MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tor3 | 2025-08-14 04:55:40+00:00
In the Nordics (I'm assuming you mean Nordic countries) 10A is _not_ standard. Used to be, some forty years ago. Since then 16A is standard. My house has a few 10A leftovers from when the house was built, and after the change to TN which happened a couple of decades ago, and with new "modern" breakers, a single microwave oven on a 10A circuit is enough to trip the breaker (when the microwave pulses). Had to get the breakers changed to slow ones, but even those can get tripped by a microwave oven if there's something else (say, a kettle) on the same circuit.

16A is fine, for most things. 10A used to be kind of ok, with the old IT net and old-style fuses. Nowadays anything under 16A is useless for actual appliances. For the rest it's either 25A and a different plug, or 400V.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-14 04:56:42+00:00
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/about-alcohol-use/moderate-alcoh...

It's not any new research. Just a simple conclusion from the entirety of research in this field. All research shows that there's no safe dose of alcohol. That starting to drink never improved anyone's health. So if there's correlation between health and moderate use any causation that might be there can't go from alcohol to improved health. So it most likely goes the other way around. Or both things are a result of other factor. For example affluence. It is known that more affluent people drink more and at the same time more affluent people have better health. "moderately" is just roughly the level where damage from alcohol balances out the health surplus of whatever caused them to drink more.
by mediumsmart | 2025-08-14 04:56:59+00:00
Social media is a few people selling the data of many people looking at content made by some people selling something.

There is also research and promotion of values going on and the thing as a whole is entertaining and can be rigged or filtered on various levels by all participants.

It’s kind of social. The general point system of karma or followers applies and people can have a career and feeling of accomplishment to look back on when they retire. The cosmic rule of anything. too much, no good applies.

It’s not really broken but this is the age of idiots and monsters, so all bets are off.
by TJSomething | 2025-08-14 04:57:36+00:00
Rijndael (now AES) wasn't even the strongest finalist in the 2001 AES evaluation. It partially won on dint of being faster on contemporary x86 processors than Serpent or Twofish. Nowadays, it's faster on x86-64 processors because there's dedicated silicon for running it. Modern small platforms don't have this silicon and have different performance characteristics to consider. Also, without that dedicated silicon, implementations tend to be vulnerable to side-channel attacks that were unknown at the time.
by not_your_vase | 2025-08-14 04:59:07+00:00
The internet price is a problem exclusively in the US, at least in the developed world. Outside the US the internet isn't only a commodity, but its price also reflects that. In most of the world a monthly subscription with reasonable bandwidth and unlimited traffic starts at around the price of 2 or 3 packs of cigarettes.

Personal opinion, but public libraries shouldn't be closed to feed ISPs only because they managed to make the population believe that they are not ridiculously overcharged..
by smcin | 2025-08-14 05:00:27+00:00
I still don't understand why San Diego-Tijuana isn't in principle as strong in design+manufacturing as the Hong Kong-Shenzhen axis. (What needs to happen in order to make that so?)

> Even the "MBAs" they hire in LDPs are required to have technical undergrad degrees before joining an MBA.

It frightens me the quotes you put around "MBAs" like that, those are the best type of MBAs. In general the cadre of people who go directly or an MBA with zero industrial exposure have very different aims than the ones that do (also their funding sources are very different).
by martin-t | 2025-08-14 05:00:53+00:00
The issue is calling it "AI" in the first place.

It's not, it's a statistical model of existing text. There's no "genAI", there is "genMS" - generative machine statistics.

When you look at it that way, it's obvious the models are build on enormous amounts of work done by people publishing the the internet. This amount of work is many orders of magnitude more hours than it took to produce the training algorithms.

As a result, most of the money people pay to access these models should go to the original authors.

And that even ignores the fact that a model trained on AGPL code should be licensed under AGPL as well as its output - even if no single training input can be identified in the output, it's quite straightforwardly _derived_ from enormous amounts of trainings data input and a tiny (barely relevant) bit of prompt input. It's _derivative_ work.
by megamix | 2025-08-14 05:01:17+00:00
Thanks for pointing that out. You could also say it’s a condensed high entropy comment. Anyway I’ll outline a more thorough dismissal.

Edit: and turns out a smart guy is top rated comment atm

"All python packaging challenges are solved. Lesson learned is that there is not a single solution for all problems. getting more strings attached with VC funded companies and leaning on their infrastructure is a high risk for any FOSS community."
by somenameforme | 2025-08-14 05:01:27+00:00
The first time I taught, it was a rather interesting experience realizing how little capacity teachers actually have to deal with e.g. a disruptive student. Yeah you can pass them along to the disciplinarian or whatever, but in the end it's often empty threats - especially if the parents themselves don't particularly care, which in the case of highly disruptive students is nearly always the case. But if a class itself, or even a significant minority of a class, simply chose to stop cooperating - there's not much of anything anyone could do about it.

