MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 7thaccount | 2025-04-02 18:12:19+00:00
No problem! We're all on this journey together as parents. It isn't easy.

The way I look at it though is that spending a lot of time with your kids early on to build a strong relationship and work on any behavioral or other issues will ensure you will set them up better for success in life. I see a lot of kids being raised by tablets and can't help but predict that the parents are going to regret it later down the road. Sorry if I got a little off topic there.
by Sevii | 2025-04-02 18:12:29+00:00
It's useful because it allows you to build generic tools for an LLM to call. If you want your customer service chatbot to be able to reset peoples' modems you could build a MCP tool for that. The LLM could recognize the tool, trigger it and then a call would be sent through MCP to your server which could call whatever API is needed to reset modems.
by IAmBroom | 2025-04-02 18:13:10+00:00
Not mentioned by the article: 99% of all silica gel packets are utilized cosmetically, with no practical effect.

Is your equipment shipped in non-airtight containers, like cardboard boxes? That silica gel will absorb all the water it can before it leaves the factory. It effectively does nothing after that.

Are your silica gel packets stored in non-airtight bags? In that case, they're spent before they enter the packagin at all.

Did you save a bunch of silica gel packets from stuff Amazon sent you, and use them to "dry out" your gym gear (I have known friends to do this). Those packets are long-since "full", and do nothing. (My friend: "Well, it can't hurt!" And it also can't help.)

They aren't cordless water pumps, moving humidity out of the air perpetually into their contents - but that's how most people view them.
by tqi | 2025-04-02 18:13:28+00:00
"The answer isn’t just about fashion or materials, but is rooted in a much older understanding of the relationship between color and truth."

Nah it's just fashion and materials. Even if you just look at apples product line, you can see they went from colorful plastic to monochrome metal and glass to how reintroducing colors to several of their product lines.

People want so badly for there to be underlying, global conspiracy that they see it everywhere.
by giuliomagnifico | 2025-04-02 18:13:35+00:00
> the revisions to the map are more than cosmetic, said Shanifah Rieara, the authority’s chief customer officer. Two of the biggest alterations address complaints about the legibility of transfer points at some of the busiest hubs, as well as efforts to make the map feel “inclusive for all,” with clearer depictions of accessibility features

Cool, Accessibility features always improve the user experience.
by antfarm | 2025-04-02 18:13:44+00:00
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by geye1234 | 2025-04-02 18:13:58+00:00
Earlier upthread, I said

>> the thought "tiger" [is] not the same thing as the brain state that makes [it] up.

To which you said

> Asserted without evidence.

This was in the context of my saying

>> There is undoubtedly correlation between neurological state and thought content. But they are not the same thing.

Now you say

> the thing you are thinking about is not the same as your thinking about it, nor the same as your brain state when thinking about it.

Are we at least agreed that the content of the thought "tiger" is not the same thing as the brain state that makes it up?

> The question however is whether there is anything to "thinking about thing" other than the brain state you have when doing so. This is unknown at this time.

If a tiger is distinct from a brain state, which I think we agree on, and if our thoughts are about real things such as tigers, which I assume we agree on, then how can there not be more to thought than the associated brain state?
by ddingus | 2025-04-02 18:14:59+00:00
Observation:

How lucky are we that our contributions here warrant two fine moderators?

I just read Tom's brief story on how he arrived here and what it means and felt... I don't really have a quick word for it.

I know I am better for having spent time here.

Oh, I got it! A tiny bit spoiled, but in the best of ways. Yeah, that is what I felt.

How lucky we are indeed. :)
by seydor | 2025-04-02 18:15:08+00:00
the car color thing may be real, but also it may be that people went overboard with color because they could, and then color got boring.

For the percent of colors in photos, i m not sure. Older technologies oversaturated colors and probably underrepresented greys (or turned them to red/green) , but maybe newer photo technologies allowed more blues and greys.

