MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-08-15 12:08:49+00:00
I guess the best answer to that is it requires a touch of "smart customer" insight, they kind that people develop food shopping, buying hardware, etc.

Scene files are named to rules that name the content, the source, the video and audio encoding, and the release group.

SeriesName S03E12 EpisodeName 1080p AMZN WEB-DL DDP5 1 H264-NTb SeriesName S03E12 EpisodeName 1080p HEVC x265-MeGusta

The first is by a group -NTB that are known for 'direct copies' (by various indicated methods) of streaming sources; here it's episode 12, season 3 of SeriesName as a WEB-DL copy and sourced from AMZN, video encoded with H264 and DDP5.1 audio.

That'll be a larger file and an "as viewed" copy.

The second is probably derived from the first, re-encoded using HEVC H265 to create a smaller file. The audio stream may also be transformed to be smaller in size, perhaps fewer channels. The compression may have introduced jagged chunky artifacts in fast moving scenes, or moire patterns in panning shots across chain link mesh basketball court fences.

So, it's a "solved problem" in the sense of it's not hard to learn to read the labels and understand different brand strategies.

Again, good private trackers that have been about for a good while now typically have complete seasons in a fully consistent form as a single multi episode torrent- all the same source (eg: BluRay release, or DVD, or from digital channel, or upscaled reconstruct, etc) all by the same release group.

Good private trackers also tend to have request forums, anything sought and not held can be requested and admins or users with multiple accounts tend to fill requests and often like the challenge of a hard to source rarity.

From the end user PoV they can also join multiple private trackers and use tools (-arr suite, etc) that can search across multiple trackers and present sorted and grouped results with easy selection of some or many for download.

My personal solution is I've pretty much always "curated as I go", making notes or filing stuff as I consume it - books, film, TV, papers, things built or designed.. anything I circle back on may or may not be worth chasing up a better version, I'd have to have liked it and want to share it or experience it again in better form- I'm happy buying digital media that I can own if it's available for things I enjoy, for things not available over the counter I can search for the best version available ATM by polling trackers .. failing that by joining forums and asking about.
by rafaelmn | 2025-08-15 12:09:35+00:00
I have a feeling that this kind of efficiency/capacity analysis is similar to that joke about economist designing a human, instead of having two kidneys you have 5 people sharing one. I am a pro market guy for a lot of things, but what happens when you let the market operate something like basic infrastructure is everyone is shipping their shit/sewage in trucks and running a diesel power generator in their back yard.
by rehman | 2025-08-15 12:09:35+00:00
Palantir is an evil, unethical organization that profits from war and surveillance, full stop. Its products operationalize mass data collection into targeting and policing workflows, turning human lives into "pipeline metrics" and normalizing permanent war as a business model. The revenue comes from conflict, and the lock-in comes from embedding its engineers into institutions that can't easily rip it out. That's not "neutral tooling"-it's an incentive engine for more harm.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-08-15 12:09:38+00:00
Yeh I think this is less of a story about Chinese exceptionalism and more a story of structural issues in the west (I will always admire the Chinese technocrats but lets not get ahead of ourselves).

Fossil fuel barons and vested interests have sabotaged the energy transition at every opportunity possible. They've spent billions on it, just look at today's UN conference on plastic waste falling apart.

And then there is the NIMBYs who are seemingly allergic to electricity pylons. These folks don't deserve one tenth of the attention that they receive. Treating housing as an investment/retirement fund was a mistake.

Hopefully this grows into a wake up call, I'm looking forward to watching the terminal decline of the oil industry in the 2030s.
by PetitPrince | 2025-08-15 12:09:43+00:00
> In cases of TV shows

Can you give me some examples of those guerilla remaster ? I know of the various Star Wars projects (Harmy and the likes) and the remaster from "La Classe Américaine", but I don't know any others.

