MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2025-12-12 22:06:41+00:00
Lets just go with $50 and $20. If you're looking at that on top of the cost of a raspberry pi, comparing that to a super low-end Android phone, used, for something like $80-$100, is that really the way to go? The OS is different but termux has enough features, especially after rooting, that you can probably run whatever you're shooting for. Of course as a hobby, the parts that you find fun don't have to be the parts that I, or anyone else finds fun, so don't take this as me pissing in your cereal, it's more like there's the milk part and the cornflake part and so different strokes for different folks.
by cjbarber | 2025-12-12 22:06:42+00:00
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Il-how-startup-fundraisi...

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4A-a-guide-to-seed-fundr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcevHkNGrWQ

And as an aside, if you can, just get customers first instead of raising. Raising is best done either when it's impossible to not raise, or when you already have multiple investors offering you money.

Then once you have nice revenue and customer references, cold email investors who've invested in similar companies to yours. Or, maybe you'll see that you don't need to raise because you're getting enough money from customers.
by danudey | 2025-12-12 22:07:01+00:00
> Other stores have figured this out.

Not CostCo though! I open their page and immediately 'Can Costco.ca use your location?" I say yes and then it asks me what province I'm in. I tell it, and then it defaults me to a store 30 minutes' drive from here and not the one five minutes away. Every. Time.
by tehjoker | 2025-12-12 22:07:28+00:00
They have a product to sell based on the idea AGI is right around the corner. You can’t trust Sam Altman as far as you can throw him.

Still, the sales pitch has worked to unlock huge liquidity for him so there’s that.

Still making predictions is a big part of what brains do though not the only thing. Someone wise said that LLM intelligence is a new kind of intelligence, like how animal intelligence is different from ours but is still intelligence but needs to be characterized to understand differences.
by penteract | 2025-12-12 22:07:39+00:00
I believe that the important part of a brain is the computation it's carrying out. I would call this computation thinking and say it's responsible for consciousness. I think we agree that this computation would be identical if it were simulated on a computer or paper. If you pushed me on what exactly it means for a computation to physically happen and create consciousness, I would have to move to statements I'd call dubious conjectures rather than beliefs - your points in other threads about relying on interpretation have made me think more carefully about this.

Thanks for stating your views clearly. I have some questions to try and understand them better:

Would you say you're sure that you aren't in a simulation while acknowledging that a simulated version of you would say the same?

What do you think happens to someone whose neurons get replaced by small computers one by one (if you're happy to assume for the sake of argument that such a thing is possible without changing the person's behavior)?
by richardfontana | 2025-12-12 22:08:20+00:00
So first of all IAARHL (and I do a lot of work supporting Fedora) but IANARHTL. That said, I have seen the actual agreement (but many years ago), which predates my arrival at Red Hat by some years, but don't have immediate access to it and am disinclined to hunt down a copy solely because of this thread. However, my recollection of it is that it was quite a bit more specific than the Cornell-UVA paraphrase as to where the parties expected the notice to appear. My further recollection is that it was the Cornell-UVA FEDORA that was not really complying with the letter of the agreement as to that issue, rather than the Fedora Linux Fedora, essentially the opposite of what you're saying. To settle this we'd have to get the agreement and do some Wayback Machine research, which I'm also disinclined to do at the moment.

Now, as to why it's on the Fedora Legal Docs site today, that's because a few years ago we undertook a significant migration of all "legal" content from the basically deprecated Fedora Project wiki to the newly created Fedora Legal Docs site. In general, such material is now much easier to find than it was in the wiki era (where it was spread across multiple wiki pages). I don't know when the trademark notice first came to be placed on the Fedora wiki, which itself didn't always exist, but I believe when Cornell-UVA and Red Hat signed the agreement, Fedora may have still been using a redhat.com site.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-12 22:08:38+00:00
I'm mostly saying

1. No one cares about making an app store for the Ps5 when in 10 years they'll need to port it to the PS6

2. Consoles are already stagnating and it won't take much to also push Sony out. So basically we'd reduce competition back down to Nintendo to enable a feature no one cares about.

