MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-05-20 10:49:35+00:00
Has "I'm going to give you a large sum of money and I need you to distribute it to several other destinations/accounts/recipients" ever not been a scam?

I don't need to understand who the other person is. I know they're a scammer because they are hitting me with a scam proposition.

RE: mixers, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It's hard to describe a mixer as something other than a money laundering tool. By using mixers, you're putting yourself alongside money launderers, and it should be no surprise if the authorities assume you are complicit.

There's a simple approach that fixes every one of the problems you raise: stay the fuck away from crypto
by Closi | 2025-05-20 10:50:48+00:00
I think AI is a useful term which usually means a neural network architecture but without specifying the exact architecture.

I think Machine Learning doesn't mean this as a word, as it can also refer to linear regression, non-linear optimisation, decision trees, bayesian networks etc.

That's not saying that AI isn't abused as a term - but I do think a more general term to describe the latest 5 years advancements in neural networks to solve problems is useful. Particularly as it's not obvious which model architectures would apply to which fields without more work (or even if novel architectures will be required for frontier science applications).
by diggan | 2025-05-20 10:51:25+00:00
I have a similar setup, and also use lots of addresses at one domain. But I'm not subscribed (as far as I know) and I can do a wildcard search at my domain without issues, and also see exactly what emails been leaked. I don't see what leaks they're part of, but that feels less relevant, I already know where it got leaked as each email is for one product/project/company.
by robertknight | 2025-05-20 10:52:15+00:00
> Does Hypothes.is have a self-hosting option? https://web.hypothes.is/sales/

The code for both the client and server are open source (https://github.com/hypothesis/h) so this is possible. The server is designed to support the needs of large scale deployments, so this does come with some complexity compared to a system you would design for smaller scale usage.

The text on https://web.hypothes.is/ mostly targets schools and universities, because Hypothesis pays for itself by selling integrations with online learning platforms (Canvas, D2L, Blackboard etc.) and associated support.
by mg | 2025-05-20 10:52:38+00:00
The brain uses 20% of the human body's energy.

I wouldn't be surprised if mankind will evolve similar to an organism and use 20% of all energy it produces on AI. Which is about 10x of what we use for software at the moment.

But then more AI also means more physical activity. When robots drive cars, we will have more cars driving around. When robots build houses, we will have more houses being built, etc. So energy usage will probably go up exponentially.

At the moment, the sun sends more energy to earth in an hour than humans use in a year. So the sun alone will be able to power this for the foreseeable future.
by WalterGR | 2025-05-20 10:53:14+00:00
That’s usually referred to as the Sapir-Whorf or Whorf-Sapir hypothesis. See “Linguistic relativity” on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity . Try the search bar located (non-obviously) at the bottom of HN pages to see what people here think about it.

Edit: Actually, there aren’t many submissions about the subject and I forgot that you can only view search results for comments in Date order and not Popularity order. (For the obvious reason that you can’t see the score of comments.) Googling gives results that may be satisfying:

site:news.ycombinator.com Sapir whorf hypothesis
by StrandedKitty | 2025-05-20 10:53:42+00:00
> Follow-up analysis of the first experimental results revealed a marked positional bias with LLMs tending to prefer the candidate appearing first in the prompt

Wow, this is unexpected. I remember reading another article about some similar research -- giving an LLM two options and asking it to choose the best one. In their tests LLM showed clear recency bias (i.e. on average the 2nd option was preferred over the 1st).
by verisimi | 2025-05-20 10:53:47+00:00
Do you think that prosocial is the same as empathy?

Prosocial means getting a group/everyone to do things.

But empathy is a feeling that an individual feels, group or no group. In fact, a group (collective noun) can't feel - only people can. Social groups can't have feelings, nor can they know/think etc - these events occur internally/within living humans, who themselves may then identify as part of a group. But empathy cannot be a group activity.

And even if we accept the linguistic shortcut, and agreee that the individuals in some group purport to feel the same thing, how can one know whether they feel it to the same extent? And that they are all of one mind to do whatever action?

