MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by comex | 2025-11-07 09:57:43+00:00
Apple’s PCC has an explicit design goal to mitigate your point 1, by designing the protocol such that the load balancer has to decide which physical server to route a request to without knowing which user made the request. If you compromise a single physical server, you will get a random sample of requests, but you can’t target any particular user, not even if you also compromise the load balancer. At least that’s the theory; see [1] under the heading “non-targetability”. I have no idea whether OpenPCC replicates this, but I have to imagine they would. The main issue is that you need large scale in order for the “random sample of requests” limitation to actually protect anyone.

[1]: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
by Bumper93 | 2025-11-07 09:57:50+00:00
Hey everyone! The first official release of Rapid Engine is out!

It comes with CoreGraph, a node-based programming language with 54 node types for variables, logic, loops, sprites, and more.

Also included: hitbox editor, text editor and a fully functional custom UI with the power of C and Raylib

Tested on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Binaries included
by mr_mitm | 2025-11-07 09:58:38+00:00
Maybe this helps: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...

My favorite quote:

> I like to think that, if I were not a professional cosmologist, I would still find it hard to believe that hundreds of cosmologists around the world have latched on to an idea that violates a bedrock principle of physics, simply because they “forgot” it. If the idea of dark energy were in conflict with some other much more fundamental principle, I suspect the theory would be a lot less popular.
by jonasdegendt | 2025-11-07 09:58:52+00:00
Went ahead and looked up the article, wild:

> FBI agents are devoting substantial resources to a multistate hunt for two baby piglets that the bureau believes are named Lucy and Ethel. The two piglets were removed over the summer from the Circle Four Farm in Utah by animal rights activists who had entered the Smithfield Foods-owned factory farm to film the brutal, torturous conditions in which the pigs are bred in order to be slaughtered.

> Rather than leave the two piglets at Circle Four Farm to wait for an imminent and painful death, the DxE activists decided to rescue them. They carried them out of the pens where they had been suffering and took them to an animal sanctuary to be treated and nursed back to health.

Your tax Dollars at work!
by mettamage | 2025-11-07 10:00:03+00:00
A few fun examples that I do as "data analyst" for the marketing department.

1. Writing my own graph/tree algorithms, so I can visualize traffic flows better than whatever Google offers, detecting key drop off points, bringing that to the relevant marketing people so they can come up with ways to combat it.

2. An email campaign needs to be sent out, but the key person that knew about it left. I dive in and realize the whole data source has been phased out. I go into the huge org I'm at, connect to the right people (my managers have no idea), get the access rights to the correct data source. The data engineer is on vacation, I dive into our Airflow project, look at how our dags are made, create my own dag + needed custom operators, and now the email campaign can be sent out, on time.

3. Someone asks me to research something with minimal information (regarding media spend and outcomes on that). So I go research it, turns out the conclusions are very sensitive. My colleague did the research before me and he looked at my conclusions and realized I came to the same realization. Together we come up with a strategy how to effectively communicate this such that these insights strenghten the marketing team. My analysis was a bit complex, so instead of creating a compelling visualization, I created a small plotly application (in a notebook) with the right visualization metaphores and right filters.

4. Programming small free apps that drive traffic, but are also useful app in their own right (think stuff like an advanced tax calculator, etc.).

5. Using Airflow, certain APIs for solid data and LLMs to optimize our SEO pages. The last step in the pipeline is an actual human reviewing it critically and editing the text. It saves them 80% of work.

Currently collaborating on a project where we look at how LLMs can be a mini data analyst and retrieve data. My colleague got this project, but we realized it's better if we collaborate on it.
by pta2002 | 2025-11-07 10:00:52+00:00
The alternatives are all closed-source protocols. A ton of things are backed by Google. It doesn't mean that they have anything to do with it other than them being consulted in its design and providing some official support. And considering Google makes the most popular mobile OS, and also the most popular TV OS (which is relevant considering it's smart home), it's good that they're in on it. Otherwise you end up with a fractured situation like you currently have with things like Airplay, Chromecast and Miracast, which are all the same thing with slightly different implementations because they couldn't agree on a protocol.

