MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WillAdams | 2025-05-03 11:28:25+00:00
Elsethread, I suggested Nobel Prize Winners --- just start at the beginning, see what is in your local library which interests you, and skip over the authors who have ceased to be relevant enough to be in the stacks.

One notable highlight, which I'm pretty sure was the first work by a Nobel Laureate I read is Herman Hesse --- I'd recommend his _Magister Ludi_ (also published as _The Glass Bead Game_)
by maxchampoux | 2025-05-03 11:29:06+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m Maxime — a product builder and former Head of Product at Qonto (think Brex for Europe, ~$6B). I recently started something new called Well (https://wellapp.ai/), where we deploy autonomous agents (via remote browsers or Chrome extensions) to collect supplier invoices on behalf of founders. It saves a lot of brain cycles for busy operators.

Over the years, I've built many integrations — some with OAuth2, others via RPA when no official interfaces existed. But with this new generation of agents acting on behalf of users, I’m starting to wonder: are we heading into a collision course with web defenses not designed for this class of automation?

I’ll soon be releasing a fleet of agents operating across the web. Not bots scraping content — but personalized actors doing legitimate tasks for authenticated users. Yet they often trigger anti-bot systems or get blocked alongside actual bad actors. On the flip side, I worry about overwhelming sites that aren’t prepared.

So here’s my question: Is there an emerging standard or protocol (like robots.txt for crawlers) to handle this kind of agent-based usage? Something that lets site owners opt in, opt out, or at least signal expectations?

Would love to hear if anyone’s seen serious work or proposals around this — or if you're solving a similar problem in your vertical.

Thanks!
by JohnScolaro | 2025-05-03 11:29:08+00:00
Oh I can 100% see where all of that comes from too.

I think a lot of Brisbanes secret beauty is well hidden from people just visiting. The temperate rainforests, glasshouse mountains, some of the best beaches in the world all within an hours drive. The strange birds, the general attitude of the public. I think it's all quite nice. My only personal gripe is that I think it's far too hot in summer!

I'm also extremely biased though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Brisbane does have an awful lot of mediocrity too, but I'm still proud of it, and keen to show it off in 2032 with the Olympics!
by homebrewer | 2025-05-03 11:29:40+00:00
You're not supposed to use the runtime directly these days. jlink allows you to strip unnecessary things (like documentation for the runtime itself), extract only those parts of the runtime you need (though your project must use modules to support that), and then aggressively compress it all getting a pretty small package that runs on an empty OS with no dependencies other than libc. It's still a bunch of files, so for good user experience you would have to ship it as a container (or something like .exe or appimage), but it's really close to Go in terms of size.

https://www.baeldung.com/jlink
by AndrewStephens | 2025-05-03 11:30:18+00:00
I restarted my own blog in exactly the same way after getting frustrated with WordPress. The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing.

Over the years I have added to my solution with custom markdown, tagging, rss, and most lately exif-stripping. Technically the source is available [0] but I can’t see anyone else using it.

[0] https://github.com/andrewstephens75/gensite
by hunglee2 | 2025-05-03 11:31:01+00:00
US is descending into fascism - progressive and intentional degradation of state capacity, replaced by 'the leader issuing commands, which governing institutions rubber stamp, whilst for-profit corporations undertake the delivery of services in direct collusion with said leader.

We all need to study how the political economy of 1930/1940's Germany operated, it is not alarmism to say Trump 2.0 is directly tracking the model
by Thorrez | 2025-05-03 11:31:59+00:00
I work at Google and regularly bypass HTTPS certificate errors as part of my job for the purpose of developing servers. Either by clicking through the error, or with the "thisisunsafe" codeword, or with --ignore-certificate-errors . I pretty much only do this in incognito windows or alternate Chrome profiles, to avoid risk of leaking valid credentials.
by K0balt | 2025-05-03 11:32:10+00:00
Sure you can. It requires a responsible government to align incentives. There is no axiomatic problem for building enough housing. The problem is the housing-as-investment paradigm, which only works if there is a perpetual housing shortage to drive prices well above values. Housing-as-investment creates a vicious cycle of shortage and incentivized harms to society in the interest of driving prices of housing up via a lack of desirable options.

To have a decent society for our children in a growing country, housing cannot be an investment. The value of a house must generally track downward with the depreciation of its structure. You need to separate the cost of housing from the cost of land, and in cities at least, tax land in accordance with its utility, encouraging vertical development in high population density areas.
by namaria | 2025-05-03 11:32:21+00:00
> ... which is my point as well. You can no longer tell if your interlocutor is even human

I don't really think modern chatbots pass the Turing test. It's not that hard to figure it out.

