MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by umanwizard | 2025-06-06 19:34:49+00:00
> accessed/used

I have no idea

> sold

I very strongly doubt it. There’s no evidence that Meta sells user data, despite people having confidently claimed for many years that they do.

But regardless, none of this is the same as the messages being public, which is what was originally claimed. Facebook selling my messages to nefarious companies that want to profile me, while bad, would be quite different from them being accessible to anyone who wanted them.
by touisteur | 2025-06-06 19:35:07+00:00
Wondering how you'd classify Gaudi, tenstorrent-stuff, groq, or lightmatter's photonic thing.

Calling something a GPU tends to make people ask for (good, performant) support for opengl, Vulkan, direct3d... which seem like a huge waste of effort if you want to be an "AI-coprocessor".
by spacebanana7 | 2025-06-06 19:35:11+00:00
The USA did it against Japan. Of course those were special circumstances, but all wars have their own set of special circumstances to some extent.

There’s also the argument that using nuclear weapons make sense when a nuclear state has a weaker conventional force that its opponent. Russia still has a pretty strong conventional force, but for example North Korea is in this position against most likely adversaries.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-06-06 19:35:26+00:00
I tried to get some sort of proof based on Godbolt, to see if it generates any memcpy's, but I couldn't manage to do that after quite a few tries. :(

It's really difficult to understand this given how much I know about Ada, so the best I can do is to keep throwing questions at ChatGPT. And I keep getting results that go against what you said.

I've also tried a couple direct review examples from o4-mini-high, one without the documentation link [1] and one with it [2].

It matches what I've managed to learn as well. I know how LLMs work and that they hallucinate a lot, so I can't tell who here is wrong, since you seem to be really experienced, and I barely know anything... what are your thoughts?

Oh, and I really appreciate you walking me though this! Like, a lot a lot! Thank you very much!

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/684341e3-8e20-8012-b8d0-9847742af9...

[2] https://chatgpt.com/share/68434538-fe24-8012-bdb7-b07db34371...
by jajko | 2025-06-06 19:35:43+00:00
Its like working out in the gym - if you see it as a chore and a must, it is or becomes painful very quickly. If you make it fun and self-motivating (and ie get into hiking and camping in the wilderness, or practice shooting on targets, or training martial arts, some people really enjoy gardening and so on), the time is not wasted but enjoyed.

But I agree thats hardly a mindset of typical US redneck prepper. Although most of them live in rural areas and at least some hunting skills are sort of essential to cut costs.
by clutchdude | 2025-06-06 19:36:18+00:00
Those events happened when widespread support and supply were brought into to deal with the relatively limited destruction.

This is destruction on a scale that has not been seen in the likes of civilization outside the bronze age collapse.

The fact is there is going to be no one coming to help replace burned up hoes and shovels.

Threads and the Day after weren't a snapshot of one single city - they were a snapshot of what would be happening everywhere else at the same time.
by slibhb | 2025-06-06 19:36:43+00:00
The idea that "science tells us race as defined in western countries is not backed by actual biological differences" is a hotly debated subject. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-r...

One quote from that:

> We are learning that while race may be a social construct, differences in genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today’s racial constructs are real.

My summary would be that race is a heuristic. It's not perfect but it's a broadly accurate and often useful category. For example, whether someone has dark skin says quite a bit about their propensity for skin cancer. Whether someone is Jewish says a lot about their propensity for certain rare genetic diseases.
Ask HN: Micro KB? FAQ? What is this thing?
by chandan_maruthi | 2025-06-06 19:36:51+00:00
We did something interesting recently, but not sure how to proceed. Ideas are welcome.

• Context: We (an AI for Support startup) recently onboarded a support team that had no formal KB/HelpCenter. Their “knowledge” was scattered across tickets and Slack threads.

