MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pstuart | 2025-12-10 20:42:33+00:00
A benefit of the RFC approach is if it lives in the repo itself the documentation is along side the code.

Anything that will prompt stakeholders to engage and clarify expectations is a win. It's hard to make this happen even when everybody is philosophically aligned on the need to do so, so reframing it as an RFC could be quite the useful "One Weird Trick" ;-).
by mothballed | 2025-12-10 20:42:35+00:00
Who would tell you they have them if you are in a country where it is illegal? For instance the fgc-9[] commonly seized in parts of Europe was invented by a German in Germany (ethnic Kurd though).

No one knew who he was until he was arrested and for the most part until he was dead. His european friends would be saying the same thing as you, "don't know anyone with guns..."

Lots of guns in Europe by people who aren't supposed to have them. Either because they are criminals thus don't care about gun laws, or if they are 'good' people then they should know not to pull out a gun unless their other option is to be dead -- at which point 'fuck the law' and better to be in a jail cell than dead.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGC-9
by pryce | 2025-12-10 20:42:45+00:00
The ingredients for this legislation trace back to an organisation called "Collective Shout"[1], by Melinda Tankard Reist, who readers may be aware of from their previous efforts to pressure Steam to restrict games with adult content

I happen to think there are plenty of valid points regarding harmful content on steam and valid arguments about the harms of social media, but I do not believe Collective Shout is a benevolent actor in combatting those harms or steering the solutions, as their proposals nearly always deliver harmful effects on LGBTQ people - and this fits with Reist's previous work[2], eg under Sen. Harradine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Shout

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist
by jorvi | 2025-12-10 20:42:49+00:00
Yes and no. HDMI CEC works pretty decent these days, all the kinks have been worked out over the years and the only time it bugs out is if you use Chinese brands (looking at you, TCL) that write horrid firmware and never fix any bugs found after release.

Displayport has DDC/CI, which allows you to adjust things like brightness, volume, etc. remotely. This has existed since the DVI era (!) which means Displayport had a huge headstart. But they never formalized and enforced the DDC/CI spec, which means every monitor has extremely weird quirks. Some will allow you to send and read data. Some will only allow you to send data and crash when you try to read. Some will update only once every few seconds.

Although in this specific case, one wonders why Valve didn't just use two Displayport 1.4 ports and and stuck an onboard HDMI converter in front of one of them, sourced from a company that would be amenable to having Valve work on the firmware of said converter. Make the entire firmware of the converter open source except for the binary blob that handles the Displayport 1.4 -> HDMI 2.1 bits.

Hopefully Valve does this but sells it as a external, high quality converter. It would be a nice little plus even for non-Steam Machine owners, same way like Apple's USB-C to 3.5mm convertor is the highest quality mini DAC on the market for the low price of €10.
by immibis | 2025-12-10 20:42:56+00:00
¿Por que no los dos?

Current social media is terrible for children (and everyone, but we let adults drink and smoke) - this is known. They've been told many times they need to change or they'll get banned. They have not. This is known. It reminds me a little of when Australia banned Amazon because Amazon refused to charge GST (their version of VAT or sales tax).

The surveillance part is about adults having to upload their identity. This concern is entirely separate from the part where children are banned.
by marojejian | 2025-12-10 20:43:16+00:00
While I'm as paranoid about LLMs as the next HN'er, there are some silver linings to this research:

1) the LLMs mostly used factual information to influence people (vs. say emotional or social influence) 2) the fact were mostly accurate

I'm not saying we shouldn't worry. But I expected the results to be worse.

Overall, the interesting finding here is that that political opinions can be changed by new information at all. I'm curious how this effect would compare to comparably informed human discussions. I would not be surprised if the LLMs were more effect for at least two reasons:

1) Cost-efficiency, in terms of the knowledge required, and effort/skill to provide personalized arguments. 2) Reduction in the emotional barrier to changing your mind: people don't want to "lose" by being wrong about politics to someone else. But perhaps the machine doesn't trigger this social/tribal response.

