MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sumnole | 2025-11-10 20:10:52+00:00
Meaningful and specific parts lists shall be included.

Cases shall be easy to open.

Batteries shall be replaceable.

Special tools are allowed only for darn good reasons.

Profiting by selling expensive special tools is wrong, and not making special tools available is even worse.

Torx is OK; tamperproof is rarely OK.

Components, not entirely subassemblies, shall be replaceable.

Consumables, like fuses and filters, shall be easy to access.

Circuit boards shall be commented.

Power from USB is good; power from proprietary power adapters is bad.

Standard connectors shall have pinouts defined.

If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.

Screws better than glues.

Docs and drivers shall have permalinks and shall reside for all perpetuity at archive.org.

Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.

Metric or standard, not both.

Schematics shall be included.
by mjburgess | 2025-11-10 20:10:58+00:00
But what is 'tech'? When we say the EU isn't competitive in 'tech', what technology capacity do they lack?

I think 'tech' as a category doesnt make much sense any more. It's like saying 'road-based business'. Most companies are 'tech' companies.

Ignoring the technical element, what are US megacorps that account for all the GDP growth of the last while?

Mostly ad market monopolies, then mostly massive-scale IP theft, etc.

I think the EU is 'behind' the US only in it's inability to be well-positioned to build massive rent-seeking megacorps. I dont see where-else this gap is supposed to be.

What, on 'tech' should the EU be doing differently? Just allowing megacorps to add 30% to every transaction?

If this US tech bubble bursts, it's not clear that the EU won't be better positioned to pick up the pieces.
by brewtide | 2025-11-10 20:11:04+00:00
Completely not related to any LLM usage, but welcome to the world of NA Miata ownership! I think you'll find that with just general maintenance it'll treat you very well -- My '91 is the most reliable car in the drive, and by far the most whimsical. (I just got back from a Miata errand trip in the pouring rain -- Why did I drive the Miata? Winter is very soon, and it gets put away for ~3 ish months -- so at this time of year, every possible trip is a miata trip!)
by submeta | 2025-11-10 20:11:26+00:00
Lazygit, WezTerm, NeoVim, Yazi (TUI file manager) are a fantastic combination! I have a tmuxniator config file for every project I work on. And open a tab in WezTerm, run „mx projectname“, it opens a split for Yazi, one for Lazygit, one for neovim, and one for my agentic coding tool. Lovely setup, super fast, all in the terminal.
by Panoramix | 2025-11-10 20:11:27+00:00
I don't quite disagree but this comparison is typically unfair, because when you really know about a subject you tend to ask way more difficult questions than about other subjects, so of course the LLMs are gonna struggle more. If you ask really basic questions they will regurgitate well known bachelor-level knowledge and look good. What do I know about biology anyway? about silos for grain storage? any passable answer is enough to wow me on those topics. But on the topics I really know about, I never ask the basics.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-10 20:11:42+00:00
In Czechia, you need a specific sort of account to start a LLC, an account that is only used to contain the initial capital.

The bank will issue a confirmation to the notary that the money is present in that account, the notary will sign the founding papers, and the account is then liquidated again. You can take the money out, or move it to [different] regular account, or have none and operate in cash, as long as your transactions don't exceed a certain limit.

The exception is when you become a VAT payer. In that moment, you have to have at least one bank account. IIRC VAT registration is only required if your yearly revenue exceeds approx. 70 thousand dollars.
by jnurmine | 2025-11-10 20:12:15+00:00
"Draft changes would create new exceptions for AI companies that would allow them to legally process special categories of data (like a person’s religious or political beliefs, ethnicity or health data) to train and operate their tech."

