MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rcyeh | 2025-09-06 04:55:13+00:00
Not a lawyer, but liability waivers may not apply if there is determined to be gross negligence or recklessness.

Making a reasonably-designed API available, only if connected to an inaccessible network, doesn't sound dangerous, but the goodwill gained might be hard to weigh against a miniscule chance of malware, which would revise everyone's opinion of the degree of negligence or recklessness.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-06 04:55:58+00:00
First, thank you for posting. Insiders can provide unique persepectives.

> Even keeping the Linux kernel up to date with the latest version is a major undertaking.

Dumb question: Why does an old Nest need an updated Linux kernel?

> investing in devices that are local first is certainly good advice, provided the APIs are open and well supported.

Do you have any examples that could sufficiently replace old Nests?
by jjani | 2025-09-06 04:56:24+00:00
China is a special case. As the government has effectively total control, even having 30% market share as Google doesn't mean it's a profitable venture, or that the government hasn't said that it will let it remain one - and there's really no way that it would've given that it's relatively easily replaceable critical infrastructure. Search engines aren't as hard as Googlers like to believe, it was substituted by Baidu succesfully. Think about it - which B2C non-Chinese software (not HW) services are still big in China? Anything besides OSes?
by tennysont | 2025-09-06 04:57:03+00:00
Fascinating---I appreciate you raising awareness. This information was a big update for me, so I looked for a source and found roughly the same numbers (though my numbers were 1/1000, possibly because newer CT exams seem to be slightly safer). From [1]:

> ...93 million CT examinations performed ... projected to result in approximately 103 000 future cancers ... cancer risk was higher in children ... CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually.

Although keep in mind that these numbers do need context. cancer != death. That ranges from cold comfort (in the case painful chemo treatment & years of fear) to a critical factor (based on how the USA diagnoses it, approximately 6% of men will have prostate cancer that does not require treatment).

Based only on these numbers above and my prior beliefs, I would say that that either

A) CT scans are a necessary evil that haven't been adequately replaced

or

B) These numbers less problematic than one might expect, due to some quirk of the data

I generally trust the USA's medical establishment on new treatment, though I've heard that they're slow to clamp down on outdated treatments.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar... https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/radiati...
by godelski | 2025-09-06 04:58:22+00:00
Thanks that helps. I mean it appears Slovenia has a pretty good general education system but I don't know much about their higher ed (it is really weird how the US is so good at higher ed but not general education[0])

I'm not opposed to the idea, but I still think things can be done a lot better. I left a much more detailed comment in the cousin to this one.

But yeah, that's called the Socratic Method. Big fan. When I taught I'd frequently ask students to answer. Basically while lecturing I'd stop at some points and ask them how they would go about solving certain challenges or whatever. Usually directly related to what would be on the next slide. This style is pretty common fwiw, and I even saw it throughout my education even prior to high school. But it is also unfortunate that there's also a lot of teachers who just begin talking and don't stop.

[0] As a side note, I made the claim in another comment about how you could drop a random but average student into a top school and I'd expect not a high variance on outcome. Well I think this discrepency is part of the evidence to that. Though the US varies widely in general education, with some states being world class and others being... well... Alabama is a state after all...)
by krapp | 2025-09-06 04:59:33+00:00
If the Alcubierre drive were possible, some civilization would have already discovered it, and we would see evidence of its use. This is certain to be the case with any kind of FTL travel, if such a thing is even possible.

But when we observe the universe we see nothing. Therefore either no advanced life exists in the universe besides ourselves, which seems unlikely, or none have spread to space in any significant degree and FTL is either impossible or so difficult no one bothers. There doesn't seem to be a secret third thing that both satisfies our observations and obeys known physics.
by Awesomedonut | 2025-09-06 04:59:33+00:00
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by KingOfCoders | 2025-09-06 04:59:39+00:00
"Even keeping the Linux kernel up to date with the latest version is a major undertaking."

To me this sounds always backward. We make a choice of tools, and now we can't support you longer, and blame it on the tools. It's like "I need a car because I've moved out of the city center." Yes, of course you need a car, but because of your choices and actions.

If you prioritize easier development over long term support when choosing tools, then this is what you get.

Of course it's ok and valid to make that tradeoff, but then don't blame it on the tools, but on your choices.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-09-06 04:59:49+00:00
I’m looking on the Chargepoint App and I see some CHAdeMO DC Fast in both Springfield and Bloomington. They tend to be in strip mall parking lots near Home Depots and Walmarts.

