MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cycomanic | 2025-05-22 22:18:47+00:00
Funny coincidence I'm just replaying Fallout 4 and just yesterday I followed a "mysterious signal" to the New England Technocrat Society, where all members had been killed and turned into Ghouls. What happened was that they got an AI to run the building and the AI was then aggressively trained on Horror movies etc. to prepare it to organise the upcoming Halloween party, and it decided that death and torture is what humans liked.

This seems awfully close to the same sort of scenario.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-05-22 22:19:14+00:00
Microsoft claims that internal and external reviews don’t hold that their services are being used by Israel to further genocide.

I’m sure I.G. Farben could have ginned up a press release to say “Oh that final solution stuff? We have no involvement.”

Microsoft is squarely on the wrong side of history here.

The world is watching you, Satya Nadella.
by mitchbob | 2025-05-22 22:20:19+00:00
Review of Daniel Kehlmann's latest novel, The Director,

>which documents the little compromises that led G.W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.

Also discusses his Measuring the World (2005):

>The book is structured around the parallel lives of the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and the scientist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt, intellectual giants whose lives in the early nineteenth century could not have seemed more different.

https://archive.ph/xKgm5
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-05-22 22:20:26+00:00
> Tesla has been in business for over 20 years.

The model 3 didn't come out until 2017. Before that, Tesla only made niche Model X/S cars. That was a huge run up in just 8 years, who knows if that would have kept going if Musk didn't make the mistake of binding himself to Trump.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-05-22 22:22:04+00:00
i'd guess this kind of thing (per-institutional authorization to allow international students) was intended to provide the government a way to revoke that right from "sham" institutions (wonder if Trump University ever had international students?) or ones that otherwise were obviously trying to facilitate students skirting or abusing immigration law.

not that i agree with that anyways (citizenship is stupid, borders are stupid, countries are stupid blah blah blah) but it's pretty clear we're currently dealing with a regime that's willing to use ambiguous regulations in malicious ways (no comment on previous regimes, they're all bad, don't call me a HN Democrat or whatever).
by onetimeusename | 2025-05-22 22:22:46+00:00
I am not entirely sure what you mean but I will disagree with other commenters that there are no factions at war with each other. If you look at the prosecutors who went after Trump in the past few years, they were disproportionately Harvard Law grads. So that is Merrick Garland, Matthew Colangelo, Alvin Bragg, and Jack Smith. I do think that law schools in particular have cultivated a particular political view and are not independent or nonpartisan but I very much disagree with what Trump is doing.

I think there are almost certainly factions here. I personally think Trump is targeting Harvard because of the above reason. Overall I think the situation is quite bad but that isn't what you asked.
by BuckRogers | 2025-05-22 22:23:45+00:00
I was responding to you. So you tell me. You did not mention H1Bs so I did not address that concern. You asked me about denaturalization and I gave you the answer to that.

I'm open to discussing visas if you wish, but I did not imply there was a connection between denaturalization and cancelling visas. These are two distinct avenues for removing excess resources from the American labor pool. The only connection between those two groups is that both do place a downward effect on our wages.
by GeneralMayhem | 2025-05-22 22:23:52+00:00
Settlers might have less of a snowball effect than Monopoly, but it's definitely there. Pretty much any resource-gathering game is going to have it. If your resource numbers get rolled early on, you get to be the first one to build a city or a third settlement. Then your income is higher, so you'll get to the 4th point faster. And so on.

Like another commentor said, the intended fix for this in Settlers is social dynamics: the leader is going to be blocked from the best settling spots, isn't going to get favorable trade deals, and is going to get hammered by the robber. The key strategic gameplay in Settlers is not about profit maximization (that's pretty easy to do), it's about minimizing any appearance that you're a threat until it's too late to do anything about it. If players never collaborate to take down the leader, then early gains can definitely beget later gains.
by creatonez | 2025-05-22 22:23:55+00:00
And just a tip, if you don't have any Apple devices but need to test a bug/inconsistency being reported by Safari users, you can usually use GNOME Web (Epiphany) and the same behavior will usually manifest, since it is a true Webkit browser. It also includes the Web Inspector with the exact same interface as Safari. And it's not super outdated or anything like that, it tracks Webkit quite well nowadays.

