MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by Zach_HE | 2026-01-26 06:53:47+00:00
GLM-Image is an industrial-grade AI model built for cognitive generative exploration, with deep instruction understanding and precise visual rendering. It excels at offering knowledge-rich, text-dense images through advanced text-to-image generation, accurate editing, and flexible style transfer. GLM-Image delivers consistent, high-fidelity visual outputs. Ideal for commercial posters, scientific illustrations, social media graphics, e-commerce displays, and realistic or artistic creation.
by Nursie | 2026-01-26 06:54:03+00:00
This seems to happen a lot.

The UK is doing some shitty stuff and a man was arrested for wearing a “Plasticine Action” t-shirt a few weeks ago, “Palestine Action” being a proscribed group in the UK, and showing support being an offence. When the mistake was realised he was released after a few hours with an apology.

These things are objectively terrible, shouldn’t be happening. The UK government is under popular and legal pressure to un-proscribe the group as hundreds (thousands) have been arrested and charged.

But it is not the same as someone being ‘disappeared’ in South American dictatorships, where they would be taken and denied process for years if not killed outright. Yet people here drew that comparison. He was arrested for inconvenient speech! It’s the same! And then I came under fire for defending the actions of the UK, having done nothing of the sort.

It’s really weird to watch.
by habinero | 2026-01-26 06:54:05+00:00
> Culinary arts as an occupation has statistically lower IQ than many other occupations.

Citation very much needed lol. Again, don't be elitist about work you don't do and don't understand. Honestly, given the choice between between a random pool of kitchen staff and a bunch of people with BAYC twitter profiles, I'm taking the people who can pull off a busy Sunday brunch and I'm not thinking twice about it.

> Are you just so stubbornly sure that your "funny story" invalidates everything

It wasn't actually intended to be ha-ha funny, my guy, that's just a stock phrase.

And if you're asking, do I trust my own judgement to critically evaluate claims in my own industry? Yes. Yes, I do.

If you rely on other people telling you what's good and never think for yourself, you're always just going to be a follower. It's like you've never been on a single enterprise software sales call, jeez.
by teiferer | 2026-01-26 06:54:53+00:00
Definitely not.

"Probability" does not mean "maybe yes, maybe not, let me assign some gut feeling value measuring how much I believe something to be the case." The mathematical field of probability theory has very precise notions of what a probability is, based in a measurable probability space. None of that applies to what you are suggesting.

The Riemann Hypothesis is a conjecture that's either true or not. More precisely, either it's provable within common axioms like ZFC or its negation is. (A third alternative is that it's unprovable within ZFC but that's not commonly regarded as a realistic outcome.)

This is black and white, no probability attached. We just don't know the color at this point.
by mahdi7d1 | 2026-01-26 06:54:57+00:00
I've been moderately happy this morning to find out I can open hackernews. Also Gmail is working. After attempting to get bridges using email and configuring an dozen of them I got 100% connection but then it disconnected without me being able to connect to anything.
I would assume some sort of tunneling must be possible cause the services available are varied and not limited to a few websites (We only had access to Google Search for about a week and nothing before that) now even Nintendo Store opened to my complete surprise.
by Proziam | 2026-01-26 06:55:13+00:00
This is a pretty common claim, but in the US you can buy similarly 'pure' beef and it's still cheaper. I prefer the EU approach for general food production, requiring every stage of the process be clean enough that you don't need to chlorinate chicken, for example. But, Americans do have access to the same quality food at much lower prices (and they earn more besides).
by altfredd | 2026-01-26 06:55:51+00:00
I have seen few cases where UEFI was not actually usable on non-OEM configurations.

