MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hardwaresofton | 2025-05-28 10:27:32+00:00
anonymity and the open web are different things, and neither of them were promised/guaranteed to anyone on the internet.

For people that value anonymity, they'll create their own spaces. People that value openness will continue to be open.

What we're about to find out is what happens when the tide goes out and people show you what they really believe/want -- anything other than that is a form of social control, whether via browbeating or other means.
by Draiken | 2025-05-28 10:27:38+00:00
Maybe you live in a much better place than I do.

My local bakery pays workers that actually do everything to run the bakery as little as possible while the owner has a mansion, sports car and a boat.

It's more likely our definitions of "fair" are very different. Besides, I already wrote why small companies may not yet be evil, which you seem to completely ignore, so whatever, there's no point in arguing anymore if it's not in good faith.
by unkulunkulu | 2025-05-28 10:27:39+00:00
I came to comments to ask a question, but considering that it is two days old already, I will try to ask you in this thread.

What you think about his argument about “not being able to distinguish possible language from impossible”?

And why is it inherent in ML design?

Does he assume that there could be such an instrument/algorithm that could do that with a certainty level higher than LLM/some ml model?

I mean, certainly they can be used to make a prediction/answer to this question, but he argues that this answer has no credibility? I mean, LLM is literally a model, ie probability distribution over what is language and what is not, what gives?

Current models are probably tuned more “strictly” to follow existing languages closely, ie that will say “no-no” to some yet-unknown language, but isn’t this improvable in theory?

Or is he arguing precisely that this “exterior” is not directly correlated with “internal processes and faculties” and cannot make such predictions in principle?
by augusto-moura | 2025-05-28 10:28:28+00:00
What? JavaScript _has_ a standard library. And even though it has a lot of legacy baggage, it is very well defined [1] [2]. Much better defined than C, for example, where a lot of undefined behavior is given as common practice, but in reality is up to compiler implementation, and varies from architecture to architecture.

JavaScript even with all its thorns, it's a very consistent ecosystem nowadays, across browsers and architectures. Being forever retro-compatible is a good thing, meaning that most code that ran during the 2000s, can still be run with minimal change.

[1]: https://262.ecma-international.org/

[2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/
by subjectsigma | 2025-05-28 10:29:16+00:00
I hate the name too, it has this distinct Toys R’ Us feel to it. It makes Doctorow seem like a petulant baby, even though his general message is sound. And every time I see Doctorow mentioned there’s at least one comment saying it’s a bad name. People criticized RMS for years for using terms like “iCrap”, etc. but for some reason Doctorow is allowed to do this
by crote | 2025-05-28 10:29:58+00:00
> Are you suggesting we get rid of kings day and work in stead?

Why not just replace it with Labour Day? Or some kind of Independence Day - I bet we can come up with a reasonable start-of-country date.

The concept of a decorative politically-neutral head-of-state is solid, but we could just as well replace the king with an elected figure, like Germany has. Meanwhile, it would get rid of a filthy rich family constantly using their "god-given" connections to break the law and further enrich themselves.
by komali2 | 2025-05-28 10:30:27+00:00
> What laws have been passed that explicitly use vulgar words in their names?

Is that the argument? I understood your argument to mean that the term "enshittification" is holding back the movement because nobody will use it. As others are saying, I don't think there's any issue people take with some drop-in term being used if actual laws are passed discussing the topic.

Plenty of movements involving vulgar language, however, did result in laws being passed - "Fuck the Draft" comes to mind, the attitude surrounding which led to the draft ending (after all, why else would it end?), but also was a central fixture in a supreme court ruling that furthered defined 1st amendment rights in the USA.

So again, I just don't understand how one intellectual describing one aspect of the digital rights movement could negatively impact the movement as a whole, which I interpret as your argument.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-05-28 10:32:13+00:00
Astronomers rarely look at color images. These color images are produced by press offices for the public.

