MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sam_goody | 2025-07-27 12:26:36+00:00
Th solution would be services that use encrypted S3 as a backend.

If services like immich, nextcloud, etc. were designed to have the bulk of the files on a 3rd party S3 compatible encrypted server (eg - only thumbnails and pointers to the encrypted database on the local server), then it would be much more practical to be able to use the big companies for private, safe, metered usage.

I envision the following: Some company offers a phone app which with one click will install your own "self-hosted" Immich or whatever. Immich (in this future version) relies on encrypted S3 files for hosting, and in the contract it says the host will not steal your encryption keys. Since this gives MUCH more control to the user, this service become popular and the hosting company grows (like. Whatsapp hockey stick growth). Soon, other hosting companies offering competing apps. (Hopefully, these apps continue to be developed, and agree on some interoperable standards between them.) Since the data storage is all on S3 you can easilly move from service to service or from S3 host to S3 host.

There is nothing conceptually difficult about such a future, and it would be worlds better than what we have now.
by NeutralForest | 2025-07-27 12:28:01+00:00
Since other people mentioned there's been work there, here is my Emacs config now:

(use-package janet-ts-mode :ensure t :defer t :vc (:url "https://github.com/sogaiu/janet-ts-mode" :rev :newest)) (use-package ajrepl :ensure t :defer t :vc (:url "https://github.com/sogaiu/ajrepl" :rev :newest) :hook (janet-ts-mode . ajrepl-interaction-mode))

Also, a fix for treesit auto to not ask for the grammar every time:

(use-package treesit-auto :pin melpa :ensure t :custom (treesit-auto-install 'prompt) :config (add-to-list 'treesit-load-name-override-list '(janet "libtree-sitter-janet-simple" "tree_sitter_janet_simple")) (add-to-list 'treesit-language-source-alist '(janet-simple . ("https://github.com/sogaiu/tree-sitter-janet-simple"))) (treesit-auto-add-to-auto-mode-alist 'all) (global-treesit-auto-mode))
by p0w3n3d | 2025-07-27 12:28:21+00:00
I'd love to have possibility to compare M4 with Ryzen 5700u as a server. I've read a comparison of M1 against 5700u and it was quite good price for value tbh.

EDIT According to some site M4 is 2 times faster and 3 times more expensive, while you can later add memory to Ryzen but not to M4
by 010101010101 | 2025-07-27 12:28:25+00:00
I like to remind those I mentor that The Company’s sole goal for their employment is to extract more value from them than they are paid - not because The Company is evil, but because that’s just what’s required in a capitalist endeavor. But, what it does mean, is that you shouldn’t feel like you owe any company anything - the goal of any for-profit corporation is to extract more value from you than they give back to you, period.
by sorenjan | 2025-07-27 12:28:49+00:00
> The main feature of importance for me was a convenient way of visual representation of the trip on a map + being able to easily take pictures and have them added into the tour route visualization. This is provides for a really neat trip summary. Maybe someone has an app or service suggestion for such a feature?

Strava has this.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216917387-Addin...
by bilgi42 | 2025-07-27 12:29:02+00:00
If it's not fully supported and has major roadbumps, which it has, it is not supported. I don't know why companies take linux users as fools that'll accept anything thrown at them. Until lenovo can get their shit together and make a respectable laptop with 12h+ battery life, good build quality and a decent enough screen even on the worst configs, im not getting it
by laughingcurve | 2025-07-27 12:29:41+00:00
“I do not like the results!” Or “The result does not make sense to me!” are not valid criticisms of science. They are arguments made from emotion. And in your case, based on your account history, it’s clearly something political for you. I would encourage you to write that kind of commentary in a more appropriate venue. Like the bathroom stall of your local truck stop. Just not here.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-07-27 12:30:31+00:00
I've been paranoid about my kid around water when he was younger, mostly because this was advice given by my father to me when I was an adolescent, in some context where I was going to be partially responsible for children:

