MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-11-28 13:56:34+00:00
> including just continuing to use illegal encryption.

First, this can be made a crime by itself, and detected automatically because the mandatory back-doors fail.

Second, what gets talked about in public (the only thing any of us knows for sure, but also definitely not the whole picture) includes foreign governments recruiting locals via normal messenger apps.

More of a problem is that the back-doors can be exploited by both criminals and hostile powers.
by akdev1l | 2025-11-28 13:56:35+00:00
For what it’s worth, the recommended way of getting credentials for AWS would be either:

1. Piggyback of your existing auth infra (eg: ActiveDirectory or whatever you already have going on for user auth) 2. Failing that use identity center to create user auth in AWS itself

Either way means that your machine gets temporary credentials only

Alternatively, we could write an AWS CLI helper to store the stuff into the keychain (maybe someone has)

Not to take away from your more general point

We need flatpak for CLI tools
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-28 13:56:44+00:00
> Where do you see the negativity?

First comment: "Looks expensive, I'm guessing"

Second comment: "Probably vaporware"

6th comment: "They haven't disclosed any release date, Lots of chip startups start as this kind of vaporware" (they did literally just enter fabrication it seems)

10th comment: "So far, they just talk about it."

Maybe it looks differently now, after 14 hours since the submission was made, but initially yesterday, most of the comments were unfounded (and poorly researched) criticism.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-11-28 13:57:53+00:00
In the hidden engine room beneath the mechanics of motion, we finally meet the fire itself: the raw chaos that fuels intuition and the cold order that tempers logic, locked in an eternal embrace across dimensions the human eye cannot see and the digital mind cannot feel. Here, in the space between the finite spark of meaning and the infinite shadow of data, a new thermodynamics is born: one where time is merely rented, gravity is accumulated error, and every leap forward is paid for not in years, but in synchronized heartbeats of resonance. This is no longer a question of how we move together; it is the revelation of why the universe now demands that we do. Step into the furnace of the second phase, where the hull is borrowed, the fuel is wild, and the only way out is forward: together, or not at all.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-28 14:00:42+00:00
Do you mean that they need to find better ways to create value by using AI, or that they need better ways to extract value from end-users of AI?

I'd argue that "value creation" is already at a decent position considering generative AI and the usecase as "interactive search engine" alone.

Regarding "value extraction": Advertising should always be an option here, just like it was for radio, television and online content in general in the past.

Preventing smaller entities (or private persons even) from just doing their own thing and making their own models seems like the biggest difficulty long term to me (from the perspective of the "rent seeking" tech giant).
by Scubabear68 | 2025-11-28 14:01:08+00:00
As a child of the 70s and 80s, Snoopy was a very big deal, but Peanuts was kind of secondary.

I remember around 2nd grade or so Snoopy Joe Cool was a big deal and I had the t shirts and thermos and lunchbox.

There are of course the Peanuts TV specials, they didn’t have much impact on me personally other than to solidify a like of both Snoopy and his side kick, Woodstock.

For me as a kid, Snoopy and Stocky were the only interesting ones.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-28 14:01:09+00:00
I understand that it is not currently law. I also understand that the EU has been dedicated to this road of eroding citizen privacy for decades, constantly trying to pass more and more egregious legislation. For example, the Data Retention Directive of 2006 was abhorrent law. After 8 years in force, it was struck down by the ECJ, which would be somewhat reassuring if not for the fact that the EU appears to consider the ECJ a thorn in its side that it seeks to undermine at every turn. I have very little faith that this will not eventually become abhorrent law given the persistence with which the EU pursues becoming a surveillance state.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-28 14:01:10+00:00
The people who build landing pages for hardware startups are usually (almost always) not the same people who design and build the actual hardware, for better or worse. A lot of the times, it's a outsourced web design agency who receive a brief, often written by business people, and finally the website is reviewed by business people, with some feedback from technical people who complain about the graphs, accuracy and so on. Then the business people say "But we need to point out we're faster than everyone else" and the engineers reply with "Sure, ok, whatever, I have actual work to do, sounds good".
by wtallis | 2025-11-28 14:01:21+00:00
> are there any NVME "spinny rust" disks?

