MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chucksmash | 2025-05-30 17:41:21+00:00
It's not even intended as hyperbole. Watching kids first learn to program, there were many high schoolers who didn't really get the reason you'd want to use a variable. They'd use a constant (say, 6) in their program. You'd say, "how about we make this a variable?" So they'd write "six = 6" - which shows they understand they're giving a name to the value, but also shows they don't really yet understand why they're giving a name to the value.

I think the mental rewiring that goes on as you move past those primitive first steps is so comprehensive that it makes it hard to relate across that knowledge boundary. Some of the hardest things to explain are the ones that have become a second nature to us.
by cure8 | 2025-05-30 17:41:37+00:00
That's some clarity, you're mostly right. I figured a corporate coding job would often be quite boring, but still 10x as preferable as serving tables.

Maybe what I need is a job that doesn't suck much out of me, code or otherwise, so I can implement some cool shit on the side. Maybe something will take hold and I'll escape.

Thank you.
by taylodl | 2025-05-30 17:41:41+00:00
> In this case, the driver had less than a second to react, and even if he had reacted, it might have made things worse, like correcting, but not enough to get back on the road and hit the tree head-on instead.

As the article rightly notes, Tesla FSD is still a Level 2 driver assistance system, not a fully autonomous solution. From my background in Human-Machine Interface (HMI) design, I’ve long argued that expecting a human to instantly take over in a high-speed, high-stakes situation - especially to correct an unexpected or erratic system behavior - is a fundamental design flaw.

Human attention and reaction time simply don’t align with the demands of these edge cases. If the system requires a human to be both disengaged and instantly ready, it creates a paradox that undermines safety.
by kazinator | 2025-05-30 17:42:10+00:00
That is very clever, and useful, thank you.

But it doesn't achieve the effect we are after at present.

When we reflect the stereogram left to right, the orientation of the parallax recorded in the images also flips and so the net effect is zero: if the original stereo pair is a stare-into-the distance stereogram, the reflected stereogram is also.
by janalsncm | 2025-05-30 17:42:27+00:00
People ask this question a lot and annoyingly the answer is: there are many definitions of “best”. Speed, capabilities (e.g. do you want it to be able to handle images or just text?), quality, etc.

It’s like asking what the best pair of shoes is.

Go on Ollama and look at the most popular models. You can decide for yourself what you value.

And start small, these things are GBs in size so you don’t want to wait an hour for a download only to find out a model runs at 1 token / second.
by ianburrell | 2025-05-30 17:44:20+00:00
Phone numbers have nothing to do with the spoofing problem. Hierarchical identifiers would have the exact same problem. The problem is that VOIP callers can set whatever phone number they want. Email is also vulnerable to spoofing.

The solution is to roll out signing for phone numbers. The owner of each phone number is known. It could even be published in DNS with ENUM. Most phone calls are from big companies like telcos and mobile providers. The VOIP callers would be harder to update, but could be restricted so can't spoof known numbers.

If going to roll out new identity system, easier to use existing phone numbers than make a whole new identifier system.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-30 17:44:24+00:00
Also see the installation of "HALO" type detectors in schools.

They use zero-party audio recording to detect 'gunshots' (why the fuck does a school need this to detect gunshots which will be heard throughout the whole school? Are they expecting the world's quietest silencer?) And I put in quotes, because gunshots here seems like a thinly veiled way to try and finagle around illegally recording people.

They also invade the bathrooms with 'vape' detectors that smell the children at all times to make sure they are in compliance.
I'm building a game-changer in AI x Biotech-need feedback and thoughts "
by siranlabs | 2025-05-30 17:45:05+00:00
I’ve been quietly working on a stealth startup based in India, focused on merging artificial intelligence with advanced biotechnology.

It’s called Project SIRAN for now. Think of it as an AI-powered engine that can understand, diagnose, and help predict bio-health trends, conditions, and even aid in pre-symptom diagnostics.

This is not just healthtech. This is intelligent biosystems. Still in early MVP phase, but the pilot tests are incredibly promising.