A French movie that bungle together several excerpt from classic Warner movie to tell its own humorous story. A cult classic for French millennials. The director later on went on to make The Artist to universal acclaim.
by oinfoalgo | 2025-08-15 12:09:53+00:00
If we had firms spending billions of dollars to pass the Turing test, it seems absurd to me to believe the current crop of models could not pass the test.

Luckily, it is obvious that spending huge amounts of money to train models on how to best deceive humans with language is a terrible idea.

That is also gaming the test and not in the spirit of generality that the test was trying to test for.

Even playing Tic-tac-toe against GPT5 is a joke. The model knows enough of how the game works to let you play in text but doesn't even know when you won the game.

The interesting part is that the model can even tell you why it sucks at tic-tac-toe

"Because I’m not really thinking about the game like a human — I’m generating moves based on text patterns, not visualizing the board in the same intuitive way you do."

10 years ago it would not be conceivable we could have models that pass the Turing test but be hopeless at Tic-tac-toe and be able to tell you why they are not good at Tic-tac-toe.

That right there is a total invalidation of the Turing test IMO.
by softwaredoug | 2025-08-15 12:09:58+00:00
AI and data centers may be the forcing function for the US to build green energy to improve grid capacity. Lately almost all new energy capacity is green energy[1]. With batteries becoming better and better, the AI revolution could turn into the green energy revolution in the US.

1 - https://cleanpower.org/news/market-report-2024-snapshot/?utm...
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-15 12:10:06+00:00
In a way this is the ultimate goal of conservatism in its literal sense to conserve. The rich want have their place in society safely entrenched at the top, with no risk of people rising from below to displace them. Those at the bottom should stay locked in there and work and toil because that is the natural order of things.
by jvanderbot | 2025-08-15 12:10:20+00:00
I'm fairly certain these companies should pivot to selling / licensing AI "s/w drivers" for commodity consumer hardware that enables all these apps to run local-first or local-only.

The token cost stopped decaying as expected, as mentioned by the original 100,000k post on HN, and the move nowadays is towards more context to keep building functionality. The cost is just going to go up for inference. These companies might be better off splitting their focus between training and tooling, and canning all the capex/opex associated with inferrence.

Forget S/W engineers for a moment ... Every white collar worker I know, especially non technical folks, use ChatGPT all the time, and believe that is AI at this point. That demand isn't going to vanish overnight.

The counter argument is usually "They'll sell data", but I'm not sure you can double the number of trillion dollar data companies without some dilution of the market, and reach a billion devices / users without nation-state level infra.
by dzdt | 2025-08-15 12:10:31+00:00
Mathematician here, so educated layman on the physics but expert on infinity if you like.

Mathematically, "infinity" doesn't imply every possible option. But in terms of quantum physics, yes it kind of does include every possible option. There is a kind of joke classroom exercise in quantum physics class to calculate the probability that a piano would instantaneously rematerialize a meter away from its previously observed location. Its 10^-[ ridiculous number] but still thats not zero.

The size of physical reconfiguration of a person's brain to cause them to break out singing is a much smaller deviation so comparatively likely. So 10^-[somewhat less ridiculous nunber]
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-15 12:10:53+00:00
"If you're in a grossly generic way referring to hispanics, african americans, Indian Americans and many distinct and complex others"

-> Exactly. It refers to all of them.

It isn't a secret that white nationalist, kkk, are Republican, and have been at least since the 80's.

So as venn diagrams go, there are not many KKK in the Democratic party, and they are in the Republican party, so... who's ideas do you think align the most?
by account42 | 2025-08-15 12:11:15+00:00
> Contrast this way of operation to what other systems (like Windows and Mac) do: the content is copied to a central place, and then copied out to be "pasted".

This is a gross oversimplification to how Windows manages the clipboard. In the general case, the situation is not much different from X11 and the data stays in the sending application until requested - and is lost on program exit.
by nextos | 2025-08-15 12:11:59+00:00
Yes, came here to say the same thing. Telling people that the CLT makes strong assumptions is important.

