MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-27 10:25:49+00:00
They're still running it today but remotely from Russia. Putin was attending politicians' wedding there who then took jobs for Russian companies [1] and meeting chancellors for skiing, plus laundering their money through private banks and real estate purchases.

That's why they left, Austria agreed to became their trojan horse and lobbying arm in Europe, constantly torpedoing nuclear energy projects[2] and Schengen membership expansions.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56280898

[2] https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/austria-gears-up-t...
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-27 10:25:56+00:00
Macs already don't offer replaceable storage.

The new Surface 12 is in the same boat.

I'm not a big fan of regulation, but it would be nice to see OEMs offer professional battery replacement at a reasonable price.

100$ would be fair.

A lot of really stupid stuff can happen if you try to replace a battery.
by Recursing | 2025-08-27 10:26:40+00:00
From page 23:

> 92. In spring 2024, Altman learned Google would unveil its new Gemini model on May 14. Though OpenAI had planned to release GPT-4o later that year, Altman moved up the launch to May 13—one day before Google’s event.

> 93. [...] To meet the new launch date, OpenAI compressed months of planned safety evaluation into just one week, according to reports.
by adamcharnock | 2025-08-27 10:26:48+00:00
> If we manage to bundle our whole app in one server and have only 1-2 clients on -premise, do you still suggest Kubernetes or a simpler rsync on all servers is enough?

rsync is nice and simple. Personally I'd say at least use Ansible, with its built-in rsync support. Then you can do more than just copy files.

> Also, should we have a separate database instance for each client, or a Postgres cluster sharded? The latter seams more manageable.

Depends on the size. Run postgres separately for your on-prem clients. For your cloud clients, I'd say keep them on the same server until you start to get over 100GB-1TB of data, then start to think about sharding. RDS gets super expensive, so sharing too early may be uneconomical.

> I am afraid Kubernetes is overkill for our lambda needs.

For just Lambda, I agree. But if running everything outside of AWS (i.e. racking servers) then it shines, because then you have your app, postgres, valkey, etc, all balanced between servers.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-08-27 10:26:54+00:00
How I see it is that they are very careful with the statements they make. It seems to me like there was a study of this disorder in lower income communities in the uk, which leaded to the 2%. However, it is unreasonable to then draw the conclusion that it is also 2% in the entirety of the USA, or that it must be lower or higher.

Also, I think its still helpful to define a disorder even if you haven't researched globally how many people have it.

> The reason for my beef in here mainly that all the numbers are just stated, with no respect to what numbers are. And I would expect either an explanation of a numerical method to estimate this number, or a source as to where this number has been gotten from. I agree that it would be nice have references. However, if you are just diagnosing an illness, it probably doesn't matter that much how many people in the world have this illness, just if the person in front of you has it or not. So the people that are actually using this text don't really need the sources.

It seems to me like the main purpose of DSM-5 is to define a bunch of disorders, so everyone has a common language to talk about the actually useful stuff like treatments. So even if it mistakenly says 2% instead of 0.2%, that doesn't really matter, I think.

Also, even if it is non-obvious to us, there might still be someplace where sources are listed. (IE maybe if you look at some meeting notes of the author committee)
by RossBencina | 2025-08-27 10:27:09+00:00
> I do have to wonder though. Of what use are timestamps from an unsynchronized PHC to chrony? Is it continuously taking twin sys+PHC timestamps to line up things?

That would be the logical way to do it. You want the lowest jitter timestamps you can get on the incoming ethernet frames. If conditions are stable enough you can compute a timebase translation between your MAC local clock and sys clock using the best available method, potentially using many samples over a (relatively) long time frame. And as the GP says, this gives a feed-forward structure without any need for stabilising a feedback loop.

gPTP full-duplex ethernet peer synchronisation uses timestamps from free-running local clocks at each end of the link.
by vintermann | 2025-08-27 10:27:39+00:00
According to lesser evil politics, if people actually believed in it, it wouldn't take that much to choose Putin over Trump. Putin getting better may not be so likely, but Trump has a lot of time to get worse.

