MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by b3lvedere | 2025-09-15 13:11:10+00:00
I think i get what he's trying to achieve: To get the bad guys (faster) by disallowing things the bad guys can use to get away with stuff.

The slippery balance is also that the good guys of yesterday are the bad guys of today and vice versa.

But both never stopped development of better, weirder, stranger and scarier stuff that can both be used for bad or for good, whichever you choose. I highly doubt encryption will stop because they outlawed it. There will be even better development of encryption that will be even harder to detect if encryption was actually used.
by rswail | 2025-09-15 13:11:53+00:00
I think this is something that may happen in the next decade.

The interesting impact will be on the grid itself. Why connect to the grid if you are self-sufficient?

Then the grid starts to degrade due to lack of maintenance, and the people that can't afford local storage become dependent essentially on a government maintained service.

Or should we be planning localized storage and grids at the same time, so we get the benefits of both scale and resiliency and redundancy.

People will be parking a mobile 100kWh battery at their house every night. We need integrated V2G and grid upgrades to make the most of this opportunity.
by wodow | 2025-09-15 13:12:20+00:00
Something I think is often missing in this evergreen debate: governments have banned encryption before, in amateur radio. See e.g. https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/72/encrypted-traffic...

(Obviously, the difference is in number of users -- not many hams, and lots of internet users, and "a sufficiently large difference in quantity is a difference in kind")
by pyrale | 2025-09-15 13:12:23+00:00
A small addendum on the conclusions:

- every household, can do that, _if_ they have a roof. appartment buildings may not have enough roof for all the people in it.

- for those who can't access that, (that includes people, but also the industry, your mobile phone provider, etc.) prices will get worse.

- the fire brigade will love industrial-size battery fires in the neighbourhood.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-15 13:12:29+00:00
> Do ppl think having access to a doctor is going prevent one from being obese ? whats the logic.

Doctors can vary in whether or not (and for how long) they advocate trying a healthy diet and exercise before prescribing drugs. In the UK the system is incentivised to avoid drug prescriptions unless necessary, as it reduces the financial burden on the NHS - both for buying the drugs and for managing complications linked to obesity. In the US, pharma companies can offer money and perks to doctors who promote their products.
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-15 13:12:50+00:00
> Are you weighing your eggs?

Yes, always.

I don't know what its like where you are, but where I am you can get eggs either in mixed packets, or sorted by size.

So where I am, 1 egg != 1 egg unless you weigh it.

It doesn't matter for soufflé's or meringues. But for everything else you'll have problems if you use random sized eggs.

> Do you adjust based on the humidity of the air?

Absorption capability of flour tends to be more important.

> Do you know all of the hot spots in your oven

Put it in fan mode and reduce the temperature. Hot spot problem disappears.
by Jedd | 2025-09-15 13:12:55+00:00
I adore Banks' universe, but recall reading some notes from him years ago, as tialaramex indicated, that 'all the interesting stuff happens at the edge' given utopias are, almost by definition, pretty tedious.

Even though there's a good amount of utopia-description in the novels, I'd still be wary about extrapolating too much from what are primarily stories of exceptions.

(One might suggest, in response to TFA's expectation there'd be more arseholes in the Culture, that one of the most important things a utopian Culture would ensure is a robust education for all its citizens -- but I realise some popular contemporary earth-bound cultures may take that as a subtle dig.)

> we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence

I'd rate the Eschaton series by Charlie Stross (sadly only two books ever published in that series, and it's unlikely we'll ever see a third) - Singularity Sky & Iron Sunrise - in this category.

I think Accelerando might fit, too.
by JackC | 2025-09-15 13:13:21+00:00
Amusingly this makes them more like actual fingerprints, which also lack enough information for "true fingerprinting" -- there seems to be little scientific knowledge of the error rates in matching human fingerprints in court. "Many have said that friction ridge identification is only legally admissible today because during the time when it was added to the legal system, the admissibility standards were quite low."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint
by bluGill | 2025-09-15 13:13:35+00:00
Same family is likely not a useful comparison because lifestyle would be different. Eunuchs would be expected to serve the royal family, which implies plenty of food - not as good as the royals, but still plenty of it unlike their families back on the farm who lived closer to starvation at best and a bad year would cause a lot of deaths.

