MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pols45 | 2025-10-15 07:11:48+00:00
There is no coherent theory/philosophy of why we need the internet or a network that connects everything. Different people say different things. I feel that is why things are unraveling.

The network was built because engineers figured out how to build it (with out routers and switches bursting into flames handling all the traffic).

So the system was built and post facto people started coming up with stories and use cases for the system.

Once the stories and use cases start getting coherent, people start saying ok I like this feature or that, but I don't like everything else that comes with this system, can I get the features without all the other crap.

And the answer is yes. There is no technical reason you can't. So the "old internet" is probably destined to die.
by coldtea | 2025-10-15 07:12:05+00:00
>An important fact is that Americans also think that crime, and specifically violent crime, are on the rise. This is contrary to actual data

Is it contrary to actual data, or is crime that doesn't get to the point of homicide (so violent attacks, burglaries, shoplifting, petty crime, etc) conveniently under reported, and people have seen nothing come out of reporting it (if police ever comes to begin with) and has given up even trying to get anything done about it?
by buu700 | 2025-10-15 07:12:11+00:00
Personally, if I were going to publish something like this as a leader of a major AI company today, I would actually try very hard to put together a good faith proposal that I genuinely believed to be in the best interests of the public.

I can't speak to this particular proposal or the motivations behind it, but I think my approach is the smart play in the present circumstances. 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?

If the industry is successful and a particular player doesn't fall behind the competition, they're going to be making obscene amounts of money regardless. Better to have a happy and successful public that can't imagine life without you than a public in Great-Depression-like conditions that wants you dead and will only vote for politicians who campaign on banning your product.

As an aside, I'm not sold on the idea of taxes that specifically increase the cost of AI. I don't think it's wise to disincentivize AI usage or artificially inflate costs. (That would particularly hurt anyone with use cases that aren't connected to immediate profit.) If AI has the impact most of us would like it to have, the economy will become way more productive and the public will get its share of that through corporate taxes anyway. I'd rather just close tax loopholes and start laying the groundwork for a future system of distributing resources in a post-employment world.

My current preference is a guaranteed educational/training stipend for any unemployed adult who wants one, and changing the standard career advice for the next generation from "learn to code" to "learn to startup". Looking forward a decade from now, if employment as we know it is scarce, but the economy is flush with capital and automated labor is dirt cheap, it seems to me that self-employment will reemerge as the dominant career path — and anyone who can't raise funding for their business (or acquire grants for their research) will simply need to keep leveling up until they can. Maybe eventually we'll have the resources to transition to a full UBI, but in the meantime, we'd need a transitional system that could provide for the unemployed masses without incentivizing everyone else to suddenly quit jobs that were still necessary. Just my 2c.
by Xenoamorphous | 2025-10-15 07:12:33+00:00
I've had plenty of interest, passion and motivation during my career. But never, ever, directed at learning something like vim, even if it's going to make me more productive.

I'd rather learn almost any other of the myriad of topics related with software development that the quirks of an opinionated editor. I especially hate memorising shortcuts and commands.
by mrasong | 2025-10-15 07:12:39+00:00
Cool idea, but I’m skeptical. I just want a phone that works—calls, texts, banking apps, and a good camera. If this Librephone can’t run my usual apps or needs me to wait years for it to work with new phones, I’ll stick to my current one. Why not team up with projects that already exist instead of starting over? Hope it works out, but I won’t hold my breath.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-10-15 07:13:08+00:00
Calling it “SQLite-compatible” would be one thing. That’s not what they do. They describe it as “the evolution of SQLite”.

It’s absolutely inappropriate and appropriative.

They’ve been poor community members from the start when they publicized their one-sided spat with SQLite over their contribution policy.

The reality is that they are a VC-funded company focused on the “edge database” hypetrain that’s already dying out as it becomes clear that CAP theorem isn’t something you can just pretend doesn’t exist.

It’ll very likely be dead in a few years, but even if it’s not, a VC-funded project isn’t a replacement for SQLite. It would take incredibly unique advantages to shift literally the entire world away from SQLite.

It’s a new thing, not the next evolution of SQLite.
by ludicrousdispla | 2025-10-15 07:13:33+00:00
I think people read texts because they want to read them, and when they don't want to read the texts they are also not even interested in reading the summaries.

Why do I think this? ...in the early 2000's my employer had a company wide license for a document summarizer tool that was rather accurate and easy to use, but nobody ever used it.
by protocolture | 2025-10-15 07:14:51+00:00
>not protected against AI slop stuff.

Programmers are by and large not assholes adverse to sharing, which is why we have copyleft and stack overflow..

