MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toyg | 2025-11-12 16:02:12+00:00
> certainly excluded Farage as much as they could for the longest possible time

This is a narrative. Reality is something else. These stats are from June of last year; by that point, Farage (leader of a party with barely an MP for most of the past decade) had been invited more often than SNP leader Alex Salmond, who was literally in power and ruling over dozens of MPs. https://theconversation.com/bbc-question-time-analysis-of-gu...
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-12 16:02:45+00:00
I've heard they're unreliable and expensive. I don't fast charge much, but when I do I usually just hit a Tesla station and use the NACS adapter for my Polestar.

Electrify Canada was overall the best experience, though. No nonsense with installing a stupid custom app and setting up an account. Just tap credit card and go. Got full 150kW that my car can take. No hassle. Ate a burrito and returned to 80%.
by brightball | 2025-11-12 16:02:51+00:00
Sure. The number 1 thing to understand is that without a clearly defined cause or even a hint of contributory factors for autism (think everything caused cancer or X may increase your risk of heart disease), there is an information vacuum.

Based on that people are left to speculate as to what influences appear to be probable on their own. One of the simplest correlations to make is of course, the sheer volume of vaccines on the schedule and whether the combined effect is creating any impact.

My wife and I went far beyond that and did speak to a retired OB who shared his own career observations with us. His explanation was that people naturally filter heavy metals, like aluminum, out of their systems but some people do it slower than others. Since aluminum is used in many vaccines, he recommended spreading them out to reduce the stress on the body to filter it out.

He went on to explain that he eventually started testing pregnant mothers and identified that when the high levels were often present in the mother, then many children ended up with the same issue. He started recommending a specific prenatal regiment to the expecting mothers to help correct it. Would even go as far as testing couples who were planning to try to have a baby before they were even pregnant.

Very kind man.
by orochimaaru | 2025-11-12 16:02:53+00:00
AI is trained off Reddit and other social media. If most portrayal in social media of women and girls is (and men for that matter) is biased towards certain activities - that’s what AI is going to spit out. AI doesn’t think.

Is this right or wrong is the incorrect question - because AI doesn’t understand bias or morality. It needs to be taught and it’s being taught from heavily biased sources.

You should be able to craft prompt and guardrails to not have it do that. Just expecting it to behave that way is naive - if you have ever looked deeper into how AI is trained.

The big question is - what solutions exist to train it differently with a large enough corpus of public or private/paid for data.

Fwiw - I’m the father of two girls whom I have advised to stay off social media completely because it’s unhealthy. So far they have understood why.
by perihelions | 2025-11-12 16:03:33+00:00
Also an HN thread,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45886479 ("Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans (oup.com)"—1 day ago, 72 comments)

(The new $300 iPhone thong is made of PET (polyester), so, it's reassuring to know the universe does have the capability to unmake those).
by alerighi | 2025-11-12 16:03:55+00:00
I think because it cost money and they get little benefit on doing so.

Major platform like Netflix etc. don't implement that DRM since they care, it's because they content they distribute requires that they employ that measures, otherwise who produces the content doesn't give it to them. Content on YouTube does not have this requirement.

Also: implementing a strict DRM on all videos is probably bad for their reputation. That would restrict the devices that are able to play YouTube, and probably move a lot of content creators on other platforms that does not implement these requirements.
by rramadass | 2025-11-12 16:04:06+00:00
Addendum to above:

I just remembered Kry10 OS which runs Erlang/Elixir on seL4 microkernel - https://www.kry10.com/ Checkout the technical overview paper at https://www.kry10.com/get-started

Some excellent videos linked to from https://elixirforum.com/t/kry10-a-robust-and-secure-os-for-t...

Kry10 Secure Platform - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5BaoB24eA

The Kry10 Operating System: Security and the BEAM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ncI0I5uxJ4

seL4 and BEAM, a match made in Erlang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owmvgUwBlJ0
by kccqzy | 2025-11-12 16:04:19+00:00
One issue GP may be referring to is the bifurcation of video viewing tools and video editing tools. There are excellent video editing tools: on the desktop from paid ones like Premiere to free (as in beer) ones like DaVinci Resolve, not to mention mobile apps behind the TikTok culture. There are also excellent and built-in video players in every browser and every OS.

