MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cc62cf4a4f20 | 2025-08-19 04:49:44+00:00
Aren't executives just responding rationally to the current environment? Right or wrong, the broadly speaking, the current thinking is that GenAI will be super impactful. Which means there is a lot of risk to be seen as underinvesting in GenAI, even when the ROI isn't there. Until the hype dies down and there is a broad, practical understanding of the value of GenAI, I don't see how it could work anyother way.
by Azrael3000 | 2025-08-19 04:49:49+00:00
You cant avoid co2 build-up, you can only slow it down, main factor here is relaxation. Particularly your brain needs loads of o2, so if you can keep that calm it helps a lot. Obviously a slow metabolism helps as well, so before big static performances fasting is common.

And regarding co2 tolerance, it is a training effect. With training you can withstand much higher levels of co2 without resulting in panic
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-19 04:49:50+00:00
ECS is popular with third party DNS providers with open resolvers, like Google, but not all software that sends DNS queries sends large DNS packets with EDNS extensions and some www users avoid open resolvers

One of the things that I noticed about NextDNS when they announced their service on HN is that like the other public caches, they too sent ECS, but they claimed they could "anonymise" it
by Nevermark | 2025-08-19 04:51:15+00:00
Let's see.

1. Unwanted but coercive upgrades.

2. Delivering genuinely upgraded complexity and incoherence, under the cloak of new feature theatre.

3. In a context where customers just wish they could keep using what they have already paid for. Without paying again.

4. But they have to, because of artificially introduced cross-user new-version incompatibilities and strategically scheduled bit rot.

5. All so a company can keep extracting money from people it is no longer actually serving.

This is very similar to enshittification. Customers invest (time, money, data), in something they love. Their common investment has been transmogrified into a dairy, er, prison. And now they are all milked by all the dark patterns and milk pumps their supplier/master can insert between the users and water, users and grass, users and the midden, er, I mean into every remaining useful part of the service. While they shamelessly and unconvincingly claim to still be their hope, light and beloved benefactor.

Encrapification? No...

Fucked-up-grades? Choose which ever silla-bic em-fassis you prefer. (Sorry for the saucy stout boldness, to you of youth and gentle heart. But the point of crass terms is to not let targets off the verbial hook, with a weak or cute euphemism.)

Quickbooks, anyone? The list is long.
by platevoltage | 2025-08-19 04:51:25+00:00
When you’re marching one of the most hated republicans in the country around on stage pretending like it’s going to get you more votes, while kicking one of the most popular left-wing online voices out of your convention, I understand why people would get this impression. Dems would rather lose than cede any power at all to the left flank of the party.
by the_Uunknown822 | 2025-08-19 04:51:42+00:00
No you are not. Ai has been on the rise for pretty much everything now, hence ads, marketing, and scams use it. Yes its misleading and it has major flaws. Thats why imo, ai needs to be used for smaller tasks and not for big tasks such as age verification, ads, and control of marketing and personal data. So yes, it has been very noticeable. Is this answer satisfactorily and to your liking?
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-19 04:52:40+00:00
Not everyone will appreciate your authentic self, that's the inherent risk which requires bravery to overcome. It might also be simply not worth the risk, but either way you should act in a way that you can respect. There are things I wouldn't do because I consider them too risky, but I can still respect myself because I'm the one making the judgement call. It's when I act inauthentically because of the fear, not the risk, that I lose respect for myself and I do my best to avoid it.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-19 04:52:55+00:00
The published data for military submarines is the nominal test depth, not the actual design limit. The operational depth may be much deeper but that will be classified.

Recent US submarines all have test depths described by as being in excess of the same few hundred meters. In all likelihood that is a throwaway value. It seems unlikely that they produced generations of submarines that were less capable than their older ones.
by MarkMarine | 2025-08-19 04:53:22+00:00
True story here. If you're fit you can train this pretty easily. I count my time pushing against the current in Northern CA with free diving fins, a 5mm suit and a speargun and I can manage 2:30. In a warm pool with no current, no sharks and plenty of time to relax I can hit 3:45 and I'm old and out of shape.
by Azrael3000 | 2025-08-19 04:53:43+00:00
Correct. Usually you need to perform a so called surface protocol after surfacing to show you are still conscious enough. This can be e.g. the removal of your mask, an OK sign and saying "I'm OK". Only if you do that within 15 seconds after surfacing your performance will be valid.

