MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 13415 | 2025-11-08 23:47:29+00:00
I doubt Ofcom are motivated by "concern for individuals well beings in the midst of a mental health crisis", but even then, it is clear in the context of the current discussion that they should be concerned with enforcing their legislation in their own country. The UK is free to build The Great Firewall of the United Kingdom and block half of the internet if their concern is so great.

What they cannot be allowed to do is tell organizations in other jurisdictions that they now suddenly fall under UK jurisdiction.

There are 195 countries in the world. If all of them followed a policy like UK's Ofcom, the internet would be gone in no time and world-wide user-to-user communication would become impossible for legal reasons. It's obviously not a sane position.
by subset | 2025-11-08 23:48:17+00:00
I prefer btop over more traditional resource monitor CLI/TUIs as it handles affordances in a more thoughtful and intuitive way (to me, at least - it's definitely a personal preference!). I think it's worth a test drive even just to explore a different sort of interaction mechanism for TUIs.

I've written up some thoughts on the design of btop here: https://abstractnonsense.xyz/micro-blog/2025-04-26-btop-of-y...
by throwforfeds | 2025-11-08 23:48:18+00:00
The visuals are like a fraction of the experience. Personally, I get very little in terms of visuals. It’s insight, wisdom, love, and the releasing of emotional holding patterns that is the most prominent thing for me. You can read about ego death all you want, but until you actually experience that sort of thing it’s just nice words on a page. It’s why Buddha would say don’t take my word for it, do the practice and have the experience yourself.

My first LSD trip is probably the most important experience of my life, and sure I saw some fractals in the clouds, but that’s close to zero percent of what was important during it.
by gpm | 2025-11-08 23:48:33+00:00
What is having your web server send IP packets with an IP address addressed to an overseas address to your ISP who you have signed a contract with to have them deliver those packets to the designated address if not actively reaching across borders?

That's what happens when you respond to a request after all. (Up to very minor nits, e.g. you might be paying a cloud provider instead of an ISP).
Show HN: Serve 100 Large AI models on a single GPU with low impact to TTFT
by leonheuler | 2025-11-08 23:48:51+00:00
I wanted to build an inference provider for proprietary AI models, but I did not have a huge GPU farm. I started experimenting with Serverless AI inference, but found out that coldstarts were huge. I went deep into the research and put together an engine that loads large models from SSD to VRAM up to ten times faster than alternatives. It works with vLLM, and transformers, and more coming soon.

With this project you can hot-swap entire large models (32B) on demand.

Its great for:

Serverless AI Inference

Robotics

On Prem deployments

Local Agents

And Its open source.

Let me know if anyone wants to contribute :)
by crikeykangaroo | 2025-11-08 23:48:55+00:00
I completely agree. It's a good thing we're in a multipolar world now. The US (and its vassal states) have ruled terribly and the world suffered much over it. Sadly, there is still a lot of propaganda that needs to go away. A great world leader would spread genuine peace. Not corrupt other countries, start wars and shed blood. The USA has failed to even keep its own citizens safe and secure. All I worry about is that they will drag a lot of other countries with them while they are falling.
by _blk | 2025-11-08 23:49:10+00:00
For good reason. That's what being in charge means. Biden had to take the blame while he obviously wasn't capable of being in charge. But it does always seem to be exploited beyond reason by the opposition. I'm very curious on what do non-diehards think on Dems blocking the clean bill and on keeping funds flowing for themselves to stay in session.

Please don't start a flame on this. If you can't stand trump, make it an exercise in self-control and skip the reply on this one.
by tptacek | 2025-11-08 23:49:27+00:00
None of this has anything whatsoever to do with whether "Pedro" will be there to shovel their driveway. Nobody cares about that. We all live with 100% certainty that somebody will exchange dollars for snow shoveling. The reason you hear about landscapers right now is that ICE is directly targeting them. If you're ICE, looking to meet a detention quota from whatever quadrant Oak Park is in, the easiest way to do that is cruise down the street and stop anybody on a riding mower.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-08 23:49:57+00:00
> Is google down again? Damn. Sorry man, I'd try again in a couple of hours.

