MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsynnott | 2025-04-17 09:36:18+00:00
Historically, _the EU as an institution_ doesn't have a particularly coherent view on encryption; the EC periodically tries to push anti-encryption stuff but gets slapped down by the parliament and/or ECJ.

(This happens particularly _visibly_ due to the EU's weird structure. In most democratic states, there are consequences for the executive trying to do things that the parliament is definitely not going to allow them to do (in some parliamentary systems failure by the executive to get something through tends to result in the executive becoming an ex-executive), so if the executive has something it doesn't think it can get through, it keeps quiet about it; it may talk about it in private but is unlikely to risk a defeat by parliament. In the EU system, there are no consequences, so you do tend to see the EC pushing things that have little realistic chance of getting through the parliament quite often.)
by yetihehe | 2025-04-17 09:36:29+00:00
> read a ton as a kid and still read now but my kid wouldn't touch it with a barge pole unless forced to. Never saw him pick up a book on his own volition, that is.

My daughter didn't like to read too, until I bought her a book from Monster High universe (the hot topic for small girls at the time). She was hooked and now buys her own books from allowance.
by centilco | 2025-04-17 09:36:52+00:00
Thanks for your great feedback! I’ve replaced all the server- or technical-related highlights in the central highlights area with more user-friendly needs.

Regarding the free tier — I don’t have many free users at the moment. Since most competitors are offering it, I might consider dropping it when the costs for free users become more significant.

I really like your idea of reaching out to each new signup to see what can be improved. I’ll add that to my task list.

Thanks again!
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-04-17 09:36:59+00:00
It is quite plausible that life is abundant, but sentience is not. If we take Earth, it formed 4.5 billions years ago, conditions became suitable to support life like 4B years ago and first known signs of life are dated 3.7B years ago.

Now, in just .5B years Earth would likely become uninhabitable due to Sun becoming a red giant. In other words, on Earth life spent 90% of its total available time before sentience emerged. So on one side life is constrained simply by time, and on the other, sentience might not be necessary for organisms to thrive: crocodiles are doing just fine without one for hundreds of millions of years. To think of it, it is only needed for those who can't adapt to the environment without it, so humans really might be very special, indeed.
by greatgib | 2025-04-17 09:37:28+00:00
I understand to have "certified" hard drive that works well with all features, especially HDD firmware update.

But the language of the communication (ie "compatible", disks in old products will continue to work) sounds very like a move like HP printers.

"We want recurring revenues and we are now in a leading position, so we will ensure to make a margin on disks used with our products"

At first it is soft, ok it works with "compatible" drives, but they block the features in software instead of providing them as "best effort". Then, "in the interest of the users, and security blabla, non certified hard drive will straight refused by the system".

That is really hard because that was the interest of geek products like Synology to be like your own computer, that you can easily ticket and use whatever disk in whatever configuration that you wanted, even if at your own risk sometimes
by modo_mario | 2025-04-17 09:38:18+00:00
That's still a temporary and limited solution. What we're pulling up now is far more and mostly won't be sequestered for countless thousands of years unless we put insane effort into making it so. Also everything about those houses has an insane footprint as of now. The steel, insulation, glass, etc It's not like you're going to outbuild climate change even if you tried.
by ycombiredd | 2025-04-17 09:38:28+00:00
i got one phone call (which is not their normal m.o. in my case) a few hours after sending my reply. I knew it was a follow-up to my text reply story when he said "I'm the one who contacted you at.. the company you are at .." sounded like he was trying to read what to say based roughly on paraphrasing my text. I interrupted with just the word "no." and hung up.

I have not received a single sms soliciting a loan in over two weeks now!
by Nursie | 2025-04-17 09:40:11+00:00
Not really, no. Not at the same level.

If I order a $2 item from aliexpress with free shipping, like some baseball caps I just found, nobody is paying the $10 postage fee it would cost just on shipping to send one within Australia, in China or anywhere else. Let alone the $25 it would cost to send the item the other way, back to China.

The treaty distorts the cost of delivery massively in favour of countries with low internal post costs, and ends up creating absurd situations like this.
by pajko | 2025-04-17 09:40:24+00:00
Just wanted to mention this, but actually it has more issues.

trouble / about: the 'u' should be marked, at least for 'trouble' to make it silent (or probably in both cases but differently, not sure about other similar words). But then there's 'o' in lemonade which is different from 'o' in 'trouble'. Also 'oo' in 'loot' seems strange (should be ⊚⊚ with the recommendation above). Or am I misunderstanding something in the point of the markings? Anyway, it hurts my eyes.
by damnitbuilds | 2025-04-17 09:40:26+00:00
"One of the people familiar with the analysis said: There is ultimately a saturation of people who want to be ferried around in somebody else’s car."

