MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2025-12-10 21:32:54+00:00
> We just need it to be hard enough that most kids won't do it.

Silly though that sounds, it might work. Because it's social pressure from other kids to be online that drives many kids into being constantly on Instagram and Snapchat. If you're not online, you don't know what's going on. The big social networks monetize FOMO.

If a sizable fraction of kids aren't on social media, that's not where it's happening any more. The pressure goes away. Or goes elsewhere.
by erwan577 | 2025-12-10 21:33:20+00:00
These are objects from a time when people were willing to watch machines work, not just get instant output.

Today, even if small DIY plotters were cheap to build, they’d mostly live in the “art / hobby” space: most users won’t wait several minutes for a page when a laser printer does it in seconds.

That said, it would be great if a simple, well-documented DIY standard (protocol + format) emerged that hobby plotters could implement and that common tools (Inkscape, CAD, etc.) could support out of the box.
by stackskipton | 2025-12-10 21:33:42+00:00
Because most people are working at Failure/Feature factories where they might work on something and at last minute, they find out something is now warning. If they work on fixing it, the PM will screaming about time slippage and be like "I want you to work on X, not Y which can wait".

2 Years later, you have hundreds of warning.
by socketcluster | 2025-12-10 21:33:42+00:00
This is a good API. I hope it gains adoption in at least one browser, that way other browsers which don't adopt it will be called 'insecure'... Which would be warranted IMO... People have been wanting the ability to inject safe HTML for almost as long as JavaScript existed.

Seriously, we got CSP before setHTML() WTF!

CSP is nasty. Removing essential functionality to mitigate possible security flaws, ignoring the developer's intent. CSP is like taping your mouth shut to lose weight... But you still sit through 3 meals a day... Basically smashing the food against your face.
by roenxi | 2025-12-10 21:34:19+00:00
I don't think I am. What would the path be to thinking it is possible? In the best case scenario where everything we know about physics turns out to be wrong and the universe miraculously allows complex eternal patterns to form it'd still eventually end up as some entity that thought a completely different way, had a completely different form, and has a very limited understanding of the concept of "what I am" because it'd have to keep changing parts of itself due to unexpected circumstances. It'd be a ship of Thesius to the point where there wasn't even a memory of what a ship was any more. A severe Alzheimers patient would be the same person they always have been compared to what an eternity of change would bring.

If that is immortality then we may as well call it a tautology and say we're already immortal. None of the things that make people who they are need to be preserved to achieve it so we're realistically already there.

Living an absurdly long time I can get behind. Billions of years, trillions of years, unimaginable numbers of years, sure. That could happen. But immortality isn't an option, everything eventually dies off unless we play semantic games where there aren't any properties of the thing that need to be preserved. And maybe even reality has an expiration date for all we know, which would render the whole project moot.
by jackling | 2025-12-10 21:34:24+00:00
Your comment is nonsense. What do you mean by “allowed”? Who is enforcing the rules of what is “allowed” and what isn’t? The fact is that Israel carried out an attack that severely harmed civilians. The question is whether it was targeted or whether it constitutes terrorism.

My claim is that since Israel could not have possibly known who was in possession of the pagers at the time of the attack, and since the attack occurred regardless of who was nearby—detonating all pagers in civilian-occupied areas—Israel did, in effect, target civilians.

If you attack a military target that is surrounded by civilians, and that attack injures or kills those civilians, then those civilians were also targeted. Do you think all that matters is who the primary target was, and that as long as Israel decides the civilian casualties were “worth it,” the decision is moral?
by spicyjpeg | 2025-12-10 21:34:29+00:00
The PS1's GPU does not support perspective correction at all; it doesn't even receive homogeneous 3D vertex coordinates, instead operating entirely in 2D screen space and leaving both 3D transformations and Z-sorting to the CPU [1]. While it is possible to perform perspective correct rendering in software, doing so in practice is extremely slow and the few games that pull it off are only able to do so by optimizing for a special case (see for instance the PS1 version of Doom rendering perspective correct walls by abusing polygons as "textured lines" [2]).

[1]: https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/08... - bit of a shameless plug, but notice how the Z coordinates are never sent to the GPU in this example.

[2]: https://fabiensanglard.net/doom_psx/index.html
by miohtama | 2025-12-10 21:34:41+00:00
New boss, new rules

> One new model, codenamed Avocado, is expected to debut sometime next spring, and may be launched as a “closed” model — one that can be tightly controlled and that Meta can sell access to, according to people familiar with the matter, who declined to speak publicly about internal plans. The move, which aligns with what rivals Google and OpenAI do with their models, would mark the biggest departure to date from the open-source strategy Meta has touted for years. Open-source models allow outside developers and researchers to review and build upon the code. Meta’s new Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang is an advocate of closed models, according to the people.
by softfalcon | 2025-12-10 21:34:47+00:00
When I'm in these situations, I try and put myself into the IP holder's shoes.

