MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-28 05:37:50+00:00
> How do you expect to push a technical solution for an authorization platform without leveraging the systems that people use?

Imagine a world in which there are ten thousand phone platforms, some of them are developed by communities rather than business entities, and anyone can easily create a new one. Can your system function in that world? If so, then do it that way. If not, then assume it shouldn't work and stop trying to build it.
by CapsAdmin | 2025-07-28 05:38:20+00:00
When I wanted to get into aquariums, I stumbled upon some old man calling himself "father fish"

Basically his take on the whole hobby is that we should stop measuring, changing water and generally stressing about keeping the system as is.

Instead you create a good substrate, add lots of plants and just watch how life will evolve. Fish and plants might die, but that's ok because it's part of the natural process.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-28 05:38:28+00:00
> Why would growing corn for ethanol and burning it in an engine be any climate-friendlier than growing that same corn for food and burning an equivalent amount of gasoline in an engine? The carbon absorbed in the field wouldn’t change; neither would the carbon emitted from the car.

It would be worse because is food is also fuel. Whether motor vehicle fuel or animal fuel, the corn goes through pretty similar chemical change. Obviously, burning just the produce of fields that uptake as much carbon as their produce releases is better, in net carbon terms, than doing that plus burning fossil fuels.
by vintermann | 2025-07-28 05:38:32+00:00
Well, crypto "leaks" too, to things like power companies and GPU manufacturers. That's made up for in growth of the value of the idle asset.

The value, though, relies on the idea that some time in the future the asset can be used as something more than an asset to sit on - e.g, people could live there. Currently though, it's unused for that so I think it's fair to call it idle.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-28 05:40:41+00:00
Perhaps this might fill the gap if you are able to access this resource. The following I have not verified, and the information therein is provided for commentary and educational purposes. I was able to find what appears to be two versions of the same or interchangeable content:

https://annas-archive[.]org/md5/d6bcfd2e04361e5eba8358a31ada...

https://annas-archive[.]org/md5/21c997325f84137e2d3381aa4f7d...
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-28 05:40:51+00:00
> We are approaching a time when most of that free flowing information is LLM generated propaganda and advertising. The average person can no longer go on the internet and trust the things they see or read

The average person could never do that; critical evaluation was always needed (and it was needed for the material people encountered before the internet, too.) The only thing that is a change from the status quo ante in the first sentence is “LLM generated”.
by notanaverageman | 2025-07-28 05:41:44+00:00
I'm finishing the work of adding apply, list, delete mechanism to my Kubernetes package manager.

The tool is written in Go and exposes a JavaScript interface (like k6) to generate manifests using both template-based and object oriented approaches. It is similar to cdk8s, but is more flexible, doesn't require a dev environment, and allows sharing packages. The apply mechanism will be like kapp, but using kubectl's apply sets.

It already has the features to generate manifests to be used in GitOps. With this addition and the next one, which will be waiting for generated resources, it will become a fully featured package manager.

https://github.com/ohayocorp/anemos
by brudgers | 2025-07-28 05:42:24+00:00
The fire truck goes because it has a paramedic.

It needs a paramedic because fire fighters often need paramedics.

So if the small vehicle has a paramedic, you still need one for the big truck.

And if you have another vehicle, you need a bigger apparatus bay at the station and more beds and more staff times three shifts.

Finally, when the 911 call comes in there is not time to triage. The system is optimized for response time because people might die.
by knappe | 2025-07-28 05:42:27+00:00
This is an excerpt from Eating the Earth. The entire point of the book is that when we consider land use, we're not accounting for other uses for that same land (or how other land would be used) because the land, prior to Searchinger's work in the field all calculations did not consider this factor. Even after Searchinger published their work showing the flaws on land use, it was often ignored.

If you find the excerpt underwhelming, go read the book. I will warn you that in some ways it feels more like a memoir of Searchinger's life than a book on land use considerations, but, despite that, it still does a great job of showing how land use is still not being accounted for in all situations.

