MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrtksn | 2025-05-02 06:40:08+00:00
You know what, actually if a non-American movie non-ironically tries to be like American it instantly becomes kitsch. Even British movies are quite distinct from the from American.

Anything AI writes is dull anyway, it writes stuff that nobody wants read beyond getting some information. Maybe if you are learning English you may pick up something from it though.

Also, I recall something about AI English actually being Nigerian English because those companies used a lot of Nigerians in training.
by Barrin92 | 2025-05-02 06:41:29+00:00
One of the best pieces of advice I got in uni from a teacher on writing, which sounds pretty simple but can be tough to do, was: always write in your own voice. Writing is thinking, and when you're adopting phraseology, entire sentences and turns of phrases from others really you're not just sounding like someone else, you're not thinking on your own. You'll end up on autopilot, then metaphorically, now apparently literally.

At an individual level people have always been doing it, now with automation it's not surprising that a study finds it happening collectively. That's why I don't see much good in these tools. They strip writing of personality, subjectivity, unique perspective, and they just seem to diminish the capacity of people to use their own minds.
by geysersam | 2025-05-02 06:42:39+00:00
Did you read the example above? Do you disagree that the LLM provided a correct explanation for the reason it answered as it did?

> They're giant Mad Libs machines: given these surrounding words, fill in this blank with whatever statistically is most likely. LLMs don't model reality in any way.

Not sure why you think this is incompatible with the statement you disagreed with.
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-05-02 06:42:42+00:00
Yes and no.

No, not for classified comms. They already have secure comms and SCIFs but they're not using them. This is what they should be using. And they should be following sterile opsec so they don't carry tracking and listening devices into classified meetings or strategy discussions with decision makers.

They do need better opsec for unclassified and personal comms. It would be nice™ for them to have a Signal-like app controlled by the NSA because depending on Signal or WhatsApp is vulnerable to a malicious insider. Few Meta employees have security clearances, while I don't know about Signal.
by skissane | 2025-05-02 06:43:06+00:00
> Humans are basically incapable of recognizing that there’s something that’s more powerful than them

> They’re never going to actively collectively admit that that’s the case, because humans collectively are so so systematically arrogant and self possessed that they’re not even open to the possibility of being lower on the intelligence totem pole

For most of human history, the clear majority of humans have believed in God(s), spirits, angels, bodhisattvas, etc - beings which by definition are above us on the “totem pole” - and although atheism is much more widespread today, I think it almost certainly remains a minority viewpoint at the global level.

So I’m sceptical of your idea humans have some inherent unwillingness to believe in superhuman entities. From an atheist perspective, one might say that the (globally/historically) average human is so eager to believe in such entities, that if they don’t actually exist, they’ll imagine them and then convince themselves that their imaginings are entirely real. (Whereas, a theist might argue that the human eagerness to believe in such entities is better explained by their existence.)
by mrweasel | 2025-05-02 06:44:15+00:00
Sadly it hard to tell if this is an actual DDoS attack, or scrappers descending on the site. It all looks very similar.

The search engines always seemed happy to announce that they are in fact GoogleBot/BingBot/Yahoo/whatever and frequently provided you with their expected IP ranges. The modern companies, mostly AI companies, seems to be more interested in flying under the radar, and have less respect for the internet infrastructure at a whole. So we're now at a point where I can't tell if it's an ill willed DDoS attack or just shitty AI startup number 7 reloading training data.
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by diffeomorphism | 2025-05-02 06:44:36+00:00
Correct but besides the point. The question of the study is "how much and how do you quantify this?".

There are lots of blindingly obvious qualitative statements, where the quantitative parts is far from obvious. That makes them a good starting point for research.

This is like writing about Newton's theory of gravity as "scientist finds out apples fall downwards. Wasn't that already obvious?".
by bjelkeman-again | 2025-05-02 06:45:13+00:00
It is interesting to see how that compares to the much smaller Candela P-12 ferry shuttle. Candela is a an electric hydrofoil.

30 passengers, 336 kWh usable at max range, gives 11 kWh per person. Max range 72 km (40 nautical miles), 0.16 kWh/person/km.

https://candela.com/pro-series/p-12-shuttle/
by muzani | 2025-05-02 06:45:27+00:00
I planned to do this one. Check with the law, like talk to a lawyer or someone in the consumer ministry. Prices were protected under law in our case. It wasn't legal to crowdsource it; stores had to share it willingly. I'm not sure of the Act is still there, but we ended up pivoting around it.

You can skirt laws like Uber did and sometimes change them. But be aware of the how far you can skirt them. If you're making a political statement, be extra careful.

In our case, shops were unhappy because of the business model. They overcharged on some things and made others look cheap, but to whomever they targeted, they wanted to look cheap. When we compared a grocery list between multiple shops, it turns out most had similar totals. It would have encouraged user behavior where they buy chicken in this shop, salmon there, diapers in another shop. And because all of these were loss leaders, it would have been bad for the stores overall. Also consider the protectionist environment that brings about tariffs and the current hostile climate against "tech bros", and it's a doubly bad idea - if the law doesn't get you, the mob will.