Not looking to raise yet — just curious:

If you were building AI x Bio from India… what would you do differently?

Any VCs, founders, engineers here who've been in this field before?

What would make this a billion-dollar play in your view?

AMA. Open to collab too. Thanks.
by esoterae | 2025-05-30 17:45:18+00:00
I'm confused; which one is it? The property owner pays 20k, or the ratepayers are subsidizing it?

Also, my pge statements now have a line item for transmission that's usually larger than my generation total. If I have 2x solar and I'm feeding my neighbor, are they paying the same "transmission" structure for the power I'm providing them?
by prisenco | 2025-05-30 17:45:38+00:00
They don't detect if you're a human exactly. What they do is they create a calculation expense that is negligible if there's one of you but adds up quickly if you're running a bot farm that needs to send out 10,000 requests a second.

So I click the button, my browser does a quick proof-of-work, no big deal.

But an automated script will have to complete that proof-of-work every time it encounters it, skyrocketing the cpu costs for the server.
by daedrdev | 2025-05-30 17:46:31+00:00
I mean some of these are just easily problematic and wrong, so its better to take their good ideas and not the rest.

Like these are just 2 cases of a number of examples

1993 chemistry doesn't believe AIDS is caused by HIV, doesn't believe in Climate Chiange, believes in astrology, thinks he talked to talking alien racoon

2008 medicine founded their own journal and claimed viruses emitted radio waves to arrange water in nanostructure that let you teleport DNA though Homeopathy and also claims vaccines cause autism.
by amazingamazing | 2025-05-30 17:46:54+00:00
Trust me, I love FDB, but that's not the same thing. The FDB team IIRC had to write their own programming language to do this. It's not a agnostic layer above the application.

The problem with coupled tooling is that no one will use it. That's what is cool about antithesis. If they're able to complete their goal, that's basically what will be achieved.
by arp242 | 2025-05-30 17:47:23+00:00
They don't detect if you're a bot or not; it just makes it more expensive, the idea being that doing $action 10,000 (or more) times becomes much more costly for the attacker, preferably to the point where doing $action (posting spam, creating accounts, etc.) is no longer profitable. It's probably more useful to see it as a ratelimiter than a bot detection mechanism.
by belter | 2025-05-30 17:47:44+00:00
The proof they are not "smart" in the way intelligence is normally defined, is that the models need to "read" all the books in the world. To perform at a level close to an expert on the domain, who read just two or three of the most representative books on his own domain.

We will be on the way to AGI when your model can learn Python just by reading the Python docs...Once...
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-30 17:47:49+00:00
>I think it's kind of a German thing.

Nordic, Scandinavian, German, Austrian, Swiss, etc any culture where personal space is valued and talking to random strangers/outsiders in public not the norm.

>but in practice, you usually see people there in pre-formed groups.

Because most people by the age of 25+, or whenever they graduate college/university already have their core social circle solidified and don't have the time, space and energy to seek or even let newcomers in. If you move into town after that age, you're gonna have un uphill battle to squeeze yourself into groups no matter how sociable you are or how good your bouldering skills are unless you run into other similar loners looking for friends, then you're in luck.

It's just the way it is, it's not your fault and not other peoples' fault , hence why I dislike such broad stroke one size fits all advices like "just do bouldering bro" as that's missing a lot of the context and variables that relationships are built on. You should choose activities based on what you most enjoy to do, not based on which others tell you leads to make relationships.
by nqzero | 2025-05-30 17:48:27+00:00
i'm on a mid-level laptop, at times with slow or expensive internet, running ubuntu. i want to be able to run nominally-isolated "copies" of my laptop at near-native speed

1. each one should have it's own network config, eg so i can use wireguard or a vpn

2. gui pass-through to the host, eg wayland, for trusted tools, eg firefox, zoom or citrix

3. needs to be lightweight. eg gnome-boxes is dead simple to setup and run and it works, but the resource usage was noticeably higher than native

