MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piltdownman | 2025-10-29 16:29:26+00:00
My comments are entirely aside from the dialect vs. language argument as a miniscule minority care about Ulster Scots in NI as a language in its own right - comparative even to say Cant or Shelta - versus the usual Stormont tomfoolery like 'cash for ash' scandals.

Simply put, Ulster Scots prominence in legislation is merely a reflection of bad-faith political negotiations by Unionists to degrade the status of the Irish Language Act by proxy. Anyone on the ground knows it for the dog-whistle that it is, used simply to curry favour with a particularly sectarian unionist base in as a counter to the Irish Language provisions outlined and agreed to in the Good Friday Agreement.

And that's 'curry favour' - not 'curry my yoghurt' by the way. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29895593

This has more or less been the case ever since the forced Ulster plantations lead to the development of Ulster Scots as a defined community with resilient Protestant and unionist ties. It'd be far more credible if Fingal tried to secede from Dublin and the Republic tomorrow morning using Yola as a justification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yola_dialect

In short, the ILA and promotion of Gaeilge in the north is about trying to make some small reparation at a state level for a cultural genocide perpetrated by our Colonists, and to help re-establish the oldest written vernacular language in western Europe, dating back over 2,500 years.

The promotion of Ulster Scots however... well the Commissioner is literally called 'Commissioner for Ulster Scots and Ulster British Tradition'. This is after DUP members removed themselves from the equality and good relations group after basically fillibustering for 5 years of discussions on bi-lingual signs to force a stalemate.

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/dup-stor...
by cjbgkagh | 2025-10-29 16:29:43+00:00
I disagree in this context, LLMs raise the lower bound and diminish the relative advantage. Consider the introduction of firearms into feudal Japan, the lower bound is raised such that an untrained person has a much higher chance of prevailing against a Samurai than if both sides fought with swords. Sure the Samurai could afford better guns and spend more time training with them, but none of that would allow them to maintain the relative advantage they once had.
by mmmBacon | 2025-10-29 16:30:07+00:00
Visible will always be expensive because it’s very niche and low volume. So the techniques here are only practical economically for the large volumes of light sources required for communications. This won’t extend to the visible unless there’s a similarly large market.

The cheapest way I’d think to generate a visible frequency comb would be to frequency double the IR comb laser using a nonlinear crystal like BBO.

Also here the accuracy is relative and not absolute which is fine for communications. The absolute accuracy of the comb may not good enough for spectroscopy in the visible.
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-29 16:30:21+00:00
See also: Sludge / What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545082/sludge/)

A lot of what LLMs help with is useless processes and paperwork that exists solely and purposefully as an impediment, when regulating against something is unpopular or prohibited. There's no specific intelligence required for these tasks, just a familiarity with a small amount of information, buried deep in a large amount of irrelevant nonsense.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-29 16:30:23+00:00
> Well, this is just standard Aerospace grade software.

This is a groundside problem, and perhaps it is insane to have it exposed to the open internet but it's not on the aircraft. It needs to be exposed to some network because the intent is that fleet controllers (airlines, or in this case Navy) use it to reach out to their aircraft wherever they may be.

That said, it absolutely fits the quality I've come to expect from IT systems developed by aerospace and defense companies.
by beala | 2025-10-29 16:30:33+00:00
Scrolling through the comments reading about all the adblockers that folks recommend makes my head spin. Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? Looking through the app store I see so many that are clearly trying to impersonate the well known ones by using similar names. It sounds like uBlock Origin Lite is trusted by many, but watch out for Ublock and 1Block, which are also top App Store results. Going off memory, the the chrome store is even worse. The whole situation is extremely sketchy. This is not even to mention supply chain attacks which could hijack even honest projects.

Personally I’ve settled on blocking at the DNS level with unbound and a blocklist. It’s not perfect but it limits the blast radius.
by netsharc | 2025-10-29 16:30:36+00:00
Looks like the PDF is just to show what the messaging interface looks like, and what they've found as a publicly available screenshot is from the crash report involving that plane.

