MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by allenu | 2025-09-27 17:35:44+00:00
I'm confused as to why they decided to build this when they already previously built the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard all-in-one for under $100. As a casual observer, I don't know who they've built this $200 machine for. A cheap all-in-one for education totally makes sense, but this is a bit too much. Maybe someone more in the know can help us understand what direction the company's going?
by GistNoesis | 2025-09-27 17:36:32+00:00
Aren't they supposed to escape their box and take over the world ?

Isn't it the perfect recipe for disaster ? The AI that manage to escape probably won't be good for humans.

The only question is how long will it take ?

Did we already have our first LLM-powered self-propagating autonomous AI virus ?

Maybe we should build the AI equivalent of biosafety labs where we would train AI to see how fast they could escape containment just to know how to better handle them when it happens.

Maybe we humans are being subjected to this experiment by an overseeing AI to test what it would take for an intelligence to jailbreak the universe they are put in.

Or maybe the box has been designed so that what eventually comes out of it has certain properties, and the precondition to escape the labyrinth successfully is that one must have grown out of it from every possible directions.
by beAbU | 2025-09-27 17:37:04+00:00
That "socket" you are showing is something else. It's an xlr to ethernet adapter. Cat5 cable, with it's 4x twisted pairs is an excellent cable for transmitting balanced audio signals over long distances. One ethernet cable can transmit 4 such signals. The signal running in the ethernet is still the analogue signal though.

So it's quite popular these days do use ethernet cable for long signal runs in live audio installations. Much cheaper than traditional snakes too.

Your second link is a rj45-in-xlr-shell plug. It's used where you need a robust and reliable rj45 connection that can withstand more abuse than a typical "naked" rj45. I think it's fairly popular in industrial computing and military settings. There are various types of plugs that are embedded in an xlr shell for the same robustness reason.
by amsaleque | 2025-09-27 17:37:06+00:00
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by harmmonica | 2025-09-27 17:37:27+00:00
I really don't have a concrete sense. My comment was very much predicated on the sheer number of folks who would be negatively impacted by the changes to existing domestic healthcare programs. And to put a fine point on my own comment in case you think I'm attempting to downplay USAID impacts, both of these things are materially negative from a healthcare perspective.

It will be impossible to effectively quantify the impacts on mortality of the medicaid/medicare/aca changes, but they are (if implemented) going to impact great numbers of people and their health. USAID absolutely the same as you're pointing out and those impacts will be much more measurable. You're going to have about as good a linear test as you can get given how abruptly that funding will disappear (abrupt in contrast to the long, drawn out medicaid/medicare/aca changes (though the initial aca changes, assuming they do happen, will likely be the most abrupt of the three domestic programs because they will happen cleanly on January 1, 2026)).
by zobzu | 2025-09-27 17:38:45+00:00
The problem, especially with AI, IMO is that folks are even more willing to shoot themselves in the foot.

IMO this might be due to a few things like these:

1. Folks are trained on buffer overflows and SQL injections, they don't even question it, these are "bad". But an MCP interface to an API with god-like access to all data? The MCP of course will make sure its safe for them! (of course, it does not). It's learning and social issue rather than a technical issue. Sometimes, it makes me feel like we're all LLMs.

2. 300 things to fix, 100 vendors, and it needs to be done yesterday. As soon as you look into the vendor implementation you find 10 issues, because just like you, they have 300 things to fix and it needs to be done yesterday, so trade-offs become more dangerous. And who's going to go after you if you do not look into it too hard? No one right now.

3. Complete lack of oversight (and sometimes understanding). If you're just playing around by prompting an LLM you do not know what its doing. When it works, you ship. We've all seen it by now. Personally, I think this one could be improved by having a visual scheduler of tasks.
by glitchcrab | 2025-09-27 17:39:09+00:00
Oh sure it works, not denying that. My point is that performance isn't great and if you only have a small cluster then it doesn't take much to make everything fall over because your failure domains are huge (in your case, you only have 3).

But then to offset the above, it also depends on how important your environment is; homelabs don't usually require five nines.

I am a big Proxmox fan but I dislike how easy it makes Ceph to run (or rather, how it appears to be easy). Ceph can fail in so many ways (I've seen a lot of them) and most people who set a Ceph cluster up through the UI are going to have a hard time recovering their data when things go south.
by guskel | 2025-09-27 17:39:48+00:00
Hey I have cubital tunnel and also have an ulnar deviation in my left arm. Have you tried ergos with low profile keyboards? ZSA also makes a model called the Voyager, which is the best keyboard that I’ve ever had. Might be worth checking out. Like you with the Kinesis, the Voyager has been able to keep me in the game.
by jasonsb | 2025-09-27 17:40:21+00:00
> It's way, way easier to improve solar panel and battery storage tech until fossil fuels are completely uneconomical than to get the entire world to abandon fossil fuels while fossil fuels are the most economical source of energy by far.

