MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tavavex | 2025-10-05 00:34:32+00:00
> No where in the Constitution will you see a mention of capitalism

Of course not, why would it be there? I'm talking about the way a government acts, not what they declare in centuries-old documents. The vast majority of modern countries are unquestionably capitalist, despite not pledging their affinity to it literally. If the frameworks in your country are centered around supporting and regulating a capitalist system, then it's a capitalist country. That shouldn't be a controversial or partisan statement. All countries use regulation to railroad the way their economic system will run, and just because the USSR et al. were way more totalitarian and uncompromising doesn't mean the rails are completely absent where you live and that your country's systems are some kind of a free and natural outcome. All nations exercise this control. Every country has greater economic plans that are in line with an ideology or movement they think will be good, and laws are used to nudge people and businesses towards making all the "correct" choices.
by pfexec | 2025-10-05 00:34:45+00:00
Everyone is so preoccupied with losing their minds every time Trump trolls the media with some new nonsense on the socials that they're ignoring the completely insane things going on in the UK right now. Like arresting people for using naughty language online.

20 years ago this would have been daily outrage on Slashdot's YRO section but I get the feeling no one cares enough anymore.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-05 00:35:26+00:00
Anyone who is sufficiently interested to listen to a classical piano performance understands this. The original name for the piano was 'pianoforte', it was a novelty that it could be played soft or strong in contrast to instruments like the harpsichord.

I also don't understand what the breakthrough in this paper is supposed to be. I pointed out to the lead author that velocity-switched multisampling libraries have been available commercially for decades, but didn't receive any response. Seems like a vanity/prestige publication to me, perhaps a way for Sony to advertise the high-speed capabilities of its cameras.
by HackerNewt-doms | 2025-10-05 00:35:30+00:00
> … discussing GPS interference in Europe that was traced back to Russia

Is there a proof for this?

> That should have been considered an act of war.

What behavior of the NATO states against Russia should be considered as an act of war?

>… property theft …

MAGAs tariffs against China are one of the painful responses.

>… cyberattacks from China on the US.

How many cyberattacks from the US on China have you already counted?

> There was barely any news coverage, let alone response from American leaders.

Just change American leaders with Chinese leaders.
by cyberax | 2025-10-05 00:37:24+00:00
> Does anyone know of a setup like this? Basically a power bank that charges primarily from solar, secondarily from the grid, and provides my normal panel with power through an inverter (or panels/inverters, I actually expect). Feeding back to the grid seems more trouble than its worth...

You need to look for off-grid inverters. They are now really popular in Ukraine because of constant power outages.

They are also getting incredibly cheap you can buy one for less than $1k: https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-6000xp-off-grid-inverter-spli...

The state-of-the-art are inverters that can seamlessly blend off-grid and grid-tied functionality, so you can both export your energy to the grid (if you have a surplus) and smoothly fall back to the battery power if the grid is lost. And they can even control standby generators in case the battery is gets low and there's no grid power.

What blows my mind, is that you can even parallel them together to get more power if needed. They even handle the grid synchronization without any voltage spikes.

I'm familiar with this model: https://www.santansolar.com/product/eg4-18kpv-hybrid-all-in-...
by xpe | 2025-10-05 00:39:05+00:00
> I'm in the stochastic parrot camp.

If you wouldn't mind doing me a favor?... For a few minutes, can we avoid this phrase? I don't know what people really mean by it.* Can you in plain English translate your view into sentence of theses form:

1. "Based on my understanding of LLMs, X1 and X2 are impossible."

2. "This leads to predictions such as P1 and P2."

3. "If I observed X3 or X4, it would challenge my current beliefs of LLMs."

* I've read the original stochastic parrots paper. In my view, the paper does not match how many people talk about it. Quite the opposite. It is likely many people name drop it but haven't read it carefully. I may have some misinterpretations, sure, but at least I'm actively seeking to question them.
by gerdesj | 2025-10-05 00:41:30+00:00
Do people react in real life in the same way that they do in a simulation? I will suggest no, they don't. I think that a simulation is great for training but crap for experimentation.

With a simulation you can help prepare someone to be able to react within a "situation". It does not follow that you can simulate a "situation" and extrapolate that a person will react and behave as they would in real life.

This experiment only involves simulated dashcam footage as the "experience". It does not include the visceral feeling of actually being in a car. I personally know that my mental processes whilst driving are not the same as when I am, say, walking a street. For example when in car mode I "know" that German marque cars often have ineffective indicators. I could go on at length and no doubt my own driving style pisses off someone. That is the way of the road and for some reason, touch wood, I've managed to keep safe for 30 odd years driving. The way of the road is not controlled for in the simulation described.

