MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-14 19:07:21+00:00
> I’m not familiar with the Huawei matter because it’s similar not something I have to concern myself with, but can you point to something specific or a place where I could get some facts on why Huawei is justifiably frowned upon?

Try to use their routers as someone with needs greater than "get into the internet". Their UI is horribly slow and clunky, you'll need to reboot them every few months because something hangs itself and about every year or two they manage to get 0wned by a wormable exploit. On top of that, analyses have shown their firmware to be utterly rancid [1], although I do admit that this analysis is six years old.

> Maybe I just didn’t care enough to notice, but I would have thought that if there was something real to how Huawei hardware will make the sky fall, the powers that be would have surely made that case with clear and irrefutable proof.

The thing Western politicians are afraid of is running into another scenario like in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where Viasat was hacked by the Russians leading to serious outages [2], or that the equipment - particularly anything with radios attached - can be "remote bricked" similar to how Israel detonated Hezbollah's pagers. It's bad enough we can't be sure that our own equipment is reasonably secure from cyber attacks, but Huawei is a complete blackbox. We need to prepare for a war scenario with China, either directly (the worst case), but at the very least as a side effect of an invasion of Taiwan. In either case I expect the CCP to behave like Mossad, cripple us piece by piece.

Even if the CCP never decides to invade Taiwan, it still makes sense to refuse their companies entry into our markets as long as our companies aren't welcome in theirs. I am a big friend of reciprocity and China hasn't given us much.

On top of that, Huawei was under fire for alleged sanctions violations and IP theft [3].

[1] https://www.securityweek.com/many-potential-backdoors-found-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/13/huawei-ne...
by snek_case | 2025-11-14 19:07:35+00:00
Also how do you avoid billionaires worldwide? Not everyone lives under your government. Even if you could, how do you know for a fact that some people don't secretly control hidden assets? Is Xi openly a billionaire? China is a "communist" country on paper. How does he hold so much power?

The sad reality is that the world has a nonzero percentage of power-hungry narcissists. We need governments that are more democratic and robust. We all know that the current government processes are broken and corrupted.
by tharne | 2025-11-14 19:07:52+00:00
> The salary they pay is double the median for car mechanics. You still think that's not paying enough?

It's not up to me to decide if a given employer does or does not pay enough. If people don't want to work for your company, then you're not paying enough relative to your expectations around the job. That's not anyone's opinion, it's just how prices work.
by Crontab | 2025-11-14 19:07:57+00:00
I've been thinking a lot about VPNs lately, mainly for 2 reasons:

1) In my home state I can no longer access Pornhub

2) Last month I visited Mississippi and could not access BlueSky, even though I can from my home state.

[I personally blame this on the "holier then thou", "don't tread of me" conservatives who cannot resist the urge to try to rule over the activities of others.]

I haven't selected a VPN provider because I have heard that a lot of websites create barriers to people who use VPNs. For example, I've seen people say that couldn't access Reddit via a VPN.
by baltimore | 2025-11-14 19:08:01+00:00
Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way.

I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!
by futuraperdita | 2025-11-14 19:08:18+00:00
Having bought other systems in the MS-line, these boxes are heavy on cool homelab specs but aren't all that reliable and dealing with Minisforum for support is abysmal. I ended up moving back to old enterprise hardware (TinyMiniMicro or rackmounted gear). I don't recommend purchasing these systems if you're looking for anything more than a novelty; they're not any better than buying one of the random AliExpress mini PCs.
by antisthenes | 2025-11-14 19:08:34+00:00
> I think there's a good argument that financial markets are a big reason that people can ever retire.

There isn't. The reason people can finally retire in the 20th and 21st centuries is due to extreme exploitation of fossil fuels and using multiples of stored energy to make goods, which would normally be unavailable compared to the energy budget coming from the Sun in a given year.

You can argue in some way that the financial markets made this wealth easily accessible to the average joe through a 401k, but it could have been just as easily allocated using a different not-for-profit mechanism.
by kingstnap | 2025-11-14 19:09:20+00:00
The way they measure water consumption is genuinely unbelievably misleading at best. For example measuring the water evaporated from a dams basin if any hydroelectric power is used.

Counting water is genuinely just asinine double counting ridiculousness that makes down stream things look completely insane. Like making a pound of beef look like it consumes 10,000L of water.

In reality of course running your shower for 10 to 15 hours is no where near somehow equivalent to eating beef lasagna for dinner and we would actually have a crisis if people started applying any optimization pressure on these useless metrics.
by moron4hire | 2025-11-14 19:09:31+00:00
Everyone wants to complain about the "bloat" in Windows and macOS (and fair enough, there is a lot of bloat and cruft) but blame it all on capitalism, when Linux has kept apace in growth rate the whole time. My Linux installs have been 'round about 50% the size of my Windows installs these last 15 years, never really straying far. If we ask ourselves, "Why does Linux need to keep growing?", I think we can easily see that OS churn and growth is not just "shareholder value gotta go up."
by bpt3 | 2025-11-14 19:10:10+00:00
You're correct.

