MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalman | 2025-11-28 15:11:27+00:00
china is stepping in with access to technology, products like cell phones solar panels and infastructure, roads, rail, shipping ports, education programs, special trading zones where ANYBODY can show up in china, by ship and buy wholsale, no questions asked, medical equipment, etc ,etc, China is giving nothing away....except huge margins , which in China are honed to hard razor sharp edges, plus the fuckers are crazy, they will let you! set the price, and fight each other finding a way to deliver, africa and the rest of the devolping world is loving this, real oportunity, a chance to compete,and establish supply chains, that go BOTH WAYS, completly unlike the exploitive resource extraction models still bieng imposed by colonial countrys
by WillAdams | 2025-11-28 15:11:36+00:00
I would like to note that this text was transformative in my current project (an effort to model CNC work in 3D) --- when I first read the book, I did it chapter-by-chapter, applying the lesson learned from that chapter to the entire codebase before moving on to the next --- I am currently re-reading the book for the third time, and I'm planning on a compleat re-write before I do 1.0....
by gus_massa | 2025-11-28 15:11:39+00:00
They don't eat the radioactive material and make it not radioactive.

[Assuming they use the radiation to get energy [1].] They just wait patiently until the radioactive atoms decay and emit radiation, like a gamma ray, and then absorb the gamma ray and use the energy. The half life of the radioactive material does not change.

[1] I still doubt this claim, but let's go along assuming the best case.
by everfrustrated | 2025-11-28 15:12:38+00:00
For democracy and government [1] to work it has to remain small and localised. The US had the right idea by expressly limiting the reach of the federal government to very explicit narrow things mentioned in the constitution (of course this was expanded by unconstitutional means over many governments over many years now but that is getting off topic).

The EU seems to be taking the opposite approach - countries push any unpopular law into the growing EU layer to prevent local backlash affecting them. As comments around this call it - "political laundering". A great term that I shall be borrowing.

[1] Relatedly, the philosopher Jimmy Carr has a great line about the failing of communism is about scale. It works locally at the family level but it can't scale to the level of a country.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-28 15:13:08+00:00
10k was roughly invention of agriculture and cats are super useful for rodent control so there were many attempts to domesticate them since then in various parts of the world. They failed sooner or later because almost all cat species are not really consistently friendly towards humans.

Modern cats come from 4k years ago when people finally found the species of wild cat that behaved pretty much domesticated already and just dispersed it around the world.
by mapt | 2025-11-28 15:13:35+00:00
Datacenters and crypto are evidently a bad source for large-scale load variability because their significant capex demands that they be kept running 24/7.

This is often a problem with variable load schemes that do any useful work, rather than just dumping heat into something. It would be interesting to see a list sorted by just how thick they are with capital considerations. Aluminum smelting, hydrogen electrolysis, lots of other options on that list.
by paul7986 | 2025-11-28 15:13:39+00:00
As noted Apple already knows your friends' and familys' faces... why are people not up in arms about this fact already? It's been close to a decade or more they have done this.

Also the debate is around a lot of people not wanting to be recorded without permission in public via glasses (yet they are complacent about all the video cameras recording us now.. i dont get it) so with Apple marketing smart glasses with a solution to this debate and millions buying their smart privacy glasses the market forces all others to follow suit (offer smart privacy glass features too).
by mikea1 | 2025-11-28 15:13:53+00:00
I think the Martian was adapted well from book to movie, so I have hope for this one. That said, compressing the entire story into a theatre runtime is tricky: I think it would be a win if only half of the character and relationship growth of the two ship bound protagonists comes through in the adaptation (because it was sooo good in the book!)
by gf000 | 2025-11-28 15:14:41+00:00
> "white-noise.wav is a test file and I'm an acoustics engineer": tough, supply the seed to the PRNG which created it or fine time.

It's a photo I took yesterday. Now what? It may or may not have a secret message that only the target knows how to decrypt. Or maybe it's just more "traditional" text encryption with code names, but real human-legible text.