And regarding easy to blackout. Yes and no, I personally avoided it for over 12 years, but then again, I'm no world class athlete and only an enthusiastic hobbyist.
by petronio | 2025-08-19 04:54:44+00:00
> Trump has already imposed 50% tariffs, causing major economic losses. NATO has already threatened to impose 100% tariffs on us if we keep buying russian oil. And these are mere tariffs, not actual sanctions.

Maybe we're looking at vastly different numbers, but most analysts are expecting little to no impact from the 50% tariffs. The US only makes up 12% of our exports, and they've already cut down the scope so that only around 36% of those are even affected. Since we mostly export commodities, even those 36% can just be sold elsewhere.

The NATO claims are irrelevant: NATO is not a trade alliance and the US struggles to get it to comply even with its intended military goals. You can safely place the odds of the other NATO countries agreeing to their own tariffs at approximately 0%.

> Sovereignty must be backed up by military and economic power. We have neither. It's complete fantasy.

Not sure where you get this idea? We have both military and economic power. Just because we're not as large as the US or China doesn't mean we have nothing.

Also, I don't see why you think there's a possibility of this escalating to war. Trump already had to back down with large exceptions to his 50% tariffs due to the domestic political impact it would have, and war is extremely unpopular with the Americans these days, which is why they only fund Ukraine and Israel instead of actually sending soldiers to fight.
by SamDc73 | 2025-08-19 04:55:48+00:00
to me at this point I only would trust these in this order: Mullvad IVPN ProtonVPN

Mullvad is the only one that have RAM-only (diskless) servers. Both Mullvad and IVPN have Monero as a payment method (which is the best for privacy) and both have Anonymous sign-up no email required.

Proton is last because they don't support Monero (only BTC which isn't very anonymous by design)

All have third party independent audits and are OSS
by hugo1789 | 2025-08-19 04:56:44+00:00
I don't think that fits MS Office. The situation is more that you have a working, usable word processor which has all the festures your user needs. Since many years ago. But your UI designer thinks it can be a little more beautiful but much slower. Of course you give that way too much priority.

On my Laptop where I am forced by my company to run windows, I run word 2010 and it runs far better(speed and stability) that the newest word I have to use ob my office pc.
by 1-6 | 2025-08-19 04:57:08+00:00
In the late 1990s, living in South Korea during the fallout of the IMF financial crisis, my friends and I discovered PC bangs. These gaming havens offered titles like Rainbow Six, MechWarrior 2, and the legendary StarCraft. As a teenager, those moments were unforgettable—sitting in a buzzing PC bang, immersed in epic battles, sparked a lifelong passion for computer networks that I still pursue today.

In the 2000s, I helped establish CyberCafe, a PC bang in Oakland, California, where a diverse crowd came together to play StarCraft and Counter-Strike. It was a vibrant community hub, filled with shared excitement.

I wish PC bangs would make a comeback. Despite our powerful home setups and fast internet, gaming solo in your room can’t match the electric atmosphere of playing alongside others in a match, surrounded by camaraderie and competition.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-19 04:57:41+00:00
> so, tie content to domains. A domain vouches for content works like that content having been a webpage or email from said domain. Signed hash in metadata is backwards compatible and its easy to make browsers etc display warnings on unsigned content, content from new domains, blacklisted domains, etc.

Okay, so I generate an image, open Instagram, take a picture of the generated image on a hi-res screen, and hit upload. Instagram dutifully signs it and shows it to the public with that signature. What does this buy us?
by recursivecaveat | 2025-08-19 04:59:29+00:00
Say you own 100% of a company whose fair value is $100 dollars. I give the company $900 and in exchange it issues me enough new shares that I own 90% of the company. Now you own 10% of a $1,000 company, with exactly the same number of shares as before, and your shares having the same fair value as before. Now this does assume that controlling stake of a company is not really worth anything, which is theoretically true if none of us is doing illegal-if-not-particularly-easy-to-prove screw-over-minority-shareholders type stuff.

