MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hilbert42 | 2025-11-30 18:21:13+00:00
I've had many Hewlett-Packard printers over the years, and I'd never buy another one.

The most common complaint about HP is its lock-in policy and its associated gutter business practices, not with the inks per se. If you reckon HP inks are the best for high quality art then I'm not going to argue, it's your decision and your money.

On the other hand, I've now an Epson WF-4830 which I only run in draft mode because of the outrageous cost of the inks. When I've finished with this current batch of inks I will do with this printer as I've done with its predecessors which is to chuck it out the window onto concrete two stories below and buy another (that's the cheapest and most effective option for upgrading printers nowadays—I'm onto my fourth printer in about 20 months).

Incidentally, my Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IV which I bought in the 1990s is still working perfectly (these days its Centronics interface goes through a converter to the PC).
by bane | 2025-11-30 18:21:21+00:00
I personally think big-box computer retailers that build custom turn-key computers (e.g. Microcenter) should get into the NAS game by partnering with unraid and Fractal. It's as turnkey as any commercial NAS I've ever used but comes with way more flexibility and future proofing and the ability for users to get hyper technical if they want and tweak everything in the system.

It's wild how much more cost effective this would be than pretty much any commercial NAS offering. It's ridiculous when you consider total system lifecycle cost (with how easy it is to upgrade unraid storage pools).

Looking right now and my local Microcenter builds essentially three things: desktop PCs, some kind of "studio" PC, and "Racing Simulators". Turnkey NASs would move a lot of inventory I'd wager.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-30 18:23:02+00:00
I grew up in Texas, but only visit from out-of-state, for the past couple decades.

I remember when the national speed limit of 55mph was removed, and Texas raised the speed limit to 65, then 75; but also created a night time speed limit that was still stupid slow. Not too long ago, a toll road now has 85mph (with 99mph tolerated, if uncongested).

Didn't realize so much old signage still existed, but from the looks of most Southern state infrastructure... we probably can't raise the speed limits too much more due to potholes, alone (but really outside of cities should be like Montana was, decades ago "drive prudently").

Still waiting for the first state that implements an "enhanced drivers license credential," which would be en external emblem showing the driver was more-skilled // better-insured and therefore legally able to drive faster.
by toast0 | 2025-11-30 18:23:42+00:00
It's not a bad feature. My fancy car has them, and it can watch for traffic and stop/slow you opening the door if there's a car coming up that maybe you didn't see (or look for).

And on mine, the same handle that you push to open with electricity will also open manually if you pull it twice. Which is handy, because the 12v battery failed in the first year. Feels like 12v batteries are a lot less reliable lately.

Getting in from the outside with the manual handle isn't so obvious, it's kind of hidden at the back of the handle.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-11-30 18:23:46+00:00
What I'm trying to tell you is hat this has de facto worked for me during the past 20+ years. I get ca. 100 spam mails a day and they all get neatly sorted in the spam folder. There is no server-side filtering at all, my email provider allows users to switch that off entirely (and better should because it's very faulty).

As I've said, I'm not interested in theoretical arguments. All of my domains wildcard forward to the same email address, too. Filtering client-side has never been a problem.
by allears | 2025-11-30 18:24:30+00:00
I neither "believe" nor "disbelieve" in UFOs. Some of the stories and evidence seem credible, but the "U" stands for Unknown. No reason to jump to "aliens."

I don't like to form strong opinions about things I don't know much about. And if people are looking for something to worry about, this seems like it should be pretty far down on the list.
by Razengan | 2025-11-30 18:24:40+00:00
I've been wondering about this for some time, that how there really isn't a language that's made from the ground up just for coding gameplay logic.

Like we have SQL for databases, Julia etc for maths etc, but gamedevs still have to plod along in general-purpose languages with archaic conventions established 50 years ago by people who had nothing to do with games.

I'd love something with the syntax of GDScript and the features of Swift, with special constructs just for gameplay logic, which is often a hybrid between inheritance and composition, static and dynamic, declarative and imperative.

