MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-05-15 18:16:58+00:00
10lbs of ribs ordered at the pickup only bbq shop an hour away. 20 gallons of coleslaw ordered from another place delivered to your old address. It sent an improper command to your smoker which is now targeting 900F for the next 20 hours. Perfect for your party of eight people.

Don't get me wrong, I truly agree there will probably be a point things will be an agentic future. The same chain of events could have been said about booking travel arrangements a couple of decades ago. But until the rest of meatspace actually moves towards those things being normal these things are still in the realm of fantasy on average.
by EGreg | 2025-05-15 18:17:19+00:00
Been building something along these lines for a while. At Qbix, we call it our QBOX. Full stack, using Nix for the base, and Nitro attestation. No SSH. We have the exact same approach — cron running and only downloading signed scripts and binaries from endpoints. But there is a lot more… Would be great to connect and maybe join forces.

Want to connect some time next Tuesday or Wednesday? https://calendly.com/qbix/meeting
by int_19h | 2025-05-15 18:17:19+00:00
Games (and other forms of entertainment) is where it actually brings something to the table. I don't think I'd ever want to play flight or space sims not in VR, for example. And it doesn't even need to be very involved; e.g. if you have VR headset that works with Steam, be sure to check out Polynomial: https://store.steampowered.com/app/379420/Polynomial_2__Univ...

There are some adjacent niche uses, as well. High-res fractal viewing, for example.

But as to productivity... I tried using various virtual desktop software, but the image quality is just not good enough to match what I'm used to with my 4K displays. Even 4K per eye is not good enough for that, since any usable virtual display won't fill the entire visible space.
by 3s | 2025-05-15 18:17:24+00:00
Confidential computing as a technology will become (and should be) commoditized, so the value add comes down to security and UX. We don’t want to be a confidential computing company, we want to use the right tool for the job of building private & verifiable AI. If that becomes FHE in a few years, then we will use that. We are starting with easy-to-use inference, but our goal of having any AI application be provably private
by juhrjuhr | 2025-05-15 18:18:46+00:00
Hey, I'm the developer of the game in the blog post. What takes several milliseconds is the number of world queries that need to be made to detect blocking objects and also object proximity. This is why I went with a quad tree to try to speed that part of things up.

Once those queries have been made the actual search is very fast. The problem then is that those queries need to be made again due to the dynamic nature of the game world.
by standardUser | 2025-05-15 18:19:05+00:00
I'm paying $20/mo for an LLM service, which is more than I've paid for email, search, social media and hundred other online service combined. To me, at least, this will be a permanent monthly expense, like internet service or Netflix. And like Netflix, if an ad-supported version is released, I'll happily ignore it and pay the higher price. I just hope enough people are willing to do the same because I can picture the ad-supported-LLM-dystopia and it's terrifying.
by ryuhhnn | 2025-05-15 18:19:07+00:00
There are very good reasons for KYC, the problem here is not the government regulation, it's once again private companies being sloppy with their customer's data because sloppy is cheap and it's not their info on the line, it's yours, so there's little motivation for them to safeguard it _unless_ they're compelled to do it by law.
by OkGoDoIt | 2025-05-15 18:19:19+00:00
I feel like that’s the path San Francisco has been on. Over the last decade they’ve made it more and more painful to drive anywhere in the general downtown area. Market street and a few others are closed to cars, more and more streets don’t let you turn, many of the traffic lights have been replaced by insanely inefficient pedestrian-favoring traffic lights that seem hell-bent on making the traffic worse.

That being said, it takes me nearly an hour to take public transit between my home near Forest Hill and my office in the dogpatch whereas it takes 20-25 minutes to drive (plus an extra five minutes to park and walk from the parking lot to the office). This is not a long distance, on a map it looks like it should take me 10 minutes but San Francisco is so incredibly inefficient.

