MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-28 17:45:32+00:00
As far as I know, it's still relatively easy to find out you're talking to an LLM if you're actively looking for it.

People are being fooled in online forums all the time. That includes people who are naturally suspicious of online bullshittery. I'm sure I have been.

Stick a fork in the Turing test, it's done. The amount of goalpost-moving and hand-waving that's necessary to argue otherwise simply isn't worthwhile. The clichéd responses that people are mentioning are artifacts of intentional alignment, not limitations of the technology.
by Zambyte | 2025-10-28 17:45:47+00:00
If LLM training violates AGPL, it violates MIT. People focus too much on the copyleft terms of the *GPL licenses. MIT, and most permissive licenses, require attribution.

Honestly with how much focus there tends to be on *GPL in these discussions, I get the feeling that MIT style licenses tend to be the most frequently violated, because people treat it as public domain.
by stackedinserter | 2025-10-28 17:46:14+00:00
Based on your wording, everything that's right to your position, that you label as "balanced and center" of course, is "far right". I'm probably far right to you, because I have some right-wing views.

It had some meaning maybe 10 years ago but now it's washed out terminology. Keep thinking that you're surrounded by nazis, if it keeps you warm though.
by ronsor | 2025-10-28 17:46:26+00:00
Ignoring the fact that if AI training is fair use, the license is irrelevant, these sorts of licenses are explicitly invalid in some jurisdictions. For example[0],

> Any contract term is void to the extent that it purports, directly or indirectly, to exclude or restrict any permitted use under any provision in

> [...]

> Division 8 (computational data analysis)

[0] https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/CA2021?ProvIds=P15-#pr187-
by beala | 2025-10-28 17:46:28+00:00
I posted this in a sibling comment, but I can confirm Beelink's EQ14 [1] works well with OPNsense (FreeBSD based instead of OpenBSD). The dual NIC model uses the Intel KTI226-V chipset which has rock solid FreeBSD drivers.

[1] https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-eq14-n150?variant=...
by Timon3 | 2025-10-28 17:46:41+00:00
Can you explain how that applies in this specific case? Because I can't come up with a scenario where you suggesting corrections to Grokipedia does any good.

If you're correcting a lie that they actively want to spread (e.g. the "White Genocide" lie) they obviously won't accept your correction.

If you're correcting a lie that they don't care about (hypothetical example: "ripe strawberries are blue") they might accept your correction, but that makes it less likely that an uninformed visitor will see through their lies.

So the best case scenario is that literally nothing happens, and the worst case one is that you're indirectly helping their cause. What am I missing?
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-28 17:46:46+00:00
This is true to an extent, but with the massive age-based confounder that is medicare, which renders the elderly close to price insensitive as well as by far the largest utilizers.

I think there are lessons to learn and improvements from both systems - for instance, catastrophic healthcare is a disaster in the US (in terms of cost), but we are better at timely care and providing incentives for pharma R&D.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-28 17:47:18+00:00
https://globe.airplanes.live/?icao=abc9f4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_Quesst

The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst ("Quiet SuperSonic Technology"), sometimes styled QueSST, is an American experimental supersonic aircraft under development by Skunk Works for NASA's Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator project. Preliminary design started in February 2016, with the X-59 originally planned to begin flight testing in 2021. After delays, it began flight testing near the end of 2025. It is expected to cruise at Mach 1.42 (1,510 km/h; 937 mph) at an altitude of 55,000 ft (16,800 m), creating a low 75 effective perceived noise level (EPNdB) thump to evaluate supersonic transport acceptability.

(first flight is today, October 28th, 2025)
by al_borland | 2025-10-28 17:48:06+00:00
They were pretty quick to sunset the PPC version of Rosetta as well. It forces developers to prioritize making the change, or making it clear that their software isn’t supported. It

The one I have my eye on is Minecraft. While not mission critical in anyway, they were fairly quick to update the game itself, but failed to update the launcher. Last time I looked at the bug report, it was close and someone had to re-open it. It’s almost like the devs installed Rosetta2 and don’t realize their launcher is using it.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-28 17:48:20+00:00
>I'm going to guess that this part is intentional. Europe tends to be more aggressive in enforcing antitrust laws. Economically, Europe's goal isn't to have the biggest companies but to have more smaller companies.