In fact, my current ASUS laptop did not allow me to install Windows until I have performed a sophisticated dance to update/flash some sort of low-level disk-related Intel bloatware. The laptop was sold without OS and was accompanied by a small paper referencing a website with instruction how to flash the firmware to actually make the laptop usable.
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-01-26 06:56:41+00:00
I can’t help but be a little depressed by this realization. But to take it a step further, while I think there are some people who are genuinely buying this propaganda, I expect that a chunk of the propaganda aligned side also don’t think there is any point correcting the misleading statements. They benefit from the overall control of their ‘side’ and so just go right along sliding toward the fanatical fringe extreme of their side. On the other ‘side’, many people seem to have decided there is no use attempting to counter message after seeing the failure to move any extremists from their positions (and a failure to get even a milk toast correction from the non fanatics who are aligned). I think that the end result of this pattern is a gradually accelerating move towards the far ends, leaving no one to have any reasonable discourse in the center.

I’m not saying I support the center positions, nor that I don’t support what is often called an extreme position, just that this seems to be a watershed moment globally.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-26 06:58:42+00:00
> unofficial EDL-mode tools

The linked page seems to indicate that the EDL image is also vendor signed. Wouldn't that mean they're official?

Unless I've misunderstood, the EDL image is tied to the same set of fuses as the XBL image so it's only useful to recover if the fuses don't get updated. Which seems like an outlandish design choice to me because it means that flashing a new XBL leaves you in a state where you lack the fallback tooling (hence the reports of people forced to replace the motherboard) and also that if there's anything wrong with the new XBL that doesn't manifest until after the stage where it blows the fuses then the vendor will have managed to irreversibly brick their own devices via an only slightly broken update.
by daversa | 2026-01-26 07:01:02+00:00
We want to add home prices and rent, but that is really expensive data unfortunately. If this has legs, we may be able to justify paying for the Zillow API or something similar. We do plan on adding affiliate links to realtors in that city, although that's not nearly as helpful.

There's also an entire "Explore" section of this site we're working on once the database reaches a higher level of maturity. We want to do all the filtering you're mentioning.

Great comment, thanks!
by ofrzeta | 2026-01-26 07:01:08+00:00
If you need critical analysis to accept that games can be art there's a lot of stuff out there. For instance a list of academic journals in the field
https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=282989&p=4172214

Here's a book that accompanied an exhibition in 1993 that discusses the relationship between art and games (German, sorry) https://boerverlag.de/SPIELE.html

From the article: "Because the essence of a video game, which makes it more than a low-quality animated movie, is that it is interactive and requires the player to enact the plot. It transforms the player’s mind."

Arguably, as others in this thread have said, all other art forms are transformative in the same way. As far as definitions go this is pretty much essential to any art (opposed to, say, the intentions of the artist as we kind of agree that an artist can create art even if they don't intend to).
by wredcoll | 2026-01-26 07:01:33+00:00
I mean, a generation or two ago, people frequently learned to do things like replace spark plugs and alternators and mess with oil changes.

My generation learned how to plug computer components together and install operating systems and drivers.

The reason people did that is because they (more or less) had to.

The generation being born today will need neither of those skill sets.

Cars, by and large, stay working for as long as people care to keep them and the things that do go wrong are, mostly, uneconomical to fix at home.

It's likewise rare for, dunno, uninstalling a video game to accidentally delete some crucial OS dependency that causes the thing to need to be reformatted.

It's hard to say what skills the next generation will learn, but I can guarantee there will be something that they need that their children will not. And that they'll complain about their children being useless for not knowing whatever that is.
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-01-26 07:02:27+00:00
Are you aware of whether Chennowith ever discussed the presence, implied or actual, of more extreme resistance groups/factions operating in the same locations and time periods? I’ve seen some informal work discussing the ‘pressure’ on the incumbent power being supported and made more tenable in comparison to the potential for a more radical approach. I have seen anything widely popularized discussing this outside of ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ which does have some good references and particular examples.
by da_chicken | 2026-01-26 07:02:48+00:00
It extends far enough for some use.

There are some capacitive sensors (Electric Potential Integrated Circuit or EPIC) that can work through clothing fabric (which is a resistor). Within a few millimeters they are good enough for a diagnostic EKG. It's also used for stress monitoring, and can be embedded in a mattress or seat back.

