MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2025-10-06 10:12:12+00:00
It's not rude to the GPL, it's just not collaborative in a way you want them to be?

The four freedoms allow you to share your enhancements with the community, they don't say the original author has to accept them. They pursue their own vision for the software, they give you all the sources and license you need to pursue a different direction.

Stallman has also talked about how "works of art" (pictures, stories, music) are different from "functional" works (software, recipes, typefaces, etc.). He thinks that nonfree "functional" works are unethical, but is ok with a modest copyright time limit before being permitted to remix/modify art:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.ht...

> But eventually I realized that modifying a work of art can be a contribution to art, but it's not desperately urgent in most cases. If you had to wait ten years for the copyright to expire, you could wait that long

With that in mind, he'd want game code to be published under a free software license, but would be ok if the "art" of the game remained briefly copyrighted. Probably not what modders want to hear!
by fweimer | 2025-10-06 10:12:37+00:00
ARMv9 also has read-modify-write memory instructions, so does any usable RISC-V implementation. It turns out that LL-SC (which would avoid those) does not permit efficient implementations. (LL-SC does look like a rather desperate attempt to preserve a pure RISC register-register architecture.)

I get the impression people believe that instruction density does not matter much in practice (at least for large cores). For example, x86-64 compilers generally prefer the longer VEX encoding (even in contexts where it does not help to avoid moves or transition penalties), or do not implement passes to avoid redundant REX prefixes.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 10:13:14+00:00
It is interesting how few people are willing to admit that these are problems in large part of our own making. If there are two places that are both poor and one decides to plunder the other and becomes fabulously wealthy because they are able to turn what they plundered into wealth more effectively than the places that they plundered then it stands to reason that at some point the citizens of the places that were plundered would like to move their residence to the wealthier place.

Long term sustainable policies that do not result in such an imbalance require a longer term view and possibly lower short term profits. In fact, the United States was on that path until Trump took over. Mexico was slowly getting wealthier and people were already moving back because it was a more viable alternative. Now of course all that progress has been destroyed but it was really working, and I'm pretty sure that it could have been accelerated.
by fabio0O | 2025-10-06 10:13:26+00:00
One of the most unexpected effects of the AI boom is happening far from Silicon Valley, on the small Caribbean island of Anguilla, which has a population of 15,000 and a total land area of 91 square kilometres (35 square miles).

As .ai is Anguilla’s official country code top-level domain (TLD), the surge in AI companies and start-ups registering .ai domains has transformed into a major revenue stream for the government.

Key Facts: - Domain registrations: 48,000 (2018) → 144,000 (2022) → 870,000 (Sep 2025). - Forecast: 1 million domains by November 2025 (~1,500 new registrations every day). - Government revenue: $2.9M (2018) → $7.7M (2022) → $93M forecast for 2025. - Share of state budget: <1% (pre 2018) → ~6% (2022) → ~47% (2025).

These funds are being used to reduce debt, expand the airport, develop renewable energy sources and protect biodiversity.
by metalman | 2025-10-06 10:13:33+00:00
intercepting an impactor with presumably a nuke is not going to be easy or even possible in many of the likely scenarios asteroid impactor is moving to fast and we see it to late,or not at all. asteroid impactor is solid nickle iron asteroid impactor is too large to destroy or deflect

The timing of an explosion will be tricky, as the combined speed of the asteroid and the nuke will be huge,the only possible intercept is head on, and the detonation will need to be timed to the pico second(dont know, but its way less than a micro). Too early, and we get hit with a slightly warm asteroid, too late and we get hit with a radioactive asteroid. Then the actual asteroid nuking rocket has to sit ready,after of course getting built, the summs involved will of course be thematicaly consistant, for whoever can insist that they get to build and maintain it,in perpetuity.
by f1shy | 2025-10-06 10:13:36+00:00
Oh. There is nothing more contra productive than asking an experienced physician “could this not be X”. They will typically go in “if you think google knows better, ask it and fuck off”. Ask me how I know. I think that attitude even has a name (BTW, I’m guilty! If I say “there is a dangling pointer” and the guy starts with another theory, I will dismiss him quickly)
by scotty79 | 2025-10-06 10:14:02+00:00
> A single insulation fault (live -> chassis) will put the chassis at line potential if PE isn’t connected.

As long as the other wire is not connected to ground, chassis being connected to one doesn't pose much risk.

Grounding either wire makes whole thing worse. If you ground the chassis and it's not connected to either wire it makes no difference. Once insulation on any of the wires fails and the wire connects with the chassis it becomes the neutral and ground at the same time and the other wire will shock you through ground even if you don't touch the chassis at that time.

I'm curious if GFCI would trip if you didn't have the whole thing grounded and just touched one of the wires...

