MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jorvi | 2025-05-29 12:41:02+00:00
You should read 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neal Postman. It's painful how apt it is for current times.

For what it's worth, I've started to reintroduce friction in my life where it makes sense. My phone defaults to a "dumbphone" profile that only has messaging, music, maps, etc. and specifically no browser or YouTube.

I only turn on my smart lights with wall buttons and use the smart function purely to tune the white point.

I try to pay by physical card instead of Apple / Google Wallet. Although I do store membership cards that I use once in a blue moon there.

eReader is fine IMO. Weekend newspaper subscription is really nice but can feel expensive if you have limited income.

Another good one is familiarizing yourself in the neighborhood. Get a regular coffee spot or pub or lunch place.

These are only examples of course. I basically feel like hitting the late 1990s - early 2000s 'level' of ease and socialization in your life is the optimal point.

Your brain will fight it every step of the way, but one can tear oneself out of their bubble of surplus comfort. Good luck.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-05-29 12:41:06+00:00
I am so into this philosophy. My web site is an expression of me and no-one else. If someone tells me it looks ugly or non-professional (I have heard both, although my site is not so weird as this one) I can tell them that I like it that way.

We need more of this kind of non-conformity on the web - and in general.
by pfdietz | 2025-05-29 12:41:19+00:00
Xenon is so expensive it's reasonable to think about recovering it from spent nuclear reactor fuel (it's a major fission product with no long lived isotopes, although you have to very rigorously separate it from krypton, which does have some.)

Xenon isn't inert; it can form chemical compounds like xenon difluoride. In the body it's probably dissolving into cell membranes or other fatty components.
by sumtechguy | 2025-05-29 12:41:53+00:00
Basically if you serve information or content. AI or even just some smart coding google can do that too. If you do something with that information Google has not been doing so good at that.

Microsoft in the early 2000s did that very well. They would let you have the data but would gobble up any company that could transform data and make it their own.

But data without applications is useless. Applications without data is also useless.

The applications let us make decisions with our data. Now can AI replace that? Probably in many cases. If it ican then google can just spit out the answer you want.

However, by doing that google may be eating its own lunch. As that ad empire depends on thousands of websites serving up their ad's. If those sites do not exist then what are the ads worth? It was this serving of information/content that drew everyone in. With that scrape of getting ad revenue. Google now can scrape your content and show it above the fold. What reason do you have to make a content farm? But then where does google get the data? They are killing the chicken and the egg at the same time.
by bzzzt | 2025-05-29 12:42:01+00:00
I didn't have to be '4K', it just should be sharp - Apple was right in 2012 with the 'retina' concept. TV manufacturers doubled the resolution and those panels trickled down to PCs. Games and movies don't need that resolution, but it helps text readability tremendously. And as a bonus you can skip all that 'cleartype' nonsense and other readability hacks that often don't work right.
by zigglezaggle | 2025-05-29 12:42:22+00:00
Community driven RLHF, probably

By leaving this comment you've let the model know it's not sly. Down votes and flags / removals will do the same. Eventually it'll be sold as an auto-astroturf model ("50% fewer spam removals than the competition").

Or maybe it's just someone who gets a kick out of seeing how their prompt performs.
by Festro | 2025-05-29 12:42:34+00:00
Jenrick is getting into clickbait viral video crap is he?

Let's look at the content sensibly then:

Selective argument: There are 8.9 million people in London. 3.23 million people use the Underground each day. The majority pay fares. Catching all those that don't would cost the taxpayer an incredible sum.

Ignoring staff safety: Jenrick singles out staff for ignoring fare dodgers without asking if that's within their job role, or if they have training, or if it's safe for any given transport staff member to confront a fare dodger at the time of the fare being dodged.

Root cause: Jenrick makes no statements about why fare dodging occurs, other than a vague hand wave at 'societal issues'. Fare dodging is typically a behaviour that arises when segments of society can't afford or access the system being imposed on them. London is one of the most expensive places in the UK to exist in, and still relies on people earning minimum wage and even working less than fulltime to work there. Rising living costs, during Conservative tenure, his tenure, could be mentioned as factors behind any supposed rise in fare dodging.