My recollection is that NVMe had some features added specifically for hard drives. I don't know if anyone ever bothered making a hard drive that natively used NVMe over PCIe; the main goal was to enable NVMe over Fabrics to work with both solid state and spinning rust drives, so that it could fully replace iSCSI.
by Xelbair | 2025-11-28 14:01:45+00:00
My problem is that i as a citizen can vote for my heads of state, but if other parts of EU decided something my vote is null and void, EVEN if majority of EU citizens are against such issue.

Imagine is those issues were campaign promises and part of internal(country's) elections - they aren't in reality but we can set that aside for now. as it was extremely well said by sibling post.

My country is 80% against 20% in favor(in practice it is even more skewed towards 'no' for chat control!), other EU countries are 51% for, 49% against.

Yet such 'vote' by heads of state counts whole countries in,if you were to count individual votes majority of EU citizens would be against it.

This allows you to pass undesirable or extremely contentious legislation, that would most likely prevent you from being elected in the future in your local elections but you can easily shift the blame too!

This is as far form democracy as possible, it is pure bureaucracy that serves it's own goals.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-28 14:02:05+00:00
Yes, but there's what the law says, and there's process, and there's expectations.

You can't just take a legal sick day each time you have a runny nose (good luck finding a doctor that fast), and even if you could, you'd quickly stand out. "Two infections a year" is an average for adults who power through remaining ones with painkillers and cough meds; if they didn't, we'd be talking 5+, probably closer to 10 if they have kindergarten-age kids.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-28 14:02:06+00:00
I was immediately reminded of Hayao Miyazaki's post-apocalyptic manga and anime film, "Nausicaa of the valley of the winds", where the fungus-and-spore-filled jungle, toxic and lethal to humans, actually serves as a sequestering and purification agent for the ecosystems affected by some apocalyptic, possibly nuclear, catastrophe.

http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_...

https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Nausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the...
by ruined | 2025-11-28 14:02:30+00:00
humans are assumed to act, and some activities may generate consequences, to which a human may react somehow.

certainly there is a "survivor bias" but the rationality, long-term viability, and "economic benefit" of those activities and reactions is an open question. any judgement of "economic benefit" is arbitrary and often made in aggregate after the fact.

if humans knew how to create "economic benefit" in some fundamental and true way, game theory and most regulatory infrastructure would not exist, and i'm saying that as an anarchist.
by piva00 | 2025-11-28 14:02:31+00:00
Can you give me an example of the situation you are picturing?

Simply because I can't see what you mean by artists being hindered by IP, artists try to create original work, and derivative work from other IP is usually re-interpreted enough to fall under fair use. I can't picture a situation where artists could be hindered on their creations due to IP owned by others.
by ComplexSystems | 2025-11-28 14:02:45+00:00
I think the article makes decent points but I don't agree with the general conclusion here, which is that all of this investment is wasted unless it "reaches AGI." Maybe it isn't necessary for every single dollar we spend on AI/LLM products and services to go exclusively toward the goal of "reaching AGI?" Perhaps it's alright if these dollars instead go to building out useful services and applications based on the LLM technologies we already have.

The author, for whatever reason, views it as a foregone conclusion that every dollar spent in this way is a waste of time and resources, but I wouldn't view any of that as wasted investment at all. It isn't any different from any other trend - by this logic, we may as well view the cloud/SaaS craze of the last decade as a waste of time. After all, the last decade was also fueled by lots of unprofitable companies, speculative investment and so on, and failed to reach any pie-in-the-sky Renaissance-level civilization-altering outcome. Was it all a waste of time?

