MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xkbarkar | 2025-09-13 13:16:36+00:00
You know what, let’s turn popular city parks to windmill and solarparks. NY central park for example. Copenhagen has a few beloved open green places we could clean out and replace with solarcells, so does Berlin.

Im unscientifically guessing support for nc energy would rise very quickly and wed have a whole bunch of them within a decade.

Source, I live near a windmill, they are loud as f*k. I drive by solaparks nearly every day.

They remind me of those horrible deforested areas in Sweden called kalhygge. Nothing green about those atrocities.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-09-13 13:17:06+00:00
So why do you think asking this question here would yield a satisfying answer, especially how the HN community likes to dispute any vague conclusions for anything as hyped as AI training?

To counter your question, what makes you think that's not the case? Do you think Mistral/Moonshot/Qwen/etc. are all employing their own data labelers? Why would you expect this kind of transparency from for-profit bodies that are evaluated in the billions?
Show HN: ChildSafe Media – AI parental guidance for movies, shows, and games
by moorst | 2025-09-13 13:17:28+00:00
I’m a parent who got tired of searching “is [movie] okay for kids?” and finding outdated or paywalled sites.

I built ChildSafe Media, a free site that pulls in data from TMDB, IGDB, and Google Books, and uses AI to provide clear parental guidance.

No account necessary, no paywall, just search and see what parents need to know (violence, language, themes, etc.).

Would love feedback — especially on accuracy and what would make this most useful.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-13 13:18:17+00:00
Saying "there is zero substantial evidence" is cope at this point, they caught the guy. There was zero substantial evidence for it being a leftist/immigrant/woke/trans person. Now that they have the person, all evidence is pointing the other way: terminally online/incel/white/Mormon/rural/gamer/gun nut. Those people aren't leftists, they're groypers. So you have to update your estimate from "very unlikely" to "actually pretty likely".
by imiric | 2025-09-13 13:18:27+00:00
That's true. Although TBH, I'm not a fan of Emacs' key bindings. Some short ones like `C-a`, `C-e` are fine, but more advanced ones are difficult to memorize and force your fingers in unnatural positions. I prefer modal UIs and find Vim's keybindings much easier to remember and type. So for me evil-mode has been essential, and aside from some quirks, it works as well as in Vim. Readline also supports vi mode, which I enable in any app that uses it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-13 13:18:28+00:00
Side note regarding proton that it seems that people are mentioning the fact that ip is being tracked with user creation in proton mail?

So if someone downloads proton vpn and uses it that way, then I always considered it to be the best vpn (even better than mullvad) but I guess I was wrong...

I would still use protonvpn but I will try to migrate towards quite frankly more services from now on.. Email should just be a way to discuss what should be your matrix account or xmpp or even signal...

Another thing that I want to point out is that I had once went into network permissions etc. in proton docs and tried to write a comment and write stuff etc. and I am not sure about the writing stuff but although these do feel "encrypted" but I saw a thing in the api response when I did curl or something which showed logs so I assumed proton keeps logs..

Another problem I feel is that since proton is only encrypted via your password which you enter into the system and it seems that you can change the password if you have something like phone verification. Fundamentally something like this can only work if they have the keys, so they are having the keys to your encrypted account. I am sure that there are ways of adding your own private key too but how many people using proton are doing that?

Fundamentally, this is how the stack will work or has to work imo. You are trusting them because of lack of conflicts. They have built their name on privacy and so everyone will leave if it they are less private but the thing is, is that they might be using some open source tech that might have an update that couldn't be audited or somehow get hacked themselves and since proton might have some juicy targets like journalists. People's lives may be on the cutting edge.

I heard this somewhere that I wish to share, you want technologically private solutions not because you don't trust someone but rather that it should remove the need of trusting in the first place. Proton hasn't / can't reach it imo.

I don't mean any hate towards proton but that was my understanding. I still use it and in fact Please let me know if I caught something wrong or what I am saying is correct. My purpose is not to spread misinformation but rather inform my opinions/correct them if I am wrong.. (I may be wrong, I usually am [my most loved line from the book how to win friends and influence people])

I feel as if we need to get things like pi etc. or whatever and atleast to me hosting something like matrix seems okay-ish I am not sure. Email just doesn't feel as if a good protocol for privacy.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-13 13:19:35+00:00
But that expensive guaranteed price still wasn't enough to cover the actual costs and the EdF CFO resigned in protest.

Once that became too obvious to deny, after the French government had renationalised EdF, they were begging the UK government to give them more money, possibly buried in the contract for the second plant build.

