MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Onavo | 2025-10-18 08:18:26+00:00
If you are purchasing any form of financial service that involves moving money around and said financial services provider also happens to interact with a US based financial entity, then yes, Uncle Sam will make life very difficult.

And no before you ask crypto won't solve this because Uncle Sam demands USD stablecoins to have sanctions mechanisms built in and clearing entities that don't implement KYC etc. will find themselves subjected to prosecution in other ways.
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-10-18 08:18:53+00:00
Let's use our imagination to overcome some naivety. Imagine for a moment that you just instantly 10x'ed the presence of PVs and tell me what will change. Do you truly believe that you will never encounter a bottleneck? Go on 10x'ing the presence of PVs until you find emerging constraints.

I'm sure that 10x the solar electricity output would substantially incentivize battery development and changes in industrial production, eventually producing major cultural implications. Long before utopia, however, we will encounter other bottlenecks: electrolysis, carbon policy, resource distribution (and other problems/opportunities worthy of attention).

No one here is claiming that PV cells play an insignificant role, or that emergent peripheral challenges will not be met with skill. The claim I am making is that the simple model (more PVs!) is insufficient to address the complex problems human society faces, and that it is naive to believe otherwise. You would never just put your foot on the pedal to drive to your destination; you'll also grasp the steering wheel, reckon with obstacles and roadway laws, etc; but if you have never driven a car before, you might sincerely believe that all it takes is stepping on that pedal.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-10-18 08:19:43+00:00
Your comment is obviously not AI generated, but since we were talking about astroturfing on Reddit and which presumably is done a lot by bots, it's interesting to me when I read comments on what kind of triggers my inner LLM detector.

> Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on.

This sentence really and some of your other cadence somehow triggers my sense a lot. Or the comment somehow feels sloganish, formulaic. Not trying to criticise or offend, just thought it's interesting how it triggers this in my brain. And I do agree with you.
by ragequittah | 2025-10-18 08:19:58+00:00
This is my experience as well. Codex is very verbose which is annoying considering the limits. My work flow tends to be have Claude code describe the problem (succinct as it can) based on my mashing of the keyboard description of what I want done then send that to codex. I've tried it the other way around doesn't work nearly as good. Disclaimer: not using the 5 prompts per week opus.
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-10-18 08:20:51+00:00
I have a car over 20 years old. I don't spend much money on maintenance. I don't have a car payment, taxes are very low, and insurance is decently cheap. Had it for a few years, have replaced brakes and some minor things. Didn't spend much on the vehicle, either.

Having a car payment would automatically be more expensive than my current vehicle. More taxes, more money each month, and so on. For electric cars, I won't get the incentives here in Norway for much longer, as they are being (mostly) phased out in the next few years.

To be fair, though: I walk a lot. I have a 5-10 minute walk to work (depending on snow). Driving takes longer. The car is used a few times a month. Realistically, my car is a luxury item and I'm lucky to live in a place that makes it so.
by pols45 | 2025-10-18 08:21:17+00:00
Its hard to say what they have to do. They aren't telling anyone what is happening within their system. And people within the system aren't sure either. If you aren't allowed to see anything because its constantly brushed under the carpet, how do you know how many flaws there are, how many are getting fixed, leave alone how effective the fixes are? And talking to Chinese people offline who have to actually deal with issues there, it's easy to see lot of anxiety. You can build the Great Wall and point at how beautiful it is. But we already know mega projects did not save the Ming Dynasty.
by mijoharas | 2025-10-18 08:22:13+00:00
I also find it really frustrating:

> I'm actually mad that the word fascist is losing its meaning.

When someone espouses ethno-nationalist viewpoints (a core part of fascism), and praises a fascist, I don't think it's unreasonable to say "hey that guy sounds a bit fascist", and I think pushing back against that is what is making fascism lose its meaning.

Now, saying "I don't think it's fascist because X" is perfectly valid, but that's not what I'm seeing here. It feels like a knee-jerk reaction, which I don't think is fair in this case.
by BAPHOMETA88F | 2025-10-18 08:22:31+00:00
I had a client once in the 90's when Olive Garden was the first wave of consumer Italian spots to serve specials.

After we ordered our entrees the waiter left one of those coloring labyrinths. Well, I couldn't tell at the start of the sketch that it resembled a mandala.

As a comic book artist, his studies in a parapsychology were in the practice of comic strips.

