MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randallsquared | 2025-07-21 11:44:14+00:00
We have less than 100 years of uranium assuming we use enriched uranium once, don't reprocess the "spent" fuel, don't use breeder reactors to make plutonium for further energy production (going from 100 to thousands of years at current usage rates), and don't use breeder reactors to produce U233 from thorium, which is so much more abundant and available than uranium that it would extend current use by another 100-270 times, meaning current usage at hundreds of thousands of years, with already known deposits of nuclear fuel. These aren't breakthrough technologies, but just engineering, because we already know how to do this. Electricity was forecast in the 1950s to be too cheap to meter within a few decades of building reactors, and that future was completely practical. We just chose (at least temporary) stagnation, instead.

Solar is definitely cheaper than current nuclear, and continuing to fall rapidly, while battery cost is also improving apace. In the short term, solar can meet most of our needs and let us turn off more coal and oil, and that's certainly useful! In the medium term, though, we can't get back on the Henry Adams curve without denser sources than sunlight, which takes up quite a bit of real estate even if we move most capture to space.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-21 11:44:32+00:00
TBH it was already possible before, but you'd need to either write templates or find competent low-cost ghostwriters. AI has made it easier and more accessible to do this kind of thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if the institutions or projects like CURL will create harsher measures to stop this flood of high-quality spam, like putting people on a list or requiring payment per submission.

I mean that last one isn't a bad thing, Apple did something like it years ago and I think asking for an upfront cost and having a strict (at the time) review program made it so that all apps were from serious developers and met minimum quality standards.
by pyrale | 2025-07-21 11:44:38+00:00
> Most French and German PR about "digital sovereignity" rings hollow when the French and German vendors who stand to benefit have largely kept Capex and headcount within France and Germany.

You're comparing companies of widely varying size.

There's not much sense for these French and German companies to open other European offices at their current size, much like there's not much sense for their eastern European equivalents to open offices in France or Germany.

For that matter, it didn't make much sense for Microsoft to open shops in Europe in the 80's, or for Google in the 2000's

On the other hand, it is pretty commonplace for European companies with enough activity across Europe to have offices around and to quite freely move/open offices in other countries. So I don't really see this point as a good one.
by Someone | 2025-07-21 11:44:56+00:00
That can be done, but reading https://lwn.net/Articles/902466/, writers of security tools are unhappy that:

- io_uring initially was conceived without considering security or auditing tools

- io_uring later was changed to allow ioctl calls, even though security people do not like ioctl because what its arguments mean depends on the device being called (possibly even on the version of the driver), not on the type of device, and often is poorly documented, making it hard for a security filter to decide what to do with a command.

That also made them fear that similar security-breaking changes might be made in the future.
by liferyn | 2025-07-21 11:45:05+00:00
Hi, I created an iOS app where the idea is to have all (or most) important apps inside one app. Benefit of this is that you don't needs tens of apps on your phone, one is doing all those things. Another benefit is only one subscription, if you are buying those. You are not paying subscription for multiple apps, only for one if you think it is worth it, which should be cheaper.

Plan is to add more apps inside the app and also improve existing ones. One way I know which ones to add first or what to improve in existing is when people submit feedback. So feedback is really important for me.

What do you think about the idea and current app status? I am on a good track, could there be something from the app. Thanks
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by Jam0k | 2025-07-21 11:45:11+00:00
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by nullc | 2025-07-21 11:45:41+00:00
Plenty of companies buy the $1 screwdrivers, put them in nicer packaging and sell them for $20. ... including many of the brands formerly known for making good screwdrivers.

The result is that even when you're willing to pay for quality, you can't-- you can just overpay for junk. Might as well just buy 20 of the $1 screwdrivers instead-- they'll still last much less long than the proper $20 one, but finding the good one is too difficult amid the overpriced crap.
by b112 | 2025-07-21 11:45:45+00:00
One of the issues here, is trust.

If I write anything, and put my name as the author, I'm 100% lying if I am just copy pasting text.

This holds true 10 years ago, if I copied in any text without attribution. A novel, a book, a grant app, a paper, whatever.

Just because you're now copying large swaths of text from an LLM, doesn't make it better than copying from a person, eg plagiarism. And if you took a person's text 10 years ago, and modified a few words out of thousands, yes, that'd be called plagiarism too.