I would love to not own a car but it’s just not realistic. Also when going to Costco or when the weather is bad, public transit becomes a lot less of a fit as well. I got a bike, only to find out that you’re not allowed to bring bikes on the Muni train which is frustrating, and in the end means my commute isn’t any faster than not involving biking at all. I tried a scooter, and I got in an accident because apparently the brakes don’t work well in the rain, especially when there’s an intersection at the bottom of a hill, so I’m not doing that anymore. I guess they’re trying to make driving as bad as all of the other bad options. I wish instead we could make some good options.
by lxgr | 2025-05-15 18:19:31+00:00
The problem is that most humans aren't capable of remembering high-entropy passwords, and are even worse entropy sources.

Most password managers and passkey implementations solve that problem by either requiring additional entropy (such as 1Password's "secret key") and/or rate limiting retrieval attempts using some zero knowledge based PAKE server-side (i.e. you can only retrieve the encrypted database if you can prove knowledge of the password, and attempts are rate limited).

My project does neither, so unless your passphrase is very high entropy, this approach is not secure. (And if it is high entropy – where are you storing that in turn?)
by wepple | 2025-05-15 18:20:28+00:00
Problems: if the thief steals your item while the AirTag is on, they can find and disable it.

Have you experimented with a setup (more complicated to package) where you have two AirTags and alternately power one at a time? Could that bypass apples detection whilst also broadcasting location?

Edit: at sufficiently small time durations to run under apples detection radar, but for long enough to be picked up as a location

I don’t know how Apple detects the tracking; this would easily be solved by them.
by aseg | 2025-05-15 18:22:03+00:00
Happy to answer them!

1. Because we only have blackbox access to the LLM and the evaluation function might not be differentiable.

2. We're trying to search over the space of all programs in a programming language. To cover enough of this huge search space, we need to instantiate (1) a large number of programs in each population and (2) a large number of populations themselves (3) A large number of update steps for each population.

3. I have a couple of graphics motivating, conceptually, what an island/population looks like: https://trishullab.github.io/lasr-web/ . This whitesheet might also be useful: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01582

4. This is an interesting question. I believe so. However, my observations were derived from a non turing complete language (mathematical equations). There might be other ways of enforcing a succinctness pressure.
by re | 2025-05-15 18:22:04+00:00
> The 10-minute transition time will move before the hour instead of after the hour. Previously a one-hour class with an official start time of 9:00 a.m. would begin at 9:10 a.m. Under the new policy, class will begin at the official start time but end at 9:50 a.m.

https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2018-02-20/universi... / https://record.umich.edu/articles/university-updating-start-...

Sad.
by jfengel | 2025-05-15 18:22:28+00:00
I'm not sure what documentaries you're watching.

Natural sausage casings are specialty items. If you're buying it at the grocery store, it's probably collagen (closely related to gelatin).

And it's not "all the waste". It includes fatty cuts that people wouldn't want to eat whole, but it doesn't include organ meats outside of specialty items.

Perhaps people find meat-grinding distressing, though it's really not all that different from ground beef. The emulsified filling of hot dogs and bologna looks odd, but the ingredients are inoffensive.

I'm less disturbed by sausage-making than by the slaughter and prime butchering of animals. They're no less dead and dismembered if you're eating a steak or pot roast. I'd rather we at least make use of all of the other parts.
by vkou | 2025-05-15 18:23:01+00:00
If the case is as simple as you describe, surely there's more than one owner of the code that can approve this, if one guy is being unreasonable.

If there is actually only one owner that can approve changes to the package, there's something really weird and unusual about that project setup, or it's someone's internal hobby project that they wrote five years ago and semi-maintain, in which case, I have to wonder why you submitting one-liner changes to it is all that important.

We're all adults, we all work together, we can all work this out. If someone absolutely insists on being an asshole, escalate. It's why you have a manager, and why they have a manager.

My experience is that very few people are unreasonable assholes.

There's always plenty of organizational, vision, strategy, and execution problem in any billion-dollar company, but 'people are unreasonable in code reviews' is not one I'd put in the top 10. It might be something that ruins your day once or twice, but that doesn't make it systemic.
by donohoe | 2025-05-15 18:23:12+00:00
You didn't ask me, but I can say that Manhattan and Brooklyn both are great for kids. It does vary be neighborhood though and I can speak to Brooklyn the most. Overall great parks, good schools, lots of culture and things to do. Beaches accessible by subway etc.