Little kids can drown in as little as 2 inches of water. They can drown a bathtub that's mostly empty.
by tucnak | 2025-07-27 12:31:08+00:00
Tenstorrent is often criticised for having lots of abstraction layers, compilers, IR's in the middle—it's all in C++, of course. GPU's are okay, but none of them got network-on-chip capability. Some promising papers have been coming out, like SystolicAttention, etc. There's just so much stuff for GPU's, but not that much for sysolic NoC systems (TPU, TT, NPU's) I think Rust could really make an impact here. Abandon all GPU deadweight, stick to simple abstractions, assume 3d twisted torus for topology and that's it. Food for thought!
by albumen | 2025-07-27 12:31:29+00:00
You do realise there are different categories of users? There’s consistent evidence that early adopters and ethically motivated consumers accept price premiums to align purchases with values, identity, or status; only later—when technologies mature—do cost considerations dominate for mainstream buyers.

Solar PV: https://research.chalmers.se/publication/520553/file/520553_...

EVs: https://ia600108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...

Renewable energy premiums: https://research-hub.nrel.gov/en/publications/will-consumers...

Fair Trade: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Shared%20Documents/conferences/2...
by plemer | 2025-07-27 12:34:49+00:00
While I find your counter argument vague, it did prompt me to dig in and find that human hunting is arguably still the bigger suppressor of elk population. However, that’s been going on since the ‘40s.

The reintroduction of wolves is associated with an immediate, steady, and durable decline in elk - i.e. pushed the ecosystem past an inflection point into a new equilibrium.
by cam_l | 2025-07-27 12:35:10+00:00
>strict rules about the fencing that goes well beyond what would qualify as a normal fence

Many of the rules are similar, because they are generally commonsense rules. Australia has a few extra ones. No more than a 10mm wide protrusion within 900mm of the fence externally or 300mm internally, unless the fence is higher than 1.8m. This includes trees. You cannot open the pool area into any internal area, regardless of door safety features, even if that internal area is a locked shed. You must have a minimum 750mm clear zone around at least 75% of the pool. You have to get the pool fence reinspected and recertified every 3 years (this may differ state to state). There are lots of fines for non-compliance.

>it's a (big) assumption that the laws are the reason for the decline

It was not so much an assumption as it it was a presumption, which if true sets a lower bound on the cost. Drownings were getting pretty common in the 90s in Australia as the pool ownership started to take off, and at that time private pools accounted for around 45% of the drowning detahs for kids under 5 [0].

I do not doubt that public safety campaigns and public pool safety are also a big part of the decrease, but add to that the massive increase in not just backyard pools but also population. The fact that the fatalities have decreased during this period points to a sizable proportion being from the laws.

>I don't like to engage in "value of a life" debates

I mean, no one does. I think they can be illustrative though. Taken individually, each pool fence that saved a life only cost the parents $5k. Well worth it. And altogether, while it may sound crazy that so much has been spent to save so few lives, in context the average family pool costs around $30-60k. So the cost of putting the infrastructure in place for the kids to drown in the first place is an order of magnitude higher than the mitigations. If you wanted to look at it that way..

Sure, better stats always help to focus appropraite spending. Though I wasn't really making an argument one way or the other (just sharing my curiosity), I would point out that it is really easy to discount the importance of a safety feature after it has solved the issue. Y2K anyone?

[0] https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/ABS@.nsf/2f762f95845417aeca2...
by Fade_Dance | 2025-07-27 12:35:51+00:00
The generative AI argument seems flawed.

Much of the article is waxing poetic about the commons and the corrupting influence of monetization and capital, yet the main thrust against genAI is training on data from walled gardens and expanding access. As far as I can read it, it's a fairly pro-capital angle as well, in that a nonprofit AI outfit who was training on copyrighted data would also be vilified. Seems incompatible with the rest of their article. But I suppose one has to have a strong stance against AI these days.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Copyright walled gardens/publishers are some of the most flagrant examples of walling off the cultural commons. It's also necessary in order to support livelihoods of individuals, but it can incentivize "bad" behavior like changing the mission in order to pursue mass appeal and profit. Likewise, completely disregarding the fact that 150 employees is something that is funded by growth isn't a fair representation of the whole story here. A group of hikers doesn't magically create a service like that from thin air.

