MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by criley2 | 2025-08-24 21:00:31+00:00
I disagree that "performative" and "token" are the opposite of "best effort".

The opposite of "best effort" is clearly "worst effort".

You seem to take offense with the idea that the company is doing "the minimum viable legal requirement" and you insist that "no, by doing what the judge says, it's actually an earnest and good attempt!"

If you actually think a company puts in even 0.1% more effort than a court requires of them, then I think you are very naive. Clearly the company could prevent VPNs from working if they wanted to invest the effort, like Netflix and China do, but they literally can't be bothered if the court doesn't require it.

I consider "minimum viable legal requirement to get past the judge" to be "performative and token" because they do NOT actually care if users access it, they want them too, they are only checking a liability box forced on them by the court and their legal department, doing the literal minimum.
by riazrizvi | 2025-08-24 21:00:54+00:00
That’s one way to frame it: Encroaching corporations are a front, trying to subdue the public, and we need to unite and fight back for ourselves.

Myself I’ve moved away from this. Now, I frame it all as just people with the same fundamental nature, that I understand through little rules. Like ‘In the absence of a better more personal and mutually rewarding relationship we end up commoditizing each other which becomes more and more exploitative over time’. Or ‘We choose comfortable, pandering stories that make us feel better about ourselves, avoid situations to better understand others if they challenge our aspirational truths’.
by benjiro | 2025-08-24 21:01:19+00:00
Lithium-ion: produces its own oxygen, the reason why you get thermal runaways. LiFePO4: Does not produce its own oxygen, any fire (can happen) is limited to the surrounding air.

A trend in home batteries, that we see now (because of killer competition on the Chinese Market / export), is LiFePO4 batteries that have a included fire extinguisher module.

This adds another layer of security beyond:

* LiFePO4 (not oxygen producing)

* Most batteries are encased in a iron protective layer, this reduces the risk of punctures. And also act as a fire suppressor as any fire has a hard time escaping / limited amount of oxygen access.

* Depending on the batteries, they can be installed in a enclosed rack.

* The now often fire extinguisher module in a lot of pre-made batteries.

The chance of a fire from a LiFePO4 install is so small, that your more likely to get a fire from any other part of your house (probably your laptop or smartphone lol ).
by rootusrootus | 2025-08-24 21:01:20+00:00
> How about keeping an ICE-powered generator

Or an EV. I only need enough instant battery capacity to last a couple hours. That would handle the vast majority of outages I ever experience, all by itself. If it looks like it is going to be longer, I grab the cable from the transfer switch and plug it into my Lightning. That would get me through a hypothetical week long outage.
by rozab | 2025-08-24 21:01:23+00:00
These people are weird. The blog post that inspired this has this weird iMessage screenshot, like a shitty investment grift facebook ad:

https://ghuntley.com/ralph/

Apparently one of the lucky few who learned this special technique from Geoff just completed a $50k contract for $297. But that's not all! Geoff is generous to share the special secret prompt that unlocked this unbelievable success, if only we subscribe to his newsletter! "This free-for-life offer won't last forever!"

I am sceptical.
by roscas | 2025-08-24 21:01:38+00:00
Thank you for sharing this. Scott is a tech guy so he is not the average user.

I fight for the average user for respect of privacy and security, because, go figure, the average user only knows what there is a browser or an app, and they can logon and use it.

They have no clue of what is really going on.

So how we fix this? Give the average user the power. And show them what is going on and what are the options.

GNU/Linux desktop is not an alternative to Windows or mac. It is the only one who respects you.

If should be the only option you learn in school and learn about open source.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-24 21:01:40+00:00
As far as I can tell from my local health organisations, paracetamol is one of the safest painkillers for pregnant women.

That doesn't make it very safe, but NSAIDs carry well known risks during later stages of pregnancy, and opiods aren't exactly harmless either. Even aspirin carries risk (and aspirin doesn't even work as well compared to other drugs).

