MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-15 12:30:52+00:00
It really depends on whether we're going to go through dark ages or a mass extinction event to the point of all our archives being destroyed; if that doesn't happen, we can look up discoveries on wikipedia. If there are any discoveries being made, because the thing with archeology is that things have to have been buried and forgotten about for a long time - grave sites, basements, that kind of thing.

I get it though, it'd be interesting to consider it, but like I said we'd need to forget things first for a long time. But another thing to consider is that the ancient Egyptians had archeologists for ancient Egyptian stuff already, with their history going back from 3000 BC to 30 AD.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-15 12:31:03+00:00
I’ve found this to be true, with one caveat.

Most cloud pain people experience is from a misunderstanding / abuse of solutions architecture and could have been avoided with a more thoughtful design. It tends to be a people problem, not a tool problem.

However, in my experience cloud vendors sell the snot out of their offerings, and the documentation is closer to marketing than truthful technical documentation. Their products’ genuine performance is a closely guarded proprietary secret, and the only way to find out… e.g. whether Lambdas are fast enough for your use case, or whether AWS RDS cross-region replication is good enough for you… is to run your own performance testing.

I’ve been burned enough times by AWS making it difficult to figure out exactly how performant their services are, and I’ve learned to test everything myself for the workloads I’ll be running.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-15 12:31:08+00:00
Most of these no doubt are just websites, you can search for 'ai song generator'.

Where you can input your lyrics, styles, etc. You can create all original songs by having AI generate the lyrics even.

>Does anyone know what models and tools are used?

One of the best in my opinion: https://huggingface.co/tencent/SongGeneration

One of the most popular: https://huggingface.co/facebook/musicgen-medium

The "transformers" is just a python library and you just add all the parameters in a constructor:

processor( text=["80s pop track with bassy drums and synth", "90s rock song with loud guitars and heavy drums"], padding=True, return_tensors="pt", )

This one can run on like 16GB of vram and modern cards produce them trivially.

>I imagine once you have stems you can maybe style / genre transfer and use a reference audio file perhaps?

You can do audio to audio; but it's not as easy as just generating the whole thing from text.
by Numerlor | 2025-10-15 12:31:13+00:00
The GPU is significantly faster and it has cuda, though I'm not sure where it'd fit in the market.

At the lower price points you have the AMD machines which are significantly cheaper, even though they're slower and with worse support. Then there's apple's with higher memory bandwidth and even the nvidia agx Thor is faster in GPU compute at the cost of worse CPU and networking, and at the 3-4K price point even a threadripper system becomes viable that can get significantly more memory
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 12:31:35+00:00
“there is a problem with a single company or organization controlling a nontrivial segment of the voting machines used in the US”

Even if you have many companies providing voting machines, it does not deal with the problem of distrust in national elections. Many elections that have recently occurred come down to the votes of a particular small area of the country or district. These districts are likely to be dominated by one voting machine or type of vote machine purchased by the election board at that district. So, effectively you still have a single or a few voting machines determining elections.
by danaris | 2025-10-15 12:32:12+00:00
> Why publish something brazenly self-serving that will at best be forgotten two weeks later, or at worst be added to the list of reasons a bunch of people have to hate you, when you could instead earn some goodwill as a benevolent thought leader and maybe get some academics and politicians to come out of the woodwork backing your ideas?

For the same reason that the tech execs do all the other terrible things they do: because they want to own e v e r y t h i n g, and know that they can't do that by acting in good faith.

They want to be the new feudal overlords, and care much less about "goodwill" than they do about making it seem inevitable that they will be the gatekeepers of all thought and labor.

The more they can convince you, the people, and the policymakers that this "AI revolution" is real, and not just a bubble, the less likely everyone is to see through their exaggerations, misdirections, and outright lies to the fact that LLMs are not, and are never going to become, AGI. They are measurably not replacing any significant number of workers. They cannot do our jobs.
by Daunk | 2025-10-15 12:32:13+00:00
I've tried to use this, but I'm on multiple servers with tons of channels, and it gets a bit unwieldy without tabs. I also can't get it to minimize to tray, and having to "keep it open" at all times is somewhat annoying. I'll stick with Quassel for now.

