MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jibal | 2025-08-27 08:45:31+00:00
This bogus argument has been refuted numerous times--read Dennett's book "Freedom Evolves" for one sort of response. And whether people are "pretending" something is irrelevant (and ad hominem, and not even true). The plain fact remains that all evidence and logic supports physicalism, and even if you entertain dualistic ideas like those of David Chalmers they don't give you free will, they don't counter determinism.
by pg3uk | 2025-08-27 08:45:33+00:00
I regularly use tools like NMAP and masscan for scanning prospective customer networks to perform simple audits to get an idea of the things they're running as quickly as I can, but I find doing this a bit clunky and not as quick as I'd like. So I built AngryEther. It can scan a /24 in around 20 seconds and banner grabs important stuff. It can also be set to perform an ARP sweep to pick up devices that otherwise don't response to a typical ICMP/TCP sweep. The tool can also spit out a nice JSON file with all the information in that can be used to push the data back to a server somewhere for later use.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-27 08:45:41+00:00
What makes you think they didn't test it on Earth first? The Chinese report on this [1] makes this clear with more accurate verbiage: "China's space station has recently conducted experiments on extraterrestrial artificial photosynthesis technology, completing the in-orbit verification of efficient carbon dioxide conversion and oxygen regeneration processes." I think the reason you want to validate your findings in the domain that they'll be used are somewhat self evident.

> "Artemis is going..."

That's quite optimistic.

[1] - https://english.news.cn/20250120/375a0de3a7fc416096799714eaf...
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-08-27 08:46:58+00:00
Yes, other countries should foster innovation rather than kill it with regulation. This way, the monopoly created by the US tech companies will disappear on its own. If the EU would be truly a single market and it would not be so risk averse, nothing would stop a company to create the next Google Workspace or the next AWS.

But until then, the EU innovates by making the bottle caps be stick to the bottle.

PS: not american.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-08-27 08:47:03+00:00
>In the United States, Section 230 is a section of the Communications Act of 1934 that was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and generally provides immunity for online computer services with respect to third-party content generated by their users. (Emphasis mine)

So either the content is user generated and their training of the model should be copyright infringement, or it's not and Section 230 does not apply and this is speech for which Open AI is responsible.
by edweis | 2025-08-27 08:48:39+00:00
Thank you for your input.

All your points are valid and can be included in the contract: - We'll be the ones to choose the cloud provider, - We'll take servers that are big enough, - The client should upgrade their server according to our specs, - Upgrades are mandatory.

Any idea what other (simpler) recovery plans we can have besides on-premise?
by kouteiheika | 2025-08-27 08:49:01+00:00
So what's the alternative? Pervasive censorship and horrible privacy and freedom-of-speech destroying legislation like UK's Online Safety Act?

I'm not looking forward to the day when half of the Internet will require me to upload my ID to verify that I'm an adult, and the other half will be illegal/blocked because they refuse to do the verification. But yeah, think of the children!
by roenxi | 2025-08-27 08:49:35+00:00
What country are you thinking when you say that? It doesn't sound like the US. Through the zero-interest rate era they've been absurdly tolerant of companies offering no- to little- returns on investment. They've basically been operating investor-led charities.

It is still unsettling seeing Uber turning a profit, but even with that they're not turning a net profit over the lifetime of the company yet and won't be for a few years. Hopefully no-one pops up to compete with them now the sector has profits in it.
by andriamanitra | 2025-08-27 08:49:37+00:00
In theory it would be nice to have one tool for all languages but I think it's never going to be practical because programming languages can be different in arbitrary ways. I can't imagine how the same tool could ever be ergonomic for managing projects written in C++, Scheme, Haskell and Bash for example. Mise (and other tools for managing development environments like Flox and asdf – I prefer Flox myself) only implement a subset of the features of languages specific tools like cargo/uv/rv. For example cargo can do all of this out of the box (and you can also extend it with more subcommands):

* manage dependencies

* format and lint code

* publish package on crates.io

* open the project documentation

* install binaries

* build/run the project

* run tests

* run benchmarks

Uv/rv don't (yet?) do all of that but they also manage Ruby/Python versions (which is done separately by rustup in Rust).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-27 08:50:37+00:00
> why we aren't bioengineering plants to produce rocket fuel

Plants are self-assembling albeit inefficient photosynthesises.