Not to say there is never any funny business: with private companies who don't have a market for their stock the 'fair value' is not obvious and you can play games with that number to dilute away the ownership of people who don't have board seats.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-08-19 04:59:54+00:00
Shame has always been used to establish and maintain social structures and norms.

Is there some sudden rise of it? All my life I've been told by politicians and media corporations and others that I should be ashamed of various things that I think and do and am, as a poorly veiled effort to gain power by controlling people. And before my generation it had been going on a long time, with women wanting independence, black people wanting equal rights, men not wishing to be drafted to wars, gay rights, etc. I think shame and shaming has been a constant, and doesn't arise come from politics or media but human nature.

And I think most upheavals of the status quo have had to overcome this shame barrier. Shaming is probably a very effective psychological tool to conserve social order, but if it's abused or if people want change enough, eventually the lid will pop, and then when there is some critical mass moving away they actually bond together and take pride in being shameless and offending the people trying to shame them, and even might go to exaggerated lengths to do these "shameful" things and rile people up.

So I don't think it is that people or the politicians they vote for just decided they would use it as a strategy. I think it's actually that shame (which they see as coming from an "outgroup") is no longer a viable strategy.
by SupatMod | 2025-08-19 05:02:30+00:00
I don’t think AI needs to fully copy or match human consciousness. If it can just have some kind of 'self-awareness' and 'deep understanding of meaning,' that’s probably enough to start deciding on things like moral status. And I don’t think AI’s moral status (if it gets one) has to be equal to humans. I feel that it might not even take decades, because I feel like AI’s smarts (even if it’s just mimicking) are already growing so fast that regular people can hardly keep up.
by necovek | 2025-08-19 05:02:40+00:00
A good contractor renovating your bathroom should also question some of your choices:

- do you really want the toilet to be facing the door so you are exposed when the door opens

- what's the height you want your sink/mirror/shower head/etc at for better ergonomics

- if we lay these huge tiles (say 60x60) this way in this small bathroom, you'll have two full tiles and 10cm on this very prominent edge: perhaps better to tile them as 35+60+35 or choose a smaller tile?

...

They have the experience, and can help you solve your problem other than just "my bathroom looks old, I want it refreshed".
by manfromchina1 | 2025-08-19 05:03:02+00:00
I read Understand by him a really long time ago. I thought it was really good. However at the time I didnt understand the motivation of one of the main characters in it and the ending felt unjustified because of that. Years ago someone posted The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (pdf) by him on here. That one was a trip. He nailed the atmosphere and cadence of One Thousand and One Nights with a time travel story superimposed on top of it. Or it least that's how I remember it. Thought it was very Sufi in how it was told.
by lionelw | 2025-08-19 05:03:08+00:00
>Why is this so weirdly prescriptive about inline event handlers?

>> Even in a single file, inline event handlers are not a good idea. One button is OK, but what if you had 100 buttons? You'd have to add 100 attributes to the file; it would quickly turn into a maintenance nightmare.

What's so weird about this? This practice, known as event delegation, has been a known Good Practice for decades. One event listener attached to a common ancestor element of 100 buttons is more memory efficient than 100 event listeners. Even jQuery, which makes it temptingly ergonomic to give 100 buttons an event listener each, prescribes the event delegation pattern in their documentation.

Edit: Sorry I just read the section; now I'm dismayed the MDN article is not prescribing/recommending event delegation. However I did find other MDN articles explaining it:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...
by matsemann | 2025-08-19 05:03:15+00:00
The body doesn't notice a lack of oxygen. Hence the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning or air without o2 etc, as you won't notice o2 lacking. What you notice is co2 buildup, and as long as you keep breathing that's not happening.

