MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by creer | 2025-12-06 08:51:30+00:00
It would be nice if academics would move to BOTH publishing the technical write up, AND a more understandable write up of their interpretation of the result (in more detail than the one liner which is in all abstracts.)

The technical writeup is necessary. It's what spells out what they specifically claim to have done, and the specific results. "Specific" being highly technical and fundamental in the scientific community understanding the paper correctly. In particular, the in-depth statistics of many such papers is simply too complex for most of the population to understand, and that's fine. The technical write-up uses terms of art which do not mean what civilians read in them. (And while it's hard to do studies larger than this one, this is all the more essential in smaller studies.)

The interpretation would be useful because it's just plain dangerous to let your PR department write that. Even if they consult you. And it is interesting to focus on what the scientists themselves think they achieved. Both what they deliberately went for, and any ancillary result they think they notice. In this case in particular, they are very focused on this safety aspect, and they seem to not want to give too much attention to the efficacy aspect (which they probably did not plan for and is then suspect.)
by rl3 | 2025-12-06 08:52:12+00:00
>It’s still a red herring.

I don't think so. Not if it's easily within their engineering capabilities to make scenarios like this much safer or even completely safe.

Historically there's always been frequent accidents involving low speed fatalities of pets and children in similar fashion to this that tend to happen in driveways, so the fact the scenario hasn't been accounted for adequately is a little shocking.

>The only question is whether Waymo is less dangerous than humans on average, not whether Waymo can achieve a flawless track record.

Even if it's vastly safer than humans on average already, if this particular area is less safe than humans, then that warrants attention.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-06 08:52:34+00:00
Compressed sensing! What Terence Tao uses to sell math funding!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9AETSoPHw&t=44

https://www.instructables.com/Single-Pixel-Camera-Using-an-L...

(Okay not the same guy, but I wanted to share this somewhat related "extreme" camera project)
by overfeed | 2025-12-06 08:52:45+00:00
Flock cameras are oriented to read rear plates. One would need a camera similarly configured + a billboard some distance in front, or perhaps 2 billboards, a 1-2 setup + payoff combo, the camera behind the first billboard, and the dynamic text on the second. Pulling up other public data correlated to the plate - where legal - may make a splash. I'm thinking addressing the car owner by their first name.
by bananaflag | 2025-12-06 08:53:36+00:00
> "Thog, what if crazy god get summoned by other cavemen, and it punish all who no help!? Me no take chance!"

The frequently ignored point of Roko's original argument was not that an Unfriendly AI could arise, or even that it would be probable given no preparations against it (these were already said by Yudkwosky), but that even a Yudkowskian Friendly AI might engage in such acausal blackmail stuff.
by vekerdyb | 2025-12-06 08:54:00+00:00
Surprised that neither the article, nor the comments mention Photoprism from what I can see. It’s not I’ve been hosting Photoprism and syncing my photos with PhotoSync from my iPhone for a while now. I would consider switching to another solution if it had in-browser basic editing (cropping, contrast / white balance adjustment, etc).

https://www.photoprism.app/
by razingeden | 2025-12-06 08:54:46+00:00
And yet no barriers or means test for Samsung?

if its harmful in some way to some person the “obvious” solution is to means test the entire population for their competency to vote or have sex? i dont own a samsung fridge, but okay sure. sign me up for some weird battery of invasive tests and write me out of life so Samsung can sell hardware and ads.

maybe samsung can even serve me some personalized ads based on my test results.

everyone in big tech is guided by “CAN we do this?” and never “SHOULD we do this?” and theyre totally unaccountable for all of it.

it doesnt matter who it hurts or how it hurts them. thats why they they do whatever they want.

and if something goes wrong, hey i know! lets just turn the screws even tighter on every man woman and child so Samsung can do whatever it wants.

Id tell you to go hell but it sounds like we’re already all in it.

im sorry if thats rude but it actually was the most polite thing i could come up with.
by andrew_eu | 2025-12-06 08:55:06+00:00
I share this worry.

You can configure the storage template for the photos and include an "album" part, so if a photo is in some album it'll get sorted into that folder. Then the file tree on disk is as you wish.

