MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imchillyb | 2025-09-23 15:25:12+00:00
Sanctions are not designed to coerce a populace into rebellion, in order to facilitate regime change.

Sanctions are designed to prevent an enemy government from profiting from our western economy. Sanctions are designed to bring hostile entities to the negotiation table. Sanctions curtail the worst behaviors of enemy nations because the sanctions deny those enemies money. Money is power. Little money = little power.
by FluentFlan | 2025-09-23 15:25:59+00:00
This would be a reasonable perspective if the application and it's author recognized it's limitations - as in _very obvious_ disclaimers to the end user that it's only intended to be assistive and not definitive.

Instead it claims to be "Safe & accurate", " Professional", "uses AI to analyze your photos and provide comprehensive safety information in seconds.", " expert level identification ", etc.

These statements provide a false sense of confidence to the lay person. An AI system based on image recognition _cannot_ definitively identify certain mushrooms. There simply is no way around that. Visuals are not a reliable species indicator for a lot of fungi, no matter how much compute you throw at it.

Where I live every fall you can find the destroying angel (Amanita phalloides) in city parks. People have died because they have confused them for other mushrooms. My part of the world doesn't have city level mushroom inspectors (that would be awesome). Maybe I'll test this tools claims that it can intact differentiate this one.

Now someone is going to point out that they do have disclaimers! This is true they do, buried much further down the page well below all their marketing bs about providing "expert level identification" (<- this one particularly bothers me as it is a flat out lie. As mentioned above visuals don't cut it. An actual human expert in the field of mycology isn't going to just look at a mushroom to ID it.). So while I'm glad they do have disclaimers somewhere it doesn't seem like the author thinks they are important enough to feature higher up.

Tldr; Sure, tools like this can be assistive. That doesn't mean their authors should be given a free pass to be deceptive and irresponsible in presenting the tools actual capabilities.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-23 15:26:02+00:00
I'd be very interested in seeing some kind of aggregated daily demand curve for AI workloads.

It seems like a lot of the hyperbolic angles are looking at this as a constant draw of power over time. There is no reason for a GPU inference farm to be ramped up to 100% clock speed when all of its users are in bed. The 5700XT in my computer is probably pulling a mere 8~12W right now since it is just sitting on an idle desktop. A hyperscaler could easily power down entire racks based upon anticipated demand and turn that into 0W.
by PTOB | 2025-09-23 15:26:16+00:00
Precisely. "Luck" shouldn't be equivocated with "chance." We have two words for a reason.

Show up + embrace awkwardness + be kind and courteous and luck will follow.

My son's Scout troop was lucky this year. They just sold more than $60k worth of pop-corn in two weeks. How? Each kid walked up to hundreds of complete strangers at grocery stores and asked politely - albeit awkwardly sometimes. The exponentially lower-success approach is to sit behind a table waiting for people to hand you money.

The result? Almost 40 lucky kids get 11 all-expenses-paid camping trips and a fun summer camp all for just eight hours of walking and talking. Doesn't matter how much money their families make; every kid gets to fully participate.
by vamsiraju | 2025-09-23 15:26:18+00:00
Anytype is a great alternative. You can use it in its simple form or design your own workflows with custom document types and properties. In Notion everything is a page but in Anytype you can define document types like Research Note, Concept, Bug Report,.. to distinguish between the various types of pages we typically use to organize information in a space. It's also fully e2e encrypted so you do not have to worry about them using your information to train models. It supports multiple devices and can sync between them p2p while maintaining a hosted server copy but does not have a webapp.
by posda999 | 2025-09-23 15:26:19+00:00
It’s not that strong. Evil isn’t just genocide. It would be evil of me to go around leaving trays full of beer outside just to drown slugs in them. It would be evil of me to shove razors into candy apples and hand them out at Halloween.

Not all evil has to be some grand world-level conspiracy and it can still be evil.
by tw04 | 2025-09-23 15:27:01+00:00
Let's review the Cullman Doctrine:

>Later in 1963, Henry issued a new legal requirement, the Cullman Doctrine, which stipulated that radio stations that aired paid personal attacks had to give the targets free response airtime.