4. optional - more security is better (ie, i might run semi-untrusted software in one of them, eg from a github repo or npm), but i'm not expecting miracles and accept that escape is possible

5. optional - sharing disk with the host via COW would be nice, so i'd only need to install the env-specific packages, not the full OS

i'm currently working on a podman solution, and i believe that it will work (but rebuilding seems to hammer the network - i'm hoping i can tweak the layers to reduce this). does microsandbox offer any advantages for this use case ?
by matty22 | 2025-05-30 17:48:35+00:00
I've looked into all of these orgs and every single one of them requires the belief in a "God". That has to be a huge turn off to a lot of younger people who might have been interested in joining for the social parts of the group. All of them lost any interest from me because I'm not going to take an initiation oath claiming to believe in a God that I don't believe in.

If they really want new members, they need to self-reflect on antiquated requirements that might turn off younger people from joining their organization.
by const_cast | 2025-05-30 17:49:22+00:00
Everything is a function of scale. IMO saying "this always happened" means nothing.

Lying on a small scale is no big deal. Lying on a big scale burns the world down. Me pirating Super Mario 64 means nothing. Everyone pirating everything burns the economy down. Me shooting a glass coke bottle is not note worthy. Nuclear warheads threaten humanity's existence.

Yes, AI fabrication is a huge problem that we have never experienced before, precisely because of how it can scale.
by SunlitCat | 2025-05-30 17:49:25+00:00
There is something off with

> ...and despite supporting it [AVX512] on consumer CPUs for several generations...

I dunno. Before Rocket Lake (11th gen) AVX512 was only available in those enthusiast cpu, xeon cpu or in some mobile processors (which i wouldn't really call consumer cpu).

With the 12th gen (and that performance/efficiency core concept), they disabled it after a few months in those core and it was never seen again.

I am pretty sure tho, after AMD has some kind of success with AVX512 Intel will reintroduce it again.

btw. I am still rocking an Intel i9-11900 cpu in my setup here. ;)
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-30 17:49:46+00:00
>On the other hand, I think gating functions are necessary to build community.

Of course, obviously, 100% agree. But then why is there so much debate in this topic that "men's only social/recreational spaces" are somehow discriminatory? We humans segregate ourselves based on a lot of shared things all the time since childhood.

>Bouldering favors slim people.

You're missing my point. The point I was making is that where I live, what I noticed, is that people who go to perform solitary sports like bouldering, tend to do said activity for the workout itself, not to meet new people or socialize with strangers.

They go there alone or with their group, they boulder alone or together, then they go home, not reciprocate much to chit-chat of others since that's not what they came for. You can pick any other such sport, likes fitness studios/gym, the result will be the same, people go there to lift weights, then go home, any addition chit-chat is more of an annoying interruption from their workout. Sure, people here are polite and they'll answer your questions on technique or to spot you, but they won't open up to strangers and start to befriend you just because you engaged them in some conversation. Social etiquette differs heavily between cultures. Some are more isolationist towards strangers and value personal space, some are more open.

You have better chances in meeting people in socializing at teams sports like football, volleyball, martial arts, etc because the sport itself demands it. Or just to events where socializing is the main activity like concerts, pub quizzes, etc. but solitary sports like bouldering are pretty bad for that unless the bouldering gym is full of posers who only go there seeking to socialize instead of work out (there are some of those in every gym, you see them spend most of the time scrolling on their phone or taking selfies for Instagram stories instead of working out).
by saghm | 2025-05-30 17:50:12+00:00
Whether or not the courts defer to agencies in different scenarios is not nearly as big a part of "how judicial review works" as it sounds like you're trying to claim. Literally last year the Supreme Court removed a major precedent to how deferential the courts need to be to federal agencies[1], so there's absolutely nothing inherent to judicial review that would require things to continue working the way you claim they do even if it was current precedent.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loper_Bright_Enterprises_v._Ra...
by tombert | 2025-05-30 17:51:13+00:00
Yeah, I know, but there's knowing this and there's "knowing" this. I've interviewed enough people to know that people get declined for the dumbest reasons, or no reason at all, so I'm aware that it's really not a slight on my character that some middle manager at a company doesn't think I'm smart enough.