I haven't tested what it does when a photo is in multiple albums, but it does handle the no album case fine as well.
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-06 08:55:10+00:00
Every major cloud provider (including Cloudflare) is orders of magnitude better at keeping 9s of availability worldwide for thousands of customers than those customers are individually. The very best of those customers might be better and only rely on cloud providers for the scaling or huge amounts of infrastructure they don’t otherwise want to own, but the vast majority are actually less capable at accomplishing whatever uptime the providers already get.

Could cloudflare do better? Sure, that’s a truism for everyone. Did they make mistakes and continue to make mistakes? Also a truism.

Trust me, they are acutely aware of people getting upset when they fail. Why do you think they’re CEO and CTO are writing these blog posts?
by teekert | 2025-12-06 08:55:13+00:00
I also run NixOS (btw) but opted for the container. My Docker compose setup has moved from Arch to Ubuntu to NixOS now, so I like the flexibility of that setup.

I also use Tailscale, and use cloudflare as nameserver and Caddy in front of Immich to get an nice url and https. For DNS redirects I use Adguard on the tailnet, but (mostly for family) I also set some redirects in my Mikrotik hEX (E50UG). This way Immich is reachable from anywhere and not on the internet. Unfortunately it looks like the Immich app caches the IP address somewhere? Because it always reports as disconnected whenever Tailscale turns off when I'm at home or the other way around and takes some time/attempts/restarts to get going again. It's been pretty flaky that way...

Other than that: Best selfhosted app ever. It has reminded me that video > photos, for family moments. Regularly I go back through the years for that day, love that feature.
by globular-toast | 2025-12-06 08:55:43+00:00
The gut reaction of too many geeks is "I can't believe you'd install a smart fridge in your home". But we need to think about this differently. Imagine if vehicles had no mandatory safety checks. How many people know anything about car safety? You'd get people barrelling down the highway with broken suspension, bald tyres or worse. We are the professionals. It's our responsibility to keep the public safe and stop shit like this happening. The software engineers who implemented this at Samsung should be struck off. Well, we could start by having something to be struck off from. I'm done with assuming individual developers will be scrupulous. We need real consequences to come from higher up. It's way past the point that this is fucking with people's lives.
by armada651 | 2025-12-06 08:56:42+00:00
We were also subjected to a sudden worldwide field trial of a novel coronavirus, so it makes sense that it requires a similar response to combat it. I think in any other decade this would've been celebrated as a major scientific achievement.

If the moon landing happened today people would just be cynical about it just being an arms race with the Soviet Union to develop better ICBMs. This is of course true, but it doesn't make the achievement any less impressive.
by ragequittah | 2025-12-06 08:57:17+00:00
Wait really? I feel like this was happening in the 90s. Now every car has a full gps spy system integrated to the point I barely trust that my conversation is private in a modern vehicle. But I guess if you think it's just your car company, Android, Apple, roadside assistance, the local police, and probably the music you're playing that can pin your location you're probably ok.
by nighwatch | 2025-12-06 08:57:45+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful and critical feedback, this is exactly why I posted here.

You raised fair points about the mixed messaging, and I’ve just pushed updates to address them:

• Privacy Policy & data collection: You're right that the tagline “we never collect data” was too absolute. I do use standard analytics (GA) for anonymous usage metrics and error tracking. The Privacy Policy now clearly separates File Data — which is processed 100% locally and never leaves the browser — from Usage Metadata, which is anonymized and collected only for understanding feature performance.

• Network activity: The POST requests you saw come solely from those analytics libraries. No file contents, pasted text, or conversion results ever hit the network. I’ll also review whether I can reduce or defer analytics calls to make this more transparent.

• Visibility of terms: Agreed. I’ve added a prominent Privacy/Terms link in the header and a first-visit consent banner so users aren’t relying on a tiny footer link or assumptions.

• Offline behavior: The conversion logic runs entirely in Web Workers and doesn’t require a server, but my PWA config wasn’t robust enough to guarantee a clean offline startup. I’m working on tightening that up so users can verify the “local-only” behavior themselves.