There are also magnetoencephalography, magnetocardiography, magnetogastrography, and magnetomyography systems in use, which use superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID). Those are orders of magnitude sensitive enough (10^-18 T sensitivity vs 10^-6 T to 10^-9 T for some body processes or 10^-15 T for neural activity).
by alephnerd | 2026-01-26 07:03:06+00:00
Yes in most population centers. Any country that has the ability to stand up a cellular network has the ability to deploy jamming at scale.

The components needed to build jammers and EW systems have been heavily commodified for a decade now (hell, your phone's power brick, car, and TV all have dual use components for these kinds of applications), and most regional powers have been working on compound semiconductors and offensive electronic warfare for almost a generation now.
by galkk | 2026-01-26 07:03:52+00:00
At this moment I just assume by default that those “watchdogs”, “environmentalists”, “nonprofits” are mix of nimby-ists and/or thinly veiled attempts of extracting money

(it’s a nice things you got here. It would be a shame if some rare species of a frog would be found here. A small donation for the great cause/good, of course, would help us to work on ensuring that nobody gets in harms way).
by freetanga | 2026-01-26 07:03:57+00:00
The problem itself is not IP protection…. They tried that, and were always chasing behind - servers changed week after week, ban after ban.

So, misteriously (suspicions of bribery abound) now they block full blocks of internet preventively, bringing down innocent and paying customers with them. From Law Enforcement to privatized Minority Report.

Thats what people dislike. If you are a private entity and loose money to piracy, use the legal framework to solve it. Don’t override it with lobbying
by viccis | 2026-01-26 07:09:39+00:00
I think the author is contrasting video game criticism (which I agree is worthless) with that of other art forms, which I would argue has just become naked promotion to the same degree.

Even in historically cranky areas such as classical music, I see next to no intense critical scrutiny whatsoever. I would love someone to prove me wrong with some blog or other media outlet that reviews classical music albums and treats them even as harshly as someone like Christgau did rock. It has led to pianists like Lang Lang that are widely reviled among the classical piano community gaining fame and success because critics are simply advertisers in the classical world. Bear in mind, this is an art form in which audiences used to be so critical that Glenn Gould was booed for playing Brahms 1 with Bernstein just because he took slow tempi!

Just look at how RT scores have inflated in film. Or the whole poptimism thing in music. Or the fact that Amanda Gorman was considered one of the best poets in the US a few years ago. There's no critical voice anymore outside of the stodgiest of academic circles.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-26 07:10:01+00:00
> I think a useful litmus test for these kinds of stories is: do the people who most actively participate on them believe there's a conversation to be had, with multiple perspectives, not all of which agree with theirs? That's what this site is for.

I think this is a poor litmus test, because there are plenty of stories on HN where the majority perspective is going to be either agreement or disagreement. For example, zero day exploits, leaks, anything related to Tesla circa 7-8 years ago etc. The notion that every conversation needs to have multiple perspectives is a common fallacy; I think we can agree that things like companies ignoring security holes is bad for example and someone saying 'actually, it's good' isn't actually adding anything productive.

> If not, they're wrong for this site; more than wrong, corrosive. The stories themselves aren't bad (I have a lot of strong political beliefs too), but they're incompatible with the mode of discussion we have here: an unsiloed single front page and a large common pool of commenters.

That ship sailed long ago with stuff like the Google Manifesto or companies like Palantir. People rightfully point out ycombinators (and by extension, HNs) connection to the current political environment which means people here, especially long standing users, will find themselves more and more agitated.

