MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jameslk | 2025-11-06 19:14:42+00:00
It may be viewed that way, but it’s also useful to empathize with someone and get more detail/nuance that can’t be conveyed simply over text. Especially when someone is not happy.

I usually do the same thing when the medium is text and someone is not happy. Tone conveys a lot of useful information. Even better if you can see a person and their body language.

I don’t think the cynical view of the staff person’s intentions is fair, though I don’t know the person’s history nor do I have dog in this fight.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-06 19:16:03+00:00
So how many books have you given to kids in remote places in the 3rd world?

This sort of arrogance where suddenly everyone remembers all reasons why some technology is bad once the "poor masses" get it (while they themselves had the technology for years), is hypocritical and frustrating.

The reality is that getting online makes a massive difference for someone in some remote poor area. Not just in terms of education but also economically.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-06 19:16:31+00:00
Well, to me the EV conversion push, which undeniably exists and has many government policies supporting it, does represent an agenda, and that agenda is "Cars Über Alles". The obviously more practical approach to the problem is to support the conversion of transportation demand to less energy-intensive modes such as trains, buses, bicycles, and feet. It isn't very practical to say we're all going to have an EV and we'll have plenty of megawatt-scale chargers for everyone.
by tgtweak | 2025-11-06 19:16:40+00:00
Overall, democratization of utility and finance is great, but this article is so inconsistent with the pricing and statements it really reads like a sycophantic llm wrote the entire thing.

Here is the actual numbers from Sun King on their entry level system (Home Plus):

Basic (dc-only) panel for lighting and cellular/usb use:

Lighting: 1 x 240-lumen LED tube light, 2 x 120-lumen LED hanging lights. Up to 43 hours of light on a single charge on low-power mode Battery: 3.2 V, 19.2 Wh lithium ferro-phosphate (LFP) battery. 10-year battery lifespan with typical daily use (over 2,500 cycles) Solar: 7 Wp, 9 V solar panel with 8-metre rodent-resistant cable Output ports: 2 x 12 V DC output ports for lighting (550 mA max. total), 1 x USB-A phone charging port (5 V, 1 A)

>₦2,000 per week ($1.39 USD/week) x 60 weekly payments, ₦3,500 down payment ($2.43 USD) = $85.83 =~ 20kWh over that 60 week period (Just over 1 year), over 10 years = ~200 kWh... ~$0.429/kWh (reasonable given the lighting hardware is included, and the only thing that should need changing during that time is the lfp battery which the price is dropping very quickly on).

Larger dc system:

Home 500X + Pedestal Fan

Lighting: 4 x LED tube lights with individual wall switches, 200 lumen per tube light on max setting, 20 times brighter than a kerosene lamp, One motion-sensing 100 lumen security lamp Battery: 141 Wh lithium-ion NMC battery, Up to 19 hours of runtime on low power mode. 5-year battery lifespan with typical daily use Solar: 50 W, polycrystalline solar panel with aluminium frame and a 6 m cable Charging Ports: 2 x 5 V/1.8 A USB ports for charging mobile devices, 4 x 12 V(+/-3 V) ports. One port is specially designed to power Sun King DC appliances

>₦5,600 per week ($3.82 USD/week) x 60 weekly payments, ₦15,500 down payment ($10.78 USD) = $239.98 =~ 147kWh over that 60 week period (Just over 1 year), over 10 years = ~1300 kWh... ~$0.184/kWh (again very reasonable given the lighting hardware is included, and again the nmc battery at 5 years which the price and quality of is improving very quickly on).

So yes, this does seem pretty viable in terms of Upfront, TCO and payment options.
by gethly | 2025-11-06 19:16:58+00:00
> AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine

Yes, this has been issue for for many content creators. I predict that because of this, a lot of internet will get behind a paywall. I run one, so I hope the future is bright, but overall this is very bad for the internet because it was never intended to be used this way. Sure, it will be great for users to save unimaginable amount of time searching manually, but if websites lose traffic, well...that is the end of the internet as we know it.
by wry_discontent | 2025-11-06 19:17:31+00:00
I mean I hate low effort slop that's pushed from every vaguely technical source and tells me it's great. It's very clearly junk.

