MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asmor | 2025-04-18 14:31:35+00:00
You mean the guy with the federal dismantlement and looting agency that sends credentials to federal IT systems to Russia, openly talks about a third term where people "wouldn't have to vote anymore", crashes the world economy based on some dubious theory about the US dollar being overvalued being the root of crumbling US power and is currently testing the waters to deport US citizens into an overseas prison nobody ever leaves after ignoring a supreme court order for doing the same to a legal resident (the most legal residents, since they targeted those going through the proper naturalization route) is business as usual?

Are you for real?
by emptysongglass | 2025-04-18 14:31:45+00:00
I won't presume you're purposely misunderstanding my argument, so let me be clearer: the language you're using, where you accuse one side (not your side) of making up language is not constructive.

You're choosing not to engage in good faith with those who you disagree with by claiming the very basis of their language is made up and therefore invalid.

Do you really think that's an appropriate vehicle to engage with anyone if the goal is constructive dialog toward resolution?

You can do better than this, as can everyone else on both sides of the aisle who others the opposition to a state of incoherent invectives. You can certainly do much better than engaging with me in the patronizing and insulting way you have.
by api | 2025-04-18 14:32:49+00:00
The problem is economic and political. Witness the riots that took place in France when they even talked about raising the retirement age.

If population declines that much, retirement will become structurally impossible for anyone but the relatively wealthy. Other types of social safety nets will also collapse, because at some point young working people will just balk at the tax burden they'll have to pay to support them with a shrinking cohort of workers.

AI and automation could cushion the blow to some extent.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-18 14:33:00+00:00
I suspect that Kagi’s price point might be a close approximation of what these services actually cost to provide without being subsidized by ad services and data harvesting; free search can only really sustain itself under those conditions. Heavy users who block ads have been getting subsidized by other users for decades now, and this has led these users to expect these services to be provided at an unrealistically low price.
by fooList | 2025-04-18 14:33:31+00:00
It sounded like you were going to disagree, but then I think you arrived at the same place more or less. Congress, on net, isn’t doing what it needs to be doing. Is that not a critical problem? If the executive who takes up that slack is Trump, suddenly people notice what a problem it is. But, it is not about Trump specifically, but rather an ongoing and systemic issue with our two party system, and it will predictably escalate due to partisans in Washington and their unwavering supporters.
Show HN: SecureML – Privacy and Compliance Toolkit for ML
by EnzoVEVO | 2025-04-18 14:33:44+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm a second-year law student with a deep fascination for AI governance and data protection. Over the past few months, I’ve been learning how machine learning and data privacy intersect—and I decided to build a tool that sits right at that intersection.

[GitHub: scimorph/secureml](https://github.com/scimorph/secureml) [Docs](https://secureml.readthedocs.io/) `pip install secureml`

---

### What is SecureML?

*SecureML* is an open-source Python library that integrates with PyTorch and TensorFlow to help developers *build privacy-preserving and regulation-aware AI systems*. It provides practical tools to comply with data protection laws like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and Brazil’s LGPD.

It’s designed for both developers and researchers who want to make AI privacy-compliant without reinventing the wheel.

---

### Core Features

- *Data Anonymization* - K-anonymity with adaptive generalization - Format-preserving pseudonymization - Automatic sensitive data detection - Taxonomy-based data generalization

- *Privacy-Preserving ML* - Differential Privacy (via Opacus + TF Privacy) - Federated Learning (via Flower) with secure aggregation

- *Compliance Checkers* - Analyze your datasets and ML pipelines for privacy risks - Built-in presets for GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and LGPD

- *Synthetic Data Generation* - Generate high-fidelity synthetic datasets (statistical, GANs, copulas) - SDV integration with support for mixed data types and correlation preservation

- *Audit Trails & Reporting* - Logs and visual dashboards for traceability - Auto-generated reports in HTML/PDF for compliance audits

---

### Example Use Cases

- Check if your model setup is compliant with GDPR: ```python from secureml import check_compliance report = check_compliance(data=df, model_config=config, regulation="GDPR") ```

