MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cornholio | 2026-01-02 23:49:42+00:00
HVDC is enormously expensive even today and completely impractical for bulk transport 100 years ago. You can't look just at corona, capacitive etc. losses of HVAC, you need to factor in the entire economic equation. The total overhead of AC (cost of equipment + energy lost for the lifetime of the line) is still lower for overground transport over reasonable distances and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
by twodave | 2026-01-02 23:49:45+00:00
I can identify with this a lot. I don’t budget as religiously as I used to, but there was a time where I was writing little console apps to process all my recurring stuff and adding one-offs in from a separate file to help project future money. I turned the idea into a website, but really nobody ever used it but me. Shut it down probably a decade ago, and then found YNAB myself, but for the time period it reduced my anxiety by a lot.
by _wire_ | 2026-01-02 23:49:50+00:00
The photo I've seen in msm news showed haphazardly installed egg-carton style polyurethane foam pads across a ceiling a meter or so above a fountain of numerous sparklers held in champagne bottles pointing up into the pads. Once that plastic lit, the disaster ensued.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/switzerland-...
by jmyeet | 2026-01-02 23:49:51+00:00
> We've had BYDs and other EVs for many years in Australia, and EVs are still a luxury item.

Australia is much closer to the US than China in terms of public transit and EV infrastructure. In China, now the majority of new car sales are EVs. There are chargers everywhere and much of the time you don't need to drive because any decently sized city has robust and cheap public transit.

Australia isn't as car-dependent as the US but it's honestly not that far off. Perth, for example, is akin to Los Angeles in car dependence as well as cars owned per capita.

> I've never understood Americans and leasing.

It's complicated. It's not strictly better but it's not strictly worse either. It depends on if you want or need to drive a relatively new car vs holding on to a car until it falls apart.

Some will talk down leasing because new cars depreciate the most in the first 2-3 years, which is true. But leasing gives you the option of just handing it back or paying the balloon payment if the car hasn't depreciated as much as predicted (and priced in). This happened in the pandemic when car prices skyrocketed and, for example, used trucks were selling for at or above the MSRP of a new car for the same model because you simply couldn't buy the new one (at or below MSRP).
by mmooss | 2026-01-02 23:50:05+00:00
> That's the only option, because otherwise you are saying that Russia can engage in acts of war against Europe and Europe can't respond.

Warfare is not the only option; there are many tools in the toolchest.

What is the source of all this warmongering language today, from so many commenters, using the same transparently erroneous ideas? Obviously it's false to suggest that the only way to influence events in international relations is warfare. What do you think countries are doing during the 99% of the time they are at peace? It can't be coincidence that everyone is coming up with same thing - what is the source of it?

Is someone runnig a warmongering campaign on social media? I suppose, given history, it's very predictable. It's been done to publics via older forms of media. We know some powerful people who actively advocate for it.
by SamInTheShell | 2026-01-02 23:51:14+00:00
Not sure where you're looking, but you have companies like Minstral releasing Ministral 3 models for edge compute. Works fine on gaming PCs.

Edit: I doubt the "defaults" companies ship are going to matter much. We see what's happening with Microsoft and I've not met anyone that's happy with how LLMs are being shoveled into every digital product possible. Seriously, Microsoft doesn't need Copilot in their OS, they need to fix their stupid start menu decisions first.
by ben_w | 2026-01-02 23:51:38+00:00
> No, they likely won't. AI has become far too big to fail at this point. So much money has been invested in it that speculation on AI alone is holding back a global economic collapse. Governments and companies have invested in AI so deeply that all failure modes have become existential.

Not in Europe it hasn't, and definitely not for specifically image generation, where it seems to be filling the same role as clipart, stock photos, and style transfer that can be done in other ways.

Image editing is the latest hotness in GenAI image models, but knowledge of this doesn't seem to have percolated very far around the economy, only with weird toys like this one currently causing drama.

> If models can't be contained, controlled or properly regulated then they simply won't be contained, controlled or properly regulated.

I wish I could've shown this kind of message to people 3.5 years ago, or even 2 years ago, saying that AI will never take over because we can always just switch it off.

Mind you, for 2 years ago I did, and they still didn't like it.
by khazhoux | 2026-01-02 23:52:18+00:00
Which part of that two line comment made you think it was AI generated?? Are you imagining he did something like this:

prompt> You are a commenter on a popular tech-focused discussion forum. Write a comment about how Daft Punk still surprises us, despite the fact that they're retired. Include a note about how much time has passed since they last performed. Also, include the album name itself. The comment should be brief and mildly enthusiastic. Phrase it in such a way as to attract many upvotes from community members.

chatgpt> Daft Punk continues to awe us, even after their retirement. Can't believe it's been almost 20 years since Alive 2007!