I've been toying with what would be the ideal syntax (for me), but I don't have the brains to actually make a language :')
by aeve890 | 2025-11-30 18:24:47+00:00
I'm a simple software engineer not specialized in AI, and I know Karpathy is a heavyweight but help me understand: this kind of narrative about the intelligence of LLMs is an actual philosophical paradigm around IA or it's just him getting high on his own supply? I don't really know how to take his ideas since the infamous (?) _vibe coding_ concept.
by jmspring | 2025-11-30 18:25:03+00:00
I think there is a slight modification to this, at least for me, there are things tech related for me I want turnkey - I've used MacOS for years because I want a unix system with a decent GUI that I don't have to manage (the fact that the machines work well is a nice addon). I've got a synology, it works.

I don't have unlimited bandwidth or time and want to continue the tinkering phase on things that interest me rather than the tools that enable such.
by KyleGospo | 2025-11-30 18:25:11+00:00
The Steam client is 32-bit, the majority of games on Steam are 32-bit, and very popular titles like Left 4 Dead 2 are 32-bit.

The last time a distro tried to do this Ubuntu caved and continued supporting it with an extra repo. Fedora has no chance of winning that argument.

The good news is the incident you're talking about was a change proposal proposed by a single person and never even voted on. It did not survive the comment stage.
by brazukadev | 2025-11-30 18:25:31+00:00
> 3. Ethics matter.

You are still not caring about ethics. You can fix the problem, you can expose the people responsible for this, you can contact the person and explain to them what you all did. That is a way to start to atone for the mistakes, but does not look like that is what you want to do, you want to fix things in your mind, not what you broke.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-30 18:25:33+00:00
You can access files that contain certificate information (on any OS), but you can't access individual certificates as their own object. In your output, you're listing files that may or may not contain valid certificate information.

The difference is similar to being able to do 'ls /usr/bin/ls' vs 'ls /proc/12345/...' , the first is a literal file listing, the second is a way to access/manipulate the ls process (supposedly pid 12345). In windows, certificates are not just files but parsed/processed/validated usage specific objects. The same applies on Linux but it is up to openssl, gnutls,etc... to make sense of that information. If openssl/gnutls had a VFS mount for their view of the certificates on the system (and GPG!!) that would be similar to cert:\ in powershell.
by lozenge | 2025-11-30 18:25:43+00:00
There are continuous extraction fans, they're called dMEV systems. Eg https://www.epicair.co.uk/products/vent-axia-lo-carbon-reviv...

There's also systems which can move air both ways through the whole house - https://www.ventilation-alnor.co.uk/index/support/alnor-know...

Your DIY solution looks a lot cheaper though.
by tliltocatl | 2025-11-30 18:25:49+00:00
Sorry, this sounds like the absolutely worst idea ever. The way to kill open source as such. Sloppy PRs will end when the idiot HRs release there is no value in them. Plagiarism isn't really anything new and AI doesn't really change much there. But adding friction to examining source is a sure way to make no one care to contribute.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-30 18:26:42+00:00
Yeah, that you could do, though even then if the timing is sufficiently uncertain you might be in trouble, and it's particularly risky in a time of stubbornly higher-than-ideal inflation. If you happened to have a bunch of Hype-y AI Ltd, then sure, probably. Far less clearly a good idea if you just have the S&P500, though.

It's further complicated by the fact that most of the worst examples of AI hype are not public. Like, if and when the bubble bursts, the hyperscalers will likely get burned, but they're not going to go to zero or anywhere near it.

And that's assuming you already have stocks; it's very different, risk-wise, from shorting or buying puts.

> Your cash gets 4% a year just waiting--paid monthly.

It really doesn't, due to inflation.
by QuantumGood | 2025-11-30 18:26:57+00:00
Parent said "entertainment use cases" are a complete waste, not all uses of images and video. I don't agree, but do particularly find educational use cases of AI video are becoming compelling.