"The burden of proof lies upon the person making empirically unfalsifiable claims."

Beyond that, I find your comment to be extremely rude and condescending, and a violation of this site's guidelines.

Science says being generous, thoughtful and kind is a sign of high intelligence, so let's all try to be nicer.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-08 23:50:00+00:00
There’s more than enough energy in the wind, and modern sailing technology has come a long ways. Some modern recreational sailboats can cross an ocean as fast as a cargo ship on just wind power, and speed isn’t even much of a factor for a lot of shipping. With the right tech I think fuel free shipping can disrupt fossil fuel shipping just by being cheaper.

Back when engines first replaced sailing fuel was nearly free, and sailboats were incredibly slow, dangerous, unreliable, and didn’t sail upwind well, and all that has changed- time to take another look.
by gethly | 2025-11-08 23:50:13+00:00
Sounds like UK problem to me. No one can be expected to know or abide laws of another country. In person or in the digital realm. If UK has some laws, then UK citizens should abide them, not the rest of the world. In other words, say betting is illegal in UK and I as a UK citizen go and make a bet via website that is run by a business in Panama. The Panamanian company should not concern itself with anything but rather it is me whom is breaking the law.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-08 23:50:36+00:00
I'm just pasting the comment by Ijm on the post that shoots down this hare-brained scheme.

ijm

"like many things there’s more to this than meets the eye and privatization won’t necessarily solve the problems.

Firstly satellite ADSB is a red herring. It’s very important for Canada where most of the country is remote and where many oceanic flights enter/exit and so ground based ADSB stations are either prohibitively expensive or completely impractical. Similarly for the UK where many EU bound oceanic flights enter/egress. The US has good ground based ADSB coverage that is perfectly adequate for our needs with the exception of pacific oceanic flights - which are also considerably less crowded and therefore do not have much efficiency to be gained from a more accurate system.

However satellite ADSB requires expensive upgrades to a majority of the US aircraft fleet which is considerably larger than the Canadian or UK fleets which then places an economic burden on operators with no significant efficiency/economic gain. Ergo Satellite based ADSB is an economic tax.

Secondly most people associate ATC with airline traffic however the US in particular have a substantial non airline aviation fleet ranging from Private operators, non airline freight, general aviation etc. for illustration the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association which represents just the private pilot sector has over 400k members. The general aviation sector contributed $339 billion and provided 1.3 million jobs in 2023 so this is a not insignificant contributor to the US economy. Much of this space is competitive not complimentary to the airline segment.

ATC privatization will inevitably lead to a bias to the airlines who will use their power to prioritize their needs over the General Aviation segment. - they have already signaled as such.

While the benefits of Canada and UKs ATC privatization always get touted the negative impacts on their General Aviation segment is rarely discussed. But in both cases their GA segments are stagnant vs in the US it is growing. While ATC privatization is not the only cause the general trend towards overburdening the GA segment with fees and restrictions is a a major factor."
by Hizonner | 2025-11-08 23:50:55+00:00
> I don’t agree that choosing to host a website without limiting the audience is innocent.

"Innocent"? That's a strange word to choose. Who cares what's "innocent"?

> It’s a choice, and has been the default for a long time, but it means one has chosen to speak outside the borders of their own country and that comes with rules, like them or not.

... or it means one has chosen to speak inside the borders of their country, and people outside those borders have chosen to import that speech. Web sites don't lob speech at you willy-nilly.

The bottom line is that that standard is impractical to implement, illiberal in its effects, and just generally a bad idea. For that matter, it's also at odds with most of the ways the world treats trade in physical goods.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-08 23:50:59+00:00
> I look forward to everyone in these organizations facing accountability. And not just the thugs on the street but the leaders first all the way to the top.

