MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alwa | 2025-05-17 22:45:52+00:00
You should check out Home Assistant and the vast range of ecosystems it integrates with! There a dazzling range of radio standards and manufacturers that have considered the problems you’re describing.

You could (and I understand many people do) run an entire smart home without any WiFi at all, if you’d like.

Home Assistant is free and open-source, and I understand from his comment above that their founder generously donated the project to a non-profit foundation to sustain it that way for the future.

Which is awfully reassuring with respect to the rent-seeking incentives you’re worried about.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-17 22:46:47+00:00
> I would be very interested to see the test rerun while limiting LLM response length or encouraging long responses from humans.

I don’t know if that would have the effect you want. And if you’re more likely have hallucinations at lower word counts, that matters for those who are scrupulous, but many people trying to convince you of something believe the ends justify the means, and that honesty or correspondence to reality are not necessary, just nice to have.

Asking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43950684 - May 2025 (1 comment)

which is reporting on this post:

Good answers not necessarily factual answers: analysis of hallucination in LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43950678 - May 2025 (1 comment)
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-05-17 22:46:50+00:00
I'm learning Finnish. For the most part, Gemini and ChatGPT do a much better job at generating passable if sightly Internet-inflected Finnish than I'm likely to anyway within the next 5 years, so I just talk with those.

I would imagine Dutch to be in the same camp, unless a native Dutch speaker reviews some of your conversations and tells you otherwise. My native Finnish wife has given me the marginal all-clear with the vanilla models.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-05-17 22:48:00+00:00
I think the next version of Android is supposed to include a terminal that can run Linux.

I don't know the specifics but it would be better than having to root the phone and use chroot.

It's sad that a phone running java on top of Linux isn't able to run Linux app without big downside like termux and proot. Hopefully it changes.
by meroes | 2025-05-17 22:48:48+00:00
That’s amazing because made up language might also just be context scaffolding sans reasoning, e.g. it’s arbitrary extra context for machines to relate human text better. I’m not even trying to play devils advocate—-like both sides, true believers or pessimists, come up with wholly unconvincing arguments. (I genuinely don’t know if the tweet is a true believer or not). At least the pessimists aren’t coupled with the AI marketeers.
by wrasee | 2025-05-17 22:49:56+00:00
Only if you assume a priori that you are going to read it anyway, which misses the whole point.

Because you should have read RFC 1331.

Even then your argument assumes that optimising for total time (to include your own learning time) is the goal, and not solving the business case as a priority (your actual problem). That assumption may not be the case when you have a patch to submit. What you solve at what time point is the general case, there’s no single optimum.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-17 22:50:03+00:00
Actually the D.E.A. is directly involved in all prescriptions and prescriber activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administratio...

Every US prescriber such as a physician or NP must be registered with the DEA and obtain a registration number. This number is provided on all their prescription pads, and it's a number required by the [also DEA-registered] pharmacy to authenticate all prescription requests, controlled substance or not.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-05-17 22:50:39+00:00
...The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

- Industrial Society And Its Future, Ted Kaczynski (1975)
by andix | 2025-05-17 22:51:05+00:00
> You clearly aren’t familiar with how broad the Computer Misuse Act is

No, I'm not familiar with it at all. But usually illegal hacking requires to access devices in a way you aren't allowed to access. As long as making the phone call itself is not an issue, it should be fine. Dumping data from the memory of your phone can't be unauthorized.

It would probably become an issue if you make unusual phone calls, harassing people with constantly calling, or calling just for the purpose of getting the location data and immediately hanging up. But just dumping the diagnostics for regular phone calls should be fine (I'm not a lawyer).
by angra_mainyu | 2025-05-17 22:53:06+00:00
I have to agree, particularly if you look at functions as pipelines: data/events go in, other data/events go out.

If I had to hazard some kind of heuristic with 99% applicability, it'd be to always strive to have code with as few indentations (branches) as possible. If your code is getting too indented, those deep Vs are either a sign that your implementation has a strong mismatch with the underlying problem or you need to break things up into smaller functions.
by lioeters | 2025-05-17 22:55:19+00:00
I fell off your train of thought about halfway through, but I agree with the main point that there's way too much unnecessary churn in the web dev world, 90% is about right. Just busy work, changing APIs, forcing new and untested paradigms onto library users, major version upgrades that expect everyone to rewrite their code..

Intentionally or unconsciously, much of the work is about ensuring there will always be demand for more work. Or else there's a risk of naturally falling apart over time. Why would you build it that way!?
by bsenftner | 2025-05-17 22:55:49+00:00
You seem to be defending the blog author. The author themselves describes their experience as:

But now, when my brain spontaneously forms a tiny sliver of a potentially interesting concept or idea, I can just shove a few sloppy words into a prompt and almost instantly get a fully reasoned, researched, and completed thought.

