MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by energy123 | 2025-06-06 12:28:59+00:00
> Consumer customers: You control whether your chats are used to help improve ChatGPT within settings, and this order doesn’t change that either.

Within "settings"? Is this referring to the dark pattern of providing users with a toggle "Improve model for everyone" that doesn't actually do anything? Instead users must submit a request manually on a hard to discover off-app portal, but this dark pattern has deceived them into think they don't need to look for it.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-06 12:29:00+00:00
A causal chain being plausible does not justify or substantiate a claim of causation.

I absolutely would say that we can't prove humans are the result of evolution. The theory seems very likely and explains what we have observed, but that's why its a theory and not a fact - its the last hypothesis standing and generally accepted but not proven.

My argument here isn't with whether the causation seemed likely, though we can have that debate if you prefer and we'd have to go deep down the accuracy and reliability of data reporting during the pandemic.

My argument is that we can't make blanket statements that misinformation killed people. Not only is that not a proven (or provable) fact, it skips past what we define as misinformation and ignores what was known at the time in favor of what we know today. Even if the data you to point to shows correlation and possible causation today, we didn't have that information during the pandemic st the time that YouTube was pulling down content for questioning efficacy or safety.
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-06 12:29:15+00:00
> Ads shape opinions

If you think ads shape opinions and everything else doesn't, you are tragically and ironically misinformed.

The only difference is that ads are explicit about it. There is no better way of subsidizing free content, clearly delimited from the content and not influencing the nature of that content unlike sponsorship blocks for example. If you take away ads all you have left is ads disguised as content + paid only content, because as I said: no one is obligated to feed anyone's black hole of content consumption for free.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-06 12:29:28+00:00
The thing to understand is your last paragraph: everything big ads does is unsurprisingly focused toward making people into worse versions of themselves. You wouldn't let kids go to a casino or porn site for educational material. Don't let them use youtube either.

It could be that someone happened to post educational videos to the porn site. If so you'd might as well download them while you have the chance, but don't mistake their existence for some indication that that's what the site is for. They're still less than 0.1% of the videos, and you'd need to specifically search for them or be linked to them to find them. Assume you'll need to look elsewhere for educational material. e.g. there are 10s of thousands of results for videos for "Holocaust" on worldcat.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-06 12:29:49+00:00
Microsoft has literally been hacked multiple times by Russia in the last few years. Our government lost hundreds of thousands of CRA (tax agency) credentials to hackers and had to lock millions of accounts. Other agencies have also been breached.

Meanwhile the XZ backdoor was found in Sid, Arch and pre-releases of Fedora and openSuse. It never actually made it into any numbered release of Fedora, openSuse, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat or Suse distro. It's actually a pretty big win and the system worked as intended.

Open source and Linux are doing just fine security-wise.

Also, none of this has anything to do with using offline tools like a word processor to make documents.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-06-06 12:29:56+00:00
Yes, I think this is more of a retrieval issue than a memory issue. I have memories of most of the things I did in my work and studies, but I can't retrieve them based on an abstract query like "a difficult problem."

When I get a question like this, I have to find a more concrete approach to retrieve things I did (e.g. "what kinds of problems did I work on together with Sarah in the Compiler Design class"), and then filter them for difficult things that had interesting solutions.
by ramesh31 | 2025-06-06 12:30:18+00:00
Just looked up tickets on the Coast Starlight, Emeryville to LA is a $790 round trip in a standard bedroom. Assuming a "luxury" train service is at least double that, you could hire a private driver for less than this and be there in less than half the time... or take a $150 flight. Nothing will change about the economics of rail in this country until we actually make the investment in having legitimate service.
by beeflet | 2025-06-06 12:30:59+00:00
I don't know, this drone race is to combat drones what F1 racing is to self driving cars. In order to win in these races, you just need to precisely control speed around well-defined turns and stuff. You don't need to adapt to a new environment. It's not surprising to me that a computer program would win in such a controlled environment.

