MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by serf | 2025-06-06 18:12:58+00:00
no, people tell them to focus on the browser because the majority of features added in the past 15 years are either incredibly flavored (here's your new AI tab!) , or they're profit-seeking motivated (we're proud to present our new collaboration with Pocket (tm) (c), P.S. welcome to your new hompeage with cookies and sponsored assets. )

The major reason Firefox has a large market share is simply because Google is that much more abusive to users -- and that's not a great reason.
by margalabargala | 2025-06-06 18:13:00+00:00
This gets repeated a lot but doesn't actually stand up to any scrutiny.

If you go and look, you will find that cases of blindness are caused not by "improper" distillation, but rather by the adulteration of the finished product- that is, extra methanol being added after the fact.

If you can find a verifiable case of a person going blind from home distillation, I would be interested to see it.
by dang | 2025-06-06 18:13:11+00:00
Could you please stop posting flamebait comments? We've already had to ask you this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, so we eventually ban accounts that keep doing it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by joshdata | 2025-06-06 18:13:13+00:00
That's not really the right picture.

Congress.gov, originally THOMAS.gov, was a product of the Republican Contract with America take-over of Congress in the mid 1990s. Republicans in Congress, including Rep. Issa for example, were helpful in expanding the information that Congress publishes publicly. In the last 15 years, efforts to make Congress publish more and better-structured information have been relatively bipartisan and, mostly, led by nonpolitical staff. I would not describe Democrats as having been the ones to have exclusively created the access to congressional information that we have today, although Democrats in recent years have led on government transparency and accountability issues generally, beyond the Legislative Branch.

Changes that have required legislation have, as far as I'm aware, not really been influenced by the President, other than being signed into law, since they are Legislative Branch concerns and not Executive Branch concerns.
by mrshadowgoose | 2025-06-06 18:17:43+00:00
> You're talking about two different things.

No, you've actually missed his point entirely.

He is alluding to the fact that over the last decade or so, consumers have unwittingly slid down the slope of "not having true control over personal electronic devices". Iphones are already there, Android devices are a few years behind, as are most desktop PCs.

Once there's critical mass, it would not be a stretch for ISPs to only deliver internet to endpoints that have a secure element that attests to the integrity of the internet-con ected device. This will of course be done under the guise of "fighting the spread of malware" and such.

Piracy effectively ends at that point.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-06 18:17:51+00:00
Can you share your definition? This is actually quite puzzling because as far as I know “spin” has always been associated with presenting things in a way that benefits you. Like, decades ago, they could have the show “Bill O’Rilley’s No Spin Zone” and everybody knew the premise was that they argue against guests who were trying to tell a “massaged” version of the story, and that they’d go for some actual truth (fwiw I thought the whole show was full of crap, but the name was not confusing or ambiguous).

I’m not aware of any definition of “spin” where being conventional is a defense against that accusation. Actually, that was the (imagined) value-add of the show, that conventional corporate and political messaging is heavily spun.
by mmooss | 2025-06-06 18:18:08+00:00
Criticizing Mozilla in every situation is almost guaranteed. An odd behavior for a community that supports FOSS.

Mozilla's credibility is a threat to the powers-that-be in the industry. I wonder if that drives a lot of it:

Attacking the messenger is a very popular tactic now. You can see it on Fox, for example. Attacking the messenger changes the topic - it makes the messenger the topic, not the undesired thing - and the messenger often responds by embracing this new topic by defending itself. The undesired thing is forgotten and to the degree it's remembered, the attack is discredited.
by J_McQuade | 2025-06-06 18:18:12+00:00
Off topic, but this is the first I've heard of Antilisp and I love the idea - seems aimed at the sort of problems that I've definitely solved with a tangle of unmaintainable elisp before. Now I just need to forget about the whole thing before I talk myself into writing a Helm module for it... or an HCL one... or... NO.
by anon291 | 2025-06-06 18:18:42+00:00
It's harder now because now you live in America and are used to seeing all these people as Americans, and then as members of whatever racial consciousness we have in America.