That said having a CCS adapter working is very interesting and I will be following your experience as I have similar a Leaf to you (2021 SV Plus)

https://github.com/geerlingguy/electric-car/issues/9

I am very happy with my 2021 Leaf. It’s a very solid around town and commute vehicle. Anyone comparing it to Bolts doesn’t understand the Nissan build quality is just much better, Leaf is in a different league of design, refinement, and reliability.

One thing I would recommend is a set of winter wheels and tires if you’re in St Louis.

I’m on the fence about buying a comma.ai Comma 3x to try with it. The ProPILOT Assist built in is pretty helpful on long distance highways and the Comma 3x adds a bunch of interesting capabilities. My hesitation is partially insurance related, I’m not sure what Geico will say about it if you’re in an accident for example when it was engaged.

fwiw I’m confident after reading your post and watching you video you made the right choice for you and your objectives.
by Zambyte | 2025-09-06 05:00:51+00:00
> Leptos makes it easy to build applications in the most-loved programming language [...]

> Easily manage state without fighting the borrow checker with reactive signals. [...]

> Sleep well knowing Rust's type safety is protecting your whole app.

The close proximity of these statements is interesting to me. The only thing that is really novel and interesting about Rust is the borrow checker. That's why you have "fearless concurrency", because you can't have accidental shared+mutable state. If you see the borrow checker as something you "fight", you don't "love" Rust. Rust is far from the only strongly typed language. If you pick Rust because it's strongly typed, you're probably picking the wrong tool for the job.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-06 05:01:06+00:00
I am bit confused by this post.

Let me turn it around. Imagine that you are a Google engineer who worked on Search, YouTube, or Nest. How would you feel reading your own post? You would probably vehemently disagree! I'm not sure your sentiment is relative in 2025. Everyone on HN knows that any "web scale" public product (with billions of users) 100s of engineers behind it. And, it takes very good ones to keep them running and continuously improve them.

Thus, in response to:

> It might be unfair

I say: Yes, it is unfair and unnecessary to post. It adds very little to the wider discussion.
by sfink | 2025-09-06 05:03:54+00:00
Yep. From a light emitter's perpective, it is directly embedded in all of the places surrounding it that its light would eventually reach. Your eyeball, a distant dust spec 4 million light years away, and a black hole are all directly adjacent and it tosses photons onto the shell around itself, painting it with light. The photons arrive at the same instant that they are emitted, if you don't count the millions or billions of years in between. And the photons don't.
by ihinsdale | 2025-09-06 05:04:33+00:00
This is really cool. I'm curious how the OP is calculating the shortest path -- recursive CTEs in Postgres? pgRouting? A graph db?

I recently built an explorer UI for a cultural knowledge graph: https://giraf.app/graph. I used recursive CTEs to find the longest paths through the graph, as a proxy for interestingness. Basically to answer the question: starting from a user post about a book, movie, song, etc., where is it possible to end up?

If the OP might be interested in using the visualization framework I've built, as a way of letting users browse the relationships between photographs, please get in touch.

Congrats again on bringing an awesome project to life!
by jjani | 2025-09-06 05:06:28+00:00
Well written. The comparison with physical goods as you're making it is one I'm a big fan of, and should be made much more often.

It's laughable that tarriffs and import taxes only apply to physical goods. If the EU had even an ounce of self-respect, the second the US came out with the tarriffs, they would've come out and said:

"We think this is a fantastic idea by Mr. Trump. Aligned with his views, we are instituting accompanying digital tarriffs to fix the digital trade defecit. We're sure he'll agree that the trade balance should be corrected in both the physical as well as digital worlds".

And that's why the US is so mad at the likes of Brazil - finally, after decades of getting rinsed, countries are starting to take (wholly insufficient) measures here and rightly instituting the equivalent of digital tarriffs.
by kennywinker | 2025-09-06 05:07:36+00:00
> "Trust the experts!"

Trust the experts only makes sense if you’re talking about something where experts exist, and are speaking.

ICE et all is a goon squad, and most of their employees have only a high school diploma and a few months experience driving around in white vans disappearing seniors. If i need that done, i know who to trust. If i need the truth? They are not experts in the truth.

But ok, let’s say we believe them. By their own stats, 30% of the people they arrest are let go without charges or deportation. So by their own accounting, 450 arrests will be 315 deportation/incarcerations, and 135 people treated like cattle for having the wrong skin color or an accent. And given the complete lack of due process why on earth should we even believe them about the 315?
by tonyhart7 | 2025-09-06 05:07:56+00:00
I called it "chinnese chatpcha", back then chinnese chaptcha is so much harder than western counterpart

but now gchaptcha spam me with 5 different image if I missing a tiles for crossroad, so chinnese chaptcha is much better in my opinion

also there is variant that match the image based on shadow and different order of shape

its much better in my opinion because its use much more interactivity, solving western chaptcha is so much mind numbing now that they require you at least multiple image identification for crossroad,sign,cars etc

they want those self driving car are they
by bccdee | 2025-09-06 05:08:06+00:00
> ideas that have always existed. It's not like a new messiah or philosopher came about with this novelty

Self-help books about manifestation tend to nebulously describe the "law of attraction" as a principle that has always existed and which great people throughout history have understood, but the movement associated with it is a modern phenomenon. The Wikipedia page "Law of attraction (New Thought)" [1] is a good starting point, if you're curious.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought...