If you are considering a move to NYC with young kids the real thing to look at are the public elementary schools and the zones for them. That should be the north star for choosing where to live unless your kids are older.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-05-15 18:23:24+00:00
> Some people have mobility issues and can't bike or walk but can drive.

People with mobility issues have every right to use motorized forms of transport. That could be cars or other smaller vehicles (like motorized wheelchairs).

However, we should recognize that the number of people with mobility issues in a society where everyone grows up walking and biking a lot is less than one in which everyone travels by car. There are two opposing feedback loops here. In car-society there is feedback towards more mobility issues which cases even more motorized transport. In a walk-society there is a feedback toward less mobility issues leading to less motorized transport.
by famouswaffles | 2025-05-15 18:23:32+00:00
You’re talking past the point I was making.

My point about Dracula isn't just that he's fictional, but that he cannot make decisions that have unscripted consequences in the real world, nor can he engage in a novel, interactive conversation. Dracula, as a character, only "acts" or "speaks" as an author (or game designer, etc.) has already written or programmed him to. He has no independent capacity to assess a new situation and generate a novel response that affects anything beyond his fictional context. If I "talk" to Dracula in a game, the game developers have pre-scripted his possible responses. The text of Dracula is immutable.

A LLM, by contrast, performs fresh inference every time it’s prompted: it weighs competing continuations and selects one. That selection is a bona-fide decision (a branch taken at run-time). The “document-simulator” picture collapses that distinction, treating a dynamic decision process as if it were a block of pre-written prose. It's just nonsensical.

Your SimCity example is open loop: the simulation runs, a human inspects the results, and then decides whether to publish new bus schedules. Nothing in the simulator is tasked with interrogating the human, updating its model of their intent, or steering the outcome. In production LLM systems the loop is often closed: the model (often with tool-wrapper code) directly drafts emails, modifies configs, triggers API calls, or at minimum interrogates the user (“What city are we talking about?”) before emitting an answer.

Your argument is tired and semantical because it fails at the most fundamental level - It's not even a good analogy.
by ljm | 2025-05-15 18:23:46+00:00
Even remotely I try to get the team to keep meetings short and sweet. If it has to go over 45 minutes I’d book two separate meetings with a 10 minute break in the middle.

Nothing worse than meetings that drag on, where everyone starts to lose focus, and where one or two vocal participants sidetrack it into a 1:1 conversation. Just get shit wrapped up and have your other conversations without demanding the time of people who don’t need to be involved.
by soraminazuki | 2025-05-15 18:23:46+00:00
> Not once have I hit any anonymous rate limit.

I have a really hard time believing you on this. There's visual evidence from a year ago and it's consistent with my experience. And no, I haven't been hammering their servers.

https://imgur.com/a/github-search-gated-behind-login-BT6uRIe

> “I could do more in the past!” So what?

So, I'll repeat what I said in the first comment that you replied to. GitHub captured the open source ecosystem under the premise that its code and issue tracker will remain open to all. Silently changing the deal afterwards is reprehensible.

> Instead of feeling entitled

Again, I'll just repeat yet another one of my comments. Microsoft didn't just give, they're benefitting massively from open source. And they're looking to extract even more value through data mining from forced logins and stealing GPL licensed code by laundering it using AI. Open source projects that chose GitHub didn't agree to this!

