MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by password54321 | 2025-09-23 15:42:05+00:00
Based on the context they were obviously judging their character based off their "good deeds". You are just circling around the obvious. As for this "dilemma", he has already shown he will exploit children.

This tells you who he is and what his incentives are. If you would like to believe otherwise go for it. My advice simply is to watch out in real life for people you think are good if this is how you judge people.
by ktosobcy | 2025-09-23 15:42:35+00:00
hmm... I just checked the (official?) macOS build and it uses 1.2.20.0 so there's that.

Looking at the downloads (I'm using brew) it seems that not many people uses libtorrent2… (https://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/qbittorre...)
by everdrive | 2025-09-23 15:43:53+00:00
I think the Apple ARM chips are a good example. They're fantastically more efficient and fantastically powerful. We _could_ take this incredible platform and say "we can probably do personal computing on 3-5 watts if we really focus on efficiency." But we don't do that. With more powerful chips, websites and apps and operating systems will get less efficient, bigger, more bloated. If there's any slack in the system we'll just take it up with crap. The chips will be faster next year so why bother making things more efficient? Repeat this process forever, and we eat up all of our efficiency gains.
by PTOB | 2025-09-23 15:43:55+00:00
This is a great question. One of the hardest lessons I've learned is that some people don't know that the choices they're making are going to hurt them.

There are children who are actively taught by the people they should be able to trust that belligerence, lying, and stealing will get them what they need in life. On the other side of the coin, there are children who are taught to assume that everyone else has the up-bringing and or at least the natural intelligence needed to enable good choices every time a moral dilemma is presented. Both - it turns out - are equally short-sighted.

What's worse is that many of us assume that others can easily change their entire worldview on a dime. In the middle of my life, I'm coming to accept that I need more years that will be available to me to fix all the broken parts of my psyche and intellect.
by luxcem | 2025-09-23 15:43:56+00:00
Claude Code really helped me with this recently. I have a rather old dotfiles repository (10+ years) for my Arch system, and I can really feel the fatigue from updating and maintaining it. So much so that over the years, it has accumulated many minor annoyances that I never fixed. Nowadays, I can simply explain these issues to an LLM, and it will mostly resolve them.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-23 15:44:25+00:00
I'm more worried that publicly available LLMs "will be capped by the amount of training data present in the wild". But private LLMs, available only to the wealthy and powerful, will have additional, more pristine and accurate, data sources made available to them for training.

Think about the legal field. The masses tend to use Google, whereas the wealthy and powerful all use LexisNexis. Who do you think has been winning in court?
by legacynl | 2025-09-23 15:44:32+00:00
I hate when people complain about rudeness or etiquette. What is etiquette but an undemocratic set of rules that we are supposed to adhere to?

We already have a set of rules that we all agree on, and it's called the law.

Seriously, can someone explain to me the actual experienced difference between 2 people having a conversation, and 1 person having a conversation on loudspeaker?

Why is one obviously okay, and the other one so hated?
by coder543 | 2025-09-23 15:44:40+00:00
> Most people don't, and cracking a window is the only option.

It's not usually the only option. Installing an ERV is an option for the more than half of the population that owns their own property in the US, and an ERV will save money and pay for itself compared to opening your windows, in addition to the other benefits.

For renters, that's where the window units I mentioned come in, but there aren't as many options there as I would hope yet. If people don't ask for ERVs en masse, then apartments won't offer ERVs as a benefit to attract tenants unless they are legally required. Helping people understand that options exist seems like the first step to changing things. Ideally, even window-unit ERVs wouldn't be the only option for renters. Nearly 90% of households in the US have air conditioning now (which I believe includes rentals), because people asked for air conditioning and were willing to pay for it. ERVs have the added benefit that they don't just make things better, but they should pay for themselves in energy savings too. Maybe I'm too optimistic. I believe the 2024 IECC building codes make ERVs mandatory in new construction in climate zones 6 through 8, as one example of a change that is coming.
by paulsmith | 2025-09-23 15:44:42+00:00
This is a fact of ZIP Codes that a lot of people stumble one. I've worked on GIS/mapping projects in the past where stakeholders wanted or assumed ZIP Codes to be polygons.

Another complexity that surprises folks is you can't guarantee a one-to-many state-to-ZIP Code relationship. There are several (I forgot offhand how many, I used to have them memorized) that span across state boundaries.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-23 15:44:42+00:00
>In practice I think it's about impossible to enforce. Code enforcement or police would need a warrant to enter

If they have a suspicion and they feel inclined to go after you they'll just go hard enforcing all manner of other shit they don't need to go inside to enforce agains the landlord. It doesn't matter that the things they're trying to enforce may very well be bullshit that couldn't stand in court if challenged, it's cheaper to comply than to fight it.

