MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esterna | 2026-02-20 19:10:45+00:00
I also live in the EU. betfair.com is not blocked by my ISP here. Rather, they are blocking my ISP ("[...] you may be accessing the Betfair website from a country that Betfair does not accept bets from [...]"). That the website not only prevents betting but also does not show any odds is a technical decision on their part. Gambling regulation is also usually domestic, and not EU law.

Websites deciding EU users are not valuable enough to comply with GDPR is, as you say, also not censorship. It is again the technical decision of some website owners to provide their content only in conjunction with illegal processing of your data.

I have not had issues accessing torrent indices from the EU. This too is usually handled domestically and has little to do with the EU.

There is legitimately dangerous (current and upcoming) EU legislation (Chat Control, eIDAS, age verification, previously the Data Retention Directive), so I don't think it necessary to weaken your argument by listing non-examples.
by m463 | 2026-02-20 19:11:06+00:00
> I don't owe anyone my authentic self.

that makes sense, since to be authentic, you need to be vulnerable.

Maybe what the article means is not so much to bring up something deeply personal, but to show a unique part of yourself.

I remember a guy came to work on my heating system and while he was wrapping up, somehow he told me he liked slot machines. That led to a 15 minute discussion about them.
Next he told me his wife let him keep 6 of them in his living room and he showed me pictures.

I think that was not revealing too much personal stuff, but an enthusiasm for something that added life to the conversation.

So maybe carefully think of things you can reveal that make you who you are, without pulling back the curtain completely.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-20 19:11:27+00:00
Meh, Kavanaugh indirectly caused the whole mess, and directly caused many related and similar ones. It's a bad-faith complaint, Kavanaugh's actual track record is "always let Trump move fast and if he breaks things then whatever."

Basically we have a legal processes for courts going "this is weird and unlikely to stand and hard/impossible to fix afterwards, so do nothing until you get a green light", using temporary restraining orders and injunctions.

Yet Kavanaugh et al spent the last year repeatedly overriding lower-courts which did that, signaling that if someone said "let's figure this out first" to radical and irreparable Republican policies, the Supreme Court would not have their backs.

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> In case after case, dissenting justices have argued that the Court has “botched” this analysis and made rulings that are “as incomprehensible as [they are] inexcusable,” halting lower court injunctions without any showing that the government is facing harm and with grave consequences, including in some cases in which the plaintiffs are at risk of torture or death. The majority’s response to these serious claims? Silence.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supr...
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-20 19:11:36+00:00
The real way you do this is by thinking ahead for five minutes. We consistently have the problem that everybody realizes checks and balances are important when the other party is in power but that's when they don't have the ability to institute them, and then they forget all about it the next time they're in power.

The easiest time to reduce executive power is when your party is in the executive branch to sign the bill.
by pdpi | 2026-02-20 19:11:44+00:00
> For many years I wanted to believe they had a consistent and defensible legal viewpoint, even if I thought it was misguided.

Watching from across the Atlantic, I was always fascinated by Scalia's opinions (especially his dissents). I usually vehemently disagreed with him on principle (and I do believe his opinions were principled), but I often found myself conceding to his points, from a "what is and what should be are different things" angle.
by latchkey | 2026-02-20 19:11:50+00:00
you're not wrong which is why i try to be transparent about it all on the homepage. good suggestion, i'll blurb myself, but i'm not looking for fame so i left that off. i just want the extension to speak for itself.

it is all open source and built by CI, including squeeze, which is just a few lines of a CF worker.

https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/

i'm also not anon and i have 16k karma here along with decades of history building open source that you're probably using on a daily basis without even knowing it (co-founder of java @ apache).

i also don't need money, so i won't ever sell this project to the highest bidder and i don't have plans or need to monetize it either. maybe add some ai features in the future that require you to put in your own api token. GPLv3 too, to prevent corporate takeover.

right now, it is just a ground up feature re-implementation of another popular HN extension that the author abandoned. i've done it with over 650 unit tests too, so it shouldn't be too buggy and stand the test of time.

up to you though. i use it daily. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-20 19:11:52+00:00
Yes and no. It's a mistake to look at political representation as a pure expression of voters' will.