Really impressive work though, you should be proud!
by Xelbair | 2025-10-15 12:32:23+00:00
I'm not saying they have top-down control.

I'm saying they are trying top-down initiatives - the difference is subtle but important.

This is about attitude and how attempts are made - not how successful they are at it. This isn't central planning - this is just plan ineptitude that's sabotaged by inter-country conflicts of interests, with extremely bloated beaurocracy - sometimes just to have enough representation from each party.

EU is stuck between worst of both worlds, and i don't see anything changing for better in here without a shift - either towards more looser union akin to trade union(original idea) or a federation.
by Freak_NL | 2025-10-15 12:32:33+00:00
Every image feels fake. Like picking up and biting into a petit four to find it is fondant all the way through. I find no creativity. No human touch. Little red riding hood looks like a Chinese knock-off.

We had fake images aplenty of course, via stock photo databases etc., and this seems like the next step, so it will be used on a massive scale…

I am curious to know how people will respond to these in time though. Mild aversion like with those recruiting photos showing a carefully balanced diverse team with bright smiles and lots of extravert signalling in a super bright office with lots of windows, clean surfaces, and pristine Fruit-brand laptops and monitors tackling some tricky XML serialisation bug in their legacy SAML plugin?

By the way, the '20 credits for daily check-in' in the free tier feels a little scummy in a dark-pattern kind of way.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-15 12:32:35+00:00
Why would politicians do any of that? Did United States House of Representatives invent anything?

All these EU companies are all private enterprises and they are %100 from a country in EU because there's no such thing as EU as a country, EU doesn't have companies(beyond entities created to fulfill certain functions). This too may change soon because they are looking into introducing a 28th regime which would be like virtual EU member.

I think there's huge confusion on what is EU.

BTW, EU has roots in "European Coal and Steel Community" and role in forming the Airbus but even in these ase it was just a facilitator.

All these expectation that are based on imaginary things(don't take it personally please, I see these things all the time) shows that EU desperately needs to become a country by its own right. Its so confusing to understand what EU can and can't do, what organization is under EU control and how much.
by Thiez | 2025-10-15 12:32:44+00:00
Are they aware that namespaces exist? Surely you're getting more out of your clusters by having few clusters running many pods instead of many clusters running few pods?

At my job we also have some redundant clusters but that's because we're in the middle of a transition (really two transitions, the first of which was never completed), of the 10 clusters that fall under my responsibility 6 will hopefully be gone by the end of this year.
by criddell | 2025-10-15 12:32:52+00:00
Does it really matter if it's all fraud? You track 47 sales over some period. What was the ad spend for that period? Combine that with previous data and that should be enough to figure out if it was a successful campaign or not.

When a company puts up a billboard or an ad on the bus, they don't care if the ad is seen by dashcams and dogs. All that matters is impact on the bottom line.
by nchmy | 2025-10-15 12:32:57+00:00
Caniuse.com shows both origin and referer headers have 96.3% support, with Sec-Fetch-Site not far behind at 94.2. So it's probably a moot point.

Ive read in various places though that referer has all sorts of issues, gotchas etc such that it isn't really a reliable way of doing this.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/158045/is-check...
by ryandrake | 2025-10-15 12:33:18+00:00
It would take a lot more investigative journalism to track down the bot networks and figure out the why and who, which I agree is the more interesting information. It’s not surprising that nobody seems to be willing to be quoted by name as a source. The whole industry seems fake and shady.