Unwarranted generalisations: Then he lists other things he thinks are bad and down to his supposed 'societal issues' with no evidence or connection to make extra hand-waving associations between them all. Including...

Massive racism: with the "weird Turkish barbers" comment.

Jenrick is a callous right-wing loon who can't take responsibility for his own part in making it harder for people to live peacefully and economically in the UK. It's hugely hypocritical of him to leave government and then turn around and point out instances of people behaving this way when he helped make an environment that encourages it.
by brookst | 2025-05-29 12:42:45+00:00
I don’t get this take at all.

The current administration uses bad faith claims of censorship to bully companies into advantaging speech they like (anti-science, anti-trans, anti-democracy, etc). They haven’t shown any interest in actual freedom of speech.

And OP’s use of “censorship” is pretty disingenuous; there is no claim that any free speech topic is in the table. No viewpoint is suppressed because no viewpoint is asserted.

It’s simple commercial lead gen. Google might be engaging in anticompetitive behavior, but this administration is very much a “might makes right” operation, and it’s hard to imagine them siding with a small player with no conservative bona fides and presumably no money to pay to play.

The only way I could imagine OP getting any relief would be to go full MAGA, list a bunch of travel options for hunting gays or whatever, donate at least a million dollars to Trump’s personal coffers, and then tell and scream about oppression of conservatives.

A simple “Walmart thanks suppliers for the market information but will only sell store brand products” case seems incredibly unlikely to get any traction at all.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-05-29 12:43:11+00:00
That’s not at all how it would work.

The cat is out of the bag in terms of people passing around models that are “illegal” in your scenario, though such models would disappear from places like Huggingface. Running a commercial service that touches one of those models is off the table and will be blocked, at the IP level if need be, in essentially all the countries that matter economically to Chinese “exporters”.
by itake | 2025-05-29 12:43:20+00:00
As others have touched on, the legality of workers rights is very complex.

Companies don't want to learn and create the proper legal structures and compliance practices just to hire 1-2 people in that country.

Foreign countries have different holidays, worker protections, parental leave, taxes, etc. that companies just don't want to deal with. Some countries make it a huge mess paying someone in equity/options (see China).
by sixtram | 2025-05-29 12:43:53+00:00
I'm just wondering, if AI replaces programmers, will our super AI also fix all the slowness and bugs in current software?

I saw an Anthropic Claude guy talk about how AI will replace most programmers within 2-3 years, but definitely by the end of this decade. I suppose an additional data center of AI agents could also fix all known bugs.
by spmurrayzzz | 2025-05-29 12:45:09+00:00
I've always found it fascinating how frequently I've seen the complaint about Go re: boilerplate and unnecessary toil, but in previous statements Rust was uttered with an uncritical breath. I agree with the complaint about Go, but I have the same problem with Rust. LLMs have made Rust much more joyful for me to write, and I am sure much of this is obviously subjective.

I do like automating all the endless `Result<T, E>` plumbing, `?` operator chains, custom error enums, and `From` conversions. Manual trait impls for simple wrappers like `Deref`, `AsRef`, `Display`, etc. 90% of this is structural too, so it feels like busy work. You know exactly what to write, but the compiler can't/won’t do it for you. The LLM fills that gap pretty well a significant percentage of the time.

But to your original point, the LLM is very good at autocompleting this type of code zero-shot. I just don't think it speaks ill of Rust as a consequence.
by Aldipower | 2025-05-29 12:45:18+00:00
Thanks, that wants me to use AI even less.

Both examples has nothing to do with an open and free internet. Meaning I cannot trust AI at all. All those examples of data source here, also in the other replies, using mainly highly biased sources. Wikipedia (biased by a small group of mods), YouTube filtered by Google itself, pasting customer travel advice email heavily violates GDPR, social forums also funneled.