But when I went to school, I somehow felt like teachers had the power of the world behind them. I imagine, to some degree, politicians have a similar experience. There are countless people that wouldn't be upset at all about their decline, or worse. Of course this has always been the case, but I think modern politicians are becoming increasingly out of touch with society, and consequently also becoming increasingly paranoid about society turning against them. And society doesn't just mean you or me, but also the police and military, without the support of whom they'd just be some rich old frail men sitting around making lofty proclamations and empty threats.

I think this issue largely explains the increasingly absurd degrees of apparent paranoia and fear of the political establishment in most countries. As well as the push for domestic establishment propaganda, censorship of anti-establishment propaganda, defacto mandating politics from a young age, imposing it on the police and even the military, and so forth.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-14 05:02:06+00:00
> Because meat isn't magic. Anything that can be computed inside your physical body, can be calculated in an "artificially" constructed replica

That is a big assumption and my doubts aren't based on any soul "magic" but on our historical inability to replicate all kinds of natural mechanisms. Instead we create analogs that work differently. We can't make machines that fly like birds but we can make airplanes that fly faster and carry more. Some of this is due to the limits of artificial construction and some of it is due to the differences in our needs driving the design choices.

Meat isn't magic, but it also isn't silicon.

It's possible that our "meat" architecture depends on a low internal latency, low external latency, quantum effects and/or some other biological quirks that simply can't be replicated directly on silicon based chip architectures.

It's also possible they are chaotic systems that can't be replicated and each artificial human brain would require equivalent levels of experience and training in ways that don't make the any more cheaper or available than humans.

It's also possible we have found some sort of local maximum in cognition and even if we can make an artificial human brain, we can't make it any smarter than we are.

There are some good reasons to think it is plausibly possible, but we are simply too far away from doing it to know for sure whether it can be done. It definitely is not a "forgone conclusion".
by bruce511 | 2025-08-14 05:02:25+00:00
When you start at the wrong premise, you typically end up in the wrong place.

The premise is that credit cards (visa / Mastercard) is broken. When actually it works really well.

For starters it works everywhere. Online. IRL. In my home country, in foreign lands.

Secondly it costs the consumer nothing. The cost goes to the merchant. If anything the customer gets rewards.

Merchants might pay 3%, (and ultimately yes, that's in the price of goods) but checkout "just works". They're in the "get paid" business, not the "teach customer new system" business. They'll accept new payment options (which the POS) just provides. But they don't drive the market.

Fixing Visa doesn't work because the people that matter don't think it's broken.
by KingMob | 2025-08-14 05:02:35+00:00
As a former neuroscientist, it's both amusing and sad to see AI people run into the same issues neuroscientists have grappled with for decades, as LLMs start to approach biological systems in complexity. (And mind you, LLMs are still smaller/simpler than the human brain.)

My hope is that the greater accessibility of neural networks over actual neurons will lead to some insights into biology. But I suspect they're still different enough, both in size, but more importantly in organization, that it won't be realized anytime soon.

The Golden Gate Claude is reminiscent of searches for the "grandmother" neuron. We know from direct brain stimulation that certain neurons are strongly associated with certain outputs...but we also know that a lot of knowledge representation is widely distributed. The whole thing is a mix of specialization and redundancy.
by 0xfffafaCrash | 2025-08-14 05:03:08+00:00
On a tangent, I don’t understand how Apple’s App Store allows the Google Photos app to insist on being given access to all photos on your device rather than selected photos to even work (even just to view photos shared elsewhere). Seems like an obvious violation of privacy and terms around not requiring unnecessary permissions. I think the app should be banned until they provide an option to gracefully respect users’ privacy settings rather than holding unrelated features hostage if they don’t get to spy on every photo on your device.
by ip26 | 2025-08-14 05:03:41+00:00
Exactly this sort of thing makes it feel like there could be a "cliff" or "eternal winter of human publishing", where books like his are never again written by humans.

Often when tech comes out that does something better than people, it makes sense for people to stop doing it. But in the case of "books explaining things", AI only learned how to explain things by examining the existing corpus - and there won't be any more human-generated content to continue to learn and evolve from, so the explanatory skills of AI could wind up frozen in 2025.