I think what people hate is the sense of quality degradation. Everything feels cheap. Everything feels like it's meant to be consumed in the next 20 seconds, and then forgotten about. People want stuff that doesn't suck.
by DatMule | 2025-11-06 19:17:43+00:00
Synthetic or not, Folding entire windows OS into 2Kb for example Must present opportunities for a massive reduction in energy useage one would think? no? and additional to that would 25-30% energy savings overall combined with 60% BW needs reduced while improving speeds without interacting with licensed data or losing performance? could that not provide grid savings in the Terrawatt hours? any interest in turning your cloud into a fine spring morning refreshing mist? what if it only cost you 60% of your savings? RMG@Datamolecular.com IoT-EFR and more.
by bluGill | 2025-11-06 19:18:16+00:00
The supply chain attack always existed. C because it didn't have a package manager made it slightly harder in that a dependency wouldn't be automatically updated, while Rust can do that. However this is very slight - in linux many people use libraries from a package manager which gets updated when there is a new release - it wouldn't be hard to get a bad update into a package (xz did that).

If you have packages that don't come from a package manager - windows install, phone installs, snap, docker, flatpack, and likely more you have a different risk - a library may not have been updated and so you are vulnerable to a known flaw.

There is no good/easy answer to supply chain risk. It is slightly different on Rust because you can take the latest if you want (but there is plenty of ability to stay with an older release if you want), but this it doesn't move the needle on overall risk.
by timenotwasted | 2025-11-06 19:18:19+00:00
"It’s to help people find work that feels easy for them — not necessarily work they already know how to do, but work that feels obvious for them to get done by whatever means possible"

Having worked across the spectrum of big co. and startups this is much easier to do from a startup/small co. perspective. The larger the company gets the less likely this is going to be the case even for the ones that are more amenable to shifting folks around regularly. The Venn diagram of fulfilling work and the team that you're on gets further spread the larger the company you're on and will change rapidly on you.
by prerok | 2025-11-06 19:18:46+00:00
Reply to self: it seems I was wrong and veal, venison, etc. have roots in Old French, which has influenced Old English through Normandic invasion.

Still, I stand by my assessment: while it's clear that influences are there to some of the words, it's clearly more germanic. Just as we say today that French is a romanic language and English is germanic. I see no evidence here to counter this common classification.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-06 19:18:56+00:00
The Langlands Program is a research program not a single mathematical problem. It consists of many open conjectures with various levels of progress toward them. However, I think it's quite a victory that the goal posts have moved from "LLMs can't solve problems" to "LLMs probably can't solve all open conjectures in Langlands Program in one shot.

But as I said way up above, if you have the statement of any particular problem you can just use the function that evaluates proofs as your objective function. If you were to do this in Lean, for example, you'd get compiler output that contains information you can use to see if you're on the right track.

In addition to the output of the proof program you'd probably want to score sub-computations in the proof as metrics. E.g. if you want to show that a map has finite fibers, you may want to record the size of the fibers, or a max over the size. If you need to know an element is not contained in some Levi subgroup then you may want to record information about the relevant Levi decomposition. This mimics things that humans know to score their progress as they're doing computations.
by kenhwang | 2025-11-06 19:19:01+00:00
That's ticketing. There's plenty of listings on RA that don't use RA's ticketing service.

Large promoters that use or have exclusivity deals with AXS or Ticketmaster/LiveNation or Dice still advertise/promote on platforms like Facebook/Instagram, EDM Train, Radiate, etc alongside the ticketing platform's promotion platforms.
by larkost | 2025-11-06 19:19:29+00:00
I think you need to show evidence that this is a power U.S. Presidents have. As much as I dislike most of the drone strikes the U.S. has conducted in the "war on terror" in the Middle East (and think some of them are war crimes), that actually does have specific Congressional approval.

