MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-07 09:48:17+00:00
> Countries like Singapore already figured out that if you pay public servants very well you can attract high quality people to government jobs.

And most highly developed, democratic nations don't pay their highest gov't officials very well. Yet, they continue to attract high quality people. The only "proof" that I can offer: Look at G7 and similarly developed democratic nations (the richest per capita on Earth). If they struggled to attract the best and brightest into gov't, eventually things would decline due to economic mismanagement. Instead: They have not. Those nations have been rich for 50 years and will be rich for many more years into the future because they have high quality people in gov't making effective policy.
by sedatk | 2025-12-07 09:48:59+00:00
I was there today. We happened to notice the smoke over Kilauea while driving to Hilo, then checked out USGS cams, and immediately drove there and spent the next 7 hours getting mesmerized.

As my first eruption encounter, I didn’t expect to experience several things like the heat even from a long distance, enough to keep me warm in my shorts at 60F, and the loud rumble, like a giant waterfall. The flow of lava was way faster than I expected too, almost like oil.

Mind blown.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-12-07 09:50:32+00:00
Once the economy starts to collapse even more due to rising energy prices/cost of living they'll find enough people for the front. This would be the first war ever where no one showed up. Not going to happen. Bundeswehr has been whitewashed and propped up for years already in spite of being completely incapable of even providing Germany with defense for a prolonged time.

Many IT projects for freelancers in Germany are Bundeswehr/NATO related because they're among the few who hire people right now because of the economic situation.

Once we reach the point where people have to decide if they enlist in order to to keep on feeding their families, that'll sort itself out.
by gmac | 2025-12-07 09:51:55+00:00
Depends what you’re defending against. Certainly I don’t suggest you get up to bad things using this as your protection!

But if your VPS exit-point is outside the UK, it should defend against the indiscriminate traffic-logging dragnet mandated in the UK. (And maybe even if the VPS is in the UK it does that? I think these provisions might apply only to ISPs).

Basically I don’t mind too much that the spooks can figure out what I’m up to if they specifically make the effort. I object much more to having all my online movements observed and stored and made available to dozens of public bodies. The physical world analogy would probably be that someone is assigned to tail you and record what building you go into every time you leave the house, and I think almost nobody would be OK with that.
by tizzy | 2025-12-07 09:51:56+00:00
The idea that LLMs are amazing at comprehension but we are expected to read original documents seems contradictory to me? I’m also wary of using them as editors and losing the writers voice as that feels heavily prompt dependent and whether or not the writer does a final pass without any LLM. Asking someone else to re-write is losing your voice if you don’t have an opinion on how the re-write turns out
by tor825gl | 2025-12-07 09:53:06+00:00
You are making the same two errors again.

You are focusing on the 0.01% of humanity which isn't part of mainstream modernity rather than the 99.99% which is. And you're discussing cases of extreme differential in technological knowledge and worldview (Amazon jungle, Papua New Guinea), rather than the vastly more common smaller gaps and asymmetries.

If a majority of adaptations happened with force, how do you explain the ones that didn't? Don't they suggest that even without any force there would have been convergence, just more slowly?

European settlers committed genocide against the native peoples of North America. I'm not denying that. But that happened in a context of a 400 year process of cultural exchanges and mergers in both directions. Arguably North Americans could not have ignored the written word or manufactured textiles in perpetuity, just as their societies adapted and mutated to accept the horse and steel tools.
by adastra22 | 2025-12-07 09:54:06+00:00
With many asterix and footnotes. One of which being that if it literally output the exact code, of course that would be copyright infringement. Something that greatly resembled but with minor changes would be a gray area.

Those kinds of cases, although they do happen, are exceptional. In a typical output that doesn't not line-for-line resemble a single training input, it is considered a new, but non-copyrightable work.
by fsflover | 2025-12-07 09:54:17+00:00
> security disaster, lacking even basic features for securing your device against tampering and hacking

Indeed the GrapheneOS community is known for attacking the GNU/Linux mobile with false claims, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562484.

