MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dspillett | 2025-08-12 10:36:45+00:00
Another problem with Boox is the disregard of the requirements of the GPL family of licences. I've been interested in some of their devices but won't touch them due to that (and now due to the issue you stated - though I was unaware there was un-disablable “telemetry”, I'd have to look into that if they ever did something about the lack of GPL compliance).
by averageRoyalty | 2025-08-12 10:38:35+00:00
It'll be interesting to see what this substantiates to.

> "Specifically, conduct that prevents or prohibits the direct downloading or sideloading of native apps and conduct that prevents or prohibits developers and users from using alternative payment methods." - Justice Beach

This reads to me like a potential allowance of non app store payments in apps without a cut for Apple (or a reduced one) and potentially alternative app stores.
Germany inkssso debt collector – question
by thegio | 2025-08-12 10:38:39+00:00
Hello guys , basically I was working almost 4 years ago in Germany and while I was left didnt paid my credit card card . I have short job offer now just for 60 days , I don’t have any adres or item in Germany the debt collector was looking for me on my email and sending me notices through the years the thing is I don’t think they was going to court because just few days ago I was receiving reminder with the same text they will going to court. Basically I want to know for 2 Months if they located me can garnished my salary so fast or getting arrest warrant or something ? The debt is around 2 thousand
by dghughes | 2025-08-12 10:38:55+00:00
I'm 56 now and I'd agree. I bike in the summer for exercise and I drink while on the go as needed. I always got a headache after exercising. A regular headache not a migraine (never had one).

My discovery was Pedialyte it's meant for children but it's like the adult version or Gatorade. I drink it before I exercise and also drink as needed. I feel normal no headaches not dehydrated.

edit: I also have hypothyroidism so my hypothalamus must also be crap at regulating my thirst maybe?
by zerof1l | 2025-08-12 10:39:20+00:00
> ... that these "reasoning" models can often produce incoherent, logically unsound answers when questions include irrelevant clauses or deviate even slightly from common templates found in their training data.

I have encountered this problem numerous times, now. It really makes me believe that the models do not really understand the topic, even the basics but just try to predict the text.

One recent example was me asking the model to fix my docker-compose file. In it, there's the `network: host` for the `build` part. The model kept assuming that the container would be running with the host network and kept asking me to remove it as a way to fix my issue, even though it wouldn't do anything for the container that is running. Because container runs on `custom_net` network only. The model was obsessed with it and kept telling me to remove it until I explicitly told that it is not, and cannot be the issue.

``` services:

app: build: network: host networks: custom_net: ...

```
by Delk | 2025-08-12 10:39:22+00:00
I lived in a city but I got a connection at ~48k on a V.90 regularly.

It did depend on line quality, though. We had some kinds of splitters and internal cabling in the house for allowing multiple phones (and eventually the modem), and I remember that prior to some changes made to that, I only used to get up to ~40k.
by perlgeek | 2025-08-12 10:40:54+00:00
> Needless to say, the early high was soon filled with inevitable dread, as the items and lists in the app kept on growing and I struggled to keep up with the brutal requirements of life as it is.

That resonates with me.

I also think that OP tried to use his TODO app for habits:

>> Todoist: Great until I realized I was gaming the points system instead of doing actual work. Turns out completing “drink water” 8 times a day doesn’t make you productive.

I use a very simple habit tracker to track the things I want to do regularly, it has no gamification, just a simple notification once per day per habit.

These days I don't use a TODO app regularly; everyday tasks such as groceries, household tasks etc. work fine without it. When lots of tasks pile up and I struggle to keep track, I use a text file. Those are usually short-lived.

I also have a shared Todoist list with my wife, but we mostly use it for as a shopping list, not really a TODO app.
by Palmik | 2025-08-12 10:41:54+00:00
I think UK OSA in its current state is bad, but I also think Wikipedia losing this case is good.

Here is Wikipedia's original case:

> The Wikimedia Foundation shares the UK government’s commitment to promoting online environments where everyone can safely participate. The organization is not bringing a general challenge to the OSA as a whole, nor to the existence of the Category 1 duties themselves. Rather, the legal challenge focuses solely on the new Categorisation Regulations that risk imposing Category 1 duties (the OSA’s most stringent obligations) on Wikipedia.