I finished Eating the Earth last week and found it rather interesting to read.
by jschveibinz | 2025-07-28 05:43:05+00:00
There are some numbers to consider in this discussion--all of these are from data on the web:

1. Only Israel ($3,400) spends more per capita on R&D than the U.S. ($2,800) on R&D

2. The U.S. spent around $900 billion on R&D, with China estimated at $800 billion and the EU at $381 billion.

3. The per capita spending for other major economies:

- EU $850 per person - China around $700 per person (estimated) - South Korea $2,800 per person - Japan $1600 per person

(all roughly PPP adjusted)

Please check my estimates.

The point is that the U.S. spends a lot on R&D, so a haircut may not be bad for the health of U.S. R&D programs (new priorities) let alone the temporary reduction in expenses. The R&D output is still going to be enormous relative to the rest of the world and probably on par with China.
by freehorse | 2025-07-28 05:44:07+00:00
> I think that is far more that people like the other closed source launchers less

Why does one need a game launcher? Cannot we just like run games as we run any app? Having to use a launcher that by default requires internet connection, even if the game itself doesn’t, sounds like a very specific choice of how to do things. We don’t run any other kind of program like that.
by rkagerer | 2025-07-28 05:44:35+00:00
I don't like this part:

"...sets off a loud alarm on a user's phone - overriding a Do Not Disturb setting - and covering their screen"

I'm already at war with my smartphone to make all the alerts stop buzzing and squelch the intrusive notifications (e.g. apps that think they're important, amber alerts that seem in most cases to be accidentally blanketed due to user-error, test alerts, false alarms, etc).

I'm fine if Google wants to experiment with it, and I even applaud the effort, but at the end of the day I want control of my device, thank you very much. That means this sort of thing should be opt-in, not foisted upon on me.
by knappe | 2025-07-28 05:44:50+00:00
That it isn't sustainable. As Eating the Earth points out, by growing trees to then cut them down again we're not accounting for the cost of using that same forested land for anything else, like a forest which is a great carbon sink. Instead burning wood pellets is considered renewable until you consider the cost of using that land for something else in which case it isn't a renewal resource.
by groby_b | 2025-07-28 05:46:17+00:00
I think you're wrong with those groups.

I'll use myself as counterexample, but I know a sufficiently large number of people like me who also love AI to suggest the pattern's wrong.

Programming for 4 decades, happy to language lawyer with my C++ compiler, and love puzzle solving.

And yet, I see AI as a tremendous gift. It's brought back the early exploratory feeling and joy. It's also taken care of a lot of tedium (no, migrating to a new library/api never was fun)

And, best of all, how to use AI well/correctly to produce prod quality code is one of the biggest puzzles out there. It's a great time!

But I don't think your characterization is entirely wrong, because the 'Ugh! AI!" continent is indeed strong in your second group. Specifically, people who have that long seniority and enjoyed being "the expert" - i.e more knowledgeable about a topic than many. AI is compressing that gap.
by airhangerf15 | 2025-07-28 05:46:23+00:00
Yea, it's all about a permanent Digital ID and the end of any independent forums. It's the first essential steps before you get to great firewalls and social credit scores.

Remember, Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas already have similar laws in place in the US, so even a nation with better speech and gun laws is still not immune from the slow descent into technocracy.
by viraptor | 2025-07-28 05:46:58+00:00
> you use completion, right? That's interaction?

Very basic one. What I mean is once you get the completion, how do you interact with that view - let's say you want to dig into a type that's displayed. Then you want to get to the longer docs for that type. There's nothing out there that does it as far as I know.

> Wait... you want it as an image?

Yes, the asciiart minimaps are cool, but they really don't have enough resolution for more complex longer files in my experience.

> The best way is probably with bufdo and having all the files opened in a buffer

You see why this is not great, right? That's an extra thing to think about.

> Maybe you don't know what ctags are?