For me at least, these kind of stories are increasingly unavoidable because they aren't just things I read on the internet, they're directly my life. Schools have gone into lockdown here in Seattle when ICE activity flares up, stores I've gone to have needed to prepare and think long and hard about what to do when ICE knocks at the door. Naturally this means people are going to gravitate towards stories here that are directly related to their life, and when those stories get squashed people start to notice the disconnect. People might go on HN to avoid these stories, but I literally cannot avoid my life.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-26 07:10:40+00:00
EDL itself is a huge hack anyway, so who knows. The underlying issue is that the OS suppliers are forced to bundle what is effectively the equivalent of a BIOS (low-level firmware) with their image (because of the underlying assumption that this is an embedded system where there are no third-party OS suppliers), and the "BIOS" update has to be made a one-way street when the older firmware has vulnerabilities. Newer EDL tools ought to become available but they might not have the exact same capabilities as the older ones, though they'll most likely be usable for basic recovery.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-26 07:11:34+00:00
>I actually argue that AI will therefore impact these levels of management the most.

Not AI but bad economy and mass layoffs tend to wipe out management positions the most. As a decent IC, in case of layoffs in bad economy, you'll always find some place to work at if you're flexible with location and salary because everyone still needs people who know how to actually build shit, but nobody needs to add more managers in their ranks to consume payroll and add no value.
by sidkshatriya | 2026-01-26 07:12:08+00:00
The nix language is maximally lazy. It does not evaluate things it does not need to. This is good because you don't want it to burn CPU building things (very expensive expressions!!) that it will ultimately not need for final derivation. I'm wondering if guix scheme is suited well for this task:

(a) evaluation is eager

(b) lots of variable mutation.

But perhaps lazy evaluation and lack of variable mutation in guix scheme is not such a problem after all for a nix _like_ system -- I don't know.
by llmthrow0827 | 2026-01-26 07:12:14+00:00
I fundamentally disagree with the distinction the author puts out.

1. Makes a distinction that video games "transform" the player in a way other media doesn't.

I would argue that every piece of art is "active" in this way, it's just that with non-interactive art, the activity happens within your own mind.

Don't art aficionados and art students sit and stare at a piece for an hour, experiencing something within themselves that goes beyond what they see?

Doesn't reading a book, whether fiction or non-fiction, take time to truly engage with the writing of the author and "learn" their style in order to appreciate it on a deeper level?

In the same way, engaging with the mechanics of a game and experiencing the ludonarrative cohesion is how one engages with a game on a deeper level.

2. Most game critique is just a cliff notes or description

This is the same for all mass media. Day 1 reviews of books and movies are not intellectual thinkpieces, and with the rise of "second screen content", most tv/movies are not meant to be experienced any deeper than at 1.5x speed while you're washing dishes.

It's asinine to compare pop culture reviews for a mass audience for video games to the highest form of literary or film critique.
by utopiah | 2026-01-26 07:12:51+00:00
Wrong title, if it's "File System Access API (still Chrome-only as far as I can tell)" then it should read "A browser is the sandbox".

At the risk of sounding obvious :

- Chrome (and Chromium) is a product made and driven by one of the largest advertising company (Alphabet, formally Google) as a strategical tool for its business model

- Chrome is one browser among many, it is not a de facto "standard" just because it is very popular. The fact that there are a LOT of people unable to use it (iOS users) even if they wanted to proves the point.

It's quite important not to amalgamate some experimental features put in place by some vendors (yes, even the most popular ones) as "the browser".
by lovich | 2026-01-26 07:13:36+00:00
If the sheriff who arrested this person has zero personal consequences that make him change his behavior, then it is de facto legal for them to arrest you for your speech.

They can do what they like, and your compensation if the courts think you were harmed, comes out of your own pocket as a taxpayer.

Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome. The incentive here is that someone the government don’t like got put in a cell for a month and couldn’t speak, and they get no downsides. I wonder what will keep happening more and more.
by rolph | 2026-01-26 07:13:57+00:00
a pulsed microwave beam of sufficient power, may induce mechanical oscillations in a resonant cavity, such as human cranium, plueral, or mediastinal space.

conversly, a high frequency acoustic beam, may cause mechanical motion of wires, or conductive traces, generating electromagnetic flux, and disabling electronic equipment.

there is the possibility that more than one piece of tech was used in concert, making a microwave/acoustic combination.
by tovej | 2026-01-26 07:14:13+00:00
What's your point? Palestinians built the first Zionist settlements too. They were hired as workers before Labor-Zionism made ethnicity be a necessary condition for employment in the settlements, later in Israel.

