MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SamaraMichi | 2025-09-26 23:27:44+00:00
The Three laws of Robotics seem to be a good idea though in reality, as Asimov portrayed in his works, are nothing more than fallible plot device.

The nuance a humanoid machine intelligence needs is way above what the current state of the art is capable of. Ultimately, we need each autonomous robot's action to fall back to a real human for accountability purposes, just as heavy machine operators today.

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
by rsyring | 2025-09-26 23:27:46+00:00
> uv is another newer Python package manager that gives gives Poetry a run for its money, with super-fast package and dependency management.

I don't think uv is just giving Poetry a run for it's money. I think uv is winning and that's what most people should reach for for new projects. I'm also converting all my legacy projects to it now without any real issues.

For a non-video comparison, see also: https://python.plainenglish.io/the-great-python-package-mana...

And at least read the P.S. at the end before commenting on it. :)
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-26 23:27:53+00:00
It's not hard to draw potential dots:

Designate Venezuelan boats as "likely terrorists" (drug dealers). Authorize use of extrajudicial military lethal force (blow up boats with dealers aboard).

Justify the above due to "terrorism".

Designate "Antifa" as a "domestic terrorism group".

Not hard to see the next step of "deploy military force against individuals suspected of being Antifa". No need for pesky trials. They're terrorists. This is a war...
by amscanne | 2025-09-26 23:30:06+00:00
You are missing my point. To me it seems like 680k is just making shit up. Why is this reasonable? I can't even find what this "data point" is based on, so I'm not sure what I am supposedly ignoring! Just say where it is coming from, that isn't a person throwing out a random number.

I would love to be "well-informed", but how can I get there with hearsay?

> Neither is “wouldn’t the GMH cite higher numbers?” - how would you confirm that 1/3 of people in your city are still alive if people are scattered, communication is down, and an unknown number of people have fled?

Once again, the 68k figure is not confirmed! This is already an estimate. The figure for confirmed identifies is much lower, around ~35k. So this is a totally false argument. I'm not saying the estimate is wrong, I'm just saying that if there was a reason for the estimate to be 1/3 of people in Gaza, that's what they would say.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-09-26 23:30:39+00:00
I'm pretty sure your creation will be more interesting than any AI-generated "art".

Suno can create catchy songs and succeed in matching genre expectations / cliches.

I've been in phases where I had output I generated with it playing in my head constantly (due to repeated listening).

The output was catchy.

Then tried to generate interesting music, failed spectacularly.

And I, among other stuff, enjoy a lot of music that people consider formulaic, abstract or straight-up boring.

What's missing in AI "art" is intent and well... creativity.

I think it will have a disrupting influence on commercial pop culture, no question.

I also wouldn't claim to be able to classify correctly whether something is AI output.

But art is something entirely different.
by toast0 | 2025-09-26 23:33:42+00:00
He's the head of state of a member country. Afaik, all member countries have a slot to give a speech at the general assembly. There's probably a slot for observer states and other acknowledged non-member states as well.

I don't see why Putin would be prohibited from making a speech in the time alloted for speeches either? He's the head of state of a member country as well. And it's one of the permanent members of the security council, so among equal peers, it's more equal. Russia's slot is currently listed as Saturday morning [1], I don't know who will speak.

[1] https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025/09/15/un-genera...
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-26 23:33:55+00:00
>but the more good faith reason for a database entry is it should eliminate fake IDs.

Really? If anything it would make them easier. Hackers routinely break into government databases to exfiltrate information. An ID attribute databases would be no exception, for exfiltration, or simply modification of data. Ie: creating a fake ID.
by Jordan-117 | 2025-09-26 23:34:15+00:00
"The wilderness isn't quite what I expected. It's kinda... wild. I mean, it's not like they made it sound in my book. My dad made it sound so easy. He's really good at camping and how to make fire from rocks and stuff. He used to come to all my sweat lodge meetings. And afterwards we'd go get ice cream at Fenton's. I always get chocolate and he gets butter brickle. Then we'd sit on this one curb right outside, and I'll count all the blue cars and he counts all the red ones, and whoever gets the most wins. I like that curb.