"if I spent the time, risk, effort, and money to develop the pre-eminent protocol and hardware used by most TV's in the world... would I want to give that work away for free?"

I think the answer is probably no for most people.

Because most of us are not the IP holder, they think this technology should just be free (as you stated earlier).

This lack of empathy and care for others (even IP holders) is largely why these draconian IP rules and contracts exist. It's why there are whole crazy NDAs around the HDMI spec. It's because every time someone is given even a slight look under the covers, they try and steal it, because it's worth a lot of money.

This is a nuanced variant of "this is why we can't have nice things" all over again.
by ranger207 | 2025-12-10 21:35:40+00:00
Gundam is several universes that are unrelated except they have giant robots colored in primary colors. The main universe is called Universal Century (UC), and started with the original Mobile Suit Gundam show in 1979. It's retroactively called 0079 ("double-oh seventy nine") after its in-universe date. It's good but has significant lumps, like the haphazard animation and villain of the week fillers. I'd recommend starting with one of the 90s OVAs: War in the Pocket (0080), Stardust Memory (0083), or 08th MS Team, as they're fairly short, self contained, and have fantastic animation. Alternatively a modern UC show is Unicorn, but there's a lot of references in it you won't get unless you've seen some of the older shows. Another option is the latest Gundam series, The Witch from Mercury. It's set in a new universe unconnected from UC so there's no prior knowledge necessary.
by Sevrene | 2025-12-10 21:36:20+00:00
Small things I want to add or say:

- It's not young adults, it's 15 and under. Personally I would classify 17-20something as young adult (it's a bit subjective isn't it).

- The younger children don't really care about politics honestly. Curious if you have an age that you're ok with only ensuring irl politics for children? I think age to vote is a much bigger concern for me here in terms of civil liberties.

- Parents can still make that choice for their child (unclear how this will work to me yet, to be fair).

- I've become convinced no one really practises 'politics' online. People barely even debate anymore. They argue, they perform activism, they aggitate, its what gets attention (thanks to social media). I'm worried people think this is normal, it's not- political discourse used to be much more productive. I remember when fallacies were actually brought up logically on the internet and people actually cared about the accusation.

- I did explicit rp with adults as 7 year old on MSN chatrooms back in the day :')
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 21:36:24+00:00
> Surveillance is generally a net negative, but it's also bad when you see people speeding around schools, rolling through stop signs, and running red lights.

The fact that these cameras are already pervasive and the problem of bad drivers hasn't been solved anywhere doesn't give me a lot of hope that these cameras are the solution to that particular problem.

It seems like police can do a lot to increase enforcement without the need of these devices. We have evidence that they've been doing less traffic enforcement so maybe start there. Increasing our standards for driving tests (some of which were eliminated entirely over the first few years of the pandemic) would probably help. Automatically shutting off/disabling or limiting the use of cell phones (all of which come with sensors that can detect when you are going at speeds you'd expect while in cars) might help. Bringing physical buttons and dials back to cars instead of burying common functions in touchscreen menus might help.

There's a whole lot of places to look for solutions to safer roads before we have to resort to tracking everyone's movements at all times.
by MLgulabio | 2025-12-10 21:36:25+00:00
As long as this system is a fixed price and is independent of the salary you earn, its benefits the rich more.

Its the same principle with kindergarden and late fee; Without a late fee, people sometimes were late getting their kids, with late fees more people were late getting their kids. Now they were able to 'pay' for this.

You now can pay for having less traffic for you. Who can afford this? The rich/richer person.

This increases inequality.
by petcat | 2025-12-10 21:36:41+00:00
> This is opaque to the service

The "service" is irrelevant. I think most people would trust Porno Hub to be discreet about their visits. That's in their business interest. But now they have to tell your government about all the times you're visiting Porno Hub.

And nobody should trust their government.

Also, keep in mind that western governments share with each other. There will come a time when Australians will try to enter USA but they'll get flagged at the border because the AUS government shared that this particular individual visited Porno Hub and a few other age-restricted websites 7,000 times in the last 30 days. Red Flag!
by brailsafe | 2025-12-10 21:36:50+00:00
> I just saw techtips Linus interview Linus Torvalds and the constant manboying and bad jokes was just embarrassing and badly hurt the interview.

If you've been watching LTT for any amount of time, it wouldn't be surprising that that's just LTT Linus' nervous awkward style, he's just a person. The jokes can be cringe as hell, but I thought the video was great, I don't think most nerds would be any different in front of a camera.
by legitster | 2025-12-10 21:37:54+00:00
I can't think of two less qualified people to have a beef over this.

Though to be fair, DHH actually creating a new license that lets people run it and modify it for free but also reserving monetization rights is at least honest and ostensibly solves the problem both of them care about.

