MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-06-11 22:07:30+00:00
> things like prescription medications they take, what kind of contraception they use.. determine that the user might be pregnant

Those are PHI, and Google and other big companies wont dare to touch it with 10 foot pole.

And the other part of your argument is so far into hypothetical space. Just because someone gets ads on certain thing doesn't mean the thing is real. These systems hallucinate all the time.
by blensor | 2025-06-11 22:08:27+00:00
I haven't found a way to do it on the phone unfortunately which is really annoying.

You could in theory use the approach I posted here and use a USB to HDMI adapter to connect the phone to device and it would do the same thing it does with a regular PC but that loses all the benefits of being small and portable if you have to carry around all that additional stuff
by Rochus | 2025-06-11 22:09:15+00:00
Applying the term "holocaust" to a hypothetical population decline of chickens is a form of false equivalence that trivializes the human atrocity; this choice of words is designed to be provocative and frame the debate in a biased, emotional way rather than a logical one. The article is deliberately designed to provoke an angry, unproductive, or emotional response, or a political or ideological battle, and thus a violation of HN rules.
by timewizard | 2025-06-11 22:09:31+00:00
> As the size of the black hole goes up, its overall density must decrease.

The center of a black hole is infinitely dense. That's why it even exists. The event horizon is not the black hole.

> and the fixed density of our observed universe

Our universe is expanding. It's density is not fixed.

You really want to be thinking about this in terms of entropy and not matter.
by leakycap | 2025-06-11 22:09:54+00:00
The breakthroughs have been happening right under your nose. For example, when they do a biopsy now you get incredible detail about the subtype of cancer/cells and details that help target treatment.

I'm not the only person with this kind of story of rapid debulking, that's why someone else chimed in with the medical term. The miracle isn't my one story; the modern miracle of medicine and the fight against cancer is that my story IS one of thousands every month that leave MD Anderson (just one hospital) and have their lives literally extended. In my case, a decade so far with no more trouble, knock on wood.

I think you cannot expect a blanket solution for cancer. Cancers are all extremely different. We will have thousands of breakthroughs for these myriad of cancer types.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-06-11 22:10:33+00:00
Ever been mesmerized by something powerful you barely understand? That’s exactly where we stand with AI today. In “Playing with Fire,” we dive into the full arc of our uneasy partnership with intelligent machines—and the hard questions it forces us to ask about ourselves.

What you’ll discover:

· Child at the Match: How innocent curiosity with AI can quickly turn into a dangerous dance with fire.

· Information Smoke: Why the flood of AI-generated content is choking our ability to see what truly matters.

· Unstable Foundations: The cracks that form when we offload critical thinking to algorithms.

· Digital Buff: The seductive myth of “knowledge without effort” and its toll on our intellectual muscles.

· Mechanism, Not Magic: A behind-the-scenes look at why AI doesn’t understand—it just calculates.

· Dispassionate Observer: When AI records every move but never feels, questions, or cares.

· Growing Inertia: How convenience morphs into complacency, trapping us in loops of sameness.

· Evolution & Divergence: The tipping point where you choose partnership—or obsolescence.

Join the conversation and reflect on what it truly means to be human in an age where our greatest creations mirror both our potential and our pitfalls.

Read the full article on SingularityForge. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Vs3lDBb2gA4mXqNTRaQGJ
by simonw | 2025-06-11 22:11:10+00:00
Those drawings are beautiful. Here's her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lydiawooddrawings/ and TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiawooddrawings

I love the ambition of attempting to draw 2,500 pubs, at a rate of about 3 a week, spending a full day on each one. That should keep her busy for at least 17 years. 300 done already!
by colechristensen | 2025-06-11 22:11:11+00:00
>Then how comes the neutron stars collapse into black holes despite obeying the exclusion principle?

One of the ways to overcome one of the levels of this degeneracy pressure is electron capture which is the opposite of a kind of beta decay. Squeeze hard enough and a proton combines with an electron to form a neutron and a neutrino.