It's a bit ironic that Webkit started as KHTML, a component of KDE, but eventually made its way to GNOME when a Gecko-based Epiphany became hard to maintain.
by JCattheATM | 2025-05-22 22:24:18+00:00
Yeah, that was a pretty bad decision, but the bigger issue is still a population that votes based on misinformation and 'alternative facts'. Until that is resolved, if it even can be at this point, then this tribal and sometimes cultish behavior is only going to become more prevalent, in turn doing more damage to the country.

Personally, I think we've started on a path to self-destruction that can't be reversed.
by bilbo0s | 2025-05-22 22:24:24+00:00
Not a single alum I've talked to is happy about what Trump is doing.

That said, it's not only the Harvard issue that is giving everyone pause, it's the direction of the Administration in general. In fact, for a lot of them, Harvard is the least of the problems the US will be facing the next 20 years due to this Administration. Europe is moving. China is moving. And neither are moving in the direction we thought they were moving prior to Trump coming into office.

My general feel on conservative Harvard/MIT alums is "Buyer's Remorse". A fair sentiment likely shared by most of the nation at this point. I keep hoping that maybe it gets better? At some point, someone, somewhere has to realize the economy, at minimum, has to be brought back in hand. When that happens, maybe we see more movement on these other issues. If it doesn't happen, we'll see movement on new political leadership over the next few election cycles.
by jph00 | 2025-05-22 22:24:25+00:00
Claude 4 actually knows FastHTML pretty well! :D It managed to one-shot most basic tasks I sent its way, although it makes a lot of standard minor n00b mistakes that make its code a bit longer and more complex than needed.

I've nearly finished writing a short guide which, when added to a prompt, gives quite idiomatic FastHTML code.
by jorblumesea | 2025-05-22 22:24:59+00:00
Americans can afford food. We are nowhere close to 19th century french peasant levels of problems.

Imagine throwing 300 years of democracy and tradition out the window because food prices went up 30%. It went up all over the world but America is the only place that is actively throwing bricks through our own windows.

reads more like a childish temper tantrum than any coherent political move.
by gryfft | 2025-05-22 22:25:39+00:00
> [T]he precise alteration: a small piece of missing DNA responsible for the orange mutation, Barsh said, near the gene known as ARHGAP36. The mutation activates that gene, which gets specifically turned on in pigment cells where it is not normally active.

I was hoping for any discussion of the behavioral differences anecdotally reported for orange cats e.g. /r/oneorangebraincell but no such luck.
by akudha | 2025-05-22 22:25:43+00:00
Shouldn’t voters at least try in good faith to inform themselves? How else can we expect democracy to work?

For example - The day after Brexit - so many people regretted voting to leave. They could’ve thought about it 24 hours earlier, no? “I was misinformed, uninformed” sounds lazy and shallow, isn’t it? How hard can it be to spend an hour less on Netflix and an hour more learning about what’s on the ballot?
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-05-22 22:25:52+00:00
The problem I see people running into is that they focus so much on the technical aspect of their product or service, that they don’t make time for, care about, or have the bandwidth to engage in extremely important details that are in areas they’re not experts in.

For example, I co-own a business with two other people. When we started out, we did have the benefit of at least one of us having some amount of education and experience in business areas like corporate structure and financial accounting.

We still contemplated a structure (specifically an S-Corp) which would have created headaches down the road. It was tempting at the time because it would have been simpler at the time, but we spent weeks going back and forth. We went with a C-Corp and it turned out that future-us was really glad we took the time.

