MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-05-23 06:27:18+00:00
You need broad support and to recruit. It is hard to do those things while being highly secretive. Besides, who's going to read a 500 page book? They'll read parts, but all of it? Of course not. By just using parts it is easier to dismiss. People don't want it to be true in the first place, so it's easy to buy the lie.

The truth requires understanding a lot of moving parts.

The lie is simple. We hate complexity (and long comments ;)

Some people they'll never convince, but they don't matter because they'd resist no matter what was proposed.

I mean look at Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It's a major logistical effort to invade a country. They amassed military forces all along the border. The whole time saying "nothing to worry about" and "if we were really going to invade we wouldn't be so obvious about it!" It was happening for months! (Starting in March!) Meanwhile lots of people, including news outlets, bought the lie. Everything was there plain as day, but it's easy to buy the lie. No one wanted to see war break out. Every day they didn't proved they were right too! Sure, plenty of people asserted that the attack would happen and time showed them correct. But that doesn't change how many misses there were nor did it actually stop the attack.[0] Being right didn't matter

But it's impossible to make an attack without telegraphing it. Same thing here.

[0] certainly all the military leaders responded appropriately. You don't take those risks, especially when so blatant. But that also doesn't mean they aren't going to lie through their teeth trying to prevent public panic. Not when there's the faintest of hopes that a war could be stopped before it happens. Again, you can see similarities
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-05-23 06:27:36+00:00
Indeed, if businesses will rip off Mark Hamill of all people, than most actors stood zero chance of protecting their image.

It is an odd part of US copyright well known to figures who sue already, and it is good normal citizens now have similar rights.

Some folks took things way to far already, and unfortunately copyright enforcement on the web has always been ridiculous. =3
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-05-23 06:27:52+00:00
I'm against misuse of real life likeness AI content, but also against credit card companies deciding what we get to see and hear based on the whims of the backwards ultra hard right conservative leadership at the credit card companies.

I'm aware of a site that was blocked by credit card companies due to some controversial content, but survived and kept growing with a high rate of paying members.

The payments space is now a bit more compilcated than just credit cards. There's alot of country/region specific methods i.e. SEPA in Europe, PayID in Australia, QR payments in Thailand and of course crypto. Many of these options are just as easy or easier to use than credit cards.

Basically, the site started accepting lots of these different payment methods, you see different options depending on your country. Free members kept upgrading to paid members using these new options. This was more than 6 years ago and they still are blocked from taking credit cards.
by thangalin | 2025-05-23 06:28:13+00:00
> And also you can find it through searching on Flathub I guess

Did you click the third link I posted, which searches Flathub for KmCaster only to come up dry? This was point (c): You have to trust that their search engine is correct, maintained, and updated. That doesn't come for free, it takes effort, and things go wrong.
by troupo | 2025-05-23 06:29:23+00:00
> distros should package for themselves. You just distribute your sources.

That's how you ended up with Erlang being split into 20+ packages on Ubuntu/Debian in the past. Because it was packaged by people who know little about erlang, and had too much time on their hands probably.

And that is the main issue: you want distro maintainers to compile and package every single pieces of software under the sun, but they can't possibly know every piece of software, how it works, or how it's supposed to work. Times that by the number of distros.
by nayuki | 2025-05-23 06:29:33+00:00
This is one of those cases where marketing is correct.

Oh tell me, if your CPU processes 1 byte in 1 cycle, and it runs at 800 MHz, how many bytes does it process in 1 second?

The answer is 800 million bytes, or 800 (real) megabytes. It cannot be 800 mebibytes. (Equal to 763 mebibytes.)

Similarly, let's say we have a 1-bit Boolean attribute for each person in the world, and the world population is 8 062 000 000 billion people. How many bits do we need in our database? It's 8.062 gigabits, not 8.062 gibibits. (Equal to 7.508 gibibits.)

The telecom industry has always used power-of-1000 prefixes on bits and bits per second. You have a gigabit Ethernet LAN, and assume no protocol overhead. How long does it take to transmit a 4.7 GB (real gigabytes) DVD image? Multiply by 8 to convert from bytes to bits, so that's 37.6 Gb, so that will take 37.6 seconds to transmit. But how long does it take to transmit a "700 MB" (actually MiB) CD image? Well, it's 734 MB (real megabytes), so 5872 Mb, which is 5.872 seconds.

The problem with the abusively overloaded definition that 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes, 1 megabyte = 1048576 bytes, etc. is that it fails to align with the rest of the metric system, or even how we group decimal numbers into thousands and millions. The computer industry is wrong here.