I know that in normal setup GFCI detects if too little electricity goes back through neutral relative to how much goes through hot wire. Assuming nothing is grounded, would short, small leakage current when you touch one of the wires be enough to trip GFCI?

Does GFCI work both ways? If there was more current "comming back in" on the neutral than goes out on the hot would GFCI trip as well? Are the usual solutions worthless when you have just two free floating wires with potential difference between them but with no reference to ground?

Is there a code for high voltage mobile installations? It seems that EV and mobile home makers go mostly with their own solutions derived from first principles...
by mft_ | 2025-10-06 10:14:28+00:00
Hard disagree here.

1) The biggest challenge to renewables seems to be not capacity, but storage: wind and solar can't be relied upon all of the time, and often provide peak power out of sync with peak demand. Within reason, hyper-local generation either removes the need for storage altogether (as generated electricity is immediately utilised by household appliances) or allows easy local storage to be added via a few KWh of battery in the basement.

2) Houses that can mostly power themselves also reduce demand on the electricity grid, assuming that large spikes can be avoided.

3) I like the future vision of all people and their dwellings being energy-independent, and this is the start of a path towards that.

4) Don't fall into the trap of only ever accepting an optimal solution. Local generation might be somewhat less efficient economically (although with private investment rather than governmental/corporate investment being used here, and with no apaprent shortages in solar panel supply, I'm not so sure about the comparison?) but that doesn't mean that it doesn't add some meaningful benefit, or that it shouldn't happen.
by keyringlight | 2025-10-06 10:14:50+00:00
I think the challenge is that uses for a PC, or even if you restrict it to "PC gaming" is such a wide net it's hard to make anything but the most vague/general readings from that audience. When the monthly steam hardware survey results come out there's always a crowd of enthusiasts putting their spin on what should or shouldn't be there, when that includes people playing simple low requirement games all the way through to reality simulators. For non-gaming uses, I think the most significant step was Vista, where they moved over to GPU acceleration for drawing windows (but with a software 'basic' fallback), video decode acceleration and to a lesser extent encode for any device with a camera, although I'd say mobile devices likely exercise encode capability more than desktops do generally.
by caritisev | 2025-10-06 10:15:00+00:00
BMW has great EVs and they just launched their gen 6 which is probably one of the best on the market. VW also did a stellar job with their newest models.

The problem is not that Chinese EVs are entering other markets, BMW and others have done that for decades. The problem is that China is making car manufactoring a commodity.

The margins have been high for car manufacturas. China rolls that complelty over with lower laber costs (normal car has only a few thousand dollars in labor costs), end to end supply chain, cheap energy, higher automatisation level, simplified stack and lower margins. Significant lower margins.

Btw. USA and Europe got as rich as they are because of being manufactoring powerhouses previously. Was that fair ever to the rest of the world? Probably not. Now China is doing the same thing and suddenly everyone needs to protect their markets? A little bit ignorant and short sighted eh? Btw. China was smarter then us. They stoped allowing this and made it mandatory to have chinese people invovled in the expansion of american and europeon companies.

And they are buying companies around the globe too while we all watch and let it happen.
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-06 10:16:01+00:00
'Industrial scale' projects are also happening and they are quite easy to find on Google Maps, for instance around Berlin there are some pretty big areas covered in solar panels:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6242449,14.2273341,7219m/dat...

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6993717,14.2185555,3756m/dat...

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6476471,13.6945097,2856m/dat...

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0173558,13.5345601,4387m/dat...

Or this one near Leipzig in a former lignite mining area:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1680221,12.4092084,4502m/dat...

(interestingly most of those seem to be located in former East Germany - probably because land ownership isn't fragmented as much as in former West Germany due to the forced farmland sequestration after WW2).

...and smaller solar fields exist nearly everywhere (even in the back of the woods where I was born: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.5463975,12.9038206,658m/data...)

E.g. why not build renewables at all possible scales?
by tobr | 2025-10-06 10:16:05+00:00
You’ve picked a difficult way to make your first typeface. A monoline design with a strict vector grid doesn’t leave a lot of room for the kind of optical adjustments needed for balanced and readable letter shapes. But I think even if you want to be strict about those restrictions there is a lot of room for improvement in consistency and composition of each shape.

I started to write actionable suggestions about individual letters but realized it’s probably better to drop this link, which starts at how to draw an ”A” and continues with every letter of the alphabet. https://ohnotype.co/blog/ohno-type-school-a
by dandellion | 2025-10-06 10:17:13+00:00
All the comments of AI writing code and making PRs remind me a lot of all the promises about self driving cars. That was more than 10 years ago and today I still don't know anybody that has a car that drives itself. Will AI write useful PRs one day? Probably. Will it do that before I retire or die of old age? Considering I have been using agents for about a year or so, and seen little to no improvement in that time, I'm afraid the current version of AI probably has already peaked and we'll only see marginal improvement due to diminishing returns.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-06 10:18:18+00:00
It's a win for nominative determinism. The name Shimon, in Japanese, directly translates to something like "Determined Scholar."

