MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaelt | 2025-12-29 12:39:20+00:00
I think most governments do recognise food as both "strategic infrastructure" and absolutely vital to their re-election chances.

European governments govern food supply with cash subsidies to farmers, land use rules helping farmers, special immigration rules for agricultural labourers, special extra-low inheritance taxes for farmers, special subsidies for things like having hedges between fields, special low-tax fuel for farm equipment, different tax rates for different foodstuffs (bread vs cake vs wine vs beer), provision of super cheap water for irrigation, minimum price guarantees with governments buying up over-produced products, special border controls for fresh goods that can't be held up, special border controls for live animals, entire government departments for things like monitoring and controlling the spread of animal disease, rules on precisely what chemicals can be used, rules about things like chemical run-off into waterways, rules about animal welfare, rules about slaughterhouse conditions, rules about package materials, package sizes, package labels, rules about how much pork must be in a sausage for it to be called a pork sausage, rules about who can call their product 'champagne' or 'parmesan'.

If the payments industry was regulated like the food industry, it would be more regulated, not less.
by Saris | 2025-12-29 12:39:22+00:00
The average Linux VM I run is around 50-100MB of RAM usage. Not actually that much more than an LXC container.

There are some use cases for a VM over a container, sometimes you want better isolation (my public facing webserver runs in one), or a different OS for some reason (I run an OSX VM because its the only way to test a site in Safari).
by andrepd | 2025-12-29 12:39:51+00:00
Any time you pull any code, be it `cargo add` or `apt install` or copy-pasting it in your own code, you become vulnerable to any issues present in that code. I'm unsure what your point is.

The claim is just that `cargo add crate` is functionally identical to downloading a C++ header and keeping it in the same version, since in both cases the dependency will be pinned to that fixed version.
by hexbin010 | 2025-12-29 12:39:58+00:00
Deutsche Bahn seems very similar to most of the railway in England. Customer service is non-existent; delays are highly normalised.

The UK government hates how expensive it is to operate, so they are reducing subsidies and massively prioritising the most profitable routes and raising prices.

Staff got nice condition/pay bumps during COVID and all have the attitude that they are doing us a favour. I don't mean that lightly or that I've had one bad experience with a member of staff on a bad day. They are work-shy, offensive, rude, lacking training and plain bad tempered.

I'm very pro car now these days, which is exactly what the Government wants.
by linguistics__ | 2025-12-29 12:40:01+00:00
> Yeah I think Unity just doesn't have the technical skillset anymore

It's not a technical skillset issue, it's a case of lacking resources, leadership changing priorities and changing requirements mid-development, causing a lot of work to be redone.

We still have highly skilled developers working in this area, if we can just actually be allowed to do (and keep) we work we have.
by sanskritical | 2025-12-29 12:40:20+00:00
> There is no c) bullet point,

I was giving an example of the format. That you think that it is necessary for a c) to exist for the example to be valid belies your absurd lack of understanding of the subject matter, whether incidental or willful.

"Admitted" in journalist speak means he pled guilty. It doesn't lend credence to the idea this idea:

> "with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him..."

There's no way to go from "they should not be allowed to live here" to the idea that he is making people subject to "immediate unlawful violence". I stand in awe that there is anyone that can argue that with a straight face. This thread is about whether the statute covers behavior that is violently threatening. Admitted spreading of "racial hatred" in the form of simple statements opposed to migrant presence is not violent or threatening. It is an inherently peaceful form of political lobbying.
by f6v | 2025-12-29 12:41:38+00:00
OP mentions "six minutes" as a DB metric. But the thing is that DB doesn't care about trains being late. It's absolutely normal to have an hour delay in Germany. You can be considered lucky if it's under an hour. What will usually happen is that you spend half a day in some village waiting for your connection and travel the rest of the way standing in the doorway with your bags.
by agentifysh | 2025-12-29 12:41:39+00:00
not sure why some comments are cynical, this is actually the best take i've seen so far but the fact is a lot of jobs are CRUD web apps and those are certainly gone at this point, i've seen a few companies where they laid off their development teams and retained just a few product owners. in some the business owner realized he can just maintain and manage their web based enterprise tool without paying the vendor or a team to maintain it.