And I'd vastly prefer it that Google (and Apple, and Amazon, and Home Assistant, and IKEA, and Philips, and...) all agree on the same protocol than each vendor making up its own thing.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-07 10:00:56+00:00
> All other aspects being equal, why would you want to put your money into a bank that's accountable to another government first, and your market second?

Because if they were operating in the US then they'd be FDIC insured and subject to US courts like any US bank, and because all else isn't equal. They could be offering better interest rates, or lower fees, or better customer service, or anything else that could make customers want to use them. And since they want business, they'd do those things to exactly the extent it would take for them to get market share. Unless something is preventing that.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-07 10:00:57+00:00
(Edited to be more helpful)

These days, some nerds prefer to ask AI to confirm their "precious" intuitions of why schemes might be needed in the first place. To fix the problems with certain basic geometric notions of old timers? They are then so spooked that the AI instantly validates those intuitions without any relevant citations whatsoever that they decide not to comment

But still leave warnings to gung-ho nerds in the form of low-code exercises
by mentos | 2025-11-07 10:03:02+00:00
Here’s a human recommendation if you like that you may like these that I’ve read:

1.Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games — Sid Meier 2.Source Code: My Beginnings — Bill Gates 3.Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making — Tony Fadell 4.Prince of Persia: The Journals — Jordan Mechner 5.A Theory of Fun for Game Design — Raph Koster 6.Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s Legendary CEO — Viz Media (Editor) 7.Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games — Cliff Bleszinski 8.Once Upon Atari: How I Made History by Killing an Industry — Howard Scott Warshaw 9.Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry — Jason Schreier 10.Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture — David Kushner
by jojobas | 2025-11-07 10:03:15+00:00
People don't get to choose how they are served outside elections, you can't tell the cops you don't want this or that crime to slide and expect him to go away.

Cops absolutely should be held to higher standards (I find cops transgressing being done for common assault, rather than like abuse of office, appalling).

At the same time, a cop on duty is inviolable, unless you're really sure he's transgressing (which this one was not).
by graemep | 2025-11-07 10:03:54+00:00
They are not getting very far in the UK. The only thing that keeps them going is illegal immigration, and small boats in particular. IMO this suits the uniparty fine as it distracts attention from all their other failures.

The most successful of those figures (at least in the UK) has been Tommy Robinson with the EDL, but the EDL is a highly unstable coalition of people who hate each other (neo-Nazis, gays, Jews, some ethnic minorities/immigrant groups)

On the whole, the long term trend in the UK has been away from racism. Both my experience as a visible ethnic minority person who has lived in multiple places (London, Manchester, Midlands, Cheshire) over the years, and the data from surveys and studies confirm this.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 10:04:23+00:00
IPTV in Western Europe is becoming more popular because it's decently priced for what you get. Say you want to watch football, but don't give a shit about anything else sports related. Well, you're probably still paying for everything else in a giant package for 50-100+ USD a month.

Especially for someone who only cares about their team, watching two games a month, that's a really bad deal. Even more so if your local offer is burdened with bad commentators or ads you can't get away from. Scale that problem up to someone who watches a few different sports, but none are available as one single package, and the value for money gets worse, while the experience grows worse as well, being you're now divided between several services. Add in DRM and bad app experiences, and you get people who just can't be arsed to do things properly any more, given they are functionally being punished for doing so.

Or you could pay a shady guy a few quid a month, but the service is good, and you get everything under the sun, moon, sky, and maybe even the stars. Can't blame them for wanting an experience that isn't trying to wring them dry.
by sixtyj | 2025-11-07 10:04:37+00:00
From the article:

[Company] has tested a small model of the reservoirs in wave tanks and off the coast of Reggio Calabria, Italy. It’s now deploying a pilot of the floating components in advance of a full demonstration plant. By 2026, it’s hoping to deploy several commercial projects at sites around the world.

