MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-09-05 21:53:25+00:00
$1.5B is a nothing but a handslap for the big gold rush companies.

It's less than 1% Anthropic's valuation -- a valuation utterly dependent on all the hoovering up of others' copyrighted works.

AFAICT, if this settlement signals that the typical AI foundation model company's massive-scale commercial theft doesn't result in judgments that wipe out a company (and its execs), then we have confirmation that is a free-for-all for all the other AI gold rush companies.

Then making deals to license rights, in sell-it-to-us-or-we'll-just-take-it-anyway deals, becomes only a routine and optional corporate cost reduction exercise, but not anything the execs will lose sleep over if it's inconvenient.
by mcswell | 2025-09-05 21:53:27+00:00
"UNIX pipelines": Yes, this is where I stopped reading. The author claims that

> UNIX pipelines routinely compose dozens of programs into complex

> workflows, yet they require no type checking at the transport

> layer. The individual programs trust that data flowing between

> them consists of simple, agreed-upon formats—usually lines of

> text separated by newlines.

The transport layer is not the relevant layer; it's the programs in between that matter. If you're just looking for words or characters or something, that's straightforward enough--but the equivalent in programming is passing strings from one function to another. You run into problems when program 1 in the pipeline uses tab delimiters, whereas program 2 was expecting space characters or commas or something, and program 3 is expecting tokens in the pipe to be in a different order, or program 4 doesn't know what to do when some records have three tokens and others have four or two or something.
by elihu | 2025-09-05 21:53:32+00:00
You might be thinking about Gaza, where Hamas released a video of them digging up a water pipe and using it to make rockets.

The Telegraph released an article about how the EU is worried that Hamas might dig up EU-funded water lines to make rockets:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/eu-funded-...

This turned into something of an internet meme, with people claiming that Hamas was destroying their own critical water infrastructure to make rockets.

Apparently the actual pipe that was dug up in the video was originally installed by Israelis to supply water to an Israeli settlement, long since abandoned. It wasn't actually being used, and there were no prospects for it being used again any time soon.
by 9rx | 2025-09-05 21:53:43+00:00
I posit that you do need to seek and understand the ROI, else you will miss out on something better. I generally find great returns from writing comments, though. It is some of the best entertainment value I can find.

The returns aren't constant. There are periods where I no longer see the value and that's when I stop until I see the value again. But if you never find ROI, how does one find the motivation?
by the_af | 2025-09-05 21:54:26+00:00
I made a bunch of friends during the early internet (ok, not that early: during the phpbb forums era), some of which I even met in real life. From other countries than mine, too!

But I think I've aged and the internet has changed too. Today, I have the friends I need in real life, and I don't make friends online. Not sure if it's me or the world has changed, or both. Probably mostly me.
by rpcope1 | 2025-09-05 21:54:34+00:00
It's hard to impress upon people how big a change in capabilities there was when things like Milwaukee's M18 line came out and became common. I can remember when it was unimaginable to have a battery powered sawzall worth a damn, and it's even crazier to think the battery powered M18 impact guns now often will do better than most pneumatic ones. The 18 volt lithium tools (Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, Bosch, etc.) are everywhere and cheap now and kind are revolutionary in what kind of stuff they enable.
by louwrentius | 2025-09-05 21:55:45+00:00
If you decide not to use a forwarder, the DNS server will be truly independent.

The DNS server will contact the Root servers for the TLD namesevers of a domain, the TLD nameservers and then the actual authoritative nameserver for the particular domain.

No forwarder needed.

This means you bypass any DNS based filtering any DNS ‘forwarder’ may have in place.
by adolph | 2025-09-05 21:55:48+00:00
Yes, it was clear during the post epidemic chip shortage their primary customers were companies embedding it in various ways [0]. This has enabled them to execute on what I think is an excellent vision with the Pi Pico (including using it as a peripheral bridge on the 5).

At the same time, the B model and the 500 are oriented toward a general purpose tinkerer audience and RPi even highlights PCIe on the 5's homepage as if M.2 was natively on the board instead of a FPC connector (there is a caveat further down the page).