Coding is also a process, a process that you may need to go through many times. The creation and maintenance of expert systems

Artists tend to want to win it big once, never innovate, and use the government to force people to send them money.
by 2b3a51 | 2025-10-15 07:15:29+00:00
I'm looking at the bar chart 'causes of death in 2023' and seeing 7.8% classified as accidents.

In the UK the figure appears to be much lower if I have understood the ONS report correctly (link to spreadsheet top right).

I'm wondering at the disparity and where it comes from. Real or an artifact of definitions in use when certifying deaths?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...

(scroll down in the spreadsheet for the figures for all people in England and Wales, the first table is non-residents only)
by eloisant | 2025-10-15 07:15:43+00:00
Because for other workers the threat is much bigger. I'm not a painter, filmmaker or musician, but now I can make a picture, a short movie or a song. Yes it will be mediocre, but if I'm fine with mediocre I no longer need those professionals.

Programs on the other hand still need developers to make. Also, we've seen decades of tooling evolution that (1) made developers more productive (2) failed to replace developers.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-15 07:16:00+00:00
AWS connectivity is stupidly expensive in the outgoing direction, so that connectivity may or may not be worth much of anything. Connectivity is also a risk.

Overall glacier is only really suited for backups, and I don't need that much durability for a single backup. And even if durability is a big deal, I can get there cheaper. Especially using a realistic expected life cycle and not the warranty period.
by zerof1l | 2025-10-15 07:16:33+00:00
GrapheneOS user here. Every single banking and financial app I use works. Both European ones and non-European. Some require changing per-app settings, but nothing crazy. There's a good chance that your banking app will work.

https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
by mike_d | 2025-10-15 07:16:38+00:00
I understand it might seem confusing if you are not familiar with the requirements, but they are not trivial to bypass.

Cell phones operate in licensed radio spectrum, so they need to have proper testing and certification (https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfdevice). Any device not properly certified would be illegal to manufacture or import into the US.

Separately cellular networks require PTCRB certification of the devices to ensure they are interoperable with the network (https://www.ptcrb.com/). The FSF could in theory write custom firmware for baseband and wifi chips, but they would need to seek certification as this would be considered a substantial modification. It would likely require cooperation from the chip manufactures to provide samples with various testing/debugging harnesses enabled.

Qualcomm and the like would probably sue to stop the FSF on the basis that it could put their own device certifications into jeopardy.

That isn't even touching on non-transmitting components like GPUs or sensors where the actual functional logic may be split between hardware and software (your blob driver). Even by doing a clean room reimplementation, you risk infringing on software patents, and will have little flexibility to work around them since the hardware will expect things to be done a specific way.

You would think it would be ridiculous to assume the people working on this know nothing about the mobile space, yet their actions do bring that into question.
by aforwardslash | 2025-10-15 07:17:22+00:00
> Did people force React? Cloud infrastructure? Microservices? You get it.

Actually, yes; People forced React (instead of homegrown or different options) because its easier to hire to, than finding js/typescript gurus to build your own stuff.

People forced cloud infrastructure; even today, if your 10-customer startup isn't using cloud at some capacity and/or kubernetes, investors will frown on you; devops will look at you weird (what? Needing to understand inner workings of software products to properly configure them?)

Microservices? Check. 5 years ago, you wouldn't even be hired if you skipped microservices; everyone thinks they're gooogle, and many startups need to burn those aws credits; thats how you get a dozen-machine cluster to run a solution a proper dev would code in a week and could run on a laptop.
by TranquilMarmot | 2025-10-15 07:18:35+00:00
Supposedly Graphene is partnering with a major OEM (they say "one of the top 10") to get better hardware support. Even then they're still at the whim of Google, though - the most recent QPR1 update still has not been pushed to AOSP even after many weeks. Supposedly partnering with an OEM means they get these updates quicker but who knows.
by coldtea | 2025-10-15 07:19:03+00:00
>We can redefine this with more statistical language. The claim would then be "When the likelihood of a sample is low, the sample is likely correct." Which is nonsense.

Let's redefine it with this language:

"When statistics are used as PR, data gathering is a joke, state and police competence is cratering, and direct experience and observation tells you things are getting worse, things are getting worse".
by b112 | 2025-10-15 07:19:45+00:00
fsflover and I have somewhat agreed, self interest is definitely a way.

And to be truthful, why would you use a specific ... anything? A pen to a car, you're going to use, or buy, what's best for you.

Where fsflover and I disagree, is whether the average person cares about OSS. Or business. Or if they can even be made to care. As per above, we both agree that they can be made to care because of cost. And for a business, being able to fix OSS if needed, hack it, is also about cost in another way.

But caring about cost, isn't the same as caring about the ecosystem. Caring about cost is a "right now", immediate concern. Caring about the future of an ecosystem? That's "the future", and unimportant to many.

Let's look at it another way...

