MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-06-22 21:45:43+00:00
Look, I don't want to get pissy because your track-record in this comment chain is mostly on-point. Boots are about to deploy on Iranian soil, and it's going to be a deliberate bloodbath for the first few days. Israel is going to piss and moan until America sends over more assets and materiel, at which point we'll be firmly in WWIII territory. It's downright bad, and you're not at all hyperbolic to lay things out like this.

...but I will repeat myself - this is an attack of opportunity for Israel, not a desperate scramble to destroy nuclear assets. Israel's long-term goal is to become the unquestioned geopolitical power of the Levant, even outside America's auspices. They can do that by leveraging the dumb-as-a-brick administration to provoke Iran into a response, at which point they will fight until attrition forces them both to retreat. Now Israeli forces are the de-facto security guarantor in the region, and we already know they draw their borders however they like.

Mind you, this isn't the last you'll hear about "Iran's nuclear program" - it hasn't outlived it's usefulness, quite yet. Israel will continue targeting them not until nuclear assets are destroyed, but until America perceives itself to be backed into a corner with no choice but to search Iran door-to-door for a hidden bomb. (Stretch Goal - +100 Brownie Points: get America to launch a tactical nuclear weapon on Iran and increase the escalation ladder beyond what any peer power can compete with.)
by infamouscow | 2025-06-22 21:46:42+00:00
My point being that it makes no sense for a society that just underwent Nazi occupation to let it continue.

After such a violent effort, it is a foregone conclusion that the remaining cancer is mercilessly destroyed. If you don't, then all of the lives sacrificed for the cause are meaningless.

What the West has a problem with is reconciling the inescapable reality that true believers absolutely must be killed (for good reason).

There is nothing within the Western view that affords anything short of death for these people. This makes people very uncomfortable, but it's necessary if Western civilization is to continue.
by 65 | 2025-06-22 21:47:40+00:00
You didn't correctly read my comment.

> Art has no objective measure.

That would be emotion to _you_, not to me. You've also missed this point:

> compared to the other, more modern music I listen to.

Additionally, complexity is not an accurate measure of how "good" art is. But if you want to argue about complexity - and this would mean total complexity, not just sheer storytelling complexity, an easy refute to your point is GTA V, which is arguably one of the most complex pieces of art ever made.
by technothrasher | 2025-06-22 21:48:15+00:00
And I loved Catcher in the Rye, but not so much The Great Gatsby. I've found this "shortlist" of classics that have universal acclaim has always been hit or miss for me. The classics I was assigned to read in high school would seem to lurch from riveting to a slog to get thorough. I don't blame the books, it's just what captures my particular interest. Given that, I have never really used "the classics" as a guarantee that I will find the reading fulfilling over other, more obscure, recommendations that I may receive, whether they be old books or new.
by Izkata | 2025-06-22 21:49:19+00:00
Possibly the idea is just too new / people who haven't seen it think it's just dunking on the young generation again. But for example there's an unexpected trend on social media just within the past month of a large amount of Gen Z not being able to read "third person omniscient" (a term I hadn't heard before but is pretty much just what it sounds like; from examples appears to be how all fiction I've read is written).
by p1necone | 2025-06-22 21:50:16+00:00
I don't know if this'll help anyone else or if it's just specific to me but I'll throw it out there anyway.

Drop the idea that short form content like youtube shorts or tik toks or whatever is somehow ignoble and worthy of scorn. Recognize it's just a fun way to kill some time.

Internalized that? Cool.

Now find a comfy place to sit or lie down and binge that shit. For hours. Do it for as long as it brings you joy. Had your fill? Cool.

Keep doing this, whenever you've got some free time and there isn't something else you want to do more binge that short form "brainrot" content. Do not let the thought that you're somehow "wasting" your time enter your mind. You're having fun, and that's all that matters.

If you're anything like me once you've internalized the idea that it's just dumb short videos for fun and you've watched hours of them, you'll just get bored of it. Maybe you'll spend 20 minutes scrolling occasionally but your brain aint gonna rot.
by mhuffman | 2025-06-22 21:51:37+00:00
>I've said elsewhere the optimal mechanism here is for that money to be paid to the snitcher, from the person who is being turned in.

In some cases, which seem like a good idea like corporate malfeasance whistleblowers or government grift whistleblowers. This is because the people paid by our tax dollars would be at a disadvantage compared to an insider in the company. In others, you could see the direction it must go.

>Thanks for letting me pick the reason, that's very thoughtful of you.

Cheers!

>Obviously it's because said law being strongly enforced would cause such a public backlash that it would quickly get repealed in its entirety, and thus further erode the monopoly on violence the state holds over its citizenry. Cops then have fewer en passants they can pull when they don't follow procedure, etc etc. I'm glad we're in agreement on this.

