MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 07:48:41+00:00
The 'handel durch wandel' policy was always predicated on the fact that economic pressure would be a strong tool to force russia to abandon its policy of expansion. It did not work. I don't blame the politicians so much for trying as I do for not realizing way earlier that it clearly wasn't working. The revolving door to high positions in the russian oil industry should have been forbidden to them and obviously they should have known better. But hope springs eternal and I can see why they fell for it, even if I think it was dumb (and I already thought so at the time, but I'm more of a pessimist I guess).
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-06 07:48:52+00:00
There are a whole raft of other GPU companies out there (Broadcom, MediaTek, PowerVR, Samsung, Qualcomm, ...), but none of them interested in the classic PC gaming space.

And I'm not sure that space has been economical for a long time. Integrated GPUs have more-or-less reached a point where they can handle PC games (albeit not at the latest-and-greatest resolutions/frame-rates/ray-tracing/etc), and the market for multi-thousand-dollar dedicated GPUs just isn't very big
by D-Machine | 2025-10-06 07:49:36+00:00
Right, I kind of suspect we don't really disagree on anything too fundamental here re: the looping behaviour (or statistics, actually). E.g. when I said earlier:

>> "the algorithm probably is doing something like an equivalent of a random walk on the manifold, staying close to wherever 'seahorse emoji' landed, but never really converging, because the tokenization ensures that you can never really land back 'close enough' to the base position"

"converging" is deeply under-specified. Of course, we mean that a stop or <EOS> token of some kind is generated, and this happens when the generated sequence up to that stop token has some low enough score / loss. When I say "you can never really land back 'close enough' to the base position", this is really that the output tokenization is lossy enough that this threshold is never reached, since, when recursing, we keep getting weird output tokens contaminating the sequence, so that we don't get close enough to the original "seahorse emoji" embedding, and so prevent the score / loss from getting small enough. In your language, the model "cannot satisfy its condition of expressing something confidently".

The way you present your timelines, I think we basically actually are in agreement re: statistics. Yes, if you go back far enough, statistics did indeed guide model development and successes (and still does in some narrow cases). But, also yes, as soon as you get into "modern" neural nets that actually make huge progress on things like MNIST, CIFAR, and language modeling, yeah, we are way, way past statistical intuitions being necessary or superior to intuitions based on curve fitting and smoothing / gradient conditioning and the like.

For dating this shift, I was personally thinking to something like the Hinton dropout paper which I checked was around 2012 (my work has been more in computer vision), but, yeah, about 2008, as you say, also seems close enough if you consider NLP.

Really appreciate your comments here. EDIT: and yes, energy models are the bomb.
Show HN: Envirobly – Efficient App Hosting
by klevo | 2025-10-06 07:49:59+00:00
This is my, fully bootstrapped, take on an application hosting platform. I designed it primarily for myself, to meet the following goals:

* Utilize the best parts of the cloud, leave expensive value added services behind. * Host anywhere in the world, close to your users. * Batteries included: backups, logging, monitoring, auto-scaling, containerization, databases. * Simple and user friendly.

The journey was tough. It took me round about 3 years to get everything just right. This goes against the conventional wisdom of getting something simple out quick. With a hosting platform however, in my mind, reliability, stability and certain maturity are a must have from the start.

I definitely need to work on the presentation, it's barely covering the basics. But you have to start somewhere :-)

I'd love to hear some critique from the community. Thanks!
by wallmountedtv | 2025-10-06 07:50:37+00:00
In short, a hostile takeover forced by Shopify through Ruby Central.

It was sparked after Ruby Central chose to platform an extremist figure prominently for their last RailsConf against the wishes of the sponsors, losing them a lot of sponsorship money, as well as community support.

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-10-06 07:51:01+00:00
>We used the figure of 0.34 watt-hours that OpenAI’s Sam Altman stated in a blog post without supporting evidence. It’s worth noting that some researchers say the smartest models can consume over 20 Wh for a complex query. We derived the number of queries per day from OpenAI's usage statistics below.

I honestly have no clue how much trust to place in data from a blog post written by a guy trying to make people give him lots of money. My gut is to question every word that comes out of his mouth but I'm maybe pessimistic in that regard.

