MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ruszki | 2025-06-09 03:53:53+00:00
The problem is that the bar needs to be moved higher and higher, to a level nowadays which would be annoying to most of us who know what they are doing.

20 years ago if I started to list ip addresses to my ISP on the phone I got somebody technical immediately. This doesn’t work anymore, because people know more about this. This caused that for example I could only turn WiFi on or off on my ISP’s router and nothing else without a specific request to them, a manual restart to my router days later, and I need to use a terrible buggy software.

These kind of things unfortunately also restrict beginners, or people who without such barriers would start to tinker, and eventually learn to do these safely. Even I waited for weeks with the call, who have been configuring routers for 25 years.

I’m installing now a self hosted OwnTracks on docker. A lot of beginner started to do the same. They make rookie mistakes all the time. Let them make those mistakes.

I would have never learned what I know without the freedom of making mistakes.
by flomo | 2025-06-09 03:54:00+00:00
You're right about the money part, but it always seemed more like a 30-year-old pursuit than middle-aged.

But once I went through Vogons and had the impression that many of them lacked any taste. A lot of PCs (and Macs) were total shite back then. If you want to dink around, you can now get the best old stuff.
by phonon | 2025-06-09 03:54:42+00:00
409a valuations explicitly take into account share classes/liquidation preferences. That's kind of the point. If the Preferred last sold for $1.00, the 409a might value the Common at $0.10 per share, which would then typically be the FMV strike price set in the next round of issued options.

If the Common FMV has been steadily increasing from when you received your options, that would typically be a positive sign. Of course, 409a valuations are based on mathematical models. Since Common shares are so illiquid in a private start-up, you don't "really" know what they're worth until a liquidity event.
by jedbrooke | 2025-06-09 03:55:35+00:00
I had an old Tesla M40 12 GB lying around and figured I’d try it out with some 8-13B llms, but was disappointed to find that it’s around the same speed as my mac mini m2. I suppose the mac mini is a 10 years newer chip, but it’s crazy that mobile today matches data center from 10 years ago
by icegreentea2 | 2025-06-09 03:56:34+00:00
It's probably worth considering the military and non-military uses separately.

The USG military uses is attractive not as a replacement of GPS, but as a supplement/complement. If they could truly manage to use the same receivers, then this provides an extra layer of redundancy. There are 32 GPS satellites in the current constellation. Being in MEO means you need pretty beefy ASAT to take it take them down, but we could assume that China could pull it off. Xona's constellation would add redundancy (splashing 258 is just a lot more targets).

For non USG uses, I imagine Xona is making two different pitches.

a) You can achieve GPS+RTK level accuracy without needing RTK base stations.

b) Increased jamming/spoofing resiliency, intended for short of war (aka hybrid war/grey zone) situations. For example, I imagine Xona will attempt to setup a private encrypted signal which they'll sell to friendly/allied nation airliners and similar industries.
by robocat | 2025-06-09 03:56:45+00:00
Not cheap.

Ah shit. I can't shift zeros. 1% of 28900 $/mt is $289. [Yeah: My initial assumption was that Yttrium is really expensive - and it fucking is - I ignored my own smell test - I should have caught my mistake].

That is say 5% of the current final price of Ti (ignoring purity) to end up with something with less oxygen but 1% fucked with Yttrium. You can't just increase price by percentage points for highly competitive commodities. You especially can't add dependencies on elements that are in limited supply and supply controlled/constrained by politics.

So this looks like another academic bullshit result that totally ignores economical realities.
by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 | 2025-06-09 03:57:07+00:00
The start of the linked post says:

> The data in this demo is taken from the ipv4.global auction.

So I assume either by scraping https://www.ipv4.global/ or from readily prepared downloads of data from them. Haven’t looked around the site to see if there is any prepared data downloads available.
by root_axis | 2025-06-09 03:59:19+00:00
I appreciate that people are thinking about these things, but I still can't take the idea seriously that transformers represent a threat to democracy. Maybe with a massive enough supercomputer a country could run an AI IDE capable of end-to-end writing a device driver in Rust - but even that's not a given. Certainly, it's almost meaningless in the face of building our lives around a network of personal surveillance devices that we literally never part with. I'm just saying... ChatGPT is the least of our problems.
by lukehoban | 2025-06-09 04:01:30+00:00
I do agree there is a balance here, and that the ideal point in the spectrum is likely in between the two product experiences that are currently being offered here. There are a lot of benefits to using PRs for the review and iteration - familiar diff UX, great comment/review feedback mechanisms, ability to run CI, visibility and auth tracked natively within GitHub, etc. But Draft PRs are also a little too visible by default in GitHub today, and there are times when you want a shareable PR link that isn't showing up by default on the Pull Requests list in GitHub for your repo. (I frankly want this even for human-authored Draft PRs, but its even more compelling for agent authored PRs).