Security is a meaningless word without defining a threat model. Try to defend your GrapheneOS against Google, especially these two problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208925 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028.

See also good replies by other people here comparing GOS with Pinephone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32496220
by krapp | 2025-12-07 09:55:11+00:00
>We can expect videos of unpopular minorities, doing horrible things, politicians saying stuff they never said, and evidence submitted to trial, that was completely made from whole cloth.

AI videos of unpopular minorities already comprise an entire genre and AI political misinformation is already mainstream. I'm pretty sure every video of Donald Trump released by the WH is AI generated, to make him look less senile and frail than he really is. We're already there.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-07 09:55:27+00:00
In fact there used to be a C backend for LLVM, but it was removed in LLVM 3.1 [0]. JuliaHub has resurrected it as a third-party backend [1], though I have no idea if there is any interest in upstreaming the work from either end.

[0]: https://releases.llvm.org/3.1/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[1]: https://releases.llvm.org/3.1/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
by rendall | 2025-12-07 09:55:47+00:00
Coffee's great. In the early morning, just the thought of a large cup of steaming black gets me out of bed with pep in my step. A cup of coffee or two in the afternoon always kicks the doldrums away.

Before the grumpy start making noise, yes, I absolutely am addicted. If I miss two days, then I get a headache for three days. Still definitely worth it. Everybody should drink coffee. There is no good reason not to.
by krapp | 2025-12-07 09:56:18+00:00
I don't mean earnings over a lifetime or career, but currently. A worker making $25,000 a year will still probably never see a million dollars regardless of the limit. Maybe everything above that is taxed 100%. I don't know.

But the point is kind of to eliminate the upper classes and scale the economy back into the reach of most people. So there would be no FAANG salaries. The cost of everything (healthcare, education, housing) would go down. It would place a hard limit on political influence that isn't too far out of reach of current Congressional salaries and would probably limit pork barrel politics and insider trading as well. It would end inherited wealth and maybe even limit the length of copyright.

That's an admittedly naive and utopian view and I'll admit there are bound to be complexities and externalities I'm not taking into account because I'm not an economist. But it's either that or we seize the means of production and put the rich to the guillotines until the sewers choke on their blood. And then something something luxury space communism.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-12-07 09:56:29+00:00
This is wrong. I used to work in cafes when I still lived in the city and two locations where close to hospitals and everyone I talked to complained about the risk of employing people with huge language barriers (mostly Ukrainians and Syrians from what I heard) in health related jobs because it has dire consequences if something gets lost in translation. No one of the higher ups cared and they just had to deal with while already being underpaid, overworked and exhausted.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-07 09:58:08+00:00
Reading this thread many people do not seem to understand what to the problem even is. What researchers writing Papers want is a low effort/high flexibility way to write documents (Nobody wants to write their paper in HTML). For a paper to be printed it needs to be in some printable format, like PDF. To provide accessibility and accommodate the changing ways papers are read, which is increasingly online, HTML is also a desirable output.

What really is needed is a markup language which natively can target both PDF and HTML. This is something typst is working on, but I am not aware of any other project, which either comes close to the features of LaTeX or supports both target formats.

To me this is the only reasonably way to address the accessibility and usability issues around Papers. Have one markup, with sufficient accessibility features, which simultaneously targets HTML and PDF.
by Closi | 2025-12-07 09:59:22+00:00
I think you are right in the 'current paradigm' of what software is at the moment, where users are using a fixed set of functionality in the way that the developer intended, but there is a new breed of software where the functionality set can't be defined in an exhaustive way.

Take Claude Code - after I've described my requirement it gives me a customised UI that asks me to make choices specific to what I have asked it to build (usually a series of dropdown lists of 3-4 options). How would a static UI do that in a way that was as seamless?