There might very well be laws like that. However, let me offer a non-controversial and obvious one. Speed limits. Many places have 65mph listed as a speed limit. Everyone knows you are not allowed to go faster. However very few place will pull you over for going 66mph or even 70mph. If they started pulling over everyone going 70 in a 65 there would not be "such a public backlash that it would quickly get repealed in its entirety" because we all know and they all knew they were breaking the law. But it isn't enforced in an authoritarian way because we have different vehicles, sometimes you need to pass, and frankly 70 and 65 just aren't that big of a problem. But almost everyone would agree that we do need a speed limit, although they might not agree on the number and a number has to be picked.

Now, I don't want to assume your political leanings, but I am getting some strong libertarian vibes. And you seem like a nice and thoughtful person, so maybe bad ideas don't even occur to you because you are honest and just don't think that way. But imagine, or go ask grok, some other ways this could work out. And while you are at it, imagine a law that did not effect all citizens the same. Now imagine that a bad law could effect a relatively small group much more than others. In what way could they cause affect a backlash that would quickly get a law repealed in its entirety?

Using money to incentivize any public action on behalf of the government should be a sort of last-resort situation where it makes sense and the people already being paid to do it can't for some reason. This is a very libertarian idea, in fact. A more reasonable idea, although much less libertarian, would be to pass a law that makes it where cars can not idle for more than a specified amount of time in certain situations, but that would come with its own can of worms don't you think? And I personally wouldn't be for such a law. In fact I am against the snitch on idlers law. If someone wants to pay $7 a gallon for gas to set there and idle it away, why shouldn't they be able to? How is it different than them driving the same gas away?
by bigyabai | 2025-06-22 21:52:08+00:00
> This kind of conscience is not debated—it is lived. It does not appeal to reason or judgment. It stands, silently and unmistakably, like a commandment carved into stone. Furthermore, it does not argue. It simply is.

I hate thought-terminating cliches. "Don't argue about righteousness, just accept the definition from your nearest leader"

Just an awful essay. One can hardly imagine the volume of political turmoil that would necessitate such an argument.
by kevin42 | 2025-06-22 21:52:12+00:00
>but obviously, there seems to be more than that.

I don't see how that's obvious. I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but it seems like these arguments always come down to a qualia, or the insistence that humans have some sort of 'spark' that machines don't have, therefore: AGI is not possible since machines don't have it.

I also don't understand the argument that "Your nuanced, subtly ironic and self referential way of formulating clearly suggests that you are not a purely algorithmic entity". How does that follow?

What scientific evidence is there that we are anything other than a biochemical machine? And if we are a biochemical machine, how is that inherently capable of more than a silicon based machine is capable of?
by happytoexplain | 2025-06-22 21:52:18+00:00
> I do know my dad said we should nuke and glass the whole middle east, them included. It'd be the only way the middle east would stop fighting. (He was deployed there, desert storm)

> Edit: and -1's poured in less than 1 minute.

Re: downvotes, these lines imply immaturity. You should either be explicit about your degree of agreement with your father, or remove the anecdote entirely. And complaining about downvotes is always pointlessly distracting.
Show HN: REPL is the memory layer for multi-agent AI apps – Sherlog‑MCP
by teenvan_1995 | 2025-06-22 21:52:51+00:00
Hi all,

I know the MCP fatigue is real but just wanted to share something I was working on and thought there might be some folks here that might be interested.

Working on a Sherlog-MCP: Which is a MCP built around an ipython shell providing a persistent workspace for multiple ai agents to collaborate and work on tasks.

One of the applications we are focusing on is bug investigations.

Thanks!
by techpineapple | 2025-06-22 21:53:35+00:00
> If your answer really is that they're just racist and stupid... then I would encourage you to consider whether your opinion is more informed from social media and news than meeting actual people.

I mean... Yes? But there's a dynamic that's really hard to get past which is --

1. I do not actually think that half the country is racist and stupid, but most of my political interactions are unfortunately not with real people, they are with the media, a necessity if you want to stay informed, and if I want to hear the actual thoughts of the leaders of our country, it's not going to give me good impressions.

2. Many of the actual people in my life who are conservative have become MAGA-pilled, and do talk the same way folks do online. I'm a humanist, I empathize deep down with the nature of humans, and the death of small town / manufacturing America, etc. but I will say that I think that over time the lines between online and offline are blurring. Recently spent time with people I've known along time in meat space who talked about how smart and informed they were for knowing the "truth" about vaccines, how stupid the other side was for being in a ideological bubble. How terrible it was that 2 year olds were going to school and coming back Trans. And just in general the kind of anti-lib discourse that you would find on Twitter.

Sadly I think this idea that the extreme polarization of our country is limited to online discourse is becoming less and less true over time.
by ianburrell | 2025-06-22 21:53:54+00:00
You would burn up just as you would on Earth. There is a steep increase in atmospheric density just as there is on Earth. The atmosphere doesn't extend much further than the sharp edge of visible atmosphere.