So to be clear - you think the head of the FCC publicly threatening to revoke a stations license if they don't fire a COMEDIAN they don't like, is the same as the fairness doctrine requiring a station to give free airtime for politicans to respond to baseless political attacks if they are paid for those attacks?

>Nixon used the FCC to threaten the Washington Post with licensure revocation in an attempt to get them to squash coverage of Watergate

And Nixon was impeached...

>Presidents on both sides of recent history have used the might of the government to demand abject censorship on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

Facebook and Twitter were caught taking money from nation states to spread lies to cause political strife while hiding the source of both who was spreading the message and who was paying for it. Excuse me if I'm not concerned the government is telling them to stop. While our laws are not directly written to address the issue, they are toeing the line of treason and trying to use Free Speech as an excuse for doing so. Let me guess: you also think it's wrong RT was labeled a foreign actor?

>The prior sitting president attempted to establish a ministry of truth, slated as a new entity intended to reside within the department of homeland security so as to supercharge those efforts, and appointed Nina "I believe I should be allowed to edit other people's tweets" Jankowicz to executive director

Ahh, there we have it. Russian influence on US politics isn't an issue as long as they're supporting your side. The "ministry of truth" is a department appointed with policing and attempting to prevent China and Russia from meddling in our elections. Let me guess: the government is suppressing China and Russia's constitutionally protected first amendment rights?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Boar...

>None of these are healthy, but the idea that Carr's actions are somehow the result of the modern Supreme Court's actions requires us to ignore all of American history before Trump's second election

It really doesn't, nothing you cited resulted in a lawsuit that landed at the Supreme Court who promptly ignored all precedent to side with the President. Which is exactly what this one has done, and there are people discussing whether or not they think the current Supreme Court would actually side with the constitution or decide there's some reason it's OK for the President to ignore the constitution entirely. The fact you're bending in circles to try to act like the current situation is just more of the same is baffling.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-09-23 15:27:02+00:00
> Whether that's good or bad policy isn't my place to say

Right, you're just dragging in migration to the discussion, which is entirely a side issue, purely out of the goodness of your heart.

From your link:

> The UK has experienced broadly similar levels of migration compared to other high-income countries, on average, over the past few decades

That doesn't make it sound like the UK is an outlier, contrary to the implication of your statement.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-23 15:27:43+00:00
In a true boarding house, the landlord/owner controls who lives there - each room is rented individually. Individual tenants have zero control over who lives in the next room.

But, yes, if you have a typical shared home, where 4 people get together and rent a home at once, yes, you do have that control (and should have it).
by miguelxt | 2025-09-23 15:27:45+00:00
While I do agree with your opinion, I think the opposite is also true. It feels good to believe you didn't get there because "The game is rigged", "You have to be born lucky", "The house always wins", etc, etc. This defeatist/powerless way of thinking may in fact make it worse for you. When hope is lost, what's left?
by jonahx | 2025-09-23 15:27:49+00:00
One reason: Whenever I've made the case personally to friends/family, people who are smart but not interested in messing around with tech, I am usually met with a giant shoulder shrug. Or perhaps, in a best case scenario, "Yeah that doesn't sound great, but there's no way I'm installing X to deal with it".

We can always say the case hasn't been made well enough, and maybe it hasn't it, but at what point do you just start believing people?
by rendaw | 2025-09-23 15:27:50+00:00
JSONC is JSON with comments (and trailing commas) and it's fairly widely supported, namely because VS Code ships with support built in and they use it for all their config files. I've seen libraries for a number of languages.

VS code defaults to complaining about trailing commas though (the warnings can be turned off though (it feels like a hack and they didn't properly document it though (it is an officially sanctioned procedure though))).
by panick21_ | 2025-09-23 15:28:00+00:00
Ok so anything that doesn't fundamentally reshape the world is not a 'success'.

I never argued that Starlink is as important as the IPhone. That's just a strawman that you set up.