That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most."

--Up
by guy_5676 | 2025-09-26 23:34:51+00:00
We're talking about a country that has been at war for 20 years and is now under the thumb of a fundamentalist totalitarian regime. You don't have to look far to find thousands of examples of afgani people/refugees denouncing the Taliban. Using this as a representative example of afgani culture is at best misleading. It would be like labeling the citizens of North Korean as being culturally against their own human rights and chastising them for that.
by anyfoo | 2025-09-26 23:35:04+00:00
What a coincidence. I just stumbled over a network analysis program ("network" as in linear AC electronics network; the program is similar to SPICE, but much less capable) on the C64, of all things!

The article and the program are in German, from 1985: https://www.64er-magazin.de/8508/netzwerk.html

I tried it out for shits and giggles, and it works. And it's even absolutely useable fast, though I've only tried analyzing a small common base amplifier circuit. Not bad at all for something that you can type in as a BASIC program from a magazine in probably less than an hour.

I'm contemplating actually using it for analysis in one of my next projects on my real C64, again just for shits and giggles.
by Eji1700 | 2025-09-26 23:35:41+00:00
Agreed. It quickly becomes "awkward" to go back to using a numpad once you get used to ALWAYS being one key hold/press away from it. I can type numbers as easily as I can type capitals, ditto with every symbol, and my function keys.

Hell I've even worked on a couple of revision on "gaming" layers. Namely for FPS or older roguelikes.

I hate how hard it is to find a split space(feels mandatory now that i'm used to it) 40% with wireless and QMK/Zia/etc. The EPOMAKER-TH40 SHOULD be perfect, but turns out they put out a breaking patch or something and it's not ACTUALLY programmable anymore. I need something like this for 2 setups at homes.

I went around on a couple of things and landed on the split 4x5 Chiri CE for my everyday workhorse since it's easy to carry.

https://keeb.io/products/chiri-ce-keyboard-kit?variant=41088...

Of note, while that board seems to be out of stock and isn't for everyone i cannot recommend keeb.io enough. They've done a fantastic job of keeping my board running after I had some ESD ruin it once or twice, and have never charged me as it was still under warranty.

With how hit or miss a lot of this niche keyboard stuff is, it's really really nice to find people who stand by their product and can turn things around. I get its got to be a miserable market so I don't demand it, and I'm extremely happy when I do see it.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-26 23:35:41+00:00
Flock promises all sorts of safeguards and ethics around, y'know, the law, but the reality is their perspective is "it's not our job to tell you that you can or can't do something, even if we know for a fact that you can't".

Reminds me when I build health insurance claims management software (pre-ACA). "We want to mine the database for familial history of conditions, based on familial claims and ICD codes".

"We can't do that."

"Why not? It's all in the database."

"It is. And we are legally forbidden from running such queries."

"..."
by TapamN | 2025-09-26 23:35:44+00:00
Weird coincidence, but I had to look through some old files backed up from the computer I was using 15+ years ago, and noticed it had C:\DeusEx sitting right there, with the SDK files in it. I found the function that handles damage in it.

https://pastebin.com/bwjaiDj7

It looks like I misremembered/misinterpreted some stuff. It looks like the top of the head behaves like the sides of the head, extending upward, forming a + shape.

Judging by how the arm/leg damage works, it the collision hit zones rotate with the enemy. Offset appears to be were the collision point is releative to the character's rotation, since it's also used to determine front/back and left/right collision. So for a hit to count as a headshot, it has to hit a cardinal octant of the collision cylinder.

Edit:

Updated diagram: https://imgur.com/a/Mec7HGm
by nyrikki | 2025-09-26 23:35:54+00:00
You are correct I should have specified pico2

That said AVH-lite is called lite because it is a simplified form of the arm norm.