Gerrymandering keeps extreme politicians in office. Partisanship gets people to vote against their own interests. Media gravitates toward spectacle rather than substance, to the benefit of those that know how to use that; and social media in particular entrenches deeper into preconceived biases.

In short, manipulating voters is a profitable business. Electoral results are the output of that business, and voters are just the instrument.
by throw4847285 | 2026-02-20 19:11:52+00:00
You don't know anything about Kant. Neither do I, so that's two of us. But I will take a rigorous if flawed approach to understanding the world then a glib and dismissive one, that thoughtlessly appeals to common sense as a cheap attempt to win an argument that you don't actually want to engage with.

To be more blunt, you aren't saying anything at all. You are just posturing.
by maxdo | 2026-02-20 19:11:54+00:00
this is literally one of 1-3 companies who have a decent strategy in the age of AI. the rest is pretending changes will not affect them. even this judgement:
the guy decided to pick the phone while driving car not capable of red light detection. It could be any other car with similar auto steer capabilities. Right now same car with OTA updates would keep him alive. Sure, they are doing something wrong.
by kasabali | 2026-02-20 19:11:58+00:00
> The only people complaining about skeumorphism was designers chasing latest fad.

You're just proving my point. Notice how all of these were posted after Zune/Metro/Windows Phone/8/whatever it's called flat design craziness started.

Just look at this quote from Gruber's blog post:

...these hallmarks of modern UI graphic design style are (almost) never used in good print graphic design. They’re unnecessary in print...

No shit, guess what also wasn't needed in print: Buttons to be pressed and radioboxes to be selected. The whole fad just built on "old design is old and designers need to be employed".
by dekhn | 2026-02-20 19:12:09+00:00
Autopilot is similar to cruise control that is aware of other cars, and lane keeping. I would fully expect the sort of accident that happened to happen (drop phone, stop controlling vehicle, it continues through an intersection).

FSD has much more sophisticated features, explicitly handling traffic stops and lights. I would not expect the sort of accident to happen with FSD.

The fact that Tesla misleads consumers is a different issue from Autopilot and FSD being different.
by m3047 | 2026-02-20 19:12:17+00:00
Disturbed sleep / inability to settle / anxiety can have physical causes although these are poorly recognized / diagnosed by regular allopathic medicine where I live.

Anecdata: 1) A good friend whose anxiety was largely alleviated (and sleep improved) by recognizing and treating their iron deficiency. 2) I have to (can't take the Western drug which was prescribed any more, and the Western doctors can't seem to bang the rocks together) take herbs for my hypertension but as opposed to the side effects I was experiencing from the drug I joke that all of the "side effects" from the herbs are good, they're targeting imbalances which were not recognized / treated previously and lo and behold I settle and sleep better... which helps reduce the blood pressure.
by kelnos | 2026-02-20 19:12:29+00:00
For me, the showstopper would be NFC payments. From what I understand, Google Pay doesn't work on Graphene. I have all my credit cards in GPay, as well as a transit card. I use it for boarding passes when I fly, and any other tickets/passes that support it, since it tends to be much more reliable than the airline or ticketer's app. I've come to heavily rely on it, unfortunately.
by lich_king | 2026-02-20 19:12:40+00:00
> The one huge advantage of C is its ubiquity - you can use it on the latest shiny computer / OS / compiler as well as some obscure embedded platform with a compiler that hasn't been updated since 2002.

First, for all platforms supported by mainstream compilers, which includes most of embedded systems (from 8 bit to 64 bit), this is not really a concern. You're cross-compiling on your desktop anyway. You'd need to deliberately install and use gcc from the early 1990s, but no one is forcing you. Are you routinely developing software for systems so niche that they aren't even supported by gcc?