But if they share it with you willingly, it's normally legal and less work. We had a phase when implementing GST where companies would advertise that they were not raising prices. All you have to do is verify this. You can even charge an advertising fee.
by simonw | 2025-05-02 06:45:40+00:00
Honestly would probably make a big difference:

"For example, when participants were asked to write about their favorite food or holiday, AI consistently suggested American favorites, pizza and Christmas, respectively."

I'm confident that a system prompt saying "the user lives in India and writes about Indian culture" would prevent the above problem from occurring. Whether it actually output useful cultural suggestions is another, more interesting question but I very much doubt Christmas and pizza would show up by default.
by larodi | 2025-05-02 06:45:42+00:00
> "if your business value is your codebase, it's hard to build a business whilst literally giving it away".

perhaps then it comes as no surprise that some very outspoken open-source proponents do not open-source their core business components. I can understand they do it in order to exist as a company, as busineses, but I don't understand why they have to endure being shamed for staying closed-source, while all their stack is open. many such companies exist.

and let's add to this all the fact that everything released in 2025 as open-source gets slurped by LLMs for training. so, essentially, you feed bro's models breakfast with your open-source, like it or not. in the very near future we'll be able to perhaps prompt a 'retell' of Redis which is both the same software, but written so that it is not.

in essence there seems to be now little reason to open-source anything at all, and particularly if this is a core-business logic. open-source if you can outpace everybody else (with tech), or else you shouldn't care about the revenue.
by watwut | 2025-05-02 06:45:50+00:00
I really do not understand why you think "this was the GOPs moment to actually deregulate things in a manner that's good for people".

Nothing about this moment created conditions for such a thing.

There was no support for such a thing and no real promiss to do such a thing. No track record fod GOP proposing good regulation.

Project 2025 was known and not about helping people. The anto vaccine regulations are already a thing in red states.
by brokegrammer | 2025-05-02 06:46:12+00:00
You have great friends but not everyone will be as lucky to find the right crowd to hang out with. If you grow up in a neighborhood with lots of criminals and people with lower socio-economic status, I would bet that you'd live a better life alone, reading books, or doing other solo activities.

If I lived in Afghanistan for example, I would rather stay at home playing video games instead of interacting with my neighbors. In the past, this would be impossible because video games didn't exist. That's why I'm saying that we live in amazing times where people can "choose" to not have friends instead of being forced into communities.
by nomilk | 2025-05-02 06:47:29+00:00
I don't use kubernetes but the GUI looks great, I'm looking for something sililar for heroku (currently storing logs in papertrail but haven't found a great way to search through achieved logs, especially locally).

Great demo video btw. Would you mind detailing which software you used to make it? I'd like to do similarly for some of my projects.
by mdhb | 2025-05-02 06:48:29+00:00
So wait…

They are using a Signal clone that is run by a group of Israeli intelligence officers??

I don’t think that part of the story has broken yet properly. When you go to google maps for the address listed for that company you actually get a company called “Cyberint” which seems extremely not good.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/L7vVHw5x4VdgS8859?g_st=com.google.ma...

Worse.. when you take a look at the bios for the company on their website I see that it’s filled with supposedly “ex” Israeli intelligence officers including the CEO among others. https://www.telemessage.com/team/

That seems like a MUCH MUCH bigger deal than they currently known story.

Like several orders of magnitude bigger than the original signalgate story.

The implication here is that a bunch of Israeli intelligence officers have maybe the best access of anyone in the world right now in that they have a real time feed of every conversation that the US national security advisor is a part of.
by mrweasel | 2025-05-02 06:50:09+00:00
Apache does everything, it's fairly easy to configure. If there's something you want to do, Apache mostly knows how, or have a module.

If you run a fleet of servers, all doing different things, Apache is a good choice because all the various uses are going to be supported. It might not be the best choice in each individual case, but it is the one that works in all of them.

I don't know why some are so quick to write off Apache. Is just because it's old? It's still something like the second most used webserver in the world.
by NotPractical | 2025-05-02 06:50:44+00:00
F-Droid [1] has a squeaky clean track record when it comes to malware [2]. Might be mostly just because the number of users is relatively low. Quality of course varies wildly, but that's to be expected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid

[2] According to the Wikipedia article there were (are?) some old unmaintained apps using vulnerable native libraries but that's not intentional malware and every app store has apps with vulnerabilities of some sort.
by geysersam | 2025-05-02 06:50:54+00:00
I don't think llms always can give correct explanations for their answers. That's a misunderstanding.

> Then there is the question of what you would do with its response. I

Sure but that's a separate question. I'd say the first course of action would be to edit the prompt. If you have to resort to fine tuning I'd say the approach has failed and the tool was insufficient for the task.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-05-02 06:51:01+00:00
> Neither does autism.

If there is an objective definition of autism, I am not aware of it.

> Yes. I've been saying that all along. The increase in case numbers - and the inferred conclusion that something environmental has changed to cause that - is an illusion.

