MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gabriel666smith | 2025-12-10 22:06:41+00:00
She was such a good marketer of ideas, and at sneaking them into more palatable constructs.

The opinion you replied to frustrates me when I encounter it.

She was only doing "magical thinking" in her narratives so much as her novels are marriage comedies, and this is required.

The reality of her life was that she was incredibly uncompromising. She had to publish her early work under an androgynous pseudonym to profit from it.

She didn't marry cynically despite having opportunities to. She was a realist, and a strain of that runs through her work. There are many moments where she anticipates the great Russian realists. She managed to turn a good profit on her art in spite of her period's circumstances. She genuinely advanced the idea of who is allowed to make art, and who is allowed to profit from it.

Generally the novels have nuanced but happy endings. She was writing for an audience. She was a shrewd businessman at a time when there weren't businesswomen. In her personal life, she was genuinely uncompromising. She's a GOATed artist. You can't ask much more of a human!
by jimbokun | 2025-12-10 22:07:18+00:00
Just an empirical observation.

Decoupled from the social systems built by organized religion, our “elites” are taking society to a horrific place.

Could you build up traditions and social structures over time without any deity that would withstand the hedonism and nihilism driving modern culture? Perhaps. But it would require time measured in generations we don’t have.
by tigranbs | 2025-12-10 22:07:56+00:00
EV motorcycles are a huge struggle! I have been riding motorcycles pretty much my whole adult life, but after trying electric bikes a few times while in the EU, I felt they were like toys. Honestly, how can you ride a motorcycle that sounds like a kitchen blender? FYI: I understand they are more efficient and faster, but a motorcycle is not about efficiency; it's more about a hobby, fun. In the EU market, it is mostly deliveries because cities are built for them.
by roguecoder | 2025-12-10 22:08:18+00:00
Which is why parliamentary systems are so much more stable than first-past-the-post.

They let voters express their preferences, and leave building the coalitions up to the politicians. Instead of expecting voters to understand that their preferences are expressed during the primaries, and the general election is just to pick which coalition wins.

It is crazy that no one in America is promoting a Constitutional amendment to fix the basic governance.
by rlpb | 2025-12-10 22:08:34+00:00
I'd be OK with an "I am a child" header mandated by law to be respected by service providers (eg. "adult sites" must not permit a client setting the header to proceed). On the client side, mandate that consumer devices that might reasonably be expected to be used by children (every smartphone, tablet, smart TV, etc) have parental controls that set the header. Leave it to parents to set the controls. Perhaps even hold parents culpable for not doing so, as a minimum supervision requirement, just as one may hold parents culpable for neglecting their children in other ways.

Forcing providers to divine the age of the user, or requiring an adult's identity to verify that they are not a child, is backwards, for all the reasons pointed out. But that's not the only way to "protect the children". Relying on a very minimal level of parental supervision of device use should be fine; we already expect far more than that in non-technology areas.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-10 22:09:05+00:00
> For housing, from the house seller's point of view, they could have the viewpoint that there are far too many houses for sale, the supply is too high, they want a higher price for their house. And from the buyer's point of view, there aren't enough houses because they want to pay a lower price.

And who is right is then determined by the market, because "not enough" means "the price is higher than the cost of creating more" at which point the market creates more. Unless the government is suppressing the ordinary market through rules imposing artificial scarcity, which is the evil to be prevented.
by jorvi | 2025-12-10 22:09:17+00:00
It most likely would prevent you from playing anything HDCP. HDCP is illegal (?) to reverse engineer, and there are special versions of HDCP2 specifically for HDMI. You need a license and a verified device for HDCP.

That might not matter much for an ordinary PC, but this Steam Machine will be competing for the living room with the PS5 and Xbox which have Netflix, Disney, HBO, etc; Not sure if things like Spotify are HDCP-protected.

It will be interesting to see how Valve works out the kinks for that. Honestly in general it'll be interesting, because putting those things on Steam Store basically turns Steam Store into a general software store instead of a game store. And the only cross-platform store at that.