But sure. If you want to look at it in that lens: I want apple and Google to get "special punishments" because they've long proven to be a monopoly and practice anti-competitive behaviors. We can deal with other monopolies as we go along.
by observationist | 2025-12-12 22:09:22+00:00
I was worried this was going to be one of the petri dish of neurons type things, but the reality of it was awesome. More gaming rigs for rats need to be developed - it looked like Todd was actually enjoying it, and you toned down the potentially scary bits in a good way.

Kudos for the experiment and giving your pet an awesome enriching environment!
by Defletter | 2025-12-12 22:10:22+00:00
> It's natural to support free speech for what you agree and censor what you don't.

Y'all really don't make a convincing case for freedom of speech when you cannot even read. Let me repeat: "You have fallen into the trap of thinking I only support protests that I agree with, which is the usual response for these kinds of discussions, sadly. If you want your climate-contrarian protest, by all means do so. Unironically do Straight Pride if that's what you want. I believe protest, and expression more generally, is a fundamental right."
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-12 22:10:30+00:00
Gotta keep users engaged in your app, right? Keep them onboard even if that means removing all their choices. I mean, should we even allow users to uninstall apps?

After all, the developer always knows best and all users are helpless children who need to be forced to conform and comply. Who cares what the user thinks or wants so long as we keep that sweet, sweet engagement.
by cbeach | 2025-12-12 22:10:36+00:00
It’s mostly the Tories that were responsible for the drafting of the Online Safety Bill, and let’s not forget the downright evil Investigatory Powers Act. Another Tory creation.

The OP was correct. The Tories were left wing and authoritarian. They raised taxes, and failed to shrink the UK’s bloated state and civil service.

Only Reform have made a stand against the Online Safety Act and other creeping dystopian measures.

I don’t know if I fully trust Reform to deliver, but by a country mile, they’re a safer choice than Conservatives, Labour or Lib Dems in 2029.

The next General Election cannot come soon enough.
by honeycrispy | 2025-12-12 22:11:08+00:00
There was a protest against the election in Tanzania on October 29th where the police were ordered to gun down the protesters, this is a country that has strict gun laws. Hundreds died.

One of the reasons that doesn't happen in America is because the protestors would promptly shoot back and there would be a rapid formation of a militia. Hard to do that when you don't have guns.
by oulipo2 | 2025-12-12 22:11:13+00:00
I'm using Postgres as my base business database, and thinking now about linking it to either DuckDb/DuckLake or Clickhouse...

what would you recommend and why?

I understand part of the interest of pg_clickhouse is to be able to use "pre-existing Postgres queries" on an analytical database without having to change anything, so if I am building my database now and have no legacy, would pg_clickhouse make sense, or should I do analytics differently?

Also, would you have some kind of tutorial / sample setup of a typical business application in Postgres and kind of replication in clickhouse to make analytics queries? so I can see how Clickhouse would be typically used?
by griffzhowl | 2025-12-12 22:11:17+00:00
There's a more basic problem with string theory, which is that it's not a theory. It's a mathematical framework which is compatible with a very wide range of specific physical theories.

About tests of quantum gravity, there have been proposals for feasible tests using gravitationally-induced entanglement protocols:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06036
by plipt | 2025-12-12 22:11:32+00:00
Thanks, yeah I understand their poor performance and energy efficiency for use in a tablet for content consumption or gaming.

And I am guessing that a part of the reason for a lack of any such RaspPi tablets is that marketing such a tablet would come with the need to negatively differentiate it from any similarly priced android tablet.

However I can think of many use cases, mainly for folks in the maker space, that are not content consumption or gaming or long battery life. I am thinking of dashboards or smart home control panels.