Otherwise, they might end up underestimating rare events, with potentially catastrophic consequences. There are also CLTs for product and max operators, aside from the sum.

The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails: Properties, Emergence, and Estimation discusses these topics in a rigorous way, but without excessive mathematics. See: https://adamwierman.com/book
by ktallett | 2025-08-15 12:12:26+00:00
Why exactly would anyone care about an MIT licensed project being bought? I don't blame Pocket Gamer for realising it was a waste of time putting the article. I sense they simply wanted to free marketing to go with it, but their purchase of the repo is pointless otherwise. An MIT licensed repo is meaningless as a owned product as anyone can and will do as they like with it. It's also a community where you can't get away with pretending you were remotely key in building the software up to that point.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-15 12:12:48+00:00
> So why are we immoral then?

Mostly because it's easier than the alternative.

More seriously, you've just described the "moral" of the story of Adam and Eve. In that view of the world our problem is that we understand morality (thanks to that apple eating strumpet) and therefore can make choices. Animals, infants, and the simple-minded have no such concept and therefore can't be held responsible for violating it.

This, of course, all nonsense and implies a sort of paternalistic universe, but it was always going to be that way. Everything we know is defined by it's relationship to something else we know, and we don't know God. We know Dad.

Fundamentally it's a way to make God seem like less of a child-abusing jerk. A sky-daddy who "punishes" those who understand morality, but grants slack to the cutie-patootie babies and puppies is just nicer for people to believe in.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-15 12:14:13+00:00
Didn't people say this about crypto as well, like, a decade ago? Did anything come of that?

I find it endlessly fascinating that the US tech industry keeps developing new ways to consume absurd amounts of energy (even within the context of a government that still nominally has an Energy Star initiative) but still somehow thinks that power generation is someone else's problem and barely even takes a stake in it.

Google did some stuff a while back, locating data centres with power generation in mind, but do any of the main AI providers (putting aside xAI, which has its blurred-edge connection to Tesla) actually have holdings in power generation?
by zabzonk | 2025-08-15 12:14:16+00:00
But of course the British did create one of the greatest transport projects - the country-wide railway system, only to have it destroyed by the Conservatives.

I used to live in North London, and it made me so sad that each branch-line I walked over on bridge, now allotments, or simply overgrown, could have taken me int the City far faster and more efficiently than the tube (I like the tube, as much as anyone can).

The UK can build things, but not if politicians are directly in charge, as they were in the Beeching cuts.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-15 12:14:42+00:00
Maybe depends upon the DE/WM you are using.

UN*X has 2 copy/paste buffers and they both work on Slackware with a Window Manager under X11 as you mentioned. I think the same is true with DE.

Is that not the case with Wayland ?

Anyway, I always liked how these worked when compared to Microsoft. Again, I do not what to see this change.

Plus we already have enough keys on our keyboard. I think Microsoft is in the process of adding an AI key, crazy. I do not look forward to 1000 keys on a laptop keyboard, already I fat finger the current keyboards too much.
by throw0101a | 2025-08-15 12:15:21+00:00
> For me it's summed up by the £100M tunnel to protect bats. Someone says […]

That someone is Natural England, who is tasked, by law, with enforcing laws that protect wildlife and the environment and needs to sign off on disruptive work:

> A spokesperson for HS2 Ltd said "multiple options" had been considered, including green bridges and restoring habitats, to "comply with laws protecting vulnerable species".

> It said through "extensive engagement" with Natural England, "a covered structure was designed".

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wryxyljglo

If you don't like it change the law so that the environment/wildlife isn't protected, or these kinds of sign offs are not requirement, or can be overrided in the enacting legislation of infrastructure projects.
by linhan_dot_dev | 2025-08-15 12:15:29+00:00
The scene you described helped me quickly grasp the whole situation! I'd like to add a new example. In your example, the most dangerous part is "the user being convinced to visit the BAD website." Here's my example:

- The scammer initiates a login attempt.