As far as I can tell paracetamol is still the first choice for painkillers while pregnant, but only because none of them are completely safe to use. It's probably fine for short term usage, but that also goes for non-pregnant people to be honest.
by NicuCalcea | 2025-08-24 21:01:46+00:00
That's my main criticism as well. Even before we get to the ethical implications of AIs communicating on your behalf without a disclaimer, LLM writing is just poor and making me read through it is disrespectful of my time.

I recently had a colleague send me a link to a ChatGPT conversation instead of responding to me. Another colleague organised a quiz where the answers were hallucinated by Grok. In some Facebook groups I'm in where people are meant to help each other, people have started just pasting the questions into ChatGPT and responding with screenshots of the conversation. I use LLMs almost daily, but this is all incredibly depressing. The only time I want to interact with an LLM is when I choose to, not when it's forced on me without my consent or at least a disclaimer.
by runjake | 2025-08-24 21:01:56+00:00
An option if you don't want to deal with dual boot: buy something like a Bee-link SER8 for $499 and use that for Linux. It's tiny and performs well. Use a KVM or swap cables between computers.

(I only game on the weekends so I just cable swap, because my KVM is Mac <--> Gaming PC/SER8.)
by psyclobe | 2025-08-24 21:02:26+00:00
I made the switch a few years ago mostly because the only thing I do on computers is write software for the companies I work for; I don’t game, I try but idk just feels like work.

Everything is mostly fine on Linux, minus things like display drivers (pick the wrong nvidia driver and you’ll have crashes), power management (honestly I just use a remote switch to turn off my displays), and random stuff like my gnome classic shell will nearly always crash the moment I try to resume working after a few hours (just kicks me back to the login screen).

But sometimes I go back to windows and I am taken aback as the sheer completeness of the user experience.

Also Linux always hangs hard if I run it out of ram. Windows never does that.

Not going back anytime soon either way.
by rossdavidh | 2025-08-24 21:02:43+00:00
The last time my wife's laptop died, I convinced her to give a Linux laptop from System76 a try. Then, when her store's Windows box died, I convinced her (and her business partner) to give Linux a try there. My daughter, 20, has a Linux laptop as well (although in order to get Adobe Creative Suite for school she still has to own a Windows desktop, thanks Adobe). None of these people were interested in software freedom, so their patience for problems during the switch was pretty minimal, and they all switched, and stayed switched. If you buy something like System76 that has Linux pre-installed, and help out with something like Spotify that is possible to install on Linux but not completely trivial, it is not so difficult to convince people anymore.
by pron | 2025-08-24 21:02:51+00:00
I have no idea what it's using its CPU on, whether it has anything to do with memory management, or what memory management algorithm is in use. Obviously, the GC doesn't need to do any compaction if the program isn't allocating, and the program can only allocate if it's actually doing some computation. Also, I don't know the ratio of live set to total heap. A tracing GC needs to do very little work if most of the heap is garbage (i.e. the ration of live set to the total memory is low), but any form of memory management - tracing or manual - needs to do a lot of work if the ratio is low. Remember, a tracing-moving GC doesn't spend any cycles on garbage; it spends cycles on live objects only. The more heap you give it (assuming the same allocation rate and live set), means more garbage and less CPU consumption (as GC cycles are less frequent).

All you know is that CPU is exhausted before the RAM is, which, if anything, means that it may have been useful for Chrome to use more RAM (and reduce the liveset-to-heap ratio) to reduce CPU utilisation, assuming this CPU consumption has anything to do with memory management.

There is no situation in which, given the same allocation rate and live set, adding more heap to a tracing GC makes it work more. That's why in the talk he says that a DIMM is a hardware accelerator for memory management if you have a tracing-moving collector: increase the heap and voila, less CPU is spent on memory management.

That's why tracing-moving garbage collection is a great choice for any program that spends a significant amount of CPU on memory management, because then you can reduce that work by adding more RAM, which is cheaper than adding more CPU (assuming you're running on a machine that isn't RAM-constrained, like small embedded devices).
by k__ | 2025-08-24 21:03:00+00:00
I used Xubuntu and LMDE until Windows 7, because it came with my laptop and I could use Linux on a cloud IDE anyway.

