MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gorjusborg | 2025-05-29 14:27:12+00:00
I doubt it is even a ban. It definitely isn't a shadowban.

A ban is when you are preventing from participating in something. Google is a service that indexes the internet and provides references to relevant information. Website providers aren't the users here, web searchers are. I guess you could argue that the site was 'banned' from search results, but I doubt that the author would care enough to search 100 pages of search results to see if they were still there, they just care that they aren't a first page hit.

A shadowban is when a participant has been banned, but has no idea it has happened. This came about on certain link aggregation/social media sites as a solution to people being banned and creating new accounts and resuming their behavior.
by mattmaroon | 2025-05-29 14:27:15+00:00
That’s some really solid PR work on his part if true, but if he is scaling (pun intended) tours that actually do manage to summit Everest in significantly decreased time, I would say that it’s strong evidence that Xenon actually works and the science just hasn’t caught up to it yet. Unless he has found some other clever way that he is for some reason pretending is Xenon.
by avnfish | 2025-05-29 14:29:46+00:00
Wow—this being an AI generated comment is certainly a possibility. The proliferation of LLMs in online discussion spaces is accelerating and radically reshaping the modern web.

Identifying AI-generated comments often involves spotting patterns in tone, structure, and content. Here are the most common indicators: [1] Overly polished or formulaic structure, [2] Repetition or redundancy, [3] Unnatural verbosity or vagueness, [4] Subtle logical gaps (e.g., "LLMs are radically reshaping the modern web")
by gdubs | 2025-05-29 14:30:03+00:00
Any article on 90s Web Design gurus would not be complete without at least a mention of Jeffery Veen. HotWired completely defined the aesthetic of the 90s web, breaking all sorts of conventions to create something totally new.

Some point along the way I lost my copy of HotWired Style: Principles of Web Design – so I picked up a new one. It's an amazing time capsule of what that time was like, and even if the technology has changed it's still so interesting to me from a standpoint of working within constraints, and understanding a new medium for itself rather than just as a thing to host the previous medium.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1864
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-29 14:30:25+00:00
> Don't misunderstand me - I love using foreach in other languages; the added syntax better expresses your intent, reducing logic errors. It did jump out at me as "this isn't C" though.

Because it's not. The whole point of C is that you know exactly what's going on and it's relatively clear in the code itself. C++ hides logic in abstractions for the sake of convenience. This is a C++ thing. How does it know how to iterate? Is it moving pointers or indexing them or what? Not only is it hiding logic but it also prevents me from modifying the logic. I could easily change a C for loop to use i += 2 instead of i++ if I wanted, that's the beauty of it. With this, I have to read some docs first to see how their abstraction works, and then hope it allows me to modify how it's used to how I need.
by simonw | 2025-05-29 14:30:28+00:00
I use Claude Code a few times a week but honestly I'm a little intimidated by how quickly it chews through tokens!

I think it's not impossible that LLM might one day be able to handle the same kind of processes with the right collection of tool plugins and a really sophisticated system prompt but it's not something I'm shooting for right now - Claude Code is a very complicated system!
by LPisGood | 2025-05-29 14:30:31+00:00
I was with you until here:

> which is how you would postulate it in homotopy type theory: https://agda.github.io/agda-stdlib/master/Axiom.ExcludedMidd...

Why did you randomly shoehorn in homotopy type theory? Maybe I’m overreacting to this, but the only person I’ve ever known to shoehorn homotopy type theory into largely unrelated discussion has left quite a poor impression for me.
by exceptione | 2025-05-29 14:31:24+00:00
> But Trump's Base decided for Trump about this issue. Trump leads from behind on this one.

1. The base doesn't decide out of thin air, the USA audience have been primed for decades with `government = bad` (anything `social = bad` really). We have evidence of orchestrated anti covid campaigns on Twitter, but the soil was well prepared for it.

2. Trump always leads from behind. He is allowed some personal space and he uses that for personal profiteering. He flip flops on all important issues, policy does not interest him and it is way too difficult for him anyways. He gives public performances when he thinks it buys him respect.

