MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-12-31 23:30:11+00:00
To find out what the difference is under this specific draft legislation we'd have to look at its text. I have no idea how to find copies of draft French legislation and I don't read French.

To give an idea of how such laws might approach it, the recent New York Law requiring social media sites to display mental health warnings was written to cover sites with addictive feeds. Here's how it defined those:

> "Addictive feed" shall mean a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, or a portion thereof, in which multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, either concurrently or sequentially, are recommended, selected, or prioritized for display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information associated with the user or the user's device, unless any of the following conditions are met, alone or in combination with one another:

> (a) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on information that is not persistently associated with the user or user's device, and does not concern the user's previous interactions with media generated or shared by other users;

> (b) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on user-selected privacy or accessibility settings, or technical information concerning the user's device;

> (c) the user expressly and unambiguously requested the specific media, media by the author, creator, or poster of media the user has subscribed to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user has subscribed to, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user's device that is not otherwise permissible under this subdivision;

> (d) the user expressly and unambiguously requested that specific media, media by a specified author, creator, or poster of media the user has subscribed to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user has subscribed to pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subdivision, be blocked, prioritized or deprioritized for display, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user's device that is not otherwise permissible under this subdivision;

> (e) the media are direct and private communications;

> (f) the media are recommended, selected, or prioritized only in response to a specific search inquiry by the user;

(> g) the media recommended, selected, or prioritized for display is exclusively next in a pre-existing sequence from the same author, creator, poster, or source; or

> (h) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is necessary to comply with the provisions of this article and any regulations promulgated pursuant to this article.
by baubino | 2025-12-31 23:30:32+00:00
LLMs will make mediocre and bad writers think they are good writers. It will also make consumers of said mediocre and bad writing think they are consuming worthwhile stuff. Not only will writing get worse but expectations for it will sink as well.

(I’ve written this in the future tense but this is all in fact happening already. Amid the slop, decent writing stands out more.)
by smeeagain2 | 2025-12-31 23:30:35+00:00
> You're saying "force into this and that" like there's some evil omnipotent entity compelling people to write Rust against their own free will lol.

No, I'm saying that you never had free will to begin with. It was always an illusion. Read Brave New World. You have never been in control of anything. You do the things you do, support the things you support, and buy the things you buy because you were told to do so. Very little to nothing of what you do was your own actual original idea. I don't care what kind of creative genius you imagine yourself to be; I know how you've been controlled your entire life by your media owners.

Rust "has some downsides"? In point of fact it is complete garbage. A joke of a language, that is in no way a suitable replacement for C or C++. This is what I'm trying to point out to you.

It's a joke in exactly the same way Tesla's Cybertruck is a joke. You think that is a real product, that is really meant to be successful? You call me a troll? The Cybertruck was and is a giant troll. I'm just telling you the unvarnished truth.

Can you really think of NO way in which every single programming language in existence today, including Rust, Zig, and everything else, can be described as total garbage? No? Well then maybe you need to step into the nearest cryo pod.

After you wake up in 100 years, look around and see if anything has improved. Yes? You see some kind of improvement in the status quo? Nobody's using Rust anymore, and in fact have long forgotten about it? Well then. I guess that means some other people must have had greater vision than you of what the future will hold, yes?
by n8cpdx | 2025-12-31 23:32:02+00:00
It’s an impoverished view of what an OS is. A great OS is also providing APIs that enable a cohesive desktop, integrations that enable apps, and other core services.

For example, iOS has a built-in API for managing calendar events. That means my third-party to-do list can show a calendar view with everything from my iOS-managed calendar. Similarly, iOS has an API that enables third-parties to build apps that interact with Apple Music - so you don’t need to use the default client. Another example is focus modes/contextual computing - the OS enables configuring various settings in an automatable way. Another service is the health-tracking database - all my health apps share a common view of data, so my nutrition app can see my weigh ins, calories burned, and glucose levels - all coming from different devices.

On macOS, it goes beyond being just a launcher by providing rich file system services - for example, features to automate working on directories as contents change. It provides integration points to enable providing actions/services that work on text fields. It lets you configure dictionaries that support right-click/force press to look up. It implements a rich eMacs-inspired shortcut system in text fields.

Windows used to have APIs and integrations to support showing calendar events in the clock area. It was going to have a unified tab system that let you have windows with tabs provided by other apps (Sets).

In other words, an OS isn’t just a launcher. It’s a system.
by dpark | 2025-12-31 23:32:49+00:00
Knife sharpness safety is a bell curve.

If your knife is sharp enough you will eventually cut the shit out of yourself because it slices so easily. You’re essentially waving around an 8 inch razor blade.

If your knife is dull enough you will eventually cut the shit out of yourself because it takes so much effort to cut that a slip becomes a stab. The amount of effort you have to put in to do basic stuff like cut carrots can be high enough that give up some control of the blade.