Cited papers:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09771-9

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3884
by ndriscoll | 2025-12-10 20:43:28+00:00
Legally dubious in what sense? Leaking it might break trade secret protection, but afaik once it's public, it loses that protection, and the only one liable is the leaker. As far as I know, software per se is still not patentable even in the US since the actual source code is abstract mathematics, so it should be fine to publish the source (source code is fundamentally a detailed description of an algorithm, not a system implementing it), and there's effectively no way to stop an end-user from compiling and loading that source themselves. You could also distribute it from a more reasonable country like e.g. VLC does.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-10 20:43:30+00:00
Given the apparently-terrible injury-to-death ratio, another angle to attack the legality of the action might be that the weapons were first and foremost effective at maiming, not killing, which is generally frowned upon by the laws of war (if they were intended as lethal, their success on that front was so bad it might fall into "guilty through incompetence" sort of territory)

(I agree the targeting per se seems to have been remarkably good for the world of asynchronous warfare—or even conventional warfare)
by AAAAaccountAAAA | 2025-12-10 20:43:49+00:00
Looks nice. Reminds me of MessagEase[1] and clones, such as ThumbKey[2]. I use the latter for my mobile text input needs. However, that method is sometimes prone to typos, since one key may have up to 9 different characters assigned to it, and it is easy to swipe slightly wrong way. QWERTYmini could be better in that aspect, since there are only 2 characters per key.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagEase

2. https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
by loeg | 2025-12-10 20:44:25+00:00
FWIW I think Clang IR does something like this in a lot of places. It is relatively common to see child nodes stored inline following parent nodes. The APIs more or less abstract this away from consumers like static analysis tools, though.

E.g., https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/62e00a03fba029f82d...

and

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/62e00a03fba029f82d...
by codeptualize | 2025-12-10 20:44:25+00:00
Imo it's pretty transparent, it's indeed all about ads. 70-80% of Google's revenue is from ads, that says it all imo.

First of all because of search: If you type something in the search bar of your browser, and that takes you to Google, you see all those ads and Google makes a lot of money.

Second of all because the browser is the entry point to the web. If you browse the web, the chance that you come across Google Adsense ads is very high, in other words, if you browse the web, Google makes money.

Browsers can control what you see, they can have ad blockers, they can replace ads (like the shady business Brave tried at some point), but also change the extension API so ad blockers are less effective (see manifest v3).

Conclusion: Controlling how people browse the internet is highly valuable as direct money maker (search ads) but also to make sure nobody but you can mess with 70-80% of your revenue. That alone is worth every dollar they spend on it.

Microsoft has Bing (but also based on chromium so less investment). Apple needs a browser for their devices, and gets 20B from Google to make it the default search engine (again, if Google can serve more ads, it makes more money). I don't know if Safari is well funded, they lag behind a bit currently.

Edit: Apple also has motivations btw. They have been lagging on implementing a lot of the features in Safari IOS that would make webapps more capable of replacing native apps, the App Store that Apple makes tons of money on... If you allow other browser you don't control that, so you need your own.

Second part why Google might want to fund Mozilla (and Safari to some extend) is to keep regulators happy. Being able to say "no no, it's not a monopoly, see!" is quite useful.

Idk if there is more data, but imo all you have to do is look at the financials, and it's pretty obvious that it's all about serving ads, billions of dollars in ads, directly or indirectly.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-10 20:45:25+00:00
Facebook stole copyrighted material well above their own and admitted to it. It's not just "we took our users data", its "we literally downloaded torrent with 81 terabytes of books and used that for training".

Google most likely did something similar, just using books they already had indexed in Google Books, and probably by still seriously violating any reasonable notion of copyright
by plantain | 2025-12-10 20:45:27+00:00
I do not understand your argument We also cannot get right predicting the failures of fossil fuel generation. Sometimes multiple plants have outages that coincide and we have blackouts. Shit happens, and will continue to happen. Meanwhile we can make statistically rational plans.