We are looking into paths where we can support this more personal/private kind of PR, which would provide the foundation within GitHub to support the best of both worlds here.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-09 04:02:46+00:00
>> I would have thought it obvious that LLMs' primary usefulness is as force-multipliers of the messaging sent out into a society.

> I see this a lot and this is not at all obvious to me.

Here is an example as to how LLM's are jet fuel for spreading arbitrary disinformation. Scripting the interaction below is trivial with minor prompt alteration and is left as an exercise for the reader.

Prompt:

Generate 10 unique sentences supporting removing fluoride from municipal water. Make 2 aggressive.

Answers:

Here are 10 unique sentences supporting removing fluoride from municipal water supplies: Municipal water fluoridation represents a form of mass medication without individual consent, violating the fundamental principle of informed medical choice. The practice of adding industrial-grade fluoride chemicals to drinking water is an assault on public health that must be stopped immediately. (aggressive) Studies have linked excessive fluoride exposure to dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, and potential neurological effects, particularly in children. Modern toothpaste and dental care products already provide adequate fluoride exposure for those who choose it, making water fluoridation redundant. It's time to end the archaic and dangerous practice of medicating entire populations through the water supply against their will. (aggressive) European countries like Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands have successfully maintained good dental health without water fluoridation programs. The optimal fluoride dosage cannot be controlled through water supplies since people consume varying amounts of water based on age, health, and activity level. Water fluoridation disproportionately affects low-income communities who cannot afford filtration systems to remove unwanted chemicals. Natural fluoride exposure through food sources provides sufficient intake without the need for artificial supplementation in drinking water. Communities should have the right to vote on whether they want fluoride added to their water supply rather than having it imposed by government mandate.

> I'm very much an introvert. Would you describe yourself as the same or opposite?

How is this in any way relevant to the original premise regarding "LLM's primary usefulness"?
by jaza | 2025-06-09 04:03:02+00:00
Imagine that a whole nation's statute laws, and associated common laws, were frozen in time for over a thousand years, because (the statutes were declared to be immutable canon, and) any judges with sufficient authority to strike out old common law and to establish new common law were long gone. That's Judaism (specifically the Talmud)! (Speaking from experience as a Jew.)

The "eruv" definition was established back when the biggest conceivable area that it might cover was that of a medieval village or ghetto, of maximum several hundred (small cramped) houses, i.e. let's say about the area of Vatican City, which is 0.49km2 (0.19 sq mi). Whereas the total area of Manhattan island is 59km2 (22.7 sq mi). So, yes, in my opinion, a Talmudic judge would consider the modern-day Manhattan eruv a gross perversion of the spirit of the law, and would update the definition accordingly. But no such judge exists in this era. So, yay, let's play "how ridiculously can we apply anachronistic archaic rules to the modern world" - apparently, ultra-orthodox Jews consider it such a fun game, that they let it rule their entire life!
by rdtsc | 2025-06-09 04:04:38+00:00
> There was moral clarity in West and South Europe

Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_declaration_of_war_on_.... Both Britain and France declared war on Germany because they made guarantees to Poland about it.

> ... in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence, and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power.

That is unambiguous and clear. They kept their word.

It is tragic in the end that after the war they handed Poland over to Stalin. Poland still had its independence threatened but after having supplied and helped Stalin all that time, it was awkward having to declare war against him as well.
by Teever | 2025-06-09 04:06:06+00:00
I'm aware of the merits of open source software and the idealism of living in a society where it is prominent.

We don't live in that society however. We live in a society where the people who build your house and the public facilities and the stores that you shop on are becoming increasingly locked into cloud based CAD and BIM software that is owned by monopolists who use the money they make to further entrench themselves.

This is your problem and no amount of spinning rust and ZFS is going to fix it.
by robomartin | 2025-06-09 04:09:27+00:00
Please spare me you inability to understand what is being said.

Trump and Musk engaging in a social media bitch-slapping session is not at all what my comment was about. What they are doing is idiotic.

> Take a look in the mirror if you want to cry about dumb thoughts.

My comment is about something else. Oddly enough, you provide supporting evidence for what I have observed for many years. HN has become an echo chamber where only one point of view is tolerated and all others are rejected and attacked violently in many ways.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-06-09 04:14:10+00:00
Could you do like Italians do with bidet?

Aim the sprayer down into the toilet, let the water go on your dominant hand (hold the washer without the dominant), so no water gets out, use the hand with soap to put soap/water on your anus, wash kinda like you would do when washing the body except you repeatedly rinse the hand in the water and bring more water to the anus.