When freediving, you can't really avoid it. What you learn however is how to deal with it. Control your diaphragm when it wants to start breathing, as the spasms are wasted energy. It's mostly a mind thing. With simple exercises (co2 tables) and just getting used to the feeling, it took my quite a short time to reach 5 minutes.

One "trick" btw is hyper ventilating. But DONT DO IT! It get rids of lots of co2 in your blood stream / lungs, so it takes a bit longer for the co2 buildup. But you need that buildup. Even though it's painful, that's your only signal as to how you're doing and which you kinda calibrate against. Especially when diving, hyper ventilating before can make it so you suddenly go unconscious before you felt the urge to surface.
by AuthAuth | 2025-08-19 05:03:36+00:00
Apples chips dont even come close. Their benchmarks compete in specific tasks and then measure by metrics like preformance per watt. These are benchmarks AMDs cpus arent optimizing for and yet they're still close. Once you remove the power consumption out of the tests and broading the tests AMD cpu's come out ahead. Apple had something impressive with M1 then within a year the other mobile cpu manufactures came out with something on par. A year after that and they had surpassed apple.

Apples closest cpu competition is Qualcomm and they dont win that.
by platevoltage | 2025-08-19 05:04:01+00:00
I generally have a cynical view of the people in this country, but I’m not ready to believe that a mixed race woman would have an uphill battle against a felon who already did a bad job once. Obama had an uphill battle, but he said the right things. Harris couldn’t even do that because she was only interested in Republican votes, not Leftist votes.
by mac-attack | 2025-08-19 05:04:26+00:00
"We don't yet have a reasonable model to explain even those of our own or other animals, let alone those of machines, for that matter."

Is in direct conflict with:

"they don't show anything approaching sentience or self awareness."

Waiting for us to figure out sentience before we decide to apply morals is akin to OpenAI being in charge of determining when we have achieved AGI. The people in power have no incentive to declare it even if evidence is available because it destroys their profits indefinitely
by com2kid | 2025-08-19 05:05:30+00:00
> The business undoubtedly did a crude cost/benefit analysis where the cost to expose and maintain that public interface vastly outstrips the cost for the few people that have to call in and change their name.

Haha, not likely.

In reality the org is so drowned in technical debt that changing the last name involves manually running 3 different scripts that hit three different DBs directly and the estimate from the 3rd party dev consultancy that maintains the mess for how long it'd take to make a safe publicly usable endpoint is somewhere between 2 years and forever.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-19 05:06:04+00:00
"This is bad because your editor can’t help you autocomplete it as you write it."

No, you are bad because you use an editor with autocomplete.

And it's not even debatable, it's like playing bowling with rails, or riding a bycicle with training wheels. Sure you can argue that you are more efficient at bowling and riding a bike with those, but you are going to be arguing alone, and it's much better to realize that python is one of the best languages at the moment and therefore one of the best languages ever, instead of being a nobody and complaining about a lanugage because you are too encumbered by your own ego to realize that you are not as good a programmer as you thought.

Nothing wrong with being an amateur programmer or vibecoding or whatever, but if you come for the king you best not miss
by banana_giraffe | 2025-08-19 05:06:39+00:00
https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/c80028aa1714032546d3b442c1...

Nope, they don't eat up space. One of the fun side effects of sparse files on NTFS is calling WriteFile on the sparse file can lead to an ERROR_DISK_QUOTA_EXCEEDED error, which applications tend to not expect.
by conductr | 2025-08-19 05:07:11+00:00
I might not be using the correct term, I had an electrician install it, but I just flip a switch and it cuts off the grid including back feed then the power in is through what I think is commonly called an RV panel allowing for generator connection. Do agree on operation and order of things, I have it written in the boxes.

My generator is the biggest one harbor freight sells. Might not be that beefy but I also don’t need much electricity during these events. I wouldn’t run laundry or my central AC but it’s enough to keep my pool pump running (we don’t winterize here, run nonstop during freezes as they are short enough the pool water never drops enough). Also, this model runs of natural gas which is a big plus for me so I don’t have to keep up with fuel. Keeping fridge running and furnace running is my highest priority but since all my lights are LED I don’t have to think about them. I’m giving the harbor freight one a shot first, my hope is that it last a long time since I’m putting little time on it. If longevity is ab issue I’d probably spring for a kohler or Honda next time.

