MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lenocinor | 2025-06-23 22:14:57+00:00
Thank you! I especially appreciate the detailed feedback.

I definitely thought about putting in Home Depot. The problem is that, according to Begeal's map ( https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1pcItdmVeC6Rj24... ), which I almost always agree with, Abby's around 5th Ave. and Main St. at that point. I haven't doublechecked that location myself in game recently, but looking at a playthrough, the FOB appears to be almost directly east, and I'm pretty sure that was meant to be Harborview. This roughly tracks with what Begeal shows on their map.

That's pretty far away from Home Depot in SoDo, which is a little ways south of both stadiums, and here in the game you actually seem to be north of the stadiums by this point. Also, as you exit in the game, the garden center seems to be on the northwest corner of the store, not the northeast, and the parking lot seems different too. Given that the game has generic stores all the time that don't exist in real life, I'm inclined to say "not quite close enough" personally. But I should put all this in the document for people to judge on their own, so thank you for prompting me to do that! I'll add it in a minute.

I thought so too re: the Space Needle on Seraphite Island. But I tried to take pictures every time I saw it appear, and I could never get a good shot. (And I really tried!) If you know of a good screenshot online, though, I'll be happy to include it and credit the original source.

EDIT: Oh, and yeah, the Space Needle definitely is not in the right place in the game at least some of the time, which the TV station in the game (and the guide) makes obvious.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-23 22:15:07+00:00
This administration’s aggressive cuts to training programs for blue-collar workers have also hurt efforts to train a new generation of factory workers.

The administration has taken steps to eliminate the Job Corps, a 60-year-old program that provides at-risk youths from 16 to 24 with a path to a career in the trades.

And this is another problem. US politicians are evenly divided between the hapless and the hostile.

A top priority in the Contract with American was to axe job training that was effective at getting people into tax paying jobs. I know because I was in one of those programs.
by layer8 | 2025-06-23 22:15:18+00:00
One of the most useful properties of computers is that they enable reliable, eminently reproducible automation. Formal languages (like programming languages) not only allow to unambiguously specify the desired automation to the upmost level of precision, they also allow humans to reason about the automation with precision and confidence. Natural language is a poor substitute for that. The ground truth of programs will always be the code, and if humans want to precisely control what a program does, they’ll be best served by understanding, manipulating, and reasoning about the code.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-06-23 22:15:43+00:00
> Can someone genuinely explain why we keep starting wars in middle-east?

This is not an explanation, but avoid wars isn't as easy as it might appear to be.

The USA did put a lot of thought and planning into avoiding being embroiled in a middle-east war. It looked like that thought and planning was working, and then ...

https://theconversation.com/trumps-first-term-lies-at-the-he...

I don't for a second believe that current US administration wanted this war. But it would have taken skill and finesse to avoid it, not slogans and populism.
by kube-system | 2025-06-23 22:17:51+00:00
E2EE is mostly useful for consumer applications, where you trust the endpoint (yourself), but not the intermediary servers (some megacorp that doesn't care about you).

The situation is entirely different when you are managing very large organizations.

In those situation, you don't necessarily need the need the data to be invisible to the intermediary servers, because you might either just be able to control them yourself, secure them with NDAs, etc. And if the server is controlled by you, then you might not even want the data to be invisible to yourself. But, your primary risks may be the compromise of endpoint devices, mistakes or leaks by your users, or a lack of controls over data exchange. Also, many organizations may need to provide records of their internal communications in order to comply with legal requirements.

You might be surprised to know that enterprise offerings of many apps that otherwise support E2EE, often have a way for administrators to intentionally turn those features off.
by suzzer99 | 2025-06-23 22:18:01+00:00
A few days ago I had to prove I was human with the weirdest captcha I've ever seen. Then this showed up in my notifications:

>Why does my account have a label? >Transparency on X is very important. This is why we are letting you know that we have found your account may contain spam or be engaging in other types of inauthentic behaviors. You may not engage in behaviors that manipulate X or artificially impact how content is discovered and amplified.