But it can be easy to forget that too. I prepare for the interview, I do my best to answer a bunch of technical questions, I try and be polite and straightforward with my answers, I try and be the very best version of myself, only to get a rejection two days later. It's just exhausting.

They'd be so much easier if I were allowed to be actually be honest with these things. I wish that I were allowed to answer the "why do you want to work for Company X?" with "because I need to exchange money for goods and services to survive and I am hoping that if I provide some of my time and expertise you will provide me some money", instead of trying to explain how I think that working on a website that generates AI videos of cats dancing will somehow save the world, which is what they actually want to hear. I think I am a bit too autistic to really get it; they know I'm lying, I know I'm lying, what's the point of making me go through that song and dance?

I realize it's just the hoops that everyone has to jump through, I get it, but it's just exhausting.
by janalsncm | 2025-05-30 17:51:52+00:00
Aside from the fact that I highly doubt anyone was banned as you describe, EM’s stories have gotten more and more grandiose. So it’s not the same.

Today he’s pitching moonshot projects as core to Tesla.

10 years ago he was saying self-driving was easy, but he was also selling by far the best electric vehicle on the market. So lying about self driving and Tesla semis mattered less.

Fwiw I’ve been subbed to tf00t since his 50 part creationist videos in early 2010s.
by thisislife2 | 2025-05-30 17:52:05+00:00
Recalled that Pale Moon is the only modern browser still capable of running Flash, and, looking that up I discovered that the last Flash installer for windows was around 425 MB! (Source: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=24724 ). Guess every web engine has to try and become an OS!
by constantcrying | 2025-05-30 17:52:08+00:00
How is criticizing the premise of something a "generic tangent"? If the premise behind something is bad the whole thing is bad.

Evaluating something obviously needs to account for the context it exists in. In fact talking about this particular Show HN is impossible without implicitly or explicitly taking a position on the hiring process. If the current hiring practices were good, having resources to succeed in them would be beneficial and praise worthy. Otherwise they only help to strengthen a broken process, although obviously it might be beneficial to individuals to game that process (which further demonstrates the problems with that process).

I don't see how you even could substantively talk about this post without evaluating the hiring practices it presupposes.
by const_cast | 2025-05-30 17:52:51+00:00
Sure, but scale matters. 99% of images being fake is a different situation than 1% being fake. We can't just ignore that in favor of a "this always happened" argument.

Everything has always happened, so who cares? We need to go deeper than that. Many things that are perfectly a-okay today are only so because we do it on a small enough scale. Many perfectly fine things, if we scale them up, destroy the world. Literally.

Even something as simple as pirating, which I support, would melt all world economies if everyone did it with everything.
by qingcharles | 2025-05-30 17:52:52+00:00
If you look on localllama you'll see most of the people there are really just trying to do NSFW or other questionable or unethical things with it.

The stuff you can run on reasonable home hardware (e.g. a single GPU) isn't going to blow your mind. You can get pretty close to GPT3.5, but it'll feel dated and clunky compared to what you're used to.

Unless you have already spent big $$ on a GPU for gaming, I really don't think buying GPUs for home makes sense, considering the hardware and running costs, when you can go to a site like vast.ai and borrow one for an insanely cheap amount to try it out. You'll probably get bored and be glad you didn't spend your kids' college fund on a rack of H100s.
by bitpush | 2025-05-30 17:53:00+00:00
(replying to self with thoughts on the second podcast)

It is a hard listen. Seeing the host accept that they are being "willfully naive" in holding out for a better outcome from Apple leadership.

