MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by btown | 2025-11-14 19:31:48+00:00
From https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/council-presidency-lewp-csa-r... pp 35:

(f) ‘relevant information society services’ means all of the following services: (i) a hosting service; (ii) an interpersonal communications service; (iii) a software applications store; (iv) an internet access service; (v) online search engines.

And via https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE... pp 8:

(2) ‘internet access service’ means a publicly available electronic communications service that provides access to the internet, and thereby connectivity to virtually all end points of the internet, irrespective of the network technology and terminal equipment used

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Calling it Chat Control is itself an understatement, one that evokes "well I'm not putting anything sensitive on WhatsApp" sentiments - and that's incredibly dangerous.

This bill may very well be read to impose mandatory global backdoors on VPNs, public cloud providers, and even your home router or your laptop network card!

(Not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. But it doesn't take a lawyer to see how broadly scoped this is.)
by krautburglar | 2025-11-14 19:32:11+00:00
This gives me the same vibe as OLPC. We had these places where people didn't even have electricity, running water, or public sanitation, yet some nerds at MIT thought (?) to themselves, "Hey, you know what these people need? Laptops!"

But even worse, you can install it from App Store or Google Play! Israeli territory or Israeli territory! What will these dipshits do next? Send the Palestinians some more pagers out of Budapest?
by yobert | 2025-11-14 19:32:13+00:00
The topic of "expectation" is really interesting and worth discussing more. I refuse to accept the expectation of slack meaning I am literally always available to message, and also that I must read and keep track of everything in there. If somebody asks me about something and I suspect it might be in slack, I might do search for it to catch up on that topic if I am inclined. But obviously so many people feel the pressure you're describing (to know about everything said in slack)--- which sounds terrible!
by mbesto | 2025-11-14 19:32:14+00:00
Tech isn't a market thats why.... but there is a narrative that it is.

Tesla is an automobile, solar and robotics company.

Facebook is a media company.

Google is a highly diversified media company.

The list goes on and on...

Fun fact: Goldman Sachs spends $1.9B on technology ever year. Palantir spends about $1B (if you add COGS/Infra + R&D).
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-14 19:32:31+00:00
Thanks for saying this. I have a similar situation: " I grew up in the church, rejected it in my teens."

I've come to conclude that the problem isn't "religion" in the abstract, it's that the current institutions are unhealthy and sometimes toxic. IE, it's easier to be an atheist, even in name only, when one realizes that the religion they participated in as a child has more problems than benefits.

I sometimes wonder how people like us could create institutions that replace religions, yet generally agree with our beliefs and needs.

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BTW: I've seen plenty of toxic behavior from atheists too. Aggressive evangelizing ones' beliefs, (or lack thereof,) IMO is a toxic behavior.
by ericmcer | 2025-11-14 19:32:33+00:00
I mean it is noble to act like you are some being of infinite sympathy and forgiveness. The reality of being alive though is that many people will 100% hurt you for their personal gain.

> That's a worse crime than selling someone a drug that might kill them

I am pretty sure the 14 people who died weren't smuggling in 14 doses of fentanyl, is killing someone a worse crime than selling 100,000 people a drug that might kill them, and will guaranteed fuck up their lives, their families lives, and their community?
by nis0s | 2025-11-14 19:32:42+00:00
People can lose senses and still adapt towards maintaining a self-composed personality, albeit struggling to reconcile differences with a past state. But anything that degrades the cerebral cortex causes a discernible loss of sense of self, for both the individual and any observers, and many times the individual doesn’t even remember or know they’ve undergone a change. In some sense, people are not just their own minds, but what other people remember of them.
by criley2 | 2025-11-14 19:32:51+00:00
Taxes are ~irrelevant to billionaires. When you say "you can't be a billionaire" what you're saying is "you cannot own any significant amount of a large business" because billionaires aren't liquid, their status is based on their assets and primarily their shares in large businesses.