But there are several proposed levels of degenerate matter in neutron stars, the idea being that one (final?) level of this degenerate matter is dense enough to make an object smaller than its schwarzschild radius. Uncertainty is high because we have no current methods to observe any of this kind of matter.

What goes on inside the schwarzschild radius is another mystery we don't have answers from, but there are lots of ideas with various levels of legitimacy.

Quantum physics in and around singularities or things we think are singularities is not understood.
by codethief | 2025-06-11 22:11:28+00:00
> When you cross a black hole's event horizon, the radial coordinate becomes timelike, so you lose one degree of spatial freedom.

The second half is incorrect. Since the time coordinate becomes spacelike in turn you'll still have 3 spatial degrees of freedom. Dimensions can't just vanish if you believe that spacetime is a 4D Lorentzian manifold (as physicists do).

Moreover, the singularity is not a place you can poke with a stick, once you've entered the black hole. It lies in your future, in the same way as your death.
by agubelu | 2025-06-11 22:11:35+00:00
Spanish has actually three levels of formality when addressing someone by name:

<First name>: Informal, casual conversation.

Don <First name>: More formal, conveys respect while still indicating some closeness.

Señor <Last name>: Most formal, normally used in writing.

Using only someone's last name is just plain weird. If you want to speak formally to someone just address them as "usted", it will get you the same goodwill without sounding off.
by everdrive | 2025-06-11 22:12:07+00:00
Consciousness is a specific biological adaptation which is primarily focused in the management of social relationships, status, and the prolonged adolescence of children. (and their required care)

There's no reason to think that consciousness is an important question in the objective sense; it just matters to people. (and rightfully so) People wondering about consciousness in the universe might be akin to dogs wondering what the big bang smelled like.
by Gamemaster1379 | 2025-06-11 22:12:30+00:00
I get the impression the authors are monitoring the thread. I'm not home to check this out but I like the idea. A few questions.

1. Does the web interface allow you to download your ROMs in a similar fashion to Plex letting you download your files? I could see myself using this to fetch from my libraries and would like a nice GUI box art interface to grab a game I'm looking for. 2. How does this work with ROM hacks? How is the metadata pulled? Filename? Header? How could I set custom metadata where it doesn't match. 3. Does this have an accessible and documented API if I want to build extensions to it (or am I forced to use the interface?)
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-11 22:13:16+00:00
Really love to see the fabric better used. PCIe p2p is awesome. Can't wait to see folks playing around with NVMe to GPU, or NIC to GPU, or NIC to NVMe use cases too.

I am a little surprised at the 18.2GB/s speeds. 8 lanes of PCIe 4.0 is 32GB/s. This is pretty far below that. I wonder what could be to blame.
by cosmojg | 2025-06-11 22:13:55+00:00
They actually use distilled versions. The most egregious example of this is their misleading reference to all distillations of DeepSeek-R1, which are based on a variety of vastly different base models of varying sizes, as alternative versions of DeepSeek-R1 itself. To this day, many users maintain the mistaken impression that DeepSeek-R1 is overhyped and doesn't perform as well as claimed by those who have been using the actual model with 685B parameters.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-11 22:14:52+00:00
> Obviously nobody's being investigated for routine miscarriages.

Not obvious that this will remain the case. These advocates did not just disappear once they achieved their goal of overturning RvW. They are working towards their next milestones. I guarantee you there are at least politically active citizens in all 50 states who would support criminalizing routine miscarriage, if not actual elected officials working towards it, and speaking publicly about it.
by Imnimo | 2025-06-11 22:15:12+00:00
>Its results suggested that certain common indoor plants, like pothos, ivy and ficus, may absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen through photosynthesis, and provide a natural way to remove toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from the air.

I don't understand why there's a "may" in front of "absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen through photosynthesis"
by SamuelAdams | 2025-06-11 22:15:26+00:00
The risk is simple enough. GitHub Enterprise allows admins to configure a list of actions to allow or deny. Ideally these actions are published in the GitHub Marketplace.