A knife at a good level of sharpness will cut with reasonable effort but not be a giant razor blade. I think for most people this is likely the safest level of sharpness.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-12-31 23:33:12+00:00
Because there is real observable harm to kids from those websites that there isn’t from HN?

It’s like asking why you prevent kids from buying alcohol but don’t stop them from buying fruit juice.

There is a lot of writing on what makes “social media” particularly more harmful, and its addictive nature etc, but again, we don’t need to necessarily get into the cause and knowing it’s harmful should be sufficient.
by danans | 2025-12-31 23:33:50+00:00
> Crime rates also statistically correlate with demographics, but if I assume a specific person is a criminal based on that stat, I would (rightly) be called racist.

Who said anything about a specific person? They are talking about a neighborhood, in a urban area in a region known for the endemic poverty in black-majority areas due to the long shadow of slavery and Jim Crow.

As a wise character once said, "poverty is a condition, not a crime".

> > Expecting people to assume 'historically black' == 'poor' similarly feels racist.

There are a few historically black communities in the US that are middle-class and prosperous, and Black Americans have made huge advances, but to this day, concentrations of Black American community prosperity tend to be the exception rather than the rule.
by Fizz43 | 2025-12-31 23:34:09+00:00
I highly doubt this. As someone who is pretty active in a lot of beginner linux communities its becoming the case that a lot issues are caused by users following LLM instructions and creating issues where there were none.

Example someone will want to configure something and the LLM will give them advice from the wrong distro thats 5 years out of date. If they asked a person or looked on the fourms they'd have got what they wanted in a few mins. Instead they go down a rabbit hole where an LLM feeds them worse and worse advice trying to fix the mountain of issues its building up.
by shinryuu | 2025-12-31 23:34:12+00:00
I'm sorry to hear. I don't know the reason why your financee don't want kids.

I have been very hesitant to have kids for a long time for many reasons. My wife have been wanting to have kids, so have felt quite conflicted.

Then this year I read the book after the spike which put a lot of this in perspective which made the thought of having kids less daunting somehow.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/after-the-spike-dean-spears...

I wish both of you well in how you navigate the path forwards.
by bsder | 2025-12-31 23:35:03+00:00
> One-off tables in a garage might not be a great business, but millwork, built-ins, and cabinetry in homes is a great business.

I'd like to see numbers backing that up. My personal impression is that you have a small number of custom woodworkers hustling after an ever smaller number of rich clients. That seems like exactly the same problem.
by abirch | 2025-12-31 23:35:09+00:00
Unfortunately it's expensive to short Tesla because Elon and Peter Thiel don't allow their shares to be shorted. Add to that, it's part of the S&P 500. It's going to take a while but I foresee a lot of red for TSLA. We'll see what happens but TSLA is already revising their target of cars sold in Q4
by squigz | 2025-12-31 23:35:17+00:00
Epic - like every other company in the world right now, particularly tech companies - was built on open-source software. Just because they may or may not have used those specific tools does not mean their desire to give back to that community is evil.

I'm really still just trying to see the whole "Epic is donating money to take over the world!" argument here. What obligation do they get from these donations, exactly?
by 112233 | 2025-12-31 23:35:21+00:00
If function of vibecode is not self-evident, dispose of it.

Or, to put it differently, having vibe comment does not free you of responsibility to inspect actual vibe code.

If code contradicts comments, LLM is as likely to go by comments. It is bad enough to have heaps of dead, unused code. Comments make everything much worse.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-12-31 23:35:35+00:00
I don't know that we won anything past being useful to executives. Many benefits of life go to people based on social skills, image, and interests. Hacker knowledge or topics are still a negatibe that holds us back.

I always had to talk and act more like them to make progress in ways nerds usually don't. I had to hide my knowledge or skills mostly to focus on theirs. In other groups or places, I could nerd out with the nerds. I could sometimes do something from one group in the other but had to present it differently.

Back in high school, I think we wanted all the opportunities and attention we saw other people get while being ourselves. That didn't happen. I think most of us still can't have it. So, who won in the culture?

Thanks to Jesus Christ, I don't need it anymore. He gives us peace, joy, purpose, and new family. Also, reveals more quickly how evil those high-status groups were. I'm glad I couldn't become one of them. I still had to repent of what kind of person I became, though.
by manquer | 2025-12-31 23:36:13+00:00
Isn't that the model of every private equity? It was always hard to do well.

Although it doesn't seem that way, there are lot of companies that have become large recently, it is best time ever historically for companies to be able to grow large quickly much more so than 50 years ago in the early days of BH.