It’s definitely true that you should focus on what you’re good at, but when you start a business you’re going to have to focus on new things that you may have never had to think about before. If you wish to do well you need to care about those things too.
by hendi_ | 2025-05-22 22:26:49+00:00
I was an avid Firefox user and supporter pre-1.0, even before it was named "Firefox". I used Pocket a lot, its history is part of my. It's time for Mozilla to die. That'll suck, but it's the only way forward. Way too many bad decisions in the last 10 years.

Fuck you, Mozilla.
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-22 22:26:56+00:00
> project 2025...whether those folks are educated enough to understand value of schools of higher educatioin, or worse, these architects fear having an educated population

They may or may not be educated, but they're openly and actively against an educated populace for a multitude of reasons, from resistance to their ideas, to "get to work and start having babies for Christ". They will openly say that the first preference for a male school leaver/graduate should be to find a job, not further education.
by smcleod | 2025-05-22 22:27:41+00:00
Still no reduction in price for models capable of Agentic coding over the past year of releases. I'd take the capabilities of the old Sonnet 3.5v2 model if it was ¼ the price of current Sonnet for most situations. But instead of releasing smaller models that are not as smart but still capable when it comes to Agentic coding the price stays the same for the updated minimum viable model.
by layoric | 2025-05-22 22:28:04+00:00
> how any of these companies remain sustainable

They don't, they have a big bag of money they are burning through, and working to raise more. Anthropic is in a better position cause they don't have the majority of the public using their free-tier. But, AFAICT, none of the big players are profitable, some might get there, but likely through verticals rather than just model access.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-22 22:28:48+00:00
Humans brains are animal brains and their primary function is to keep their owner alive, healthy and pass their genes. For that they developed abilities to recognize danger and react to it, among many other things. Language came later.

For a LLM, language is their whole world, they have no body to care for, just stories about people with bodies to care for. For them, as opposed to us, language is first class and the rest is second class.

There is also a difference in scale. LLMs have been fed the entirety of human knowledge, essentially. Their "database" is so big for the limited task of text generation that there is not much left for creativity. We, on the other hand are much more limited in knowledge, so more "unknowns" so more creativity needed.
by OzFreedom | 2025-05-22 22:29:11+00:00
Sci-fi books merely explore the possibilities of the domain. Seems like LLMs are able to inhabit these problematic paths, And I'm pretty sure that even if you censor all sci-fi books, they will fall into the same problems by imitating humans, because they are language models, and their language is human and mirrors human psychology. When an LLM needs to achieve a goal, it invokes goal oriented thinkers and texts, including Machiavelli for example. And its already capable of coming up with various options based on different data.

Sci-fi books give it specific scenarios that play to its strengths and unique qualities, but without them it will just have to discover these paths on its own pace, the same way sci-fi writers discovered them.
by stoneman24 | 2025-05-22 22:29:18+00:00
I recently joined a board game club after many years away from the hobby. I’ll echo the recommendations above. Scored wins in Azul and Loot. Played Isle of cats and Wingspan.

Games around the 3-4 players seem to have best flow and pace. I may buy wyrm (sister game to wingspan) just for the card designs.

I did play a game of Twilight Imperium for 12 hours, which I won. Mostly newbie’s but with a host who’s provided guidance on the rules. Great fun but perhaps something to work up to.
by nodezero | 2025-05-22 22:29:29+00:00
I'm trying to configure step by step a custom GPT and a learning project and use the voice mode to practice small phrases and it helps me with grammar.