The cinema thing is real and very annoying to the point where i have to oversaturate all my screens in order to stop seeing actors' faces as corpses.
by nimbius | 2025-04-02 18:15:44+00:00
im frankly a little dumbfounded at the state of the tiktok "ban" in the USA.

Bytedance has been absolutely adamant that it cannot, and will not sell. This has not stopped droves of American politicians from stepping forward and insisting they can facilitate the sale, find buyers, begin negotiations, draft contracts, review and finalize deals, you name it...

Nothing has changed. Bytedance will. not. sell. if history is any indication, Trump will kick the can down the road a little further with another 90 day delay. This is after all, arguably, the platform that helped him win a presidency. banning it is pointless, as in the first day of the ban nearly every US user flocked to other chinese social media platforms.
by cbeach | 2025-04-02 18:16:22+00:00
Flagging content should be a privilege that comes at a certain level of trust, and the privilege should be revoked by moderators for people that use flags to further an agenda.

Trust in forum users can be measured by various metrics - The Discourse forum software is a good example of how to do this: https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-t...
by bananalychee | 2025-04-02 18:16:30+00:00
To me it just sounds like you're holding interrogators to an unreasonably high standard in order to deny the findings of the study. If we're talking about statistical aggregates, knowing that the average person lacks the knowledge to exploit known biases of current AI models is enough to dismiss the expectation that interrogators should target them specifically. Commenters also seem to be missing the fact that this is a situation where the interrogator does not know if they are conversing with an AI model or a human being. I wouldn't expect someone to go all out boxing a punching bag if I told them there's a 50% chance that there's another person trapped in there. I've never seen the Turing Test described in such demanding terms, and a look at the Wikipedia page contradicts the definitions pushed forward here.

Perhaps another name should be coined to describe the level of perfection that critics expect from this. It sounds like what you want is something akin to a comprehensive test for AGI.
by palmotea | 2025-04-02 18:16:54+00:00
I know that context, and it makes it sound more like bullying behavior to me, not pizzagate conspiracy stuff.

> If that context doesn't change your view, then you must be fun at parties where it's fine to call people pedo if they have technical oppositions to your ideas.

I think you totally misread my point and my view of his behavior.
by jszymborski | 2025-04-02 18:17:22+00:00
The map of the Montreal metro (which is in fairness _way_ smaller) that you are most likely to see is also diagrammatic [0], but every station has a much more detailed geographic map, which includes bus stops etc... [1]

I think having both around is a good balance.

[0] https://www.stm.info/sites/default/files/media/Stminfo/image...

[1] https://www.stm.info/sites/default/files/media/Stminfo/image...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-02 18:17:50+00:00
> So I personally don't think it shows LLM models can fool humans trying to unmask them

Maybe these used special LLMs that are unrestricted or something but isn't it pretty trivial to get an LLM to output error prompts by asking them to commit crimes or talk about certain topics?

I think priming people to think they might be talking to a human skews the results here because people will be more hesitant to say really wild shit that the LLM can't react appropriately to, if they think they might be talking to a human
by ryandrake | 2025-04-02 18:17:53+00:00
> I've seen positive news about Musk and his companies get quickly flagged and squirreled away.

Huh, I always thought it was the other way around. Anything negative about Musk also gets quickly flagged and buried. I guess we can agree that Musk is currently a lightning rod, and brigades on both sides are acting to hide (positive and negative) coverage of his actions.
by bradfitz | 2025-04-02 18:18:42+00:00
> Otherwise Plan 9 can do it's own VPN-like over tls or ssh tunnels and bind remote network stacks to a local namespace

Note that one of Tailscale's main party tricks is NAT traversal, when both machines are behind different NATs and can't otherwise get a connection open to each other. (And then Tailscale ultimately falls back to a relay server on the internet if it can't get a direct connection for IP packets)
by kccqzy | 2025-04-02 18:18:43+00:00
For example, having the opinion that manifest V3 is good for users is an opinion that will not thrive on HN.