If we loose organic sites, we loose freedom. Fair enough, organic sites does mean the information there is correct, but still it is open and free, so organic sites can be treated as Gaussian distributed.
by CobaltFire | 2025-05-29 12:45:25+00:00
Update a couple of days later in case someone comes upon this:

I emailed tcook@apple.com and the Executive Relations team reached out to me. I was able to provide everything they asked for and they handled getting my account unlocked. They told me to go ahead and reorder the Studio the same way I did, as I had a window where their automated system wouldn't be involved for my account. I did so and am now REALLY hoping that my account doesnt get locked again!
by InTheArena | 2025-05-29 12:45:34+00:00
Fantastic. Andor recently passed Expanse,Galactica and Babylon 5 as my favorite SF series. The way I describe it is what we should have gotten in the prequels. As a kid I always imagined that the prequels would be the fall of Rome. What we got instead was a reflection of George Lucas’s monetization of Star Wars - purple lightsabers, yippee and Jar Jar.

There was no way to “earn” the payoff with Vader so they masked it over with massacring children and one of the worst romance screen in (then nascent) digital film history.

At the end of Andor, nothing felt unearned. For film folks there were jaw dropping moments, and for history geeks, gasp out loud moments (my favorite being half-track and Wannasee callbacks in not so subtle Star Wars allegory).

Andor is good enough that it makes its sequels better:

https://youtu.be/qzny45Zk05c?si=0fMi8YKgHOPfKV62
by hnhg | 2025-05-29 12:46:01+00:00
> they have gone to university, the only place where bad ideas can survive and be propogated out into the world

Let's not leave out think-tanks and orgs like the WEF that seem to exist only to launder the opinions of billionaires. And mainstream news publications like the New York Times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

While I don't disagree with many of your points, we shouldn't kid ourselves that we live in the best of all possible worlds for most working or middle class people.
DietPi released a new version v9.13
by StephanStS | 2025-05-29 12:46:03+00:00
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.13 on May 25th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are: DietPi default passwords: Default password 'dietpi' must not be used any more for security reasons and has to be changed Orange Pi 3B: Added support for the PWM fan Radxa ZERO 3: Upgrade to Linux 6.1 based vendor kernel Virtual Machines: Future VM images will use initramfs-tools instead of tiny-initramfs DietPi-Config: Simplified keyboard layout dialog Gitea: Now enabled also for RISC-V systems Google AIY, Mycroft AI: Removed deprecated software packages Fixes for ASUS Tinker Board 2, Orange Pi 3B v1.1, Orange Pi Zero 3/2W, DietPi-Imager, DietPi-Display, RPi.GPIO, fish, Home Assistant, Redis The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_13/
by flenserboy | 2025-05-29 12:46:30+00:00
it's not a right, but it shouldn't be impeded. google does everything it can not to give actual search results — the terrible AI slop at the top, page after page of ads, & the elimination of the long tail, where reality was once allowed to surface. now we get hallucinations & paid content. treating this as if it is an improvement sounds crazed.
by neogodless | 2025-05-29 12:47:44+00:00
And the original linked article actually links at the bottom

> Taylor Troesh is mayor of taylor.town, author of scrapscript, and connoisseur of crap.

And on taylor.town is a link to the magazine article which they contributed.

Each of the blog screenshots has a caption like this:

> taylor.town in 202x
by bubblyworld | 2025-05-29 12:47:47+00:00
That's fair, I've run into a lot of misconceptions like that before. And probably believed some of them at earlier points in my life =P

(Roger Penrose himself makes a version of that claim in "the Emperor's New Mind", so we're in good company...)

About the bcrypt thing... yeah, so one way you can do it is write a program that generates all possible keys starting with the letter 'a', and tests them. Then you run your halting oracle on that, and if it returns true you know the first letter of the key is 'a'.

Do this for each index/letter combination and you can crack bcrypt keys in linear time (in the number of calls to your halting oracle).
by throw10920 | 2025-05-29 12:49:48+00:00
That's not actually a bad thing.