With iOS and Android being broken open, you could have games be completely cross-licensed. I'd say other software too, but sadly with everything going the subscription model, you usually already have cross-licensing, in the form of an account.
by daltont | 2025-12-10 22:09:19+00:00
An exercise in simulating sports fandom on a map. To do things like simulate expansion and relocation of franchises.

The idea of turning this into a simulation game is a possibility hence "warz" in the name.

It is a bunch of Jupyter notebooks being served by Voila. The "Blank.ipynb" one is more interactive but the ergonomics need work.

It is running free tier hosting so it could swamped if enough people use it simultaneously:

https://sportwarzsim-production.up.railway.app/

https://github.com/daltontf/SportWarzSim

There are instructions to run locally via Docker in the README.md
by Cyph0n | 2025-12-10 22:09:24+00:00
Re: timing - They were triggered to explode en masse, which implies that there was zero consideration to minimizing civilian harm.

Re: location - They exploded everywhere you can think of, while these targets were doing civilian activities near other civilians, and not in a combat setting.

Re: possession - Given the above, and Israel’s horrendous kill ratio, there was definitely no consideration for possession of these pagers at the time of the attack. For example, who is to say that some pagers weren’t in use by members of the political bureau, or unofficially resold to a hospital for use by oncall doctors?
by sneak | 2025-12-10 22:09:38+00:00
Apple services are realtime keys to:

- activation: wiping an iOS/iPadOS/visionOS device, or reinstalling a mac after a full disk wipe

- apns: push notifications, used for realtime notifications for all apps on iOS/iPadOS, even things like Signal that do not use Apple's messaging infrastructure

- imessage: enough said

- boot ticket signing: required for any mac to do an OS update (it's serialized to the CPU's ECID)

any one of these going down for any significant period of time is going to cause widespread global economic disruption.
by hamdingers | 2025-12-10 22:09:45+00:00
The US, broadly speaking, does not make a distinction between step-over and step-through two wheeled motor vehicles in any category.

Again, broadly speaking, over 30mph is a motorcycle, under 30mph is a moped (unless it's an ebike with pedal assist, but only in some states). It's complicated.

You used to see a lot of scooters (step-through motorcycles or mopeds) in California college towns but ebikes have decimated that market.
by throw310822 | 2025-12-10 22:09:48+00:00
> here are a half dozen examples or so of anti-semitism within the upper ranks of the GOP

I checked the article and I don't see any upper ranks of the GOP mentioned. Carlson is a media personality, Fuentes a far right influencer completely outside of the GOP, the Young Republican leaders are junior activists. The article actually reports of Republican Jewish Coalition leaders (such an antisemitic party!) lamenting an explosion of antisemitic episodes- which of course serves to justify even more censorship of voices critical of Israel within and without the party.
by ohcontraire | 2025-12-10 22:09:48+00:00
I built echomine to search through my 2+ years of AI chat history. After exporting from ChatGPT and Claude, I had thousands of conversations with no way to find anything. It's a Python library + CLI that: - Streams large exports (1GB+) with O(1) memory via ijson - BM25 relevance ranking for keyword search - Filters by date range, message role, title - Exports conversations to Markdown - Auto-detects OpenAI vs Claude export format Quick start: pip install echomine echomine search conversations.json --keywords "async python" echomine list conversations.json --sort messages --limit 10 Also works as a library for building your own tools: from echomine import OpenAIAdapter, ClaudeAdapter Strict typing (mypy --strict), 94%+ test coverage, no external API calls - everything runs locally on your exported data. Looking for feedback on search relevance and what other export formats would be useful (Gemini? Local LLMs?).
by dannyobrien | 2025-12-10 22:10:48+00:00
The odd thing about all of this (well, I guess it's not odd, just ironic), is that when Google AdWords started, one of the notable things about it was that anyone could start serving or buying ads. You just needed a credit-card. I think that bought Google a lot of credibility (along with the ads being text-only) as they entered an already disreputable space: ordinary users and small businesses felt they were getting the same treatment as more faceless, distant big businesses.

