MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by y0eswddl | 2025-10-22 08:54:48+00:00
...have you seen the funding numbers for AI startups versus non-AI? it's not even remotely close rn...

A major problem of the way we have built our society in a way such that the wrong people end up with the most power and authority.

the majority of engineers across the industry feel the same way we do and yet there's little most of us can do unless we all decide to do something together :/
by Laremere | 2025-10-22 08:55:33+00:00
Payload capacities to trans-lunar injection (source wikipedia):

SLS Block 1: >27,000 kg (59,500 lb)

SLS Block 1B: 42,000 kg (92,500 lb)

SlS Block 2: >46,000 kg (101,400 lb)

Vulcan Centaur: 12,100 kg (26,700 lb)

New Glenn: 7,000 kg (15,000 lb)

Orion crew module by itself weighs 10,400 kg (22,900 lb), the service module is 15,461 kg (34,085 lb).

Orion is a heavy spacecraft. SLS, like or not (I don't), it has a lot of lift. Unless you're sticking an Orion inside of a Starship (lol), Orion basically dies with SLS.
by pmontra | 2025-10-22 08:55:35+00:00
It's like the Olympics, you have to win the basketball gold medal every 4 years or accept that somebody else is better than you at that game. Every medal can be the last one forever. Sports are sports, not being good at other matters can have substantial consequences. Maybe landing on the moon is not one of them but the degree of technology and organization that it requires is certainly a proxy of the general standing of a country.
by sjw987 | 2025-10-22 08:55:38+00:00
I guessed before I got to the article this would be eightsleep, the smart mattress being shilled by half of the podcast / influencer community, alongside LMNT drink and Athletic Greens powder.

All overpriced tat that is surplus to requirement. You don't need thousands of pounds of "smart mattress" to sleep. You need to stop staring at last nights REM/deep/light sleep split on your blue light emitting phone an hour before bed, do something relaxing, maybe take a warm shower an hour before bed, cool your sleeping room and slow your breathing as you lay down. Saved you ... £3000, and presumably some subscription.

For the other two, eat healthier in general, and more green vegetables, respectively.

I guess the mattress goes hand-in-hand with the current sleep tracking trend. Your Garmin, Oura, Whoop or Apple Watch cannot give you good analysis of your sleep based purely off of your heartrate. There is little to no backing for this one metric to prove a sleep score, or readiness score, and by paying attention to these laughably inaccurate scores you just placebo yourself into feeling worse (or better, but usually worse) about last nights sleep.
by yard2010 | 2025-10-22 08:55:39+00:00
I'm not into politics and I'm far from an expert but this has more to it. Netanyahu doesn't just wait until he loses his grip on the rein, he's making the changes to the system (i.e ruin the whole country for everyone) so he won't count as a criminal when this is all over.

No offense but the french people should thank god their criminal in control didn't go all the way through turning the country into a shit show in the process.

As I said before I believe we live in a global time in which countries must embrace the rule of law systematically in order to survive as democracies. Otherwise you just get a kleptocracy with extra steps, just like in the US, some of Europe and Russia.
by broken-kebab | 2025-10-22 08:55:57+00:00
>Porn (visual and written erotic impression) has been a normal part of the human experience for thousands of years.

You need to stretch 'porn', 'thousands if years', and certainly 'normal' definitions really hard to believe it. Even my granddad's (not thousands of years ago) exposure to porn was a one-time event when he served in army. My nephew's exposure is everyday. Which he realized to be an addiction at one point way stronger than nicotine.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-22 08:56:00+00:00
Looking at the change to the README last week[1], it looks like MinIO went from "MinIO has no planned or scheduled releases for this repository" and " While a new release may be cut at any time, there is no timeline for when a subsequent release may occur." to "The MinIO community edition is now distributed as source code only".

Based on promises alone, I think that means they un-dropped the open source project but still only distribute the binaries to their customers.

[1]: https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/9e49d5e7a648f00e26f224...
by lelanthran | 2025-10-22 08:56:52+00:00
> It's fun the first time, but becomes an annoying faff when it has to be repeated constantly.

I have to ask - do scripts not work for you?

When I had to do this back in 2005 it was automated with 3 main steps:

1. A preseed (IIRC) debian installation disc (all the packages I needed where installed at install time), and

2. Which included a first-boot bash script that retrieved pre-compiled binaries from our internal ftp site, and

3. A final script that applied changes to the default config files and ran a small test to ensure everything started.

Zero human interaction after powering a machine on with the disc in the drive.

These days I would do it even better (system-d configs, Nix perhaps, text files (such as systemd units) can be retrieved automagically after boot, etc).
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-22 08:56:58+00:00
> Running out of memory kills performance. It is better to kill the VM and restart it so that any active VM remains low latency.

Right, you seem to be not understanding what I'm getting at.