There are 1000+ unicorns today, about 50 of the fortune 500 are founded > 2000, a large number of companies that have chosen to remain private with revenues in excess of >$10B like Stripe or SpaceX etc

While it is true that lot of the action has been in sectors BH has never been comfortable holding large assets in such as SaaS, new fin-tech(i.e. crypto etc), or gig econ(Airbnb/Uber etc), social media(tiktok et al.) etc, that doesn't mean the principles are no longer needed or there aren't opportunities to take stake in these now mature companies and drive value.
by bob1029 | 2025-12-31 23:36:17+00:00
How tall are the stacks at the combined cycle plant compared to the ones at the xAI datacenter?

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/xai-datacen...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uPkQtSQzMZC3rPZB6
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-31 23:36:17+00:00
Apparently foodbourne intoxication is a food thing, not a water [tank] thing [1]. It seems heat-stable toxins are very rare in drinking water, as it isn't nutrient-rich enough to create enough toxins to affect you. Even biofilms don't really generate much toxins, they just leech off the microbes which cause issues.

Another example of this would be old rooftop water tanks in places like NYC. It's a giant tank which never gets cleaned, and often has all kinds of gross things in it, but (usually) no food for germs to munch on.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12385500/
by joshribakoff | 2025-12-31 23:36:49+00:00
Some of these don’t really seem like they bypassed any kind of sandbox. Like hallucinating an npm package. You acknowledge that the install will fail if someone tries to reinstall from the lock file. Are you not doing that in CI? Same with curl, you’ve explained how the agent saw a hallucinated error code, but not how a network request would have bypass the sandbox. These just sound like examples of friction introduced by the sandbox.
by tptacek | 2025-12-31 23:36:58+00:00
I store leftovers in deli cups. I usually wash them afterwards. A rigid plastic deli has about as much plastic as a freezer bag, but by the time you've reused a deli once, you've crushed the freezer bag in efficiency, and the median reuse count of one of my delis is probably double-digits. Meanwhile, if I need to clean my fridge out fast, I can just check the entire deli in 2 seconds. Do that with a glass container.

You do you, but if you buy prepared food, be aware that no part of the supply chain for that food is fastidious about plastic the way you are.
by kqr | 2025-12-31 23:37:03+00:00
Less known optimisation: have a slide rule handy[1]. They are amazing for working with proportions which happens all the time in the kitchen.

Just today I needed 200 g of chocolate for a dessert. The bars were 160 g each and made into 21 rectangles. Set the slide rule to 200:160 and read out the value of x:21, which turns out to be 26.25 -- the number of rectangles needed. So convenient to be able to do that quickly and with messy hands.

[1]: https://entropicthoughts.com/kitchen-slide-rule
by IshKebab | 2025-12-31 23:37:42+00:00
> most of us don't control any CO₂ production we can turn off.

Uhm what? Driving? Flying? Heating?

> Sure, it seems very unfeasible with current technology, but that is bound to improve as you work on it.

Improve, yes. Break the laws of thermodynamics? No.

You can improve a perpetual motion machine but it's never going to be useful.
by pastel8739 | 2025-12-31 23:37:49+00:00
One more reason is that it cannot actually solve the traffic problem that it claims to solve. It might be able to solve it for rich people when they are the only ones that can afford to travel by air, but if the cost ever comes down low enough for the masses to afford it, I don’t see any reason that congestion wouldn’t be as bad or worse than it is now. And to me it’s not a good investment to improve things just for rich people.
Show HN: Moozix – AI for Musicians
by jbswift85 | 2025-12-31 23:37:49+00:00
I've been mixing a lot of music the past several years and it's always been tough to get my mixes sounding like i wanted them to. I've played around with LLMs, VAEs, and diffusion models since March this year and ended up building something that can listen to my tracks, give feedback, and kind of work as a mentor and sounding board for ideas.
by whateverboat | 2025-12-31 23:37:52+00:00
I am one of the person who, if they got 40 mil USD tomorrow, would just work much harder on stuff I like to work on (which is making open source software sustainable in robotics), because I would have to spend less time have to take care about the economics of daily life. I could get a chef to cook me personalized healthy meals. I could have a mini-gym at home (which is not that expensive to be honest).

but I could get a home near a major airport like 10 mins from SFO, and so with working out and eating consuming 4 hours and sleeping 6 hours a day and 2 hour of spouse time. I legit have 12 hours a day to work everyday. I could easily do that in a sustainable manner 6 days a week, and spending Sunday relaxing by helping out in my parent's farm and then relaxing in the evening before going back to work next week.

Seems like an ideal life for me. The only difference from today is the extra 3 hours I spend in traffic and an average 1 hour daily in running errands. And extra work on Saturday like fetching groceries, looking after my home, fixing stuff etc.

If I get money, I could save that 4 hour of my life and dedicate it to working on something I really like.
by sixtyj | 2025-12-31 23:38:37+00:00
Similar people who used animated banners in '00s.

And as they don’t use Posthog or any other tool for monitoring users’ behaviour, they don’t see pattern.

