MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-07 19:29:28+00:00
"It's my device, I should be able to do whatever I want with it!"

The reason this argument isn't holding water and swaying popular opinion, in my opinion, is because everything else in life is heavily regulated, licensed, and restricted.

"It's my car, I should be able to do whatever I want with it!" does not hold, either for driving, or removing the catalytic converter, or changing the tuning to be able to roll coal, or uninstalling the seat belts.

"It's my kitchen, I should be able to do whatever I want with it!" does not hold when I can't sell my baked goods to my neighbors without a license, or replace the interior of my kitchen without a permit.

"It's my home, I should be able to do whatever I want with it!" does not hold when I can't build a deck, add an addition, or even install a new electrical outlet, without permission. Have you ever tried putting something in your front yard?

Unless we agree to fight for freedom everywhere, the only logical excuse is that the digital world doesn't have real world consequences, except that it increasingly patently does now. It's no surprise to me then that the argument does not resonate. That does mean we may have to allow people to have an uncomfortable level of freedom, across the board, in order to be logically consistent, and broaden chance of success.

The technologist sees licensing from Google to develop Android apps as tyranny. The average person asks "where have you been? What can you do without a license?"
by runako | 2025-10-07 19:29:28+00:00
Sigh. I really do not want to get into the politicized language around abortion. Especially in this specific case, where we do not know many relevant facts. Let's just use the language in the police report:

> the abortion/miscarriage

Presumably that is neutral enough?

Back to my original point, which is that crime is not out of control. You say that

> Police believed they had identified a crime and investigated it

which is at odds with what the police say:

> No charges were ever filed against the woman and she was never under criminal investigation by Johnson County.

I am guessing the police have more information about this than you do.

The police creeped on a woman, invaded her extremely personal business, wrote reports about it with knowledge those reports could become public, without any of it being in service of crime reduction.

Edit: I'm not fully up-to-date on the law, but my understanding is that there is no justiciable crime in Texas around a woman herself terminating a pregnancy using medical means. Police could have witnessed her consuming the medication and there still would be nothing to charge as no crime would have occurred.
by mholt | 2025-10-07 19:29:30+00:00
A live demo would be great, but I'm not sure how to generate the fake data in a way that imitates real data patterns. That's originally how I wanted to demo things, but the results weren't compelling. (It was a half-hearted effort, I admit.) So I switched to obfuscating real data.

FreeMyCash looks great! Yours is the second financial application I've heard of; maybe we need to look at adding some finance features soon.
by MisterTea | 2025-10-07 19:29:54+00:00
I don't have any faith in them doing anything good. Feels like the microcontroller ecosystem is going to get replaced with a quad core application CPU running Kubernetes on Linux while a companion microcontroller runs 5 lines of c code to blink an LED.

Are we going to get datasheets or are we getting Raspberry Pi 2: nodatasheet boogaloo and the community has to spend the next 5 years reverse engineering the fuckin thing while loading binary blobs.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-10-07 19:30:05+00:00
> law enforcement of which countries, under which sets of laws?

We're taking about ChatControl here, so law enforcement of EU countries, under their respective laws, into which EU law should have been incorporated

> Should Thailand be granted access to enforce their lease majeste laws

Same answer as "should Thailand be granted arrest rights to enforce <whatever>": they submit a legal assistance request to the country where the alleged crime occurred.

In the case of a lawful interception request for "lease[sic] majeste" reasons, I'm pretty sure this would be immediately rejected.

But, if not, the EU subject of such interception would have lots and lots of avenues to get redress.

Again, and I'm getting sort of tired from repeating myself: "lawful interception" does not mean "indiscriminate surveillance at the whim of whomever" -- it is a well-defined concept that has been used to determine which telegrams and mail pieces to open and which telephone calls to record for ages now. Your country absolutely does it, as we speak, no matter where you live. It's just that modern technology has far outpaced the scope of this legislation, and things like ChatControl are (incompetent) responses to that.