• What we did: – Ran an AI pipeline to convert ~6 months of support tickets into 1700 FaQ/KB-style entries. — The typical entry was under 200 words, and the average of 150 words. – These ended up as Q&A/FAQ snippets rather than polished, full-length KB articles. — Such information was not available elsewhere, but they cannot be called KB articles, as they don’t look and feel like KB articles; they are more like FAQs. — The customer asked if we could auto-tag these articles; that's the next step. We have not done it yet.

• Insights: – Volume ≠ structure: Writing 1,700 full articles manually is impossible. AI gave us breadth, but these entries aren’t organized like a typical KB (no headings, related topics, etc.). – Search-ability wins: Even though they’re rough around the edges, the Q&A format indexes really well—agents find answers fast via search, which was the primary goal. – User experience gap: Navigating dozens of standalone Q&A entries in a HelpCenter is clunky. There’s no clear hierarchy or grouping by topic. So this is not good UX for navigation. • Outcome: The customer is happy—agents can now “search and serve” answers instead of digging through old tickets. That immediate boost in efficiency seems valuable.

• Next steps (brainstorm): – Should we layer a lightweight organization (e.g., tags or categories) on top of these Q&A entries? – Can we automatically cluster related Q&As into mini-articles or topic pages? – Is there merit in a hybrid approach: AI-generate bulk Q&As, then enlist human editors to refine high-impact sections?

I’m convinced there is something here. not sure what it is. Thoughts?
by MrArthegor | 2025-06-06 19:36:59+00:00
Yeah, from a non-US citizen views, this type of policy feel like target discrimination against certain groups of individuals.

And the message sent is disastrous. Personally I am part of people who have big advantages with actual DEI policy, but I am firmly against that, because I want to be employed for my skills, not because I fit a quota or anything like that.
by Retric | 2025-06-06 19:38:08+00:00
> I've seen no justification for the government deciding that from 2022 on we should actively discourage R&D, it just seems to be a mistake.

Removing a specific tax exemption to create a level playing field isn’t discouraging R&D.

That’s the thing, every year such exemptions exist the US taxpayers are handing out money. Just because we subsidize say EV’s or Corn doesn’t mean that’s the baseline forever more.
by hello_computer | 2025-06-06 19:38:15+00:00
> Suppose, hypothetically, you invented an actually effective weight loss drug—one that leads to permanent and healthy change.

> Let’s say it’s a drug that both decreases leptin resistance and prevents simple carbs from triggering the brain’s reward centers. And suppose it doesn’t require someone to keep taking it for the rest of their life, as long as they don’t fall back into obesity.

> Now, imagine you’re not interested in getting rich—you legitimately want to solve the obesity epidemic.

> But then you realize the weight loss industry is a multi-billion-dollar machine, not to mention the pharmaceutical companies profiting off obesity-related health issues. They’re not just going to let this drug come out without a fight.

> Suppose you don’t even care that you're likely to end up falsely accused of rape by women you've never met, and probably dead soon after, with a “suicide note” conveniently found next to your body. You just want to find the best way to get this drug out there and available to the public.

> Assume, for the moment, that no one but you and a small group of trusted researchers know about this discovery—and you stumbled across it accidentally while researching something else.

> What would be the best approach to make this drug available to the public, knowing that powerful, interested parties would do everything in their power to suppress it?
by like_any_other | 2025-06-06 19:38:19+00:00
> This recent article from the HN homepage also contradicts some of this section's sourcing: "Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S."

I'd say that article overstates the data of the study, but that's not true - it completely inverts it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202544
by npteljes | 2025-06-06 19:38:44+00:00
>This should be illegal.

I agree. Governments relying on private parties at such a degree is a disservice to the public they serve. As an alternative, or mirror, it's fine to upload, but to use Facebook, Xitter, YouTube as primary source for anything government related is pathetic. Govs should have their own IT running their own cloud and services, utilize FOSS entirely and work and contribute the software and data they produce.
by jajko | 2025-06-06 19:39:04+00:00
As we saw puttin' is just empty talk, he is too smart and paranoid to fuck up his mafia empire be built so hard, his survival in some deep shelter with few bodyguards would be very short, person like him doesn't have any reliable true friends.