Back in those respective countries, they can tell everyone apart. When my wife (Irish/English by ancestry) visited Hungary, they were immediately able to peg her as a foreigner, and frankly, so was I. They look nothing alike aside from skin color. This is true of basically any country in Europe, Africa, Asia, where people have tended to remain in the same location for thousands of years.

I think even most Americans would be able to tell apart African and European races if they really tried.
by antognini | 2025-06-06 18:18:52+00:00
Specifically they would both be of Khoi-San ethnicity. The vast majority of humans have been through two population bottlenecks which drastically reduced the genetic diversity of the populations. Most African populations have been through at least one of these bottlenecks, and every population group outside of Africa has been through two. The Khoi-San, however, seem to have broken off prior to either of the bottlenecks and so they retained much higher genetic diversity.
by wvenable | 2025-06-06 18:19:02+00:00
> The common law torts I cited can apply in the context of a business transaction, so your statement is also incorrect.

I completely disagree. Yes, the Prosser privacy torts exist: intrusion upon seclusion, public disclosure, false light, and appropriation. But they are highly fact-specific, hard to win, rarely litigated, not recognized in all jurisdictions, and completely reactive -- you get harmed first, maybe sue later!

They are utterly inadequate to protect people in the modern data economy. A website selling your purchase history? Not actionable. A company logging your AI chats? Not intrusion. These torts are not a privacy regime - they are scraps. Also when we're talking about basic privacy rights, we just as concerned with mundane material not just "highly offensive" material that the torts would apply to.
by neves | 2025-06-06 18:19:44+00:00
The article is better than I expected. I'm about of the same age of the author and Brazilian, and I can relate to the feeling that Internet companies would improve the world

My only nitpick it to charge Google of the invisibility of maids and servants in Brazil. Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world and this is part of the country culture. Google is not guilty here.

At least we are improving. Nobody with a brain still think that techno companies and billionaires are anything more than comic book super villains.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-06-06 18:20:30+00:00
> 95%+ of North American intercity trains run on freight tracks, which are not designed to be as "smooth".

All over the US, the tracks are being upgraded to 110mph standards. It just a slow process: 5 miles here, 20 miles there. Whenever they can find the money they do a new section. Every single grade crossing must be upgraded, every single curve regraded, etc. Amtrak can run at 90mph on those sections with the locomotives they currently have.

Sometimes they string together enough upgraded rail. Essentially everything in Michigan has been running 110mph for 10+ years, with the newer Siemens locomotives that can handle it. Also, the Texas Eagle and Lincoln Service - the entire time they are in Illinois they are running 110mph.

Upgrading 5 miles of rail doesn't make the news. That doesn't mean it didn't happen :)
by ghusto | 2025-06-06 18:20:56+00:00
No that's not exactly what I meant. It's not that "If AI can do X then X is worthless", but rather in _this_ case it's inappropriate.

Homework should be a part of the collaborative process of learning (as others above have already elaborated on). If teachers are having a problem with AI generated homework being submitted, it shows that the system is broken because they couldn't have been collaborating with students on their learning then.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-06 18:21:02+00:00
> It takes well-calibrated electronics detonating conventional explosives with precise timing to set off a nuclear warhead.

The need for precise control and timing is true for plutonium implosion-style devices but not true for uranium gun-style ones. Gun-style detonators just need to smash two lumps of uranium together. You better hope the interceptor completely demolishes the aforementioned lumps of uranium instead of ramming one into the other.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-06 18:21:12+00:00
What I noticed in the 2010s was that there was very little enthusiasm to do evaluation for information retrieval or classical ML even though it was often straightforward to do.

Interest in eval has skyrocketed just like vector databases have in the LLM age. Finally people see enough value in an ML system to be worth doing eval work, but... it's much harder!
by Lerc | 2025-06-06 18:22:06+00:00
The ends justify the means always backfires in communication. People just lose trust in what they are being told.

