MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jwpapi | 2025-07-20 22:48:15+00:00
Thank you very much this is exactly my experience. I sometimes let it vibe code frontend features that area easy to test in an already typed code base (add a field to this form), but most of the time its my sparring partner to review my code and evaluate all options. While it often recommends bullox or has logical flaws it helps me to do the obvious thing and to not miss a solution! Sometimes we have fancy play syndrome and want to code the complicated thing because of a fundamental leak we have. LLMS done a great job of reducing those of my flaws.

But just because I’ve not been lazy…
by rcxdude | 2025-07-20 22:48:34+00:00
Also the area that needs insulating, and in the extremes the amount of air that needs to be exchanged with the outside to make the house livable, and the heat generated by the people living in it (stick a 100W lightbulb in a fridge and see how cold it can get).

The insulation is actually solvable, and for heating can basically remove the power requirements: a house heated and using heat exchange on air leaving vs entering can be heated a lot just by having people inside it, let alone the other energy they use for other purposes. It's just more expensive to build this way, and with cheap energy it can a long time to pay back. Cooling you can't push down past the heat generated inside the house divided by the COP of your cooler, though.
by userbinator | 2025-07-20 22:49:01+00:00
It's worth noting that the very earliest electric refrigerators had a separate condensing unit outside; see this interesting 1920s Frigidaire training video for an example of what that was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-t7DqOAMME

There were also centralised systems for apartments where one condensing unit supplied many evaporators in the refrigerator in each suite.
by dismalaf | 2025-07-20 22:49:54+00:00
Dassault Systèmes makes defense software, among other things... https://www.3ds.com/industries/aerospace-defense

Dassault Aviation makes the planes themselves. All Dassault companies are under one umbrella anyway.

The OCaml website lists a bunch of other users.

In my opinion, none of that really matters, any single one of those uses proves it's utility... Facebook Messenger alone is probably used by more people than every piece of Lua software ever made though.
by FinnKuhn | 2025-07-20 22:50:02+00:00
Not a lawyer, but that seems to be from the 60s and a quick Google search showed some court decisions that extraditions to the UK are not possible as staying silent can harm your defense, which contradicts German basic law where it states: "No German may be extradited to a foreign country. The law may provide otherwise for extraditions to a member state of the European Union or to an international court, provided that the rule of law is observed."

Apparently Germany is also (at least as of 2023) not extraditing non-citizens to the UK due to the condition of British jails as well so: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/05/germany-refu...
by PokeStick | 2025-07-20 22:50:50+00:00
This is not my experience. I purchased blank NFC cards and made myself this guide to get them working just fine:

1. Use NXP TagWriter to format card to NDEF format. 2. Use Smart NFC tools app to copy from existing MyYo card to new one. 3. Using the Yoto app, Play the playlist on the target Yoto. This will trigger the tracks to download onto the YoTo. 4. Make sure all tracks are downloaded onto Yoto before inserting new card.

Smart NFC tools: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/smart-nfc-tools-read-write/id1...

NXP Tag writer: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/nfc-tagwriter-by-nxp/id1246143...

After a few years now with two kids using Yoto, however, I think it is a little overkill to go this route and the reduced friction of using Yoto’s own cards makes it worth it, despite the cost. But this may help others who use them differently than we do!
by rhet0rica | 2025-07-20 22:51:48+00:00
From TFA:

> No machine learning model was ever built using pure “human knowledge” — because then it wouldn’t be a learning model. It would be a hard coded algorithm.

I guess the author hasn't heard of expert systems? Systems like MYCIN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin) were heralded as incredible leaps forward at the time, and they indeed consisted of pure “human knowledge.”

I am disturbed whenever a thinkpiece is written by someone who obviously didn't do their research.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-07-20 22:52:35+00:00
I'm interested in that. Even a Cyclone update with modern, type systems.

There was a paper that added meta-programming to C partly for program analysis-like purposes. Everyone ignored it when I shared it. Later, I found out one or more of them built Coverity. Another did a C/C++-compatible LISP that output C.