Unfortunately, the chances of this happening are minuscule, even if the executive branch ever changes hands in the future. The other party is too moderate, and doesn't have the backbone or courage to see it through, nor the patience and attention to detail to get them all. They'll be tied up in subpoenas, testimonies in front of Congress, hearings, hearings about hearings... Meanwhile, the people (both in leadership and boots on the ground) who are doing this today will slink back to normal life. The ringleaders will slide into comfy roles in think tanks, corporate boards, and lobbying groups. The hired thugs will go back to working as mall security and bouncers, hoping nobody remembers the time they cosplayed as Bond villain footsoldiers.
by landl0rd | 2025-11-08 23:51:28+00:00
It is a reply. I am not responsible for checking the locality of an IP address. Indeed, I can never do so with one hundred per cent accuracy. It is Not My Problem.

Governments that expect some content or other blocked can damn well do it themselves, in their own legal system. They cannot compel someone else to spend his time, talent, or treasure to enforce their petty rules.

If they go after one of their own for requesting something from me, whatever. If they block me, whatever. I suppose they're within their rights to do that.

The federal government "deputizing" or trying to chill private actors out of speech, out of doing business, etc. is a violation of Americans' first amendment rights; so held SCOTUS last year. No way in h--- are we letting some tinpot foreigner do so.
by don_neufeld | 2025-11-08 23:51:50+00:00
Chicago has over 50 millions tourists per year and rising.

https://cdn.choosechicago.com/uploads/2025/07/Chicago-Touris...

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-sees-record-breaking-ho...

Is that a lot?

Well, Rome - which people the world over would consider a “tourist destination” only has 35M tourists per year.

https://hotelagio.com/rome-tourism-statistics/

Even Paris is less, around 47M

https://parisplaybook.com/paris-tourism-statistics/
by UncleMeat | 2025-11-08 23:52:03+00:00
And I enjoyed my trophies that I got merely for participating even alongside the ones I got for winning. They became memories that I could relive. "Oh, that was the season where my good friend Kevin was on the team."

When people screech about participation trophies being modern degeneracy I want to see actual data demonstrating some real harm. Because from where I sit I see a nice thing being done for children and joy coming from that.
by sn9 | 2025-11-08 23:53:03+00:00
Lots of the damage done can't be undone when it comes to heart diseaese.

Notably risk goes up with the time spent with bad numbers, so the most leverage you have on affecting your lifetime risk is caring as early as possible.

It's an area under the curve situation. Waiting until you start experiencing symptoms is putting a band-aid on an open wound compared to avoiding injury at all by focusing on high impact habits related to diet and exercise.

Focus on adopting the following habits as early as possible: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
by zamadatix | 2025-11-08 23:53:17+00:00
This is only "supposed to be" accurate to some definition of what country the IP is assigned to, it is not an authoritative field for where it is currently being used. Multinational corporations, M&As, georedundant failover, leasing/selling, and other events often result in this field being outdated or plain wrong. Hell, I've been able to advertise part of my ARIN assigned US IP space out of a peer in Europe. This also ignores the EU designation on certain records https://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl?searchtext=94.102.16...

Edit: RIPE actually has documentation on this fallacy specifically https://docs.db.ripe.net/RPSL-Object-Types/Descriptions-of-P...

> “country:” – Officially Assigned two-letter ISO 3166 country code or "EU" (exceptionally reserved). It has never been specified what this country represents. It could be the location of the head office of a multi-national company, where the server centre is based, or the home of the End User. Therefore, it cannot be used in any reliable way to map IP addresses to countries.
by gpm | 2025-11-08 23:53:17+00:00
Mens rea usually means intent to do the thing, not intent to commit a crime.

E.g. if I involuntarily swing my arm and hit someone in the face as a result of a medical condition I lacked the appropriate mens rea and am not guilty. If I intentionally punch someone in the face while being somehow unaware that I'm not allowed to do that I am guilty.

