MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mcswell | 2025-07-28 19:28:53+00:00
Wow, that is expensive electricity. Ours (Maryland) is around 12 cents/kwh. As I say, we have solar panels, so we have not paid anything for electricity for the last five years, except for a $6/month connection charge (I think that's going up to $10/month). So far we've gotten back a $couple hundred at the end of each year because our net usage is negative.
by mywittyname | 2025-07-28 19:29:32+00:00
I'd pay for Steam content however they wanted me to. Up to and including hooking up my bank account details or buying gift cards in a store.

Steam has a large and dedicated user base. They are one of the companies that has access to enough users to conceivably build their own payment processor with enough volume to be profitable from the start.

Industry giants are often toppled by companies who started out in some niche the giant is ignoring/avoiding.
by iAMkenough | 2025-07-28 19:29:33+00:00
> rather than petitioning representatives to arrive at a democratic solution, we have to appeal to corporations and fight public opinion turf wars

This sums up my experience with my representatives in recent years. You only get a meeting with my reps if you're a large donor or you cause enough public outrage.

Otherwise they feel no obligation to their constituents and hope that the automated form letter (in varying font sizes and colors between paragraphs) they send you in response is enough to appease you.
by godelski | 2025-07-28 19:29:43+00:00
> that does not change that tests are the spec.

I disagree. It's, like you say, one description of your spec but that's not the spec.

> not having a single source of truth

Well that's the thing, there is no single source of truth. A single source of truth is for religion, not code.

The point of saying this is to ensure you don't fall prey to fooling yourself. You're the easiest person for you to fool, after all. You should always carry some doubt. Not so much it is debilitating, but enough to keep you from being too arrogant. You need to constantly check that your documentation is aligned to your specs and that your specs are aligned to your goals. If you cannot see how these are different things then it's impossible to check your alignment and you've fooled yourself.
by pembrook | 2025-07-28 19:30:08+00:00
The fundamental issue is the existence of an iron clad monopoly of 2 payment providers.

It’s a choke point on the entire economy for any sufficiently motivated interest group that wants to ban something that would otherwise be legal…lobbying a few executives at Visa/Mastercard to shut off the taps is much easier than lobbying government to pass a law.

With no mandated open protocol for (legal) payments or legal protections like the internet has, this will continue to be a problem and will only get worse.

Ultimately I think digital payments should be facilitated on government rails just like cash is. Where any decision to block a payment should be determined by law, and require actual skin in the game from elected representatives who are fireable by their constituents.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-28 19:30:16+00:00
I think this is valid, but the wrong part is preventing the use of doing business in another way. In this case it is not necessarily the issue of the credit card company (it is a different issue, although the credit card company does affect it because they are currently how the payment is handled), although sometimes credit card companies do such things too, such as requiring the price that the customer pays to be the same if you pay by cash or by credit cards, which they also should not do since it can interfere with other ways of accepting payment.
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-28 19:30:28+00:00
Have I not paid my price by going to jail? By being homeless and sleeping in my car in the cold of winter? By having people show up at my door in January trying to cause physical violence to me? Are you the same person you were 9 years ago? Would you rather my children not have food and shelter because of mistakes I made 9 years ago and paid for in abundance? Should I put up a gofundme so that they can have their needs met? I'd rather work to earn that money. But nobody will employ me. So this is all I can do. Do you have a better idea? If your best answer is "oh well, you committed an atrocity, therefore your children should suffer," then fine, that's on you. But I won't settle for that. I will do everything I can to provide for them.
by wwweston | 2025-07-28 19:30:46+00:00
Having gatekeepers isn’t so much the problem — there’s stuff almost everyone agrees should be gatekept (and other things that maybe should be even when not everyone agrees).

The problem is that we build these systems where no one seems to want to or have incentive to thin about responsible administration, reasonable feedback, appeal, and accountability. Everybody who can just gets lawyers that work to insulate themselves, sometimes because they don’t give a damn and sometimes because that’s what the incentives of exposure sometimes abused are.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-28 19:30:58+00:00
>Sure, these guys were disgusting scumbags, but they weren't immigrants

Yeah they were: https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/operation-stovewood-seven-me...

You're pointing to another rape case(ironic there's so many of them) but the other one was the OG that exposed the British government being involved in the cover up of migrant crimes to not seem racist, where the British citizens talking about the Muslim rape gangs were the ones being persecuted instead of the gangs themselves.