Despite the “LinkedIn influencer” writing style of the article, the results don’t seem that shocking or unexpected.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-15 12:33:41+00:00
I can’t stand the fact that we put everything to committee when we’re trying to do something good, but not otherwise. I live near a highway, I can hear the cars all day, where’s my veto? I’ve lived near trains—but they were freight trains, so I didn’t get the “public transit is helpful for the little people” veto, I guess.

It’s like we can only accomplish anything as a society if if the fact that it is going to piss people off is baked in.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-15 12:33:50+00:00
Yes.

*The OODA loop—for observe, orient, decide, act*

Very logical. Current AI doesn't do logic very well.

What it does instead is probability. At best, any results are a quasi-match from it's training data. At worst, it is something invented to sound plausible.

In any case, it is less than inspired thinking.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-15 12:34:37+00:00
They tried to call this "universal" until people pointed out it is the opposite of universal. This program is a wild distortion of what UBI is meant to be.

Everyone who would _like_ to be an artist, but can't afford to be one, is disqualified. Meanwhile, the acquaintance of mine who sold his house in London at a large profit and retired to a cottage in Westmeath to live off his gains and noodle around on the guitar a bit is a recipient of funds from this program.

Tellingly there's very little information about how to _become_ an artist with this program.

Edit/addendum: Worth noting they've produced some _very_ dubious numbers to claim this program is a net gain economically. https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0923/1534768-basic-income-fo...

""" A key component of the total benefits came from psychological wellbeing, which contributed almost €80 million. In addition, the report estimates that audience engagement with the arts generated €16.9 million in social value, based on public willingness-to-pay for cultural experiences. """

And, as much as I like psychological wellbeing (who doesn't!) - saying that it's worth €80 million when you didn't actually get €80 million doesn't help things when it comes time to pay for the program. I'm unsurprised that giving people money improved their psychological well being.

I'd be more excited to see basic income for Deliveroo riders and people working in chippers.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-15 12:34:52+00:00
That entire article is about whether people "feel" safe. It doesn't seem to have any stats on whether or not they are actually safe.

But back to the actual thread: the majority of gang violence is against other gangs. This is unlike other high-crime areas (for example, places with high rates of carjacking) where criminals are targeting people just moving through the area.
by kburman | 2025-10-15 12:35:00+00:00
You're confusing network proximity with application architecture. Edge deployment helps connection latency. Stateless runtime destroys it by forcing every cache access through the network.

The whole point of edge is NOT to make latency-critical APIs with heavy state requirements faster. It's to make stateless operations faster. Using it for the former is exactly the mismatch I'm describing.

Their 30ms+ cache reads vs sub-10ms target latency proves this. Edge proximity can't save you when your architecture adds 3x your latency budget per cache hit.
by ramraj07 | 2025-10-15 12:35:04+00:00
Bo Burmham said, "self awareness does not absolve anyone of anything"

But here I dont think they (or their defenders) are still aware of the real lesson here.

Theres literally zero information thats valuable here. Its like saying "we used an 18 wheeler as our family car and then we switched over to a regular camry and solved all our problems." What is the lesson to be learned in that statement?

The real interesting post mortem would be if they go, "god in retrospect what a stupid decision we took; what were we thinking? Why did we not take a step back earlier and think, why are we doing it this way?" If they wrote a blog post that way, that would likely have amazing takeaways.
by citrin_ru | 2025-10-15 12:35:12+00:00
Despite wind energy being in excess in Scotland AFIR end users are still paying very high prices due to marginal pricing used in the UK - electricity cost is set by the most expensive source of energy (even if it is 0.1% of the mix) and most of the time gas is the most expensive source. I think marginal pricing is detrimental but there is no political will to axe it.
by lazide | 2025-10-15 12:35:23+00:00
Personally, I’ve never seen an AI flow of any kind that meets what would meet the quality of a typical ‘corporate’ acceptable flow. As in, reliably works, doesn’t go crazy randomly, etc.