The example used in the article is a bit more specific but fair - if you want to calculate the financial implications of a house purchase in the 'old software paradigm' you probably have to start by learning excel and building a spreadsheet (or using a dodgy online calculator someone else built, which doesn't match your use case). The spreadsheet the average user writes might be a little simplified - are we positive that they included stamp duty and got the compounding interest right? Wouldn't it be great if Excel could just give you a perfectly personalised calculator, with toggle switches, without users needing to learn =P(1+(k/m))^(mn) but while still clearly showing how everything is calculated? Maybe Excel doesn't need to be a tool which is scary - it can be something everyone can use to help make better decisions regardless of skill level.

So yes, if you think of software only doing what it has done in the past, Gen UI does not make sense. If you think of software doing things it has never done before we need to think of new interaction modes (because hopefully we can do something better than just a text chat interface?).
by tor825gl | 2025-12-07 10:01:32+00:00
I don't think the Beatles song really tells us much about 'cottagecore' or rural life in the 1800s.

Retirees in the 1960s were not aspiring to a rural way of life, or giving up plumbing or electricity. They were just buying a small house suitable for two older people to live in together.

This was a middle class goal with very little overlap to today's 'cottagecore' other than the word 'cottage'.
by matthewmacleod | 2025-12-07 10:01:47+00:00
Everybody is aware the Ukraine has major corruption issues. It is frequently covered in the media and is common knowledge.

I have no doubt however that Europe (and hopefully the wider world) is less worried about that corruption than they are about Russian military aggression. And there will be some level of media focus on that – rightly so, where the focus should be on grinding the Russian kleptostate into dust as quickly and thoroughly as possible.

You're not a propaganda bot; you're just making their lives easier.
by Nextgrid | 2025-12-07 10:02:35+00:00
Restricting access to documentation, part serialization, or restricting OEMs from selling components directly has nothing to do with laptop form factor though.

Whether repair of such devices is economically viable is one thing and that's up to the market to decide, but making repair intentionally harder is a choice of the manufacturer and has nothing to do with how slim the laptop is.
by jampekka | 2025-12-07 10:04:12+00:00
That seems somewhat similar to perplexity based detection, although you can just get the probabilities of each token instead of picking n-best, and you don't have to generate.

It kinda works, but is not very reliable and is quite sensitive to which model the text was generated with.

This page has nice explanations:

https://www.pangram.com/blog/why-perplexity-and-burstiness-f...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-12-07 10:04:13+00:00
Same here in Finland, and it just makes no sense to me at all. So often I will talk with someone who lives in a city here, and hear them complain about how brutally expensive it is, how nobody makes enough money to save anything, and a few sentences later they're telling me about how annoyed they are that they have to drive 6 hours every weekend to their $30,000 hut in the middle of nowhere to patch up the leaking roof or stuff more dried moss between the logs, and that they should have sprung for the $50,000 one that's only 90 minutes away. By car. In a country where gas is regularly over $10 a gallon. When they could get to work just fine on the bus.

We'll stick with our quiet little apartment and our free time and our growing savings accounts, thank you very much.
by tim333 | 2025-12-07 10:05:05+00:00
The study doesn't seem to try to distinguish cause and effect. It may be that people who feel better are more likely to go for coffee. That issue comes up quite often in alcohol studies - if you plot alcohol consumption against health the people who drink quite a lot are amongst the healthiest but the effect there is pretty much that drinking is fun but you have to be healthy to take it.
by palata | 2025-12-07 10:05:36+00:00
They depend on the Play Service and Play Store, that's for sure. But I'm pretty sure they know it's a risk already.

Don't get me wrong: they are locked-in, that's a fact. And to be fair they benefit from all the work of Google on the OS. But that's not a reason to desire to go further and lose even more control.
by rglullis | 2025-12-07 10:05:40+00:00
> Im saying the model is "intelligent enough" to solve a maze.