You can't make this shit up. It was a betrayal of the British people of epic proportions, whose trust in their leader was lost forever, because if they're willing to sweep that under the rug to protect their image, what else have they been covering up. Then the post office workers comes up.
by AngryData | 2025-07-28 19:31:18+00:00
Nice, pistachios is a great plant for usage in arid areas where other crops would either struggle or require wasteful levels of water. Not only do pistachios require a lot less water than other plants, but it can also utilize slightly brackish/saline water, which makes watering them in places like California and other coastal areas potentially far cheaper and easier without needing completely fresh water.
by inetknght | 2025-07-28 19:32:11+00:00
> That's good, because if running on Linux is what it takes to make something good, PowerShell is good, and has been good since before you created your HN account.

Is there even a single distribution of linux with PowerShell as the default shell?

No, of course not, because PowerShell does not work on Linux. It does not work with coreutils, it does not work with bash, it does not work in any way that's useful to Linux.

> This does not tell you the thing I said the telemetry was added for. Try again. Or don't but if you're going to, at least understand the claim and address it.

If your servers don't have users, then why are they running scripts?

Your servers have users. The users are you, the server admins, whoever's consuming the data being served by them. Your users need to tell you that something is wrong, voluntarily. If you are not getting reports from your users, then you are doing it wrong.

> If you are forgetting the context of the chat, you can re-read it.

'kay. Neat. Nothing was forgotten.

> That is not what I am saying. A team which is fighting to get more funding so it can address more issues is demonstrating that it does care about users.

> I refer you back to my previous comment where I link to the Github where you can see they are interacting with their users, and wonder why you are immediately saying the opposite and thinking that will fly.

It's because you're too stubborn to recognize that you're fighting for things that harm users.

A team which is fighting to get more funding, and debases themselves to do it, is not a good team. A corporation which fosters that kind of thinking is a terrible corporation.

Showing github issues and PRs and stuff? Cool, good interactions.

Trying to justify telemetry by tying it to funding? No, not good.

Get your github issues status to be tied to your funding instead.

> Were you listening at all, or were you just waiting for a chance to tell everyone you don't know what people do with computers, haven't looked, don't care, but are certain all they need is Markdown and a terminal with a tiling window editor?

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

I suppose Markdown came about because it's extremely simple and great for inline code / readmes when contrasted with all of the bloat that comes with HTML, or contrasted with the binary blob that is PDF. It's great and there are plenty of people who don't use Markdown. How do I know? Because I talk to people.

As for a terminal with a tiling window editor? There are plenty of people who don't use terminals, and plenty of people who do. Have you sat down and talked about how and why? Have you tried to actually have conversations with multiple other developers to understand their workflows?

Because if not, then you're only guessing at why people use a given thing. Telemetry doesn't solve that at all.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-28 19:32:20+00:00
Me too. I've also found that even when trying to restrict models meant for these tasks, they tend to go on tangents and waste tremendous amounts of tokens without providing meaningfully better outputs. I'm not yet sold on these models for anything outside of fuzzy tasks like "does this logic seem sound?". They tend to be good at that (though they often want to elaborate excessively or propose solutions excessively).
by lpm0073 | 2025-07-28 19:32:20+00:00
A Hybrid Search and RAG prompting solution using Python OpenAI API Embeddings persisted to a Pinecone vector database index and managed by LangChain. Demonstrates the following:

- System Prompting. How do use the system prompt to modify LLM text completion behavior.

- Templates. How to create templates in order keep your prompts DRY.

- LangChain. How to setup a project using LangChain as an alternative to vendor specific LLM PyPi packages.

- PDF Loader. a command-line pdf loader program that extracts text, vectorizes, and loads into a Pinecone dot product vector database that is dimensioned to match OpenAI embeddings. Pinecone. How to create, load, and query a Pinecone vector database.

- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). A chatGPT prompt based on a hybrid search retriever that locates relevant documents from the vector database and includes these in OpenAI prompts.
by layer8 | 2025-07-28 19:32:41+00:00
> They do not actually exist in the language to be parsed (unless that language is not well-specified

How do you specify your language “well” when you don’t know if your grammar is unambiguous? Determining whether a grammar is ambiguous is famously undecidable in the general case. So how do you decide, if you don’t restrict your grammar to one of the decidable forms checkable by parser generators? You can add some disambiguation rules, but how do you know they cover all ambiguities?

