MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-11-07 01:07:25+00:00
The significant news here is the increasing confirmation of a long suspected side effect; as mean tempretures rise the ability of the land and sea to absorb CO2 degrades.

About half of all CO2 emissions every year are taken back out of the atmosphere by being dissolved in the ocean or being sucked up by growing trees and plants. But the oceans are getting hotter and can therefore absorb less CO2 while on land hotter and drier conditions and more wildfires mean less plant growth.

See also:

Global land carbon sink halved in 2024, AI model suggests (phys.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815912
by bawolff | 2025-11-07 01:07:35+00:00
> The only way you could ever have anything resembling "international law", would be to have some sort of global military or police force capable of exerting enough violence to ensure that the law is followed, and I'm not even sure how such a thing would work.

I'd push back a little bit on this. Much international law is just based on recipricol alturism. Chemical weapons are illegal. Why? Because they are a pain, and it sucks for both sides when they are used, so both sides have an interest in banning them.

I know its a hard cry from hard enforcement (to be clear hard enforcement does happen sometimes. E.g. UN interventions or even the ICC), but soft power is not nothing.

Its more like the sort of thing like how if you are a rude party guest you dont get invited to the. Sure its not the same as cops. At the same time most party guests are reasonably polite as a result of this pressure.

I know its not much, but i dont think we should count this out either.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-07 01:08:38+00:00
> These are not true statements of spoiled eggs and house fires, and so much so as to make a reasonable claim about institutions and malfeasance look absurd.

True, but I disagree with the conclusion. When I try to map it back to reality and it doesn't make sense, it is indeed an indictment of the analogy. But the fact I have to abuse the analogy to make that mapping coherent is not my problem; it's not my analogy.

However, within the context of the analogy, and if one can imagine that absolutely insane scenario, the logic holds.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-07 01:09:12+00:00
Don't confuse the medium with the picture it represents.

Porn is pornographic, whether it is a photo or an oil painting.

Feelings are feelings, whether they're felt by a squishy meat brain or a perfect atom-by-atom simulation of one in a computer. Or a less-than-perfect simulation of one. Or just a vaguely similar system that is largely indistinguishable from it, as observed from the outside.

Individual nerve cells don't have emotions! Ten wired together don't either. Or one hundred, or a thousand... by extension you don't have any feelings either.

See also: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
by pixl97 | 2025-11-07 01:10:09+00:00
I mean an asteroid the size of a bus is messy for your local area if it decides to land there, but in the terms of size of things in space is nearly undetectable. Space, even our local neighborhood is unbelievably huge.

Think of trying to find a bus that could be anywhere on earth that is moving so it's not easy to keep track of and is painted in a way to be camouflaged with its environment.

Now instead try to imagine looking for that bus on Jupiter. Gets way harder. But it's way bigger than that, your looking for a black dot in the size of an area of millions of Jupiter and just hope it crosses in front of a star so you can track it.

Most problems involving space are insanely hard.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-07 01:10:37+00:00
So you're assuming there's a world where these companies exist solely by providing inference?

The first obvious limitation of this would be that all models would be frozen in time. These companies are operating at an insane loss and a major part of that loss is required to continue existing. It's not realistic to imagine that there is an "inference" only future for these large AI companies.

And again, there are many inference only startups right now, and I know plenty of them are burning cash providing inference. I've done a lot of work fairly close to the inference layer and getting model serving happening with the requirements for regular business use is fairly tricky business and not as cheap as you seem to think.
by 542458 | 2025-11-07 01:11:52+00:00
I think different people value different things in entertainment. For you, the "cinematic" aspects of the media are worthless - but for others, the whole "interactive cinematic spectacle" is worth it even if it comes at the expense of intractability or the ability to execute skills. Take the COD campaigns for example - notoriously, some of the turret-vehicle-chase-sequences don't actually require any user input to succeed at, but a certain class of player still enjoys them because they're in it for different things than you.
by toast0 | 2025-11-07 01:12:00+00:00
Sounds like you're still bitter over Dragon's Lair and other LaserDisc games.

But like AAA has never been an adjective that meant good or fun. Just that the budget is big.

Cut scenese are an opportunity for a change of pace and to tell the story in a different way. Or as a way to emphasize a game action. When you get a touchdown in Tecmo Bowl, you have a little cut scene which is nice (but gets repetitive). The cut scenes in a Katamari game give you some sort of connection to the world, but you can always skip them.