Separate from the morality of the issue (which is clearly that you can't take things you didn't pay for), if such a law is passed, then either the US will actually develop a model that allows AI companies to properly buy training data from people, or China will excel in AI specifically, which doesn't guarantee much of anything at this point. If and when AI turns out to have meaningful geopolitical implications, then the US will revisit that situation, if needed (which is unlikely - companies will push for there to be a way for them to buy data).
by airesearcher | 2025-05-29 12:50:44+00:00
This paper constructs a formal deductive argument for the necessity of a processing modality that transcends standard Turing-equivalent computation—termed herein “Transputation”—for any system capable of achieving “perfect self-awareness,” which we rigorously define as the foundational characteristic of sentience. The argument begins by establishing formal definitions for standard computational systems (SC) and the criteria for “perfect self-containment” (PSC)—a complete, consistent, non-lossy, and simultaneous internal representation of a system’s own entire information state. Drawing upon foundational principles of computability theory (e.g., the Halting Problem) and paradoxes of self-reference, we demonstrate Theorem 1: Standard computational systems (SC) are inherently incapable of achieving PSC.

We then introduce Postulate 1: Perfect self-awareness (PSA), characterized by direct, unmediated, and complete awareness of awareness itself, exists as a realizable phenomenon (supported by introspective and contemplative evidence) and necessitates PSC. The conjunction of Theorem 1 and Postulate 1 leads to Theorem 2: Sentience (defined as PSA) cannot be realized by SC. This necessitates the existence of “Transputation” (PT), formally defined as the class of information processing capable of enabling PSC. Theorem 3 thus establishes PT’s existence.

The paper subsequently investigates the necessary characteristics of any underlying substrate or principle that could ground Transputation’s unique ability to support PSC without succumbing to computational paradoxes. We argue that to avoid infinite regress and provide a coherent foundation, such a ground must itself be intrinsically self-referential and unconditioned. We provisionally term this fundamental ontological ground “Alpha (A)” and its exhaustive expression as a field of all potentiality (including non-computable structures) “Potentiality Field (E / The Transiad)”.

This framework offers a novel perspective on the “hard problem” of consciousness, proposing that qualia and the ultimate “knower” are not properties of the computational substrate alone but are functions of Alpha (A) knowing the transputationally-enabled, sentient system via E. The traditional search for these phenomena solely within the substrate is identified as a category error.

Finally, we propose a multi-dimensional framework (“depth” and “scope”) for characterizing the spectrum of conscious information processing complexity, distinguishing this from the specific achievement of sentience.
by bgwalter | 2025-05-29 12:51:02+00:00
He says that when he was invited to Google to discuss the matter, they said:

And Google gave us a clear and unequivocal apology. Google said our sites didn’t deserve our shadowbans, and that it wasn’t our fault.

Whether Google itself used the term "shadowban" or not, they clearly acknowledged the drastic effect of their algorithms that favor "AI". So we know what he means.
by randunel | 2025-05-29 12:52:00+00:00
I have two children roughly OP's age, they couldn't possibly be more different in terms of motricity, senses, intelligence, etc. Polar opposites.

My first said her first words at 9 months old, "ba" for ball, bath, and 2-3 more meanings, and made a repeated sound pointing towards the object of interest, sound which cannot be described in words. Before the age of 1 we had amassed over 50 words, most up to 3 syllables, a handful had more. Same for walking, fine motricity, etc. She reads at 5 years old.

My second only started saying single syllable words at 1y10m, started walking similarly later, and isn't able to do at 1y10m most things that my first was already able to do before being 1yo, so the delay between them is higher than 100%, more than double.

Same family, same teaching style, etc, only 3 years apart.