(No, a spell checker isn't that. It's correcting your word for the same word. If you think spellcheckers are the same as whole paragraph insertion, please check your ethics meter, it's broken.)

If the work isn't yours, you need to say so. Otherwise you're being dishonest.

If people get upset at the notion of disclosing, that feels like guilty behaviour. Otherwise, why not disclose?

Now, taking a step back? We're in a period of transition.

I agree that vast imbalances are being created here. This is the true problem.

For example, an application process could state "LLM applications are fine", or not. Instead?

The current is "no" without clearly saying so, for obvious reasons (it's copying work you didn't write, as your own ... plagiarism), but any such "no" without a high incident of detection and punishment, is worse than anything.

The 6 applications seems like a cop out, although it is logical. It should also be coupled with a "OK you win, use LLMs" statement too.

On another note, soon there will be two types of people, and only one of which I will engage in thoughtful email/text communication with.

Those who use LLMs, and people worth talking too.

Of what value is any meaningful conversation, if the other person's response is an LLM paste? Might as well just talk to chatgpt instead.

(note, I'm talking about friendly debate among friends or colleagues. Seeking their opinion or vice versa.)
by AndyMcConachie | 2025-07-21 11:46:14+00:00
> I don't see enough talk about reducing the amount of data collected in the first place.

It's because the power's that be want all the data and none of the liability. The easiest way to comply with any privacy regulation is to not collect, store, or process any personal data. Just don't store or process data about humans and 99% of the problems go away.

But data is the new oil. And sometimes when you store or process oil there are leaks that spill everywhere, contaminate things, and even sometimes kill people. That's never stopped us from collecting, storing, or processing oil.
by praptak | 2025-07-21 11:46:53+00:00
I would not call it a city builder unless you stretch this category to include games with no map at all. I'm not sure if this genre has a name but it's basically a turn based game with the state modeled as a fixed length vector of numbers which represent resources or dangers. The player interaction is also limited to inputting numbers which the game logic translates into deltas on the state vector.

There were lots of games like this, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugsy_(video_game). "How many boys do you want to send collecting payments for protection?", "Rival gangs are on the rise. How much money do you want to spend on guns?".
by johnisgood | 2025-07-21 11:47:31+00:00
50.000 EUR is exactly 50 EUR, though. 50,000 EUR is not.

For the record, before you down-vote, check the other comments. I am from an European country where we "officially" use "," as the decimal point (so yes, I know it might not be universally true, at least not in theory), yet my bank uses ".", and so do people (many, at least). In IT, it always has been ".", too. Of course in elementary school (>20 years ago) we used "," as the decimal point, FWIW. :P It might still be the practice there.
by Roark66 | 2025-07-21 11:47:39+00:00
So the main claim of the article is people are searching less and they are asking questions of AI instead.

Why? Because search has sucked extremely hard for last dozen of years if not longer. I still remember the times when you could put something like "ham radio" +amplifier +diy +mosfet and you would get 20 pages of amazing results from Google you could get lost in for days. I remember in early 2000x when I'd put a substring of an error from some software, further refine the query with boolean logic and I'd find exactly what I wanted. A mobile phone with Google was my main tool in my job back then.

Then it all went to shit. Oh, are you perhaps searching for this? No, I'm searching for exactly what I typed!

Also, the fact Google is now limited to few pages of results on even most popular topics is insane. You'll never find a personal blog of some guy that has 30 views a month. That guy may have printed his writing and put it in his drawer as far as Google is concerned.

No AI is not killing the Web. Google has done long ago. Who is actually browsing the Web like we used to decades ago? Finding cool sites from search pages? No one. We just type the same set of addresses into our browsers.

AI is actually something that may revive the Web by cutting through all the shit and just giving us the right links.
by gametorch | 2025-07-21 11:47:58+00:00
I used AI to write a web app in 2 months that extensively uses AI — pre-prompting via LLMs and image, sound, and animation generation.

Hardly wrote a single line of code myself.

Just crossed 372 sign ups and 73 paying users.

AI has been extremely valuable to me. Objectively speaking I have already gotten thousands of USD in value out of it.