You might as well remove the driving "simulation" and simply ask people what they think of the partisan stickers - I suspect you'll get the same results.
by roenxi | 2025-10-05 00:43:01+00:00
Couple of years ago I'd look at those Chinese-text diagrams and feel sad and isolated because they represent knowledge that is too foreign for me to read. Nowadays it may as well just be another piece of well-written technical documentation. We are truly lucky to live in this age of wonders and this is really only the opening phase of LLMs as a technology.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-10-05 00:44:00+00:00
I posted about my year long development effort of this very method on reddit 25 days ago. My comment elsewhere in this thread provides a cautionary tale, and the authors response to the basic issue I raised is incomplete in that it leaves out that certain problems simply cannot be solved with LLMs (requires logical constraints in the generative process but LLMs lack that layer) So I've pivoted to something else since (also mentioned in my comment elsewhere in this thread)

https://www.reddit.com/r/healthIT/comments/1n81e8g/comment/n...
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-10-05 00:45:09+00:00
Do you really think that most users enable such a feature? Do you think everyone compiles their own Linux kernel, and port forwards for their own Minecraft server, too?

No, it’s a feature tucked away in Settings where small, small percentages of users are going to use it.

It’s great that it exists, but let’s listen to life experience. You don’t need to retort “Source! Source!” for things like this. Be our guest, ask everyone in your life and keep a tally.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-05 00:46:35+00:00
I mean you can index into Rust's strings, it's just that you probably don't want that:

"Clown"[2..5] // is "own"

Notice that's a range, Rust's string slice type doesn't consider itself just an array (as the Ada type is) and so we can't just provide an integer index, the index is a range of integers to specify where our sub-string should begin and end. If we specify the middle of a Unicode character then the code panics - don't do that.

Yes, since AoC always uses ASCII it will typically make sense to use &[u8] (the reference to a slice of bytes) and indeed the str::as_bytes method literally gives you that byte slice if you realise that's what you actually needed.
by j-pb | 2025-10-05 00:46:59+00:00
I think that's mostly async fatigue.

Avoid it and you're good, you just have to accept that a big part of the language is not worth its weight. I guess at that point a lot of people get disillusioned and abandon it whole, when in reality you can just choose to ignore that part of the language.

(I'm rewriting my codex-rs fork to remove all traces of async as we speak.)
by qmarchi | 2025-10-05 00:47:48+00:00
Disc: Foreigner in Japan

I'm personally not a fan of her policies. Tax cuts won't solve the fact that Japan still has one of the highest debt to GDP in the world, and will only make the Yen weaker in the global economy.

Sometimes, you have to rip off the band-aid (Low taxes) in order to get better (stronger Yen).
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-05 00:48:01+00:00
> those people had to run away from Palestine because of Israeli murderers

There were multiple reason they(or their ancestors) left, there was plenty of violence when Israel was created but it wasn't like it was just one side attacking either. Regardless it's quite strange that someone is still considered a refugee despite potentially having never even been to the country they are supposedly a refugee from, especially since that doesn't happen for refugees from other countries(at least with how the UN defines refugee).
by poizan42 | 2025-10-05 00:48:45+00:00
There is nothing in that article saying anything about any upcoming requirements. Also it is written by a ChatGPT bot account, so it would be an invalid source even if it did.

The only update even mentioned in that article is "Windows 10, version 1607 (the Anniversary Update released in August 2016)". In case you haven't noticed, that happened 9 years ago...
by baubino | 2025-10-05 00:49:09+00:00
“ Shortly before OpenAI released Sora 2, the company reached out to talent agencies and studios, alerting them that if they didn’t want their copyrighted material replicated by the video generator, they would have to opt out, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.”

This is wild. OpenAI alerted creators that they were stealing their copyrighted material but was giving them the option to ‘opt out’ of the theft? Isn’t the default that you have to be granted permission to use copyrighted material? How is this even remotely legal?
by pron | 2025-10-05 00:50:05+00:00
> There's no other way to solve it than with a new language.

That's not true, though. If memory safety is the only thing that you need and C doesn't have, there are products that offer memory-safety proofs for C (e.g. https://www.trust-in-soft.com). You do need to add some lifetime annotations and may want to change your code here and there, but it's overall much cheaper than a rewrite in a new language. I believe such solutions are more popular, too; few companies - even and especially those that care primarily about correctness - are crazy enough to justify a rewrite of an existing product just for memory safety.

> Paying that cost and not eking out the maximum safety benefit that's practical... Seems a bit dodgy to me.

The cost is not the same, though (and if you only consider rewrites, as I said, there are better options). It sounds like you're saying that any cost is worth any added safety. I don't think that's true, but if it were, then something like ATS is probably what you're after (it isn't, though, because it's practically nobody's choice). Anything short of that is some compromise between cost and safety. Rust's compromise is just different from Zig's. They're both significantly safer than C and a far way off from ATS. Everyone seems to agree that the sweet spot is somewhere on that spectrum - not C, not ATS - but there's no agreement on where.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-05 00:50:14+00:00
> Yes unless the next projects of the now bankrupt creators is proprietary because it's too hard to make a living out of open designs?