None of this was intended to be sketchy — I simply oversimplified the marketing copy and didn’t surface the right information. I really appreciate you calling it out and giving me the chance to improve it.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-12-06 08:57:47+00:00
Different cryptocurrency products offer different properties and guarantees. Much like different databases offer different concurrency models. Folks that use currency backed stablecoins do not care for the trustless properties. There are various algorithmic stablecoins out there that you can use to stay free of KYC/AML but they aren't very popular.

Largely the folks that want trustless currency use chains like BTC, BCH, XMR, or ZEC.
by vrighter | 2025-12-06 08:58:15+00:00
I completely agree with you. It is very baffling to me too. But that is literally the reason parroted the most.

Linux is a monolith that includes a bunch of drivers for things you will never need (on a typical distro, not when you compile your own kernel). It does way more than I need it to, and it most definitely does more than one thing. But of course that's ok in that case
by plomme | 2025-12-06 08:59:14+00:00
Wife has a 16 pro, I’m on a 13 mini. Other than her phone being way too big I don’t notice any difference.

And why should I? Reading text on the web, calling, sms’ing, listening to music or using navigation does not require “next gen” hardware. Hell, it doesn’t even require current gen hardware. It would probably work just fine on 2000s era hardware.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-12-06 09:00:34+00:00
TFA's URL reads why-css-bad.html pointing at its originally intended title lol.

> [your browser rephrasing your text into smaller words] might be slowly becoming possible but is clearly outside the bounds of what CSS would do

When it comes to CSS, nothing seems out of scope. It's gaining conditionals (if) as we speak.

In hindsight, I wish Pavel had used something other than Z3/SMTLib for his CSS formal semantics, such as a Prolog-derived CLP language. Not that Z3 is bad, but the hope was that CSS spec authors could pick up and test/maintain the ruleset with new CSS features. Rather than unapologetically continue to add crap to CSS unhingedly. Or alternatively, expose layout to JS and then provide a common JS implementation for layout computation, as the Houdini project was proposing. I mean, that's what JS is for right?
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-12-06 09:01:49+00:00
Image there is an objective truth to all debates and it shows, that one side is further away from it than the other. If that more wrong side was more capable of leaving its cult and admitting mistakes, the discourse would change its shape.

The signal jamming as you called it, only works because signals get - wrongfully or not - reflected and amplified instead of absorbed.
by anotherpaul | 2025-12-06 09:02:04+00:00
Thank you, well put. thats why I am using next cloud and manual curation. Folders is the ultimate future proof structure. But I do see the value of a nice UI. But immich hides the files from me too much for my taste.

Although I am sure I can back them up to my PC somehow. But having them just on the server is not my favourite solution.
by djtango | 2025-12-06 09:02:09+00:00
I am not attached to any memories, I am remarking that a company that is currently 170~B market cap allowed a tiny upstart become a 460~B company when they had all the means and distribution to have stop them or outcompete them at many stages of the ascent.

Really, it is probably an inevitable and somewhat healthy feature of life and the business cycle, but it is also baffling to witness.

When I was at Amazon, I came away feeling that the gap between retail and Amazon was too large and the disruption was warranted. But in the case of Sony, it feels they were so much closer to the space that it feels like a much bigger own goal...
by cuu508 | 2025-12-06 09:03:12+00:00
> I just ended up exposing my public IP.

I considered doing that too. My main problem with it is privacy. Let's say I set up some sort of dynamic DNS to point foo.bar.example.org to my home IP. Then, after some family event, I share an album link (https://foo.bar.example.org/share/long-base64-string) with friends and family. The album link gets shared on, and ends up on the public internet. Once somebody figures out foo.bar.example.org points to my home IP, they can look up my home IP at all times.
by drankinatty | 2025-12-06 09:05:40+00:00
How can you justify such a wildly conclusive statement without providing any supporting information? It's not just the "HN Bubble", recent articles on The Register discuss how there is no way to guarantee the information provided to the 3rd party LLM servers in the prompting is free from further disclosure. This raises a host of concerns for professionals with a non-deligable duty to safeguard client/patient information from disclosure. To the point that if LLM captures that information, by definition the attorney or physician has disclosed client/patient information putting their license to practice law or medicine at risk.

