MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-12-21 08:47:43+00:00
> I don't see much action here.

Then either:

You're not paying attention

Or

The lack of perfection, and existence of opposition, blinds you to such action.

It isn't words I expect you you be grateful for, it's actions.

While it's far from perfect and far from where I'd personally like things to be, there is progress being made on the privacy and digital rights fronts. We've won the right to repair. We've struck down strong efforts to kill net neutrality. Several states have stronger data rights for their citizens[0]! And we've done much more! It's an uphill battle but that doesn't mean it's one we're losing!

> Easy to be blind when you choose not to see.

You're right!

But I'm not the one making everything black and white. It's good to strive for perfection, but if you're waiting till it's achieved then you'll be waiting for eternity.

Worse, if you're hyper critical at progress towards the world we want then we'll never get there. If you complain when a company does wrong and when a company makes a step in the right direction that's not big enough then why should they ever listen to you? All you've told them is that there's nothing they can do that will make you[1] happy. So why should they listen? Why should they even try?

You play a dangerous game. One we already know how it plays out...

[0] https://iapp.org/resources/article/us-state-privacy-legislat...

[1] and everyone else like you that is not 100% aligned in your wants. No company can make all of you perfectly happy at the same time because you are not identical people.
by mejutoco | 2025-12-21 08:48:32+00:00
> Same setup in the Netherlands, there are right of way signs everywhere that apply when the lights don't work.

Most places in Poland have this exact setup. And I say most because I have not seen one that does not, but I am guessing they exist. Maybe some of them have bad visibility even?

If one does not respect the yield sign that does not seem a signaling problem.
by chrisandchris | 2025-12-21 08:49:23+00:00
AFAIK, high-voltage and high-power cables are usually over-ground for two reasons: (1) less losses with air as coolant and (2) repairs are so much easier.

Not having an accessible way to the cable is somethibg you don't want if you don't know exaclty where and what is broken (because you can't see it).
by jackkinsella | 2025-12-21 08:52:30+00:00
Thanks for your comment. I've been lucky enough not to be hit by these scenarios yet. One thing that might help is that we encourage short-lived PRs (ideally 1 day, max 1 week) so divergences from master tend to be smaller.

N is not huge though - looking at our operations logs, I think we ran this script only about 35 times in 3 years.
by dartharva | 2025-12-21 08:53:02+00:00
I think it's more the fact that they lied before nomination than the AI usage itself. Any institution is bound to disqualify a candidate if it discovers it was admitted on false grounds.

I wonder if the game directors had actually made their case beforehand, they would have perhaps been let to keep the award.

That said, the AI restriction itself is hilarious. Almost all games currently being made would have programmers using copilot, would they all be disqualified for it? Where does this arbitrary line start from?
by eszed | 2025-12-21 08:53:15+00:00
My impression was the same as the poster: it still over-indexes on a couple of recent posts.

Of course, it's possible that we've both been repeating ourselves all year long! I mean, I know I do that, I just think I've ridden more hobby horses than it picked up. :-)

It's fun, though. Thanks for sharing - a couple of my "roasts" gave me a genuine chuckle.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-21 08:53:31+00:00
> rightfully criticised because it steals from artists. Generative AI for source code learns from developers

The double standard here is too much. Notice how one is stealing while the other is learning from? How are diffusion models not "learning from all the previous art"? It's literally the same concept. The art generated is not a 1-1 copy in any way.
by mindcrime | 2025-12-21 08:53:48+00:00
So in Tao’s statement I interpret “genuine” not as an adverb modifying the “artificial” adjective but as an attributive adjective modifying the noun “intelligence”, describing its quality… “genuine intelligence that is non-biological in nature”

That's definitely possible. But it seems redundant to phrase it that way. That is to say, the goal (the end goal anyway) of the AI enterprise has always been, at least as I've always understood it, to make "genuine intelligence that is non-biological in nature". That said, Terry is a mathematician, not an "AI person" so maybe it makes more sense when you look at it from that perspective. I've been immersed in AI stuff for 35+ years, so I may have developed a bit of myopia in some regards.
by blackbrokkoli | 2025-12-21 08:54:39+00:00
Is anyone else detecting a phase shift in LLM criticism?

