MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fcpk | 2025-06-16 11:06:53+00:00
MI6 is quite a nasty secret agency. Behind all the nice hollywood-clichés, they are a very nasty organization that has a list of horrors on its name: - albanians uprisings of the 50s - OUN/UPA funding of the 50s - iranian coup of 53 - guiana coup of 64 - working with the cia to arm mujahideen in the 80s - lybian terror operations of the 00s to get back oil - disinformation operations for iraq wars(operation mass appeal) in the 00s, and many others - assassinations(for example in kenya even recently) - work with nazi collaborators in many eastern countries in the past 30 years to destabilize governments - trapping julian assange - implication in bombing operations all across the world(for example operation goldfish)

Remember they are allowed to operate in a completly unrestricted way even against british citizens. They are as bad people as Mossad and CIA.
by fabian2k | 2025-06-16 11:06:56+00:00
I absolutely do think that self-driving cars will save many lives in the long run. But I also think it is entirely fair to focus on the big, visible mistakes right now.

This is a major failure, failing to observe a stop sign and a parked school bus are critical mistakes. If you can't manage those you're not ready to be on the road without a safety driver yet. There was nothing particularly difficult about this situation, these are the basics you must handle reliably before we even get to alle the tricker situations those cars will encounter in the real world at scale.
by wodenokoto | 2025-06-16 11:07:14+00:00
> The studio also coproduced an interesting movie of Dudok de Wit and produced an awesome one by Kondo, a correct one by Morita and some unequal ones by Goro Miyazaki.

Can you elaborate here? Is Kondo, Yoshifumo Kondo's Whisper of the Heart? Is Morita, Hiroyuki Morita's Cat return? I thought Cat return was a pretty bad movie by any account, but I'm also not sure what you mean by it being "a correct one".
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-16 11:07:39+00:00
The Wikipedia article that you quote is quite explicit that, while virtual particles are a widely accepted mathematical tool, they're actual existence of elements of reality is very much not widely accepted, and definitely nowhere close to "experimentally verified". It's in fact considered impossible to verify experimentally, even in principle.

Note that there are many very widely used physical theories that include mathematical elements that are not necessarily assigned any physical meaning. The Poynting vector in classical electrodynamics, for example, carries no widely accepted physical meaning, even though it appears in many well verified and used calculations. This doesn't make the theory suspect or anything, I'm not trying to imply that - simply that virtual particles being "real" or not is a mostly philosophical question that has no widely accepted consensus.
by deosjr | 2025-06-16 11:07:41+00:00
I appreciate it; this kind of exchange is exactly why I read HackerNews. If you have any good sources on extending Datalog to N-ary relations, I'd love to know. Just had a look at the implementation I based mine on and it exclusively talks about triples: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/datalogjs

Coming from Prolog I'd like to get closer to the original if possible :)
by Fokamul | 2025-06-16 11:08:13+00:00
1. Meshtastic / LoRa is just bad for communication, it has so many problems

2. In case of conflict, everyone who starts LoRa gets delivery of artillery shell/rocket on their position.

Just like in Ukraine, try to go there and start up stock firmware DJI drone there and see what happens :)

Same when using radios in UA, no.1 rule is to NOT use encrypted radios, I like this example the most, because it goes against common sense, why would you want to use unencrypted radios so enemies can see your whole communication.

Reason behind this is following, encrypted radio traffic is very interesting for enemy, so it means if someone using it, he must be someone important -> send shell, badabum.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-16 11:08:23+00:00
The real problem is that it didn't recognize and stop for the stop signs on the school bus. The child is basically an afterthought designed to appeal to the emotion of those whom logic fails. Even if no kids materialized the way a bus stop works (bus stops, then kids cross) means that detecting the kid really shouldn't be the primary trigger for stopping in this situation, the stop sign needs to be recognized and acted upon. Any ability to detect and stop for pedestrians is secondary to that.
by chneu | 2025-06-16 11:08:24+00:00
Dairy farmers would never do this. The cost of LNG and methane are far, far too low to justify the costs of digestors, collection and infrastructure. Gasses are waste products that are usually vented to the atmosphere, even in the oil industry. They're dirt cheap.