So is your hypothesis that the total market cap of EU tech companies is something like 50,60,70, etc. % of total US tech marketcap? Something significantly different than the ~10% implied by that figure (largest us companies 10x largest EU companies). And it's just more broadly distributed?

Hard to find data on this but this is showing EU tech market cap at 3.2T. https://www.stateofeuropeantech.com/chapters/outcomes

Whereas this is saying the US "megacaps" ($200B+) are at 21T. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/tech-megacaps-worth-market-c...

Which puts the entire EU tech market at 15% of the US megacaps. Not even the entire market.
by mmooss | 2025-10-28 17:48:29+00:00
I wish sophisticated communicators like Gates would skip the strawpeople arguments as setups; it's the end of any serious examination before it even begins.

> doomsday message

That term reveals a partisan position: it's a strawperson ridiculing those who talk about the great risks and harms of climate change. 'Don't look up!'

> Interesting and different perspective

It's an old, well-worn perspective, that is commonplace now - especially in American business and government, it's more common than the 'realist' perspective on climate change. It's incredible that they - the entrenched, very powerful status quo power structure - depict themselves as insurgents for advocating the same old climate denial policies.

IMHO: The entrenched capitalists (including Gates) and their power structure simply don't want to change - a bias of the status quo. They are asserting a reactionary conservative position - no change, no matter what, and hate those who want change - regardless of its validity in reality, with the idea that nobody can make them change. They make spurious arguments like Gates to divert people - a tactic they can do endlessly.

The idea that the answer to the enormous damage of the entrenched capitalists is empower them more is, when you think about it, laughable and absurdly myopic and self serving. They can't even carry out the charade for 10 minutes - now those entrenched capitalists are building massive power-consuming datacenters, eliminating ESG, destroying renewable energy in the world's biggest economy ... I'm sure they'll save us.

But notice I keep talking about entrenched capitalists. An essential of capitalism and free markets is creative destruction. These failed capitalists - and climate change is an historic failure, about which their predictions and decisions were enormous errors - should be destroyed (economically) and buried like Lehman Brothers, and new ones, who correctly anticipate it and deal with it, should be funded.

Really, all we need is to stop making taxpayers fund climate change - prevention, remediation, cleanup from disasters, etc. - and have a GHG tax that prices things according to their real cost, rather than subsidizing the current failures. Then real, innovative capitalists in a free market can thrive.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-28 17:48:30+00:00
IANAL:

I don't know how you can post something publicly on the internet and say, this is for X, Y isn't allowed to view it. I don't think there's any kind of AI crawler that's savvy enough to know that it has to find the license before it ingests a page.

Personally, beyond reasonable copyrights, I don't think anyone has the right to dictate how information is consumed once it is available in an unrestricted way.

At a minimum anything released under HOPL would need a click-through license, and even that might be wishful thinking.
by panick21 | 2025-10-28 17:49:19+00:00
I mean NeXT machine was much more expensive then what you could have done. And need far more RAM. And of course it also used mostly commodity chips. As far as I know, but I haven't looked, they don't have fully integrated IO chips. Those were just conventional 68k workstations. Did NeXT design a single chip themselves?

> Also note that one of the original ideas for the Amiga, was to get into the UNIX workstation market

Could you source that for me? It might be true. I heard from interviews with Jay Minor that they were developing a game console, and then when the 1982 crash happened, he convinced them to pivot to a home computer. And specifically he wanted it to run games like flight simulation.

Commodore explicitly cancled its own Amiga workstation, the Z8000 based Commodore 900 Unix workstation.

When Amiga lauched they lauched with games and with pixel editors. It was endorsed by EA.

Doesn't sound like 'unix workstation' to me. It was later in the 1980s where they started to want to get into that market.