- The user receives a text message with a 6-digit code and might get confused.

- The user receives a phone call from the fraudster.

- The fraudster pretends to be a representative from the software platform, convincing the user there's an issue.

- At this point, another fake text message is sent, with a link to a convincing-looking platform.

- The user enters the 6-digit verification code they just saw on this fake platform.

- The scammer logs in successfully.
by tjtryon | 2025-08-15 12:15:35+00:00
I find that if you are great at pseudocode, and great at defining a programs logic in the pseudocode, along with defining all cases possible, and trying to add user id10t error issue to the logic, you can get a pretty good framework of a program to start to work with. I also ask for comments for all logic, loops, if statements and functions that are instructional, yet easy enough that a 5th grader could understand. This framework usually comes as a version .8 for further development manually or even .9 beta test/debugging level. Occasionally, I've seen version 1.0 release candidate 1 level work, where I need to try to verify the functionality, AND try to find ways that users may try that will break functionality. Whichever version I end up with, it still involves manual coding, there is no escaping that. Using a LLM just saves (a lot) of time with the initial framework and program logic framework.
by roxolotl | 2025-08-15 12:15:59+00:00
Yes there were plans. A modest portion of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021(Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill) and the Inflation Reduction Act involved grid modernization. Some direct grid investment, some around electric vehicles, some in nuclear and other generation. Both were targeted on day one and funds have largely been revoked or tied up in court. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unle...
by kypro | 2025-08-15 12:16:14+00:00
You might have a point if it wasn't for the fact that infrastructure projects in the UK generally cost more than our European peers.

The UK's inability to build is apparent everywhere – our extreme lack of house building, our lack of modern nuclear power stations, our sewage system operating beyond its capacity, poor national transportation, etc. If HS2 was an exception to the rule then I doubt there would be this much focus on it. HS2 is just the most costly and extreme example of the problems we face when it comes to major infrastructure projects.
by Veliladon | 2025-08-15 12:17:40+00:00
I say all of this as someone with a 14kW system on his roof:

The problem with supplying power back to the grid with solar is that it's utterly random in terms of supply and output. The only thing you can count on is that the frequency is rock solid. In aggregate it's (mostly) fine but the system operator still has to build out stuff behind the scenes and also manage the cacophony that this chaotic mess creates.

If every rooftop PV is putting out more than an area needs during the day the wholesale price of power can swing negative. This is how virtual power plants make their money. It's almost impossible to disconnect all those PV panels automatically. Plus you still need a grid forming base load generator on the grid because all those PV panels are grid following. Plus that grid forming generator needs to have enough a big enough inertial mass to keep frequency consistent during transient supply and load spikes. It's a nightmare for systems operators.

If you want to not pay the utility disconnect from the grid and do your own storage and load management. It's going to cost a lot more than a monthly utility bill for 0KWh. If you want to use the grid as a backup during long stretches of overcast or winter then you have to pay the bill.

That being said, monopolies on poles and wires are abhorrent. Even regulated you're putting a drag on the economy just to enrich a middleman. Generation? Go ahead and give it to the market. Retail? Give that to the market. Transmission lines? Arbitrage is A-OK in my book. But government should own the poles and wires of the consumer distribution network where there's a monopoly.
by dathinab | 2025-08-15 12:18:05+00:00
It wasn't that long ago that China had quite a bit of problems with their power gird, they tend planed to renovate it and planed in future growth which happened to perfectly overlap with the start of the AI wave (but that still probably require them to revisit their longer term plans).

On the other hand in the US any notion of improving the grid was attacked for years by anti-renwable lobby. Because most reasons why its needed where things like electric cars, stoves, heating etc.

Naturally that isn't just a problem in the US, rich people which through lobbyist have way to much influence in politics screwing over the future of a country because they are largely invested into things which do not seem "future" technology but they try to force it to stay relevant is a pretty wide spread problem.
by ivape | 2025-08-15 12:18:08+00:00
Let’s take God’s punishment unto man from the events of Eden for a moment.

