MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strogonoff | 2025-05-23 08:40:04+00:00
I disagree; people are not mindless consumers, people are interested in what comes from where, and given the knowledge most of them would make a choice that would be ethically good, when they can afford it.

What breaks this (and prevents the free market from working as intended) is lack of said knowledge, i.e., information asymmetry. In case of the milk example, I think it mostly comes to two factors:

1) Lack of this awareness is financially beneficial to respective industries. (No need for conspiracy theories, but they sure as hell not going to engage in educational campaigns on these topics, or facilitating any such efforts in any way, including not suing them. Further complicated by the fact that many these industries are integral parts of many local economies, which would make it in the interest of respective governments to follow suit.)

2) The facts can be so harsh that it can be difficult to internalise and accept reality.

Even still, many people do learn and internalise this—ever noticed the popularity of oat and almond milk in coffeeshops, even despite higher prices?—so I think it is not unreasonable to expect this in certain ML-based industries, either.
by renerick | 2025-05-23 08:40:11+00:00
NVIDIA sells the shovels, then OpenAI/Anthropic/Google make an excavator out of shovels (NVDIA also seems to work on their own excavators), then some startup starts selling excavator wrapper. I don't know if there are any snakes at the bottom, but there's surely a whole lot of shovel layers on the way down.
by creatonez | 2025-05-23 08:42:02+00:00
I do think this would be good for power users who want strict isolation between different instances of apps (and I'd also love to see better QubesOS type approaches, using a hypervisor), but perhaps most of this kind of work should be prioritized inside the application itself, using nested sandboxing. That way, the barriers are exactly where the user expects them to be based on the normal behavior of the application. Assuming vulnerabilities in the code that glues it all together don't get explosive, of course.

Web browsers do already use a variety of sandboxing techniques to achieve separation between tabs. Some of these techniques work inside Flatpak, but some of them are broken by Flatpak:

> Ideally, Flatpak would simply support nested namespacing and nested sandboxes, but currently it does not. Flatpak uses seccomp to prevent applications in a sandbox from having direct access to user namespaces.

Some of them are replaced by Flatpak, for application developers that wish to use the APIs:

> What Flatpak does instead, currently, is to have a kind of side sandbox that applications can call to and spawn another Flatpak instance that can be restricted even further

Fortunately, it seems Wick is optimistic about UID namespacing, the main thing stopping Firefox and Chrome from fixing this:

> Wick feels that user namespaces are, nowadays, a well-tested and a much-used interface. He does not think that there is much of a good argument against user namespaces anymore.

Back to the topic of instanced Flatpaks, as I understand one snag is that there is a long-term desire (by app stores/platforms in general) for a full boot-to-userspace code-signing setup to be tied into the sandboxing. The identity of each application should remain the same (unless specifically overridden by a power user) so that a fake version of an application can't adopt an existing application's confidential encrypted files if it doesn't meet the codesigning requirements. I guess one solution here would be for the segregated instances to be nested inside the application's identity, but that's getting quite complex. And we don't even have encryption nor any functioning secure boot + confidential computing implementation yet -- all we really have so far on this front is the reverse domain name notation being verified by Flathub, with filesystem access sandboxing to keep these folders separate.
by mandmandam | 2025-05-23 08:42:06+00:00
> You cannot jump over immigration requirements

You probably will be able to soon though, and it 'only' costs $5m: "A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms" [0]

I couldn't blame you for not having seen this though. It was quickly flagged and never whitelisted; like so, so many other important stories here this past few months. Check my favorites for more falsely flagged stories.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43921421
by LadyCailin | 2025-05-23 08:42:47+00:00
No, a majority either wanted him, or didn’t care. Only a minority didn’t want him. In the US, you don’t vote FOR a candidate. You only vote against a candidate. If you cast your vote for the Republican, or don’t cast a vote (or cast your vote for a third party), and live in a red state, then you voted against the Democrat. And vice versa. So the only people that you can fairly say didn’t want him were the democratic voters.

It’s not a good system, it’s utter garbage, but it’s the current reality in the US, and the longer people fail to acknowledge this, the longer it will remain like this.
by krisoft | 2025-05-23 08:43:06+00:00
> Is this intended to communicate positivity or negativity?

It just says it was important to predict the tides. There is no positivity or negativity to it. Your question doesn’t make sense, hence the downvotes.

> Predicting tides was known to the ancients

Good. To which ancients? With what accuracy and how far into the future? What techniques did they use? Tell us more.

> it would be lovely to explore the hubris of the modern narrative.

Explore it then! Would love to read it. It is not like there is some conspiracy holding you back.
by defrost | 2025-05-23 08:43:09+00:00
> so ok I get all of what your saying except what you're leaving out, what was the hypothesis?

