MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Reason077 | 2025-10-12 01:02:24+00:00
> "no real mass produced passenger plane today can use that electricity for flight (thrust)"

Such aircraft do exist. For example, the Pipistrel Velis Electro trainer. And more recently, the Rhyxeon RX4E became the first electric aircraft to be type-certified for commercial passenger operations.

It's likely that we'll see many more electric fan aircraft in the coming years/decades, whether powered by batteries and/or hydrogen fuel cells, or hybrids with both conventional turbofan and electric propulsion in order to improve efficiency and environmental performance.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-12 01:03:54+00:00
Sounds like a technical reason. It's apparently 7 projects combined and the Biden administration let them file one enviromental impact assessment instead of 7 sepearate ones. That sounds banal to me, so maybe other people could explain why (if) it's important. It makes sense that Biden would cut a lot of red tape for something that's percieved to be good for the enviroment (a bit ironic in this case) but the Trump administration, who is skeptical about the claimed benefits of renewables are not so impressed. I hope some knowledgeable people can expand on it because some technical and economic analysis would be appreciated.

Just for the record i know Trump is corrupt, a felon, impeached etc etc. and it's pointless to attribute any decisions he or his minions make to reasons any normal person would describe as "rational" or anything other then serving his own interests. So please don't bother mentioning it again thank you. There, now i've cut the discussion thread by 75%.
by AnonymousPlanet | 2025-10-12 01:05:59+00:00
> [...] the cops can't keep up with robberies and theft, turn a blind eye to drugs and illegal immigrants, and don't even bother with murders and rapes in some places.

Not a boomer, so I don't have first hand experience, but I think you aptly described large US cities in the 70s. Ever watch Taxi Driver? The boomers are the ones who saw places go from 50s/60s petticoats to exactly what you described.
by andrecarini | 2025-10-12 01:06:32+00:00
Even if you could generate real-time 4K 120hz gameplay that reacts to a player's input and the hardware doesn't cost a fortune, you would still need to deal with all the shortcomings of LLMs: hallucinations, limited context/history, prompt injection, no real grasp of logic / space / whatever the game is about.

Maybe if there's a fundamental leap in AI. It's still undecided if larger datasets and larger models will make these problems go away.
by godelski | 2025-10-12 01:06:52+00:00
> It’s not hard to guess the problem: toggling the feature off and then on would trigger a rescan of every photo in the library.

That's would be a wild way to implement this feature.

I mean it's Microsoft so I wouldn't be surprised if it was done in the dumbest way possible but god damn this would be such a dumb way to implement this feature.
by N70Phone | 2025-10-12 01:07:24+00:00
> does work for Google and Meta

I will point out that this is contentious, both of these companies are subject to regulatory investigations around their monopolistic practices & the matter that they are pretty much the only companies for which this is profitable.

> Their model, today, is far more relevant than calling back to antiquated banner advertising models from 25 years ago

Hardly. It's fundamentally the same model; Content with an advertisement next to it. Whether that is a literal banner ad or a disguised search result, none of the formfactors are new.

For all the advances in ad-tech, CPMs are still the same old dogshit they were shortly after the dotcom bubble, looking better only because of inflation.

> you'll have to convince me that Google and Meta's model cannot work for OpenAI, which you have not adequately done.

That's the "orders and orders of magnitude more expensive" part. Neither Google Search nor Facebook are that profitable per single ad, they make it up in volume. LLMs are simply more expensive to operate than a search engine or a glorified web forum. Can OpenAI cut down their opex and amortized-cap costs down to less than the half-penny they'd extract with good CPMs? Probably not.

But there's a deeper layer. The "fund AI with ads" model paints a scenario in which OpenAI would have to overtake Google; They need the ad-tech monopoly to push up CPMs or you can cut that half-penny down an order of magnitude.

This is unlikely. To make ChatGPT work as a search engine requires all the infrastructure of a search engine. Ipso-facto they are always more expensive than a standalone search engine.