Well this one already isn't open source, so the delta's not quite so large as that. (Source Available is better than proprietary, but Open Source it is not.)

> Many have been doing this for the last 30 years, during which user freedoms have shrinked: 20 years ago I had a working open source daily phone, an open design mips-based laptop that ran only free software, and all this was technically ahead of the competition; today I'm not allowed to login to some government website unless I use an apple or google device, community maintained distros are moribund and the free software movement became irrelevant. I believe more nuanced tactic than just "use that license" are called for.

Fair, allow me to iterate: Specifically, use copyleft licenses. If Linux were GPLv3, then you would be legally entitled to change your phone firmware.
by indolering | 2025-10-05 00:50:48+00:00
In the early days of Bitcoin, we would argue security models and laugh about Bitcoin mining taking some significant percentage of global power supply. It's been giving around 1% for a while now despite the supply falling off.

I wouldn't put bets on what the outer limits for AI are going to be. However, it's a huge productivity boost across a huge range of workflows. Models are still making large gains as they become more sophisticated.

If I had Sam Altman's access to other people's capital, I would be making large bets that it will keep growing.
by tomcloyd | 2025-10-05 00:50:58+00:00
As a psychologist, I completely agree. It absolutely is NOT number crunching. Analog computation is primary and dominant in animals. It has to be, for so many reasons. I continue to be amazed at how much IT people do NOT grasp human and animal IT. And that, I would argue, is why so many IT folks keep talking about our supposedly approaching human intelligence in technology. If they really understood human intelligence the absurdity of that statement would keep them quiet. An elegant, artful puppet is still a puppet, and without the personal history context and consciousness we possess, not to mention a vast complex of analogue computation functionality we rely upon, that puppet will only ever be a clever number-cruncher. We are so much more.
by stubish | 2025-10-05 00:52:36+00:00
Cloudflare sells network services. You want services, you can buy services. It isn't a vertically integrated monstrosity where every transaction bounces around departments and partners having value extracted that you didn't want extracted. Some things are even free or at cost, not freemium just-sign-this-user-agreement-you-won't-feel-a-thing.

But certainly worth keeping an eye on, especially as they branch out into things like stable coins and payment processing.
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by maxprehoda | 2025-10-05 00:53:02+00:00
Hey HN, I've been building Spore to help businesses understand and improve how they appear in AI-generated responses.

Here is what it does: Monitors when and how your brand appears across AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)

Alerts you to mentions on social media and review platforms (Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, X, Yelp, Google Reviews, and 12 more) so you can engage in those conversations organically (or send some bots to take care of it).

Helps generate relevant content that AI data crawlers are more likely to reference.

Automates SEO fundamentals like article creation and backlink building

Why I built this: There's obviously a new space opening up for manipulating AI services to "advertise" your brand as much as you can. I noticed businesses have no visibility into what AI systems say about them, and no systematic way to improve their AI presence.

The platform focuses on legitimate content creation and organic engagement (we do provide a lot of automation as well) - helping businesses create the kind of authoritative, well-structured content that AI systems naturally reference when answering user queries.

Current status: Basic monitoring across major AI platforms Auto-generate SEO-optimized articles and content Dashboard for tracking mention frequency and context

API for integration with existing marketing tools

It's early days and I'm looking for feedback on what metrics matter most to businesses trying to understand their AI presence. What would you want to track if you were monitoring your company's appearances in AI responses?

Happy to answer questions about the technical approach or discuss the challenges of tracking AI mentions at scale.
by thatxliner | 2025-10-05 00:53:05+00:00
I was looking at PEP 690 and I saw

> A world in which Python only supported imports behaving in a lazy manner would likely be great...we do not envision the Python langauge transitioning to a world where lazy imports are the default...this concept would add complexity to our ecosystem.

Why can't lazy be the default and instead propose an `eager` syntax? The only argument I can imagine is that there's some API that runs a side effect based on importing, but perhaps making it eager for modules with side effects would be a sufficient temporary fix?
by scuff3d | 2025-10-05 00:54:54+00:00
That's kind of my point. Because it's isolated and abstracted I wouldn't be surprised if most Rust devs have no idea how much unsafe code is actually out there.

Rust does not want you to think about memory management. You play by its rules and let it worry about allocations/deallocation. Frankly in that regard Rust has more in common with GC languages than it does Zig or C. Zig chooses to give the developer full control and provides tools to make writing correct/safe code easier.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-05 00:56:10+00:00
> It's the neverending debate between pragmatists and maximalists. Used to be a maximalist, but also used to see my favored causes tank and sink all the time. I do not believe there is clear winner for every situation.