---

I swear, the AI Policing around here is getting annoying.
by kachow6 | 2026-01-02 23:52:29+00:00
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by bigyabai | 2026-01-02 23:52:56+00:00
I don't know why you're making this distinction. Windows has the same issue unless you're content using a depreciated OS; Linux has the same solution, in the form of LTS kernels that do not break DKMS modules. It's been like this for decades.

You've repeated this FUD about DKMS breaking, but it's exclusively a rolling-release issue. And even then you can still fix it, tons of places will containerize their workload and dump it into a proxmox:latest instance.
by perrygeo | 2026-01-02 23:53:36+00:00
This is exactly what I mean. You cite a single 12-yr old study and extrapolate its conclusion to extremes.

No mention of the Swedish cohort study (Lindqvist 2016) showing sun-avoiders had 2x mortality risk over 20 years. No mention of the dozens of ecological studies showing inverse relationships between UV and many cancers.

I could go on all day. You can't just paste one link and call it settled science.
by rasz | 2026-01-02 23:53:44+00:00
>But was it designed to use EDO timings?

Yes, this chipset can do EDO 3-1-1-1. Of course problem is Cache can also run at 3-2-2-2 or 3-1-1-1 and board doesnt have buffers between ram and rest of the system thus in EDO mode you need one more cycle to close the page after every burst to unlock data bus. EDO = extended Output = ram keeps outputting last accessed data.

Early Intel Pentium chipsets included additional chips performing that buffering between system and ram (for example 82438VX). Still even 430VX slowed down to standard FPM 7-3-3-3 timings with EDO and Async cache, only burst pipelined cache allowed 6-2-2-2.

The big Pentium era performance jump seemed to come from pipelined cache significantly unlocking ram subsystem potential https://dependency-injection.com/early-pentium-chipsets/ Just the EDO vs FPM difference was small around 1-3% depending on the cache situation.
by _mig5 | 2026-01-02 23:53:50+00:00
Ah, this is not a problem for me on my remote hosts. I'm guessing this comes down to a sudoers policy on certain distros (redhat-like ones perhaps).

I'm about to make a new release and I'll set `get_pty=True` for the paramiko calls that use sudo. I'm not 100% sure if it will fix it for all use cases, but hopefully it will.
by default-kramer | 2026-01-02 23:54:23+00:00
> But for the time being there remain a few things that humans can do very easily which computers find difficult. Along with counting traffic lights and crosswalks, one of those things is finding the exact BPM of a song. Not an estimate like most software does, but the exact value with extreme precision across the entire song.

I thought BPM detection has been extremely precise for some time now (for electronic music anyway). Does this mean when software like Mixxx reports (for example) 125 BPM the raw output of the algorithm might have been 124.99, but some higher logic replaces it with an even 125?
by mtlynch | 2026-01-02 23:54:44+00:00
>the bulk of my traffic now comes from RSS readers.

I don't think this is correct unless you mean strictly the number of HTTP requests to your web server.

You were the 9th most popular blogger on HN in 2025.[0] Your post says you have about 500 readers via RSS. How can that represent more readers than people who read your posts through HN? I'd guess HN brought you about 1M visitors in 2025 based on the number of your front page posts.

[0] https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/domain/?d...
by pureagave | 2026-01-02 23:54:54+00:00
100%. We are seeing the bet of hard coded functions vs AI learned functions play out for us over the next year or two. Waymo has special case code for so much of their stack. Tesla removes special case code and replaces it with inference. Same with the Boston Dynamics vs Tesla robots. Tesla is making a bet that custom case code isn't going to scale nearly as fast as AI inference scales. Good news is that if one feels strongly one can place bets with one's money! If one doesn't feel strongly you can just comment on HN or Reddit or just watch.
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-01-02 23:54:55+00:00
Yep, just call it IPv8 and make it double the length of IPv4.

Ultimately, an address system that replaces “1.1.1.1” with “JEDBSO:7372B6D6A:727:8:72829:762927” or whatever just isn’t viable.

Even AWS doesn’t let you use IPv6 with anything… and they charge you for using IPv4 now.
by hajile | 2026-01-02 23:55:02+00:00
Stick around any corporation (especially one that is heavily regulated and has a revolving door with the government) and you'll hear all kinds of stories.