Gary's work reminds me of that afternoon.
by watwut | 2025-10-18 08:22:52+00:00
> would actually go through with the tariffs because it's an insane plan and that wiser people in the administration would restrain Trump.

What is insane is to assume republicans picked by Trump will restrain Trump. The adults in the room theory was disproven long before that election.

Trump 1.0 had tarriffs. Trump talked abput tarrifs. People in fact assumed Trump will do tarriffs, they just slightly underestimated how bad the trade war will be.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-10-18 08:23:32+00:00
Then it would be a game with a funny hats - maybe a good game but with a funny hats and not the original one.

You can look Freedom approach to that idea. I tried it a couple of times and as someone who had it in original way, in DOS 6.22 and wtih ESS Blaster - it doesn't click for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_modding#Freedoom
by ta1243 | 2025-10-18 08:23:38+00:00
What worries me is how the HN groupthink mentions it at every possibility.

If people on HN aren't capable/willing to run their own kit there's no hope.

In the slashdot days you'd never get such worship of tailscale and cloudflare. Even in the early days of HN you'd have people suggesting a bit of rsync rather than using dropbox.

It feels like the modern tech zeitgest is either dripping in far-right memes, or it's "tech enthusiasts" from https://thecatholicdev.substack.com/p/tech-enthusiasts-vs-te...

It was probably ever so -- slashdot 20 year ago was full of Atlas Shrugged, Firefly, etc, I was just too young and naieve to understand it
by TFYS | 2025-10-18 08:24:21+00:00
Corrupting a big government is much more expensive. Giving power from the government to the corporations just shifts the incentive from corrupting governments to corrupting other corporations. Want tariffs on goods you produce? Bribe a few top people from the biggest shipping companies (or even just buy that as a service, they'd probably sell it). I'd say that's much easier than corrupting a democratic government that has to be at least somewhat transparent in its decisions.

> so they have to appease the people, or at least a large subset of them, directly to retain the power.

The biggest corporations would not operate in an industry with a lot of competition, the biggest companies are the ones that can get a near monopoly on some good. Without a strong government to break up monopolies, it wouldn't matter what people think about the companies, they'd still have to buy. Even if that doesn't work, a simple rebranding and a purchase of a propaganda campaign from the biggest media corps will do the trick. Even if the corps in control change occasionally, the people behind them probably don't change as much. The same group of the wealthiest people would likely own many of the corps, so it wouldn't matter to them which one is in control, as they all serve their interests.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-10-18 08:24:30+00:00
The simplest solution is to require all online devices to have a "child mode" that can be activated during setup, and require all parents to enable this for minors under 16. In this mode, the device takes screenshots every few seconds of active use, and makes this viewable on the parents' devices as a timeline. This must be private with full end-to-end encryption and limited data retention in the clients (7 days or so).

It's much simpler than blocking, and much more effective. Most parents don't know what to block proactively, blocklists are imperfect, and the biggest threats are hiding in the most innocent looking apps (Discord, Roblox, Reddit, even just messaging with friends from school).
by MonkeyClub | 2025-10-18 08:25:08+00:00
Plus that 5% left out is a one in twenty chance that some business critical service may fail when least convenient.

And when it does, the person that vibed it into existence will only have ChatGPT to fall back to, having no personal or organizational experience to rely on.

But they have a 95% chance of getting it right, if they don't panic too much.
by Nition | 2025-10-18 08:25:35+00:00
In a way Cow Tools was too simple rather than too hard, so people thought there must be more to it.

I don't think the joke itself is a bad idea. I remember The Simpsons doing the room full of monkeys on typewriters where one comes up with "it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" which in a way is a similar joke, right? i.e. Not a good result, but funny because it's still much more than you'd ever expect in reality.
by anovikov | 2025-10-18 08:27:01+00:00
I'd offer a much easier explanation! Middle East only became a laggard when it became wholly owned by Ottoman Empire. It meant that when Europe transformed into unitary nation-states where unity of blood, religion, language, and culture defined what the state was (the only exception being Roma and Jews that lived everywhere and were kicked around at the first opportunity), nothing like that happened there because Ottoman Empire was well, an empire - it didn't care about ethnicities.

As a result, once it collapsed in 1921, we got a bunch of places that had nothing intrinsic to hold them together - places randomly drawn on the map by dudes in top hats somewhere in Paris and London, populated by a multitude of peoples holding a great variety of sectarian beliefs (not just Sunni vs Shia, but also different schools of those, some of those like Druze, becoming like ethnicities of their own). Because there is no internal cohesion - people living there are well, random people speaking random languages with random faith and having nothing to do with one another - there is either a hard power that forces them into obedience (e.g. Syria under Assad the Elder), in which case there is order, but no true progress - or not even that, in which case well, there is endless bloody chaos.