3. If the public stops focusing on Trump's drama, they could regain bandwidth to make a proper analysis. But they need the help of an oligarch owned press, staffed by people who, like the general public, have to unshackle some self-harming beliefs.
by mvkel | 2025-05-29 14:31:30+00:00
It depends on how you define the "fight."

In the Nielsen days, two things were happening:

1. People were creating quirky, whimsical, odd corners of the internet for nobody but themselves. Art.

2. Entrepreneurs were starting to build sophisticated web applications for other people, i.e. customers.

Nielsen's dogma was excellent for the latter, and disastrous for the former.

History has been kind to Nielsen in the way that the modern web has lost most/all of its charm for the sake of answering the question "but how does it make money?"
by toss1 | 2025-05-29 14:32:13+00:00
One organization has already monopolistic power. It encourages, with monetary rewards thousands to change careers to build properties "written by people for people", with a clear exchange: "you build good human content, we'll promote it".

Then they unilaterally change the deal to basically, "you create the content, we will take it and without attribution, slice & dice it into our automated output".

It is straight-up bait and switch, and absolutely unethical. Just because it was not planned a decade in advance and was just opportunistic does not make it any more ethical (that'd be like arguing it was more ethical for you to steal a car because the keys were dropped next to it vs planning to hotwire the car).

And yes, I'm 100% in agreement with the caveats that building a business based on someone else's platform is like building a house on sand — a definitely risky idea. But the risk that the big player will change their platform is one thing, the risk they'll actively steal from you is another risk people weren't taking.
by pact_inference | 2025-05-29 14:32:28+00:00
definitely! However, my intuition is that correctly interpreting the rules pulled in context will require some basic understanding of the game system that pretraining would help with. Ultimately after training this base model for instruction-tuning and tool-use (to provide a search tool) I'll compare it against https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B without any specific domain pretraining and see how it performs at rule adjudication. I expect the shadowdark-trained model will have better understanding of the rules, but there's only one way to find out.
by birn559 | 2025-05-29 14:33:36+00:00
Will we be able mid-term to rely on LLMs not hallucinating and causing crashes? Even if the probability is low, the thought that the AI might do something crazy because it's hallucinating is terrifying, so that might be a barrier for adoption. For the same reason, will a (fully) LLM driven car ever be allowed on Western streets? I have serious doubts regarding Europe, at least.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-05-29 14:33:56+00:00
This doesn’t work quite as well as people assume. The first limit is simply size, you can only cram a few petabytes of NVMe in a server (before any redundancy) and many operational analytic workloads are quite a bit larger these days. One of the major advantages of disaggregated storage in theory is that it allows you to completely remove size limits. Many operational analytic workloads don’t need a lot of compute, just sparse on-demand access to vast amounts of data. With good selectivity (another open issue), you could get excellent performance in this configuration.

Ignoring the storage size limits, the real issue as you scale up is that the I/O schedulers, caching, and low-level storage engine mechanics in a large SQL database are not designed to operate efficiently on storage volumes this large. They will work technically, but scale quite a bit more poorly than people expect. The internals of SQL databases are (sensibly) optimized for working sets no larger than 10x RAM size, regardless of the storage size. This turns out to be the more practical limit for analytics in a scale-up system even if you have a JBOD of fast NVMe at your disposal.
by paulddraper | 2025-05-29 14:34:22+00:00
> As shatranj, new rules are introduced that cause the game to begin to resemble modern chess, including the rule that the King cannot be captured but must be rendered helpless: shah mat, the King is helpless, gives us the word checkmate.

Checkmate is by far the weirdest rule in chess, as capturing the king would lead to an essentially identical strategy and game, but without all the extra rule complexity of checks and checkmates.