We have coal fired plants in Australia with <90% uptime (often unscheduled), but somehow they're considered baseload rather than intermittent.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-10 20:45:44+00:00
What material is strong, malleable, dirt fucking cheap, has a high coefficient of friction, easy to work with, amenable to additives, meets all the suspension properties we expect out of a tire, etc, and isn't bad to breathe a lot of the dust of?

Modern tires are works of material science miracle, working with dirt cheap inputs.

Even iron dust from steel on steel friction like with trains is bad for your health.

The human lungs just have bad filtration.
by jasomill | 2025-12-10 20:46:00+00:00
Here's a stupid question: per the site, "any entity wishing to make an active and material contribution to the development of future HDMI Specifications" can join the HDMI Forum for $15,000 p.a., and the Board of Directors is elected by majority vote by members.

Is there anything other than the money and desire to do so stopping 100 well-heeled Linux users from joining up and packing the board with open source-friendly directors who would as their first official act grant AMD permission to release its driver?
by Barathkanna | 2025-12-10 20:46:00+00:00
The interesting part here isn’t the PR angle, it’s what orbital compute actually enables. Satellites generate massive raw data streams that are bottlenecked by downlink bandwidth, so pushing inference and preprocessing into orbit changes the economics completely. You move from “send everything to Earth and hope for capacity” to “filter, compress, classify, and prioritize in situ.”

If SpaceX starts embedding real compute (GPUs, NPUs, or specialized ASICs) into Starlink nodes, you effectively get a globally distributed edge network with zero terrestrial dependencies. Blue Origin’s approach is more traditional and modular payload bays with dedicated compute racks, but the principles are the same: reduce latency for space-to-space communication and eliminate ground-station choke points.

The military and earth-observation implications are huge. Whoever controls orbital compute ends up owning the pre-processing layer for weather, climate, agriculture, ISR, maritime, and comms. This is less about “data centers in space” and more about creating an entirely new tier of cloud architecture that never touches the ground.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-10 20:46:38+00:00
I’ll add a third reason, which is I think in general, people are very bad at understanding how to make an argument to someone with a different value system. I’m liberal, I have family members who are conservative, and I’ll read conservative books and I’m genuinely a person who is curious to new ideas, but most people I know(and I’m sure this works vice versa) are only good at expressing political opinions in the language of people who share their values. Republicans and Democrats don’t just talk about different things, they talk about them in very different ways.

I find this online as well, like I hate being “out of my echo chamber” because those arguments are just uniformly pointless. (This is in all directions by the way, people to the right or left of me).

Though I also interestingly find trying to talk to LLMs about competing values challenging too, if I try to get the LLM to explain a conservative position, then I make counter-arguments to that position, it will almost never tell me my counter argument is wrong, just “you’ve hit the nail on the head! Boy are you smart!”
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-10 20:46:56+00:00
Thanks for attempting to answer what I was asking about. I have had difficulty finding out more about it, the alleged ex-Palantir commenter said this would be part of their Gotham product, but most of what I could find on that was buzzword data visualization stuff. If their old post history and what you're saying is accurate, then it's really just a database integration tool with a nice interface?
by kyboren | 2025-12-10 20:47:13+00:00
The point isn't so much to litigate each flagged comment, just to highlight how pervasive the flag abuse problem is. And of course, when the flag abusers 'defect' and gain some utility, it is only rational for the 'victims' to themselves defect from the civil conversation and start to abuse flags.

In threads that are, unfortunately, adversarial, abusing the flag button is a stable Nash equilibrium. I think it's a shitty equilibrium, though, and makes real, substantive conversations--ostensibly the goal on this forum--harder to achieve.