I worked on a project to make a useful biomass from chicken shit. In the end, after years of research and viable product, it was axed because the upfront costs would always be too high for chicken farmers to adopt it.

The only way to get dairy ops on board would be to mandate it with regulation and then subsidize it. Cattle and dairy ops are massive welfare queens who resist change in every way they can, unless that change is more welfare.

We can't even get landfills to stop leaking/venting methane. No chance we get dairy ops to build methane capture systems.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-16 11:08:39+00:00
> These articles seem to be slowly pushing the boundaries past the point where slower humans are disbarred from intelligence.

It's not really pushing boundaries, a non trivial amount of humans has always been excluded from the definition of “human intelligence” (and with the ageing of the population, this number is only going up), and it makes sense, like how you don't consider blind individuals when you're comparing humans sight to other animals'.
by conartist6 | 2025-06-16 11:09:11+00:00
It sounds like a lovely collection of art curated by someone with an eye for creative expression.

My intent was to be judgemental and by doing so to make you uncomfortable. I hope you appreciate the reasons why this technology is a steamroller to those on the receiving end of it, who will create backlash in self-preservation as they are facing an existential struggle against an opponent with trillions of dollars of incentive not to stop steamrolling
by sat_solver | 2025-06-16 11:10:30+00:00
You're thinking of information entropy, which is not the same concept as entropy in physics. An ice cube in a warm room can be described using a minimum description length as "ice cube in a warm room" (or a crystal structure inside a fluid space), but if you wait until the heat death of the universe, you just have "a warm room" (a smooth fluid space), which will have an even shorter mdl. Von Neuman should never have repurposed the term entropy from physics. Entropy confuses a lot of people, including me.
by angusb | 2025-06-16 11:11:11+00:00
> Your argument that a newer version is better

I actually didn't say that and am not arguing it formally - I said what I said because I think that the version difference is something that should be acknowledged when doing a test like this.

I do privately assume the new version will be better in some ways, but have no idea if this problem would be solved in it - so I agree with your last sentence.
by sharpshadow | 2025-06-16 11:12:28+00:00
If they actually figured out which disablement codes can be tricked or circumvented, they wouldn’t share that. I guess it would all depend on how strict Starlink checks and enforces for unauthorised usage. For a US company operating on this scale I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s between very strict to just the basics or on demand.

A commentator here mentioned that Starlink also works in Russia, which it shouldn’t? Maybe some devices delivered to Ukraine can be used in Russia too.
by robertk | 2025-06-16 11:13:28+00:00
The Apple paper does not look at its own data — the model outputs become short past some thresholds because the models reflectively realize they do not have the context to respond in the steps as requested, and suggest a Python program instead, just as a human would. One of the penalized environments is proven impossible to solve in the literature for n>6, seemingly unaware to the authors. I consider this and more the definitive rebuttal of the sloppiness of the paper: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/5uw26uDdFbFQgKzih/bewar...
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-16 11:13:43+00:00
The term "machine vision" is mainly used in highly controlled, narrow industrial applications, think factory assembly lines, steel inspection, monitoring for cracks in materials, shape or size classification of items, etc. The task is usually very well defined, and the same thing needs to be repeated under essentially the same conditions over and over again with high reliability.

But many other things exist outside the "glue some GPT4o vision api stuff together for a mobile app to pitch to VCs" space. Like inspecting and servicing airplanes (Airbus has vision engineers who make tools for internal use, you don't have datasets of a billion images for that). There are also things like 3D motion capture of animals, such as mice or even insects like flies, which requires very precise calibration and proper optical setups. Or estimating the meat yield of pigs and cows on farms from multi-view images combined with weight measurements. There are medical things, like cell counting, 3D reconstruction of facial geometry for plastic surgery, dentistry applications, and a million other things other than chatting with ChatGPT about images or classifying cats vs dogs or drawing bounding boxes of people in a smartphone video.
by izacus | 2025-06-16 11:13:55+00:00
I think that's a big line between people who work as software engineers becuase they enjoy the work and want to build something and folks who go there to punch the ticket and run back home as soon as possible.