Personally I hope Tom will bring new moderation policies that will truly let unpopular opinions thrive, but I don't have high hopes here since this is just an announcement of a new moderator, not an announcement of new moderation policies.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-02 18:18:52+00:00
> Modern taste is more about more neutral-colored foundations with color accents. Don't paint a whole room green -- have a gorgeous green plant that stands out all the more against its neutral background. Don't paint a whole wall orange -- have a beautiful orange-hued piece of art on the wall. It's just more tasteful to use color as one element, along with size, shape, texture, and so forth.

I don't consider this to be a be-all, end-all of design, but I appreciate that designs following this approach can be stunningly beautiful. That said, this is not the problem. The problem is, what happens these days, someone films your room with that "gorgeous green plant that stands out all the more against its neutral background" and... color grades the shit out of color, making it near pitch-black on non-HDR TVs (and most computer screens) and merely grey with tiny amounts of trace color on HDR TVs.

This is the problem - or at least its TV aspect. That Napoleon example was spot on - most movies these days look like the right half, whereas anything remotely approaching realism would make it look like the left half. And TFA correctly notices the same washing out of colors is happening to products and spaces in general (which means double trouble when that's filmed and then color-graded some more).
by kasperisager | 2025-04-02 18:19:21+00:00
There's no way to not bring along the entire Node.js standard library when you're using Node.js. It also doesn't provide a way to fully abstract over the underlying JavaScript engine, which Bare needs to be able to support swapping out the underlying JavaScript engine without any code changes. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559532 for more on that.
by hakaneskici | 2025-04-02 18:19:32+00:00
The only reason is that it shows up on all new tabs. It's just always there.

Backstory: My primary goal was to have a blank screen when I open a new browser tab. It helps me with context switching, to stop and think. Later I added an editable area to jot down a few quick notes before typing a URL that takes me to my next distraction :)
by incoming1211 | 2025-04-02 18:19:32+00:00
The problem is HN is mainly left leaning so its difficult to have discussion at times as dang and the community will shut it down quickly as differing opinions are not welcome even if its factual.

(chances are people will downvote without comment or scream "ThAtS nOt TrUe")

(Love how HN proved my comment as correct)
by Bostonian | 2025-04-02 18:20:46+00:00
https://archive.is/6VlKX

Another WSJ story is "Everyone’s Talking About AI Agents. Barely Anyone Knows What They Are. ‘Agentic’ is the biggest buzzword in Silicon Valley, but tech companies and enterprises lack a common understanding of its meaning, and it’s causing problems" https://www.wsj.com/articles/everyones-talking-about-ai-agen...

archived at https://archive.is/mRZZI
by mattcantstop | 2025-04-02 18:20:53+00:00
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by MisterTea | 2025-04-02 18:21:13+00:00
On 9 front there's vmx which is hardware virtualization. You can boot a Linux kernel with an nfs root from the local machine and use headless vnc to run a browser in a vnc client window.

I'd also like to point out that most users of Plan 9 dislike web technology because it's a giant nightmare of code. No one human can even begin to comprehend the code base of Chrome, let alone Firefox - programs that are as big, if not bigger than the kernels they run on. That is an absurd state to be in - your runtime requires a billion dollar company to maintain. Even open source Firefox needs millions in funding.

Whereas a single human can grasp plan 9 code from the kernel to user space. That's the runtime I want, something I can understand. The process is the container on plan 9 so you have everything you need to build distributed apps without a web browser. It's human scale distributed computing. I'd like a future without the "modern" corporate scale web.
by srean | 2025-04-02 18:21:18+00:00
He was done a great deal of injustice when he was passed over for the Turing award that was given to Hinton, Bengio, LeCun.

Then there is this from his blog --

Dec 2024: Sadly, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton is a Nobel Prize for plagiarism. They republished methodologies developed in Ukraine and Japan by Ivakhnenko and Amari in the 1960s & 1970s, as well as other techniques, without citing the original papers. Even in later surveys, they didn't credit the original inventors (thus turning what may have been unintentional plagiarism into a deliberate form). None of the important algorithms for modern Artificial Intelligence were created by Hopfield & Hinton. Details in the recent technical report, with lots of references, links, and facts.