Of course you could always find opinion pieces, blogs and nerdy forum comments that disliked AI; but it appears to me that hate for AI gen content is now hitting mainstream contexts, normie contexts. Feels like my grandma may soon have an opinion on this.

No idea what the implications are or even if this is actually something that's happening, but I think it's fascinating
by themafia | 2025-12-21 08:56:43+00:00
My understanding is the governor has to follow laws that are written by the assembly. If one wanted to constrain or force his behavior that would be a perfect instrument to accomplish it. Have I misunderstood this? If not, then this would be the reason for my comment.

Or is your point that the total lack of checks and balances afforded by the Assembly presents us no additional problems over Willie Brown's current employment?
by anthk | 2025-12-21 08:57:00+00:00
The related news was broadcasted in Spain on serious TV news at lunch, not from some Alex Jones-lite kind of show with Reiki and the like.

On the laws of physics, we are like toddlers discovering an adult world. The quaterion concept it's almost from yesterday, and yet it drives real world stuff. Even networks, such as some hypercubic topology, as the one I've seen from mycrovtif. Yes, it's bound to the Hamming code, too. You don't need to break physics, but understand them better. And the case it's that there no intuition once you drive QM, where even 'particles' collide into themselves.

Said this, my point will serve as a slight hint in order to successfully understand the rest.
Ask HN: What counts as "original" in the age of AI?
by meysamazad | 2025-12-21 08:57:10+00:00
I’ve used AI to scaffold a greenfield app and to turn rough notes into polished blog posts. Both times, people called it out as inauthentic.

But most software is derivative. Most writing rehashes existing ideas. We’ve always stood on shoulders.

So what’s the actual line? Does originality require the idea to be yours, the execution to be yours, or both? Is AI-assisted work fundamentally different from using Stack Overflow, templates, or a ghostwriter?

Genuinely curious where HN lands on this.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-12-21 08:57:49+00:00
1.The last time PG&E had a stock buy back was in 2006.

2. Their dividend yield was 0.8% in 2025, the average for utilities was 3% to 5%. Alaska's APTL was 2.4% to 3.4%

3. Their state lobbying for 2024 to 2025 was less than $4 million. Federal was $60k (both insignificant)

4. California AB 1054 means that almost all of their largest liabilities will be reimbursed via the state wildfire fund. They also have insurance for anything that is not covered. While this won't cover it all the amount actually owned is likely to be low.

I also checked executive bonuses and while the CEOs pay is on the higher end it's not extreme. Not sure how much other executive bonuses could really add up enough to stand on its own as a reason for high electric rates, especially since all your other main arguments seem to be incorrect or exaggerated.

Regarding "back maintenance" this is a standard expense for a utility. Do you have some evidence that it's particularly high for PG&E, taking into account the size of the state?

Why would you make the assumption that the reasons PG&E is expensive(which I haven't even checked) are mostly due to corruption, excess pay or benefits to stock holders, or that the utility has a high liability debt? Most of the reasons you gave are ones that look bad for the leadership of the utility and maybe even the state. Is it possible that due to political propaganda over the long term you default to the assumption that anything a California connected entity does is bad so much so you don't even bother gathering evidence?

Also Hawaii has much higher electric rates than CA.

(Sources for any claims I made are available if requested)
by nottorp | 2025-12-21 08:58:21+00:00
> IPv4 in the home is dead easy

Exactly. I randomly try to "upgrade" to ipv6 in my home once in a while and i always give up because I'd have to do the whole enterprisey setup for no good reason.

Edit:

Basically ipv6 is too complex and automated to hold your home network's whole configuration in your head without effort.

So the techies don't set it up at home unless they have a fetish for overcomplicated setups. They're not familiar with it so they don't push for it at work either.

