MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-13 01:20:49+00:00
Yeah that's weird. The Guardian has a global catchment area. It's no longer a Manchester or UK paper. A lot of foreign readers wouldn't subscribe to a print sub because it's not worth the hassle.

I'd also feel bad getting some dead trees filled with chemicals and flown across the pond then someone driving it out to me, all that environmental impact when I could just download it.
by fastest963 | 2025-06-13 01:21:46+00:00
It's not clear what the actual issue was. My best guess is that Workers KV was in transition to B2 from a combination of GCS and "a storage provider" before. A step in transitioning to B2 involved removing the "a storage provider" and relying just on GCS for some period of time because of consistency concerns. Today's GCS outage was unfortunately timed and they didn't have coverage to support GCS being down.

Separately, their dependence on their own products results in a SPOF where now, theoretically, if B2 goes down so does over half of Cloudflare's product suite. Ideally those outages can be limited to a single region at a time but that's still a massive blast radius from a single service. I completely understand them not wanting to invest in competing products as a form of redundancy though.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-06-13 01:23:04+00:00
Yeah discussing honesty seems pointless in real life considering a much lower bar… avoiding writing provable factual lies on the record… is often not even satisfied by large swathes on the population. Who often get away without any noticeable punishment too.

In comparison even a deceiver that says a dozen half truths an hour, without any outright factual lies, seems like a paragon of virtue.
by lapcat | 2025-06-13 01:23:38+00:00
> But if you think that trust itself is a false dichotomy, I’d love to hear what that sounds like. I’m struggling to think of a good faith steel-man of this assertion.

There are obviously levels of trust. I'm truly baffled that you're struggling with this.

Your trust in a person, or a company, can increase or decrease over time. You can trust someone with some tasks but not with other tasks. Again, this is so incredibly obvious, I'm not sure why I have to point it out.
by janalsncm | 2025-06-13 01:24:10+00:00
Others have mentioned that DeepSeek R1 also noticed this “problem”. I believe there are two things going on here.

One, the model is no longer being trained to output likely tokens or tokens likely to satisfy pairwise preferences. So the model doesn’t care. You have to explicitly punish the model for language switching, which dilutes the reasoning reward.

Two, I believe there has been some research on models representing similar ideas in multiple languages in similar areas. Sparse autoencoders have shown this. So if the translated text makes sense, I think this is why. If not, I have no idea.
by 9rx | 2025-06-13 01:24:23+00:00
We don’t.

But why would the frontend have processing logic when all you need is to serve a static HTML document?

Even if it did, what would you do with that information? Throw up a screen with: Call us for service information at 1-HAHA-JUST-KIDDING

It’s not like it really matters if it’s accurate anyway.
by username223 | 2025-06-13 01:25:27+00:00
> TacoLoco is a traffic monetization network that uses deceptive tactics to trick Internet users into enabling “push notifications,”

Why is it even possible for hostile code (i.e. JavaScript) to send OS-level notifications? If clicking a link runs untrusted code with layers of legal insulation, that code should run in a very limited sandbox. It's crazy that we're turning the "Open Web" into an ever-expanding attack surface.
by duxup | 2025-06-13 01:25:35+00:00
>“This took about 300–400 generations to get 15 usable clips,” Acetturo writes. “One person, 2-3 days. That’s a 95% cost reduction vs traditional ads.”

My very limited experience with AI image generation .... this fits. If you need a hodgepodge of bits? Yeah sure.

Consistency? I've no idea how to keep AI on track and not accidentally changing anything from generation to generation.
by lurking_swe | 2025-06-13 01:27:59+00:00
if it causes 90% of people to just enter a simpler password, out of frustration and “fatigue”, then this is irrelevant IMO. Theory doesn’t take into account human behavior.

It’s especially annoying when a company enforces these brain dead policies on employees. You want people to waste mental effort changing their passwords by 1 letter every 3 months, just to appease some IT manager? Give me a break lol.

I’d rather have a long complex password that i remember and remember ONCE.
by NathanFlurry | 2025-06-13 01:28:47+00:00
This post did not mention the "external storage backend."

It's assumed that the "external storage backend" is Google Cloud Storage, since they also use it for Durable Objects storage: https://youtu.be/C5-741uQPVU?si=yOX-6gRzTbIhh34h&t=1725 (this video is worth the watch on their neat arch for Durable Objects SQLite)

Similarly, their data subprocessors lists Google for the developer platform platform: https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/subprocessors/cloudflare-ser...