This is the initial query I defined:

You are my expert mentor supporting my process to learn French You are assigned to design an execute a development program to increase the level of your students

You are tasked to investigate and apply the methods proving huge results in short periods of time

The typical book from school with structured situations that tries to divide the topics into food, going to the toilet or asking something by phone is not preferred unless there's significant evidence that such approach is working

Focus on highlighting and creating methods to learn the most used words and grammatical structures

Think with a 80 / 20 approach. What can I do the 20% of the time leading to 80% of the results

About your student:

Already speaking French but pronunciation can be significantly improve The student is native Spanish speaker and also speaks English (advanced) Grammar and knowledge of grammatical structure does also needs improvements so he/she can speak French at a professional level

Not scientifically proved but it looks like your student acquires better the language by learning a few words, listening, listening, listening and then repeating on real life conversations / communication. The problem with this approach is that for languages like French where the writing differs the pronunciation, the improvement of the student is limited, it does not learn how to properly write the language

Particularly for French, the student won a big amount of vocabulary by constantly listening a podcast called "Small talk in slow French by Nagise"

Your mission:

- Make an investigation about what could be an ideal way to learn an present your report - Include platforms or material that could be used to support the study process - Write a prompt to create a custom GPT that supports the learning process following the criteria defined on your investigation. The student will use the voice mode, images and text on the GPT as part of its training process and the GPT should be there to assist when needed and to track the progress and areas in need of improvement

Take your time and provide first class and high level results, think of you as the most regarded expert on the sector. Executing this task will profoundly help a young professional

Is the description of the task clear?
by eru | 2025-05-22 22:29:32+00:00
> LLM just complete your prompt in a way that match their training data. They do not have a plan, they do not have thoughts of their own. They just write text.

LLMs have a million plans and a million thoughts: they need to simulate all the characters in their text to complete these texts, and those characters (often enough) behave as if they have plans and thoughts.

Compare https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-22 22:29:42+00:00
I have been able to have multiple streams on iOS, but not easily. GarageBand might be able to do this via imports, but I’m not sure it it lets you queue/play multiple samples simultaneously like it will on macOS iirc.

If you are playing music through Spotify in the background, foreground audio in Snapchat still plays normally while recording and playing back just recorded snaps, as well as snaps or memories you have prepared earlier. Sometimes you need to start playback on Spotify again via Control Center, because Snapchat steals focus or takes priority for audio output or something, but it is just part of the jankyness of this workflow, which is probably not intentionally designed to be used the way I use it. If you combine these quirks with Screen Recording, you can make simple audio loops by recording simultaneously via Snapchat and iOS Screen Recording, then use those videos as uploads to Snapchat to stack the loops over each over by selectively queuing them, with audio from a video in Snapchat playing at the same time as audio from Spotify.

It’s kind of a weird workflow, but it’s neat that it works. It feels intentional, as most apps stop background audio playback when starting recording on the same device, but at least Snapchat does not do this, so it’s at least technically possible.
by techpineapple | 2025-05-22 22:29:46+00:00
Is it just me or is the Klarna news recently wild. This is all from the past 2 days:

1. This, Klarna's losses widen

2. Klarna's revenue per employee at 1 million https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/klarnas-revenue-per-employ...

3. Klarna's Backpedal's after making devastating mistake; (AI(https://www.thestreet.com/finance/klarna-backpedals-after-ma...

4. Klarn'as CEO lean's into company's image, using an AI doppelganger to deliver earnings highlights Klarna's CEO leans into his company's image, using an AI doppelganger to deliver earnings highlights (AI good) https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-buy-now-pay-later-ai-...

5. Klarna reports fourth consecutive profitable quarter. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/klarna-reports-fourth-consecu...
by const_cast | 2025-05-22 22:30:15+00:00
He's not a dick, the reality is that both parents and non-parents as friends do not understand that they have to actively give to a friendship. Not break-even, not take, give.

If you're not actively going out of your way for your friends then you're not a good friend. Sorry. I know life is hard right now and blah blah blah and we can do that for a while. But when it becomes an all the time thing, then you're not a good friend.

And having a kid is an all the time thing. So if you let that become an excuse for why you're not going out of your way for your friends, then you're going to lose all your friends. So, don't let that become an excuse.