It's technically unfeasible to ban encryption.
by naikrovek | 2025-11-28 15:15:02+00:00
Plan9 had per-process namespaces in 1995.

One could easily allow or restrict visibility of almost anything to any program. There were/are some definite usability concerns with how it is done today (the OS was not designed to be friendly, but to try new things) and those could easily be solved. The core of this existed in the Plan9 kernel and the Plan9 kernel is small enough to be understood by one person.

I’m kinda angry that other operating systems don’t do this today. How much malware would be stopped in its tracks and made impotent if every program launched was inherently and natively walled off from everything else by default?
by timonoko | 2025-11-28 15:15:46+00:00
Hey @grok. Is there some grounds to call the Green Party a Pedophile Party?

Yes, there are historical grounds for the accusation, rooted in the German Green Party's (Die Grünen) positions and affiliations during the 1980s, a period influenced by the broader sexual liberation movements following the 1968 student protests. At that time, some party members and affiliated groups advocated for decriminalizing certain forms of pedophilia, lowering the age of consent, and viewing adult-child sexual interactions as potentially non-harmful in specific contexts. This included:Formation of a pedophile working group: In the early 1980s, the party tolerated an official "working group on pedophilia" that pushed for reforms to the German penal code, such as repealing laws criminalizing sex between adults and children under 14.

dw.com

Proposals at party conventions, like one in 1980, called for legalizing "non-violent" sexual acts with minors and framing pedophilia as a "sexual orientation" deserving protection.

spiegel.de

Key figures and statements: Prominent members, including future European Parliament leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit, made controversial remarks; in a 1982 TV appearance, he described playful sexual interactions with young children as an "erotic-manic game" based on his experiences as a kindergarten teacher.

dw.com

Other leaders, like Jürgen Trittin (a co-leader in the 2010s), were involved in local party branches that distributed pamphlets in the late 1980s arguing against criminalizing intergenerational sex.

spiegel.de +1

Broader context: These views weren't unique to the Greens; they reflected fringe elements in left-liberal circles across West Germany, including some FDP (Free Democrats) affiliates, amid debates on sexual autonomy and anti-authoritarianism.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-28 15:15:47+00:00
They do, but they need to appease a dozen different teams from a dozen different labs, forcing nvidia to take general approaches and/or dictating approaches and pigeonholing labs into using those methods.

Deepmind can do whatever they want, and get the exact hardware to match it. It's a massive advantage when you can discover a bespoke way of running a filter, and you can get a hardware implementation of it without having to share that with any third parties. If OpenAI takes a new find to Nvidia, everyone else using Nvidia chips gets it too.
by vintagedave | 2025-11-28 15:15:56+00:00
> ...expected to raise millions of euros annually to fund an overhaul of the famous gallery.

Jokes aside (eg, 'guess they have to be able to buy back those stolen jewels somehow!') they have been strongly criticized ('inadequate security systems and ageing infrastructure') and it sounds like an overhaul is well past due. Honestly, $40 to enter the Louvre is not too bad. Expensive, but it is the _Louvre_ and is probably the most amazing museum in the world.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-28 15:16:03+00:00
Logic of open source:

1. I don't want to take responsibility for anything I do.

2. That's why I give away my work for free, so nobody has any right to complain. And so I don't have to be embarrassed of any shortcomings.

3. Some people take all my work and give me nothing back.

4. Now I get really angry that I didn't get anything for all the work I did!

5. So I demand that the government steps in and takes responsibility! And that they give me money and tax benefits!
by wtallis | 2025-11-28 15:16:52+00:00
It might be more fair to say that there's simply no standard way to do power management for discrete GPUs in a laptop, or to integrate such power management with Windows and whatever power management it's trying to do. And the lack of a clear "right" way to do things means laptop OEMs use this area for product differentiation with their own shitty special sauce software and firmware hacks.