(The exceptions are castling details and the stalemate rule. If kings could be captured, stalemates would not exist. But I argue that’s a feature not a bug. Stalemates do little to enhance fundamental strategy, their primarily use being hail mary gotchas for low level plays. In any case, kings-cannot-captured exists to make stalemates possible.)
by lerno | 2025-05-29 14:34:34+00:00
It's an interesting problem. Originally I experimented with both having `` and `&` syntax, so `int&` being a ref (non null) and `int` being a pointer. The thing you notice then are two things:

1. You want almost all pointer parameters non null.

2. Non-null variables is very hard to fit in a language without constructors.

Approaches to avoid constructors/destructors such as ZII play very poorly with ref values as well. What you end up with is some period of time where a value is quasi valid - since non-null types need to be assigned and it's in a broken state before it's initially assigned.

It's certainly possible to create generic "type safe" non-null types in C3, but they are not baked into the language.
by sixtram | 2025-05-29 14:36:23+00:00
I taught my five-year-old to read in approximately three months. We progressed from simple letters to sounding out two letters, then three, then words with hyphens, then simple stories, and finally children's books. We practiced daily for 5-20 minutes, five times per week. There were plateaus, but also huge jumps in ability, especially when we took a two-week break. Now, she can read two to three pages of an A4 document in one sitting with great speed (i.e., she looks at the words and sentences in one quick pass). She still slows down and makes some errors with complex new words.

Note that our language is Hungarian, which is much easier to teach because writing and sounding out words are nearly one-to-one in terms of letters and sounds. The AI part: Phonemic orthography: A writing system in which each letter (or combination of letters) consistently represents a specific sound (phoneme), and each sound is represented by a consistent letter. Hungarian is highly phonemic, meaning you can usually tell how to pronounce a word just by looking at how it's written, and vice versa.
by billfruit | 2025-05-29 14:36:49+00:00
At one time, reading Henry James(and a few others) was considered one of the pleasures of being an Adult. Perhaps because he so analysed people and their actions in a complex worldly-wise manner. Perhaps in a manner in which one would analyze one's own life.

People making life choices makes for the most riveting novels.

I'm guessing he's not that popular presently.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-05-29 14:37:27+00:00
There's also no moat because zoox and waymo will compete and absorb /reduce any profit that Tesla finds if they ever deliver a working system. waymo has been scaling and has 250k paid rides a week.

It's just not that expensive or hard to add sensors to an existing car and use a new platform. Byd and other Chinese automakers have similar fsd with lidar for $30k or less. It's certainly true that Tesla can crank out a lot more cars as their factory utilization goes down by the day. The millions of immigrants with low cost vehicles driving for Uber are also going to be hard to outcompete.
by amluto | 2025-05-29 14:37:31+00:00
I would have liked to see some actual studies of whether multiple doses, over the course of years, of mRNA vaccines are a good idea. Take a look at:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adg7327

and related papers. Is the propensity to generate IgG4 antibodies specific to mRNA vaccines? Is it a problem? It seems entirely plausible that an mRNA flu vaccine would look amazing for one season and less amazing years later. Or not.

The COVID vaccine trials were very focused on the efficacy of a 1-3 dose series, in people with no previous immunity, at preventing disease or reducing its severity over a period of weeks to months after the vaccine series. This is not at all the situation with influenza or the situation now with COVID.

Compare to vaccines like MMR or Varicella, which were, and still are, studied over a period of many years.
by rtkwe | 2025-05-29 14:37:42+00:00
Holding your kid back because they'll be bored by the ponderous pace of public school education isn't the answer you're looking for. Continue to be an active parent and find them a different school or a program within the school where their above grade level reading is embraced. Also you don't always get to just choose what the kid gets interested in, they're going to focus on something and at that age you're just overjoyed if it's not destructive or expensive.

I had a similar problem in my elementary school in the 90s having learned reading early and pretty easily and even had a 2nd grade teacher get a little peeved because I was just reading ahead during group reading exercises and didn't know where the group was when it was my turn. The solution was getting the teacher to stop and the next year getting a better teacher and into a little group with the other good readers and tested for AIG early.
by cjs_ac | 2025-05-29 14:38:49+00:00
> The Upper Tribunal — having already determined potato granules to be part of the extended potato universe — didn’t like this line of argument, judging that the potato starch and granules must be combined to judge overall potatitude.