The second group doesn't want to deal with "all the fun crap" and "distractions" that stand in the way of them marking a bug fixed (or, god forbid, actually getting extra bugs/work assigned because some "fun" code might break or cause confusion).

As teams and companies grow, the second group usually outgrows the first and the first group moves on to reform into smaller teams working on something else again.
by austin-cheney | 2025-06-16 11:14:14+00:00
The easy but less secure solution:

Store all secrets in one file WITHIN your local repo and add that one secrets file to something like a .gitignore file. Then validate the file is excluded using git status.

The more secure solution is to store all secrets within a secrets vault and access that vault from application logic on application restart, provided the application is a service that rarely restarts.
by mr_mitm | 2025-06-16 11:14:50+00:00
Please communicate in full sentences with me.

I can only guess that your objection is something about probabilities. A microstate has a probability independent of my knowledge of the system just like the probability of having a royal flush doesn't change after drawing five cards. The probability of me ending the game with a royal flush might, but that is not what we mean by these probabilities.
by abxyz | 2025-06-16 11:16:42+00:00
Marketplaces like atom.com, sedo.com, aftermarket.com, namecheap.com/market etc. have domain names priced for "end users" which means you'll probably see quite high prices (but you can often negotiate down).

The best deals are from expired domain name auctions which is where domains like b0w.com sell for under $500. You can participate in auctions at auctions.godaddy.com, snapname.com, namecheap.com/market, dropcatch.com, catched.com, gname.com etc.

You can use namebio.com to find historic domain name sale prices which will help you get a sense for the values.

expireddomains.net has a complete list of all expiring domains and where to participate in the auctions.

GoDaddy has tens of thousands of expired domains going up for auction each day: you can filter by length and extension. The world of domains is complicated but if all you want to do is get a short domain for cheap then check the GoDaddy auctions each day and wait. prfu.com, exfh.com and zpun.com are ending in a few hours and will likely end under $500.

The person who linked you to josj.com is confusing things: domains can be leased but that's very uncommon, leasing domains is a bad business to be in. josj.com ever finding a leasee at $500/month is a fantasy. List prices are rarely the actual value. Lease-to-own is more common but separate (lease-to-own is essentially a payment plan).
by dethstrobe | 2025-06-16 11:16:57+00:00
I recently left Google. I made a post explaining why, if anyone is interested. (Warning: it's pretty long) https://dethstrobe.com/blog/20250522-google/

Anyway, the ball is currently in the employer's court and the idea of exchanging one faceless master for another doesn't immediately sound appealing, so I figured I'll try to solve a pain point that I've experienced for a while.

Full transparency: I don't have the MVP working just yet. But what I'm trying to do is gauge genuine demand for an idea before I go all in.

*What if we could generate documentation from tests?*

Having documentation become stale sucks. Keeping docs up to date is hard.

Tests already verify the actual behavior of your system, so they can't lie about what your code does. They're living documentation that's always in sync with reality.

What if we could turn tests into docs that non-technical team members can actually use, or even the public?

It'd be great for onboarding new team members, giving product documentation for everything that's already been implemented, and–assuming we can come up with some best practices on how to write these tests–can even help reduce help desk calls as public facing documentation can self update on every deploy.

And I think we can. I'm currently playing around with this, but the theory is I can use Playwright, create a custom reporter for it, and it'll generate markdown you can use in something like Docusaurus.

That's not the paid product. That'll be an open source library that I'll give away.