Code enforcement and other civil and administrative areas of law where the .gov can issue fines on the same order or larger than many criminal penalties while giving the accused none of the rights of criminal trial are a massive, massive, massive, I can't say it enough, massive, end run around constitutional rights.
by elmomle | 2025-09-23 15:45:08+00:00
It's really essential that one have (1) down (to be self-constituted) down in order for (3) not to lead to a circle of confusion. If I feel very assured in my own relationship with the universe, that doesn't depend on how anybody else sees me, and my security does not depend on others being happy with me. And when I don't need to make anybody happy, connection and compassion arise naturally from a place of curiosity--there are feelings of abundance and security underlying it rather than confusion or anxiety.

That sounds simple but the self-constitution part takes years of serious searching and work; some things (good therapists, good meditation teachers, good books, consistent practice, etc.) help the journey along, but there is no quick route.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-23 15:45:15+00:00
What do you mean by "you as a collective"? Did you just shift the goalpost? Do you think people are part of a hivemind? I thought we were talking about individuals, now you want to talk about "a collective"? You clearly aren't thinking about this rationally. A bit of thinking things through logically would really help here. I suggest spending a few hours whiteboarding your argument, because as it stands 0% of people are going to agree with you.
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 15:45:33+00:00
Grindr Dating App Crashes in Milwaukee During Republican National Convention: Everything We Know

https://www.newsweek.com/grindr-app-crashes-milwaukee-rnc-19...

JUL 19, 2024 AT 03:27 PM EDT

~~~

Grindr CEO confirms ‘significant’ user spike during Republican National Convention

https://unherd.com/newsroom/grindr-ceo-confirms-significant-...

July 7, 2025

~~~

Things get VERY awkward after antigay congressman is asked about his alleged Grindr profile

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/things-get-very-awkwa...