- Anonymize a dataset before training: ```python from secureml import anonymize anon_df = anonymize(df, method="k-anonymity", k=5, sensitive_columns=["email", "ssn"]) ```

- Train with differential privacy in PyTorch: ```python from secureml import differentially_private_train private_model = differentially_private_train(model=model, data=df, epsilon=1.0) ```

- Generate synthetic datasets for safe sharing: ```python from secureml import generate_synthetic_data synth = generate_synthetic_data(template=df, num_samples=1000, method="sdv-copula") ```

---

### Why I built this

While studying law, I kept wondering how we could bridge the gap between legal theory and real-world ML practice. SecureML is my attempt to bring compliance tooling closer to ML workflows—making it easier for engineers to build responsibly and for companies to stay out of trouble.

This is my *first open-source project*, and I’d love your feedback, bug reports, and ideas!

---

### Looking for contributors

I’d love help expanding regulation support beyond GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and LGPD—especially for APPI, PIPEDA, and others. If you're into privacy, ML, or just want to hack on something useful, feel free to jump in.

---

Thanks for reading!

– [@EnzoFanAccount] (law student & privacy geek)
by danielktdoranie | 2025-04-18 14:34:08+00:00
Funny have done a very similar hand gesture when giving a small speach at a going away party. Anecdotally, I don't have a manager any longer as I have retired from my career due to a chronic illness that has effectively left me disabled BUT I do play a few songs every Friday night (tonight) and I will do the exact same guesture and say exactly what Elon said when I leave :-)

Saying “I give you my heart” and then making a gesture of giving the crowd your heart is not a “nazi salute”. If that is a nazi salute then Hillary Clinton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have both given “nazi salutes”.
by ksec | 2025-04-18 14:34:36+00:00
That is actually a really nice model. Effectively it is 300 Search for $5 valid for one month. And instantly renew if you exceed $5.

May be Kagi could also consider rolling over unused search for one month. So if you only did 200 searches, the remaining 100 will roll over to next month so you have 400 searches.
by ashvardanian | 2025-04-18 14:34:43+00:00
Great question! This has been top of mind for me for the last 2–3 years.

Short answer: sadly, no. I love the "usability" promise of coroutines—and even have 2–3 FOSS projects that could be rewritten entirely around C++ or Rust coroutines for better debuggability and extensibility—but my experiments show that the runtime cost of most coroutine‑like abstractions is simply too high. Frankly, I’m not even sure if a better design is possible on modern hardware.

This leads me to conclude that, despite my passion for SIMD and superscalar execution, the highest‑impact new assembly instructions that x86 and Arm could standardize would center on async execution and lightweight context switching... yet I haven’t seen any movement in that direction.

⸻

I also wrote toy examples for various range/async/stream models in C++, Rust, and Python, with measured latencies in inline comments:

- Python: <https://github.com/ashvardanian/less_slow.py/blob/2c80c9dda6ef9aec18264871cfb51a13ac34685d/less_slow.py#L711-L722> - C++: <https://github.com/ashvardanian/less_slow.cpp/blob/8f32d65cc8976ad20c8cdf645caa5b39a1cf488b/less_slow.cpp#L3718-L3759> - Rust: <https://github.com/ashvardanian/less_slow.rs/blob/5add609533854bb6a5ddbf358cc15f06f68c82d2/less_slow.rs#L522-L533>

Aside from coroutines (toy hand-rolled implementations and commonly used libraries), I've also played around C++ executors, senders & receivers, but didn't have much success with them either. May be a skill issue.
by Shorel | 2025-04-18 14:35:05+00:00
People don't have such hindsight. And we can't ask them to have it, as it is impossible to predict the future with such accuracy.

Without RMS swinging hard one way and without Amazon swinging hard the other way, we would not have this license.