being close to gpu is a good advice but i also dont know where to even start, its such a daunting thing, i still dont understand how people are creating new models or able to stack layers of what appears to be waffles of neural networks with some fancy arrows, im like how do they know how to put all these things together?

thirdly, the intense competition is a given because if your boss who doesn't know coding can start pushing PRs and it just works then you are in big trouble.

so all of this points to one thing, those who are already rich with distribution, fame, recognition are going to benefit immensely from AI and everybody else in the middle are just going to straddle along.

There won't be a UBI, nor will there be any pause in inflation, we are headed for medieval times in terms of gaps not only in wealth but dating, reproduction, food pretty much across the board, its uplifting a small number of people to the stratosphere and everybody else trying to keep afloat.

How wild would it be that these socioeconomic gaps fueled by AI could cause actual societal revolution not the innovative kind but a Marie Antoinette decapitating event? I just see all sorts of policies and tech pointing towards delaying this inevitable outcome that is what happens when a large number of single young unwed men without jobs gather in urban centers (ex. Syria)
by 101008 | 2025-12-29 12:41:58+00:00
I know the author mentioned this, but I just got nervous imagining this as a tourist who doesn't speak German at all. This shouldn't be like this. Why they don't help at all?

It's also funny considering how here in South America we look at Germany trains (and Switzerland trains) as always on time, and the best train system, etc. But I am sure if this happens here it would be on the cover of newspapers.
by SkyBelow | 2025-12-29 12:42:25+00:00
>I've been the ultra-cynic before, and agree that doesn't work either. People don't like working with you, and don't trust you.

Is the issue being that one isn't being cynical enough? If you are very cynical about how things will turn out, and share that with others who don't appreciate it (even if you are right), then you are being optimistic in thinking it will change things. Controlling one's displays to others to appear as whatever gets one their best outcome is being even more cynical, to the point of abandoning any attempts at open honest relationships, but it likely works the best if one can pull it off.

Though that might be a very big if, and getting caught faking this likely is worse. Then again, is forcing oneself to adopt optimism just an attempt to do this indirectly, a sort of 'fool yourself so you can better fool others' approach when more direct manipulation doesn't work, given that drive for the optimism is to get better outcomes?
by rjh29 | 2025-12-29 12:42:56+00:00
UK has airline-style pricing that goes up extortionately as seats run out, making it prohibitively expensive to use. It's also frequently late and/or trains randomly cancelled, although you can plan around it, you end up 1hr+ late on most long journeys.

On the plus side: local journeys are great. Delay Repay means you get up to 100% of your ticket back if you're delayed. If you cannot make the last train due to delays, they're obligated to get your home by bus or even by taxi. Train stock is (in my area at least) new and very comfortable. Views are good!
by junon | 2025-12-29 12:44:04+00:00
Meh. I have lived here for 7 years, and get a bit tired of these sorts of complaints about DB coming from the US. Germans have exceedingly little, if any, patience for anything going wrong. DB is always painted as this evil, completely broken system when in fact it's been a joy compared to e.g. San Francisco.

I've only encountered flexibility and slight discomfort in a few cases where something has happened. I'm not entirely sure what Germans expect DB to do. A car had an interconnecting door problem and had to remove that car from the train. Everyone had to filter in to other cars to compensate for the lack of seating. Should they instead cancel those tickets? Or make them stand? It was a full train, and no answer is the correct one for everyone involved. I ended up giving my seat to an elderly gentleman and sat between cars on the ground. Mild discomfort but literally nobody was to blame for this. I suppose I could have gotten the next train but I didn't want to wait - that's also not DB's problem to fix.