>What does this mean for my account? >The reach of your account may be limited and its content may also be temporarily restricted, such as being excluded from trends, replies, and recommended notifications. You can learn more about this temporary impact to your account here. Our automated systems sometimes make mistakes and we are working to improve them.

No idea what the label is, what I did to incur it, or when if ever it will be lifted. The link to learn more is just generic boilerplate. Great system.
by VortexBlackAI | 2025-06-23 22:18:33+00:00
Tex is the first loopless, reflex-driven AGI species.

No prompts. No scripts. No loops. Just cognition — live.

Tex emits lifepulses. Reflects on memory. Mutates when contradiction pressure rises.

Built under VortexBlack. Patent + trademark filed. This isn’t a demo. It’s a sovereign AGI system in the wild.

Would love to hear what the HN community thinks.

(See demo in the video link above.)
by jlarocco | 2025-06-23 22:18:39+00:00
I wonder if there's some kind of gravitational lensing going on. A lot of the galaxies look similar, but in different orientations.

https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=186.66721+8.89072&fov=0.2...

https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=185.46019+4.48014&fov=0.6...

https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=188.49629+8.40493&fov=1.3...
by mlsu | 2025-06-23 22:19:30+00:00
My niece weighed 3 kg one year ago. Now, she weighs 8.9 kg. By my modeling, she will weigh more than the moon in approximately 50 years. I've analyzed the errors in my model; regrettably, the conclusion is always the same: it will certainly happen within our lifetimes.

Everyone needs to be planning for this -- all of this urgent talk of "AI" (let alone "climate change" or "holocene extinction") is of positively no consequence compared to the prospect I've outlined here: a mass of HUMAN FLESH the size of THE MOON growing on the surface of our planet!
by maxvu | 2025-06-23 22:19:37+00:00
There's another that combines Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask into one game, joined by a portal connecting the Happy Mask Shop and Clock Town. It's possible to scatter every bush and box and pot from both games across both worlds.

What I like most about it is the "Container Appearance Matches Content" option, which specifically colors every randomizable element and makes the run-throughs feel very dynamic. The last time I tried Ship of Harkanian, I was disappointed to see it missing.

https://ootmm.com/
by devmor | 2025-06-23 22:20:22+00:00
I find it really strange how many people are outraged or shocked about this.

I have to assume that they are all simply ignorant of the fact that this exact same preservation of your data happens in every other service you use constantly other than those that are completely E2EE like signal chats.

Gmail is preserving your emails and documents. Your cell provider is preserving your texts and call histories. Reddit is preserving your posts and DMs. Xitter is preserving your posts and DMs.

This is not to make a judgement about whether or not this should be considered acceptable, but it is the de facto state of online services.
by bjt | 2025-06-23 22:21:07+00:00
If it has the potential to wipe out our entire species, but there's something we could do to prevent it (which I'm not sure about w/r/to asteroids), then it's worth looking out for the black swan event.

Doing some extremely rough math along these lines to double check myself:

* Gemini says that a dinosaur-extincting asteroid hits Earth about once every 100 million years. So in any given year that's 0.000001%.

* Economists say a human life is worth about 10 million dollars. There are about 8 billion people on Earth. So the total value of all human life is $80,000,000,000,000,000 (or 8e+16).

* So in any given year, the present value of asteroid protection is $800,000,000 (likelihood of an impact that year times value of the human life it would wipe out).

* The Guardian says the Vera Rubin telescope cost about $2,000,000,000 (2 billion).