Adoption is solely driven by ipv4 address space exhaustion. There is no "new toy!" feeling involved.
by jzebedee | 2025-12-21 08:58:39+00:00
"Mostly" is doing some heavy lifting there. Even if you don't see a problem with reams of copyleft code being ingested, you're not seeing the connection? Trusting the companies that happily pirated as many books as they could pull from Anna's Archive and as much art as they could slurp from DeviantArt, pixiv, and imageboards? The GP had the insight that this doesn't get called out when it's hidden, but that's the whole point. Laundering of other people's work at such a scale that it feels inevitable or impossible to stop is the tacit goal of the AI industry. We don't need to trip over ourselves glorifying the 'business model' of rampant illegality in the name of monopoly before regulations can catch up.
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-21 08:59:15+00:00
> There's nothing criminal or arguably even morally wrong about that.

Morality is irrelevant and criminality is for the legal system to decide, not you.

> Nintendo and Sony do not make 10% of the hardware margins that Apple does.

Which, again, is completely irrelevant.

> They are not analogous businesses.

Only because you’ve decided they’re not. And your arguments have zero citations to any legal precedence. Yet we do have legal precedence of lock ins on other platforms and their related app stores.

So the problem we have is the legal precedence actually works against Nintendo et al and now it’s up to the courts to decide if those prior judgements are relevant to Nintendo and its ilk too.

Thus far all you and your likeminded peers have proven is that you have a personal opinion. But you’ve provided precisely zero legal evidence to back up your opinions. So why should we trust your opinion any more than the highly public legal precedence that was reached between Epic and Apple?

“but they’re different” isn’t a compelling legal argument for why they’re different. Regardless of how much you might wish it were.
by demetrius | 2025-12-21 08:59:18+00:00
LibreOffice Calc has an option to force English function names regardless of the current localization. I guess Excel should have something similar, too¹.

Fun fact: in European and Brazilian Portuguese, the same function names can refer to different things. European SUBSTITUIR² is REPLACE (Brazilian MUDAR), Brazilian SUBSTITUIR³ is SUBSTITUTE (European SUBST).

¹ I've found this solution https://superuser.com/questions/1908516/how-to-change-the-la... but I haven't tested it since I don't have MS Excel at hand to check

² https://support.microsoft.com/pt-pt/office/fun%C3%A7%C3%A3o-...

³ https://support.microsoft.com/pt-br/office/substituir-fun%C3...
by zeristor | 2025-12-21 09:00:11+00:00
How was it tunnelled, most tunnelling machine are large, large enough for things to have enough space to work.

The conveyor belt to remove the debris, the machinery to place the concrete segments to form the wall.

I guess it could be shrunk, but there wouldn’t be space for people to get through

Mention is made of the North London tunnel, but in preparing for the 2012 Stratford Olympics pylons there were replaced by an Underground tunnel too, and there was a lead time of 7 years from the Stratford winning.
by timeon | 2025-12-21 09:01:09+00:00
Sure but if someones duplicates 50x this:

> flex-shrink-0 transition-transform duration-300 hover:scale-105 w-[160px] h-[144px] 2xl:w-[200px] 2xl:h-[180px]

just to avoid CSS, not sure they would bother with CSS animation.
by anthk | 2025-12-21 09:01:16+00:00
Caso Vidal, it was a hoax to promote a movie, it was widely known. Yet, as I stated, the radio interview mentions the Argentinian case as something that was later depicted as a fraud, but today, in the age of smartphones, (and a journalist being interviewed), the case in Andalucia hasn't been debunked.

I don't think a journalist today would dare to lie when your whole career could be laughed down in a second and with internet being on every pocket your life would be trashed down in a breeze. Thus, I'm scientifically skeptic, of course, but when the Wolfram Alpha/ Mathematica guy states that the Universe it's just an exercise of computation, who knows if there are slight 'bugs' here and there...