And I don't agree. I think that at best the model is "intelligent enough to use a tool that can solve mazes" (which is an entirely different thing) and at worst it is no different than a circus horse that "can do math". Being able to repeat more tricks and being able to select which trick to execute based on the expected reward is not a measure of intelligence.
by Y_Y | 2025-12-07 10:06:56+00:00
> They don’t deal in guns or drugs. Instead, they deal in prepaid, unlocked cell phones for use on networks for which the phones were not intended.

Comedy gold. This is up there with "you wouldn't download a car", or "insurance fraud increases your premiums" in the hall of fame for "this isn't even a crime, but it makes the company sad so it's the consumer's responsibility to police".
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-07 10:07:36+00:00
There is a balance like always. It seems odd that they have zero cameras on bridges and other main infrastructure, although I believe that level crossings tend to have them (perhaps more to avoid liability in case of accidents, though...)

Main point is that there aren't technical difficulties in verifying the state of main infrastructure in real time (contrary to the claim of the commenter I was initially replying to), and it's more a question of priority and will than doability or cost.

It will happen but the usual way is that "it's not possible", "it's too expensive", etc until something bad enough happens and then suddenly it is doable and done.
Show HN: A tiny chat-style prompt generator I built for myself
by bosschow | 2025-12-07 10:07:41+00:00
I made this because writing prompts was taking way too much time… and honestly, my results weren’t great. So I put together a small chat-style tool that helps me shape better prompts with way less effort. For me, the output is already better than what I usually write, which is a nice upgrade. It’s free to use. There are some limits just to avoid abuse. If you try it and have suggestions (or complaints), I’d love to hear them. I’ll keep improving it and slowly increase the free quota over time.

https://02.dailyaiship.com/
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-07 10:07:46+00:00
Neither EGA or VGA were "GPUs", they were dumb framebuffers. Later VGA chipsets had rudimentary acceleration, basically just blitters - but that was a help.

The PGC was kind of a GPU if you squint a bit. It didn't work the way a modern GPU does where you've got masses of individual compute cores working on the same problem, but it did have a processor roughly as fast as the host processor that you could offload simple drawing tasks to. It couldn't do 3D stuff like what we'd call a GPU today does, but it could do things like solid fills and lines.

In today's money the PGC cost about the same as an RTX PRO 6000, so no-one really had them.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-07 10:08:07+00:00
You can write a C-compatible binary library in Rust (see the cdylib target) and cbindgen can then generate proper C header files for any C-ABI interfaces exposed in Rust code. A full Rust-to-C compiler should only be needed for targets that have some C compiler available but are just not supported by the current Rust toolchain.
by Qwertious | 2025-12-07 10:08:35+00:00
It's so weird how people in the UK blame their economic woes on renewables and not the fact that they sanctioned themselves against their main trading partners with Brexit.

Like, what were you expecting? Breaking out of the EU (a primarily economic union) results in economic problems. Import controls requires stopping incoming trucks (sorry, incoming lorries) and that requires building major truck stop to avoid backups, and it increases shipping costs on everything. You(r govt) didn't build the truck stops, didn't set up any sort of plan until after the import controls went into effect, and were somehow surprised that putting up a trade barrier resulted in less trade, and a resulting economic slowdown.
by lukan | 2025-12-07 10:09:01+00:00
"and the kids had to dive in to help out the second they could lift something heavier than a couple pounds"

Earlier. Picking berries, seeds or ears of grain is something very small hands can do.

"We forget so easily that for the entire history of our species - up until just recently - simply staying alive and somewhat warm and minimally fed was a hundred-hour-a-week job for mom and dad."