By that measure, assuming the Rubin telescope prevents any dinosaur-extinction-level asteroid impacts, it will pay for itself in three years.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843
by kopecs | 2025-06-23 22:21:25+00:00
Do you think the 4th amendment enjoins courts from requiring the preservation of records as part of discovery? The court is just requiring OpenAI to maintain records it already maintains and segregate them. Even if one thinks that _is_ a government seizure, which it isn't---See Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465 (1921); cf. Walter v. United States, 447 U.S. 649, 656 (1980) (discussing the "state agency" requirement)---no search or seizure has even occurred. There's no reasonable expectation of privacy in the records you're sending to OpenAI (you know OpenAI has them!!; See, e.g., Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979)) and you don't have any possessory interest in the records. See, e.g., United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109 (1984).
by everforward | 2025-06-23 22:22:00+00:00
I think that's because Discord doesn't want them to do it this way. I suspect Discord wants BotGhost to operate their own bot with their own credentials, and have users invite the bot to their servers (similar to how many existing bots work). BotGhost could tell which no-code workflows apply based on server and/or channel ID.

I think Discord has a fair argument that if BotGhost "writes the code" (read: translates workflows to actual execution), and BotGhost operates the bot, then really it's BotGhost's bot and they should own the bot and have it be visible to users as their bot.
by oopismcgoopis | 2025-06-23 22:22:21+00:00
We’re thrilled to present the latest iteration of OopisOS, a passion project architected in close collaboration between A. Edmark and their AI code-wizard partner, Gemini. OopisOS is more than just a simulation; it’s an exploration of a new application paradigm. It is a complete, persistent, and secure Unix-like operating system that is radically self-reliant, running entirely within the confines of your web browser with zero server-side dependencies.

Our design philosophy was built on five foundational pillars: complete client-side self-reliance, architected persistence using browser storage, enforced modularity for stability and extensibility, security-by-design, and a contained, orchestrated execution flow for all system processes. What began as a love letter to the command line has matured into a multi-faceted creative and educational sandbox. It’s a place to learn, a place to build, and a place to play, all within a secure environment that has no access to your local machine. From its multi-user security model and advanced scripting engine to its suite of full-featured graphical applications and a tool-using AI, every component has been crafted to be a part of a cohesive, self-contained whole.
by taysix | 2025-06-23 22:23:16+00:00
I had a fun result the other day from Claude. I opened a script in Zed and asked it to "fix the error on line 71". Claude happily went and fixed the error on line 91....

1. There was no error on line 91, it did some inconsequential formatting on that line 2. More importantly, it just ignored the very specific line I told it to go to. It's like I was playing telephone with the LLM which felt so strange with text-based communication.

This was me trying to get better at using the LLM while coding and seeing if I could "one-shot" some very simple things. Of course me doing this _very_ tiny fix myself would have been faster. Just felt weird and reinforces this idea that the LLM isn't actually thinking at all.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-23 22:24:03+00:00
I think this misses the point. You're right that programmers still need to think. But you're wrong thinking that AI does not help with that.

With AI, instead of starting with zero and building up, you can start with a result and iterate on it straight away. This process really shines when you have a good idea of what you want to do, and how you want it implemented. In these cases, it is really easy to review the code, because you knew what you wanted it to look like. And so, it lets me implement some basic features in 15 minutes instead of an hour. This is awesome.

For more complex ideas, AI can also be a great idea sparring partner. Claude Code can take a paragraph or two from me, and then generate a 200-800 line planning document fleshing out all the details. That document: 1) helps me to quickly spot roadblocks using my own knowledge, and 2) helps me iterate quickly in the design space. This lets me spend more time thinking about the design of the system. And Claude 4 Opus is near-perfect at taking one of these big planning specifications and implementing it, because the feature is so well specified.