Maybe what the author is trying to advocate for something like a corporate structure with capped profit? Regardless, their arguments need work.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-27 12:36:03+00:00
But it's perfectly valid to question results that don't make sense, and the role of the supposed expert is to explain why it does.

After all, off in a democracy an expert expects to be paid by taxpayers to make decisions that affect the taxpayer the expert should be, at the very least, be able to explain himself in an intelligible manner.

Thats the bare minimum of expectations. I also expect the taxpayer funded expert to provided full access to his data, notes and analysis software.

Im considered an expert in thermodynamics, materials science and E&M. The people that pay me routinely don't understand what I'm working on, but they expect me to explain myself.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-07-27 12:36:35+00:00
“20% risk means we need to without a doubt medicate people for the rest of their life!”

This really says something to me about American medicine. Something is going to get you at some point. Is something that has a 80% risk of not happening really justify medication which comes with it own cost and risk?

Another article on this topic was posted a few weeks ago and prompted the same reaction in me.
by chasd00 | 2025-07-27 12:36:59+00:00
As a child before I could swim I slipped and fell into a pool at a party at my grandparents house full of adults. A teen, who was inside the house, is the only one who saw me. He ran outside, dove into the pool, and saved my life. I remember my mom being hysterical and the teen being treated like a hero. I don’t remember his name he was a neighborhood kid known by my grandparents. (Maybe he cut their yard idk)
by roenxi | 2025-07-27 12:38:03+00:00
Britain's political culture is a bit of a disaster though. Kier Starmer was the best they could find in the last election and as far as I can tell even the people who voted for him don't seem to support him in the main. This time last century they controlled 20% of the worlds population and sat in a vast network of trade and technological innovation all feeding back towards the British Isles.

Then through basically an ongoing refusal to engage with political realities they've managed to transition to the number 5 and dropping economy in nominal terms and, realistically, probably don't have the industrial oomph to back up the paper numbers. There was political debate recently over whether the country should even be able to produce steel. Per capita the picture is a bit worse, and on a PPP basis they're actually a hair below the European average. They've also managed to become relatively politically isolated because no view seems to have gained ascendancy over what their foreign policy should look like.

Now it'd be unfair to blame it all on the present crop given the huge amounts of damage done in WWII, but it is a bit difficult for me to accept the trendlines of the UK compared to the recovering USSR countries or China/Taiwan while believing that there is a healthy political discourse. The high performing countries have done amazing things even from a standing start in the 70s, 80s and 90s. From such a dominant starting position, with the momentum of the old empire and technically being on the winning side of pretty much every major conflict and ideological UK politics seem to have done rather badly. The country is wildly average for somewhere that was so ahead of the game relatively recently and with so many opportunities to succeed in the interim and such poor quality of candidates allowed to hold power.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-27 12:38:17+00:00
Your answer sounds very artificial. For instance "AI" is in no way whatsoever required for natural language search queries. There was some spreadsheet program back in the mid 90s that even supported natural language operation description - and is something that should also be obviously supported now a days. Even the adventure games of the same era often had natural language interfaces. It was quite useable even if obviously severely limited by minimal R&D put into it.

It was an obvious way to create a better user experience but instead search today is comparable to, if not worse than, search 20 years ago - because at least 20 years ago companies were ahead of the SEO guys, whereas that relationship has long since flipped.
by lesaha95 | 2025-07-27 12:38:36+00:00
We need an MCP-like standard for interacting with UI components. I want to be able to use my browser/mobile apps without hands. I want my AI assistant to be able to do anything I can.