Hard to see how mens rea would save anyone from being guilty here.
by aeonfox | 2025-11-08 23:53:49+00:00
> In Australia, since 2005 wind and solar have increased to about 11% and 17% of electricity generation respectively. > And that time period correlates perfectly with the just over 100-200% increase in electricity prices, depending on where you live.

I'll say this one thing and get out of the way. The price shock began in 2022[1] (see figure 1). The rise in energy costs aren't due to solar and wind generation, which is the cheapest there is. It's due to the transmission and variability of intermittent renewable energy, and also sensitive to export prices of gas due to our weak policy on gas reserves. Batteries are the answer to that as they can store when its cheap and dispatch to the grid when it isn't (and that includes home batteries). The Neoen battery which you mentioned, was the world's first big battery. It's been wildly profitable, which is basically driving the market to invest more in grid scale batteries and less in large scale renewables. So the federal and state governments aren't picking a winner by backing batteries, these policies are just accelerating us towards a cheaper grid using the momentum that's already there in the market. The federal government is also trying to offset the ending of the state-level bill relief for those that can't afford batteries, and reducing grid pressure/prices in the evening when everyone gets home.

[1] https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/spot-market-prices...
by rsolva | 2025-11-08 23:54:17+00:00
Ads that could be interpreted as targeted towards children is banned in Norway. Unfortunately we have not managed to enforce this sensible law in the digital realm, where children are routinely and brutally pillaged for their habits an behaviors and shown ads based on their insecurities and fumbling step into the wider world. It is truly sickening to observe society's naïveté, and especially how big tech (and thus data harvesting) has become a mandatory part of schools now, where every child is provided with personal device at the age of 6.
by bubblelicious | 2025-11-08 23:54:21+00:00
I disagree, you have to take yourself back to when electricity was not widely available. How much labor did electricity eliminate? A LOT I imagine.

AI will make a lot of things obsolete but I think that is just the inherent nature of such a disruptive technology.

It makes labor cost way lower for many things. But how the economy reorganizes itself around it seems unclear but I don’t really share this fear of the world imploding. How could cheap labor be bad?

Robotics for physical labor lag way behind e.g. coding but only because we haven’t mastered how to figure out the data flywheel and/or transfer knowledge sufficiently and efficiently (though people are trying).
by getnormality | 2025-11-08 23:56:15+00:00
What you're communicating here, perhaps unintentionally, is that what matters is not results, but blame. If the doctor said what to do but the patient didn't do it, all that matters is the patient is to blame.

You've communicated that by ignoring or dismissing the question of whether better outcomes are possible through other means than demanding that everyone follow doctors' orders and blaming them if they don't.

"Who cares if better outcomes are possible, so long as blame is in the right place"? Is that how we want to approach this?
by Yokolos | 2025-11-08 23:56:40+00:00
This is specific to the UK. What does it have to do with Europe? So, that's a laugh and a fucking half coming from what's likely an American. The US is already as close to a fascist dictatorship as you can get in a democracy with extraordinary rendition and the indiscriminate disappearing of thousands of people without due process. Why is the US so in love with authoritarianism that you embrace it so eagerly and tear apart your own constitution for it? Pot meet kettle.
by refulgentis | 2025-11-08 23:56:51+00:00
“ Governments that expect some content or other blocked can damn well do it themselves, in their own legal system”

What you are describing is exactly what is going on here. OFCAM’s final action, if taken, is blocking at ISP level. All of the legal stuff is happening in the UK system.

I’m just sort of curious for your thoughts after learning that.

(Also, I’m curious about the SCOTUS decision, I.e. which one? I used to be a law nerd and got a kick out of reading oral arguments for the first time in years this week, would appreciate more material)
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-08 23:56:55+00:00
> If I'm operating a Web site in country A, I should not have to care about country B's laws

Not defending UK's idiotic laws, but this doesn't hold. If you cannot regulate websites outside of the country of origin, then no internet regulation can hold for any subject. Openly selling stolen personal credentials or botnet usage? Piracy? Reselling personal information without disclosure?