You are just fundamentally arguing in bad faith.

> Musk companies are essentially reinventing the wheel

Even if this was true, and it isn't, its just another argument in bad faith. The wheel has been reinvented many times and often rather successfully by many different companies.

> Uber and the food delivery apps are much more consequential

Again, I have no fucking idea what your argument is. We were not arguing about what is more successful. This is again just a strawman.

But outside of that, if Uber and food delivery apps didn't exist there are 100s of companies who could reproduce them in just a couple of month. And in fact there are likely 100s of smaller competitors, and one of them would grow to be Uber or Doordash. If Uber wasn't there Lyft could replace it just fine. Without Doordash, Delivery Hero or Uber Eats would take over in no time.

This is not the case with SpaceX, if SpaceX disappeared it would take 10-20+ years for any other company to replace it, likely longer. Maybe a combination of companies could do it shorter. Boeing ever finished Starliner. If Amazon investing heavenly into Kupiter. And if BlueOrigin continues to burn money to invest into new Glenn, then maybe in 10 years we might have SpaceX level of capability back.

The facts are this, if SpaceX collapsed tomorrow, there is a 100% chance that the government would step in and save it. Its absolute fundamentally critical to US military and civilians space. And thanks to Starshields its fundamentally critical to the whole navy and airforce.

If however Uber collapsed tomorrow, in couple of month nobody would be talking about it anymore except one of those 'Bankroupt - The Rise and Fall of Uber Story' youtube videos.

> If you

Literally just more strawman stuff that has literally nothing to do what so ever with my original argument.

The position you seem to be outlining here is that any company that is not as big and successful as Microsoft, Apple or Google, 3 of the largest companies in the planet, then you can not be considered a 'success'. Again, this is fundamentally fucking stupid as by that definition most companies on the planet that exists are not successful.

And only a person with severe Musk reality distortion would try to passionately make the argument that SpaceX isn't a success. In fact nobody would spend time even typing out such a dumb argument if it wasn't for Musk being CEO.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-09-23 15:28:33+00:00
The solution to the “female only” or the religiously observant household is for the renters/buyers to self-select and organize themselves. I don’t see why the landlord/seller needs to mandate it.

I think it's because the only two options being presented are a group of people signing one lease with one landlord. Or a group of people individually signing leases with the landlord.

So basically, the problem is for people that can't find a group on their own. Or for a landlord who wants to act like every room is an apartment, when they're clearly not.
by olivia-banks | 2025-09-23 15:29:24+00:00
This whole thing seems very strange to me, but maybe I’m missing the point.

> API services paid per request

Given that this runs atop Payment Required, doesn’t this mean that each API request would involve an extra one or two data transfers?

> AI agents that autonomously pay for API access

Is there a reason why you wouldn’t pay ahead of time? I just understand why you couldn’t buy a few dozen/hundred/thousand dollars worth of credits, and wait until it runs low.

> Paywalls for digital content

Isn’t this crypto only? The overlap of people paying for digital content and dealing with crypto must be relatively small. Is it meant to funnel people to a payment portal, going through fiat, à la Coinbase?

> Microservices and tooling monetized via microtransactions

How is this different than the API point?

> Proxy services that aggregate and resell API capabilities

I’m not a huge backend person, but what would be the purpose of this?
by bracewel | 2025-09-23 15:30:01+00:00
Author of the linked CL here: we added this mostly so that we could abuse the memory initialization tracking to test the constant-time-ness of crypto code (similar to what BoringSSL does, proposed by agl around fifteen years ago: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/04/01/ctgrind.html), which is an annoyingly hard property to test.

We're hoping that there are also a bunch of other interesting side-effects of enabling the usage of Valgrind for Go, in particular seeing how we can use it to track how the runtime handles memory (hopefully correctly!)

edit: also strong disclaimer that this support is still somewhat experimental. I am not 100% confident we are properly instrumenting everything, and it's likely there are still some errant warnings that don't fully make sense.
by pseudosavant | 2025-09-23 15:30:51+00:00
I think it is really just the difference between chemically refining something and electrically refining something.

