MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-08-27 13:16:49+00:00
My comment is about companies self-serving with malleable & bespoke software. Niantec is unlikely to spend time making a bespoke GenAI version of Jira, just because it's cheaper to do so now than it was before. Every minute they spend making the bespoke project management software is a minute they're not making the next PokemonGo, so they'll pay a third party like Confluence handsomely to produce a predictable project management UI for them.

Games studios have been making dynamic worlds for decades now, and GenAI algorithms are just an evolution of that practice. So I agree that they'll use these tools for their own output, but that output isn't going to disrupt the SaaS business models of companies like Sage/Confluence/Microsoft etc.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-27 13:16:50+00:00
Not really.

Good developers are a necessary ingredient of a much larger recipe.

People think that a good process means you can toss in crap developers, or that great developers mean that you can have a bad process.

In my experience, I worked for a 100-year-old Japanese engineering company that had a decades-long culture of Quality. People stayed at that company for their entire career, and most of them were top-shelf people. They had entire business units, dedicated to process improvement and QA.

It was a combination of good talent, good process, and good culture. If any one of them sucks, so does the product.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-27 13:17:13+00:00
Just saw this :)

Why ? On a laptop I have a program that will read an 8 billion record text file and matches it against a 1 billion record text file and doing some calculations based upon the data found between the 2 records.

So, slowing it down will prevent my laptop from overheating, it just runs quietly via a cron job.
by Xunjin | 2025-08-27 13:17:31+00:00
I'm not fully disagreeing with you, you always have a choice. However, when the market has less demand for a large unqualified workforce, you have two choices, accept to work and earn money or go back to months or even years without a way to sustain yourself/family. Don't lose sight that these jobs mostly prey on a population that is vulnerable and often does not know their rights.

We could discuss in a sociological basis on how Capitalism today uses this workforce for degrading jobs, though requires a large dialogue that HN is not the place.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 13:17:38+00:00
If you look at car headlights or flashlights, then yes, because more brightness is very desirable there. If you look at the average lightbulb though?

It's pretty clear that people didn't replace their 100W incandescent bulbs with 200W worth of LEDs. Modern LED lights sit in a range of 6W to 20W - which is a factor of 5 reduction in power draw no matter how you cut it.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-27 13:17:46+00:00
The grid operator did release a report, and it stated that the problem was desynchronization of a solar farm, followed by more frequency destabilization as they tried to combat the first problem, followed by a panicked attempt to bring gas plants back online but they weren't available. They'd been switched off to make way for solar and would have taken hours to warm up.

The only sense in which there are conflicting arguments, is that the leftist Spanish government read the above report and concluded that it was the fault of the gas plants for not being available when they were needed. Because they were switched off. Because of their own policies. This is not an argument that deserves genuine consideration.
Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
by IdreesInc | 2025-08-27 13:18:04+00:00
I made a simple open-source letter editor inspired by Animal Crossing NH. Took me forever to look over each card, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. You can even click the bottle in the bottom right to see a random letter design shared by other users! Now to see how long it stays up...

Check out the source code here: https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generato...
by bahaAbunojaim | 2025-08-27 13:18:35+00:00
We've developed a model router and a token optimizer exposed through a simple gateway compatible with OpenAI SDK. The model router would automatically route to the best model for the prompt and the token optimizer would optimize the tokens used in a thread to only the ones relevant to the query; essentially expanding the context window limit, reducing cost and increasing both inference and reliability. We would love your feedback as we continue to develop it.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-27 13:19:48+00:00
> I have a proposal for a great filter: complexity.

That's one of the interpretations of Gibson's "Jackpot" - that there's just too much potentially dangerous stuff going on, interacting in too many ways to manage. Though I tend to identify global warming (and related environmental damage like deforestation) as the "core" problem at the center of that tangle.
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by suggestion | 2025-08-27 13:20:17+00:00
They were incomprehensibly difficult for me, so yes. My mind and body literally entered fight or flight at the thought of not doing a compulsion or forcing myself to focus on doing a task I didn't want to do.

"Quality" is an arbitrary definition that means nothing, that's one of the problems we're talking about in psychiatry. The OP clearly mentioned that there was minimal impact on academic, professional, or social functioning other than internal discomfort, for example, yet was prescribed anyway.