I help people turn wire rolling shelf racks into the base of their home studio, and AI can now create a "how to attach something to a wire shelf rack" without me having to do all the space and rack and equipment and lighting and video setup, and just use a prompt. It's not close to perfect yet, but it's becoming useful.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-30 18:27:09+00:00
I feel like there's a huge necessary civil virtue to this sort of understanding the news project.

Thanks for sharing some details. Its cool that HNSW is useful for near realtime usage. For some reason I had categorized it in my head as having very very high insertion cost, needing to rebuild worlds to work but that's not at a well founded belief; very cool that it's usable here.

I really hope we see some open source work of this variety. Trying to understand news or even social media is something the world seems to unprepared for. Different subject sort of, but watching Internet Observatory be dismantled by the current political administration, by disinformation grifters, was a woeful loss of one of the few mirrors the that humanity had to understand itself with, to see how we networked.
by optimalsolver | 2025-11-30 18:27:12+00:00
Of possible interest, Roman Yampolskiy's essay The Universe Of Minds:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.0369

>The paper attempts to describe the space of possible mind designs by first equating all minds to software. Next it proves some interesting properties of the mind design space such as infinitude of minds, size and representation complexity of minds. A survey of mind design taxonomies is followed by a proposal for a new field of investigation devoted to study of minds, intellectology, a list of open problems for this new field is presented
by Marsymars | 2025-11-30 18:27:47+00:00
> So I've had dual Xeon servers and 8-core Ryzen servers but my favorites are a miniForums with a mobile Ryzen quad core, and my UGREEN NAS.

I just ordered my first minisforum box (MS-02 Ultra) to serve as my main storage NAS + homelab... first time ordering any of these Chinese boxes, but nothing else checked off all he requirements I had as well as it. Hopefully works out well for me.
by thatfrenchguy | 2025-11-30 18:27:59+00:00
> There's a simple and effective escape hatch: study abroad. Europe, Australia, South America, Canada even. Some countries are more affordable than others but the most expensive (by far) option is staying in the US.

I mean, good luck finding a job in the US when your degree is not from the us (or maybe Canada). Most industries don't hire folks with overseas degrees.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-30 18:28:10+00:00
>Putting the entire population on vitamin D supplements would be too expensive for the country’s national health service, he told me.

What? Have these people looked at what Vitamin D costs at the supermarket. If Vitamin D insufficiency has any significant detrimental effects, then 3 bucks of supplements a month surely are cheaper than dealing with the consequences.

If one hour of doctors time costs 200 bucks, then this is enough to pay for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS of Vitamin D supplements.

This seems like a completely insane statement.
by Kwpolska | 2025-11-30 18:29:05+00:00
> GitHub has been useful to store all repositories of the Dillo project, as well as to run the CI workflows for platforms in which I don't have a machine available (like Windows, Mac OS or some BSDs).

The post does not mention CI anywhere else, are they doing anything with it, keeping it on GitHub, or getting rid of it?

> Furthermore, the web frontend doesn't require JS, so I can use it from Dillo (I modified cgit CSS slightly to work well on Dillo).

That sounds like a bad approach to developing a Web browser, surely it would be better to make Dillo correctly work with the default cgit CSS (which is used by countless projects)?
by mopsi | 2025-11-30 18:29:31+00:00
> Imagine Russia decided to form a military alliance with Mexico with the expected intention of deploying weapons on the Mexican border.

It would be a very foolish idea, because it's no longer the Napoleonic era. Concentrating your forces close to adversary's border makes them easy targets for destruction by long-range artillery and airstrikes. The Finnish chief of defence forces recently made the same remark when the Russians moved their weapons closer to Finland for intimidation: "It only makes them easier for us to destroy."

> In fact this is, more or less, what the Cuban Missile Crisis was

Not at all. The Cuban missile crisis was only about nuclear missiles. The USSR continued to provide a large number of conventional weapons to Cuba, including submarines and fighter jets, until it collapsed in 1991, without any of your invasion fantasies coming true.

See this photo: https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/11312641

It is a Soviet-built MIG-23 fighter jet carrying Cuban insignia. MIG-23 first flew 5 years after the missile crisis and the first batch was delivered to Cuba in 1978.
by ComplexSystems | 2025-11-30 18:29:34+00:00
> We've had automated theorem proving since the 60s.