Can you make the average person care deeply about privacy? If they really cared, wouldn't they be screaming about tracking in their car? Well I guarantee you they could not. I tried, because every car I buy? I disable the antenna and ground it via a resistor, so it cannot phone home. I also ensure I can still use the rest of the system (such as bluetooth to my phone) before I buy.

And that means research. And over the last 20 years, that research on multiple car forums and reddit went like this:

* 20 years ago -> "Haha you're paranoid, what a moron"

* 10 years ago -> "What does it matter, and you have a phone, who cares! Idiot!"

* 5 years ago -> (Announcements that car manufacturers were selling speed/accel data to insurance companies, and people's insurance were being affected)

Instant "OMG" from everyone, and anger suddenly.

It's not like any of this was a surprise to privacy advocates. We've known about being tracked, and it affecting what you pay for things. We know about how tracking is used to bubble-you in the real world, in terms of news and information. We know of negatives like the above.

But unless it slaps someone in the face with money, or personal danger, they don't care.

The people and the car incident? The ones that 20 years ago, 10, 5 mocked and thought it silly? Hands down, they still don't care about privacy. Instead, they just want to make it illegal for car manufacturers to sell that data to insurance companies.

They care about that one case.

But they do care. Short-term.

Yet one thing I bet that fsflover and I agree upon, is that we have a hope with some developers. And the more developers that care, the more robust the ecosystem, and therefore, the more new devs entering this world for the first time?

May see what you've seen.

So I'd say, while it's great to talk about this to friends and family? Or to advocate in other ways? Getting DEVs on board, especially young ones, is probably the most powerful lever.
by ksec | 2025-10-15 07:19:58+00:00
I am guessing custom CPU doesn't mean custom CPU Core design but custom CPU package.

The Current ARM C1-Ultra or Cortex X930 / Cortex X6 as previously known is getting 3500 GB6 at 4.2Ghz. So ARM is now with 10% range of Apple's A18 Pro. I dont have the exact die size and cache size but I wouldn't be surprised if they are similar when ARM have similar cache reserve. Meaning the Pref aspect of Apple is not mostly gone.
by alganet | 2025-10-15 07:20:14+00:00
What I don't like about this take is that it implies that it could be that way. It implies the LLM could do the job of writing, leaving the programmer to just approve it.

It sounds anti-LLM, but it actually helps support the illusion that LLMs can do more than they actually can.

I don't think an LLM can write serious software on its own. If it could, there would be some extraordinary evidence, but all there is are some people spreading rumours. If you ask them for simple evidence of comparable performance (like a video), they shy away or answer vaguely.

The thing is not there yet, and I understand the optimism of some, but I also must emphasize that it's not looking great for LLM coding enthusiasts right now. There's no amount of proselitism that can make up for the lack of substance in their claims. Maybe they can trick investors and some kids, but that's not going to cut it in the long run.

Therefore, this is not a problem. I don't need to worry about it. If (or when) some evidence appears, I can then worry about it. This hasn't happened yet.
by wraptile | 2025-10-15 07:20:33+00:00
Btw this is low-key the reason why Cambodia almost went to war with Thailand recently. In particular what's interesting is that how quickly Cambodia repurposed scam center employees as internet trolls. They're onto a really powerful golden goose here that not only brings in 15B usd but also empowers the current dictatorship. But also it's a pit of doom that is destined to erupt anytime now.
by fsflover | 2025-10-15 07:21:01+00:00
Why are all commenters on HN ignoring the only smartphone running an FSF-endorsed [0] operating system, Librem 5, and only list everything else? I just can't get it.

Even the FSF themselves didn't mention it or provided any reasoning for choosing a Google-controlled operating system - despite recommending Librem 5 earlier [1]. What am I missing?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25504641

[1] https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-15 07:21:07+00:00
> In the same way that increased salt intake causes increased water retention, and thus increased weight, but this increased level of water weight goes away after a few days if you start consuming less salt, and there's no evidence of this causing long term harm.

We've already gone over data showing that when we summate data from RCTs and salt consumption we see reduced salt consumption leads to reduced cardiovascular disease events, so it's demonstrably not the case that there's no evidence of this causing long term harm.

Additionally we have strong evidence of a dose-response curve regarding blood pressure and atherosclerosis, so that additional 5mmHg is contributing to additional plaque burden. Even after you reduce your salt intake, that plaque is still going to be there, increasing your risk of a CVD event.

Additionally when we look at the results of INTERSALT, age-related increases in blood pressure only seemed to occur in populations consuming more than 2-3g salt per day, which suggests that in addition to acute rises in BP, higher salt consumption than this may also be responsible for much larger rises in the long term that are not reversed when salt consumption is dropped.

Taking that whole body of evidence in totality, I think it's hard to argue that the effects of salt on the risk of adverse health outcomes is akin to water weight.

