MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codingdave | 2025-06-07 19:04:49+00:00
> What we need to develop is something that doesn't degrade at all under most human living conditions, but does degrade rapidly if we expose it to some sort of not-common trigger, whether that is another chemical or temperature or pressure or whatever.

Glass. You are talking about glass. It is re-usable and recycle-able. It just has the unfortunate property that if you break it, the resulting shards will slice people up pretty badly, so it is far less safe for transport logistics. Not to mention heavy.
by khazhoux | 2025-06-07 19:05:07+00:00
Sure, I believe that, but my real point is: for how long did you sustain that sleep/work mode? Did you go a year working 80+ hours, every single week?

Because what I see is people do one ultra-crunch week, and then shout "OMG I work 80-hour weeks!" as if it was the normal occurrence, when the reality is they're working ~50hrs on average.
by hk1337 | 2025-06-07 19:05:39+00:00
Maybe it just seems like a lot but it’s interesting how much shit Texas got for its age verification law when other western countries either were doing similar or pushing for similar laws. UK, Canada, France, Australia, I think I saw someone in the comments say Germany has something similar.

Pornography isn’t all that healthy but so is parents not stepping up and educating their kids on sex, even if it is awkward to talk about.
by prosody | 2025-06-07 19:06:35+00:00
When I read about the leak of the new Meta internal guidance for content moderation[1], my first thought was that the only things they banned were likely things that they understood to be pre-genocidal speech (eg comparisons of a group to vermin). Rules that seem kind of arbitrary to a modern western audience but which click in place if you look at propaganda that was issued during historical genocides.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-...
by donnachangstein | 2025-06-07 19:07:54+00:00
> and maintaining a dedicated three stage filter spout next to my kitchen faucet costs me approximately nothing

Calling bullshit on this one. I have one, it's positively wonderful, but the filters are expensive and per the manufacturer's recommendation you're supposed to change them all simultaneously. So when one times out, they all time out. This runs approximately $150 a year minimum depending on usage.
by lucianbr | 2025-06-07 19:08:00+00:00
> You're just hoping that there's never a leak of any UUID(s) that could be used to correlate things.

No. For any technology you could argue I'm just hoping it won't fail. If I fly with a plane, I'm just hoping it won't crash, right?

In fact, there would be security measures making it less likey that there is a leak. I am literally not "just hoping".

Now those security measures might fail of course. But what are the probabilities? That matters.

> The ad-tech industry has pioneered de-anonymization tech and they're very, very good at it.

Please explain how this does not apply to opening pornhub on my computer right now, with zero age verification systems. I think it applies perfectly, and so it is not an actual argument in this discussion.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-06-07 19:08:56+00:00
So you are being dismissive. That's what you're doing. You're dismissing more than just "stuff for money". You're dismissing anything that doesn't fall under the "skill" or "technical" category. All software projects contain a human element. I was showing an example from my experience on how something like that could happen.

> A perfectly capably (but perhaps a bit esoteric) technology is picked by a smart passionate person for a project.

> The novel technology is in 1 isolated module that's mostly feature complete for the first 1-3 years.

> People in the team/company deal with that "thing" as a blackbox more and more

> 5-10 years later, mostly new team maintaining the project. They hate the weird choice of tech. "Why is only this one component different???"

> People understand the contract with the "black box" very well, but HATE the "black box". People think "We can implement the black box contract very easily"
by sitkack | 2025-06-07 19:09:45+00:00
Reading the Oracular paper now, https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=44211588

It feels a bit like Halide, where the goal and the strategy are separated so that each can be optimized independently.

Those new paradigms are being discovered by hordes of vibecoders, myself included. I am having wonderful results with TDD and AI assisted design.

IDEs are now mostly browsers for code, and I no longer copy and paste with a chatbot.