If nothing else, I'd like to see metaprogramming, strong typing with optional dynamic (or type inference), type/linker-safe modules, Rust-like safety, optional GC (concurrent) for productivity, something for concurrency, amenable to static analysis, and outputs normal C (or C++). Much of this might be done with a small set of features.

Note: Modula-3, Myrddin, and Zig are all worth looking at for smallish alternatives to C and C++.
by bediger4000 | 2025-07-20 22:52:47+00:00
This exactly illustrates why the USA's Founding Fathers overthrew a monarchy in favor of a Republic. When you're at the whim of a monarch/autocrat, things happen because of the whim of that autocrat. Thank God we live in a Republic, with checks and balances on the executive office, and that the Founding Fathers got rid of the monarch.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-20 22:54:49+00:00
> If you make the outer colour yellow using the custom colour option, and the inner circle red, do you see a an aurora-green halo?

You mean this, right? https://dynomight.net/img/colors/generate.html?inside=ff0000...

The background turns green (???) eventually, kind of like as if ink started to spread across it.

Or you meant full yellow (255r, 255g, 0b) and full red (255r, 0g, 0b)?

> Or if you make the outer circle yellow and the inner circle green, do you see a red halo?

I used the controls this time and made the background full yellow (255r, 255g, 0b) and the inner circle full green (0r, 255g, 0b). Also adjusted the countdown speed, I realized I wasn't patient enough to wait out the 60s before ever (but that also it didn't need to be so long).

During countdown the entire image turned green. Whenever my eyes would move a bit, I'd see either a 3D shadow depth effect or a yellow aura around the circle. When the circle started getting smaller I just saw the yellow aura. Whenever I'd drastically move my eyes, the entire background would revert to yellow, but would quickly go back to seeing green.

I don't really see them being unusually saturated though, but maybe I just don't have a good grasp on what to expect. Maxed out R/G/B or C/M/Y all strike me as super saturated from the get-go.
by jrflowers | 2025-07-20 22:55:13+00:00
> Baltimore isn't just something people from Maryland know about. It's a tragic national disgrace.

Exactly! Baltimore is something that everyone knows about. People do not simply have political opinions without a stance on Baltimore. That isn’t really possible because the US just isn’t that big of a place.

Obviously we can imagine (with great difficulty of course) a hypothetical person that doesn’t know about everything that has happened, is happening, and what might happen in Baltimore. It is, however, impossible to imagine a person that doesn’t know why Charm City is the single most important place in American politics. It can’t be done, it is like imagining a new color. The human brain can not exist without some appreciation for Baltimore, which is why questions like “what is happening there” can only be asked in bad faith.

It is like when somebody brings up Santa Paula. Obviously I don’t need to tell you what that means
by klik99 | 2025-07-20 22:55:49+00:00
I think it’s very human to keep doing what once helped us when even when it starts harming us. Like an alcoholic who started to help get over social anxiety and saw positive results early on but then starts seeing drink as what makes them happy rather than the social connection it helped facilitate. Yes I’m saying America is addicted to growth.

(I agree it’s more nuanced than that and it’s both succeeded and failed in other ways, and US isn’t the only one - but this a major feature of American capitalism)
by Havoc | 2025-07-20 22:56:05+00:00
I get the impossible bind this puts small companies in & having people resort to IP blocking the entire country is clearly a sign of a broken setup

But playing devils advocate a bit here if the risk profile to the kid is the same on big and small platforms then there isn't any ethical room a lighter regime. Never mind full exemption, any exemption. The whole line of reasoning that you can't afford it therefore more kids potentially getting hurt on your platform is more acceptable just doesn't play. And similarly if you do provide a lighter touch regime, then the big players will rightly say well if that is adequate to ensure safety then why exactly can't we do that too?

Platform size just isn't a relevant metric on some topics - child safety being one of them. Ethically whether a child is exposed to harm on a small or big website is the same thing.