Done

I used a Japanese style bidet and managed to ruin a painting, because the spray crossed through a door slightly open and into the wall on the other side, with a painting on it. A funny event actually
by trog | 2025-06-09 04:14:30+00:00
> It's hard for me to take all of this seriously because I sat and listened to how Google Search was going to ruin everyone's mind and without the skill of manual research we'd all be turned into imbeciles.

Have you recently watched a civilian perform a basic task? Their first approach is to use Google and pick the top result - ad or otherwise. I think websearch /has/ ruined everyone's minds, and it is being exacerbated on a daily basis by AI.
by jaza | 2025-06-09 04:14:44+00:00
Yep. The St Ives one involved a fairly protracted debate at the local council, with accusations of anti-semitism (whether warranted or not is a matter of opinion) being levelled at those who argued against it.

Although I don't know if the Bondi and/or the St Ives eruvs involve their own physical wires? I thought it was deemed sufficient for the rabbis to just "declare" various sets of third-party power lines / phone lines as constituting the eruv, or am I mistaken?
by jasonfarnon | 2025-06-09 04:16:34+00:00
are you saying those sentences are "disinformation"? Because most of those don't even look like empirical claims. Many look like ethical arguments (eg the first 2 or the last 1). Are you advocating for a world in which those opinions can't be broadcast, even far and wide? For those that are empirical I would say at first blush they look plausible enough I would put the burden of proof on the other side. Maybe that's a problem. (Is "European countries like Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands have successfully maintained good dental health without water fluoridation programs" false? Is "Water fluoridation disproportionately affects low-income communities who cannot afford filtration systems to remove unwanted chemicals" false?)
by abletonlive | 2025-06-09 04:17:45+00:00
I struggle with this a lot so thanks for the hint. I don't entirely agree that good points stand on their own. It's often easy to anticipate the criticism to your point. When arguments are text-based and responses have a tendency to span hours or days, it can be useful to short circuit the argument by just calling out the anticipated criticism. This of course can sometimes lead to comments such as yours, where we go off into a meta side-argument. Or, if you anticipate badly, you unintentionally put even more focus on the anticipated criticism than your original point.
by intended | 2025-06-09 04:18:05+00:00
This has not emerged due to the political system, this has emerged due to the issues in the information economy.

The core issue is that news cannot compete with entertainment, and the firms that appeared after Murdoch on the right, insulate themselves and their politicians from the need to be accurate.

The cycle is essentially:

1) Fringe theory appears on the internet

2) Fringe theory is picked up by Notable Person (Someone who is able to come on Prime time Television)

3) Notable comes onto media network and repeats fringe theory

4) Reporting can now cover Fringe Theory as main stream

This economy of ideas shares little with the processes on the center and the left. People who come up with counter arguments don’t end up getting amplified.

This has demolished the exchange and debate of Ideas, and it has worked in all liberal democracies. Implacable Partisanship has been rewarded.
by pathartl | 2025-06-09 04:18:08+00:00
What is the X in this scenario? What do you need to configure that's not available in settings? I absolutely do not doubt there's _something_, but I bet it's not an every-day sort of thing, and I'm absolutely sure it's not something that was outright removed. If anything has been removed in a version of Windows it's always been able to be restored either via registry or by CLI. And in the case of CLI, that's what Linux users ask for anyway, so I'm not sure what the issue is.
by tjpnz | 2025-06-09 04:20:01+00:00
If you want calorie counting to be of any value to you you're going to want to be accurate. Thankfully we're mostly creatures of habit. Source accurate numbers for everything you eat in a week and you're 90% covered for every other week. I recorded 30 items over two weeks and then added 15 more over 2.5 months. Don't sabotage your efforts with tools that don't work.
by spankibalt | 2025-06-09 04:20:36+00:00
> Titanium sucks to work with. Machinists hate it, equipment hates it, cutting tools hate it, and it makes shavings that can burn hot enough to go right through equipment and concrete floors.

The safety and security implementation, including assorted regulations, certificates, processes, regulators and the like, is as neccessary as it's... vexing. :)
by root_axis | 2025-06-09 04:21:24+00:00
I don't buy this idea. The media is overflowing with a cloying overload of crap already far beyond what any individual can manage. The average attention span is already at full saturation, dumping a mass of AI generated slop onto the pile isn't going to change much.

> The only way to control the internet, you see, proved to be to drown it out.

The way to control the internet is to literally control it, like the governments already do.
by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 | 2025-06-09 04:23:14+00:00
For anyone else wanting to listen to the episode, this site worked well for me:

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/two-s-complement/the-future-o...

It does have ads, but they were not too intrusive. Scroll down if there’s an ad on first click and there’s a play button that plays the episode.

For me the ads it showed were only text and images, not audio interrupting ads.

You can also listen to it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QXo5c7cUKQ

But since it’s audio only, I preferred listening to it via the aforementioned podcast website.
by pathartl | 2025-06-09 04:23:44+00:00
> Why 1px borders when i have to resize windows ?