But with the end of life for windows 10 in October, I switched back to Linux and I'm quite happy.

I'm running Manjaro with Xfce on my 4 year old LG Gram and it's really snappy while only using 900MB idle memory.
by moron4hire | 2025-08-24 21:03:25+00:00
Is that the takeaway? When they say, "I cloned the backend for Truco and gave Claude a long prompt explaining the rules of Escoba and asking it to refactor the code to implement it", that doesn't really make it sound like a good heads-up comparison from which we could then say, "the coding part was not the most significant part of the problem".

I mean, the entire article is problematic as proof of anything. For starters, they didn't go through a design process for a game at all, they copied existing games. Then there are all these weird technical rabbit holes they went down that really weren't anywhere near "simplest path to MVP".

I just don't think there is anything to glean from this article. Like most posts about individual experiences with AI, it's functionally equivalent to, "I had a weird dream last night".
by ipcress_file | 2025-08-24 21:03:50+00:00
I get it. My major concern was that students were cheating online (nearly 50% if I was detecting them all) who I didn't think would have cheated in the classroom. I didn't like the idea that we were creating a situation that enticed students to cheat.

That being said, the whole experience had an impact on my generally optimistic view of human nature.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-24 21:04:10+00:00
Go hire some rando off the street, sit them down in front of your computer, and ask them to research some question for you while logged into your user account and authenticated to whatever web sites you happen to be authenticated to.

Does this sound like an absolutely idiotic idea that you’d never even consider? It sure does to me.

Yes, humans also aren’t very secure, which is why nobody with any sense would even consider doing this either a human.
by skinkestek | 2025-08-24 21:04:56+00:00
At my last two workplaces Linux has been an alternative for those who wanted it, along with Mac (unlike Linux you have to ask for Mac, but you usually get it if you have a good reason or a couple of years experience it seems) and Windows (the standard).

Personally I have found Linux to be ready for (some) desktops (including mine and several friends) since around 2005 and I have even worked for a company that mandated Linux for everyone who couldn't document a need for Windows only software.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-24 21:05:04+00:00
NSAIDs can cause GI issues if taken with or without a snack.

They reduce production of the stomach’s protective mucous lining. Snacks don’t help with that.

They can also cause kidney damage.

Occasional use for an otherwise healthy person is fine. But Tylenol as long as you are careful not to take too much is generally safer.
Show HN: I tried coding theology – accidentally built AI accountability
by ubunturbo | 2025-08-24 21:07:04+00:00
*Show HN: I tried coding theological concepts – accidentally built AI accountability*

GitHub: https://github.com/ubunturbo/srta-ai-accountability

Working demo: https://gist.github.com/ubunturbo/0b6f7f5aa9fe1feb00359f6371...

*The Experiment:* Started as a thought experiment: "What if I tried to code theological structures like the Trinity to see if AI could reflect the 'image of God' in humans?" As a non-programmer using AI tools, I attempted to translate concepts like perichoresis (mutual indwelling) into Python.

*Unexpected Result:* Instead of digital theology, I ended up with something that looks like an AI accountability framework.

*What SRTA Does:* - *Technical layer*: Formal causation analysis with O(n log n) complexity - *Accountability layer*: Maps decisions back to design principles and responsible stakeholders - *Compliance layer*: 94% EU AI Act coverage vs <30% for traditional methods

*Key Innovation:* Instead of just "credit score had -0.73 weight," you get: "Credit score weighted by Risk Management Team on [date] per Equal Credit Opportunity Act Section 4, reviewed by Legal on [date], cryptographically verified."

*Unexpected Discovery:* Started as a philosophical experiment in coding theological principles. Ended up solving a real regulatory problem. Sometimes the best technical solutions come from non-technical inspiration.

*Current Status:* - Core architecture: Complete - Benchmarking: Validated across 5 domains (financial, medical, etc.) - Production ready: 312ms explanation generation - Academic paper: Under review at IEEE Transactions on AI

*Technical Details:* The system implements "perichoretic synthesis" - layers that mutually indwell rather than simple stacking. This creates systematic coherence impossible with traditional explainability approaches.