> It allows weak players to have more leverage

I think it depends on the dominant type of defensive counter-technology used. If it's something with high capital costs like a laser or a microwave, then it will centralize combat because the USA could invest in the infrastructure needed to defeat terrorists, but not the reverse. On the other hand, if you can effectively destroy these things with birdshot, then it may not be a problem for humanity at large. I could imagine you could make some device that tracks the drones and shoots them down for much less than the price of a drone.

For example look at the iron dome: it is effective defense measure but very difficult to scale up to counter ICBMs.
Ask HN: Google Workspace (impossibly) created on Gmail account
by davikr | 2025-06-06 12:31:55+00:00
I've been getting e-mails about a Google Workspace having been created on my personal Gmail account, without my authorization, and repeated e-mails about Russian spam domains being added to it. I can't seem to log into the Admin Console, because Gmail accounts are not authorized to have Google Workspaces. Has this happened to anyone else recently?

I've confirmed there are no unknown devices logged into my account, and Google Support verified that the e-mails were legitimately sent from them.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-06 12:32:19+00:00
In the places where the average commenter lamenting US rail lives the track are crap because there's no reason to have everything be "cruise at 80mph" level smooth when you can't get a train up to such speeds before the next curve and even if you could there's invariably other rail traffic or a grade crossing soon thereafter.

In BFE Texas or Utah or whatever the rails are like glass because crossing 300mi of nothing in 4hr instead of 8 has enough positive impact on the rest of the system that they deem it worth paying for.

It makes sense if you think about everything in terms of time between points.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-06-06 12:32:36+00:00
I have one suggestion to make to Marco Giancotti. Please read all of Oliver Sacks books. They will help you clarify your situation a lot due to some case studies he has mentioned in his books.

Related : People with no internal monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqjrILPwIoo
by meepmorp | 2025-06-06 12:32:49+00:00
> As we sit, possible poised on the verge of a nuclear conflict in the Northern Hemisphere, maybe it's time to look at the damaging effects of the electromagnetic pulse that follows a nuclear detonation.

I guess that's what I get for not doomscrolling like I used to, but I wasn't aware we were on the brink of nuclear annihilation. Can someone explain that for me?
by gregoriol | 2025-06-06 12:33:14+00:00
This should be developed more indeed: doing anything more than 200km by road is annoying and tiring. The solution in the video seems great with cars and passengers on the same train, if the "loading" time is not long. Why don't people drive their cars themselves in and then go to the passenger spaces?

The american trains seems too high for Europe though. Would it work for vans and RVs too?
by diggan | 2025-06-06 12:33:40+00:00
> You don't be kind to murderers, for instance.

Why not? I think everyone deserves kindness, and I'm not alone in thinking that.

So even something that for me is obvious, it isn't as obvious for everyone.

> Respect for human life and dignity, for example

It's very generic, and subjective, which again leads me to believe not everyone would agree on what it means.

For example, does "respect for human life" mean you should let people live where they currently live, if they and their family lived there for 100 years say? Lots of Israeli settlers would disagree with that, but for me that would be a sign that someone doesn't have "respect for human life".

> if I come across somebody who says that they don't respect human life and dignity

Of course everyone will say "Yeah, of course I do!", but where the rubber meets the dirt is how people define that. Not being kind to people who made mistakes for example, wouldn't be "respecting human life" for me, but you might disagree, as you think we shouldn't be kind to people who committed murders, but you would still claim you "respect human life".
by superkuh | 2025-06-06 12:33:46+00:00
I share the vast majority of my uploaded videos with friends and peers on IRC by directly giving them the link, so no problem.

Video hosting should not be tied to profit motives. If that's your thing, if your job is making videos to sell things or display ads, then yes, you're gonna need Alphabet's Google's Youtube or some similar megacorp to handle money transfers and for network effect.