I agree that wealth inequality is horrible and taxes on the wealthy should be much higher. But if someone owns 10% of a trillion dollar company, that's $100B in shares. They can sell off 900M$ worth of shares and "not be a billionaire" in terms of income and money (and thus taxation). So what do you do?

- Seize control of their shares and thus their control over private industry

- Or, accept that billionaires exist

This is basically the core fight between capitalism (private ownership of the means of production) and communism (government control of the means of production).

Most people hate the idea of billionaires, but people generally also hate a centrally planned government where the government owns a controlling stake in all businesses preventing any insider from having any real control.
by coffeeaddict1 | 2025-11-14 19:33:07+00:00
> Travelling to a 3rd world country with genuinely poor people can help, a bit.

I agree with this. For anyone who's young and can afford, I wholeheartedly recommend travelling to a poor country. It will truly give you a lot perspective on the world and appreciate your life more.

Having said that, I often see people grossly misunderstanding that just because you visited a poor country you understand the lives of the people you saw (e.g. their cultures, opinions and lifestyle). It really does not. You only get a very superficial glimpse, but it takes years to embody their experience in your mind.
by yugretcx | 2025-11-14 19:33:11+00:00
Why do these text diffusion demos always look like the number of allowed tokens is fixed for a specific unfilled region?

Is this the case?

Ie. if the region only has four tokens(here characters) but calculates the best word is “forget” does it just abandon the best fit or truncate it to fit?

Are there text diffusion models with lax infill directives?
by abduldavids | 2025-11-14 19:33:32+00:00
> instead of linking to the project page, the link goes to a propaganda website

It's detailing a specific use-case for decentralized communication

> The actual project is nowhere to be found

"Bitchat is a new messaging app that allows users to chat securely with or without internet access. Download it today via the App Store or Google Play store to begin communicating safely, even when connectivity disappears."

> Very woke tho.

When a genocide[1] is backed by major tech companies[2], its refreshing to know that alternatives exist :)

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20251002014945/https://www.amnes... [2] https://archive.ph/20250701174630/https://www.reuters.com/bu...
by keeda | 2025-11-14 19:33:33+00:00
My interpretation was "If an industry that actively works to harm the global health of humanity through their addictive and unhealthy food products is using way more water and we're OK with it, maybe we should give a pass to the industry using a fraction of that water to improve human productivity."

Ton of nuance in my characterizations of both industries, of course, but to a first approximation they are accurate.
by 0x1ch | 2025-11-14 19:33:58+00:00
There's a few issues that have been brought to light in the last couple years at Hackfest and other events related to LoRaWAN / Meshtastic (and derivatives). I think most notably was the failure in entropy generated during the flashing process, detailed here - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52464

I think we're a bit past the initial AES issues, at least the Meshtastic project promptly alerted people to their crypto issues and encouraged everyone to update firmware asap.

It's not too hard to use, as long as the hardware is flashed and ready. For the end user, it's an app that connects to a bluetooth connection. I think it would very trivial to have a few good LoRaWAN ops in the community, flashing nodes en masse and handing them out to peers.
by almog | 2025-11-14 19:34:09+00:00
Other than the cold start problem which isn't discussed (what's the userbase size in Gaza?), the main argument for Bitchat (or any other off-grid network such as Meshtastic, Briar, etc.) in Gaza when mainstream E2E encrypted messaging apps already exist and are widely used, is to not be dependent on Israel for cell service.

While I do really like the idea of off-grid networks in general but for this use case, is it really that hard for a state actor to jam Bluetooth (or all ~2.4GHz communication) on a large scale?
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-14 19:34:15+00:00
I don't know why but I loathe this feature.

It's pretty much the norm now and I think late UE4 in AAA games is what really pushed it?

It's cheap and simple to setup, and most games rely on TAA to make it less annoying.

But TAA sucks! And TAA encourages all sorts of extremely lazy workflows and graphical effects because it will clean them up a little, but they look so bad without it.