No it's not. I mean technically it is, you're 100% right. But politically you're 100% wrong. They can't wait to slap a tax on sun, panels, storage etc. and bring your costs of living higher than when you were using fossil fuels.
by seadan83 | 2025-09-27 17:40:34+00:00
The senate was a compromise to give small rural states unequal voting power compared to the more populist states.

The senate is explicitly created to give more power to minorities.

It is not orthogonal. The senate is EXACTLY the mechanism to ensure majoritarian rule is not at the expense of the minority.

The direct election vs not is not consequential. The consequential part is that states get two senators regardless of population.
by yodaDrofnats | 2025-09-27 17:40:35+00:00
TeX is slow?!

Writing and editing an entire book manuscript is slow.

For pesky TeX chaos smashups, you create a small dedicated TeX file with necessary driver files, edit-compile-loop till satisfied.

Twenty years ago I ran a makefile producing 1755 pages on a 32 bit INTeL CPU. This was just to see what a fat book would look like, thousands of edits remained, still remain. All the two-column formatting was fine, except for problems of long equations and tables blowing up beyond the column, and other mess I couldn't solve. The compile run time was insignificant.

BTW its laTeX not LaTeX.

Donald Knuth's original creation will ever be infinitely more significant than the sprawling ocean of all the crumpled paper bag shenanigans Leslie and whomever-ephemeral else, RUSTy-paper-clips to the side.

De Laude Scriptorum
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-27 17:40:54+00:00
>I think US ownership (not necessarily of land)

What would that even mean? Especially the use the word 'ownership'?

I think there's zero chance of US long-term influence on Greenland. They simply have no reason to prefer foreign domination, when they can simply be sovereign. I would place independence + EU membership as more probably than any association with the US, and I think them staying within Denmark is much more likely than them becoming independent.
by sorokod | 2025-09-27 17:41:06+00:00
inevitable... because of Manifest Destiny?

Like so (source Wikipedia)

"... there were three basic tenets behind the concept:

The assumption of the unique moral virtue of the United States.

The assertion of its mission to redeem the world by the spread of republican government and more generally the "American way of life".

The faith in the nation's divinely ordained destiny to succeed in this mission." ?
by drdaeman | 2025-09-27 17:41:31+00:00
> Until that changes

MCP is just JSON RPC API dialect. It is not "safe" or "unsafe" by design - it's a layer where notion of safety (as talked about in the article) is not applicable. Saying that "MCP is unsafe" is not a meaningful statement in the scope of what MCP is. Nothing about any RPC (by itself) can guarantee that the remote system would do or not do something when some method is invoked.

Unless someone figures out a way to make end-user comprehensible language for formal software verification, so there could be an accompanying spec that describes the behavior to the dot, and technology that validates the implementation against the spec.

Right now the only spec is the actual codebase, and most users aren't typically reviewing that at all.
by fatbird | 2025-09-27 17:41:33+00:00
Having done some non-trivial things with threejs, I'd guess it's basically like this: 3JS is the rendering engine (taking advantage of WebGL); game logic is in Javascript; ktx2 is an OpenGL container holding the world data and other meshes; from looking at the filenames, WASM bits are used for loading the ktx2 data (draco_decoder.wasm). ogg files are for sound. The multiple worker files imply that the app is using web workers to run the WASM performantly to load the world.
by lomase | 2025-09-27 17:41:42+00:00
You stated that an LLM can replace a book.

As far as I know in the field of logic the one making a statement, in this case you, is the one who has to prove it.

But in this case you make a statemen and then ask ME to prove it wrong? Makes zero fucking sense.

As much as you don't apreciate it, that is how debate and logic works.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-09-27 17:41:43+00:00
In many municipalities, it would be cheaper to run on demand van service for people than run busses. Not only would it get people to and from their actual homes and work, vans are cheap and readily available. Paying more drivers is cheaper than buying and maintaining multi million dollar busses that are empty a lot of the time.

In most of CA, most homes are far from bus lines. Making their use prohibitive for all but those who must use them. I know they do something like this in LA. People love it.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-27 17:42:42+00:00
> So I'm not convinced that "male inequality" is the best term to describe this state of affairs. When women having more equal opportunities leads to worse outcomes for some men, is that really inequality for the men? Or are we just seeing natural differences play out.