>False, regarding CBT

Wow it's almost like the replication crisis is a real thing and we have no idea what we're talking about. Look at these completely disparate results when examining a different population group.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...
by reciprocity | 2025-08-27 13:20:51+00:00
It really isn't. It's destructive and short sighted behavior based on incoherent dogmatism over any motivations for thoughtful and more restrained policy decision making. His motivations for any action is based on flattery and ego that stretch the boundaries of multiple universes. It's so crazy how much blatantly unconstitutional stuff he's gotten away with.
by cowpig | 2025-08-27 13:21:04+00:00
I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to run coding agents as their own user on their own machines.

I use this CLI tool for spinning up containers and attaching the local directory as a volume:

https://github.com/Monadical-SAS/cubbi

It isn't perfect but it's a lot better than the alternative. Looked a lot at VM-based sandbox environments but by mounting the dir as a volume in the container, you can still do all of your normal stuff in your machine outside the container environment (editor, tools, etc), which in practice saves a lot of headache.
by fsflover | 2025-08-27 13:21:12+00:00
I never used snaps, so I don't understand what you mean here. Here's a couple of typical Qubes usage patterns: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2022/10/28/how-to-organize-you..., https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2011/03/13/partitioning-my-...
by penguin_booze | 2025-08-27 13:21:17+00:00
Excellent. I haven't gone through them yet, but if you've any similar pointers for QEMU, please share.

My rough understanding is that it's the user-space emulation part of a virtualization solution. I.e., when the kernel traps the virtualized process, saying 'nope, you can't do that here', the control falls back to user space handler in QEMU saying, 'hey, the kernel said I can't do that there; can you sort this out?'. And this back-and-forth games keeps happening during the lifetime of the virtualized process.
by jcynix | 2025-08-27 13:21:59+00:00
>Imagine getting hit by thousands+ of different IP addresses with different user agents, etc.

If I open the gates, I can see oodles of connections from China or Singapore in my server logs, all from different IP addresses but all allegedly (according to their USER_AGENT) from iphones with identical software versions.

Maybe these are infected apps on actual iphones, maybe they are scrapers purporting to be iphones, but one thing is sure: the good old internet isn't any more.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-27 13:22:10+00:00
> were effectively given get out of jail free cards with regards to legal liability protections given to the by the government

You mean Section 230 and other analogous laws, right?

I'm not sure how you have comment and interaction heavy sites (like HN) without some sort of protections here. Like, YC would probably shut HN down rather than pay for enough people to moderate it 24-7.

Certainly, Facebook and Youtube would require absolute armies of moderators to comply with the law if they were treated as the publisher of user-generated content.

Maybe that's a tradeoff you'd be willing to make, but I'm pretty sure such a policy would be wildly unpopular and likely to get reversed pretty soon.
by jennyholzer | 2025-08-27 13:22:42+00:00
i understand that he did the nazi salute, but it seems disingenuous and unnecessarily provocative to call elon musk a nazi

musk is a kleptocrat/plutocrat who did the nazi salute for the purposes of generating controversy. it seems obvious to me that he's more interested in securing the success of his ventures than anything resembling 20th century fascism.
by belorn | 2025-08-27 13:23:24+00:00
The opposition to the construction of wind farms are mostly silly except in a very specific situation. We should not construct those in nature reservation. If a place is worth designating as a nature reserve then we have decided that such place is worth protecting even if the area could be later freed (common reason is keeping certain species from going extinct, which makes the threat nontemporarily). Ocean based wind farms has a tendency to want to be built in the shallows, which happens to correlate where we tend to designate as nature reservations.

Wind power is however not comparable to fossil fuels or nuclear power. Denmark is a prime example of a country that did commit fully to wind power in a very strong and consistent way, and do produce more total energy through wind that they consume. That energy however is not produced when people want to consume it, so as a practical matter, they import around 50% of their energy that they do consume, energy which is not wind since when the wind blow they export the excess energy. They could produce 500% or even 1000% more wind energy, and they would still need to import a large portion of their consumption from non-wind power. Producing that much excess power would mostly just effect exports and not in a good way for the producers since overproduction mostly just lead to lower prices. 50% consumption seems to be around the maximum of what you can do with wind (for now), and when the wind do not blow you still need 100% of the capacity from other sources in order to fill in the gap. Overproduction of nuclear or thermal energy does not have this issue, but rather carries completely different problems.
by znpy | 2025-08-27 13:23:41+00:00
> I would assume sooner or later you're going to end up in the Intel Developer manuals or the equivalent for whatever architecture you are interested in. The Intel ones are very complete at least.

I can vouch for this. I'm no virtualization expert but I did stumble upon some intel developers manuals (truthfully, i fell into the rabbit hole) and just skimming it made everything make much more sense.