But in the modern age viewing and editing a video are seen as two entirely separate tasks. You simply do not expect the video player that comes with the OS to cut, copy, and paste videos, even though cut, copy, and paste are basic OS-level features. This is very much different from the experience of almost all other kinds of files. You use Microsoft word to view and edit your word processing documents. Or if you aren’t fancy you use notepad to view and edit your plain text documents. These text documents easily allow cut, copy, and paste.
by Mistletoe | 2025-11-12 16:05:14+00:00
It seems that eating one serving a day is fine. Everything has trace levels of metals. Rice has high arsenic but it doesn’t seem to affect the longevity of the Japanese. Here is a summary from one paper that tested lots of chocolate.

> This indicates that heavy metal contamination—in more than half of products tested—may not pose any appreciable risk for the average person when consumed as a single serving; however, consuming some of the products tested, or more than one serving per day in combination with non-cocoa derived sources heavy metals, may add up to exposure that would exceed the Prop 65 MADLs. Notably, “organic” products were significantly more likely to demonstrate higher levels of both Cd and Pb.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11321977/

The organic part is interesting and something most people probably don’t realize. I used to grow medical marijuana for a living and the people that failed their heavy metals testing were always growers that grew organic. The metals bioaccumulate and when you use manure or fish meal or whatever you are increasing the heavy metal content of your crop compared to using pure synthetic fertilizer, which has much lower trace metal contamination.
by armoredkitten | 2025-11-12 16:05:39+00:00
I went to the UK this summer and followed this guide for seeing the various sections of the wall: https://londonmymind.com/london-wall-walk/

Unfortunately it didn't mention the section in that carpark! But I can attest that the section behind the Leonardo Royal Hotel is amazing. I also recommend the tower remains on the Barbican estate (and really, just wander around the Barbican for a while, it's a wild place in general).
by tingfirst | 2025-11-12 16:05:54+00:00
All streaming processors face the same fundamental problem:

Streaming joins require maintaining state for both sides of the join

High-cardinality data (millions of unique keys) means huge state sizes

Traditional approach: Keep everything in memory will make memory exhausted

The high-cardinality join memory problem isn't unique to Timeplus. Apache Flink also uses hybrid hash joins that spill to disk (RocksDB) when memory fills, Materialize shares indexed state across multiple queries (but still requires keeping full datasets in memory), and RisingWave stores state in cloud object storage (S3/GCS) with LRU caching for hot data. What makes Timeplus different is its purpose-built optimization for the Pareto Principle, where a tiny fraction of data generates the vast majority of activity - keeping hot data in memory and cold data on disk for dramatic memory savings.
by theturtlemoves | 2025-11-12 16:06:04+00:00
Well a banana is a thing. You can have ten bananas in stock. You don't have ten softwares in stock. Unless you put it on a carrier and sell it one at a time, like a painting. Software is quite unique when you go the subscription route. What is it you're buying, really? You're buying human labor that was automated, so you don't pay for the labor, but for not having to hire someone. That makes it so unique...
by jeingham | 2025-11-12 16:06:20+00:00
... is because I parlayed my CAD CAM and CNC knowledge into my follow on career as an web applications manager, server admin (of sorts), DBA and general web wonk midwitz.

I'll add that I am still, in my state of semi blissful retirement, clattering away on my several PCs and really having fun with AI, Cursor, HN and other geeky (can we say that anymore?) stuffs.

I guess I'll end by advising that to fight evolution is a bad bet.
by Noaidi | 2025-11-12 16:06:25+00:00
To show harm they need the proof, this is the point of the lawsuit. They have sufficient evidence that OpenAI was scraping the web and the NY Times.