ChatControl is not a good idea, and has very little chance of becoming reality. But to stop dumb proposals like this from coming up over and over again, something has got to give.
by echelon | 2025-10-07 19:30:10+00:00
> We (privacy advocates) have to constantly fight and win over and over again.

We do have a way to reinforce our position, though!

We can design and consume technology that makes this hard.

We can stop working for companies that build centralized platforms for messaging.

We can teach our neighbors how important rights to privacy and speech are in language that they understand.

There can be enough friction that this becomes harder for politicians. Remember the Reddit Sopa and Pipa protests? - that was pretty epic! I don't think Reddit will help us in its current state, but we can absolutely mount those defenses on Wikipedia, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others.

And we should continue to move off of platforms that don't align with our freedoms. And build our platforms in a way that encourages "normies" to join.
by dave1010uk | 2025-10-07 19:30:41+00:00
Looks awesome!

This isn't so clear though: https://docs.innate.bot/main/software/basic/connecting-to-ba...

> BASIC is accessible for free to all users of Innate robots for 300 cumulative hours - and probably more if you ask us.

Is BASIC used just to create the behaviours or to run them too? It sounds like this is an API you host that turns a behaviour like "pick up socks" into ROS2 motor commands for the robot. Are you open sourcing this too, so anyone can run the (presumably GPU heavy) backend?

Does the robot needs an internet connection to work?

Also, more importantly, what does it look like with googly eyes stuck on?
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-10-07 19:30:56+00:00
I don't know to what extent that's true compared to the npm ecosystem, but the js ecosystem largely rejects the monolith framework approach. It's focused heavily on frontend / browser, and the most popular JS frameworks are really just backends for frontend. Its most common to have a separate backend, perhaps in a different language, and it's an approach I prefer.
by mholt | 2025-10-07 19:31:00+00:00
Timelinize doesn't import duplicates by default, so you can just import the whole new Takeout and it will only keep what is new.

But you have control over this:

- You can customize what makes an item a duplicate or unique

- You can choose whether to update existing items, and how to update them (what to keep of the incoming item versus the existing one)
by driverdan | 2025-10-07 19:31:20+00:00
You run a large, high resolution screen with your browser maximized?

I have a 4k screen. Most of the time I keep my browsers half width. For most sites it seems to be the best use of screen real estate. Even at half width that site's CSS restricts the width of the content too much, leaving a lot of wasted padding on either side.
by nickelpro | 2025-10-07 19:31:36+00:00
That's like saying the Unix philosophy adds complexity because it dictates a tool should do one thing well. Composition of tooling (consisting of many individual tools) is the basis for lots of rock-solid stacks.

I don't think the Unix philosophy is universally correct either, but "too many tools" is a complaint without much consequential basis. It's an aesthetic problem not a functional one.
by bguthrie | 2025-10-07 19:31:55+00:00
My recollection is that this is what many Capistrano setups were doing under the covers. Capistrano was just an orchestration framework for executing commands across multiple machines.

More than that, I worked for many enterprises that were using Rails but had their own infrastructure conventions and requirements, and were unable or unwilling to explore tools like Capistrano or (later) Heroku.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-07 19:31:55+00:00
I was considering walking down this road, because it's really core to the absurdity of this thread, innit?

But, the original post sort of handwaves about what pathological filesystem use is.

The examples they chose (git & npm) imply # of files.

I posit that as easy as it was to handwave that SQLite is obviously superior for npm/git than using N files, it'll be equally easy to handwave that it won't be a problem because SQLite is one file instead of many.
by hvb2 | 2025-10-07 19:32:06+00:00
> But that means the cost of building all those natural gas peaker plants is part of the cost of solar (it's never included in the LCOE).

This is a weird position to take. How would you price out nuclear then? As that cannot respond to changes in demand quickly either? Should every power source's cost have some gas tacked on to it? Or can we just assume that for now we have a mix of sources where different sources have different pros and cons.