Memory exhaustion is bad, regardless of swap or not.

Swap gets you a better performing machine because you can swap out shit to disk and use that ram for vfs cache.

the whole "low latency" and "I want my VM to die quicker" is tacitly saying that you haven't right sized your instances, your programme is shit, and you don't have decent monitoring.

Like if you're hovering on 90% ram used, then your machine is too small, unless you have decent bounds/cgroups to enforce memory limits.
by _ache_ | 2025-10-22 08:58:59+00:00
I hesitated to call it a nickname, as the name is "Paris-La Santé".

But got covered by Wikipédia "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_de_la_Sant%C3%A9", so I did called it a nickname too.

I'm pretty sure it can be called a "Métonymie de lieu" but I just didn't want to insist about that, it feels a little pedantic.
Show HN: Free Transactional Email Plans – Live, Scraped Limits
by guilamu | 2025-10-22 08:59:27+00:00
Working for a non-profit, I need to use as many free services as possible. Emails are part of it. Free tiers often change, hence this small tool.

I built it with Claude 4.5 (approximately 10 hours of work) with barely any coding experience. It generates daily a lightweight comparison of transactional email providers that only lists services with a renewable free tier, showing daily/monthly limits from live scrapes and clearly marking static fallbacks.

What do you think? Did I miss any providers that meet the "renewable free tier" criteria?
by silcoon | 2025-10-22 09:00:05+00:00
What about Silvio Berlusconi? The Italian “premier”, multiple times prime minister, founder of multiple parties and leader of the right.

Owner of Milan FC and involved in constructing large parts of Milan city. Multiple people in his parties were condemned for corruption, the co-founder of his main party “Forza Italia” called Marcello Dell’Utri went in jail for concussion with Mafia. Berlusconi had a mafia boss - Vittorio Mangano - living permanently in his mansion near Milan. Owner of large construction companies, movie companies, a large bank, publishing companies, multiple newspapers, a lot of investments and three of the main TVs in Italy, and never went in jail a single day. He was able to create laws ad personam, like that the tree most important political positions in the country got immunity from law persecution, and he also was able to shorten the limitation period for crimes, in order to avoid charges.

He got sentenced or prosecuted for: fiscal fraud for his Mediaset TVs, underage prostitution, prostitution racket (some of the girls were appearing in TVs and got elected as politicians to get $$$ government pensions), mafia murders ‘92/93 (where Falcone e Borsellino died, the two judges that brought to international attention the danger of Italian Mafia), multiple accounting frauds, criminal appropriations, and corruption. He had few personal lawyers which the main one of them, Niccolò Ghedini, got elected in parliament.

When I read about Sarkozy or Trump, I think they’re just bad clones of Berlusconi. They read his manual. Congratulations to France to take politics and corruption more seriously then Italians.

P.S. Berlusconi was best friend with Putin and Gheddafi.
by findalltogether | 2025-10-22 09:00:06+00:00
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by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-22 09:00:45+00:00
> You know the U.S. has operational military bases on Greenland soil and Denmark was a founding member of NATO and remains an active member, right?

Bases as in multiple? Didn't they shut down all but one?

> was never a threat. It was an offer

Is this a joke? The president has literally said they're not ruling out military force to annex Greenland, in what world isn't that a threat? Especially when said to a military partner no less.

When the US purchased Lousiana from the French, did the bid also come with a "if you don't agree, we might take it by force" addendum?
by cutemonster | 2025-10-22 09:01:47+00:00
Lots of READMEs? Might make total sense, if lines of code added, is a metrics the managers look at.

Can't be any compilation errors in a README, no need to worry about bugs. And if they're long and boring enough, no one will ever read them.

AI generated READMEs = free metrics bonus points, for the performance reviews :-)
by sgt | 2025-10-22 09:01:59+00:00
You're too focused on human lifespans. If you disregard short lifespans, then intergalactic journeys well below light speed (think 0.1c, 0.2c) is perfectly feasible for such a civilization. Humanity will get there too, with post-biology.

That doesn't necessarily mean we become machines, but we will have machines augment us.
by mingtianzhang | 2025-10-22 09:02:52+00:00
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by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-22 09:03:42+00:00
> There was an illusion you could trust certain countries, political institutions and, for some bizarre reason, certain billionaires-cum-oligarchs.

Granted you live in a neat place, those two first ones are still reasonable to trust in your day-to-day life, and in those same places the latter was never worshiped on the same level that happened in the US.
by jychang | 2025-10-22 09:04:20+00:00
That's a terrible counterargument for aliens having moral systems incompatible with humans... because it applies to the existence of aliens as well!

You might as well as argue "we have no idea if aliens exist, being able to imagine aliens does not mean it's actually possible there are aliens", and you'd be technically right... right until the day we meet aliens.