These shows by Robertson had no single scenario, each started with (say) news that people in a cafe had been taken hostage by a unknown assailant .. and built from there. First one guest representing law and order might be asked what their response would be, then they are informed that demands have been made to release convicted terrorists (say). This might build and involve a diplomat, a former singer in the public eye pressed for comment, etc.

I haven't said as I literally last watched the one in question some forty years ago.

Perhaps you can fill us all in given, as you said above, you've read the transcripts and hopefully still have a copy you can look up.

> the steve martin bit is how to do a proper cosplay

Riiigght. Okay. Sure. Bit random. Personally I largely preferred Damian Cowell over Cat Stevens and|or Steve Martin on a banjo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLAFy7o7Zvo
by pseudo0 | 2025-05-23 08:44:16+00:00
I have been using CivitAI practically since it was created. Real person NSFW content has been banned since day one, because they didn't want to get sued. The change in April was a cosmetic update to how they displayed search results. It completely separated out real person content and NSFW content, to ensure that NSFW could not be displayed in proximity to real person content. This changed how content was displayed, not what content was allowed.

I'm sure some people do generate porn with celebrity LoRAs, but there are also plenty of legitimate uses such as parody, criticism, transformative art, etc. If people do post inappropriate content, there are civil remedies and now also federal criminal remedies via the TAKE IT DOWN Act. CivitAI is fully legally compliant, but they are being held hostage by an unelected, unaccountable payment processor cartel.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-05-23 08:44:29+00:00
> The Civil War was basically southerners strongly preferring to use slaves instead of modernizing.

I thought that was all northern propaganda. The real reason being that the south refused to be in a confederation where there was more and more power given to the presidency and the senate while the states had fewer.

The north of course couldn't say they fought to force these states to remain in the confederation, negating their right to self determination, and instead pushed the slave narrative which was really secondary.
by cess11 | 2025-05-23 08:44:54+00:00
Yeah, sure, I do a lot of such things in RAM in Elixir, some Lisp, PHP or, if I must, Python.

But sometimes I just happen to have just imported a data set in a SQL client or I'm hooked into a remote database where I don't have anything but the SQL client. When developing an involved analysis query nesting also comes in handy sometimes, e.g. to mock away a part of the full query.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-05-23 08:45:01+00:00
> There's just one problem: they don't integrate with desktop without an additional application

Their biggest problem is that they're not actually truly portable between distributions. They're a gamble of what they're compiled and bundled against, and it's possible for two distributions to not have binary compatibility with each other due to user space differences (different versions, compile flags etc). The kernel developers may not break userspace between updates, but userspace developers certainly have no qualms about breaking userspace.

When you head out of Ubuntu/Debian where developers often build AppImages on (because Linux is a neglected platform and when they think Linux they think Ubuntu), they often fail to run or have errors (e.g. on Fedora). There's more problems such as the terrible practice of encouraging people to set the execute flag on binaries they download off the web.

Flatpak avoids the dependency problem entirely because it's uses runtimes and namespace to ensure reproducible and stable runtime environments.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-05-23 08:45:21+00:00
6 weeks before my son turned 4, I read a post here recommending the book 'Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons'.

Since three months after his 4th birthday, he's been an avid reader, which has unlocked opportunities for joy/entertainment and for curiosity/learning.

Reading has also increased his spoken vocabulary. I know because a couple of times I've heard him use a word correctly but pronounce it incorrectly.
by INTPenis | 2025-05-23 08:45:28+00:00
That's not UX though, it's more theming. If themes affect your UX then there is no pleasing you.

True enough I'm happy with flatpak but I never stray from the default GTK themes.

I was unhappy with flatpak until I found Flatseal, now I include it on all my workstation setups.

But I can't help you with the theming unfortunately, I think that's a sore point for a lot of users that like customizing their Linux DE.
by 0xEF | 2025-05-23 08:45:58+00:00
What's even more wild is that many users, even on HN, don't seem to pick up on the fact that the alternatives to Firefox are either Chrome or Chrome in different colored trenchcoats. Firefox is like the last bastion of user choice when it comes to deciding how we interact with the Internet, a choice that has been subtly but steadily stripped from us for years.

My question to the FOSS community is why Firefox is not used to build more independent browsers the way Chrome is? While I stand fast on the ground that Google wants to monopolize our web experience, it really seems like the community at large is just...letting it happen. The only strong contender that I've seen built from FF is Iceweasel/cat which works fine for my needs, but is definitely not winning any popularity contests despite actively knocking out those non-free parts of FF.
by camillomiller | 2025-05-23 08:46:53+00:00
>>"Altman told OpenAI staff that stealth will be important for their ultimate success to avoid competitors copying the product before it’s ready."

How is this not a red flag to anyone? Are we past reality already to this point? Like, how can you claim you're gonna do something so incredibly revolutionary and at the same time fall for the worst trait a VC would spot in a wannabe startupper -- thinking that the incredible originality of your idea is your moat?