By that logic, we've had LLMs since the 60s!

> What we need is automated theorem discovery.

I don't see any reason you couldn't train a model to do this. You'd have to focus it on generating follow-up questions to ask after reading a corpus of literature, playing around with some toy examples in Python and making a conjecture out of it. This seems much easier than training it to actually complete an entire proof.

> Erdős discovered these theorems even if he wasn't really able to prove them. Euler and Gauss discovered a ton of stuff they couldn't prove. It is weird that nobody considers this to be intelligence.

Who says they don't? I wouldn't be surprised if HarmonicMath, DeepMind, etc have also thought about this kind of thing.

> Automated axiom creation seems a lot harder. How is an LLM supposed to know that "between any two points there is a line" formalizes an important property of physical space?

That's a good question! It would be interesting to see if this is an emergent property of multimodal LLMs trained specifically on this kind of thing. You would need mathematical reasoning, visual information and language encoded into some shared embedding space where similar things are mapped right next to each other geometrically.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-11-30 18:30:04+00:00
As a sibling commenter noted, Islamophobia is probably the common word used in US media for this concept. Islamism, by contrast, is typically used in the English-speaking world to refer specifically to the ideological movements that hold that Islam should be the basis of political systems (that is, establishing explicitly Islamic states; implementing Sharia as the basis of state legal systems; etc). So anti-Islamism, then, would carry a different meaning than Islamophobia or anti-Islamic or anti-Arab sentiment more generally.
by mindslight | 2025-11-30 18:31:27+00:00
Throughout my entire life, I don't know if I have ever seen anyone measuring their tire pressure or checking their oil at a gas station. Visually assessing tires can be quite misleading as well - my TPMS indicator was just on, visually it looked like one tire (its pressure was fine), and the tire that was 10psi low looked normal.

Falling back to an attitude of not needing automation and instrumentation is a cope, and often a poor cope at that. The problem isn't the dash warning lights of the past several decades, it's the built in corporate surveillance hardware of the past single decade (and the corresponding violation of user trust in favor of corporate control).
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-30 18:31:39+00:00
I've always believed that people who smoked weed moderately seemed to be 'quicker' witted in older age(65-75). The positive effects can be negated by being fat/unhealthy/sedentary.

LSD, extacy types are more subjective. If you abuse them they fry your brain but in moderation they also seem to open new 'pathways' of thought.

Meth, crack, coke, no. They just cook your brain.
by hcv76 | 2025-11-30 18:33:49+00:00
You can say the same things about all religions.

Its more about the architecture of the chimp brain defaulting to, manufacturing story as a hack, when it cant explain/predict or understand what it experiences.

As philosopher Charles Taylor work has shown, the big shared stories of the chimp troupe (religions/ideologies etc) cant keep up with the rate of change, so chimp brains start searchimg for and latching on to what ever is available around them. And since the buffet table of available stories has exploded there is a splintering or lack of commonality in all stories. Every story looks silly to someone cuz they have already latched on to some other story. There are hard update limits to how frequently the brain can update a misguided story.

Its just shit hardware architecture everyone has.
by delusional | 2025-11-30 18:34:16+00:00
> why would I need a UI besides git and my code editor of choice?

If you ever find yourself wishing for a web UI as well, there's cgit[1]. It's what kernel.org uses[2].

[1]: https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
by mckn1ght | 2025-11-30 18:34:20+00:00
I too like the simple nature. If you care about highly performant code, you can always challenge yourself (I got into measuring timing in the second season I participated). Personally I prefer a world like this. Not everyone should have to compete on every detail (I know you stated that your points aren’t demands, I’m just pointing out my own worldview). For any given thing, there will naturally be people that are OK with “good enough”, and people who are interested to take it as far as they can. It’s nice that we can all still participate in this.

One could probably build a separate service that provides a leaderboard for solution runtimes.

