MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-10-06 04:24:07+00:00
I'd wager we would do both, but a limiting factor is need. A single giant ancient beast could provide literally thousands of pounds of meat. That's feeding a village for a very long time. And taking down one of these beasts, even with reasonably advanced technology would always entail major risk. Even now a days with advanced rifles/ammo, elephant poachers are sometimes killed by elephants. And finally it's not just killing it, but then processing/preserving the meat, and bringing it all home. That would have been a tremendous amount of work.

And nobody really knows how many humans were alive e.g. 10,000 years ago, other than - probably not many. There were almost certainly less than a million humans in the entirety of South America. The max population density there would have been 1 human per 18 square km. But of course in practice we would have huddled around water sources and in small settlements, greatly reducing our overall spread. So you could probably have traveled hundreds of kms in all directions before seeing a single human. That's just not a lot of people to completely eliminate a bunch of massive species throughout an entire continent.

By contrast these species all started disappearing just about the time when we were leaving an ice age. And these animals may have been overadapted not only to the cold, but the associated vegetation/prey and feeding patterns.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-06 04:24:31+00:00
Is that really correct? I have no idea how to compare one to the other but if I search for "how much money did China give BYD" the AI claims 3.7 billion. If I ask "how much money did the US government give Tesla" it has 3 different numbers. $4.9 billion, $11 billion, and $38 billion. Not sure how it's counting

Asking for other companies: Ford $9 billion, Chevy $11 billion

No idea if this is made up and no idea how to compare them but without knowing better it seems like both sides are subsidized
by Jotalea | 2025-10-06 04:24:32+00:00
I agree. this tool feels like an all-in-one swiss knife. granted, it is useful. But it goes directly against one of the UNIX core values which is "do one thing and do it well". as well, including too much functionality in one single package will eventually bloat it, and there are many examples of this happening (windows, systemd, etc.).
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-06 04:26:01+00:00
~1PB of data, with ingestion at a rate of 12GB per hour, is a tiny amount of data to manage and backup properly for a developed world government. This is silly. Volume clearly should not have been a hinderance.

Backup operations are often complex and difficult - but then again it's been worked on for decades and rigorous protocols exist which can and should be adopted.

"However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained" ... "the G-Drive’s structure did not allow for external backups."

Clearly [in]competence was the single factor here.

This is what happens when you come up with all kind of reasons to do something yourself, which you are not qualified to do, rather than simply paying a vendor to do it for you.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-06 04:26:09+00:00
It's easier to hide this in plain sight instead of being a secret. Take for example table top simulator, it has the ability to show where other people's cursors are so you can follow what other players are doing. If this streamed the mouse location at a high enough frequency, you now have the data needed being sent to everyone else in the same lobby. Synchronizing mouse cursors or player look vectors is a common feature and it may not be obvious that sensitive data is actually being streamed to the person doing the review.
by ggm | 2025-10-06 04:26:16+00:00
You can't rely on Chinese companies to make the tanks and rockets you intend aiming at China.

Car manufacturers serve many purposes. Aside from keeping the UAW membership onside, they are a strategic buttress for an emerging future war risk.

Australia maintained subsidies to Ford and GM for onshore production precisely because of this. And they stopped when a strategic realignment made successive governments decide the risk didn't justify the expense. A decision they may now be regretting.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-06 04:26:48+00:00
> the “this is bad, we’re outsourcing our thinking”

> Would I recall it all without my new crutch? Maybe not

This just seems like you’ve shifted your definition of “learning” to no longer include being able to remember things. Like “outsourcing your thinking isn’t bad if you simply expect less from your brain” isn’t a ringing endorsement for language models
by waterTanuki | 2025-10-06 04:27:50+00:00
> If you’re prepared to look at alternative programming languages to avoid the costs and risks of C/C++, SPARK offers an opportunity to go much further than Ada or Rust. SPARK, which is based on Ada, offers industrial-strength formal methods: an opportunity for you to prove mathematically that your software is safe and secure. This paradigm shift in software development methodology offers significant cost savings for high-integrity software.