Exacerbating the matter is there is zero disclosure on Mozilla's part detailing exactly what information is sent to 3rd party servers as part of its AI rollout in FF 145. Would you risk your license on some FOMO AI rollout in FF that, unless you, as the lawyer or doctor, have stepped though each line of the tens of thousands of lines of FF code associated with this new AI to meet your ethical obligation and answer the bar or medical board's inquiry on whether client/patient information has been sent to a 3rd party?

Without the ability to completely disable and turn all AI submissions off, Mozilla's "Trust Us" position doesn't allow anyone with such a duty to meet it. This is before you even get to confidential and proprietary or trade-secret type information applicable in any professional setting.

These are all vexing questions from a legal standpoint.
by justinclift | 2025-12-06 09:05:43+00:00
> It is a luxury good that only a very small number of people care about

It's raised the price of my in-progress workstation build by several thousand $, and now I'll likely not be able to build it. :(

I _really_ hope it's a "short term" price spike, but I kinda doubt it. :( :( :(
by brucehoult | 2025-12-06 09:06:02+00:00
Heeey, how's the Cruz treating you? If it still is.

I don't know why you'd ever want to pay a cent more for a 6502 or 8051 or AVR than for a RISC-V or ARM (e.g. Puya PY32F002A). Especially when the CH32V002/4/6 run on anything from 2V to 5V (plus a margin) which is pretty rare, and they don't need any external components.

I don't know whether the M6809 designers were the first to ever analyse a body of real software to find instruction and addressing mode frequencies and the distribution of immediates in order to optimise the encoding of a new ISA -- in a way that the 8086 people clearly didn't [1], but I think they were the first to publish about it, and I was fascinated by their BYTE articles at the time.

MSP430 is also a fun ISA. I just wish they were cheaper, and the cheap ones has more than 512 bytes of RAM. FRAM is funky. I also loooove the instruction encoding e.g. `add.w r10,r11` is `0x5B0A` where `5` is `add`, `B` is src register, `0` means reg to reg word size, `A` is dst register. Just beautiful. Far nicer for emulating on a 6502 or z80 than Arm or RISC-V too. The R2/R3 const generation is a bit whack though.

[1] e.g. on one hand deciding it was worth squeezing a 5 bit offset from any of 4 registers into a 2-byte instruction, while also providing 8 and 16 bit offsets with 3 and 4 byte instructions. They were also confident enough to relegate the 6800's SEC/CLC/SEI/CLI/SEV/CLV to two-byte instructions (with a mask so you could do multiple at once). But not confident enough to do the same with DAA, or SEX. They kept the M6800 encoding for DAA (and for as much else as possible e.g. keeping the opcodes for indexed addressing, but expanding from one option to dozens), but SEX was new to them and they could have experimented with it.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-06 09:06:13+00:00
More specifically, the CPU cores in AWS Graviton5 are Neoverse V3 cores, which implement the Armv9.2-A ISA specification.

Neoverse V3 is the server version of the Cortex-X4 core which has been used in a large number of smartphones.

The Neoverse V3 and Cortex-X4 cores are very similar in size and performance with the Intel E-cores Skymont and Darkmont (the E-cores of Arrow Lake and of the future Panther Lake).

Intel will launch next year a server CPU with Darkmont cores (Clearwater Forest), which will have cores similar to this AWS Graviton5, but for now Intel only has the Sierra Forest server CPUs with E-cores (belonging to the Xeon 6 series), which use much weaker CPU cores than those of the new Graviton5 (i.e. cores equivalent with the Crestmont E-cores of the old Meteor Lake).

AMD Zen 5 CPUs are significantly better for computationally-intensive workloads, but for general-purpose applications without great computational demands the cores of Graviton5 and also Intel Skymont/Darkmont have greater performance per die area and power consumption, therefore lower cost.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-06 09:06:37+00:00
> you are a customer of Cloudflare, and not happy, I encourage you to evaluate other providers more to your liking.

