MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BrandiATMuhkuh | 2025-10-27 19:01:47+00:00
I'm using this approach quite often. I don't know of any documents created by humans for humans that have no formatting. The formatting, position etc. are usually an important part of the document.

Since the first multimodal llms came out, I'm using this approach when I deal with documents. It makes the code much simpler because everything is an image and it's surprisingly robust.

Works also for embeddings (cohere embed v4)
by daedrdev | 2025-10-27 19:01:52+00:00
More specifically, farming and urban use 50% of the water California gets (river outflows to the sea are the other main place water ends up) Urban use is 10% and farming is 40% of that total water input. Almonds alone are 7% of ALL water, almost as much as the 10% urban.

The level of subsidy the relatively unimportant crops get with their basically free water is astounding, especially considering the high urban prices of water
by Terr_ | 2025-10-27 19:02:18+00:00
> it can also save us from biased content

I am pessimistic on that front, since:

1. If LLM's can't detect biases in their own output, why would we expect them to reliably detect it in documents in general?

2. As a general rule, deploying bias/tricks/fallacies/BS is much easier than the job of detecting them and explaining why it's wrong.
by trhway | 2025-10-27 19:02:25+00:00
>If the entire (much larger) group of vaccinated got infected at a rate of unvaccinated, your argument would hold, but they don't and it doesn't.

they do. Covid vaccine doesn't significantly decrease infection rate [1] (that, if you think a bit about how immune system works and how covid infects, in particular is why viral load is the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated). The vaccine only softens, a lot, the symptoms.

Thus widely vaccinating healthy people, we do increase threat to immunosuppressed and the likes.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/covid-vaccinat...

"The results suggest even those who are fully vaccinated have a sizeable risk of becoming infected, with analysis revealing a fully vaccinated contact has a 25% chance of catching the virus from an infected household member while an unvaccinated contact has a 38% chance of becoming infected."

[2] https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/11/02/covid-flu-vaccine-e...

"Why do some vaccines (polio, measles) prevent diseases, while others (COVID-19, flu) only reduce their severity?"
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-27 19:02:31+00:00
Australian AFR site is paywalled.

The competition regulator has accused Microsoft of misleading millions of customers into paying significantly more for artificial intelligence platform Copilot even if they did not want it, creating a test case about the power of technology giants to quickly expand the uptake of AI.

Microsoft and several of its peers have been grappling with how to monetise the enormous investment in AI, which has quickly made its way into consumer technology including phones, laptops and software and is now driving not only soaring revenues but sharemarket valuations. ...

Try this open site https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/accc-sues-microsoft-a...
by zarmin | 2025-10-27 19:02:46+00:00
No man. This is the whole problem. Don't sell yourself short like that.

What is a writing "voice"? It's more than just patterns and methods of phrasing. ChatGPT would say "rhythm and diction and tone" and word choice. But that's just the paint. A voice is the expression of your conscious experience trying to convey an idea in a way that reflects your experience. If it were just those semi-concrete elements, we would have unlimited Dickens; the concept could translate to music, we could have unlimited Mozart. Instead—and I hope you agree—we have crude approximations of all these things.

Writing, even technical writing, is an art. Art comes from experience. Silicon can not experience. And experiencers (ie, people with consciousness) can detect soullessness. To think otherwise is to be tricked; listen to anything on suno, for example. It's amazing at first, and then you see through the trick. You start to hear it the way most people now perceive generated images as too "shiny". Have you ever generated an image and felt a feeling other than "neat"?
by meonkeys | 2025-10-27 19:02:46+00:00
anacron is worth a mention here for sometimes-on computers like desktops, laptops, or personal servers. It's great for ensuring something runs at the set interval, or just whenever the machine comes back online. Minimum anacron interval is one day, so this can't simply replace cron. cron might even be the most sensible thing to use to kick off anacron on your system, and it might already be in use (see if your /etc/crontab fires off anacron).

anacron won't have the OP's 2am/3am issue because it locks jobs while they run, so multiple job spawns should be no-ops. Still seems like it would be good practice to, e.g. use UTC for the host system and do whatever else might help avoid the unnecessary re-spawns.
by litoE | 2025-10-27 19:03:14+00:00
I run a cronjob at 2:30AM every day that uses dirvish (a perl wrapper around rsync) to perform backups of several computers. In the fall, at 2AM the clock is rolled back to 1AM. The cronjob runs at 2:30AM, which is 25 hours after the previous day's run. That's not a problem. However, in the spring, at 2AM the clock jumps to 3AM. Vixie cron seems to be smart enough to run all the cron jobs that were scheduled between 2M and 3AM at that point. However, dirvish is started but exits without running the backups! After some troubleshooting I concluded that dirvish does not make the backups because the previous day's run happened less that 24 hours ago (because that day was shortened by the change to DST) so it sees no need to run a backup yet. This problem would persist even if I moved the cronjob to a different time because it has to do with the day having only 23 hours. I solved this by adding a second entry to the crontab that runs at 3:45AM only on the 2nd Sunday in March.
by voidhorse | 2025-10-27 19:03:54+00:00
If you struggle with communication, using AI is fine. What matters is caring about the result. You cannot just throw it over the fence.