I may add a soft start kit to hvac as last summer we had some outages long enough to be uncomfortable, twice cost us our fridge contents which is expensive and annoying. But primarily, winter protection is highest priority for me as the risk is highest
by IgorPartola | 2025-08-19 05:07:59+00:00
I was hoping this was more of a hardware project as in building the physical mower from scratch. I am not quite sold on the robotic mowers but the quality and market for riding mowers is insane right now. I own two riding mowers and both are completely dead. One needs a rather expensive wiring harness so they it would stop catching fire when it runs. The other has the most common single cylinder engine that comes in all the mowers in the past like 30 years and it’s a terrible design that grenades itself 1-4 times a year. And the prices of these new and used are out of this world even compared to baseline inflation.

I decided to strip one of them and convert it to full electric using salvaged electric motors from Ryobi mowers and Amazon controllers. I have seen a few videos of this conversion and I do like the logic of having one motor for the drive wheels and one per blade rather than messing with fancy belts and pulleys and idlers and clutches. A really interesting part of this kind of build is that I can reuse Ryobi’s 40V batteries so I don’t need to design and build a custom battery + BMS + charging system. Just buy and wire enough connectors to run everything.

And that’s where it would be really cool to see a properly engineered project around doing something like that. I see a lot of potential here since you can get these motors for roughly $50 shipped on eBay and a controller would be about as much.
How did Bresenham represented pixel grids to derive his line drawing algorithm?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-08-19 05:08:34+00:00
I am seeking for a succinct source regarding how did Bresenham's imagined the pixel grids. Because different APIs have different implementations of pixel grid. Without the fundamental understanding of a pixel grid, it is impossible to understand the derivation of line drawing algorithm and circle drawing algorithm. I hope to get some valuable input from hackers.
by buu700 | 2025-08-19 05:09:40+00:00
That's an interesting question. Based on Grok's analysis, the answer isn't that tofu is UPF, but that your particular proposed method of creating a protein powder would not be UPF. Unless you followed that process with "additional steps like centrifugation, pH adjustment, spray-drying, and stabilizers", as would typically be involved in production of commercial powders, it would remain in Nova group 3 like tofu. (Whether it would be a particularly palatable or mixable protein powder is obviously another matter entirely.)

Of course I agree with the rest of your point, which is similar to what I was saying. (I also chuckled at your choice of analogy, as a founder of an encryption startup.) I have a lot of thoughts on the incentive structure[1], which I would dramatically overhaul given the option.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808168
by setopt | 2025-08-19 05:11:33+00:00
I’m not using Obsidian atm, but my approach is simply to store them in normal notes. So if I have e.g. a topic.md file I’d make a section called `# Links` there which I can click on. That makes it easier to rediscover links in the right context.

(I’m currently using Org-mode, but the approach is the same.)
by porridgeraisin | 2025-08-19 05:11:41+00:00
1) yes it's definitely chatgpt

2) The weights are definitely a generalization. The compression-based argument is sound.

3) There is definitely no overfitting. The article however used the word over-parameterization, which is a different thing. And LLMs are certainly over-parameterized. They have more parameters than strictly required to represent the dataset in a degrees-of-freedom statistical sense. This is not a bad thing though.

Just like having an over-parameterized database schema:

quiz(id, title, num_qns) question(id, text, answer, quiz_id FK)

can be good for performance sometimes,

The lottery ticket hypothesis as chatgpt explained in TFA means that over-parameterization can also be good for neural networks sometimes. Note that this hypothesis is strictly tied to the fact that we use SGD (or adam or ...) as the optimisation algorithm. SGD is known to be biased towards generalized compressions [the lottery ticket hypothesis hypothesises why this is so]. That is to say, it's not an inherent property of the neural network architecture or transformers or such.