That being said, the complaint that the images are "unrealistic" are off-base. The images accurately portray the information that was captured by the telescope. Your eyes often can't even see the wavelengths imaged by space telescopes (like the James Webb Space Telescope), so how you map those wavelengths to RGB is largely arbitrary. As long as you map them in the same order (shorter wavelengths appear bluer, longer wavelengths appear redder), I would consider the images accurate.
by Urahandystar | 2025-05-28 10:32:57+00:00
It will become much more walled garden, I think we will see a rejection of the algorithms and we will get content more from communities than ad's tracking you and serving you up content. I think the web is going to look alot like it was before Facebook with Forums etc but these will be slack channels/discord groups.

The rest of the web will just be an uncharted landscape, I'm looking forward to Stumbleupon making a comeback.
by sneak | 2025-05-28 10:34:04+00:00
This doesn’t get better by ignoring the problem.

This is the social equivalent of just throwing your hands up and saying “it can’t be helped”.

I cannot stress this enough: it _is not_ true. Deleting your IG will not cause your friends to stop being your friends.

Being on these platforms legitimizes their use. It makes the situation _worse_. It is a vote for surveillance and censorship of your most intimate personal connections.
by keiferski | 2025-05-28 10:34:24+00:00
The argument is:

There is a phenomenon that is very clearly happening. Doctorow and others use a vulgar term to describe this phenomenon.

Because this vulgar term is used, it limits the ability of lawmakers, academics, and other "serious" people to care about, discuss, or pass laws that aim to address this phenomenon.

As an analogy: imagine if the concepts of inequality or social injustice were primarily described by a vulgar term. Instead of discussing, "democratic backsliding" or "failure of democracy" we said "democracy shit the bed." This would limit the range of the critique, which if one is interested in actually solving the issue, is an immensely impractical move.
by dspillett | 2025-05-28 10:34:52+00:00
That assumes the vendor runs a buy-back scheme. That would cost and the cost paid by all ticket buyers, if one isn't in place already.

Openly selling is only part of the problem.

How do you distinguish between someone buying tickets as a gift and someone who sold them on in a manner you did not detect? What about group bookings, do you want the ticket seller to collect full ID of all the intended audience members? After that, what if the group of friends changes - who pays the admin fees?

Your idea isn't terrible, but it is far from perfect.

> If noticing scalpers is easy, the bond doesn't need to be silly high.

That is a huge if. Many scalpers are rather experienced and organised, while some will be very easy to spot I suspect a lot of them won't be, at least not without a bunch of false positives that will inconvenience genuine buyers.
by dustingetz | 2025-05-28 10:34:54+00:00
1/ this requires AGI not stochastic parrot - as the training dataset does not contain any successful instances of obtaining actual DRY at scale, so the agent will need to contribute novel research and essentially solve software engineering. It’s not 2-3 years out. And why should any result be aligned to how things work today, why not start over from the qbits and work our way up?

2/ The worst instances of coupling are between foreign systems where one is not in your control to change, or too high risk (such as banking) and prohibitively difficult to test all but the most incremental changes. So at some point you need to decide what error rate is acceptable in any tool assisted rewrite, where error rate is measured in death count and lawsuit liability.
by rickdeckard | 2025-05-28 10:35:01+00:00
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I missed that evolution of "thin" USB-C controllers which delegate the PD handshake elsewhere.

I don't know yet how I feel about the fact that a driver in the OS is supposed to take this role and tell the power-supply how much power to deliver. Not necessarily a novel security concern, but a potential nightmare from a plain B2C customer service perspective (i.e. a faulty driver causing the system to shut down during boot, fry the Motherboard,...)
by floydnoel | 2025-05-28 10:35:08+00:00
they don’t really, at least not in any universal sense. in the military (marine corps) we always used YMD with slashes. i would say that in non-military contexts, dashes are seen with YMD more frequently. but dashes or slashes are used for both YMD and MDY and there's no legal rule or regulation nor requirement to use one or the other. some people just pattern match quickly and assume too much based on that.
by DonHopkins | 2025-05-28 10:36:08+00:00
I love dramatically separating the sardonic Wayne's World postfix not from the sentence... Not!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._Not!