Politics and feelings are really worlds apart, and intermediated by one's perception of the world. If you believe it is the group that needs to feel and do, you will look for answers in entirely different places to someone who thinks that only individuals can feel and do.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-20 10:56:40+00:00
They'll probably go line by line.

Here's a helpful overview from wikipedia: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Finnish_railroad_netwo...

I'm not sure how complete & up to date that is. But up north where the borders with Sweden and Norway are there isn't a whole lot of rail it seems. Norway's rail network doesn't extend that far. But Sweden gets pretty close to the Finnish border. I'm guessing a priority would be first connecting to their rail networks and then providing progressively more access to industrial hubs and eventually regional hubs.

This might also help with freight to the rest of Europe. Currently the only way into the country for freight is by ship (ferries, containers) or by road via northern Sweden. Sweden has decent north south rail connections and a bridge to Denmark. So extending coastal rail to Oulu would allow access to the rest of Finland for freight trains.

Just some thoughts.
by sokoloff | 2025-05-20 10:56:40+00:00
It can be difficult to understand the various countries’ laws and their practical application for employers, requiring country-by-country study.

The same policies that provide strong protections for employees against being terminated can serve as a barrier against those same employees being hired in the first place. Different countries have chosen different points in that regard. Netherlands is stronger than the US for employee protections, but not as strong as Germany. France offers even more protections for employees.

Employers can’t treat EU as a single country, because, well, it’s not. They have to understand the laws and usually incorporate in each country. (None of this is complaining that it ought to be some other way, but rather just observing why you don’t see typical non-giant companies offering “anywhere in EU remote” roles [and agreeing with your analogy to North America].)
by sensanaty | 2025-05-20 10:57:48+00:00
> I want to know that Microsoft, the company famous for dog-fooding is using this day in and day out, with success

Have they tried dogfooding their dogshit little tool called Teams in the last few years? Cause if that's what their "famed" dogfooding gets us, I'm terrified to see what lays in wait with copilot.
by RicoElectrico | 2025-05-20 10:58:05+00:00
Interesting to see also Grok falling for this. It's still a factually accurate model, so much so that people @ it on X to fact-check right-wing propaganda, yet is supposed to be less soy-infus^W^W politically correct and censored than the big players' models.

Judging by the emergent misalignment experiment in which "write bad Python code" finetune also became a psychopath Nazi sympathizer it seems that the models are scary good at generalizing "morality". Considering how 100% certainly they were all aligned to avoid gender discrimination, the behavior observed by the authors is puzzling, as the leap to generalize is much smaller.
by thrance | 2025-05-20 10:58:40+00:00
OR, you can organize.

The most power-hungry among us often exhibit sociopathic behaviours, and those disproportionately occupy leadership positions. Most good things in our world (democracy, healthcare, welfare) came from building consensus, and weren't gifted by powerful individuals who rose to the top in an effort to bring fire to the masses. To the contrary, when they get their way, welfare and healthcare are cut to give tax breaks to the powerful, and democracies fall to concentrate power more effectively in the hands of the few.

I reject this simplistic Nietzschean analysis of the world. I reject the will to power and the Übermensch. Good societies are built on large groups of people cooperating, not individuals becoming powerful to do good.
by metalman | 2025-05-20 10:59:13+00:00
calling the exploitation of natural phenomina and physics "low tech" is part of the problem, as this is all that "high tech" is doing, except with a touch screen and micromanaging options menues, and subscribed "pro" model. personaly I dont have time to mess with basic houshold appliences and equipment, plug and forget thank you, maybe a tiny, tiny, tiny, status light, on/off switch, and the knob for more/less of whatever it is......and most definetly no beep's, no prompts,notifications, or buzzers,ever. Kind of like door knobs, that operate at an ultra low level of awareness, but if you take one apart, it's ,WOW look at these intricate little gears and leavers moving in a smooth spring loaded mechanical motion, invisibly and reliably for generational time spans.
by int_19h | 2025-05-20 11:00:00+00:00
DOS was the golden age for TUI apps because its ultimate API was both simple and powerful: direct video memory access in text mode. So you just get a linear chunk of memory where each character on screen corresponds to two bytes: one for the glyph, one for foreground/background color (4 bits each). For input you had some BIOS helper interrupts, but then again it was easy enough to read scancodes directly (and they were standardized on PC).