Only solution here is slow, gradual genocide of "others" until a semblance of an individual ethnicity defining a state, is formed. In Europe it took centuries and culminated in World Wars. Eastern Europe only became truly unblocked in its progress after the end of Communism, predated by the ethnic purges orchestrated by victorious Allies ("move all Poles to Poland, all Germans to Germany, etc") in late 1940s. Before WWII, Eastern Europe states resembled modern Middle East with ethnic strife preventing development and forcing those countries either into hard-power authoritarianism (Poland), or dysfunction (First Czechoslovak Republic).

Ethnic cleansing, i believe, is deemed "bad" for the only reason: it gives a nation that executed it, a massive competitive advantage, so those who did it a long time ago, strive to prevent others from doing the same.
by gladiatr72 | 2025-10-18 08:27:42+00:00
No, it isn't. It doesn't have to be this way. The original Volt comes to mind. Electric-hybrid, somewhat affordable with the bonus that it wasn't remotely hackable. The non-electric bit was a 1-cylender motor that only kicked in when the battery was low. Oh, and don't forget its use of buttons and switches vs a dash-bolted touchscreen.

And, you know, there were these flip phones that worked pretty much everywhere that held a useful charge up to a couple weeks that you could use to call AAA in a pinch. They stood in quite handily in place of the integrated spyware present today.

To quote Corey Doctrow: Investors love the sound of a “software-based car” because they understand that a gadget that is connected to the cloud is ripe for rent-extraction, because with software comes a bundle of “IP rights” that let the company control its customers, critics and competitors:

A “software-based car” gets to mobilize the state to enforce its “IP,” which allows it to force its customers to use authorized mechanics (who can, in turn, be price-gouged for licensing and diagnostic tools). “IP” can be used to shut down manufacturers of third party parts. “IP” allows manufacturers to revoke features that came with your car and charge you a monthly subscription fee for them.

and then there are situations like: https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chap...

or the recent fiasco with e-Jeeps disabled by the side of the road by a freaking entertainment system update.
by middayc | 2025-10-18 08:27:50+00:00
I’ve personally always thought that REBOL’s use of set-words and similar constructs was a strength. It makes sense conceptually, is visually distinguishable, and maintains a strong sense of internal consistency.

REBOL (and by extension, Rye) was never designed around the idea that everything must be a function. It just turns out that this approach fits naturally within the core principles and rules of the language.

All “active” words happen to be functions, because nothing else is needed. The behavior of different word types (and, more broadly, value types) is determined by the evaluator. In that sense, you could say that Rye does have syntax, expressed through its distinct word types.
by ownagefool | 2025-10-18 08:28:13+00:00
Meh.

You probably shouldn't / don't need to use v7 for your Users table because the age of your User probably has limted to no bearing on the look up patterns. For example, our Steam and Amazon accounts are pretty old, but we likely still use them.

However, your Orders table is significantly more likely to be looked up based on time, so a v7 makes a lot of sense here.

Now I'd argue the security implications are overblown, but in general tems you might also allow someone to look up a user, i.e. you can view my Steam profile, or maybe my Amazon wishlist. You probably don't need to be looking up another Users Order.

Alternativly, if your building an Enterprise Risk Solution, you could take a view that you don't want people knowing how old the risk is, but most solutions would show you some history and would believe that to be pertinent information.

There will be instances of getting it wrong, but it isn't actually _that_ complicated.
by mikae1 | 2025-10-18 08:28:41+00:00
>> What should we use instead?

> AVIF, JpegXL, maybe even WebP (lossless mode).

Definitely not lossless AVIF. It is less efficient than lossless WebP. WebP is supported everywhere, but is not much more efficient than optimized lossless PNG. Lossless JpegXL has the best lossless compression but can't be used for web without fallbacks.

So, for offline archival: JpegXL.

For web use without fallbacks: lossless WebP.

For web use with lossless WebP fallback: JpegXL.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-18 08:29:03+00:00
You seem to be disagreeing on what the term ORM means and using the new, not very useful, and very far from the original definition. I do recommend you look at the literature of the time when ORMs and the "Object Relational Mismatch" became a hot topic and look at how ORMs worked and how people used them. Because you would be surprised to find that it's nothing like what you describe.