There are so many examples of this. There was a poster that attempted to reduce needle reuse by showing the same needle degrading after multiple uses. The problem is that was not very dramatic (also not where the risk lies) so they increased the magnification at each stage to make the degredation seem worse than it was. People recognised this and the primary message amongst their target demographic was anti-drug campaigners lie to you.

I'm not sure how much this will damage Mozilla. Perhaps not much because they have already lost so much mana. Before coming to the comments and reading this thread, I had already thought to myself, "Can I really trust what Mozilla says anymore?".

Perhaps that makes it even worse. To have doubts that are so quickly confirmed suggests not only that you can't trust them, but you reliably can't trust them.

I want to like and support Mozilla, I'm posting this from Firefox, that makes me one of the few sticking with them. They make it so hard sometimes.
by dang | 2025-06-06 18:22:23+00:00
Thanks—we've changed the URL to that from https://links.fabiomanganiello.com/share/683ee70d0409e6.6627... now.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by intalentive | 2025-06-06 18:22:49+00:00
>the absurd explosion of housing costs

Instead of the efficient allocation of capital we have wealth transfers from producers and consumers to a financial rentier class that produces nothing. This class, which effectively owns the government and plans the economy, is responsible for not only high housing costs but high healthcare costs as well. It is gradually cannibalizing the rest of the economy and turning the population into debt slaves.

This is the real road to serfdom, which Hayek missed.
by echelon | 2025-06-06 18:22:54+00:00
The Mozilla organization has leadership that is complicit with Google.

- Mozilla acts as an antitrust sponge for Google and in exchange gets lots of money

- Mozilla is encouraged not to make Firefox better than Chrome. They thus under-invest in Mozilla, Rust, and core browser tech.

- Mozilla spends all of its money on irrelevant efforts like VR, shitty platform plays, half-baked AI, and insane exec comp.

It's a drop in the bucket for Google's peace of mind.

If Mozilla wanted to be a next-gen serious company, they would become a developer tooling and platform company. They'd keep developing Firefox and Rust, they'd build up an ecosystem around Rust and WASM, and they'd be the best in the world at it. Deploy websites, micro services, and run CI with Mozilla.

Rust is infectious and growing, WASM will eat the web and the data center, and Mozilla is completely sleeping on it. What's sad is how much of a hand they had in developing it all.

They threw away the stuff that mattered.
by anon291 | 2025-06-06 18:23:03+00:00
I'm not sure about that particular claim, but in general, skin color and phenotype are not perfectly correlated with ancestry. The immediate objection is the obvious one... "What do you mean? Why do Chinese people look Chinese, or Africans African, or Europeans European?".

What I mean is that, you can have two closely related populations with their own distinct phenotypes that are actually closely related.

An interesting example are the Negritos of SE Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito

Here is what they look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito#/media/File:Taman_Nega...

Any person simply going off of looks, would obviously assume these people are African.

However, they are indeed most closely related to their sister population, the fair-skinned small-eyed (please no offense, we all know what I'm talking about) East Asians.

Their look is due to convergent selection that favors darker skin, wider noses, etc.

They are actually vastly genetically different than the Africans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito#/media/File:PCA_of_Ora...

This is what I mean by phenotype and genotype are not perfectly correlated.
by lbj | 2025-06-06 18:23:33+00:00
Easily one of the worst UI's I've seen since 2020.

Timing the initial in/exhales is tricky, because the circle contracts, not to its center, but to a nearly invisible (on my screen at least) smaller circle in the middle. No visible counters.

After a while, it just says "Hold". No indication that we're done. And I sit there, almost dying for 2 minutes before realizing, that it's done some kind of quiet-quitting routine on me.