Right now I have a few raspi4s mounted on the back of an official touchscreen encased in an adjustable plastic stand. Been working great for years, but the size is clunky and processing power is more than what I need it for, which is just displaying a web page with some information and buttons.

Would love a thin display to mount on a wall near a door or have others lying flat on a table next to a beside or couch. Basically always plugged in but with an included battery for the odd moment when I need to carry it somewhere.

So many other uses i could think of.

Ive looked at Amazon Fire tablets, but the locked-down android and really android of any kind is just not something I am interested in.

Ive seen raspberry pis used for just about everything else but not this
by mpweiher | 2025-12-12 22:11:43+00:00
Funny, the Finns are super happy with their "uneconomic" nuclear reactors. Current approval rating for nuclear is now 81%, up from 77% last year.

The UK is so disappointed by their HPC project (which is the most expensive nuclear reactor project in history, AFAIK), that they just completed the investment decision for the follow-up Sizewell-C, which will also be 2 UK-EPRs.

Oh, the guarantee price for HPC is the same as that for various off-shore wind-projects. So obviously economically uncompetitive. At 10 pence/kWh the two reactors at HPC will produce electricity worth £200 billion. Which does put the cost of £41 billion into perspective, despite that being the most ridiculously over-time and over budget nuclear project in history.

Actually, Flamanville 3 did not start "regular" production in 2024, they were just given go-ahead to go to full power a few days ago. It was first grid-connected in 2024 and then started a lengthy ramp-up phase. It slowly coming online was the time for the Cour des Comptes to give its verdict, which was pretty damning.

Flamanville 3 was probably the worst run nuclear project in French history. And even so, this "damning" verdict was that it FV3 would only be somewhat and in the worst case marginally profitable. But still profitable. Which is better than pretty much every intermittent renewables project out there, certainly in Europe.

EDF is often accused of receiving heavy state subsides, with the implication that this is to keep the nuclear power plants going or subsidize nuclear electricity. It is true that EDF gets state subsidies. For their intermittent renewable projects. Ba-da-dum-tss. The nuclear party of their business is tremendously profitable, despite being forced to subsidize industry through the ARENH program.
by hnfong | 2025-12-12 22:11:44+00:00
Note that "nearly all" isn't "all". I have some side project that require rendering of very uncommon CJK characters, and Unifont does not display them as expected. (For that project, I used https://kamichikoichi.github.io/jigmo/ which was the font that was most complete in terms of CJK glyphs )

Unifont seems to have about the same glyph coverage as my system default CJK font (unfortunately I don't know what it is).
by ncruces | 2025-12-12 22:11:47+00:00
Not really, no.

Litestream is made in Go, and I have the VFS API well covered.

The bigger issue is Litestream is not really meant to be used as a library.

It depends on the modernc driver, and some bits on mattn, APIs not very stable, just got updated to require Go 1.25 when 1.24 is still a supported version, brings a bunch of non optional dependencies for monitoring, etc.

Eventually I had to fork to make these more manageable. I'd still hope Litestream can be made more modular, and I can depend directly on upstream.
by looperhacks | 2025-12-12 22:11:57+00:00
To be clear: The ones who need to follow the standard (companies that create invoices) do not need access to the standard, only some supplier does. And there are a lot of things that the government requires that costs money - you could see it as another tax.

That said, I actually agree with you - it's crazy that we need to pay for a stupid standard document.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-12 22:12:13+00:00
> Let's do [an 1880s-1910s level push for antitrust enforcement] then.

The last time that happened was a pre-globalized world, multiple decades of building pressure (including the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act), and the youngest US president to ever assume office (Teddy Roosevelt).

That's a confluence of events I'm not betting on naturally replicating.

Step 1 would be passing an update to the Sherman Act through Congress that would survive the current Supreme Court.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-12 22:12:39+00:00
> Only fairly recently have libertarian's retconned in their 'free market requires no oversight' nonsense.

