MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ls612 | 2026-01-03 00:03:18+00:00
Somehow I doubt the prosecutor will apply the same standard to the other image generation models, which I bet (obviously without evidence given the nature of this discussion) can be convinced by a motivated adversary to do the same thing at least once. But alas, selective prosecution is the foundation of political power in the west and pointing that out gets you nothing but downvotes. patio11 once put it that pointing out how power is exercised is the first thing that those who wield power prohibit when they gain it.
by nutjob2 | 2026-01-03 00:03:22+00:00
Safety isn't just implemented via system prompts, it's also a matter of training and fine tuning, so what you're saying is incorrect.

If you think people here think that models should enable CSAM you're out of your mind. There is such thing as reasonable safety, it not all or nothing. You also don't understand the diversity of opinion here.

More broadly, if you don't reasonable regulate your own models and related work, then it attracts government regulation.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-03 00:03:47+00:00
> Parents did not have to hover over everything their child did. Was it perfect, of course not, but it worked fairly well and didn't require constant monitoring.

Except kids from families without respectable parents would always be the ones to find access to alcohol, cigarettes, and porn. There were always a few kids in every class that had an older brother, uncle, or friend who would give them access to stuff they shouldn’t have.

It really wasn’t that different in the 80s in terms of parental responsibility.

> You could let your kids go to the mall and be fairly sure that they would not be let in to an R-rated movie. They could ride their bikes to a convenience store and the worst thing they could buy was candy.

That’s still true now.
by shakna | 2026-01-03 00:04:40+00:00
Well, not to entirely leak what I do but the justification is... Salesforce. [0] Omni-anything is a painful, overcomplicated, JS and DB intense process. Generating some PDFs can take in excess of thirty seconds, just because it hits five different objects. And can only be triggered by JS.

[0] https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.sf_contract...
by muvlon | 2026-01-03 00:04:57+00:00
That seems oddly rigid though. I need to known in advance which networks will definitely never need subnetting so I can assign them a /64.

Why have so, so many address bits and then give us so few for subnetting? People shame ISPs endlessly for only giving out /56s instead of /48s, pointing at the RFCs and such. But we still have 64 entire bits left over there on the right! For what? SLAAC? Was DHCP being stateful really such a huge problem that it deserves sacrificing half of our address bits?
by themanmaran | 2026-01-03 00:05:37+00:00
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by bc569a80a344f9c | 2026-01-03 00:06:04+00:00
IP addresses in both protocols are just a sequence of bits. Combined with a subnet mask (or prefix length, the more modern term for the same concept) they divide into a network portion and a host portion. The former tells you what network the host is on, the latter uniquely identifies the host on that network. This is exactly the same for both protocols.

Or what do you mean by “parts of an IPv4 address and their meaning”?

That multicast on IPv4 isn’t used as much is irrelevant. It functions the same way in both protocols.
Tell HN: I shipped a script-based language filter and an onboarding tour
by rankiwiki | 2026-01-03 00:06:24+00:00
I recently shipped a couple of small updates to a content-heavy, multilingual site I run.
One was a homepage language filter based on writing systems rather than translation. Posts are grouped by script (Latin, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc.), so users can filter mixed language feeds without layout shifts or pagination issues.

The other was a lightweight onboarding tour. It runs once on first visit, is fully customizable, supports multiple languages, and avoids heavy external libraries. The goal was to answer “what is this site?” without adding friction.

Both came from the same realization: clarity matters more than features, especially on the first screen.

Sharing in case it’s useful to others working on multilingual or content dense products.
by theoriginaldave | 2026-01-03 00:07:13+00:00
I think it's an abdication of parental responsibility to let a child use Internet-connected devices without adult supervision.

Nothing connected to the Internet can protect children from seeing information they couldn't see (as determined by culture/familial mores), meeting potentially exploitative strangers, being exposed to a highly curated stream of marketing content and targeted AI messaging (including social media feeds).

I believe that Internet sites and apps should not have age controls.

I believe that physical Internet access (computer, phone, TV, etc) should require an adult ID to purchase (but not logged, like cigarettes, alcohol, etc) l and the the owner of the device is responsible for its use.

If they hand it over to a minor and they are harmed, then the original adult is liable (like alcohol).

This holds someone with material motive accountable. And it becomes jurisdiction-specific accountability (location of the device).

And in the case of parents, if they allow their kids to use one of the parent's devices then they are responsible for how the kid uses it. And directly responsible for how it's used, what's allowed and what's not.