I think I've managed to skip most big budget games for most of my gaming life. That's fine, lots of other customers for those, I'll stick to the games I like.
by locusm | 2025-11-07 01:12:05+00:00
The feed in tariff you refer to was 52c in the beginning and was limited to a 5kW inverter. I installed 6.25kW worth of panels with a 5kW inverter in 2011 and haven't paid a single power bill since. There's no slap in the face, sure I have to give up the FIT if I want the battery subsidy but I haven't paid a cent for power in 13 years (beyond initial investment).
by sodafountan | 2025-11-07 01:12:26+00:00
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I'm a software engineer with five years of solid in-office experience. I've worked for two companies in the office, and recently I've worked a remote contract with Comcast doing front-end development.

I'm open to remote work and also full-time in-office positions. I've found it difficult to find work since my last contract ended in late 2022, and I would love to find a long-term, full-time development position that I could put many years into in the near future.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-07 01:12:29+00:00
Most of the civil cases were settled out of court, but there are still about a dozen ongoing. In one, an eight-person jury in Chicago will decide damages. A point of contention is whether passengers suffered pain in their final moments. Due to the way "pain and suffering" damages work, this is likely to have substantial bearing on the result.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/civil-trial-737-max-cras...

Does that mean from a manufacturer perspective it's less costly if your faulty plane kills people quickly, like a bug being splatted, rather than hanging on longer and putting passengers through a grueling ordeal? In a sense, does that create somewhat perverse incentives? Or is this a pretty unique scenario due to the nature of the malfunction and its direct involvement on G-forces passengers experienced prior to the crash?
by LilBytes | 2025-11-07 01:12:44+00:00
1Password is awesome.

I haven't really looked at anything else but I found >2 years ago the UI of BitWarden to be ordinary. And it was more awkward to manage a company.

Went with 1Password in the end, and that you get a free Family account with a Business account is great.

Your position on how BitWarden is open source should contribute to any decision you make though.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-07 01:12:46+00:00
> it is a middle finger towards people they perceive to be preachy

Incredibly childish. "I hate you for saying we should have a cleaner environment, so I will intentionally pollute the environment!"

> I accidentally "rolled coal"

There is no accidentally rolling coal. You just had shitty emissions. Coal rolling is intentional, and requires a special tune at the very least.
by rekabis | 2025-11-07 01:13:13+00:00
Because AI is bullshit.

To me it is four things in particular:

1. How AI use erodes skills in the subject AI is being used to assist in. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been demonstrated across all industries from software developers to radiologists. Most experience a 10-20% erosion in their skill set within the first 12 months of AI use, but others in the study groups have seen up to a 40% erosion in their skill sets.

2. How AI use shuts down critical thinking, and makes users more stupid. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been clearly demonstrated by MRI scans of the prefrontal cortex while users are actively using AI.

3. How AI use makes the user slower. This is the only user point that is not 100% coverage, as slightly less than 2% of the most senior and skilled users show a slight increase in work completed… after more than 12 months of using AI. Projections have been made on the other 98%, and over 90% of them will likely never work faster with AI than without it, regardless of training or experience.

4. The gratuitous hallucinations, which are only increasing in scope and severity with every AI generation. It arises entirely from the constraints the AI are rewarded with - providing no answer is weighted just as negatively as a wrong answer - and anywhere from 60-80% of all responses are hallucinatory or incorrect in some fashion, depending on the current model.

In prior generations, any industry with such performance would be laughed clear out of the boardroom.

But because capitalism is desperately seeking a solution to what they perceive as a problem - how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour - AI is being adopted hand-over-fist.

After all, the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
by throwaway106382 | 2025-11-07 01:13:36+00:00
You should play more indie games. Not only are they more gameplay focused, there is an over abundance of great games at bargain prices.

I just picked up Prodeus, if you like games like old Doom and Quake you’ll probably love it.

Also, From Software games (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Sekiro, Armored Core) are basically all gameplay. Cutscenes are kept to a minimum and gameplay is is tight AF
Show HN: VT Code – Rust TUI coding agent with Tree-sitter and AST-grep
by vinhnx | 2025-11-07 01:14:04+00:00
I’ve been building VT Code, a Rust-based terminal coding agent that combines semantic code intelligence (Tree-sitter + ast-grep) with multi-provider LLMs and a defense-in-depth execution model. It runs in your terminal with a streaming TUI, and also integrates with editors via ACP and a VS Code extension.

* Semantic understanding: parses your code with Tree-sitter and does structural queries with ast-grep.

* Multi-LLM with failover: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, Z.AI, Moonshot, OpenRouter, MiniMax, and Ollama for local—swap by env var.

* Security first: tool allowlist + per-arg validation, workspace isolation, optional Anthropic sandbox, HITL approvals, audit trail.

* Editor bridges: Agent Conext Protocol supports (Zed); VS Code extension (also works in Open VSX-compatible editors like Cursor/Windsurf).

* Configurable: vtcode.toml with tool policies, lifecycle hooks, context budgets, and timeouts.

GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode
by dylan604 | 2025-11-07 01:14:38+00:00
> To USA not recognizing the court has always shown that they don't care about the crimes they commit.

I'd nitpick the "don't care" part. To me, it's that they do care precisely because they know they are guilty. I think Trump is guilty for the boats being shot. Obama guilty for the drone strikes. W guilty for well, the whole shit show. Didn't really pay attention to Biden, but I'd assume drone strikes continued there too. From Clinton on back, I admit I just wasn't paying attention to those kinds of issues.
by costco | 2025-11-07 01:14:47+00:00
I would agree the results are generally OK but do not feel magical in most cases (I think in some specific cases they do though). The results can be not great if you add books across many disciplines. For instance if you add "The Elements of Typographic Style" and "The Design of Everyday Things" (https://book.sv/#671857,18518), you do get "Grid Systems in Graphic Design" but under its German name "Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung."
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-07 01:15:25+00:00
> Because there is a perception that cyclists are like this. Whether it is true or not doesn't matter.

I reiterate my earlier comment about it being childish. "You look like someone I should hate, so I am going to fuck with you in particular."

Oh the irony in these same people being quite fond of claiming it's everyone else that's the emotional snowflake.

> Other than it not being deliberate it was "rolling coal". To get the black soot you need to just have poor combustion of a diesel.

No. Rolling coal requires injecting vastly more fuel and making the mixture far richer than even the worst possible factory tune.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-07 01:17:28+00:00
> He was acquitted of assault, but he admitted on camera to a violation of 18 USC 111.

In this specific case we are discussing, he actually was charged with (and acquitted of) a violation of the provision you reference 18 USC § 111, which is a misdemeanor when done by simple assault [0], after the US Attorney failed to convince a grand jury to indict for a felony violation.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/111
by omeletdufromage | 2025-11-07 01:19:22+00:00
Another commenter mentions ProtonMail, but somewhat unadvertised is with a paid Proton sub (I forget which tier), you also get access to SimpleLogin. It's a service which lets you create new email aliases with your domain that just send them to another email you own. (Also lets you send emails as that alias, so the other end doesn't see your real address.)

I use it with Vault/Bitwarden, which lets me generate email addresses of format `<uuid>@my.domain.com` when I create new login info for services.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-07 01:20:00+00:00
Sortition was famously used in classical Athens (~5th C. BC) and a couple other Greek city-states. There were other examples, but I think the big issue with the historical examples is the fact that the eligible parties weren't as broadly defined as we tend to allow these days in our thought experiments.

IOW, nobody was actually selecting purely random members of the populace: there were some pretty significant qualifications needed to become eligible (much like the United States once required of voters).
by Johanx64 | 2025-11-07 01:20:31+00:00
All the AAA games will be inherently fucking stupid almost by design. And this is unavoidable - massive hundreds of millions if not billions in budget -> even if you alientate the bottom 10%, you lose 10% of sales. Bottom 20%, 20% of sales. Not gonna happen.

So you have Legend of Zelda games where pretty much all puzzles are so simple you can instantly tell what the solution is the very moment you see them, ie. downright retarded with few rare exceptions. This also applies to difficulty, etc.

As a result, AAA games can only be appretiated or enjoyed for not much else but production values. The soundtrack, the setpieces, the massive worlds and how much money must have gone into it, etc.
by danans | 2025-11-07 01:20:35+00:00
> I think they’re referring to the fact that if you’re connected to the grid, you may be charged a base fee of around $100 per month, even if you don’t use any power.

The base charge for most customers in PGE territory is $24/month:

https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/base-s...

> Previously, homeowners received credits for the excess solar energy they sent back to the grid, but the state has since ended that program.

They ended the NEM1.0 and NEM2.0 programs that credited net surplus back to homeowners at retail electricity rates (which includes transmission and distribution costs). Those programs were a subsidy to encourage residential solar PV installation when it was very expensive and rare, not intended to function as long term subsidy programs for PV owners.

The switch to NEM3.0 only affects newer installations -the older installations keep the older rates until a change of ownership in the home.

Under the new net-metering program, homeowners with solar still get credits for net energy sent back to the grid, albeit at the "avoided cost" rate, which while much lower on average at most times, is reflective of the true value of power at the time it is pushed back to the grid, which is close to wholesale electricity rates. During peak hours and days of the year, the compensation rate can exceed the retail rate of electricity.

This incentivizes the installation of energy storage that can be used to move consumption to low-demand times and even arbitrage with stored energy by selling back to the grid at peak hours.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-07 01:20:51+00:00
Game was SWG, not SWTOR. Launched in 2003 and was sunset in 2011 when SWTOR launched.