If they logged in, took a screenshot, and published that (even if lots of things are blurred), there's probably more attack surface for some three-letter-agency to bust down their doors and disappear them...
by PeterCorless | 2025-10-29 16:30:38+00:00
True. Redpanda does not use Zookeeper.

Yet to also be fair to the Kafka folks, Zookeeper is no longer default and hasn't been since April 2025 with the release of Apache Kafka 4.0:

"Kafka 4.0's completed transition to KRaft eliminates ZooKeeper (KIP-500), making clusters easier to operate at any scale."

Source: https://developer.confluent.io/newsletter/introducing-apache...
by integralid | 2025-10-29 16:30:40+00:00
A German person just said that it gives them nazi viber, nothing about English words that should be used.

Person above argues that the words are different therefore such connection can't be made which is just... wrong because they reply in a thread where someone literally said they made that connection.

In short, we're explicitly talking about what Europeans see (me too, I'm not German), not what Americans should do.
by blackhaj7 | 2025-10-29 16:30:46+00:00
I used to be really good at spotting it but my AI radar is getting less effective now. Often I don’t notice until late in an article which is very annoying.

There are some videos on Instagram that I didn’t notice were AI until my wife told me!

If I want AI content, I will go to an AI. The only good outcome is that I am spending way less time on social media because so much of it is now AI
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-29 16:31:23+00:00
If you replaced your M4 with an M5 you'd get more performance but the power usage will go up substantially.

OTOH, if you replaced your 7800X3D with Raptor Lake you'll get similar performance for less power.

That was the point I was trying to make: 2025 processors have flipped the script. x86 used to be the power hogs and apple M processors were efficient. In 2025, Apple chose to increase power to increase performance, Intel is the manufacturer with substantially increased efficiency in 2025.
by UltraSane | 2025-10-29 16:31:26+00:00
I'm not going to argue that AWS can be expensive but in my experience its biggest advantage is SPEED. In every company I worked for that ran their own data centers ever damn thing took FOREVER. new servers took months to buy and rack. any network change like a new VLAN took days to weeks. It was so annoying. But in AWS almost anything is just an API call and a few minutes at most from being enabled. It is so much more productive.
by ahel | 2025-10-29 16:31:40+00:00
Tell me more! I need to hear this! I'm fed up with being a critic. It feels like a trap I set myself into without realizing. I'm at the point where I can only enjoy coffee brew at home with expensive toys and I'm becoming miserable about it: Id prefer the freedom to have anything anywhere while being able to enjoy. Applies to coffee but also other things. So yeah, pls tell us more.
by avs733 | 2025-10-29 16:31:59+00:00
I would guess it limits their ability to be accused of anythign to pick a plane, flight, and time that meets at least three criteria:

1) no passengers on board - you can't be accussed of endangering passengers

2) long past - you can't be accused of anything that happened recently

3) the plan literally no longer exists - you can't be accussed of damaging a plane
by neuronflux | 2025-10-29 16:32:04+00:00
Much more sophisticated and reliable than Xfinity.

Good datacenters have redundant and physically separated power and communication from different providers.

Also, in case something catastrophic happens at one datacenter, the author mentions they are peered to another datacenter in a different country, as another layer of redundancy. Cloudflare handles their ingress, so such a catastrophic event wouldn't likely to be noticed by their customers.
by bayouborne | 2025-10-29 16:32:04+00:00
Expanding on your point, a while ago I read a great book on 747 development (by Joe Sutter, who was the lead engineer for the 747) and one surprising thing for me was that Boeing was very much into the supersonic race at the time. The SST project was Boeing's darling. As such it got the top-ranked technical talent assigned to the project, as well as the best tools, management oversight, etc. In contrast, the 747 dev teams got pretty much less of everything, including being dispersed over a large area of corporate buildings. Despite all of that, it still succeeded beyond anyone's expectations at the time.
by somethoughts | 2025-10-29 16:32:13+00:00
I feel like they should target commercial applications first before worrying about trying to get into people's homes.