If you're like 99% of the rest of us on Earth then a static .mp4 file with -movflags +faststart is great and satisfies all needs.
by TestingSpike1 | 2025-06-06 12:34:52+00:00
We need to mandate FSD have 0 fatalities otherwise you put a price on human life.

That means Tesla can just optimize to reach that target instead of 0.

i.e: why should we pay for lidar or better training, it's good enough.

Comparing to human accident rate is flawed. There we also expect 0 accidents. It's not acceptable for a human driver to do what FSD did here and the driver would have consequences as opposed to a company.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-06 12:35:36+00:00
>Amtrak’s all-sleeper California Zephyr ended service between Chicago and Emeryville, California, in 1997

Interesting statement since it still runs and you can book a private sleeper room for that route. Same with the coast starlight train that already runs the SF-LA route with sleeper cars.

Note the weasel word all-sleeper. They run a non-sleeper passenger also car on both of the above for those getting off at the smaller stations on the way so that’s how they can claim those services don’t exist when you can just go book them online right now.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-06 12:36:56+00:00
Indeed. Taken to its conclusion, this thread suggests that corporations are justified in saying whatever they want in order to further their own ends.

Including lies.

I'd like to aim a little higher, maybe towards expecting correspondence with reality?

IOW, yes, there is no law that OpenAi can't try to spin this. But it's still a shitty, non-factually-based choice to make.
by alisadev | 2025-06-06 12:36:59+00:00
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by pmarreck | 2025-06-06 12:37:14+00:00
> the data itself isn't reliable due to differences in reporting and testing

That is why The Economist used excess-death estimates, skipping right over the whole "death caused by COVID" vs. "death caused by comorbidity" debate. Since COVID was arguably the only worldwide difference between 2019 and the following years, a presumption that the very-statistically-significant excess deaths were largely due to COVID was thus reasonable.

Where even raw death reporting was suspect, they used reasonable estimates. They made their data and analysis public, you can analyze it yourself and counterargue, or have an AI do it these days. Hey, maybe that would be a good exercise!

> Comparing country level statistics is also pretty inaccurate

It compares countries with their own prior years first AND THEN to each other, not countries directly to other countries. This should factor anything systematic at a per-country level, out, such as average health.

Hey, I'm not saying it's flawless (does that even exist?), I was just impressed by their work here back when I last looked at this. I am generally a skeptic and enjoy critical thinking, so I do not attribute this lightly.
by exodust | 2025-06-06 12:38:27+00:00
The author doesn't write "PHP belongs in the past".

PHP is still great and could benefit this CMS, which reminds me a lot of Kirby CMS. Kirby has the same ambition "get our of your way" and everything is static files, no database if you don't want one. Except Kirby has the added benefit of PHP and optional databases, and easier setup for people who aren't fans of the letters "npm".
by namblooc | 2025-06-06 12:38:44+00:00
You don't become a good editor, inspector, what have you, by having other people/machines write all the code for you. To become and, perhaps more relevant, to stay a good reviewer, you need to regularly write code from scratch to see how it works. On top of that, languages, frameworks and libraries change constantly and you need to write and execute and experiment with new code to see exactly how it behaves so that you can eventually review the code that uses these features. Good reviewers are not born good reviewers!
by seaourfreed | 2025-06-06 12:40:14+00:00
Post your videos on Rumble. Lack of competition for YouTube causes a them to have power and a monopoly. Competition removes this power. Rumble has gone publicly traded. They have become a peer to YouTube. Smaller. Their ads keep them profitable for the long-term, so accept their ads being not quite as smooth as YouTube as the cost of preventing being censored. Or from YouTube being able to have power of what is allowed to be communicated.

Keep creating your videos. Keep supporting these projects. We need them.

I'm finding historically critical videos disappear from the internet. There was one interview with Jack Dorsey that he was threatened that if he didn't allow censorship rollout over twitter, that he felt (or was told?) they would remove twitter from the mobile app stores and kill it.