ChatGPT is a success story as much as it concerns brand and distribution, and this product could be the same, but Altman is admitting clearly that they have zero moat in this. This could be copied by anyone as long as they hear the idea? Seriously?
by somenameforme | 2025-05-23 08:47:00+00:00
He's right. You'd want to arrange them in a square for comparable coverage so it'd be sqrt(10) = ~3.2.

It feels somehow nice and correct that an effort to reduce a 3d problem (basically a lot of our boom goes up or down, which is not necessary in most cases) to a 2d one changes it from a gain of x^(1/3) to x^(1/2).
by out-of-ideas | 2025-05-23 08:47:13+00:00
i never got the hang of Total Commander; i only use the file browser on windows as the cli form is so terrible compared to bash..

irfan was fun though, i do like Emulsion even though its not really under development anymore

im currently happy with foobar2k via wine, havent yet loaded all my plugins yet but will eventually load up the 7.1 upmixer and test it out. if you have not used the later versions of f2k, its worth checking out
by parodysbird | 2025-05-23 08:48:31+00:00
The thing with alchemy was not that their hypotheses were wrong (they eventually created chemistry), but that their method of secret esoteric mysticism over open inquiry was wrong.

Newton is the great example of this: he led a dual life, where in one he did science openly to a community to scrutinize, in the other he did secret alchemy in search of the philosopher's stone. History has empirically shown us which of his lives actually led to the discovery and accumulation of knowledge, and which did not.
by sshine | 2025-05-23 08:50:09+00:00
It’s not that those language features are hard to understand. They’re all syntactic and don’t bring a ton of theory with them. It’s just that the tower of understanding for basic programs is very tall, and the tendency to introduce abstraction essentially never ends. I spent ten years with Haskell as my go-to language and there are still things I don’t understand and haven’t explored. It’s not like that with Python, or Go, or even Rust.
by mlsu | 2025-05-23 08:50:19+00:00
Wild take, truly wild!

I love my stupid dog. Seeing her little face when she looks at me makes me so happy, it’s ridiculous. And I know she loves me back just as much. Really, I can kinda see how you get here, but I think you ought to try having a dog. If anything, save it from one of these people you imagine are inflicting their selfishness upon it.
by diggan | 2025-05-23 08:50:45+00:00
I'm similarly lost as GP, and even reading this, I feel like I'm missing something.

If HN said they're disabling new submissions and comments, that'd effectively mean they're closing the site, and would probably say that outright.

But Glitch aren't saying they are shutting down, but they're removing the feature that I thought made Glitch a thing. So nothing is left, yet they continue? Is this a 180 pivot or? Are there other features that will still be usable?
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-23 08:50:53+00:00
The only preposterous idea in this scenario is that anyone assumed the LLM would keep a secret to begin with.

Well okay there's another preposterous idea: that the LLM could know the truth about the affair in the first place.

So they told this LLM, through prompts, that an affair existed. Liars. The LLM could also infer, through user behavior, that something was going on. Hallucinator.

Since an LLM has no concept of truth or means of fact-checking anything, the solution here is simply to pre-load your context with bullshit and hallucinations, and any blackmail attempt will be filed under "Boy Who Cried Wolf".
by defrost | 2025-05-23 08:50:55+00:00
Sounds like you have a wikipedia article to heavily edit to bring into line with your thinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_...

For the several decades I've been alive and reading multiple takes on history slavery has always featured as one of the major three causes of the US Civil War for the majority of historians of note.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-23 08:51:50+00:00
> No change, no innovation.

I observe such statements being repeated, uncreatively and without any factual support, with my arguments against them conspicuously left unaddressed. In fact, my very first comment in this thread listed how Apple keeps innovating and leading change in multiple industries. Present specific evidence that would refute that.

> As for your claim that a hammer manufacturer's "pay us for every nail" model

This was never a claim I made; in fact, this “pay us for very nail” model was never once mentioned by me and in all likelihood is a hallucination of whatever chatbot is spewing this.
by statictype | 2025-05-23 08:52:42+00:00
The problem is, it's not necessarily the job of the person who is tasked with doing it.

These are the kind of things that fall between the gaps in smaller companies and there's no expert to build this disaster recovery plan because there is no risk or compliance department.

It falls into the lap of whomever is dealing with the audits or whoever has a reputation for getting things done and unblocking people.
by red_admiral | 2025-05-23 08:53:12+00:00
Delays due to trucks striking bridges are a worldwide problem, at least in countries with railroads. Despite yellow black striped reflective panels and height warning signs and sometimes height detectors that trigger flashing red lights.

Perhaps we should try a bale of straw next.