The problem is the person coming after him - if he will be an extremist nutjob, everything is possible even if only 5% or 10% of soviet missiles still work.
by cluckindan | 2025-06-06 19:39:35+00:00
In which way does a generator manage content? The user manages content on the file system / git. A static site does not manage anything.

Wordpress is really more of a blog management system with page editing features. It doesn’t work well with different types of content, it’s geared for articles and ”pages”. How would you use it to build a site where a lot of content comes from some other background system, say NewsML feeds for example? It is possible, but you can only import the content as posts, and you only have one schema for what a post contains.
by protimewaster | 2025-06-06 19:40:25+00:00
I think the point is that even that threat hasn't rendered MacBooks to be widely deemed insecure or untrustworthy. So, if the threat of similar insecurities were to show up on phones (which is debatable since AFAIK both iOS and Android have substantially different security models compared to traditional desktop OS apps), why would phones suffer a different fate than laptops or desktops?
by pyman | 2025-06-06 19:40:28+00:00
Well, it's an India-based company. If you check LinkedIn, most of the employees are based in India.

The issue here is that many people think AI only means LLMs, Transformers, or GenAI. But AI has been around for decades and includes machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks.

So anyone using ML is free to register a .ai domain. There’s nothing wrong with that.

The problem would be if you told customers that your virtual assistant, in this case "Natasha", was creating the code instead of humans.

But that's not what happened here. The company went broke because it was reporting false sales figures.
by jaymzcampbell | 2025-06-06 19:40:47+00:00
> 2 hours commute daily? This seems crazy.

This is the norm in many places of the world. I live in London and am lucky to only need to take one tube train into the office. It's still 1 hour each way - 10 mins to station, 5 mins wait - if i'm lucky, but it could be as much as 15, 45 min train, another 10 mins walk, 1hr each way is just a good smooth day for me. Many of my colleagues have even longer journeys. I only belabour this because I actually feel lucky in the length of my commute compared to many people in the UK.

As for 1hr overtime daily - if you're a salaried employee you aren't doing overtime to begin with, you're just doing your job - sure you can just not, but it probably won't go in your favour - at most agencies I've worked (this is in the UK) I was asked (i.e. required) as part of the onboarding to opt out of the working hours directive (https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/weekly-maxim...). There was no overtime, there was just work.
by owebmaster | 2025-06-06 19:41:23+00:00
If it is stuck in your head yo should do it, it is not too much work to start but it is to make it good. If you give up at least it won't be stuck in your head anymore and you might learn from the experience and not have ideas stuck in your head anymore after understanding the work it takes to make a thing that looks simple (a directory) be worth any good amount of money.
by JanisIO | 2025-06-06 19:42:18+00:00
There are so many bugs not fixed over years it really makes me angry. One stands out, which is the idleassetsd process downloading and deleting wallpaper files over and over. This not only depleted my data plan multiple times when abroad, but also writes hundreds of gigabytes on not-replaceable SSDs. Ah, and the process uses all remaining memory and incredible cpu resources. What the f… is this s…? It almost feels deliberate, regarding M1+ SSD life expectancy.
by rane | 2025-06-06 19:42:58+00:00
> command I run in one shell session is not immediately available as a history item in other concurrent shell sessions

It's hard to understand how any other way is usable. If you have a dozen concurrent shell sessions, some running a long running process for example, and you had to restart one of them, you wouldn't be able to just Ctrl-C and go to the previous command. For me it's way better shell sessions live their own life but the history is accumulated to a single pool.
by throw310822 | 2025-06-06 19:43:17+00:00
> Specifically they would both be of Khoi-San ethnicity

The you could say that a distinctive trait of Khoi-San ethnicity is its genetic variance. Not to mention the fact that this variance, coming from before two population bottlenecks, must contain a large number of traits not seen in other human populations.