They were asking for special carve-out just for Wikipedia. This was not some principled stance.

Now that they they lost the challenge, they might have to block visitors from UK, which will bring bigger awareness to how bad the current implementation of UK OSA is.
by trabant00 | 2025-08-12 10:42:10+00:00
> I don’t think there is a single key to intelligence but rather that, unfortunately for both the philosophers and dreamers, intelligence is a vast, complex collection of simpler processes.

I don't think intelligence can be separated from the physical body, world and the interactions between them. A human brain grown in a jar would not be intelligent. Even if you could somehow communicate with it. Human abstractions that stray too far from empirical experience are nothing but hallucinations.

Nor can intelligence be separated from general intelligence. A domain specific "AI" will always have unacceptable shortcommings. For example a programming "AI" not being able to deal with the X Y problem.

TLDR: I am betting on AI being at least a century away. And not being a sure thing even in a millennium.
by eadmund | 2025-08-12 10:42:46+00:00
> If I switched to Emacs locally, I'd still have to maintain a working knowledge of vi and context switch when in a remote shell.

Even ignoring the possibility of installing Emacs on remote systems, there are still alternatives:

1. You can run remote shells within Emacs, and edit files remotely using TRAMP. When you are editing a remote file, shell commands run from Emacs run on the remote system.

2. You could use Evil, the Emacs implementation of vim. Then you would use the same bindings everywhere.

3. I have been running Emacs locally for literal decades now, but I still remember and use vi frequently, both locally and remotely. It’s really not a problem.

I feel like there must be an editor version of the Blub Paradox.
by general1726 | 2025-08-12 10:43:28+00:00
Because management is ultimately working with people and managing human resources to achieve results on tasks. If developers will get replaced, management will be redundant and will get replaced too.

Then only C suites remain. That's necessary because you still need to have some decision making process and some vision which you want to achieve.

The problem here is that basically anyone can setup a company of 1-5 people, buy AI model you are using and start competing with you. Ultimate run to the bottom.

And of course this is going to work only for purely software companies. The moment you are working with hardware in any shape or form, you essentially can't replace your workers - be it line manufacturing, embedded development or sys admins. When you have workers you also need to manage them, so AI as a whole has very limited usability in those companies.
by katzenversteher | 2025-08-12 10:44:13+00:00
In my GM days, I had a lot of trouble with players that tried really their best to completely leave the path I prepared for them.

You are right though and it's not that I completely dislike the LLMs "flexibilty" and openness to suggestions. However, it's also super easy to use it for "cheating". E.g. it generated a scenario with an evil entity about to attack me and some friendly NPC and I could "solve" that problem by telling the NPC "remember the device I gave you last week and told you to always keep on hand? pull the trigger now!" (that never happend, at least to the LLMs knowledge) and the LLM made up some device that shot a beam of magic light at the creature and stopped it.
by ghaff | 2025-08-12 10:45:50+00:00
Not really. Once Windows came in, Excel was pretty much the best game in town. Lotus didn't really do a great job on Windows. There were some attempts at more integrated office suites but they didn't really take off. There were also some attempts at different spreadsheet models but people were probably too used to essentially the original Visicalc model. Not sure that Excel was anymore effectively shareware than any of its competitors.
by myaccountonhn | 2025-08-12 10:45:52+00:00
I mean maybe these juniors are geniuses, but I often find it very non-obvious why LLM-generated code it wrong and it requires me to have an even deeper knowledge. Sometimes the code is correct, but overly complicated.

One small example was a coworker that generated random numbers with AI using `dd count=30 if=/dev/urandom | tr -c "[a-z][A-Z]" | base64 | head -c20` instead of just `head -c20 /dev/urandom | base64`. I didn't actually know `dd` beyond that it's used for writing to usb-sticks, but I suddenly became really unsure if I was missing something and needing to double check the documentation. All that to say that I think if you vibe-code, you really need to know what you're generating and to keep in mind that other will need to be able to read and understand what you've written.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-12 10:46:06+00:00
Both Eurosceptics and pro-federalists routinely claim that 80% of all European law originates at the EU Commission - the exact number surely depends on the precise definition of law, but if both sides of this argument agree on a number as high as 80% then summarizing it as "most" is the right wording.