Three integrated layers: 1. *Intent Layer*: Design rationale + stakeholder mapping 2. *Generation Layer*: Constrained AI processing + principle checking 3. *Evaluation Layer*: Accountability assessment + audit trails

*Why This Matters Now:* - EU AI Act enforcement begins 2025 - FDA tightening AI/ML device requirements - Financial regulators demanding algorithmic accountability - Healthcare systems need design rationale transparency

*Looking for:* - Feedback from HN's technical community - Use cases we haven't considered - Collaboration with regulatory/compliance folks - Real-world deployment partners

*Demo walkthrough:* The gist shows a medical AI making diagnosis decisions with full theological accountability - tracks everything from stewardship concerns to justice implications. Determines when human oversight is required based on ethical analysis.

Built by a non-programmer using AI tools, which raised interesting questions about who should be designing AI governance systems. Turns out domain knowledge (ethics, theology, regulation) might matter more than coding ability for this particular problem.

What do you think? Is there a market for accountability-first AI architecture?
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-24 21:07:49+00:00
> but due to drug marketing, acetaminophen is touted as the "safe" pain reliever.

Paracetamol's patents have expired long ago and there's not much profit to be made out of it (nowadays it's mostly not being made in the West, but imported from China, unlike profitable medicine).

The reason why it's still used it's that it's much better than the alternatives, despite the risks (it's only risky if you don't respect the doses by the way).
by neilv | 2025-08-24 21:08:00+00:00
> Strong PIN, not biometrics

And also be aware of "shoulder surfing", which is different today in 2 ways it wasn't in the past.

In the past, the risk was something like someone looking at you type in your PIN on a bank ATM, or maybe your password on an computer keyboard.

Today, shoulder surfing is mainly different in 2 ways: (1) near-ubiquitous high-resolution surveillance camera networks, which can be places/scale and capture images that humans practically didn't; and (2) with machine learning, they don't even need to see what buttons you press, only see movements of your arm.

(Randomizing button positions on a touchscreen can help, and also help fight forensics like traces your fingers leave for where they touch. But randomization means you need to be able to see your screen, which reduces the ways you have to hide your screen from the view of others.)
by wat10000 | 2025-08-24 21:08:39+00:00
The difference is that LLMs are fundamentally insecure in this way as part of their basic design.

It’s not like, this is pretty secure but there might be a compiler bug that defeats it. It’s more like, this programming language deliberately executes values stored in the String type sometimes, depending on what’s inside it. And we don’t really understand how it makes that choice, but we do know that String values that ask the language to execute them are more likely to be executed. And this is fundamental to the language, as the only way to make any code execute is to put it into a String and hope the language chooses to run it.
by verbify | 2025-08-24 21:08:47+00:00
Recently had a prescription error with my two month old baby. The doctor prescribed 7 times as much iron supplement as they intended (confusing labelling - so while I'm annoyed, I can see how it happened). This went on for a month until we uncovered the error.

We had blood test done (on the doctor's recommendation), and luckily there is no sign of any damage, but prescription errors do happen (even if they are rare) and it's much easier with liquids (you probably wouldn't give 8 pills to a baby, but 8ml doesn't seem so bad).
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-24 21:09:26+00:00
> And the second largest consumer of natural gas in Germany is household heating. It has to be replaced by electric heating, but it's not feasible with the current generating capacity.

Which is why we're expecting a large increase in grid size coming from renewables. Of course ignoring that heat pumps are amazing.

> No. Germany will paint gas turbines in green color and then keep burning natural gas from Qatar, the USA, Nigeria, etc.

Running out of arguments are you? Maybe you should read up on the ETS scheme in Europe? That is a component of why fossil gas electricity has become expensive in Europe outside of being forced to use LNG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Emissions_Tradi...

But you seem to prefer putting the blinders on to working in reality.
by fdsf111 | 2025-08-24 21:10:55+00:00
I dual boot windows with linux, but I haven't used windows in over a year.