I'd put this into that bucket of "someone I trust told me they heard the story from someone they trust". It means the story may not be true and they don't have any hard evidence, but they found it believable enough to repeat.
by labrador | 2026-01-02 23:57:01+00:00
If you call that AGI as many do or ASI, then we are not talking about the same thing. I'm talking about conversing with AI and being unable to tell if it's human or not in kind of a Turing Plus test. Turing Plus 9 would be 90% of humans can't tell if it's human or not. We're at Turing Plus 1. I can easily tell Claude Opus 4..5 is a machine by the mistakes it made. It's dumb as a box of rocks. That's how I define AGI and beyond to ASI
by mananaysiempre | 2026-01-02 23:57:13+00:00
> I can <C-z> while less is running to background that process using the shell, so the shell is clearly not completely gone.

The shell isn’t gone, but it isn’t active either from what I understand. The function of converting the user’s typing ^Z on a terminal (or a ^Z arriving on the master end of a pseudoterminal) into a SIGTSTP signal to the terminal’s foreground process group is[1] a built-in function of the kernel, much like for ^C and SIGINT or ^\ and SIGQUIT. (The use of ^Z resp. ^C or ^\ specifically is configurable, via an ioctl wrapped by termios wrapped in turn by `stty susp` resp. `stty intr` or `stty quit`.) So is the default signal action of stopping (i.e. suspending) the process in response to that signal. The shell just sees its waitpid() syscall return and handles the possibility of that having happened due to the process stopping rather than dying (by updating its job bookkeeping, making itself the foreground process group again, and reëntering the REPL).

I am not saying that doing job control by filtering the child’s input would be a bad design in the abstract; just that it’s not how it’s traditionally done in a Unix system.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Concepts-...
by kevinmgrant | 2026-01-02 23:57:20+00:00
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by GolfPopper | 2026-01-02 23:57:30+00:00
>No, they likely won't. AI has become far too big to fail at this point.

Things that cannot happen will not happen. "AI" (aka LLMs dressed up as AGI by giga-scalr scammers) is never going to work as hyped. What I expect to see in the collision is an attempt to leverage corporate fear and greed into wealth-extractive social control. Hopefully it burns to the ground.
by NikolaNovak | 2026-01-02 23:57:43+00:00
Thanks, I appreciate your answer, though sadly it does not move the needle much for me.

* the article still loses me because it defines transactions one way (the edges) and then seems to make this big switch that each edge/transaction is really two transactions suddenly (one on each side of the edge) .

Similarly the explanation In Wikipedia is completely contrary to my mental framework: "tenant who writes a rent cheque to a landlord would enter a credit for the bank account on which the cheque is drawn, and a debit in a rent expense account. Similarly, the landlord would enter a credit in the rent income account associated with the tenant and a debit for the bank account where the cheque is deposited."

I cannot even begin to parse that, and I'm honestly reasonably bright :-). Paying my landlord is "obviously" a transaction from my banking account (negative) into their banking account (positive). How it becomes four transaction is, as ever, the magic bit glossed over. That landlord is entering "debit for the bank account where the cheque is deposited" just feels like someone is yanking my chain.

Anyvoo! Like with French language, I'll try again one day :-). Merci!
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-02 23:58:02+00:00
> “AI products must be tested rigorously before they go to market to ensure they do not have the capability to generate this material,”

> Not possible.

Note that the description of the accusation earlier in the article is:

> The French government accused Grok on Friday of generating “clearly illegal” sexual content on X without people’s consent, flagging the matter as potentially violating the European Union’s Digital Services Act.

It may be impossible to perfectly regulate what content the model can create, it is quite practical for the Grok product to enforce consent of the user whose content is being operated on before content can be generated based on it and, after the context is generated, begore it can be viewed by or distributed to anyone else.
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by rvz | 2026-01-02 23:58:21+00:00
We are due for much more optimizations and new deep learning architectures rather than throwing more compute + RAM + money + GPUs + data at the problem, which you can do only for so long until a bottleneck occurs.

Given that we have seen research from DeepSeek and Google on optimizing parts of the lower layers of deep neural networks, it's clear that a new form of AI needs to be created and I agree that LeCun will be proven right.

Instead of borrowing tens of trillions to scale to a false "AGI".
by Rochus | 2026-01-02 23:58:39+00:00
This is an interesting service. The audio quality seems similar to Suno 4 or 4.5, but the "creativity" and "musicality" is pretty good. Here are two tracks I was able to generate (download was only possible via network monitor though):

- http://rochus-keller.ch/Diverses/oaimusicgen.com_first_attem...