Forgive me if I sound naive but I always found it a bit weird how something like this is touted as a strength of Ada, but never actually demonstrated in comparison with a heavily typed language like Rust. Regardless of the language, you cannot write some special program that guarantees an input will be valid if it comes from an external source or a human. It is simply impossible to prove this at compile time. What you can do in rust, and other languages, is check you're within boundaries and throw an exception if it's out of bounds.

Herein lies the issue: "You can't throw exceptions in this kind of software". True. So how do you prove it WONT go out of bounds at compile time, if the input isn't trusted? Rustacians get picked on a lot for spending more time on type-theory than actually writing working code, but from my perspective it looks worse in Ada, obsessing over proving something in a complete vacuum that can't possibly account for all possible invariants in the real world.
by gamblor956 | 2025-10-06 04:27:50+00:00
Contrasting opinion:

BYD made electric busses for US transit agencies. They were the worst buses that I have ever ridden. Today, no U.S. transit agency still uses BYD busses, because none of them managed a service live longer than about a year.

BYD vehicles seem really nice for the first few hours, until you start discovering all the corners they cut to make their price point.
by justinclift | 2025-10-06 04:29:11+00:00
Sure. Wrote that late at night when overly tired. There's nothing nefarious going on here.

I'm still not exactly sure of the correct terminology for the situation. I'd noticed two suspicious transactions on the credit card, rang up my bank about it, and we agreed they'd better generate a new credit card and kill the existing one.

I then contacted all of the places that I knew of to update them with the new credit card details. I missed Hetzner and (from rough memory) two others. Only Hetzner wasn't able to handle it correctly.
by sbinnee | 2025-10-06 04:29:29+00:00
What a sad news as a Korean to see a post about Korea at the top of HN during one of the largest Korean holiday.

I can share an anecdote how slow tech adoption is in Korea. It is not exactly about tech in public section but in private companies. I assume public section has slower adoption rate than private ones in general.

Just about a year ago I had a couple of projects with insurance companies. I won't name them but they are the largest ones whose headquarters you can find in the very center of Seoul. They often called me in because I was setting up on-premise servers for the projects. Not to mention that it was hard to understand their choices of database architecture to plug it into the server I was setting up, their data team seemed just incompetent, not knowing what they were doing.

The wildest thing I found was that most office workers seemed to be using windows 2000 to run their proprietary software. To be fair, I like software UIs with a lot of buttons and windows from that era. But alas, I didn't want to imagine myself connecting that legacy software to my then project service. It didn't go that far in the end.
by atmavatar | 2025-10-06 04:30:14+00:00
That could get rather awkward, given how many Bible passages directly contradict current Republican policy.

Example:

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. - Leviticus 19:33-34
by DirkH | 2025-10-06 04:32:33+00:00
The left is statistically more likely to publicly endorse political violence looking at data over the past few years. The right is more likely to actually commit political violence though looking over all data over decades and that still holds today.

Far-left versus Far-right Fatal Violence: An Empirical Assessment of the Prevalence of Ideologically Motivated Homicides in the United States

One side is all shout and no bite. The other is no shout and then eat your fucking face.

I'll take the idiots shouting but not actually killing if I had to pick. But I won't lie the choice still makes me feel dirty.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-06 04:32:58+00:00
please teach me how to do this, I have a webos lg tv which is literally not being used because my father used to watch youtube but then youtube almost stopped working on it and there are no more updates and I tried to root it but i couldn't and I just want to use it instead of it being a junk.

Any guide on helping me prevent some e-waste at my home. I would prefer to have complete linux access of my lgtv and use something like tiny core linux on my webos tv or something, is something like this possible or?
by nisten69 | 2025-10-06 04:36:09+00:00
This would be very cute if it was some 3rd world island country grasping at the straws to improve their quality of life...doing this.

