MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daviddoran | 2025-06-13 14:37:44+00:00
I agree with a lot of the comments that (1) giving heartfelt thanks (which you can do more than once over the years) and (2) being there to help them if they ever need it and (3) paying it forward is the best you can do.

You could throw money at it or try to make big gestures but to the people that helped you just knowing how much it meant to you is the best reward.
by paxys | 2025-06-13 14:39:20+00:00
This is exactly why Zuck feels he needs a Sam Altman type in charge. They have the labs, the researchers, the GPUs, and unlimited cash to burn. Yet it takes more than all that to drive outcomes. Llama 4 is fine but still a distant 6th or 7th in the AI race. Everyone is too busy playing corporate politics. They need an outsider to come shake things up.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-13 14:39:50+00:00
> Isn't the real problem that people are trusting ChatGPT?

Yes. They should IMO be required to provide very explicit warnings, preferably on each response, that their responses are nonsense, or at best only correct by accident.

Like, you could say "isn't the real problem that smoking is dangerous?" but we do require the manufacturers to provide clear warnings in that case. Or "isn't the real problem that people are using drain cleaners incorrectly and gassing themselves", but many jurisdictions actually restrict the sale of certain substances to professionals for that reason.

You can't just say "people choose to use inherently dangerous products; it's entirely their own fault"; there's a responsibility on the manufacturer and/or the state to _warn_ people that the products are dangerous.
by shmerl | 2025-06-13 14:40:11+00:00
May be, but I've seen bug reports with a bunch of layouts and nothing looks standard there. Steam Deck OLED is such example, Lenovo laptops, LG UltreaGear OLEDs and etc. I don't really see any commonality.

* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472340

* https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/11...
by ben_w | 2025-06-13 14:40:59+00:00
> The problem is that current AI has nothing in common with consciousness as found in (say) cats and dogs, whatever that might be - no robot is even close to being as conscious as a cockroach - yet human consciousness seems to have great overlap with consciousness in nonhuman animals.

Given we don't know what consciousness is — worse, there's around 40 different definitions, and I've seen people use "is a living biological organism" as one of them here on HN — we not only absolutely cannot say if the parts of our minds that give rise to it are, or are not, functionally equivalent to what LLMs do with attention.

We also definitely cannot put them on a graph with cockroaches, which, like LLMs, may or may not have any at all.

It's like we've got this word "weather", and some people are saying that only their own country really experiences "weather" because what they mean by the word is the most characteristic part of their local climate (windy moistness for Britain, sunny for the Sahara, snow for Siberia, rain for the Amazon etc.), and then we made a telescope and looked at Mars and are now arguing that Mars can't have real weather because there's no water there.

And then someone else pipes in and is talking about "weather" to mean "daytime", because nobody ever says "what nice weather we're having" at night…
by dspillett | 2025-06-13 14:41:32+00:00
> What is the benefit of using a QR code over just printing and storing the document itself in a human-readable format?

Easier reading back. You don't want to be typing your private key in, and while scanning + OCR might be pretty reliable unless you are daft about font and text size choices getting text direct from the QR code on your phone (or direct into a PC/laptop if you have a scanner that perhaps types the content by pretending to be a USB keyboard), feels to me like it would be more convenient.

You can store a 2048-bit RSA private key in standard text form in a QR code, so after scanning to clipboard all you have to do is paste the text into an appropriate file, or again using the scan->HID option that is slightly more direct.

For longer keys you will need multiple QR codes, of course, and a very slightly more convoluted method. I have a couple of keys, SSH private keys and the master key for a keepass store (which is also on a USB token I carry), printed as QR codes stored in a secure place in this manner.

It looks like this tool does not allow for direct input from scanning the QR code(s) in the manner I've just described, as the description says it includes metadata for reassembly of larger data removing the simplest case for small data in favour of making larger data more convenient/robust.
by marcusverus | 2025-06-13 14:41:36+00:00
> Do you truly think the evidence you provided would convince someone ignorant on the matter that there really was a migrant crisis that warrants the Trump administration's behavior?