An alternative would of course be that humans team up with AI to write better books of this sort, and are able to develop new and better ways of explaining things at a more rapid pace as a result.

A relatively recent example that sticks in my mind is how data visualization has improved. Documents from the second half of the 1900's are shockingly bad at data presentation, and the shock is due to how the standard of practice has improved in the last few decades. AI probably wouldn't have figured this out on its own, but is now able to train on many, many examples of good visualization.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-08-14 05:04:43+00:00
There's a lot of internal contradiction in his message. One the one hand, he wants to "have a maniacal sense of urgency" and on the other, he thinks that it's "critical to study and advance AI safety... to bring about AI that’s safe and beneficial to humanity". If you're building something that you think is so powerful that you fear for the safety of humanity, then why are you building it at "blistering velocity"? Shouldn't you be taking a more careful approach and studying the impact of what you're building, and then only releasing it if you know it's safe? How do you do that if you are under constant pressure to move faster than everyone else?
by jonas21 | 2025-08-14 05:06:15+00:00
Look, I hate to be that guy, but according to your own comment [1], it sounds like you started this fight when you tried to block them from registering the "Deepki" trademark in the EU.

They were perfectly happy to coexist with your project -- and nobody was going to confuse "Deepkit", a TypeScript framework, with "Deepki", a real estate sustainability platform.

But then you tried to stop them from registering their own name (which they had been using for years before you started your project). Why would you do this? They responded by filing to invalidate your trademark, which, given the circumstances, seems pretty reasonable. In the end, they won.

You say that you registered a trademark so that you could "live peacefully." Perhaps the lesson to learn is if you want to live peacefully, don't go around picking fights.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894521
by dangus | 2025-08-14 05:06:15+00:00
Is it not obvious? There's a business equation being made that keeping the batteries internal encourages new device purchases.

Replacing the battery in an iPhone costs $99 and takes hours to days of time where your phone is unavailable.

Or you can just trade it in and pay nothing while your carrier subsidizes it and bills you monthly with 0% interest.

The customer is given an incentive structure that leads them to the maximum profit route…obviously that’s what businesses want, and why every industry has regulations that constrains business to live inside some basic rules.
by rapnie | 2025-08-14 05:06:24+00:00
It all depends on interest from the developer community. Many devs are rooting for forge federation for years and are waiting for it to happen. Both Forgejo [0] and ForgeFed [1] are fully community-driven free software efforts, and things go as fast as there are people stepping up to do the work.

The ActivityPub-related [2] epic at Gitlab [3], which I also linked in another comment, is another example. It is a ramp up to adding support for the ForgeFed protocol extension. Gitlab has mentioned they do not give high priority to the issue, but will leave it open for community contribution. At one point implementation-wise things went very fast here, until people involved got other duties.

For everyone who'd love to see the fragmented landscape of separate self-hosted code forges become inter-connected and offer similar FOSS project discovery experience as Github: You can help make that a reality.

Edit: I should of course also mention Codeberg [4] which runs Forgejo on their servers with some additional facilities for scaling to support their big community. An example where a centralized community hub starts to shape which may one day become a real competitor to Github (where it comes to hosting FOSS repo's).

[0] https://forgejo.org

[1] https://forgefed.org

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

[3] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

[4] https://codeberg.org
by vasco | 2025-08-14 05:07:54+00:00
> Secondly it costs the consumer nothing. The cost goes to the merchant. If anything the customer gets rewards.

Sellers increase the price by the fee amount, savvy consumers with rewards cards can get back around 80% of that price increase, and regular non-credit-card-with-rewards holding consumers just subsidize the whole thing by paying the extra. It's a tax on people without rewards cards.
by Tor3 | 2025-08-14 05:08:32+00:00
Microwave ovens have a different issue, which I found when I upgraded my breaker board to a modern one in my house. The startup pulse gives a type of load which trips a standard A-type 10A breaker (230V). Had to get those changed to a "slow" type, but even that will trip every blue moon, and if there's something else significant on the same circuit the microwave oven will trip even so, every two weeks or so (for the record, I have several different types of microwave ovens around the house, and this happens everywhere there's a 10A circuit).

The newer circuits in the house are all 16A, but the old ones (very old) are 10A. A real pain, with new TN nets and modern breakers.
by thayne | 2025-08-14 05:09:17+00:00
It is very much a chicken and egg problem. Merchants have no reason to adopt it if there aren't very many customers that use it, and customers have no reason to adopt it unless there are a lot of merchants, or at least some important frequently used merchants that use it.