Although this makes you wonder- if they're the most genetically diverse, do they also look diverse? Are there light and dark skinned individuals, blonde and red and black hair, green/ blue/ brown eyes, short and tall, etc.?
by systemstops | 2025-06-06 19:43:18+00:00
It's a social construct in the way that all categories are. The question is whether or not a category is useful. I'm saying there are genetic differences between groups, but our structuring of these groups is pretty flexible. There are genetic differences between "continental groups" but there is also a good amount of genetic diversity within sub-Saharan Africa populations because those people did not go through the genetic bottleneck that Eurasians did.

Our understanding of race have been historically contingent. Both the racial essentialism of the colonial period and the "we are all the same under the skin" anti-racism of post-WW2 were based more on political ideologies than reality.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-06 19:43:21+00:00
https://epiloguemag.com/2020/08/the-future-is-cancelled/

>For the cultural theorist Mark Fisher, this manifested itself in a culture industry that became addicted to pastiche and nostalgia, and which could no longer experiment with novel forms and anticipate a future of any substantive difference to the present.

I honestly can't believe this article doesn't mention Mark Fisher, a philosopher who talked about exactly this to an incredible degree. He said that there has been a "slow cancellation of the future" and that this is in large part due to having a profit-driven, and therefore risk-averse social structure and access to the entire backlog of human creativity up to this point. People like nostalgia and are comfortable with the familiar, so it will almost always be a safer bet to create things based on proven formulae than it will be to experiment. We have everything people have ever created to draw from, and a sort of combinatorial explosion happens when you realize you can just start recreating forgotten things from the past so that they seem new or mooshing any number of things together. From a profit perspective it just makes sense: creating these things is expensive and getting pricier, and as independent creators either get gobbled up by industry conglomerates or leveraged into a position where they have to deal w said conglomerates you start dealing with people who judge the value of a piece of art the same way they judge the value of everything else: if I put $x into this today how much will that be worth in a year? Framed that way, it makes total sense to do nothing but spinoffs, rebroadcasts, remakes, reboots, resets, prequels, sequels, reissues, remasters and 25th anniversary tours. There's enough depth to the back catalog now, and we live in an age where all of it is available instantly, that you can mine old culture for things that aren't familiar to a generation until that generation passes on, then just do the same thing again to the next generation. Idk if y'all have noticed but bellbottoms are back. My mom is a boomer, I'm a millenial, and my niblings are gen alpha. Having someone from the 70s, someone from the 70s revival of the late 90s and someone from the 2020s revival of the 90s revival of the 70s all in the same room at the same time is more illustrative of this point than anything else I can come up with.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-06 19:43:26+00:00
Level playing field for whom? Who does incentivizing R&D disadvantage?

Restaurants weren't competing with R&D-heavy corporations in any way. R&D-heavy corporations competed with each other, on a level playing field where all of them can build new stuff without having to pay taxes on negative income in their early years.

The only change this has made is un-level the playing field in favor of old, established corporations that already have the revenue streams in place to fund their new R&D projects.
by godelski | 2025-06-06 19:43:47+00:00
Yeah I think you've hit on the answer of why people don't write docs: they don't want to read docs...

But docs are kinda a necessary "evil". It would be great if we could instantly download information into our brain. Instead, we have to slowly download information into our brain (and it gets faster the more you do it).

People feel too rushed. But does the rushing get us anywhere faster? It's like rushing around in your car. You feel like your going faster, but if you time yourself or watch other cars that aren't rushing, you'll observe they still are ending up at the same stoplights you are. The speed only increases your anxiety and risk of accident. It feels faster, but it really isn't in 90% of cases.

Personally, I'd rather get to my destination more calm and safe. Might cost 1-2% in time, but most of the time I'll be better at my destination if I'm relaxed. Only rush when seconds matter.