I do!

The term 'crisis' has been politicized to the point where the term's applicability is basically a shibboleth. When Biden called it a crisis in 2021, the White House issued a statement saying "The President’s use of the “crisis” label doesn’t represent the administration’s official position".[0] The administration had an official position on the use of the term 'crisis'! Point being, it's hard to convince someone that the border situation is a "crisis" when their priors on the topic have been prejudiced by political messaging. If someone was new to the topic, it would be easier for them to be objective.

You and I have already been inundated with political messaging, though. The best way to simulate ignorance on the matter is to abstract away the politics and pose the question in a way that doesn't trigger a connection to politics:

"The year is 2034. A situation has arisen. To deal with the situation, the city of Chicago alone has spent $300 dollars. The mayor of New York City has stated that the issue "could destroy the city of New York". 30% of schools say the issue affects their ability to educate our children. 77% of Americans say the situation is either a "crisis" or a "major issue".

Would someone ignorant of the matter be more justified in assuming that this was reflective of a crisis, or mere "vibes"?

> Before I put my fedora back on and leave

I honestly loled.

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/biden-border-crisis-...
by tomhow | 2025-06-13 14:42:03+00:00
Thanks! Full details of this and others:

How much EU is in DNS4EU? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255116 - June 2025 (108 comments)

DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254610 - June 2025 (50 comments)

DNS4EU for Public Is Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44190071 - June 2025 (78 comments)
by Eduard | 2025-06-13 14:42:03+00:00
> For example, the biggest country-wide payback program is payback.de, and their most of their coupon multiplier links here – https://www.payback.de/coupons/info – will be clickable, but silently not work after you purchase.

I don't understand this claim. Payback coupons have to be activated before purchase, so even if somehow that link wouldn't work anymore after a purchase it'd be too late anyway to have the coupon applied.

Can you elaborate or provide links for more information?
by saclark11 | 2025-06-13 14:42:25+00:00
Something similar, but encrypted, is PaperAge [1]. Admittedly, I haven't used it, but it seems like a nice solution for secure physical backup of small secrets. The catch, of course, is now you need to make sure you never forget your passphrase or back that up off-site somewhere else.

[1]: https://github.com/matiaskorhonen/paper-age
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-06-13 14:42:30+00:00
I agree - the problem here is probably less that the AI makes the mistake and more that it’s just really easy to make this mistake whether you’re AI or human. It’s probably true that the AI selects more correlations that would be obviously irrelevant to the end user though. I, like others doing SRE work, spend a fair amount of time trawling through these types of graphs and it’s very common to see something that looks like a correlation, look closer, then dismiss it due to noise.

Time series are also very much subject to MTUP[1]. Something that looks like a correlation or problem at a certain zoom level becomes totally normal behavior when you zoom out, for instance

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_temporal_unit_pro...
by DebtDeflation | 2025-06-13 14:42:35+00:00
It's a wild story for sure. Dropped out of MIT after freshman year and starts Scale to do data labeling. Three years later Scale has a $1B valuation and two years after that Wang is the world's youngest billionaire. Nine years after Scale's founding they're still doing less than $1B in annual revenue. Yet Meta is doing a $14B acquihire. There's definitely more than meets the eye. I suspect it involves multiple world governments including the US.
by tom_m | 2025-06-13 14:42:56+00:00
I don't know, I still think it's a good idea to change passwords every so often. At the rate databases get leaked, you can't always rely on the strength of the hash and the time it used to take to crack given hardware getting faster and faster. Yes it can cause a minor inconvenience if locked out, but that's better than the alternative depending on what that system was.