https://youtu.be/MCapEm8Nu7c?t=104

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the insincere disclaimer but prefix, but people always use it to falsely claim they're not racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_not_racist,_but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43gm3CJePn0
by maaaaattttt | 2025-05-28 10:36:27+00:00
I think that's the bet many investors are making at the moment. And if it pays off, it will do so big times as it will be almost impossible to maintain a codebase without an LLM. Therefore making them indispensable for the company using/working on said codebase. If they continue to perform linearly from the point we are now, though, then the only option is to continue making better LLMs capable of comprehending the relative mess the previous one made. Which at the limit means betting on AGI. If for some reason the progress doesn't come fast enough and too many people are making that bet, then developpers (the ones left) can expect even higher salaries than before...
by sph | 2025-05-28 10:37:58+00:00
I feel inspired by your comment. I have gone through burn out, found unable to satisfy myself with gaming as I used to, and I am called to the wild and real work with my hands, that for the time being I am completely unable to indulge in. I am working on getting there, but for now I stare at my Steam account after work to decompress, unexcited by anything, bored to the gills, while deep in my heart all I want is to go mountain biking with a dog, carving wood, fixing a house and reading philosophy under a tree. I am still a few months away from being able to do all that, and it’s excruciating.
by creatonez | 2025-05-28 10:37:59+00:00
This is just not true, though. Astronomers look at color images all the time, in certain areas of research at least. Many color images in the media are copied directly from research papers, since image processing can be rather labor intense to be done just for PR purposes (mainly because you have to essentially calibrate the positioning and noise characteristics of the sensors from scratch -- the color assignment part can actually be done in vanilla photoshop). This is something I feel the article skipped out on explaining, that these false color images are actually research tools the same way that the grayscale images are.

It is true that they also look at a lot of grayscale images, though. Differentiating chemicals in nebulas or on the surface of planets isn't always necessary, and you can always take the simpler (but sometimes less useful, since it doesn't make full use of the human visual system) route of looking at multiple grayscale images. A lot of the areas where false color is most useful are well-trodded ground, so we don't necessarily need more images of the same objects when the existing body of research is already rich. And sometimes, a researcher includes an image in their paper just because they thought it looked cool, not because it was useful for the methodology.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-05-28 10:38:22+00:00
You get the same advantage with AMD, but better, thanks to AMD's superior GPUs.

You might not personally care about 3D, but a lot of DEs and apps use features that benift from GPUs these days (even websites make use of them now!), so technically you'd be better off with AMD - especially considering how much they've improved in the last couple of years, thanks to the involvement of Valve and the Steam Deck.
by ben_w | 2025-05-28 10:38:33+00:00
> Maybe China can become the destination for ambitious smart people.

Don't underestimate the language barrier. All those stereotypes about Chinese people mixing Rs and Ls? That works both ways, not just tongue twisters like Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den*, but even "Hello": https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=“你好”%20%2F%...

And machine translation is currently so bad, that the last few time I tried giving an example here, people who actually speak Chinese would respond with something along the lines of "I have no idea what you tried to write, that is nonsensical".

* https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4&pp=ygUhTGlvbi1FYXR...
by lproven | 2025-05-28 10:38:50+00:00
OK, fair enough.

FWIW, I tested Bottles on 2 machines here, one with Ubuntu 22.04 and one with Ubuntu 24.04.

I could not get any app to install in Bottles that wouldn't run under bare WINE. Apart from a friendly GUI -- although it looks awful on any other desktop, like most Gtk 4 apps -- I can't see any benefit to it, TBH.
by simiones | 2025-05-28 10:40:28+00:00
There is no way to make a passive, solid-state humidifier that doesn't involve some chemical reaction with water. Thermodynamics dictates that precipitating water from a non-saturated atmosphere must generate large amounts of heat (assuming pressure doesn't change) and so can't be a self-sustaining process.