I hate it. Raytracing is part of this. It's all just really big companies with billions of dollars cheaping out on authoring good visuals.

Microsoft flight simulator has weird sparkly shadows because it's tracing a few hundred rays and expects you to use TAA to cover it up and it's so bad. Same exact story for reflections.

So now companies expect you to buy $800 GPUs that chew through half a kilowatt of power so that they can be lazy and not care how poorly they've authored their assets and don't really have to consider anything about their visuals.

It makes me sad.
by pronik | 2025-11-14 19:34:30+00:00
Nginx annotations is not something we want to keep though and there is rarely such a thing as a seamless drop-in replacement. Every change needs to be intensively tested and nobody in their right mind would replace an ingress controller by another one in-place on any cluster size. The correct way will be to offer a new ingress class and nudge the cluster users to migrate to that one, one app at a time, which means you could as well migrate to something completely different, depending on size and effort. Traefik tries very hard to be an option in Kubernetes space, with some promising concepts, but supporting random annotations is not it.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-14 19:35:25+00:00
CONINTELPRO was FBI and was based on domestic surveillance against real and perceived communist influence. It did indeed have significant funding and push behind it.

90% of what they did was aggressive and likely unconstitutional, but make no mistake there were absolutely agitators in the US being pushed by the USSR -- and which date back to the original "Active Measures" pushed by the USSR.
by fragmede | 2025-11-14 19:35:31+00:00
Rich and wealthy and middle class and poor aren't rigorously scientifically defined terms, the only one that is, is that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a definition for poverty wages, but even that isn't simply a number.

People that live at the luxury don't necessarily have the money for it. To bring cars into the picture, an older model Mercedes Benz that's a falling apart money pit costs less than a brand new Honda Civic.

In my mind, the line for middle class is how long you can pay your bills at without working. If you've got enough money that the answer is a while, then you're rich. If you have so much that you're able to fund other people's dreams, then you're wealthy. If you're a short order cook at a diner that saved up enough money to have a go at running a food truck, you're scrupulous.

There's all sorts of caveats, and we can be super judgey about how other people are spending their money (and time) on bad/wrong/frivolous things, but I'd bet that most people here still have to work for a living and to me, that's middle class, even if the cars are flashier and vacations are to a different continent rather than a road trip and staying in motels, for those in the upper middle class.
by dietrichepp | 2025-11-14 19:35:32+00:00
Awk is still one of my favorite tools because its power is underestimated by nearly everyone I see using it.

ls -l | awk '{print $3}'

That’s typical usage of Awk, where you use it in place of cut because you can’t be bothered to remember the right flags for cut.

But… Awk, by itself, can often replace entire pipelines. Reduce your pipeline to a single Awk invocation! The only drawback is that very few people know Awk well enough to do this, and this means that if you write non-trivial Awk code, nobody on your team will be able to read it.

Every once in a while, I write some tool in Awk or figure out how to rewrite some pipeline as Awk. It’s an enrichment activity for me, like those toys they put in animal habitats at the zoo.
by mike_hearn | 2025-11-14 19:35:35+00:00
I'm a big fan and user of AI but I don't see how you can say it's not subsidized. You can't just ignore the costs of training or staff or marketing or non-model software dev. The price charged for inference has to ultimately cover all those things + margin.

Also, the leaked numbers being sent to Ed Zitron suggest that even inferencing is underwater on a cost basis, at least for OpenAI. I know Anthropic claims otherwise for themselves.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-14 19:35:40+00:00
Not sure if it's mentioned because I didn't read the whole thing but maybe it's good to know for those of you not familiar with Dutch government that most open source code (and possibly even private code) from all Dutch government orgs is currently hosted on private/public GitHub repositories.

If they move to self hosted Forgejo (which I assume this meeting is all about) Microsoft is going to lose a pretty big customer.