I know. It's step 1 out of many for implementing proper refactoring system.

> but you are asking about "search and replace" right?

Search and replace with language and context awareness. You can diy it in vim or start stacking plugins. Then you can do the same with the next feature (like inserting method stub). But... I can just use an actual IDE with vim mode instead.

> And in that case I would avoid language like "vim doesn't"

Vim doesn't do those things though. There's a whole ecosystem of additions of plugins of the day that add one thing or another. But it turns out it's easier to embed nvim in an ide than play with vim plugins until you get something close to ide. Been there for years, done that, got tired. VS with vim mode has better ide features than vim with all the customised plugins.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-07-28 05:47:14+00:00
Including things like "media bias" and other dubious criteria in freedom of speech rankings is obviously skewed.

Whatever the ECHR might say what I wrote in my previous comment is factual. In Europe "freedom of speech" comes with a long list of small print.

In fact, this is so embedded that the article of the ECHR you quote provides for restrictions and even states that they are "necessary": "subject to certain restrictions that are "in accordance with law" and "necessary in a democratic society"." QED
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-28 05:48:14+00:00
The US, by all evidence, spends more on its non-universal, gap-prone, healthcare system than any reasonable (single-payer, government-provided, or mostly private insurance with universal guarantee) universal healthcare system would cost; the US spends ludicrously more than any other country per capita, and much more than most universal systems on a per GDP basis (heck, the government side of the US system alone costs a greater share of GDP than some universal systems, and more per capita than basically any of them, even without counting the larger private side.)

The US doesn't deny local citizens healthcare so that some people far away can be blown up. If anything, it limits its ability to blow people up far away with all the extra money it is spending locally to prevent people from getting healthcare.

But the US has lots of money, so it still finds quite a bit for blowing people up far away.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-07-28 05:48:36+00:00
I'm not sure this old horror story still works. The things to be afraid of have changed too much and at a far larger scale than people then could comprehend.

The "temporary anomaly" is one of perception. It was individuals talking to individuals. In terms of volume the world has never had this much free flow of information, and its never been easier to transmit encrypted data within a group.

At the same time the problem with letting the internet be without government means it pushes digital crack to all children, and an oligarchy of (natural) monopolies tightly control certain powers through systems like "sign in with Google".

The options for companies to instead use a government backed digital identity seems like an obvious step forward if designed carefully enough.

That requires the right mindfullness of people's rights, eg the right story. I just don't think the war on the free-internet narrative from 30 years ago is up for it.
by elcritch | 2025-07-28 05:49:22+00:00
Well if the regulators are worried about sharks getting hit by a rocket, then they’re writing terrible environmental review requirements. It makes me skeptical that they’re going to do a good job protecting the environment if they’re asking such ill thought out questions.

Personally I’d hope for competent staff to be creating thoughtful valuable environmental impact surveys. Hence why the pushback on these agencies is valuable. Bureaucracies generally need some sort of pressure to, you know, do a competent job.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-28 05:49:32+00:00
SK had this, and it appeared to have turned their entire WWW into 4chan with cult radicalisms. Their state of online speeches and its real world negative consequences are crazy. People on permanent records in real name never backs down because they more tangibly feel their mistakes as threats, and if you think about it, people who never backs down even if they are in wrong are effectively cultists. It's clear what these types of totalitarianism do and where this path ends. It's crazy EU don't get that.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-28 05:49:58+00:00
Again, people are suggesting that I as a Black person should “empathize” with someone who doesn’t feel like I should get equal treatment, doesn’t belong in their space, etc.

But in today’s society, it’s not allowed for politicians or anyone to be openly hostile toward Black people. So they choose immigrants, non straight people or non Christians. Those people don’t deserve “empathy”.
by reactordev | 2025-07-28 05:50:05+00:00
I don’t disagree, my argument is why continue? The scientific method is thrown out the window. Age verification, oh you need the cooperation of member nations of the EU, ok, wait, everyone has different systems, ok, new objective - standardize the systems so we can do age verification like we want.