I think your take is terribly simplistic. In a professional setting, virtually all engineers have no say on whether the company switches platforms or providers. Their responsibility is to maintain and develop services that support business. The call to switch a provider is ultimately a business and strategic call, and is a subject that has extremely high inertia. You hired people specialized in technologies, and now you're just dumping all that investment? Not to mention contracts. Think about the problem this creates.

Some of you sound like amateurs toying with pet projects, where today it's framework A on cloud provider X whereas tomorrow it's framework B on cloud provider Y. Come the next day, rinse and repeat. This is unthinkable in any remotely professional setting.
by xnorswap | 2025-12-06 09:08:06+00:00
That may be, but I'm speaking from experience in my country.

Almost 10 years of treatment for a health condition, and the only forms I've ever filled in were:

1. Legal risk document to say I understood the risks of treatment 2. Change of address form 3. Form to say I wouldn't impregnate people while on a certain medication

And honestly, that's it. I've genuinely been able to focus on my health without being bothered by forms.
by Jnr | 2025-12-06 09:08:28+00:00
OpenVPN is far from "no fuss", especially when compared to Tailscale.

I like to self host things so I also self host Headscale (private tailnet) and private derp proxy nodes (it is like TURN). Since derp uses https and can run on 443 using SNI I get access to my network also at hotels and other shady places where most of the UDP and TCP traffic is blocked.

Tailscale ACL is also great and requires more work to achieve the same result using OpenVPN.

And Tailscale creates a wireguard mesh which is great since not everything goes through the central server.

You should give it a try.
by usegrand | 2025-12-06 09:10:26+00:00
https://buildsheet.one is a lightweight Notion-like drag and drop cheatsheet builder

Features (so far):

* Drag and drop, resizable sections * Markdown, KaTeX, charts included * Import markdown from source file, input or from URL. * Simple or custom rules. * Custom rules are basically where you can decide, how do you want to import markdown, for example `#` should be a section, or every heading should be a separate section and so on, you can customize it however you want it. * Export your work in PDF/Markdown * Read mode * Statistics about your work * Folders to categorize your cheatsheets/notes * Auto-save, no need to worry about saving your work manually * Table of Contents * Mind map visualization * Notion-like commands with `/` * Search content through every section

New BIG update soon: Trello-like boards, offline-mode with desktop app.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-12-06 09:11:59+00:00
A couple of months ago I saw a paper (can't remember if published or just on arxiv) in which Turing's original 3-player Imitation Game was played with a human interrogator trying to discern which of a human responder and an LLM was the human. When the LLM was a recent ChatGPT version, the human interrogator guessed it to be the human over 70% of the time; when the LLM was weaker (I think Llama 2), the human interrogator guessed it to be the human something like 54% of the time.

IOW, LLMs pass the Turing test.
by niutech | 2025-12-06 09:13:21+00:00
SO comment:

> The formal definition (simplest) of Turing Machine is simply a tuple of states set, symbol set, initial state, accepting states set and a transition function. There is no crank in it. By computation we mean somebody needs to apply the transition function faithfully on the tape which is exactly like the clicking in this case. More formally, a model of computation can be viewed as a set of rules somebody needs to follow to do the computation. In that sense, I think CSS is Turing-Complete.

There is even a "CPU emulation" in pure CSS: https://dev.to/janeori/expert-css-the-cpu-hack-4ddj and pure CSS fetch: https://dev.to/janeori/100-css-fetch-and-exfiltrate-512-bits...
by menaerus | 2025-12-06 09:14:52+00:00
Flamegraph is literally just a perl script that visualizes the stack traces collected by perf/dtrace (kernel). It's a good tool though but it doesn't need to be oversold for its capabilities, the hard work is done by the kernel. And honestly, many times it is not that useful at all and can be quite misleading, and not because of the bug in the tool but because how CPUs are inherently designed to work.
by Jnr | 2025-12-06 09:18:01+00:00
My guess would be that Synology is an expensive but weak computer, bare minimum for NAS.

Immich does require some CPU and also GPU for video transcoding and vector search embedding generation.

I had Immich (and many other containers) running successfully on AMD Ryzen 2400G for years. And recently I upgraded to 5700G since it was a cheap upgrade.