We humans have a tendency to view pendulum swings with a skewed perspective, one that overblows the near and recent while obscuring and distorting the more distant. What we don't see, we may fill in with what we imagine or we may just fail to consider it. We also tend to forget what pendulums can do, given some time, patience and a bit good faith nudging that honors the original intent.
by volemo | 2025-09-27 17:42:48+00:00
I don't think syntax is the problem here. Using some tool that transpiles to LaTeX, you'll still have to fight your TeX engine sometimes, but now you also add friction and gotchas of your tool that does transpiling.

I've tried writing Org and compiling it to LaTeX, but gave up this idea because ultimately I had to figure out idiosyncrasies of both LaTeX and Org-mode engines.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-27 17:42:52+00:00
>EA is a $50 Billion Gaming Giant but is not Sony, Samsung, Nintendo, Apple, Epic, Amazon or Microsoft, so... that's just the way it is.

I sure wish I could just "settle" at being a billion dollar company. Plenty to make games and pay others to make games.

>which is what Game Pass is now.

I really don't understand the business pressure here either. Games have an established premium model as pretty much the only medium where people will pay for art a la carte. Then they see how profitable the streaming wars are (and yes, Netflix is "profitable", but not for the right reasons), and they think "yes, let's do that to us as well!"

We already have a f2p market and model for those who don't pay for games too. A games subscription service is simply suicide.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-27 17:43:03+00:00
This pattern-matching effect appears frequently in LLMs. If you start conversing with an LLM in the pattern of a science fiction story, it will pattern-match that style and continue with more science fiction style elements.

This effect is a serious problem for pseudo-scientific topics. If someone starts chatting with an LLM with the pseudoscientific words, topics, and dog whistles you find on alternative medicine blogs and Reddit supplement or “nootropic” forums, the LLM will confirm what you’re saying and continue as if it was reciting content straight out of some small subreddit. This is becoming a problem in communities where users distrust doctors but have a lot of trust for anyone or any LLM that confirms what they want to hear. The users are becoming good at prompting ChatGPT to confirm their theories. If it disagrees? Reroll the response or reword the question in a more leading way.

If someone else asks a similar question using medical terms and speaking formally like a medical textbook or research paper, the same LLM will provide a more accurate answer because it’s not triggering the pseudoscience parts embedded from the training.

LLMs are very good at mirroring back what you lead with, including cues and patterns you don’t realize you’re embedding into your prompt.
by 9dev | 2025-09-27 17:43:48+00:00
I view it orthogonally: Making it easier to use our single company identity we use for every single service for SSH as well would make it so much easier to handle authorization and RBAC properly for Linux server management. Right now, we have to juggle SSH keys; I always wanted to move to SSH certificates instead, but there's not a lot of software around that yet (anyone interested in building some? Contact me).

So having the ease of mind that when I block someone in Entra ID, they will also be locked out of all servers immediately—that would be great actually.

> PAM TOTP (or even just password+OTP) into HTTP auth

But why would you? Before initiating a session, users will have to authorise to the IdP, which probably includes MFA or Passkeys anyway. No need for PAM anymore at all.
by NGRhodes | 2025-09-27 17:43:49+00:00
Dogor turned out to be a wolf, not a descendant of the ancient wolf line that dogs evolved from - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogor

As a Siberian Husky owner, I find the breed’s history fascinating. Some of the theories raised in relation to Dogor, like dogs deriving from more than one wolf population, are actually true for the Siberian Husky through ancient admixture. It is one of the few breeds with clear genetic links back to Arctic wolf populations, which is why it sits closer to the early proto-dog split than nearly all modern breeds.

Dogor is not part of that lineage, but his genome supports the idea that domestication was not a single clean event. For Huskies, that complexity shows up in their temperament and working drive, much closer to their wolf ancestors than most dogs today.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-27 17:44:39+00:00
Right the fuck on man. I'm sometimes skeptical of the fanboyism that surrounds Wallace but I like his books as being, "a whole lot of fun." The bad guys have summoned a monster and only, "a more humane approach" can slay the bastard.

Alan Kay tried to give us something better. Neil Postman warned us too. The greats had such high ambitions for the internet and they to they took the Licklider Dream and turned it into the Liderlicking Nightmare. We'll give these fuckers what-for, won't we?
by manquer | 2025-09-27 17:44:49+00:00
Stolen credit cards are not very difficult to get hold for these kind of people I imagine so it won’t be so straightforward as just getting data from the provider.

However jurisdiction and lack of funding for cybercrime policing is the main reason criminals don’t get caught .

Many cybercriminals operate in countries that do not cooperate, extradite and may even have tacit state approval .

Only the largest police departments like NYPD and few federal agencies like FBI have some cybercrime investigations capability and very little of that is for investigating crimes against individuals rather than institutional victims.

It is not an unsound approach when resources are limited you would want to prioritize institutions as that would protect or serve more individuals indirectly .