But...worry not, we're about to embark on a world with a whole lot less security now thanks to AI and laziness.
by avsm | 2025-06-13 14:42:59+00:00
If anyone's trying out the new opam switch, I found it helpful to use:

env OCAMLPARAM="alert=-unsafe_multidomain,_," opam install cohttp-lwt-unix

Because alerts are promoted to errors, they break existing package installs unnecessarily. The OCAMLPARAM environment variable just forces that alert to be disabled and allows the package installation to continue.
by octo888 | 2025-06-13 14:43:12+00:00
> Which is funny since there are no native English-speaking languages in the EU anymore (Ireland's first official language is not English).

Did you mean "no native English speakers"? There are - Ireland.

"First" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I'm sure you well know there are 2 official languages in Ireland, and English is used by the majority of the population, and English-only speakers far outnumber the fluent bilingual speakers.

Of course on paper Ireland are going to hold Irish as supreme (which I support), but de facto and practically, the language of Ireland is English.

Ireland and Malta still remain EU members whose official languages include English.

More over, the lingua franca of Europe is still English, despite any French sadness that it's not French any more.
by tomrod | 2025-06-13 14:43:47+00:00
My understanding is limited, but this seems pretty interesting. I'm not quite sure I follow the argument that space is a correlated interaction at the quantum level.

As a total tangent: it would be interesting to have an LLM-based modality, like a browser extension, where a user could highlight academic concepts in a pdf and drill down. Academic writing, by convention and necessity, is terse and references prior literature, sometimes opaquely. So getting up to speed in the literature takes significant effort.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-13 14:44:29+00:00
There's about one particle of dust per million cubic metres. c is about 300 million metres/second. So even at 0.5c that's still a lot of particle collisions per second, each having significant kinetic energy.

Basically it would be like flying through explosive sandpaper. Each dust particle would be reduced to plasma, which creates problems of its own.

If you're accelerating there's also the Unruh Effect, which will raise the perceived temperature. By a lot.

There's no way to make this work with any kind of engineering we know about today.
by brazzy | 2025-06-13 14:44:53+00:00
But it's also very big, and GP doesn't even specify how far of a trip they're asking about nor how small a meteorite.

"Extremely" and "very" don't cut it here. This is beyond the human ability to guess. You'd actually do at least some back-of-the-napkin math to give a real answer, and with a far enough trip, the answer may well become "Almost 100%".
by laborcontract | 2025-06-13 14:45:10+00:00
There was quite loud reporting earlier this (or last?) year that Scale's data was so poor that it led to a great deal of setbacks, scrambling, and friction between the two companies. That reporting was at the top of my mind when I read this news, so I was even more baffled.

Imagine being the people at Meta who've had to deal with Scale now seeing Mark buy Scale's CEO for $14bln.
by markx2 | 2025-06-13 14:46:26+00:00
According to the consultant, and this was a long time ago, they ruled out Carpel Tunnel and other causes, but there were clear indicators of damage.

At it's worst, if the main three fingers of my R hand touched, just touched, any surface it was painful. It really was RSI as back then I was mouse clicking many many thousands of times a day.

What fixed it for me, apart from slowing down, was to start using a Wacom pen/tablet. Even so, by a Thursday my hand / fingers hurt and I used a splint when not working.

I have read more about TMS since I read your post and while it could fit I do not believe it does. In part because of the very localised pain, and in part because ... it's hard and privacy destroying to articulate but no, it doesn't fit.

As for the daith. It worked for me. It has worked for my daughters. It has worked for a friend and also for a random delivery guy who looked rough one day, I suggested it and he came back a few days later to say he no longer has to chew codeine all day.

If something works for someone, great. But I don't go with generalising.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-13 14:46:37+00:00
I use this feature all the time and I love it. Not having to install dozens of apps just to see the occasional notification is a dream come true.

The way it's trivial for browsers to fake OS notifications on some platforms is a clear design flaw, though. I get the need for it (PWAs and such) but unless the website sending a notification is a PWA, there's no need for a notification to be that ambiguous.