I know politics isn’t logical but if you keep drilling down the root cause, eventually you’ll hit bedrock.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-28 05:52:29+00:00
It is a rhetorical appeal to emotion, which is used to override rational debate, discourage criticism, and create false dichotomies, e.g. "you're either with the children, or you're with criminals".

This "think of the children" rhetoric targets encryption, anonimity, decentralized platforms, and private communication channels like messaging apps, VPNs, Tor, etc. It is nasty. Keep in mind that it does not actually prevent child exploitation and grooming. Most of the pedophiles are on Discord and Roblox anyways.

In any case, there are ways to prove someone is over 18 without revealing identity, but that is not that goal, is it? There are cryptographic schemes just for that, such as zk-SNARK, etc. ZKPs in general.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-07-28 05:52:43+00:00
The real cost of the American fire truck is in the roads it forces to be extra wide. It’s those trucks that make it necessary to have oversized neighborhood streets. Most countries don’t need that.

In Europe, you’ll see small, peaceful neighborhoods where people naturally drive slower on narrower roads. More greenspace. Less asphalt. They have small fire trucks that can navigate those streets just fine.

There’s really no reason they need to be so massive. It's a choice.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-07-28 05:54:11+00:00
Blender doesn't say "start with a cube". Its default "General" scene has a cube. You can add whatever mesh, text, curves, metaballs, grease pencil, volumes, etc you want.

As far as workflows go, there are far too many to list, and most artists use multiple, but common ones are:

* Sculpt from a base mesh, increasing resolution as you go with remeshing, subdivision, dyntopo, etc. * Constructively model with primitives and boolean modifiers. * Constructively model with metaballs. * Do everything via extrusion and joining, as well as other basic face and edge-oriented operators. * Use geometry nodes and/or shaders to programmatically end up with the result you want.
by M4v3R | 2025-07-28 05:54:52+00:00
After 25 years in web and app development I’m venturing into game development. I’ve already created a small game for a game jam [1] and it served as as a proof of concept to me that I can make something fun so now I want to tackle a bigger game project, complete with original art, music and story. AI coding agents will play a big role here as in my prototype they significantly sped up the process for me. I’ll try to document this one too and the plan is to release the source code for it as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463967
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-07-28 05:54:54+00:00
Basically every new law, piece of news or media I see coming from the UK paints a picture of a beat-down, cynical & scared society that's complacent to or in support of increasing surveillance and control by the government. Like maybe Adolescence or basically any mention of the NHS. The crimes they cite like child grooming or terrorism/hate being incited sound pretty terrible too, but I wonder why the UK specifically is taking action - is the issue bigger there, or are they just more aware of and willing to act on it.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-28 05:55:04+00:00
Pretty significantly actually.

For example, the violence in New Caledonia was instigated on TikTok by Azeri disinfo networks [0][1] due to French support of Armenia, which itself is due to French support for Greece+Cyprus against Turkiye, who is the primary patron for Azerbaijan.

Algeria has been doing something similar [2] due to French support of Morocco, and China's UFWD aligned groups have done something similar in the French Pacific [3]

Unless you're insisting I'm a troll or a bot, which I strongly disagree with. I've worked closely with EMEA (and especially French institutions and businesses) in my current career and previously when I worked in the policy space. I just kvetch on HN because it's not significantly on any radar yet and the anonymity is appreciated.

[0] - https://www.politico.eu/article/france-accuse-azerbaijan-fom...

[1] - https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/azerbaijans...

[2] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/the-roots-o...

[3] - https://www.aspi.org.au/report/when-china-knocks-door-new-ca...
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-28 05:55:29+00:00
The trouble with these analogies is that they ignore the nature of the internet.