On earth, where they can harvest their carbon in situ, that inefficiency outweighed by us not having to make them. Their main components by wet and dry mass, carbon and oxygen, are dissolved in atmosphere. In space, on the other hand, the major cost is lifting. (Even earth, farming quickly becomes uneconomical when just water costs balloon.)

In space you’re moving all the mass the plant is built out of at exorbitant cost. At that point, you might as well just assemble the machinery on the ground and get the efficiency boost.

I can only see an exception arising if lifting costs start scaling with volume more than mass, i.e. post chemical rocketry, at which point sending up compacted carbon and water and letting plants assemble themselves in space makes more sense than sending up panels and tiny labs. (That or you’re going somewhere with accessible carbon and/or oxygen.)
by dns_snek | 2025-08-27 08:50:47+00:00
> You can accept the discomfort and move through it just like you do when the stakes are actually high. Just like I do.

Have you ever considered that the things which you find doable or even trivial might be incomprehensibly more difficult for other people? You mentioned being diagnosed with ADHD higher up, but part of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD is quite literally about severity of the symptoms:

DSM-5: "There is clear evidence that the symptoms interfere with, or reduce the quality of, social, school, or work functioning."

ICD-11: "Several symptoms of inattention/hyperactivity-impulsivity that are persistent, and sufficiently severe that they have a direct negative impact on academic, occupational, or social functioning"

Being capable of pushing through basic adult responsibilities, regardless of discomfort and difficulties (without burning yourself out!), and failing to do so to the degree that it severely negatively affects your life is the defining line between "order" and "disorder".

If you have a very demanding job then you might experience symptoms that are consistent with ADHD. That's why the diagnostic process is supposed to verify that there's a clear history of symptoms ranging back to your teenage years (or earlier) and that your symptoms aren't being caused by general life stressors.

> The idea that everything in life should induce minimal discomfort or that "it's hard" is an excuse is a completely modern, first world problem, to speak of privilege.

No, the idea is that people should receive help if we have a neurodevelopmental disorder that is severe enough to significantly impact our quality of life. Just like with any other medical condition.

> Mindfulness and thinking about your thoughts are proven as effective or more effective than medication for a wide range of psychological disorders, including ADHD, or CBT if you want to formalize it.

False:

> CBT is best used within a multi-modal treatment approach and as an adjunct to medication as current research does not fully support the efficacy of CBT as a sole treatment for adult ADHD [274,[316], [317], [318]]. Most controlled studies have been conducted in patients taking ADHD medication and demonstrate an additional significant treatment effect [313,[318], [319], [320], [321], [322]]. The largest controlled multi-center CBT-study to date has demonstrated that psychological interventions result in better outcomes when combined with MPH as compared to psychological interventions in unmedicated patients [228]. In a systematic review of 51 pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions [316], the highest proportion of improved outcomes (83%) was for patients receiving combination treatment.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092493381...
by guenthert | 2025-08-27 08:51:08+00:00
Well, I looked for the data sheet and couldn't find it, just the ominous quote. Now, newly motivated, I did eventually find it (trick is to look for the data sheet of the series, not the model; SDS1204X-E being the 200MHz, 4 channel model of the SDS1000X-E series): https://www.batronix.com/files/Siglent/Oszilloskope/SDS1000X...
by rossant | 2025-08-27 08:51:20+00:00
The first commenter on this site introduces himself as "a physician who did a computer science degree before medical school." He is now president of the Ray Helfer Society [1], "an honorary society of physicians seeking to provide medical leadership regarding the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and research concerning child abuse and neglect."