- http://rochus-keller.ch/Diverses/oaimusicgen.com_second_atte...

There are indications that this is a wrapper service to AIMusicGen.ai, and that it is operated in China. Anyway, I think the results are promising. You can compare the songs with the ones I generated on Suno 5 with similar prompts: https://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1428.
by neilv | 2026-01-02 23:58:42+00:00
Now that browser developers did their best to kill RSS/Atom...

Does a Web site practically need to do anything to advertise their feed to the diehard RSS/Atom users, other than use the `link` element?

Is there a worthwhile convention for advertising RSS/Atom visually in the page, too?

(On one site, I tried adding an "RSS" icon, linking to the Atom feed XML, alongside all the usual awful social media site icons. But then I removed it, because I was afraid it would confuse visitors who weren't very Web savvy, and maybe get their browser displaying XML or showing them an error message about the MIME content type.)
by rossng | 2026-01-02 23:59:45+00:00
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by medler | 2026-01-03 00:00:37+00:00
The FDA has approved it for men up to age 45. I myself got it in my late thirties at a pharmacy. For one of the shots, the pharmacist hassled me a little, asking if I was high risk, but acquiesced when I told them I was. For the other two, they just gave me the shot. It was also covered by my insurance.
by makeitdouble | 2026-01-03 00:00:45+00:00
What's the crazy to me is you took that as the gold standard for education evaluation.

For comparison we had lengthy sessions in a jailed terminal, week after week, writing C programs covering specific algorithms, compiling and debugging them within these sessions and assistants would follow our progress and check we're getting it. Those not finishing in time get additional sessions.

Last exam was extremely simple and had very little weight in the overall evaluation.

That might not scale as much, but that's definitely what I'd long for, not the Chuck Norris style cram school exam you are drawing us.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-03 00:00:50+00:00
The problem is that for the overwhelming majority of use cases the isolation features that are violated by security bugs are not being used for real isolation, but for manageability and convenience. Virtualization, physical host segregation, etc. People don't necessarily care about these flaws because they aren't actually exposed to the worst case preconditions. So the amount of contributor attention you could get behind a "100% secure OS" might not be as large as you are hoping. Anyway if you want to work on such things there are various OS development efforts floating around.
Ask HN: Is there any way to lock apps on iPhone?
by Quinzel | 2026-01-03 00:01:18+00:00
What I mean, is there any way to lock apps on your phone so you can’t even open them until after a set time has elapsed?

I have apps on my phone that I want to reduce the amount I use them because I end up wasting too much time on them. I then delete them. Only to then download them again later. Then I think, I won’t use this app today, and then accidentally mindlessly open the app while I’m having a moment of boredom and then I’m wasting time again.

What I thought would be cool, is if I could lock the time wasting apps, for say… 8 hours (or whatever time I wanna choose), and then it’s forced down time, it can’t be unlocked any other way than just waiting out the time. It could help break a time wasting habit. Because consciously, I want to use all my time wisely, but I forget these good intentions often.

Does any feature like this exist? If not, is there any way to build this feature into an app to put on your phone to help with regulating phone time?

It might be a dumb idea… but I thought I’d ask the question :)
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-01-03 00:01:24+00:00
I’ve asked both ChatGPT and other users and the consensus is “NO YOU CAN’T BECAUSE YOU’D HAVE TO REWRITE THE SOFTWARE”

As if IPv6 doesn’t require a full rewrite too. So basically, no there’s no reason. They just wanted to be edgy and use hexadecimal and they’ve ruined everything.
by apublicfrog | 2026-01-03 00:01:55+00:00
I just checked and if we're doing like for like the cheapest BYD Seal is $50k AUD (510km range, 0-100 in 7.5). The cheapest model 3 is $59k (520km range, 0-100 in 6.1). So I guess closer to 20%.

If you're comparing the Atto 1 it's $26k for 200 range, 0-100 in 11.1. Not really a fair comparison.
by lovich | 2026-01-03 00:02:28+00:00
I said our response was disproportionate, at no point did I say it was unjust.

Walk softly and carry a big stick, is still applicable game theory and the big stick was not meant to be held back just because someone hit you with a smaller stick.

If you only respond in proportion to an adversary, they basically get to dictate the engagement. A strategy that leads to less violence overall is to apply disproportionate retaliation to any attacks, which signals to other players that you will make actions against you not a viable long term strategy