Israel has already grabbed a huge amount of Gaza after the genocide and Trumps "peace". And in the west bank they have ramped up the annexation as well. Israel has been swallowing Palestine while driving away Palestinians for more than 75 years now.

An apartheid state is not going to give the second class ethnic group any concessions.
by politelemon | 2026-01-26 07:14:51+00:00
A sandbox is meant to be a controlled environment where you can execute code safely. Browsers can access your email, banking, commerce and the keys to your digital life.

Browsers are closer to operating systems rather than sandboxes, so giving access of any kind to an agent seems dangerous. In the post I can see it's talking about the file access API, perhaps a better phrasing is, the browser has a sandbox?
by Pooge | 2026-01-26 07:15:47+00:00
I used to have dermatophagia up until 2021. Every time my skin grew again I would rip it off in a never-ending cycle.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, I was in WFH and wore cotton gloves while working. I caught myself gnawing at the gloves and after a few days I lost the habit and my fingers were fully healed.

I always suspected I would lose the habit if my fingers were healed.

It certainly wasn't the worse case of dermatophagia compared to some on the Internet but it was noticeable and made me feel bad.

You can do it!!
by fragmede | 2026-01-26 07:16:03+00:00
or just click the buttons that accomplish the same thing. The point is someone at PurpleAir is asleep at the wheel if such an obvious default configuration isn't being set. If they can't get such a basic thing right, why do we trust anything else from them? "Anything else" specifically including "running their software on a raspberry pi inside my home network".
by kshri24 | 2026-01-26 07:17:33+00:00
> That's not what that says.

Just saw your replies to my comments.

It does say that (cascade effect where tax is added to each stage of the supply chain):

"The lack of exemption can make the business the end consumer, meaning that the sales tax burden falls on the business and cannot be credited, as there is no mechanism to do that. Therefore, taxes on intermediate stages in the supply chain on businesses may result in a cascade effect where the tax is added to each stage of the supply chain leading up to a final sale to consumers. Some studies estimate that around 40% of the total sales tax revenue comes from taxes levied on business-to-business sales."

Even the scenario you gave me is handled in VAT/GST type of systems easily through input credits. So yes what you are saying is true too but that is not cascading tax. The 40% being talked about is cascading tax that is applied on value-add.

> This results in "double taxation" (they pay the tax on the furniture, they pass the cost on to their customers as higher prices, the customers pay more tax on the higher prices), but that's the same as any other overlapping set of taxes.

No the cascading tax is not this scenario (even though the scenario you said is true too but that is not what the 40% figure represents).

> they buy real estate so they have offices and then pay property tax on it

No it is not the same thing. There are property taxes in GST/VAT regimes too. Property tax is direct tax. GST/VAT/ST is indirect tax. Both are totally different categories. You would still have to pay property tax irrespective of which indirect tax regime you are in.

> If a business buys office furniture because it wants to furnish their offices rather than because they're in the business of selling office furniture

In VAT/GST regimes, these have input credits (which can be utilized to offset output tax liability), however they are not classified as raw materials/inputs either. They would be classified as assets (specifically under the heading "plant and machinery"). So instead of being inputs for whatever you are manufacturing/producing, they would be considered for depreciation (% of the total purchase is considered expense which you can spread out over many years until asset depreciates and is salvaged).

So your scenario is correct only in the limited sense of it being purchase of assets. Whereas in both Sales Tax and VAT/GST regimes it won't be considered an input. Here we are talking purely about inputs (raw materials or other inputs) that are used directly for producing outputs (manufactured goods/value-added goods). These have cascading effects in Sales Tax regime as opposed to VAT/GST.