Fully anonymized health data I can somehow understand, but what kind of AI needs to be trained with "a person's religious or political beliefs [or] ethnicity", anonymized or not?
by wrs | 2025-11-10 20:12:23+00:00
The example of Seattle Police dashcam and body camera footage may be interesting. When those things were relatively new, ten years ago or so, someone started filing daily public records requests for footage from all 911 dispatches (among other things). They wanted to build their own database of the theoretically public footage. The SPD complained that the overhead of redacting all that footage would be impossible. Eventually the legislature clarified the status and tightened the request rules, so now you have to request footage for a specific incident, and you may have to pay a redaction fee. [0]

[0] https://mrsc.org/explore-topics/public-records/law-enforceme...
by sandworm101 | 2025-11-10 20:13:00+00:00
But nearly every country will put an empty chair on trial (in absentia). Dead people can also sometimes be represented in tort cases. Historically, kings and traitors have even been dug up to appear in court after death, literally. And the US regularly puts pre-verbal children on trial (immigration courts). Compared to that, the crate of dildos seams downright normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
by ibejoeb | 2025-11-10 20:13:04+00:00
Fantastic, thank you.

This is already useful. If you do wind up adding image classification, first, I'd like it distinguish photos, screenshots, and graphics. Then, I'd like broad categories, like people, places, animals, memes, etc. Base case is I want sort out my downloads since I generally download something and then not bother putting it where it belongs or deleting it.

It would also be handy if, in addition to moving the items, it could tag them via Finder tags/xattrs.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-10 20:13:15+00:00
You don't understand why they may want surveillance to curb or investigate violent crime, but not why they oppose surveillance used by the Gestapo to kidnap members of their community? Seriously?

It's like saying I'm hypocritical for loving to write with pencils but being offended when someone else stabs me with one.

> Bro, you said you liked pencils, make up your mind!
by Fwirt | 2025-11-10 20:13:29+00:00
This is often misunderstood and varies by jurisdiction. Often called "squatter's rights", it is often thought to mean "if I use this land for a long time without anybody noticing it becomes mine", but e.g. in my jurisdiction, you also have to have prove that you didn't know it wasn't yours. For example, if your backyard fence has been 5 feet over the property line for 10 years and nobody noticed, but then suddenly your next door neighbor has the property surveyed and tells you to move your back fence, you can take them to court and potentially claim that extra 5 feet as your own. But you can't just scoot your back fence over a couple inches every year and then eventually lay claim to your neighbor's backyard because they didn't notice it was shrinking, nor can you "find" "abandoned" land, build a house on it, and then claim it as your own. I believe there are a few jurisdictions where this actually is the case, but it's fewer than many people believe. And then of course you have the reality of squatters invading people's homes while they are on vacation for a week and the police being completely unwilling to get involved, which I understand was a big problem in France for a while.

IANAL
by chrisischris | 2025-11-10 20:13:36+00:00
Yea that would be the best current solution out there and would work ok for one person with one computer but the average person isn't going to set that up and it isn't easy to use from any device just by logging into a website or app. And if you had multiple machines you'd have to manually load balance by switching between them. Spore will allow you to easily set up as many nodes running models as you want and manage what models they are serving from anywhere, this allows for simple servicing of an organization or your family for example.
by michaelbuckbee | 2025-11-10 20:13:36+00:00
I've heard experts comment on this from the other side, that they'll give a quick layperson's soundbite about their subject of expertise that doesn't defensibly lay out all the possible exceptions and edge cases and weirdness for reasons of time and audience interest and then they'll be inundated with comments calling them a liar and accused of falsifying things or not actually understanding the subject.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-10 20:13:36+00:00
> No you can update ONLY the micro services that are impacted by the new requirements without impacting the other micro services.

Only if the new requirements don't require a breaking API change. Microservices make API breaks more difficult, since they're loosely coupled it's harder to find all users of an old API & ensure they're updated than it is with a tightly-coupled system. Microservices make non-breaking changes easier, and help ensure all access is gated through an API.
by naves | 2025-11-10 20:13:38+00:00
Yes, everything at CERN, at least in the 2000s, was in AFS. Fermilab was also using AFS extensively.