And yes, (good) CI is still is a big blocker to move to Forgejo for any org (or self hosting). Hope they can speed things up a bit there now they now a gov org is seriously interested.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-14 19:36:26+00:00
This is really cool. I tried to prompt gemini but every time I got the same picture. I do not know how to share a session (like it is possible with Chatgpt) but the prompts were

If a clock had 13 hours, what would be the angle between two of these 13 hours?

Generate an image of such a clock

No, I want the clock to have 13 distinct hours, with the angle between them as you calculated above

This is the same image. There need to be 13 hour marks around the dial, evenly spaced

... And its last answer was

You are absolutely right, my apologies. It seems I made an error and generated the same image again. I will correct that immediately.

Here is an image of a clock face with 13 distinct hour marks, evenly spaced around the dial, reflecting the angle we calculated.

And the very same clock, with 12 hours, and a 13th above the 12...
by earthnail | 2025-11-14 19:36:33+00:00
The countries that comprise the EU had been among the biggest warmongers for centuries. The EU is the most successful peace project the continent has ever seen. And the reason for that is that every country refrained from trying to be a superpower on the continent.

The European mentality has real, tangible upsides for its continent. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work well in a larger world where other actors don’t share the same experience and values.

Just wanted to put that into perspective.
by btilly | 2025-11-14 19:36:42+00:00
I consider this optimistic.

The usual response for people whose ideologies have lead to problems, is to double down on their ideologies. After which cognitive dissonance makes it easy to reject all evidence of their own mistakes.

But your point is that most people are not zealots. True. But we live in a country which, thanks to gerrymandering, mostly sees politicians lose re-election in the primary. And since primaries bring out the most motivated people in your own party, that means that you are most likely to be replaced by someone who is more to the taste of zealots. And the sight of the other party becoming more extreme, breeds future zealots to continue the process.

This dynamic is one of the key reasons why politicians have become more extreme over the last couple of decades. With the result that, despite the fact that most of us would gladly vote for a more moderate person, in an election we're forced to choose between extremes. And for over 80% of us, our choice truly doesn't matter. We live in districts that have a sufficient partisan lean that the outcome is essentially predetermined.
by nijave | 2025-11-14 19:36:48+00:00
RDS PG stripes multiple gp3 volumes so that's why RDS throughput is higher than gp3

I think 80k IOPs on gp3 is a newer release so presumably AWS hasn't updated RDS from the old max of 64k. iirc it took a while before gp3 and io2 were even available for RDS after they were released as EBS options

Edit: Presumably it takes some time to do testing/optimizations to make sure their RDS config can achieve the same performance as EBS. Sometimes there are limitations with instance generations/types that also impact whether you can hit maximum advertised throughput
by ge96 | 2025-11-14 19:36:57+00:00
I'm "low-rich" (middle class?) poor eg. I have a six-fig job but I also have almost six-fig of debt, so I have after paying all my bills (mostly debt) almost nothing left. But I have an apt/cool cheap car, toys like 2nd hand computers/cameras. I've been in debt for the last 15 years since I went into college. I don't eat canned food often actually trying to fast as it's hard to not gain weight when I spend most of my time sitting in a chair in front of a computer. I do recreational drinking so it's not like I'm absolutely poor.
by dspillett | 2025-11-14 19:37:08+00:00
> It's too bad we can't withdraw our votes for a politician continuously, with the politician having to leave office if the vote changes enough.

I think that would empower ill-conceived (and/or ill-willed) populist & short term movements, with everyone in constant fear of being "un-vote bombed" by armies of easily led, and likely make the lobbying problem worse.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-14 19:37:09+00:00
> The ideologically forked Forgejo made some license changes

Lets be clear. These "some license changes" that you reference was Forgejo forked Gitea and replaced MIT license with GPLv3. Forgejo doesn't want to be contributing to receiving effort from contributors into a project that then gets re-used, re-branded, and exploited by a big corp. By making the project copyleft they ensured that the contributions stay Free. This was an ethical move.