So, even though it may not be 100% clear how from their description, their device is nothing but a novel way of making a dehumidifier that needs some kind of active component - perhaps the AC that is keeping the temperature steady in their experiment (since water condensation generates large amounts of heat, it's likely that, without the AC, temperature would rise and their water droplets would evaporate right back).
Show HN: Quiz Coding – Teacher Mode for AI Agent in Python Notebook
by pplonski86 | 2025-05-28 10:41:21+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’m working on a desktop app that helps people with domain knowledge analyze their data - even if they don’t know Python. It’s a great option for anyone who wants something more powerful than Excel or SPSS.

My cofounder and I presented our app at PyCon US’25, we have booth on StartUp Row. One of our extensions, is a chat panel next to the Python notebook, so you can just ask the AI to load your data or run analysis for you.

During the conference, a visitor (who is a lecturer) suggested a really cool idea: Instead of showing the full code, he wanted the AI to show code with a missing part. His students would then have to guess what goes in the blank. We liked the idea so much that we started building “teacher mode” right after the event!

Here’s how it works:

We updated the AI prompt so it returns code with a missing part (marked as ***). The AI also suggests three possible answers (A, B, C), and only one is correct. Our app then shows the question and three buttons. If the student picks the right answer, the full code is inserted into the notebook and runs automatically.

You can read more about Teacher Mode here: https://mljar.com/docs/ai-teacher/

And if you want to try it, you can download the app here: https://platform.mljar.com/

The app comes with Python, Jupyter Lab, and our extensions that makes data analysis much easier :)

Would love to hear your feedback or ideas!
by sneak | 2025-05-28 10:41:58+00:00
Yes, why? This is the market working as it should. Market participants should be free to use all available information.

The lowballing should be counteracted by competition. There isn’t any competition because the number of hospitals is artificially constrained by the state and a cartel can go to all of them in a region (usually a single digit number) and capture all of them, cornering the market for purchasing labor in that field.

The problem is not that the bidders have the information. The problem is that there is effectively only one bidder: the cartel.

An app that doesn’t do this (and thus pays more) would quickly have access to the entire labor pool by offering higher wages. It doesn’t exist because of illegal activity. That’s not caused by the cartel having access to, or using, information.

You are addressing the symptoms of the cartel, not the root cause.
by Valectar | 2025-05-28 10:42:07+00:00
It's not exactly whizzing around at light speed in the way that you imagine if it's beneath an event horizon. The entire point of an event horizon is that everything beyond it physically cannot move outward. The horizon isn't some kind of physical barrier, it is just the farthest distance at which the black hole's gravity becomes inescapable, that doesn't stop applying just because you've moved past the horizon, and in fact it only becomes more true.

If you imagine any sphere beneath the event horizon which is centered on the singularity, that sphere is just as inescapable as the farthest such sphere which we call the event horizon.

Additionally, the event horizon is inescapable to everything. Even gravitation is transmitted at the speed of light, and cannot outrun the cascade of inwardly falling spacetime beneath the event horizon. So no possible change in the distribution of mass within a black hole could have any effect on the configuration of spacetime at the event horizon, or even on any spacetime further from the singularity than itself.
by dgb23 | 2025-05-28 10:42:39+00:00
Why is producing all that waste and complexity necessary in the first place?

We often get distracted by benefits and forget to look at the costs. And we often overdo things to a degree where previous wisdom has to be re-discovered again and again.

Having experienced a couple of hype cycles, I learned that the sensible thing is to narrow down what the new thing is useful for specifically.

And all that's assuming that the prediction holds. I don't see any clear signs of whether the usefulness and precision is primarily a quantitative or qualitative issue.
by DocTomoe | 2025-05-28 10:43:43+00:00
Porsche Automobil Holding SE owns about 53% of the voting rights, but only about 35% of the assets, so technically they do not own VW, they just control it.

Audi never owned Volkswagen. Volkswagen has owned Audi since 1964. What is true is that there has been an attempt of Porsche AG (the sports car company, not the capital holding) to take over VW in the late 2000s, but got switcheroo'd and instead taken over by VW.