> (NLP wasn't much of a money pit back in the 80s, I know that much. If it was, somebody else must've been getting all the money...)

No, the point is that it's become one now that LLMs make it seem like we finally got the NLP interfaces we've been dreaming about for decades.
by dmurray | 2025-05-03 11:32:32+00:00
My local club is full of (mostly older) players who play once a week for a few hours. They don't train outside of this, but they play with proper equipment, sometimes play leagues, sometimes play a few strokes well, and beat anyone who just plays casually, apart from the occasional excellent tennis player who can transfer just enough skills to be competitive. But they also make lots of unforced errors and don't have good technique on all strokes.

The robot looks like it would be competitive with most of those players. Maybe my club is uniquely weak.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-03 11:33:25+00:00
I think we're in agreement. My comment about the halting problem was meant to refer to Rice's theorem (the name was slipping my mind), which I occasionally see people use to justify the idea that you can't prove interesting facts about real-world programs. In practice, real-world programming involves constantly proving small, useful theorems. Your useful theorem (e.g. `Map[User,Seq[Account]] => Map[User,NetWorth]`) is probably not that interesting to even the category theorists, but that's fine, and there's plenty you can learn from the theorists about how to factor the proof well (e.g. as _.map(_.map(_.balance).sum)).
by WillAdams | 2025-05-03 11:33:33+00:00
Interesting, I have a facsimile version of the first edition of _Roget's Thesaurus_ which orders concepts numerically, and I always wished for a reference list to match.

Agree modern indexing is great for researching terminology, and wish it could be more easily extended to concepts, but not sure modern Large Language Models with their compression/hallucinations/outright-errors are workable yet.
by ostwilkens | 2025-05-03 11:37:32+00:00
>The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing.

Yes! I find the easiest way for me is to just open a new tab in my code editor and typing.

Exif is a real gotcha. I'm planning to compress images anyway, so this could be done in the same step.
by Moto7451 | 2025-05-03 11:38:09+00:00
Heat pipes have a vacuum so phase change happens at lower temperatures than normal Earth atmosphere. This essentially is how you do what you’ve proposed without having the CPU makers change their designs to run hotter. If you boil water at low pressure and 30C you have the same net effect as boiling itself uses huge amounts of heat energy compared to raising the temperature of water one degree. This is the same energy at any temperature level.

On flexibility I think it’s just that vacuum and the wicking structure that limits the materials. I’m not a material science expert by any means but I have to imagine someone has worked on this.
by dendodge | 2025-05-03 11:38:22+00:00
Off-topic, but since you mention it, I've always been confused about what Americans always seem to be doing at the DMV. It seems to be a staple of pop culture that people are always there and the queue is always very long, but I've never known what anyone is actually trying to achieve.

The DVLA in the UK doesn't have a high-street presence. I took my driving test once, then received my driving licence in the post. When it needs renewing, I can do it online. I tax my car online. MOTs (annual vehicle safety tests) happen at any local garage. I've never needed a new numberplate, but I think you can buy those online too.

So what is it you all have to go to the DMV for? Because it sounds horrible.
by abhisek | 2025-05-03 11:38:29+00:00
I would really think it depends on use-case. If you are tired of Wordpress bloat and want something simpler you can probably build a markdown server over a directory with a very very minimal template. I remember Renato used to do that for docs, just serve a website on top of a dir containing markdown files.

But as you invest time and effort, get more readers and asks from your readers, your need for features even for a simple blog will increase. At least basic conversation around content. You will probably end up using Discuss or decide to make your simple blog much more complex by introducing a database (or may even be just flat files on S3).

At some point you will either focus on only "writing" and sharing ideas in which case a simple publishing infra is good. If you want more, you will probably end up building a Jekyll, Hugo etc. from scratch or better adopt and contribute to one of these :)
by bondarchuk | 2025-05-03 11:38:29+00:00
> As such impossible to the extent that our experiences are not compatible with those of an intelligence that does not put emphasis on lived context trying to substitute for it with offline batch learning.

Conversely that means empathy is possible to the extent that our experiences are compatible with those of an AI. That is precisely what's under consideration here and you have not shown that it is zero.

an intelligence that does not put emphasis on lived context trying to substitute for it with offline batch learning.