I appreciate RPi's vision and long lead times and think it would be interesting to hear the story of how they came to the decision of FPC plus power from 40 pin as opposed to building out M.2 (which could also be used for wireless, NPU/TPU, OCuLink, etc). Maybe it had to do with what they thought they could support with that Pico peripheral interconnect? Unlike standard PC makers they aren't taking a batteries included mobo chipset.

All aboard the PCI express This addition to Raspberry Pi allows you to connect an M.2 SSD to your Raspberry Pi, giving you speedy data transfer and super-fast boot.

0. https://www.pcmag.com/news/shortages-prompt-raspberry-pi-to-...

1. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/
by tptacek | 2025-09-05 21:56:37+00:00
I've met multiple business partners on HN, and friends I routinely hang out with in Chicago, and people I talk to in private chats most days. I've made more connections here than on any other group besides IRC #hack (a function of how old I was in the 1990s), and that includes the local politics Facebook group in my muni, which has introduced me to over a dozen people I now know IRL.
by mdp2021 | 2025-09-05 21:57:28+00:00
But what do you mean with "can".

Children are exposed to liars, to fools, to the stupid, to the unwise, to the corrupted in malice, to the weak in will... Since a very young age.

«Exposing» such frequent faults to children does not «normalize» it. It may, if the child is in a generally bad environment - but then, the target is the core environment, not the outer experience.
by vondur | 2025-09-05 21:57:34+00:00
The Leaf's used to be pretty bad as far as electric cars went, with no active battery cooling or heating. I was pretty tempted to get a used Bolt EV. I've seen them for sub 20k with less than 30k miles on them. I've been driving around in my wife's older Subaru Crosstrek plug in hybrid, which works fine for the limited amount of driving I do to commute to work. We plan to give that car to my son once he gets his license.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-05 21:57:36+00:00
If google is already a monopoly, and EU fines them and google adds more ads to their Eu customers as the parent posted, well guess what, I think that google still is a monopoly...

I doubt that google is a monopoly because they are the most competitive at what they do & thus have the market share. I have been using duckduckgo for honestly 3-4 years ago and I think that I have ublock so I don't see their ads but they are really nothing compared to google's ads and they rarely show even without adblocker (I think).

Duckduckgo is already really really competitive, You might argue that ddg uses bing and isn't independent but brave search is independent and comes really close to google to the point that you wouldn't know the difference.

I don't know the last time I used google but I love ddg's bangs etc.

I am sure that someone else can articulate what I am saying into something more logical as to why a monopoly can still exist even while being less competitive than competition.

And also I am saying that it is as easy as two clicks to change the default browser but it maybe speaks mountains that most people still don't switch from google to duckduckgo.

I sometimes want to recommend librewolf just because it has duckduckgo, ublock and sane defaults (except your web browsing deleted everytime/starting from clean slate (I think) and webgl stuff)
by backscratches | 2025-09-05 21:57:51+00:00
Whether you had the option to fast or not and made a choice to fast is up for debate. The leading hypothesis point to no: you did not have an option and you did not make a choice.

Some time ago you heard about fasting (you did not invent fasting) and the situation in your life became such that fasting was what you naturally were compelled to do (stress, digestion, you know better than I that you did not simply decide to fast free of any influence). Your "free will" is probably a fairy tale you tell yourself to feel better about your automaton existence.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-05 21:59:20+00:00
I'm pretty sure that's not true in the world of typography. Cursive there afaik mostly means that it has a ton of ligatures (i.e. a ton of "sorts.")

Fonts that are decorative, when I worked in prepress, were simply called "decorative." It just meant "not for body text" i.e. hard or annoying to read. I assume in the past it meant "don't buy a ton of these, and none in small sizes" because you weren't ever going to be putting a bunch on a page.
by pvtmert | 2025-09-05 21:59:48+00:00
Not podman user (but currently trying to install to give it a shot), this comment stream shows how even the documentation "randomly disappearing" on a project that claims in production-ready or stable state. (Or lack thereof)

On the contrary, docker documentation *is* stable, I had bookmarks from 10-years ago on the *latest* editions, that still work today. The final link may have changed, but at least, there is a redirect (or a text showing that has been moved) instead of plain 404/not-found.

