MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tracker1 | 2025-07-28 19:50:33+00:00
An "AI" box with a few high end gpu/npu cards takes more energy in a 4u box than an entire rack of commodity hardware takes. It's not nearly comparible... meaning entirely new and expansive infrastructure costs to support the high energy. That also doesn't count the needs for really high bandwidth networking to these systems. Not to mention the insanely more expensive hardware costs.

The infrastructure and hardware costs are seriously more costly than typical internet apps and storage.
by shkkmo | 2025-07-28 19:50:59+00:00
> It might be true, but that's not the same as "accurate". Let's imagine the same thing but for cyclists:

I don't understand the disctinction you are trying to draw here. The statement itself is both accurate and true? At best the implication might be slightly hyperbolic but definitely not a "cartoonishly evil caricature."

> There's probably some far more innocuous explanation out there, like that the cyclist thought the way was clear (because there were no cars in sight).

Except your explanation is also not innocuous. Not wanting to be behind a bicycle is non an excuse for dangerous passing and especially when you are approaching a red light. The fact that you think this is an acceptable reasoning for that behavior is why you're being called out and downvoted. None of your excuses for how this might cause a light cycle to trigger sooner make this acceptable behavior.
by karaterobot | 2025-07-28 19:51:25+00:00
It's got to be a good agenda, too. It can't just be "discuss delivery of project X" or "sync on status of feature Y". Those are too generic. The agenda needs to make it clear what the outcome of the meeting is, and who needs to be there.

I'm the only person I know of who writes real agendas for meetings at my company (which is only about 120 people). It's clearly not caught on, but I do it anyway almost as a protest at this point.
by jmb99 | 2025-07-28 19:51:37+00:00
You're welcome to be surprised then. Only cases I've heard of Interac blocking accounts is KYC/AML and actual fraud. E-transfer (the Interac's name for bank-to-bank online transfers between different people) is about as close to handing somebody cash as you can get, albeit with amount limits varying between $2k and $20k.
by WonderAlmighty | 2025-07-28 19:51:41+00:00
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by throw0101c | 2025-07-28 19:51:47+00:00
> People like you are the death of freedom.

Define "freedom". Freedom to or freedom from?

See Timothy Snyder's recent book On Freedom:

> Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we’re free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to—the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.

* https://timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Snyder is an historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, who previously wrote an award-wining book on that area during the 1930/40s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands

Some other recent books of his:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Unfreedom

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Tyranny
by johnisgood | 2025-07-28 19:52:20+00:00
I do not know the personal life of most people whose work I use or like though. I do not think I would stop using them just because they did something I find morally repulsive. If ReiserFS was any good than the alternatives, I would use it. I understand the people who wouldn't. Granted, it is related to funding him, but eh.

A quick question: How well do you know the people behind your favorite projects?
by _Algernon_ | 2025-07-28 19:52:43+00:00
Honestly, in Europe, if they added SEPA transfers to fill steam wallet I think they would do fine. This is the company that has — albeit not singlehandedly — made Linux a viable alternative to Windows for many gamers. They are used to taking on much bigger fish than themselves, and being a private company not beholden to shareholder profits they have a lot more room to weather a short term loss.

The Proton / Steam deck play was a decade long strategic play that has clearly paid dividends and made Steam much less dependent on Microsoft. It would not be surprising to me if Valve in 10 years time has positioned itself to be much more independent of Visa and Mastercard than it is today.
by jerojero | 2025-07-28 19:52:48+00:00
It depends on the drug but generally the principle is trying to target a part of the virus that is so fundamental to its structure that it simply cannot adapt to function without it.

The redundancy on a bacteria is degrees higher than on viruses which are extremely efficient so they're more prepared to survive if that were to happen. But it also depends on the way you're doing the drug.

That doesn't mean virus can't adapt, they do. But if you manage to hit the right pieces it might just not be possible for them to do so fast enough. Obviously finding that particular protein and figuring out a mechanism to target it while at the same time for your drug not to have undesirable side effects on the host is an expensive, long and difficult process.

For this drug in particular, it doesn't function the same way PrEP does; this targets a different protein which previously was thought to be too difficult to target but new research on it showed that perhaps there was an easier way to do it and that's how this drug (lenacapavir) came to be. However that was not the end of the story as there was also a problem on how to actually deliver the drug to the cells as the drug is relatively insoluble and isn't easily absorbed by the body so although the drug was promising when it comes to affecting the virus it didn't seem to be possible to develop a drug that could be deliverable to people. Eventually though they did figure this part out and that's how we got where we are.