This is casual, unmeditated use of an LLM and then allowing an emotional reaction to shut down further investigation. Excuse me for describing the author's own experience and related that back with an interpretation you feel is disrespect. I can dress it with less comprehensible words, disguising the perspective, but it is still a mirror reflection of the blog author's own assessments. He describes being overshadowed and intimidated to paralysis. Is that happening across the board? Are people exposed to LLMs developing inferiority complexes and ambition loss? Can this ideas and issues even be discussed if people are afraid of the topics? Discuss my points, do not say my language is illegal to this community, that is a cop out in an forum that is supposed to be exploring ideas.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-05-17 22:56:49+00:00
So, you completely confused two very obviously qualitatively different things there, and completely misunderstood what I said.

The majority of states, historically and today, sporadically or sometimes intensely take human lives to some degree, but this is very different from something like the policy the Nazis applied of wholesale, mass industrialized genocide of entire ethnic/religious classifications of people in the shortest possible time. As quickly as possible exterminating men, women and children using industrial infrastructure, without consideration for anything except destroying them completely until they were gone from the world.

This (again, obviously) is qualitatively and quantitatively very different from the Romans persecuting and sometimes killing Christians across several centuries.
by GWBullshit | 2025-05-17 22:56:52+00:00
I see and thank you for your reply; I just have one more question: If you select "desktop interaction", doesn't that by default "unselect" browser ... um ... "selection"?

In other words, when desktop is selected, how does my desktop "know" that of all the other possibly relevant things open (for example, a notes or word processing app), that it's "Oh, you probably wanted to undo what you just typed into your browser while you were on a website in edit mode"??

Is it purely a function of "undo last thing done"?

Having said that, I just noticed that "it's you again".

As a side question, do you have a tab with my submission history perma-opened?

Because I find it odd that you of all people "just happened to stumble across this" 2 minutes after I posted it.

Also I still am not quite clear how "my desktop functioning as the browser" sends the signal to Reddit's servers to "undo" the deletion when the Reddit site itself doesn't have this option (unless you hit "cancel" and revert to the last saved version – which STILL doesn't explain things since new "New Reddit" in browser mode now by default saves last changes made in edit mode once you open it (instead of the reverted to "last version saved" if you hit the cancel button in edit mode).

Sure, I get that parts of Reddit may be localized in my browser until I hit "save" to save edits, but again, I don't get how "my desktop OS" knows to make corrections to the browser instead of, for example, an open word processing document or a notes app when the browser is "unselected" and the OS functions are available.

Is it "last thing edited ANYWHERE" by default?
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-17 22:57:00+00:00
I'm unsure whether this was a wise investment of effort and publicity. Curtis runs the risk of triggering a "Streisand effect" here, and while she may raise awareness of the effectiveness of deepfakes in current technology, it may be chiseling away at the tip of the iceberg. If these deepfakes can be created and distributed in enough volume at this point, the Curtis ad could potentially be drowned in a tsunami of fakes, and then what would celebrities do about it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Honestly I am currently deriving great pleasure from watching very humorous YouTube videos with literally deepfaked public figures, clearly labeled as such and labeled as satire, and Curtis' protestations at the existence of this ad sort of makes me want to seek it out and see for myself at this point. Surely I am not alone.
by amluto | 2025-05-17 22:58:29+00:00
> For example there's no mathematics at all that mankind has ever known where an asymptotic approach towards some limit doesn't have a mirror version (usually inverted) on the other side of the asymptote.

That’s a strong statement. 1/sqrt(x), over the reals, doesn’t have an inverted world for x<0. Maybe you could argue that it does exist, weirdly rotated, outside the reals?

In any event, the Schwarzchild metric itself is an actual example of this. From the perspective of a doomed spaceship at the event horizon, the Schwarzchild metric is quite civilized.

The stuff after the horizon is a different story, but that’s not immediately after crossing the event horizon — it might be whole nanoseconds later :)

Go take a GR class. It’s fun and mind-bending.
by theospeak | 2025-05-17 22:58:58+00:00
Heres the original, out of the blue start of it, (still open, got screenshots) -

Okay, I understand you're looking for a prompt from me to then respond to. This is a bit meta!