If you don’t hold a creature given morality accountable, then that creature is fundamentally the same as a creature that was not given morality. We’d be asking God to “undefine” us.

Remember, even with the punishment, most don’t understand the accountability that comes with our extra gift.

Let me put it another way. I’ll use the potential of all possibilities, with respect to all possible creations. The potential for a God to create everything is there. So, a Jellyfish, or, a rainbow colored one, or, a giant rainbow colored one. It’s possible a creature with perfect morality could have been created, no morality, some morality, and so on.

So, it’s possible to create both a human that will be judged and one that will not be judged. The one that is to be judged can yell and scream “but why but why but why”, to which the answer would be “because, by definition, this is the definition of the thing created”. If it was said that a Lion was to eat antelope, then that is the case. If it was said a Lion was to eat jellybeans only, then that is the case. It’s what was defined.

—-

If I promote you to CEO but give you none of the powers of a CEO, then I did not make you a CEO.

So, we know we were given morality. Why should the definition not be complete with inevitable judgement? We’d be asking to be redefined.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-15 12:19:25+00:00
There are four things increasing energy demand in the US at roughly the same rate, each very roughly about 1% per annum:

- increasing demand due to GDP & population growth - increasing demand due to the increased use of air conditioning due to global warming - increased demand due to EV's and other decarbonization efforts - increased demand from AI

Only one of those 4 things wasn't highly predictable. A robust build out for the first three would have gone a long way to covering the fourth. In the past increased demand was covered by increased efficiency in heating and lighting, but those gains are slowing, and Trump's gutting of regulations will reverse them.
by corimaith | 2025-08-15 12:20:07+00:00
Well first of all, that's not happening in America. The basic gist of this topic is that there suddenly a massive upsurge in energy demand, and existing networks trouble accommodating for it. Big deal, just build more power plants. The inability to build is the opposite of pro-market, it's literally NIMBYISM and government regulations causing that.

Second of all, when we talk about malinvestment, it's about opportunity cost. Right now, the job market is pretty bad in China, consumption is weak, and businesses are killing themselves in deflationary price wars. Chinese Gen Z don't want to work factory jobs either, but white collar jobs like the West, but many of the industries related to those were suppressed. And this is all because the government chose to overinvest in propping up their manufacturing and construction rather than increasing consumption and fostering their services. For you as a rich American you can admire their cheap goods and cities, but you're also not exposed to the reality of the extreme competition in that society.
by sotix | 2025-08-15 12:20:08+00:00
One minor issue I've noticed with streaming is the quality. I went to watch A Bridge on the River Kwai the other day. I could borrow it from my library on Kanopy for free, but the audio was only in stereo. The $4 iTunes rental supported Dolby Atmos, which took advantage of my speaker system, and the video quality was comparably better. I ended up paying despite the library having it because iTunes offered a better experience that was easy to access.

iTunes movie rentals seem to almost always win out when it comes to streaming specifically. I don't know why I would want to watch something on Prime Video at a lower quality and sit through ads. I've also encountered a number of services such as Peacock that absolutely refused to run on my Linux laptop even though I was a paying customer.

Further, the iTunes versions of movies often come with special features (e.g. The making of the Lord of the Rings). They also earned a lot of goodwill from me when they upgraded a number of my HD movies to 4k for free.

I do maintain a Jellyfin server with movies and shows I have legally purchased because I didn't like how the digital version of my James Bond movies had the final movie on a different streaming app. It's really hard to beat that setup if you know how to configure it. My Jellyfin server contains an episode of community from the DVD I own that was removed from streaming services, and that's where it really shines. I also have higher quality versions of Star Wars than the VHS copies I own.

Nonetheless, I think iTunes proves what an effective model is in a similar vain as Steam is to gaming. Shame that unlike Steam's relationship with Linux, iTunes is much more tied to Apple. At least the Apple TV is genuinely a good streaming box.