> be thankful for what you have

You can't be serious. Yeah, be grateful for the trillion dollar company buying a service it didn't create, extracting as much value as they can from it in questionable ways and tearing up social contract!
by Stratoscope | 2025-05-15 18:24:29+00:00
Saratoga, CA does something similar. The twisty part of Quito Road, between Bicknell Road and Pollard road, has a speed limit of 25 mph. But the sharper turns have advisory speed signs (the yellow diamond kind) with numbers like 17, 19, 21, and 22 mph to catch drivers' attention and get them to slow down on these turns.
by int_19h | 2025-05-15 18:24:31+00:00
For movies specifically, you don't even need VR with proper head tracking. A head-mounted display is sufficient; basically just a pair of screens in front of your eyes, without fancy (and heavy!) lenses etc. It's much lighter, and you get better image quality, too. And it "just works" with any device that can output video over HDMI or USB-C, with power delivered over the same cable in the latter case.
by schmichael | 2025-05-15 18:26:11+00:00
That’s perfect for finding out where someone lives. Drop it in their bag or jacket at a concert/bar/work/whatever-in-the-evening, and the place they’re likely at in 4 hours is their home.

Not trying to be creepy, I’m just trying to demonstrate how we all need to think like adversaries (eg creeps) when designing products.
by vector_spaces | 2025-05-15 18:26:40+00:00
This is a deceptively difficult problem. Food is incredibly messy -- grocery delivery is very far from being a solved problem even with a human in the loop. You have to deal with stockouts and sensible replacements, and driver/picker error, and quality variance. Quality variance is a huge issue in perishable categories and a major reason why foodtech is tremendously difficult (and fun, IMO).

Simple quality variance examples: banana ripeness. Or size of items that can only be ordered by each instead of by lb. Or one of the two onions you needed looking mostly fine on the outside but rotten on the inside.

As an experiment, try ordering all the ingredients to make a specific recipe several days in a row. You'll tend to hit an failure rate between 15-30%. That failure rate is usually fine if you're just restocking for home -- you can always pick up milk/sugar/whatever tomorrow -- but it's pretty awful if it means that something like 1 in 5 of your dinner plans are ruined or you have to leave your guests to rush to the store to pick up some missing ingredient

Also: the LLM will need to be aware of your home inventory, unless you're fine with it ordering lots ingredients you already have

So there's lots of hidden complexity here. If they turn this on, it will be a fun party trick that will work once in a while, but getting burned with ruined plans causes people to churn out fast.
by pompidoo | 2025-05-15 18:26:41+00:00
I understand your point. In this case the price point makes this a bearable risk, especially to protect much more valuable items. A refund is only useful if only a certain % of people have issue or the company is big. Since this is my only product, an Airtag update that bricks the devices would just bankrupt the company and make me unable to refund most people as my margin is very low anyway.
by philipkglass | 2025-05-15 18:26:47+00:00
The cost of energy generated from burning fossil fuels is dominated by the cost of the fuel itself; the power plant costs much less. Non-combustion energy is the opposite: fuel costs are tiny or zero, so the construction cost for the initial plant is much more important.

If you generate a terawatt hour of electricity with natural gas, most of the cost will be from the fuel. A nuclear plant will have a tiny fraction of the cost come from fuel for the same amount of energy. A solar farm will have none of the cost come from fuel.

If AI lowers construction costs, it will improve the relative economics of non-fossil energy compared to fossil energy. A natural gas plant constructed at half the cost will have its final energy cost decrease just a little whereas a half-as-expensive solar farm will have its final energy cost decrease nearly by half. Making clean energy cheaper than fossils means that it will out-compete dirty energy even in locations where there are no explicit policies to reduce CO2 emissions.

You can see the effects on pricing advantage with this interactive simulation of electricity supply in the United States. If you cut the overnight construction cost in half for all generating technologies, solar and wind dominate the country:

https://calculators.energy.utexas.edu/lcoe_map/#/county/tech

Some example modeling of gas/solar electricity economics in the United Kingdom here:

https://electrotechrevolution.substack.com/cp/160279905

Companies have already started using robotics and AI to construct solar farms faster and at lower cost:

https://www.aes.com/press-release/AES-Launches-First-AI-Enab...

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/27/leaptings-ai-powered-ro...

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/cool-solar-tech-w...
by the_snooze | 2025-05-15 18:26:55+00:00
Given the past 15+ years of enshittification in the web, e-commerce, mobile, social media, and streaming spaces, I'm not giving AI any benefit of the doubt. It may look like it's serving you today (which I already consider a stretch), but unless it maintains a consistent user-first posture for at least 15 years, I'm going to assume that any AI agent will soon end up working against the user's best interests to make money for its vendor.