But no. You are talking about a primitive (poor) agrarian society. That only started a couple of thousands years ago, while our species used fire since over a million years in a semi nomadic live style. And those tribes in good territory, they did not had so much back braking work, as long as big land animals were around. (Also, hearding cattle was for the most part a very chilled job as well, but that also started rather recent)
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-12-07 10:09:10+00:00
We are saying the same thing using different words. I view this as a strategy for dealing with a lack of idempotency in handlers with a great deal of overhead. So I guess I would call it a non-idempotency key since a handler that is not idempotent will necessarily use it. I think this strays too close to a contradiction in terms.
by palata | 2025-12-07 10:09:22+00:00
> Huawei has a whole-ass Chinese government behind it

I don't like how Chinese companies systematically get reduced to "it's because the government can help them". The US TooBigTech get a ton of help from the US government, starting with political pressures when other countries want to regulate them.

Huawei have really good technology and very competent engineers. It's not the Chinese government that does the engineering.

DJI is years ahead of everybody else technologically, and that's again not the Chinese government doing the engineering. Let's stop believing that the US are superior in every single way and that someone else doing better means that they must be cheating.
by atmosx | 2025-12-07 10:10:52+00:00
Nothing new here. Antirez for once has taken a similar stance on his YouTube video channel which has material on the topic. But it's worthwhile having a document like this publicly available by a company that the tech crowd seems to respect.

<offtopic> The "RFD" here stands for "Reason/Request for Decision" or something else? (Request for Decision doesn't have a nice _ring_ on it tbh). I'm aware of RFCs ofc and the respective status changes (draft, review, accepted, rejected) or ADR (Architectural Decision Record) but have not come across the RFD acronym. Google gave several different answers. </offtopic> </offtopic>
by sarreph | 2025-12-07 10:11:50+00:00
We’re working on something adjacent to this[0] by making fluid UIs for public (marketing landing content) front ends. AI allows even compiled code to be arbitrarily modified on the fly, and it’s only going to get easier to start with a “base” of content, functionality, and components - and compose the best outcome for a user.

[0] - https://kenobi.ai
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-07 10:12:37+00:00
This is untrue. The programme to improve public servant pay started in the 1960s because British businesses were struggling with local corruption. (The Brits didn't do it out of the kindness of their colonizer hearts!) As a result, public servant pay was increased dramatically, then indexed with inflation, to ensure that most public servant roles were middle class and above. This greatly reduced corruption. If you think that having big trials about corruption is a sign that you country has a lot of corruption, I would say just the opposite. Having those big trials is proof that your anti-corruption police force (ICAC) and the court system is working. To be clear, I know if this changing since Hongkong became a single party state in the last few years.
by happosai | 2025-12-07 10:14:04+00:00
The difference is today we eat bland cherries around the year except for a couple of weeks when you get fresh local ones.

You don't spend half of the year remembering the previous season's cherries waiting for the next time you can taste them.

I mean foodies notice the difference today. But a lot what made the various foods great in old times for /everyone/ was having to wait for it.

Like half of the fun of vacations is waiting for them. If you can live at The beach around the year it stops being special.
Show HN: Gratia – a tiny multilingual ritual engine (oops → portal →)
by razvan | 2025-12-07 10:14:14+00:00
Oops → portal →

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but the project stopped being UI and started behaving like a place.

So I leaned into it and built Gratia: a small, typed, multilingual ritual engine for the web. Scenes instead of pages. Ceremonies instead of flows. TypeScript + Next.js under the hood.

Vortex :: Vienna is the first stable ritual. Come see the light when you’re ready.

https://gratia.space/vortex
by tails4e | 2025-12-07 10:15:25+00:00
I liked perl, it was the first language I used daily as a HW engineer. When I moved to python more recently what I missed the most was how easy it was to do a one liner if with regex capturing. That couldn't be done in python for a long time. I think the walrus operator helps, but it's still not quite as concise, but it's closer
by johannes1234321 | 2025-12-07 10:15:45+00:00
I assume it is more about structure and time. If you start browsing you wait for pages to load and then probably go a page further and to the next. In the batch mode you have the designated time window to go through mail and read what is there and avoid jumping into some rats nest of neverending paths.

In addition you get those privacy aspects (website operators don't know where you are) and are blocked from "non-free JavaScript programs" and only deal with text with content, all else will not come through.