This is a crucial part of the quality applications offer. There might've been 100s of podmans probably since Docker was launched more than 10 years ago, but none came close to maintain high-quality of documentation and user-interface (ie. cli commands, switches). Especially in the backward-compatible way.
by larusso | 2025-09-05 21:59:49+00:00
I’m more in the lurker camp. But sometimes I write a comment or want to reply to something. Every now and then I type a super long comment to simply leave the page before posting. Sometimes it’s the fear of not being clear enough and dreading the reply’s and or downvotes. Or the reason that I don’t want to steer things up with my believes. Don’t know. I have this problem that I generally find social interactions tiresome. Some topics are easy. But I don’t have the energy to start a debate over the internet about some random topic. So I refrain from posting with the feeling that inside I said my piece and move on.
by lukan | 2025-09-05 22:00:21+00:00
"The only thing I regret is when I get into pointless arguments, usually when I feel that my comment was misunderstood or misinterpreted."

I like that you try to learn from bad arguments, but don't forget, that many misunderstand on purpose, to "win" an argument. Or at least to score cheap karma points or virtual karma points from the audience. So there one can only learn to make arguments in a way that they are harder to be intentionally missunderstood, but those ain't truthfinding skills, they are debate technics.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-05 22:02:43+00:00
Seriously? As a boy, I didn't need to see naked boobs to know I wanted to see more naked boobs. Seeing them clothed was enough for me to know I wanted a closer look at what was under there. I know the lengths I was willing to go to to sneak my first Playboy, so I know what I would have done if I'd had today's Internet access.

I'm not opposed to measures that try to make it harder for kids to get at porn. But it's going to be pretty much impossible to do that as long as we want adults to have unimpeded access to it, and we do.

One option would be to put the responsibility on the distributor, and not give them the option of a "you must be 18 to enter" fig leaf: if a kid is found in possession of porn that can be traced to your web site, you face serious fines and possible imprisonment. But that would basically eliminate porn sites for everyone, since it would be impossible to prevent it from finding its way to kids, and we can't have that.
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-05 22:02:49+00:00
I think he is mostly right.

You can tell a lot about any software/system by looking at which features are the most developed ones, and Bluesky has blacklisting functionality blown to almost ridiculous dimensions and seems to be proud about it. That would correspond to a very censorious user base prone to quick judgments and moral posturing.

If the distilled essence of the prior "trials by Twitter" moved to Bluesky, the atmosphere must be pretty stuffy there.
by citizenpaul | 2025-09-05 22:03:07+00:00
I actually used the word biased in hopes of avoiding triggering someone like you by what I really meant. It is full of propaganda. Funded PR firm intentional propaganda and Wikipedia is complicit because they allow the propaganda they agree with and block the propaganda they do not agree with.

No I will not waste my time researching proof for someone that is being intentionally obtuse. If you have interest you can easily find it by doing some research.
by jonathanfranzen | 2025-09-05 22:03:38+00:00
Creator here - yeah, proving photo provenance has gotten more challenging. When I started this in 2019, if you found a photo of Alice Cooper with Colonel Sanders on an old blog, you could safely apply Occam’s razor: “Would anyone bother meticulously photoshopping this?” Since relaunching this year, I have to scrutinize sources much more closely, and adding richer metadata/context has become essential. Maybe in the future, new photos only work if this lives inside something like World App.
by mystraline | 2025-09-05 22:04:26+00:00
Yes, and if I had listened to children's shows when I grew up, I could blow up my enemies with ACME explosives, or drop them off cliffs, or fire high power rifles, and dispose of my enemies.

Oh wait. That was Hanna Barbera, Disney, Looney Tunes, and the like.