With docs are useful and you shouldn't just jump to the parts you need. The surrounding context is a force multiplier. It helps you get into the mind of the writer. It helps you guess how things get put together. It helps you understand the larger picture. All of that is helps. You don't need to read a doc front to back, but just extracting one-liners is not helpful.

It is just rushing... good things take time
by n4r9 | 2025-06-06 19:43:57+00:00
If you're suggesting categorising according to genetics, then I don't think the scientific consensus is with you. Pet breeds have clear biological divisions that humans do not. See e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.23882

> Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation. It was never accurate in the past, and it remains inaccurate when referencing contemporary human populations. Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters.
by mrandish | 2025-06-06 19:44:28+00:00
> The ones who see it as insincere just ignore it and move on.

Except I "just move on" to another product.

The only person I know who doesn't find this pretension annoying is my 90 year-old mother. I don't have time to waste on any company that wastes my time with pointless cut-and-paste babble. And any company actually intentionally catering to my 90 year-old mother as a primary target customer is clearly signaling they aren't for me.

A decade from now such blatant condescension from an AI will be a trope: "OMG, that's so mid-2020s AI it's painful."
by mmarvramm | 2025-06-06 19:44:43+00:00
My hunch is the same. Some fraction of founders want to do this because they love the autonomy. So a tool that keeps them on the right track might feel like a nagging parent vs. a true copilot. Will see how I can better qualify this idea and if it is even worth working on. Let me know if you're open for a 15-30 minute call so I can pick your brain about this pain.
by deepsun | 2025-06-06 19:44:46+00:00
Well, unless it's the app that makes the call.

But AFAIK both Android and iOS disabled all call apps except for their own.

Previously they allowed as long as the keypad looked "distinctively different from the default call app", but turned that off some time ago. I can see the security reasoning, but still think there were ways to make it possible and secure.

A similar question, for example, is how to record a call, default or not. AFAIK there's no way.
by 9rx | 2025-06-06 19:45:01+00:00
Normally you would write tests at the user boundaries (like a set of APIs) for the purposes of documenting the behavioural intent for the user as to not leave unspecified behaviour. While you could theoretically do that in Word instead, testing, as we call it, offers a couple of advantages:

1. It is written in code, which is what coders want to read. There is nothing worse than having to read documentation in English (or insert your natural language of choice).

2. It is able to automatically prove that what is documented is true. Programmers tend to have a penchant for lying if you let them, so this is a surprisingly big advantage.

You might not need them per se, but unless you are trying to be an asshole, it is socially expected that you will be kind to your users by filling them in on important details; to not leave them guessing.

Now, if your application only has one user boundary (a.k.a. spaghetti code) then any tests you have will technically end up being E2E tests by there being only one end (although calling that E2E would be rather silly), that is true, but if that's what your code looks like then you're going to have trouble connecting to a test database anyway, and per the earlier comment you need to fix that for the sake of E2E tests. But if you reach that point, you may as well go all the way and fix it properly.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 19:45:32+00:00
More than that, Turkey is a member of NATO that participates in US nuclear sharing and has substantial US forces (aside from the nuclear weapons) deployed.

A nuclear attack by Russia on Turkey would not be merely legally and abstractly an attack on the US under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty which it would do massive irreparable damage to US credibility to ignore, but would almost certainly be a nuclear attack on US forces in the direct and literal sense.
by loeg | 2025-06-06 19:45:36+00:00
On par with the first time.

$ time zsh --login -c 'logout' zsh --login -c 'logout' 0.03s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.037 total

Whenever I've had noticeably slow zsh startup times in the past, it was almost always some plugin/extension doing something very dumb (e.g. stuff like full 'git status' in a large repo -- just takes time); not the history management.
by boroboro4 | 2025-06-06 19:46:11+00:00
But it is different? In both Gemini and ChatGPT when you click "Share" you get a link to the post you can share. It doesn't add the chat to common "Discover" section in the app (there is no such section there). As others pointed out "Share" in Meta AI app is actually "Publish", unlike the one in other chat apps where it is, in fact, share.