And if 80% of your law is coming from the EU Commission, then it's correct to say most power was given up to a foreign government. Because the EU is a government, according to its own fiercest proponents.

>> That's why reform and Nigel farage have been pushing for many years on leaving the European institutions.

> Which one? And with whom?

All of them. You may have noticed he won the referendum to leave the EU and now his party is the most popular party in Britain according to the polls, largely due to his policy of leaving the ECHR too.

The European institutions are captured by an ideology that there can be no compromises on mass migration ever. This position is insane so they can't win votes on this platform, and therefore their strategy is to abuse various supra-national institutions that were sold to the public as doing other things and then written into the constitution so their decisions can't be overruled.
by eadmund | 2025-08-12 10:47:39+00:00
The Wayland framing at the end strikes me as misleading. This gets it exactly right:

> Or maybe StarDict would have started asking for special permissions to let it work on Wayland, and users would have accepted those defaults the same way they currently do.

Yes, that’s what it would do. Its installer might even configure that special permission automatically, without user intervention.

Malware’s gonna mal. Wayland might help defend against some things, but it’s not going to defend against packages installed as part of the distro.
by rambambram | 2025-08-12 10:48:28+00:00
> There's something about manually writing and copying over TODOs to the next month that makes you really question if you still need to do it, and if you do, gives you a reminder that you still haven't done it.

This is also key for me. Striking through an item that's on my list for some time and that I just decided doesn't matter feels just as good as marking some item as done. Undecided items indeed go to the next list, and just the act of writing down the same item on a new list forces you to reconsider it.

List done? Timestamp it and throw it in the archive box.
by danterolle | 2025-08-12 10:49:29+00:00
There’s no specific reason, I just liked the idea of a little elf/goblin having the freedom to draw whatever they wanted. At first, I wanted to call this project "Folletto" (in Italian, that means elf), but then I thought it would be better to keep an extremely simple name: a tiny elf who picks up his pencil and starts drawing. Tiny Elf.
by averageRoyalty | 2025-08-12 10:49:36+00:00
This obviously hasn't taken off on HN, but absolutely you should pursue it. This is a fantastic use of AI, and you've already done the leg work making it functional and building a concise "what is it" site that is very clear.

There are many non native speakers in many countries, this could very quickly become a great global service. Be careful with privacy and hosted data, especially medical.

Well done to you!
by eru | 2025-08-12 10:49:40+00:00
> As shitty as C++ is from today's PoV, the entire gaming industry switched over within around 3 years towards the end of the 90s.

Did they? What's your evidence? Are you including consoles?

Btw, the alternatives in the 1990s were worse than they are now, so the bar to clear for eg C or C++ were lower.
by red369 | 2025-08-12 10:49:56+00:00
I think this is terrible, but I suppose I think it is less bad if ChatGPT didn’t get the phone number from the bank’s files/data.

If ChatGPT just provided it from public info/the training set, am I wrong to think that isn’t as bad?

Just for clarity, I think it’s not a good idea to use LLMs if you care whether the answer is right or wrong. So this is a terrible use case.
by opan | 2025-08-12 10:50:57+00:00
My first thought reading this was "who's Corbin Bleu?", but I guess that's how they get you. Next I'd check the article and contribute to its popularity (by views anyway). Similar to Distrowatch where you curiously click the most obscure distros near the top of the rankings to see what they are, which increases their rank even more.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-12 10:51:08+00:00
If the best thing you can say about the EU membership is there were lots of exceptions, that is an argument for leaving, not staying.

In reality the exceptions were mostly a work of fiction. For example, the UK was originally assured that the human rights principles they'd originally proposed as a vague set of aspirations would never be made into law, because they weren't suited to be law. Then the EU did that anyway, so the UK got a "carve out" written into the treaties, and it was reported as such to the public. Then the ECJ ruled that it wasn't allowed to have such a carveout and would have to enforce ECHR and ECJ rulings on human rights anyway.