At full size, the turbines would generate around 6 to 7 megawatts of electricity each, and there will be one for every 100 meters of pipe. Deeper sites would have more storage potential, and each commercial site would host multiple reservoirs. Sizable hopes to deliver energy storage for €20 per kilowatt-hour (about $23), about one-tenth what a grid-scale battery costs. —-

Testing in calm reservoire is different from potentially .wild offshore (ocean/sea)

What happens to 100-200 m long pipe in underwater waves when e.g. a hurricane or a storm comes?
by moussasissoko | 2025-11-07 10:05:07+00:00
I don't condone it but if you're in the UK and you want to legally watch every premier league game last season...

Sky Sports - £35/month

TNT Sports - £32/month

Amazon Prime - £9/month

And then in the UK there is a legal peculiarity whereby 3pm Saturday games are illegal to broadcast on television, so you don't even get that slot. It's the most common slot with about a third of the weekends games.

v.s. Paying someone on discord £8/month for all the games
by ben_w | 2025-11-07 10:05:24+00:00
> The Spanish Internet users are attempting to leave the jurisdiction and come back with only information. The ISPs are the equivalent of train operators. How is prohibiting them from taking you to the border not an attempt to prevent you from doing something in another jurisdiction which is legal there?

For that analogy to hold, I would need something equivalent to a US visa to post this comment that you are currently reading.
by pegasus | 2025-11-07 10:08:02+00:00
An agent is just a program which invokes a model in a loop, adding resources like files to the context etc. It's easy to write such a program and it costs nothing, all the compute cost is in the LLM call. What parent was referring to most likely is fine-tuning a smaller model which can run locally, specialized for whatever task. Since it's fine-tuned for that particular task, the hope is that it will be able to perform as well as a general purpose frontier model at a fraction of the compute cost (and locally, hence privately as well).
by aatd86 | 2025-11-07 10:08:21+00:00
You have a material view of existence perhaps. How would the notion of nothingness even exist if there was no existence in the first place? And if we even accepted that nothing was possible, which in itself doesn't make any sense, how would something even start to exist? Well the contradiction is already in the fact that there is a preexisting concept of nothing in the first place. Existence is impredicative too. It defines itself. That's a fact.

It is not because it is impredicative that it needs to be hard to understand I think. It's almost a tautology rather.

Oh by the way, forgniz exist, you made it to design something. It doesn't have to refer to something material. It could be an idea. After all, inventions don't exist by being material in the first place. But idea have at least material support (your brain signals) and the data acquired through your body. As far as we know.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-07 10:08:54+00:00
> For that analogy to hold, I would need something equivalent to a US visa to post this comment that you are currently reading.

Only if the US required it.

A country you're not a citizen of preventing you from coming in isn't the same thing as a country you are a citizen of preventing you from leaving.

Consider it like this: Suppose you're in Europe and you want to communicate with someone in the US. You could do it in person by you going there, or by them coming to you, or both of you going to some third place to meet. Your country could prevent them from coming to you but not either of the other ones, and you can communicate with them if you can do any of the three. The internet only makes it more efficient.
by jgraham | 2025-11-07 10:09:04+00:00
Notice that it says "almost all programs" and not "almost all _C_ programs".

I think if you understand the meaning of "crash" to include any kind of unhandled state that causes the program to terminate execution then it includes things like unwrapping a None value in Rust or any kind of uncaught exception in Python.

That interpretation makes sense to me in terms of the point he's making: Fil-C replaces memory unsafety with program termination, which is strictly worse than e.g. (safe) Rust which replaces memory unsafety with a compile error. But it's also true that most programs (irrespective of language, and including Rust) have some codepaths in which programs can terminate where the assumed variants aren't upheld, so in practice that's often an acceptable behaviour, as long as the defect rate is low enough.