At least that is what I'd expect, but I'm trying to extrapolate what I know of European history (acoup) to Korea. Anyone have better expertise able to talk about the experience of the different groups?
by Bender | 2025-09-15 13:13:40+00:00
That is a trick question designed to make people argue and feel like there is some science or math to it. There is not. Nobody here can accurately predict weather far out enough to be a factor in this decision. The truth will vary by demand by family which may have variability throughout the year or decade. Another variable is the number of cloudy days which will vary as climate changes.

The answer is somewhere in the neighborhood of as much as one can safely store and afford accepting that batteries have a short life. Much like wells in cold climates the batteries should be in an underground insulated vault made from higher quality concrete as to keep fire hazards away from the home. That is also where whole-home generators and fuel belong, in their own vault so they can be easily maintained without having to rent an excavator to dig out the tank.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-15 13:13:48+00:00
Space embedding based on arbitrary points never resolves to specifics. Particularly downstream. Words are arbitrary, we remained lazy at an unusually vague level of signaling because arbitrary signals provide vast advantages for the sender and controller of the signal. Arbitrary signals are essentially primate dominance tools. They are uniquely one-way. CS never considered this. It has no ability to subtract that dark matter of arbitrary primate dominance that's embedded in the code. Where is this in embedded space?

LLMs are designed for Western concepts of attributes, not holistic, or Eastern. There's not one shred of interdependence, each prediction is decontextualized, the attempt to reorganize by correction only slightly contextualizes. It's the object/individual illusion in arbitrary words that's meaningless. Anyone studying Gentner, Nisbett, Halliday can take a look at how LLMs use language to see how vacant they are. This list proves this. LLMs are the equivalent of circus act using language.

"Let's consider what we mean by "concepts" in an embedding space. Language models don't deal with perfectly orthogonal relationships – real-world concepts exhibit varying degrees of similarity and difference. Consider these examples of words chosen at random: "Archery" shares some semantic space with "precision" and "sport" "Fire" overlaps with both "heat" and "passion" "Gelatinous" relates to physical properties and food textures "Southern-ness" encompasses culture, geography, and dialect "Basketball" connects to both athletics and geometry "Green" spans color perception and environmental consciousness "Altruistic" links moral philosophy with behavioral patterns"
by rossant | 2025-09-15 13:14:09+00:00
What a great article, thanks!

I liked this bit, among others:

> LLMs overuse the 'rule of three'—"the good, the bad, and the ugly". This can take different forms from "adjective, adjective, adjective" to "short phrase, short phrase, and short phrase".[2]

> While the 'rule of three', used sparingly, is common in creative, argumentative, or promotional writing, it is less appropriate for purely informational texts, and LLMs often use this structure to make superficial analyses appear more comprehensive.

> Examples:

> "The Amaze Conference brings together global SEO professionals, marketing experts, and growth hackers to discuss the latest trends in digital marketing. The event features keynote sessions, panel discussions, and networking opportunities."
by zaphar | 2025-09-15 13:14:28+00:00
No cop who hunted down Luigi benefited from the CEO's death. Not a single one. Unless by benefit you mean "felt good about the death". Which, is lame and sad for anyone who thinks that. No policy changes were made as a result of the death. No systemic changes are going to happen as a result of the death. Pretending like there was something to gain from it is at best naive and at worst actively harmful to society.
by Apreche | 2025-09-15 13:14:34+00:00
First people complain the app store has a ridiculous approvals process and people keep getting rejected unfairly. Now people complain that they are too loose and letting in shovelware. What’s it going to be?