But you're fucking Germany bro....where's your massproduced precision reactors and turbines everywhere..the planet needs work...what the f.. are you guys even doing..a rising standard of living means 10-100x more energy you know that right?

This whole attitude feels like clapping for a new garden tomato in the middle of a famine... go put some fucking tractors on the field lol but like seriously though.
by beders | 2025-10-06 04:36:24+00:00
> 60.7%

Why would anyone trust the output of an LLM, if it is barely better than guessing and much much worse than humans?

GPT-5 shows more impressive numbers, but for that particular task, the precision should be 100% - always. No matter how large the data set is or in which format. Why are we doing this?
by mg | 2025-10-06 04:36:37+00:00
Testing it across LLMs, you indeed get some interesting responses:

https://www.gnod.com/search/ai#q=Is+there+a+seahorse+emoji%3...

Mistral being among the funniest ones:

The correct seahorse emoji is: [draws a horse and a wheelchair] Wait, no—that’s a horse with a prosthetic leg!

Grok drew a frog for me and was convinced that it is a seahorse.
by dpark | 2025-10-06 04:36:56+00:00
This whole thread started because someone essentially said “gambling is bad” and someone else said “not all gambling is bad; how about X, Y, and Z?” My point here is that if you sit down and define what gambling is in a principled and consistent way, you probably have to conclude that some good things are actually gambling. And that’s cool, because we can also then discuss what kinds of things that “maybe look like gambling” are actually a net positive vs net negative based on their impact rather than some division of “gambling” vs “not gambling” that is fairly arbitrary and leads to bias in how we think of them. You can’t have that kind of conversation if the definition of gambling includes “and it’s bad” because it’s tautological.

In specific response to your reply, I understand what you’re going for but you’re stretching definitions to meet your goals. The Wikipedia page you cite states clearly that insurance is a common hedge. And in your definition of a bet you state that it is “irrelevant for your wellbeing” as if a boxer wagers on their own fight wouldn’t be betting or gambling.

Your discussion of insurance vs bets is reasonable and I get what you’re going for, but I think the distinction is not as clear as it might seem at first. “I don’t want this payout” feels like a meaningful distinction but that Wikipedia page rears its ugly head and points out Hawking’s what-if-black-holes-aren’t-real bet that he wanted to lose. I wanted the Seahawks to win today. If I had put $50 on the Buccaneers would that have been a bet? Insurance? A hedge?

Regardless, back to my point. Maybe there is some criteria that disambiguates all the “good Things that look like gambling but aren’t” from the “bad things that are clearly gambling” but I haven’t seen it yet. I think it’s all some level of gambling. If I roll through life without health insurance, I’m betting I don’t need it. If I buy the insurance I’m betting that at some point I will, or at least that the odds are good enough that I will that I should hedge.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-06 04:37:03+00:00
Lotteries and crowdfunding medical bills are similar. Predatory exploitation of magical thinking as substitutes for addressing causes and conditions that lead to desperation, deprivation, and hopeless circumstances.

Cryptocurrencies also partially fit this category being semi-pyramid schemes, but have intrinsic advantages to hide criminal activity and for tax evasion in addition to their privacy-protecting properties for legitimate transactions.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-06 04:37:36+00:00
> Current enterprise SSDs have something like a 10000 TBW rating

Running the numbers to verify: a read-write-mixed enterprise SSD will typically have 3 DWPD (drive writes per day), across it's 5 year warranty. At 2TB, that would be 10950 TBW, so that sort of checks out. If endurance was a concern, upgrading to a higher capacity would linearly increase the endurance. For example the Kioxia CD8P-V. https://americas.kioxia.com/en-us/business/ssd/data-center-s...

Finding it a bit hard to imagine build machines working that hard, but I could believe it!
by hangonhn | 2025-10-06 04:38:51+00:00
And the Tesla factory in Shanghai also gets Chinese subsidies.