But second, the code you write for the desktop is almost never the code you're gonna run in these environments, so why limit yourself across the board? In most embedded environments, especially legacy ones, you won't even have standard libc.
by aeve890 | 2026-02-20 19:12:59+00:00
That'd be great but I'm not feeling like the Chinese market is too worried about open development. I got a Huawei Watch 5 as a gift and I liked it enough to try to develop my own apps (their app store is a wasteland) but to my surprise Harmony OS is not Android compatible (just Android based somehow). The watch's developer mode is useless. Trying to register a developer account is almost impossible and it seems they only allow chinese nationals and there's no plan to open registration. I couldn't even download their custom IDE (something like Android Studio) without an account.

Maybe it's just my experience.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-20 19:13:04+00:00
We're currently in the midst of 51 ongoing "national emergencies" [1], dating back to at least Carter. I think something that the next great empire will learn from is to limit emergency powers as well as the ability to create emergency powers, because in spite of their name they inevitably end up becoming normalized and just used as regular powers.

The description of some of those emergencies is comedic: "Declared a bank holiday from March 6 through March 9, 1933, using the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 as a legal basis."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...
by westurner | 2026-02-20 19:13:04+00:00
I have had this experience.

My posts are link dense because citations are worth sharing.

It's really frustrating because they're half-assedly alleging in ignorance when I'm taking the time to do something more like actual research and sharing.

I don't want to assume it's an inadequacy or an inferiority self-soothing response.

Perhaps more troubling than AI replacing actual critical thought is "that's AI so it's bunk" replacing actual dissent and argumentation.

Someday I'll compare occasional archives of my outbound communications to see what's been flagged and censored for example "because that's AI".
by Retric | 2026-02-20 19:13:52+00:00
Autopilots do a lot more than that because flying an aircraft safely is a lot more complicated than turning a steering wheel left and right and accelerating or breaking.

Tesla’s Autopilot being unable to swap from one road to another makes is way less capable than a decades old civilian autopilots which will get you to any arbitrary location as long as you have fuel. Calling the current FSD Autopilot would be overstating its capabilities, but reasonably fitting.
by nobodyandproud | 2026-02-20 19:13:53+00:00
> Most of these IRS agents will end up going after normal people,

Normal people are the easiest to chase; the cut backs have made this a foregone conclusion.

> which is where most tax revenue comes

Because normal people can’t afford transnational accounting shenanigans.

> from and where most of the fraud is.

The Panama papers prove deliberate tax dodges are not by “normal people”.

> I wouldn't call is comment sleazy I think he's just trying to discuss the topic at hand.

Injecting and steering a discussion towards party and identity politics a where there was none is a sure fire way to shutdown a discourse.

Deliberate or not, the method involved is sleazy.

By the way: Given that your definition of normal in your heavily downvoted comment, I’m not surprised you’re defending the comment.

Dig deeper and look back over decades. The 2022 bill and headcount to 100k was a push BACK to normal.
by pm90 | 2026-02-20 19:14:14+00:00
Ultimately, I believe there will need to be something catastrophic to oust musk/change leadership. And by that point, its questionable if anything worthwhile will be left to salvage.

My current bet is that optimus will fail spectacularly and Tesla gets left far behind as Rivian's R2 replaces it.

One thing I will note: I know folks that work at TSLA. Musk is more of a distraction. If he goes and if competent leadership is brought in, there's still enough people and momentum to make something happen...
by smashah | 2026-02-20 19:14:30+00:00
I was a huge webcomponents evangelist and tbh i wanted to vomit for the first few months of react just based on the fact how antithetical to web standards it is. But I wasn't able to pay the bills with lit work. And now the react ecosystem is much more comprehensive even compared to the polymer/bower days. I'm happy I did webcomponents and can go back to it if I need anything significantly lightweight.
by yabones | 2026-02-20 19:15:07+00:00
I'm probably a bit younger than the gp, but I can confidently say that all socializing has moved almost entirely off "social media" and onto group chats. Most people have a dozen or more combinations of friends and families on multiple apps, all trying to replace what was once easy.