But generally, to answer your question, finding the right molecule to target; a right way to target it and a right way to deliver it is really the problem when it comes to drug development, being so targeted and specific makes it extremely unlikely for the virus to develop a resistance because it would mean it has to become a whole new virus basically.
by TeaBrain | 2025-07-28 19:53:47+00:00
Genes are what define the instructions guiding biological development and so could be considered to be what defines the intention. With Morris syndrome, factors prevent the genetic instructions from guiding development as defined by the genes. With Morris syndrome, the lack of androgen receptors leads to the genetic sexual development, as guided by the genes, of a male to be suppressed. Swyer syndrome also commonly arises from spontaneous mutations (not being passed from parental genetic material) and can have malignant consequences. A large percentage of those with the condition develop gonadoblastoma.
by joelesler | 2025-07-28 19:54:16+00:00
As the former community manager for ClamAV, there could have been some work done here to correct the situation and make both parties happy. I know ClamAV doesn't want to see third party utilities go away, and it's beneficial to the community for them to exist. Trolls exist, but there are ways to deal with them. I ran ClamAV and Snort for about 15 years, and we had plenty of heat over the years. This could have been avoided.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-28 19:54:42+00:00
Right, that's crucial to understand. In 1985 you could make a direct dial from England to the US but it was eye wateringly expensive. £2 per minute. An hour's call to your mum? That's over £100.

But the cost to Bell and British Telecom was not £2 per minute, or £1 per minute, or even 1p per minute, it was nothing at all. Their costs were not for the call, but for the infrastructure over which the call was delivered, a transatlantic cable. If there was one call for ten minutes, once a week essentially at random, that cable must still exist, but if there are 10 thousand call minutes per week, a thousand times more, it's the same cable.

So the big telcos all just picked a number and understood it as basically free income. If everybody agrees this call costs £2 then it costs £2 right, and those 10 thousand call minutes generate a Million pound annual income.

It's maybe easier for Americans to understand if you tell them that outside the US the local telephone calls cost money back then. Why were your calls free? Because why not, the decision to charge for the calls is arbitrary, the calls don't actually cost anything, but you will need to charge somehow to recoup the maintenance costs. In the US the long distance calls were more expensive to make up for this for a time, today it's all absorbed in a monthly access fee on most plans.
by barelysapient | 2025-07-28 19:54:45+00:00
Disingenuous?! According the article, that's exactly what happened in Candada!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385

With no need for court orders, banks can freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.

...

But the Canadian Civil Liberties Association disagreed, warning that the move "threatens our democracy and our civil liberties".
by pseudo0 | 2025-07-28 19:54:48+00:00
Feminist groups also regularly try to get games banned from Steam, typically for sexism or violence against women. Eg.

> Women in Games CEO Dr Marie-Claire Isaaman has called on Valve to “act urgently” and remove the game from Steam, saying the game’s content “is not only vile and dangerous, but also actively promotes the dehumanisation of women and girls.”

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/women-in-games-call...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-28 19:55:12+00:00
Any good numbers on what it costs? I can look up how many watts a GPU needs but I don't know how the batching is typically done to understand how many users are sharing those watts.

But a compute-focused datacenter is probably not paying more than 10 cents per kWh, so $100 would pay for more than a 24/7 kilowatt of GPU plus cooling plus other overhead.
by lenerdenator | 2025-07-28 19:55:33+00:00
> NASA funded the development of dragon and a few other companies through their Commercial Resupply Services (CRS 1 and 2) contracts. It's right in the name, Commercial Resupply. NASA isn't building anything in these contracts, just defining requirements and overseeing execution and spending.

Exactly. They're not building anything. When NASA builds something you get a bunch of agencies also trying to hitch on. Requirements get diluted and less focused. Senator Hypertension from Alabama or Louisiana or wherever won't let the funding get through committee until they build the facility for testing it in a swamp.

The thing about Senator Hypertension, though, is that he completely lacks a sense of irony, and thus, also thinks government is inherently wasteful and that some private business can do anything government can do, better, no matter what the task is. So he's also okay with letting some well-capitalized company owned by a billionaire - I mean, a scrappy underdog of a company built with good-ol' American know-how - get a contract to do it instead of NASA.