When Altman says "They claim they might find examples of you using ChatGPT to try to get around their paywall." he is blatantly misrepresenting the case.

https://smithhopen.com/2025/07/17/nyt-v-openai-microsoft-ai-...

"The lawsuit focuses on using copyrighted material for AI training. The NYT says OpenAI and Microsoft copied vast amounts of its content. They did this to build generative AI tools. These tools can output near-exact copies of NYT articles. Therefore, the NYT argues this breaks copyright laws. It also hurts journalism by skipping paywalls and cutting traffic to original sites. The complaint shows examples where ChatGPT mimics NYT stories closely. This could lead to money loss and harm from AI errors, called hallucinations."

This has nothing to do with the users, it has everything to do with OpenAI profiting off of pirated copyrighted material.

Also, Altmans is getting scared because the NY Times proved to the judge that CahtGPT copied many articles:

"2025 brings big steps in the case. On March 26, 2025, Judge Sidney Stein rejected most of OpenAI’s dismissal motion. This lets the NYT’s main copyright claims go ahead. The judge pointed to “many” examples of ChatGPT copying NYT articles. He found them enough to continue. This ruling dropped some side claims, like unfair competition. But it kept direct and contributory infringement, plus DMCA breaches."
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-12 16:07:24+00:00
Yep. No matter what industry, you cannot make a miracle product that accounts for every use case and is amazing at everything. You can burn trillions trying and still come up short.

The better way is focused products/specialization. Make something that fills a specific niche very well at a good price.

You'll might need more products to get complete (or close to complete) coverage, but you'll end up paying FAR less in the long run on R&D, maintenance, delays, etc.
by CSSer | 2025-11-12 16:08:07+00:00
For GP's sake, even before you make it to FYPM levels of angry, you will be in over your head. It's too much work. I remember being very early in my career and feeling like GP does. This is very easily more than a full-time job. The demands people will make of you and the attitudes they will use to do it will make you crazy.
by freejazz | 2025-11-12 16:08:27+00:00
>By the same token, why isn't NYT proposing something like that rather than the world's largest random sampling?

It's OpenAI's data, there is a protective order in the case and OpenAI already agreed to anonymize it all.

>Part of OpenAI holding up their side of the bargain on user data, to the extent they do, is that they don't roll over like a beaten dog to accommodate unconditional discovery requests.

lol... what?
by georgeecollins | 2025-11-12 16:08:32+00:00
In Los Angeles it is still there, particularly at the fancy grocery stores. More visibly you see it on some restaurant menus.

I have lived through enough food trends in my life to suspect if something is popular in California it gets popular everywhere. I don't know if that will be Impossible, I mean just meat substitutes.

Also, I think this is one of those trends where people think the change will happen in 2-5 years but really its more like 10-20. There are a lot of good reasons for meat substitutes.
by fragmede | 2025-11-12 16:08:33+00:00
Okay, if you want me to write more...

The direction we're headed, humanity is going to become utterly isolated pods, never interacting. We're going to end up with humanity being one rich dude, a staff of robots, and some humans under his patronage. The other bit of humanity is a rich woman, with a staff of robots, and some humans under her patronage, because nobody can deal with there being other humans that are as gross and sloppy and suck, just as much as they do.

Relationships are hard. They're a lot of work. Not just romantic relationships, but all other kinds of relationships: family, friendship, mentorship, chosen family, colleague, manager, mentee, client, neighbor, teammate, student, citizen, creative partner, audience. Instead of having any kind of relationship with people, I can just hide away, work remote, become hikikomori.

Where does that leave humanity? As Ms Deejay says, do you think you're better off alone?

Because individual humans no long need to coexist with their neighbors, it means the best and worst will flourish. For every supportive person that accepts gay people, there's another person that wants to stone them. Interacting with lots of other people is the only way to develop nuanced opinions of groups of other people, and without any kind of forced interaction, there won't be any, further isolating everybody from everyone else.
by antegamisou | 2025-11-12 16:08:40+00:00
And what's the end result? All one can see is just bigger representation of those who confidently subscribe to false information and become arrogant when their validity is questioned, as the LLM writing style has convinced them it's some sort of authority. Even people on this website are so misinformed to believe that ChatGPT has developed its own reasoning, despite it being at the core an advanced learning algorithm trained on a enormous amount of human generated data.