Will change your tune when online learning comes along?
by keyringlight | 2025-05-03 11:40:20+00:00
One of the things that strikes me about 24 is that it started running about 2 months after the 9/11 attacks. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a debate about running it or edits, but in retrospect it does seem like the timing worked and fit with the public mood of the time. What would be interesting is how 9/11 and following real life events influenced the show's writing in later series.
by barotalomey | 2025-05-03 11:40:42+00:00
Sure, I get that. But the term gained popularity in 2012 it seems, according to google trends.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=SJW&hl=e...

And there's a entry from 2011 in urbandictionary.com, so maybe that's around when it was coined.
by tomhow | 2025-05-03 11:40:54+00:00
> everyone is so hung up on technicalities and ignoring the reality of the world right now

HN is not ignoring the reality of the world right now. There are heavily voted/commented stories about U.S. politics all the time here.

Sentiment here is overwhelmingly against the U.S. administration, which is is probably why there are more anti-administration comments to moderate. Still, I’ve written in response to comments from the other side of the spectrum in the past couple of hours and several times in recent days.

But we never moderate in favour of a side or specific agenda. We moderate the comments that are flagged, clearly bad, or pointed out to us for being against the guidelines.

The topic of bias has been covered here for years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by Zak | 2025-05-03 11:41:49+00:00
A federal court has ordered Philip Moris USA & R.J. Reynolds Tobacco to state: Smoking cigarettes causes numerous diseases and on average 1,200 American deaths every day.

Freedom of speech does not prevent courts from ordering defendants to say or not say specific things to make up for their past illegal behavior. In this case, the court initially allowed Apple a little flexibility around steering, which Apple misused to make web purchases sound "scary". The penalty for that is the loss of that flexibility.
by canterburry | 2025-05-03 11:41:49+00:00
The reasons we suffer these accountability challenges are often rooted in that anyone holding someone else accountable, may experience negative consequences to self...and those are often estimated as too high to do "the right thing".

If the governing part at the time of the Nazi trials actually held each and every person involved accountable, would they win the next election?

If a company holds their employees to the actual standards laid out by their policies or guidelines, what would attrition look like? Would they immediately be short staffed critial roles? Would they loose a key employee at a very inconventient time?

These are the real reasons preventing us from holding people accountable.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-03 11:44:14+00:00
Doesn’t the British government and/or Australian government own Bluey?

What capital is there to own? Maybe Ludo Studios negotiated a piece of the pie for themselves, but I doubt it is much in the grand scheme of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluey_(TV_series)

> It was commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation, with BBC Studios holding global distribution and merchandising rights.
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-03 11:45:01+00:00
True. Habits also play an unconscious role and tradition a conscious one. To demonstrate the former: bellow two studies on cats exposed pre, peri and post natal with a specific aroma. From the first abstract:

> We conclude that long-term chemosensory and dietary preferences of cats are influenced by prenatal and early (nursing) postnatal experience, supporting a natural and biologically relevant mechanism for the safe transmission of diet from mother to young.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232700921_Prenatal_...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40452868_Effects_of...

I'll add that habits and taste can change later in the life voluntary or involuntary: There's plenty of people that "learn" to like something they didn't in their youth for many reason: new cultural environment, health, curiosity...
by zamadatix | 2025-05-03 11:46:01+00:00
I agree there can be very legitimate reasons for personally not wanting to use AI. At the same time, I'm not sure I find either of those questions to be related to particularly convincing reasons.

Teaching a program how to do your job has been part of the hacker mindset for many decades now, I don't think there is anything new to be said as to why. Anyone here reading this on the internet has long since decided they are fine preferring technical automations over preserving traditional ways of completing work.

LLMs don't inherently imply anything about privacy handling, the service you select does (if you aren't just opting to self host in the first place). On the hosted service side there's anything from "free and sucks up everything" to "business data governance contracts about what data can be used how".
by SebastianTrygg | 2025-05-03 11:46:15+00:00
Email is one out of the many channels pitchers and investors are communicating through today. While there is some summarizing involved in the process that's not the product. Pitchportal learns what the investor is interested in din and not.

Could an email company create an alternative to pitchportal, sure they could but they wouldn't create a solution for every single motive for communication. They wouldn't create a competitor to Instagram because people are sending photos via email.