Or maybe stuff that looks 'paranormal' but it's just part of the normal functioning universe. Think about garbage collection on a Lisp interpreter. So it woudln't be a 'bug', but something 'mandatory' to happen in order to preserve some self-consistency on further events.
by csomar | 2025-12-21 09:01:32+00:00
Honestly, I think many hallucinations are the LLM way of "moving forward". For example, the LLM will try something, not ask me to test (and it can't test it, itself) and then carry on to say "Oh, this shouldn't work, blabla, I should try this instead.

Now that LLMs can run commands themselves, they are able to test and react on feedback. But lacking that, they'll hallucinate things (ie: hallucinate tokens/API keys)
by yurishimo | 2025-12-21 09:01:33+00:00
But look at solar adoption across Europe since 2022. It’s going gang busters and now with sodium batteries coming online next year, cheap home energy storage is about to boom as well.

Europe doesn’t want to buy Russian gas, but there is also the very real political reality of what happens if your citizens freeze to death. I will be very surprised if any EU state is reliant on Russian gas by 2035.
by ruszki | 2025-12-21 09:01:41+00:00
In the case of OP, they cannot even test it, because they have no clue how it works. They cannot test whether the goal was achieved or not.

The other day I generated an MCP server for AST of Java. I had no clue how that works. I couldn’t test it because I had no idea how that looks like. Btw, AI even lied in tests, because it literally mocked out everything from live code. So everything was green, and literally nothing was tested, and it was untestable manually by me.
by acheong08 | 2025-12-21 09:02:18+00:00
This is fun, but the fact that it is now so easy to process a massive amount of social media data to extract a person's political leanings, hobbies, etc and infer information about them scares me. It only takes one government change (cough cough, Reform UK) for this to be used against me. It doesn't matter if I'm politically correct when what is correct changes over time.
by nosafemode | 2025-12-21 09:02:37+00:00
What I have experienced in analysts work its been like I'm sitting in a dark corner seeing things people can't see, and they are either scared or not interested to enter that corner, so the main challenge is that you have to put yourself in many different shoes and communicate with a language they understand. You will come across data or ideas that you know there is a good chance of them working out, but the lack of familiarity for other people is what that'll make them resistant. The more I have been able to talk in their language (people who will make the final decisions) has always been more effective than the technical aspect of the job.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-21 09:02:41+00:00
I understand the desire to make a suite of apps, and to create something cool for people to play with. Is your motivation to involve your creation with this topic specifically because you desire to expose people doing bad things, for the righteousness and morality of such?

Also, do you feel it's more important that the information simply "gets out there" than there exist a coherent set of theses addressing questions like: 1) what was the nature, scope and purpose of the hustle Epstein was fronting/running? 2) Who unequivocally did bad things related to this?

It's not an either or, but right now it appears the topic is data without conclusion.

I think it would be interesting to target an AI at all the data and have it devise a set of theses with support. My feeling is the topic remains in a state of "100% data, 0% conclusions" - which appears to be a way to sate public curiosity while avoiding consequence.
by skibidithink | 2025-12-21 09:02:47+00:00
The AI witch hunt claims its first victim, apparently over some placeholder textures.

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-19/the-low-cost-c...

> Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative AI-created assets in the game. When the first AI tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process.
by eucyclos | 2025-12-21 09:02:50+00:00
I really don't agree with this argument because copying and learning are so distinct. If I write in a famous author's style style and try to pass my work off as theirs, everyone agrees that's unethical. But if I just read a lot of their work and get a sense of what works and doesn't in fiction, then use that learning to write fiction in the same genre, everyone agrees that my learning from a better author is fair game. Pretty sure that's the case even if my work cuts into their sales despite being inferior.

The argument seems to be that it's different when the learner is a machine rather than a human, and I can sort of see the 'if everyone did it' argument for making that distinction. But even if we take for granted that a human should be allowed to learn from prior art and a machine shouldn't, this just guarantees an arms race for machines better impersonating humans, and that also ends in a terrible place if everyone does it.