Later childhood after watching the re-re-repeats of 1960's shows, was learning about hatred, racism, and what the 'normies' would do to you, no matter what you did or didn't do. And, Magneto was right.
by Y-bar | 2025-09-05 22:04:46+00:00
People and companies regularly go to court regarding the Commission’s decisions, what makes you think that does not happen in the EU?

For example Danske Fragtmænd, challenged the Commission's decision that capital injections by Denmark and Sweden into Postnorrd did not constitute unlawful state aid.

(https://www.lexxion.eu/en/stateaidpost/what-competitors-must...)

> they're politicians directly appointed by European governments.

Just like Generaldirektörer in Sweden then.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-05 22:06:17+00:00
If it can buy them some few years worth of time every willful continued violation, then guess what? They are more than happy with increasingly steep fines

Dude, 2.95 Billion $ is already steep, and I am sure that google used to get small fines when it was small in EU too, but its just that the rate at which google grows is more than the rate at which fines grow but I think that EU can't really make a really large number like suing google for 100 billion dollars. and I think that google already weighs in everything like the fines, the costs associated with exiting (stock price drops etc.) and they would actually just do whatever is more profitable to them of the following three options

A) stay in EU & pay the fines B) leave EU C) Follow EU requests

What is the fine amount which might change things into C) and not A) or B)

Because I think EU wants change not money, I am sure that they have plenty of money and they know that google isn't paying them out of their kindness. EU's people or even google itself isn't following EU laws and its affecting people living in EU. I wonder if someone thinks how much powerless EU might feel in that sense. They already have money, they want change.
by anonymars | 2025-09-05 22:06:30+00:00
You are blessed if you have never spent half-hours of precious mental energy pissing into the wind for a back-and-forth stalemate comment thread.

I'm on the train right now, I probably spent five minutes phrasing this comment (and if it feels like five it was likely ten) meanwhile I had a book I was going to try and finish and instead I squandered the ride on Internet junk food.

So to answer your question: yes, but no.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-09-05 22:06:46+00:00
> Comment culture requires your social energy.

It actually doesn't anymore. LLMs can transform you into Diogenes in a mech suit.

You can minimize your expended energy, maintain emotional cool-ness (vital to being perceived as 'winning' to the audience), and ultimately turn every discussion into a war of attrition. If your opponent is getting emotional heated and burnt out, they eventually drop out.

If you get off on winning online arguments, it turns comment culture into an asymmetric warfare. We're going to I expect this to destroy forums. Ideologies and untreated anti-social personality disorders cannot, at scale, co-exist with the commons.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-05 22:08:14+00:00
The whole Adam Raine story was heartbreaking. The worst part, to me, was reading some of his writings and the feedback from the chat engine.

There's a known, repeatable failure mode in these engines that anyone who's worked with them for more than a couple hours can tell you: when a conversation goes on too long, it "feeds back" on itself. I don't fully understand the mechanism (I believe it's partly to do with the model's attention mechanism getting saturated and newer content dominating over older content, and it's related to the "jailbreak" solution where you hit the machine with so much text that it "forgets" the directives it's been given by its creators when it booted up). But the end result is that over time, the conversation centers on the more recent topics, ideas, and tones over the initial configuration. That's one of the reasons you can "trick" these models into being racist by talking like a racist, and so on.

Reading the excerpts I've read from the chat history Raine had with his session, it seems pretty clear that it's gone on so long that the session is "reflecting" his own writing and mood back at him. And that's the heartbreaking part: it's, in essence, coaching him to end his life because he's been talking about ending his life for so long in the conversation that it's saturated the model.

It's this poor young man's own pain reflected back on him.
by whatsyoursource | 2025-09-05 22:08:20+00:00
This, and the UN has determined that mis- and disinformation are still the top global threats!

https://noblenews.io/post/df775b18-10ec-4e22-ab56-d80585a95c...

It's why I built NOBLE News. It's an evidence-based social platform that is currently in beta. You are welcome to try it out.
by dwood_dev | 2025-09-05 22:08:47+00:00
On my 2021 Nissan Kicks, the volume knob is the only play/pause button. It's not a mute button only, it does pause your media coming through CarPlay.