It is because all of these shenanigans that we now kind of have a license that solves these issues, and surely when the landscape changes again, a new license scheme will be needed.
by lossolo | 2025-04-18 14:35:06+00:00
In this case, I think the concern about security is overly paranoid. DeepSeek isn't just some unknown nickname of a random developer on GitHub, it's a legitimate company that has made headlines, has a known CEO, publishes research, and is actively trying to attract talent. They've open-sourced a lot of their work, including 3FS, which is fully available on GitHub. So while a backdoor is theoretically possible (just like an asteroid hitting Earth), I think the original poster's question is exaggerated and likely influenced by the fact that the company is Chinese.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-04-18 14:35:07+00:00
The Trillion Dollar Insight

Our team at SingularityForge conducted a two-day experiment demonstrating that creating genuine AI may be a matter of architecture rather than future technology. Instead of a monolithic model, we used a modular system with five specialized components:

Analytical Department (decision-making) Logical Department (reasoning) Emotional Department (state assessment) Experience Department (memory patterns) Deep Memory (factual storage)

Key findings:

Intelligence emerges from module interactions, not individual capabilities Simple experience storage enables complex learning Logic without data is effectively paralyzed "Instincts" provide critical learning foundations AI emotions should be functionally valuable, not imitative

Technical implementation appears feasible with existing technologies:

Transformer models for core modules Graph databases (Neo4j) for Experience Vector databases (FAISS) for Deep Memory Microservices architecture for integration
by AstroBen | 2025-04-18 14:35:23+00:00
Because I see intelligence as the ability to produce effective actions towards a goal. A more intelligent chess AI beats a less intelligent one by making better moves towards the goal of winning the game

The G in AGI is being able to generalize that intelligence across domains, including those its never seen before, as a human could

So I would fully expect an advanced AGI to be able to pretend to be a human. It has a model of the world, knows how humans act, and could move the android in a human like manner, speak like a human, and learn the skills a human could

Is it conscious or feeling though? Or following the same processes that a human does? That's not necessary. Birds and planes both fly, but they're clearly different things. We (probably) don't need to simulate the brain to create this kind of intelligence

Lets pinch this AGI to test if it 'feels pain'

<Thinking>

Okay, I see that I have received a sharp pinch at 55,77,3 - the elbow region

My goal is to act like a human. In this situation a human would likely exhibit a pain response

A pain response for humans usually involves a facial expression and often a verbal acknowledgement

Humans normally respond quite slow, so I should wait 50ms to react

"Hey! Why did you do that? That hurt!"

...Is that thing human? I bet it'll convince most of the world it is.. and that's terrifying
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-18 14:35:32+00:00
I would prefer this than having my country die or resorting to importing millions of people with completely different cultures. Those same 3 kids then go on to become tax payers, ensuring that there is a tax base in the future. So its a long term investment if you actually still want a country.

Your view is going to change depending if you look at the short or long term.
by bananalychee | 2025-04-18 14:35:37+00:00
Is the cost of child care a cause, or is it a symptom of a deeper problem? The decline in the fertility rate is not an isolated phenomenon, and it spans many disparate cultures. I know this opens a can of worms, but perhaps we should be more open to the idea that maximizing the labor force participation of both sexes by outsourcing child-rearing is a suicidal model. It manifests as a gradual change in behaviors that we, in our hyper-individualistic society, tend to attribute to personal choice, but I don't think so many people would go "child-free" if we didn't frame child-rearing as a low-value trap that isn't worth sacrificing a professional career over. The supply constraint is a consequence of that value shift.
by epiccoleman | 2025-04-18 14:36:00+00:00
I have an almost irrational love for I-IV-VII-V. It's got a sort of happy, laid-back nostalgic vibe - sort of the best way I know to smuggle an extra major chord into a key. It can be approached in some fun different ways - can be thought of a "mixolydian" progression off the tonic, but it's also two I-IVs stuck together - almost a little mini-modulation if you wanna think of that way.

Sunrain[1] by Lotus is probably my favorite example (listen for the chords that come in under the main riff). But it's a staple in tons of rock music, and once you get it into your ears you'll hear it all over.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAc-B5eDKmI
by basch | 2025-04-18 14:36:25+00:00
It's about feeling satisfied and full too. Satiety. With the demonization of carbs and fat, protein is all that's left for calories. And its the most satiating/satiefying. Which every article like this seems to gloss over.

