MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seec | 2025-12-14 19:03:58+00:00
Thank you for that.

I'm always tired of the anti-nuclear zealots that make it look like it's an either/or situation.

We can (and should) do both. Even if renewable plus storage ends up being sufficient in some places, it is extremely unlikely that will apply everywhere. And at the current production rates, it would take multiple decades to transition everything. Even if we take forever (10 years+) to build new nuclear, as it happens to be right now, it would still be beneficial. And there is no good reason we can't build fast like China manages to do right now.
by rsynnott | 2025-12-14 19:04:08+00:00
Okay, so if and when that happens, get excited about it _then_?

Re the Covid metaphor; that only works because Covid was the pandemic that did break out. It is arguably the first one in a century to do so. Most putative pandemics actually come to very little (see SARS1, various candidate pandemic flus, the mpox outbreak, various Ebola outbreaks, and so on). Not to say we shouldn’t be alarmed by them, of course, but “one thing really blew up, therefore all things will blow up” isn’t a reasonable thought process.
by thePhytochemist | 2025-12-14 19:04:10+00:00
This is a crucial point. Freelancers who are asked to edit AI generated content should be charging more per hour, not less. A lot more - something that ends up with the client saving money, and ALSO them saving time and making money. If automation is implemented like this, both parties can win and somehow split the difference.

However, we live in a world where people have to compete to survive. Since a major portion of the task is automated, all of a sudden there are many available copywriting editors looking for work. The abundance tends to drive down the wage on sites like Fiverr.

And that's why unions are so important!
by esquivalience | 2025-12-14 19:04:16+00:00
> Which finally gets to my point: What are the allergic affects of the tree, its raw sap, the liquid lacquer, and maybe for hypersenstive/reactive urushiol allergies, the finished lacquer?

The Wood Database can be a useful practical site for this sort of thing. I found [0], a page for a different wood which is said to contain the same allergen:

> The sap contains urushiol (the same allergen found in Poison Ivy), and can still be irritating to some sensitized individuals even after the wood has been dried, and sap can also seep through some wood finishes to the surface of the wood.

Same as poison ivy? Count me out if true: I react badly.

[0] https://www.wood-database.com/rengas/
by lifis | 2025-12-14 19:04:29+00:00
In my understanding the program can work correctly in normal use.

It is buggy because it fails to check that s->idx is in bounds, but that isn't problem if non-adversarial use of s->idx is in bounds (for example, if the program is a server with an accompanying client and s->idx is always in bounds when coming from the unmodified client).

It is also potentially buggy because it doesn't use atomic pointers despite comcurrent use, but I think non-atomic pointers work reliably on most compiler/arch combinations, so this is commonplace in C code.

A somewhat related issue if that since Fil-C capabilities currently are only at the object level, such an out-of-bounds access can access other parts of the object (e.g. an out-of-bounds access in an array contained in an array element can overwrite other either of the outer array)

It is true though that this doesn't give arbitrary access to any memory, just to the whole object referred to by any capability write that the read may map to, with pointer value checks being unrelated to the accessed object.
by agos | 2025-12-14 19:04:48+00:00
hey, thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that Gleam had a few shortcomings re: OTP, like missing APIs or the need to fall back to Erlang. Many people I know who work regularly with Elixir hold similar opinions - do you have any idea what happened there? Is there a lack of publicity for this support? Is it a documentation problem?
Show HN: GameTran – Your language assistant in computer games
by ivanyu | 2025-12-14 19:06:07+00:00
About a year ago I had an idea and I've been very slowly iterating since then. Imagine you play a game in a foreign language that you don't know very well (e.g. you're learning). You see an unknown word in a dialog. You hit a hot key and then: 1. The game is paused. 2. Over the game window an overlay is drawn. On this overlay, the text from the screen is recognized. 3. You can select a word or a phrase and get their translation, ask ChatGPT to explain it, or open Wiktionary. 4. Then you press Esc and continue playing.

There's only one catch: you need to give it a Google Cloud API key, because it uses its OCR and language services. However, what a single person may use, it'd most likely be in the free tier range and would cost $0.00/month. So it's mostly an inconvenience.

It works on Windows and also X11 Linux. Not on Wayland or Mac, for now. Nothing fundamentally impossible there, I just need to test and polish the rough edges.

It's open source, GPL-3.0.

And if you care, it's not Electron, it's Qt. Nowadays we should frugal with RAM :)
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-14 19:06:18+00:00
When I got hired at my current job, they handed me an AI generated app. It did a pretty reasonable job on the frontend, I think (I'm not a React guy), but the backend was a disaster. Part of it involved parsing a file and they had somehow fed the AI a test file with the first 20B truncated. I can tell that the AI tried hard to force the parser to match the file spec and ended up inserting checks for magic byte values that made no sense.