This military action in the Caribbean does not have that approval, and I don't think there is any way of categorizing the smuggling of drugs as a part of terrorism. Bad and illegal, and worthy of policing, yes. Terrorism, no.

And to be even more specific: I think that there is good evidence that in many countries the drug cartels are committing terroristic acts in many South American countries in order to force the populations there to accede to them. But those are in those countries, and are not directed at the United States. And blowing up boats that the U.S. suspects are carrying narcotics (sometimes not even on their way to the U.S.), is not fighting that terrorism.
by kazinator | 2025-11-06 19:19:42+00:00
It seems that archive.is often has the full article for sites that are completely paywalled to every non-paying visitor: no cookie-driven freebies, nothing.

Publicly revealing everything they are doing would be a strategically bad idea, obviously.

It's not inconceivable that they actually pay for access to some of the sites; it wouldn't be surprising.
by repelsteeltje | 2025-11-06 19:20:06+00:00
Ah. You're right, I phrased that ambiguously, sorry.

I meant to point out that there is no apple native cloud solution where you can run swift on apple hardware.

So if your iOS app needs to talk to a backend that you want to develop and host, you need to run that backend on an OS with cloud support, like Linux, some other Unix or windows. But not macOS or some other "Apple cloud" hosting.

For reasons stated above, you might in that case choose Swift.
by superxpro12 | 2025-11-06 19:20:13+00:00
Bit banging is software emulation of a communication protocol or digital waveform (PWM, etc). Using the 'bit-bang' label applies when software was written to implement the waveform. If its using a cpu, or co-processor, is irrelevant IMO because in either case instruction are still being executed to generate the waveform.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-06 19:20:32+00:00
All you are guarding against here is some bits in a machine. Knowledge can be embedded in other substrate, other medium. Acquired by more actions than reading social media.

IMO what you really mean is "I should be free to sit and surf the web secure in my belief others are acting properly, while subsisting on externalized labor that props up my biology".

Asimov and countless others highlight this difference between being a passive reader of others ideas as orthogonal to knowledge acquisition. If you aren't conducting the experiments you acquired nothing but memory of someone else telling a story.

4% in the US hunt now. So to get people living rather than acquiescing, all you office drones are going to have to learn your way out of helplessness. Go acquire knowledge of how to grow a potato.

You won't because you don't want to acquire knowledge. You want the world to gift you knowledge and experience through as little effort of your own as possible. Typical American capitalist. 8 billion across the globe aren't that impressed by 300 millions obvious grift.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-06 19:20:36+00:00
> Another private investigation from 2024 comes to a different conclusion. It names a software developer from New York as the alleged operator. According to this investigation, following the trail to Eastern Europe proved to be a red herring.

Any pointers to what this "private investigation" is? The other linked blog pointing to Russia (or at least a Russian) seems pretty convincing:

https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-...
by cestith | 2025-11-06 19:20:43+00:00
Latin and various forms of French are bigger contributors to overall vocabulary than German and Dutch. It does seem to me that much of the core vocabulary day to day or that would be used in a pidgin of English by word use frequency is more Germanic, but I personally don’t know of a study showing that.

And yes, certain situations do tend to favor the Germanic portions to include especially coarser words.
by diptanu | 2025-11-06 19:20:47+00:00
Hey! I am the founder of Tensorlake. We benchmarked the models that our customers consider using in enterprises or regulated industries where there is a big need for processing documents for various automation. Benchmarking takes a lot of time so we focussed on the ones that we get asked about.

On Gemini and other VLMs - we excluded these models because they don't do visual grounding - aka they don't provide page layouts, bounding boxes of elements on the pages. This is a table stakes feature for use-cases customers are building with Tensorlake. It wouldn't be possible to build citations without bounding boxes.