The idea is that the organization does not trust these third-parties, therefore they disable their access.

However this solution bypasses those lists by cloning open-source actions directly into the runner. At that point it’s just running code, no different from if the maintainers wrote a complex action themselves.
by chucksmash | 2025-06-11 22:16:44+00:00
This mindset drives me nuts. It's like the rhetorical opposite of victim-blaming. It takes something that is within an individual's locus of control and pretends they have zero agency in the matter.

Last week I finished a two month diet where a big chunk of my weekly calories and nutrients came from cheap staples I prepared myself (specifically brown rice, black beans, steelcut oats, spinach, and eggs).

Aside from the food, the cost was 1. watching some ads in the free version of the calorie counter app I used to make sure I was getting the nutrients I needed and 2. ~$30 for a food scale so I could be precise about what I was eating.

Circumstances make it easier to be unhealthy but what I did is attainable by the vast majority of obese people.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-11 22:16:59+00:00
I thought about that too, and was hoping for a diagnosis before I am incapacitated.

I actually wondered about a dead man switch, where poison would be released into the bloodstream if I do not acknowledge that I am fine. This would also manzge comas and lock-in. Technically it is quite complicated though.

I pity you, and this is exactly the reason I want to quickly end it so that my family does not suffer for a long time.
by OJFord | 2025-06-11 22:17:22+00:00
A not dissimilar age thing I've found interesting is from India: it is (or can be? Big country) typical to age yourself by the year of life you're in, i.e. 1-based rather than 0-based, basically.

On his birthday my grandfather in law said 'I am x years old! [...] Oh, no, x-1 complete.'

It's funny these kinds of arbitrary systems for things we have, and never question, until you suddenly stumble into one that's slightly different.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-11 22:17:34+00:00
Along those lines, makes me wonder if the "bang" is in fact the fact that after the time compression, all matter/energy is effectively arriving at the same point all at once.

Assuming our universe eventually collapses into a few black holes, perhaps the spawn of a new universe is simply all the matter and energy of our universe arriving at a new point in... time? an infinite amount of time in the future.

Also, really mind bending to think the universe may just be an infinite series of black hole explosions with no beginning. It is because it always was.
by elevation | 2025-06-11 22:17:49+00:00
The soil may have been brackish, but this wasn't their main setback.

The Jamestown colonists didn't even attempt to plant crops for several years after their arrival. Their first ship brought jewelers and smiths to work the gold they assumed they'd find, but didn't have a real plan for agriculture. The majority died of starvation and disease, but the survivors were sustained by meager leftover travel supplies from newly arriving ships, and by raiding neighboring natives for their corn.

Less than a decade later, separatist Pilgrims landed in New England, and by contrast, grew crops immediately, and cultivated diplomatic relations with their neighbors. The Pilgrims settled in a higher latitude with a shorter growing season, but during their first drought they had already stored enough supplies to share with local natives.

Jamestown could have been on a similar footing if they'd prioritized survival and diplomacy over finding treasure for the crown, the chartering company, and themselves.
by rickydroll | 2025-06-11 22:18:18+00:00
You are right, they are still happening, and Trump's minions are cranking up the temperature so they can justify more authoritarian actions.

They will use that. They'll use what's happening in LA to justify the need for more power vested in the president.

You're right, we do need to do something about ICEis, but it is urgent we do something about the authoritarian measures in BBB.
by skeaker | 2025-06-11 22:19:17+00:00
The obscenely rich entities that buy up tons of property without actually using it do so because they only stand to gain even more money on it later. Making more housing would help in the long term for sure, but these entities would still buy up most of it as it becomes available. Remember that as long as they hold the vast majority, they essentially have a captive audience and can set whatever outlandish prices they want (especially when they collude as they have done). Something to restrict the number of unused properties a person can own would still be beneficial either way.