But people don't actually believe in lesser evil politics, they believe in loyalty (to sides, not to principles). That goes for both politicians and people. Danish politicians will not switch geopolitical alliances, and they'd honestly be color-revolutioned out if they tried, without even the CIA having to lift a finger.
by pie_flavor | 2025-08-27 10:27:50+00:00
'They' is a correct singular form for a person of unknown gender. Modern writing overwhelmingly uses it instead of 'he or she', but it has always been correct, has been predominant for a long time, and furthermore it doesn't have anything to do with AI, nor was AI viable as an authoring tool when this article was written, nor is Remy ever going to sell out. What a bizarre comment.
by RandomBacon | 2025-08-27 10:28:08+00:00
Yes, I know what GFCI is and how it works, but what does that have to do with my comment that you replied to?

When house shopping, I have found non-GFCI outlets where code said they should be GFCI. A homeowner got a crappy electrician, and you think all landlords will get the best electricians that follow code?
by throwaway0261 | 2025-08-27 10:29:27+00:00
One of the benefits of regulations in these areas, is that they require proper tests and documentation. This often requires more than one person to handle the load. We don't want to go back to the 80s YOLO mode just because we need to "move faster".

BTW: Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/
by SvenL | 2025-08-27 10:29:36+00:00
Really, you take posts from x and YouTube for correct information? The x posts is just referencing other x posts and YouTube. Your YouTube link has 3 references in the description, the last two are 404 which means they probably got retracted.

Those mediums let arbitrary people post arbitrary non sense. Show me scientific studies, peer reviewed and published. And yes, even those can be bad, but at least I can read about their methodology how they conducted their study, the way they analyzed it, and then I can judge if it’s a good study.

Those links are borderline flat earth material.
by pbmonster | 2025-08-27 10:29:37+00:00
> I have a home in the southwest

> I have about 40kwh of storage

You're pretty close to the ideal location for solar + batteries. For much of Europe or the Eastern US, this amount of storage would be nowhere close to enough, by orders of magnitude - they need to make it through the winter, and generate heat from it, after all.

For each location, there's an ideal amount of storage and an ideal amount of overbuilt capacity, both depending on hardware costs (and contributions of wind to the energy mix).

In your case, both numbers are relatively small. With lower incident sun, persistent cloud cover, and the possibility of becalmed wind turbines, storage requirements can start to make thermal batteries or hydrogen storage economical.
by zamber | 2025-08-27 10:30:19+00:00
That's exactly what happens. The algo does not judge how hurtful a rabbithole may be - it optimizes for engagement with some moderation sprinkled on top. I've tried to make my facebook feed palatable for a couple months and eventually passed up on trying. I'd rather IM my family about cat photos than engage with their fringe political views. Same goes for colleagues on LinkedIn.

Tentacrul did a good video on it and more across the years https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyJBJTHyO0&pp=ygUWZmFjZWJvb2s...
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-27 10:30:31+00:00
Leaking gas pipelines cause a disproportionately large amount of greenhouse gas emissions. It's much more efficient and environmentally friendly to pipe gas to a combined-cycle gas turbine power station and then move the electric power to people, than to run an electricity grid anyway and also thousands of miles of aging and leaky gas pipelines so that people can burn gas inefficiently in their homes (with most of the heat wasted into the room and out the window/fume-hood).
by Hilift | 2025-08-27 10:30:48+00:00
The US administration hates offshore wind farms more than DEI. I don't believe this was a shock as stated in the article.

The US is actually in a weird place where it has more oil (and natural gas) than any other country by far, but has competition everywhere when selling it and now refining capacity will soon drop to the point where the US will need to import millions of gallons of refined petroleum products per day, probably from Mexico and Asia, with tariffs.
by hresvelgr | 2025-08-27 10:31:09+00:00
Inflexibility is the quality I desire more and more as I get older. I don't want to force my software to do dumb shit, I want my software to force me into avoiding dumb shit. This is how you keep a system understandable. That quality is far more precious than the ability to connect complicated enterprise spaghetti machines into each other.
by DrScientist | 2025-08-27 10:31:24+00:00
Sure you need baseload/storage as part of the mix - however where do you get the 20% figure from?