On pricing - we are probably the only company offer a pure on-demand pricing without any tiers. With Tensorlake, you can get back markdown from every page, summaries of figures, tables and charts, structured data, page classification, etc - in ONE api call. This means we are running a bunch of different models under the hood. If you add up the token count, and complexity of infrastructure to build a complex pipeline around Gemini, and other OCR/Layout detection model I bet the price you would end up with won't be any cheaper than what we provide :) Plus doing this at scale is very very complex - it requires building a lot of sophisticated infrastructure - another source of cost behind modern Document Ingestion services.
by tmtvl | 2025-11-06 19:20:49+00:00
> a vending machine

It gave me orange. I wanted lemon-lime. Another one swallowed my coins.

But to be pragmatic, many tasks need more than one thing to be done (I think most of us compose our e-mail in a program which sends said e-mail out as well, for example), so the inflexible tools can be insufficiently convenient at times.

Also, consider the humble scissors. They do one thing and do it well unless they're the wrong handedness. Try using a right-handed pair with your left hand, it's terribly unwieldy.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-06 19:20:57+00:00
There's also the asymmetry that a Danish podcaster felt it necessary to talk about the English-speaking American Charlie Kirk, whereas I struggle to think of a time I've listened to an English-language podcast about a Danish poltical figure.

The popularity of English has little or nothing to do with any facts about how its grammatical system works, and a lot to do with the geopolitical situation of the past few centuries where the UK and then the US were globally important powers.
by vel0city | 2025-11-06 19:21:34+00:00
Why don't they argue boats loaded with strange cargo hauling ass in the middle of the ocean is probably a drug boat instead of suggesting all boats with four outboard engines can't possibly be a fishing boat? Go to any docks on the Gulf Coast, you'll find tons of four-engine fishing boats. Or are those all used for narcotics smuggling?

I'm not arguing they're definitely not drug boats. They likely are! But the person I replied to suggested all boats with four outboard engines are likely drug boats, which is absurd.
by oritron | 2025-11-06 19:21:43+00:00
Most of my current-gen IKEA switches will pop out from their steel cradles with normal button presses, because of the curved back of the switch and the curved cradle it connects to magnetically. They've thrown in die-cut double sided adhesive tissue in what I assume was an afterthought, which doesn't peel from one backer sheet in any of the packages I've opened... Maybe it's humidity or temperature sensitive? After a couple of drops on the ground, some internal plastic cracks and tactile response is lost. I ended up using my own double sided tape but it's not a good user experience. I would bet the new switches don't have a curved back, certainly they've had a number of returns because of this aesthetic choice.

I don't care at all about Thread vs Zigbee (this press release doesn't actually say Thread), beyond the very basics in smart home things you want a computer involved and at that point the way it communicates stops being a big concern. I strongly recommend Home Assistant on a low spec mini pc, beats a Raspberry Pi in ~every metric for this use case.

I've been burned by trusting Matter to mean broad compatability; my Aqara lock doesn't indicate how the door was unlocked over Matter despite showing up in their app, and this is after having to buy their Zigbee bridge because it won't connect to Zigbee devices from other brands. Even with Matter, home automation still needs a geek.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-06 19:23:00+00:00
> I guess if the USPS/Fedex knew for a fact (such as your website request) that you were communicating CP, the. they should do something about it?

That is often the case, but it's also not the relevant part, because consider what happens if you do that. I mean it's the same thing that happens with parcel carriers -- everybody's package ends up in an opaque brown box and the carrier has no means to determine if it's contraband. They just weigh it and deliver it, which is what they're supposed to do, because they're not the police.

And so it is with ISPs. What happens if you make them block stuff people actually want? TLS, third party DNS, VPNs, etc.

At that point you have to answer a different question: Should they be obligated to open and censor your mail?

No. The answer is no.
by estearum | 2025-11-06 19:23:24+00:00
That's a whole lot of words to state two extremely simple, extremely ridiculous positions:

1. Any government agency can be construe to hold power over any private party, therefore no government agency can make a request without an overtone of coercion, so therefore no government agency can make a request. I know you don't acknowledge you're making this argument, but you de facto are.