It took me a few days to realize what was happening. Once I got some good files it was just a couple hours to understand the problem. Then three weeks untangling the parser and making it actually match the spec.

And then three months refactoring the whole backend into something usable. It would have taken less time to redo it from scratch. If I'd known then what I know now, I would have scrapped the whole project and started over.
by dinfinity | 2025-12-14 19:06:29+00:00
> 5x to 10x overprovisioning would turn solar from one of the cheaper into the by far most expensive power generation method out there.

This is trivially false if the cost of solar generation (and battery storage) further drops by 5x to 10x.

Additionally that implies the overprovisioned power is worthless in the summer, which does not have to be the case. It might make certain processes viable due to very low cost of energy during those months. Not trivial as those industries would have to leave the equipment using the power unused during winter months, but the economics could still work for certain cases.

Some of the cases might even specifically be those that store energy for use in winter (although then we're not looking at the 'pure' overprovisioning solution anymore).
by derriz | 2025-12-14 19:06:30+00:00
> Your comment mentioned "studies" plural.

Yes? I mentioned them because the article was about a bunch of studies? I was asking the poster why you would not be interested in the validity of such studies and just decide that "common sense" was enough to make a decision?

The question was asked with genuine curiosity as this forum is mostly filled with people who appreciate science and empiricism. And I was hoping there could be a reasonable discussion.

But I'm out. An interesting discussion should be possible here purely based on data and statistics but clearly - from the downvotes - that I've stepped into some toxic American identity politic minefield.

I learned quite a time ago that it's risky to raise certain scientific subjects with USAians including my US relatives: biological evolution, the science of climate change, renewable energy or justifications for gun control - without the conversation getting emotional and heated. But I still find it weird.
by adsharma | 2025-12-14 19:06:55+00:00
It's interesting to see people use the term "GQL" to refer to GraphQL.

https://www.gqlstandards.org/ is an ISO standard. The Graph Database people don't love search engine results when they're looking for something.

I maintain a graph database where support for GQL often comes up.

https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug/issues/6
by rpdillon | 2025-12-14 19:07:37+00:00
I mean, the core problem is the same as DRM: you want to distribute your data without actually distributing it. The endgame is simply rendering and OCRing, which will likely be feasible at scale, but in the meantime, you've cut off a bunch of your legit audience, broken RSS, broken search engine indexing, and AI can still scrape it when requested.
by skydhash | 2025-12-14 19:08:05+00:00
Yeah it’s just a LLM, able to do text transformations based on what latent factors it has captured in the training stage. But programming is not text manipulation, just like writing is not only putting words on paper and music is not merely producing sounds.

Anyone can sat before a piano and start hitting keys. And someone can rig up some apparatus that highlight which keys to hit at precise times in order to play Moonlight Sonata. But no one will call those people pianist. Sure a good pianist can use such apparatus to learn to play a piece. But he may also not buy such thing and just use a music sheet.
by philamonster | 2025-12-14 19:08:18+00:00
13 mini here too and last iPhone/smartphone I will buy.

Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Reduce motion and Settings > Accessibility > Display and text size > Reduce transparency make it usable-ish. There is hundreds of ms lag at times inexplicably w/touch and upwards of a second plus when connected to CarPlay. But I can't blame iOS 26. I have to reboot this thing sometimes weekly, sometimes less frequent than that since iOS 18. I can no longer justify spending hundreds of dollars on things that don't meet my standard of "works" even if it's 2025.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-14 19:08:23+00:00
I'm a senior, mostly full-stack-web developer, but I also have done some desktop apps and dabbled in other platforms as well. I wrote code for over 20 years in many languages. I never had any aspiration for managing anything or anyone but I was freelancing a lot so I have a good, working understanding of every role in the software development process and I embodied each of those for a bit at one point or another. I never built a complete product out of my own volition, but I have a lot of ideas. However deeply understanding how much work would the implementation take, I was always discouraged. ADHD probably was also a factor.

I lead a team once and wasn't particularly fond of it. For me AI is godsend. It's like being a tech lead and product owner but without having to deal with people and multitude of their idiosyncrasies.

I can understand how AI can't work well for a developer whose work is limited to reading tickets in Jira and implementing them in 3-5 business days, because that's exactly whom AI replaces. I also did that during my career and I liked it but I can see that if all you do at work is swing a shovel you might find it hard to incorporate power digger into your daily work process. But if you can step out a bit it feels great. You can still keep you shovel and chisel nice corners or whatever in places where digger did less than stellar job. But the digger just saves so much work.