While the cause is noble, the medical detection of child abuse faces serious issues with undetected and unacknowledged false positives [2], since ground truth is almost never knowable. The prevailing idea is that certain medical findings are considered proof beyond reasonable doubt of violent abuse, even without witnesses or confessions (denials are extremely common). These beliefs rest on decades of medical literature regarded by many as low quality because of methodological flaws, especially circular reasoning (patients are classified as abuse victims because they show certain medical findings, and then the same findings are found in nearly all those patients—which hardly proves anything [3]).

I raise this point because, while not exactly software bugs, we are now seeing black-box AIs claiming to detect child abuse with supposedly very high accuracy, trained on decades of this flawed data [4, 5]. Flawed data can only produce flawed predictions (garbage in, garbage out). I am deeply concerned that misplaced confidence in medical software will reinforce wrongful determinations of child abuse, including both false positives (unjust allegations potentially leading to termination of parental rights, foster care placements, imprisonment of parents and caretakers) and false negatives (children who remain unprotected from ongoing abuse).

[1] https://hs.memberclicks.net/executive-committee

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30146789/

[4] https://rdcu.be/eCE3l

[5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002234682...
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-08-27 08:51:20+00:00
I have another nitpick and I hope it's a constructive one.

You provide some performance figures; unfortunately they are caught in an image, no doubt to enable color-coding the results. IMHO that's not ideal, tables should be pure text, even if only for accessibility with screen readers. There are other means to provide guiding highlights, like red and green Unicode code points. GitHub is somewhat unique in its strict policy to remove almost any kind of user-side styling from the READMEs, but providing a "photo snapshot" of parts of the README just to get some colors does not feel like the right solution.

Next thing are the actual figures you provide: those range from 11.822µs (best) to 56.534s (worst). They are displayed as

11.822µs 56.534s

making them look almost like the worst performer took around five times as long as the best performer—until you realize there's a mu in there.

I must say that personally I remove this so-called "human-readable" format almost wherever I can because I find it not human-readable at all. To me a good numerical display should try and keep the decimal points on top of each other, avoid too many non-significant digits, use digit grouping, and, crucially, use a single unit throughout. With those constraints, the two figures become

11.8µs 56,534,000.0µs

which incidentally obviates much of the need to color code anything. One could discuss what unit—ns, µs, ms, s—is the most appropriate in the given context but, generally, I feel that big numbers should stand out as having many digits.

Nobody will pick this up because it's much too elaborate and idiosyncratic for this conformist world, but I just love the 'Japanese' way of formatting where you do digit grouping with the SI prefixes, so one hundred and twenty-five meters is 125m, but one thousand one hundred and twenty-five meters doesn't become 1,125m, nor is it 1.125km, but rather 1k125m (preferrably with a thin space as in 1k_125m—imagine a thin non-breakable space there that HN wouldn't let me render).

1G 255M 368k 799B, what's not to like?
by scott_w | 2025-08-27 08:51:51+00:00
> sometimes we have to lock people down and physically prevent them from harming themselves

So where does my statement suggest we should make locking people up for their own good the norm?

I can come up with even more mundane examples of where we physically prevent people from harming themselves. High barriers to stop people getting into the tiger enclosure. If a member of staff saw someone dumb enough to try and climb in, rest assured they'd be physically dragged out for their own safety.

Or do you suggest we allow the general public to wander into the tiger exhibit to pet the animals? Personal freedom and all that.
by WantonQuantum | 2025-08-27 08:52:16+00:00
This would be a lot more compelling if it addressed the obvious logical fallacy: It's written by a person who took a risk and it paid off. It might not work out the same way for the reader.

Also, the author provides two other examples of people who took the risk and it paid off, except those people are clearly selected due to how the author knows them - through the work they are all involved in.