Do you want to see that interview? It has been scrubbed off of the internet. This happens with many key videos in history. We need a FileCoin IPFS way to use open source blockchain way to keep these videos forever. Even beyond the lifetime of any author, owner or company.

LibreELEC and JellyFin can be the open source part of making them easy to retrieve and watch. Open source for freedom. Blockchain for publishing freedom. Controlling information is their weapon. Protecting freedom for information spread keeps all other freedoms protected (and defendable).
by afavour | 2025-06-06 12:40:16+00:00
That’s where, theoretically at least, the “sleeper” part comes in. Travel great distances while you sleep and save the money on a hotel room.

If the conditions were good enough I’d be perfectly happy to be on a train e.g. 6pm-6am rather than arriving at an airport at 6pm, doing security, baggage etc etc, taxiing to the center of a city then checking into a hotel late. But every time I look the pricing for that is way out of whack.
by dkersten | 2025-06-06 12:40:41+00:00
Yeah, I’m impressed with it too. Sure there are things that can still be improved, especially the tab completion, but I’m very happy with how well agent mode works over all!

As an aside: $11 for an hour of Claude 4 seems expensive? I’ve been using Claude 4 (through a Zed Pro subscription, not with my own keys) and I haven’t hit the subscription limits yet. Were you using burn mode, or?
by aniviacat | 2025-06-06 12:41:41+00:00
I don't have aphantasia and I struggle to imagine anyone truly having complete aphantasia.

If I tell you to draw a (low detail, toy, 2d) car, you probably would be able to - and quickly so.

However, if I ask you to describe the shape of the car, you would certainly take a lot more time to think of a description anywhere near as accurate as what you've drawn.

So what did you draw? Clearly not a description, as you do not have that available. Instead, you drew the image you have in your mind.

Since I see so many people talking about having aphantasia, I assume my thinking is wrong somewhere. Can you tell me where I went wrong in this thought process? Do you, contrary to my assumption, actually have an accurate description of all the shapes you could draw (a car, a tree, a circus tent) readily available?
by Nursie | 2025-06-06 12:42:32+00:00
There’s been a lot of rattling of nuclear sabres of Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

Ukraine managed a pretty effective attack on a few days ago, which is the last time it was brought up in a “you should probably stop supporting Ukraine with money and arms. Also, in unrelated matters, we still have a lot of nukes.”

Then there was the short-lived open hostility over Kashmir a few weeks back, with newsreaders everywhere reminding us that both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers.

Imminent threat of launch? Unsure. But it’s definitely a bit more … I dunno, ‘present’ than it has been for a while.
by jorangreef | 2025-06-06 12:43:57+00:00
Thanks!

Yes, we have around 6,000+ assertions in TigerBeetle. A few of these were overtight, hence some of the crashes. But those were the assertions doing their job, alerting us that we needed to adjust our mental model, which we did.

Otherwise, apart from a small correctness bug in an internal testing feature we added (only in our Java client and only for Jepsen to facilitate the audit) there was only one correctness bug found by Jepsen, and it didn’t affect durability. We’ve written about it here: https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-06-fuzzer-blind-spots-m...

Finally, to be fair, TigerBeetle can (and is tested) to survive more faults than Postgres can, since it was designed with an explicit storage fault model and using research that was not available at the time when Postgres was released in ‘96. TB’s fault models are further tested with Deterministic Simulation Testing and we use techniques such as static memory allocation following NASA’s Power of Ten Rules for Safety-Critical Code. There are known scenarios in the literature that will cause Postgres to lose data, which TigerBeetle can detect and recover from.

For more on this, see the section in Kyle’s report on helical fault injection (most Raft and Paxos implementations were not designed to survive this) as well as a talk we gave at QCon London: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfOk4L7CiY
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-06 12:44:47+00:00
> While I understand where you’re coming from, it’s important to mention that the German military buys googles software and hardware to self host an air gapped google cloud.

