sitting in a nice cafe with a cup of coffee and a newspaper" versus "this bit of brain is for being frightened of lions".

At least when phrenology was a thing, the ceramic heads with lines painted on were inexpensive and didn't require three-phase power and huge barrels of liquid helium.
by kortex | 2025-12-16 19:24:20+00:00
I'm fine with license plates being read and parsed. I'm fine with license plates being read, parsed, assessed for violation, and ticketed automatically, or cross-checked for amber alerts. That's literally my line of work.

I want strict, strict guardrails on when and where that occurs. I want that information erased as soon as the context of the citation wraps up. I want every company/contractor in this space FOIA-able and held to as strict or stricter requirements than the government for transparency and corruption and other regulation. I don't want every timestamped/geostamped datapoint of every law abiding driver passing into any juncture hoovered into a data lake and tracked and easily queryable. That's (IMHO, IANAL, WTF, BBQ) a flagrant 4th amendment violation, and had the framers been able to conceive such a thing, they'd absolutely add a "and no dragnet surveilance" provision from day 1.

If that seems hypocritical, my line starts with "has a crime occurred with decent likelihood?" "Lets collect everything and go snoopin for crimes" is beyond the pale.
by immibis | 2025-12-16 19:24:40+00:00
How do you see it having value?

Merely being a counter-narrative to some other narrative is not valuable in itself, otherwise all sorts of nonsense would be valuable. Proof that counter-narratives are not automatically valuable: "the moon is made of blue cheese" and "the moon is made of green cheese" provide worthless counter-narratives to each other.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-12-16 19:24:41+00:00
in most cases the manufacturers offer an SUV version on the same chassis.

E.g. the Hilux/Tacoma vs. it's SUV sibling the 4Runner

It's one of the reasons why Honda and Hyundai are offering trucks -- they're already making the giant SUV, so just put a flat bed on it.
by KK7NIL | 2025-12-16 19:24:43+00:00
Wikipedia is infamously bad at teaching math.

This Veritasium video does a great job at explaining how such skewed priors can easily appear in our current academic system and the paradox in general: https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q?si=c56F7Y3RB5SBeL4m
by m-xtof | 2025-12-16 19:24:43+00:00
AI Investors want returns in 2026, meanwhile product CEOs are quietly saying “not so fast.” Mattel just pulled back on their OpenAI partnership. Investors are demanding returns that CEOs say they can't deliver in 2026. The gap between AI hype and AI utility is becoming impossible to ignore. Here's why that gap exists—and why scaling the model won't close it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-16 19:25:07+00:00
> But let’s be real, the only apps making money directly from in app purchases are pay to win games. It came out in Apple vs Epic that 90% of App Store revenue comes from games.

But is that the chicken or the egg? Is it that surprising that when such an oppressively large margin is being extracted, the primary survivors are the things that are themselves scams? Normal businesses typically don't have 30% margins to begin with, much less have that much to spare for a extractive middleman.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-12-16 19:25:28+00:00
> I believe you stated the problem in a way that its unsolvable.

I think you misunderstood me. I asked a question because the answer is far from obvious. If the solution to this problem was obvious, we wouldn't be having the same discussion on HN every 6 months when a new press release from Mozilla comes out.

I am very much interested by what people think the solution should be. Now, you mentioned Enterprise customers which is interesting because usually what I have read on this sort of threads was that Mozilla had made many mistakes (I agree), Mozilla should change their ways by removing this feature or adding this feature but almost everyone conveniently forgets that at the end of the day someone has to pay for all this stuff.

> Charge your customers money, so you can work for them.

Which is what I mentioned in my comment. Start charging people. The problem is how do you convince the general public to use Firefox instead of Chrome or Edge, especially is you need to pay for the software?

If privacy was a selling point, then Meta would have closed shop many years ago.

> I'm not nearly as certain as you are that Netscape failed because it was charging money. Netscape just stopped updating for multiple years at the height of the browser wars.

It doesnt matter because we will never know. The reality is that people expect to browse the internet for free. Asking them for cash has never been done at this scale.

If Mozilla was to start charging money tomorrow, you would find that many people would object to that and most people would simply move to Chrome because why not?