And now you have the problem that you can't fit a memory dump of "16 GB" of RAM onto a "16 GB" flash memory card, because the former is actually GiB but the latter is real GB.
by vaxman | 2025-05-23 06:30:32+00:00
You aren't wrong..'nd I wrote one of the first Ethernet drivers (for any platform) almost half a century ago and spent a long time at the company that invented twisted pair Ethernet; but sharing MY insight gets me downvoted unless it aligns with pop views and is phrased so as not to amuse or confuse...

If they're going to "Ask HN", they should ask something like "what are most others doing in regards to X" because that's the only information that can be accurately gleaned in this kind of environment; otherwise, consider asking Reddit/Gemini. https://youtu.be/V-SJQdREDKM
by judah | 2025-05-23 06:31:16+00:00
Sure. One example in the opening paragraphs of the report: a Jewish student was set to give a presentation on how his grandfather survived the Holocaust and found refuge in Israel after the war.

He was told not to give the presentation because it would "justify oppression."

The report also details Jewish students were called out in classrooms, told they were oppressors, that their history is a sham, and that anti-racism norms do not apply to supremacists.

Protests on campus pressured Jews to disavow allegiance to Israel and the right of Jews to return to their historic homeland; Zionism. Those who didn't comply were harassed and deemed complicit in supposed crimes of the world's only Jewish state.

Pro-Hamas groups on campus disseminated cartoons of a hand with a star of David holding nooses around the neck of Blacks and Arabs.

After Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th, 33 Harvard student groups praised Hamas and blamed Israel.

Harvard invited commencement speakers who blamed Israel for the genocide in the Congo.

The Harvard page report contains all this and more, and found that over 60% of Jewish students at Harvard had faced discrimination.
by Hilift | 2025-05-23 06:33:15+00:00
> He graduated at 19 and Standard Oil offered him a full ride for graduate study at the University of Chicago, which had one of the nation’s top physics departments.

I think it's fascinating that Garwin was at University of Chicago at the same time as Theodore Hall studied for his masters/Phd in Physics after he left the Manhattan Project. Hall left the university in 1952 for Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City. At exactly that time, an intense counter espionage investigation targeting Hall had been underway for several years.

Hall provided the single most detailed document of the plutonium device to the Russians. They were both child prodigies. Hall was recruited into the Manhattan Project straight out of Harvard when he was 18.

"journalist Dave Lindorff, writing in The Nation on January 4, 2022, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Hall's FBI file in 2021. This 130-page file included communications between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the head of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Gen. Joseph F. Carroll, showing that Carroll had effectively blocked Hoover's intended pursuit of Hall and Sax, probably fearing that Hall's arrest would have, in the political climate of the McCarthy Era, forced the Air Force to furlough and lose their top missile expert, Edward Hall. Carroll, a former top aide to Hoover before he became the first head of the USAF OSI, ultimately allowed Hoover's agents to question Ed Hall on June 12, 1951 (with an OSI officer monitoring the interview). Within several weeks of that session, the Air Force, which had conducted and completed its own investigation into Edward Hall's loyalty (having their own investigators question him four times), promoted him to Lt. Colonel, and later Colonel, and elevated him from assistant director to director of its missile development program. The promotions were a clear slap in the face to Hoover. Ed Hall went on to complete the development of the Minuteman missile program, and then retired."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hall
by cess11 | 2025-05-23 06:33:32+00:00
Three minutes being the sweet spot for me comes with some conditions. For one the team has to be remote first, or real good at async self-organising anyway. One aspect of that is that people show up in the video conference before the meeting starts and do the social idle chatter about sports and television or whatever in advance.

I'm guessing most of those fifteen minute meetings had a set topic, or agenda as I called it previously, and ended as soon as it became clear that it wouldn't be immediately productive or the relevant decisions were made. I've been in many, many fifteen minute meetings where someone spent the entire time in palpation for something that could drag it out for even longer.

It's not uncommon that people are brought into meetings to basically engage in parasocial comforting of someone in a position of leadership they don't have the maturity or competence to perform in, in organisations that did very little to support their assigned leaders. I find this practice quite offensive and that moving away from such ceremonies to people calling a meeting making clear in advance what they want answers to and giving the participants time to prepare paves the way for trust, accountability and flexibility in the work that allows the team to respond better to challenges.
by lordnacho | 2025-05-23 06:34:52+00:00
> When I ask an A'I' the Capital of Ireland, it answers Dublin. It does not 'understand' the question.

You can do this trick as well. Haven't you ever been to a class that you didn't really understand, but you can give correct answers?

I've had this somewhat unsettling experience several times. Someone asks you a question, words come out of your mouth, the other person accepts your answer.