Not that I think this act will do much of anything for child safety. Which is why I think this needs to go back to drawing board entirely. Cause if we're not effectively protecting children yet killing businesses (and freedoms) then wtf are we doing
by davesmylie | 2025-07-20 22:56:20+00:00
> This firm doesn’t care a whit about the impact on users - they are just too cheap to follow the rules.

I'm old enough to remember when one of great things about the web was the low barrier to entry.

Not every site has a large company with deep pockets behind it. Some of the websites I've run, I've run at a loss because I was interested in the subject and thought it provided real value for other people. Probably the income from these sites was in the hundreds of dollars a year range, the cost in time and effort waaay beyond that.

I don't know the actual compliance costs here - I know the cost of a UK lawyer just to review obligations and liabilities is probably going to be a few hundred quid, if not substantially more. I don't know of many non-professional, or FOSS sites that could afford that.

Your curt dismissal of this huge chunk of the internet saying they shouldn't be operating at all is mind boggling
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-20 22:57:48+00:00
I also thought that HDMI has many problems, like you have, too. My idea is: video and audio and other stuff are separate cables. The video cable will only be sending the digital RGB video data, with the wires for the pixel data and pixel clock, as well as power and ground and vsync. I think it is helpful for the video signal to be digital, but it does not need to be as complicated as HDMI. (The audio cable can be balanced analog audio signal.)

It is not only HDMI; many other common things are too complicated (than they should be) and often have other problems too (you mention some of them, such as HDCP, but there is many more problem than that).

(Someone else wrote: "The sad fact of the matter is that people play politics with standards to gain commercial advantage, and the result is that end users suffer the consequences. This is the case with character encoding for computer systems, and it is even more the case with HDTV.")
by blincoln | 2025-07-20 22:58:46+00:00
I did a custom combination of yellow outer field, blue inner circle, and got a vibrant purple halo, which is not what I expected. I assumed it would be "yellow++", based on what I know about the human eye's colour sensitivity.

I didn't expect a strong effect, because the overlap between blue and red/green is so much less than the overlap between red and green, but bright purple is close to the opposite of what I expected. I'm genuinely puzzled.
by elzbardico | 2025-07-20 22:58:55+00:00
The time it stays above 4C unless you're opening the door of your refrigerator all the fucking time is mostly negligible in terms of the difference it will make for bacterial growth.

The foodstuff itself is loaded with water, it won't have an excursion dangerously above 4C just because you opened the door and the air temperature raised a few degrees.

If you are really worried about it (you shouldn't), and you don't keep your refrigerator full, add a few water bottles for thermal mass.
by karaterobot | 2025-07-20 22:59:13+00:00
Typically LLMs don't put spaces between em dashes and the words that surround them—which is the correct orthography, I should point out. Humans often put spaces around them when they shouldn't, like in the example you quoted. I don't know if it's AI or not, but if you ask an AI to use a sentence with an em dash in it, it won't include spaces.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-20 23:00:42+00:00
That's fair if we only strictly care about the Billy line and it's history.

From there we can't generalize to any other product without acknowledging IKEA's internal decision process or their vision for Billy across the years.

To parent's point

> where the inflection point is where used items become more valuable than the new items being made at current quality levels, including degradation due to age.

Buying the actual modern equivalent of what Billy was 25 years ago answers that question.
by hilbert42 | 2025-07-20 23:00:42+00:00
"Software projects are never ending, always chasing ever changing requirements."

Exactly, and that's the problem. Writing software isn't engineering (it ought to be—my opinion and that of many others). Read this (things are actually worse since it was written):

www.researchgate.net/profile/Wayt-Gibbs/publication/247573088_Software%27s_Chronic_Crisis/links/0046353b4cb57cc197000000/Softwares-Chronic-Crisis.pdf?
by throw234234234 | 2025-07-20 23:01:35+00:00
Why not? As the AI people say "you can just do things". If there is little consequence to getting it wrong as a parent poster puts it why not? You can learn over time like any other skill.