You can't trust a mega+corp with protecting your kids.
by doublerabbit | 2026-01-03 00:07:43+00:00
My Educated guess, both.

Malicious attempts at exploiting would require physical access.

This was 1970's running on a PDP hardware. These were not normally connected to the internet so the attack vector of attacking would be have literal.

Any bugs would probably been of been fixed prior to and isn't this the first alpha of unix? So probably patched later in versions.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-03 00:07:53+00:00
>Nobody is buying or selling this software. Nobody’s business or livelihood is threatened by this.

Because the media was no longer in the rights holder's possession. This is a dangerous line of reasoning where someone can steal a copyrighted work and then be allowed to profit off of it because the artist has no way to do so.

Being able to see a long lost UNIX version is interesting and I could imagine it being worth paying to see it or play with it similar to how people pay money to see things at a museum.
by kalleboo | 2026-01-03 00:08:03+00:00
Exactly. IPv6 was developed in the ivory towers where it was still assumed that everyone wanted to be a full participant of the internet.

But the social/political environment was that everyone just wants to be a passive consumer, paying monthly fees to centralized hosts to spoon-feed them content through an algorithm. For that, everyone being stuck behind IPv4 CG-NAT and not being able to host anything without being gatekept by the cloud providers is actually a feature and not a bug.
by tibbon | 2026-01-03 00:08:06+00:00
I'd have to check, but I wonder what pitch the song is in? Could have it just been sped up ever so slightly in mastering, or even just between tape playback from mixing to mastering?

I have to wonder if this is like Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz - viewers can imply all sorts of intent that is very unlikely to have been there originally. A small mistake or tweak in any layer of processing could have easily done this.
by apublicfrog | 2026-01-03 00:08:36+00:00
> There are chargers everywhere and much of the time you don't need to drive because any decently sized city has robust and cheap public transit.

It's definitely not the density of major Chinese cities, but all major cities in Australia have plenty of EV chargwrs and public transport.

> Australia isn't as car-dependent as the US but it's honestly not that far off. Perth, for example, is akin to Los Angeles in car dependence as well as cars owned per capita.

You've picked the most isolated city in the world as your example, with a heavy lean to FIFO workers and disposable income. But even going with it, Perth has high public transport usage [1] and has halved its costs for patrons in the last year [2]. This was an election promise and important to people.

I'm sorry, but I think you're pulling things out of the air here, what you're saying simply isn't accurate.

1. https://www.pta.wa.gov.au/news/media-statements/public-trans...

2. https://www.wa.gov.au/government/media-statements/Cook%20Lab...
by pavlus | 2026-01-03 00:09:10+00:00
This is not a "Bucharest Memorandum", but a memorandum of a convo between Bush and Putin, which happened on April 6th of 2008. What you are talking about is from [0], and you should not believe Putin's words verbatim. Remember: he likes to "teach" history people from other side of the world. He cherrypicks some facts, omits other facts, distorts some other, and spits out some narrative to base his claims on it. Later these narratives get to school history books and become the history as russians know it. This practice is more than hundred years old by now in USSR and later Russia.

[0] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/33711-document-3-memorand... page 5
by musicale | 2026-01-03 00:09:21+00:00
> they aim to make maybe 5 cents this way on a $480 stock, mostly holding for less than a few seconds, on millions of trades an hour

> MM are ultimately a good thing because they provide liquidity. there is always a person willing to take the other side of a trade when you click

At the end of the day, it's not clear where the liquidity is going to come from unless there are non-middlemen buyers on the other side.

Reducing typical spread and commission fees seems like a more realistic benefit.
by pureagave | 2026-01-03 00:09:29+00:00
People who claim Ford and Mercedes have systems as good as Tesla haven't personally taken a currently shipping v14 FSD trip and then personally used Ford and Mercedes systems.
I see Cybertrucks many times a day in San Francisco and on the 101. I took a Robotaxi ride in SF last week. It was cheaper than Uber and Waymo but I am hoping they bring back the 2014 price wars of Uber/Lyft.
I think Musk's pay is $1/yr.
by thegrim000 | 2026-01-03 00:09:45+00:00
I've really felt gaslit over the last decade from people continuing to promote VLC as such a great thing, when I've had nothing bug bugs, crashes, glitches, issues with it for a full decade now (on Linux). From 10-25 years ago I definitely used it for everything, all the time, but now even the default Ubuntu totem video player (or whatever it's called) seems like 2-3 times as likely to be able to play a random video file without an issue as VLC does.
by duskwuff | 2026-01-03 00:09:55+00:00
MPEG-TS files are just a pain to play in general. It was never intended as a file format for prerecorded video, and lacks some features (like seek indexes) which are required for reasonable playback.