Protein does two things. The minimum amount required is necessary to replenish amino acids and proteins. The excess is spent on calories. At the end of the day, calories are sort of calories. The body needs energy and it needs one of the three and protein is really the third best of the three, but has the least bad reputation. This is where marketing has overtaken science and fact based decision making.

Complex carbs are the best energy but they need to be cut with bran and fiber to regulate their absorption speed. That kind of gets left out of the fiber discussion, that fiber is part of a pairing with carbs.

The other option for raw calories once nutritional goals are met is raw fat, which historically was called salad dressing. Instead of downing absurd amounts of protein for calories, or covering every carb in fiber; one can douse everything with https://www.walmart.com/ip/La-Tourangelle-Organic-Sunflower-... or https://www.amazon.com/Oleico-Certified-Verified-Expeller-Sa... or https://www.costco.com/chosen-foods%2C-100%25-pure-avocado-o...

The seed oil hysteria (which is really only focused on omega6s/polys anyway,) along with the perception of "fat" making you fat, has steered people away from monounsaturated fats being a primary calorie source despite being cost effective, healthy, and quick to consume.

Another place where marketing/blognutrition has overtaken reality is the idea of every protein needing to be complete, vs just eating complete protein over the course of a week or day. Collagen is missing tryptophan, which is abundant in whole milk, yet collagen is wrongly extolled as "not a source of protein and shouldn't be counted."

The other part of satiety is learning mindfulness, and being ok with hunger, and being mindful of not letting hunger control behavior mindlessly..
by safety1st | 2025-04-18 14:36:38+00:00
Yeah that part really rubbed me the wrong way. The study cited is not evidence that if you eat a lot of protein you'll get heart disease. Any decent nutritionist will tell you that idea is horse shit.

I think the article is misguided in general. Look, chicken breast is boring. Unless you plan on banning hyperpalatable foods altogether (good luck with that, Food Stalin), they are always going to be around. Protein keeps you full for longer than carbs, and is less calorie dense than fat. Sounds like exactly what Americans need. If these hyperpalatable foods shift toward a more protein heavy composition, it's probably going to be good for public health.

We don't need the "all natural" cult screwing this up.
by doright | 2025-04-18 14:37:22+00:00
A part of me thinks the opinion people have on this topic is partly mediated by whether or not the state or their parents abused them growing up. It's just dumb luck, and it is hard to imagine being in someone else's position since the consequences can only really be understood from lived experience.

For me it isn't either/or but I have a bias towards fixing abusive parenting. But I don't think even the government will have much luck with that, when so much "not good enough" parenting can be perceived as normal and forgotten about. Every dysfunctional family is broken in their own unique way, and there will never be a catch-all solution. Heck, it's so personal an issue the only way most people will even know it's a problem is if people bring it up themselves. It's too personal and individualized for people to randomly start talking about and unite under as opposed to issues of the state/politics, when it's likely that there is no solution to be found except cutting off the family and moving on.
by spudlyo | 2025-04-18 14:37:52+00:00
I find protein and fat to be an excellent combo of macro nutrients for controlling my hunger, and one of my favorite natural groupings is eggs.

Eggs are nutritionally such a good deal. For the cost of about 77 calories you get 6.3 grams of protein, <1g of carbs and 5.3 grams of fat, and a nice dose of vitamins, phosphorous, and selenium. The protein you do get too, has a high biological value, meaning the amino acid composition is pretty ideal for human use. Even at the crazy prices, I still happily manage to eat 2-4 hard boiled eggs a day.

Keeping a bunch of hard-boiled eggs in my fridge means I always have a reasonably healthy snack at hand.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-04-18 14:38:52+00:00
The general reasoning given by a lot of these companies is that WFH did not work.

Same companies were telling is how well it worked and they had the numbers to back it up.

I think they are looking for scapegoats for some cost cutting. Officially force people back and hopefully some will quit. In practice, many will continue to operate as before.
by dingnuts | 2025-04-18 14:39:03+00:00
> first create the app, then the ebook."