For example: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents... - "CHAPTER 23 INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL MACHINE EXTENSIONS"

The link above explains how the VMX extension work on intel processors. Any software doing hardware-assisted virtualization (so no binary translation, no full-system-emulation) will likely be using those instructions.
by 5f3cfa1a | 2025-08-27 13:23:58+00:00
Ejecting from an airplane is no joke: 18g of force leaves 20-30% with spinal fractures, and ejection seats have an 8% mortality rate[1]

It seems to me that continuing flight with inoperative/damaged landing gear while you discuss alternatives with engineers is the safest option. Burn fuel, make a plan, let people on the ground mobilize to help, and eject when you've tried what you can and it truly becomes the safest option.

[1]: https://sites.nd.edu/biomechanics-in-the-wild/2021/04/06/top...
by n4r9 | 2025-08-27 13:24:33+00:00
> what exactly is the upper limit of care being provided to someone for "cancer"? It is very vague.

It is light on detail but that feels tangential to me? Much like private insurance schemes, state healthcare systems necessarily have a limit on care/expense.

> He clearly isn't advocating for what would be called universal state-funded healthcare in the modern context ... He appears to be talking about ... certain rare events

He uses terms like "common hazards of life", "the case of sickness", and "comprehensive social insurance". I find it hard to believe this doesn't include assistance for the most common health issues like arthritis, diabetes, cancer, and so on.
by DrBenCarson | 2025-08-27 13:24:46+00:00
Early days as in the first ~4 months of the journey (which is lifelong…a formerly obese person will always be highly likely to regain the weight)

It’s a life changer because when you’re at a significant caloric deficit, your body sheds both fat and muscle. When you lose muscle, your metabolic rate drops, also lowering your rate of fat loss

If you lift even a little, your body will hang on to muscle more effectively, making it easier to lose and maintain weight over a longer period
by hopelite | 2025-08-27 13:25:01+00:00
Let’s be honest here. America has the extremely high incarceration rate because of two primary factors; many of Americas regions are effectively uncivilized (if you don’t know that, you simply cannot understand this issue), and there is also a high problem of violence by Africans and if justice and law enforcement were actually conducted to keep society safe and peaceful as should be, the per capita incarceration rate and the real number of Africans incarcerated in the USA would be even far higher.

The “amusing outcome” is actually that when you look at the crime rates of East Asians, you see similar rates as in east Asia, and if you look at all other ethnicities’ crime rates anywhere they are, you also see similar patterns, not matter how removed they are from each other.

These are not complicated or challenging things, the problem is just that a new kind of delusional religion has been constructed around believing nonsense as a base assumption.
by mothballed | 2025-08-27 13:25:16+00:00
I remember how relieved the Sandy Hook families were after the Alex Jones judgement. Alex Jones said some vile things, but the biggest thing bothering those families was the death of their kids.

But the families couldn't go after the murderer (who killed himself), or even the murderer's upbringing by the mother (Lanza shot her). They desperately needed someone to clamp down on, but everything directly proximal was out of grasp. They couldn't get the gun laws changed either. It drove them insane.

The families started blaming Alex Jones, the closest vile person around with big pockets (who did say some pretty insane lies about their kids), for everything wrong with their lives and eventually won a settlement large enough you would think he killed the kids themselves. And from what I can tell, it was a weight off their shoulders when they did. Whatever in their brains that needed to hold someone accountable, they did it, and it was soothing to them.
by matrss | 2025-08-27 13:25:44+00:00
I don't think it uses some special type in any way. Rather, if you use sxml to build html in scheme and have a node in there that is a string, then the natural way to serialize this sxml into html will be to safely quote the string. Afterall, if you wanted html tags to be preserved and interpreted in the output, you would first parse the string into sxml and put that into your document. This is the difference between working with structured data vs. plain string interpolation.

But of course this only applies when you use sxml. Artanis apparently can also use plain strings or templates as responses, in which case you will have to take care of safely encoding things too.
by mantas | 2025-08-27 13:25:52+00:00
It was very strange when Germany was one of the countries blocking protectionist policies for car industry. If they keep going for short profit avoiding retaliatory policies, it may get awry.

I think there will be even stronger trend of european brands put on Chinese made cars. Like Renault is already doing with Dacia Spring. Brands themselves will survive, even companies themselves may survive, but many of them may be just headquarters. Moving production means supply chain follows. And that's where most of the jobs are. Over time R&D will follow factories. So for the job market it could be pretty close to full-on crash.
by suggestion | 2025-08-27 13:26:11+00:00
Why are you just making stuff up?