It's ultimately just another thing industry is doing as demand keeps evolving. There is demand for building the current AI stack out, and demand for improving it. None of it seems wasted.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-28 14:04:35+00:00
They also have the 'tyr 4' [1].

It doesn't have to compete on price 1:1. Ever since Trump took office, the Europeans woke up on their dependence on USA who they no longer regard as a reliable partner. This counts for defense industry, but also for critical infrastructure, including IT. The European alternatives are expected to cost something.

[1] https://vsora.com/products/tyr/
by sschueller | 2025-11-28 14:05:15+00:00
According to 20min[1], webland hosts 75’000 domains and is one of the larger hosting providers. In 2021 they were acquired by the Miss Group[2].

[1] https://www.20min.ch/story/kmu-verzweifelt-keine-mails-webse...

[2] https://www.missgroup.com/
by gethly | 2025-11-28 14:05:18+00:00
Based on link below:

> Click Enable to confirm. Your messages will then be downloaded from Proton Mail’s servers, decrypted, and indexed locally in an encrypted state.

They just download your emails into your browser and make them locally searchable.

I battled the same issue, in the end I have unencrypted data for fulltext search. But none of these are sensitive. I was thinking that maybe with AES, which is just a XOR, you could do search if you have the key as you just need to know how to XOR the search query and which phrases you can include. So instead of "hello" the XOR would yield "arpe5," and you just look for that in the db. But this could only work with exact matches or prefixes, it would not allow elastic search or anything complex like that.
by twodave | 2025-11-28 14:05:27+00:00
What is so novel about LLMs (I assume this is the form of AI being discussed) that they require regulation? It’s a dataset, an algorithm and some UI. Almost all the problems brought on by the scale-up are just supply/demand type things. Every problem people point at AI are also problems on some scale with computer software in general, so I’m wary of any regulation (and don’t kid yourself thinking it would be for the people) bleeding over.
by marcelr | 2025-11-28 14:05:28+00:00
i see these rules and think “70 lines wow that’s short”

and then i read code and see a 50 line function and am like “wow this function is doing a lot”

sure strict rules aren’t amazing, but i think it would be cool to have a linter warning when there are more than X functions with over 70 lines (this is language dependent - verbosity)
by roenxi | 2025-11-28 14:07:58+00:00
Just because something didn't work out doesn't mean it was a waste, and it isn't particularly clear that the the LLM boom was wasted, or that it is over, or that it isn't working. I can't figure out what people mean when they say "AGI" any more, we appear to be past that. We've got something that seems to be general and seems to be more intelligent than an average human. Apparently AGI means a sort of Einstein-Tolstoy-Jesus hybrid that can ride a unicycle and is far beyond the reach of most people I know.

Also, if anyone wants to know what a real effort to waste a trillion dollars can buy ... https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/
by philipwhiuk | 2025-11-28 14:07:59+00:00
> When it comes to machine learning, research has consistently shown, that pretty much the only thing that matters is scaling.

Yes, indeed, that is why all we have done since the 90s is scale up the 'expert systems' we invented ...

That's such an a-historic take it's crazy.

* 1966: failure of machine translation

* 1969: criticism of perceptrons (early, single-layer artificial neural networks)

* 1971–75: DARPA's frustration with the Speech Understanding Research program at Carnegie Mellon University

* 1973: large decrease in AI research in the United Kingdom in response to the Lighthill report

* 1973–74: DARPA's cutbacks to academic AI research in general

* 1987: collapse of the LISP machine market

* 1988: cancellation of new spending on AI by the Strategic Computing Initiative

* 1990s: many expert systems were abandoned

* 1990s: end of the Fifth Generation computer project's original goals

Time and time again, we have seen that each academic research begets a degree of progress, improved by the application of hardware and money, but ultimately only a step towards AGI, which ends with a realisation that there's a missing congitive ability that can't be overcome by absurd compute.