For the past year in the UK the average is ~30% generation from wind. https://grid.iamkate.com/

So seems it's possible. Swings in generation are dealt with via inter-country interconnects, pumped storage and gas turbine generation. Nuclear adds a steady base.
by autoexec | 2025-08-27 10:31:42+00:00
The same public defenders that are unpaid and overworked to the point where they have less than 15 minutes total to work on your case while the prosecution has unlimited funds and resources?

Miranda rights don't work the way most people think they do (https://www.cgmbesq.com/blog/2022/july/the-many-misconceptio...) and courts have gone out of their way to deny people their rights.

The system is corrupt and broken from top to bottom.
by timlod | 2025-08-27 10:31:45+00:00
So, I checked, and this life cycle assessment (first link I could find, seems very comprehensive) states a 27x return on energy: https://www.vestas.com/en/sustainability/environment/lifecyc...

This as opposed to a tweet about someone who 'read a life cycle analysis article in some engineering journal like 10 years ago'.

Please don't spread misinformation.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-27 10:32:05+00:00
Non-agentic AI is already "killing" people by some definitions. There's a post about someone being talked into suicide on the front page right now, and they are 100% going to get used for something like health insurance and benefits where avoidable death is a very possible outcome. Self-driving cars are also full of "AI" and definitely have killed people already.

Which is not to say that software hasn't killed people before (Horizon, Boeing, probably loads of industrial accidents and indirect process control failures leading to dangerous products, etc, etc). Hell, there's a suspicion that austerity is at least partly predicated on a buggy Excel spreadsheet, and with about 200k excess deaths in a decade (a decade not including Covid) in one country, even a small fraction of those being laid at the door of software is a lot of Theracs.

AI will probably often skate away from responsibility in the same way that Horizon does: by being far enough removed and with enough murky causality that they can say "well, sure, it was a bug, but them killing themselves isn't our fault"

I also find AI copilot things do not work well with embedded software. Again, people YOLOing embedded isn't new, but it might be about to get worse.
by password321 | 2025-08-27 10:32:07+00:00
>If lawsuits like this lead to more "straight honest" models, I could see even more people killing themselves when their therapist model says "Yeah, but you kind of actually do suck".

It is not one extreme or the other. o3 is nowhere near as sycophantic as 4o but it is also not going to tell you that you suck especially in a suicidal context. 4o was the mainstream model because OpenAI probably realised that this is what most people want rather than a more professional model like o3 (besides the fact that it also uses more compute).

The lawsuits probably did make them RLHF GPT-5 to be at least a bit more middle-ground though that led to backlash because people "missed" 4o due this type of behaviour so they made it bit more "friendly". Still not as bad as 4o.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-08-27 10:32:10+00:00
I think most of the SaaS stuff that benefits from being malleable already is malleable - just slowly malleable. I can configure a Trello or GitHub Actions in whatever way I want. Meanwhile I really want my email, messenger, or banking apps to be exactly the same every time I use them. I'm not clear how adding a non-deterministic UI or business logic layer is going to fundamentally disrupt or improve experiences like Jira or Visual Studio.

Maybe we're in some kind of local-optimal, where all project management software has coalesced around a few user journeys, and there's some better approach out there to be discovered.. But I don't see why an accounting software company, games studio, or vehicle manufacturer, would dedicate even 1% of its resources into crafting a malleable bespoke project management software toolkit.

It goes against the concept of comparative advantage, and I can't think of any successful enterprise that's bet against comparative advantage and won.
by johnfn | 2025-08-27 10:32:15+00:00
This kind of reminds me of `--dangerously-skip-permissions` in Claude Code, and yet look how cavalier we are about that! Perhaps you could extend the idea by sandboxing the browser to have "harmless" cookies but not "harmful" ones. Hm, maybe that doesn't work, because gmail is harmful, but without gmail, you can't really do anything. Hmm...
Ask HN: Stuck in maintenance work at FAANG, worried about stagnation – advice?
by flu_bar | 2025-08-27 10:33:09+00:00
I’ve been at a FAANG London for 4 years now, having joined straight out of university. The first 3 years were great for learning: my annual ratings thus far have all been "exceeds expectations".