> And if they do, it's because they have a programmed directive to do so.

Are we not programmed? Our brains were developed through evolution, not engineering, but we still eat when we are hungry. That's a directive that was embedded in us during the process of our development. Why should creativity have a supernatural component when the source of our behaviour, evolution, is anything but?

> The human is the one with an internal universe that span the colorful spectrum of experiences that is referred to as "qualia".

We certainly feel as if they are colourful, but we would, wouldn't we? They have to be, to fulfil their evolutionary purposes. Fear compels us to run and hide. If it didn't feel overwhelming and powerful, it wouldn't work. And if it didn't feel unique, then it would be redundant. Imagine if lust felt like fear: we would either flee reproduction or embrace danger.

Qualia are the abstractions of our senses. They feel present and vivid because they are the fabric of experience, but that doesn't imply anything beyond the physical. If we created an intelligent robot and programmed it to be compelled to flee when it detected danger, how do you think it would describe the experience of detecting danger and feeling its mind transform into a mode that compelled it to flee, that made staying still seem unbearable? Powerful, ineffable, invigorating, unpleasant? It would probably sound something like a person describing fear.

> Many musicians talk of how sometimes a song just appears to them.

Sure, but that's not magic. It's just an idea moving from the unconscious parts of the brain to the conscious. Why shouldn't the "deeper mechanism" simply be the parts of our minds that we are not consciously aware of?
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-06 05:08:50+00:00
> Ethically speaking, if Anthropic (a) did later purchase every book it pirated or (b) compensated every author whose book was pirated, would it absolve an illegally trained model of its "sins"?

No, it part because it removes agency from the authors/rightsholders. Maybe they don't want to sell Anthropic their books, maybe they want royalties, etc.
by tuatoru | 2025-09-06 05:09:09+00:00
The challenge is, really, just that we are very early.

I liken AI to electric motors in terms of their impact.

The change from factories driven by steam engines, one per factory, to factories where each machine has its own electric motor, changed an enormous number of things. But it also took several decades to figure out how to best arrange work.

With AI, we are currently at the stage of "replace messenger boys with telephones".

Besides changing existing industries, electric motors made skyscrapers possible and so changed the size of cities and the nature of life in cities in all sorts of ways.

Humans aren't any smarter now than then, nor is the life of structures any shorter, so it will take take decades this time around, too.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-06 05:09:49+00:00
Are you willing to pay for the true cost of maintaining these devices for ~50 years? The original price might have been 600 USD. I think the answer is regulation. Another idea: Sell the IP to a separate company who will support the legacy product for a fee. The original product will tell you how many years support is included (not lifetime). Later, there may be monthly charges. I doubt you will like that idea, but it is more honest. Germany has similar rules about car parts. Car manufs are required to make replacement parts available for X years after a car is manuf'd.
by thefourthchime | 2025-09-06 05:11:34+00:00
That's fine. Let's assume that the money is simply stored somewhere as numbers in a database. It would be irresponsible for them not to at least put into some sort of savings account or money market getting interest rate. That interest is generated by people borrowing against it, is it not?

Realistically large companies don't do this. They put their money in hedge funds, which are much less risk averse, which would assume that they are more actively putting the money into the economy.
by redthrow | 2025-09-06 05:12:16+00:00
The vast majority of books don't generate any profits past the first few years, so I prefer Lawrence Lessig's proposal of copyright renewal at five-year intervals with a fee. Under this scheme, most books would enter the public domain after five years

https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2003/Lessigcopyrigh...

Lessig: Not for this length of time, no. Copyright shouldn’t be anywhere close to what it is right now. In my book I proposed a system where you’d have to renew after every five years and you get a maximum term of 75 years. I thought that was pretty radical at the time. The Economist, after the Eldred decision, came out with a proposal—let’s go back to 14 years, renewable to 28 years. Nobody needs more than 14 years to earn the return back from whatever they produced.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-06 05:12:43+00:00
Discussions:

Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price (77 points, 50 days ago, 92 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596355

Delta Gets Blowback for Using AI to Set Airfares (14 points, 1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777900
by joshka | 2025-09-06 05:13:18+00:00
The XDG environment variables only apply to systems where the XDG spec is defined to be in place. You need one extra flag for defining that to be true. Given that macOS isn't a place where XDG is applicable, suddenly making it applicable would break every place that assumes that it's not applicable (e.g. I no longer have configuration for some utility that uses the pre-change value of the AppSupport folders.
by puilp0502 | 2025-09-06 05:13:41+00:00
> If your Docker Compose workflow is overly complex, just convert it to Kubernetes YAML.