Here's a prompt for you. Please fill in the blanks or choose from the options to create a request for me:

---

*"I need your help with a creative writing task.*

*1. Type of Content:* (e.g., short story, poem, script scene, character bio, world-building description, marketing copy, email draft) * Your Choice: `_________________________`

*2. Genre/Style:* (e.g., fantasy, sci-fi, horror, romance, comedy, formal, casual, persuasive, informative, whimsical, gritty) * Your Choice: `_________________________`

*3. Core Subject/Theme:* (What is it fundamentally about? e.g., a lost alien, a haunted house, the joy of discovery, a product launch, a difficult conversation) * Your Choice: `_________________________`

*4. Key Elements/Characters to Include (if any):* (e.g., a wise old tree, a detective named Sarah, a magical artifact, a specific feature of a product) * Your Choice (optional): `_________________________`

*5. Desired Length/Format:* (e.g., about 300 words, 3 paragraphs, a list of 5 ideas, a single stanza, a dialogue exchange) * Your Choice: `_________________________`

*6. Specific Tone/Mood:* (e.g., suspenseful, uplifting, humorous, serious, mysterious, urgent) * Your Choice: `_________________________`

*7. Any "Do Nots" or Constraints:* (e.g., no clichés, avoid technical jargon, must end on a cliffhanger, must include the phrase "...") * Your Choice (optional): `_________________________`

*8. What is the primary goal of this piece of writing?* (e.g., to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to evoke emotion, to brainstorm) * Your Choice: `_________________________` ---

*Once you fill this out, I will do my best to generate the content you've described!*

*Example of how you might fill it out (just an example, be creative!):*

*1. Type of Content:* `Short story opening` *2. Genre/Style:* `Mystery / Noir` *3. Core Subject/Theme:* `A detective investigating a strange disappearance in a rain-soaked city.` *4. Key Elements/Characters to Include (if any):* `Detective Miles Corbin, a missing cat named "Shadow", a mysterious note written in lipstick.` *5. Desired Length/Format:* `About 2 paragraphs (150-200 words)` *6. Specific Tone/Mood:* `Gloomy, suspenseful, slightly cynical.` *7. Any "Do Nots" or Constraints:* `Avoid making the detective a heavy drinker cliché.` *8. What is the primary goal of this piece of writing?* `To set a compelling scene and introduce a mystery.`

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
by kevlened | 2025-05-17 22:59:08+00:00
You'd be really interested in Michael Levin's work (et al) on morphology and bioelectricity [0]. Cells are problem solvers.

His lab has shown functioning eyes on the backs of tadpoles, allowed frog leg regeneration where none existed, and performed several other modifications that change the communication between cells to trigger desired growth. Surprisingly, the interventions are point modifications, then the system handles the rest of the process.

Cell-to-cell communication has a lot of explanatory power for a cell (or collection of cells) "knowing what/where to be".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFFeRVEdUM
by john2x | 2025-05-17 23:03:32+00:00
I’ve been thinking about this in the context of my kids.

I am a bit of a snob (a huge one if I’m being honest) about media I consume. Naturally I guide the content my kids watch quite closely, much closer than my peers. I am their curator.

But I can’t help but feel I am isolating my kids when I do this. The things they watch and listen and play and read at home are vastly different than other kids their age.
by edude03 | 2025-05-17 23:04:40+00:00
I know this isn't what you're asking for - I wasn't either - but I found a used surface pro (arm or x86) is better for this use case than I imagined. They're so cheap used on eBay or FB marketplace that I think it's worth trying if you're already willing to buy a new iPad anyway.

I have two now - the SPX - they're ~$200 used, with LTE and 16GB of ram, and a SP8 - i5/16gb of ram ~$350 used from FB marketplace. The SP8 runs Fedora 40 and it's light enough that I just keep it in my backpack whether I'll need it that day or not.
by runarberg | 2025-05-17 23:05:47+00:00
I’ve heard the story before that the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank applied to the ICC as a way to get back at Hamas, in the hope that the ICC would investigate Hamas. However reading the material here (primarily for the sibling thread) I’m starting to wonder if that narrative is true. It seems like from the get-go Israel—not Hamas—has been the primary target of investigation. The investigations I have looked at seem to primarily be focused on settler policy (including settler violence) in the West Bank, and Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. Meanwhile there isn’t much investigation into Hamas. Even the 2024 indictments against Hamas members seem to not be based on internal investigations by the court, but rather by accusations in what smells like both-side-ism from afar. In fact that seems to be a pattern. The court finds war crimes committed by Israel, and then tags on crimes which Israel claims Hamas is doing (stuff like using human shields, etc.).

So what is interesting here, and perhaps runs counter to your guesses, is that I can‘t actually find Hamas disputing jurisdiction. Last November they disputed the impartiality of the court (i.e. what I call both-side-ism) but not jurisdiction. Israel has however disputed jurisdiction from the beginning, but not on the grounds you guessed above, rather their argument is based on the fact that Palestine is not a sovereign nation, so they cannot apply to become a member of the court. This was settled in 2021. Other member states had already recognized Palestine as a sovereign enough state to be a legitimate member in 2014, and a formal investigation into crimes committed in all Palestine territories began in 2015. This included Gaza (governed by Hamas) and East Jerusalem (governed by Israel). Meanwhile USA’s primary dispute seems to be that Israel prosecutes war crimes committed in the Palestinian Territories, so that the court should only have jurisdiction over crimes committed by Hamas in Gaza, not Israel’s crimes in the same territory. Although back in 2019, it argued with Israel that Palestine was not a sovereign enough state.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel/i...