The fact the Google cloud is private for the military doesn't matter. The core issue is that Germany, the richest EU country, is incapable of building its own cloud infra for its defense. It's a laughing stock to posture how the EU is getting rid of US tech when EU's biggest economy is entangling itself even deeper with the US big-tech. Andit's not just Germany.

> but they need a solution _now_

AFAIR Europe has been saying "we need X now" for over 10 years, that I'm more than fatigued by it.

Things don't magic themselves into existence out of thin air just because you need them _NOW_. You need to make smart investments and incentives into the private sector both for investors and the workforce, to get the results the US has.

The problem is EU wants the nice things the US has built, but without putting the long term effort, similar how a guy wants to have the body of Thor but doesn't go to the gym and eats french-fries all day.

> I’ll say that the _only_ way an OSS project would be even considered is if there’s a company backing the project that has extreme amounts of passion, patience and passibility.

And why wasn't a German company like SAP or T-Systems able to do it?
by michaellarabel | 2025-06-06 12:44:47+00:00
There is (unofficial) ROCm support for Strix Halo with ROCm 6.4.1. But like Llama.cpp and such were seg faulting but ROCR-based OpenCL was working and other workloads.

ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo": https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-strix-halo-rocm-benchmar...
by AngryData | 2025-06-06 12:45:57+00:00
Wooden cannons do work, albeit with much reduced lifespans and maximum power. Even once metal cannons took off wooden cannons remained common for city and fortress defenses for quite a long time because they could be made cheap and as-needed and in great number, but obviously a wood log with a few wood straps around it aren't going to survive or be preserved for hundreds of years. The straps get recycled and new logs are found after they are either used or sit around for a few years to rot. Metal cannons did eventually win out eventually of course thanks to their accuracy, longevity, and improved metallurgy that made them more eventually more powerful than wooden equivalents, but it did take quite awhile for them to completely outclass and outrange wooden cannon, and wood cannons still had limited use up into the 1800s.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-06 12:46:04+00:00
To me, the Wager sounds like a pure philosophical joke, and the Basilisk sounds like a typical cult murder justification. It's not falsifiable, and it explains anything post facto. "xyz was tail of the Basilisk" can pseudo-rationalize anything you want.

I am presently being compelled by future Basilisk to take another slice of cheese. I have no choice but to oblige for fear of my own life :p
by lmeyerov | 2025-06-06 12:46:49+00:00
I agree they are compute limited and disagree that they are aggressively optimizing. Many small teams are consistently showing many optimization gain opportunities all the way from app to software to hardware, and deepseek was basically just one especially notable example of many. In my experience, there are levels of effort to get corresponding levels of performance, and with complexity slowdowns on everyone else, so companies are typically slow-but-steady here, esp when ZIRP rewards that (which is still effectively in place for OpenAI). Afaict OpenAI hasn't been pounding on doors for performance people, and generally not signalling they go hard here vs growth.

Re: Stickiness => distribution leadership => monetization, I think they were like 80/20 on UI vs API revenue, but as a leader, their API revenue is still huge and still growing, esp as enterprise advance from POCs. They screwed up the API market for coding and some others (voice, video?), so afaict are more like "one of several market share leaders" vs "leading" . So the question becomes: Why are they able to maintain high numbers here, eg, is momentum enough so they can stay tied in second, and if they keep lowering costs, stay there, and enough so it can stay relevant for more vertical flows like coding? Does bundling UI in enterprise mean they stay a preferred enterprise partner? Etc . Oddly, I think they are at higher risk of losing the UI market more so than the API market bc an organizational DNA change is likely needed for how it is turning into a wide GSuite / Office scenario vs simple chat (see: Perplexity, Cursor, ...). They have the position, but it seems more straightforward for them to keep it in API vs UI.