The subsidies to Chinese EV companies isn't direct anymore. Most of it is in the form of tax refunds. The biggest "subsidy", though, is the incredible pipeline China has built to feed the industry. Their industrial policy has created an huge ecosystem capable of feeding batteries and components into their EV industry at a price point and scale that no other country can compete with. It's been an incredibly effective industrial policy.

I get what the OP means about the destruction of our auto industry but we can only hide behind that for so long. An ineffective and noncompetitive auto industry won't be able to scale up during a war either. I hope our industrial leaders and politicians are using tariffs and other trade barriers to the US car industry only as a temporary reprieve while we scale up our ecosystem too. Otherwise we run the risk of becoming one of those countries that keeps outdated domestic companies alive just to say we have those companies. Without export discipline and the ability to compete effectively on the global stage, domestic companies are just zombies kept alive by domestic subsidies. They won't be able to help us in the event of a war with a peer adversary.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-06 04:39:31+00:00
You’re not being creative enough, maybe because you haven’t run into bad people before. I have known of people who:

* Picked a “friend’s” lock when they weren’t home and looked around the house (I feel like they did more, but that’s all I know)

* Did various petty acts of vandalism to an ex (stealing outdoor plants and decor, throwing glass bottles into the yard, that sort of thing)

* Spray painted the car of someone that they didn’t like

* Smashed an ex’s windshield with a concrete block

And that’s just what I can think of from the top of my head. These days there’s also SWATting and other serious forms of harassment.

Location data isn’t required for this kind of harassment, but it definitely makes it easier to pull off. There are plenty of twisted people who get a kick out of hurting others, often due to petty reasons like jealousy or injured pride. And you may not know what they are capable of until you hear about what they’ve done, after the fact.

This is not to say that you shouldn’t trust anyone, but you should be judicious with your trust. If you had a safe containing $10 million in gold, you probably wouldn’t give the combination to every single one of your friends. Now maybe your 24/7 location data isn’t that valuable, but it’s not worthless. You should consider valuing it more highly.
by D-Machine | 2025-10-06 04:40:19+00:00
ChatGPT Extended Thinking nails it very quickly: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68e3476bf2dc8191bd54b2f5200aceb1

> No. There is no official seahorse emoji in Unicode. Closest: [gives list of closest emoji].

> source: https://emojipedia.org/seahorse-emoji-mandela-effect

Just enable search.

Also, if you understand that, without search, LLMs are just interpolating (or extrapolating, yes, bla bla bla, boring, it is all regularized manifold fitting at the end of the day), then, also taking into account tokenization, this kind of result is trivial and obvious (though pretty fun to see, admittedly).
AI personal assistant, what do you use?
by VieraCawboy932 | 2025-10-06 04:40:28+00:00
Besides big names like GPT, Gemini, do you use other AI tools for your daily life and work - like an assistant? I have ADHD and believe there's a lot of benefit in this space.

Personally I've been trying Motion (well to shame, quite cluttered now), Mem.ai (only note, not task - a no for me), Saner.ai (quite new but promising), Reclaim (only calendar...)

Are there any AI assistant that help you day-to-day but maybe not many people know about? Would love to hear your recs
by systoll | 2025-10-06 04:42:42+00:00
Seems like most AIs generate the hiking boot emoji, and accept that as being a hiker emoji.

If you specifically tell it not to do that, you get hints of similar behaviour to OP, but I can't get it to go totally off the wall: https://chatgpt.com/share/68e348dc-be68-8001-8ec8-41eba4bf22...
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-06 04:43:39+00:00
> Accidental deaths per installed megawatt are orders of magnitude lower than rooftop solar.

This is 100-150 people a year. It's not even clear that this is more than the number of people who would die in car accidents on their way to work at centralized solar farms etc.