In another blog post where he uses "shibui" as an example of an untranslatable word, he says, "Saying shibui like that, in a mere second, conveys what would otherwise make a clunky and unnecessarily long digression."

At the root of nearly all the blog posts like this one (basically explaining why they don't agree with a widely held belief) is a redefinition of a term or word into something very specific that contradicts the common definition.
by ta12653421 | 2025-11-14 19:10:14+00:00
this is what most WEIRD people do not understand: (Western-Educated-Industrial-Rich-Democratic) - by today it looks like that the Chinese system may proof to be more "performant" on most/several (all?) levels. Its hard to accept for libertarian minds, i guess.

Once here on HN someone wrote like: "democratic systems seems to be too slow to adapt in world changing at our current speed".

China did some vey wise decisions from their perspective; think about this joint-venture thingy that foreign companies need to have a JV partner which always holds at least 50.1% - very clever! Why did no western state do this? Its one of the by far smartest decision that you could do.
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-14 19:10:20+00:00
If your barometer is 'thing destroying American families' does this mean you'd also be willing to excuse blowing up health insurers or does your logic only apply to things that aren't directly under the thumb of American businesses?

The pragmatic approach is that we're spending far too much money blowing up small boats which could be better invested in actually fixing our healthcare system and other domestic issues, with decent odds of going to war and spending even more money because of it. The empathetic side is that these are just fishermen that aren't even involved in this whole shitshow getting killed for political points by a bloodthirsty and stupid admin.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 19:10:22+00:00
Nobody, in the article or otherwise, is suggesting that you can take manganese to fight Lyme. I don’t know where you got that, but I hope nobody thinks to try it.

The idea would be to look at all of the components that regulate manganese in B. burgdorferi and then look for drugs that might disrupt how they operate.

Any solution would act indirectly by disrupting manganese balance in a targeted manner directed at B. burgdorferi, not by flooding the whole body with manganese. The cells regulate their internal manganese anyway, so supplementing manganese wouldn’t force it to go into those cells anyway.

This is a PR release for some research that tries to stretch it into a promising treatment, but it's really more of an interesting discovery than a path to a new treatment.
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 19:10:23+00:00
The risks are not something we can know. They are not we put you on death row bad. The courts decide what to do. Every country has their own laws and you could be taken to court in more than one. You can get a better answer from a real lawyer not me, but that will costs money.

The worse case is if they have a registered copyright which means they get to charge triple damages. I'm not completely clear on what triple damages mean. I think that means they subtract your costs to publish the game and count only the profits, but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure if they assume your costs, or what they would have charged if they had done this (that is if you sell the game for $50 but they would charge $100) - you can bet their lawyers will argue for whatever gets them the most, and may also ask for lawyer fees.

For a small company the above will bankrupt you.
by tredre3 | 2025-11-14 19:10:25+00:00
> I'll take the word of what I've personally seen with my own eyes over someone who created an HN account three minutes ago.

> I can take you to places in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, West Virginia, and even California where people have to live without electricity, running water, or both.

But can you provide us with a source other than your own eyes for the "millions of people" you claim to be living in such conditions?
by impossiblefork | 2025-11-14 19:11:06+00:00
It's too bad we can't withdraw our votes for a politician continuously, with the politician having to leave office if the vote changes enough.

I'm not sure it can be solved without everybody writing down their vote, but this would be one way that would make pushing through unpopular policies, whether because of changing opinions, mismatches where politicians misrepresent their plans or corruption, much more difficult.
by mylifeandtimes | 2025-11-14 19:11:38+00:00
Having lost a fried to drugs, I hear your pain.

I don't see how killing a lot of fishermen and destroying their families alleviates this pain.

There might have been drugs on the boats, but maybe not. No one bothered to check first.

The fishermen might have been part-time drug smugglers, maybe not. How do we know? What investigation was done?

And if we really believe that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

then taking away people's lives without due process is murder. Cold blooded, premeditated murder. That's a worse crime than selling someone a drug that might kill them.

Friend, don't let your pain blind you to causing more pain. Ethics is hard.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-14 19:11:54+00:00
My solution is boring, but it works for the individual who is in that situation: Go and work somewhere where you are provided food and board and a salary. Not only do you physically get yourself out of the environment which has dragged you down, you can also cut out expenses such as rent and even transportation. Which is huge.