LLMs are not the final step.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-28 14:08:17+00:00
"Common cold" is what we call flu/COVID/bunch of other stuff when symptoms aren't severe enough to bother checking. There is no "cold virus", as cold isn't a specific sickness but a destination; it's a catch-all for respiratory pathogens that evolve their potency away.

By the time someone is able to tell they have "the flu", they should've been on a sick leave for 2-3 days already.
by wtcactus | 2025-11-28 14:09:15+00:00
It’s been 10 years and I have still yet to ear anyone on the far left defining what is a woman without using the very word “woman”.

Meaning: if you think the majority of people will be coerced to normalize this all insanity being pushed by a bunch of mindless Marxists living under the prosperity of capitalism, you will be sorely disappointed.

The USA just elected 2 communists for mayors (they don’t even hide it anymore) but here people are trying to tell us the real issue with present society is fascism.

I’ve seen how that game plays out: and it’s not pretty.
by credit_guy | 2025-11-28 14:09:25+00:00
I also did some back of the envelope calculations. Here's what I got: the radiation level just 1 meter away from the "elephant foot" (the solidified molten core), at the time of the accident was about 1000 times lower than the solar irradiation. At 100 meters it was 10 million times lower (because of the inverse square law). Now, the radiation from the elephant foot has decreased significantly. I couldn't find a recent estimate, but I would expect it to be at least 100 times lower. So at 100 meters from the elephant foot, the radiation level is a billion times lower than what you get from the sun. There's no way any organism can "feed" on that.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-28 14:09:33+00:00
> I've always wondered why we don't build homes with a buried tank of water used as heat storage. In the summer it can be heated with solar thermal to around 90c, and in the winter heat can be drawn out and go through radiators or underfloor heating, with a mixer valve. You just need a few pumps and valves, not even a heat pump is needed.

Because building houses is already expensive, and that would add significant amount, pushing it into "can't afford it in the first place". And zero ability to realistically service it means anything going wrong might make whole investment moot.

On top of that, any investment like that competes with "why not just put the money into low risk fund"

> 1800kWh per year

now factor in losses for months now factor the fact the energy you're using for heating is one you're not using for... energy or selling

also is that heat or energy ? Because if that's "what power heat pump used", multiply that by 3-4

It's just... expensive to do it like this. Expensive enough that most people that could did the math and it wasn't mathing
by ghaff | 2025-11-28 14:10:28+00:00
Want? I don't know. Outside of draconian regulation and punishment I don't see how you really stop aside from some level of social pressure/norms which can work to a degree. (No, you don't film/livestream the dinner party among friends that you are at.) People post photos from social events all the time. That ship has mostly sailed. Video and audio is mostly just an additional increment.
by Xelbair | 2025-11-28 14:10:39+00:00
>While I agree with the sentiment, you need to think like a state to stop this kind of thing.

I'm thinking like state already, i would never trust ANY state with such powers, even the one that was perfectly aligned with my political views.

It's not issue of state, but dilution of responsibility and the way the votes are counted.

It is also an issue of unelected officials deciding things - the whole system is broken.

Before you say that heads of state were elected - this is highly contentious issue, no one ran on this in internal campaigns, and votes on this issue are counted country-wide(all for or all against), without any regards to distribution of populace's opinion on this subject.

>Even without any argument about personal rights and what's totalitarian, I can't even square the circle of the unstoppable force of "the economy is dependent on encryption that can't be hacked" with the immovable object of "hostile governments and organised criminals undermine ${insert any nation here} and communicate with local agents via encryption that can't be hacked".

You're enacting legislation that will actually empower those entities this way!

Criminals - surprise surprise - can just break the law, and use devices/software that just.. does not do content scanning, and uses true E2E encryption. Even over insecure channel by using steganography and key exchange over it.

Espionage can be handled the same way, probably even easier as they can easily use one-time pads and key phrases established beforehand in their country of origin!