For that build they stopped using CFD, a financial instrument designed for nuclear but which has massively helped renewables, be ause it couldn't hide the nuclear cost overruns. They're now charging electricity users in advance for the nuclear they are going to build with no guarantee of eventual costs.
by coolThingsFirst | 2025-09-13 13:19:37+00:00
There's still a lot of room for progress in social networks.

I'm planning an app where people are forced to talk to each other and learn more about each other, if they do not they are banned from the platform.

Going on Tinder to gather likes and never talk to anyone should be forbidden.This is the issue with social sites, they make it as generic as possible.
by skydhash | 2025-09-13 13:20:16+00:00
> That's the point - it's a higher level of abstraction.

That's not what abstraction is. When I type `echo Hello, World`, I don't have to deal with graphic drivers and test rendering to have the text on the screen. And I don't have to worry that "Goodbye" will appear instead.

> Not unlike say a boss telling a junior to change something?

Junior don't stay junior for long. And bosses usually give juniors less time to grow than people are allocating AI tools to actually prove themselves. Github copilot was more than 3 years ago. Today a new hire is expected to be productive on day one.
by Sophira | 2025-09-13 13:20:26+00:00
My understanding is that the GPL specifies that any further redistribution of binary code (by the licensee) has to come with an offer to be able to receive the source code, which they can then modify and redistribute under the original license. If the original licensor doesn't actually allow access to the source code, there's no way for that to happen and I'd argue that the licensor is being unreasonable by asking licensees to comply with something they have no chance of being able to comply with. (Short of decompilation, which wouldn't yield the original source code.)

I have no idea of the legal implications of all this (I'm not a lawyer), but there has to be some kind of legal thing that prevents the original licensor from being unreasonable in this way, I'd hope?
by hereme888 | 2025-09-13 13:21:29+00:00
App-store listing is a whole other animal. I don't care to go through all that just to share my app. I also don't care to resolve every technical issue others experience. Every time I've thought about generating revenue by selling my apps, two thoughts come to mind: my code is not professional-grade, and the field is so competitive than within months a professional will likely create a better app so why pollute the web with something subpar.

The hacker on the street corner isn't distributing his "secret sauce" because it wouldn't meet standards, but it works well for him, and it was cheap/free.
by Sharlin | 2025-09-13 13:21:36+00:00
The point is that you don’t have a "seek" operation available. You are given a bytestream and aren’t told if you’re at the start, in a valid position between code points, or in the middle of a code point. UTF-8’s self-synchronizing property means that by reading a single byte you immediately know if you’re in the middle of a code point, and that by reading and discarding at most two additional bytes you’re synchronized and can start/return decoding. That wouldn’t be possible if continuation bytes used all the bits for payload.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-13 13:21:40+00:00
Yes. And in Fukushima, they apparently actually lowered an existing natural barrier.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Tepco-Rem...

In addition, they didn't have hydrogen recombinators, which for example are/were standard in all German plants. Those plants also had special requirements for bunkers for the Diesel backup generators so they couldn't be knocked out by water.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-13 13:21:55+00:00
If you were interested in co-designing a CPU with software the TTA is an attractive way to do it, particularly in that it is easy to design it so you can do more than one MOV at the same time and thus have explicit parallelism.

The tough part though is that memory is usually slow and you have to wait an undetermined number of cycles for data to get back from DRAM and while one operation is blocked all the other operations are blocked.

I guess you could have something like this with a fancy memory controller that could be programming explicitly to start fetching ahead of time so data is available when it is needed, at least most of the time.
by joenot443 | 2025-09-13 13:22:53+00:00
> If the candidate reads that this may be the case, asks for, obviously, that reason, and the interviewer confirms that they mean "any", then it's a red flag for that interviewer

I think the confusing part to me is why a rational candidate would assume it'd be a good signal to use an esoteric language to solve a problem in the first place. Like my understanding is that J would be a pretty inappropriate choice if you were trying to demonstrate your D/S knowledge, which is typically what that part of the interview is meant to be for. Apart from the round of applause on HN they'd receive later for being so very clever, what's the actual benefit for the candidate for using Prolog or J?
by somat | 2025-09-13 13:23:04+00:00
I remember when experimenting with win98 emulation ~ 10, 15 years ago that this nearly made the vm useless. windows just sitting there busy waiting. I did find a patch that somehow added a HLT state to the kernel. If I remember correctly the patch or driver or whatever it was came off some sketchy Russian site. so probably safe, a labor of love from some brilliant low level programmer who just wanted w98 to emulate well. but I always worried about it.
by yanis_t | 2025-09-13 13:24:15+00:00
From my shallow understanding, it seems that human training is involved heavily in the post-training/fine-tuning stage, after the base model has been solidified already.