Gitea on the other hand doesn't mind sucking up free-of-charge contributions and handing them to a company to build their walled garden around.
by homebrewer | 2025-11-14 19:37:24+00:00
You should simply compare release notes over the same time period for both projects, what's been done and how much. There's lots of nonsense repeated on this site and others, just do the research yourself, it won't take long. They both have very predictable release schedules.

We've stuck with Gitea, after not being impressed by the extremely FUDish behavior of the main driver of the fork, and this has proven to be the right choice so far. In spite of what some people claim, all of the major contributors to Gitea have continued developing it, none of the "heavy hitters" have left. It shows.

The database can be downgraded anyway. I've been doing backwards migrations for each new version all the way back to 1.22 (which is the last Gitea version that is "side-gradable" to Forgejo).
by saulpw | 2025-11-14 19:37:28+00:00
Let's do some math.

60x24x30 = 40k AI calls per month per model. Let's suppose there are 1000 output tokens (might it be 10k tokens? Seems like a lot for this task). So 40m tokens per model.

The price for 1m output tokens[0] ranges from $.10 (qwen-2.5) to $60 (GPT-4). So $4/mo for the cheapest, and $2.5k/mo for the most expensive.

So this might cost several thousand dollars a month? Something smells funny. But you're right, throttling it to once an hour would achieve a similar goal and likely cost less than $100/mo (which is still more than I would spend on a project like this).

[0] https://pricepertoken.com/
by time0ut | 2025-11-14 19:37:30+00:00
Wow. This is alarming.

We have done a similar operation routinely on databases under pretty write intensive workloads (like 10s of thousands of inserts per second). It is so routine we have automation to adjust to planned changes in volume and do so a dozen times a month or so. It has been very robust for us. Our apps are designed for it and use AWS’s JDBC wrapper.

Just one more thing to worry about I guess…
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-14 19:37:36+00:00
> People have been thinking about why the brain thinks for a very long time and so far we have absolutely no idea

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

I think there is a pretty large consensus that our neocortex is a prediction machine (predicting future observations/outcomes from past experience), and the reason WHY it would have evolved to be this is because there is obvious massive survival benefit in successfully predicting how predators and prey will react ahead of time, what will be the outcome of your own actions, etc, etc. Prediction unlocks you from being stuck in the present having to react to things as they happen and lets you plan ahead.

Thinking = Reasoning/Planning is just multi-step prediction.

I don't think consciousness is the big deal most people think it is - it seems to be just the ability to self-observe (which helps to self-predict), but if we somehow built AGI that wasn't conscious, then who cares?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-14 19:38:10+00:00
The app store checks are barely measureable, yes. Hence why being open source is the best check for any undocumented changes. Even if it's not discovered on FDoid, reports will come out for those who dig. Much easier to view source code than decompiling an APK to analyze.

But at some point there needs to be some level of trust in anything you install. You can't rely on institutions to make sure everything is squeaky clean. They can't even do that on content platforms (or at least, they choose not to afford it).
by terminalshort | 2025-11-14 19:38:26+00:00
For a workload where you need true read after write you can just send those reads to the writer. But even if you don't there are plenty of workarounds here. You can send a success response to the user when the transaction commits to the writer and update the UI on response. The only case where this will fail is if the user manually reloads the page within the replication lag window and the request goes to the reader. This should be exceedingly rare in a single region cluster, and maybe a little less rare in a multi-region set up, but still pretty rare. I almost never see > 1s replication lag between regions in my Aurora clusters. There are certainly DB workloads where this will not be true, but if you are in a high replication lag cluster, you just don't want to use that for this type of UI dependency in the first place.
by filloooo | 2025-11-14 19:38:27+00:00
This is retaliation for China recently phasing out European gears, which should be expected after Europe already banned Chinese gears in effect.

China for years has been allocating a share of the market to European gears, considering their domestic offerings are much cheaper, this was basically a reciprocal gesture, but it's not needed now for neither side.

Germany has been reluctant to completely remove its Huawei gears, but now that German cars are losing ground in China, they probably felt it's time to make the move.