The Galileo probe needed a heat shield to survive dropping into atmosphere. The 225g deceleration would have killed any human. It is presumed to be destroyed from the temperature and pressure.

Although, you might die from the radiation first.
by brunooliv | 2025-06-22 21:54:30+00:00
In my experience this never worked for me for the simple fact that I never had the skill and time to even GET a second offer to bargain against. I wouldn’t say I’m a bad developer, but I’m definitely horrible at interviewing and having to jump through several different steps at different companies just to bargain for a higher end of the range makes me feel like either the market is the problem or the expectations from companies are way unrealistic
by ozim | 2025-06-22 21:55:40+00:00
It is not coolest most unloved feature. It is a gimmick feature that could have been cool in some really specific cases like team of only developers running the whole company.

Whatever is needed goes into commit message and referencing tickets in separate system is a feature not a bug - because JIRA or any other system is used to communicate with non developers. Like business analysts don't get access to code or repositories at all for example or support people don't get access to the repositories and code.

Yeah I can see how one could write front end to get the notes visible/editable by non developers but it still does not make any sense because BA/Support others don't care about specific commits and a single feature might fit into a commit but most likely does not. Even more fun is when you have multi repo and your feature touches couple services then git notes are quite useless because then you really need reference to outside system.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-22 21:57:30+00:00
> But saying that we don't know how AI works is empirically false;

Your statement completely contradicts hintons statement. You didn’t even address his point. Basically you’re saying Hinton is wrong and you know better than him. If so, counter his argument don’t restate your argument in the form of an analogy.

> You'd think this, but it's actually wrong.

No you’re just trying to twist what I’m saying into something that’s wrong. First I never said it’s not deterministic. All computers are deterministic, even RNGs. I’m saying we have no theory about it. A plane for example you can predict its motion via a theory. The theory allows us to understand and control an airplane and predict its motion. We have nothing for an LLM. No theory that helps us predict, no theory that helps us fully control and no theory that helps us understand it beyond the high level abstraction of a best fit curve in multidimensional space. All we have is an algorithm that allows an LLM to self assemble as a side effect from emergent effects.

Rest assured I understand the transformer as much as you do (which is to say humanity has limited understanding of it) you don’t need to assume I’m just going off hintons statements. He and I knows and understands LLMs as much as you even though we didnt invent it. Please address what I said and what he said with a counter argument and not an analogy that just reiterates an identical point.
Ask HN: How is US entering war affecting your AGI timelines?
by ozzyphantom | 2025-06-22 21:57:49+00:00
AGI timelines having been altered dramatically since the release of ChatGPT is something everyone on HN is more than familiar with. Will the US entering a potentially lengthy and dramatic war with immense uncertainty affect the onset of AGI?

I can imagine cases for AGI being sped up by the war (AGI becoming even more akin to the Manhattan Project) or being dramatically slowed (because of resources and energy wasted on war or worse...)

I'm curious what everyone thinks, are your timelines longer, shorter, or do you think AGI will be completely unaffected?

(Assume that this situation doesn't blowover in a few weeks/is swifty diplomatically resolved)
by floam | 2025-06-22 21:58:36+00:00
Interesting, that’s perhaps where the idea came from then. What I witnessed was actually on a MacBook Air running macOS maybe 10-12 years ago, probably a version of macOS before they really improved the native pinyin input. The person had installed a third party input method (icon was an S is all I recall) / manager which changed by default how the shift key worked as you describe, it’d keep using that input method but it’d be in English mode.

I recall thinking shift was an insane default but it did explain why she used CAPS LOCK to capitalize single characters.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-22 21:58:42+00:00
We’ve been “on the verge” of Iran getting nukes for decades. They’re about as credible as Saddam’s WMDs at this point. And even if they did I’m not sure that’s so bad. The fact that India and Pakistan both have nukes may help provide a deterrent due to MAD. Might do the same for Iran and Israel (which has nukes already).
by jason_oster | 2025-06-22 21:59:22+00:00
Some algorithms are inherently probabilistic (bloom filters are a very common example, HyperLogLog is another). If we accept that probabilistic algorithms are useful, then we can extrapolate that to using LLMs (or other neural networks) for similar useful work.