And let's not speak about those so deep into sloth that put it into use to deteriorate, and not augment as they claim to do, humane creative recreational activities.

https://archive.ph/fg7HE
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-12 16:08:42+00:00
To me what you're saying is akin to "I see no evidence lab grown food is healthier than real food, so people under famine and malnourishment should instead wait for someone to give them aid instead of eat lab grown food".

I don't think AI can replace mental health treatment or human relationships. But it might be a viable stop-gap. It's like tom hanks talking to "Wilson" the volleyball when he was stuck on island in "cast away". Yeah, it's weird, but it helped him survive and cope until he was rescued. I want these people struggling with mental health to survive and cope until they get real help some day. I want less suicides, less people contracting chronic illnesses,etc.. and to hell with any "appearances" of weirdness or stigma.
by TFYS | 2025-11-12 16:09:10+00:00
Despite what the free market religion has been telling for decades, we actually don't live in little parallel universes that don't affect each other. Even putting yoghurt on pizza has on effect on the world, not just the individual doing it. Not understanding this is what'll be the end of humanity. AI girl/boyfriends will have a huge effect on society, we should think hard before doing things like that. Slightly slower technological progress is not as disastrous as fast progress gone wrong.
by cowpig | 2025-11-12 16:09:30+00:00
If there's one thing I've learned about Sam Altman it's that he's a shrewd political manipulator and every public move is in service of a hidden agenda[1]. What is it here?

- Is it part of a slow process of eroding public expectations of data privacy while blaming it on an external actor?

- Is it to undermine trust in traditional media, in an effort to increase dependence on AI companies as a source of truth?

- Is something else I'm not seeing?

I'm guessing it's all three of these?

[1] Those emails that came up in the suit with Elon Musk, followed by his eventual complete takeover of OpenAI, and the elaborate process of getting himself installed as chairman of the Reddit board to get the original founders back in control are prominent examples.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-12 16:09:31+00:00
> but that was a pretty good time to be a Windows developer if you bought in

I did, it was great. Very apple-esque in a way. As long as you stayed in Microsoft's garden, you had a good time. Microsoft had, at the time, one of if not the most productive stack to build GUI desktop line of business apps. If your whole org was Microsoft from top to bottom, even better. AD auth in your desktop app in a couple of lines.

It was an expensive stack for sure, but I'd argue there's still nothing that has come close to it if you want to build an enterprise desktop app.
by mvkel | 2025-11-12 16:09:37+00:00
The current VC climate is interesting. It's virtually impossible to raise a new fund because DPI has been 0% for over a decade and four-digit IRR is cool, but illiquid.

So they're piling gobs of capital into an "AI" company with four customers with the hope that it is the one that becomes the home run (they know it won't, but LPs give you money to deploy it!)

It also means that companies like Yann's potential new one have the best chance in history of being funded, and that's a great thing.

P.S. all VCs outside the top-10 lose against the S&P. While I love that dumb capital is being injected into big, risky bets, surely the other shoe will drop at some point. Or is this just wealth redistribution with extra steps?
by jamesgill | 2025-11-12 16:10:39+00:00
Thanks, adding an example output is a good idea.

I use it to customize my resume for each application, and this is an easy way for me to customize my 'source' then output files to share. Most folks I know do the same thing.

I've hired, but I'm no expert in hiring. Everyone does it differently, but I think this tool outputs ATS-friendly files, which is where most resumes go first these days.
by JOBSTOROBOTS | 2025-11-12 16:10:42+00:00
ROBOECONOMY

Concept:

A next-generation accounting application for managing robotic assets. Accounting for Robots is a non-accountant’s app built as part of the ROBOECONOMY ecosystem. Users don’t keep books manually—they run their robot business with an intelligent assistant that handles routine work, analysis, and decision-making.