It would seem like the ideal target for this would be say a hotel operator. A team of these could clean a large number of rooms on an unoccupied floor of a hotel at once. Even if this was tele-operated remotely, this seems like it could be particularly beneficial for hotels in remote locations where its harder to hire people locally.
by jpm_sd | 2025-10-29 16:32:15+00:00
Nothing about NXP? They are a pretty big player in this space, and mostly do a great job contributing upstream to the kernel, but I guess they don't have a hobby-level entry point readily available.

I've used NXP-based embedded Linux hardware from Toradex, Gateworks and EmbeddedTS in previous projects, lots of vendors out there.

https://www.toradex.com/

https://www.gateworks.com/

https://www.embeddedts.com/

https://variscite.com/

https://www.ibase.com.tw/en

https://www.phytec.com/

https://www.ezurio.com/
by normalaccess | 2025-10-29 16:32:33+00:00
I think all Grokipedia is doing is exposing Grok's internal LLM "facts" into a preloaded and formatted site. Modern LLMs already have all of wikipedia internalized and can act as a wiki so why not make it an explicit feature?

Once that is in place you can make Grok eat it's own tail by using Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Grok with Grokaiedia (that is now crowdsourced for updates).

This may offset the side effects of model collapse from AIs consuming their own synthetic outputs with enough humanity sprinkled into the mix.
by btilly | 2025-10-29 16:32:48+00:00
If you believe their attestations, they pretty much are. See, for example, https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/2SGAAXnsb1wKByIzkh.... Most of the money is in Treasuries, or markets like overnight repos that behave much like Treasuries. Most of the rest is in things like corporate bonds, which again generally move like cash. Only their claimed excess equity is in riskier investments, like Bitcoin.

If you doubt their attestation, it is more reasonable to doubt their claimed total assets before worrying about the breakdown of their investments.
by dfabulich | 2025-10-29 16:33:11+00:00
Visualizing large graphs is a "tarpit idea," one that initially seems appealing but never succeeds in practice.

Fundamentally, the problem is that visual aids can only really represent a few dozen things before they become as complicated as the thing you were trying to understand in the first place.

And when analyzing messy node diagrams, it’s not just the nodes we’re trying to visualize, but the lines connecting the nodes (the “edges”). We can only visualize a few dozen of those, and that typically means we can visualize only a handful of nodes at a time.

Visualization only works in trivial examples where you don’t need it; it fails in complex environments where you need it the most.
by SergeAx | 2025-10-29 16:33:37+00:00
Here's a handy recipe for your friend: go to a blind tasting. This way, they will probably find out that they really can't tell a $15 coffee from a $150, or a $500 machine from a $ 5,000 one.

Works like a charm with wine: I know a lot about it, can maintain a conversation for hours, but will never buy anything above $50/bottle except for a gift.
by ooloncoloophid | 2025-10-29 16:33:44+00:00
Beyond consumer-producer relationships, there are many instances where an individual is required to deal with a baroque interface, as I just did when starting to look after an ill parent and figure out what care they could get from the local and state governments; there are forms, definitions to get one's head around, high stakes (get it wrong and you could be breaking the law), and so on. An AI in this case was incredibly helpful, particularly when I was overloaded cognitively and emotionally. There is no particular incentive on the other end of the citizen-government relationship for the government to obfuscate things, but things are sometimes very complicated and provided in verbose language. For those interactions, for that asymmetry, an AI will be very useful.
by davisr | 2025-10-29 16:33:45+00:00
I charge for copies of free software I wrote, an AGPLv3+ desktop application, and earn about $2k MRR from it. Most people don't care about your choice of license, they just want software that conveniently solves their problem(s). If they want to share it, that's fine. They're giving it to people who wouldn't have bought it anyway. If those grantees ever want an official copy, with updates and support, they come back to me.

You see the same effect mirrored in illicit distribution of copyrighted works. Sharing movies increases box office revenue. Sharing albums increases music sales.