Try Antigravity from Google. Not for your daily work. Just to make some stupid side projects that come to your mind, you don't care about, or process some data, make a gui for something, literally whatever, it costs nothing. I hope you'll see what I see.
by rsynnott | 2025-12-14 19:08:24+00:00
That feels a bit different. By 2005 it was obvious that digital cameras would, at some point in the future, be good enough to replace most high-end film camera use, unless Moore’s Law went out the window entirely. So it was highly likely that digital cameras would take over. There is no inevitability to llm coding tools hitting that ‘good enough’ state.

And they’re not even really talking about the future. People are making extremely expansive claims about how amazing llm coding tools are _right now_. If these claims were correct, one would expect to see it in the market.
by didgetmaster | 2025-12-14 19:08:33+00:00
This article points out some of the pain associated with index maintenance. It should also point out that ALL indexes on a table suffer from the same issue. If your 20 column table has 7 indexes, then the suggestions should be applied 7x.

It is conventional wisdom that indexes are absolutely essential for any relational table of at least reasonable size (e.g. thousands of rows) and is accessed more often than daily. Indexes can be a pain to create and maintain; but can greatly speed up queries and primary key validations. The pain mostly comes from having to figure out what indexes to create and how often to maintain them, rather than doing the actual thing.

Indexes also have a performance penalty for any table updates. Creating new rows, updating existing rows, or deleting rows all require updates to each index.

But are indexes really required? I am creating a new kind of general purpose data management system (a kind of object store) called Didgets. The tagging mechanism that I invented to allow tags to be attached to each data object, are key-value stores that essentially form a set of columnar stores.

I found that these columnar stores could also be used to create regular relational database tables. The data is structured such that indexes are not needed. All the tests that I have run (up to a thousand columns with over 100 million rows), show that query speeds are equal to, or better than other database systems that are well indexed.

The system is still under development, so it is still missing some key features that would make it a drop-in replacement for other databases; but it proves that it is possible to structure relational data such that query speeds can be optimal without needing separate indexing structures that have to be maintained.
by hermitcrab | 2025-12-14 19:08:50+00:00
>I wouldn't really call her a China expert

That was my take. I don't know that she calls herself that. She certainly seems very knowledgeable about China (and Japan and Russia).

From Wikipedia:

"She spent ten years on her doctoral research in Russian and Chinese history at Columbia University, which included five years of research and language study in China, Taiwan, Russia, Japan, and Australia.'
by lern_too_spel | 2025-12-14 19:09:31+00:00
> "According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case."

Then why didn't Snowden's doc show any illegal use of that data? Instead, he leaked many things that were perfectly legal as well as which high value targets were being surveilled in China in a transparent and failed attempt to get asylum in Hong Kong.

> "Two wrongs make a right" is considered "one of the most common fallacies in Western philosophy".

You are assuming it's wrong. Investigators aren't going to waste their time writing up court orders that aren't likely to be approved. Instead, we find that criminal defense attorneys rarely challenge the validity of warrants as issued but may challenge whether the warrant was followed.

> "Anyone who has been a judge will tell you a judge needs to hear both sides of a case," said James Robertson, a former federal district judge based in Washington who served on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for three years between 2002 and 2005.

You're confusing multiple things here. You're confusing bulk metadata collection, which Robertson opposed, with individual surveillance warrants, which are always done without informing the person being surveilled. There was no opposing side to the bulk metadata collection, which was shut down. There was no record of mass domestic surveillance in Snowden's docs.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-12-14 19:09:59+00:00
I was more talking about the consumer radiation side. Radium water to drink, women licking and painting radium watch dials. Toy physics kits for kids with uranium in it. Uranium glass also isn't great.

I mean the radium fad just by itself was pretty crazy, people used radium suppositories and radium makeup.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-14 19:10:13+00:00
You’re shouting into the wind friend - My post even told you that would be the response “there’s nothing we can do”

Humans are reactive and antisocial so the idea of a “common good” would require two things humans can’t do: Create sustainable commons and act as though we are all equal

Any position that assumes it’s possible is not even aspirational it’s naive
by opan | 2025-12-14 19:10:28+00:00
I have a NEC P462 display with DP among other things. It's about that size you said, so maybe you're right, but my first thought is that there's gotta be bigger displays for digital signage, and why wouldn't they have DP if this one does? NEC and Samsung both make these types of displays, IIRC, not sure who else.
by matsemann | 2025-12-14 19:10:29+00:00
But the first point is also its demise. I have object A, and want to know something from a related object E. Since I can ask for A-B-C-D-E myself, I just do it, even though the performance or spaghettiness takes a hit. Then ends up with frontend that's tightly coupled to the representation at the time as well, when "in the context of A I also need to know E" could've been a specialized type hiding those details.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-14 19:10:56+00:00
Thanks for this caution / opsec.