In that case, how is the notion of truthiness (what the model accepts as right or wrong) affected during this stage , that is affected by human beings vs. it being sealed into the basic model itself, that is truthiness being deduced by the method / part of its world model.
by tomatocracy | 2025-09-13 13:25:18+00:00
Run-of-the-river hydro in all but a handful of sites tends to be quite dependent on rainfall levels. This means production levels can vary quite meaningfully both seasonally and more importantly year-to-year.

It's definitely reliable in the sense that hydro stations can basically last forever if properly maintained (there are plenty of hydro stations operating today which are more than 100 years old) but it's not quite a silver bullet.
by Terretta | 2025-09-13 13:26:14+00:00
> act more like a platform

As of 19 hours into the post, this is the only comment that explains what's actually behind this sort of program.

Precursor thinking from Altman (mentions YC): https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sa...

This is how it begins. You make sure you're under the hood of everything. Everyone is "building on" you. You see all the action.

While this can be how it ends: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/19/twitter-officially-bans-th...

But not always. For an example that ended differently, Amazon opened to third party sellers, on the side, earlier than people might remember, 1999: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazoncom-in-a-bazaar-move/

And how that went: https://theconversation.com/amazon-is-no-longer-a-retail-sit...

This is how you put Multivac to work, and profit.
by freedomben | 2025-09-13 13:27:28+00:00
You make a good point, I guess the issue is not manufacturers considering it an appliance or even users considering it an appliance. My main issue is with them intentionally locking it down from the user. For example, in the washing machine I see no reason for it to have a locked bootloader with no way for the owner of the device to unlock it. If some Yahoo wants to hack their washing machine and run Doom and Linux, I don't see why that should matter to Samsung or Whirlpool or Google or Apple or whoever.

So I guess my issue is not thinking of these general purpose computers as appliances, so much as it is treating the owner of the device as a security threat. Secure by default is good, as the vast, vast majority of users would not be tinkering with stuff. But if they want to (and that can fully void warranties IMHO), and they own the device, I don't think the manufacturers should be blocking them.
by happy_dog1 | 2025-09-13 13:28:25+00:00
I've shared this once on HN before, but it's very relevant to this question and just a really great article so I'll reshare it here:

https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-int...

it explores the world of outsourced labeling work. Unfortunately hard numbers on the number of people involved are hard to come by because as the article notes:

"This tangled supply chain is deliberately hard to map. According to people in the industry, the companies buying the data demand strict confidentiality. (This is the reason Scale cited to explain why Remotasks has a different name.) Annotation reveals too much about the systems being developed, and the huge number of workers required makes leaks difficult to prevent. Annotators are warned repeatedly not to tell anyone about their jobs, not even their friends and co-workers, but corporate aliases, project code names, and, crucially, the extreme division of labor ensure they don’t have enough information about them to talk even if they wanted to. (Most workers requested pseudonyms for fear of being booted from the platforms.) Consequently, there are no granular estimates of the number of people who work in annotation, but it is a lot, and it is growing. A recent Google Research paper gave an order-of-magnitude figure of “millions” with the potential to become “billions.” "

I too would love to know more about how much human effort is going into labeling and feedback for each of these models, it would be interesting to know.
by Yoric | 2025-09-13 13:28:42+00:00
Let me rephrase.

I know brilliant people who took up knitting to keep their hands busy while they think over their difficult problems. But that only works if you can knit in your work hours. Sadly, despite clearly improving the productivity of these people, this is a fireable offense in many jobs.

I'm not saying that the only way to think through a hard problem is to work on boilerplate. If you are in a workplace where you can knit, or play table soccer, by all means, and if these help you, by all means, go for it.

What I'm thinking out loud is that if we're dedicating 100% of our time to the hard problems, we'll hit a snag, and that boilerplate may (accidentally) serve as the padding that makes sure we're not at these 100%.

That being said, I'm not going to claim this as a certainty, just an idea.
by lvass | 2025-09-13 13:28:47+00:00
If you're having to use Caps lock as control, modal editing is probably worth it. The one thing that makes non-modal editing far superior to modal, for me, is how easy it is to reach my Control key, as the palm of my left hand is always hovering over it and I learned to press it with my palm without having to ever move my fingers or hitting the wrong key.