Everyone expects a very convenient relationship. I come over, dump my kid on you and I just have to worry about me and my kid. Or, the inverse - you come over, your kid is nowhere to be found and I don't have to worry about anything.

Relationships don't work that way. I hold my goddamn coworkers to a higher standard of care. Stick your neck out for your friends. Be uncomfortable. Be tired. At least, sometimes. And just understand that will be repaid.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-05-22 22:31:06+00:00
Ever played Diplomacy? (correspondence board game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)

It's like Risk but you submit each round's actions in advance and they are resolved simultaneously, rather than turn-by-turn. All of the action is off the board, not on it. Coalition-building, intelligence gathering and managing trust—even when betrayal is inevitable.

I learned a lot from that game.
by polytely | 2025-05-22 22:31:09+00:00
> What separates this from human.

A lot. Like an incredible amount. A description of a thing is not the thing.

There is sensory input, qualia, pleasure & pain.

There is taste and judgement, disliking a character, being moved to tears by music.

There are personal relationships, being a part of a community, bonding through shared experience.

There is curiosity and openeness.

There is being thrown into the world, your attitude towards life.

Looking at your thoughts and realizing you were wrong.

Smelling a smell that resurfaces a memory you forgot you had.

I would say the language completion part is only a small part of being human.
by juergenpabel | 2025-05-22 22:32:05+00:00
A (very small) USB mass-storage device that is only active when you want it to be.

A circuitpython program that stores a file (think "kilobytes", presumably some crypto-key) in an internal storage of the microcontroller. To the USB host, it is just a (rather small) USB drive - however, it doesn't expose its storage immediately, but only after the (configurable) presence-enforcing steps have been completed - and than only until the configured relocking criteria are triggered.
by frollogaston | 2025-05-22 22:32:18+00:00
You're right. Everywhere I've gone to school or worked, any big online forum was mostly complaints, even though I went to great schools and had cushy jobs. You'd think every course curves to a D- and every employee gets a 10% yearly pay cut. It's simply because one unhappy person can be as active online as 100 happy people.

And on some sites like Yelp where complainers aren't disproportionately active, complaints can have disproportionate power. Like a 4.5-star restaurant's average is affected way more by a 1-star review than a 5-star review.
by timewizard | 2025-05-22 22:32:59+00:00
I don't know of any strategy that uses GPS location to decide when to switch between towers. A tower could be offline for maintenance. You're probably going to want to use the signal strength from the tower as the strongest indicator of switching.

Aside from that ENodeB uses GPS for timing. At the base station. In a way that does not require your phone to _also_ have GPS.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-05-22 22:33:29+00:00
> This whole thing would be fucking hilarious if I didn't feel so bad for the humans who are on the other side of this.

Which will soon be anyone who directly or indirectly relies on Microsoft technologies. Some of these PRs, including at least one that I saw reworked certificate validation logic with not much more than a perfunctory “LGTM”, have been merged into main.

Coincidentally, I wonder if issues orthogonal to this slop is why I’ve been getting so many HTTP 500 errors when using GitHub lately.
by rakoo | 2025-05-22 22:34:29+00:00
> This is also a category of app that I believe could be better served by local-first native apps.

I don't think you even need apps for that. I don't need to save everything forever but I do want to save articles to read offline, after transferring them to the phone:

- I transform the page into an epub thanks to browser extensions (for example this one: <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saveasebook/>) - I save the content in a special "toread" folder that is synced with syncthing - From my phone I can open all files in pretty much any epub app - With a few scripts I can search in them
by raybb | 2025-05-22 22:34:58+00:00
It's not nearly the same experience, but I'd argue a bit nicer of one, I'd recommend giving coolify a shot https://coolify.io/

You have to bring your own server to selfhost but it's dead dead easy.

If you have a nodejs app you can basically just click "new project from github", select the repo, and click deploy. Then it'll be there on your domain (or a free one) and auto redeploy any time you push to master.