I want to be wrong (it will affect me and my family personally) - but there is a reason every AI proponent talks about coding and making "coding redundant". For most jobs/industries software is a compliment (e.g. Product Owner, BA, etc) unless that is your main skill in which case it is your main service you are selling. Most roles want to turn software into a commodity or the typical business PM word "resource" that they can acquire as they need - the dream of most business roles (e.g. Project Managers, BA's, etc). It sadly also seems to be low hanging fruit of LLM's; doesn't mean there isn't other aspects to the job of course but coding is becoming "less special" with these technologies especially with common tech and use cases.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-20 23:02:19+00:00
COP has to be compared at the same delta T. The COP of a loss less refrigerator is infinite at Delta T = 0

And you dont get to stack Peltiers to increase COP, only to increase delta T.

Still, Peltiers are super cool and I have some ideas for their use od they get slightly better. Advances are super welcome.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-07-20 23:03:15+00:00
Yeah for Usenet I use gnus, which keeps track of which posts I have already seen. It doesn't have notifications and I don't miss them, as long as I can see right away where the new posts are. I don't know what reshares are. Gnus does have a way to ignore specific posters or topics and I do use that. Every time I mull the idea of writing another forum poster, I come back to the realization that Usenet already does everything needed (at least on the backend), and has done so since the 1980s. A better NNTP to web gateway is all it could really use, for those who want to read with browsers.
by blibble | 2025-07-20 23:03:22+00:00
yeah, as a Brit I am against the OSA

it places a huge compliance burden on the 99.5% of small sites out there which are completely innocent

"janitor.ai" is not one of those sites...

an effective OSA should be targeted at sites like that

and saying "UK users, we can identify your accounts and have deliberately left them open cough VPN cough" isn't going to help them in the slightest (see Section 19)
by crop_rotation | 2025-07-20 23:03:44+00:00
What checks and balances? The US Supreme Court has become highly partisan, where all justices vote along party lines of their appointing president mostly. US Congress is even less independent and has to kowtow to the leader or else get primaried. The founding fathers obviously had no chance to envision everything and it is unlikely their Constitution will forever good enough to protect against such side channel attacks.
by mindslight | 2025-07-20 23:04:19+00:00
Yes, I agreed with your point and then kept going.

If you're referring to my second paragraph - the difference is that the medicare part of the system does not have to fully contend with the resulting cost from doctor shortages as it sets its own prices below market rate.

The larger overall point is that system is only responsible for half of what we experience with American health care - the shortage part. But then we don't even get the benefits of the price controls until we reach Medicare age.
by hagbard_c | 2025-07-20 23:04:40+00:00
Intel i7-6820HQ CPU/Graphics on a 9yo Thinkpad P50 which does have an NVidia Quadro M2000M but I only use it when needed through Prime. Firefox Nightly 141.0a1. Showing the animation at the top of the page runs up the GPU to 20%, repeatedly scrolling up and down the page using the scrollbar can get it up to about 75%. Scrolling remains smooth but sometimes the content on the top of the page takes a second to appear.
by breve | 2025-07-20 23:04:43+00:00
> And this did come to pass, just not how Sun was selling it with Java. For example; Office, Microsoft’s crown jewel and anchor into a lot organizations is now almost entirely web based.

But this will come full circle with the transition to WebAssembly. WebAssembly is like Java applets but it has the advantage of being built into the browser with nothing extra to install.

Google switched the calculation engine of Google Sheets to WebAssembly (rewriting it in Java as it happens) and got double the performance versus JavaScript:

https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc
by rfv6723 | 2025-07-20 23:04:53+00:00
Stockfish has got rid of old handwritten evaluation now.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4674

Its evaluation now purely relies on NNUE neural network.

So it's an good exmaple of the better lesson. More compute evently won against handwritten evaluation. Stockfish developers thought old evaluation would help neural network so they kept the code for a few years, then it turned out that NNUE neural network didn't need any input of human chess knowledge.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-20 23:04:56+00:00
SMS isn't viable, this is about *realtime*--the cops are trying to use cameras to find or follow somebody.