Okay, I'm sold. When I have the money, I'll get a subscription to the FT.

On a less jocular note, this article is a good reminder that, contrary to most discussion here on HN, laws aren't algorithms that the powers that be execute against the world, but are rather heuristics that courts have to interpret in the context of specific cases.
by dabockster | 2025-05-29 14:38:51+00:00
In my experience, most law firms won’t go near big tech because of their litigious nature. Just the sheer amount of time and filings by big tech, legal or not, is enough to totally overwhelm an inexperienced legal team. It’s like a denial of service attack but through the court system.

The firms that will fight them are few and far between, and are priced accordingly.
by acquisitionsilk | 2025-05-29 14:39:46+00:00
Maybe one day I'll get used to people people putting pictures and videos of their 3-year-olds on the internet, but that day has not yet come. I see it there and can only think, oh the poor kid. It even says he's shy at one point in the article.

More on-topic - I recommend Grace Llewellyn and John Holt on learning, to anyone. Truly life-changing material. Finally got around to John Holt recently, and am very happy to eventually read his work.

You can't get back the years made painfully lesser by the school systems we put people through - myself included - and you probably can't undo all the damage done, either. But you can face the absurdity of the situation, and try to improve your own mental life, and that of the people in your life.
by smokel | 2025-05-29 14:39:49+00:00
No, what I was trying to convey is that there could theoretically be multiple consciousnesses in one brain. These are however unaware of each other.

A person might have the impression that there is only one "me", but there could be tens, hundreds, or millions of those.

It might help to get away from the problem of finding where the presumed singular consciousness is located.
by phkahler | 2025-05-29 14:40:29+00:00
Form TFA: "And, yes, this is probably why we have a single thread of “conscious experience”, rather than a whole collection of experiences associated with the activities of all our neurons."

That made me think of schizophrenics who can apparently have a plurality of voices in their head.

A next level down would be the Internal Family Systems model which implicates a plurality of "subpersonalities" inside us which can kind of take control one at a time. I'm not explaining that well, but IFS turned out to be my path to understanding some of my own motivations and behaviors.

Been a while since I googled it:

https://ifs-institute.com/

This is also the basis for the movie "Inside Out".
by dominiwe | 2025-05-29 14:40:47+00:00
Wow, I completely forgot about that image! Thank you for reminding me (it is now gone).

It was an experiment a while back and it was inline in order to keep it all in one file. Actually that made me realize, my site is dynamic: Because I edit this one html file live on the server to make changes, whoever loads my website repeatedly while I'm doing that is going to see changes live.
by fowkswe | 2025-05-29 14:41:14+00:00
All those guys. Also, the daily visits to lnkedup.com k10k.net, designiskinky.com, newstoday.com were so influential and informative to me (wow, just did an archive.org lookup of some of those and got a nostalgic chill - https://web.archive.org/web/20050303092717if_/http://www.lin...).
by lerno | 2025-05-29 14:41:29+00:00
Some other links links on C3 that might be interesting:

Interviews:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8VDRJqXfc

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rS8MVZH-vA

Here is a series doing various tasks in C3:

- https://ebn.codeberg.page/programming/c3/c3-file-io/

Some projects:

- Gameboy emulator https://github.com/OdnetninI/Gameboy-Emulator/

- RISCV Bare metal Hello World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAJxx6Ok4E

- "Depths of Daemonheim" roguelike https://github.com/TechnicalFowl/7DRL-2025

Tsoding's "first impression" of C3 stream:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzw1m7PweXs
by WillAdams | 2025-05-29 14:41:39+00:00
One thing which I tried to do with my kids, after exhausting all the classics (Narnia, _The Hobbit_, _The Lord of the Rings_, Susan Cooper's _The Dark is Rising Pentalogy_ --- highly recommend the latter for folks who have not read it) was to read biographies in chronological order --- as a dry run I did American Presidents (which did great things for my understanding of the ebb-and-flow of American history, since I would try to read an adult biography in advance in anticipation of questions).