6 months ago

~~~

But by all means, Claude going down for 15 minutes yesterday explains this all away.
by miki123211 | 2025-09-23 15:45:42+00:00
What I've found is that it is very important to make structured outputs as easy for the LLM as possible. This means making your schemas LLM-friendly instead of programmer-friendly.

E.g. if the LLM hallucinates non-existing URLs, you may add a boolean "contains_url" field to your entity's JSON schema, placing it before the URL field itself. This way, the URL extraction is split into two simpler steps, checking if the URL is there and actually extracting it. If the URL is missing, the `"contains_url": false` field in the context will strongly urge the LLM to output an empty string there.

This also comes up with quantities a lot. Imagine you're trying to sort job adverts by salary ranges, which you extract via LLm. . These may be expressed as monthly instead of annual (common in some countries), in different currencies, pre / post tax etc.

Instead of having an `annual_pretax_salary_usd` field, which is what you actually want, but which the LLM is extremely ill-equipped to generate, have a detailed schema like `type: monthly|yearly, currency:str, low:float, high:float, tax: pre_tax|post_tax`.

That schema is much easier for an LLM to generate, and you can then convert it to a single number via straight code.
by teraflop | 2025-09-23 15:45:52+00:00
I don't really understand the use case for this. Despite all the details in the README, there are only a couple sentences devoted to describing what it's actually for, and they don't make much sense to me.

You're assuming that an attacker already has access to your system, and you want to detect any changes they make to certain files.

If you are dealing with a relatively unsophisticated attacker, surely it would be easier to just mount the data that shouldn't be changed on a read-only filesystem, or set the immutable bit?

And if the attacker is sophisticated, surely they could just disable the verifier? Or replace it with a no-op that doesn't actually check hashes?

> Many web apps (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.) on AWS EC2 need a lightweight way to confirm their code hasn’t been changed.

I don't think this is true, any more than the square-root function needs a way to confirm that its argument hasn't been tampered with. You're solving the problem in the wrong place. It seems like security theater.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-23 15:45:56+00:00
Isn't South Africa the exception? There have been sanctions on many more countries who have not changed at all, or even doubled down on bad behavior as a result.

I can certainly understand, as a matter of foreign policy, not wanting our companies to be propping up or supplying such regimes, but I don't really get how anyone can think that sanctions are effective at promoting change.
by latexr | 2025-09-23 15:46:00+00:00
You're arguing against points no one made. No one in this immediate thread, at least. No one here said you have to be shitty to be a billionaire, or that giving money away stops you from being shitty.

Please don’t straw man. Engage with the arguments in earnest, with what the person said, not what you imagine they said.
by viralpraxis | 2025-09-23 15:46:01+00:00
You can specify `minimum` and `maximum` property for these fields. So this schema

{ "$id": "https://example.com/test.schema.json", "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "title": "Person", "type": "object", "properties": { "hp": { "type": "integer", "description": "HP", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 15 } } }

is converted to this BNF-like representation:

hp ::= ([1-9] | "1" [0-5]) space hp-kv ::= "\"hp\"" space ":" space hp root ::= "{" space (hp-kv )? "}" space space ::= | " " | "\n"{1,2} [ \t]{0,20}
by farixco | 2025-09-23 15:46:09+00:00
The NPU is somewhat usable on RK3588(S(2)) boards, as long as the kernel you’re using is recent enough to have the latest NPU driver.

For a quick bring-up and implementation, take a look at this repo: https://github.com/Pelochus/ezrknpu

I have a Radxa Rock 5C (on Armbian) and it runs various models rather well. Trying to convert models is kind of a pain, though, so watch out.
by llimllib | 2025-09-23 15:46:34+00:00
link to the zip code data is broken too; https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/assets/us-zip-code-l... 404s

Even when I worked for Medicare I couldn't get the damned post office to give us accurate zip code data! It's terrible geodata but also almost everybody remembers it and most zip codes map to one county, so it was the best UI we found for getting a general area for where a person lived.
by eschneider | 2025-09-23 15:46:49+00:00
Very much this. Even when programming for constrained environments, it's almost never necessary to self-host anymore. It's easy to use host-side tools to crunch code down to something that'll work on whatever the target is.

From a practical standpoint, one of the few modern uses where FORTH shines is as a REPL for new chips/SOCs so you can play around with the hardware and see how things actually work/debug the databook.
by wongarsu | 2025-09-23 15:47:19+00:00
His philantrophy videos underperform compared to his other videos, typically getting 10-30% fewer views than the worst performing video right before or after.

Maybe you could argue that they aren't financially lucrative but at least help his brand. But he seems to get a lot of hate for making those videos. I suspect his brand would be much better if he stuck to making highly produced challenge and contest style videos

Now there are three worlds we could live in: In the first I am misjudging his videos and they are actually good for his brand or finances. That's the one you suspect. In the second they are bad for his brand but he perceives them as helping him. Quite possible, even if he seems to have reasonably good self reflection. In the third they are bad for his brand and finances but he wouldn't be able to finance projects of this scopes without the videos and sponsorships. That's what MrBeast claims to be true

I don't know which of those is true, all three of them seem likely to me
by infamouscow | 2025-09-23 15:47:22+00:00
The Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) was a short-lived DHS advisory group, running from March 2, 2022, to August 24, 2022. It was pitched as a way to combat "misinformation," but let's call it what it was: a top-down attempt to gatekeep truth.

The red team hasn't spun up their own version of this Orwellian nightmare -- probably because they lean on something bigger than bureaucracy, like a belief in free thought or a higher power. Nietzsche said you can't be an elite without faith in something beyond the state.

This isn't engineered; it's emergent. The blue team should be sweating -- their push for control lookied like a fringe fever dream. If you're peddling censorship disguised as safety, the only thing you deserve is a one-way ticket to obscurity, or a jail cell.
by glenstein | 2025-09-23 15:47:47+00:00
I'm finding these allegations of "fraud" to be extremely convoluted and all over the map, sharing more with internet conspiracy theorizing than sober allegations of specific harms. Some of the issues in the video and elsewhere, present longstanding staples of junk food marketing (e.g. cash prizes, vacations) as if they're in the category of crimes, which is nonsense and shows no sense of proportionality.

I also think the linked video got pretty ridiculous pointing to CGI explosions or edited in buildings evidence of "faked videos" when I think, again, not crime, and not even importantly misleading in the sense people usually are talking about when talking about faked videos: e.g. bigfoot being a guy in a costume. The kind of thing I would consider violating the contract with the viewer would be something more like integrity of outcomes in competitions.