Yes, it's not a fun solution. It won't make you rich. But it will take you out of being dirt poor, which the article is about. One example of those kind of places is the merchant navy. You're on a ship, so you don't have to spend any money and you can't even spend it. Instead of going on shore leave like the other people, just get extra days, or work on another ship on your leave days. I'm not going to mention the military, because people might have objections against killing and being killed, but it works in the same way.

While you're at it, you have the opportunity for a career or education. And entry level jobs are available for those who have the work ethic.

Monastic life is another such example, where you are at least provided for. And traditionally the monasteries have swallowed up millions of people who would have been dirt poor, and given them an alternative. Just like the merchant navy and the military has done the same for millions. You can arrive to these places with nothing but the clothes on your back, and start putting together your life again.
by neom | 2025-11-14 19:11:56+00:00
I'm Canadian and I built DigitalOcean, there is a data center in Toronto because I decided. I am one of many Canadians who have built scaled infrastructure and think this is a nightmare. Many competent people at telus and bell behind the scenes believe it or not. They should have, and still should, form a crown corp and get a bunch of us older infrastructure people to help put it together. We have crown corps for this very purpose, from my understanding the people in the rooms calling the shots had little to no experience architecting large scale physical data center build outs. Cohere, or any startups should be stakeholders, but the infra should have been home grown.
by strix_varius | 2025-11-14 19:12:11+00:00
This gets me too. I generally agree that success is basically luck * effort, so I don't judge people who haven't been able to "make it." Similarly, I don't really admire people for having "made it"... If I don't know them personally, there's no way for me to gauge the ratio of luck and effort.

However, I do judge adults who aren't in good circumstances who also decide to bring children into their hardship. I have two kids, which is the most I felt I could provide for (time, money, attention, energy, etc).
by rolph | 2025-11-14 19:12:19+00:00
in the US we have a patchwork of "verbal contract" laws.

campaign promises should be held to verbal contract and elections interference by inducement.

i.e. if you vote for me i promise you the world, some cheques, and a lot of ugly people will be gone.

promise but dont keep it, would be breach verbal contract. promise to [x] if you vote for me, would be inducement interference.

discuss the problem, discuss the solution, no more populist promises
by bhouston | 2025-11-14 19:12:30+00:00
I really like Minisforum in general and the current generation of AMD-powered Mini PCs. I have one as a media PC and I replaced my dad's desktop with one. They are cheap, fast and silent.

I was thinking of getting a high end AMD one as a replacement for my daughter's aging gaming PC, although as of this week I am thinking of waiting for Steam Machine.

This ARM machine seems a bit slow (I would have suggested a new Qualcomm CPU, some of them are crazy fast) but it is nice to see a major Mini PC manufacturer getting into the ARM space.
by deepsun | 2025-11-14 19:12:45+00:00
Nice how you put them all on one row.

How Isaac Asimov said in "Relativity of wrong":

"When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together".
by tharne | 2025-11-14 19:12:53+00:00
> Think how many normies have come online since then that have only ever used a smartphone. Sadly the average computer literacy of those times are gone.

I remember a few years ago, being shocked to see that over 50% of applicants for a software engineering role applied directly from their smartphones. So it's not even just normies who see their phone as "the computer".
by saghm | 2025-11-14 19:13:09+00:00
It's not how I use LLMs. I have a family member who often feels the need to ask ChatGPT almost any question that comes up in a group conversation (even ones like this that could easily be searched without needing an LLM) though, and I imagine he's not the only one who does this. When you give someone a hammer, sometimes they'll try to have a conversation with it.
by pron | 2025-11-14 19:13:35+00:00
> And the rest of those basically had no competition in their domain when they started 30+ years ago.

That's not true, as anyone who was programming back then (like me) knows. Java had serious competition from VB, Delphi, and a host of other "RAD" languages as they were called back then (and not long before, the language that the magazines were touting as "the future" was Smalltalk). All of them were heavily marketed. C++, of course, had to compete against an established incumbent, C, and another strong contender, Ada (Ada, BTW, was about as popular in 1990, when it was 10 years old, as Rust is today, although bigger, more important software projects were being written in Ada in 1990 than are being written in Rust today). Python and Ruby both were both competing with the very powerful incumbent, Perl. PHP, of course, had Java to compete with, as did C#. Some of these languages had strong backers, but some started out as very small operations (Python, C++, PHP), and some languages with very strong backers did poorly (Delphi, FoxPro).

Again, I have no idea if Rust will ever really take off, but its adoption at this advanced age, despite no lack of marketing, would be extraordinarily low for a language that becomes very popular.