Yet at the same time, people only care about ChatGPT as search because Google Search is shit now. Were ChatGPT to ever become a serious threat to Google, Google can simply turn off the search-enshittifier for a bit and wipe out ChatGPT's marketshare, and push them into bankruptcy by drawing down CPMs below OpenAI's sustainability level.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-10-12 01:07:58+00:00
Got a Xperia Z1 in 2013. Sony stopped updating it at some point in 2014-2015, which is stupid, but the hardware was still like new (which is the great thing about Sony phones) so I rooted it and managed to install it. Can't remember if it was already named "LineageOS" or "CyanogenMod" at the time. However, it lasted with me until nov. 2020 when I dropped and the screen cracked, made it to be changed but the replacement was kinda bad so used it as an excuse to get a 1ii.

I did the same with this "new" phone, that is going to be 5 years with me - since also got that only-two-years-of-updates thing, threw LineageOS on it and it's going as new.

So as I said the last time I saw a post about it in here, thanks to LineageOS I can use a phone for way more than they are set out to be forgotten. It's a great project and it's really sad Google are making things harder for them for the sake of "security".
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-12 01:08:52+00:00
It makes me want to riot that we've allowed the presidents whole family to leverage their wealth on Bitcoin, its such an outrageous conflict of interest, literally with a few million up front you stand to become unbelievably wealthy by yanking the USD's reserve currency status.

Real monkeys paw action here tho because I always liked the idea of BTC as a viable alternate to USD, but, not like this.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-12 01:09:18+00:00
> The suffering that many people experience is profound. These people don’t have a more profound experience of joy than those whose lives are chill. And the happy lives of people who haven’t suffered are not better because the sufferers have felt worse.

Some people have great suffering. Some people have small suffering. But the suffering is the same, and the source is the same. You don’t need great suffering to understand suffering.

A lot of people who have everything they want still suffer, even though nothing is wrong in their life. That is the most interesting kind of suffering to me. But it almost seems like you think these things you’re totally independent or maybe I don’t understand your argument.

> “You should suffer because the next part may be even worse suffering” is such a fucked up argument.

It’s a logical argument. And it kept my brother alive who had no hope and wanted to kill himself, then he has Hope again and he didn’ think about killing himself.

I don’t know what he might’ve done if he read the original article. I might’ve not have had the 20 years with my brother that I did.
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-12 01:09:48+00:00
>Regardless of bail, IMO you are almost always better off staying in jail if at all possible and forcing the state to a speedy trial.

I'm guessing that you have the means to pay your bills for years before having to worry about losing your income and your home. Most folks don't.

If you're in jail, you can't work. If you don't go to work, you'll lose your job. If you lose your job and you're like most people in the US, within a few months, you can't pay your mortgage or rent, so you'll lose your home as well as any belongings in that home.

Which are the biggest reasons why high/no bail forces folks to accept plea deals. "Speedy Trial" laws generally don't even enter into it.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-12 01:14:06+00:00
Hi from Argentina! I usually write the post in English, but in some cases I write the original post in Spanish and use Google translate to get the English version and then edit it to fix the details. It may have some weird quirks caused by translating idioms, but it sounds more authentic.

(I'm not claiming your story is false, but people is very suspicious of AI style.)
by jMyles | 2025-10-12 01:15:09+00:00
At the risk of sounding knee-jerk libertarian (though there are worse ways to sound), it seems to me that top-down, big bloc regulation is a non-trivial piece of what has gotten into this mess.

The entrenchment via regulatory capture at the baseband level, with enormous state interplay with TSMC and Qualcomm (both economic and regulatory, both publicly known and classified), makes it impossible for a seriously independent actor to enter the market, exception _maybe_ an ubercapitalist like Musk or something.