The people who get a copy for no charge weren't going to buy a copy in the first place. When you expose them to the product, some percent go on to become fans, advertising the work, and perhaps giving money to support it.

Read through my past comments from last year to find more info.
by gruez | 2025-10-29 16:33:54+00:00
>You seem a bit over-focused on the literal truth value of that "Israel is pure and undiluted..." statement.

>Vs. 99% of educated and rational people recognize that as a bombastic/emotive statement.

That's a cope. Words have meanings, and being able to make and walk back on misleading/false statements with "I was being bombastic/emotive and it wasn't meant to be taken literally" absolutely poisons any sort of attempt rational discourse. "Israel committed war crimes" becomes not a statement about whether Israel broke international laws but whether you support Israel or not, "fake news" becomes not a statement about whether the news story was conjured from thin air but whether you like the story, etc.
by kbolino | 2025-10-29 16:33:54+00:00
I have a laptop with USB-C ports which cannot charge from them at all. Instead, it has a DC barrel connector, and that is the only accepted charging source.

That same laptop, and a desktop PC I have, do not support USB-PD over USB-C, so only 5V/500mA trickle charging is supported. This isn't the charging direction I was thinking of originally, but since this seems to be the direction you're thinking of, it's worth mentioning.

Also, neither of these ports are Thunderbolt. I'm pretty sure they are USB 3.0 at least, which doesn't have terrible speed to be fair, but still is somewhat limiting at least as far as the laptop is concerned since it means there's no way to get PCIe speeds.

Granted, this is ~2019 era hardware, but nevertheless the USB-C ports are not nearly as useful as they could be.
by panick21 | 2025-10-29 16:34:27+00:00
This is what the OpenHW Foundaiton is for. Providing well verified cores for people who just need a core. They are based on the original Pulp Cores from the ETH Zürich and Unviersity of Bolongia. See:

https://openhwfoundation.org/

Or because its part of OpenTitan, Ibex sees a lot of development: https://github.com/lowRISC/ibex
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-10-29 16:34:28+00:00
> If it can't fit on one node, do you really need a distributed queue? (Alternative: good ol' load balancing and REST API's, maybe with async semantics and retry semantics)

That sounds distributed to me, even if it wires different tech together to make it happen. Is there something about load balancing REST requests to different DB nodes that is less complicated than Kafka?
by NDizzle | 2025-10-29 16:34:31+00:00
Yeah, I have non prod environments that don't use FD that are functioning. Routing through FD does not work. And a different app, nonprod doesn't use FD (and is working) but loads assets from the CDN (which is not working).

FD and CDN are global resources and are experiencing issues. Probably some other global resources as well.

Hate to say it, but DNS is looking like it's still the undisputed champ.
by jonahx | 2025-10-29 16:35:05+00:00
The one possible hope here is that since these things started as paid services, we know subscriptions are a viable and profitable model. So there's a market force to provide the product users actually want, which does not include ads.

If OpenAI or the other players are pushed toward expanding to ads because their valuation is too high, smaller players, or open source solutions, can fill the gap, providing untainted LLMs.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-29 16:35:11+00:00
> Are you a native English speaker?

Yes, I am. Born and raised in the US.

There are instances where the term is used in a positive sense, yes, but those are limited in scope. "Superhuman strength" rather than just "superhuman".

"Superhuman" on its own is a term that has long been tightly associated with a wide variety of horrible things. Eugenics, for example.
by throwaway-0001 | 2025-10-29 16:35:28+00:00
Profits can be a simple Ponzi scheme without a proper audit. That’s the simpler answer.

Any evidence that they actually own?

“ In its own attestation report for Q2 2025, Tether stated it holds about US$127 billion in U.S. Treasuries” this is the only source. And tbh anyone can “attest” it owns billions of whatever. Again, no audit because there is nothing there. They only attest through BDO Italia. And attestations are easily gamed. Usually worthless, but useful for usdt hodlers.

I wonder why they use bdo? See below their history.