PS: BeBox much later, by then the PC ecosystem had already done most of that stuff.
by wmwragg | 2025-10-28 17:50:10+00:00
Yep, this is another reason I've needed the use of x86-64 images, as although they should be technically the same when rebuilt for ARM, they aren't always, so using the same architecture image which is run in production, will sometimes catch edge case bugs the ARM version doesn't. Admittedly it's not common, but I have had it happen. Obviously there is also the argument that the x86-64 image is being translated, so isn't the same as production anyway, but I've found that to have far less bugs than the different architecture
by hackingonempty | 2025-10-28 17:50:30+00:00
Using software is not one of the exclusive rights of Copyright holders. If I have a legitimate copy of the software I can use it, I don't need a license. Just like I don't need a license to read a book.

Open Source licenses give license to the rights held exclusively by the author/copyright-holder: making copies, making derivative works, distribution.

An open source license guarantees others who get the software are able to make copies and derivatives and distribute them under the same terms.

This license seeks to gain additional rights, the right to control who uses the software, and in exchange offers nothing else.

IANAL but I think it needs to be a contract with consideration and evidence of acceptance and all that to gain additional rights. Just printing terms in a Copyright license wont cut it.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-10-28 17:50:39+00:00
> I think it would be great if someone made a meta-search engine with as many engines from that list as possible, and focussed on really good ranking. A tool like that could be best for obscurity and result quality. Unfortunately the meta-search engines that I know of don’t use many sources, and they don’t get all the available results before re-ranking them.

Thats a really interesting idea.
by dualogy | 2025-10-28 17:51:06+00:00
> the intros really undersell how bad the experience of using SAT solvers directly is, the DIMACS sat file format makes me think of the year 1973

"MiniZinc" is the name of the Pythonic-ish-like syntax targeting (ie on-the-fly translating to) numerous different solvers (somewhere around half-a-dozen to a dozen or so, don't recall exactly =)
by luizfelberti | 2025-10-28 17:51:07+00:00
They barely just released Containerization Framework[0] and the new container[1] tool, and they are already scheduling a kneecapping of this two years down the line.

Realistically, people are still going to be deploying on x64 platforms for a long time, and given that Apple's whole shtick was to serve "professionals", it's really a shame that they're dropping the ball on developers like this. Their new containerization stuff was the best workflow improvement for me in quite a while.

[0] https://github.com/apple/containerization

[1] https://github.com/apple/container
by hrimfaxi | 2025-10-28 17:51:10+00:00
How many of these trends are we seeing and how much of a fraction of a fraction do they represent in sum? The article discusses specific declines but doesn't look at data regarding increased incidences of social-media-driven acts of deviance. That's like pointing at the declining use of the saddle while ignoring the rise of the automobile. I guess I should revise my previous hyperbolic statement as I don't know if the deviance is made up for in other ways, I would just have appreciated a broader view.
by keernan | 2025-10-28 17:51:12+00:00
While I'm not a criminal attorney, I'm not sure if this is much different than a prosecution based upon an allegation that the defendant being identified by a bank camera capturing an image of a bank robber. If criminal charges are filed, a preliminary determination of probable cause must be made.

In a case where there was no supporting evidence - e.g. literally the only evidence is a camera image of person, I would imagine the image would have to be close to irrefutable in order to meet a probable cause standard.

Since we now know that the person depicted on the ring camera was not the defendant - and that the police voluntarily dismissed the charges when confronted with evidence showing they were wrong, makes it pretty clear the police filed charges without evidenced that could have passed the probable cause test.

This isn't necessarily the problem of using an image as evidence of a crime. It's a problem with the police filing charges in a manner they know is an abuse of their authority, but not giving a sh*t because it was only $25 and that it would be heard in Municipal Court - a place where the local Judge and Prosecutor have to get along with the Police and therefore the local police know they will never be punished for their abusive behavior.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-28 17:51:14+00:00
"On top of this, common economic worries are less fearsome than they first sound. One concern is that artificial-intelligence investment spending, especially on data centres, is the only thing keeping the party going, spelling disaster _if investors cool on the tech_.^1 This argument is strongest in America, where investment in information-processing equipment and software (IPES) accounted for 40% or so of growth in real GDP over the past year. Yet, at a minimum, two-thirds of IPES has _nothing to do with AI_.^2 The data include, for instance, a business buying a computer. In addition, outside America there is _no evidence whatsoever that IT is driving growth_."