I have a friend that says Google's decline came when they bought DoubleClick in 2008 and suffered a reverse-takeover: their customers shifted from being Internet users and became other, matchingly-sized corporations.
by nxor | 2025-12-10 22:11:20+00:00
This might interest you:

No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda McGurk

I read this book in school and it's about this difference between Europe / Scandinavia and a rural part of Indiana

I'm not saying kids don't play outside, just that the violence is why some parents fear it. I agree the internet makes this fear worse but frankly, EVEN ONE CRIME is scary enough if you ask me

A 26 year old girl was set on fire in Chicago public transportation. It's really unforgiveable to me when people then say I'm "fearmongering"

Yes, I fear being attacked on public transport!
by pryce | 2025-12-10 22:11:21+00:00
> Is she not going to say "pretty well compared to a surveillance database"

No, instead she is likely to avoid talking in abstractions and instead talk about personal experiences of getting stalked online by multiple people she has had to show her details to in the past, who may include storekeeps, police, university staff, etc, etc. Eva Galperin is an excellent source on the way many of our procedures are designed in ways that do not at all account for the potential of stalking and harassment, though her focus is on how this continues to unfold in the technology space.
by tensor | 2025-12-10 22:11:26+00:00
I think we need to stop focusing only on the AI aspect of this. Yes, it's an important component to the sort of mass surveillance system you're describing, but it's not the only component. The internet, advertising, privacy, all of these are integral to this outcome.

While I don't have a general solution, I do believe that the solution will need to be multi-faceted and address multiple aspects of the technologies enabling this. My first step would be for society to re-evaluate and shift its views towards information, both locally and internationally.

For example, if you proposed to get rid of all physical borders between countries, everyone would likely be aghast. Obviously there are too many disagreements and conflicting value sets between countries for this to happen. Yet in the west we think nothing have having no digital information borders, despite the fact that the lack of them in part enables this data collection and other issues such as election interference. Yes, erecting firewalls is extremely unpalatable to people in the west, but is almost certainly part of the solution on the national level. Countries like China long ago realized this, though they also use firewalls as a means of control, not just protection (it doesn't have to be this way).

But within countries we also need to shift away from a default position of "I have the right to say whatever I want so therefore I should" and into one of "I'm not putting anything online unless I'm willing to have my employer, parents, literally everyone, read it." Also, we need to systematically attack and dismantle the advertising industry. That industry is one of the single biggest driving factors behind the extreme systematic collection and correlation of data on people. Advertising needs to switch to a "you come to me" approach not a "I'm coming to you" approach.
by optionalsquid | 2025-12-10 22:11:41+00:00
> So are we banning all advertising to children? Or only banning them from communicating and posting with each other?

Kids are not banned from communicating and posting with each other; the ban exempts a number of direct messing apps, as well as community apps like Discord:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/10/social-media-b...

If I had to over-simplify it, then the ban appears to mostly target doom-scrolling apps. I say mostly, since I'm not sure why Twitch and Kick are included
by mister_jmm | 2025-12-10 22:12:26+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Jessy, founder of SiameseAI. We just shipped Foundry v0.1.

What it is today: a hosted workspace where you can run Blender, FreeCAD, KiCad, and JupyterLab from a browser, with persistent projects/storage.

What it isn’t: we didn’t build these tools. They’re upstream open-source projects. What we built is the cloud wrapper around them (session managment, persistent storage, and the product layer). The AI in v0.1 is a basic docs copilot (RAG) over files you upload (PDFs/specs/manuals). We are currently working on tool-native agents.

Why we built it: proprietary hardware engineering tools setup friction and environment drift burns a lot of time and cash for hardware teams just starting out. We wanted a simple way to spin up a CAD server on any machine and eventually with programmatic and AI access to the native tools.

Open-core: Foundry is open-core. We’re charging for the hosted product (compute, AI token, convenience, eventually team features). Where we modify upstream OSS, we’ll publish source as required and aim to upstream improvements when practical.