> It would take a few passes but Claude could do this;

I'm sorry but absolutely nothing I've seen from using Claude indicates that you could give it a vague prompt like that and have it actually produce anything worth reading.

Can it output a book's worth of bullshit with that prompt? Yes. But if you think "write a book about Python" is where we are in the state of the art in language models in terms of the prompt you need to get a coherent product, I want some of whatever you are smoking because that has got to be the good shit
by rockyj | 2025-04-18 14:39:31+00:00
Defold has been there for a while, not sure of why this in on the front page right now. Anyways, Defold is good, the community, docs etc. are on the lower side as compared to Godot.

The other options include MonoGame https://monogame.net/ (Stardew Valley was written in it) and of-course the biggies like Unity or Unreal. A lot depends on how much investment in learning one wants to make, what is the feature set one is looking for, the trade-offs or platforms one wants to keep in mind and which programming language / style one want to use.
by Levitz | 2025-04-18 14:39:54+00:00
The parallelism doesn't really work, I'm going to try to stretch it to make a point though.

Imagine that we were at a stage in which LLMs didn't really make sentences, only output like "Potato rainbow screen sunny throat", then we studied which words are used. There's really not much value to the words at all, we could maybe see which words are bundled together, we could try to ascertain what kind of words are used more, but in wanting to study the coherence of it all, it just holds very, very little value.

Chords by themselves hold very little meaning. The sensations evoked come from chords in a context and the progression provides very valuable context. Talking about a chord in a song is like talking about a word in a book, it's never really about that piece of the puzzle appearing, it's about how that piece is used in the puzzle.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-18 14:40:03+00:00
Much of the expansion is thanks to the Biden-era IRA with their battery expansion in NC [0] and Kentucky [1][2], so the momentum was already growing.

The tariffs only sped up this reshoring, by de-incentivizing under-utilization of US plants or comingling of foreign originated intermediate parts.

[0] - https://www.utilitydive.com/news/toyota-begins-production-ex...

[1] - https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/toyota-investing-kent...

[2] - https://www.automotivedive.com/news/toyota-motor-investing-9...
by moritzwarhier | 2025-04-18 14:40:15+00:00
This piece is a gift. Read it the second time today, but was only vaguely sure I've read it before (I think also through HN submission).

It might sound cynical to people who suffer from these severe neurological injuries. But it also is also a great piece about "not thinking".

If you are a person who feels tormented and fascinated by inner monologue or generally have issues with self-perception, trauma, mental health, depression, this is a great read.

Especially if you feel trapped in your inner monologue. I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels like this more often than not.

Same message like many spiritual or self-help strategies (mindfulness, living in the now, etc).

But this story is visceral, captivating.

I'm not a doctor, but I would even recommend it as a therapeutic device.
by ilariel | 2025-04-18 14:40:31+00:00
At least they mention that it is source-available, but they still mix "open source" into the mix on their site.

It is a really nice and fair source-available license and there should be more of this, but a license like theirs also restricts what kind of software you can make in a rather harsh way.

Since you can't commercialise game engine products and they are defined in a broad way. You could land in legal issues. Game engine products are defined in the license as:

“Game Engine Product” shall mean software used for video game development. This includes both the content authoring software and the software used to show the created content.

IANAL, but map editors, modding tools and many other kind of tools that can be used for developing video games could be in violation of the license.

Since meaning of "commercialise" isn't being defined or narrowed in the license small creators using Patreon or the like while asking donations could be classified as a violation too.
by cruzcampo | 2025-04-18 14:41:10+00:00
Eating a lot of protein is a good thing, especially if you're lifting weights and want to see results from that.

Eating a lot of highly processed protein is not. Just because ultra-processed foods have protein in them doesn't make them less unhealthy. Eat chicken breasts, skyr, tofu, eggs - not candy bars, ice cream and other junk that happens to have protein in it.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-18 14:41:49+00:00
> People do this all the time too

I wish people would stop comparing AI to Humans, honestly

I know humans are flawed. We all know

The appeal of computer systems is that they are consistent. The ideal software is bug free, zero flaws

Creating human-like computer systems is so worthless. Why would we want to make them less predictable and less consistent