In most circumstances, a MPEG-TS file can be remuxed (without reencoding) to a more reasonable container format like MP4, and it'll play better that way. In some cases, it'll even be a smaller file.
by overworld | 2026-01-03 00:10:39+00:00
Hey HN,

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We simulate anything on anything. We're training open source/science world models that run on consumer hardware/GPUs. From mobile phones to gaming PCs, we want to create state-of-the-art AI models that perform at blazing speeds. Interactive experiences that arent just wasd but full keyboard and mouse at 60 FPS on consumer GPUs.

Before our first public models are finished cooking and our brand is fully transformed, we wanted to give an opportunity to check out retrospectives of our journey in 2025 and where we are at today in 2026. We have a whole set of blog posts with technical deep dives and retrospectives. Our latest is here: https://wayfarerlabs.ai/blog/scaling-up-data-collection where we discuss the challenges of data collection for the models we are about to release in a few weeks.

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by rasz | 2026-01-03 00:11:30+00:00
for context https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-beach-shooting-hero-ahmed...

"I didn't think to shoot, and I don't want to put my hand in blood. I don't think I'm the one who can take life of people."

Terrorist ran away, grabbed another gun and not only killed more people but also shot Ahmed 5 times.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/29/wound...

"Ahmed, 44, was shot five times shortly after wrestling with Akram."
by avidiax | 2026-01-03 00:11:44+00:00
Yeah, this is a very common misconception. There are hardware encoders that might be distribution quality, but these are (to my knowledge) expensive ASICs that Netflix, Amazon, Google, etc. use to accelerate encode (not necessarily to realtime) and improve power efficiency.

GPU acceleration could be used to accelerate a CPU encode in a quality-neutral way, but NVENC and the various other HW accelerators available to end users are designed for realtime encoding for broadcast or for immediate storage (for example, to an SD card).

For distribution, you can either distribute the original source (if bandwidth and space are no concern), or you can ideally encode in a modern, efficient codec like x265 or AV1. AV1 might be particularly useful if you have a noisy source, since denoising and classification of the noise is part of the algorithm. The reference software encoders are considered the best quality, but often the slowest, options.

GPU is best if you need to temporarily transcode (for Plex), or you want to make a working copy for temporary distribution before a final encode.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-01-03 00:11:51+00:00
It is literally perfect linear scaling. For every student you must expend constant minutes of TA time grading the exam. Why is it unconscionable that the university should have an expense scale at the same rate it receives tuition revenue? $90,000 of tuition pays for a lot of grading hours. I feel that scalability is a cultural meme that has lost the plot.
by joe_the_user | 2026-01-03 00:11:58+00:00
Yeah, as far as I know, to understand video formats, you need to understand encode-decode process, how film/video editor operate normally (keeping in mind film/video editing has levels from $100s to way beyond me), history, how optics and cameras work, etc. Then particular choices and confusions can be understood.

This indeed just seems to jump-in in the middle and give a bunch very specific recommendation. I have no idea if they're good or bad recommendations but this doesn't seem like the way to teach good procedures.
by pkb | 2026-01-03 00:11:59+00:00
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by lokar | 2026-01-03 00:12:22+00:00
You often see (appropriately, IMO) a certain amount of discretion wrt prosecution when things are changing quickly.

I doubt anyone will go to jail over this. What (I think) should happen is state or federal law enforcement need to make it very clear to Xai (and the others) that this is unacceptable, and that if it keep happening, and you are not showing that you are fixing it (even if that means some degradation in the capability of the system/service), then you will be charged.

One of the strengths of the western legal system that I think is under appreciated by people here is that it is subject to interpretation. Law is not Code. This makes it flexible to deal with new situations, and this is (IME) always accompanied by at least a small amount of discretion in enforcement. And in the end, the laws and how they are interpreted and enforced are subject to democratic forces.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-03 00:12:42+00:00
Very different. A scantron machine is deterministic and non-chaotic.

In addition to being non-deterministic LLMs can product vastly different output from very slightly different input.

That’s ignoring how vulnerable LLMs are to prompt injection, and if this becomes common enough that exams aren’t thoroughly vetted by humans, I expect prompt attacks to become common.