Exact quote from second article

"Furthermore, the SSRIs were accorded a rock-star status as effective antidepressants that they did not deserve. Most troubling from the standpoint of misleading the general public, pharmaceutical companies heavily promoted the “chemical imbalance” trope in their direct-to-consumer advertising."

There second article admits the overuse of the term while trying to defend psychiatry for never officially adopting it, but everyone who's been on them knows that's exactly what they were told about their effectiveness, so whether the trope originated with the pharmaceutical companies (my assertion) or not, they were still way over prescribed and there's no statistically significant evidence they actually work when controlling for confounders, as the first meta analysis clearly demonstrates.
by extraisland | 2025-08-27 13:26:26+00:00
If you need to get your power from elsewhere. This raises several issues:

- This increases demand on other sources of energy. If there is a sudden change in demand you have a price spike. This leads to an increase in price to consumers.

- If the grid also has to be re-balanced. This has a financial cost in of itself. If the grid can't be re-balanced you can have blackouts. Blackout can potentially kill people, it effects business etc.

- If you are getting it from other countries, this means you are reliant on another nation for your energy needs. This is a security issue. e.g. Norway threatened to ration energy exports back in 2022. This would of course increase the price.

- Energy prices have a knock affect to everything in the economy and are a significant driver of price inflation. This obvious has an adverse affect on the economy.

Subsidies are paid for via taxation. At the moment the UK is likely to increase taxation again in October as they were unable to cut benefits earlier this year. The larger the subsidies a government are paying the more money they need collect in taxation, or you have to borrow. The UK is unlikely to be able to collect much more tax, and we are borrowing a huge amount of money as it is.
by diddid | 2025-08-27 13:26:49+00:00
To have a conversation about the US government buying a stake in Intel, and the threats of China in that space, requires one to have a conversation about both politics and ideology. It’s disingenuous to claim anything else. And to point out the irony of the passing fad on straws but deep love of fast fashion highlights the hypocrisy of US society in general and why we are incapable of having nice things or getting anything meaningful done at a scale of other countries such as China, Taiwan or even South Korea. And love or hate DEI you also can’t say companies like Target jump on and off that band wagon at shareholder will, when they aren’t ever jumping on the “we should invest in R&D and the next generation” because why would they, we haven’t asked them to so why would any other company Intel included.
by seethishat | 2025-08-27 13:27:28+00:00
"On the ground" = WoW sensors. WoW sensors have been around a long time (see link). And, humans probably should not have any say about that. If humans could override WoW, then the landing gear could be deployed or retracted when it should not and cause a lot of damage due to human error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS
by abricot | 2025-08-27 13:27:28+00:00
> Virgin Islands

Denmark tried to offhand the islands multiple times.

"The islands were eventually sold to the United States for $25 million ($613,570,000 in 2024) which took over the administration on 31 March 1917 and renamed the territory the United States Virgin Islands."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies

The controversy is more how it got in the hands of Denmark in the first place.
by Amezarak | 2025-08-27 13:27:41+00:00
Sometimes “themes” are just history repeating. There’s no evidence of this.

The timeline is also problematic because it’s entirely possible Acts was written first. Indeed IMO an earlier dating of Acts is pretty likely, the story is abruptly terminated after Paul has been in Rome two years with no natural conclusion, suggesting the narrative ended there because that took the author up to current events (60), where Josephus obviously wrote much later.
by a57721 | 2025-08-27 13:28:31+00:00
> you still need a higher % of trustworthiness than LLMs can provide for parts of the business and data layers

For many domain-heavy systems, it's not even the trustworthiness; just getting the business logic right requires a lot of work and lots of iterations with in-house domain experts and clients, there's no way LLMs can do that.
by pengaru | 2025-08-27 13:28:43+00:00
Last I checked it's trivial to not spend your time and/or money on such stupid apps.

checks his pixel 8a yep, there's no games installed here

The amount of people in both this and the reddit thread treating the poster like some minor without responsibility for their actions is pathetic.

This is a grown ass adult pissing their time and money away on mobile games. Then when they realize how totally reckless they've been, seek a f*cking refund? And people are calling for laws protecting this grown ass adult from themselves? We're clearly not talking about some eight year old people.

Quit expecting some nanny state to do your adulting for you and grow the fuck up.

I'll defer to the late George Carlin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pz8jO2Sht0&t=460s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leWjdWUR_KI&t=85s