Market: 300–400 million small and mid-sized businesses worldwide. Only 12% use robots today. Explosive growth is inevitable: a ~50% drop in prices and robot-as-a-service models are removing the last barriers. The cobot market is already growing 26% YoY. Market math: If just 1% of SMBs begin deploying robots over the next five years, that’s ~600,000 new customer companies per year. Problem: There’s no simple tool to track the money robots earn—or burn. This isn’t a niche. It’s the birth of a new industry.

Vision

ROBOECONOMY is an intelligent ecosystem for managing robotic businesses, where users don’t “do the books”—they manage assets with algorithms and AI. Core principle: Robots work — the app does the accounting. Minimal manual input, maximal automation. Users make strategic decisions; the system handles the operations.

Product Philosophy

An application for owners of robotic assets who are not accountants. We turn complex finance-plus-engineering analytics into a simple tool for managing profitability.

Key attributes

Intelligent — AI automates 80% of routine operations Transparent — full visibility into financial and technical processes Predictive — flags issues before they occur Integrated — one control point for the robot’s entire lifecycle Global — operates in any jurisdiction with local compliance in mind Social — community access, benchmarking, and a marketplace Simple — banking-app clarity, no pro jargon Functional Modules

1) AI Document Scanning & Recognition

What it does: Fully automates document processing—from a photo of a receipt to posting the data.

Supported document types:

Financial: invoices, bills, contracts, insurance policies Service: work completion reports, warranties, calibration certificates Regulatory: licences, permits, CE/FCC conformity certificates Operational: waybills, customs declarations, electricity bills Technical: damage reports, incident logs HR/Training: operator training records, software-update certificates Key capabilities:

Automatic data extraction (amounts, dates, counterparties) QR scanning on parts for spare-parts inventory Voice capture: “Add expense: filter replacement — €50” Auto-matching documents to transactions and specific robots Smart hints and document purpose explanations Duplicate/exception detection Expiry reminders Automation examples:

Receipt photo → auto-classified to Maintenance expenses Client service report → revenue recognized automatically Waybill → posted to Operational Expenses Outcome: Snap a document—everything else is automatic.
by alerighi | 2025-11-12 16:10:47+00:00
> Even further, there is technology to encrypt from server to screen. I'm not sure on the rollout on this one. I think we have a long time until this is implemented, and even then, I'm sure we will have the ability to buy screens that fake the encryption, and then let us record the signal. And, for mainstream media, there will be pirated copies until the end of time I think.

In the end, nobody will ever avoid people from having a camera pointed to a screen. At least till they can implant a description device in our brain, the stuff coming out of the screen can be recorded. Like in the past when people used to record movies at the cinema with cameras and upload them on emule. Sure, it would not be super high quality, but considering that is free compared to something you pay, who cares?

To me DRM is just a lost battle: while you can make it inconvenient to copy a media, people will always try to find a way. We used to pirate in the VHS era and that was not convenient, since you would have needed 2 VCR (quite expensive back then!) and it took the time of the whole movie to be copied.
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-12 16:11:14+00:00
In theory, it's as versatile as Python et al[0] but if you're using it for, e.g., serving bog-standard static pages over HTTP, you're very much using an industrial power hammer to apply screws to glass - you can probably make it work but people will look at you funny.

[0] Modulo that Python et al almost certainly have order(s) of magnitude more external libraries etc.
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-12 16:11:16+00:00
Its not really an outlier

If you think about Theranos, Magic leap, openai, anthropic they are all the same, one idea thats kinda plausible (well if you don't look too closely), have a slick demo, and well connected founders.

Much as a lot of people dislike LeCun (just look at the blind posts about him) he did run and setup a very successful team inside meta, well nominally at least.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-11-12 16:11:19+00:00
It's happened at least once, though in papal court not criminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

Though I would be surprised if not once in human history in some kangaroo court a dead person was put on trial for a crime.

edit: Here's one though it resulted in a mistrial

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