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/physics-nobel-2024-plagiari...
by Kirby64 | 2025-04-02 18:21:27+00:00
Less-so that it has expanded from the decaf process, and more-so that the additional porosity leads to the 'crack' you get from reaching that critical temperature is much less violent, since there's essentially already many micro-fractures in the bean. Think of it like attempting to burst a pipe with a leak in it, vs. a pipe that is sealed. The leak will bleed off pressure, so you need much more flow (in coffee roasting, this would be power from heat) to get the same build up and explosion.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-02 18:21:28+00:00
From the public's point of view, informing them of solutions they may not have been aware of.

From the advertiser's point of view, finding the people who have the problem their product or service addresses.

Both of those are things that are valuable and not harmful. In practice, advertising rarely does the first. Instead, it acts as a kind of psyop. Also, most advertising engages in numerous abusive acts which make any possible benefits moot.
by roflyear | 2025-04-02 18:21:31+00:00
Sure but I'm not even talking politics! My comment itself was barely a criticism of HN and, yeah, downvotes don't matter - but it's exactly what I am talking about. Any push against that coziness/bubble is not tolerated.

I do think it's OK for some forums - if the community agrees - to say certain topics (like politics) are off limits.

I don't really think it's ok for a community to say discussion about what should be discussed is off limits... or being critical of policies, the bubble, etc...
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 18:21:35+00:00
Love it or hate it, I think Elon Musk was trying to go for this with the Cybertruck. I think it's also kinda funny that there's something inherently 80's about visions of the future, it's too bad the real future has "produce(d) fewer novel aesthetics that humiliate the previous attempt at novel aesthetics."

But part of the thing I would say, is especially with media, is this is happening maybe too much -- Youtube, TikTok. So much there's no signal in the noise.

Though I will say, there's that music accented by gunshots/punches in modern trailers that I'm ready to move past.
by BloodyIron | 2025-04-02 18:21:39+00:00
Why is nobody talking about how Car Insurance is typically higher with any real colour selections? Insurance companies calculate that vehicles with certain colours (for example, Red) have a higher statistical probability of being in a collision than say... grey. This has created a downward pressure for people who would like colours in their vehicles, but would instead prefer to just pay less in car insurance since they may be aware of this aspect.

I for one don't like that car insurance companies do this, but this very likely is a huge reason why fewer people buy vehicles with colour beyond Grey/etc.
by philipkglass | 2025-04-02 18:21:50+00:00
People do get their flagging powers revoked for misuse. There was a time when I went on an overly aggressive flagging spree and my flags no longer had any effect. Months later I sent an email to hn@ycombinator.com to pledge more judicious use of flagging and to request the restoration of that power. I got it back then.
by doodlebugging | 2025-04-02 18:22:07+00:00
I agree. You can get your caffeine boost from a pill if that floats your boat. I too love coffee and for a variety of reasons. I was only mentioning that there is a native plant that produces caffeine and has a pleasant taste so that it could serve as a caffeine (or tea) substitute in the event that supplies of real coffee became unreliable for any reason.

I drink lots of coffee and various teas.
by linsomniac | 2025-04-02 18:22:33+00:00
I mean maybe, we had a few different models we burned with, but only a few. With the volume we needed to burn, we needed the speed. But, as a counter-point, I will say that with Taiyo Yuden discs our failures were very low, so the drives were only a component. IIRC we were using a lot of LiteOn drives which at the time were not bad.
by kmoser | 2025-04-02 18:22:52+00:00
I can see the advantages of both styles. Scale and proximity are very important to people traveling to destinations they don't usually travel to (often tourists), but the schematic nature of this new map definitely makes it easier to tell how the system interconnects.

It would be great if, in addition to providing realtime bus and train info, the MTA provided realtime station info so third parties could create maps in any style that were guaranteed to be correct because they would pull from live station data.