> But it doesn't help that Rust is also in the native space, whose devs are especially stubborn

Perhaps, but Fortran, C, and C++, were all in this space and they all spread rather quickly. Microsoft, a company with a fondness for complicated languages, chose to write significant portions of their flagship OS in C++ when the language was only five years old.

It's true that the market share of low-level languages has been shrinking for several decades now and continues to shrink, but also isn't really a good news for a language that for at least a decade has been trying to get a significant share of that shrinking market, and has been having a hard time at that.

> and is a difficult language with painful syntax.

Yes, but this, too, isn't a point in favour of betting on Rust's future success. Other difficult or complex languages indeed had a harder time getting much adoption in their first decade, but things also didn't pick up for them in their second decade.

The latest bloomer of the bunch is Python, but if Rust ever becomes very popular (even as popular as C++ is today), it would need to break Python's record. That's not impossible, but it would be highly unusual. Low adoption in the first decade has virtually always been a predictor of low adoption down the line, too.
by stgraber | 2025-11-14 19:13:57+00:00
It's indeed still open source, but was moved from Apache 2.0 to AGPLv3 and from not having any requirements to contributions to requiring all contributors sign a CLA.

So it's definitely still open source, but the changes they made allows them to still look and import any change from Incus that they wish, whilst preventing us from looking at any LXD code without risk of tainting ourselves...
by strictnein | 2025-11-14 19:14:09+00:00
Not saying this is called for or legal or anything of the sort, but you can find pictures of some of the boats being destroyed. These aren't fishing boats:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9k2w8ell0o

https://abcnews.go.com/International/4-killed-latest-us-stri...

Again, I don't support these actions, just pointing out that at least some of these boats are very obviously being used for one thing and one thing only.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-14 19:14:15+00:00
>The big issue is power and the fact that most of it comes from fossil fuels

This has almost zero to do with the data centers themselves and instead the politicians we vote in.

Simply put we need more 'clean' power generation any way you go about it. Economic growth and production is based on ones ability to produce power. We've been coasting on increasing efficiency for a long time, but we've been in need of larger sources of power and distribution for decades, data centers or not.

With that said DC's shouldn't be built in west texas where it's dry. East of the Mississippi gets enough rain that you build a reservoir and you'll have more than enough water to feed the DC for decades.
by maybevoid | 2025-11-14 19:14:19+00:00
The providers in CGP work a little different than implicit parameters in Scala. Specifically, the provider implementations are bound to a `Context` or `Self` type during compile-time wiring. So if you know the concrete `Context` type, then you can resolve all provider implementations for that context.

Because the wiring is done globally for an explicit `Context` type, there is no issue of ambiguity that arise based on when an implicit parameter is bound. I call this scoped coherence, as it leverages incoherence for overlappable implementations, but still maintain global coherence through the wiring in a context type.
by whatshisface | 2025-11-14 19:14:29+00:00
Here's an article I found on Google that contains the claim about strikes associated with preventing civilian communication. Note the "physically high places." The story about the buckets fits within that frame. (My original source was an article I saw on HN; unfortunately Google's performance on search queries related to this subject is very poor, so it isn't easy to find again. I should have been saving them...)

> Hassan Saeed Barakat, the father of one victim of the Israeli bombing, told the Euro-Med Monitorteam that dozens of people had gathered to attempt to contact their family members when an Israeli drone launched a surprise missile attack. The attack directly targeted the tent being used as an Internet distribution point, causing the massive and deadly explosion.

> Instead of accessing the Internet via electronic SIMcards, Palestinian civilians have recently been turning to these random distribution points and physically high places to try to access communication networks due to the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian objects by Israeli forces in the Strip. With the destruction of mobile phone network transmission stations, Palestinians are struggling to communicate.

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...
by mothballed | 2025-11-14 19:14:37+00:00
If It weren't for the HVAC licensing gangster system where armed police would show up and stop me, I would absolutely start a company ripping out whatever broken system you have and with the business model is I would replace it with a small menu of mini split systems I have goons trained to install for cheap.

There is massive pent-up demand for this. Even poor people fix their HVAC system if they have a spare buck. I recently met an elderly lady (yard sale to pay her HVAC bill) who paid $15k, her hearing was shit and she seemed about dead, she wouldn't have given a single shit if it was a little louder. But in any case, I've installed many Daikins (for myself) and for not much more money they are as quiet as the sound of the moving air.
by tock | 2025-11-14 19:14:59+00:00
> as generally happens when such ideas are put into practice

Is this true? Lots of countries with high living standards have high taxes. It doesn't need to solve every problem but it does help solve the problem of one unelected person holding too much power and influence.

> What's plan B? Lower the threshold to a million dollars?

1B = 1000M. I think thats high enough. Don't see why you need to make it 1000x smaller to try and make a point.