I think this is wrong. i think Musk is right about this.

People don't want to or cannot drive, people don't want to find public transport, people just want to get where they are going as cheaply as possible.

Robotaxis have to be cheaper than normal taxis with a person driving and charging wages.
by benterix | 2025-04-17 09:40:57+00:00
It was like this in the past, now it's crappy. The algorithmic optimization started eating its own tail. And it's a problem on all platforms, from Spotify to YouTube.

Let's take YT. In very simple terms, instead of taking a bold move and suggesting a few outliers (similar to differentiating the population as it's done in evolutionary algorithms), it takes an easy shot and, if I'm identified as male, suggests some videos with females with big breasts and other generic junk many people just click on autopilot. It works well for them because most people click and click and spend their days uselessly hooked and feel bad, but in my particular case I lose what I had earlier, i.e. suggestions of interesting bands (they still do happen but the selection is of much lower quality).
by pjc50 | 2025-04-17 09:41:02+00:00
> He often logs on to the Weibo webpage, not as a censor but as an ordinary user. On Weibo, his username is Ordinary Fascist (普通法西斯). It’s a satirical name but Liu is unsure whom it satirises.

Oof. This sort of black self-aware humor was quite common in the Soviet Union, too.

> In spring 2014, the Chinese government begins to purge influential Weibo users, the so-called big V – as in, verified – accounts. A journalist at the People’s Liberation Army Daily is so impassioned that he publishes a post on Weibo calling all big Vs vermin who must be dealt with severely

This reminds me of the Musk purge of verified accounts, the old blueticks, mostly because they were liberal journalists, replacing them with the meaningless "I paid for my bad posts to be promoted" badge.

Is being appointed a personal censor dystopian, or is it less dystopian than posting to youtube etc. knowing that you may have your posts deleted and be banned but never have the opportunity to speak to your censor?

> prohibits university-level teachers from discussing seven topics in class: universal values, freedom of the press, civil society, civil rights, historical mistakes of the Communist party, powerful bourgeoisie and judicial independence.

side-eyes Columbia university

> None of the participants foresees that, in 10 years, half the people around the table will be in jail. Some, like me, will be living in exile. Those still in Beijing will have long been silenced and will not utter a word.

Oof.

> Some of the orders are unbelievable. One variety show compere says he almost “died laughing”. In subtitles, the word “died” must be put inside double quotation marks, otherwise it is a breach of regulations. It’s as though viewers are considered not intelligent enough to understand an extremely simple phrase

See "Unalive". Although the Chinese and Japanese languages have stronger taboos than English about death words.
by anshumankmr | 2025-04-17 09:41:17+00:00
Yeah. God knows. I was really surprised to see the Fchollet's benchmark being aced months ago, but whatever their internal QA was perhaps lacking. I was asking some fairly simple code, that too in Python, using Scikit learn for which I presume there must be a lot of training data, it for some reason, changed the casing of the columns, and didn't follow my instructions as I asked it, cause the function was being rewritten to reduce bloat, along with other random things I didn't ask it for.
by bambax | 2025-04-17 09:42:52+00:00
Self hosting is absolutely awesome.

I upgraded my NAS to a recent Asustor a year ago and it changed my life. JellyFin for video works perfectly everywhere in my home, on any device, and it can also be accessed remotely, securely, with Tailscale, so if I'm in a hotel somewhere with my iPad it still works.

And my library is curated by me; it has classic movies and other movies I like, and zero fluff or random shows that I would never watch in a million years.

But self hosting doesn't stop here. Using Docker (via Portainer) I can publish any app in minutes, on either Apache or Nginx, securely with a Cloudflare tunnel (free) without ever exposing my home IP to the world.

This of course isn't as resilient as a proper server with a proper provider, but it's so much simpler and so much cheaper that for hobby projects it's largely good enough.
by allyally | 2025-04-17 09:43:38+00:00
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by HelloNurse | 2025-04-17 09:43:52+00:00
And the question is even more complex: not whether producing dimethyl sulfide "from scratch" without involving living organisms of the familiar sort is possible (of course it is), but what the hypothesis that each of the numerous possible ways to produce dimethyl sulfide happens naturally (or that alien lifeforms want a lot of it) implies about the environment of the exoplanet.
by metalman | 2025-04-17 09:44:22+00:00
Here is a bit of refrigeration trivia gathered from my own interest in the subject and a penchant for collecting and reading old engineering books, so from the early days of shipping food , in refrigerated cargo ships, determining the ideal cooling temperature for each food type, was one thing, but another, facinating component, is that most food is exothermic, and this property is called "the heat of evolution", and varys with each food type, and is large enough that 50 tons of food will produce enough heat as it ripens to overwhelm an insuficient cooling system, so they had charts detailing the heat output of all the shipped foods, and recomendations on the design of the cooling plants, with some so specialised as to work with one food only....banana boats.... Got a 70 year old "admiral" fridge, the wiring insulation just crumbled, and it will get a new thermostat(hidden) and wire, everything else is in battered original, working condition
by n4r9 | 2025-04-17 09:44:31+00:00
Totally. Obama authorising drone strikes was abhorrent. I just didn't like myflash13 downplaying the significance of Trump's actions by comparing them to a falsity. Especially when Trump himself bragged about the extrajudicial killings of a US activist on US soil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_an...).
by lnauta | 2025-04-17 09:44:57+00:00
That makes me wonder two things. Firstly, if your can use this to find LLM generated content, which I guess would need similar instructions. Imagine instructing it to talk like a pirate, it would be quite different from a generic response.