> Then, lean hard into the enterprise world. Figure out what enterprise customers want. The answer to that is always for things to never, ever change and the ability to tightly control their users. That isn't fun code to write, but its profitable and doesn't run counter to Mozilla's mission. That keeps Mozilla stable and financially independent.

I understand the comparison with Red hat but I am doubtful that this model will work. Red Hat helps companies ship stuff, it makes people more productive, it increases the bottom line. What would a paid version of Firefox do that makes people more productive or makes companies money that they couldn't get from Chrome? I am genuinely asking because again, it's mot very clear to me.

> Mozilla will maintain lots of influence to push forward their mission, because hopefully their enterprise customer base is big, but also they are the ones actually doing the work to make the downstream fork possible.

That is big assumption that has not been proven at this time. I think that making any sort of plans based on hypothetical paid version is highly speculative.
by jameslk | 2025-12-16 19:25:30+00:00
> Do me a favor. Tell me why do you think it's a stretch (to assume that this is a job's issue).

I already have in my prior comment:

>> You could make the same argument that it’s a lack of working enough hours. I’m not saying it’s either, simply that hours worked is not proof alone that the problem is the lack of jobs.

In other words, your logic is:

Assume rent should be this amount -> subtract last paycheck to arrive at difference -> assume hourly wages should be this amount -> divide paycheck difference by hourly wage -> assume the result is the number of hours unavailable for work -> assume lack of hours is the cause for inability to live in a home

Note how many assumptions there are. Some questions that may disqualify any chain of this reasoning:

* How much is the median rent in places where a majority of this population lives? Is it potentially higher where they were living?

* Has the rent to income ratio changed at all, especially in their location?

* Were the majority of these individuals making minimum wage before? Could they have been working gigs for less or more?

* Are the lack of “hours” worked really due to lack of work and not another factor (e.g. ability to work, transportation, skill, etc.)?

* How much is this population spending on other costs that have taken precedence over living in a house? Has that changed at all?

With all that said, a stretch is not implausible. In reality, there is no smoking gun, only a myriad of contributing factors, different for each individual.
by azemetre | 2025-12-16 19:25:41+00:00
Well looked at what has always happened in society when young people have no hope for the future: massive societal disruption mostly in the forms of revolution + violence.

Since this isn't the 1800s anymore there won't be any major revolutions but I expect way more societal violence going forward. If you have no hope for the future it's not hard to go to very dark paths quickly, usually through no fault of your own sadly.

Now add how easy it is for malicious actors to get an audience and how LLM tech makes this even easier to do. Nice recipe for a powder keg.
by suryao | 2025-12-16 19:25:53+00:00
With these changes, three things hold:

1. Services like blacksmith and WarpBuild (I'm the founder) are still cheaper than GitHub hosted runners, even after including the $0.002/min self-hosting tax.

2. The biggest lever for controlling costs now is reducing the number of minutes used in CI. Given how slow Github's runners are, or even the ones on AWS compared to our baremetal processor single core performance + nvme disks, it makes even more sense to use WarpBuild. This actually makes a better case for moving from slow AWS instances running with actions-runner-controller etc. to WarpBuild!

3. Messaging this to most users is harder since the first reaction is that Github options make more sense. After some rational thought, it is the opposite.

Overall - it is worse for Github users, but options like blacksmith and WarpBuild are still the better option.
by CPLX | 2025-12-16 19:26:52+00:00
My least favorite part is where it runs into some stupid problem and then tries to go around it.

Like when I'm asking it to run a bunch of tests against the UI using a browser tool, and something doesn't work. Then it goes and just writes code to update the database instead of using the user element.

My other thing that makes me insane is when I tell it what to do, and it says, "But wait, let me do something else instead."
by 2b3a51 | 2025-12-16 19:27:07+00:00
"The briefs, opinions of the district courts, essential parts of the appendices, and other required reading add up to about 1,000 pages per argument session. Reading that much is a chore; remembering it is even harder."

That is a lot of reading. Depending on how long an 'argument session' is, retaining the detail must be a challenge.
by skrtskrt | 2025-12-16 19:27:07+00:00
I would say if you're going to charge a pretty penny for the box, you have to make it ridiculously seamless to run every app the way a user wants, without issue.