SWG set out to be something like Dwarf Fortress in terms of depth to the worlds physics; for example, gunsmiths could tinker on all parts of a gun and maybe get a lucky roll to unlock +N more damage or -N recoil. Same with land vehicles and bioengineered animals, droids. Parameters to noodle all the way down. Some under user control, others random to foster sense of a chaotic physical world.

As the in game object economy was entirely propped up by crafters this fostered economic PVP.

Lucasarts of 2000-2003, when the game was developed, did not understand MMO, and 3D games take much longer than 2D adventure games and shoved it out the door 2 years too early.

It also suffered from 90s OOP heavy software development patterns. Devs had difficulty managing it and updating over the years.

Ultimately it failed at being a Star Wars game. PVE was just "kill a nest of bugs" and failed to leverage storylines and characters. Players with nothing else to do ended up ruling the economy or whatever. Could have made them compete against Star Wars power brokers, IMO. Jabba sabotaged your factory, or something. Once a player was kitted out they had nothing to do.

Some have spent the last 10+ years implementing a server emulator, various tools and mods. An emulator built around the original release is here: https://github.com/swgemu

I tinker on a modded private server now and then. Initially added in random world events, to generate things to go do and replacing odd design decisions like mission terminals with NPC models to talk to in that seedy back alley, to foster more in world RP vibe.

When WOW launched SWG was redesigned to play more like that. Typical MBA "copy paste what they are doing" project management.
by dbingham | 2025-11-07 01:20:59+00:00
See, now this is an excellent use of LLMs (if we're going to be using them at all). Low stakes if it gets shit wrong, but can provide some really useful and surprising answers!

One request, it would be nice to not have to add Goodreads, since I don't use it. I've love to be able to enter a couple of book titles or an author and just get recommendations!
by esalman | 2025-11-07 01:21:19+00:00
I'd rather be driving. I have a cool car. I love throwing it around the corner. I like it's premium sound system. I can see mountains and sea from where I live. I could even bike to the store. I'm fortunate to live near a micro center at biking distance. That would objectively be a life lived even better than sitting at home. At the store I can interact with a real human. I can experience new and interesting tech hands on. I can pick up fresh ingredients on my way back that I could make Greek salad with. There's honestly so many ways to make a trip to the store worthwhile.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-07 01:22:59+00:00
> US law only applies in the US.

Where US law applies varies by which law it is; there are US laws that apply only outside of the US [0], as well as US laws which have application both inside and outside the US.

[0] e.g., the federal torture statute, 18 U.S. Code § 2340A(a), “Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340A
by majormajor | 2025-11-07 01:25:28+00:00
Neat! It's a validation of the model that 75%+ of the recommendations are things I've read and also enjoyed, with a few "read, didn't like" and some more "didn't read, don't really want to."

But I think to break the content-bubble effects to find the longer tail, some way to reject or blacklist things - and have that be taken into effect in the model - might help.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-07 01:27:03+00:00
It would be really funny if it wasn't a microcosm of the problems of our industry.

It's very clear they didn't even take a moment to think through "Why do users access our tool, under what circumstance, and how does our tool treat them in that situation", where it would have been pretty clear that "interrupt and block access to the user until they provide feedback" is not a good UX for an engineer trying to do literally anything.

That wasn't their job I guess.
by jmward01 | 2025-11-07 01:27:46+00:00
Thank you for the feedback. I honestly believe that Claude Code is trying to be more privacy aware than other products, but it takes vigilance on both sides to get there. When you say the survey sends back more than the numeric value and add the 'etc' can you be very specific about the 'etc' is? The information you mention seems at odds with the data-usage documentation [1] which says only a numeric value is sent. Is the documentation going to be fixed to be explicit that more than a numeric value is sent? Is the feedback prompt going to ask the user if it is ok that more than a numeric value is sent back with the survey data?

Again, I think you are making the best product out there. I want to keep using it. Privacy is my #1 feature request to keep using it so transparency is crucial.

[1] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage
by nawgz | 2025-11-07 01:27:53+00:00
Why the bad faith answer? Even a bloated, ad-ridden modern web bundle is tiny compared to native apps. And I'd be happy to hear about an interesting app delivery platform which makes 1s of MBs look absurdly large.

I think you and I both know a 200kB gzipped web app can be a very powerful tool, so I don't understand what angle you're approaching this from.
by antonvs | 2025-11-07 01:27:57+00:00
> I think they mean existence in general, not the existence of any specific thing.

Yes, but the definition of "existence" doesn't require that anything must actually exist.

In other words, it is not the case that existence "cannot not exist by definition."

> Meaning that if there were no “existence” then we wouldn’t be here to consider its nonexistence.

That's an anthropic principle argument, which is not an argument from the definition of existence. One of the premises of that argument is that we exist already.