But what I want to know is, would you be interested in paying for a SaaS platform that will host the docs and have integrations with:

* Github - allow non-technical to make PRs to update copy (code is the source of truth)

* JIRA – Link to the original requirements and vice versa

* Google Doc style comments for collaborative feedback

* On-prem support if you're paranoid and want to keep your secret docs away from public eyes

Check out my totally original unique landing page if these pain points are something you can relate to and I'm looking for feedback on this idea. Does it have legs? Does this address a problem you see at your company? Do you want help writing better tests to have better documentation for your codebase?
by IsTom | 2025-06-16 11:17:03+00:00
If you want to only have one possible past (i.e. can't destroy information) then when you end up in one branch of quantum state you need to "store" enough information to separate you form other branches and you really do need to have multiple possible microstates to differentiate them. If you look post-factum obviously you did end up in a specific state, but statistics do their work otherwise.
by pu_pe | 2025-06-16 11:17:09+00:00
The author's main point is that output token constraints should not be the root cause for poor performance in reasoning tests, as in many cases the LLMs did not even come close to exceeding their token budgets before giving up.

While that may be true, do we understand how LLMs behave according to token budget constraints? This might impact much simpler tasks as well. If we give them a task to list the names of all cities in the world according to population, do they spit out a python script if we give them a 4k output token budget but a full list if we give them 100k?
by spacecadet | 2025-06-16 11:17:25+00:00
Im an idiot, let's get that out of the way first. I think that your temperature analogy answered your own question.

I guess my question in turn is, if we imagine a universe at the end of time(?), one that maybe dominated by a few black holes and not much else. Would an observer experience gravity if place sufficiently far enough way? Or even further, if nothing is left in the universe at all. Assuming that doesn't cause a big crunch, rip, or whatever...
by fcpk | 2025-06-16 11:19:15+00:00
and that's why things like ikejime are needed. It instantly kills the fish and destroys its nervous system in the same way we do for cattle. It's absolutely unbelievable that it is not a common practice. And it also extends the quality of the fish and the duration for conservation.

I am a freshwater fisherman myself, and I do it on any fish I intend to keep, and release them very quickly otherwise.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-16 11:19:48+00:00
> I think a human will struggle to solve Hanoi using the recursive algorithm for even 6 disks, even given pen and paper.

Why? The whole point of the recursive algorithm is that it doesn't matter how many discs you're working with.

The ordinary children's toys that implement the puzzle are essentially always sold with more than 6 discs.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=towers+of+hanoi
by upofadown | 2025-06-16 11:21:12+00:00
Well you can, but that would require a higher level of political skill than normally exists for such things. What would have to happen is that almost everyone would have to agree on the new version and then implement it. Once implementation was sufficiently high enough then you have a switchover day.

The big risk with such an approach is that you could implement something, then the politics could fail and you would end up with nothing.

The big downside of negotiation is that no one ever has to commit to anything so everything is possible. In the case of TLS, that seems to have led to endless bikeshedding which has created a standard which has so many options is is hardly a standard anymore. The only part that has to be truly standard is the negotiation scheme.
by tmountain | 2025-06-16 11:21:46+00:00
I guess it depends on your perspective. Here in Portugal, lots of people ended up sitting on their patios, chatting with friends, cooking on the grill, playing cards, sipping wine, and generally having a pretty good time. There was a collective groan around the small village where I live when the power came back on, and quite a few people commented that they were disappointed that they'd have to work in the morning.
by cloin | 2025-06-16 11:22:02+00:00
My 8 year old completes treatment for B-ALL in a couple months. It has been a crazy 2.5 years but he’s almost through it. It’s so surprising how it all feels so routine for the care team and how prepared they are during the times that something could go wrong. When it does go wrong, you really appreciate the swarm when the entire clinic circles up to lend a hand.
by sheiyei | 2025-06-16 11:22:38+00:00
What I meant was we should collect methane to use as fuel in cars. It happens a bunch here in Finland, and driving a biogas car is totally feasible. At some point the government stopped incentivising biogas refueling stations in favour of foreign dependency-riddled and rare earth metal-laden electric cars, which sucks a lot. I think it's pretty significant that you can make an old car basically carbon neutral, instead of buying a Chinese child labour spyware battery on wheels.
by squircle | 2025-06-16 11:22:58+00:00
Years ago I was having terrible chest pains and irregular heartbeats which, I don't know, somehow intuitively landed on my blood being too "thick" (this is what it felt like, along with cognitive fog.) I gave blood, upped my intake of dark leafy greens along with herbs like cilantro/parsley (and cut down on bananas.) Problem solved.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-16 11:23:10+00:00
The same microstate will have different probabilities depending on what are the constraints or measurements used in _your_ description of the system.