It's also a fairly weird and old fashioned name. The sort of thing that would have been in style 120 years ago. (Meiji and early Taisho era.) Japanese names today are usually less literal.
by CrossVR | 2025-10-06 10:18:19+00:00
If you read the complete article it specifically mentions that Sam's condition did trigger some checklists, but those checklists were willfully ignored in favor of expediency.

The problem isn't that there's not enough checklists, the problem is that there's one pilot and he's trying to fly 3 Boeings at the same time from the air traffic control tower.

> These unreliable warnings can lead to “alert fatigue” and, sometimes, a mental habit of discounting them.

This is a problem the airline industry also struggles with and even more checklists is not the answer. A lower workload and better crew resource management is.
by mft_ | 2025-10-06 10:18:58+00:00
> Besides the physical and ecological aspects, this is very libertarian. Something that is sadly not very appreciated in Germany.

Genuinely interested what you mean by this - could you expand, please?

(It seems like the success of this scheme would mean that there is a meaningful group of people who are willing to take such an approach in Germany, whether it is characterised as libertarian or otherwise?)
by Someone | 2025-10-06 10:19:21+00:00
> The script parses macOS’s system_profiler SPUSBHostDataType2 command, which produces a dense, hard-to-scan raw output

I couldn’t find source (the link in the article points to a GitHub repo of a user’s home directory. I hope for them it doesn’t contain secrets), but on my system, system_profiler -json produces json output. From that text, it doesn’t seem they used that.
by rrr_oh_man | 2025-10-06 10:19:35+00:00
Geopolitical conspiracy theory straight from an antisemite taxi driver, just sprinkled with copious amounts of LLM slop.

I agree that SaaS-ification of everything is cancer, but calling an OSS product a "Zionist occupation" is... questionable.

Make a better product, fork it or not, but don't whine around.
by samuel | 2025-10-06 10:19:41+00:00
Recently learnt about tailscale funnel, and I love it, I would use for everything.

tailscale funnel --set-path <secret> <DIRECTORY>

(The path is needed because there are lots of bots who scan tailscale hostnames).

This works if the sender is tech savvy (and a tailscale user) but not in the other direction.
by detaro | 2025-10-06 10:19:45+00:00
And after a decade of planning the shutdown, stopping contracts, deferring unneeded maintenance, ... you can't just say "actually, never mind, keep them running". The plant operators themselves said it wasn't really possible or only at extreme costs.

And the politicians loudly screaming about it are mostly from parties that are responsible for the "we'll have russian gas, it's fine" policy, and didn't use the decade+ of being in power beforehand to do anything about extending nuclear, but rather often also strongly insisted the shutdown had to be done. Right until the point they weren't in power anymore and they started to blame the Greens for the consequences of their own policies.
by zenmac | 2025-10-06 10:20:57+00:00
Unless it is related to weapons or the project that will ultimately benefit big corps, project will not work out using central government policy. With revolving doors and sophisticated lobbing, at this point government seems just like different side of the same coin as big corp.

Things can really only be DONE on the grass root local level.

Edit: actually even some of the weapons projects are not working out so well.
by squigz | 2025-10-06 10:21:09+00:00
What a strange way to phrase it, considering in your last comment you were talking about how copyright expiry is exactly for this purpose.

Anyway, what is copyright expiration in America these days? 100 years?

Also, is it simply a matter of X years after creation? I somehow doubt it's that simple anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if "copyright is extended indefinitely if the work is being actively commercially used" or some such
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-06 10:21:26+00:00
Nice idea. I work at SP500 corp and we have platform teams provide this. I always wondered if it could be a startup. My reservation with tbis is tbe classic one: not open source. But I totally get why it isn't. Although FOSS might work as the value (at work and here too) is in having someone in a Slack channel that can help if a deploy gets stuck. The code is kind of a terraform-esque of sorts.
by username332211 | 2025-10-06 10:21:56+00:00
I agree, but I still suspect OpenAI and other LLM companies do stuff like that, when an example of a hallucination becomes popular.

If I see some example of an LLM saying dumb stuff here, I know it's going to be fixed quickly. If I encounter an example myself and refuse to share it, it may be fixed with a model upgrade in a few years. Or it may still exist.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-06 10:22:26+00:00
> The Presidency is term-limited by the Constitution.