Another time, my train was delayed for several hours. Of course I was quite annoyed but found out the reason was that someone had offed themselves in front of one of the trains before it, bringing the line to a standstill while it was dealt with.

Most of the whining I've heard about DB boils down to inconvenience in situations nobody could have predicted nor helped, and this almost insatiable attitude by some Germans that any inconvenience is an offense to Germany seems always to be directed at an otherwise highly reliable and robust trnasporation system whilst having zero other frame of reference. Seriously, come to the US or, from what I've heard, the UK. Then tell me Germany's is awful with a straight face.

This article reads exactly like that. You weren't kidnapped. You were rerouted. Don't dilute words like that, it just undermines your point.
by vee-kay | 2025-12-29 12:44:06+00:00
You can impose CPU restrictions in Windows 10 or 11 too...

You can limit CPU usage for a program in Windows by adjusting the "Maximum processor state" in the power options to a lower percentage, such as 80%. Additionally, you can set the program's CPU affinity in Task Manager. Please note this will only affect the process scheduling.

You can also use a free tool like Process Lasso or BES to limit the CPU for a Windows application. You can use a free tools like HWInfo, SysInternals (ProcMon, SysMom, ProcDump) to monitor and check for CPU usage, especially to investigate CPU spikes caused by rogue (malware or poor performance) apps.
by rwmj | 2025-12-29 12:44:32+00:00
UK trains are terrible. I don't have direct experience to know if they are worse than DB trains, except for DB's dire performance being a running joke amongst my German colleagues at work.

I bet that UK trains "win" by being far more expensive than German trains, along with absurdly complex pricing. If you choose the wrong ticket you could also "win" a criminal conviction!

Don't worry though! We're currently building the most expensive bit of high speed rail in Europe, that won't even go into the centre of our capital city, or further north than the Midlands. Passengers who have the audacity to want to travel further north will have to transit over to the old tracks, creating even further capacity problems.

All of this is entirely avoidable, if the government just took a few common sense measures, but sadly it doesn't seem to be anyone's priority.
by indiantinker | 2025-12-29 12:44:47+00:00
DB is weird. They seem to make their own rules and then run the game and “dont tell the rules to anyone”. I was on my way to catch a flight from Munich to my home (Madrid). I didn’t knew that apparently at one point the train splits into two parts and the front part goes to the airport and the other part just goes to the nearby cattle farms and comes back in 3 hours.

Google Maps - No idea
Citymapper - what?
English announcement - nien.

Thanks to an old lady, who told me that i needed to switch coaches to go the airport. Madre mia!!
by perfmode | 2025-12-29 12:45:10+00:00
> sci-fi is the most infra-y literary genre:

100% …

… disagree!

I think this is confusing explicit with deep.

Realist fiction is actually more infra than sci-fi because it operates inside the infrastructure. Like, when you read Balzac or a good contemporary novel, the infrastructure isn’t a plot device—it’s the environment. Money, property relations, labor, how cities actually move. It’s not announcing itself. It’s just… the world the characters inhabit, and it crushes them or lifts them without needing to be explained.

Sci-fi has to expose infrastructure to make its point. It’s inherently didactic about it. Which is fine and valuable, but it’s like the difference between actually living in a system versus studying a diagram of it.

The real infra work is happening when an author can make you feel how completely determined you are by forces that never get named, never become plot. That’s realism. Sci-fi makes the infrastructure visible; realism makes it felt.

So maybe sci-fi is just the most obvious infra genre? Which is different from being the most actually infra-y.
by piva00 | 2025-12-29 12:45:36+00:00
This would be my suggestion as well. I helped some art projects running 50-100m of LEDs, we first attempted segmenting and power injecting but it was much easier to just split them all up, and ultimately using a LED controller with many outputs to send data.