TrueNAS sort of half-accomplishes this but as soon as you have to start configuring Redis and Postgres parameters to install Immich or understanding how to set permission on every layer of the filesystem so you can SMB share, the idea of a normal person being able to do this goes completely out the window.

My advice is to go ahead and just open-source everything. You won't on being closed-source anyway. You'll win on the experience for nontechnical users (or tehcnical users that don't want to spend time fiddling). You'll stomp out these complaints on Reddit and HackerNews so people don't get a bunch of negative comments when they google your company.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-12-16 19:27:24+00:00
I have lived in Finland for the past four years, having emigrated from the US like the other poster here, and the WHR is a common punching bag topic amongst locals here.

The odd thing however is that when I ask them whether they think the average Finn is happy, they say absolutely not, but when I ask them whether they themselves are happy, most of the time I get a "oh this place is actually pretty great for weirdos like me, I just mean like, normal people would hate it here". But that's the thing: No one normal chooses to live in Finland!
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-16 19:27:50+00:00
Indeed, I already see this in the consumer space with Frigate users. Letting modern cameras handle the inference themselves makes running an NVR easier. Pretty soon all cameras will be this way, and as you say the output will be metadata that is easily collected and correlated. Sounds useful for my personal surveillance system and awful for society.

I feel like at some point we need to recognize the futility of solving this issue with technology. It is unstoppable. In the past we had the balls to regulate things like credit bureaus -- would we still do that today if given the choice?

We need to make blanket regulations that cover PII in all forms regardless of who is collecting it. Limits on how it can be used, transparency and control for citizens over their own PII, constitutional protections against the gov't doing an end run around the 4th amendment by using commercial data sources, etc.
by skdhshdd | 2025-12-16 19:28:00+00:00
> But not having to spend hours here and there getting up to speed on some mundane but unfamiliar aspect of the implementation

At some point you realize if you want people to trust you you have to do this. Otherwise you’re just gambling, which isn’t very trustworthy.

It’s also got the cumulative effect of making you a good developer if done consistently over the course of your career. But yes, it’s annoying and slow in the short term.
by alwa | 2025-12-16 19:28:24+00:00
In some places where I’ve lived, local LE mounts ALPR systems atop most of their fleet. Those read “formal” plates as vehicles pass near the cruiser, and they proactively alert against a watchlist. Which presumably somebody’s hooked up to periodically ingest lists of recent lapses alongside the usual stolen/wanted/pile-of-unpaid-tickets sorts of stuff.

My sense is that such systems are rather less consistent at reading temp tags, and that temp tag issuance tends to be decentralized/dealer-based, rather more ad hoc, and thus rather less legible for semi-automated enforcement purposes.
by immibis | 2025-12-16 19:28:29+00:00
Zero-crime means zero things that are banned ever becoming allowed. Things usually become allowed after they are illegal first, but people do them anyway, and then people wonder why we bother punishing them. Think of marijuana legalization. If nobody ever tried to illegally smoke weed, it would never be legalized because there would be no perceived benefit to doing so because it would be obvious that nobody wanted to do it.
by Rendello | 2025-12-16 19:29:12+00:00
Famously used to emulate generics before Go had them:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

> type ImmutableTreeListᐸElementTᐳ struct { ... }

> If you look closely, those aren't angle brackets, they're characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which are allowed in Go identifiers. From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-16 19:29:28+00:00
Yes, there are a few medical cases where fMRI makes good simple basic sense, and TBI/Concussion sounds immediately like one of those to me. I seem also to recall them being useful in some cases prior to brain surgeries and the like.

This all makes sense because fMRI tracks metabolic activity via oxygenation changes, which is much more clearly and plausibly related to tissue health and recovery. In these cases, it is also most likely being used within-subject (i.e. longitudinally) to make comparisons to baselines, rather than in an attempt to make speculative inferences about the mind using groups of people, and likely is a simple comparison to baseline rather than bespoke statistical analyses relying on questionable assumptions about the BOLD response being related to overly-specific kinds of neural activity.
by elevation | 2025-12-16 19:29:29+00:00
Two thoughts:

1. Amazon blink is an interesting hardware platform. With a power-optimized SoC, they achieve several years of intermittent 1080P video on a single AA battery. A similar approach and price point for body cam / dash cam would free users from having to constantly charge.