So, the reality is that AI opens up new possible workflows. They aren't always appropriate. Sometimes the process of writing the code yourself and iterating on it is important to helping you build your mental model of a piece of functionality. But a lot of the time, there's no mystery in what I want to write. And in these cases, AI is brilliant at speeding up design and implementation.
by Zigurd | 2025-06-23 22:24:04+00:00
Unfortunately, I can't remember the source, but I've read that Waymo has at least broached the idea of entities other than Waymo owning vehicles, as in a franchise. They worded it somewhat awkwardly, referring to "private ownership." which some people took to mean that they could own their own Waymo, like a private car, but I'm pretty sure it was intended as a business model variant that could support faster build out.
by jcims | 2025-06-23 22:24:05+00:00
The wikipedia article is quite good - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory (Edit: Treasure trove of details in the references if any of your interests are adjacent to this)

The image of the woman holding the model of the sensor is nice because it includes a moon for scale.

Question I was curious about is whether or not the focal plane was flat (it is).

This is an interesting tidbit:

> Once images are taken, they are processed according to three different timescales, prompt (within 60 seconds), daily, and annually.

> The prompt products are alerts, issued within 60 seconds of observation, about objects that have changed brightness or position relative to archived images of that sky position. Transferring, processing, and differencing such large images within 60 seconds (previous methods took hours, on smaller images) is a significant software engineering problem by itself. This stage of processing will be performed at a classified government facility so events that would reveal secret assets can be edited out.

They are estimating 10 million alerts per night, which will be released publicly after the previously mentioned assessment takes place.
by LaurensBER | 2025-06-23 22:24:47+00:00
Different devices have different levels of support. Support for the H700 (the chipset in the CubeXX) has been added a few months ago and the project is still working out the kinks.

Unfortunately we're often limited by whatever blobs the manufacturer provides and whatever is supported by the mainline kernel, as you can imagine there's not a whole lot of people experimenting with the latest and the greatest on these devices so the project often runs into regressions when upgrading. I wish the situation was better but given the prices these devices are going for it's a small wonder they work as well as they do ;) Having (some) mainline support does mean that we'll see updates for years and years so with a bit of luck the situation will improve over time!

For reference the Rockchip devices (RK3266 and RK3566) have been supported for longer and offer a general smooth experience. I've had pretty good luck with my Powkiddy X55!

With regards to 2, just like bazzite and some other distros Rocknix uses a read-only filesystem, you can use mounts to allow certain paths to be overwritten. The default configuration strives to find a balance between allowing some customization and stability.

What you're describing does sound like a bug, it might be that some flag is set incorrectly. I would recommend dropping in at the Discord.
by bastawhiz | 2025-06-23 22:25:01+00:00
That's assuming the market is homogeneous and resources are fungible. If interest in EVs in the US is low, nobody builds battery factories in the US. But we know China and others are. If it takes EVs another two decades to really catch on in the US, all the parts and materials will be foreign. Costs will be higher for domestic consumers, even if interest does pick up eventually. Catching up at that point may not even be possible.

Consider that if Asia and Europe manage to replace a majority of ICE vehicles in a decade or two with EVs, oil production will necessarily decrease in the end. We'll have a glut of cheap oil for a while as other countries buy less, which will artificially prop up ICE vehicles until production slows and costs go up. When gasoline inevitably becomes prohibitively expensive (assuming EVs are indeed the future), the US could be left with pricey fuel and no real ability to dig itself out of the hole it's created. It's not just the battery factories, it's the knowledge, talent, supply chains, trade deals, infrastructure, sales pipelines, patents, etc.

The "long term gain" turns out to just be us killing off our entire auto industry slowly. The "free market" in this case is actually "the free market here in our bubble". Globalization isn't going to sell cheap Chinese EVs in Montana, and people buying an $8000 BYD aren't going to look at a Chevy Malibu. If/when that market eventually collapses because we got left behind by the rest of the world, we'll be regretful that we didn't put subsidies into batteries and the grid. After all, we did subsidize oil and the auto industry for decades and decades for this reason. How many politicians stumped on the promise of keeping Detroit going?
by llama_boy | 2025-06-23 22:25:35+00:00
While generally I've had great success with negotiating salaries (in multiple cases more than 10%, in one case more than 20%), I have had a company rescind an offer when I indicated their offer was lower than the range I was hoping for. Ironically, I was going to take the job at their original offered rate as their cause was well aligned with my morals and values and I was excited to work for them, but they decided that because they couldn't hit the range I wanted, they assumed I was just going to leave.