Just my anecdote.
by coffeecantcode | 2025-07-21 11:49:23+00:00
I’ve always heard it generally used as a synonym with dilute - generally speaking with drugs, cut often means incorporating any less expensive (not easily detectable) substance in with the original substance.

More times than not it will not be stronger, it will be compounds that are not psychoactive at all, effectively “cutting” the potency of the substance while multiplying the quantity.

There are cases with fentanyl where a stronger substance is mixed in with the original and this often is what you read about in the news, but it is not in generally in the distributors best interest to be killing their clientele.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-07-21 11:50:28+00:00
These are very good questions, and I only have vague answers because it's not easy to understand how bureaucratic systems come to be, grow and work (and not my speciality), but I'll try to do my best.

Indeed, some of the fluff is due to the first reason - for example, the data management plan (where you need to specify how you're going to handle data) has good intentions: it's there so that you explain how you will make your data findable, interoperable, etc. which is a legitimately positive thing; as opposed to e.g. never releasing the research software you produce and making your results unreproducible. But the result is still fluff: I (well, Gemini and I) wrote one last week, it's 6 pages, and what it says can be said in 2-3 lines: that we use a few standard data formats, we will publish all papers on arXiv and/or our institutional repository, software on GitHub, data on GitHub or data repositories, and all the relevant URLs or handles will be linked from the papers. That's pretty much all, but of course you have to put it into a document with various sections and all sorts of unnecessary detail. Why? I suppose in part due to requirements of some disciplines "leaking" into others (I can imagine for people who work with medical data, it's important to specify in fine detail how they're going to handle the data. But not for my projects where I never touch sensitive data at all). And in part due to the trend of bureaucracies to grow - someone adds something, and then it's difficult to remove it because "hey, what if for some project it's relevant?", etc.

Then there are things that are outright useless, like the Gantt chart. At least in my area (CS), you can't really Gantt chart what you're going to do in a 5-year project, because it's research. Any nontrivial research should be unexpected, so beyond the first year you don't know what you'll exactly be doing.

Why is that there? I suppose it can be a mix of several factors:

- Maybe again, spill from other disciplines: I suppose in some particular disciplines, a Gantt chart might be useful. Perhaps if you're a historian and you're going to spend one year at a given archive, another year at a second archive, etc... but in CS it's useless.

- Scientists who end up at bureaucratic roles are those that don't actually like doing science that much, so they tend to focus on the fluff rather than on actual research.

- Research is unpredictable but funding agencies want to believe they're funding something predictable. So they make you plan the project, and then write a final report on how everything turned just as planned (even if this requires contorting facts) to make them happy.
by jjani | 2025-07-21 11:50:33+00:00
Caveat: This is only in terms of taste, not necessarily texture. And cheese of course has a massive range of styles on its own. Below targets something like a proper parmesan cheese.

Make soy sauce marinated eggs ([1] Korean version, but there's Japanese as well). Boil them a bit more so the yolks get crumbly rather than runny. Crumble those yolks. The result tastes similar to grated/powdered parmesan or grana padano, and the texture isn't too far off. Which makes sense given the similarities between fermented soy sauce and cheese, in their glutamates and fatty acids (see e.g. isovaleric acid). It doesn't work as well with tofu, there might be a food chemist here who knows their stuff and can explain why, I assume it's something inherent to the animal proteins.

Proper Thai fish sauce (nam pla) also shares quite a bit of its taste profile with cheese. It's no coincidence that all of these are fermented foods.

[1] https://tiffycooks.com/korean-marinated-eggs-mayak-gyeran-ea...
by piva00 | 2025-07-21 11:50:38+00:00
The population density of a whole massive country like the USA doesn't matter for public transportation that reaches its largest cities, you have pockets of very high density and an immense flyover space where few people live.

With the density of the Northeast Corridor you could have the exact same setup as the Netherlands has, the Northeast is only 20% less dense than the Netherlands while housing 50m people, there's almost a whole France in there but nowhere close to the infrastructure the Netherlands nor France have to move people around.