AI content in itself isn't insulting, but as TFA hits upon, pushing sloppy work you didn't bother to read or check at all yourself is incredibly insulting and just communicates to others that you don't think their time is valuable. This holds for non-AI generated work as well, but the bar is higher by default since you at least had to generate that content yourself and thus at least engage with it on a basic level. AI content is also needlessly verbose, employs trite and stupid analogies constantly, and in general has the nauseating, bland, soulless corporate professional communication style that anyone with even a mote of decent literary taste detests.
by hxtk | 2025-10-27 19:04:39+00:00
The main resource that I recommend is the one towards the bottom of the comment: “Motivational Interviewing” by W.R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. I’ve read the third and fourth editions. The third edition is more concrete but also more complex, and more focused on the field of clinical psychology, while the fourth edition is a shorter book where it’s been generalized more to be more applicable to all kinds of helping relationships, but contains fewer specific examples of clinical practice.

In the second edition they had not yet broken up the concept of “resistance” into “sustain talk” and “discord,” which I found to be a helpful distinction.

About 10% of the book is its bibliography, so if you want more information about a specific claim you can usually find the primary source by following the reference.

Miller and Rollnick are the ones who developed the technique of motivational interviewing, so they have a strong connection to much of the research cited.
by mpweiher | 2025-10-27 19:05:46+00:00
> Which is of course why all recent western proejcts have equal outcomes to FV3.

Yes, because we stopped building. Once we start building again, those problems go away by themselves.

And no, the handout of tax money you complain about is to intermittent renewables, not to nuclear. Exactly the reverse of your claims. Just look at the EDF financial reports. Nuclear produces profits that are returned to their owner, despite having to finance ARENH.

Oh, of course EDF does receive state subsidies. For their intermittent renewables projects. Ba-da-dumm-tss.

Same in Germany: renewables are subsidized in production with around €20 billion per year just for the EEG, never mind the feed-in priority they get that lets them shunt the massive problems of their intermittency onto the other suppliers. That's probably worth more. Oh, and the preferential loan conditions and reduced regulatory burden etc.

Nuclear power in Germany never got a single cent for production. And had to account for all the sorts of costs others get to externalize, such as waste.

So once again: exactly the opposite of your claims.

The problem is not building new. The problem is building the first new.

For evidence of this, just look to China: they also built FOAK AP-1000 (Vogtle) and EPR (FV3, HPC).

And lo-and-behold: their FOAK versions of these also took around 10 years to build, whereas China typically builds in 5, so twice as long. In absolute terms they were a little faster, because they actually have industrial experience with nuclear (currently building 20+ reactors, lots more planned), the thing that needs to be rebuilt in Europe and the US.

Nowadays, they are building their NOAK AP-1000s in 5 years, for $3.5 bn. They didn't go for more EPR, as the AP-1000 is a better design. The EPR also hasn't won any of the recent tenders for nuclear reactors, for example in Poland (AP-1000) and the Czech Republic (South Korean APR-1400)

So to repeat: the problems with FOAK builds are well-known, as are the ones with building up nuclear expertise in a country. These go away by themselves once you build a number plants, preferable of the same design. The problems with the EPR design go away once you stop building EPRs.

Now these are actual facts.

Whereas all you've come up with is empty slogans and emotional fantasies.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-27 19:05:46+00:00
Did you read the article? It's about Loudoun County, the wealthiest county in the US. The people "affected" both are the ones making the decision about where to put the data centers and the ones profiting off them. Don't lose sleep.

Also, those same people have the most ability to live wherever they want, and can leave. This isn't mountaintop removal in coal country. This is wealthy DC lobbyists being a little annoyed about a hum.

The fact that there's even an article about it is evidence of the fact that the affected are wealthy. The article is their voice. The wealth that allows them to live in Loudoun County is their voice.
Show HN: Clarisu – Create educational podcasts
by janpmz | 2025-10-27 19:05:50+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve built Clarisu, an app that generates short educational podcasts from any topic you give it: https://clarisu.com

It started from https://pdftomp3.com, a tool I made to turn PDFs into audio. I mostly used it to listen to AI papers, but I still had to download the MP3s to my phone. So I made an app instead!