This article is basically saying: if you take a look at 3 examples of people who took a risk and it happened to pay off for them then it's logical to conclude that it'll pay off for you too. Which is rubbish. I could find 3 people who won the lottery and then claim that you too can win the lottery if you just take a shot at it.
by palata | 2025-08-27 08:54:26+00:00
Hmm... This says otherwise, with detailed explanations and screenshots: [1][2]

It shows that you, biodranik, removed the MIT licence from the repo with a commit saying "No MIT yet, sorry". It says that the code had been licenced as MIT since 2021. It is not clear if you own the copyright to all the contributions since 2021, and therefore it is not clear if you are legally allowed to remove the MIT licence.

It also says that the fork was made from the repo in the state it was when you removed the MIT licence. Therefore it is a fork of an MIT project by someone who had legal access to the MIT-licenced code: it's legal.

> Don't believe everything on the internet; there are many lies spread around.

You don't say :-).

I was not entirely sure about the CoMaps vs Organic Maps situation, but this very comment of yours clearly favours CoMaps IMO. Or did I misunderstand something?

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250815050441/https://github.co...
by _Algernon_ | 2025-08-27 08:54:50+00:00
You'd need to make a case that proprietary OSes such as Windows or MacOS lessen the issue compared to FOSS OSes such as Linux. I doubt it considering that Windows is / was known to be the worst offender here.

In any case my bank has not banned the use of Linux to do homebanking. Why? Because there isn't a easy to plug-and-play API to do DRM and remove consumer rights. This is largely for historic reasons, but there is no reason a FOSS mobile OS couldn't work.
by truth_seeker | 2025-08-27 08:55:19+00:00
Magic-RegExp aims to create a compiled away, type-safe, readable RegEx alternative that makes the process a lot easier. https://blog.logrocket.com/understanding-magic-regexp-regexp...

example from blog:

import { createRegExp, exactly, wordChar, oneOrMore, anyOf, } from "magic-regexp";

const regExp = createRegExp(

exactly("http") .and(exactly("s").optionally()) .and("://") .optionally() .and(exactly("www.").optionally()) .and(oneOrMore(wordChar)) .and(exactly(".")) .and(anyOf("com", "org", "io")), ["g", "m", "i"]

);

console.log(regExp);

/(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?\w+\.(com|org|io)/gmi
by Fokamul | 2025-08-27 08:55:54+00:00
I'm curious, why are not these people hit with C&D from Apple?

And other great projects, like Corellium (Actual iOS VM, not that crap Apple makes) are hit hard with lawsuits etc.

(You know, great project for these people who is still RE iOS for 0days and report them to Apple, which is behind me long time ago, reporting 0days for peanuts, yeah right :) )
by palata | 2025-08-27 08:56:00+00:00
I think this is relevant:

https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837

https://web.archive.org/web/20250815050441/https://github.co...

In the discussion you link, biodranik tries to say that it was illegal for those with access to the repo to dispose of the open-source code because that open-source code had not be published. I don't think this is right:

Open-source does not mean at all that the code has to be public. It can be private to a community. But whoever has access to that code is allowed, under the open-source licence, to dispose of it under the terms of the licence. My understanding is that this is what happened with the fork of Organic Maps. And it is pretty clearly explained in the codeberg discussion you linked.

> an allegation that the CoMaps project is already tainted with code to which is expressly doesn't have license

I don't think it says that CoMaps doesn't have the licence. It says that whoever forked the codebase did not have permission by some of the founders of Organic Maps. That's very different: the licence doesn't say that you must ask permission to the founders; it says that the code can be used under the terms of the licence. A fork part of those terms.
by autoexec | 2025-08-27 08:56:17+00:00
> What counts as a “disorder” is often not based on empirical evidence but on what is determined as undesirable, maladaptive, or outside the social norm…by Americans.

I've seen that used before to dismiss the severity of conditions like autism and especially ADHD. It's often coming from a well-meaning place, and sometimes it's just a comforting story people tell themselves in order to not feel as deficient ("The problem isn't me, it's the system!").

It's also absolutely true that the demands society places on all of us are unnatural and often excessive, but the fact is that even absent all external expectations some people with mental illness will be unable to accomplish what they themselves want and should be able to accomplish.

Even the most utopian, accepting, accommodating society it wouldn't be enough to make up for some people's inability to function.