I wonder if I made an app that was simply a front-end for the actual app store if it would be approved. We wouldn’t be an alternate app store. We would always link to the actual app store for purchase/installation of apps. We just provide an alternate index of apps for searching where all the shovelware is removed.
by osigurdson | 2025-09-15 13:15:14+00:00
>> developer somewhere between junior and mid-level,

Analogies to humans don't work that well. AI is super-human in some respects while also lacking the ability to continually work toward a goal over long periods of time. AI can do very little on its own - just short / scoped / supervised tasks.

However, sometimes the situation is reversed, AI is the teacher who provides some examples on how to do things or provides hints on how to explore a new area and knows how others have approached similar things. Then, sometimes, AI is an astute code reviewer, typically providing valuable feedback.

Anyway, I've stopped trying anthropomorphize AI and simply try to reason about it based on working with it. That means combinations of direct ChatGPT usage with copy / paste / amend type workflows, async style / full PR style usage, one-shot "hail Mary" type throw away PRs just to establish an initial direction as well as PR reviews of my own code. I'm using AI all the time, but never anything like how I would work with another human.
Show HN: Wordspike–AI spikes from any YouTube video (multilang, Kindle export)
by thekuanysh | 2025-09-15 13:15:22+00:00
Kuan here, solo dev. I was sinking hours into YouTube “learning” videos—one leads to five, killing deep work focus. My solution: Pull the core (summaries, insights, action steps) and skip the rest.

Launched Wordspike this week: Paste a YouTube URL (web app or browser extension), and it generates structured text output right away.

Key features:

- “Spikes”: AI-generated summary + key ideas + insights + actionable steps (minimalist, no fluff). - Multilingual: Handles non-English videos natively (e.g., I’m extracting from Chinese tech talks as I don’t understand Chinese). - Exports: PDF/EPUB, or sent directly to Kindle in ~90 seconds.

Tech: End-to-end with Bun/JS backend, Redis for async processing, minimalist UI. No team or funding—just bootstrapping *to solve my own problem*.

Early traction: 20+ users in 4 days; strong feedback on trials.

Try it: https://wordspike.com (freemium, just paste a YouTube URL to test).

Curious: What features would hook you? Tech thoughts on multilingual LLM handling or async scaling?

Happy to discuss stack, async workers, or non-English LLM tweaks.

How do you manage video overload in your workflow?
by redprince | 2025-09-15 13:15:22+00:00
Rest assured, he's also trying that route. That mastodon article links to parliamentary requests for clarification of aforementioned quote. In article 1425 he responds (google translate):

"We know that social media and encrypted services are unfortunately largely is used to facilitate many forms of crime. There are examples on how criminal gangs recruit completely through encrypted platforms young people to commit, among other things, serious crimes against persons. It is an expression of a cynicism that is almost completely incomprehensible.

We therefore need to look at how we can overcome this problem. Both in terms of what the services themselves do, but also what we from the authorities can do. It must not be the case that the criminals can hide behind encrypted services that authorities cannot access to."

[...]

"I also note that steps have been taken within the EU towards a strengthened regulation of, among other things, digital information services and social media platforms. For example, the European Commission has proposed a new Regulation on rules for preventing and combating sexual abuse of children."

[...]

"The government has a strong focus on eliminating digital violations – it applies especially when it comes to sexual abuse of children – and supports the proposed regulation, unlike the opposition."
by rswail | 2025-09-15 13:15:45+00:00
EV battery capacity is expected to grow to 100kWh.

People will park them at home every night, and probably somewhere with a charging point during the day.

Smart house energy management should be able to pick up on that usage pattern and use the car battery for the house while making sure the car is kept ready for use.

In the same way that wifi/mobile/satellite comms can keep us "always connected", the changes in power generation and storage are going to keep us "fully charged".
by pjmlp | 2025-09-15 13:16:31+00:00
I know Python since version 1.6.

It is great for learning on how to program (BASIC replacement), OS scripting tasks as Perl replacement, and embedded scripting in GUI applications.

Additionally understand PYTHONPATH, and don't mess with anything else.

All the other stuff that is supposed to fix Python issues, I never bothered with them.