Also if this is about avoiding in person exams, what prevents students from just letting their AI talk to test AI.
by evil-olive | 2026-01-03 00:12:47+00:00
> How often does it happen in Chevys or Toyotas?

three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and whataboutism from Tesla apologists

from the article I linked:

> In an effort to take a comprehensive and systematic look at this issue, Bloomberg sought to examine every fatal EV crash in the US involving a fire. From there, the reporting centered around cases in which there was documented evidence that victims had survived initial impact, and that nonfunctional electric doors had impeded either the occupants’ efforts to escape or rescuers’ attempts to save those inside the vehicle.

this has nothing to do with the Jaws of Life. this is about the car catches fire and the door handles stop working.
by junto | 2026-01-03 00:13:15+00:00
I now have a Raspberry PI + Pi-hole running on my home network so none of my family see ads any more and nobody has to install any software themselves. You can also add your children’s devices to specific groups with extra block lists, to keep them a bit safer in the internet.

I got the Pi 5 to future-proof myself a bit and the entire kit cost about $160 and assembling and installing + configuring the network took 30 minutes.

I honestly don’t know why I waited so long to do it. I highly advise. I know it’s not perfect, and you have to do some tweaks around DNS-over-HTTPS but quite honestly it feels like it was the best money I spent last year by far.
by jeremysalwen | 2026-01-03 00:13:24+00:00
Double entry book keeping is just recording the "edge" in two places, once based on the source node, and once based on the target node. So you have a nice list of all edges coming from each node and a nice list of all edges going to each node. This was important before computers, since the process of looking up all edges going to/from a node would take real time and effort.

For your example of the landlord and the tenant, think, what if the landlord wanted a list of all payments that went into a specific bank account, what if the tenant wanted a list of all rent payments, etc. It's basically a database index to speed up those queries, but for a written database that is updates by hand. The fact that there is redundancy is just a bonus because you can now notice if the two places a piece of information are written down don't match.
by mmooss | 2026-01-03 00:14:08+00:00
> this looks more like "turning everyone against you"

Someday, in hindsight, that might be what it looks like. Though notice that Russia has the world's #2 and rising power, China, on their side (in a marriage of convenience, I'm sure).

But I think there's an implicit misapprehension. The West is the status quo power, and Russia is revisionist, and both play out the traditional roles in that ancient game: Russia is challenging - trying to revise - the status quo order that puts the West on top. When you challenge the status quo order, lots of people invested in it don't like you; people born to the status quo can't imagine another way and reject you reflexively (and people also reflexively reject change).

This happens with tech innovation - status quo tech and disrupters. Sometimes it looks, in hindsight, like the disrupter 'turned everyone against them'. Sometimes people join them and they look like visionaries and leaders, and eventually elder statespeople. They are none of the above; they are just revisionists and sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.

> WW2 and appeasement are still too fresh in memory.

I find that hard to believe. I have no data, but my impression:

First, there has been plenty of appeasement since WWII. NATO already appeased Russia on Georgia long ago, on parts of Ukraine (e.g., Crimea) a decade ago. The West threatened but then let the Soviets crush dissent in Hungary and the Prague Spring in the mid-20th century. Détente, arguably a degree of appeasement, was US policy in the 1970s. Trying to bring China into the global order was the policy until the mid-to-late 2010s. There are many more examples.

Second, the rush to war and the abandonment of human rights as the foundation, the rule of law, international law, international institutions, the outlawing of war, NATO, the rejection of nationalism, etc. etc. ... are all abandonments of the WWII generation's lessons, principles, and accomplishments. They built the postwar order. They conducted the Nuremberg trials, specifically a demonstration of the rule of law, justice, and human rights - and some Nazis were found not guilty.
by RajT88 | 2026-01-03 00:14:13+00:00
Speaking of e-Waste:

> Can Communicator be used as my primary phone?

Without them making a statement of how long they will provide security updates for, this could easily go like past phones of mine.

My work tightens their mobile security policy, and the device can no longer meet it. This is for both Android version and security updates. Happened to me a few times where I had to stop using a perfectly good phone which wasn't that old.

(Now I bought a Pixel I only use on wifi - 7 years of updates, and actually better for my WLB, since I leave work at home by default, or stuff a second phone in my pocket if I want to take it with)
by dalyons | 2026-01-03 00:14:43+00:00
On a clean grid they are ~100% better on tailpipe emissions. They create less brake dust, not more, due to regen. Yes, more tire particles due to being 10-20% heavier, but way less particulate overall because of no PM2.5 from combustion.

Massive massive improvement, that’s not greenwashing imho.

(Something that is greenwashing is PHEVs, they have proven to be mostly a lie in practice)