And in doing that, he's willing to forego his swamp facility.
by Saline9515 | 2025-07-28 19:56:00+00:00
From Wikipedia:

"The purpose of the commonwealth is peace, and the sovereign has the right to do whatever he thinks necessary for the preserving of peace and security and prevention of discord. Therefore, the sovereign may judge what opinions and doctrines are averse, who shall be allowed to speak to multitudes, and who shall examine the doctrines of all books before they are published."

This is an explicit restriction of free speech, in line with what's happening nowadays in the UK.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-07-28 19:56:25+00:00
> it's just an arbitrary tax on parents who earn 100,000

This seems to be me to be a weird framing. It's a tax benefit for parents that's taken away when you hit £100k. When you hit £100k you don't face an arbitrary tax, instead you're now playing by the same rules everyone else is. You're in parity with your child-less coworker. Not disadvantaged, just no longer advantaged.
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-28 19:56:40+00:00
From one perspective, you could say that I had a mental illness caused by a combination of issues from my childhood that caused me to have a serious problem with exhibitionism from 5 until 30 years old.

From another perspective, I was just a morally evil person for all of that time.

I think both are correct. It's more complicated. I have my own thoughts on what caused everything to happen the way it did and why I was the way I was. But what I can say is that I'm no longer that person. But that doesn't matter to most people.

Part of my just punishment is that my reputation is forever ruined. That's why I adopted this handle, 90s-dev. My plan was to use this to make money anonymously. But then at the last second I had the idea to go public and hope for a public redemption, partly because I needed money and knew that the product wouldn't sell and was running out of savings, and partly because I strongly felt like I was being deceitful, which is an awful feeling. So I revealed my identity in my Show HN post.
by jstummbillig | 2025-07-28 19:56:44+00:00
Why? There are a lot of products where fixed price offerings can exist, like internet access in many parts of the world. The way that Anthropic implemented this change and how they explain it, hints that this could work very much the same: There is be a level of borderline abusers that need to be reigned in. The rest are a few power users that are subsidized by a lot of normal users.

I am not saying this is what must happen here, but I see no effort to substantiate why it could not.
by mywittyname | 2025-07-28 19:56:48+00:00
> I always thought a police state would demand identification at every street corner (perhaps I'm wrong?) and any minor breaking of the law being dealt with severe justice.

Those cameras know exactly who you are, and the tracking device your carry around in your pocket serves as a secondary confirmation.

Checking IDs would be a superfluous and costly tertiary method of confirmation.
by brainlessdev | 2025-07-28 19:57:03+00:00
Author here, posting a self-review.

I've realized most of my blog post is not really about NixOS, it's just about this particular TUXEDO laptop requiring special tweaks to work properly. I've set up Debian 13 with Nix (plus Home Manager) in a VM to try it out and have realized that on the real laptop I would need to perform the same tweaks: install special drivers, install the TUXEDO Control Center (albeit using a supported .deb), and add those same kernel params. The only "care-free" option would be using TUXEDO OS, which I could explore. I've run NixOS on e.g. an AMD ThinkPad T14 and it was seamless, with no tweaks needed.

I suppose using something other than NixOS would indeed make some things easier (in my case Vanta, `pinentry` programs, Playwright and Cypress) and would perhaps let me live a more hands-off experience. I currently run `nix flake update` on my system way too often... but other than that, NixOS is not really getting in the way, at least as far as using this laptop goes.
by turnsout | 2025-07-28 19:57:31+00:00
If we feel hopeless, that works well for Donald Trump. "There's nothing an individual can do" is just a story—a narrative. As an example, the Target boycott had a real impact on Target's revenue. Who knows if that may eventually lead to a change in their policies.

I'm not saying every person in the world needs to become Greta Thunberg, but perpetuating the narrative that we're powerless just makes the narrative stronger. We all have to do what's workable and feasible for ourselves, but let's not treat our extinction with the same "gee, shucks" resigned fatalism that we treat our elections. The stakes are slightly higher.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-07-28 19:57:44+00:00
I'm sure people hate this mindset here, but any time I use an LLM I just picture the thousands of fans spinning, the heat of the datacenter... I treat each prompt like a painful interval where I am leaving my door open on a hot day.

I know nobody else really cares.. In some ways I wish I didn't think like this.. But its at this point not even an ethical thing, its just a weird fixation. Like I can't help but feel we are all using ovens when we would be fine with a toasters.
by jmb99 | 2025-07-28 19:57:45+00:00
> Banks don't know who gets what serial number when you withdraw cash.

Do you have evidence to back this up?