In other words: people were lied to. There was no carveout, not even when every country signed a treaty that spelled out one clear as day. This is how the EU rolls.
by jon-wood | 2025-08-12 10:51:57+00:00
Maybe this makes me a grumpy old man, but I feel like if you're primary role is to write software which interacts with a SQL database you should understand how to interact directly with that database. Not because you're going to do it frequently, but because understanding the thing your ORM is abstracting away for you allows you to more intelligently use those abstractions without making whoever runs the underlying database cry.
by eru | 2025-08-12 10:52:36+00:00
Pattern matching should make the language less verbose, not more. (Similar for many of the other things you mentioned.)

> When you know what you are doing with C pointers, the compiler just doesn't get in the way.

Alas, it doesn't get in the way of you shooting your own foot off, too.

Rust allows unsafe and other shenanigans, if you want that.
by bux93 | 2025-08-12 10:53:18+00:00
Without open shell, you can fairly easily ignore the start menu by just starting to type after you press the win-button; it sanely defaults to search. Then you just set the main taskbar to align to the left and remove the search bar and whatever stuff they shove in there from it.

Windows 2000 was the GOAT, it looked perfectly OK, had NT underpinnings, was stable and had pretty good hardware support. You could probably run it today if you don't play games or have a non-postscript/HPL printer.
by fakedang | 2025-08-12 10:53:23+00:00
UKIP was dead when BoJo was in power. But of course, the Tories under May, BoJo and Sunak amped up immigration to record levels, so now there's a stronger case for Farage to contest. While UKIP was largely about Euroscepticism, Reform has openly racist undertones in their pitch to voters.
by throwdbaaway | 2025-08-12 10:53:42+00:00
So GLM-4.5 series omits the embedding layer and the output layer when counting both the total parameters and the active parameters:

> When counting parameters, for GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, we include the parameters of MTP layers but not word embeddings and the output layer.

This matches with the calculation I did for GLM-4.5 (355B A32B):

In [14]: 356732107008 - (775946240 * 2) # token_embd / output are 775946240 each. assume omitted Out[14]: 355180214528 In [15]: 356732107008 - 339738624000 - (775946240 * 2) # parameters that are always active Out[15]: 15441590528 In [16]: 339738624000 * 8 / 160 # parameters from activated experts Out[16]: 16986931200.0

Meanwhile, GPT OSS series includes both the embedding layer and the output layer when counting the total parameters, but only includes the output layer when counting the active parameters:

> We refer to the models as “120b” and “20b” for simplicity, though they technically have 116.8B and 20.9B parameters, respectively. Unembedding parameters are counted towards active, but not embeddings.

And Qwen3 series includes both the embedding layer and the output layer when counting both the total parameters and the active parameters.

Why there is no standard in counting? Which approach is more accurate?
by akdor1154 | 2025-08-12 10:53:58+00:00
> While Apple argued it imposed those restrictions for security concerns and risks, Justice Beach ruled it remained anti-competitive.

> "The fact that Apple has imposed those centralised app distribution system for the purpose of protecting security, does not entail that there is not also a substantial anti-competitive purpose involved."

Hoping against all else that this forces Apple to build us a gate in the garden walls and allow other app stores. Platform control is market manipulation.
by suspended_state | 2025-08-12 10:54:05+00:00
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is just my interpretation of the situation from the comments above.

I don't have an answer to your question, which seems more general and doesn't correspond to the situation described by the article anyway: here the corporations have the right to use copyrighted materials to train their model, in the same way that you are allowed to learn from the same materials. You might even learn it by heart if you want to, but copyright laws forbid you from reproducing it, and in this instance the Japanese law tries to follow the same principle for AI models.

How should the corporations implement their training to prevent their models to reproduce the material verbatim is their problem, not the copyright holder's, in exactly the same fashion if you learn an article by heart, it's on you to make sure you won't recite it to the public.
by torium | 2025-08-12 10:55:04+00:00
Not sure I understand what I'm looking at.