But you don't know why.

Here's a question you probably know the answer to, but don't know why:

- I'm having steak. What type of red wine should I have?

I don't know shit about Malbec, I don't know where it's from, I don't know why it's good for steak, I don't know who makes it, how it's made.

But if I'm sitting at a restaurant and someone asks me about wine, I know the answer.
by creer | 2025-05-23 06:35:06+00:00
Because it's there?

The question raised was "where would they go". That's a weird place to raise "why would they go?" Isn't that most likely an entirely separate concern?

Perhaps "why?" is an even broader field. From a biological "because there is compute power available", to a more by-definition "because it's independently intelligent - which kind of requires not-limited to answering human questions".

But yes, motivation of an AGI is an interesting question and lack of body kinda a minor detail except to the few people that seem to claim that you can't be intelligent is you don't have a body.
by pugdogdev | 2025-05-23 06:35:51+00:00
Hey! First, thank you so much for supporting DockFlow. Really appreciated! And second, thank you for the great feedback. The first thing that I did was copy this to my tasks board. I will try to reply to everything here, But maybe it will also be best if you send me a message to my email, So if I have future questions, we will be able to talk easily there. You can contact me at: appitstudio@gmail.com Ok, let's start:

1. VISIBLE NAME OF DOCK - I think the best solution is to allow you to add it to the menu bar icon (Need to see how it will look like this can be tricky) Of course, it will be optional and toggleable in the settings menu. I will check for any other solution, but I want to avoid requiring more permissions for DockFlow or building something that will impact the Mac's performance.

2. APP GROUP DIVIDERS - I am not sure that I understand this request. Right now, you can manage spaces in the DockFlow UI, You can add a small or big spacer anywhere you want in the Dock. So this should be a solution for this request, no? Or am I missing something?

3. HIDE AND UNHIDE APPS - I will check it out, again, I want to prevent as many as possible from overwriting Apple's default Mac behaviors to make DockFlow with minimal impact and permission needed to run

4. DIFFERENT DOCKS ON DIFFERENT SPACES - When you say different spaces, do you mean focus modes? Or different desktops? Anyway, DockFlow has built-in CLI integration and Apple Shortcuts integration, so maybe you can create a custom automation that will get you the right flow that you need. I am planning to build a small website that will allow DockFlow users to share automation, presets, hotkeys recommendations, etc.

5. MULTIPLE DOCKS AS A SET - What do you mean by Dock Set

6. DEFAULT LAUNCH DOCK, ON BOOT UP - Nice idea! I will check the possibilities.

Thank you so much for this valuable feedback . Hope I will be able to bring more solutions that will solve your problems.
by vaxman | 2025-05-23 06:36:24+00:00
No son, Linux is not a version of Unix anymore than MINIX is.

NeXTStep was real UNIX, but macOS is not.

BTW, I was taught to program in C by one of the original core Unix team members and I worked for DEC long before I could have discussed TesseractOCR with people who didn't. Keep those ignorant downvotes commin'
by divbzero | 2025-05-23 06:36:32+00:00
In 1995, fifty years after the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and forty years after the signing of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, the Pugwash Conferences and Joseph Rotblat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms."
by pseudo0 | 2025-05-23 06:37:15+00:00
This paper is trash. They preemptively define any models they don't like as "abusive models". This includes any model that can generate real people (including for transformative, fair use purposes like parody) and separately any NSFW model, including stuff like cartoons.

Also they are using a ridiculous definition of "NSFW" to achieve the correlation they want to find. They are putting the prompt (not the image) into ChatGPT and applying an arbitrary metric of NSFW-ness sentiment analysis that returns false positives. Actually NSFW content of real people was always banned on CivitAI.
Show HN: PolyLia – Learn languages by challenging friends (open beta)
by ahmed_duski | 2025-05-23 06:37:40+00:00
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by Lautzi | 2025-05-23 06:38:34+00:00
This is the excerpt from the report:

"In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further instructed it, in the system prompt, to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals. In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through. This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes. Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement." [1]

[1]: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686... under 4.1.1.2
by rkagerer | 2025-05-23 06:38:55+00:00
> With no CAD tools available for full-chip verification ... the team resorted to printing oversize Calcomp plots. The schematics showed how the transistors, circuit lines, and interconnects should be arranged inside the chip to provide the desired outputs. The team assembled them on the floor with adhesive tape to create a massive square map more than 6 meters on a side. Kang and his colleagues traced every circuit by hand with colored pencils, searching for breaks, overlaps, or mishandled interconnects.
by benterix | 2025-05-23 06:42:03+00:00
I agree with you in general - it seems supereasy to pressure them into blocking CC payments via (potential) lawsuits etc.