The current system, where Chrome (the only browser that matters) collects information about websites and only shows the permission popup on some websites has mostly killed useful notification support for a lot of websites.
by Lyngbakr | 2025-06-13 14:47:05+00:00
The Janet Street folks, who created this, also did an interesting episode[0] of their podcast where they discuss performance considerations when working with OCaml. What I was curious about was applying a GC language to a use case that must have extremely low latency. It seems like an important consideration, as a GC pause in the middle of high-frequency trading could be problematic.

[0] https://signalsandthreads.com/performance-engineering-on-har...
by perrygeo | 2025-06-13 14:47:05+00:00
LLMs drive the value of code to zero. It's not zero yet, but it's dropping quickly.

When anyone can take an idea and re-create it from scratch in seconds, the original code artifact is irrelevant. So increasingly, the quality of the idea matters. There are obviously details required to make successful software - but that's the point. Those other challenges now become front and center.

Knowing the domain, internalizing a model of the system, communicating, planning for change, writing code, shipping it - that's always been how software gets built. None of that really changes except for the "writing code" part which is quickly becoming the least valuable skill in the bunch.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-06-13 14:47:40+00:00
None of this makes any sense.

How does people disagreeing with you become a lack of diversity of thought?

You have your thoughts and other people disagree. That is diversity.

If you mean "I want more people to broadly agree with me so we can talk about the small stuff we disagree on" then fine, many people on social media want that for themselves too. But don't dress it up as a desire for diversity while attacking the other people who want it as sheeple in an echo chamber.
by sandcat_ | 2025-06-13 14:48:03+00:00
Can assure you it wasn’t AI generated, and considering the time I spent writing the post, it’s a little upsetting to be accused of it. That said, I do get it. Especially as I’m on a new account.

I’ve always used em-dashes (mild typography nerd) but recently have been considering stopping, for exactly this reason. They always flew under the radar a little, but I’d always notice when others used them, so it’s a shame and I’ll miss them.

fyi, I was based in London at the time. This was for a position helping to build the supposed AI.
by ModernMech | 2025-06-13 14:48:40+00:00
The way this app is architected with Rust and egui, they can write code once and deploy a GPU accelerated app across all major operating systems and the browser, without having to ship a web browser with their application. That's a strong draw for developers. I think it's important to ship products like this, even if some users are frustrated, because that frustration will breed innovation. Since they said it's meant to be desktop only, I think what they're doing is fine, as the web is just an added bonus.

The approach they've taken can create frustration, but it can also be seamless for users and create joy. For instance, I got to try out their app without any setup on my part, and then I can download it and it works exactly the same on my Windows and my Mac machines, because it's the same codebase for all three platforms. That kind of story was the holy grail of UI tooling for many years, and I think we should keep going down that path to improve it, despite frustrations along the way.
by barbazoo | 2025-06-13 14:49:06+00:00
> The research team documented three massive giant volcano sponges (Anoxycalyx joubini) near the damaged areas, each standing 1-2 meters tall. These ancient filter-feeders are believed to be among the planet’s oldest animals. Yet nearby, the scientists found crushed sponge colonies and clear striations in the seafloor where anchor chains had scraped across the bottom.
by remram | 2025-06-13 14:49:21+00:00
This blog post is a lot more obscure than usual. Sometimes with sentences directly contradicting itself, like:

> Workers KV is built as what we call a “coreless” service which means there should be no single point of failure as the service runs independently in each of our locations worldwide. However, Workers KV today relies on a central data store to provide a source of truth for data.

Honestly the blog post overall makes me think that all KV data is just stored on GCS. Not once do they refer to the GCP store as "metadata" or anything like that.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-13 14:49:36+00:00
To make a generation ship work you have to build a self-contained ecology that is stable and self-repairing, inside mechanical and software systems that are fault tolerant and either extremely redundant or self-repairing, run by a political and social system that is also fault-tolerant and self-repairing.

We know how to do exactly zero of those things.
by tzury | 2025-06-13 14:49:58+00:00
This is as bold as Instagram and WhatsApp were at the time, typical Zuck move, most likely a successful story, perhaps bigger than the other two.