The ability to teach your child to do something depends almost entirely on the child, your teaching abilities don't seem to matter much, they simply copy you. All that matters is that you are present and offer them the attention they need.
by throw10920 | 2025-05-29 12:52:58+00:00
This is emotionally manipulative and fallacious. That's an invalid use of "virtue signaling" that also fails to refute the argument, and intentionally conflates the positive and the normative to push an agenda.

Saying "I refuse to acknowledge the reality of the situation and will just continue saying that we need to do the 'right' thing" like it's a bad thing is also implying that morals don't matter.

People who don't have morals don't belong in society.
by jasode | 2025-05-29 12:53:27+00:00
>, pasting customer travel advice email heavily violates GDPR

Not seeing how pasting text with no personal identity information would violate GDPR.

E.g. someone sends an email saying "For your career prospects, I think you should learn Rust instead of COBOL."

Copy&pasting that into AI or an AI scanning that sentence with no identity information isn't going to violate GDPR. There's no personal data to violate. (If the AI companies deliberately want to ignore privacy laws and want to secretly attach personal data to that "Rust/COBOL" sentence, then yes, that violates GDPR.)

EDIT reply to : >or the AI autoscans the customer's email inbox

That auto-scan scenario still doesn't require the AI to save the personal identifiers attached to text fragments. Many ways to do that without violating GDPR. Consider how today's global spam filters "auto scan" customers' incoming emails to automatically categorize some of them for the customers' "Junk folder" without any intervention or violation of GDPR.
Show HN: I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory
by saleban1031 | 2025-05-29 12:54:01+00:00
While building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, I was frustrated by my vector database consuming 8GB RAM just to search my own PDFs. After incurring $150 in cloud costs, I had an unconventional idea: what if I encoded my documents into video frames?

The concept sounded absurd—storing text in video? But modern video codecs have been optimized for compression over decades. So, I converted text into QR codes, then encoded those as video frames, letting H.264/H.265 handle the compression.

The results were surprising. 10,000 PDFs compressed down to a 1.4GB video file. Search latency was around 900ms compared to Pinecone’s 820ms—about 10% slower. However, RAM usage dropped from over 8GB to just 200MB, and it operates entirely offline without API keys or monthly fees.

Technically, each document chunk is encoded into QR codes, which become video frames. Video compression handles redundancy between similar documents effectively. Search works by decoding relevant frame ranges based on a lightweight index.

You get a vector database that’s just a video file you can copy anywhere.

GitHub: https://github.com/Olow304/memvid
by Ukv | 2025-05-29 12:54:22+00:00
> If I make the input system large enough then you don't have enough space in your decider to save all the states

We have cycle detection algorithms that don't require saving all states and work in the same big-O space complexity (constant factor overhead) as just running the input system normally without cycle detection.

To my understanding that means that, for any input system that runs in finite-but-unbounded space, the detector will determine whether it halts in finite-but-unbounded space - unless I am misunderstanding that term.
by Barrin92 | 2025-05-29 12:54:39+00:00
The alleged economic incentive suggested in the article, that Google wants to deal with "established big players" is literally nonsensical, something that the article itself arrives at, weirdly enough.

"But we later realized the shadowban really was about the type of website we are (i.e., small and independent). While Google gives large publishers an appeal and recovery process, small and independent publishers have no path to appeal our shadowbans.[...]"

That's not an indication of Google liking big players, it's the opposite. Big players have leverage against Google, you the small publisher do not, as you correctly identified in the case of reddit:

"[...]Unlike independent publishers, though, Reddit actually had leverage over Google. Reddit was the owner of a trove of historical user generated content that Google wanted for its grand AI plans. If Google could secure a deal for Reddit’s content, maybe that would spare Google the expense of negotiating licensing deals with the web’s many disparate publishers and rightsholders."

Google doesn't need to negotiate with you, they can kill independent publishers, which is why you're writing this blogpost. That's the entire logic of the internet platform economy. Kill traditional distributors, abuse atomized content creators. Youtube and Google hate publishers as much as Uber hates taxi companies and unions.

Which is why the literal reason given by Google is much more likely, they just don't think your content is good.