Secondly, if you want to make an alt account harder to cross-correlate with your main, would rewriting your comments with an LLM work against this method? And if so, how well?
by CRConrad | 2025-04-17 09:45:10+00:00
After a promising start, it says:

"The rest of this article is exclusive!

This article will unlock in 6 months"

Hovering over the "6 months" bit displays a hint, "Monday, 13 October 2025 at 23:30:00". (ETA: though it doesn't say in which timezone.)

.

As for the bit of content we are allowed to see, it certainly didn't sell me on Rust... but sure confirmed my resolution to avoid JavaScript at all cost.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-17 09:45:25+00:00
Gigabit internet, or even >100mbps internet, is burst capacity. Very few people hit gigabit speeds continuously, and those that do often hit either bandwidth caps or fair use policy limitations. It's also why ISPs can use a 10gbps fiber backbone to serve gigabit to 50-100 homes, because the probability of all of those homes capping out their bandwidth at the same time is tiny.

That's also why a lot of supposedly fast ISPs absolutely crumbled when COVID hit. A lot of people started doing video calls in the morning/afternoons, which suddenly sent latency-sensitive, bidirectional, high-bandwidth data to every corner of the network. Upload speeds collapsed, gigabit networks were struggling to hit a couple hundred mbps, and DSL providers downgraded their customers to 2005 in terms of attainable network speeds.

For that reason, I think ISPs may as well offer 10gbps as a default. Their customer base is not going to make use of that capacity anyway. Only when downloading a new game, or doing a backup, or uploading a video file somewhere, does that bandwidth become a necessity. If you remove the cap on the bandwidth side, all of that capacity will remain available for a longer period of time for all of the other people in the neighbourhood.

Some cellular providers used the same reasoning for their plans here a few years back: there were no 4G speed caps, just upload/download as fast as you can, because if you're done doing your file transfer quicker, you're clearing the airwaves for other users. Of course, you'd still pay for those hefty bandwidth caps, charging >€1 per GB per month to rake in the cash.
by addandsubtract | 2025-04-17 09:45:58+00:00
The line and goalposts have been moved so many times, they will just continue to be moved. The White House spokesperson is already saying Kilmar is an MS-13 gang member as ruled by some secret ICE court. People will take is as gospel and legitimize his "deportation". There is no more line that people will stand behind until it's too late.
by centilco | 2025-04-17 09:46:01+00:00
Thanks for all your encouragement and kind words! Currently, I'm investing a little in Google Ads — not a lot daily, but it adds up to quite a significant amount each month as a solo developer. I can see some traffic coming from there, but not many conversions so far.

As for cold DMs and emails, I was a bit reluctant to go down that path at first. As you mentioned, the success rate is very low — which matches my personal experience too. But you’re right, maybe I can look for more targeted users and try approaching them.

Once again, thanks for everything!
by severine | 2025-04-17 09:46:21+00:00
Live bookmarks was how I started, and what I've come back to after all, using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/

When I'm familiar with the source, the headlines are enough for me to know if I want to read, navigating the folders is super quick, and the feed indicator makes adding new ones very easy too.
by ignoramous | 2025-04-17 09:46:58+00:00
> led to similar moral reckonings

TFA points out that International Law (an output of moral reckoning, if you will) is being dismantled by those in power whose morals are lose.

I wonder, just how long is the memory of civilizations to remember the lessons + morals of the past & how many generations does it take for a civilization to unlearn the wrong lessons.
by ngkabra | 2025-04-17 09:47:44+00:00
The article talks about a 2-dimensional grid which starts at (0,0) (bottom right) and extends infinitely to the right and the top, so all (x,y) for non-negative integers x,y exist. But x or y negative does not exist. Given a list of possible jumps e.g. (+1,+10) or (-20,+13), and a target destination, e.g. (700,1). Does there exist a series of valid jumps that takes you from (0,0) to (700,1) without ever going off grid (i.e. into negative territory)?