Of course there is also a class of programs for which that behaviour is not acceptable, and in those cases Fil-C (along with most other languages, including Rust absent significant additional tooling) isn't appropriate.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 10:09:26+00:00
The illegal bushiness apparently has incentives to keep their customers, while the legal ones rest on their legal monopoly-laurels.

I'd imagine if we had a market where every service had access to every piece of content, so no exclusivity, this problem would go away. Then they'd compete on the quality of service rather than their selection of content they've held hostage. But as long as individual services can opt to not never share their content with anybody else, they can just hold their customers hostage, since they cannot get their good from anywhere else, so the only options are buy or don't buy.
by costco | 2025-11-07 10:11:02+00:00
You may find these better:

https://book.sv/similar?id=211570

> Note 1: If you only provide one or two books, the model doesn't have a lot to work with and may include a handful of somewhat unrelated popular books in the results. If you want recommendations based on just one book, click the "Similar" button next to the book after adding it to the input book list on the recommendations page.
by grumbel | 2025-11-07 10:11:24+00:00
I feel modern game design as the exact opposite problem: It's all show and no substance. It looks spectacular on video, but it doesn't feel spectacular when you play it, since it's non-interactive script driven gameplay, barely more interactive than a cutscene.

A bit of juice is fine and necessary, but the moment your juice starts to look like interactive gameplay, but isn't, it went way to far and just becomes noise. I rather have some less spectacular debris I can interact with, then just a particle system filling the screen with non-interactive nonsense.

TotalBiscuit was ranting about it ages ago[1]. 2kliksphilip also has numerous videos[2] on the lack of interactive physics in modern games.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHyD49DaeA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxQW2GL64U0
by cl3misch | 2025-11-07 10:12:08+00:00
Not OP. I prefer JAX for non-AI tasks in scientific computing because of the different mental model than PyTorch. In JAX, you think about functions and gradients of functions. In PyTorch you think about tensors which accumulate a gradient while being manipulated through functions. JAX just suits my way of thinking much better.

I also like that jax.jit forces you to write "functional" functions free of side effects or inplace array updates. It might feel weird at first (and not every algorithm is suited for this style) but ultimately it leads to clearer and faster code.

I am surprised that JIT in PyTorch gets so little attention. Maybe it's less impactful for PyTorch's usual usecase of large networks, as opposed to general scientific computing?
by throwaway7489 | 2025-11-07 10:12:32+00:00
Those are not lies. I don't think you know what you are talking about. If you knew, you would know that waypipe + xwayland-satellite works even for forwarding X11 clients over waypipe. I use it myself every day, but it's pointless to discuss it with someone who isn't interested in listening, only in spreading the same lies as everyone else.
by thomasmg | 2025-11-07 10:13:05+00:00
Yes. I do like Swift as a language. The main disadvantages of Swift, in my view, are: (A) The lack of an (optional) "ownership" model for memory management. So you _have_ to use reference counting everywhere. That limits the performance. This is measurable: I converted some micro-benchmarks to various languages, and Swift does suffer for the memory managment intensive tasks [1]. (B) Swift is too Apple-centric currently. Sure, this might be become a non-issue over time.

[1] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/doc/perf...
by clydethefrog | 2025-11-07 10:13:10+00:00
Belgrade has free transport since 2025.

Others have already quoted the milk bars all across Poland.

The Netherlands has childcare benefit for the poor that covers 96 % of the costs.

Many European countries have some forms of rent freeze or rent cap. Biggest recent example is Paris since 2019.

I think more examples will follow when my fellow Europeans are on their state mandated lunch break.
by t8sr | 2025-11-07 10:13:10+00:00
The problem with React apologetics is that you need to only take a cursory look at literally every production app written in React to see it's terrible and must be abandoned in the long-term.