If you want to try it, we have a 7-day trial (+ $25 credit): https://askfoundry.com

Feedback I’d really value:

1. What’s the #1 dealbreaker for running these tools in the cloud? 2. What would make you use this weekly?

Support or DMs: support@siameseai.com
by Rohansi | 2025-12-10 22:12:35+00:00
> 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

I don't know. I have an LG TV and it does not support turning the display on/off with HDMI CEC. Everything else seems to work but it intentionally ignores those commands.
by ndriscoll | 2025-12-10 22:13:11+00:00
Things used to be more scrutinized. e.g. look at the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee controversy and legal fallout over sexual content that existed in the game data files but could only be accessed by modding the game, at which point you could just mod the content in. Porn websites also used to generally put anything explicit behind a credit card barrier, and there was an attempt to require that that the supreme court struck down.
by owisd | 2025-12-10 22:14:09+00:00
It’s already a solved problem- load a digital ID into a wallet app, the operating system can then perform a zero knowledge proof for each website that the user is over 16. The government issuing the ID doesn’t know which websites it’s being used for and the website only gets a binary yes/no for the age and no other personal info:

https://blog.google/products/google-pay/google-wallet-age-id...
by FpUser | 2025-12-10 22:14:18+00:00
>"You probably know that social media is no longer about free speech, It’s a targeted advertising machine"

Youtube for one is an advertising machine. On the other hand it is one of the few places where one can find some amazing educational and entertainment content. Prohibiting it I think is a crime.

Besides, lately Politicians stick their noses everywhere. It is just way too much.
by pseudosavant | 2025-12-10 22:14:34+00:00
The funny thing of course is that the Steam Machine has DisplayPort, and you can easily get a DisplayPort to HDMI 2.1 dongle for $20 retail. But they are targeting this being a console, and those are hooked to TVs over HDMI so it seems lame to not have a built-in HDMI port.

This is mostly an academic exercise though. HDMI 2.0 does 4K @ 60hz, and Valve have 4K @ 120hz (with 4:2:0 chroma subsampling) working over it too. Given the CPU/GPU in this machine, it won't be able to push higher than those limits anyway.
by mrandish | 2025-12-10 22:15:02+00:00
> does this thing actually make games run really great

It's an interesting question, and since OP indicates he previously had a 4090, he's qualified to reply and hopefully will. However, I suspect the GH200 won't turn out to run games much faster than a 5090 because A) Games aren't designed to exploit the increased capabilities of this hardware, and B) The GH200 drivers wouldn't be tuned for game performance. One of the biggest differences of datacenter AI GPUs is the sheer memory size, and there's little reason for a game to assume there's more than 16GB of video memory available.

More broadly, this is a question that, for the past couple decades, I'd have been very interested in. For a lot of years, looking at today's most esoteric, expensive state-of-the-art was the best way to predict what tomorrow's consumer desktop might be capable of. However, these days I'm surprised to find myself no longer fascinated by this. Having been riveted by the constant march of real-time computer graphics from the 90s to 2020 (including attending many Siggraph conferences in the 90s and 00s), I think we're now nearing the end of truly significant progress in consumer gaming graphics.

I do realize that's a controversial statement, and sure there will always be a way to throw more polys, bigger textures and heavier algorithms at any game, but... each increasing increment just doesn't matter as much as it once did. For typical desktop and couch consumer gaming, the upgrade from 20fps to 60fps was a lot more meaningful to most people than 120fps to 360fps. With synthetic frame and pixel generation, increasing resolution beyond native 4K matters less. (Note: head-mounted AR/VR might one of the few places 'moar pixels' really matters in the future). Sure, it can look a bit sharper, a bit more varied and the shadows can have more perfect ray-traced fall-off, but at this point piling on even more of those technically impressive feats of CGI doesn't make the game more fun to play, whether on a 75" TV at 8 feet or a 34-inch monitor at two feet. As an old-school computer graphics guy, it's incredible to be see real-time path tracing adding subtle colors to shadows from light reflections bouncing off colored walls. It's living in the sci-fi future we dreamed of at Siggraph '92. But as a gamer looking for some fun tonight, honestly... the improved visuals don't contribute much to the overall gameplay between a 3070, 4070 and 5070.
by Frotag | 2025-12-10 22:15:21+00:00
I think a lot of character-centered conflicts boil down to the same set of problems, regardless of the setting. For instance, you often see "keep the status quo and die a slow death" vs "expensive, risky gamble". Sometimes the setting is a small midwest town, sometimes it's a spaceship on the way to Beta Virginis. Sometimes the solution is actually unique to the setting but often it's just "find a compromise, prevent the extremists from blowing up the deal". Replace the mayor with a captain and TNT with nuclear bombs and you basically have the same story.