I'm much more interested to see what happens when we achieve sufficient peace that industrial complexes are no longer the primary pillar of support for chip engineering and fabrication. I suspect that this will unlock the open development, up to the kernel and beyond, that we all hope for.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-12 01:15:46+00:00
I am saying it’s relevant because suffering is suffering. It has the same source so it does not matter if it’s a big suffering or a little suffering. Understanding suffering does not need a degree of suffering. It just needs suffering.

The man in the original article was not suffering at all yet he killed himself. What kind of suffering was that? It’s not that he was suffering. He didn’t wanna suffer at all. He didn’t want to suffer shame. This man knew so little about suffering that he took his own life rather than try to figure it out and the remaining years of his life.
by Namidairo | 2025-10-12 01:17:08+00:00
> that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere

It did a great deal more than that. It also allowed the toggling of VoNR, which apparently affected the fallback behavior of some people's services. (Ie. It would fall back to LTE and not roam back to 5G data unless nudged manually)

However for me, it would enable backup calls over a secondary sim card's data, which would allow text and calls overseas without the usual extortionate charges. Oddly enough, I believe that toggle is enabled for my carrier... but only on iOS.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-12 01:17:46+00:00
If the future is electric then it's also going to be Chinese. There is much less difference between electric cars then ICE.

But it's nice to see that old fashioned small minded politics isn't dead yet;

>>Car buyers can claim subsidies of up to £3,750 on purchases of brands including Nissan, Peugeot and Vauxhall.

>>But the scheme excludes Chinese-made vehicles due to the emissions produced in their manufacture.

>>BYD has criticised the decision and said it would damage the UK's car market in the long-term.

It looks like the way they are going to save the car industry in Europe and stopping it falling entirely into the hands of the Chinese is with.... tarrifs! (they're also quietly trying to work out how to extricate themselves from their blind rush towards electric, at least i hope they are.)
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-12 01:18:54+00:00
From what I can tell by reading the BLM and related documents, this is not canceling the solar farm. That misrepresents the situation.

The project was given preferential treatment by Biden, allowing them to skip environmental review process required for other energy projects on BLM land in Nevada. This is canceling the preferential treatment, forcing them to do the environmental review to the same standard as other energy projects in Nevada, with the costs implied.

Geothermal energy projects in Nevada have been buried in endless environmental reviews by Democrat administrations for decades. It smells a lot like patronage to selectively waive environmental review requirements for preferred energy projects. There may be an "own the libs" aspect to it but that isn't the story.

If the normal environmental review process doesn't serve a real purpose or makes these energy projects infeasibly expensive then we should be reducing and reforming the environmental review process, not letting administrations decide which energy projects are subject to it.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-12 01:19:24+00:00
> I'm guessing that you have the means to pay your bills for years before having to worry about losing your income and your home. Most folks don't.

That's a pretty big assumption that also happens to be wrong. I specifically said "if at all possible" because I'm well aware that plenty of people can't put everything on hold for 30-60 days and have to potentially start over after that's done.

If someone can in any way afford it, though, I would always recommend that approach. As soon as one is embroiled in the legal system its terrible no matter what the end result is. Either way the outcome is bad, if you can expedite the process you are better off.
by kibwen | 2025-10-12 01:19:55+00:00
It's one thing to wish that apps would put their data anywhere except dumping it in your home dir, but this is exactly why I hate the XDG spec. I want all data for a program--be it the configuration or the cache or the binary itself--to be in a single directory such that 1) "uninstalling" the program, completely and in isolation, is nothing more than just deleting that single directory, and 2) any program not doing arbitrary file I/O can entirely function while having access to only its installation directory, and nothing else on the filesystem.
by FridgeSeal | 2025-10-12 01:20:00+00:00
I’m not quite sure why you’re so negative about the storage architecture, the idea of having the storage controller unpack and write into memory itself with no cpu in the loop (after the initial request) is a really cool idea, and clearly pays off.