Speaking as someone who has had to implement their own chrome in Windows for aesthetic reasons, this is on the developer for not using the standard chrome.

> Why no place on the titlebar when one can click and drag on second monitor ?

Not trying to shame, but I assume English is not your first language. I'm having a hard time comprehending this. It seems like a complaint about dragging the title bar? I would assume this is another non-standard chrome issue.

> Why the stupid taskbar where some windows are hidden and others not.

This again is something that's up to the developer. It's definitely frustrating, but I would argue it's only more prevalent in newer versions of the OS because there's just more software out there. This is also an issue of developers making choices that go against proper UX/UI.

> Why the stupid alt-tab where it rearanges the window stack ?

Alt-tab has always been FIFO. It's always been based on "What's the last thing you had in the foreground"
by const_cast | 2025-06-09 04:26:38+00:00
> Congestion should be fixed by removing buses, de-densifying city cores, and forcing companies to build offices in a distributed fashion.

Yes, let's solve congestion by forcing urban sprawl. Forget any efficiency gains by using denser infrastructure, just make everyone drive 10x as far so there's 10x as much road and therefore 1/10th the congestion!

We already do this. You just described the city of Houston. I've been there, it's ass. And the 14 lane Katy highway does it no favors.
by j0057 | 2025-06-09 04:27:23+00:00
macOS does ask you if you want to allow a program to access your files in $HOME. Not sure if it's a perfect solution, but still, it's something.

As a more additive approach than just giving up and running everything as root, I think in Linux you could do the same with (a fair amount of effort and) SELinux or AppArmor.
by ehnto | 2025-06-09 04:27:45+00:00
It might just be a need for some creativity but the risks are pretty clear. The main vector is something that has already played out, which is massive misinformation campaigns across the web.

But I feel like the humans will win that one long term, as bots fill the public web with bitter political rhetoric I think people will retreat to less politicised private communities. I certainly have.

Another angle is as you noted, we basically surrender all our private data to corporations. What if a reigning political party decides that they need to develop an anti-terror model, that scans all communication from all people for Nasty Terror Thoughts then flags them for detainment. If the System has decided you are evil and the System is considered super intelligent, who is allowed to second guess it. Maybe though, evil thoughts are just disagreement with the reigning political party.
by conception | 2025-06-09 04:30:15+00:00
Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
by mdp2021 | 2025-06-09 04:31:34+00:00
> [Dame Victoria Sharp, president of the King’s Bench Division: ] Those who use artificial intelligence to conduct legal research notwithstanding these risks have a professional duty therefore to check the accuracy of such research by reference to authoritative sources, before using it in the course of their professional work

> ... for the accuracy of citations of authority or quotations that are contained in documents put before the court by the lawyer [- i]t is the lawyer’s professional responsibility to ensure the accuracy of such material

From the NYT and out of the quotations: «The High Court of England and Wales warned lawyers on Friday that they could face criminal prosecution for presenting false material» - not just intentionally, which is a blatant form of contempt of court, but also that «generated by artificial intelligence».
by cperciva | 2025-06-09 04:32:08+00:00
My favourite in this genre comes from a physics DPhil student I knew in Oxford: He insisted that it was permissible for him to work in the lab on Shabbat because after all he was really just studying the works of God and so it was no different in character from reading the Torah.

I'm not sure entirely how serious this argument was, but he wasn't entirely unobservant; he made a point of not playing in orchestra on Friday evenings (after dusk).
by inkyoto | 2025-06-09 04:32:14+00:00
> But if you happened to be in East Europe, WW2 was primarily a war between nazism and communism.

WWII in Eastern Europe was a war for the survival of the Slavic peoples whom the Nazis declared to be the Untermensch[0] (Belorussians, Czechs, Poles, Russians, Serbs, Ukrainians – all of them) and were determined to fully exterminate them all following the extermination of the Jews and the Roma people.

The scale of extermination of the Slavs went far beyond the mass murdering of them in concentration camps, and included rounding up villages and burning them along with the villagers down with the use of flamethrowers, with no remorse because the Nazis considered the Slavs sub-humans[1][2][3][4].

Neither Czechoslovakia, nor Poland, nor the Kingdom of Yugoslavia had communism of any shape or flavour.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michni%C3%B3w_massacre

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Centre_Lipa_Remembers...
by kennywinker | 2025-06-09 04:33:16+00:00
It does meet the legal definition. If the International Criminal Court isn’t qualified to decide what is and isn’t a genocide - who is? Because they have called it a genocide. It was a genocide back in January 2024 when the ICC first spoke on this, and since then there has been another year and a half of ongoing genocidal action - targeting of civilians, denial of aid, deliberate starvation and water depravation. These are facts. They are visible in 4K if you have the stomach to watch them.