2. If you're designing cameras to protect human rights, you'll have to carefully consider the storage backend. Users must not lose access to a local copy of their own video because a central video service will be a choke point for censorship where critical evidence can disappear.
by LexiMax | 2025-12-16 19:29:38+00:00
Fair enough. I'd still be very hesitant to use it on account of it being a chrome fork. Moreover, I don't really understand how Brave expects to be a viable business without deeply betraying their userbase at some point.

It admittedly is a gut feeling, but Brave started out with a browser and some handwavy crypto magic beans and seemed like it careened from idea to idea looking for a business model, occasionally stepping on toes along the way. They have products like AI integration, a VPN and a firewall, but those aren't particularly stand-out products in a very crowded market.

As a point of comparison, Kagi started out with a product that people were willing to pay for, and grew other services from there. I feel comfortable giving them money, and I'd be willing to at least try their browser - if it ever releases for Windows.
by viccis | 2025-12-16 19:29:50+00:00
I'm not sure how common this is in other countries, but Americans would rather add another definition to the dictionary for the misuse before they'd ever tolerate being corrected or (god forbid) learning the real meaning of a word. I got dogpiled for saying this about "factoid" the other day here, but sometimes when people misuse words like "bricked" or "electrocuted", the ambiguity does actually make a difference, meaning you have to follow up with "actually bricked permanently?" or "did the shock kill him?", meaning that semantic information has been lost.
by xnorswap | 2025-12-16 19:29:53+00:00
Did the mac close actually close?

I have memories of being endlessly frustrated trying to use an iMac because "close" would just hide the window.

We've gone full circle, and now everything in windows likes to treat close as "minimize to system tray", but back in win9x era, the expectation was that close was "terminate the application".
by hadlock | 2025-12-16 19:29:56+00:00
Github being a single pane of glass for developers with a single login is pretty powerful. Github hosting the runners is also pretty useful, ask anyone who has had to actually manage/scale them what their opinion is about Jenkins is. Being a "Jenkins Farmer" is a thankless job that means a lot of on-call work to fix the build system in the middle of the night at 2am on a Sunday. Paying a small monthly fee is absolutely worth it to rescue the morale of your infra/platform/devops/sre team.

Nothing kills morale faster than wrenching on the unreliable piece of infrastructure everyone hates. Every time I see an alert in slack github is having issues with actions (again) all I think is, "I'm glad that isn't me" and go about my day
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-16 19:30:14+00:00
Good question. I don't usually think of towing stuff because that's seldom been a part of my life.

3500 pounds is what Honda lists for towing capacity (same as a 2WD Honda Pilot, even though an AWD Honda Pilot with exactly the same engine and transmission is more like 5000).

If towing capacity is defined as "what people can expect a thing to reliably do for many thousands of miles, in a row, over and over again" then I think a bone-stock Odyssey would roll over and die with 6000 pounds behind it.

Slow trip to the dump that's right over there across flat terrain? Sure, probably OK if it's rather heavy. Through the Appalachians? No; that's sounding like a bad day.

And the usual variables can be wiggled: A better transmission cooler can be added without too much difficulty (and Honda used to sell kits for this, themselves). There's seemingly-reputable companies that sell air suspension (read: adjustable) helper-springs for many years of Odyssey, and reports are that they're not particularly hard to install (as a DIY, in the driveway). Weight-distributing hitches help a ton (literally), but IIRC Honda doesn't list a separate capacity for that.

There's other vans with similar interior volume and features that are stated on the door sill sticker to tow trailers better.

And there's certainly some things that trucks like an F150 can get very right. Towing is one of them.

If a person wants to occasionally haul a decent-sized camper around or something, then owning a pickup truck may be exactly the right solution.
by j45 | 2025-12-16 19:30:21+00:00
I had thought Canada spelled words like the UK more often than not.

Reading this, I wonder how this became an issue to become big enough to have an article written about it.

Then hearing the justifications about why it might be, in turn, pitting a few characters in text on the canadianness of a politician, or not.

If you can imagine a word processor somewhere writing this, maybe it didn't have it's language set to English (Canada)?

Some folks here have said sometimes it can feel like there might be folks trying to grasp at straws.