This has as little evidence to support it as the idea that autism increases are being caused by something environmental.
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by lelanthran | 2025-05-02 06:52:51+00:00
> Contract law does not invalidate ethics, no matter how appealing it is to opt out of ethics

I didn't claim it does, I am claiming that since ethics is subjective and the contract is not, you subjecting your moral standard to others is no different than a mob subjecting an old woman to accusations of being a witch.

Now, you may not have a problem publicly judging others, but your actions are barely different from those of the Westboro Baptist Church.

IOW, sure, you are allowed to publicly condemn people who hold different moral beliefs to you, but the optics are not good for you.
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Best AI for Reading Books
by bendtb | 2025-05-02 06:54:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently finished writing a book (in English), and I would like to turn it into a free eBook. I am Dutch and not particularly fond of my recorded voice, so I am experimenting with three audio formats—all using AI: 1. My voice cloned with AI: I will record a sample, then let the AI generate the full narration in my voice. 2. Standard AI narration: A clear, neutral voice that reads the book word-for-word like a traditional audiobook. 3. Podcast-style version: Using AI to rewrite and narrate the material in a more conversational and digestible format, like a podcast episode.

Curious to hear if anyone has done something similar, and open to recommendations on tools/platforms for any of the above.

Pleased to hear, thank you.
by cbarrick | 2025-05-02 06:54:30+00:00
I think the explanation "you’ll end up exhausting your own resources" is wrong for this case. I think you are correct that the bots are simply too dumb.

The likely explanation is that the bots are just curling the expensive URLs without a proper JavaScript engine to solve the challenge.

E.g. if I hack a bunch of routers around the world to act as my botnet, I probably wouldn't have enough storage to install Chrome or Selenium. The lightweight solution is just to use curl/wget (which may be pre-installed) or netcat/telnet.
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by geysersam | 2025-05-02 06:56:19+00:00
Do you seriously think a typical contemporary LLM would screw up 33% of vending machine orders?

I don't know what benchmark you're looking at but I'm sure the questions in it were more complicated than the logic inside a vending machine.

Why don't you just try it out? It's easy to simulate, just tell the bot about the task and explain to it what actions to perform in different situations, then provide some user input and see if it works or not.
by rlue | 2025-05-02 06:56:20+00:00
The one time I ever rode in a waymo (in Los Angeles), I had a contradictory experience. My Waymo was attempting to make a right turn at a red light. We were stopped behind a human driver who was waiting for pedestrians to finish crossing before proceeding to make the turn. This was a college campus (UCLA), so there were lots of pedestrians. After a few seconds of waiting, the Waymo decided that the driver ahead of us was an immobile obstacle, and cut left around this car to complete the right turn in front of it. There was only one lane to turn into.

Luckily, no one was hurt, and I generally trust a waymo not to plow into a pedestrian when it makes a maneuver like that. I also understand the argument that autonomous vehicles are easily safer on average than human drivers, and that’s what matters when making policy decisions.

But they are not perfect, and when they make mistakes, they tend to be particularly egregious.
by trhway | 2025-05-02 06:56:45+00:00
>You might as well just say “dark skinned countries,”

Argentine is 97% European descent. Where is non-white countries like Japan and South Korea are in the Global North.

It isn't about race/skin color. The "Third World" was well suitable until Soviet Block (Second World) collapsed with most of its components going either into the First/Western World or into the Third World thus resulting in the world being partitioned just into 2 large parts with Russia+Belarus being the distant small 3rd, so small that it is just easier to count them into the First/Western style developed world especially considering that they both moved into capitalism losing that major trait - socialism - of the Second World. (Though 30+ years later Russia does more and more drift toward the former Third World, i.e Global South).
by palata | 2025-05-02 06:57:59+00:00
That's wrong: they pay Grafana Labs to use it as proprietary, as noted in another comment:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/#CommAnchor1019710

> Grafana's a great example of this. AWS and Azure _could_ have sold the unmodified AGPL Grafana as a service or published their modified versions, but instead, they both struck proprietary licensing and co-marketing agreements with Grafana Labs.
by beAbU | 2025-05-02 06:58:09+00:00
Generally parking far away from your destination and walking the last mile or two is such a simple and effective way to get yourself walking I'm surprised it's not a more popular life hack.

You are sitting comfortable in your car, parking close or far away is not going to impact your /immediate/ comfort (future you's problem!), and likely the parking is more open far away, so it's going to be easier to find a spot and get in/out of your car when you are far away. Win win!
by thinkingemote | 2025-05-02 06:58:21+00:00
> Is like my great grandpa scolding us at the dinner table for laughing and talking

It's more like a non-familial, formal dinner setting. Think about a job interview where the CEO and interviewer take you and another interviewee to dinner in a fancy restaurant. You turn up in jeans and sneakers with your buddy and you laugh and crack jokes together, the other interviewee turns up in smart clothes and talks soberly. In a few cases (and perhaps only seen in Holywood movies about the American Dream) the CEO may love the irreverence and impertinence and see it as a strength and sign of strong individuality, in almost all cases the bosses will not appreciate it and you will not get a job. Great grandpa loves you, the boss at your place of work doesn't.