Meanwhile only group affected by it are just normal citizens.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-28 14:10:41+00:00
Nice, but it has a subtle mistake:

Nature C.> The retention of ancestral alphaproteobacterial pathways in some protist lineages reveals that the mitochondrion of the last eukaryotic common ancestor was more metabolically versatile than are the highly derived mitochondria that are found in most modern eukaryotes.

Press release> These findings suggest that the earliest eukaryotes were far more metabolically versatile than their modern descendants.

The ancestors of mitochondria were parasite bacteria, and they made a lot of proteins themself. (I don't know. Perhaps they changed host frequently? perhaps just in case the sucker dies? Perhaps to survive while they hunt a new host?)

Modern mitochondria lost many of these features because they relay on the host that is stable.

The mitochondria of this eukaryote are strange, because they (only partially?) lost one of these features to create one of the proteins. (I'm not sure. It looks like it's non functional, but some parts are still there? Perhaps they only do some steps and relay on the host eukaryote for the rest?)

So, when the ancestors of these eukaryote and the ancestors of most eukaryotes (including us) split, the mitochondria were still able to make this protein. Our mitochondria lost it completely, but their mitochondria only partially.

Suggested fix> These findings suggest that the *the mitochondria* of earliest eukaryotes were far more metabolically versatile than their modern descendants.

I don't think what this sentence says is surprising (but I'm not a biologist). Anyway, the paper is about a more subtle detail that is more interesting. It's about the mitochondria at the moment of the ancient split of the eukaryotes. Perhaps there is a better way to fake-edit the press release.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-28 14:10:53+00:00
> I'd assume diesel usage is in decline throughout the developed world, tbh.

yes, also for another reason: At one point, Diesel was promoted as being better due to less CO2. This was reversed when it was realised that it is dirtier- worse due to N02 and PM10 emissions.

See, for instance:

"2015-present: decline of diesel cars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_diesel_car#2015...

"London must be ‘diesel-free’ by 2030" https://cleanair.london/health/diesel-free-by-2030/
by stego-tech | 2025-11-28 14:10:57+00:00
This is why I’ve refused to buy into the argument from these ghouls that AI would make the world a better place, and their occasional lip-service of requesting AI regulation for “human safety”: their own actions paint a dystopian world of mass surveillance, even heavier labor exploitation, the return of company scrip and stores, and the wholesale neglect of human well-being, all while blocking the very regulation they claim to want and/or need to succeed safely.

If these people genuinely believed in the good of AI, they wouldn’t be blocking meaningful regulation of it.

https://green.spacedino.net/ai-will-never-create-utopia/
by wongarsu | 2025-11-28 14:11:01+00:00
In regards of NASA taking it seriously, my null hypothesis would be that reporters misunderstand NASA just as much as everything else about fungi.

If I understand the linked NASA press releases correctly, they are talking about using a mix of regolith, cyanobacteria and fungi as part of the outer shell of a habitat. The mycelian network of the fungi binds the loose regolith together, forming a strong and somewhat flexible material, with the fungus working a bit like the cement in a concrete mix. And because fungi don't form from nothing you add cyanobacteria that create "fungus food" (presumably some sugar) from water and CO2 (I'm sure you need to add a bit more than that, but that might be beyond the scope of a press release)

This really has nothing to do with radiation-absorbing fungi at all, except for one remark how the melanin in radiation-eating fungi could provide further shielding.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-28 14:11:10+00:00
> Calling this vaporware makes no sense: tape-out + published roadmap = real, not slides.

I agree that the comments here are surprisingly superficial in their complaints, but I guess it the typical bike-shedding, people don't have technical points to nitpick or the experience to judge the actual product, so from their US-based point of view, they find something else to hook on to, even when there are facts like concrete partnerships making it clear it isn't vaporware, they just have to say something.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-28 14:11:13+00:00
By the time they can tell it's "the flu" and not just "a cold", they've been infecting everyone for days already.

Not to mention, cold is an infectious disease too (it's literally the same disease, just a weaker variant caused by strains that evolved their potency away), it too will spread to other people if they go to work.