I understand that devs have invested time/effort in Apple ecosystem, but if you take a step back - this is textbook abusive relationship. Hoping for better days, thinking that "it will all pass, and happy days are just around the corner".
by reverendsteveii | 2025-05-30 17:53:21+00:00
>You'll hear left wing progressive parents in places like NYC tell stories like "my 8 year old boy came home from school crying because his teacher told hime everything bad that has happened in history was because of men"

I've never heard anyone say that happened but I've heard plenty of people say that they heard someone say that happened. I think it goes in the same file as "Litter boxes in classrooms so that furries can poop in front of everyone" and "It's illegal to be Christian in schools now".
by stephantul | 2025-05-30 17:53:22+00:00
Think of crawlers: a crawler typically makes hundreds or thousands of requests per second. The owners of the crawler then sell this data for X$, or gain X$ profit.

Proof of work adds a very small cost to each individual request, increasing the cost of crawling to a number higher than X. Because actual humans make very few requests, we don’t notice the increase in cost.
by taylodl | 2025-05-30 17:53:23+00:00
While drivers should always be attentive, I think the greater concern with Tesla’s FSD isn’t just for those behind the wheel - it’s for the people outside the vehicle.

Pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and even children getting off school buses have been involved in tragic incidents. These are the people who can’t intervene when the system fails. That’s why I believe the conversation around FSD safety needs to focus more on system accountability and protection of vulnerable road users, not just driver vigilance.
by jijijijij | 2025-05-30 17:53:41+00:00
Pretty sure that's because those toy companies are using cheapest off-the-shelf chips and most basic protocols, because, well, it's cheaper. Likely a lot of rebranded, "open" Chinese toys anyway. That and a neglect for reliability and security probably makes reverse engineering rather straight forward.

Assumption based on connectivity experience, since the Bluetooth connection is usually rather unreliable and weird, and obviously not as well engineered as even cheap Bluetooth in-ear headphones, or game controlers. Ironically very susceptible to being blocked by body parts (which means vibe no more). Seems, like it's some dead simple serial transmission, which isn't fault tolerant at all. Those controllers are not bothering with any buffering, or much any computation at all really. Seems like they just straight stream signals to the motors.
by arnaudsm | 2025-05-30 17:53:51+00:00
Qwen3 family (and the R1 qwen3-8b distill) is #1 in programming and reasoning.

However it's heavily censored on political topics because of its Chinese origin. For world knowledge, I'd recommend Gemma3.

This post will be outdated in a month. Check https://livebench.ai and https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ for up to date benchmarks
by creato | 2025-05-30 17:54:34+00:00
Some of these scam victims are duped into trying to help someone they trust with a financial problem. In that case, the victims are being the opposite of greedy. The only character "flaw" I can think of in these cases is being naive/too trusting.

I don't know how common the "savior" victims are vs. the "get rich quick" victims, but they definitely exist, at least according to various mini-documentaries on pig butchering I've watched. Maybe these victims were modifying the story to seem more sympathetic, I can't say.
by renewiltord | 2025-05-30 17:54:48+00:00
Well, we do have to stay safe out there. We're in a pandemic.

It amuses me that my rave groups already did contact tracing for respiratory illnesses before the pandemic and perhaps because of the large Asian friend group I’m part of we wore masks in more normal contexts when we had a cold.

To be honest, most of the people designing the interventions are just generally short of mental horsepower and strong in self-belief. So they come up with novel approaches that aren’t really required. The fact that there are students who aren’t pro-social on campus complicated things but that’s a self-imposed problem.

It can’t be helped: this is what happens with The Sort. If they were smarter they wouldn’t be college admins.
by appcypher | 2025-05-30 17:55:25+00:00
You are right. We leverage libkrun. Libkrun uses virtio-mmio transport for block, vsock and virtio-fs to keep overhead minimal so we basically depend on any perf improvement made upstream.

Firecracker is no different btw and E2B uses that for agentic AI workloads. Anyway, I don't have any major plan except fix some issues with the filesystem rn.
by reginald78 | 2025-05-30 17:55:34+00:00
The worst part is the algorithms don't even have to be correct. A ton of algorithms, designed to find transgressions, likely judged by purchasers by how many they find. Eventually they are relied upon and are standard for ass covering. But people don't understand how they work so give them a level of trust you wouldn't extend to a person doing the same task.