2. The government's general warnings about cyber and misinformation threats priming content moderators such that they misfired on a specific decision without any government input whatsoever (never mind coercion or threat!) is tantamount to collusion to suppress speech.

Can't find other words than: extremely ridiculous.
by cweagans | 2025-11-06 19:23:27+00:00
I _could_ also just write API endpoints and handle client-side interaction however I want. If your preferences are incompatible with mine, that's a tradeoff I'm choosing to make. I am doing the work, you see, and I can choose how I want to do it.

You ostensibly run some flavor of Linux. Do you also complain that macOS apps don't run on your machine? It seems to me like a similar argument: somebody has developed an application in some particular way, but your choices have resulted in that application not running on your machine. Your choices are not necessarily _wrong_, but they are of very little consequence to somebody who has developed an application with a particular environment/runtime in mind. Why should they have to make significant architectural changes to their application to support your non-standard choices?
by bluGill | 2025-11-06 19:24:03+00:00
Who will refer me when I find my first issue. this might be a critical thing that should be top priority, but because nobody knows me and I don't know anyone else you just put me to the bottom. Meanwhile someone evil figures out the same problem and a week latter you discover the "zero day" that was causing so many problems for you was in fact reported earlier.

There is also the possibility that in trying to get someone to refer me I give enough details that the trusted person can submit instead of me and claim credit.
by duxup | 2025-11-06 19:24:14+00:00
> analyzing your camera roll. Using deep learning, it then surfaces a few highly relevant profiles each day, which should lead to more compatible matches.

How would this work? It identifies just objects / places that imply interests?

Sounds like a blackbox that assumes I want to ski ... because some pics look "like" skiing or something. Or tries to say connect someone with their ex or people who look like their ex ...

Granted I suspect this is just AI for their sake / identifying faces and collecting mass data ...
by MengerSponge | 2025-11-06 19:24:21+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo

s/ROI/AGI/

It's fiction, but not really. Many companies aren't trying to run profitable businesses that create value for their customers and execute well. They're trying to make a f~*!ton of money all at once.

AI is great if you're trying to surf a bubble and cash out! You don't have to do anything real! You can lose money with an impossible financial outlook, but AGI!
by serial_dev | 2025-11-06 19:24:58+00:00
Personal anecdote but I almost never use these archive sites to bypass paywalls. I only use it when I want to see how establishment news sites somehow sometimes accidentally tell the truth, then, when they get the call, they try to purge their original reporting. Again, it might be my personal bias, but in my opinion, this is the main reason they are going after them. Because these websites let people prove the hypocrisy and the lies.
by mindslight | 2025-11-06 19:25:01+00:00
Restating my disclaimer of "It's been a while since I've studied the details of voting systems"...

> ranked voting methods ... can fail IIA even with no strategy applied, just by changing an irrelevant alternative.

Can you clarify whether you're referring to some ranked methods (eg IRV), or all ranked methods (ie including ranked pairs) ?

> that's not under or oversold, it's just measured performance.

Isn't this due to defining "performance" in a way that is congruent with Approval (/ Score) ? A quick skim of that VSE page has it talking about "utility", which I would imagine is a scalar per candidate representing "happiness" ?

The problem I have with Approval is that coming from our two-terrible-party system - do I Approve my latent terrible party or not? That choice seems purely down to strategy, compared to being able to rank them to say I completely prefer the new party/candidate over my latent terrible party, and my latent terrible party over the other latent terrible party. The dynamic also seems exacerbated knowing there will be a lot of people who continue to vote exactly as they did under plurality.
by oaiey | 2025-11-06 19:25:15+00:00
A lot of good news recently for swift. I am a bit jealous as my go to language C# / .NET is recently not announcing fancy things.

I really like swift going beyond Apple. Particularly the port to android is IMHO crucial, however, now they are in the UI cross platform hell. Let us see if Apple is playing this better than Microsoft. Unfortunately, I have little hope. The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are react native and flutter which are both UI toolkits first and language second. Which I find gruesome.