> There's really only a minority of people who are interested in stories that have no personal relationship stories in them at all.

All that to say I wish there were more stories that are more focused on the plot / implications of the setting. What-ifs that aren't derailed by character drama. "What if telekinesis was real? How can we exploit it for energy / propulsion / everyday gadgets?" Like basically thought-experiments in narrative form, or a textbook with characters.

Or at least I wish I knew how to search for these types of stories. Searching for "hard sci-fi" comes close but it requires the science is plausible (no FTL, minimal new physics, etc). I don't think it's reasonable to expect authors to simulate an entire universe / provide plausibility proofs for every bit of engineering / physics. As long as the mechanics of whatever fantasy physics are consistent and developments are plausible, that's good enough for me. I don't even need a satisfying conclusion, if the protagonist rebels fail because the ultra-wealthy corpos are just better equipped, so be it, at least the ride was fun.
by michaelt | 2025-12-10 22:15:48+00:00
> Why does your codebase generate hundreds of warnings

Well, it wasn't my codebase yesterday, because I didn't work here.

Today I do. When I build, I get reports of "pkg_resources is deprecated as an API" and "Tesla T4 does not support bfloat16 compilation natively" and "warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/open.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/xdg-open.1.gz (of link group open) doesn't exist" and "datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version"

The person onboarding me tells me those warnings are because of "dependencies" and that I should ignore them.
by deadbabe | 2025-12-10 22:16:03+00:00
HN is an anti-social media. It is not inclusive. If you are not a tech geek or cannot articulate well you are not welcome here, and will be ignored.

You cannot follow or be followed. There is no attention drawn to your username or profile. Everything about HN is designed for you to just read a comment and move on, not caring much about the human behind it.
by ben_w | 2025-12-10 22:16:07+00:00
> On that subject, it's certainly a strange time to argue for government's role as the holder of a monopoly on the tools of violence, isn't it? The human consequences of this misguided philosophy ran well into eight figures in the 20th century alone.

Sounds like you think the argument people are making is that it ought to have the monopoly?

I think the argument is that whoever doesn't have that monopoly, can't call themselves a government… at least not for very long. Reason being, not having a monopoly necessarily requires someone else is doing violence and cannot be stopped by the so-called government, which means the so-called government is weak and at risk of being taken over, perhaps by the people doing the violence, perhaps by a outside "peacekeeping" force.
by jmward01 | 2025-12-10 22:16:36+00:00
These are exactly my thoughts as well, both the positives (it doesn't need to be air-tight) and the negatives (providing documentation). I don't know that there is a great system here. The best I can think of is having independent third parties that people can register with and that can provide a 'proof of eligibility' token tied to an e-mail address or something similar with the explicit, backed by law, understanding that sharing more than that proof of eligibility with a third party is a criminal offense. The money side of things would be that FB and the like would pay the proof company a service fee so they make money and FB gets the proof without getting access to your documents. Just a thought.
GitHub UI Unresponsive
by polyrand | 2025-12-10 22:16:59+00:00
Just now, I noticed the GitHub page to review PRs becomes totally unresponsive if the PR is moderately large.

Typing text on the box to comment on a diff line takes 10 seconds to even show the characters being typed inside the textarea. I've tested on an M1 and M4 Macbook Pros.

I noticed the GitHub UI is getting slower and slower over time, but now it is just impossible to do any work.