I feel the same about a lot of the "super power" talk when it comes to mental illness. There are advantages and disadvantages to just about anything, but on the whole conditions like ADHD or autism tend to do way more harm than good.
by pcblues | 2025-08-27 08:57:28+00:00
The Jupiter Ace was unreal, but only from a computer science perspective. You had to know a lot to know how to program Forth which was the fundamental language of that white but Spectrum-looking dish of a PC, in spite of a manual that read like HGTTG. Critically, it didn't reward you from the start of your programming journey like Logo or Basic did, and didn't have the games of the ZX Spectrum. I knew a person who tried to import and sell them in Australia. When I was young, he gave me one for free as the business had failed. RIP IM, and thanks for the unit!

https://80sheaven.com/jupiter-ace-computer/

Second Edition Manual: https://jupiter-ace.co.uk/downloads/JA-Manual-Second-Edition...
by ndr | 2025-08-27 08:57:57+00:00
While I agree that DSM is likely a bunch of nonsense:

> As long as they don’t provide physical mechanisms for disorders, it’s worthless

This reasoning will dismiss too many things.

We don't know the physics of almost anything, it's all progressive levels of approximation.

For the longest time we knew nothing about the physical mechanisms of anesthetics, or how a plane wing works.

Science doesn't need the mechanism. It needs predictive power. Observations, hypotheses, tests and thesis.
by roenxi | 2025-08-27 08:58:08+00:00
I doubt you could source a quote for the Hayek point, but more interestingly Rand's taking social security doesn't sound like any sort of contradiction with her views or an extreme anti-welfare position. Just because a policy is a terrible idea doesn't mean people shouldn't take advantage of it while it is in force.

As a hypothetical, if the government took everyone's houses away and lotteried them back out out I'd say that was a terrible policy. I'd still be happy enough to move in to somewhere if I won a house though, because although the policy is appalling I'd rather be an owner than a renter and there aren't paths to owning.

Ditto, Ayn would probably have preferred that she wasn't taxed in the first place, but if they're going to give some of the money back she'd be stupid not to take it and there is no moral problem for her while taxes >= welfare receipts.
by handoflixue | 2025-08-27 08:58:45+00:00
Maybe this is clearer?

> Imagine if I handed you a $100 bill and asked you to examine it carefully. Is it real money? Perhaps you immediately suspect it is counterfeit, and subject it to stringent tests. Let’s say all the tests pass. Okay, given that it is indistinguishable from a legit $100 bill, is it therefore correct and ethical for me to spend this money?

This "hypothetical" happens thousands of times a day at any retail outlet that accepts cash" - the cashier is handed a $100 bill, they carefully inspect it, and if all the tests pass, they accept it as a legitimate bill.

A single additional $100 bill is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. I have already accepted hundreds of them in my life time - why should I feel any ethical concerns about this?

So, yeah, when the tests don't work, that's okay? Or at least, it's not my problem. There's government agencies that deal with this, but the ethical issue is with the person making the bills and the obligation to act is on the government agencies. I have absolutely no obligation, and this is an established cornerstone of society.

Whatever supposed "hazard" you have in mind is one that society is already dealing with, on a regular basis, and... again: society has not collapsed simply because retail shops accept cash
by danielbarla | 2025-08-27 08:58:45+00:00
I used a 2019 MacBook Pro for quite a while, and it was my first (and so far only) dip into Apple-land. While I appreciated the really solid build quality, great screen, etc, the battery life was pretty abysmal. We're talking easily under 2 hours if I had to be in a video call, which basically meant taking a charger to any meeting of decent length.

The 2nd biggest disappointment was when I ran my team's compute-heavy workload locally, expecting blistering performance from the i9, only to find that the CPU got throttled to under 50% (I seem to recall 47%, but my memory is fuzzy), within 6 seconds of starting the workload. And this was essentially a brand new laptop, so it likely wasn't blocked fan intakes. I fail to see the point of putting a CPU in a laptop that your thermal design simply can't handle.