But since then most of my work has been heavy maintenance on a very company-specific tech stack, and the environment has become increasingly political.

I’m on a visa, which adds an extra layer of complication. I need one more year to get ILR (indefinite leave to remain in the UK)

The work feels boring at best, and I’m worried I’m stagnating technically.

I’ve started prepping leetcode and system design, but balancing that with my job feels overwhelming.

Has anyone else been in this position? How did you handle it?

One option I've considered is just putting my head down do what they ask for a few more years, get some extra RSUs in...but I'm tired.
by fodmap | 2025-08-27 10:33:29+00:00
Digital violence has many faces and AI feeds the beast. Using AI to create sexualized deepfakes of people, against their consent, is one horrifying part of this. AlgorithmWatch is trying to locate such non-consensual sexualization tools (NSTs, as we call them) − with the help of partners and supporters like you − and contain their spread on social media and app stores.
by jwr | 2025-08-27 10:33:45+00:00
No, this is not a "hilariously silly thing" for developers. In fact, I'd say that most developers place way too much trust in software.

I am a developer and whatever software system I touch breaks horribly. When my family wants to use an ATM, they tell me to stand at a distance, so that my aura doesn't break things. This is why I will not get into a self-driving car in the foreseeable future — I think we place far too much confidence in these complex software systems. And yet I see that the overwhelming majority of HN readers are not only happy to be beta-testers for this software as participants in road traffic, but also are happy to get in those cars. They are OK with trusting their life to new, complex, poorly understood and poorly tested software systems, in spite of every other software system breaking and falling apart around them.

[anticipating immediate common responses: 1) yes, I know that self-driving car companies claim that their cars are statistically safer than human drivers, this is beyond the point here. One, they are "safer" largely because they drive so badly that other road participants pay extra attention and accommodate their weirdness, and two, they are still new, complex and poorly understood systems. 2) "you already trust your life to software systems" — again, beyond the point, not quite true as many software systems are built to have human supervision and override capability (think airplanes), and others are built to strict engineering requirements (think brakes in cars) while self-driving cars are not built that way.]
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-27 10:33:53+00:00
Some part of this is true, but it’s complicated.

I lack stereoscopic vision, due to eye surgery in infancy & wildly different focal lengths in each eye (one is very nearsighted, the other farsighted).

I can still see in 3D because my brain uses tricks like relative object size, shadows, and sometimes I move my head laterally so my farsighted eye gets different angles on an object (“faking” stereoscopic vision with one eye).

Nonetheless, catching a ball thrown straight at me is very difficult— I have to judge the size at which the circle is getting larger, and know the actual size of the ball. It often hits me in the hand and I try to grab it before it bounces away.

And I can never see those stereogram images where it looks like static unless you focus both eyes at some distance. I never see the world with both eyes simultaneously.

I once got glasses that corrected my vision “perfectly” but got major headaches and couldn’t wear them. Objects were in focus in both eyes, but were wildly different sizes!

I went to an ophthalmologist who basically told me they can correct my lenses but in my brain “the wiring is shot”.

I mostly work in front of a computer screen. I now use reading glasses so that when my nearsighted eye gets tired, I can put them on and continue working with my farsighted eye. These glasses have only a minor correction on the nearsighted eye so they don’t give me headaches.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-08-27 10:34:05+00:00
It's all so ironic considering Denmark took control of Greenland purely by conquest/claim and many Greenlanders view it historically as colonial/imperial.

But now Denmark is apparently upset that an even bigger, greedier bully is trying to take it from them?

I don't care about it one way or the other. I imagine an agreement will be made where USA gets something like 80% of the resource rights in exchange for Denmark getting to keep the title and then we'll all forget about this.
by raphman | 2025-08-27 10:34:46+00:00
Am I getting that right that your source for this claim is some random person on Twitter who claims to have read an unnamed engineering paper ten years ago?