If you choose to describe the system using its microstate - and you know it - there are no probabilities anywhere.

You can of course know something and choose to ignore it - the entropy is still a reflection of the uncertainty (actual or for the sake of a lower-resolution model).
by amiga386 | 2025-06-16 11:23:11+00:00
You click the other button on the download page.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990911233949/http://www73.nets...

The US had some strange ideas about cryptography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars#PC_era

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
by swah | 2025-06-16 11:23:54+00:00
I work with some semi-literate people, and one day they sent me some particularly poorl

Pasted it into ChatGPT and asked it to return me clear Portuguese.

The response gave me an insight: wow, this kind of tool will allow people without education to communicate with others without such a big gap in understanding. Because AI could be directly integrated into WhatsApp, doing this translation, which was very good...

However, everything takes time. It's been about two years now, and nothing has happened yet in this regard...
by KineticLensman | 2025-06-16 11:24:02+00:00
> Sounds very plausible, though how does that square with the common experience that certain skills, famously 'riding a bike', never go away once learned?

I worked with some researchers who specifically examined this when developing training content for soldiers. They found that 'muscle memory' skills such as riding a bike could persist for a very long time. At the other end of the spectrum were tasks that involved performing lots of technical steps in a particular order, but where the tasks themselves were only performed infrequently. The classic example was fault finding and diagnosis on military equipment. The researchers were in effect quantifying the 'forgetting curve' for specific tasks. For some key tasks, you could overtrain to improve the competence retention, but it was often easier to accept that training would wear off very quickly and give people a checklist instead.
by roboboffin | 2025-06-16 11:24:29+00:00
I think workplaces will have to allow people time to adapt. So that if your particular skill set is replaced by AI, you have the ability to retrain to a part that isn’t.

Ultimately, large part of many jobs are repetitive, and can be replaced by pattern matching. The other side, creating new patterns, is hard and takes time. So, employers will have to take this into account. They may be long periods of “unproductive” time, or more risky evaluation to try new ideas.
by acdha | 2025-06-16 11:24:58+00:00
Agreed, but this tradition of speculation had been around for decades before researchers figured out just how severe the plague toll had been. I think part of that was the lack of stone buildings in the eastern United States setting the tone for Americans to think that the native peoples outside of Mesoamerica had been small hunter-gatherer tribes because it took time to establish how large the pre-Colombian populations had been in places like the Mississippian culture or that there are ways to manage the environment other than by plowing fields for grains which weren’t native to the continent.
by pmarreck | 2025-06-16 11:26:54+00:00
The only definition by which porn, beauty, intelligence, aliveness, and creativity are all known

(seriously, forget this stuff: Consider how you come up with an algorithm for how creative or beautiful something is?)

A line that used to work (back when I was in a part of my life where lines were a thing) was "I can tell you're smart, which means that you can tell I'm smart, because like sees like." Usually got a smile out of 'em.
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-06-16 11:27:05+00:00
OKR for H2: Increase edginess of Linux for a less corporate feel

Key result: Boost occurrence of swearwords by 20%

Key result: Create a new metric that tracks relative swearword use per line YoY

Key result: Attract at least 100 comments on HN or Reddit about the new code