I’ve seen a lot of things that look like they’re working for a demo, but shortly after starting to use it? Trash. Not every time (and it’s getting a little better), but often enough that personally I’ve found them a net drain on productivity.

And I literally work in this space.

Personally, I find apples hesitation here a breath of fresh air, because I’ve come to absolutely hate Windows - and everybody doing vibe code messes that end up being my problem.
by shiftingleft | 2025-10-15 12:35:31+00:00
After we implemented advanced bot traffic detection and filtering, their reported traffic plummeted by 71%. [...] But then the sales report came in. Their actual sales went up by 34%. Their real conversion rate optimization (CRO) efforts had been working all along, but the results were buried under an avalanche of fake clicks. They were not bad at marketing; they were just spending thousands of dollars advertising to robots programmed never to buy anything. Their marketing ROI went from "terrible" to "excellent" overnight.

I don't understand how detecting bot traffic would directly lead to less ad spend.

Can you just tell e.g. Google Ads that you don't want to pay for certain clicks?

Did they modify their targeting to try to avoid bots?
by Bender | 2025-10-15 12:37:21+00:00
HN is not really a good place to troubleshoot such things but I will take a look.

I do not see an MX record in public DNS for tkangz.sa assuming that is the domain in question. I do not even see NS records for that domain in the root servers. Your DNS admin needs to verify they updated the name server configuration for the root DNS servers. Usually this is in a web interface option called something like "manage your DNS servers" in the new registrar. This can take some time to propagate depending on the back-end of the old and new registrars. If unsure call the new registrar and describe the problem.

dig +short NS sa | head -n1 s2.dns.sa. dig @s2.dns.sa. NS tkangz.sa | grep status ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN

Status should be "NOERROR" and list the names and IP addresses of your new name servers. After that is resolved then ensure the PTR record at the new location as been updated to match the forward mail server name.
by danaris | 2025-10-15 12:37:22+00:00
I mean...this depends very heavily on what the purpose of the writing is.

If it's to succinctly communicate key facts, then you write it quickly.

- Discovered that Bilbo's old ring is, in fact, the One Ring of Power.

- Took it on a journey southward to Mordor.

- Experienced a bunch of hardship along the way, and nearly failed at the end, but with Sméagol's contribution, successfully destroyed the Ring and defeated Sauron forever.

....And if it's to tell a story, then you write The Lord of the Rings.
by rs186 | 2025-10-15 12:38:02+00:00
> Does Google plan to patch these APIs? > > Google has attempted to patch Pixnapping by limiting the number of activities an app can invoke blur on. However, we discovered a workaround to make Pixnapping work despite this patch. The workaround is still under embargo.

Can I assume this is being exploited in the wild? Some black hats must be smart enough to figure out the workaround on their own.
by thrance | 2025-10-15 12:38:37+00:00
I really like the idea of UBI but the math just doesn't add up. Even where I live, France, our entire welfare expenditures (that is supposed to be quite high relative to our neighbors) wouldn't be nearly enough to give each citizen 1,000€/month, which would be barely enough to scrape by on the country side. And that would require sacrificing our socialized healthcare system, our public education, etc.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-15 12:38:55+00:00
Power lines I don't get as a NIMBY concern. The other things I can see the argument. I bought a house partially because it has direct access to a pole mounted transformer.

I've had a lot of issues with last mile power delivery in residential areas that rely on buried lines and pad mounted transformers. If a transformer on a pole blows up, it can be replaced within 4 hours. Buried lines and pad mounted transformers can easily take 8+ hours due to the excavation requirement. I've had outages that lasted over 24 hours because of buried infrastructure issues. It's nice that it's all hidden until it breaks.
by pqdbr | 2025-10-15 12:39:16+00:00
With Claude Code, I can 'tune' the prompt by feeling how much context the model needs to perform it's task. I can mention more files or tell it to read more code as needed.