Your line of thought is tantamount to "one should just close your eyes and cover your ears" towards the possibilities in this universe.

Note, I am not a conspiracy theorist and do not believe aliens have visited earth and abducted people or something stupid. But I find it extremely stupid to assume aliens would have familiar moral and ethical systems compared to humans, considering how extremely different human beings already are, and at least humans are all mostly similar! This is similar to european explorers being confused at matriarchal family systems when they meet some random tribe. If some humans cannot even wrap their head around matriarchy, how naive would it be to assume that the average human could be comfortable with alien ethics?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-22 09:05:09+00:00
Yes, it's a wrong-end-of-the-telescope kind of answer.

A human does simulates a Turing machine to do... something. The human is acting mechanically. So what?

If there's any meaning, it exists outside the machine and the human simulating it.

You need another human to understand the results.

All Searle has done is distract everyone from whatever is going on inside that other human.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-22 09:05:20+00:00
Weren't those MacBooks relatively thin – the same as the OG retinas of 2012-2013?

A friend of mine has an Asus with some Nvidia GPU (3070? not sure), a 5th gen ryzen 9 and a 200+W power brick.

That thing is twice as thick as my 2013 MBP and the case is plastic. It also has more vents than my mbp, each of which has more surface area than all those on the mbp combined. I also suspect the fans are bigger.

He actually bought it to play games on it and never complained about performance dropping after a while. So I suppose it manages to move the 200 W of heat somehow.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-22 09:06:09+00:00
FWIW, KDE Connect lets you select what media to control when there are multiple options.

The broken WiFi probably has something to prevent broadcast from working. It's not uncommon for some enterprise setups as a trickle of broadcast traffic can really mess with WiFi efficiency. You can work around it by manually specifying the IP addresses of the devices you wish to connect if those are static-ish.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-22 09:06:22+00:00
Seems like he was arrested in the United States under US law for conspiracy to import drugs into the US. I can see why people in the Turks and Caicos Islands wouldn't really care about a guy being arrested for drug smuggling in a foreign country. I might well vote for a politician who spent years in a foreign country's prison for breaking that country's laws.
by mgw | 2025-10-22 09:06:51+00:00
Very interesting that you can switch on having website content summarized locally. I wonder which model they are using for that.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12574142-chatgpt-atlas-d...

# Enable on-device summaries: Users on macOS 26 have the option to have web content summarized on their device, so that web contents are not sent to our servers.
by OJFord | 2025-10-22 09:07:15+00:00
I didn't really get why I'd want to actually use it (vs. just a cool demo) either, until:

> means if you want to make changes to a third-party package, you don't have to take on the maintenance burden of forking, you can package and distribute just your changes.

That's a big win. I've seen and done my share of `# this file from github.com/blah with minor change X to L123` etc.
by sjw987 | 2025-10-22 09:07:39+00:00
I'm curious as to why this would have a heating element and why that would be the default.

I thought that a cool/cold bed was better for getting to sleep, since the body lowers its own temperature at night as part of it's natural circadian rhythm and because cooling helps produce melatonin.

And when you are asleep, cooling gives you a deeper sleep and can reduce insomnia. So instead of a £3000 mattress that heats up (and by default does so), you just need a thin duvet (or even just the cover in summer).
by lucasRW | 2025-10-22 09:07:46+00:00
No it's not. A majority of judges belong the the "Syndicat de la Magistrature", a communist-leaning organization (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicat_de_la_magistrature) which even participates (despite the supposed "independance" it should abide by) to the Communist Party's annual conference ("Fete de l'Huma"). COMMUNIST, not "socialist". Furthermore, many organizations and known figures of the french magistrature have regularly explained how they view there job as having a political mission, particularly, "avoiding prison", etc, etc... rather than enforcing the law.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-22 09:07:46+00:00
I think it gets to the heart of the matter quite succinctly, but the more I see discussions on this the more I think that there's two viewpoints on this which just don't seem to overlap. (as in, I feel like people feel like the Chinese room is either obviously true or obviously false and there's not really an argument or elaboration on it that will change their minds).
by sofixa | 2025-10-22 09:07:56+00:00
> corruption! It's illegal to use Starlink in Greenland, and Tusass holds a concessioned monopoly over “telecommunications services in, to and from Greenland” and the underlying infrastructure

Having a single infrastructure provider isn't corruption. It's making the best out of a natural monopoly. It could lead to corruption, but unless you have any proof that it has, you're simply wrong.
by Laremere | 2025-10-22 09:09:30+00:00
1. It still took nearly 7 years to after JFK's speech in the 60s.

2. The institutional knowledge of working directly on the Apollo program has largely been lost in the US, and certainly isn't present in China.