And as said in many other places here, fossils don't have their externalities priced in either. I wouldn't be surprised if future generations scold us for burning so much natural gas that can also be used for many other things than burning
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-07 19:32:12+00:00
Operating Systems exist to manage access to resources - which requires a very different sort of training than user interface AI's.

Computer chips already use ai/machine learning to guess what the next instructions are going to be. You could have the kernel do similar guessing.

But I don't think those AI's would be the same ones that write love letters.

I think what we'll see is LLM's for people facing things, and more primitive machine learning for resource management (we already have it).

Sorry, I'm partially responding you and partially to this thread in general.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-10-07 19:32:38+00:00
Take a look at Bitwig. Developed by a team of ex-Ableton devs, it is the DAW-Live-should-have-become even at version 5.3, and version 6, which is in beta right now, will blow Ableton out of water. As soon as they add a microtonally aware piano roll like in Live 12, I'll have no reason to fire up Live other than to revisit old projects.

And yes it runs on Linux.

(Although truth be told, the CPU usage is somewhat higher on Linux than on Windows, even with low-latency kernel. Multimedia just doesn't quite shine on Linux yet.)
by DamonHD | 2025-10-07 19:32:53+00:00
If UK golf courses were turned over entirely to solar PV that would more than cover the ~30GW extra called for in the UK's Clean Power 2030 plan, IIRC.

I would regard that as a huge improvement in use from areas that are otherwise often fairly sterile from a biodiversity point of view, and only get used by a fraction of the population.

What is the 'cost' of those courses, vs PV, vs horrible climate change?

But the point remains that very significant PV can be provided on already-in-use land from homes and warehouses to reservoirs and farm land agrivoltaics.
by AndreLock | 2025-10-07 19:33:36+00:00
I've long been skeptical of the potential of prediction markets. A huge source of their recent growth, sports-related contracts, seems to rest on precarious legal grounds since none of the major players are registered sports betting outfits. There's a lot of activity around political betting, but these are concentrated around presidential and midterm election seasons. Is there really enough betting volume to justify an $8B valuation? What % of that volume will they be able to capture as fees? Over the past few years, the retail brokerage market has trended towards eliminating trading fees in favor of payment for order flow. Could the same happen to prediction markets?
by aanet | 2025-10-07 19:33:48+00:00
This is one of those races... where EVERYONE wants to be above average -- like Wobegone, and speed thru airport security (theater) with TSA, Clear, what-have-you -- resulting in the only Nash equilibrium possible: even longer queues for both TSA, Clear, etc.

Exhibit A: the airline boarding process itself, which extends from Pre-Boarding, Special Needs, Families with Children, Vets, No-Vets, Everyone's mothers-and-grandmothers, Group A, B, C, D, E, F...
by tristor | 2025-10-07 19:33:56+00:00
I've never owned a house old enough to be rewired, my previous house was built in 1992, the current house was built in 2017. That said, as far as I am aware, SIMpull does not contain PFAS, which is the slippery coating on Romex wiring. I don't know what the off-brand companies do, though.

For data cabling, which I did install myself in both houses, I looked up material safety data sheets (MSDS) for any products I purchased before buying them. The wiring I used also does not contain any PFAS in its insulation.
by mikestorrent | 2025-10-07 19:34:00+00:00
Is this really a change? Haven't people loved celebrities for as long as they've existed? Before this, characters in books, poems and songs commanded the same level of attention.

> I welcome generative AI killing it off.

It probably will, but that pushes us in the direction that Neal Stephenson describes in Fall - millions of people sitting alone consuming slop content generated precisely for them, perfect neuro-stimulation with bio-feedback, just consuming meaningless blinking lights all day and loving it. Is that better than what we have now? It's ad-absurdum, yes, but we live in a very absurd world now.

> Who cares what that generated character likes to eat for breakfast or who they are dating they don't exist.