I remember compiling AFS from source for Scientific Linux 3.x because there was a weird bug that didn't let the machines mount AFS when they were integrated with LCG (before it was renamed to WLCG: https://wlcg.web.cern.ch/)

Oh my... this comment really dates me...
by logifail | 2025-11-10 20:14:10+00:00
> I don't want EU to fall behind further in the AI race

Unless something changes, that's going to continue :(

According to Jensen Huang, "the AI race" will be determined primarily by the price of electricity.[0]

Until very recently the EU stated that being carbon neutral by 2050 was of overriding importance[1].

Which is it?

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell... [1] https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/climate-strategies-ta...
by otterdude | 2025-11-10 20:14:28+00:00
The problem is judges, especially in a common law system.

Computers follow the machine code PERFECTLY. For the legal system judges get to embark on a jazz odyssey of bullshit.

Were living in an easy to track, decades long legal conspiracy to abuse power for corporations - based on the Powell memo.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYoqcr7bAIs7kdyMhh-9m...
by cipehr | 2025-11-10 20:14:52+00:00
Awesome, thank you for the input. I suspected NASA was operating this way, but I had no idea there was a period of exclusivity. In the case of NASA, the private companies are those like JPL and the sorts I guess?

I assume it is/was similar with other data collected, like weather data/radar, oceanic current/buoy data, etc?
by Aerbil313 | 2025-11-10 20:14:58+00:00
Myopia or no myopia, afaict the way to reduce eye strain is the same.

My understanding is that eye strain is either caused by unbalanced lightning (e.g. bright screen in dark room), or focusing on close distance for too long without giving the muscles a break by focusing further away. The well known 20-20-20 rule tries to establish that. As a practical advice, you may try adding some small walks, getting some fresh air for a few minutes, or even looking out of the window for a few minutes throughout the day.

FYI, iPhones have a feature to tell you to use your phone further away when you use it glued to your face. If you have myopia, it should go without saying that you should never use your phone with your glasses.
by mingus88 | 2025-11-10 20:15:18+00:00
No the problem is zero accountability

It used to be that we had systems such as Palantir who went out of their way to design these systems with ACLs and audit review. That was their trade off to get these powerful systems approved by respecting civil liberties

Well that seems to have been lost in today’s surveillance ecosystem. Who has access to Flock amd what are they allowed to search for? The answer seems to be any LEO for any reason
by mindcrash | 2025-11-10 20:15:24+00:00
And additionally Framework apparently benchmarked GPT-OSS 120B (!) on the maxed out 395+ Desktop and reached a 38.0 tok/sec Generation Speed. Given that Nvidia can't even keep up on a 20B model, I assume they can't keep up on the 120B model aswell.

https://frame.work/nl/en/desktop?tab=machine-learning

So to me the only thing which seems to be interesting about the Spark atm is the ability to daisy link several units together so you can create a InfiniBand-ish network at InfiniBand speeds of Sparks.

But overall for just plain development and experimentation, and since I don't work at Big AI, I'm pretty sure I would not purchase Nvidia at the moment.
by abalone | 2025-11-10 20:15:58+00:00
Or there's 3.5: separate services where it makes sense, but not necessarily small in number. "Makes sense" would entail things like, does it have distinct resource utilization or scaling characteristics, or do you want to enable your service to more gracefully degrade if that module becomes unavailable.

(This is basically the definition of 3 without the implication that it will be rare.)

As opposed to 4 which is about proactively breaking everything down into the smallest possible units on the expectation that the added complexity is always worth it.
by nicois | 2025-11-10 20:16:12+00:00
A large percentage of git users are unaware of git-absorb (https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb). This complements just about any git flow, vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes into multiple commits. This sits well alongside many TUIs and other tools, most of which do not offer any similar capability.
by alganet | 2025-11-10 20:16:28+00:00
Reviving a dead PHP bytecode vm for embedded systems:

https://github.com/alganet/PHL

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Bootstrapping from an x86 image that is mostly source text (based on live-bootstrap):

https://github.com/alganet/abuild

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Image with many shells, for testing script for portability:

https://github.com/alganet/shell-versions
by qdotme | 2025-11-10 20:16:41+00:00
There are downsides. Unsure if significant vs negligible. And same in terms of “internal” protocols - that essentially goes against the modularity (and while in the past there were good reasons to get away from modularity in pursuit of performance, darn, baudline.com of 2010 works amazingly well and is still in my toolbox!)