Raw AC comes in, then gets stepped down, filtered, converted into DC rails, gated, timed, and pulsed. That’s already an industrial refinement process. The "crude" incoming power is shaped into the precise, stable forms that CPUs, GPUs, RAM, storage, and networking can actually use.

Then those stable voltages get flipped billions of times per second into ordered states, which become instructions, models, inferences, and other high-value "product."

It sure seems like series of processes for refining something.
by dh2022 | 2025-09-23 15:30:55+00:00
How can Russia be economically stronger under sanctions? Before the war they were able to manufacture some goods (Volkswagen had a couple of factories. I think Unilever was making some washers/ dryers). This is all replaced by manufacturing of some weapons (which proven themselves so shitty in the war that no outside buyers want to buy them).

Russia went from selling their oil on the world market at competitive prices to selling to mostly 2 customers at heavily discounted prices. And Russia is going to use barter now because of financial sanctions on Russian oil buyers.

All Russian currency reserves are frozen, and the interest these reserves generate are given to Ukraine to buy weapons.

How is Russia economically better now than before Feb 2022?
by vinhatson | 2025-09-23 15:31:18+00:00
The Grandfather Paradox, a classic problem in philosophy and theoretical physics, is analyzed through the lens of computational complexity theory. By modeling the paradox as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) and demonstrating its equivalence to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT), we argue that finding a self-consistent history in a system with causal loops is an NP-complete problem. We generalize the problem, showing that as the number of variables increases, the search space grows exponentially, reinforcing the inherent exponential nature of “causal loop” problems in NP. This report establishes the Grandfather Paradox as a quintessential example of an NP problem that is likely intractable in polynomial time, supporting the hypothesis that P̸ = NP and suggesting that such problems may not conceal a polynomial-time solution.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-23 15:31:21+00:00
That video ended up having a bunch of factual errors though. It's a definite mix of real problems and rumours/gossip that comes across as someone having an axe to grind with their former employer. I don't particularly like Mr. Beast or his schtick (probably too old to find him appealing, honestly) but this isn't a slam dunk. The deleting comments/replies thing is basic large corporation behaviour, which is what Mr. Beast Inc. is a the end of the day.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-23 15:31:24+00:00
So long as you view AI as a sometimes competent liar, then it can be useful.

I've found AI is pretty good at dumb boilerplate stuff. I was able to whip out prototypes, client interfaces, tests, etc pretty fast with AI.

However, when I've asked AI "Identify performance problems or bugs in this code" I find it'll just make up nonsense. Particularly if there aren't problems with the code.

And it makes sense that this is the case. AI has been trained on a mountain of boilerplate and a thimble of performance and bug optimizations.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-09-23 15:31:44+00:00
For power, uranium needs to be 3-5% enrichment, medical applications about 20%, and weapons will be 95%. The IAEA confirmed in May 2025 that Iran's had a stockpile of over 400kg of 60% enriched uranium. That's not enrichment for power. They had a stockpile at 20% in 2015 when the JCPOA was made, that was also well over what was needed for power.
by ashtakeaway | 2025-09-23 15:31:57+00:00
There is also deindividuation which occurs in homelessness. You are rarely referred to by your own name and ignored or practically invisible by everyone else except by those providing services. I was homeless for 6 years so this was apparent in a lot of that society. In red states there was a third cohort: those disowned by families for having a differing view than them so they got kicked out. It takes a minimum of one year to recover from the effects of homelessness, mentally. That process only begins after they are rehoused.
Show HN: Workflow Snapshot and Replay – Capture and Replay VS Code Sessions
by ArslantasM | 2025-09-23 15:32:12+00:00
I built a VS Code / Cursor extension that records coding sessions (code edits, commands, file ops), exports them as Markdown, and can replay the steps in another project. Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Arslanta...
by toast0 | 2025-09-23 15:32:21+00:00
I used to send a lot of SMS verification codes. We considered setting up a SIM box, but never did. You get different SMS routing from a phone on a major network than you do from the SMS aggregators, and that could be useful for getting codes to difficult destinations.