Curious what you think about the Oracular paper. One area that I have been working on for the last couple weeks is extracting ToT for the domain and then using the LLM to generate an ensemble of exploration strategies over that tree.
by throwaway71271 | 2025-06-07 19:10:17+00:00
I think you are right, even if I beleve next token prediction can work, I dont think it can happen in this autoregressive way where we fully collapse the token to feed it back in. Can you imagine how much is lost from each torch.multinomial?

Maybe the way forward is in LCM or go JEPA, therwise, as this Apple paper suggests, we will just keep pushing the "pattern matching" further, maybe we get some sort of phase transition at some point or maybe we have to switch architecture, we will see. It could be that things change when we get physical multimodality and real world experience, I dont know.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-07 19:10:48+00:00
> First, intentionally leaking this type of data is extremely illegal under Europe's strict privacy laws.

Good thing we only ever have intentional leaks, then.

> Is it really that damaging to your reputation if someone could prove that you visited Pornhub in the last year?

LGBT individuals have killed themselves over being outed before they were ready to. I'd wager that any leak that could positively link a person to a site will also include at least some activity on that site. But even if not, there are other people that do have things to loose from being connected to pornhub in any capacity. The simplest example would be anybody seeking sexual health/wellness information; it isn't the core purpose of pornhub, but they are a source that somebody in a sexually repressive environment may seek info from.

> ... extreme societal taboo on enjoying erotic cinema in the notoriously puritanical country of... checks notes France?

I think we're on different pages here. Your argument seems to be "we should let the good countries have nukes" and my stance is "nobody gets nukes, period". France shows the world that it's possible and less human-friendly governments take that as an invitation to copy, but worse.

The only winning move is to not play.

> ...you are accessing Pornhub via your residential ISP or your mobile phone, then your ISP already knows you are visiting Pornhub.

Assuming use of ISP controlled DNS servers, the ISP only knows the account holder's name. They don't know if it's a neighbor/guest that's cracked/borrowed the WiFi ... etc. VPN or even just not using ISP managed DNS circumvents this collection.

> Given that ISPs appear to be basically trustworthy

The word "basically" is doing a lot of work there. If you could have said "ISPs are paragons of virtue that are always guaranteed trustworthy" I'm sure you would have. But you didn't so we both agree that anything that follows is predicated on a bad-faith premise.

I still have yet to see a good answer to "how do you prevent borrow/theft/buying/renting/selling of ID vouchers?"
by jajko | 2025-06-07 19:10:59+00:00
Its a Swiss one, so compared to some sites its probably in French out of box. Has a good reputation, located in country that doesn't take much bullshit from EU or given government (Albeit some of it is good, this is not).

Also cares more about privacy than most other countries globally (if folks grokked what "numbered account" meant then there wouldn't be so much baseless hate about how "Swiss took all jewish and nazi money and profit from it till today and that's core of their prosperity".

Couldn't be further from truth, I live here and watch these matters closely from both inside and outside perspectives.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-07 19:11:25+00:00
With overlapping rectangular windows (slightly simpler case than ones with rounded corners) you can expect visible regions of windows that are not foremost to be, for example, perhaps "L" shaped, perhaps "T" shaped (if there are many windows and they overlap left and right edges). Bill's region structure was, as I understand it, more or less a RLE (run-length encoded) representation of the visible rows of a window's bounds. The region for the topmost window (not occluded in any way) would indicate the top row as running from 0 to width-of-window (or right edge of the display if clipped by the display). I believe too there was a shortcut to indicate "oh, and the following rows are identical" so that an un-occluded rectangular window would have a pretty compact region representation.

Windows partly obscured would have rows that may not begin at 0, may not continue to width-of-window. Window regions could even have holes if a skinnier window was on top and within the width of the larger background window.

The cleverness, I think, was then to write fast routines to add, subtract, intersect, and union regions, and rectangles of this structure. Never mind quickly traversing them, clipping to them, etc.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-07 19:11:32+00:00
A full-featured ad blocker (uBlock Origin original, not the neutered Lite version that runs on Chrome now) will intercept requests at the network level and prevent your browser from requesting the advertisers' JavaScript code. Your browser not only won't show the ads, it won't run the code that was supposed to show them or even send a request to the advertisers' servers.