But besides that, the cost of this stuff isn't just the energy consumption of the computation itself; the equipment needs to be manufactured, raw materials need to be extracted and processed, supplies and manpower need to be shuffled around. Construction of associated infrastructure has it's own costs as well. what are we, as a society (as opposed to shareholders and executives) going to get in return and is it going to be enough to justify the costs, not just in terms of cash but also resources. To say nothing of the potential environmental impact of all this.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-10-06 07:51:02+00:00
I think what the parent means is we should be able to create syscall sandboxes within the same process (like a library not being able to do IO). Maybe I'm wrong but I think this could sort of be implemented with CHERI, by restricting syscalls to the official libc entry points (like OpenBSD) and requiring a capability pointer to access the functions.
by jagermo | 2025-10-06 07:51:22+00:00
Some good points, i have a few thoughts to add.

Norway: yes, they are doing fine (80% EV, btw, so it seems you can actually use EVs in colder weather... I think the nordics are actually way ahead of the rest of Europe when it comes to sustainable energy creation, with norway getting about 90% last year from Hydro - super impressive. https://lowcarbonpower.org/region/Norway

France: I think they might turn around, because their low prices are tied to massive subsidies (that are scheduled to end in part end of 2025). And, France has the weather and sun to be even more successfull. That would however mean a decentralization of the power grid and probably storage solutions (batteries, hydro or h2), something thats complicated and not sexy to sell to the public - one of the reasons Germany is so far behind. Our grid is stuck in the past and enough company lobby politicians to keep it that way.

US: it is probably less of a pricing issue and more a topic of resiliance and stabilizing the power grid. It looks like rolling blackouts in the US get more, especially during the summer months (where solar could directly be used for the AC). https://urbanclimate.gatech.edu/current-projects/blackout-tr...

I think it would especially make sense to run your AC on if you have a flexible plan - i remember so many stories of people suddenly having to pay thousands during peak times in summer.

California, Texas and most of the rust belt does have enough solar to easily get by, especially if you add a battery backup.
by walterbell | 2025-10-06 07:51:28+00:00
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/a-deep-dive-on-creepy-camera...

> uses a Raspberry Pi 5, a Halo AI board, and You Only Look Once (YOLO) recognition software to build a “computer vision system that’s much more accurate than anything on the market for law enforcement” for $250

https://github.com/bennjordan/ALPRovingGround

> A simple Python application to test adversarial noise attacks on license plate recognition systems (see my PlateShapez demo) and create an output dataset to train more effective attack models.. small, hardly-noticeable, random gaussian shapes to confuse AI license plate readers

"Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices" (250 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473698
by cout | 2025-10-06 07:51:50+00:00
SO wasn't even the first site with this phenomenon. IMO SO is way more cordial than some of the forums from the early 00s. And before that, many irc channels were known for being brutal to people coming for help. I was part of the problem there until I realized there was a problem and decided to change my approach, but it took years to unlearn what I had picked up from other channels ops.
by lmm | 2025-10-06 07:52:02+00:00
> Weird. I’ve done both at scale many times and NFS daemons have always been significantly less problematic (bar the brief period when NFSv4 was new, but I just fell back to NFSv3 for a brief period).

Might just be bad timing then, most of my experience with it was in that v3/v4 transition period. It was bad enough to make me swear off the whole thing.
by siroj | 2025-10-06 07:52:58+00:00
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by anthk | 2025-10-06 07:53:13+00:00
Common Lisp should have those too in the Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence programming book.

Code:

https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

Book

https://archive.org/details/github.com-norvig-paip-lisp_-_20...

As for the interpreter, SBCL works fine everywhere; if not, pick ECL and CCL.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-06 07:53:33+00:00
Well, given that way too many companies in the critical infrastructure sector don't give a fuck about how to keep their systems up and we have been facing a hybrid war from Russia for the last few years that is expected to escalate in a full on NATO hot war in a few years, yes it absolutely does make sense for the government to force such companies to be resilient against Russians.

Just because wherever country you are at doesn't have to prepare for a hot war with Russia doesn't mean we don't have to. When the Russians come in and attack, hell even if they "just" attack Poland with tanks and the rest of us with cyber warfare, the last thing we need is power plants, telco infra, traffic infrastructure or hospitals going out of service because their core systems got hit by ransomware.
by indolering | 2025-10-06 07:53:39+00:00
That's going away. We are seeing reduced deprecations of crypto algorithms over time AFAICT. The mathematical foundations are becoming better understood and the implementations' assurance levels are improving too. I think we are going up the bathtub curb here.

The value of said data diminishes with time too. You can totally do an off-site cloud backup with mitigation fallbacks should another country become unfriendly. Hell, shard them such that you need n-of-m backups to reconstruct and host each node in a different jurisdiction.