I think the vim model in particular is great in terms of becoming muscle memory in like, a few months. It saves a few keystrokes compared to Emacs specially if you're counting Control as a key press. Navigating is a tad nicer with hjkl being next to each other. Having to press Esc after each edit just sucks though.
by shaisjsh | 2025-09-13 13:29:30+00:00
> some subset of grunt work

What tasks are these? I don’t doubt they’re out there, but if I know the exact code that needs to be generated typing speed is not a bottle neck.

For me the slow part is determining what to write. And while AI helps with that (search, brainstorm, etc) by the time I know what to write trying to get the AI to enter those lines is often just a slow down. Much like writing up a ticket for a junior, I could write the code faster than I could write the English language rules describing how to write that code.
by layer8 | 2025-09-13 13:29:46+00:00
Another city would be picked to represent the rest of California, and the point is that using that city as a time zone ID would then work not only for future times, but also backwards for any times in the past. If, instead, you had America/California, or US/Pacific, those would be ambiguous either forward or backwards in time.

So the trade-off is timezones being specific to a particular city but remaining unambiguous forward and backward in time.

You can’t avoid pain when there is a change in the geographic area of a legislative time zone. But you can avoid the case of a time zone ID becoming ambiguous in terms of the UTC<—>local time mapping it’s supposed to define. The latter is the aim of the present scheme.
by invalidOrTaken | 2025-09-13 13:30:05+00:00
>But the only way to get these people visas was to post the jobs publicly and hide them as much as possible. They did this by the hundreds, and it wasn't really a cost saving measure - if you are trying to get anybody in particular from Microsoft or Amazon and they are already here on a Visa, you have to go through the process all over again to sponsor them.

The spirit of the law is that this should not be your intent---that your intent should be to fill the job requirements, not to hire a particular person.
by erichi | 2025-09-13 13:30:34+00:00
Thank for the feedback! I'm working on the update and will definitely address problems you've mentioned: - windows is not supported currently, i will add windows binary download link - i will add public profile page that can be shared as well as feature some nice replays on the main page - google login

Are you more interested in live streaming or just having a place to keep your coding replays?
by scaredofwatcher | 2025-09-13 13:31:24+00:00
I had created some comments on Charlie Kirk and I immediately deleted them because of this concern.

Mind you, I am in high school and am not even american but I just felt like this is such a high profile case that it might result in finally utilizing the spy machine that is social media. Everyone has kissed the ring.

As someone who comments on internet a lot. its disheartening because this type of thing can only be extended. Freedom of speech can sometimes be used to restrict other people's freedom of speech in some messy ways like making them lose jobs.

For all the america that boasts about its freedom of speech and freedom, frankly the option for most things becomes just this echo chamber esque X or Y and no agreement between anyone. Your freedom of speech on one topic makes you get a label that you then have to live through and that it can impact your lives.

I don't know what this phenomenon is called but I just feel like extremism is being spread in the name of freedom of speech from both sides of america in some sense. We have created a system where people have to agree to a political party on all of its opinions and you can't have disagreements and agreements at the same time.

So we've have had people just give up in the political process and felt as if the only thing that matters is competency. Frankly, competency is being curbed in the sense that things are being cherry picked now. Stock market is doing good when from what I know the job market is doing absolutely bad.

This is meta commentary on politics itself. If such polarization makes democracy give power to people who can look "competent", and the voting choices are limited and you are influenced 24x7 by algorithms you can't control.

I guess its not good. I feel as if nobody is commenting on the social issues except bernie and mamdani yet are talking about everything else.

What I like about mamdani is that his campaign was built on the idea of true competence in the sense that he shows how he would actually fix the issues instead of just wishy washing that he's going to do it.

Trump's epstein's files competence comes to my mind lmao.
by jolmg | 2025-09-13 13:33:22+00:00
> generally i feel that having more than half a dozen windows in a session makes the session unwieldy

> which would be the same problem if each was a gui window. try to find your way around 20 gui windows.

I mean, just like how you can organize tmux windows in tmux sessions, you can organize gui windows in workspaces and containers to arbitrary depths.
by jimmydoe | 2025-09-13 13:33:25+00:00
This.

I think his excellency in his own trade limited his vision for the 99% who just want to get by in the job. How many dev even deal with compiler directly these days? They write some code, fix some red underlines, then push, pray and wait for pipeline pass. LLMs will be gods in this process, and you can even beg another one if your current one does not work best.
by st-keller | 2025-09-13 13:33:49+00:00
That‘s exactly why i like AI too. I even let them play roles like „junior dev“, „product owner“ or „devops engineer“ and orchestrate them, to play together as a team - with guidance from me (usually the „solution architect“ or „investor“)! This „team“ achieves in weeks what we usually needed months for - for 2.40€/h*role!