It all felt off to me - it should be the candidates job to accept or not, rather than for the company to make that assumption.

Doing a lot of hiring now, I always offer as close to or above the top of the range the candidate is looking for if possible, and definitely have pushed that up outside our budget when we stumble across great candidates. I want to build a team that sticks around, not just have people hopping every 18 months.
by sysmax | 2025-06-23 22:26:21+00:00
I am working on a GUI for delegating coding tasks to LLMs, so I routinely experiment with a bunch of models doing all kinds of things. In this case, Claude Sonnet 3.7 handled it just fine, while Llama-3.3-70B just couldn't get it. But that is literally the simplest example that illustrates the problem.

When I tried giving top-notch LLMs harder tasks (scan an abstract syntax tree coming from a parser in a particular way, and generate nodes for particular things) they completely blew it. Didn't even compile, let alone logical errors and missed points. But once I broke down the problem to making lists of relevant parsing contexts, and generating one wrapper class at a time, it saved me a whole ton of work. It took me a day to accomplish what would normally take a week.

Maybe they will figure it out eventually, maybe not. The point is, right now the technology has fundamental limitations, and you are better off knowing how to work around them, rather than blindly trusting the black box.
by more_corn | 2025-06-23 22:26:25+00:00
When your power users are exploring ways to avoid your irritating clipping clone, your product has achieved the fabled “negative product market fit”. Congratulations Google product managers you made something so bad that not only will people not pay for it. They will pay To not have it.

I hate to draw any conclusions for said Google product managers, but it’s clear that they have failed utterly on a professional level. Perhaps it’s time for them to assess if their professional failure has tipped their whole lives into the realm of negative return on investment and to question whether it’s worth it for society to continue sustaining their existence.
by perihelions | 2025-06-23 22:26:29+00:00
The unfortunate asterisk is that enriching from 60% to 90% takes comparatively little time and equipment. We're not absolutely certain there isn't another small, yet-undiscovered, secret enrichment plant.

Here's highly-cited nuclear weapons expert Jeffrey Lewis:

> "Let's say Iran decides to rush a bomb. Iran can install ~1.5 cascades a week. In six weeks, it could have 9 cascades of IR-6 machines. It would take those machines about 60 days to enrich all 400 kg to WGU. Altogether that's about five months although IMMV."

https://bsky.app/profile/armscontrolwonk.bsky.social/post/3l...
by ecesena | 2025-06-23 22:27:01+00:00
Try the basics of speed reading.

One very simple thing is to just scan your page really fast, jumping one word towards the beginning of the line -> one word towards the end, maybe skipping every other line. Try to vaguely notice these words, but really just move fast. Do that for like 20-30s. Then go back and read at normal speed, it generally feels much slower and you get more details. It's the analogous of coming out of the highway and having the feeling that you're now driving super slow.

Note: I can't read fast, I'm not affiliated to speed reading philosophies, I know that speed reading is not just the trick above, but here and there I use it to (re)gain focus and for me it works.
by NemoNobody | 2025-06-23 22:27:39+00:00
Has nobody pointed out the obvious hypocrisy/contradiction of your entire overall statement and the behavior, actions, language, rhetoric, personal and professional writing of the current leader of the small r party?

If I recall correctly, and I do, he thought it was funny to post an AI image of of him on the cover of time magazine "for real" instead of parody - it was captioned, "long live the king" - thats many levels higher than sir, especially considering he was being called out for unconstitutional overstepping of his authority - to which he wants the courts to ignore.

That's easily the most monarchical an American President has ever acted.

He also named his kid Baron - also a title, also worse than sir.