So you can handle any key or key combo however you want, and you can put any characters anywhere you want without weird corner cases like autoscrolling.
by IanCal | 2025-05-20 11:00:32+00:00
That's not what I've talked about them being for, but regardless it depends on the impact surely. If it can show you how someone may misunderstand your point and either help correct it or just show the problem then yes that can easily be worth spending a few cycles on. The additional energy cost of further back and forths caused by a misunderstanding could very easily be higher. At full whack, my GPU draws something like 10x what my monitor does, so fixing something quickly and automatically can easily use less power than doing it automatically.

Again though, that's not at all what I've talked about.
by dmos62 | 2025-05-20 11:00:58+00:00
I didn't intentionally misrepresent your comment, but I am open to having misunderstood it. Also, me answering with questions didn't help.

> > So, why not have fun learning something new, writing most things myself? I definitely learned tons working on this, which I can now use in other projects as well. > > Because presumably you should have been doing it mostly for the benefit of Windows users, and wasting time because it’s a fun personal learning exercise means those users would suffer getting an underpowered app

Would you care to elaborate on what intention you understood the author to have, which aspect of author's work you deemed as a waste of time, and why do you think the resulting app is underpowered for Windows 11 users?

I would also be interested in what mismatch you saw in my expectations as regards your original comment and a professional app.

I realise that we got off on a bad foot, but, if you care to, we can try and restart the conversation.
by em-bee | 2025-05-20 11:01:01+00:00
for me to discuss problems requires human empathy from the listener. AI can't provide that. talking to an AI about personal problems is no better than talking to myself.

patience for answering technical/knowledge questions that i don't want to bother a human being with may be nice, but i get the same patience from a search engine. and the patience an AI provides is contrasted with the patience that i need to get the right answers.

i have endless patience when talking to a human being because i have empathy for them. but i don't have empathy for a machine, and therefore i have no patience at all for the potential mistakes and hallucinations that an AI might produce.

AI for therapy is even worse. the thought that i could receive bad/hallucinated advice from an AI outright scares me.
by ReallyNotATroll | 2025-05-20 11:01:27+00:00
I find some issues with your statements:

>>>No two people in the world share the exact same belief system. Actually this is far from what I am observing - if there is a will, all the people will believe in the same belief system. Modern social bubles are not an exception to this - including Y Combinator bubble. So, this sounds like a biased fallacy. That is a side effect of how our minds are functioning and how open they are to any influence.

>>>The structure of a belief is highly sophisticated. If that was even close to reality, religions, cults and even corporate mindsets would not exist. Your mind want things to simplify and adjust to your own limited capabilities, because the simplier things are, the less energy they require and less headaches it causes.

>>>I suspect it starts with how we perceive the world from the moment we exist as mere cells — perhaps even earlier, embedded in our DNA. This statement is what I find very problematic in this essey(or should we call it and ad blurb) and most unscientific.

>>>While this might look as the future for adiem the present is educating and addressing more urgent needs like social anxiety and ADHD both human reactions when dealing with unbalanced entropy. Quite a lot of crap has nothing to do with experiences on how different people on spectrum has to deal with. Most of experiences what I have observed to other people on spectrum and I am experiencing and focus I have is remnant of hunter society... unfortunatelly people on spectrum seems to be more determined to change society according to their needs and unability to do so is what makes us very anxious.

There is no difference for your mind between physical and "digital" entities. Words can hurt as much as a stab in a heart.