Mullenweg running a shady copyright shakedown scheme to monetize his "open source" project strikes me as much, much worse. Claiming you are the "democratic, freedom" option when you're actually running a mafia secret police seems very dishonest.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-10 21:38:23+00:00
Alternative to archive.md, archive.ph

Text-only:

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by malucart | 2025-12-10 21:38:39+00:00
it's not possible to have either subpixel vertex precision or perspective correct mapping with the PS1 GPU, as it only takes 2D whole-pixel coordinates for triangle vertices. (contrary to popular belief, N64 also uses exclusively fixed point for graphics btw, it just has subpixel units.) better tessellation can mitigate the perspective issues by a lot, but the vertex snapping is unsolvable, and it is indeed present here. look closer and you might see it.
by reactordev | 2025-12-10 21:38:59+00:00
I came here to say this. My masters was on procedural generation. Perlin, fBm, etc. The things these noise functions have that an LLM doesn’t is speed. 1-D perlin is just a dozen or so multiplications with a couple random coefficients. The GPU can do 4-D Perlin all day long every frame taking up a 4096x4096x32 texture volume.

While I do like the erosion effects and all, having a few height texture brushes that have those features that you can multiply on the GPU is trivial. I still welcome these new approaches but like you said, it’s best for pre generation.
by kibwen | 2025-12-10 21:39:12+00:00
I think this erases some interesting nuance. The original Gundam is unabashedly a toy commercial--ostensibly marketing to children in the exact same vein as the OG Transformers--except apparently nobody told the director, so it's an extremely emotionally mature show (more so than nearly all YA fiction) where the main character, a teen soldier, is narrowly escaping death, is killing people, is watching everyone around him be killed, is suffering the effects of PTSD, is being openly used as an expendable tool by his superiors, is on the run for his life being hunted by half the world, is coming to terms with the costs of war and the throngs of innocent bystanders being reduced to burning ash for the sake of cruel and ambitous men, and did you know you can buy his cool robo-flail accessory at Toys 'R Us today?
by indymike | 2025-12-10 21:40:01+00:00
> I'm not sure why a person would want to let their kids hang out any place where that stuff you report is common,

A great percentage of serious crimes (from rape to fraud) are committed by family and friends of the victims. Should we not leave our children with our family alone?

The best move is to teach your children how to not be victimized. It is part of "being responsible for yourself". My parents taught me how to be safe in a bad neighborhood because sometimes you have to go there. They taught me how to pick good friends who wouldn't do bad things to me. They taught me how to spot the precursors to bad things. They let me hang out unsupervised. Because they taught me how to be responsible for myself. Why not teach your kids how to navigate the internet safely.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-10 21:40:23+00:00
Thats the whole point of democracy, to prevent the ruling parties from doing wildly unpopular things. Unlike a dictatorship, where they can do anything (including good things, that otherwise wouldn't happen in a democracy).

I know that "X is destroying democracy, vote for Y" has been a prevalent narrative lately, but is there any evidence that it's true? I get that it's death by a thousand cuts, or "one step at a time" as they say.
by janalsncm | 2025-12-10 21:40:44+00:00
To be clear, you are suggesting “huge improvements” in “every intellectual task”?

This is unlikely for the trivial reason that some tasks are roughly saturated. Modest improvements in chess playing ability are likely. Huge improvements probably not. Even more so for arithmetic. We pretty much have that handled.

But the more substantive issue is that intellectual tasks are not all interconnected. Getting significantly better at drawing hands doesn’t usually translate to executive planning or information retrieval.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-12-10 21:41:00+00:00
Deprecations don't work. Don't deprecate stuff without a really really good reason. The new API being cleaner is not a good reason. There are very few good reasons.

If you deprecate something in a popular library, you're forcing millions of people to do work. Waste time that could be used for something better, possibly at a time of your choice, not theirs. It was emitting warnings for 3 years... so you think everyone should have to rewrite their software every 3 years?

Especially for something like this. Only document it in a footnote, mark it as deprecated, etc - but don't remove the alias.

Don't break stuff, unless, to quote a famous work, you think your users are scum. Do you think your users are scum? Why do you hate your users?
by roenxi | 2025-12-10 21:41:07+00:00
Well, yes but the other problem is this is putting authoritarians in charge of more stuff. I had a comment comparing this to allowing people to eat too much food and that is literally where the logical outcome of this sort of thinking goes - it happens in practice, that isn't some sort of theoretical risk. The more the government decides what people can and can't want to do the worse the potential gets when they make mistakes. And this is further normalising the government making decisions about speech where they have every incentive and tendency to shut down people who tell inconvenient and important truths.