> A single-axis solar tracker can rotate hundreds of square meters of solar panels.

Those also cost thousands of dollars and it's not clear that it's a significant savings over the units that rotate fewer panels but cost less money.

> Washing dust off solar panels can increase their output by several percent, but is much more likely to happen if it's somebody's full-time job instead of a household chore, especially a household chore that puts you at risk of falling off a roof and dying.

This is a cost rather than an efficiency. If you get home and see dust on your panels you grab the hose and spray them off from the ground without having to pay anyone. The solar farm has to pay salary and benefits.

> A FLIR image can identify failing solar cells so you can queue them for replacement or repair

This is an inefficiency again. The centralized farm is paying for space so they replace panels with degraded output. The homeowner leaves them to run, gets 10% of the expected instead of 0% and if they want more capacity they get more panels instead of doing work to identify and remove existing ones.

> a lawsuit against a maker of faulty solar panels is much more feasible if the potential damages are €60 million rather than €600.

Class action lawsuits are a thing.

> Even for solar energy, land is not a big cost, financially speaking. Morally and environmentally, it may be (it's arguable—solar farms don't have to devastate the ecosystem the way strip mining and oil spills do), but not financially.

Land cost is why they can't put the solar farm near where the users are, because that's where the land is expensive, so instead they put it in the middle of nowhere. But even that land isn't free, and then you have to eat even higher transmission costs.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-06 04:45:06+00:00
Not the same country but another example of a culturally similar attitude towards shame over failure: In Japan in 1985, Flight 123, a massive Boeing 747 carrying 524 people, lost control shortly after takeoff from Tokyo en route to Osaka.

The plane's aft pressure bulkhead catastrophically exploded, causing total decompression at the high altitude, severing all four of the massive plane's hydraulic stabilizer systems and entirely tearing away its vertical stabilizer.

With these the 747 basically became uncontrollable and minutes later, despite tremendously heroic efforts by the pilots to turn back and crash land it with some modicum of survivability for themselves and the passengers, the flight slammed into a mountain close to Tokyo, killing hundreds.

The resulting investigation showed that the failed bulkhead had burst open due to faulty repair welding several years before. The two technicians most responsible for clearing that particular shoddy repair both committed suicide soon after the crash tragedy. One of them even left a note specifically stating "With my death I atone". (paraphrasing from memory here)

I can't even begin to imagine a modern Boeing executive or senior staffer doing the same.

Same couldn't be said for Japanese military officials after the tragedy though, so who knows about cultural tendencies:

Right after the crash, helicopters were making ready to fly to the scene (it was night by this point) and a nearby U.S military helicopter squadron also even offered to fly in immediately. The local JSDF administration however stood all these requests down until the following morning, on the claim that such a tremendous crash must not have left anyone alive, so why hurry?

As it turned out, quite a number of people had incredibly survived, and slowly died during the night from exposure to cold and their wounds, according to testimony from the four who did survive to be rescued, and doctors who later conducted postmortems on the bodies.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-06 04:45:17+00:00
> Existing servers typically have 12 channels per socket, but they also have two DIMMs per channel, so you could double the number of channels per socket without taking up any more space for slots. You could also use CAMM which takes up less space.

Usually this comes at a pretty sizable hit to MHz available. For example STH notes that their Zen5 ASRock Rack EPYC4000D4U goes from DDR5-5600 down to DDR5-3600 with the second slot populated, a 35% drop in throughput. https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-4005-grado-is-great-an...
by gyomu | 2025-10-06 04:45:36+00:00
> It is important that the US have strong auto companies. Same is true for Germany, France, Japan, S. Korea, etc.

It is. But the reality is that those companies are complacent fossils who have lost all their vigor, and only threat of extinction would force them to innovate. Which they’re not under because legislators agree with you (in no small part thanks to their lobbyists).

Like many things, we’ll realize the extent of how badly we messed up when it’s way too late.