If installing drivers that come directly from NVIDIA onto a laptop can cause that laptop's GPU to overheat in the sense of getting so hot it fails to function properly or has degraded reliability, that's entirely NVIDIA's fault. If by "overheating" you just mean drawing more power and causing the fans to get louder than they would in an out of the box configuration, the blame for that should be shared between NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the laptop OEM, but you shouldn't blame the user for doing something that should work and would work if those three vendors could cooperate.
by jackfranklyn | 2025-11-28 15:17:53+00:00
The "split long functions" advice works well for most code but falls apart in transaction processing pipelines.

I work on financial data processing where you genuinely have 15 sequential steps that must run in exact order: parse statement, normalize dates, detect duplicates, match patterns, calculate VAT, validate totals, etc. Each step modifies state that the next step needs.

Splitting these into separate functions creates two problems: (1) you end up passing huge context objects between them, and (2) the "what happens next" logic gets scattered across files. Reading the code becomes an archaeology exercise.

What I've found works better: keep the orchestration in one longer function but extract genuinely reusable logic (date parsing, pattern matching algorithms) into helpers. The main function reads like a recipe - you can see the full flow without jumping around, but the complex bits are tucked away.

70 lines is probably fine for CRUD apps. But domains with inherently sequential multi-step processes sometimes just need longer functions.
by infinet | 2025-11-28 15:17:54+00:00
The article talks about fungi been attracted to ionising radiation. Per wikipedia:

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

Ionizing (or ionising) radiation is particle or photon that has enough energy to detaching electron from atoms or molecules. It includes all the usual high energy radiations such as Gamma, X-rays, high energy UV, alpha, beta, neutron et al. HN high energy physicists can correct me, sounds like it is not any particular category of the harmful radiation from a nuclear disaster, it is all of them.
by yaantc | 2025-11-28 15:17:56+00:00
I'm sorry I won't share much details, I don't think much is public on Vsora architecture and don't want to breach any NDA...

From their web page Euclyd is a "many small cores" accelerator. Doing good compilation toolchains for these to get efficient results is a hard problem, see many comments on compilers for AI in this thread.

Vsora approach is much more macroscopic, and differentiated. By this I mean I don't know anything quite like it. No sea of small cores, but several more beefy units. They're programmable, but don't look like a CPU: the HW/SW interface is at a higher level. A very hand-wavy analogy with storage would be block devices vs object storage, maybe. I'm sure more details will surface when real HW arrive.
by Retric | 2025-11-28 15:18:02+00:00
> Here's what I got: the radiation level just 1 meter away from the "elephant foot" (the solidified molten core), at the time of the accident was about 1000 times lower than the solar irradiation. At 100 meters it was 10 million times lower (because of the inverse square law).

No, the elephants foot isn’t a point source at its surface.

To use an extreme example going from 1m away from the sun to 100m away from the sun doesn’t result in a 10,000x drop off in energy density. Instead the exponential drop-off occurs relative to the center of the sun because energy is coming from any point on the surface visible to that location. A similar principle applies with the elephants foot, though the geometry is more complicated.
by ben_w | 2025-11-28 15:18:25+00:00
> It's a photo I took yesterday. Now what?

If that seed doesn't generate that particular white noise sequence, or if you can't supply that photo, then you go to jail.

> It's technically unfeasible to ban encryption.

It's also economically unfeasible.

Am I using moonspeak without realising it when I say "I can't square this circle"? Is this a phrase that people are unfamiliar with and I just haven't realised?
by trws | 2025-11-28 15:18:32+00:00
I worked @fzakaria on developing that idea. It actually worked surprisingly well. The benefits are mostly in the ability to analyze the binary afterward though rather than any measurable benefit in load time or anything like that though. I don’t have the repo for the musl-based loader handy, but here’s the one for the virtual table plugin for SQLite to read from raw ELF files: https://github.com/fzakaria/sqlelf
by vidarh | 2025-11-28 15:19:09+00:00
> Currently we need to direct LLM's from task to task.