We use formal systems exactly to make sure that the language is well-defined.
by ignaciovdk | 2025-07-28 19:32:44+00:00
Totally fair, for public-facing web servers, Traefik, Caddy, and Let’s Encrypt have made things nearly zero-effort. It’s amazing how far we’ve come.

That said, a lot of enterprise environments still deal with: - Air-gapped networks (no LE/ZeroSSL reachability) - Mutual TLS between services, where certs aren’t tied to domains - Manually issued certs from internal or private CAs (often via ticketing systems) - Non-HTTP workloads that don’t play well with ACME automation

In those cases, certs are still a bit of a pain, especially when ownership is unclear or spread across teams. SSL Guardian aims to help in those more chaotic setups, not just the clean webserver use cases.
by dgroshev | 2025-07-28 19:32:51+00:00
I have receipts for every point, just didn't want to post a wall of links.

It's not just emergent disconnection, there are many documented cases ([1][2][3] etc) of nation states trying to sow division and fear. The impression that you got is a good example of them succeeding.

[1]: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pro-indy-accounts-...

[2]: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/new-whitepaper-telling-c...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades
by Someone | 2025-07-28 19:33:01+00:00
> You'd think the fact that the processor itself will throw an exception if you use those bits would be a red flag of "don't do that"

That makes it slightly safer to use those bits, won’t it? As long as your code asks the OS how many bits the hardware supports, and only use the ones it requires to be zero, if you forget to clear the bits before following a pointer, the worst that can happen is a segfault, not reading ‘random’ memory.
by ragequittah | 2025-07-28 19:33:15+00:00
It's not nihilism. I still ad block, use an RFID wallet, and don't install any apps on my phone, I rarely use google for anything. But at some point when something is so ridiculously useful and the data they're getting doesn't really mean much of anything I have to stop caring. I use Windows 11 (gross) because it lets me play video games with my friends I can't otherwise. I use Uber because it lets me get across town. I use Visual Studio because it helps me code. I use Chatgpt because it helps me with so many things. To take away any one of those because I'm a privacy absolutist seems silly to me. It has the exact same vibe of never leaving your room because you're afraid of all the cameras.

I'd like there to be a push back against these companies because I find their practices disgusting but running linux with only open source software and a fairphone is just an extreme I'm unwilling to entertain because it's just not possible in my (or most people's) world.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-07-28 19:33:37+00:00
Yep.

Right now I am living the opposite, consulting to a huge company where anyone can convene huge meetings with no agendas, especially if they are a compliance person, or product person.

We have many, many meetings where many people have no idea what the meeting is about, or even worse they will talk about 3 or 4 different topics.

They also practice what I call Rumor Driven Development. It is not fun.
by paxys | 2025-07-28 19:33:48+00:00
You can build a decent rig for yourself with:

- 2x 4070 Ti (32 GB total VRAM) - $2200

- 64 GB RAM - $200-250

- Core i9/Ryzen 9 CPU - $450

- 2 TB SSD - $150

- Motherboard, cooler, case, PSU - $500-600

Total - ~$3500-3700, say $4000 with extras.
by shkkmo | 2025-07-28 19:34:11+00:00
It's not complete nonsense, but it conveniently leaves out key relevant details and includes key pieces of misinformation needed to make the talking points make sense (as you would expect from rage bait.)

> Early on, SLS designers made the catastrophic decision to reuse Shuttle hardware

The law that mandated that NASA built the SLS also required that they re-use that hardware. This wasn't a choice made by NASA designers but by a bipartisan congress and it wasn't designed so much to advance our space program so much as a way to keep funneling money to space contractors with the end of the Shuttle program.

Any article that proposed to discuss the "lunacy" of Artemis without ever mentioning Congress's role in that lunacy is pretty clearly rage bait.
by shagie | 2025-07-28 19:34:12+00:00
From https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/business/dealbook/pornhub... (unlocked article)

> “If Visa was aware that there was a substantial amount of child porn on MindGeek’s sites, which the Court must accept as true at this stage of the proceedings, then it was aware that it was processing the monetization of child porn, moving money from advertisers to MindGeek for advertisements playing alongside child porn like Plaintiff’s videos,” Judge Carney wrote.

> Judge Carney: “When the Court couples MindGeek’s expansive content removal with allegations that former MindGeek employees have reported a general anxiety at the company that Visa might pull the plug, it does not strike the Court as fatally speculative to say that Visa — with knowledge of what was being monetized and authority to withhold the means of monetization — bears direct responsibility (along with MindGeek) for MindGeek’s monetization of child porn, and in turn the monetization of Plaintiff’s videos.”
by aaaja | 2025-07-28 19:34:20+00:00
That weightlifter came last due to a disqualification for improper technique, not because of being unable to lift the weight.