See, when he paid $1 billion in 2012 for a 7 employees company, everybody thought it is the biggest mistake he made.

Who he paid $21.8 billion in 2014 for 55 employees size messaging company, people said similar things, but both turned out to be a great success in market dominance.

Scale serves the top tier AI companies, and Alexandr is a prodigy by all means, so hell ye.

Unlike many other cases where M&A simply killed the companies / product, here it is going to be power multiplier, Meta's data to scale and back, will make scale better and meta's AI better.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-13 14:50:26+00:00
I've worked directly with several HNW individuals, and the biggest "snub" (real or not) I ever witnessed was a multi-millionaire who sabotaged a mentee's already-disastrous wedding... because he wasn't thanked in the wedding handout.

Dollars meant nothing to him, but control — and meant nothing to this Groom.

>If some of these mentors are retired

Retired people typically rock, so-long as they didn't spend their entire careers being bullies. For several years I lived in a retirement community (as "the help") and the endless dinners/conversations rarely "got old." I mostly enjoyed working with/for elderly retirees, except that most seem to have almost no concept of how much dollars have deflated since their pre-70s/80s/90s gold-backed hayday.

>[things you could do]

Help raise "the next generation" by living well and mentoring your own deserving minds — perhaps have an informal lunch with both your advisor and advisee?
by jadbox | 2025-06-13 14:50:54+00:00
Unrelated, but the Elon dream of getting a human colony on Mars seems beyond imagination. Ignoring safety of such a long travel, the radiation issue of Mar's surface, and the massive infrastructure to have a self-sustainable biosphere (also somehow protected from radiation) to recycle enough oxygen, we still have to deal with the immense number of failures that could happen with no way to send help.

Like, building a fully self-sustainable underwater city or moon base would be far more in reach. It feels that SpaceX should start with prototyping these safer alternatively before overreaching to something 100x more challenging and dangerous.
by alexpotato | 2025-06-13 14:51:04+00:00
I've actually thought of having a big dinner for all of the managers I've had over the years that were helpful in getting me to where I am today.

That being said, even a handwritten note or phone call to say "I just wanted to say that at X time in my life, you did Y and it was amazing at the time and helped me get to where I am now" goes a LONG way.
by firefax | 2025-06-13 14:51:13+00:00
Focus less on those who helped you, and more on helping others.

The first time I went to Defcon, I felt lonely and lost -- it was the first year they had those cool electronic badges, and at the time they were only given out as entrance tokens for an exclusive party that was the talk of the con.

I didn't really "know" anyone there -- like a lot of young hackers, I was part of one of those vBulletin board hacker crews that have been lost to time and I'd exhausted the meager savings I had built up that summer on my plane ticket and hotel room at the Riviera.

A lot of people who had expense accounts were going out to nice places for dinner -- the guy with per diem would get drinks, the guy who had to itemize, and me, the guy trying to get a group together to visit that cool looking dive bar next to Bally's kept getting laughed at and called a newbie...

Then none other than Dan Kaminsky[1] strolls up, tells me he knows who I am (!) and heard I'd been asking about the ninja party, tells me he can't get me in but he knows a room party. Shows me a room next to the pool with a keg in the bathtub, I threw them a five and we sat around talking until late in the night. They had some good tips on cheap places to eat, how to get free drinks at the penny slots, that sort of thing.

And then, every year since that I visited, I did what he did... wander the convention looking for the budget travel crew, the folks who don't do it for a salary and whom this is their reality, and I'd take them on a quest for two dollar hot dogs, show them the little store next to the dive bar where they could stock up on beer and liquor and ice and then disappear into the night like some kind of helpful spirit of the hacker night.

Anyways... long, profuse thank yous are not needed. What you should do is make sure you keep the gates open that were not gatekept for you. Be the person who connects others, in ways that you can't always list on your CV.

[1] Rest in power