To do it, I suggest we declare possible actions in every web page and every app screen in an LLM-readable format like [{ "description": "rewind video on integer number of seconds, where positive means forward and negative means backwards", "callback": callback, },... ]
by snvzz | 2025-07-27 12:38:55+00:00
Main issue with P550 is no V. Huge handicap, can't easily make up for that.

RVA23 requires V. These incoming CPUs are the real deal, a perfectly usable performance level in the present day.

(unless they cache-starve them or some other such fuck up)

My 4790k was still my main PC until I recently (weeks) built a new PC with 9800x3d, 96GB ECC, rx7900gre.

4790k had 4 cores. If these new chips clock reasonably, say, 3+ GHz, and have 8 or 16 cores, they'll easily generally outdo this old -but very usable still- Intel chip.
by Doctor_Fegg | 2025-07-27 12:39:10+00:00
This is half right IMO. I'd agree with the first part of the article: when you have a growth-at-all-costs company, which is then sold to someone who wants to control costs to crank out the maximum profit, then users are inevitably going to lose out. It was always entirely predictable that this was the way Komoot would go - lots of us commented way before the Bending Spoons acquisition that 250 salaries (never mind the influencers) was a lot to pay from a routing app.

But even as someone pretty left/liberal fully signed up to the open source gospel, I think the conclusion is unconvicing and rather handwavy:

> Promising projects such as the Mastodon social network, Matrix chat, and Pixelfed social photo sharing are reviving the diversity and abundance of the early, independent internet before it was enclosed by tech giants in the 2010s. More than singular platforms, the Fediverse represents a growing ecosystem of open protocols and distributed services that guarantee freedom of movement for users and data and push back against capitalist enclosure—a diverse and resilient digital commons.

No. You don't get performant consumer-level routing without lots of fast servers, and the Fediverse doesn't really have a way to pay for lots of fast servers. Ok, you can run hobbyist projects like Brouter on low-spec hardware - and don't get me wrong, Brouter is absolutely awesome in its own way, and for a certain type of cyclist it's all they'll ever need. But if you want something that appeals beyond the hardcore cyclist - in the way that Komoot does, and in the way that Google and Apple Maps do for motoring (and, increasingly, city cycling) - there has to be some sort of way of paying for the servers. "Open protocols and distributed services" don't fix that.

Entirely personally (and you would expect me to say this), my view is instead: support your local artisan. Your local artisan framebuilder will build you a fantastic bike. Your local artisan bike shop will repair it much better than a chain like Halfords will (or whatever your country's equivalent is). These guys aren't practising "enshittification". They're doing what they love, and being paid for it so that they can feed the family and pay the mortgage. Sure, maybe it's still "capital", but not in the same way that Bending Spoons does it.

So if you're happy going to an artisan bike shop, consider going to an artisan routing/mapping site, rather than a growth-then-sellout project. There are plenty of these - I'm obviously going to plug my own site/app, cycle.travel, but there are many others.

(Incidentally, I hold no brief to support Komoot - quite the opposite, because they've ripped off a bunch of my content - but the bit about "leeching off the open-source commons" is not entirely fair. Komoot developed one of the most popular OpenStreetMap geocoders, Photon, and released it as open source. They're paid-up members of the OSM Foundation. Sure, there's more they could do and some other companies do more, but it's important to recognise what they have done.)
by EndsOfnversion | 2025-07-27 12:39:23+00:00
You can certainly make the tethers longer, but that re-introduces other problems with the tensile strength that the current proposed shape is intended to mitigate.

I’m very skeptical about Spinlaunch, but even if you can pour enough epoxy over something to allow it to survive 10k Gs for a few minutes, I am not sure you can scale it to 100k+ Gs for weeks, for a postage stamp sized payload that has to be almost perfectly flat - that just seems like a completely different problem domain.

I think the idea bears further investigation, but the omission from the paper feels a bit odd.