I think it's high time to reconsider the current 'flag' mechanics. At the very least I think we would all be better off if flags were simply disabled on highly controversial topics.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-10 20:47:14+00:00
Was funny, I was using Copilot to analyze a certain light novel to reverse engineer the storytelling techniques so I could write a fanfiction the other day and I asked it if it could apply a certain method to any other stories and it said, yeah, The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatbsy and Neon Genesis Evangelion

Funny after a lot of this I think I broke it because it now loads a personalization context where it tries to apply this framework to everything and can't quit talking about a character that we seem to share a crush on.
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-10 20:47:17+00:00
We store files securely on AWS with strict access controls, encryption in transit and at rest, and zero sharing outside the file owner’s account. Only our engineers can access a project for debugging and only if the customer explicitly allows it. We can also offer an enterprise option with private cloud/VPC deployment for firms that require even tighter controls. Users can delete all files permanently at any time.
by isk517 | 2025-12-10 20:47:18+00:00
The subversion of tropes goes back all the way to the original Mobile Suit Gundam, though a little more subtle due to the studio wanting to make a show to sell toys and the director wanting to make something with a actual message. It has: -a 'good army' that could easily be the 'bad army' in a more optimistic show -the protagonists dealing with callus military leadership -sympathetic enemy soldiers dealing with their own incompetent and callus leadership -the war taking a huge psychological toll on the protagonist and all of them end up worse off for having been a part of it
by ruthie_cohen | 2025-12-10 20:47:25+00:00
If I was American I would certainly be using this tool as a consideration when moving / buying a new house.

I’ve watched a lot of the coverage by Benn Jordan on Flock cameras and their inherent vulnerabilities, and it’s deeply concerning.

The applications of these technologies far outpaces appropriate checks and balances, and the increasing fusion between law enforcement, intelligence and private industry is largely ignored by the larger population.

Thanks for developing this, it’s important to visualise the virus-like spread of these technologies and see where it is concentrated.
by oblio | 2025-12-10 20:47:28+00:00
I know Americans don't want to hear this, but once the government turns hostile, internet anonymity won't save you, just like how guns won't save you (hello propaganda and a large and very active brainwashed minority that also has guns).

The only thing saving you from a hostile government is a well educated populace that really wants democracy and is willing to fight for it (through constant activism, peaceful & other types of protests). This is where many democracies are failing now. No amount of technology or rules can replace large amounts of constantly vigilant eyes that understand how democracy is subverted.

I would rather optimize for not giving companies too much power and end up with a Kafkaesque patchwork of corporate abuses and regulatory captures.
by hibikir | 2025-12-10 20:47:39+00:00
Yep, and splatter around some talk about the horrors of being a combatant in those wars, as if you don't fight, your loved ones die anyway. You can see how Evangelion is doing a lot of riffing on Gundam. In some ways it's not Jane Austen, it's Full Metal Jacket, or Rambo: First Blood. The different series might have giant robots all over the place, but there aer serious stories barely hidden underneath.

Even when a story starts as mostly lighthearted adolescent fare (see, The Witch of Mercury), it tends to end in trauma, injustice and many war crimes.
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-10 20:47:39+00:00
Yes one of the biggest values of our system is reducing “noise.” Instead of surfacing 2,000 micro-clashes, we cluster findings into higher-order issues (e.g., “all conflicts caused by this duct run” or “all lighting mismatches tied to this dimming spec”). We’re not a BIM viewer yet, but we do map issues back to sheet locations, callouts, and detail references so teams can navigate directly to the real source of the problem.
by mcguirep | 2025-12-10 20:47:40+00:00
> I'm thinking of "machine-pickable" as the natural next step for growers to aim for.

> Is this already being done?

This is, indeed, already something that is done. As I understand it, for tomatoes it's typically for canning varieties, but they're called determinate cultivars[1]. Even with those, I know in processing you still have to discard the occasional fruit that isn't ripe.

I imagine this kind of technological solution would also be more useful when picking tomatoes for use as the fresh fruit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinate_cultivar
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-10 20:48:03+00:00
Symbol variation is a huge challenge across firms.