About bdo:

In the UK, a former senior manager at BDO (in the UK member firm) was banned for 20 years for creating false audit documents and mis-using signatures.

In July 2025 the UK regulator Financial Reporting Council (FRC) flagged the BDO network as having audit quality “significantly short of expectations”. Only about half the audits reviewed were deemed satisfactory
by ivanmontillam | 2025-10-29 16:35:34+00:00
You're getting downvoted because that's not the point.

You are technically right, we still have access to these services via a web browser today. It doesn't mean we'll have it forever.

With the advent of AI browsers and AI agents, it's not hard to think of a future where LLM chat interfaces and mobile apps are the future, and web apps start getting disregarded as legacy and eventually, discontinued.

Try ordering some food via mobile application and then again via web app. You'll instantly feel the downgrade on the web app. Bugs, glitches, slow experience.

The desktop web is already the 2nd-class citizen for modern startups.
by luisml77 | 2025-10-29 16:35:35+00:00
This is the problem with this Hacker News platform. Who is downvoting me instead of discussing my points?

This platform has the EXACT same problem as Reddit. People can just silence you before you had a chance of discussion. What a waste of fucking time. Instead of improving our world models of reality by having discussions, you can just silence others because you disagree. Remove the fucking downvote button! Just remove it, jesus fucking christ. Who thought this button was a good fucking idea?

I'm nearly out of this garbage. The same way I left Reddit long ago. X is the only platform that allows free speech.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-29 16:35:54+00:00
It's funny how we see these threads every few months, and it's always the same thing (referring to the discussion below this comment as well).

Linux people (myself included) are utterly blind to the rough edges on Linux. Even something like Mint, which is probably the best starting place for someone coming from Windows, can have weird issues depending on your hardware.

On the other hand, Windows users are hilariously misinformed about the state of the Linux Desktop. To hear them talk you'd think we're still back in 1997.

All of that said, for anyone curious, it is 100% worth trying out. Linux has come a LONG way. Mint is great for general usage, Bazzite is a good choice for gaming. Unless you're playing competitive shooters it's basically a guarantee the games you want to play run on Linux. There will be some rough edges and stuff to get use to, but IMO it's worth a try at least.
by abixb | 2025-10-29 16:36:05+00:00
With LLMs, I'm viscerally aware that it's a bot generating output from its pre-trained/fine-tuned model weights with occasional RAG.

With reddit, folks go there expecting some semblance of genuine human interaction (reddit's #1 rule was "remember the human"). So, there's that expectation differential. Not ironic at all.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-29 16:36:20+00:00
Let's just say I've tested around this.

Copyright: Zero guardrails on anything related to third-party IP, which lets you do some funny things. (I'm including a picture/prompt of Super Mario, Mickey Mouse, and Bugs Bunny partying at a nightclub in the blog post)

Moderation: It has far fewer guardrails and any other Google AI product I've tried, and it is possible to prompt engineer some images that would definitely be considered NSFW by most people — more NSFW than actual NSFW image generators (a post-generation filter will catch most nudity, however). I have not had any rejections for more innocous queries that could be misinterpreted as being NSFW.
by projectazorian | 2025-10-29 16:36:28+00:00
I think the weird is still out there, but increasingly confined to meatspace. Burning Man? Very weird, especially the regional burns. Boutique music festivals have tons of weird. Go camping in the backcountry and you'll meet people who are at least eccentric.

Online there's plenty of weirdness still out there on obscure forums, Twitch streams, and Discords. Tumblr is still going, and Bluesky would have a lot more weirdness if it wasn't constantly consumed by woke purity spirals. (This is unfortunately a problem with IRL left-coded social spaces as well, left-libertarian seems to be the sweet spot.)

Unfortunately corporate America has taken over the vast majority of internet social spaces and that has made the weird much more difficult to find. This makes sense, back in the 90s there wasn't much weird on AOL (the FB of its day) - you had to go to Usenet, IRC, or BBSes. Later on Livejournal and Myspace.