I think for a new payment system to catch on it needs to either have a significant benefit for both payers and merchants, or be pushed by government policy (for example, require all merchants that meet some criteria to accept the new form of payment).
by scarmig | 2025-08-14 05:09:51+00:00
You're hypothesizing that it gave him a medically dangerous answer, with the only evidence being that he blamed it. Conveniently, the chat where he claimed it did is unavailable.

Would you at least agree that, given an answer like ChatGPT gave me, it's entirely his fault and there is no blame on either it or OpenAI?
by neuralkoi | 2025-08-14 05:10:37+00:00
My feedback: there's more to pixel art than just reducing the resolution of an image. If you look at art like that found in Pokemon Emerald intro[0], the artists really squeezed every ounce they could from the palette available and worked with the constraints to make very beautiful artwork.

Here's an example I worked with: Original image: https://i.imgur.com/9nbqLCV.jpeg phototopixel.art: https://i.imgur.com/99qRwcy.png

More what I was probably looking for: https://i.imgur.com/oqSNNDt.jpeg

I generated this image above using ChatGPT by giving it the original image above and this prompt: "Convert this to pixel art, as if it had been made for the gameboy advance."

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUkq1sfSyU
Show HN: Mersenne - A Bluesky bot that lets you play Witness puzzles
by NormalExisting | 2025-08-14 05:11:57+00:00
A Bluesky bot that mainly lets you play puzzles based on those from The Witness (but can also do things like solve linear congruences and evaluate expressions). Just tag the bot and speak commands, and it will respond! (Command syntax in the pinned post)

The backend logic for the witness puzzles is this repo: https://github.com/WW92030-STORAGE/WITNESS_CLONE_II

The rest of it is just simple mathematical algorithms and library calls.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-14 05:12:05+00:00
I expect most other countries are making vague long-term promises, hoping that:

1. The issue will become moot in a few years.

2. Trump is motivated to misinterpret promises--especially if they involve big numbers--since he's an idiot, and eager for "wins" to brag about.

3. After Trump's emotionally invested into his New Clothes, none of his advisors will want to tell him they aren't there.
by paranoidrobot | 2025-08-14 05:12:29+00:00
> I think it's close to impossible to "fix" Visa without government intervention (e.g. limit fees to a fraction of a percent), but I'm still grateful to anyone who tries.

This is what Australia is looking at currently: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-15/rba-credit-debit-merc...
by laughing_man | 2025-08-14 05:12:43+00:00
The whole situation is getting weird. I know of a streamer who got his account locked because someone with one of the "other" currencies sent him money as a tip. And of course PayPal is holding onto his money (including a bunch of other transactions) without saying when or if they'll ever give it to him.

It all just cements a decision I made almost two decades ago to refrain from ever using PayPal.
by mccoyb | 2025-08-14 05:13:20+00:00
I’ve tried to use flagship models to produce long-ish technical writing content and the result has not been satisfactory.

The resulting content lacks consistency and coherency. The generated prose is rather breathless: in carefully articulated content, every sentence should have a place. Flagship models (Opus 4~) don’t seem to understand the value of a sentence.

I’ve tried to prompt engineer this behavior (one should carefully attend to each sentence: how is it contributing to the technical narrative in this section, and overall?), but didn’t have much success.

I suspect this might be solved by research on grounding generation against world models: much of verifying “is this sentence correct here?” has to do with my sharing of a world model of some domain with my audience. I use that world model to debug my own writing.
by smcin | 2025-08-14 05:14:44+00:00
> - Is it even worth getting a second opinion and appealing in the EU? I mean the project is very small.

If you can handle the costs or find pro-bono (EU) lawyers, then potentially yes.

Also take up a European petition to generate publicity for your case, maybe on the legal abuse of IP rights of open-source software companies.

Compare to e.g. 'Petition at the European Parliament "on the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries"' (Petition No 0729/2024): https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1glo8tv/petitio...

(Sounds like the EU equivalent of cases that Larry Lessig and the EFF would take in the US; have you contacted them?)

Try to find open-source/startup-friendly MEPs, and for Bulgaria. And start blogging on LinkedIn. And mention your domain (deepkit.io) early and often. All publicity is good publicity. And present at the European open-source confs. Start making noise. Maybe you can't reverse your individual ruling (or maybe you can), but you can alert others.

> - They basically kept repeating that they couldn't clearly link any of the usage to the specific goods/services my trademark was registered for.

I don't get what they're claiming hits on your domain (deepkit.io) don't already show. Sounds bogus. They didn't cite any specific examples of what would have proven it?
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