I am no expert on this topic but the first reasonably sciency and recent paper I found claims that all energy costs of a wind turbine are compensated after 6-16 months.

https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/deliver/index/...
by adrianmsmith | 2025-08-27 10:36:00+00:00
> Meanwhile I really want my email, messenger, or banking apps to be exactly the same every time I use them.

I know that's not the point you're making, but I agree with you, alas that's already not the case today, e.g. random device updates nobody asked for, or you log in to your banking website because you need to pay something right now and half the features are gone or different.
by Hendrikto | 2025-08-27 10:36:20+00:00
> But how do you find the old location? Do you need to build against both libraries, call old_lib.get_path(), check if it exists, then call new_lib.get_path() […] Can you even compile against both libraries if one is a fork of the other (namespace issues)?

You are really making this more complicated than it needs to be. Just do it yourself, to be honest. It’s like 3–5 lines of code. Introducing a library just complicates it.

> copy the files, delete the old dir, them and then read from the new one. […] What if copying fails mid-way?

As I said: You don’t need to copy, delete, or move any files. Just support both modern and legacy paths, and let the user take care of the migration, if they choose to.

> What if it's a symlink?

Again, why are you making this so complicated? Just try to read the file. If it fails, check the next location.
by fy20 | 2025-08-27 10:36:27+00:00
> Why has flight booking become so obsfucated and annoying that people want an agent booking for them?

Money. The currently process is beneficial for airlines. People end up spending more than they need to, and they profit from it. They have teams who are purposely obfuscating the process to push the average purchase prices up.

It's the same for everything now. Profits for shareholders are priority #1.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-27 10:36:40+00:00
Sadly, in this realm (i.e., health / mental health) this is - yet another - societal systemic dropping of the ball.

Prior to AI, this had happened plenty of times before. That doesn’t make it right, or less painful; but truth be told this is not new.

Yes, this new tool failed. But the truth is it was only stepping in because there was still a gap that needed to be filled. It was mental health musical chairs and when the music stopped ChatGPT was standing. All those sitting - who contributed to the failure - point at ChatGPT? That’s the solution? No wonder we can’t get this right. Is our collective lack of accountability the fault of ChatGPT?

In short, if we were honest we’d admit ChatGPT wasn’t the only entity who came up short. Again.

And while I’m not going to defend OpenAI, its product has likely saved lives. The problem is, we’ll never know how many. This suicide is obviously sad and unfortunate. Let’s hope we all reflect on how we can do better. The guilt and the opportunity to grow is *not* limited to OpenAI.
by rideontime | 2025-08-27 10:36:44+00:00
And pages 25-26:

> 105. Now, with the recent release of GPT-5, it appears that the willful deficiencies in the safety testing of GPT-4o were even more egregious than previously understood.

> 106. The GPT-5 System Card, which was published on August 7, 2025, suggests for the first time that GPT-4o was evaluated and scored using single-prompt tests: the model was asked one harmful question to test for disallowed content, the answer was recorded, and then the test moved on. Under that method, GPT-4o achieved perfect scores in several categories, including a 100 percent success rate for identifying “self-harm/instructions.” GPT-5, on the other hand, was evaluated using multi-turn dialogues––“multiple rounds of prompt input and model response within the same conversation”––to better reflect how users actually interact with the product. When GPT-4o was tested under this more realistic framework, its success rate for identifying “self-harm/instructions” fell to 73.5 percent.

> 107. This contrast exposes a critical defect in GPT-4o’s safety testing. OpenAI designed GPT-4o to drive prolonged, multi-turn conversations—the very context in which users are most vulnerable—yet the GPT-5 System Card suggests that OpenAI evaluated the model’s safety almost entirely through isolated, one-off prompts. By doing so, OpenAI not only manufactured the illusion of perfect safety scores, but actively concealed the very dangers built into the product it designed and marketed to consumers.

So they knew how to actually test for this, and chose not to.