Big advantage of the “old ways” was the cohesion of software versions within a heterogenous cluster. In a way I caught the tail end of that with phasing out of MIT Athena (which at the time was very heterogeneous on the OS and architecture side) - but the question is, well, why.

Our industry is essentially a giant loop of centralizing and decentralizing, with advantages in both, and propagation delays between “new ideas” and implementation. Nothing new, all the economy is necessarily cyclic so why not this.

I’d argue that in the era of inexpensive hardware (again) and heterogenous edge compute, being able to run a single binary across all possible systems will again be advantageous for distribution. Some of that is the good old cosmopolitan libc, some of that is just a broad failure of /all/ end-point OS (which will brood its own consequences) - Windows 11, OSX, Androids etc..
by jcynix | 2025-11-10 20:17:22+00:00
>where do you keep secret.txt exactly?

Hidden. Encrypted. And the passphrase is: at 5,21 which is the 5th line on page 21 of your favorite book. Which you have more than one copy of, because you like it that much. And you need copies to lend. Or you have the PDF from Gutenberg.org?

And 5/21 might be the birthday of your first child, or your wedding day, or whatever?

It might be a favorite quote, like "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Augmented by the above date if needed?
by joshstrange | 2025-11-10 20:17:29+00:00
> Rather, people have to ask questions of it, and interact with the data. Increasingly, that is via AI tooling.

That is, given all my own experiences on that front, terrifying if "increasingly" people are interacting with their data via AI tooling. In all the testing I've done, it can seem like magic "Look, it just told us XXX piece of data and we just asked a simple question!" but LLMs, even with copious amounts of context, are not good at understanding your business rules for understanding your data. And that goes for just about any company with more than "Pet Store"-level complexity (especially after years or decades of the data growing/changing).

Perhaps this has improved/changed but I used LLMs daily and nothing indicates to me that it's improved enough to make this worthwhile. Any AI-only interface to data I would assume is either dealing with a laughably simple dataset/schema (or super new) or lying to you constantly.
by PeaceTed | 2025-11-10 20:17:32+00:00
This is a problem if 'everybody' is using it but I suspect there will be a few groups. It will be a 'tortoise and the hare' situation.

The LLM folks (the hare) will get the initial upper hand as it appears as though they are moving far faster than others but with limited or wrong actual results. This could change if we can solve the hallucination issue. Yes, they are in personal echo chambers but that can only get you so far when you hit the real world. It will be painful and messy but it will resolve long term. Worse case we end up with a Dune "do not make machines that think like a person".

The slow group (tortoise) are those that do not actively engadge in these things. Yes, this trying to keep up but using much slower mental faculties. I suspect long term they will do better as the fast group fail to deliver. Again if we do not solve issues of LLMs which is not certain.

So long as there is still the slow group, we probably would not go down the dark path of individual echo chambers. Long term, eventually if you trip over the same mental stumbling block, you learn to not do that any more.
by immibis | 2025-11-10 20:17:55+00:00
CZ got a presidential pardon alongside giving the president a bunch of money. So did Ross Ulbricht. SBF did not give him money, and is in jail. It's true none of them did the exact same crimes as each other, but there's a clear pattern here. Let's see if in the future SBF gives the president a bunch of money and gets a pardon.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-10 20:18:41+00:00
By peanuts and pennies for a significant ROI. Many places still mandate some form of coaxial or telephone wiring, which means you already have the drop points for ethernet. Even better, telephone runs are often done with CAT5e due to cost, and could easily be rewired for ethernet if it’s laid structurally in the first place.

You’re talking a $10k expense on a new home, tops. That’s chump change and easily shoved into regulations regarding new builds without significantly harming progress. The real regulations impacting housing are zoning anyway.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-10 20:18:43+00:00
> Mostly ad market monopolies, then mostly massive-scale IP theft, etc.