> I could see where if one already had severe CVD, maybe eating more salt could be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and thus until they heal the CVD it could be wise to limit salt. But this would be no indication that the salt is the cause of the CVD or causes any long term chronic problem. And it is the long term chronic CVD that is by far the most important to address IMHO. If salt is not causing that, this whole discussion is largely misdirected energy.

Again, even small increases in BP over normal range (and even slightly below - we tend to see increases in risk once systolic BP rises about 110) is associated with increases in CVD, so the raised blood pressure is one of the forces driving that long term chronic CVD.

> We disagree here but that's a separate issue from salt so I'll leave it. :)

Well if you're open-minded about the topic but think refined oils are a health risk, you're the same as I was a few years ago. I ended up changing my view on the topic. If you think there's a health concern not addressed by https://uprootnutrition.com/blog/seedoils I'd be genuinely interested to know.

> And this is where I think salt has been scapegoated in a way that probably just distracts from the root problem as I describe above.

I think the evidence very strongly suggests that sodium consumption is one of the root problems driving chronic health issues in the West.
by xkbarkar | 2025-10-15 07:21:17+00:00
As a response to the AI negativity in the thread. Remember that this thing is in its infancy.

Current models are the embryos of what is to come.

Code quality of the current models is not replacing skilled software engineers, network or ops engineers.

Tomorrows models may well do that though.

Venting the frustrations of this is all very well but I sincerely hope those who wish to stay in the industry, learn to get ahead of AI and utilize and control it.

Set industry standards (now) and fight technically incompetent lawmakers before they steer us into disaster.

We have no idea what the effect of tomorrows LLMs is going to have, autonomous warfare is not that far away eg.

All while todays tech talent spends energy bickering on HN about the loss of being the code review King.

Everyone hated the code review royalty anyway. No one mourns them. Move on.
by zwnow | 2025-10-15 07:21:41+00:00
100k is a unreachable dream for me unless I found a business myself and actually succeed. Munich is expensive, I've seen some prices there. I live near Denmark though so Munich would not be a option in the first place. I could afford a house considering my savings rate and current appartment rent. Not a big one but it would be enough. Have no reason to buy one for myself though.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-15 07:22:06+00:00
Actually Python type checkers must be opinionated. Python doesn't define the semantics of type annotations so type checkers have to choose them.

They don't always choose the same options, so some Python code may type check in one type checker and not in another.

Yes this is a dumb situation but that's how it is. So Pyright has to make a choice here, and they chose the most sensible option.

You're free to disagree of course.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-15 07:22:58+00:00
> I linked the same bug you did in the comment that that's a reply to

Ah, my apologies. Not sure exactly how I managed to miss that.

That being said, I guess I might have read that bit of your comment different than you had in mind; I was thinking of whether the Rust devs were dismissing language design issues as compiler bugs, not what third parties (albeit one with an unusually relevant history in this case) may think.

> Rust's outward-facing marketing does not reflect this view.

As above, perhaps I interpret the phrase "outward-facing marketing" differently than you do. I typically associate that (and "marketing" in general, in this context) with more official channels, whether that's official posts or posts by active devs in an official capacity.
by nikanj | 2025-10-15 07:23:16+00:00
The average American adult travels more than 40 miles per day

https://www.replicahq.com/post/the-average-american-adult-tr...

In the UK, an average car travels 19 miles per day

https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/cheap-car-insurance/average-car...

Traffic accidents dominate the fatal accidents category
by whatevertrevor | 2025-10-15 07:23:41+00:00
I think what they meant is something along the lines of:

- In Math, there's often more than one logically distinct way of proving a theorem, and definitely many ways of writing the same proof, though the second applies more to handwritten/text proofs than say a proof in Lean.

- In programming, there's often multiple algorithms to solve a problem correctly (in the mathematical sense, optimality aside), and for the same algorithm there are many ways to implement it.

LLMs however are not performing any logical pass on their output, so they have no way of constraining correctness while being able to produce different outputs for the same question.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-15 07:24:03+00:00
No, it's not about capitalism and exploitation, hard work propaganda etc. You can work to the contract (e.g. strictly whats in your work contract and not "above and beyond") while still retaining the quality of the work. So reduce the quantity but not the quality. This is about a ton of bootcamp developers that were created in the last 10ish years, for which, unlike the rest of us, it is just a better paid job.
by defraudbah | 2025-10-15 07:24:16+00:00
went through it again, you are right, network access alone isn't enough. It's more about installing a third party app (like telegram desktop or modified version from the store if intervened by the government or any other 3d party)

but the protocol itself does not look reliable, since encoding 85% of messages is quite easy once you change your message padding a bit according to the paper unlike what's used in signal