I have no faith Trump gives a shit about the constitution. He and his goons can amend and screw around till they find something that gives them what they want. So long as there's a somewhat legitimate election that says Trump's president, the fire burning under Europe's bottom isn't burning hot enough for them to move. Unless there's literally no election, not even the pretence of democracy, I can't imagine anyone doing anything much different from what they're doing now. If they were going to, they'd have already done it.
by codeulike | 2025-10-06 10:22:57+00:00
Sepsis is hard to spot. Whats interesting about this article is that once you get into the details of whatt happened on the patients second visit, its largely about the hospital information systems and how they got in the way.

An automated alert popped up warning that the doctors should consider Sepsis. That alert essentially then blocked progress, and the doctors ended up (essentially) ticking the 'not sepsis' box so that they could get on with their (reasonable) next step which was either ordering an x-ray or starting antibiotics. Then somehow after that, sepsis did not get re-considered.

https://archive.is/tJePt#selection-1465.0-1491.52

It was Banerjee’s task to document Sam’s care, and as he began to do so, a pop-up appeared on his computer screen. Sam’s fever and heart rate had triggered an automated warning for sepsis, a potentially life-threatening condition in which the immune system has a dangerous reaction to an infection. It requires speedy intervention. To help the hospital comply with state-mandated sepsis regulations, the pop-up provides a checklist of tests and orders used to identify and treat sepsis.

Agyare had instructed Banerjee to hydrate Sam right away but to wait for the results of Sam’s lab work before ordering a chest X-ray or the strong antibiotics used to treat sepsis.

But Banerjee, a novice, got stuck. He couldn’t figure out how to navigate the template to make some but not all of the auto-populated orders. “This was my first patient that triggered the sepsis pathway,” he explained, in testimony. So he asked Connor Welsh, a third-year resident, for help.

At 8:50 p.m., Welsh showed Banerjee how. From his own computer, he clicked into a field on Sam’s chart to assert that sepsis was not likely: “Based on my evaluation,” the automated note said, “this patient does not meet clinical criteria for bacterial sepsis.” And then Welsh recorded what Banerjee said Agyare had said earlier: “Likely viral syndrome. Workup pending.” Welsh’s name appears on the note, but in his deposition he said he never interacted with Sam. Senior residents often help junior ones in this way, he said. “I signed this note based on the discussion with the provider, Dr. Banerjee, based on his evaluation and the medical management of Mr. Terblanche,” he testified.

...

Sam’s chart is 51 pages long, a catalog of billing codes and abbreviations, check-boxes and shorthand, updates and addenda. The record of the second visit contains numerous contradictions: Sam’s heart rate was documented at 126, yet Banerjee clicked the box “normal.” In one place it says Sam didn’t have a cough, while in another it says he did. The signatures of doctors who testified they never saw Sam — including one who was not in the hospital that night — accompany notes. Vital signs were ordered and not taken, as was an EKG.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-06 10:23:56+00:00
The original comment was:

> It's a lot like when we "share" our worms with fish.

So, it is a relevant distinction, the theory of that comment is that they are using them as bait for humans. That they aren’t ever recorded as intentionally killing and eating humans is relevant.

They fight boats for other reasons apparently, maybe they or territorial, or maybe the boats are making some annoying nose?
by porkbrain | 2025-10-06 10:25:04+00:00
If you stacked them they would be about fifty thousand Popocatépetls high, give or take a few zeroes.

UPDATE: as sibling pointed out indirectly, it's eight thousand Popocatépetls [0].

[0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28thic...
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-06 10:26:07+00:00
Copper doesn't work over these kinds of distances without powered switches, which adds latency. And laying fibre over several miles would be massively expensive. Well outside the realm of all but the largest of corporations. There's a reason buildings with high bandwidth constraints huddle near internet backbones.

What used to happen (and still does as far as I know, but I've been out of the networking game for a while now) is you'd get fibre laid between yourself and your ISP. So you're then subject to the latency of their networking stack. And that becomes a huge problem if you want to do any real-time work like DB replicas.

The only way to do automated off-site backups was via overnight snapshots. And you're then running into the bandwidth constraints of the era.

What most businesses ended up doing was tape backups and then physically driving it to another site -- ideally then storing it an fireproof safe. Only the largest companies could afford to push it over fibre.
by FuckButtons | 2025-10-06 10:26:12+00:00
>I don't especially like Tucker Carlson, but I think the more screen time we'll give to this people with an open mic it's better for everyone to have a first hand experience of how detached from reality these people are.

Idk, seems like we’re in a pretty shit situation politically right now because many delusional men were given an open microphone access.

As much as it would be nice to believe we lived in a world where people can discern truth from illusion, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

And, given that, it seems like the wisest course of action would be to come up with some means of forcing mass media to adhere to fact and remove from public discourse anyone who refuses to acknowledge or espouse it, lest they bend reality in their interest, but instead we decided to invent machines for manufacturing the most sophisticated lies ever seen and disseminate them to everyone.

It’s not going to end well.