This problem might or might not be NP-Harder. However, now extend the problem to higher dimensional grids. At some number of dimensions, the problem becomes definitely NP-Harder (i.e. NP-hard, decidable, but not in NP)
by adrian_b | 2025-04-17 09:48:42+00:00
I am sure that they are overpriced, but the reason is because they can get away with this.

Despite the fact that I think that it is very likely that a $40 cooler like the one mentioned by you would work well enough, when I will build a new computer with a top model AMD Ryzen CPU, which dissipates up to 200 W in steady state conditions, I will certainly buy a Noctua cooler for it. A computer with an Intel Arrow Lake S CPU would be even more demanding, as those can dissipate much more than 250 W in steady state conditions.

The reason is that by now I have the experience with many Noctua coolers that have been working for 10 years or more, even 24/7, with perfect reliability and ensuring low noise and low temperatures.

I am not willing to take the risk of experimenting with a replacement, so for my peace of mind I prefer the proven solutions, both for coolers and for power supply units (for the latter I use Seasonic).

Noctua knows that many customers think like this, so they charge accordingly.
by fy20 | 2025-04-17 09:48:44+00:00
Maybe there's some truth to Douglas Adams' writing - we are just insignificant enough that nobody cares. In the Star Trek series it's similar, they are interested to see how pre-warp civilisations develop, seeing them as quaint, but that's it.

> Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-04-17 09:49:04+00:00
Quant finance (let alone finance) is not math, and should not be studied as such.

Browse this excellent & concise book, which starts with a few practical problems to test your math background; if you pass, it'll take from Forwards, to Bermudan Swaptions in only about 150 pages!

Blyth, S.J. (2013), “An Introduction to Quantitative Finance”

Fun factoid - Blyth was the former head of Harvard's Endowment and Stats prof. He taught Stat-123 which was a jr level class at Harvard. He'd put on IR options trades via Bloomberg chat in the middle of his lectures in real time!
Ask HN: What is this cyber attack scenario?
by borgster | 2025-04-17 09:49:40+00:00
Klaus Schwab warned, “We all know, but still pay insufficient attention to, the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack, which would bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole.”

I think one vector might be global root CAs. Banks stop so you cant transfer cash, ATMs stop dispensing cash, flights cant be booked. The only thing that will work is btc, assuming you have some in a wallet.

What else is the SPOF, where "single point" can be read as the order of 10^2 orgs?
by herbst | 2025-04-17 09:49:43+00:00
When I bought a fridge for my camper I realized why nobody who cares about power usage has a common standing fridge. Every time you open the door the cool air falls out, it sucks in the warm room air and has to start over again.

While "camping coolers" just keep the cold air inside.

My fridge doesn't cool when the door is opened, not even sure if slightly longer opening times make a huge difference when the complete air is exchanged in seconds anyway.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-04-17 09:49:43+00:00
Electron

a) isn’t really slow for what it does

b) introduces many layers of abstraction, leading to larger memory consumption compared to „native“ apps

c) is certainly not algorithmically unoptimized, it runs on a software stack that has been tuned like few others using billions of dollars

You just loosely associated words and concepts that occupy a similar emotional niche.
by sneak | 2025-04-17 09:52:08+00:00
There’s no need for them to move to FTTH; 99.9% of homes don’t need more than 10-20Mbps upstream.

I was on 1000/40 for most of my history with them ($100+$50) now I have 2000/100 ($150+$50). I would be fine with 40Mbps upstream unlimited; the issue is not the throttling but the threats resulting from bait-and-switch.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-17 09:52:11+00:00
The article is about redeveloping old church properties - owned by too-small-to-pay-the-bills-any-more congregations - into housing.

Big picture? No. Even if God hand-waved all the issues with zoning, environmental reviews, and such* - the article is up-front about there potentially being 100k churches that will close. Vs. "~4.5m homes" are needed.

(I'd say it's far more than 4.5m - but at current prices, most of those who need homes can't afford them.)

*Yes, the article talks about California's SB 4. That act has a number of limitations. And doesn't apply in the rest of America.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-17 09:53:02+00:00
To clarify, I just Googled for: what percent of american adults are on prescription drugs?

I got back from "AI Overview": Approximately 64.8% of adults in the United States report taking prescription medication at some point in the past 12 months. This figure is based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The key phrase here is "at some point". I guess a huge amount of it is a very short 1-3 week dose of antibiotics.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-04-17 09:53:12+00:00
Isn't this the one that was already cleared by the Supreme Court?

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-lifts-temp...

and this single district judge is trying to enact a political movement.

Flights take off. Dude issues temporary ban on Alien Enemies deportations. Flights do not turn around. Supreme Court clears temporary ban. Dude now claims admin defied his court order.