But we had enough volume that we could typically get improvements on routing by asking aggregators about difficult destinations (unless the difficulty was coming intentionally from the destination carrier). The aggregators do sometimes use grey routes from SIM farms. Squishyness around terms of use and accounting would have been an issue too, we would not have been able to fly under the radar on 'unlimited messaging'

Another potential use could be if you needed to send a lot of alerts to your employees/customers in a short period. Most aggregators have rate limits, and so do carriers... if you're a big customer, you can probably get limits raised; if you only have an occasional need, you might prefer to have a large number of low cost SIMs.
by pests | 2025-09-23 15:32:24+00:00
This was his older content. Ever since his squid game video his videos are larger-than-life with elaborate sets, flying to crazy destinations, etc. The simple giving cars away, or giving a house to a pizza delivery guy, or reading the bee moving script is long over.

One point about giving away cars - it’s not always to someone else’s detriment. He once gave someone ~30 used cars and they had to give them all away (to friends, family, randoms) within 24hours to earn a Tesla for himself.

In a weird way he is turning into the squid game villain himself. He stole their look for his henchmen and also takes on the persona. Almost every video he has made since would fit right in that world.

That and a mix of Willy Wonka.
by j45 | 2025-09-23 15:32:55+00:00
They might not be buying them outright but that doesn’t sound like a realistic first or initial set of steps.

There are new commitments.

Microsoft: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-goes-nuclear-bigges...

Google: https://interestingengineering.com/energy/google-gen4-nuclea...

Amazon: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/16/amazon-jumps-on-nuclear-po...

OpenAI/Sam Altman: https://interestingengineering.com/energy/oklo-to-generate-1...

More: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116339/ai-nucle...
by tw04 | 2025-09-23 15:32:57+00:00
>There's a long and well-documented history of this, all the way down to regulations targeting multi-generational households (Black and Latino families are more likely to have a grandparent or aunt living alongside a younger family).

That really doesn't track with the laws actually written. Every single city I've lived in with restrictions on number of unrelated tenants, simultaneously has an exception that there are no limits on related parties, whether through blood or marriage.

They are very much limiting the number of unrelated people in a single dwelling and it's targeting slumlords, not the renters.
by joz1-k | 2025-09-23 15:32:58+00:00
> * Without an active OS development its only 1/2 of the puzzle.*

And this is an unfortunate state of the general purpose ARM64 computing. This board, with 16 GB of RAM and M.2 slot, would make the perfect Linux desktop machine. However, you only receive one or two major distribution updates from the hardware vendor, and then you're stuck with it.
by odogwu200 | 2025-09-23 15:33:01+00:00
For decades, car ownership was a milestone of adulthood. But new data shows that Gen Z is reshaping the market in surprising ways: • Nearly half of Gen Z buyers paid cash for their last car—far higher than any other generation. They’re debt-averse and wary of long auto loans. • They’re 4x more likely to lease than older drivers, treating cars like long-term rentals instead of lifetime commitments. • About 1 in 4 would consider a subscription model, preferring flexibility over ownership. • Only 54–68% say owning a car is important, compared to 90% of Boomers. For many, mobility matters more than ownership. • They start their shopping online—60%+ research financing digitally before visiting a dealership, and TikTok/YouTube reviews often outweigh traditional ads. • EV interest peaked at 52% in 2022 but dropped to 42% in 2024—cost and charging infrastructure are major barriers.

At the same time, the U.S. sits on $1.6 trillion in auto loan debt, with negative equity keeping many drivers trapped in cycles of rolled-over loans.

I’m curious what this community thinks: • Is Gen Z driving (no pun intended) the future of mobility-as-a-service? • Will traditional dealerships adapt, or will startups win this shift? • Could flexible models (subscriptions, swaps, shared fleets) actually replace ownership at scale—or is this just another phase?

Would love to hear your perspectives, especially from those in fintech, automotive, or anyone who’s had to navigate these choices themselves.