Not that South Korea couldn't have Samsung's Joyent acquisition handle it.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-10-06 07:53:49+00:00
I would have thought that the cause is that it statistically has been trained that something like seahorse emoji should exist, so it does the tokens to say "Yes it exists, ..." but when it gets to outputting the token, the emoji does not exist, but it must output something and it outputs statistically closest match. Then the next token that is output has the context of it being wrong and it will go into this loop.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-06 07:54:18+00:00
You are right, but it's still a manual step I have to remind myself how to perform every time I upgrade. Thankfully the OpenBSD docs remind me, otherwise I wouldn't remember:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade77.html

https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/databases/postg...
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-06 07:54:25+00:00
Wow that is pretty good, lines up pretty nicely with the approx monetary break even as well. Impressive!

Wonder if there is anything that can be done to lengthen the life of the panel as much as possible. I've read elsewhere that solar panels have a theoretical lifespan of 25 years with the panels slowly degrading and not failing all at once. I dont know if these specific panels are different but I wonder if the panels are kept clean or something if that would maximize the lifespan?
by boerseth | 2025-10-06 07:54:44+00:00
I swear this is how I've gotten good at most of my hobbies. Playing guitar for 20 years has gotten me to a great level for a hobbyist, but not at all because of any virtues like discipline, self control, or routine.

Rather, every day whenever other more important chores or duties loomed, I'd notice one of my guitars laying around, in my couch or my bed or leaning next to my desk. And most times, I'd give in. There's always a new skill, technique, lick, or song that I'm working on, or something I've recently mastered that gives me joy to play.

If anything I think discipline would have hurt my guitar skills over the years.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-06 07:56:57+00:00
It makes sense for two reasons: firstly there's limited economies of scale in solar panels: they more or less make the same amount of energy per unit area and per dollar regardless of the size of the installation (rooftop is usually more expensive for installation but these systems have near zero installation cost). Secondly, because the generation is local you're not paying for any margin, co-ordination costs, or transmission costs. This secondary effect is already enough to offset the increased cost of rooftop installation in many cases.

(And maybe you can consider this a market failure, in that it doesn't fit some naïve idea of an efficient market, but you're always going to be paying for someone to make and take on the risk of the big, centralised version of things)
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 07:58:06+00:00
> It is important that the US have strong auto companies. Same is true for Germany, France, Japan, S. Korea, etc.

I agree in principle but I can’t fail to notice what is to me the obvious parallel with the subprime crisis.

We, as the general public via the state, are once again saving companies which badly failed according to the market due to their shortsightedness and inability to properly invest. It shows that the current system, which its proponents - generally profiting tremendously from it - like to frame as meritocratic, is a charade. It exists as long as the same wins and suddenly stops to apply when they don’t.

It’s hard for me to support intervention to save some companies while not doing anything to curb the rising inequalities and the overall lack of contribution of the richest. I think people are not blind to that and it partially explains while extreme political parties are on the rise.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-10-06 07:58:11+00:00
the guitar market is very conservative , as can be seen by the fact that the design itself was pretty divisive even if a lot of their innovations have stuck around.

I always though the Fly looked awful but I played one once and it was amazing. If they could've just done that but made it look less like a piece of modern art from Patrick Bateman's apartment, I would've definitely been more interested
by b112 | 2025-10-06 07:58:37+00:00
Saying "It's not available to not citizens" is wildly and massively different than "It's more work for non-citizens". It's literally a lie and dishonest.

And given you've already said things that are not true, I'm highly skeptical that there are not other means to handle this. I bet there are ways to access authenticao.gov without being a citizen. I bet there are ways that you don't have to go 200km. You can probably send the forms by snail-mail, by post or courier. I bet you're just leaving things out again, or haven't researched properly, as you've shown this to be the case with prior comments.

In terms of what Amazon is subject to, you can get a court judgement in one jurisdiction, and have it enforced in another. You're in the EU too, and I would be astonished to discover this isn't super-easy there. And legislation likely enhances cross-border cases like this. And if companies ship into another country, they can be blocked until recourse happens.

Point is, you're just (again) saying "Oh well!" without really knowing. You're just saying that's the case, because you're presuming that's the case. You don't know. you just say it is so.

Chargebacks are a part of online life. They are common. I've never, ever heard of a bank ever being hostile over them. The very premise is weird and absurd. It's just a part of banking, nothing unusual, nothing surprising, and a process we all have to go through from time to time.
by laserlight | 2025-10-06 07:58:51+00:00
> Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.

Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.