Now you just enter a topic in a textbox, and it builds a “podcast episode” with paragraphs and chapters. It has a “Clarify” button which goes deeper into a topic. This is where the name comes from :) I think I’ve learned a lot of new things by listening to my own episodes!

Next up: adding PDF uploads directly into the app.

I would love your feedback!

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jbuild.und...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clarisu-understand-app/id67511...
by fragmede | 2025-10-27 19:06:15+00:00
lol well when you put it that way!

DHH could have elided what he was really saying by using different words, not linking to that particular Wikipedia page, not mentioning Tommy's march, not trying to frame that march as just this nice lovely fellow out for a little walk. And so on and so forth.

He didn't though. The "demographic change" as you so nicely put it is that the people's skin colors have changed. A surface level of reading might justify putting "presumably compared to recent immigrants" in parentheses, and if you don't care to read it more deeply that than, I can see why one might walk away concluding that people being offended by DHH's statement are just looking for reasons to be offended.

A deeper reading of the words DHH chose to use in the order he used them, one might instead walk away reading that his objection is truly just skin deep. There's nothing to complain about this "demographic change" other than people's skin color isn't white in that one paragraph. Sure, it's entirely his perogative not to want to live somewhere simply based on people's skin color there, but, well, that's racist.

If you don't see that or think it's not offensive, that's entirely your own perogative. That's why linking to DHH's own words is important in the discussion. Everyone's free to draw their own conclusions based on the words he used and how they want to interpret them.

DHH is entirely free to believe whatever he wants and want to live wherever he wants, for whatever reason. Just that if it boils down to I don't like the skin color of people who live there, you shouldn't be surprised when other people don't want to work with you, even if you did create Ruby.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-27 19:06:25+00:00
How do we define a terrorist attack? Do we defer to the ICC, the ICJ, the US, the Knesset or the PLO?

Because if we apply that logic across the board, then the United States and Israel are both objectively complicit in internationally illegal war crimes. Any citizens that promote their legitimacy is trying to undermine global order, obstruct legitimate democracy and prevent criminal justice for organized terrorism.

Both sides have their faults, but I'm not willing to indict Hamdi for the same reason I don't accuse US citizens of being responsible for Abu Ghraib. It's not justice, just pugilism.
by jajuuka | 2025-10-27 19:06:26+00:00
I think this assumes a scenario where the past ceases to exist. However democratization and transitions back to democracy are built upon on taking the past and building it better. Brazil and Chile did not christine a state of no citizens when they returned to democratic forms of government.

I don't see any benefit to not determining everyone who is in an area at a specific time a citizen or eligible for citizenship.
by creatonez | 2025-10-27 19:06:48+00:00
This is the usual horseshit people say about this topic when they don't understand it. It's not just about encryption, but authentication (tamper-resistance). Your blog might not contain sensitive information, but if the entire website is intercepted and becomes malware, you're in trouble.

The bad news with FTP in particular is that only one request has to be intercepted and recorded to have persistent compromise, because the credentials are just a username and password transmitted in clear.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-27 19:07:04+00:00
To send and then slow a device of meaningful size across ten or hundreds of light years would require an enormous amount of energy, like truly incomprehensible amount. Then a civilization would need to produce them in millions and send to every single rock in the galaxy sector, because nuclear fission blasts are undetectable outside of star system. And then these robots need to function for billions of years continuously without any failure, because who knows which rock and at which time may develop sentient life. And when detection fission decay, such a robot must produce an enormous amount of power, to send a coherent optical signal over the tens of light years of distance. Meaning it has a gigantic power generator and equally impressive emitter. Which means even more mass has to be accelerated and then decelerated initially. And his sentient robot has to stare at a rock for billions of years without degrading electronically and without going insane.

And all that galaxy construction level effort for what? To learn hundreds or thousands of years late, that at rock number 123ABCD a fission has happened? And do what exactly with that useful information? Send extermination fleet? Or a robot with flowers, to pay respects?

People for some reason refuse to comprehend just how hard is it to send a speck of dust over light years of distance, let alone anything meaningful which won't break down in the process.
by hinkley | 2025-10-27 19:07:07+00:00
I can’t quantify how much time my team wasted in diagnosing production glitches on checking the wrong time offsets but it was substantial. One of our systems wasn’t using UTC, and given enough time the fact that Slack wasn’t using it either does become an issue. When an outage transitions to All Hands on Deck everyone needs to get caught up to what’s going on preferably under their own power so you don’t suffer the Adding Resources to a Late Project problem.