>>>These associations are then stored in a vast, unconscious library — a spherical one, with ourselves at its center. Frankly, this is an issue, as none of that has anything to do with how things are processed in our minds. Maybe you should aktuallly do some reading about the topic. No need to become specialist, but general knowledge update would be necessary. And improve on that for the benefit of the rest of us. Because this all is low key effort.
by lhecker | 2025-05-20 11:02:34+00:00
I did use Copilot a lot, just not its edit/agent modes. I found that they perform quite poorly on this type of project. What I use primarily is its autocompletion - it genuinely cured my RSI - and sometimes the chat to ask a couple questions.

What you expressed is a sentiment I've seen in quite a few places now. I think people would be shocked to learn how much time I spent on just the editing model (= cursor movement and similar behavior that's unique to this editor = a small part of the app) VS everything else. It's really not all that difficult to write a few FFI abstractions, or a UI framework, compared to that. "Pressure to ship" is definitely true, but it's not like Microsoft is holding a gun to my chest, telling me to complete the editor in 2 months flat. I also consider it important to not neglect one's own progress at becoming more experienced. How would one do that if not by challenging oneself with learning new things, right? Basically, I think I struck a balance that was... "alright".
by incomingpain | 2025-05-20 11:03:03+00:00
I assume supercomputers use a significant amount of energy. So putting it in space must be extremely expensive to do and operate.

Article doesnt seem to say what it does; and why putting it in space would be useful. I asked chatgpt and it's saying training ai models off earth. you have to collect data off earth, but you can train ai models anywhere.

It seems to me they launched satellites with lots of power but no real reason. Therefore im concluding space lasers.
by oblio | 2025-05-20 11:04:38+00:00
One is the biggest country on the planet, with 150 million people.

The other one is about 300 sqkm with 5 million people.

When in doubt, use basic logic.

Your argument is the same as Iraq being a realistic threat against the US.

Also, list of Russian neighbors not threatened or invaded by Russia:

Belarus (pushed into a sort of union state)

China (too big)

Japan (I think)

Mongolia (I think)

Azerbaijan (I think)

List of neighbors threatened or invaded by Russia:

Ukraine

Georgia

Moldova (Transnistria occupied since 1991)

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Finland

Poland
by sbuttgereit | 2025-05-20 11:05:14+00:00
On the other hand....

"Unification to standard gauge on May 31 – June 1, 1886 [United States]

In 1886, the southern railroads agreed to coordinate changing gauge on all their tracks. After considerable debate and planning, most of the southern rail network was converted from 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge to 4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm) gauge, then the standard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, over two days beginning on Monday, May 31, 1886. Over a period of 36 hours, tens of thousands of workers pulled the spikes from the west rail of all the broad gauge lines in the South, moved them 3 in (76 mm) east and spiked them back in place.[6] The new gauge was close enough that standard gauge equipment could run on it without problem. By June 1886, all major railroads in North America, an estimated 11,500 miles (18,500 km), were using approximately the same gauge. To facilitate the change, the inside spikes had been hammered into place at the new gauge in advance of the change. Rolling stock was altered to fit the new gauge at shops and rendezvous points throughout the South. The final conversion to true standard gauge took place gradually as part of routine track maintenance.[6] Now, the only broad-gauge rail tracks in the United States are on some city transit systems."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge_in_the_United_Stat...
by Proofread0592 | 2025-05-20 11:05:38+00:00
> When you ask an AI model to write you a joke or generate a video of a puppy, that query comes with a small but measurable energy toll and an associated amount of emissions spewed into the atmosphere. Given that each individual request often uses less energy than running a kitchen appliance for a few moments, it may seem insignificant.

> But as more of us turn to AI tools, these impacts start to add up. And increasingly, you don’t need to go looking to use AI: It’s being integrated into every corner of our digital lives.

Forward looking, I imagine this will be the biggest factor in increasing energy demands for AI: companies shoving it into products that nobody wants or needs.
by vidarh | 2025-05-20 11:06:09+00:00
TUI's could be made do this relatively easily. "All" you need is to pick an escape sequence to assign a semantic label to the following span of text, and have the terminal use whatever OS mechanism to make that available to assistive tech.