I don't think there's anything that can't be attributed to stupidity, so the statement is pointless. Besides, it doesn't really matter naming an action stupidity, when the consequences are indistinguishable from that of malice.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-06 07:59:30+00:00
> The biggest problem with the above is that now the govt has even less visibility on planning their electricity needs and therefore cannot plan electric infrastructure better.

Only in the same way as allowing people to buy as many electric appliances as they want (or, indeed, have as many babies as they want) does.

In reality, estimating voluntary uptake of solar panels is almost certainly trivial. Energy producers already successfully model the variation in electricity demand throughout the day extremely accurately in order to optimise generation parameters, without everyone having to request government permission to turn on their kettle at 8:02 each morning.
by throw954387543 | 2025-10-06 08:00:35+00:00
I've used it, and am still using it, to generate lots of value in a very large org. Having a language where I can bring Go, Node, etc developers over and get relatively better performance without having to teach OOP and all the implicit conventions that are on the C# side is a bit like a cheat code. With modern .NET, its better than Java perf, with better GC, and having the ability to code generic Python/JS looking code whilst still having type checking (HM inference). There are C# libraries we do use but with standard templates for those few with patterns to interface to mostly F# layers you can get very far in a style of code more fitting of a higher more dynamic language. Ease of use vs perf, its kind of in the middle - and it has also benefited from C# features (e.g. spans recently)

Its not one feature with F# IMO, its little things that add up which generally is the reason it is hard to convince someone to use it. To the point when the developers (under my directive) had to write two products in C# they argued with me to switch back.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-06 08:00:47+00:00
> A big factor in the quick return (and maybe one reason for its popularity) is that Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world.

Part of that is because our method of pricing is different than it is in the rest of the world.

It doesn't matter if you got a 3x50A or 3x200A three phase service, only during construction (because a 3x200A uplink will obviously be a decent bit pricier), the monthly fee is the same and very low (I think ~15€ a month). All other costs are rolled into the per-kWh price, making it appear much more expensive than in other countries. On top of that we have a ridiculous tax load because large industry is exempt from a lot of things and consumers gotta pick up the slack.

In contrast, Italians for example pay fees based on capacity which means a home there will usually have 3x10A uplink, something greatly troubling EV adoption and moving off of natural gas [1].

Additionally, Germany is one pricing zone whereas ENTSO-E, the European Commission and the Northern German population would rather like to have two or three pricing zones, given that there is a serious lack of North->South transmission capacity, but our "beloved" Bavarian prime minister Söder plus his green counterpart in BaWü Kretschmann both try to prevent that as much as possible because it would send prices in the south skyrocketing [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1ksqrq1/t...

[2] https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/energiepoli...
by pyrale | 2025-10-06 08:01:46+00:00
> It also helps the grid by moving production closer to consumption.

On the side of the grid, balcony solar means grid maintenance is supported by less revenue (your utility bill pays for the grid, balcony solar expenses don't).

On the side of the producer, it means manageable production means are only amortized when balcony solar isn't producing (this isn't a small factor in a grid where electricity costs frequently reach zero). That increases the cost of electricity when the sun doesn't shine. Another aspect of this is that

These factors mean that balcony solar would be unprofitable if power was metered depending on real whole-system costs (e.g. market prices and/or a subscription for the grid). That it is profitable for some actors now just means that the cost system isn't aligned with the billing system. This isn't bad per se (people prefer to have predictable, stable energy costs), but can't be sustained in a system where this imbalance can be arbitraged.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 08:02:33+00:00
For EV, the situation is even more dire.

Western countries simply don’t have the supply chain required to compete with China. China is often by far the best supplier for a lot of components and the sole supplier able to provide some raw materials in large quantities.

Honestly, we are not far from reaching a point where using the old Chinese strategy might be our best bet: mandatory JVs with local companies if the Chinese companies want to access our markets.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-06 08:02:39+00:00
Ok. Here the equivalent of high school final exam also includes oral exams. But I don't see how written exams are problematic regarding AI-driven cheating. You only have pen and paper and depending on a subject a verified calculator or a provided dictionary. Also cheating with a paper is way easier and has higher odds of succeeding than trying to hide an electronic device.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-06 08:02:49+00:00
> It was sparked after Ruby Central chose to platform an extremist figure prominently for their last RailsConf

This is so incredibly one-sided that it misleads more than it informs.

The person they are talking about is DHH. Inviting the creator of Rails to speak at RailsConf – a conference for Rails – is not the outlandish behaviour this comment makes it sound like.
by hoodanidhi | 2025-10-06 08:02:51+00:00
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