I'd love if somebody would make a site based on the ~2010 expectations (not reality) of facebook. Ban any commercial activity and make people pay for it. I just want to talk to my friends and say "happy birthday" to somebody I haven't seen in years, not look at ads and slop posts.
by dekhn | 2026-02-20 19:15:28+00:00
Well, I'm in the US, I already know how to recognize US propaganda and ignore it :)

I don't think I was shown anything that was clearly labelled as "state-sponsored-media" from any other country and I don't think I saw anything that was propaganda, but not labelled as such, although I typically scrolled past the obvious ads and AI slop so I might have missed something.
by maxdo | 2026-02-20 19:15:37+00:00
I'm so lost. The guy decided to pick up the phone from the floor while driving the car at high speed.

1. It could be ANY car with similar at that time auto steer capabilities.
2. Why the hate , because of some false promise ? Because as of today same car would save the guy in exact same situation, because FSD now handles red lights perfectly. Far better and safer vs ANY other tech included in the avg car price of same segment ( $40-50k).
by 1123581321 | 2026-02-20 19:15:37+00:00
It’s a nice sentiment (librarianship runs in my family) but there are still issues with accessibility for library institutional subscriptions, compared to easily shared links. Relying on institutional subscriptions for revenue isn’t enough for the publishers and journalists. It’s also hard to target donations towards certain parts of the collection; at most libraries almost none of your donation would go towards periodicals.

None of these problems are unsolvable, but typical libraries would need to significantly change their focus and invest in new shared technology first.

I do recommend contacting circulation, reference or technology direction to share your desire to see the library play a larger role in making journalism accessible to the community.
by wildzzz | 2026-02-20 19:15:40+00:00
Receving a full body x-ray every day just for a week would exceed the yearly federal occupational dose for radiation workers. You would add an additional 26% lifetime chance of getting cancer doing this for a year.

The yearly limit for rad workers is 5000 mrem with most receiving none. Receiving any dose is usually a cause for concern at most facilities that handle radioactive materials. A full body x-ray would dose you with about 1000 mrem. For about every 10000 mrem you receive, you gain an additional 1% chance of lifetime cancer risk. There's a reason why you wear a lead apron when getting X-rays at the doctor's office and why the technician leaves the room.

Metal detectors would be a much more reasonable method. People that work at airports, courts, jails, some schools, and even some manufacturing facilities walk through metal detectors daily.
by lowdest | 2026-02-20 19:15:56+00:00
>the effect of poor sleep seems to be MUCH worse for me than other people. I go from extreme motor coordination to dropping cups in a span of 3 days of poor sleep.

Are you sleeping enough? When I was getting too little sleep, averaging 5.5 hours per night, this described me well. A single sleep interruption could make me lose most of a day of work. I'm sleeping better and longer now, and it seems I'm more able to tolerate small interruptions.
by nickff | 2026-02-20 19:16:01+00:00
If the average person does not know what an autopilot does, why would they expect Tesla's 'autopilot' to take such good care of them? I am reminded of a case many years ago when a man turned on the cruise control in his RV and went to the back to make himself lunch, after which the RV went off some sort of hill or cliff.

Rudimentary 'autopilots' on aircraft have existed for about a century now, and the earlier versions (before transistorization) only controlled heading and attitude (if conditions and other settings allowed it), with little indication of failure.
by tyre | 2026-02-20 19:16:30+00:00
FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. is an example of the same principle without the name (afaik it wasn’t named that until later.)

Basically the FDA tried to use its powers to regulate drugs and devices to regulate nicotine (drug) via cigarettes (device.) The conservatives on the court said, in effect, “look obviously congress didn’t intend to include cigarettes as a medical device, come on.”

Then Congress passed a specific law allowing the FDA to regulate cigarettes. This is how it should work. If congress means something that’s a stretch, they should say so specifically.
by ethmarks | 2026-02-20 19:16:46+00:00
I can't speak for Tesla's FSD specifically, but Waymo did a study on the collision rate of their autonomous cars compared to human drivers: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/. They found that Waymos get into about 81% fewer crashes per mile. Compared to a statistical human driver, Waymo prevented around 411 collisions that would have resulted in any injury, and 27 collisions that would have resulted in serious injury or death. It seems like for Waymo specifically, self-driving cars are demonstrably safer than human drivers. Not sure if that generalizes to Tesla FSD, though.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-20 19:17:35+00:00
Wasn’t to me either. It’s a learned skill that you can study and practice. I am only child. About a decade ago I saw one of two ways to make above my 2nd tier city enterprise dev wages - about $150K - either “grind leetCode and work for a FAANG” (r/cscareerquestions) or go into customer facing consulting where I would be required to do the business dinners and small talk.