The RP2350 can issue one fetch and one load/store per cycle, and that is that almost everything called a CPU and not a MCU will have ABH5 or better.

The “von Neumann bottleneck” was (when I went to school) that the CPU cannot simultaneously fetch an instruction and read/write data from or to memory.

That doesn’t apply to smartphones, PCs or servers even in the intel world due to instruction caches etc…

It is just old man yells at clouds
by clumsysmurf | 2025-09-26 23:36:09+00:00
Vapcell is very popular in the flashlight community for providing unusual sizes like 16340, 18350, 18500, 26800, etc.

They re-wrap other manufacturer's cells (but don't disclose who). I dislike this practice because, along with not knowing who makes the cell, you lose the original mfg batch codes, etc.

Sometimes they will simply rewrap something like a Samsung 50S. Those will be fine. But others ... who knows.
by precompute | 2025-09-26 23:36:48+00:00
I've been using a 42-key corne for 5 years and I can't imagine using a regular keyboard. The way I sit is now different: my arms are spread apart instead of crowding in front of me. This alone helps me pay more attention to the work I'm doing because I'm not hunching over. It took a few months for the layout to sink in, but the ability to customize the layout was insanely helpful and now the way I interface with a computer is exactly how I think it ought to be. The entire thing was $90 with a 3d printed case that's still holding strong. I tented it with some jenga blocks and it's flawless. I almost never look at the thing.

The Moonlander is way too large IMO. A 42 key layout is about perfect and requires ~zero wrist movement.

The corne has three thumb buttons on each side, but it's effectively five thumb buttons on each side because two can be pressed at the same time. So your layout can be [Mod1] [Layer] [Mod2] and you can easily use [Mod1]/[Mod2] with anything on [Layer]. And when you press [Mod1], a thumb key on the other hand becomes [Mod2]. So you basically get to use every possible combo. I have five mod keys this way: Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Super and Hyper. And multiple layer keys.
by vunderba | 2025-09-26 23:37:02+00:00
I consider myself an amateur musician and pulled a decent side hustle teaching piano back in university. I also worked the occasional gig as a cocktail pianist.

I've actually had a lot of fun using tools like Suno/Udio as a means of sonic exploration to see how some of my older compositions would sound in different mediums.

When I composed this piece of classical music practically a decade ago, it was intended for strings but at the time I only played piano so that's where it stayed. By increasing the "Audio Influence Slider", Suno arranged it in a chamber quartet style but stayed nearly 1:1 faithful with the original in terms of melody / structure.

Comparison blog piece

https://mordenstar.com/blog/screwdriver-sonata
by geor9e | 2025-09-26 23:37:25+00:00
Someone was harassing me for < 10 minutes with an illegally-bright green laser once from an apartment tower. I was busy protecting my eyes, so I didn't dare try to see what unit was doing it. I pointed one of my home security cameras at the tower to ID which unit it was and have evidence. They never did it again though. I was a little disappointed because I was ready to go to war.
Ask HN: Any interest in a dev-friendly financial tracker?
by technocrat8080 | 2025-09-26 23:38:10+00:00
Earlier this year I built a personal financial tracker (expenses, budgets, goals, investments) unsatisfied with options on the market (copilot, mint, etc.).

It's got a bunch of features that I've found really useful: - A comprehensive tagging system - Notes for transactions - 'Virtual transactions' to set aside money for budgets - Lots of analytics and dashboards that rely on custom filters and tie into the tagging system. - A simple UI that uses shadcn defaults.

Solutions on the market seem to work for most people, but personally it's been a joy to have really fine-grained control over my finances. I've setup filters that answer questions like "How much did I spend on coffee last month?", "How much more do I need to set aside to buy my Miata?", "What were my largest expenses last month?", "What was the price distribution of my spending last month?", at a glance.