To my knowledge we haven’t really got a version of that in PC land. The closest is an nvidia-specific thing that lets the GPU read storage directly, but that’s still not the same.
by Aloisius | 2025-10-12 01:20:05+00:00
If there some reason why one wouldn't be able to ignore the copyright license of something not protected by copyright, I'd love to hear it.

The copyright office has been quite clear (rightly so imo) that AI output is not protected by copyright without substantial human creative expression in the final product and purely prompt-created works simply don't qualify.

Indeed, I expect people muddling their codebases with AI output are going to find themselves in an interesting position of having to prove how much code humans actually wrote to enforce copyright claims if their code ever gets leaked.
by majewsky | 2025-10-12 01:20:15+00:00
> I have to say I find the liquid animations fun now.

This might be the most harrowing review that you can give without realizing it. UI animations are supposed to get out of the way. If you can recognize them as "fun", the most likely interpretation is that they are forcing you to expend attention, which in this age is one of your most valuable resources.
by Atlas26 | 2025-10-12 01:22:56+00:00
esim is maybe my favorite mobile innovation ever. As someone who also travels a ton I could not stand dealing with a bunch of physical sims and would just end up not even bothering and relying on WiFi which made everything a massive pain. Now I have one esim provider that supports every country, takes all of 30 seconds to activate it for whatever country I’m traveling to.

Also, your original point is irrelevant anyway, because every single part of validating an esim also happens with a physical sim, there is zero difference in the process on the part of the carrier, from their perspective a sim is a sim, doesn’t matter (and some might not even be able to tell) if it’s a physical sim or an esim. No idea what you’re talking about with regards to IDs, never once had to provide an ID to use an esim abroad. Thats likely some local government regulation.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-12 01:24:12+00:00
I am old. I have friends in their 70s and I have friends that died of cancer and suicide and heart attacks. I had a father who died terribly of a rapid spreading cancer and a mother who lived with chronic pain and heart disease for 30 years. I have friends who like me live in poverty some of them suffer from it, others of us don’t.

If you lived in your 80s and you have not figured out what life is about then that’s not a problem with life, that’s a problem with the person who did not figure out life.

This is the spiritual quest that I think is missing in the world right now. I’m not really being woo-woo here and I’m not talking about God or any other mythical being. I’m talking about the amazing thing that it is to be alive. Being alive is not just about happiness, but you can be joyous experiencing both happiness and suffering. Our suffering will end, and our happiness will end.

Acceptance of the things you can’t change is the key here. I am no stoic that’s for sure. If you’re too hot, move into the shade. But if I have no shade and I’m suffering the heat, how much more happy am I going to be when I finally reach shade!

It’s my friends who went through the deepest suffering that are the most happy and joyous. It’s these people who teach us about life, Not the people who kill themselves because they’re afraid of looking like an old man.
by janice1999 | 2025-10-12 01:24:27+00:00
You can't blame the EU for Google pulling developer support for devices or holding back security patches.

There are pros and cons to "big bloc regulation". You can go and start a phone company since so many things are standarised but the main constraint will be who you source a modem from and the lack of choice will be because of patents (see Apple vs Qualcomm).
by pppoe | 2025-10-12 01:25:14+00:00
I find it absurd that, compared to the past, large companies now have more abundant stock prices and cash than ever before, yet nearly every AI Lab in these companies is facing greater pressure than ever, being asked to generate short-term profits. In the midst of AI's unprecedented boom, the research environment and atmosphere in the industry seem to have worsened compared to the past.
by TheFlyingFish | 2025-10-12 01:26:01+00:00
Reader mode is based on a whole slew of heuristics including tag names, class names, things like link-to-text-content ratio, and other stuff I can't recall. IIRC it considers semantic tag names a stronger signal than e.g. class names, so having <article> in your page isn't necessary but helps a lot.
by cakealert | 2025-10-12 01:26:54+00:00
That would be part of the cost benefit analysis. And you would be surprised how "trustworthy" these ransomware groups are. Probably because publishing the data is a hassle they would rather do without, and finding actual buyers for such data is hard (corporations don't tend to have black budgets).