Give me technology with an honest business model instead of the bait-and-switch nonsense that's everywhere in tech these days.
by Repose0941 | 2025-05-15 18:27:37+00:00
hmm... i have mixed opinions on this but in the caso of MIT for example, it can be good like the online course want to put on your plataform, the only problem is LLMs are not correct in multiple cases mainly when it's too deep into the subject, but when curated it can wprk

And copyright problem, i think people shouldput on the plataform instead of web-scraping like
by lostlogin | 2025-05-15 18:27:53+00:00
> seriously, there are like 10 stalkers worldwide

In the UK 1 in 7 has been stalked. Usually the victims are women or young people. The second link says that in the western world 2-15% of the population have been stalked.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10515444/
by genewitch | 2025-05-15 18:28:07+00:00
No i was referring only to the comments here. The share menu comes up real fast, there's no "delay", as soon as the menu with "share" goes away, the bottom slides up and the share panel appears, icons populated.

Is Slack also electron? a cursory search says discord is electron. Now, firefox lags to start, too - compared to edge, which is nearly instant to "launch". Brave is also <1second to launch. I don't use "notepad", but i just ran it, and while it's slower than the old notepad.exe, it's much faster than notepad++ to come up - but i generally launch that once and leave it running, same with firefox.

I don't use windows terminal, i use pwsh 7.5.x, and it's <1 second to be ready for input. the window comes up real fast, and then the text appears about that long again later. I launched cmd.exe and it came up perhaps a bit slower than pwsh, but not noticeably so.

this is what i am talking about, i don't notice anything slow on my computer, any of my computers, really. This leads me to believe that either the people who do experience slowness have a compromised system, or some other issue. 5400 RPM data/boot drive, only using electron apps (which are slow in general), or otherwise misconfigured.

I haven't used Ubuntu desktop since they tampered with the system menu/start menu, so i have no idea what that is like now. The server can be snappy, though - you just have to configure networking and the like correctly. I'm not a fan of systemd; that colors my opinion of a lot of linux systems. I use Gentoo and Devuan because they fully support OpenRC, which i consider vastly superior for my use cases. However, i do maintain a couple of ubuntu based OSes for neighbors on HP EliteDesk SFF computers, and they seem alright, 3-4x as fast as an rpi3/4 at ubuntu desktop, as far as launch lag and boot times and the like.

I think to put this to bed, we need to establish a baseline or at least a list of applications to launch while screen recording, and then literally count frames. It would be funny if this was all perception and it wasn't actually "slow", that is, "seconds to load" is actually like 2 seconds, and not 12...
by aseg | 2025-05-15 18:28:10+00:00
Assume you have data for Hooke's law (a spreadsheet with F, x, and other variables) and you want AlphaEvolve to give you the equation ``F = -C_1*x``.

Let's say the model hallucinates in two directions:

1. "There is a trigonometric relationship between variable F and x". It expresses this as ``F = -C_1*sin(x)``. You fit the constant C_1 w.r.t the dataset, execute the program, and your best fit has a high error. You can discard the program.

2. "There is an inverse linear relationship between variable F and x". Now it expresses this as ``F = -C_1*x``. You fit the constant C_1 w.r.t the dataset, execute the program, and your best fit has extremely low error. You now know for sure that you're on the right track.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-15 18:28:46+00:00
I cant tell if that is sarcasm or not. It was characterized by mass dysfunction and devolved into a dictatorship within 5 years, and 10 years of global war as France tried to fund populist mistakes by pillaging foreign countries, a million French deaths, and maybe 4 million foreign deaths, not to mention mass wounded, starvation, and hardship.
by sroussey | 2025-05-15 18:28:49+00:00
They don’t need to.

Under specific conditions, the client can communicate with malware already on device, save data locally for other software to pick up, or downright stream the decrypted software to a third party.

Most likely is to introduce a flaw in the client that can be used by other walware on the client.

Clearly no red team members on HN these days.