At 0:47, which one is the e-ink, left hand side or right hand side? Initially I thought the e-ink was on the left hand side, but it has SO MUCH GLARE.

Also on the intro at 0:10 you can see the glare move across as they tilt it.

More glare: 0:26 (left) 0:28 (top left).

I have an e-ink reader and it has zero glare. I read it on the beach as clearly as paper, I'm not exaggerating.

They've done the hardest part (the latency), how don't know how to explain fumbling this badly on the easy part. It shouldn't have glass in front!!
by Telaneo | 2025-08-12 10:55:18+00:00
You're probably right that in the past, things would just be filed away, but then, even if it's a pain to find, there's hopefully an obvious place to find it. Old newspapers got onto microfilm and then into libraries, or were otherwise preserved to some degree by their publishers.

Good luck finding someone's archive of a Youtube channel. Sure it probably exists, probably even several copies of it, but unless XxX_PussyDestroyer69_XxX on reddit wrote in a comment that they personally archived that particular channel, you're never going to be able to get in touch with the relevant people to actually get a hold of what you're looking for.

I wish peer-to-peer video ended up being more popular than it is, if only to have an obvious place to put those archives people otherwise juat hoard foe themselves, but I have little faith that will happen for as long as Youtube remains the only viable video platform out there for your average Joe.
Ask HW: How to find REX prefix, Modr/M, SIB, Displacement? in x86-64 assembly
by BitShift_- | 2025-08-12 10:56:16+00:00
How to find REX prefix, ModR/M, SIB, and Displacement bytes in x86-64 machine code?

please explain step-by-step using the example instruction:

mov rax, [r8 + rcx * 8 + 0x10]
by tialaramex | 2025-08-12 10:57:40+00:00
> Second, you could define the meaning of OOB by just saying “pointers are integers"

This means losing a lot of optimisations, so in fact when you say you "don't buy" this argument you only mean that you don't care about optimisation. Which is fine, but this does mean the "improved" C isn't very useful in a lot of applications, might as well choose Java.
by thealecpow | 2025-08-12 10:57:42+00:00
Setting aside whether federalizing D.C. policing is wise, there’s a simple checkbook question people miss: Guard deployments aren’t free.

In D.C. 2020, the Guard put the peak daily cost at ~$2.65M for ~5,000 troops, about $530 per Guard/day. That’s a decent order-of-magnitude yardstick for today. Source: Reuters (contemporaneous) – https://www.reuters.com/article/world/what-was-the-cost-for-the-national-guard-to-deploy-in-dc-up-to-26-million-a-idUSKBN23J05Y/ For a rough scale: 800–1,200 troops = mid–six figures per day, before you add transport/lodging decisions that move the number a lot. A recent LA activation was budgeted $134M for 60 days ($2.2M/day) off DoD testimony, which matches that ballpark.

If you want a plain-English explanation of what drives those day rates (lodging, per diem, lift, command overhead) and how to scale them, this explainer lays out the math: https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-does-national-guard-deplo...
by javcasas | 2025-08-12 10:58:02+00:00
I have seen this quite often. I blame it on the obsession with UML along with the limitations of UML. I/E in UML every one draws boxes that have arrows to other boxes, but no one draws boxes that have boxes inside them. Instead, you draw a box with an arrow going out and then back to itself, hence _it has to be a loop because the arrow does a loop_.

That's why React components are _weird and wrong_, SQL CTEs are _overly complicated_, and functional programming is _impossible to understand_. It's all boxes with other boxes inside them, instead of next to them, and many people can't understand you can nest boxes many times.
by mort96 | 2025-08-12 10:58:23+00:00
> No they didn’t, unless you and I have wildly different definitions of “a fair amount”. The developers who did that were an extreme minority because Internet Explorer, which had >90% market share, didn’t support application/xhtml+xml. It was a curiosity, not something people actually did in non-negligible numbers.

Despite being an extreme minority of strict parsing enthusiasts who decided to explicitly opt into strict parsing, they still messed up enough for me to occasionally have encountered "XML Parse Error" pages. You'd think that if anyone managed to correctly generate strict XHTML, it'd be those people.