This blocks most existing tracking methods. The only thing you're not protected from is first-party tracking by the site you're actually visiting, which is impossible to fully protect against.
by titzer | 2025-06-07 19:13:13+00:00
Zig has some interesting ideas, and I thought the article was going to be more on the low-level optimizations, but it turned out to be "comptime and whole program compilation are great". And I agree. Virgil has had the full language available at compile time, plus whole program compilation since 2006. But Virgil doesn't target LLVM, so speed comparisons end up being a comparison between two compiler backends.

Virgil leans heavily into the reachability and specialization optimizations that are made possible by the compilation model. For example it will aggressively devirtualize method calls, remove unreachable fields/objects, constant-promote through fields and heap objects, and completely monomorphize polymorphic code.
Ask HN: Gaming PM with impact, poor at interviews. How to reach top companies?
by gogo61 | 2025-06-07 19:13:17+00:00
I am a product manager working in a gaming company. I am very passionate about my work, and apart from my work, I have been spending 5+ hours every day reading and researching about the games.

Now, my success rate of experiments is higher than my peers' and even the founders' (confirmed by them).

Now the problem is I am very bad at cracking interviews. It will be around 1 in 30 interviews.

In my country, the number of games is very few. And, in the past 1 year, I have been rejected by most of them.

My question is how shall I approach top gaming companies across the world to get a good job and make an impact? My current company doesn't pay much.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-07 19:13:57+00:00
I don't know of anyone or any form of relativism that thinks dominating a monopoly game is relatively 'the same' as a round to the head, and it's hilarious seeing the 'yass queen' response sister comment had to that absurdity.

Interestingly, when the quote 'democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others' comes up this sham form of relativism you present vanishes from comments. And that is because democracy objectively is severely flawed, and only justified because it produces relatively better outcomes than many of the other systems that it replaced.
by neilv | 2025-06-07 19:14:16+00:00
I also have that setting, and occasionally vouch for an inexplicably flagged comment I notice.

There's definitely wrongthink/ideological flagging and downvoting going on.

(On some comments I make, I know when I make it that it's going to get downvoted, because it pushes against an opinion of the kinds of people who will downvote to suppress criticism. It used to be that criticizing cryptocurrency would get downvotes, but now it's popular to criticize. I can get reliably downvoted any time that I suggest that adding a fee for some basic public infrastructure (e.g., to drive on street in a city), in a "market-based" way, is a handout of the basic public infrastructure to the wealthy. Also, suggestions that there's still any bias against women, in anything, somewhere, seems to reliably get downvotes, no matter how relevant; I don't know why, but I'd guess it's because the topic has a lot of general angry sentiment, and people who are angry the other direction aren't represented as much on HN.)

I'd distinguish wrongthink from something being off-topic and done-to-death or a flamewar magnet. Maybe one mental exercise test for this is whether the same person would also still downvote as "topic" if the opinion of the post/comment were flipped.
by roarcher | 2025-06-07 19:15:03+00:00
I dated a disabled woman for a bit, and this is exactly how it was. Every possible solution to her situation had better be 100% guaranteed to work, because it was guaranteed to get her ejected from SSDI, never able to reapply unless she developed a new and unrelated disability.

She wasn't even allowed to save money for an emergency fund or a large purchase because there was a limit to how much liquid cash she could have at any time, and it was something like $2000. If she demonstrated an ability to save more than that, the bureaucrats would take that as irrefutable evidence that she was well enough off to not need help, and boot her from the program.

Every single thing about the way that program is administered actively prevents its users from bettering their situation.
by polarbare | 2025-06-07 19:15:05+00:00
The hiring manager probably doesn't see it, but recruiters and HR do, and they have a mandate to make sure that the company is hiring at least X% of people with disabilities.