Good luck with the novel!
by klabb3 | 2025-07-27 12:40:44+00:00
Yes. Equity is ownership. Basically:

A for-profit company, owned by a few founders, takes your data and provides no data licensing terms or contractual guarantees. It’s legally speaking their data. Everyone else has basically no legal rights to anything on the ”platform”.

Then they attract both employees and users due to their good mission, ”we will never sell”. Surprise! They sell and leave everyone hanging.

From a EU perspective I get it. This is upsetting and surprising even. But from a US perspective this is just business as usual.

That privately owned data is a pile of gold that grew by the day, eventually big enough to buy out even the most passionate and stubborn founders. The company was never what the author expected it was, even before the sale – it was a projection of what they wanted it to be.

I applaud the efforts to fix the business model and lack of data sovereignty. The more people that ”wake up” and understand the flaws of current system, the better chances we can fix it.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-07-27 12:41:16+00:00
prove that? There are many more ways to be wrong if the question is something uninteresting like how many pennies are there in this jar, sure, but if the question is something interesting maybe there are the same amount of ways to be wrong or right, however there is, in my experience, a statistical likelihood that wrong answers converge on a few common idiotic ideas.

Relatively clever people will also converge on a number of statistically likely right answers, but I think the really bright people will find right answers nobody else ever suspected and which the moderately intelligent will say "that can't be right, can it?!?", and the really stupid people will still be inside the list of common stupid answers but probably focused on the ones that even moderately intelligent people will think, "huh that has to be wrong".

on edit: I probably should amend that to may find right answers that nobody else ever suspected, sometimes there may be a right answer that is the best right answer among the set of acceptable right answers, although that makes it a less interesting question I suspect.
by 9dev | 2025-07-27 12:41:56+00:00
They violated their visas by virtue of having the wrong opinion. At the time they voiced this opinion, there was no indication this would result in the revocation of their visas, so there's that.

Also, I was under the impression the constitution referred to everyone on American soil equally when it comes to the fundamental civil rights, which includes freedom of speech, the right to due process, and the right to gather; yet, several people have been detained, without due process, for their speech, or for peaceful assembly.
by terminalbraid | 2025-07-27 12:42:29+00:00
If you keep it open source a common model is not to make money off of the code directly but to provide service, support, and consultation around it.

Payment for access to expanded and more powerful feature sets offered under a different license model is very common.

Similarly you can contract to build specific features, possibly under a different license open or closed.

If you do any contract work or engage with licensing changes I highly recommend you work with a lawyer. Guessing or going by "legal vibes" in this space adds unnecessary risk.
by chii | 2025-07-27 12:42:31+00:00
youtube's recommendation algorithm favours channels with a consistently scheduled upload cadence, high clickthru rate and spread/virality (people share the video - which is tracked by this si parameter in the share link if you use the share feature).

Science and education channels upload quite infrequently and irregularly (but each video is very high quality), but even if it is shared, it "drops off" as people finish watching it and move on.

And unfortunately, this sort of content just does not beat those clickbait slop that tends to get shared. I try to correct it often by sharing these videos myself, but alas i dont think my drop in the bucket makes much difference.
by al_borland | 2025-07-27 12:42:58+00:00
> “Most people in the cryptocurrency space, with the intention of making everyone use it, with the intention of promoting it, end up making a very serious mistake,” Lopes said, “and that is to expose themselves.”

The endless promotion is required to keep the price going up, as it’s effectively a collectibles market and they need people to want to buy more.

I assume the biggest players will delegate their risk to others they pay to promote it for them.

I still think the entire space is silly and should go to 0. The masses don’t want it. It’s a small bunch of people who got involved early who will never shut up about it. It seems their path to success is starting to become their downfall.
by lxgr | 2025-07-27 12:43:36+00:00
You do need to make sure only trusted parties get to add headers. Otherwise, you are letting the client freely define their own IP as seen by your server.

Dropping and re-setting the header at your trust boundary is just the simplest implementation of that. You could also count instances, or sign the header, but I don’t think there’s a standard for that, and it would mean quite some overhead.