Is this also applicable for single-host services? I have a lot of my toy projects packaged as a Docker Compose, and I just `docker compose up -d` in my EC2 host and it's ready to go. Last time I dabbled with K8s I remember it requiring separate etcd cluster, and a lot of configurations. I wonder if my existing projects could be converted to K8s manifest and it would be just as convenient as the `docker compose up -d`.
by jjani | 2025-09-06 05:13:49+00:00
I don't think I expressed anything about their likelihood of payment - just that they won't stop doing business in the EU.

I think your scenario is a real possibility, but ironically one that would cost the US a lot more than it gains. It's really playing with fire, running the risk of even just 1% of EU businesses and consumers opting for EU services over US ones. And just that 1% represents far more than all of the yearly fines to Google/Meta/Apple combined.
by godelski | 2025-09-06 05:14:06+00:00
I'd say I was surprised but my first year of grad school I was a TA and caught two kids cheating. One student accidentally (maybe needs quotes? I'm unsure tbh) had his GitHub repo set to public. Two other students found it and just copy pasted his work. We had a meeting with the professor and he yelled at them about how the syllabus says you can't copy anything off the internet. I shit you not, the students' (juniors) excuse was "I didn't know GitHub was 'on the internet'". My jaw dropped. I looked at the professor and the only way I can describe it is that this dude had to do a full reboot. Like halt and catch fire situation. I swear I saw the gears stop moving in his head as he was trying to comprehend one of the stupidest things either of us have ever heard. Professor tried to get them expelled. Best we could do is give them a 0 on the assignment. And that's how I learned about the cheating metric... In the next class the prof mentioned if we catch anyone cheating again he's going to flunk even the person that work was being copied off of. Those students didn't pass and even without saying their names I saw them get kicked out of their social circles real quick. So students knew... and man they got paranoid...

The next year, my advisor pulled me aside. He talked about how some student said they didn't know GitHub was on the internet. I thought he was talking about my experience. Turns out he wasn't... He was talking about two other students, who he talked with independently, and were in his sophomore level class.

This was pre-covid btw. The other story was post. Things only got worse post and I heard similar stories from friends in other departments and other universities. A friend of mine teaching history on the other side of the country had Freshmen who failed an assignment that was "call the library, go check out a book."

So I think this context should help in understanding the actual problem here. I do think GPT is a problem. But like I said, I think the actual problem runs much deeper. Kids were turning off their brains before that... But it was definitely a very sharp drop with covid and another sharp drop after 3.5 came out.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-06 05:15:17+00:00
If I’m a Google engineer, what motivation do I have to make decisions that keep a device running for a decade?

Even more pertinent, when it gets time to go through the promo process and when I need to prove “impact” and make sure what I’m doing is aligned with the department wide OKRs, why would I want to be on a project supporting old legacy tech that I can’t spin to show how it helped the company’s revenue?

I’ve never worked for Google. But incentives based on the promo culture is endemic to all of BigTech.

And even worse, every company is focused on “AI” these days. If you aren’t part of an initiative that can be said to be AI adjacent, if you care about your career and comp, you shouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole.

https://www.warp.dev/blog/problems-with-promotion-oriented-c...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261488
by protocolture | 2025-09-06 05:15:29+00:00
Its not really an issue of getting to read before I buy.

Its very much that its advertised as something its not.

You could do research into technical debt and bring other peoples anecdotes and experiences into the book and bring the content in line with the title and readers expectations.

Or you could update the title and therefore manage expectations to ensure there are no misunderstandings.
by mihaaly | 2025-09-06 05:15:33+00:00
It is a good opportunity to ask: is it true, that Anthropic can get indemnification from user actions that end up in the company being sued? User actions that are related to the use of Claude. Even just for the accusation. The user needs to cover their bills of lawyers and proceedings. Also they take control of the legal process, can do the way they please, settle or what, user footing the bill. Without limit. Be the user an individual or organization, doesn't matter.

Sounds harsh, if true. Making its use practical only for hobby projects basically where the results of Claude kept for yourself completely (be it information, product using Claude, or product is made by using Claude). Difficult to believe, I hope I heard it wrong.