In a world where 99% of resumes are never going to get seen by the hiring manager, checking the disability box might be the only way to have your application get past the initial recruiter/HR or recruiting-software screen.
by thegrimmest | 2025-06-07 19:15:10+00:00
Any conclusion that cannot be arrived at cannot be arrived at by a scientific process is inherently ideological. You’re saying flowers smell good. I say they smell bad. Neither of us is any more right than the other, since these are entirely subjective takes. The closest you could get is that flowers might smell good to x% of the population, which is what schools should teach. Not that they smell good or bad.

The distinction is small but important, since the latter conclusion doesn’t make any judgements about people with a legitimate minority opinion.
by mometsi | 2025-06-07 19:15:46+00:00
In the linked article, rybett@aol.com uses the CORREL function in an openoffice spreadsheet to determine a weak correlation between autism diagnoses and sulfur content in tap water in a few regions of New Jersey.

His other publications include a self-published amazon book titled Autism, Enzymes and the Brimstone Demons. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Enzymes-Brimstone-Demons-Trill...
by manquer | 2025-06-07 19:16:36+00:00
Is it though? In this day and age I would think that someone who doesn’t watch porn is in the minority, it is like saying this person has sex.

On the other hand what kind of pornography, or how frequently and so on could be social pressure , same as what kind of fetishes or kind of sex or with type of person/gender, most people aren’t that sex positive to talk openly about.
by yial | 2025-06-07 19:17:06+00:00
I’m not quite sure how to look this up, but what’s the downside to stainless steel? I know titanium and bone can actually “grow together” so titanium is sometimes better / worse for type of implants.

(I mainly ask as I have a rather large stainless steel plate in my left arm- which I hope to never need to have removed… but the fact they can be removed prompted a comical conversation with my partner about re-using medical implants)
by sltkr | 2025-06-07 19:17:31+00:00
The solution to that is to make sure the age verification is used for a variety of different purposes.

For example, why not use the same age verification system to block access to sites that advertise or sell alcohol or tobacco products? Or sex toys. Or dating apps. Or loans applications. Or for any number of adult-only apps that aren't necessarily blackmailable? Normalize age verification for adult-only services.

That provides people with plausible deniability. “Oh, I wasn't looking at porn! I was just trying to find the perfect brandy to buy as a business gift.” or “Oh, I was just trying to get a quote to refurnish my apartment on credit.”
by lucianbr | 2025-06-07 19:17:50+00:00
> I'd wager

Your willingness to wager on something proves absolutely nothing. I'd wager you woulnd't really wager anything anyway.

> my stance is "nobody gets nukes, period"

Your 100% risk-free society does not exist. You risk things every time you leave the house. Nukes already exist, and one country that gave them up saw that to be a huge mistake.

> less human-friendly governments take that as an invitation to copy, but worse

So France should not do something because other countries might do something different that would be bad? This is not a rational discussion. This argument makes zero sense.

You should not be commenting on HN because you are encouraging people to comment on forums where bullying happens and that kills.
by nxobject | 2025-06-07 19:17:54+00:00
After hearing the "everyone pickpockets everyone and goes to jail and/or dies" anecdote for the "original" Radiant AI, I'm beginning to suspect that the following are incompatible:'

– there's always enough interesting characters to interact with to give quests etc.;

- live simulated world with emergent behavior that involves characters disappearing;

- no one enters or leaves town.
by beloch | 2025-06-07 19:19:00+00:00
> "The space agency hoped to establish operational redundancy by having two companies under contract. However, Boeing Starliner's fault-plagued test flight means a second option is at least six months away. Musk's space company has already operated nine missions and the SpaceX Crew-10 mission is currently underway with four crewmembers on the station: NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi."

Not too long ago Musk was arguing against NASA's policy of spreading their money around to different contractors, saying they'd get to Mars faster if they spent it all at SpaceX.

Now it's pretty clear that NASA has given too much money to a company that's simply not reliable due to its leadership. It's time to spend more at Boeing and possibly elsewhere.