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Chris [redacted]

The Dosyago Corporation

Beaverton, Oregon

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OP has ~2 year old /hn/ account, with ~11k karma

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I have made no further investigations, but obviously haven't installed this myself (as I have an IRL pager that solves similar issues to OP's).
Show HN: Sourcewizard – Turn user feedback into tickets, plans, and PRs
by doctorslimm | 2025-12-14 19:10:57+00:00
Show HN: Sourcewizard – Turn user feedback into tickets, plans, and PRs

Hi HN! I’m Lukas, one of the builders.

We made a widget that lets users propose changes directly on your product UI. Those proposals turn into structured tickets, a clear implementation plan, and a PR you can review.

Think “Cursor for customer support.”

We built this after repeatedly drowning in feedback spread across Slack, Notion, screenshots, and email. Small teams can’t scale support, but users often know exactly what they want changed.

Instead of replying and triaging, you let users move things forward in parallel.

Try editing the app here: https://edit-me-two.vercel.app

Twitter post with demo video: https://x.com/ichebykin/status/1999670255426118068

Would love feedback, questions, and reasons this is a terrible idea.

Made in SF by: Ivan - https://x.com/ichebykin Lukas - https://x.com/whysoslimm
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-14 19:11:39+00:00
I really don't understand the hate, it's not 1.0 and majority of unsupported cases probably haven't seen use since 1990's and especially dumb cases where it's 100x slower when providing unrealistic values like parsing e9000000 which is actually because it attempts to actually parse it due to bigint support instead of clamping to i128.

also people complaining about inclusion of it in ubuntu versions, wait till you find out about the linux kernel.
by Fnoord | 2025-12-14 19:11:58+00:00
Two anonymous security researchers working at Dutch government found the data is send plaintext [1]. One independent security researcher was able to verify their claim.

This should be a concern if the company is owned by Dutch people, but more so if it is owned by a company with questionable jurisdiction. Which unfortunately the USA and Israel are these days.

[1] https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/vertrouwelijke-zaken-te-grabbel...
by kingstnap | 2025-12-14 19:12:36+00:00
Thats strange. Now it's possible to just copy paste weights and blocks into random places in a neural network and have it work (frankenmerging is a dark art). And you can do really aggressive model distillation using raw logits.

But my guess is this seems more like maybe they all source some similar safety tuning dataset or something? There are these public datasets out there (varying degrees of garbage) that can be used to fine tune for safety.

For example anthropics stuff: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/hh-rlhf
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-12-14 19:12:38+00:00
I was the admin of a small social network for many years, and I understand the message @dang was trying to convey.

If you were actively commenting, you are basically asking to break the flow of discussion among many participants. And yes, this is unfair to others.

My rule of thumb was to honor the deletion requests for those who were little involved in the community.

For others I would disable their account, anonymize their login name and remove sensitive details in discussions.

This is how it worked until toxic behaviour, facebook and telegram made my little social network redundant.
by xvilka | 2025-12-14 19:12:42+00:00
List is incomplete without some other high quality channels already mentioned in other threads, but also Anton Petrov[1]'s channel, Sixty Symbols[2], Science Clic[3] and Artem Kirsanov[4]. Animalogic[5] certainly worth mentioning. And absolutely stunning Journey to Microcosmos[6].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@sixtysymbols

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@ScienceClicEN

[4] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR2uRTQ53V_egXKFflMMaaw

[5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwg6_F2hDHYrqbNSGjmar4w

[6] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g
by hermitcrab | 2025-12-14 19:13:09+00:00
>she just came across as a self-congratulatory booster for the inevitable triumph of Western liberal democracy

I've watched 2 or 3 hours of videos and that isn't what I took away. She does argue that a rules based international order, free trade, democracy and liberalism is a superior system to authoritarianism, but I don't think too many people (in the West, at least) would disagree with that.
by Legend2440 | 2025-12-14 19:13:59+00:00
Google made some very large ngram models around twenty years ago. This being before the era of ultra-high-speed internet, it was distributed as a set of 6 DVDs.

It achieved state-of-the-art performance at tasks like spelling correction at the time. However, unlike an LLM, it can't generalize at all; if an n-gram isn't in the training corpus it has no idea how to handle it.

https://research.google/blog/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-yo...
by iamnothere | 2025-12-14 19:14:05+00:00
If you look at a precinct-level map of election results you’ll see speckles of blue everywhere, as well as areas that were narrowly split. Those speckles represent real communities with people living in them. You can’t just write them off.

There’s also small towns or clusters of homes in the middle of nowhere where most of the residents disagree from the communities surrounding them. They don’t necessarily have enough votes to make a dent, but they also exist.

Assuming people’s politics or worth based on where they live leads to unpleasant outcomes.