I didn't say you didn't want a query generator, or to have some way of mapping things automatically to native types so you are not effectively dealing with native database types.

What you don't want, which is what object relational mapping means / was designed to solve, is to force your relational data into being represented as a graph of objects when you operate on that data within your application.

To finalize:

ORMs use query generation, but they are not the originators or the only source of query generators

ORMs often provide additional validation, but they are not the originators or the only source of validation

ORMs by their definition map your SQL data to your native types, but fundamentally they do it in a way which cannot be made performant at scale. You can map things to your native types in a way which is performant but this would definitionally not be an ORM
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-18 08:29:48+00:00
But we don't need to do anything. We don't need AI and so we don't need a push for it. If AI is just a "normal" technology that has some legitimate uses, it doesn't need a huge boost, it doesn't need any hype at all. It can just be slowly discovered and used by the people who have a legitimate use for it. Doing nothing is often a good move.
by squigz | 2025-10-18 08:30:21+00:00
Wouldn't identifying them via MAC address be very inaccurate, as you can't pinpoint them to a specific house very easily?

Would cameras like these emit any sort of IR light or anything that might be detected from a distance?

Object recognition would depend on them being very obvious from the outside - which Rings do appear to be (I've never seen one in person) but I imagine there will be less-obvious options soon enough, if there isn't already.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-10-18 08:30:55+00:00
>A huge limitation of LLMs is that they have no ability to dynamically engage with the world.

They can ask for input, they can choose URLs to access and interpret results in both situations. Whilst very limited, that is engagement.

Think about someone with physical impairments, like Hawking (the now dead theoretical physicist) had. You could have similar impairments from birth and still, I conjecture, be analytically one of the greatest minds of a generation.

If you were locked in a room {a non-Chinese room!}, with your physical needs met, but could speak with anyone around the World, and of course use the internet, whilst you'd have limits to your enjoyment of life I don't think you'd be limited in the capabilities of your mind. You'd have limited understanding of social aspects to life (and physical aspects - touch, pain), but perhaps no more than some of us already do.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-10-18 08:30:56+00:00
That's fair point - I can imagine someone plugging a digital out into analog in, not expecting the hell that's about to break. Probably it sounds like digital noise, not sure about levels.

But the advantage of reusing cabling that already exists in 100% of the venues, stages and churches cannot be overstated. It is literally a drop-in upgrade, boom, now a single cable carries 32 channels instead of 1.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-10-18 08:31:02+00:00
I strongly dislike a black background, which then assumes basically white text, as that makes everything seem like a goth game of dress up, ok if your site is suited to goth dress up otherwise irritating, and since very few sites are so suited as a general rule I strongly dislike it as said.

That said I don't have a particular problem so much with darker background colors as long as contrast can be maintained, but I still somewhat dislike White text so it may be that it can be difficult to find a color combination that is dark background and light text that will appeal to me.

I think I prefer light background, not necessarily white, and near black test.
by mikae1 | 2025-10-18 08:31:37+00:00
>> What should we use instead?

> AVIF, JpegXL, maybe even WebP (lossless mode).

Definitely not lossless AVIF. It is less efficient than lossless WebP. WebP is supported everywhere, but is not much more efficient than optimized lossless PNG. Lossless JPEG XL has the best lossless compression but can't be used for web without fallbacks.

So, for offline archival: JPEG XL.

For web use without fallbacks: lossless WebP.

For web use with lossless WebP fallback: JPEG XL.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-18 08:34:18+00:00
Simply not much demand. Not enough buyers of used cards want them. Dealers will bid in auctions to price point where they can make reasonable profit. I would expect something like say two thousand and then some percentage on auction price to make retail price.

They are doing it weekly. They know what sells at what price and how fast. So price discovery can work pretty well and mostly correct.

Now more questions can be asked why there is no demand? Is the initial price maybe too high? Or is there some other factors.
by tromp | 2025-10-18 08:34:38+00:00
For lambda calculus, the motto is "when everything is a function". The boolean true is the function λx.λy.x, while false is λx.λy.y. If b then x else y then simply becomes b x y. In a functional language like Haskell that is basically a typed lambda calculus with lots of syntactic sugar, we can replicate this with:

type MyBool a = a -> a -> a myTrue :: MyBool a myTrue = \x y -> x myFalse :: MyBool a myFalse = \x y -> y myIf :: MyBool a -> a -> a -> a myIf b myThen myElse = b myThen myElse main = print $ myIf myTrue "true" "false"