Asking HN because there's probably like-minded individuals here with oddly specific things to track. Do existing tools work for you? Why / why not?
by rakoo | 2025-09-26 23:38:10+00:00
If we're talking strictly ActivityPub, they're exactly the same: servers where your data lives. AT's PDS give you access to your data, but proper AP servers also do that: you have your collections, and all your activities in them. The trick is to recognize which software is actually a proper ActivityPub software, and unfortunately Mastodon isn't one of them. The current issue is not with ActivityPub.
by collinfunk | 2025-09-26 23:39:02+00:00
Yep, from a Void Linux container it appears that they do not link to libcrypto:

$ ldd /usr/bin/cksum linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fb354763000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb354549000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb354765000)

For context, I am a committer to GNU Coreutils. We have used OpenSSL by default for a few years now [1]. Previously it was disabled by default because the OpenSSL license is not compatible with the GPL license [2]. This was resolved when they switched to the Apache License, Version 2.0 in OpenSSL 3.0.0.

If the Void people wanted to enable OpenSSL, they would probably just need to add openssl (or whatever they package it as) to the package dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/0d77e1b7ea2840... [2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-26 23:39:29+00:00
The NHS may lack funding, or it may not. But what is certain is that if you know how the NHS operates internally, or you know someone who does, then it's extremely evident that the NHS is severely mismanaged by administrators who definitely are not underfunded.

I think saying "the NHS is underfunded" all day is just ignoring the other major issue: even when the NHS has funds, they squander most of them.

I don't think solving just one of them will solve the whole problem, but maybe solving the blatant corruption at the NHS's administrative level might improve their financial situation by virtue of the money not lining the pockets of the rich.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-26 23:39:49+00:00
Scientific theories are the generally considered “proven”. Those that aren’t are hypotheses. Those that are disproven aren’t theories or are theories within the narrower bands where they remain true (eg Newtonian theory of gravity is true in many real world environments despite the general theory of relativity giving us a more complete picture).

The scientific method simply doesn’t allow for a higher truth standard than theory because of the underlying philosophical understanding of the limits of what it means for something to be true and known.
by fullStackOasis | 2025-09-26 23:41:56+00:00
For those who are curious, this seems to be a link to the Philip K. Dick essay referenced in your comment: https://philipdick.com/mirror/essays/How_to_Build_a_Universe... "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978). It holds some interesting parallels to the current times.
by ctippett | 2025-09-26 23:42:36+00:00
My original comment probably wasn't clear enough, I meant to say that caddy doesn't support layer 4 TLS termination without third-party modules. For example, if I wanted a reverse proxy in front of a Gitea instance that would terminate and route TCP packets to/from port 22... this is something Traefik can do out of the box.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-09-26 23:42:54+00:00
Kind of.

Not because it would be impossible, although the "every phone" is a bit of a stretch given how hard it would be to build an exploit that reliably works on all the messed up versions of Android that vendors put out.

But because if you had a capability like this, you wouldn't burn several full exploit chains just to broadcast a speech.

Doing something on the network side (either compromising existing infrastructure, simply being the infrastructure provider, or providing fake base stations) and then simply calling each phone - sure.

Pushing emergency alert cell broadcast messages with a link to the stream - sure.

Actually exploiting the phones? Nah.
by anyfoo | 2025-09-26 23:43:47+00:00
Yeah, analog memory fits so incredibly well. Who cares if it's not "exact" and fuzzes around a bit if it's only used for weights and has massive efficiency advantages. Weights are never "exact" themselves, and it doesn't matter if they don't always read exactly the same. You basically just get some extra "temperature" for free!

A bit beautiful that we might end up partially going back to analog computers, which were quickly replaced by digital ones.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-26 23:44:35+00:00
I'm being harsh bc the gaming industry deserves it. It's the most profitable form of media, and has been for awhile now, and all they ever really tried to do was rewrap a casino, and space out gameplay so that its played daily as progression. Meh, that's a tangent tho.

Today, rn - 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.

Microsoft will make an Xbox out of everything. All publishers want to be distributing on a near universally adopted platform - which is what Game Pass is now.

EA already existing within the Game Pass ecosystem means they can't get out any more - this isn't the streaming wars, I already know that Netflix wins in the end.