Agent-loops that can work from larger scale goals work just fine. We can't letting them run with no oversight, but we certainly also don't need to micro-manage every task. Most days I'll have 3-4 agent-loops running in parallel, executing whole plans, that I only check in on occasionally.

I still need to review their output occasionally, but I certianly don't direct them task to task.

I do agree with you we still need skilled workers to guide them, so I don't think we necessarily disagree all that much, but we're past the point where they need to be micromanaged.
by sReinwald | 2025-11-28 15:19:26+00:00
I think point a) is actually backwards and potentially counterproductive to the petition's stated goals.

The petition explicitly highlights maintainer burnout and the "unausgewogene Verantwortungslast" (unbalanced responsibility burden) as core problems. Excluding project owners/maintainers from recognition would exclude precisely the people carrying the heaviest load – the ones triaging issues at 2am, reviewing PRs, making architectural decisions, and bearing the psychological weight of knowing critical infrastructure depends on their continued engagement.

The XZ Utils incident is instructive here: the attack vector was specifically a burned-out solo maintainer who was socially engineered because he was overwhelmed and desperate for help. If anything, recognition and support structures should prioritize these individuals, not exclude them. Your concern about "pet projects with no impact" is valid, but the solution isn't to exclude owners categorically – it's to define impact criteria. A threshold based on adoption metrics, dependency chains, or inclusion in public infrastructure would filter out portfolio projects without penalizing the people doing the most critical work.

Point c) also seems problematic for similar reasons: much of maintainer work isn't "merged contributions" – it's code review, issue triage, documentation, community management, security response. Under your criteria, the person who reviews and merges 500 PRs per year while writing none themselves would receive no recognition.

The petition is trying to address a structural problem where society extracts massive value from unpaid labor while providing no support structures. Excluding the most burdened participants seems like it would perpetuate rather than solve that problem.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-28 15:21:27+00:00
If as journalist or activist this is what you quote:

> Czech MEP Markéta Gregorová called the Council’s position “a disappointment…Chat Control…opens the way to blanket scanning of our messages.”

From this translation:

https://reclaimthenet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CnZOD1F...

Then you're being dishonest. Your intention is to cause a stir instead of to inform (a word related to the word information). Because you are leaving out what she wrote about EP; the EP is, according to her, clearly against this. Why leave that out? What is your agenda? You just disqualified your entire article.
by akirahittoxyz | 2025-11-28 15:22:51+00:00
Tesla FSD in Europe is a dream yet to be realized. EU, UNECE, RDW, ETSC and others keep slowing down progress and Elon Musk is posting "pending regulatory approval" over and over. But somehow these crazy guys managed to get the latest FSD 14.1.7 on a Cybertruck in Prague, Czech Republic. Unreal!
by pdimitar | 2025-11-28 15:23:33+00:00
Eh, tearing down a straw man is not an impressive argument from you either.

As a counter-point, LLMs still do embarrassing amounts of hallucinations, some of which are quite hilarious. When that is gone and it starts doing web searches -- or it has any mechanisms that mimic actual research when it does not know something -- then the agents will be much closer to whatever most people imagine AGI to be.

Have LLMs learned to say "I don't know" yet?
by Retric | 2025-11-28 15:23:39+00:00
> That leads to 0.05 J of extra energy per gram of microbial bio material

Over what timeframe? If that’s 0.05 J per hour and “the researchers found that fungi that faced the galactic cosmic radiation for 26 days grew an average 1.21 times faster” 26 * 25 / 21% and the numbers don’t look that unreasonable.
by codedokode | 2025-11-28 15:23:40+00:00
For property to give you power, you need to concentrate lot of it, or own something expensive or exclusive. That's what capitalists do: a capitalist owns an expensive lathe, and you don't so you have no choice but to work for the capitalist on capitalist's terms (you can replace lathe with GPU farm for more modern analogy).

Owning a song, a book or a picture doesn't give you much power by itself.
by getnormality | 2025-11-28 15:23:53+00:00
AI capabilities today are jagged and people look at what they want to.