"A second concern relates to jobs. Employment growth in America has slowed, raising fears of _AI-induced unemployment_.^3 Not so fast. A new study by the Yale Budget Lab finds that "the broader labour market [beyond the so-called "tech" industry] has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT's release." Outside America there is little evidence of an employment slowdown. In the first half of the year other OECD countries added 3m jobs, in line with the norm before the covid-19 pandemic."

Perhaps the so-called "tech industry" and the endless autocomplete-powered gibberish hype they sponsor is not an accurate portrayal of the American or world economy

1. That is, growth may continue if Ai investement declines

2. Growth attributable to "IPES" is only 40% compared to 60% attributable to non-IPES, and 2/3 of IPES has nothing to do with "AI". Further, the definition of "IPES" is so broad as to include a business purchasing a computer

3. Every day, "AI" hype beats web users over the head with this meme that "Ai" is going to cause mass unemployment. There is no evidence of this causing an employment slowdown in the US post-ChatGPT and outside the US in the OECD there has been no employment slowdown post-ChatGPT. But who needs evidence, which usually requires work to gather, when daily speculation is free and requires zero effort
by chaokunyang | 2025-10-28 17:51:20+00:00
Apache Fory is a serialization framework that works across languages without schema files. We just released the Rust implementation (v0.13) with some features we haven't seen elsewhere:

1. Serialize Box/Rc/Arc<dyn Trait> and preserve polymorphism on deserialization 2. Automatic circular reference handling (parent-child trees, graphs) 3. Reference identity preservation (Rc/Arc pointer equality maintained) 4. Cross-language compatibility (Rust ↔ Python/Java) with no IDL 5. Schema evolution without breaking changes 6. 10-20x faster serialization than JSON/Protobuf
by jamies888888 | 2025-10-28 17:51:21+00:00
I had to return my AirPods Pro 3. I upgraded from AirPods 4 with ANC and they were worse in every department I could see. I assume battery life is better, but I've never ran out of battery anyway.

I've never much got on with in-ear rubber tips, and these were no different to any I've tried, despite reviews stating they were super comfortable.

My left ear is also worse to get it fitting right than my right ear. I have tried every size provided, none seem right. A grimace in the gym is enough to unseat even the most secure fit/seal, in either ear.

My main gripes specifically with AirPods Pro 3, which I've not seen in any other review;

- Because the rubber tips vary in size, the case has to accommodate the largest. This means if you're using small tips, there's a lot of spare room, which means the AirPods can easily be mis-seated, breaking the charge connection.

- The case is substantially bigger than AirPods 4 with ANC. I would say ~40%.

- The volume swipe on the stalk action is very tricky to trigger.

- Any stalk action is a bad idea when it's so easy to unseat them. I skip songs with a double press regularly, and nearly every time I had to push in and rotate after.
by benphley | 2025-10-28 17:51:23+00:00
Are these false claims? From Grokipedia:

> This marked the onset of what would become a devastating crisis disproportionately affecting gay male communities, where behaviors idealized in pornography—such as unprotected receptive anal intercourse and multiple anonymous partners—aligned directly with primary transmission routes, leading to rapid seroconversion rates.

This sounds plausible. Is it factually incorrect?
by xp84 | 2025-10-28 17:51:26+00:00
> Long story short, the hospital made up its own rules, its own prices, and figured it could just grab money from unsophisticated people

This is the core truth that all of healthcare in the US spins out from. A few personal experiences which back this up:

1. I received a $1500 bill because an ambulance that was sent when I called 911 was an "out of network ambulance". I looked it up: One small ambulance company in SF is in-network with that insurer. The SFFD runs the vast majority of ambulances and is "out of network." Insurance companies of course are not allowed to penalize you for accepting the first ambulance that arrives in an emergency. I filed a formal complaint with the California regulator that regulates that insurer and within 2 weeks the bill had been properly taken care of.