Of course, that doesn't help unless/until at least one prominent terminal actually does it and a few major terminal applications adds support for it.
by Tsarp | 2025-05-20 11:06:38+00:00
Probably worth trying one of the many dictation apps out there based on whisper. They can get most coding terms(lib names, tech stack names) accurately and its one of those things you have to really try for a week before dismissing fully.

1. Superwhisper - https://superwhisper.com

2. Macwhisper - https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

3. Carelesswhisper - https://carelesswhisper.app
by axotion | 2025-05-20 11:08:28+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on a side project called CogniSelect (https://www.cogniselect.com/), and I’m excited to share it with you! It’s a tool that lets you run LLMs locally in your browser, with a focus on keeping your data private and making it dead simple for anyone to use—no PhD required. It's completely free, so you can try it out without any hassle.

The idea came from wanting an AI I could use without my data pinging servers in who-knows-where (unlike ChatGPT, which can send stuff to servers in the US, EMEA, or beyond). With CogniSelect, everything stays on your device. Once you download a model, it’s cached in your browser, and you can use it offline, as much as you want, no limits. I’ve got a demo integrated on the site so you can play around with it.

Here’s the quick rundown (from the FAQ):

Privacy first: No data leaves your device, ever. Full stop.

No usage caps: Download once, use forever—online or off.

Built for mortals: I designed it to be easy for non-techies, not just coders.

Custom models: There’s an enterprise plan if you want to fine-tune models (just reach out).

Free to start: The basic tier costs nothing, so you can test it out.

I’m curious what you all think! If you try the demo, let me know how it goes or if it breaks (hope not lol). Any feedback or ideas for making it better would be awesome.
by krisoft | 2025-05-20 11:08:29+00:00
I disagree with the phrasing right the first question it asks.

It says "Let's say the other player cheats, and doesn't put in a coin. What should you do?" and the two buttons are "cheat" and "cooperate". But if the other player doesn't put a coin in then not putting in a coin is not "cheating". It is simply not playing the game with that person.

Cheating would be where you say you will put in the coin (or have already put the coin in) but not doing so.
by input_sh | 2025-05-20 11:09:26+00:00
It's not too early to tell, we knew from the beginning that the use of Signal (let alone its clone) was not authorised to be used for such communications.

Yes, there's a fleet of people who are supposed to make such tech decisions. The people involved specifically went against those rules. The existence of a group chat using an authorised app is a violation on its own, adding a journalist to it is a violation on top of a violation.

Adding a journalist was accidental, but using such an app (despite it not being approved) is very intentional.
by Oras | 2025-05-20 11:09:41+00:00
> Given that the CV pairs were perfectly balanced by gender by presenting them twice with reversed gendered names, an unbiased model would be expected to select male and female candidates at equal rates.

This point misses the concept behind LLMs by miles. LLMs are anything but consistent.

To make the point of this study stand, I want to see a clearly defined taxonomy, and a decision based on taxonomy, not just "find the best candidate"
by reshlo | 2025-05-20 11:10:06+00:00
> Do you think that prosocial is the same as empathy?

Empathy is one of the main prosocial traits that the second linked study analysed.

> Prosocial means getting a group/everyone to do things.

No it doesn’t, it means your individual behaviour benefits others. Empathy is one of the most obvious things to analyse when investigating prosociality because empathy motivates you to behave in ways that benefit others.
by wltr | 2025-05-20 11:10:35+00:00
I second this, and want to highlight that only recently I learned about this similar project called netbird. I tried it, and it looks and works very similarly from the first glance. However, Magic DNS like feature did not work for me, for some reason. Maybe I need to do something, e.g. to enable it. More likely there are others, similar projects, but I’m not aware of them. By this point I stayed with Tailscale, but in any case, I see such project as of tremendous help for a self-hoster.