And the reality is such cameras are designed to be pointed at public spaces. So what if the cops can see it? Using technology to expose that which is otherwise invisible should require a warrant, but I don't mind technology that simply provides eyeballs on what's public anyway. (Note that I feel differently about security cameras in general--they are often pointed at non-public spaces and access should be opt-in on a camera by camera basis. Cameras covering the front entrances, fine; cameras covering back entrances, ask or get a warrant!)
by tptacek | 2025-07-20 23:05:10+00:00
I'm not "wise", I was just there at the time. Nobody ever looked at an easy to pop system and thought "oh, if I rexd into this host, the FBI is going to come knocking on my door". The prevailing spirit of the time was pretty close to "the only way to get anyone to show up at your door is to steal and use credit card numbers".

The story isn't about breaking into computers; it's drawing an analogy, of a careless action and an undesired consequence. My problem with it is that it's an undesired consequence of the variety dreamt of by Unix systems administrators of the time (we're gonna catch those rascally hackers and they're gonna get it!) and seen in the real world ~never. That doesn't make the moral of the story wrong (be careful), just cringe.
by freefaler | 2025-07-20 23:05:28+00:00
The supply of doctors and nurses (invite from abroad), certification of medical equipment & FDA drug approval (if it's certified in a normal country do a very lightweight approval process). If the patients want it, allow for more risk on his side.

For drug prices, the current system is also very, very broken. Remove the PBMs from the drug supply and at least there allow for market forces to work.

It's a classical problem of resource allocation that can't be avoided with just good intentions. Medical tourism in countries like Israel & Thailand shows that this can be allocated through market forces.
by rimbo789 | 2025-07-20 23:05:35+00:00
To be clear, I think a huge chunk of the tech giants also should not be operating! They need to be regulated heavily with algorithic feeds banned, anyone under 18 banned and better compensation for content creators.

The wild west of the internet was largely a mistake and created massive social disruption for the benefit of a tiny few and was caused by regulators being asleep at the switch. It is good they are finally catching up.
by arbuge | 2025-07-20 23:05:41+00:00
This kind of thing makes we wonder if the internet as a whole is heading for a Kessler Syndrome kind of situation.

Another example: here in the USA we have 50 states vying to each regulate AI; my understanding is that the plan was to have the OBBB put them off from doing this for at least 10 years, but that effort failed, leaving them free to each do their own thing.

Complying with all rules and regulations in all jurisdictions to which a website/service could be exposed (i.e. worldwide, by default) seems like it's becoming a well nigh impossible task these days.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-20 23:06:06+00:00
> If I took their worldview to the extreme, I wouldn't be able to do anything:

So you obviously don’t understand my worldview. I don’t worry about the small things, I worry about the big things. But yes, so careful, because I have empathy. For example, it’s easy for me to throw a cigarette butt out of my window and it’s very convenient and it makes my life easier. But I know the consequences of that are many fold, starting fires, having animals eat the cigarette butt. So I don’t do it.

The topic is about genetic editing and just throwing in the mitochondria of some random woman into the cytostolic DNA of another woman. Does anyone know the effects of that yet, long-term? Not only for the population but for the child?

Has that even been examined before?
by majormajor | 2025-07-20 23:06:31+00:00
A ton of good discussion of things has left Reddit/Facebook/Twitter for all the obvious reasons and gone to Discord because of discoverability is low, so is discovery by trolls and AI scraper bots and plagiarists.

Which is great - if you have the invite and like the Discord UI.

It really sucks if you'd prefer to follow RSS or longer-form in general.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-20 23:06:41+00:00
>people have literally been jailed for "hate speech" here because they clicked like on a tweet

I am aware that someone was jailed for encouraging people via social media to burn down a hotel with refugees in ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wkzgpjxvo ). But not because they clicked like on a Tweet. Reference please.