If there is a law in one jurisdiction that says you have to be 21 to buy some product and a different jurisdiction sets it to 18, or has no age restriction at all, and someone who is underage in the first jurisdiction goes to the second jurisdiction to buy that thing, what happens? The seller sells it to them. This has always been a completely normal thing for people to do in border towns, or when people e.g. visit Amsterdam because of less restrictive drug laws.

The internet allows anyone to visit the site of a supplier located outside of their jurisdiction. That's completely normal an expected too. It also makes things like age verification laws for digital content pretty much entirely worthless, because most of the suppliers weren't in your jurisdiction to begin with and the ones outside of it are... outside of your jurisdiction.

Governments now want to pretend that it matters where the user is rather than where the site is, but that's a joke because there is no way for the site to even know that. If you try to require it then they'll either ignore you because they're actually entirely outside of your jurisdiction and you can't impose penalties on them for not complying, or treat IP addresses in your jurisdiction differently (possibly by banning them entirely) and then people there will just use a VPN.

Neither of these cause the law to be effective and ineffective laws are inefficient and embarrassing.
by gettingoverit | 2025-07-28 05:55:51+00:00
Probably this wouldn't be a problem if Web was somewhat anonymous, so that merely stumbling upon a security issue, or using website in a regular way would not constitute a crime for the lack of the person to put that crime onto.

Also if things stored in those databases weren't plain strings, but tokens (in asymmetric cryptography sense) so that only the service owns it, and in case of a leak user can use it to get a payout from the service, this problem would be solved.

But no business is interested in provably making their users secure, it would be a self-sabotage. It's always just a security theater.
by username135 | 2025-07-28 05:57:54+00:00
It would not surprise me if all of these tangential advances in various models and approaches ultimately become part of a larger frame work of modules designed to handle certain tasks - similar to how your medula oblongata operates breathing and heart rate, and your amygdala sorts out memory and hormone production, and your cingulate gyrus helps control motor function, et al.

We have a great example (us), we just need to hone and replicate it.
by MisterSandman | 2025-07-28 05:57:57+00:00
I never said any of those things, you’re literally arguing with made up points I didn’t make?

But my point Hetzner isn’t self-hosted. Similar to how storing money in a bank isn’t self-banking. Self-hosting means you host your content yourself in a server room that you have physical access to. Hetzner isn’t that.

And that’s fine, self-hosting is pretty silly for most use cases nowadays. And all of the positives you mentioned are true. But I hate how we’ve turned “self-hosting” into a political dog-whistle for hosting with companies that seem more trustworthy than the big guys. And there’s nothing wrong with not wanting to trust GCP or Azure - just don’t call it self hosting.
by JeremyMorgan | 2025-07-28 05:58:12+00:00
Valid question, and I hear it all the time. Most of the time it's due to preparedness and staffing. By having those 4 people on a fully equipped engine, if something big (structure fire, vehicle extrication, rescue) happens, they can jump in and go with a vehicle full of tools. (provided the ambulance crew can take over).

Otherwise if they're in a car, they'd have to drive back through traffic to the station, move their gear to the new vehicle, and drive back to the scene. It can cost valuable time. Fire engines carry a surprisingly large amount of tools and equipment for a variety of purposes.

That being said, many larger departments are trying out "cars" (usually an SUV) with two people and a med bag to go to medical calls. While the engine/truck and crew stay at the station. This is fairly expensive with the new vehicle, equipment and extra staffing. However it is being done now with success in urban areas.
by knappe | 2025-07-28 05:59:07+00:00
It makes perfect sense.

Forest are only carbon sinks if they stay as a forest. The second you cut one down it goes from being a sink to source. Searchinger's argument states that more forests will be grown to be cut down if burning wood pellets (that are shipped from North America to the EU) is considered renewable and that means you're now cutting down even more forests to clear land for growing more trees. The land used is not free; it could have instead stayed a forest and remained a carbon sink. When you compare wood pellets using for generating energy and compare it to other forms of energy generation it no longer holds up as a renewable resource after you take into account the land that could have been kept instead as a forest and carbon sink.