I'll not tolerate an EA platform and they literally already have one, I have to occasionally visit, despite EA on Game Pass - bc it's janky and not worth the money at all a top of Gamepass. t

ALL the bigger companies have distribution platforms they pray we all adopt as a forever SaS - we already know how this goes.

Microsoft wins.

AFTER THAT, I think the whole distribution model will change completely.
by toast0 | 2025-09-26 23:45:54+00:00
It's a great move! Methane economy already exists. Methane storage and transport is reasonably simple and scalable.

Convert to hydrogen at point of use, and you can claim all the hydrogen hype without having to do all the hard things with hydrogen. If you accidentally oxidize methane instead of converting to hydrogen and oxidizing hydrogen, whoopsie-doodles, but it might be a simpler system.
by Bender | 2025-09-26 23:46:01+00:00
Running your own mail servers to do the volume emitted by Sendgrid would indeed be on the level of starting your own medium sized business. Getting IP allocation, swip'ing them out to divisions of your company or your customers and paying into whitelists for all the "free" email providers like Google et al would be a massive up front cost.

Running your own mail server for personal email is an afternoon of setup DKIM, DMARC, SPF, FCrDNS and such, setup of your MTA/IMAP/WEB preferences, tuning some filters, setting up aliases, accounts for family and with time the tuning work eventually slows down and then it's just maintaining accounts, aliases and the occasional rules to block problem networks and domains. With time you may find some servers that require lowering security or filters but that is also very easy.
by egypturnash | 2025-09-26 23:46:04+00:00
There are still key combos that I could tap out with lightning speed on my old keyboard that I still struggle to type as fast: C-M-- (negative argument) followed by another key, such as C-M-k, is one such example.

I wish I had more keys, yet ironically I have empty keys I do not use at all on the keyboard.

Stick those sequences on those empty keys as macros. Or assign one of those empty keys to control-meta.
by vunderba | 2025-09-26 23:46:10+00:00
I split pretty evenly between Bitwig, Logic X, and MuseScore and I can tell you the first big reservation I have with something like this is that it's an online DAW.

What does that mean? It means that your compositions (outside of bouncing them down to audio stems) exists within a highly proprietary SaaS format and that the moment you stop paying, you've got NOTHING.

99% of major DAWs (Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Bitwig, Studio One, etc.) are a perpetual license.
by crdrost | 2025-09-26 23:46:32+00:00
This is kind of a strange way to use the terms, if you think about other things called theories in science.

For instance, atomic theory, heliocentric theory, quantum theory, the theory of relativity, chemical collision theory, cell theory, the germ theory of disease, the kinetic theory of gases, the theory of plate tectonics...

"Proved" a theory, is actually a way of talking about that theory "proving useful." If you dump a ton of energy into a small particle in a cyclotron, you will observe that its speed "maxes out" at the speed of light, but that this does not appear to be due to some sort of friction force or anything; the energy is still extractable in collisions. If you therefore say that cyclotrons have proven special relativity, I don't think that's an abuse of language. Yes, strictly speaking what you mean is that special relativity proves useful for explaining what happens in cyclotrons, but that's not particularly a reach.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-26 23:47:53+00:00
> Software distributions exist for a reason. They have maintainers, who are responsible for watching for stuff like this.

And still completely missed the xzutils compromise.

And I’m 90% sure those distribution maintainers don’t watch for stuff like this because they simply wouldn’t have the bandwidth to. I think they mostly rather just determine whether or not a software package is worth adding and maybe determining it initially and whether it has problems building. For example, the base available software in Arch is quite limited while the AUR is a choose your own adventure.
by adolph | 2025-09-26 23:48:16+00:00
> I'm certain it's worked well in other countries, but I have zero trust in the UK government to handle this responsibility.

This commenter may sound like a paranoid person (and may very well be, I don't know them) but read about the way the UK government handled an IT error in post office accounting software. Someone living there has good reason to not trust the powers that be.

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