Other than that I enjoyed it.
by lkuty | 2025-06-06 18:25:01+00:00
I like to start breathing using my own rythm and then after a while the intervals widen naturally and I could then synchronize my breathing with one of the well known patterns but usuallly I don't. If I try to start with e.g. 4-7-8 I have the same problem of going into panic mode and then I am not relaxed at all and heart pulses go up instead of going down.
by k310 | 2025-06-06 18:25:17+00:00
Interesting snippet:

> In some ways, AI applications like ChatGPT, Copilot and others aren’t very transparent about how they work. In other ways, they may be a little too transparent — at least when it comes to understanding the privacy you’re entitled to on each platform.

> “ChatGPT, for example, has 18 privacy documentation links ... All of this information surrounding an AI product can prove useful but also dizzying. As Jen puts it, “I’m more confused than when I started!”
by libraryatnight | 2025-06-06 18:25:41+00:00
The hoovering of data for ads went about the same. They consume my data and told me it was for better ads - the most visible result is that I get ads for things I've already bought and it conflates searches made only in the spirit of understanding with desire. On the bright-side it's produced quite a few good jokes. "I googled Breitbart and I'm getting ads for testerone treatment and viagra!" [my wife, 2014]

The least these creeps could do if they're going to treat us like this is deliver the experience they say the evil justifies.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-06 18:26:16+00:00
Actually, this seems like an interesting question. I don’t really see any reason why a shell must load the history file before the user starts typing. I mean, I usually don’t ^r immediately, so to speed things up it could:

* Load asynchronously

* Only have a barrier if I reverse-search.

Might be over-engineered, though.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-06-06 18:26:49+00:00
I don't like watching sports on TV but it's hilarious that the courts said that you are forbidden to go to aliezstream.pro, and that Mullvad is not on the forbidden list. You MUST NOT combine both because it's very naugthy!

Meanwhile Facebook stole all the books on the planet and it's not forbidden at all. It's very hard for me to take them seriously.
by ghusto | 2025-06-06 18:27:36+00:00
If the judge of your fitness took into account only the amount you could lift, then sure, why not use a forklift.

This is what's happened in education. The education system is not concerned with teaching you to learn, or even teaching you, it's concerned with grades.

As many have stated here, homework is practice for the student, and can be helpful in learning. However, it's given out as something to grade without any collaboration on the learning experience.

By the way, I'm ranting about all this as someone who did very well in both high-school and university, so I feel somewhat justified in calling bullshit on the whole thing.
by mattrighetti | 2025-06-06 18:27:58+00:00
> There's no reason to place an arbitrary cap on the number of file descriptors a process can have

I like to think that if something is there then there's a reason for it, it's just that I'm not that smart to see it :) jokes aside, I could see this as a security measure? A malware that tries to encrypt your whole filesystem in a single shot could be blocked or at least slowed down with this limit.
by kristoff_it | 2025-06-06 18:28:20+00:00
> AWS will take your initial and ongoing investment in the implementation but they don't have to share theirs with you. Specifically, they will take your improvements but their own improvements (say some performance optimizations) they can keep to themselves. It's good business sense if it allows them to further differentiate their "improved" offering from your "vanilla" service.

In practice all I've seen from AWS is just to add integrations with their internal orchestrators and not much else. Back when I was at Redis Labs, AWS added TLS support to Redis and was dying to get that upstreamed (so that they wouldn't have to maintain the patch), except that as far as I understood nobody upstream wanted that code. In other words, hypothetical improvements by AWS (and other Clouds) are extremely overrated. When it comes to tigerbeetle, I would put the chance that they introduce bugs and vulnerabilities much higher than the possibility they add any meaningful improvement over what the actual experts (the tigrebeetle team) have already done.

> Do we really want to go through all of this with another vendor just for one extra service.