Also, this is my last Nissan. I have been thoroughly disappointed with the super buggy and laggy head unit in this thing and it is apparently a common theme for Nissan.

My 2016 Ford with CarPlay was rock solid.
by champtar | 2025-09-05 22:08:55+00:00
In OpenWrt there is ujail, you give it an ELF (or multiple) to run, it'll parse them to find all the libraries they need, then it creates a tmpfs and mount bind read only the required files. https://github.com/openwrt/procd/blob/dafdf98b03bfa6014cd94f...
by anyfoo | 2025-09-05 22:08:55+00:00
I don't know the exact situation obviously, but isn't it possible that the poster simply wasn't able (or didn't know how) to add the strikethrough, but had the expectation that anyone who knows about this form knows, and the replying commenters were indeed people who did instantly recognize that jumble of characters, and acknowledged it?

Like, I didn't know about that form of the loss meme, but now that I know it's loss if you add strikethrough, I'm pretty sure I'd recognize it even without the strikethrough.
by spacebuffer | 2025-09-05 22:09:41+00:00
Anyone know any forums where you can be sure you're talking to humans and feel like you're in a close knit community?

I am not talking about reddit subs, maybe something more niche, even for hobbies outside computing.

The only place where I felt in company of real humans is a couple of niche IRC channels, where someone without fail always asks me how my day is going whenever I join, I am looking for places like that.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-05 22:09:59+00:00
The director of arbetsmiljöverket does not intervene in individual cases either, and in the end the law is what matters.

>Ingen myndighet, inte heller riksdagen eller en kommuns beslutande organ, får bestämma hur en förvaltningsmyndighet i ett särskilt fall ska besluta i ett ärende som rör myndighetsutövning mot en enskild eller mot en kommun eller som rör tillämpningen av lag.

No authority [...] may decide how an administrative authority is to decide in a case involving use of authority against an individual[...]

Furthermore, the commission is not like a directors of an agency. They are politicians. I would compare them to government ministers, who are appointed in a similar way.
by the_af | 2025-09-05 22:11:09+00:00
> The medium is just a medium and not why people show up.

I sort of disagree with this.

Sometimes the medium is the message. Or part of the message. Like how LAIKA studios could have made Coraline or Kubo fully in CGI, or live action, but instead chose puppets (for the most part). It matters that these are puppets and not CGI, anime-style drawings or live action people. It matters to them and it matters to me.

Not saying story doesn't matter, but in movies it's sometimes overrated. You can have a gorgeous movie with barely any plot, and it can be engaging.
by hitekker | 2025-09-05 22:11:48+00:00
On the note of alienation in commenting, this perspective is the strongest one I've heard yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26640203.

Read it; it's only a few paragraphs. If I could, I would distill that warning into the guidelines of any serious forum.

Not just because it fits my lived experience. But because one of the people in thread who disagreed — a prolific developer who sought friends on the internet — later killed themselves because of the internet.
by GMoromisato | 2025-09-05 22:12:04+00:00
If you are an author here are a couple of relevant links:

You can search LibGen by author to see if your work is included. I believe this would make you a member of the class: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/searc...

If you are a member of the class (or think you are) you can submit your contact information to the plaintiff's attorneys here: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/
by john-mark | 2025-09-05 22:12:19+00:00
Neo4j Hype Translator:

Input Hype: “Neo4j Launches Breakthrough Infinigraph Architecture to Unify Transactional and Operational Workloads”

Output Hype Translation: After over a decade of “clustering”, Neo4j finally figured out sharding, basically fixing the thing their clustering should’ve done from the start.
by nradov | 2025-09-05 22:12:29+00:00
The problem isn't just the rolling stock. Everything in BART is at least somewhat custom including control systems and software. Very little can be shared with public transit systems in other metro areas so there are no economies of scale. Thus BART has to do a lot in house or depend on a limited set of specialized vendors at great expense.

If you had to buy a special car to be allowed to drive on Bay Area roads because they weren't the same as the roads in Chicago or Boston then a Honda Civic would cost $1M.