It's a real shame that the great work the engineers were doing at SpaceX is now being undone by their top executive.
by hxtk | 2025-06-07 19:19:42+00:00
I tend to use Safari on my mac, but I will say that it evaluates CORS slightly differently than other browsers so that sometimes I have to disable CORS protection to get a site to work that works fine in Chrome or Firefox, and it's the only browser I've used where I expect to have it crash hard with a SEGFAULT or something every once in a while.
by parineum | 2025-06-07 19:19:49+00:00
I think you're spot in with this. It's the enthusiasts that are constantly trying to move the goalposts towards them and then the general public puts it back where it goes once they catch on.

AGI is what people think of when they hear AI. AI is a bastardized term that people use to either justify, hype and/or sell their research, business or products.

The reason "AI" stops being AI once it becomes mainstream is that people figure out that it's not AI once they see the limitations of whatever the latest iteration is.
by solarwindy | 2025-06-07 19:20:56+00:00
I think you neatly summarise why the current pre-trained LLM paradigm is a dead end. If these models were really capable of artificial reasoning and learning, they wouldn’t need more training data at all. If they could learn like a human junior does, and actually progress to being a senior, then I really could believe that we’ll all be out of a job—but they just do not.
by chriswarbo | 2025-06-07 19:22:02+00:00
> I always end up with a huge /nix/store and have no idea how to clean it without garbage collecting everything and having to wait all over

FYI you can avoid things getting garbage-collected by doing `nix-store --add-root`; that makes an "(indirect) garbage collector root"[0]. Especially useful if you're using import-from-derivation, since that imported derivation won't appear in the dependencies of your final build output (which, to be clear, is a good thing; since it lets us calculate a derivation, e.g. by solving dependency constraints or whatever, without affecting the eventual hash if that calculation happens to match a previous one!)

[0] https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18/package-management/garbage-c...
by nilirl | 2025-06-07 19:22:35+00:00
Even so, the increased rate of revenue generation cannot be explained by AI features since all the other (read: not skyrocketing) startups also offer AI features.

Did these portfolio companies just get the UX right? That would mean their entire portfolio, across industries, just happens to be filled with exceptional designers of products, who all simultaneosly cracked the UX for their respective industries.

A simpler inquiry:

What if the cause of this revenue growth is not on the startup/VC side but on the buyer side? Why are more companies rushing out there willing to spend more than before?

Here we have some candidates to consider: FOMO, labor efficiency, excitement.

Now, we have economics (behavioral and regular) to form a causal narrative; we have loss aversion and job cuts as incentives.

So, based on this post can we say this is a better time to start a startup than before? I don't think so.

Can we say that if you do start one with the same odds of success as before, grow it to a VC happy size, and have AI somewhere in the offering, you'll probably have more revenue than companies of a similar size from a few years ago? Yes, I think we can say that.
by healsdata | 2025-06-07 19:22:37+00:00
Your analogy is faulty and doesn't hold up to the basic scrutiny.

Whoever is giving the child access is responsible, not the manufacturer. If a parent gives their child a device capable of accessing the internet with no restrictions, that's on the parent.

Pornhub is manufacturing a product and making it available to the open market, just like Jack Daniels. Jack Daniels has no responsibility to ensure a bar is only providing access to legal patrons.

In your analogy, the bar would be equivalent to a internet cafe or public library that has PCs available to patrons. Those types of businesses should definitely use physical IDs to verify patrons are of age.

To make your analogy work for Pornhub, you'd also have to argue "why shouldn't Jack Daniels have to put age-verifying instant blood tests on their bottles in case a parent puts one in their unlocked liquor cabinet?"

Because then the same concerns arise -- why should Jack Daniels be given access to my blood just to manufacture an age-restricted product? What will they do with it? Will they secure the data appropriately? How do I know it won't be used to negatively impact my future because my health insurance company doesn't like that I drank a bottle of JD?