Thankfully, other languages are starting to also have bindings to the same C and C++ compute libraries.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-15 13:16:46+00:00
> That would mean that we eat active pesticides when buying non organic food. Not that it would totally surprise me neither.

Not necessarily. It could be microbes downstream of pests touching your crops that shorten the shelf life, for example.

> But they might have shorter circuits as well (which is also a good thing).

It's a good thing if you have the time and money to buy things that are more expensive to produce.
by stephen_g | 2025-09-15 13:17:00+00:00
This one is especially tricky since even if you know what a phased lock loop (PLL) is, the terms CPLL and QPLL are specific to the arrangement of transceivers in these specific Xilinx FPGAs (7 series being one family of FPGAs which came before the UltraScale and then UltraScale+ series). There are four transceivers in a ‘quad’ which can either run from their ‘Channel PLL’ (CPLL) or the shared ‘Quad PLL’ that can run much faster to do basically double the line rate.
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-15 13:17:13+00:00
I don't think its credible to represent the culture as abandoning 1, at least no more so than our cultures do. As I recall, the worst punishment you can get in the culture is being "Drone Slapped," which is just to have a drone follow you around and make sure you don't do any bad stuff (like kill more people if you are a murderer who wants to kill more people). This preserves considerably more autonomy than, for instance, a life sentence in prison.

I think a more reasonable take on the culture is that they try their best to preserve 1 and 2 but they aren't stupid about it. No culture in history has ever had totally inalienable rights of any kind.
by gadders | 2025-09-15 13:17:14+00:00
I got one of those scam texts last week that begin with "Dad save my new number..." it then escalated to where they asked for money.

(I knew it wasn't genuine as I'm still paying for my daughter's cellphone)

Anyway, I played a long for a bit but finally told them that I knew it wasn't genuine as my daughter is not that polite when she asks for money.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-15 13:17:38+00:00
I always thought about this myself in terms of personal sized long term, high density energy storage. Compressed hydrogen with a fuel cell is the obvious solution. Excess electric is used in a electrolysis cell and a matched compressor fills a bank of storage cylinders. More cylinders = more storage. Though likely very inefficient with a risk of fire or explosion.

Are there any other long term high density electric storage technologies that can fit in someones basement, garage, or even apartment closet?
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-15 13:18:12+00:00
Rosetta 1 was licenced third party technology back when the company wasn't exactly rolling in money.

https:/www.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit

If you have to pay the licensing fee again every time you want to release a new version of the OS, you've got a fiscal incentive to sunset Rosetta early.

Rosetta 2 was developed in-house.

Apple owns it, so there is no fiscal reason to sunset it early.
by adwn | 2025-09-15 13:18:33+00:00
> like the entire point of my comment is that people have misguided criteria for evaluating build systems, and your comment seems to just affirm this?

I think dev_l1x_be's comment is meant to imply that your believe about people having misguided criteria [for evaluation build systems] is itself misguided, and that your favored approach [that the difficulty of including a dependency should be proportional to the risk you're taking on] is also misguided.
by zaphar | 2025-09-15 13:18:38+00:00
Here's the problem though. Scientific studies that are one off, not replicated, and standing on dubious ground are getting used to justify numerous societal and policy changes. So while "Science" the practice of studying and understanding the world is laudable, the masqerading of the intermediate artifacts of research to support dubious conclusions is not. Which is why I put quotes around "the science" because the problem is that what people keep claiming is science is in fact not.
by bluGill | 2025-09-15 13:18:46+00:00
Why go for a bigger battery when you can just put more panels on the roof to cover those winter days and waste the power the rest of the year?

I suspect the answer is somewhere in the middle - maybe two weeks of storage. Though of course prices change all the time so the correct action will change and you need to rerun the numbers as things degrade to decide your next action.
by tombert | 2025-09-15 13:18:49+00:00
It’s been really hit or miss for me.

The bullets don’t bother me, since I outline a lot already, but there are other annoyances, like the poor performance, and an inability to split the screen.