Yes, websites popups, asynchronous ads or autoplay videos are such annoying that someone should come with a solution. I think that a lot of people would pay for it - e.g. collected money could be redistributed back to visited sites. (As micropayment projects weren’t successful due to transaction fees.)

I use Adblock, cookies consent autoclick, Facebook antitracker - but others must be mad as they see all popups and ads.

But I understand that sites have to have some revenue stream to pay authors…
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-31 23:39:33+00:00
It depends on the contract, but generally, if the author worked in "Good Faith" (did the work legitimately) and the project was cancelled due to the client's strategic shift, the advance is usually non-refundable.
The advance pays for the time already spent.
If I hire a carpenter to build a table, and halfway through I say "Stop, I want a chair instead," I still have to pay for the half-table he built.
by freeqaz | 2025-12-31 23:40:00+00:00
I assume that the author here is testing against one of these boxes, right? https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/enterprise/personal-ai-...

Are these considered a good deal at $3-4k? What's the software support like on them? I've got 2x 3090s and I'm curious how this compares.
by lkbm | 2025-12-31 23:40:22+00:00
> When boiling water or cooking almost anything in a pot, cover it with the lid!

Blows my mind when I see people boiling water (huge pots of water!) with no lid on. In many cases, they were waiting around 30 minutes for the water to boil. It surprises them to learn that a lid will speed it up.

I never see anyone trying to bake with the oven door open, but somehow boiling water without a lid is okay?
by atlasunshrugged | 2025-12-31 23:40:56+00:00
Yeah, it was pretty robust in the end! I think I cut down the final manuscript to just under 80k words plus the references (there was actually something in my contract about a max word count). I definitely think having the structure helped, both for the publisher and for me to have a sort of blueprint to follow.

It's not always a dealbreaker, I didn't have any social media following or anything -- the way I pitched it was by figuring out a bunch of conferences, niche podcasts, etc. and highlighting that there was an audience there I could activate (and marketing is a big part of the book process I've learned).

My bio has my email now!
by cjbgkagh | 2025-12-31 23:41:33+00:00
In your hypothetical you are asking that if I was a lier would I be ok with it. One would have to presume that I wouldn’t be a lier if I wasn’t also ok with it. I am neither a lier and if somehow I had lied I would also not be ok with it and would hope others hold me to a better standard.
by lima | 2025-12-31 23:42:46+00:00
Is there a paper or some other architecture document for dsync?

It's really hard to solve this problem without a consensus algorithm in a way that doesn't sacrifice something (usually correctness in edge cases/network partitions). Data availability is easy(ish), but keeping the metadata consistent requires some sort of consensus, either using Raft/Paxos/..., using strictly commutative operations, or similar. I'm curious how RustFS solves this, and I couldn't find any documentation.

EiB scale doesn't mean much - some workloads don't require strict metadata consistency guarantees, but others do.
by amdsn | 2025-12-31 23:42:55+00:00
An appropriate oil (canola/peanut) and having everything that's going to go in the pan prepped before you even get the heat going are the main things to minimize smoke, but if you're cooking something that really calls for max heat you'll get smoke periodically as the oil returns to that temp unless your burner can't get the pan up to the smoke point of the oil. Prep is very important since adding ingredients absorbs a lot of heat so if you're cooking something that needs smoking hot oil you can immediately add ingredients in when the oil hits temp and that will absorb energy to bring the temp back down. It also helps you get it done asap. If you have to fumble around for stuff or prep ingredient 4 on the side while the pan is already in use for ingredient 1/2/3 it's very easy to loose track of things and end up with a pan that just sits there smoking. Also add the oil just before you start cooking, don't let it heat up with the pan.

Practically speaking in a home kitchen you also don't have to cook with heat that high, even if you're using a wok. There are plenty of recipes that call for lower temps, and you can often even make things that do call for high temps on a lower one instead. If you're dedicating to cooking that way you could also look into improving your vent hood if that's an option in your housing setup.
by bastawhiz | 2025-12-31 23:42:59+00:00
> would be a great moat

I hope we never find good moats. I hope that progress in AI is never bottlenecked on technology that centralizes control over the ecosystem to one or a handful of vendors. I want to be able to run the models myself and train them myself. I don't want to be beholden to one company because they managed to hire up all the people building fancy optical chips and kept the research for themselves.
by andrewaylett | 2025-12-31 23:43:21+00:00
I would probably be Software Engineering even if my employer didn't pay me to. As evidence, note that it's new year's eve and I'm writing patches (and waiting for tests) during my holidays for someone else's FOSS project I'm contributing to :).

I my employer didn't pay me, I'd stop working on their projects. But in the meantime, I enjoy my profession (at least most of the time) and get paid. If I had enough money then I'd stop working on what my management wants and work on stuff that I want to work on. And I have to imagine that at this point, Buffet is also doing whatever he wants to.