The USA is massive so there's a lot more space for localised solutions that work for different parts of the country, the West and East coasts could have similar solutions to interconnect the whole N -> S, there's enough density for it. If Sweden with 10m people and a frigid climate can run trains, public transportation, etc. in all major population areas along an area equivalent to the whole West Coast then I don't see any reason, except cultural-political ones, the USA couldn't.
by rainsford | 2025-07-21 11:50:45+00:00
Unless every passenger pickup is at the location of the last drop off and the timing is perfect, some portion of robotaxi driving must be empty as the taxi drives to the next pickup or at least goes somewhere to park. And I'm honestly not sure Waymos are smart enough to know where it is and isn't legal to park for some unknown period of time while waiting for the next trip, so that might not even be an option.

Contrast this with personal vehicles, which are always transporting at least one person to their destination. It seems essentially impossible that robotaxis could result in less congestion unless people share robotaxis significantly more frequently than they do personal cars or regular taxis.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-21 11:50:46+00:00
Yeah, in my mind, 3.11 > 3.1 as well, because I consider 3.1 to be 3.10 in this case. If they stick to only 3.0, 3.1, etc. then 3.2 would have been the next logical step, so I assume 3.11 is a minor version increment.
by seydor | 2025-07-21 11:51:15+00:00
It's true though. You need an idea that sounds sexy and a lot of hyperbole about the impact of your research, in particular with EU funds. Applications generally MUST overhype their impact , because there is a lot of competition , often because the guidelines encourage it, and because there is no restriction on making unrealistic claims. The application, the interview, the pitching, the networking, it all matters. And over the years EU funding by the ERC has adopted the processes of tech startups and VCs (pitching etc). So whatever works with hustling entrepreneurs works with researchers.
by moltonel3x | 2025-07-21 11:51:54+00:00
According to SlashData "size of programming language communities, Q1 2025":

28.0M JS+TS ... 5.6M Swift 5.1M Rust 5.0M Go

They have measured Rust growing faster than Go over the years, with the overtake finally happening in Q1 this year.

There aren't a lot of reports presenting absolute numbers and not biased toward a handful of platforms or ecosystems. If you know of other good free ones, feel free to share.

https://research.slashdata.co/reports/6814fddffed4a97023eab0...
by Zealotux | 2025-07-21 11:51:58+00:00
Sorry for being a bit off-topic. Biology wasn't my forte in high school, I wish I had read this article back then https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ and seen that video (9:08 min) https://youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU?si=12bbZajsUnYagD4_&t=15
by pxtail | 2025-07-21 11:52:11+00:00
> The superconducting magnet in an MRI scanner is always on even when not performing a scan.

This should be placed on the entrance with big bold letters, I think that a lot of accidents could be avoided by simply providing "WHY" information. I had MRI scan and I wasn't aware that machine was active even when not performing scan and now after knowing that I think that personnel there was very lax with allowing me to enter the room after instructing me to put metal objects away AND without enough emphasis how dangerous it could be if I forgot to do so.
by jug | 2025-07-21 11:52:15+00:00
I wish we also had a a temperature column for all the hardware configurations. I don't prefer to game on a Mac because the silent fan profile, often kicking in for real only at near 100 °C because Apple want silent Macs. Apple fans assure me Macs are designed to withstand such temperatures even sustained, but I'm not a big believer.
by dmurray | 2025-07-21 11:53:22+00:00
> Addendum: food security was assured, food choice was very restricted by modern standards.

Not by the standards of the world 5th percentile, as in the question posed. The 5th percentile today is mostly subsistence farming and doesn't have access to imported foods or own a refrigerator (though there probably is one in their local village, and they may well own a mobile phone).
by smusamashah | 2025-07-21 11:53:58+00:00
This immediately remind of mixing two people in image diffusion models. You can prompt like "Portrait photo of [Jeff bezos | Elon Musk | Mark Zuckerberg | Bill gates]". The denoiser will keep switching over these names every step and at the end you will get something like https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/x6hd7e/jef...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-21 11:54:17+00:00
The "if found to contain AI" part will possibly become harder and harder to detect over time, at which point you have to assume all entries could be AI, and flagging or making them pay a review fee would become the standard.

But it's similar to emails, under water your e-mail account has a 'trust score' based on previous behaviour, domain, etc. It could also come from the other side, if a scientist is attached to a university or other research body, they should sign off on a declaration that AI was not used (or used but clearly marked as such), with a big fine and reputation damage for the university if their researchers violate it.