To see how fast a properly engineered app can be if it avoids using shitty js frameworks just look at fastmail. The comparison with gmail is almost comical: every UI element responds immediately, where gmail renders at 5 fps.
by fxtentacle | 2025-11-07 10:14:40+00:00
Let me pre-empty the "why?" questions:

I work on A LOT of highly sensitive code, usually in manufacturing, automation, or robotics. It's basically impossible for a small company like mine to get a custom exemption from the company-wide NDAs that my clients usually require everyone to sign. These guys wouldn't touch a US cloud, so they surely would never approve US-based LLM agents.

But I also don't want to completely forfeit the convenience of using LLMs for boilerplate or simple refactorings. That's why this plugin is designed to also work in air-gapped environments. It only connects to http://127.0.0.1:8081 and the source code is few enough that you can audit this.
by postexitus | 2025-11-07 10:15:20+00:00
I always assumed so - because Google can index them full text. It used to be the case that you could see those full snapshots in Google as cache - this was before the sites strong armed Google to remove those snapshots from being accessible, then archive.* folk rose to power. You can test this yourself for searching for a unique quote on those sites and still getting hits in Google. But you are right - why could this not be achieved with a plugin then - don't know.
by meheleventyone | 2025-11-07 10:15:55+00:00
I think for both contexts its far too simplistic to be more than a generalization and certainly for fun its a very local definition to serve Raph's ideas about what constitutes a game rather than encompassing enough to define it fully.

For intelligence for example you could have a PID controller where there is automatic tuning which would fit the definition of learning and application. But I don't think we'd call it intelligent outside of marketing copy.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-07 10:16:02+00:00
Ah those delvers who remember their lock combinations might still visit HN then (hello @Syzygies?

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Syzygies/log_folders/maste...

And ahem ahem singularities https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/the-inverse-... )
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-11-07 10:21:06+00:00
People like to criticize stuff like this but England was and is one of the most well-governed countries in the world. It was perhaps the leading center of development, technologically as well as in terms of institutions, from 1650 until 1900 or 1950, during which time its legal system was even more archaic.

Respect for pre-existing rights and arrangement isn't really such a big deal and rigorously exterminating that kind of stuff doesn't seem to be a requirement or even an advantage to modernity or having an ordered society.

The article's remark about "...legal daftness..." is anachronistic and absurd.
by vkou | 2025-11-07 10:21:59+00:00
Even in a storm, just a few meters below the surface (half the wavelength), the sea will be calm.

The bigger issue with this idea is that it's a megastructure sitting in the ocean, and salt water turns everything it touches into shit. Oh, and there's very little energy storage potential from just a salt gradient. You need to move way more water, to get less energy, but your container costs are fixed.

Land-based pumped hydro has no shortage of engineering problems (and risks if, you know, you get a dam collapse), but this has colossal capex costs.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 10:22:53+00:00
Yes. Although there are some gaps, you have to go fairly far out there to find them. Most everything is on every music streaming platform. The music industry got that memo after MP3 piracy became rampant.

But the video streaming platforms haven't gotten that memo yet and prefer to dig themselves into a larger and larger hole, both as far as normal Netflix style on-demand streaming, and IPTV style streams for sports and such. Hence why piracy of both are growing, with torrents on one side and IPTV pirate streams on the other.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-11-07 10:26:39+00:00
It depends on the definition of "near", but there's a sizeable population within ~40km, which is a reasonable distance for an offshore wind-farm.

Almost the entire Mediterranean is >500m depth within just a few km of the shore, and that's half a billion people. All of the eastern seaboard of the North+South American continent is available at 100km distance (another 100-200mn people). Most of west Africa, all of Australia, and almost all of the western flank of the Pacific.

Maybe a quarter of all people live within 40-50km of a 500m deep sea. Definitely a large TAM.
by yreg | 2025-11-07 10:27:00+00:00
I don't get it. You are linking an article which just says that you've deleted the original article.

Here's your actual account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451567

edit: apparently also here: https://prison.josh.mn/self

The wording of the landing page makes it sound (at least to me!) like the content is no longer there.