I don't think in OP's case a controller such as the Advatek ones would be attractive, they are quite expensive but perhaps some WLED-flashed boards being centrally coordinated could be a last resort given it would increase complexity and potential brittleness to the setup.
by abigail95 | 2025-12-29 12:46:32+00:00
I don't tolerate this kind of thing. If you find yourself in a similar situation and want out - call emergency services, say chest pain, out of breath, and where you are.

You may find the train has now "registered" itself at the next station.

It will reveal driver to be using intentionally tricky language. "Cannot stop"

It's not that the train can't stop, trains can obviously stop wherever and whenever they want. It's not that the doors cannot open - train doors can be opened by the driver or by passengers, trains have emergency egress requirements.

The problem is that nobody actually wanted to get off that train. They wanted to complain about it. Comparing it to a kidnapping is offensive and absurd. That's now how people act when kidnapped.
by latexr | 2025-12-29 12:47:18+00:00
> Calling the greatest and last invention of man

There are several inventions which are far greater than LLMs. To name two: computers and methods to generate electricity, things without which LLMs wouldn’t have been possible. But also harnessing fire, the wheel, agriculture, vaccines… The list goes on and on.

Calling LLMs “AI thingies” seems much more in tune with reality than calling them “the greatest invention of man” (and I’m steel manning and assuming you meant “latest”, not “last”). You can’t eat LLMs or live in them and they are extremely dependent on other inventions to barely function. They do not, in any way, deserve the title of “greatest invention”, and it’s worrying that we’re at that level of hyperbole. Though you’re certainly not the first one to make that claim.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-sa...
by MrOrelliOReilly | 2025-12-29 12:47:19+00:00
The author makes effectively the same comment that twenty minutes late is normal for Germany (below). I don’t have any statistics, but anecdotally I’ve had worse experiences with DB than in the UK. DB does not just run late, but has a bad habit of teleporting you to random German towns, from which you must quickly route find to your original destination (as is the exact story of the post).

> It is twenty minutes late. I consider this early.
Show HN: True Persistent F*****G Memory for Robotics (Bypassing Linux Kernel)
by JosephjackJR | 2025-12-29 12:47:37+00:00
My cofounder and I have been building a persistent storage engine designed specifically for edge robotics and embodied systems.

The core problem we set out to solve was the reliability gap in local data logging. In our experience with autonomous systems, the most critical sensor logs often get lost when a robot loses power because that data is still sitting in the OS page cache waiting to be flushed. This often forces teams to rely on expensive real time cloud streaming just to ensure data safety.

We built an engine that solves this by bypassing the Linux kernel cache entirely and streaming data directly to NVMe. This approach unlocks several key capabilities for edge devices.

First it guarantees that every frame is physically persisted to disk the instant it is captured with under 1 microsecond write latency. Second it significantly increases your available RAM capacity by preventing the kernel from filling memory with write buffers allowing you to run larger models locally. Finally it allows you to reduce cloud dependency and bandwidth costs because you can actually trust your local storage to survive a hard power cut.

We put together a short video to demonstrate this in real time showing a side by side comparison of a standard logger versus our engine during a hard power cut.

This is likely most useful for engineers working on autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics, or any edge application where losing the last few seconds of data before a crash makes debugging impossible.

If you are running into these bottlenecks or just want to stress test the claims drop us a message and we will send you the binary to play around with.
Show HN: Pingey Proxy – Pay What You Want Software on Gizzapp
by johnboygiz | 2025-12-29 12:47:58+00:00
Simple and lightweight, needs no installation just unzip the folder and get started PINGING & TESTING proxies immediately! There’s no need to rely on dubious online checkers that limit you to 50 proxies per check or offer superlative checks and probably use the proxies you have input to the checker.With your own tester you need not worry about such things.
by mothballed | 2025-12-29 12:48:12+00:00
Main three things I did

1) Google 'opt out' or 'no permit' 'no codes' counties in USA.