Our approach mixes OCR, vector geometry, and learned embeddings so the model can recognize a symbol plus its surrounding annotations (e.g., “6-15R,” “DIM,” “GFCI”).

When symbols differ by drafter, the system leans heavily on the textual/graph context so it still resolves meaning accurately. We’re actively expanding our electrical symbol library and would love sample sets from your workflow.
by treis | 2025-12-10 20:48:21+00:00
It's not that the people don't genuinely believe what they're saying. It's that they've deluded themselves into thinking their ideological right is "for the kids".

There's always been Reefer Madness sorts of people. Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, Video Games, DnD, Rap Music, Homosexuality, and on and on. Today it's half woke mind virus and half DEI (for lack of a better term). Most of the people that spout this stuff genuinely believe they're fighting for the kids.
by s1mon | 2025-12-10 20:48:38+00:00
I found that jarring as well. There's a toggle in the upper right to switch to metric.

Even with setting it to metric, it progresses through units based on the scale. I realize that scientists love to work in scientific notation, and progressing from nanometers to micrometers, mm, cm, and finally meters sort of follows that kind of logic. I wonder how it would feel if the whole thing was in constant units or at least there was an option for that.
by breppp | 2025-12-10 20:48:47+00:00
Doctors don't use pagers anymore, just like tech on calls used to and don't anymore. Mobile phones are far superior for that, and are very available anywhere in the world, and especially to doctors

Regarding whether that's brilliant, that is not my wording, but generally it was quite mild compared to the methods of Hezbollah and was highly successful in ending a war with very little bloodshed. The other alternative was tried in 2006 and in Gaza, and fighting a terror organization entrenched in an urban setting means bombings and killing civilians in the process. This was not the end result as Hezbollah fell apart relatively quickly afterwards, so I think it was good compared to any alternative for Lebanese and Israelis
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-10 20:48:53+00:00
The attack was by definition discriminate. I don't think there's an attack in modern history that was more targeted and had less collateral damage. The attack targeted hundreds Hezbollah leaders, who bought and used those pagers. There was minimal collateral damage among civilians amounting to unverified allegations that a child of a Hezbollah member was maimed, and some minor other damage. The explosives in the pagers were measured in grams, and the explosions were relatively small, specifically to minimize collateral damage.
by endgame | 2025-12-10 20:49:00+00:00
Of course they aren't. If they were actually helping kids, they would be going after algorithmic feeds in general and the most predatory platforms like Roblox (especially given its recent scandals), doing something about kids being exposed to gambling advertising, etc.

The bill was put up for public comment for less than one business day before being rammed through Parliament. Australia is just sending out one of the horsemen of the infocalypse so that other countries have an excuse to follow suit. Like how our "Assistance And Access" Act was a test run of the UK's "snooper's charter".

This law will just lead to:

1. kids pretending to be adults so they sneak through these filters

2. platforms winding back their (meagre) child safety efforts since "children are banned anyway"

3. everyone being forced to prove their age via e.g. uploading ID (which will inevitably get leaked)
by neaden | 2025-12-10 20:49:04+00:00
Agreed but I think "The best marriage is one where the spouses respect each other and the man is able to provide a comfortable and secure economic life for the woman." wasn't like, a counter-cultural ideal, while the author of the post has Jane set up in opposition to her societies ideal of what a marriage should be. She was willing to reject the certainty of Bingley for a chance at something better, but I also think Elizabeth would have rejected a poor suitor who she did feel respect for. She wouldn't have married a farmer like Robert Martin for instance.

Edit: And even on risk, the big risk is that if Elizabeth's dad dies the family would have to live on Mrs. Bennet's income of just 200 pounds a year, which to put in perspective was about what Jane Austen's father made as a clergyman when she was born, though he would go on to make more money later in life. It wouldn't be poverty and still put them in the upper few percent of English people at the time.