This also goes without mentioning the restrictions on "just" building new housing (land, time, and space, particularly space located near job sites).
by tdeck | 2025-06-11 22:19:29+00:00
> Another example many people outside Brazil find interesting: in my family we were taught to never use the formal towards anyone. The rationale is that everyone is equal and that using the formal language was disrespectful because it created an artificial distance between us and the other person. We were also taught never to use the formal language when praying for the same reason.

Interestingly this is why Quakers continued to address people as thou/thee long after everyone else abandoned the practice. Thou was originally the "informal" second person singular pronoun in English, "you" was plural. People used "thou" (the familiar form) in conversations with God. People used "you" as a singular pronoun to be polite. Eventually, "you" overtook thou.

But the Quakers believed that using "you" to show respect was anti-egalitarian and resisted the trend for a long time.

Nowadays because "thou" appears a lot in the King James Bible it tends to be associated with formal, archaic language, so if anything the connotation is the reverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
by const_cast | 2025-06-11 22:19:54+00:00
When we built the interstates in the 50s and 60s nobody really gave a flying fuck about that. We destroyed a lot of towns and eminent domain'd a lot of property.

Naturally the regulatory and political landscape of now is quite different, and in a lot of ways for the better. But it is unfortunate that we've more or less forgotten how to do things.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-06-11 22:21:43+00:00
Anyone who’s been sued by Oracle for not paying for Java SE runtime licences thinks it’s an outstanding idea.

https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/is-an-oracle...

Security practitioners are big fans of application whitelisting for a reason: Your malware problems pretty much go away if malware cannot execute in the first place.

The Australian Signals Directorate for example has recommended (and more recently, mandated) application whitelisting on government systems for the past 15 years or so, because it would’ve prevented the majority of intrusions they’ve investigated.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/5014...
by bigyabai | 2025-06-11 22:21:51+00:00
> If they cared about random redditors, they will have to make a linux running device which can run a full stack web app

That's literally what they did, though: https://switchroot.org/

None of that matters, clearly. What Nintendo understands is that people will buy the hardware if it has a Mario Kart or Zelda game available at launch.
by dave333 | 2025-06-11 22:21:54+00:00
Just using prompts like Unix commands in pipelines takes you a long way at least conceptually. Can have AI choose the best data format from stage to stage although all formats can be represented as text. Not sure if there's much difference between another pipeline stage and another paragraph in the prompt. Maybe have AI decide when a particular prompt is nearing the token limit of its model and split the task into multiple stages. AI can also design the pipeline - decide what each stage should do.
by techpineapple | 2025-06-11 22:22:26+00:00
I think internet culture has really taught me how hard it is to have your own identity. I've never been attached to the idea of thinking myself as an "alpha" or "beta" man. I was raised by women, always gotten along with women, in some ways preferred women, and also, did "well" with women.

I'm curious whether or not men who find themselves on one end of this spectrum find happiness on the other end of this spectrum. I vaguely get criticisms of sort of demasculanization that may occur on one end of this spectrum, but I've also sort of always just done what I want to do without too much thought to gender. I have traditionally "masculine" traits and hobbies, and probably some traditionally feminine ones as well.

But I also acknowledge that I think personality-wise I've had more freedom from traditional definitions of identity then most people. It's not that I've always know who I was or fit in, but in spite of that I've just never cared what people think about me in that specific way, or at least, if I did care about it, I was going to respond or defend myself in a very surfacey way, I wasn't going to let it change or question my core identity.
by zurdi | 2025-06-11 22:22:36+00:00
Of course! we are excited about the post and we want to answer any question regarding RomM. Answering you:

1. That's exacty what RomM (among other things) does. You will have a Jellyfin/Plex interface from where download your games 2. Right now we match using the name of the file, but we are planning to add match by hash thaat will increase the accuracy even more. If it doesn't match anything, you are able to match it manually from the interface in a very user friendly way. 3. Yes, our API docs are integrated into RomM itself, so any RomM instance you can access will show the docs. It can be your own instance, or the demo site one for example (https://demo.romm.app/api/docs) or (https://demo.romm.app/api/redoc)

Apart from that, we have some integrations with different systems, like a plugin for playnite or an app for muos or portmaster to avoid download from the browser itself but from a native client (https://docs.romm.app/latest/Integrations/Playnite-plugin/) and (https://docs.romm.app/latest/Integrations/muOS-app/). A lot more integrations are in the works
by gen220 | 2025-06-11 22:22:44+00:00
I love and hate German for this; it's a language whose formal pitfalls and vagaries seem almost designed to sort people into highly-refined strata of education.