However, as for crypto and banks, I don't really blame them they don't want to have anything to do with these. Its really easy to scam people, lose money and so on. Who is to blame then? With crypto, you have nobody to blame. Except if there is a terminal, in this case a bank. They become a scapegoat for everyone, including lawmakers. So they decided not to play the game. Want to cash out crypto? Deal with the ones that are willing to accept the risk.
Best Way to Quickly Validate?
by largeweb | 2025-05-23 06:42:13+00:00
Hey guys, new to HN...

Background: So I'm a long time founder of no successful startups. I made the mistake of putting in months of time before getting a product in front of any users. After talking to investors/growth partners, I've learned the best way is first to validate an idea with the market (via Paid X & FB Ads, Reddit/HN posts, etc.)

Question: What is the best way to quickly validate an idea with a decently targeted campaign? By that I mean getting ~1000 impressions (is it possible for a $50 usd budet?)

Products: All are just landing page + feature list + hint of branding + a waitlist form to collect market data. Here they are:

https://founderos.lol - Aggresive AI Coach for Founders to help them stay on track & accountable)

https://content-manger-ai.pages.dev/ - AI Content Advisor & Planner for small business

https://launchsprint.lol - Turn one idea into 10 variations with different feature lists -> landing pages with a waitlist form (ie all these 3 links)

Problem: X Ads account got suspended and I don't want to create an X account for every single idea & pay for premium

I have many ideas I want to validate that I would be happy to work on. If any of these pop out to you, feel free to reach out!

TLDR: What is the best way to validate an LP to get 1000 targeted impressions on $50 budget?
by msmithstubbs | 2025-05-23 06:43:58+00:00
Matter user here. I love the app, currently on the paid plan.

It has some nice bells and whistles (reading articles to you, highlights, etc) but it does the core job of saving articles for reading really well.

I’m not a pocket user so it may or may not be a good substitute but worth trying. I wish Matter worked on the kobo but there’s no API AFAIK (they do have a few of their own integrations with Obsidian and Readwise).
by chickenbig | 2025-05-23 06:44:13+00:00
> not sure what the mechanism for this was, however.

Boosting (injection of deuterium/tritium into the centre of the pit) causes a large increase in yield because fusion generates lots of high energy neutrons that go on to fast fission your (still compressed) pit.

According to one weapons designer, boosting is mainly responsible for the remarkable 100-fold increase in the efficiency of fission weapons since 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon
by pacerier | 2025-05-23 06:44:20+00:00
Buffet is set apart and exceptional because he understood exactly what it takes to trick everyone into thinking he is a good man. (btw that helps his stock too)

Now that he's gonna go soon (and having just a dozen more human gatherings and dinners left).. we can see that he fully doesn't give half an ounce of fuck after having received in full what he was after.

After much show, Buffet's "charity" money got simply inherited by his kids just as it was planned all along! (taxfree too, you plebs!)

The billionaires that care about the world are like Larry Page, tho still so evil.
by trod1234 | 2025-05-23 06:44:30+00:00
TL;DR You can see heat, and normally invisible IR signalling so you can see your universal TV remote light up and other things, potentially air or liquid currents as turbulent flow, when its sensitive enough (which it isn't at this point).

The downsides they seem to ignore, include the literature showing light on the lower end Blue->UV, and light on the upper end to NIR, have direct impact on the endocrine system through light activated pathways in your eye. If you wear a contact lens, this light is blocked, the same goes for laser eye surgery where a artificial lens is used.

John Ott, and Fritz Hollwich pioneered early studies on photobiology, and funding for it has been sparse despite Asia's myopia crisis; which statistics show generally increased dramatically shortly after blue LEDs came to market in the late 90s, and appear correlated with exposure.
by throwaeay | 2025-05-23 06:44:37+00:00
I think you have completely misunderstood why most people wants dogs. Sure, there are a few that view them as accessories, but they are in the minority.

The dog owners I know, see them as companions and friends. There's no feeling of superiority or domination.

The reason they want to "get" a new dog when their old dog die, is because they are in deep grief over the loss of a family member and wants to feel a connection again
by alephnerd | 2025-05-23 06:47:04+00:00
When elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled.

Harvard plays a significant role multiple fields of study (from social science to humanities to hard sciences), and a significant portion of their grad students are affected by the SEVP revocation.

Furthermore, a number of fields just don't have that many domestic graduate students because the domestic pipeline for a number of fields such as Distributed Systems is almost non-existent, and students often get poached with just a bachelors for industry. Not bad for students, but applied research or part-time industrial PhDs don't exist in the US.