You have to realize that there are people who call themselves "libertarians" who are actually plutocrats, just like there are plutocrats who call themselves "progressives", because people wouldn't agree with them if they would plainly state their actual goals. Whereas pretending to be the people who want to take you down serves the dual purposes of stealing the support of their base for your corruption and then undermining the support for the people who actually want to fix it once other people see what you're doing under their banner.
by oulipo2 | 2025-12-12 22:12:40+00:00
What are the typical uses of PostgREST? is it just when you want to make your database accessible to various languages over HTTP because you don't want to use an ORM and connect to your db? But besides that, for an entreprise solution, why would you use PostgREST to develop your backend rather than, say, use an ORM in your language and make direct queries? (honest question)
by laurencerowe | 2025-12-12 22:13:00+00:00
It's hard to see how non-dispatchable generation like nuclear can be competitive in Northern European markets dominated by intermittent wind power. So much wind capacity has already been built in Denmark that it sometimes meets 100% of electricity demand. Britain will be there soon, certainly long before substantial numbers of new nuclear reactors could conceivably be built.

I suspect the UK will only build the nuclear capacity required to keep the industry around on national security grounds.
by perlgeek | 2025-12-12 22:13:07+00:00
In the EU there is the "reverse charge" mechanism for VAT when commerce crosses country borders, and it is often used for defrauding EU countries / governments.

The invoicing standard is an attempt to mitigate reverse charge fraud by gathering more machine-readable data. Some countries even demand that b2b invoices are sent to the country, which then dispatches a copy to the recipient.

Knowing this background, it's pretty clear why the EU is making it mandatory.

Personally, in the abstract I like the idea to mandate the use of an open standard, I think we have way too many inefficiencies from treating many things as text documents that could be data structures. I don't like this particular standard though, it's bloated and the result of a typical top-down process.

I much prefer it when there are competing standards for a while, and one or a couple of winner emerge on technical merits. THEN I have no objections to a regulatory body picking a standard and mandating it.
by autoexec | 2025-12-12 22:13:42+00:00
Would you rather governments insist on everyone using the same format when invoices are passed around or would you rather have massive amounts of taxpayer money wasted on managing countless conflicting standards, any number of which may also include their own security issues. At a certain scale it just makes sense to say "Okay everyone, we have to pick one way to do this".

If tidiness and neatness are not a good enough argument to mandate this taxpayer savings, time efficiency, and better software should be.

Companies who insist on being precious about their favored invoice format can invest their own time and money on conversion tools that let them convert invoices they get into whatever format they like for their own internal records and convert them to meet the standard again when sending invoices out. That leaves them free to use what they want without making everyone else deal with their mess.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-12 22:14:48+00:00
I feel like we are talking at cross purposes here and this all feels very broad, so I’m still not entirely sure what you are driving at other than “in the UK people are being silenced and arrested for what I consider to be acceptable speech” in some general sense. I don’t know what the line is, I don’t know what the numbers are, I really don’t have any sense of the scale or specifics of your claim.

I was responding to the initial comment at first: that upwards of 10,000 people are being arrested annually now in the UK for irreverent posts online and the like. The sources that were shared do not show that. Now you’re saying it’s really about any single incident being unacceptable and how an American can’t fathom it.

Do you see why I’m having trouble following this conversation?
by pegasus | 2025-12-12 22:14:58+00:00
AFAICT, there are several sources of untruth in a model's output. There are unintentional mistakes in the training data, intentional ones (i.e. lies/misinformation in the training data), hallucinations/confabulations filling in for missing data in the corpus, and lastly, deceptive behavior instilled as a side-effect of alignment/RL training. There is intent of various strength behind of all of these, originating from the people and organization behind the model. They want to create a successful model and are prepared to accept certain trade-offs in order to get there. Hopefully the positives outweigh the negatives, but it's hard to tell sometimes.
by looperhacks | 2025-12-12 22:15:23+00:00
> People will generally follow an optional standard to make their own lives easier