What gives pitchportal a moat is that for every minute an investor is using pitchportal, it is getting way better at predicting intrest. Down the line if there's a competitor, they wouldn't have the data that we have collected.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-03 11:47:47+00:00
When you get good at math, it also feels like language. Mathematicians see expressions like `|x-y|` and the read it as synonymous with "distance" just as they would "distancia". Physicists pick out fragments of large equations and say "this term acts sort of like an 'effective' mass", etc. There is a sort of vocabulary to mathematical patterns.

Picking up a skill without intentional study is great, but you still learned the skill. Programming languages are formal languages. Most mathematicians don't study foundations either.

Professional programming doesn't often make use of specific advanced mathematical knowledge, but I find it makes everyday use of the skills.
by melvinmelih | 2025-05-03 11:48:01+00:00
According to Dutch law, you lose your Dutch citizenship if you accept another nationality. The Dutch embassies (who are responsible for renewing Dutch passports abroad) are well aware of this law and have processes in place to refuse a passport renewal if you can’t provide proof of temporary residence in the country you reside in. The local institutions however, don’t have these processes in place and are generally not aware of this law because it only happens to a tiny little percentage of the population. And nobody updates the national registry with your new nationality because that’s the responsibility of local municipalities, not the Department of Foreign Affairs. So if you decide to simply renew your passport in the Netherlands instead of abroad, they’ll just give you a new passport because you’re still registered as a Dutch citizen at the local level and they don’t have a process in place to check your foreign nationality.

Don’t ask me how I know :) It is one of the few accountability sinks that doesn’t affect me negatively.
by voytec | 2025-05-03 11:48:20+00:00
And yet, you can see the "Straƶ Miejska" logotype linked in my comment above, with a crown on the eagle, so post-December 31, 1989[0].

It may depend on the region (I was raised in the eastern Poland) but I also remember that in the primary school we used a different symbol for the letter "s". But only in hand-writing while any printed "s" looked like it does currently. I'm unable to find the UTF-8 character resembling the hand-written version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Poland#
by dmos62 | 2025-05-03 11:48:22+00:00
My take on skills related to programming is that it's a dance between writing skills and working memory. I've measurably bad working memory, which had led to compensation with writing skills, which led to a programming style that's fairly disciplined and focused on "wholesome" readability. A downside is that I still struggle interacting with code that's written by the working-memory-oriented programmers.

I've recently taken up a daily practice to improve my cognitive skills. Currently I'm using NeuroNation, and it is quite great. The stimulus to start the practice was getting my memory tested (clinically) and learning that it's below norm.
by john-h-k | 2025-05-03 11:49:36+00:00
Has anyone here actually read the paper? Heavily clickbait headline, completely exaggerating the study results, which themselves are not very rigorous (to be generous)

Tiny sample size - 36 people completed

Numeracy has R^2 = .27 Language has R^2 = .31

They then run stepwise regression to determine variance contributions, seemingly ignoring their earlier results, and this leads to almost no contribution from numeracy. Why? Because they have ~10% shared variance and stepwise regression is greedy - will just take whatever you give it first.

I can't mention this part enough. If you got a second, very similar language test, and added it to the model, you would _also_ find it has almost no unique variance added.

Every thing they measure is incredibly noisy and they do not once attempt to deal with this. Human based reviewers, time-to-completion, etc.

p-value for "language learning is more significant than numeracy" on the values they give (Steiger test) gives 0.772. Utterly insignificant.

Also, to beat the point home, just think about the argument here: * Numeracy contributes 27% of variance

* Language skills contribute 31% of variance

* After regression step, numeracy contributes only 2% of unique variance. Because you added a correlated variable!
by PostOnce | 2025-05-03 11:49:57+00:00
If I refuse to make it available (commercially or otherwise)? Absolutely. Copyright exists to incentivize production and distribution.

I can see it argued that, being less critical than medicine, perhaps a book or software could be "out of print" for longer than medicine being out of production before the copyright protection ceases, but ultimately the only reason we have copyright to begin with is too encourage people to create and make available.

So yes, by all means. Make orphaned and out of production works publicly available.
by _the_inflator | 2025-05-03 11:50:13+00:00
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by bluedino | 2025-05-03 11:51:07+00:00
We have kiosks at grocery stores etc where we can get renew documents and print new license tabs etc, you can also do most things online and receive your new documents in the mail.

You really only need to go there for driving tests (for teenagers or immigrants), completing private vehicle sales, and other odds and ends

What I always found interesting is going there and people arguing with the workers about not having proof of insurance or a clear title etc.
by renzze | 2025-05-03 11:51:17+00:00
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