I am still using it for a bit just to give it the fairest shake, but honestly I am kind of counting the days before I am back to Obsidian.
by gtk40 | 2025-09-15 13:18:52+00:00
Many devices and word processors will convert "--" into an em-dash. On longer posts, I often write in a word processor and then copy-paste to a text field.

On Android and iOS, you press and hold the "-" to get the "–" and "—" options.

On Mac, use opt + hyphen for "–" and opt + shift + hyphen for "—" (similar to other special characters).

On Linux you can enable the compose key and use it similar to MacOS (Compose+---).

It's not rocket science.
by ProcessOptimist | 2025-09-15 13:18:58+00:00
You're hitting on the biggest problem with dev docs: they're always scattered because well they just want to jump straight back into coding.

For what you're describing, a place for onboarding, docs, and connecting to dev tools like GitHub, Superthread is a good fit. The layout is a lot more opinionated than Notion to reduce clunky navigation or UI.

It’s a place where docs and tasks are connected, so you're not jumping between a wiki and a task tracker. Specifically for devs it also has sprint functionality.

[https://superthread.com/]
by JohnBooty | 2025-09-15 13:19:06+00:00
There are a number of other issues such the ethical and environmental ones. However, this one in isolation...

Popular LLMs are really great at generating plausibly looking, but meaningless content. They are capable of providing good assistance if you are careful enough

I'm struggling to understand this particular angle.

Humans are capable of generating extremely poor code. Improperly supervised LLMs are capable of generating extremely poor code.

How is this is an LLM-specific problem?

I believe part of (or perhaps the entire) the argument here is that LLMs certainly enable more unqualified contributors to generate larger quantities of low-quality code than they would have been able to otherwise. Which... is true.

But still I'm not sure that LLMs are the problem here? Nobody should be submitting unexpected, large, hard-to-review quantities of code in the first place, LLM-aided or otherwise. It seems to me that LLMs are, at worst, exposing an existing flaw in the governance process of certain projects?
by charcircuit | 2025-09-15 13:19:41+00:00
This repurposing is of only one he owns and the novelty of reusing it will likely wear off within a couple of weeks as having an extremely weak web server is not particularly useful.

It may not be my storage space but people in this site do have a higher chance of hoarding ewaste for no logical reasons and I'm hoping that pointing this out can help people realize that they don't need to hold on to every random gadget forever.
by Jensson | 2025-09-15 13:19:47+00:00
Is there actually such a thing as a "slow thinker"? I find it hard to believe that slow thinking skills doesn't heavily correlate with fast thinking skills, is there any evidence of this?

Note you have to rule out stress, since stress is not related to this. Performing badly under pressure just means you are not stress resistant, it doesn't mean you are a slow thinker, you can still think quickly when you are calm.

So to me it seems like labeling yourself as a "slow thinker" is just putting unnecessary limits on yourself. "I am not good at that, I am a slow thinker" is defeatist.
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-15 13:20:13+00:00
Most fruits are highly bred, nutrition wise they're very different from their wild-type predecessors. Many of which are outright inedible, or close to it.

That said, we've coevolved with technology of one sort or another (the broadest definition, to include cooking, plant breeding, hunting with weapons, domestication and animal husbandry) ever since we began to master fire, a million years ago give or take.
by pyrale | 2025-09-15 13:20:27+00:00
Solar and renewables alone don't make a grid. You would also need grid-scale batteries, and the cost is not the same.

The "improvements" in power transmission is about building more lines, these lines are not going to be significantly cheaper to maintain than previous generations, and if these investment/maintenance costs are shared among less, that means more expensive electricity. Currently, in my country, electricity transport and distribution are about one third of total cost.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-15 13:20:45+00:00
The reason(s) why Trump might call for this are pretty obvious, but what consequences does this have? Quarterly reporting has some benefits to investors, maybe holding CEO/COO/CFO's feet to the fire or something. That means that ditching quarterly reports is removing one leg of a stool. To not do quarterly reporting, don't you have to restructure other parts of the markets, or add other information sharing?