If there's an aspect I haven't considered here I'd certainly welcome some food for thought. I am getting seriously exasperated at the ratio of pathos to logos and ethos on this subject and would really welcome seeing some appeals to logic or ethics, even if they disagree with my position.
by dagss | 2025-12-21 09:03:52+00:00
I feel the link between humans and autocomplete is deeper than that an ability to predict.

Think about an average dinner party conversation. Person A talks, person B thinks about something to say that fits, person C gets an association from what A and B said and speaks...

And what are people most interested in talking about? Things they read or watched during the week perhaps?

Conversations would not have had to be like this. Imagine a species from another planet who had a "conversation" where each party simply communicated what it most needed to say/was most benefitial to say and said it. And where the chance of bringing up a topic had no correlation at all with what previous person said (why should it?) or with what was in the newspapers that week. And who had no "interest" in the association game.

Humans saying they are not driven by associations is to me a bit like fish saying they are not noticing the water. At least MY thought processes works like that.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-12-21 09:04:17+00:00
# IPv6 in the home is dead easy. You only need to remember the last digit (unless you've got multiple networks, but most won't). You can ssh to any device by remembering that ".1" is router, ".2" is NAS etc. Firewalls are simple.

# You can buy a cheap domain and use it as your home DNS (eg "router.myhome.net" -> "2003:123:4:5::1") so it works anywhere! In the home or roaming (over VPN). I don't really need to run DNS at home. My domain runs on Cloudflare DNS, my devices use NextDNS (with rebind protection disabled for my home domain).

# I run OpenWRT and preallocate DHCP addresses for all known devices. Then I shrink the DHCP pool to a blacklisted range. A script automatically creates DNS records for all preallocated devices. If a new device appears in the blacklisted DHCP pool, I can manually allocate its MAC address a proper IP.

# It's easy to get TLS certs for any service in the house using the ACME DNS01 challenge.

There is literally no difference between v4 and v6 here.
by Remdo | 2025-12-21 09:04:49+00:00
The victims themselves want the files to be released. Also, we all know how terrible politicians are, but the whole of public opinion should be made aware of how low the bar is.

Do you know Berlusconi, from the Italian government? He was the Italian version of Donald Trump, and he was involved in a lot of scandals at the time, including being involved with the mafia and, you guessed it, underage girls.
Ask HN: Why do small voting or ranking projects get flagged as spam so easily?
by rankiwiki | 2025-12-21 09:05:53+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with a very small side project: a simple voting/ranking tool. Everyone gets one vote, results are shown as a ranked list, and the goal isn’t decision-making but discussion.

What surprised me is how quickly these kinds of projects get treated as spam across communities, even when there’s no monetization, no ads, and no growth hacks involved. In some places, just mentioning “I built a small ranking tool” seems enough to trigger suspicion or moderation.

I’m not trying to promote anything here. I’m genuinely curious about the dynamics:

- Do voting/ranking tools have a bad reputation because they’re often used for manipulation or low-effort engagement?

- Is the problem the format itself (polls, rankings), or the way they’re usually introduced?

- From a community’s point of view, what would make an experiment like this feel acceptable rather than spammy?

If you’ve built or moderated communities, or shipped small experimental tools, I’d really like to hear how you think about this.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-12-21 09:05:55+00:00
Just like feminism when it was starting, back then millions of women believed it was silly for them to vote, and those who believed otherwise had to get loud to get more on their side, and that's one example, similar things have happened with hundreds other things that we now take for granted, so it's value as judgment measure it's very low by itself alone.
by Eckter2 | 2025-12-21 09:06:31+00:00
There are a few tools that can export your spotify playlists into folders of audio files. That's what I used a few years ago for my initial spotify -> navidrome migration.

But they're not that good. They look for the songs on youtube, and the versions uploaded there are often modified (or just very low quality). And I've had some issues with metadata. I'd say about 5% of my songs had some issues, and 1% were completely off.

Once they release the actual torrents and not just the metadata, I'm assuming that new playlist export tools will soon show up, and they'll use these new torrents as source instead of youtube. They'll be a lot more reliable. I'd wait for that to happen. In fact I may end up re-exporting my old spotify playlist.