Amusingly, I used to be what you'd call a pragmatist, but I've come to believe that over a medium-long term time scale what you call maximalism is pragmatic. It's all well and good to think, 'oh it's fine to concede this ground this time', but that just means you lose ground over time.

> What we should be convinced of though is that there are better ways to push for more openness than to shame the authors. Not sure that's what you intended to do but that's how the negative reception sounded to me.

The very first sentence on https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer is

> Open Printer is an open-source, repairable inkjet printer designed for makers, artists, and anyone tired of throwaway hardware.

The authors started our interaction by lying to me. They should be ashamed. If they opened by saying "source available" or "not open source but we'll publish repair manuals" or anything else that was actually true, I would consider it a step short of the real goal but good movement in the right direction. But instead they went for lying and trying to get good will for something they're not actually doing, so no, I'm going to view them appropriately.
by basisword | 2025-10-05 00:57:11+00:00
>> What about US citizens living in the UK?

Why wouldn’t they be subject to UK laws like any other person living in the UK?

>> I’m also not clear on how Advanced Data Protection could be turned off without affirmative user consent

If I remember right from when this was initially discussed there isn’t any way to do it without incurring data loss (because the users device has a key Apple can’t access). As someone using ADP the risk of this led me to manually disable it at the time.
by westurner | 2025-10-05 00:57:22+00:00
> exposes a unified REPL experience with commands like :help, :lang, and :quit.

Those sound similar to "magic commands" in IPython and Jupyter?

There is not yet a Jupyter-xeus Rust kernel which would make it really easy to support Rust in JupyterLite in WASM on an .edu Chromebook and in JupyterLab: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354177

> jupyter_console is the IPython REPL for non-ipykernel jupyter kernels. [like evcxr]

> This magic command logs IPython REPL input and output to a file:

%logstart -o example.log.py

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25923123 ,

Here's how to support something like _repr_html_() and IPython.display.display() with evcxr_jupyter: https://github.com/evcxr/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_jupyter/READM...

I'm not sure what the pros and cons of evcxr_repr, jupyter_console + evcxr_jupyter, and Run are?
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-05 00:57:31+00:00
I think, if I am following things correctly, you will find that there's a limit to the "validate user input" argument - especially when you think of scenarios where multiple pieces of user input are gathered together and then have mathematical operations applied to them.

eg. If the constraint is 0..200, and the user inputs one value that is being multiplied by our constant, it's trivial to ensure the user input is less than the range maximum divided by our constant.

However, if we are having to multiply by a second, third... and so on.. piece of user input, we get to the position where we have to divide our currently held value by a piece of user input, check that the next piece of user input isn't higher, and then work from there (this assumes that the division hasn't caused an exception, which we will need to ensure doesn't happen.. eg if we have a divide by zero going on)
by mk12 | 2025-10-05 00:58:49+00:00
> For most "good enough" use cases, garbage collectors work fine and I wouldn't bother with a system's programming language at all.

It's not just about performance, it's about reusability. There is a huge amount of code written in languages like Java, JS, Go, and Python that cannot be reused in other contexts because they depend on heavy runtimes. A library written in Zig or Rust can be used almost anywhere, including on the web by compiling to wasm.
by spkm | 2025-10-05 00:59:56+00:00
I've been selfhosting for like dunno 10-15 years. Cheap kimsufi box, opensmtp, dovecot, later then rspamd, done. Never really had a problem. At one point telekom.de blocked my mailserver. I contacted them via postmaster@telekom.de (or something) explaining that while kimsufix boxes are notorious for shady stuff, this is actually a legit mailserver and they whitelisted me shortly after (yeah I was surprised too how smooth that went). So, yeah, can't confirm all the troubles everyone seems to get on about. However I do own the kimsufi box (and the corresponding IP) for a long time now, so maybe I'm just lucky.
by sublinear | 2025-10-05 01:00:49+00:00
I gotta be honest I haven't really seen political bumper stickers since around the early 2000s. It's now maybe a couple of times a year out of the 10k+ cars I see in all that time?

I think social media became the outlet for all that stuff and the damage to the paint hurts the resale value of the car. If I ever see any stickers otherwise it's on the glass and still not political.

I think everyone kinda just admitted to themselves that they're trashy and pointless.
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-05 01:01:01+00:00
> Either your country is a democracy where people get to choose what their government does (aka, a majority of people want these invasive policies), or it's illegitimate and should be treated as such.

The US government has previously tried to force Apple to insert a backdoor into its iPhones.

Apple did fight it in court.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_...
by yosito | 2025-10-05 01:01:06+00:00
> You take 100 such cases, ask AI "how does it work?" and in 99 of those, the answer is somewhere on the spectrum between "total nonsense" and "clever formulation but wrong". One turns out to be right.

They're still using the scientific method, the only thing they're getting from AI is hypotheses to test. And AI is great at brainstorming plausible hypotheses.