Good point. I think that the EU has an opportunity to really grow here by focusing on intellectual property enforcement, patents, copyright, and generally more strict enforcement on making sure returns for ideas go to the first person to think of them. The EU already has a pretty strong governance lead and should double down on where its strengths lie.
by buran77 | 2025-11-10 20:19:29+00:00
> Yes this is the way policing should work, if they think you have done something they knock on your door [...] Bonus points if a judge needs to grant them the privilege

How exactly would they come after you if your data is "outside of the UK's reach and jurisdiction"? They went after the gatekeepers because they wanted a one stop shop for accessing people's data. They will look to take the same easy road in the future and there's nothing easier then framing any attempts to keep data out of UK's reach as a crime. They get your data or get you for not providing the data.

The law will be "stupid", tech savvy people will find ways around it. But it's enough to throw a or a noose around as many people as possible and tighten as time goes by. Authoritarianism 101.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-10 20:19:30+00:00
We can start with that 1/3rd. Then we remove as many economic incentives as possible to make overstaying visas that much less attractive to tackle the other 2/3rds.

It's weird to see people (perhaps not you specifically) who often support dramatic gun control measures to address a tiny percentage of crime among the first to trot out the old saw that only a relative fraction of illegal migrants got that way by an illegal border crossing. 1/3rd is a lot. 1/3rd is a great start.

Addressing that 1/3rd also would address the real edge cases (as in there are only a few of them) like terrorists and serial criminals.
by giardini | 2025-11-10 20:19:31+00:00
I've done this for years - helps me fall asleep on hard workout days.

But I always thought of it as "oxygenating" my body: inhale slowly and fully from top of the lungs down to the bottom of the diaphragm followed by slow and full exhalation. I had no idea I could 'trigger my vagus nerve to squirt out some stress-busting "vagusstoff" as the article states!'

Several thing happen when I breathe like this: in cold weather my body almost immediately heats up (quite dramatic when I'm outside). And I relax!

FWIW I usually sleep w/o covers.

BTW heard yesterday of another study on hot sauna (20 minutes of ~110 degrees Fahrenheit). It speeds recovery - I'll try that after my next weight workout.
by somat | 2025-11-10 20:20:02+00:00
I tried it back when obsd included a client, hooking into the public list was amazing, you could almost see an alternate web in there but based on the unix filesystem instead of http. unfortunately afs was dropped in 5.2

The big disappointment for me at the time was that obsd did not also include a server component so it was comparatively much more difficult to use afs in your own infrastructure. The lesson being always make the effort to include the server side if possible. Without that you feel like a second class citizen.
by zahlman | 2025-11-10 20:20:09+00:00
> How can you trust something when anyone can edit a page? But again, the power of quantity--thousands or millions of eyeballs identifying errors--swamped any simple attacks.

Sure, but now the established power users are free to insert more subtle attacks. The https://xkcd.com/978/ problem never stopped and the "reliable sources" consideration process allows for considerable political bias.
by chowells | 2025-11-10 20:20:25+00:00
It's appropriate to think this way with LLM output because LLMs are still terrible some significant portion of the time. If you don't actually know what you're doing, you have no way to distinguish between their output being correct or their output being able to pass the tests you can think of.

As a software developer, your job is to understand code and business constraints so you can solve problems the way most appropriate for the situation. If you aren't actually keeping up with those constraints as they change through time, you're not doing your job. And yeah, that's a kind of fraud. Maybe it's more on yourself than your employer most of the time, but... It's your job. If you don't want to do it, maybe it's more respectful of your own time, energy, and humanity to move on.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-11-10 20:20:47+00:00
> Why not ATS?

As in, why not use a language with much stronger formal verification? Because people have tried it and failed.

Like you said, Rust is hard, it already feels at the limit of what people can handle.

But unlike ATS, many people have tried Rust and succeeded, and some Rust programmers even claim that they become very productive with it after a while. I very much doubt the same could be said about ATS.