The risks are not worth the rewards of half-heatedly trying to stop kids communicating with other kids. They're still going to bully each other and what have you. They're still going to develop unrealistic expectations. They're probably even still going to use social media in practice.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-10 21:41:14+00:00
To be entirely fair, a government that would abuse your vague "am I allowed to access porn" history seems well into the territory of a government that would just make it up. A nefarious, powerful entity has no real requirement to be honest in their maliciousness.

They also have more direct means of accessing more specific data via ISPs, audits, banks, etc.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-12-10 21:42:09+00:00
So is the usecase for this that you save un trusted html from your user in your database, then send that untrusted html to your users, but in the front end parse it down to just the safe bits?

I think maybe a better api would be to add an unsafe html tag so it would look something like:

<unsafe> all unsafe code here </unsafe>

Then if the browsers do indeed support it, it would work even without javascript.

But in any case, you really should be validating everything server side.
by aeonfox | 2025-12-10 21:43:03+00:00
> I can easily imagine designing a VFD that works just fine over a respectable range of DC input voltages by adjusting its duty cycle accordingly. [...] I can easily imagine designing a VFD that works just fine over a respectable range of DC input voltages by adjusting its duty cycle accordingly.

I imagine it's not the waveform or current that matters so much, as the voltage. These motors would be powering massive blades encountering incredible resistance, so you need megavolts to move them, with an input voltage all the way down to near zero.

> H bridges at tens of MHz

Imagine the MOSFETs on this thing! Do they have something that scales up to MV? That sounds like an engineering challenge in itself.

Full disclaimer: electronics is not my wheelhouse, though I have played around with motor controllers.
by frmersdog | 2025-12-10 21:43:05+00:00
GBF is a love letter to the franchise and to the gunpla subculture. Its animation quality is high, the characters are fun, and Easter eggs are fun to look out for - including more than one where characters who met unhappy fates in their original series seem to be living happily in "our" world. Highly recommended.

The Build Divers series is not very good, but I still recommend it to people who have some time to spare, because Re:Rise retroactively makes it so satisfying. Re:Rise itself is deceptively sophisticated, and touches on some mature themes that even most serious Gundam series don't get to.
by roguecoder | 2025-12-10 21:43:07+00:00
I feel like just making kids lie about our age was pretty effective back in the day. Those of us who lied knew we were going into adult spaces, hid our irl identities, and learned how to behave.

Then Facebook convinced people social media was supposed to be about your "real" identity, which made us sitting ducks for scammers and propaganda. Now we have governments demanding we provide our identity papers before we are allowed to participate.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-12-10 21:43:14+00:00
That doesn't necessarily mean the blast radius was large. The 9 year old was killed while holding the pager.

> Fatima was in the kitchen on Tuesday when a pager on the table began to beep, her aunt said. She picked up the device to bring it to her father and was holding it when it exploded, mangling her face and leaving the room covered in blood, she said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/lebanon-...
by MLgulabio | 2025-12-10 21:43:20+00:00
That all might be true, but this is still not the point i'm making: Either you can afford it, than it doesn't matter to you, or you can't afford it but have to pay it than it affects you.

As long as the pricing is absolut and not relative to the owners salary, it is increase inequality.

Poor could also mean the middle class is more affected than the rich class (whatever you call the class above middle).
by crabmusket | 2025-12-10 21:43:53+00:00
The author says "skill issue" isn't a defence for Rust, but also says

"C/C++ (Experienced Developer)

Resource management is internalized. It's like driving a manual transmission - you don't consciously think about shifting gears, you just do it."

How is this not saying that C/C++ require highly skilled developers? Why is there not an equivalent "Rust (Experienced Developer)" section for those who internalise the borrow checker model and can use their freed-up cognitive powers for the same things the experienced C/C++ developer can? This is a double standard.

And like wow, CloudFlare had one outage where they messed up config file parsing. Good thing nobody coding in C++ ever shipped a bug that caused an outage!

I actually think I agree with a lot of the substantive criticisms this article makes of Rust, but man, it is so overstated and melodramatic.
by lovich | 2025-12-10 21:44:04+00:00
Hard disagree on anonymous speech. Individual humans should have free speech but that is divorced from anonymous speech.

With anonymous speech you don’t even know if you’re talking to a person or a program.

If you want to say something, then say it with your identity. You don’t get to be anonymous when saying something to my face so why should it be allowed across a screen?
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 21:44:10+00:00
Our current reality is that the photos taken with my Canon aren't being handed over to police without my knowing it, and aren't used to track people. The same can't be said about footage from people's ring cameras.

It's not clear to me that photos taken with an iphone with cloud backup enabled are compiled into national databases that track people's movements like ring and flock cameras are today either.

Currently flock and ring cameras are tracking people at a scale that canon cameras just aren't. Therefore it is fair to blame Amazon and flock but not cannon for the manner in which amazon and flock uses the footage their cameras collect to violate our rights.