The London Blackwall tunnel has a more modern take on checking height: https://maps.app.goo.gl/b5P5Td1hsuSjLU3w8 traffic signals, barriers like at a railroad crossing, giant panels across the road at height, and a police car on standby to pull out and fine anyone that doesn't read the signs - I presume this happens often enough that they can justify the cost.

But then the bale of straw applied to ships not vehicles and bridges not tunnels.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-23 08:53:27+00:00
> This kind of context management is not that hard, even when building LLMs.

It is, at least if you wish to be in the meatspace, that's my point. Every day has 86400 seconds during which a human brain constantly adapts to and learns from external input - either directly as it's being awake or indirectly during nighttime cleanup processes.

On top of that, humans have built-in filters for training. Basically, we see some drunkard shouting about the Hollow Earth on the sidewalk... our brain knows that this is a drunkard and that Hollow Earth is absolutely crackpot material, so if it stores anything at all then the fact that there is a drunkard on that street and one might take another route next time, but the drunkard's rambling is forgotten maybe five minutes later.

AI, in contrast, needs to be hand-held by humans during training that annotate, "grade" or weigh information during the compilation of the training dataset, in order that the AI knows what is written in "Mein Kampf" so it can answer questions upon it, but that it also knows (or at least: won't openly regurgitate) that the solution to economic problems isn't to just deport Jews.

And huge context windows aren't the answer either. My wife says me, she would like to have a fruit cake for her next birthday. I'll probably remember that piece of information (or at the very least I'll write it down)... but an AI butler? I'd be really surprised if this is still in its context space in a year, and even if it is, I would not be surprised if it weren't able to recall that fact.

And the final thing is prompts... also not the answer. We've seen it just a few days ago with Grok - someone messed with the system prompt so it randomly interjected "white genocide" claims into completely unrelated conversation [1] despite hopefully being trained on a ... more civilised dataset, and to the contrary, we've also seen Grok reply to Twitter questions in a way that suggest that it is aware its training data is biased.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chat...
AskHN: Best X (Twitter) accounts to follow for GTM and startup launch insights?
by leo_dard | 2025-05-23 08:53:35+00:00
I’m looking to get better at all things related to startup Go-To-Market.

I’d love to follow some solid X (Twitter) accounts that actually show their work: people who share checklists, breakdowns of what they did, what worked (or didn’t), and useful resources they’ve used along the way.

Basically, folks who don’t just drop one-liners, but walk you through the thinking behind a product launch or GTM playbook.

If you’ve got any accounts you learn from or enjoy, I’d really appreciate your recommendations. Thanks!
by sky2224 | 2025-05-23 08:53:36+00:00
The Civil War was 100% about the Confederacy's desire to preserve slavery. The "State's Rights" argument is revisionist to downplay things, especially given the fact that southern states would be hypocritical and demand that the northern states enforce laws like the Fugitive Slave act, which directly went against the rights of the states that had declared themselves as free states.
by mandmandam | 2025-05-23 08:53:44+00:00
> those in control of the Democratic Party underestimated the anger and economic desperation of the working class.

They don't care. Why would they?

The worse Republicans act, the more Democrat leaders are happy to present themselves as the only 'sane' alternative.

That 'sanity' now includes arming genocide, campaigning with Dick Cheney, removing being 'anti-torture' from their platforms, etc. Very little media holds them to account on any of this.

The people who fund (read: own) the Democrats and the media are a higher priority to politicians than their actual voter base. That has been made abundantly clear to anyone paying attention: just look at Gaza, healthcare, environmental protection, fracking, or any number of issues where the majority of Americans want progress while <5% of Dem politicians actually fight for them.

Again, Gaza made this wildly clear: Even though 77% of Dem voters wanted an arms embargo, and >30% of 2020 Biden voters in swing states were loudly saying that arming genocide was probably a red line as far as getting their vote, Harris decided that bombing children was more important than winning the election. And the rest of the party leadership supported this, again, against the will of the vast majority of their voters.
by beloch | 2025-05-23 08:54:36+00:00
The Hagia Sophia is an astonishing building. Pictures do not adequately convey the scale of it. It should remain a museum. Astounding Christian mosaics lie under iconic Muslim plaster. Until recently, a delicate balance was struck in uncovering mosaics while preserving plaster. It was an attempt to balance the history of the building between it's creators and those who now control it. Turning it back into a mosque will most likely involve covering up those mosaics again. This is a loss to world history.
by wizardOfScience | 2025-05-23 08:55:00+00:00
A wind turbine tower is essentially a cantilevered beam resisting the bending moment from lateral wind loads. The loads can come from any direction. Bending induces stresses in any beam that increase with distance from the centre. A thin walled hollow tube is the most material efficient design theoretically as it concentrates the load bearing materials along the perimeter of the beam. Any deviation from this incurs material that is not fully utilised.