I agree that it’s more of a cozy activity than a hardcore competition, that’s what I appreciate about it most.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-30 18:35:25+00:00
It's been amazing to see the progress on this project over the last 5 years. As someone who poked around looking at the feasibility of this myself, and gave up thinking it'd never be practical, I'm super happy to see how far they've gotten.

Maybe someday the 65816 target will get out there, a challenge in itself.
by ericmcer | 2025-11-30 18:35:26+00:00
I dunno... based on having worked for ~10 small to midsize companies now and getting to interact frequently with the founders at almost all of them, I wouldn't say a safety net was the common thread.

They were however all highly driven, a bit sociopathic, insanely confident and had some kind of chip on their shoulder. A few wanted to "beat daddy", some had wealthy wives and wanted to fit in with their in-laws, and others just seemed mad at something or someone in their industry and wanted to outdo them.

The #1 factor for success imo is being angry with reality and being arrogant enough to think you should impose your will on it. People who are given infinite chances will just fail a few times and settle into a safe life.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-30 18:35:31+00:00
The problem with this summary is that it's not actually what Baumol & Bowen were really focused on in their original paper.

It is what most people nowadays connect with "Baumol's cost disease", but in their paper, the way in which rising productivity sectors cause wage increases in stable productivity sectors was more of a detail than the central part of their thesis. The core part was the observation that certain kinds of economic activity cannot reduce costs through productivity gains, while others can; the wage connection between them was, well, not an afterthought, but more of a consequence of the very specific sort of economic system we live in. One could imagine a society with different ways of distributing resources to labor that didn't really have this feature, and yet the same sectors of this imaginary society's would still suffer from "Baumol's cost disease".
by flakes | 2025-11-30 18:36:13+00:00
You can, and that is mentioned in RFC 9110... along with the cons for doing so.

> Although request message framing is independent of the method used, content received in a GET request has no generally defined semantics, cannot alter the meaning or target of the request, and might lead some implementations to reject the request and close the connection because of its potential as a request smuggling attack (Section 11.2 of [HTTP/1.1]). A client SHOULD NOT generate content in a GET request unless it is made directly to an origin server that has previously indicated, in or out of band, that such a request has a purpose and will be adequately supported. An origin server SHOULD NOT rely on private agreements to receive content, since participants in HTTP communication are often unaware of intermediaries along the request chain.

QUERY is a new option to help avoid some of those downsides.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#section-9.3.1
by SXX | 2025-11-30 18:36:27+00:00
Not pixel artist, but game dev working with pixel art:

1 - AI just try to compress too many details into so few pixels.

When artists create pixel art they usually add details along the way and only important ones because otherwise it will look like rubbish on some screens.

Also it's easier to e.g add different hats or heads or weapons on the same body. AI generated ones is always too unique.

2 - AI try to mimic realistic poses that look like art supposed to be animated in 3D.

For a real game if you make lets say isometric tactical game you'll never make tiles larger than 64x64 because of how much labour they will take to animate. Each animation at 8fps take hours of work.

So pixel art is usually either high-fidelity and static or low-fi and animated in very basic ways.
by pkd | 2025-11-30 18:36:35+00:00
It didn't really come out of academia in that way. It was an innovation borne out of necessity during Covid. I don't think I've seen anybody using a box design for it. If you have a source, I'll be happy to be corrected.

Regardless technology is often named after people who made it popular, especially when original inventors are unknown or too diffuse.
by troyvit | 2025-11-30 18:36:38+00:00
I think it's most likely a symptom, not an end result of our stupidity. It's the short-sightedness that lets us keep doing this, that is the same idiocy that will lead us to nuclear or chemical warfare which reduces us back to a pre-industrialized society. Only this time we won't have readily available hydrocarbons we can use to dig ourselves out of it again. We'll be stuck burning wood to make coal.
by Chris2048 | 2025-11-30 18:36:46+00:00
An old version of a related contact page: https://web.archive.org/web/20250320001430/https://gweidart....

lists as a donation link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Newcomer214

So, gweidart is probably this guy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-newcomer-7275aa228/