The intent was to then go back to the beginning of human history and read biographies of notable persons in chronological order --- unfortunately, my wife's work schedule changed, so that bedtime reading quit happening --- probably my kids were about to age out of this anyway, but it was an interesting endeavour, and one which I have been meaning to take up again for my own sake. EDIT: and, if I should ever have grandchildren, inflict on them.
by gdubs | 2025-05-29 14:41:48+00:00
Generally it's such a bummer that streaming services (including music) have really diminished the 'extras' that used to be so common with DVDs. Granted, Disney+ has their great "Light & Magic" series. But, one of my favorite things about getting a box set for something like "The Abyss" or "Lord of The Rings" was that it'd be loaded with bonus content and making-of mini-documentaries.

Same goes for albums. But, it's particularly egregious there because there used to be such a rich medium in album art and liner notes. The fidelity of a record's artwork was pretty amazing when you think about it. Very large and immersive, and you'd spread it out while listening.

Apple Music has their neat little animations and visuals on some albums and categories now – but, with all the power of phones it's such a shame that the visual aspect of albums has basically withered on the vine. The early "Cover Flow" UI showed some care of this, but it never went much farther.

Partially I wonder if it has to do with the death of Flash. In the late 90s, it was very common for people to use Director, and then later Flash, to create interactives, and have a relatively widely excepted standard for viewing them. When Jobs killed flash with his open letter, (and don't get me started on HyperCard), nothing really stepped into its place.

And I say this as someone who writes apps for a living. It's way easier to write an app today, and in SwiftUI one can rapidly put an interactive together without a ton of complexity... but, somehow the momentum was lost and we never really returned to the DVD era in terms of bonus content, hidden tracks, or beautiful album art.
by Supermancho | 2025-05-29 14:41:52+00:00
> it's pretending very much to be legitimate scientific work

I don't know what that means.

It's describing an idea (poorly, imo). It's not a whitepaper. The blogpost isn't pretending to be anything but a blogpost. I'm not inclined to believe this has any more weight than any other random blogpost. It is a fun thought experiment.

> it's pulling people in who don't know any better who are taking it seriously.

This is one of the least important things to be concerned about.
by conartist6 | 2025-05-29 14:41:57+00:00
Sure seems like a weapon to me to be able to buy more and more and more speech to be able to drown out your opposition.

If I disagree with you I can just pay to generate so much speech of mine that it will seem like nobody believes anything else. If that ability were used against you, I cannot imagine you not thinking that your opponent was wielding a powerful weapon against you
by Ray20 | 2025-05-29 14:42:01+00:00
>you suggesting capitalism doesn't select for cynicism, cruelty, unscrupulousness, and deceitfulness?

Yeas, that is exactly what I am saying. People with these qualities still receive certain advantages, but selection selection by these qualities does not happening as in other social systems.

>The trend seems to be that humans universally value selflessness, sharing, doing good to one another, long term thinking, justice, and fairness.

Not universlly, and that's the problem. And you can ignore this fact and fall into slavery to the most cruel, deceitful and selfish people, or you can effectively protect yourself from such people with the help of capitalism.

>I argue that the derided values are those that are rewarded the most under capitalism

For the purposes of the discussion, I am even ready to agree with this to a certain extent. It's just that without capitalism, people with such qualities get everything, including other people as slaves.

>The people who made the decisions to treat the workers poorly will be compensated well for it

The people who made the decisions to treat the workers poorly will not receive a single worker. Because there is competition for labor and because the worker has the freedom to decide where and how to work. This is why workers under capitalism get the best conditions among all social systems.

>the companies leveraged their capitalistic power to maintain margins, through lobbying.

That is, through other non-capitalist mechanisms. The obvious problem of the lack of capitalism