So that first alert that came in ?? minutes ago you need to align with the telemetry and logs in order to see what the servers were doing right before everything went to shit.
by cesarb | 2025-10-27 19:07:20+00:00
Wait, are there timezones where the DST change doesn't happen at midnight? That's news to me.

Now this article makes sense to me; I was wondering what made 02:00 and 03:00 special, since the DST changes would be from 00:00 to 01:00 and from 00:00 to 23:00, as I'm used to since childhood here in Brazil. Perhaps some other countries change DST from 02:00 to 03:00 and vice versa?
by ah27182 | 2025-10-27 19:07:32+00:00
I've been using LMStudio to run a local LLM (Qwen3-4B) to generate commit messages using this command:

```

git diff --staged --diff-filter=ACMRTUXB | jq -Rs --arg prompt 'You are an assistant that writes concise, conventional commit messages. Always start with one of these verbs: feat, fix, chore, docs, style, refactor, test, perf. Write a short!! message describing the following diff:' '{model:"qwen/qwen3-4b-2507", input:($prompt + "\n\n" + .)}' | curl -s http://localhost:1234/v1/responses -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @- | jq -r ".output[0].content[0].text"

```
by rincebrain | 2025-10-27 19:07:58+00:00
I think the problem can be described as assuming good faith in the argument - that is, that you're talking with someone who you are presuming is attempting to communicate, not just "win" the conversation.

The difference becomes clear very quickly - if there's a genuine misunderstanding, someone will clarify and move on; if someone is trying to rules lawyer the conversation, it won't.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-10-27 19:08:48+00:00
MCP works best for tool calling that doesn't require auth (so tools that are trusted on your own machine). The whole pitch that you should be using it for business facing tools and things that require auth is a terrible idea.

Even if you're doing local only - MCP tools can mostly be covered by simply asking Claude Code (or whatever) to use the bash equivalent.
by tetha | 2025-10-27 19:09:03+00:00
I prefer to combine this with FixedRandomDelay=true. FixedRandomDelay ensures that the randomized delay is an arbitrary number up to RandomizedDelaySec, but it is deterministic per server and timer. I find this useful because this means the timer will always run at XX:12:45 on server01, always run on XX:06:23 on server02 and so on.

This combines very simple configuration, while being predictable and spreading out timers well.
by nyrikki | 2025-10-27 19:09:42+00:00
> That is not at all what it says.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems demonstrate that any computable system that is sufficiently powerful, cannot be both consistent and syntactically complete.

Godel's second proved, a formula Con_κ associated with the consistency of κ is unprovable if κ is consistent.

If it is not consistent, Ex falso quodlibet (principle of explosion) applies and finding that contradiction allows any proposition or the negation of that proposition to be proven.

> They both can be useful or harmful

It is not lean that is harmful, mistaking finding a proof as being the same as truth. A proof that verifies a theorem does not have to explain why it holds, and the mathematical assumptions that may have been statistical is exactly why that failed.

Probability theory is just as much of a mathematical branch as λ-calculus. But we probably do differ in opinion on how "demonstrably true" much of mathematics is.

But here is a fairly accessible document related to the crash.

https://samueldwatts.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Watts-Ga...
by JCM9 | 2025-10-27 19:10:09+00:00
Yes. You don’t need to be moving $ to have a profit or loss. You could take your salary in sacks of potatoes. You still owe the government taxes on the fair market value of your pile of potatoes.

A while back there was a big fuss because executives were caught not paying tax on the fair market value of extra perks they were getting like use of the corporate jet on the weekends for trips to the beach house. Anything that’s not purely a business expense is considered compensation and is taxable.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-27 19:10:21+00:00
I've done a number of long distance walking holidays now. Weeks straight of walking every day. Pilgrims walk ~800km in ~6 weeks on the Camino de Santiago in Spain throughout the year. I've done shorter routes both in Spain and elsewhere. It's really a great way to switch off. Your whole life becomes the Way. How far do you have to walk? Where are you going to eat? Do you need to carry food? What's the weather looking like? Going back to being stationary afterwards is quite jarring actually.
by RajT88 | 2025-10-27 19:10:30+00:00
I bought a giant pair of bolt cutters a while back for a use case other than bolt cutting (shark fishing; cut the big hook instead of putting your hand near the mouth).

I never caught any big sharks like I thought, but now my wife runs a restaurant and occasionally employees just don't show up to work and leave things in their lockers. Once in a while it's clear it's to be annoying (locking supplies in their locker).

Never met a padlock or combination lock I couldn't shear through easily. Totally has paid for itself.
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