So there are effectively three options for internet regulation;

- Require websites to operate region by region with IP blocks for any non-target market. This is much of EU law is applied. If you put an effort to not serve EU costumers, you can skip following EU rules. "comply or leave"

- Any country can regulate any website regardless of origin, like the UK seems to push for. This is an insane proposal and could easily create geopolitical disputes. Great firewall and banning VPNs would be the only proper way to achieve what they seem to aim for.... which i wouldn't put past them by now.

- Give up regulating the internet entirely. Some level of regulation is valuable so I don't think this will ever work. There are simply some things illegal and deplorable enough to require laws.
by rainsford | 2025-11-08 23:57:06+00:00
Not really ATC specific, but at some point most people in most jobs can't deal with indefinitely not getting paid and will have to go do something else even if they don't have a good backup plan. Working retail, driving for Uber, etc, all have vastly better ROI at the moment than working ATC getting a $0 paycheck. In theory they'll get backpay and have better future earnings prospects than leaving for an uncertain career change. But that's probably not as comforting as it should be since it's uncertain when that will happen, or even if, since the government has unnecessarily gone out of its way to cast doubt on the promise of backpay.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-08 23:57:19+00:00
It's kind of too late for quick action. You're not going to turn the attitudes of Law Enforcement on a dime. We need a decades long effort to eliminate MAGA, White Supremacy, gangs, lawlessness and thuggery from thousands of local and state police forces nationwide. These attitudes have so thoroughly infiltrated policing for so long, it's going to take deliberate restructuring of these institutions and personnel replacement to resolve.
by gpm | 2025-11-08 23:57:52+00:00
It is a reply... that you chose to send despite being fully aware that by doing so you might be reaching out across borders because that's how the internet and your contracts with your service providers works.

Governments can do whatever they damn well please in their own territory. Including arresting you if you ever visit because you violated some law that they wrote that applies to people in the rest of the world, or even you violated some law that a friend of theirs (i.e. a country with an extradition treaty) wrote to apply to people in the rest of the world. If those actions compel people to spend their time, talent, or treasure to enforce their petty rules then they can do that.

Whatever "actively reaching out" standard you are imagining doesn't exist in the first place. Even if it did though, you clearly violated it when you sent the reply to the request actively aware that it could go across borders.

SCOTUS (with an emphasis on the US) decisions seem rather irrelevant to non-US actors.
by marojejian | 2025-11-08 23:58:08+00:00
While I think Kemp is fatally weakened by his prior bias being too strong, there are many accurate and worth ideas here, most the legacy of Scott.

Of all of them, I'm most attracted by the concept that, through most of our evolution, our culture contained an immune system that limited the harm ambitious psychopaths could inflict. But our present culture is adapted to maximize the impact of those same psychopaths.
by tptacek | 2025-11-08 23:58:31+00:00
I don't think this framing is very helpful. Whatever you believe about the people who pulled the lever for Trump, which included an unprecedented number of Latino and Black voters, they exist, and they're not persuaded by your disapproval. I think a really big problem we have on my side of the aisle is the belief that there's a celestial referee who will call offsides on the Republicans if we can just find the right argument at the right amplitude.

What led into our current circumstances was several years of uncontrolled, chaotic immigration, caused in large part by specific articulable decisions Biden's administration made. People felt like the situation had gotten out of control, and they weren't wrong. Every day I'd commute into my office and pass multiple corners and Ike off-ramps(!) staffed by a woman and several of her tiny children, out in the cold, trying to sell bottles of water.

My reaction to that wasn't "deport them". I'm a liberal Democrat. But we're kidding ourselves if we think a natural reaction to that situation was "this is fine".

The election was fully determined by inflation. Biden made a reasonable (though incorrect) bet that full employment was more important than price stability. It was not: people fucking hate inflation. By a large factor inflation was the most important issue in the 2024 election. But the second-most important issue was immigration (like it has been throughout Europe over the past 10 years) and then after that the issues sharply trail off in importance.