You never needed to know this about celebrities, and you still don't need to now. Yes, others are into it; let them have their preferences. No doubt you're into something they would decry.
by toast0 | 2025-10-07 19:34:21+00:00
> With linear TV everything is prepared in advance. When they sell an ad slot they know what program they will be showing at the time. There's plenty of time to match the ad volume to the program volume, which I suspect in 2010 could not be reasonably automated.

Not really. There's a lot of live programming. Ad campaigns may be cancelled and replaced close to the time of airing. Local stations and cable systems preempt national ads and insert their own ads at times.

The way this was resolved was not by tuning ads to the content they interrupt, it was by setting standard audio levels for all programming and tuning the ads to fit that standard.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-07 19:34:37+00:00
"Why aren’t we doing more to eliminate contrails?"

I'm just having a hard time groking that contrails are really that impacting. TFA just quotes a bunch of numbers, but does not actually discuss how the numbers were derived. Maybe I've just been around too many people into Chemtrails, but this just reads to me as an offshoot of that type of thinking.
by antonvs | 2025-10-07 19:34:50+00:00
> Adam Smith would be absolutely appalled that we let things get this bad. This isn't what he wrote about at all. The free market is about economic coordination, not letting massive entities do whatever they damn well please at the expense of a society's quality. This is neo-mercantilism, the exact kind of thing he was vehemently disgusted with.

One problem is that the ambient propaganda has changed the definition of capitalism to exactly the problematic one you describe, so that arguing for a more sensible balance of the kind that Smith and others described is taken as an attack on capitalism itself.

These days I'm reminded more and more often of Wimp Lo from Kung Pow! Enter the Fist: "We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke." Except people have been trained wrong to make them better targets for farming their capital.
by ReptileMan | 2025-10-07 19:35:22+00:00
There is small problem though - all of the people will need the last 10% at the same time. And because you need infrastructure that will work only 10 percent of the time, expect the price of kwh to be 10 times the current to compensate.

The less you need the grid - the more expensive is what you will pull from it because the infrastructure costs will be spread on fewer kwh.
by mholt | 2025-10-07 19:35:25+00:00
I don't think sqlite runs very well on S3 file systems. I think it would also be insufferably slow.

I even encountered crashes within sqlite when using ExFAT -- so file system choice is definitely important! (I've since implemented a workaround for this bug by detecting exfat and configuring sqlite to avoid WAL mode, so it's just... much slower.)
by AstroBen | 2025-10-07 19:36:04+00:00
> how do you catch errors? Oh you just let things crash in production?

You write code differently, and you write tests. Rigorously testing business logic also has the nice side effect of catching type errors. "crash at runtime" in the real world means "crash in your tests". I've written a tonne of Ruby and it's simply not an issue

Plenty of businesses have been built on the back of dynamic languages. Nubank runs their somewhat critical business on millions of lines of gasp dynamic Clojure

> ..ends up creating an informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of React?

VS Code is written with custom JavaScript

Obsidian is written with custom JavaScript

Here's one reason to do it: the churn in these ecosystems is insane. Imagine writing a huge app in backbonejs back in the day when it was popular.. and then subsequently abandoned as people moved on to the new better way. That's an existential threat to your business if you're a small team. Even a big team takes a huge hit there

Vue2 to Vue3 was a shitshow. AngularJS -> Angular 2..

I'm still annoyed at React Query straight up deleting the documentation for the version a project I was on was using. Rails still has their docs up for the version released in 2009? The JS community just doesn't care about longevity

What happens when the React team decides "oh well actually WASM is the way forward" and redoes everything.. or maybe Svelte ends up taking over 4 years from now? Or hell if they even just evolve the framework in a direction that isn't in line with with what you want out of it
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-07 19:36:16+00:00
This was one of the actual problems highlighted by the people who coined the term "duck curve" over a decade ago.

One of the main ways we've avoided this problem so far is that solar kept getting cheaper.