No, whenever they decide not to pay it's because they made the decision to absorb the damage rather than pay criminals who may or not be sanctioned (and that fact may later emerge) creating additional liability. So you know that when they pay the damage would have been very great indeed. In this instance the damage is likely minor or more likely, off-sourced.

Nobody is not going to pay because that will be better for the collective to let the ransomware industry die. They may however choose to publicly state that as the reason.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-12 01:27:11+00:00
The project was given a waiver that allowed them to skip much of the endless environmental review process that makes energy projects so expensive in the US. This cancels that waiver.

The reasoning appears to be forcing politically-connected projects to be subject to the same environmental reviews as every other project, including other clean energy projects that are not politically connected. As a matter of principle I agree the rules should be uniformly applied.

If the environmental review process is that onerous, which it is, then we should reform the process for everyone rather than allow politically connected people buy waivers.
by aworks | 2025-10-12 01:28:30+00:00
I think Airbnb is very host-specific.

I was in an AirBnB two nights ago in Wisconsin. It was the second floor of a house with the hosts on the second floor. The shower was in an old claw-foot bathtub. Unfortunately, after I got in, the shower rod fell out of the roof and hit me in the head. Then the rest of the shower mechanism collapsed, spewing water onto the floor.

My first reaction was to figure out how to justify what happened. The host came out to see what happened. She was apologetic and wanted to sincerely make amends. First she offered $50 back. Then as I was leaving, she gave me her entire fee. I've been on the road for awhile and she was the most conscientious service persn I've interacted.

Tonight, I'm in a lesser known brand extended stay suites chain. It took 10 minutes for the clerk to make it to the lobby for my check-in. She gave her reason but it was focused on excusing herself rather than making my experience better. Then for the first time ever, I couldn't get the wifi password right, given what she had written. I want back to ask her and she didn't know and had to experiment. Meh.

In general, corporate AirBnb probably sucks. If the host also sucks, good luck. And a high ceiling but also low floor vs. mediocre hotel chains.

Still, I'm staying at the same chain tomorrow night. Airbnb was too expensive...
by godelski | 2025-10-12 01:28:37+00:00
> I Second avoiding Samsung.

I'll third this, as a Samsung owner who uses it as primarily a monitor. My "favorite" feature is that when I use an app like Netflix and then press the "Exit" button on the remote there's a 50% chance I just land back on my desktop and a 50% chance that the menu that covers the bottom third of the screen is open. It can also frequently not find the signal of the computer, maybe 1 in 50 times. Sometimes it'll connect in a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, sometimes after replugging the HDMI, and sometimes updating the screen by doing things like pressing buttons that would cause something to change (my computer neither hybernates nor goes to sleep). Not to mention that it frequently will ask me to update the terms of service (I cannot reject them, I can only select "remind me later" and it starts to get aggressive) and it will change some settings when it force updates on me.

Do not get a Samsung...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-12 01:28:38+00:00
> Unfortunately, instead of reading about how it actually worked, huge amounts of people just guessed incorrectly about how it worked

Folks did read. They guessed that known hashes would be stored on devices and images would be scanned against that. Was this a wrong guess?

> the conversation was dominated by uninformed outrage about things that weren’t happening.

The thing that wasn't happening yet was mission creep beyond the original targets. Because expanding-beyond-originally-stated-parameters is thing that happens with far reaching monitoring systems. Because it happens with the type of regularity that is typically limited to physics.

There were 2ndary concerns about how false positives would be handled. There were concerns about what the procedures were for any positive. Given Gov propensities to ruin lives now and ignore that harm (or craft a justification) later, the concerns seem valid.

That's what I recall the concerned voices were on about. To me, they didn't seem outraged.