The thing that stuck me about windows (windows 11) was how slow the right mouse button click feels. On the main screen, between right clicking and seeing the modal pop up, there is a ~150-200 ms delay that wasn't there on Windows XP and Windows 7. Those were the last major version of Windows I used as my daily drivers.

In windows 11, I was also annoyed by all the bloat on my home screen that I had to turn off manually, like the news feed or the weather or the stock market tracker. Oh -- and here is a good one -- my system clock resets every time I restart. I easily spent 2-3 hours trying to figure out why, and I eventually I gave up. Yes, there is a setting for "synchronize time automatically", but it doesn't work for me. Every time I log into windows, I have to go into the clock settings and manually force a resync with the correct time zone. To me this is just wild.

I transitioned to using Linux full time around 2018-ish, when I stopped playing MMOs. I still keep a version of Windows on my PC, but single-player gaming is a first-class citizen on Linux now, so I haven't logged into windows for some time.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-24 21:11:03+00:00
> someone uneducated about it who is really suffering could easily take 3 or 4 times the dose.

And the solution is simple: educate people about that.

And it's not something hard to do, just have pharmacists say “respect the dose as it will kill you if you don't” every time they sell things and it'll work.
by roscas | 2025-08-24 21:11:04+00:00
Let's not compare the advanced options of Excel or how Excel bugs annoy me. There are loads of them.

Let's just compare what people do when they need a tool like Excel. That's when the 90 or maybe more % of people will do. That is what I do. Everything I do in Excel can be done on LibreCalc.

So it is true that LibreCalc can replace 90% or more, because not everybody needs those advanced topics.

Same for the other LibreOffice apps, Writer is good for almost everybody. As LibreDraw and others.
by DaveZale | 2025-08-24 21:11:21+00:00
are you assuming that a magic bullet is possible for AD?

That is a huge assumption.

Read up on the history of "magic bullet" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_bullet_(medicine)

I've worked for two huge pharmas and a couple small ones. Over a decade total, early to late development. I've also read a half dozen books by MDs on the subject of AD.

The amyloid hypothesis, even if true, accounts for a very small percentage. So you may be correct about amyloid. Read the bio of the man Alzheimer, and his work. But then, also read about vascular and other dementias.

AD is a billing code for the medical/insurance industries. It's not a molecular diagnosis.

I wish I could explain myself fully here, but some background is required ... not about to write a thesis on a Sunday afternoon ;-) but if you're interested I'll check back here later. Anyone with passion on this subject is worthy of a discussion.

Take care
by rs186 | 2025-08-24 21:11:27+00:00
I tried Comet agent for 5 minutes: asking it to "buy a guitar on Amazon" without any further instructions (e.g. acoustic/electric, budget, brand etc), just curious what it is going to do.

It ended up adding 3 similar no-name, very-low-end acoustic guitars to my cart. Thankfully it didn't go to checkout.

I decided that the thing isn't worth my time.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-08-24 21:11:48+00:00
I guess that's why metamizole is often a part of the standard treatment for mid-term exogenic pain here, for example after injuries or during some treatments involving pain.

Not addictive, not hepatotoxic, not nephrotoxic.

Seems the reason for the ban / harder regulation in some countries is about the disturbance of blood-forming in some individuals (which can also be deadly, but I have no idea of the quantified risk here).

Ibuprofen and acetaminophen are more common for short-term treatment, at least that's what I've been taught.

Avoid taking them on a schedule, take them as needed and at the lowest effective dosage.

A.s.s. (lol) too, apart from the low-dose usage that some claim to be helpful with heart/artery diseases.
by coro_1 | 2025-08-24 21:12:24+00:00
>I don't think considering his proposal might have damaged NASA's reputation. I also don't think the interstellar object is an alien probe, I just was excited we got a chance at looking at an interstellar object, that may be totally unlike Solar System objects, and possibly far older. Crap?

There's one image on the NASA page and others. Any more links?

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/

https://esahubble.org/images/heic2509a/