You can make the LLM/NN deterministic. That was never a problem.
by Seren_314 | 2025-06-22 21:59:28+00:00
This may sound weird, almost unbelievable at first, but I crudely built a function to simulate a structure I saw in a dream. I lovingly named it the Ophidian Function. Turns out, it is extremely great at finding primes. It doesn't use bruteforce. I usually seed the candidates with an irrational constant like pi. The function uses a composite waveform to calculate a resonance score for the candidates. If the candidates score above the threshold of 0.5, all the candidates are usually primes, especially in the low digit range (From 10-50 Digits). I was tinkering with the script and the function to see how large of a prime I can get, and it actually failed but gave rise to a happy little accident. It output a file with around 120000 candidates, all of which are primes. All of them are 16 digit primes. The candidates were seeded with Pi. So the primes at the beginning start with 11 Prefix match of Pi if you take out the decimal (Like 314159....) and the last ones at the end have 2 prefix matches. I have attached the raw Output file. This is not an anomaly. There is an underlying structure behind primes. I am not claiming I have solved the grand mystery behind prime distribution. I am not a mathematician. But I am working on to understand what I uncovered. Because the truth is, I didn't look for primes in the first place. I am just a guy who is in a pursuit of wholeness and I chose to go within. And somehow psyche and mathematics weirdly converged and primes emerged.
by markerz | 2025-06-22 22:00:32+00:00
I kind of agree, but the cost is high for young people. I see similar problems between brain rot and junkie snack foods. Older people grew up without this instant gratification and arent used to it the same way young kids are. I grew up with snacks and crave them regularly, but all my older friends don’t even think about snacks the same way I do. I think the addictive this fades with the development of your brain around 25 years old, as well as increased life experiences, but the addiction to short form entertainment is strong enough to prevent you from getting other forms of life experiences that would eventually make that content boring and feel unfulfilling.

As an example, I used to watch a lot of dance videos. Recently I started taking dance classes and the videos just hit different now. The bar is so much higher for me to feel impressed because I’m digesting the content much more efficiently now and so much content is just repetition with slight variation.
by marcusb | 2025-06-22 22:00:52+00:00
I imagine it depends on which "top domain" list you use. I use Cloudflare radar. As of today, for their top 100 domains, 6 have published DS records:

2371 13 2 32996839A6D808AFE3EB4A795A0E6A7A39A76FC52FF228B22B76F6D6 3826F2B9 cloudflare.com

2371 13 2 F52DBA4AAEA13A1F457C0FB4C1953F40E16AFC5C5E79EDF7CEED0FCF 0CBD81F0 cloudflare-dns.com

53074 13 2 86F2929EE3E5E501032B6DC94841A4A056A2D2876CABCF46A5F8907E B4917782 one.one

56044 8 2 1B0A7E90AA6B1AC65AA5B573EFC44ABF6CB2559444251B997103D2E4 0C351B08 dns.google

48553 13 2 57AF2F182A541A91AD24CC6583867C2BA331255B03E2A32579A625AD 1F3BE3CA taboola.com

33751 8 2 90C6CD28626CA7B8E3A1FACAD58D20D486E52DF040B9B2F085ACD5C7 03E624C6 nist.gov

Not that it matters much one way or the other - you won't find a top 100 domains list where, say, 50 have DNSSEC enabled.
by 7thaccount | 2025-06-22 22:01:45+00:00
To be fair, those were fun, but extremely information sparse. You'd have a main story or two, some mail inbox stuff, a listing of a selection of cars you probably could never afford, and 35 pages of advertisements.

The car magazine has been replaced by forums and other online tools that are likely free and vastly superior. I do miss physical magazines though.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-22 22:01:46+00:00
> he's asking me about the physics to build a bass guitar tuned an octave or two below a regular bass guitar.

I barely know anything about music, and probably less about guitars, but if he can do barre chords, then you can try to build a simple capo with him, since he might readily grasp the utility of having a clamp that essentially gives you another hand on that side of the guitar.
by kevin42 | 2025-06-22 22:01:47+00:00
I like the distinction you made there. My observation that when it comes to AGI, there are those who are saying "Not possible with the current technology." and "Not possible at all, because humans have [insert some characteristic here about self awareness, true creativity, etc] and machines don't.

I can respect the first argument. I personally don't see any reason to believe AGI is impossible, but I also don't see evidence that it is possible with the current (very impressive) technology. We may never build an AGI in my lifetime, maybe not ever, but that doesn't mean it's not possible.

But the second argument, that humans do something machines aren't capable of always falls flat to me for lack of evidence. If we're going to dismiss the possibility of something, we shouldn't do it without evidence. We don't have a full model of human intelligence, so I think it's premature to assume we know what isn't possible. All the evidence we have is that humans are biological machines, everything follows the laws of physics, and yet, here we are. There isn't evidence that anything else is going on other than physical phenomenon, and there isn't any physical evidence that a biological machine can't be emulated.
by dan-robertson | 2025-06-22 22:01:54+00:00
I think expectations are often realistic in the sense that companies are generally able to hire sufficiently many people at acceptable prices. But I think it’s also the case that there are fashions in interviewing such that companies are mostly all trying to hire the same subset of candidates that do well at the current thing. So if you’re bad at the current style of interviewing it’s going to be more work than someone fortunate enough to do well at the current fad.