In Canada, many bank branches don't carry cash except at ATMs, which means 100% of the cash transactions at those branches go through ATMs. Bills are inserted without an envelope, and are counted one by one, which means they're already being optically scanned (read: photographed) to determine the denomination. It's not a stretch that the serial number could be captured at this phase. When bills are withdrawn, they're withdrawn off the top (or bottom) of a stack of bills, so it is known which elements are removed from the stack. Again, it would not be infeasible to track all of the serial numbers in the stack, in order, and associate those numbers with withdrawals.

I do not have evidence that this occurs, but I've always assumed it was at least possible. It's technically trivial. But if you're claiming that it's either impossible or it doesn't happen, I'd need some convincing evidence that that's the case.
by shagie | 2025-07-28 19:57:53+00:00
That content is illegal in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg...

Part of the issue is that Steam wasn't properly enforcing rule 6.

6. Content that violates the laws of any jurisdiction in which it will be available.

Some of that content was violating the laws for what was available in Australia.

And since they weren't doing that, the payment processors were getting pressure and in turn putting pressure on Steam.

So now we've got rule 15.

15. Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-28 19:58:09+00:00
Here is my Bayesian version of this: If you have lies coming at you in high enough volume, you cannot update your priors at all, or else you will eventually come to believe the lie.

But then you have the problem: If you won't update your priors, and neither will someone else, but they have different priors than you, how can you talk to them?

But I'm maybe a bit less cynical than you. I think (maybe I'm kidding myself) that I can to some degree detect... something.

If someone built a parallel universe of false journal articles written by false experts, and then false news articles that referred to the false journal articles, and then false or sockpuppet users to point people to the news articles, that would be very hard to detect if it was done well. (A very persistent investigator might realize that the false experts either came from non-existent universities, or from universities that denied that the experts existed.) But often it isn't done well at all. Often it's "hey, here's this inadequately supported thing that disagrees with your priors that everybody is hyping". For me, "solidly disagrees with my solidly-held priors" is enough to give it a very skeptical look, and that's often enough to turn up the "inadequately supported" part. So I can at least sometimes detect something that looks like this, and avoid listening and believing it.

I'm hoping that that's enough to avoid "When does trying to become informed become an inevitable net negative because you're literally better off knowing nothing?" But we shall see.
by logicchains | 2025-07-28 19:58:27+00:00
>I always thought taxing money leaving the country might be interesting way to approach the problem.

Even China with extreme capital controls and pervasive surveillance can't stop money leaving the country. Unless the UK was willing to go fully authoritarian and ban its citizens from spending money overseas, and ban crypto (and build all the internet firewall/DPI infrastructure that doing so would require), it wouldn't stand a chance. And attempting to do so would destroy the value of the pound, because nobody with any options would want to hold a currency that could only be spent in the UK.
by sudoshred | 2025-07-28 19:59:54+00:00
I see your point but the implied perspective of this take is that being an adult means consistently interacting with systems that are designed explicitly to be difficult to use. I, as an adult, appreciate interfaces designed to be simple and easy to use, not because I need it, but because it is efficient and respectful of my time. Accepting the status quo that systems are expected to be explicitly difficult to use (in a way that does not reflect domain complexity) is in my opinion learned helplessness and complicity. I won’t comment on the cultural observation about music, except to say that might be a practical constraint of content designed for mass appeal. If you want high brow and sophisticated taste you have to accept that your audience shrinks, as a matter of practicality.
by krona | 2025-07-28 20:00:02+00:00
> badly implemented brexit policy and a negligent tory party rule over 13 years.

How about:

2018 - Sandhurst Treaty

2022 - Interior Ministers’/ Home Secretaries’ joint declaration of November 14th

2023 - UK-France Joint Leaders' Declaration

Yes, these did nothing. Starmer's/Macron's joint declaration will also do nothing. If you don't understand why, try starting with the past 204 years of anglo/French relations.
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-28 20:00:29+00:00
He had a great time in school, was very popular and had lots of friends. I know what led to his violent behavior. It didn't come from imitating me. I filed with the courts to protect him from someone, and the judge agreed with me that it was alarming what he was experiencing from others. But I failed to use the courts to protect him before it was too late. I tried and I failed. That's all I can say.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-28 20:01:29+00:00
Unfortunately many people will stop at your past, and it ends there. They will not consider or appreciate you coming forward. Personally, I could not care less. I care about the project, not the person behind it. Of course when it comes to funding the project (or someone with a past like yours), that complicates things. Maybe you should be as transparent as possible with the money? In any case, I am not sure what I would do and I do not have the means to donate anyways.