2. Our family has met its family Out of Pocket Maximum this year. Twice in the past month I've had doctor's offices lie to me and say that we still have to pay a copay. The last one claimed "well, you still have to meet your individual one though." Lie. That's literally the opposite of the way it works. We've paid copays to these people accidentally in previous years and they would never give the money back, they just keep it and also double dip since insurance pays them anyway.

In all cases, both hospitals and insurance companies simply ask for the maximum possible thing they can ask for, knowing that a frightening majority of people are afraid of them, and will pay whatever they're told. In OP's case, an unsophisticated payer would have gotten a $195k bill, been sent to collections, the hospital would have sold the bad debt, and then the person would have maybe "gotten a good deal" by getting it cut down to $50k over many years of high-interest payments and having ruined credit.

Insurance and hospitals are both filthy, money-grubbing machines. To paraphrase a famous cartoon character, their business is bad and they should feel bad.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-10-28 17:51:31+00:00
It makes sense to people who don't know what an encyclopedia or an AI chatbot are, respectively.

It's ideal to poison the web with arbitrarily distorted texts that are a mix of facts and lies, and will be picked up by others, from AI to Zoomer school essay.

There is no point except for manipulation. Right now, you have to be pretty inept to think that a language AI could contribute anything valuable to an encyclopedia.

But maybe, this will change, the group of people who consider Chatbot output as insightful about the real world seems to be growing.
Show HN: CoordConversions NPM Module for Map Coordinate Conversions
by smatthewaf | 2025-10-28 17:51:34+00:00
I have been working on a project that has multiple repos, all of which have to convert between multiple map coordinate types, so I made an NPM module that allows you to parse and convert between Decimal Degrees, Degrees-Minutes, and Degrees-Minutes-Seconds coordinate types. Niche? Yes. Useful? Also yes (I hope)!
by lateforwork | 2025-10-28 17:51:37+00:00
When UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed the public sentiment was that the health insurance companies are the bad guy—and the CEO deserved what he got. Then when stories like this come out we realize no, it is actually the hospitals. In reality the whole system is broken. Some people think single payer system is the solution but then when they talk to Canadians they realize that's not the solution either.

I think the correct solution is stronger laws for price disclosure, strong penalties for the kinds of abuses mentioned in this thread, and incentives for patients to question every charge.
by photonthug | 2025-10-28 17:51:44+00:00
Adding complexity is just one aspect. Everywhere there is someone whose job is to ensure the bottom line never changes and status quo for the powerful is preserved. Insurance, taxes, rents.. in the absence of effective regulation, the average number of successful appeals will simply get factored in and average costs go up so that profit stays the same and grows at the same rate as before. Similar to how chains factor in losses due to spoilage or theft.. of course they don't actually take a profit loss, they just price it in.

I really don't get people who see this kind of thing as empowering because in the end your (now strictly necessary) appeal with lawyers or AI to get a more fair deal just becomes a new tax on your time/money; you are worse off than before. A good capitalist will notice these dynamics, and invest in AI once it's as required for life as healthcare is, and then work on driving up the costs of AI. Big win for someone but not the downtrodden.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-28 17:52:28+00:00
Also you could wander much more easily in the past. These days digital surveillance has creeped in everywhere. Stay in one place over a day and you'll get a ticket. Pay is better monitored so you cant easily do under the table work. Your customers probably use cards so your transactions are monitored and will be taxed. It's a different world from what us older people grew up in.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-28 17:52:39+00:00
The issue is that Trump is a vessel that all sorts of people are trying to use to push their agenda. As long as you declare loyalty to him, you're allowed in and can push whatever BS you want no matter how wacky or authoritarian it is.

His own VP and health secretary have even called him Hitler but wised up so that they were allowed on the train!