With one hour of experience of Codex CLI, every single prompt - even the most simple ones - are 5+ minutes of investigation before anything gets done. Unbearable and totally unnecessary.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-15 12:39:18+00:00
> Drug use forces people to do other crimes

Something like 98% of humanity partakes of caffeine which is very clearly an addictive drug with one of the higher measures of addictive potential among all drugs in most evaluations. Drug use isn't what drives people to commit crime. Lack of support systems do. Drug use is often a coping mechanism associated with lack of support systems.

This is very clearly articulated in the following study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/98787/

To quote John Ehrlichman, Whitehouse counsel and assistant to President Nixon: “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities”

Disrupted communities lack support systems and further drive folks to criminality as a means of surviving.

Meanwhile, many of the founding fathers and modern political leaders have writtten quite fondly and positively about smoking cannabis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_politici...

> For example the article discusses adultery

Homosexuality and sodomy (i.e. sex without the intent of procreation) are clearer examples of criminalized sexual behavior between two consenting adults. I know some folks who'd like to outlaw them today in the US and they are currently outlawed elsewhere, but I believe what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home is their own business.
by jt2190 | 2025-10-15 12:39:21+00:00
> The announcement follows the release of an external report by UK-based consultants Alma Economics, which found that the pilot cost €72 million to date but generated nearly €80 million in total benefits to the Irish economy. The report also found that recipients’ arts-related income increased by more than €500 per month on average, income from non-arts work decreased by around €280, and reliance on other social programs declined, with participants receiving €100 less per month on average.

So, overall a neutral-to-good outcome, from a financial point of view. I think we can debate about whether it’s necessary for the government of Ireland to fulfill this funding role, but I’m not sure this is the most wasteful thing that a government can do.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-15 12:39:24+00:00
The facilities aren't even remotely hidden so it's fair to blame Cambodia for allowing it. They have towns built up around them with restaurants and shops and normal economic functions to support the people running these slave towers. A good chunk of the money is flowing back into China, but there's definitely a good bit that seeps out into the Cambodian economy. Hence why Cambodia's government is more than happy to let it operate.

In the case of Myanmar, I think their biggest problem is the country has been in a war for decades with loads of various factions and it's too chaotic for any government to attempt to get anything under control.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-15 12:39:26+00:00
Not necessarily leaving capitalism. It could be considered a way of art patronage or sponsoring as people/entities have been doing for artists et cetera for pretty much forever. This time it’s the state itself. It’s different but I don’t think it’s a net negative. We have, even in capitalism, jobs/trades that doesn’t pay much, definitely not in the beginning and even later only to a rare few, but that trade is needed and not just those rare few.

I’d rather look at from this perspective — their output and quality could be much better if they don’t have to worry about shelter, food, and health while doing that monetarily thankless work.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-15 12:39:32+00:00
> selected artists receive a weekly payment of approximately $375, or about $1,500 per month. There are 2,000 spots available, with applications set to open in September 2026; eligibility criteria have not yet been announced

I would love to see a list of the artists with links to their work, some of which, presumable, would be for sale.
by mpalmer | 2025-10-15 12:39:42+00:00
> In October, the government released the results of a public survey on the scheme, which found that 97 percent of respondents support the program. However, 47 percent of the 17,000 respondents said artists should be selected based on economic need, while 37.5 percent favored selection by merit. Only 14 percent preferred random selection.

People generally won't prefer the fairest method of selection, but that doesn't mean it's not the best.
by skeledrew | 2025-10-15 12:39:42+00:00
Just got inspired to try it again after not touching it for at least a year. I login with Element and am hit with a notification to verify my session with another device to access my encrypted history. I have no other sessions. Does this mean I've irrevocably lost access to said data? This is unacceptable if I'm to use this service regularly; I'd rather have encryption off by default so I opt into the potential loss of data, instead of having to remember to opt out. The only really nice thing so far compared to Telegram is my account still exists with the chats I'd joined, while Telegram allows a year maximum inactivity before it totally deletes an account.