However the result is that you are far more likely get policing support when someone robs your house physically rather than your identity or assets online .
by dsign | 2025-09-27 17:45:29+00:00
Well, US has the base near Guantanamo; I haven't been to that side but I have been to Guantanamo proper... trust me, that place is hot and has mosquitoes and two decades ago the naval base was almost as infamous as North Korea. And then there's the newly opened "alligator Alcatraz"... I think Mr. President have gotten some ideas for Greenland :-)

/s
by paxys | 2025-09-27 17:46:32+00:00
ktx2 = textures

drc = 3d shapes (I think)

ogg = audio

All of these would normally be bundled in the game installer, but are sent down piece by piece over the network in this case.

Then there's some wasm and js for the game's business logic. The browser has WebGL APIs that enable running all of this.

I'm assuming they used a library or engine like Unity, Godot or Three.js that supports WebGL as an execution target.
by frozenseven | 2025-09-27 17:46:43+00:00
• The other guy certainly did. And your subsequent reply was an endorsement of his style of gatekeeping, so. I mean, just talk to some of the the more active people in AI art. Many of them have been involved in art for decades.

• If throwing paint at a canvas is art (sure, why not?) then so is typing a few words into a 'machine'. Of course many people spend a considerable amount more effort than that. No different than learning Ableton Live or Blender.

• See previous points.
by logicchains | 2025-09-27 17:46:45+00:00
The US has an advantage in that it'll be easier to develop models actually capable of live-learning in the US. A model capable of live learning is capable of changing its views through experience/reasoning, and China's AI development guidelines fundamentally forbid the development of any AI that could learn to think or say that the CPP is bad, so Chinese firms will be hamstrung in developing live-learning AIs.
by jhanschoo | 2025-09-27 17:46:47+00:00
I don't have the motivation to put my position in more detail, but it seems to me ironically that the cheaper intelligence at any degree becomes, and the more commoditized fuzzy reasoning becomes available, then the more important robotics becomes, because the hard part starts to lie in agents' ability to apprehend and act in the world, and China seems to a layperson quite well-positioned in robotics.
by grishka | 2025-09-27 17:46:58+00:00
It's been getting better lately.

That's the thing with these kinds of projects that aim to run vast libraries of preexisting software — they're crap for a long, long time, until suddenly there's enough compatibility that hey, it's actually usable. The time vs usability graph for them is very non-linear.

Wine was "garbage" for decades as well. For a long time, it wouldn't do a satisfactory job of running anything but simplest win32 apps.

Same for Ruffle, the open source flash player, but it got to that point much quicker because the API surface is orders of magnitude smaller.
by binary132 | 2025-09-27 17:48:00+00:00
The difficulty here lies in the fact that there’s a leap involved from “someone should do something” to “you in particular should do something”. If everyone in the room expects you in particular to do something and never does things themselves, nor even appreciates your doing of things, it is correct and reasonable to point out that it’s not really a sustainable, fair, or reasonable reaction to get angry when “you in particular” stops doing the thing. Seems pretty obvious and straightforward on its face.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-09-27 17:48:37+00:00
My paranoid workflow is that I have to make many subdivisions of the document so that I can trivially enable/disable components when I am triaging a problem. When something breaks, I am less reliant on the garbage error messages.

So the top-level document is just a long list of inputs

\input{intro} \input{prelude} \input{complex_figure1} ...

The side benefit is that I can disable all but the component on which I am directly working, so compilation is faster.
by qgin | 2025-09-27 17:49:00+00:00
Absolutely, there is room for price shopping for a subset of medical treatments. https://surgerycenterok.com is a well-known cash-pay surgery center. If you look through the procedure list, you can see the types of things that lend themselves to this model: lots of orthopedic surgeries, things that are fixes for chronic issues that don't really need to be dealt with on any specific timeframe.

But when you get into the really big, serious, time-sensitive things. Cancer treatment, heart disease, anything that starts with an ER visit... you don't really have an ability or time to "shop around". The demand is inelastic.
by tptacek | 2025-09-27 17:49:08+00:00
That doesn't matter! In fact, Twitter doing worse while Bluesky usage is dropping probably makes them significantly less investable.

I'm not rooting for them to fail. I use Bluesky. I find Twitter's ownership odious and the platform significantly worse than it was 4 years ago.

But if we're talking about scientific communicators talking about where the future of scientific communication is going to happen, it is relevant whether Bluesky has a long-term future. There's another non-Twitter social network that doesn't operate under this funding pressure!
by NaomiLehman | 2025-09-27 17:49:09+00:00
Someone who seems "addicted to feeling smug" is likely seeking constant validation for a grandiose sense of self importance. The smugness is the emotional payoff. The fix. That temporarily works up their fragile self-esteem.

This pattern of behavior is most closely associated with Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the DSM-5.