So it's not really a problem caused by cheap solar, it's just basic market competition, lots of supply with no barrier to entry drives prices down towards the long term marginal cost.
by tavavex | 2025-10-07 19:36:24+00:00
In the hypothetical world that you've set out, where surveillance is so extreme and overreaching as to help finish off the entirety of the internet for good, there's no way it would stop at the internet. The goal isn't controlling this set of standards and protocols that defines just the internet, the goal is controlling communication and the internet is the #1 way of communicating between people at the moment.

If people all started talking through letter mail, you'd get Letter Control, they wouldn't just forget about it because it's not the internet. If the people somehow become smart and coordinated enough to move to some cryptographically-secure method of communication, your government will probably outlaw the equipment and actions associated with using it in the first place instead of trying to decrypt all communications.

The goal is control of information, and the way of doing that is to force everyone to use unsecured communication with no feasible alternatives. I wouldn't expect kid glove treatment with that, unlike speeding or minor shoplifting.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 19:36:44+00:00
> can I ask why?

Simply put, Americans gave Republicans a popular mandate to reduce illegal immigration.

Much of this was economic: illegal immigrants dilute the labour force. Some, particularly among Latin Americans, rose from perceived injustice: it’s frustrating to go through the American immigration process only to see someone who skipped it live a similar life. Some, e.g. those focused on crime, were just racists.

If ICE were simply enforcing the law, I don’t think there would be a national outcry. The problem is they aren’t. All while blowing the military budget of Saudi Arabia [1][2] to accomplish what Obama did with a tenth as much.

[1] https://breakingdefense.com/2025/02/saudi-arabia-increases-d...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-budget-big-beautiful-b...
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-10-07 19:36:44+00:00
> I [...] have no idea what you propose

It's literally the last item in my list?

But to further clarify: I would like existing lawful interception laws to be extended to services like Signal.

Not in the sense that any EU country should be able to break Signal crypto (as ChatControl proposes, and which I think is an utterly ill-advised idea), but that competent law enforcement agencies should be able to demand unencrypted Signal communications from/to an identified EU party, for a limited time and purpose, upon a (reviewable) judicial order.

Most, if not all, EU countries currently have similar laws applying to telegrams, snail mail, email, telephony and whatnot. If you don't like those either, that's fine, but that's the status quo, and I would like to see that extended to services like Signal, as opposed to incompetently dumb measures like ChatControl...
by Balinares | 2025-10-07 19:36:49+00:00
Wow, so not only are the findings from https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734 (posted on HN a while back) confirmed, they're generalizable? Intriguing. I wonder if this will pan out in practical use cases, it'd be transformative.

Also would possibly instantly void the value of trillions of pending AI datacenter capex, which would be funny. (Though possibly not for very long.)
by dang | 2025-10-07 19:36:51+00:00
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-07 19:37:03+00:00
My point is that you don't know what the future holds, but it's better to know more than less. My point is valid even if I can't provide examples.

However, if you ask me to, I can imagine using those weapons against meteors headeds for Earth, or possibly aliens. We don't know.

Phew, I never thought that "it's better to know more than less" would be controversial on HN.
by maininformer | 2025-10-07 19:37:18+00:00
I have a hot take on this. Concentration. The ability to unify one's mind around a topic.

This is correlated with "joy" and happiness, or contentment, which brings about patience. It is anti-correlated with pain and stress which brings about restlessness.

In short, good things take time. You cannot hurry the seasons. The competition is too fierce to worry about leaks.

We need to feel safe before we get creative, barring that, we hurry there.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-10-07 19:37:26+00:00
Sounds like a hardware issue on the Linux side. Been using Dell developers for decades and recently Frameworks and had only temporary issues with brand-new chipsets. Star labs tablet is great as well.

On the Windows side NT 3.5 was rock solid with limited software selection, 4 was decent, XP was fine for me behind a firewall but not everyone was so lucky on the security angle. No one liked Vista but I don't remember it being due to crashing.