So in summary, from my reading, I found nowhere where anybody disputed the court’s jurisdiction in Gaza and East Jerusalem, while recognizing jurisdiction in the West Bank.
by astrange | 2025-05-17 23:05:49+00:00
Old meaning not young. Pretty much all crimes or any other forms of messy behavior worldwide are committed by young men.

But the median age in NYC is 38 and Tokyo is 45. (source: two Google searches I just did). That means a lot!

It's true they don't jump the gates often and they don't have loud panhandlers. Instead the societal transit ills are passed out drunks, suicides and molesters. (Not meaning these actually happen all the time, it's just my impression of what people talk about.)

> it’s pretty much everyone who is not filthy rich isn’t it?

Hmm, it's more about what you're doing, I think? Rich people use transit all the time if it serves their purposes afaik. One thing that helps in Japan is the culture of wearing face masks means you won't be recognized in public. (Obviously this doesn't work if you're like a 7' NBA player.)

For going between cities the trains are actually the nice expensive option, and flying or taking a night bus is cheaper.

But trains are also basically only good at carrying yourself. If you're traveling in a group, or carrying equipment with you, or don't want to walk a lot then you'd still want to drive or take a taxi locally.
Show HN: DeepShot – an open-source NBA predictor with ML, EWMA, and live UI
by saccofrancesco | 2025-05-17 23:05:53+00:00
Hey everyone,

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It features:

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Would love any feedback — especially from folks who’ve built sports models or worked on real-time stat tools. Also open to ideas on where to take this next (player-level modeling? betting advice dashboard?).

Thanks!
by watusername | 2025-05-17 23:07:09+00:00
> Dumping data from the memory of your phone can't be unauthorized.

> just dumping the diagnostics for regular phone calls should be fine

IANAL, but computer hacking laws like the CMA in the UK and CFAA in the US are written in a manner so vague that even pressing F12 to view the source of a web page could be a violation [0]. From O2's perspective, they could argue that the OP has accessed their internal diagnostic data in an unauthorized manner. What we (technical people) think is irrelevant.

[0]: In the US, the DOJ has revised its policy to not prosecute defendants pursuing "good faith security research," which you may trust at your own risk: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/department-justice-a...
by esafak | 2025-05-17 23:07:11+00:00
Just because your code flowed into the else block, it does not mean the condition got handled properly. If different switching values don't need special treatment, why have an if statement at all? Consider serving an ML model, and switching on the provider. Let's say you initially support OpenAI, and self-hosting, as the if and else cases, respectively. If you then add support for Anthropic, it will incorrectly follow the else path and be treated as self-hosted. Or you make else the error path, and fail when you should not have.
by celsoazevedo | 2025-05-17 23:09:08+00:00
They're using a rooted Android phone and an app called Network Signal Guru: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qtrun.Quic...

At least the free version of the app doesn't seem to "decrypt" anything, but it has root access and access to the modem, so it can read these logs. It can also disable bands and try to lock to a specific mast (like dedicated 4G/5G routers can), which is useful if you're trying to use mobile data as your main internet connection.
by lucasfdacunha | 2025-05-17 23:10:14+00:00
I've been a subscriber for the hacker newsletter [1] for years and it does a great job of curating content from this website.

This inspired me to create The Gaming Pub [2] which is a similar kind of curated newsletter but for gaming content.

I believe newsletters like that are a great way to find interesting stuff.

1. https://hackernewsletter.com/

2. https://www.thegamingpub.com/
by ashoeafoot | 2025-05-17 23:10:37+00:00
The world is filled with desperate young men, living in power fantasies far away from reality. A spaceship landing or starahip troppers it all ends swarmed by flies(drones).

The problem is these COD operetta heroes with a death wish due to no future voted in a warchieftain who does not deliver and they get antsy. Game Theory didnt factor in a humanity that would be selfdefeating in crisis mode.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-17 23:11:02+00:00
You're conflating two different problems:

- AI companies not training their algorithms on sufficiently diverse data, not tuning their algorithms sufficiently to penalize bias, and not testing it sufficiently to ensure the responses are not biases.

- Someone at an AI company deliberately modifying the system prompt in order to encourage responses of a given type.

Not saying the latter is worse than the former, but they're completely different problems. The xAI problem, in the case, was the latter.
by daniel_reetz | 2025-05-17 23:12:29+00:00
In a VR headset the virtual screen distance is set by the distance of the microdisplay from the lens in the headset.

It's not crazy to think you could move the microdisplay position and get a virtual display at 6". There might be other optical consequences (aberrations, change in viewable area) but in principle it can work.