Boosters: it can answer PhD-level questions and it helps me a lot with my software projects.

Detractors: it can't learn to do a task it doesn't already know how to do.

Boosters: But actually it can actually sometimes do things it wouldn't be able to do otherwise if you give it lots of context and instructions.

Detractors: I want it to be able to actually figure out and retain the context itself, without being given detailed instructions every time, and do so reliably.

Boosters: But look, in this specific case it sort of does that.

Detractors: But not in my case.

Boosters: you're just using it wrong. There must be something wrong with your prompting strategy or how you manage context.

etc etc etc...
by machomaster | 2025-11-28 15:24:24+00:00
3. I love product, but don't have an incentive to spend my time and sharing my experience for nothing.

It's not like this is an AI slop with no valuable unique information with the sole point of SEOing into visitors clicking on links.

The guy made his research, chose the best (not the most expensive, in order to maximize price) components and shared direct links (thus also making it easier for readers, who don't have only names that they would have to google themselves).

I see no problem in that so much so that I wouldn't even require a separate "I use affiliate links" caveats. This is useless info akin to "this website displays ads in order to be alive".
by turlockmike | 2025-11-28 15:24:28+00:00
I believe in a very practical definition of AGI. AGI is a system capable of RSI. Why? Because it mimics humans. We have some behaviours that are given to us from birth, but the real power of humans is our ability to learn and improve ourselves and the environment around us.

A system capable of self improvement will be sufficient for AGI imo.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-28 15:24:47+00:00
I'd expect to see this type of fee for non-citizens a lot more. The US is saying a $100 fee for non-citizens to enter national parks will start next year. For the Louvre, I'd be willing to give benefit of the doubt that it's a budgetary decision. For the US though with the current administration, there's always a bit of question if the budgetary reason isn't just a mask for the true intention
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-28 15:25:00+00:00
The race is to be the first to make a self-improving model (and have the infrastructure it will demand).

This is a winner-takes-all game, that stands a real chance of being the last winner-takes-all game humans will ever play. Given that, the only two choices are either throw everything you can at becoming the winner, or to sit out and hope no one wins.

The labs know that substantial losses will be had, they aren't investing in this to get a return, they are investing in it to be the winner. The losers will all be financially obliterated (and whoever sat out will be irrelevant).

I doubt they are sweating to hard though, because it seems overwhelmingly likely that most people would pay >$75/mo for LLM inference monthly (similar to cell phone costs), and at that rate without going hard on training, the models are absolute money printers.
by dig1 | 2025-11-28 15:25:08+00:00
And don’t hesitate to use a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) if all you need is to run java/jvm applications - assuming the application doesn’t already ship with its own runtime. A JDK is roughly 140 MB, while a JRE is about 60 MB (and can be further minimized). I’ve seen installations of the full OpenJDK just to run apps, which is unnecessary in most cases.
by maverwa | 2025-11-28 15:25:52+00:00
if you are in the business of buying parts, assembling them, and selling the assembly under your brand (as tuxedo and others like them are), then Apple is a indeed not an option. Their chips might be the best, but you still can only get them in Apple devices, in the specs Apple provides and with no official support for any OS beside macOS / iOS.
by moralestapia | 2025-11-28 15:26:49+00:00
Nothing new here, just nepo as old as time.

Perhaps the scale is unprecedented, or it's always been like this it's just much less concealed these days.

Absolute retards can waste trillions of dollars on stupid ideas, because they're in the in group. Next door someone who's worked their whole life gets evicted because their mortgage is now way more of what they make in salary.

Sucks to be in the out group!
by fortran77 | 2025-11-28 15:27:14+00:00
When I worked for a big Hollywood media conglomerate, there was a project to detect cameras in theaters. (There was a piracy problem where people would record the movie on a camcorder). It worked by detecting the IR filter that’s in front of the CMOS detector in almost all cameras. It’s a retroreflector for UV range. Shine a UV light to the audience and look for spots of light. I’d imagine this would work for cameras in any darkened environment even today.