2) Watched basically every video by larry haun and read his book (the entire theory to build structure of a house is explained in ~3 hours, but I think I watched it 5 or 8 times)

3) Looked at simple cabin / small home plans

There are a couple civil engineering 'saints' that visit some of the cabin and small home forums online. I won't reveal who they are. They pop up randomly and intermittently and tend to not respond unless people are actually in the middle of a home build because there are always a gazillion people that are 'going to do it' but then never do and waste everyone's time with questions. I ran through a lot of my roof structure through them because the IRC is quite sparse on roof design and wind load capacities. I also have a friend that is a civil engineer and ran things through them a lot, although in the end following the examples by larry haun and the IRC he did not recommend much different.

I basically just followed IRC design to frame a simple rectangular house with gable roof. This is about the easiest house to frame, other than one with a shed roof. I would recommend 16' max width because the lumber is much easier to get and then you can use a perimeter foundation as your only foundational load bearing points. But you can get away with 20' wide if you have the means to find and haul it, otherwise you're dealing with a more complex foundation or engineered joists.

I've also seen success with friends finishing out shipping containers. In that case you may be able to just build piers with sonotubes, drop a shipping container, frame the inside (all non-structural, so if you fuck it up not a huge deal), then use the inside framing to build like a conventional wooden home (except you will need an insulation that does not need to breath). The caveat here is that if you want any windows or doors other than the one already part of it, you will need to know how to weld and cut steel.
by zinekeller | 2025-12-29 12:48:32+00:00
Worse, "NTSC" is not a single standard, Japan deviated it too much that the primaries are defined by their own ARIB (notably ~9000 K white point).

... okay, technically PAL and SECAM too, but only in audio (analogue Zweikanalton versus digital NICAM), bandwidth placement (channel plan and relative placement of audio and video signals, and, uhm, teletext) and, uhm, teletext standard (French Antiope versus Britain's Teletext and Fastext).
by hulitu | 2025-12-29 12:49:03+00:00
It has penetrated the FAANG. They are the architects of the "modern computing", where your only "choice" is between "light" and "dark", between iOS and Android, between Linux and Windows, between "updates" and "security", between "your privacy" and "important for us", between "copilot" and "recall", between ARM and x86, between "secure boot" and Quallcomm.
by amluto | 2025-12-29 12:49:24+00:00
What safety and regulatory requirements do you need to meet?

If you need NEC class 2, both Lutron and ERP make UL listed 24V class 2 supplies. You can calculate what length you can drive at 4A (96W) and drive that much. The Lutron one dims and the ERP does not, but you can chain an eldoLED or other “dimmer” between the ERP supply and the strip with excellent results. There is no perceptible flicker with either of these, and IIRC both Lutron and eldoLED even claim IEEE1789 compliance. (At least the Lutron one does leave sort of perceptible spots when dimmed when you saccade perpendicular to it, and you need to go to rather high frequency to avoid this. Of course, this is a nonissue at 100% duty cycle.). I have used both of these with strips from different power supplies butted up to each other with no perceptible brightness mismatch.

48V strips are a thing.

If you don’t need NEC class 2, you could try a much larger DC supply. You might consider circuit breakers to protect individual segments and wires. DIN-rail thermal-magnetic breakers rated for more than 24VDC are cheap, but they will buzz horribly if you apply PWM to them.

You’d be on your own in regard to regulation, but I bet most “120V driverless” strips work just fine at 120 times sqrt(2) DC volts, and they won’t flicker. You will get more than the design output and more heat, but no flicker. Test first and take appropriate care for safety.

Don’t use “driverless” strips with sine wave input. The 120Hz flicker is horrible.

Some LED strips contain internal constant current limiters that will give a roughly constant output across a (small) range of voltages. This may help.
by systemtest | 2025-12-29 12:49:26+00:00
Plenty of sources, it is not being suppressed. We even had a journalist shot and killed. Look up Robert Bas, Bart Mos, Joost de Haas, Bas van Hout, Koen Voskuil, Peter R de Vries.

Yet The Netherlands is in third place for World Press Freedom Index. How is that even possible.