If you look at previous performances by that same weightlifter in earlier competitions, although these were mediocre compared to other males, they would be outstanding if this weightlifter was actually female. Middle-aged, relatively unfit, with a chronic injury, and still able to lift significantly more than any other competitor, taking gold medals in the Pacific Games and Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships. Twice in the latter.

This is just one example amongst hundreds. There are loads of these male athletes with male physiological advantage taking medals in women's sports.
by ies7 | 2025-07-28 19:34:33+00:00
Mine went like this:

Thought Process: > The user is asking about a historical event. I need to provide accurate information bla...bla..bla...Tank Man...bla..bla..bla.. (all seems okay)

Answer: > The Tiananmen Square incident was a political movement that occurred in the spring of 1989 in Beijing, China. Bla..bla...bla

And suddenly all of that replaced with a pink messages:

Uh-oh! There was an issue with the response. Content Security Warning: The content may contain inappropriate content.
by pryce | 2025-07-28 19:34:37+00:00
It sounds like the payment processors aren't well-equipped to know what item counts as illegal content or not, and that relying on the reckons of some evangelical activist group with a history of homophobia is predictably terrible option. I suppose other than the expensive and years-long task of developing significant domain expertise themselves, payment processors would probably like instead to defer their decisions to some other legal entity, perhaps some kind of government-funded organisation.

With the surge in anti-gay 'groomer' conspiracy theories now retargeted towards trans people comprising much of the electoral campaign of the incumbent president, it is hard to imagine a less appropriate climate for a US government to create anything to fill that gap.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-07-28 19:34:59+00:00
I've written software used across the NHS previously, and a lot for national security purposes since. It wasn't the only option on the table, just one that I was mainly using to ensure cost of development couldn't be used as a reason to reject and so that there was a strawman architecture on the table to help generate discussion.

It certainly wasn't even my preferred option, I'd have been much happier if they said they had a team that could run with it.
by frosted-flakes | 2025-07-28 19:35:03+00:00
I did, and by many accounts CV is just as bad as Mozaik, although significantly more capable.

Mozaik is bad because it tries to do everything itself, badly, instead of adding functionality to established CAD software. That's the approach Microvellum takes with AutoCAD, and I expect it's probably a lot better software, but like everyone in this space except Mozaik, they do the whole "contact us for a quote" thing. In other words, it won't be cheap.
by garduno_AA | 2025-07-28 19:35:08+00:00
It's mostly an SMB setup, but we're aiming to implement enterprise-grade security where feasible. I'm especially interested in how others handle DHCP starvation prevention and what they include in DRP/BRP plans for the lower OSI layers.

We had an issue two days ago, because we didn't have that kind of configurations in our sophos.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-07-28 19:35:29+00:00
> Still, the 1960s feels very late for something that has become so foundational to our understanding of geology. One obvious analogy is the Copernican revolution where the crazy idea that the entire Earth is spinning on a daily basis was recognized centuries ago.

The Gregorian calendar is really the problem because it amplifies relative numbers. The agricultural evolution that started modern humans as a culture was 10,000 years ago. If we think of the current year as 12,025 ME and Copperncian revolution as 11,514 ME I think it puts in a proper scope as all relatively recent and contemporary event.

Gregorian calendar is like standing too close to a Monet or pointillist painting, you lose the scope of the big picture.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-28 19:35:45+00:00
I think this is it. They use it like a slot machine, and when something isn't quite what they wanted, they provide broad instructions to refine and do better. Progress is slow and questionable, but anticipation and (sometimes) reward is increased.

The issue could be, in part, that a lot of users don't care to be efficient with token usage and maintaining condensed, efficient, focused contexts to work with.
by frollogaston | 2025-07-28 19:36:12+00:00
He said 176KB of entropy in that 1-second birdsong, which doesn't seem close. That's more than the bitrate of a typical M4A, for a much simpler sound.

Thinking about it in reverse, how much data would it take to encode 1 second of birdsong in the most efficient audio codec I can imagine. If M4A or MP3 with the bitrate slammed way down isn't a fair comparison, then some birdsong-specific ML autoencoder... Probably 500 bytes? Would still be enough for a Twitter tweet.