Those are the unimportant pieces. The real reason is:

3. The US was actively at war with Russia. While it was a cold war (except for the proxy wars), the Apollo program had a wartime budget (spent nearly half a trillion in today's dollars), and a wartime risk tolerance (Neil Armstrong thought they had a 10% chance of not making it back).
by lucasRW | 2025-10-22 09:09:55+00:00
As I said, the system is very efficient against Sarkozy who no doubt deserved it.

It is unfortunately way less efficient at jailing or expelling multi-reoffenders, who have entered the country illegally, then broken the law multiple times, been in front of judges 30, 40, sometimes 100 times, been officially notified that they have to leave France ("OQTF"), yet, are still free to roam around until they're 101st crime ends up in the news and everyone asks "how come the non-politicized judges let them out 100 times before?"
by Terr_ | 2025-10-22 09:10:01+00:00
> but it's a reasonable heuristic

I dunno, I feel like the base rate fallacy [0] could easily become a factor... Especially if we don't even have an idea what the false-positive or false-negative rates are yet, let alone true prevalence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
by notahacker | 2025-10-22 09:10:19+00:00
Rather than speculate that the Trump administration might have fallen out with Elon because Trump's former right hand man loudly and publicly repudiated one of their flagship policies (he had a point...) and insinuated Trump was a paedophile, we should instead conclude that the baseline effect shifted from Trump's bestie to persona non grata that week because he was the innocent victim of underlying pressure of uncoordinated campaign by shadowy anti-Elon entities which happened to kick in at that time. rrriight....

the idea that an uncoordinated group is spending more than $44b on defaming Elon and this is what made people go out and buy the "I bought this car before Elon went mad" and not any of the things he started doing and saying on his own very public platform is also too ridiculous for even a hardened Elon stan to contemplate, never mind someone trying to maintain a "balanced view" of his positive and negative qualities.
by masklinn | 2025-10-22 09:10:33+00:00
> Incorrect, with zram you swap ram to compressed ram.

That reads like what they said? You reserve part of the RAM as a swap device, and memory is swapped from resident RAM to the swap ramdisk, as long as there’s space on there. And AFAIK linux will not move pages between swap devices because it doesn’t understand them beyond priority.

Zswap actually seems strictly better in many cases (especially interactive computers / dev machines) as it can more flexibly grow / shrink, and can move pages between the compressed RAM cache and the disk swap.
by ajnin | 2025-10-22 09:10:35+00:00
All the cells in the solitary confinement wing of the prison where he's incarcerated (La Santé in the middle of Paris) are exactly the same. Due to safety considerations the inmates don't have common utilities like showers or dining area so they have everything in their cells where they remain most of the time. It's not preferential treatment, in fact it could be considered quite cruel to have almost no contact with others.
by cccbbbaaa | 2025-10-22 09:10:42+00:00
> It needs to be noted that it's not the norm in France either.

85% of prison sentences of more than two years also carry “exécution provisoire”: https://www.justice.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/migrations/p... (page 2). Sentences of more than 2 years are not the norm though.

> He will most likely ask the courts to review the execution of the sentence until the appeal in the next few days.

He already did.
by dxdm | 2025-10-22 09:11:29+00:00
> The offer to buy Greenland from Denmark was never a threat. It was an offer.

The highest ranking member of the US executive, in a publicly televised speech before Congress, said that "we're going to get Greenland one way or the other".

You can argue that's not a threat, but it would make you look silly IMO.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-text-of-...
by Tepix | 2025-10-22 09:12:12+00:00
It's an Open Source project - I don't understand what people are complaining about. Noone is entitled to receive free Docker images. I'm sure if there is enough demand, someone else who is trustworthy will step up and automate building them.

What I'd like to complain about instead is the pricing page on the Min.io webpage - it doesn't list any pricing. Looking at https://cloudian.com/blog/minios-ui-removal-leaves-organizat... it seems the prices are not cheap at all (minimum of $96,000 per year). Note that Cloudian is a competitor offering a closed-source product.
by darkamaul | 2025-10-22 09:12:16+00:00
Sarkozy was convicted for "association de malfaiteurs" (criminal conspiracy) related to allowing associates to meet with Libyan officials to discuss covert campaign financing for his 2007 election. Remarkably, while convicted of conspiracy, he was acquitted on the actual underlying charges.

The tribunal acknowledged no direct evidence linked Sarkozy to receiving or handling the funds and that the disputed flows weren't established as having served his campaign. Yet the conviction rested on a "bundle of concordant indices" rather than established facts.

The irony: Sarkozy spent his political career advocating for tougher criminal laws and harsher punishments. The "association de malfaiteurs" law was reintroduced in 1986, and he championed its application throughout his tenure. Now he's imprisoned under the very provision he helped expand—convicted on evidence of intent to prepare a crime rather than proof of an actual crime, exactly the kind of broad prosecutorial power he once argued was necessary.

He got bitten by his own sword.