It must be so cool to see all of them "from the top" (i.e. someone who has been natively-and-highly educated, immersed in the language for their whole life); but it's from the outside it's like a fancy club that you just can't seem to get into :)
by skeaker | 2025-06-11 22:23:53+00:00
The major flaw in your argument is that Yahoo is still around. They still have tons of traffic, some of the most in the world, just behind Reddit. They are not constantly growing, yes, but that is exactly my point. They have a satisfied userbase who will use them for life as does Google. Neither is going anywhere any time soon. Both make billions of dollars annually.
by hajile | 2025-06-11 22:24:13+00:00
Real great performer that one....

https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/comments/1ew4iqo/my...

It's a good thing that her mic is always off in concert (apparently she's been using the same "live" soundtrack for a while at her concerts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8rMNMURShM

I just can't believe someone that tone deaf could write good music.
by teraflop | 2025-06-11 22:25:23+00:00
> Hardware is always composed of other hardware

In general I agree, but there is absolutely no composition at all happening here. (Unless you count buying a dev board that's designed to run on a battery, and plugging a battery into it.)

I truly think it's great that they've made software that people find approachable. It's the branding of someone else's hardware product as their own that rubs me the wrong way. They aren't saying things that are technically false, but it still feels misleading.
by e40 | 2025-06-11 22:25:24+00:00
I agree with most of what you're saying. The only adjustment I'd make is the idea of a Trump's statements being a trial balloon. He says crazy things to see how people will react.

I agree that most of it is theater, for now. Some things have moved into reality, though. Ignoring judges orders. Sending US citizens to foreign jails. Going after media companies and extorting millions. Going after law firms and extorting millions. Before he did those things, they were just like all the other crazy things he said. Now, they're part of our reality.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-06-11 22:26:04+00:00
It is just faster and less effort. I can't write code as quickly as the LLM can. It is all in my head, but I can't spit it out as quickly. I just see LLMs as getting what is in my head quickly out there. I have learned to prompt it in such a way that I know what to expect, I know its weakspots and strengths. I could predict what it is going output, so it is not that difficult to understand.
by II2II | 2025-06-11 22:26:18+00:00
Text streams have their advantages and disadvantages. Advantages include being easy to create, modify, view without special tooling. Given the nature of the Unix shell, you can apply that equally to both data and code. Of course, the disadvantage includes the potential of poorly defined streams, or of steams being difficult to interpret due to them being human readable. But that was as true when Unix was created as it is today.
by db48x | 2025-06-11 22:26:40+00:00
Forgive me, I was obviously not clear enough. knowaveragejoe said that my reasons for cutting this funding were a post–hoc rationalization. I tried to clarify that because our debt has been growing faster than our economy for a while now, _I_ am willing to put luxuries and subsidies on the chopping block. I don't know Trump’s motivations, or Congress’s. They are completely irrelevant to this discussion.

Personally I have no problem with Trump withdrawing funding from institutions that clearly, by their own actions and words, support antisemitism. I’d prefer he went further though.
by cyode | 2025-06-11 22:27:39+00:00
"[John Deere autonomous] tractors are currently being used by farmers in 11 states but not California."

And what of the other 38 states?

The graphic shows those tractors are also not adopted in Texas, Montana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Tennessee, all top 10 farming states by acreage. [0]

California is an ironic example due to its tech industry, but hardly seems like something specific to "dysfunctional" California, as suggested by other commenters.

[0] https://www.agriculture.com/farming-across-america-a-state-b...