Which is to say, the community of critics are some of the worst cases of deep friend internet brain imaginable, spinning narratives in a Trump-style "weave" [0] that can't decide what the issue is, and can't differentiate between importantly different categories of harm. Most of the time it's vague characterizations of "shady" without elaboration, which itself signals the kind of vagueness that people mistakenly think constitute a completely expressed idea.

That's why this article, at least, by contrast is able to coherently articulate a harm, but even that is fringey, pertaining to pinned comments did not comply with "CARU’s Ad Guidelines’." But at least, it models what it looks like to present a coherently stated harm.

0: The Weave: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/us/elections/trump-speech...
by aeon_ai | 2025-09-23 15:47:49+00:00
The nature of the transaction itself is fundamentally different in a paygated/trustless API request.

This is different from an API schema of a /payments/ endpoint being segregated from the actual resource that is being paid for.

In this model, the payment is the cost of entry for the resource request itself. It's not as directly applicable to all payment scenarios, but enables a new class of transaction that is effectively pay-per-request.

It's worth noting that this protocol is primarily supported by Coinbase today -- You'd be using USDC on the Base network (Layer 2 on top of Ethereum). However, the protocol itself is opening meaning anyone can self-host the same mechanics on any network, with any token/crypto asset.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-23 15:48:02+00:00
A ChatGPT prompt uses 0.3 Wh, which is approximately how much energy a Google search took in 2009.

AI energy use is negligible compared with other everyday activities. This is a great article on the subject:

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa...

The same author has published a series of articles that go into a lot of depth when it comes to AI energy and water use:

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-environment
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-23 15:48:03+00:00
it's nice that I'm getting minus points, but this is the case here. Tesla sold c.a. 100k and the decline is (I was mistaken) 30% which means that they lost 42k models sold, but the 36% increase on the sold cars for VW for example is from 33-44k which is 10k more. That's the basics of percents, +x% is not equal -x% and Tesla is still leading.

Tesla is also leading in the amount of luggage (important for me), however the interior of EU cars looks much better (with exception for model S, which has actual hud, not a wooden plank under the windshield)
by password54321 | 2025-09-23 15:48:17+00:00
>His philantrophy videos underperform compared to his other videos, typically getting 10-30% fewer views than the worst performing video right before or after.

Doesn't matter. We are literally having this discussion because of the very fact that he has chosen to make these videos. This tells you how effective it is for his brand. More than likely it is a net-positive even if he does get criticism.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-23 15:48:27+00:00
Even though there is the whole CGO is not Go meme, it certainly makes it rather easy to write C and C++ code directly on a Go project, thus I imagine some folks reach rather easy to it.

Which I can relate to, when doing stuff that is Windows only , I rather make use of C++/CLI than getting P/Invoke declarations correctly.
by DevItMan | 2025-09-23 15:48:32+00:00
Two things make local‑first frameworks break out: a boring hosted “default” and one killer app. Even if the vision is user‑owned data, ship a managed option with sane defaults so teams can try it in 5 minutes, then let them flip a switch to self‑host or bring their own storage/keys later. Pair that with a flagship app that proves the value (e.g., a shared notes/CRM/mail client where offline + conflict‑free collab is obviously better). Frameworks without a hero use case tend to stall because devs can’t justify the integration time.

On the business model, dual license works if you de‑risk the integration: stable plugin ABI, permissive SDKs, and paid “closed‑source embedding” tier with SLAs and on‑prem support. Where I’ve seen revenue actually land: (1) paid sync/relay with zero data retention, (2) enterprise key management and policy controls, and (3) priority support/migration bundles. One caution: “privacy” alone doesn’t convert; solve a concrete ops pain. I built CrabClear to handle the obscure brokers others miss, and the lesson was the same—privacy sells when it eliminates a specific, recurring headache. If Epicenter can quantify one such headache and make it vanish out‑of‑the‑box, the model becomes much easier to sustain.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-23 15:48:34+00:00
(2024)

Isn't this space a bit too fast moving to be submitting year old posts on it?

Plenty of grid-draining articles since:

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931763

Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44905595

The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44910562

And nuclear ambitions:

Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45172609

Google to back three new nuclear projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925982

Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840769

Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443

Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858863
by pseudosavant | 2025-09-23 15:48:48+00:00
For those that may be interested, this is my project to easily get a list of every zipcode + city/state combo. It is available as JSON you can easily directly work with, or even try a service like this: https://usps-zip-codes.deno.dev/90210.

I have a pet peeve for having to enter my zip code after I've already had to type in the city and state. There wasn't any easily downloadable file that had every ZIP code though. I keep hoping more sites will ask for ZIP first and then just auto fill it using data like this. /wishfulthinking

https://github.com/pseudosavant/usps-zip-codes
by asib | 2025-09-23 15:49:38+00:00
Ah interesting, didn't know that. The video is at least 4 years old, so suppose it depends on when Derek sold. Anecdotally, I think all the new hosts came after that thumbnail video, but I couldn't say how closely the changes you mention followed.

In general, it seems this is a thing that YouTubers feel they need to do to avoid being swallowed, but the extent to which MrBeast does it could well be extreme, and thereby worthy of suspicion.
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 15:49:52+00:00
Fine, so let's say they put a sensor on that detects... what? "People?" That takes a lot of computing power and sensor trust.

What about houses with people in it? Do we shoot the battery toward those houses?

What about drop-offs, where the battery shot out the side of the car off a bridge is going to fly down and land on top of a building full of people under the overpass, a sidewalk with people, etc?

What about animals? Do we just jettison the fiery ton of batteries if it is a cow? What about if it's a dog? What if it's a trained companion animal?

What about fields of dry material, forests, or even wooden structures? Should we shoot the battery 20 feet, 50 feet, or 250 feet into the pile of dry material that will start the next mega-wildfire?

This idea is insanity and there are so many reasons that shooting a battery out the side of the car will never be the solution.