I chose the latter. At 45+, there is no age discrimination in consulting - I still do hands on keyboard coding + cloud. Even before I got into consulting (working full time for consulting companies), I had roles inside companies where I interviewed with new to company directors/CTOs who were looking for someone who could get things done not reversing a b tree on the whiteboard. I had to learn how to talk. I haven’t had a coding interview since 2012 and I’ve worked for 6 companies since then
by roughly | 2026-02-20 19:17:53+00:00
Ironically, this sort of mindset that, eg, homelessness and drug use are weeds to be trimmed, as opposed to the output of the whole of society and the economy - that homelessness is a personal flaw, not a social failing - is why America can’t effectively tackle those issues, whereas European countries can. The state of European cities is an output of European social policies, not some odd quirk of the European people.
Instance segmentation model that extracts 3D geometry from 2D floor plans
by acaciabengo | 2026-02-20 19:17:57+00:00
Hey HN,

I am an ML Engineer and a full-stack software engineer. For the past few weekends, I have been working on a pipeline to solve a PropTech problem: turning messy, highly occluded 2D floor plans into clean, structured data for 3D extrusion. Originally demoed for a firm hiring for the role.

The Problem:
If you try to use standard object detection (bounding boxes) or basic OCR (tested Qwen, DeepSeek) on architectural plans, it fails instantly. Walls intersect, doors swings and dimension lines heavily occlude the actual structures.

The Stack & Architecture:
I built an instance segmentation pipeline that relies strictly on pixel-perfect masking to pull the geometry.

The Backbone: Swin Transformer + Detectron2.

Model trained on 1024X1024 images, with RTX 4090

Inference: Inference on CPU <10s.

Output: Clean JSON

Demo Performance:
67.1% AP50 for instance segmentation masks, and a 38.2% AP across the strict 0.50:0.95 IoU thresholds.

Vector Clean-up (The JSON Payload): 3D engines don't want pixel masks; they want math. The pipeline passes the raw predictions through Shapely to run boolean unions on intersecting walls, outputting clean, mathematically sound 2D polygons in a structured JSON payload.

Why am I posting:
A lot of virtual staging and architectural startups have beautiful Three.js rendering engines, but they still rely on human data entry to get the base data. I built this specifically as an extraction engine to sit underneath those UIs.

If you are in the PropTech or you are building a product that could benefit from embedding this model, I would love to chat.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-20 19:17:59+00:00
Yes quite well.

Nowhere near the respect was shown, not zero but more than was due.

People did question if that was too much honor at the time, too.

No hard core freedom-loving citizen from anywhere in the world questioned the extensive over-the-top memorial for Carter.

Nixon ruined things forever financially, but was not as dishonest as Trump.
by michaelbuckbee | 2026-02-20 19:18:06+00:00
Addendum to this: my filipina aunt is elderly and I was absolutely shocked at the amount of highly specific AI generated content seemingly targeted directly at her on Facebook.

Except instead of thirst traps it was a weird mix of outrage porn, religious imagery, and kids + pets being cute, singing or rescued from odd situations.

I asked a few questions of her to try and figure out if she like really grasped that it was AI, and she knew the general idea, but there's already so many filters and choppy edits of things it was honestly just too hard for her to make the distinction.
by renata_borges | 2026-02-20 19:18:26+00:00
I asked an AI to write "woman", a wrapper for man pages that has some sugar on top. First thing was to add colors, highlighting, basic navigation. After the first few rounds, it was doing its thing, and I told the AI> "It works! My man is now a woman. Hahaha!" and Claudette answered> "Ha! Best sysadmin upgrade of the year. "