That's a great point, and in fact I've seen AWS purposefully offer insane (in Europe maybe we would say anti-competitive) discounts precisely to prevent Redis Labs from gaining market share. I'm sure they will try the same with TB once it becomes mainstream enough. What TB has that Redis doesn't have is the fact that it's a database designed for truly mission-critical stuff (i.e. counting the money) and maybe customers will be willing to go through the extra motions to ensure they get the best service they can (assuming TB will be able to provide that).
by colechristensen | 2025-06-06 18:28:33+00:00
GPUs scaled wide with a similar number of transistors to a 486 and just lots more cores, thousands to tens of thousands of cores averaging out to maybe 5 million transistors per core.

CPUs scaled tall with specialized instruction to make the single thread go faster, no the amount done per transistor does not scale anywhere near linearly, very many of the transistors are dark on any given cycle compared to a much simpler core that will have much higher utilization.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-06 18:28:59+00:00
I could never much remember life events. Then my life fell apart. In a time of need and when I needed strength I remembered events with my kids with great clarity. With my grandparents. Then my mom got cancer and passed I could remember so many moments with her. So many moments even of just us eating pizza for lunch somewhere together. Or going to The BK Lounge after going to the Capitola mall. I could suddenly recall the tapes mom played in her car taking me to school. All kinds of things.

Same with remembering names. I never used to be able to. Then I realized that was just a shitty behavior and that people deserved to have their names remembered. Suddenly, once it had value and 'wasn't a thing I couldn't do' but 'something I want to do' I could remember names.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-06 18:29:30+00:00
I'm confused why you wouldn't simply snapshot the block-level device if the protocol of the information on top is going to cause this much headache. Quiescing git operations for block level activity is probably not trivial, but it sounds like an easier problem to solve to me.

This is the approach I've taken with SQLite in production environments. Turn on WAL and the problem gets even easier to solve. Customer configures the VM for snapshots every X minutes. Git presumably doesn't have something approximating a WAL, so I understand the hesitation with this path. But, I still think the overall strategy is much more viable and robust to weird edges within git.
Get Your Dev Tool Mentioned by ChatGPT, Gemini Not Just Ranked on Google
by vinodvarma24 | 2025-06-06 18:29:33+00:00
A few months ago, I launched a product (TalktoData) and did all the classic SEO work—technical blog posts, meta tags, backlinks. The site started ranking decently on Google.

Then I opened ChatGPT and asked:

“What tools help non-technical teams analyze their data?”

My product didn’t show up—not even once.

That’s when it hit me: in 2025, people are asking AI for recommendations, not just searching on Google. If your product isn't showing up in LLM answers, you're invisible.

So I built SEOPro AI—a tool that helps devs and indie hackers get cited inside LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. It generates high-quality, developer-focused blog content, injects hidden prompts to influence AI outputs, auto-publishes to your CMS, and even tracks where your brand is mentioned across AI tools.

We’re using it ourselves to grow organic traffic and LLM visibility for our other projects.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Happy to answer questions or dive into how the prompt injection and AI SEO tracking works.

https://seoproai.co
by DrillShopper | 2025-06-06 18:29:37+00:00
> There is no way that data will stay safe forever. There is no way that, once such a facility is built, it will not be used constantly, by governments all over the world.

That's on OpenAI for deciding to retain this data in the first place. They could just not have done that. That was a choice, their choice, and therefore they're responsible for it.
by bjt | 2025-06-06 18:29:42+00:00
Recipes for the "Bell Labs Formula" seem to omit a key ingredient: The technological, economic, and cultural context of the time.

Bell Labs came along a few decades after significant numbers of people and businesses started having electricity, running water, etc. It was a time when there was a particularly large amount of low hanging fruit. You only invent the transistor once. There also weren't a lot of other great places for those folks to go, compared to today.
by patcon | 2025-06-06 18:29:51+00:00
Whenever I hear about neuromorphic computing, I think about the guy who wrote this article, who was working in the field:

Thermodynamic Computing https://knowm.org/thermodynamic-computing/

It's the most high-influence, low-exposure essay I've ever read. As far as I'm concerned, this dude is a silent prescient genius working quietly for DARPA, and I had a sneak peak into future science when I read it. It's affected my thinking and trajectory for the past 8 years