You must be new to the internet /s

A company does not gain anything by sending "better" invoices that follow a standard. Only if they receive standardized invoices, but usually not enough to pay extra for it. The fact that standardized invoices haven't happened yet without legislation should be proof of that
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-12 22:15:29+00:00
Lorentz invariance is built into some descriptions of some stringy theories. For example chapter 1 of the Polchinski, you have the 26-dimensional bosonic string which is constructed to be Lorentz invariance. Obviously in this case it's not a "prediction", but then again, it's just a toy-model. Our Universe doesn't have 26 dimensions and doesn't have only bosons.
by geerlingguy | 2025-12-12 22:15:32+00:00
This implies you'd run more than one Mac Studio in a cluster, and I have a few concerns regarding Mac clustering (as someone who's managed a number of tiny clusters, with various hardware):

1. The power button is in an awkward location, meaning rackmounting them (either 10" or 19" rack) is a bit cumbersome (at best)

2. Thunderbolt is great for peripherals, but as a semi-permanent interconnect, I have worries over the port's physical stability... wish they made a Mac with QSFP :)

3. Cabling will be important, as I've had tons of issues with TB4 and TB5 devices with anything but the most expensive Cable Matters and Apple cables I've tested (and even then...)

4. macOS remote management is not nearly as efficient as Linux, at least if you're using open source / built-in tooling

To that last point, I've been trying to figure out a way to, for example, upgrade to macOS 26.2 from 26.1 remotely, without a GUI, but it looks like you _have_ to use something like Screen Sharing or an IP KVM to log into the UI, to click the right buttons to initiate the upgrade.

Trying "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" will install minor updates, but not full OS upgrades, at least AFAICT.
by nosianu | 2025-12-12 22:15:46+00:00
I don't know how reliant France is, but they do seem to rely quite a bit on Rosatom (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/energies/article/2023/03/12/french...).

They also rely on imports of uranium - e.g. from Niger, which recently had quite the fallout with France.

It does not look to me at even a casual glance that French nuclear tech could fully work on its own. Similar for the UK.

It is not just about the experts, the supply chain too. Although, of course how much that matters in comparison is the question, since pretty much everything nowadays depends on some faraway place.
by Manuel_D | 2025-12-12 22:16:14+00:00
So you're asking to prove a negative with respect to blacklisting?

Some factories have been caught physically locking employees in the building and not letting them leave. Can I say with certainty that this isn't happening at Id? No, but it's still not valid to baselessly assert that it is happening at Id Technologies because other instances of this behavior have been documented.

The fact that desirable jobs like game dev means employers don't have to compete as hard to attract talent. That's not infringing on game developers' rights. Game developers have the ability to work in jobs other than game dev. If they choose not to pursue those opportunities that's a choice they're making on their own initiative, not an infringement on their rights.

Workers rights like safe working environments, minimum wage, and other laws still apply to game devs.
by SuperNinKenDo | 2025-12-12 22:16:24+00:00
There's no equivalence, as outlined in the article. Discourtesy in a wildly unbalanced power relationship is significantly different depending on which side is displaying it. Further, wasting your time that you are being remunerated for is vastly different to wasting somebody's time when you are not remunerating them, but merely dangling the carrot of possible future remuneration. Your use of the word "abuser" is patently absurd.
by ericmcer | 2025-12-12 22:16:55+00:00
This seems cool if all you need is: call service -> Get response from service -> do something with response.

How do you structure this for long running tasks when you need to alert multiple services upon their completion?

Like what does your polytree look like if you add a messaging pub/sub type system into it. Does that just obliterate all semblance of the graph now that any service can subscribe to events? I am not sure how you can keep it clean and also have multiple long running services that need to be able to queue tasks and alert every concerned service when work is completed.
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-12 22:17:00+00:00
Either the Clerk would have read it, because they bought it, or borrowed it from the library.

I mean they could have read it on company time as well.

However, let us not use a straw man here. Its not some company clerk, its one of the largest company on earth using other people's copy right to make more money for them selves.