While Audi does build some engines for VW (especially in the higher-tier sector, which arguably is more of an Audi thing to begin with), VW itself produces engines itself (to name a few, the TSI-, TDI- and TGI-series of engines).

Now, does VW build good cars? It's a hit and miss. I personally drive a New Beetle, and will probably continue to drive it for years, the thing is build like a tank and reliable to a fault. Then you have models that are ... not something I would like to drive.
by metalman | 2025-05-28 10:44:36+00:00
I'm game, but first, would you be so kind as to give some indication of your practical or theoretical understanding of the subject of off grid, grid tie or remote/small grid or even portable power systems. I will restate that the homebuilt system under discussion is remarkable in just how simple and effectivly it has been designed to reduce risk to the lowest possible levels, ie: idivdual cell fuseing, coupled with very low power/volume density in a physicaly removed electrical building, means that the conditions for a fire are very low, the chance if that fire spreading to the whole bank are very low, and any possible, small, slowly burning fire then escaping the electrical build is low, and the chance of that small fire then injuring any unsuspecting indivuals is the exceptionaly low. The only astounding part is that the guy who designed and built it isn't bieng consulted in formalising his method for wider adoption.
by sph | 2025-05-28 10:44:41+00:00
> Instead, it can be attacked simply by purchasing a lot of compute.

It’s easier to accumulate a lot of money than to accumulate a lot of hardware and building a nuclear plant to literally outcompete the rest of the world, no? And at that point you are no longer invisible, so the rest of the world could simply decide to ignore your monopolistic contributions to the blockchain altogether and fork.
by crote | 2025-05-28 10:46:24+00:00
No. Flicker fusion only happens when the same image is shown at the same position.

Something like a moving mouse cursor shows the same image at different positions. As an experiment, create a fullscreen image with the opposite color of your mouse cursor. Look at a fixed spot of this image, then rapidly move your mouse cursor across it. Rather than a moving image, you will see a bunch of copies of the cursor at fixed positions.

Similarly, track a rapidly moving cursor with your eyes. It will appear blurry, even though your eyes have no trouble sharply seeing an object moving at that speed in the natural world.

You can also try flashing an image for a very short amount of time. You'll be able to see and remember its content, even when it is being displayed for a period far shorter than flicker fusion would suggest you'd be able to see.
by Voultapher | 2025-05-28 10:47:09+00:00
Cory Doctorow is one of the best contemporary authors that I know, nearly everything he writes is concise, poignant and relevant and he writes new articles nearly every day. You can find his writing here [1]. One of his most memorable articles for me is about remote attestation and the context in lives in [2], absolutely worth a read.

[1] https://pluralistic.net

[2] https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/
by nordiknomad5 | 2025-05-28 10:48:42+00:00
I am not sure why my brave browser does not console out the error as in the OP

console.log(new Date('2025/05/28').toDateString());

console.log(new Date('2025-05-28').toDateString());

console.log(new Date('2025-5-28').toDateString());

OutPut Below

Wed May 28 2025 debugger eval code:1:9 Wed May 28 2025 debugger eval code:2:9 Wed May 28 2025 debugger eval code:4:9
by dino222 | 2025-05-28 10:49:13+00:00
I think it's not unreasonable to connect vetting student visas with the fight with Harvard, but could it be correlation rather than causation?

Social media vetting has been in place since 2019, surviving multiple administrations. Most people I know do not fill in the boxes on their ESTA form despite technically being perjury from what I understand. Expanding social media vetting to better catch unreported social media accounts to enforce a now longish-standing policy on a smaller group of visa applicants as a start doesn't seem too insane I think? It does if you link it to university suppression like the Harvard case, but I think there might be some straw-reaching in connecting them.
by codegladiator | 2025-05-28 10:49:26+00:00
I've been using this obscure tool called "documentation" for years now. It's this revolutionary concept where the people who created the software actually write down how it works!

Sometimes it even has examples showing how to use the software correctly.

I know it sounds too good to be true, but trust me once you discover documentation, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.