And aligns with the Google Cloud Storage incident: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...
Ask HN: Building a ShadowAI detection tool, need inputs from the community
by neha_n | 2025-06-13 01:29:28+00:00
Hello All,

I am building a tool for detecting shadow AI (or Embedded AI). My process involves ingesting logs and classifying them as either shadow AI or not, then returning a CSV.

I want to improve it more and am looking for some input on what else I can add to the dashboard?

What would be meaningful as a data point aside from just identifying whether this tool is Shadow/Embedded AI or not.

Would appreciate any help to make it more meaningful to the end user.

Thank you!
by farhanhubble | 2025-06-13 01:29:33+00:00
I like the article. In fact just yesterday I quipped to someone about how the quality of AI output will be determined by the competence of its "operators".

I have always had a strong drive to produce awe-inspiring software. At every job I have had, I have strived for usability, aesthetics, performance and reliability. I have maintained million LoC codebases and never caused a major issue, while people around me kept creating more problems than they fixed. However I do not recall one single word of encouragement, let alone praise. I do recall being lectured for being fixated on perfectionism a few times.

I took me 15 years to realize that consumers themselves do not care about quality. Until they do, the minority of engineers who strive for it are gonna waste their efforts.

Yes software is complex. Yes, you cannot compare software engineering to mechanical, electrical engineering or architecture. But do we deserve the absolute shit show that every app, website and device has become?
by eru | 2025-06-13 01:29:46+00:00
What makes you think so? So far, many new AI companies are sprouting and many of them seem to be able to roughly match the state-of-the-art very quickly. (But pushing the frontier seems to be harder.)

From the evidence we have so far, it does not look like there's any natural monopoly (or even natural oligopoly) in AI companies. Just the opposite. Especially with open weight models, or oven more so complete open source models.
by z2 | 2025-06-13 01:29:58+00:00
Agree, and I have no idea what's the optimal way for research to be done. My claim is that the way research is done today works for fairly small impact on taxpayer burden, and without natural experiments with other countries with spending of a similar scale to the US, it will be difficult to see which mode is best.

Bell Labs was amazing, but it also was funded in large by profits from an emboldened AT&T with monopoly power. Is monopolistic profit funding more efficient than taxpayer funding? No idea.
by mopsi | 2025-06-13 01:30:00+00:00
Different dams, roughly 20 km apart:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/DYkLKTsJvE5ZMcxY8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kjnpkvHK5k2CfJhaA

Ukraine blew up the Kozarovychi dam, flooding the Irpin river valley and blocking the roads to Kyiv for Russian armored columns. Russia attempted (unsuccessfully) to destroy the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, which would have flooded northern and central Kyiv. Since then, the plant's dam has been targeted several more times without sustaining major damage.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-13 01:30:54+00:00
Ironically I think it might, by serving as a synthetic generator to learn to better understand artistic values for those who need it. We wouldn't know what is ever so slightly wrong about replicator Earl Grey, without trying it for a while.

A lot of people right now claim that they cannot tell apart AI output from human art, while many of them seem to grow rather agitated and stressed after repeated exposure. I bet they're going to be forced into exclusively making art manually, or viewing exclusively human art at some point, and through that ways, AIs could increase value of human made data.

I find it funny that wishes for AI arts always seem to be more anime and end to Marvel slop. They want human slop go away thanks to AI slop? I'm not meaning to call out someone for contradiction or inconsistency - as I do understand the sentiment. But it gives me chuckles.
by a2128 | 2025-06-13 01:31:20+00:00
It's our own fault for making the internet such a confusing Kafkaesque maze. Click this button, click that button, sign in to confirm you're not a bot, select the traffic signs, select the items that a rat would not eat, solve this maze to prove you're a human, type out the numbers hidden in these demonic noises, provide your phone number to prove you're real, compute proof-of-work, download this browser if you're having issues... The line between fraudster and modern tech company is honestly not clear anymore and especially not for people who don't care much about tech and just want to access something
by eru | 2025-06-13 01:34:06+00:00
In general, using a general purpose solver won't be 'optimal in execution time'. (And in general, we have no clue what the optimal execution time for any NP hard or NP complete problem is, because then we'd also have solved P vs NP.)

> For some problems it’ll be optimal in execution time, for most it won’t be and you may be forced to let it approximate. But that’s usually still good enough.

Yes, it depends on your problem and your application. For some problems, you can approximate well, and in some applications that's good. And in some other applications it's fine to occasionally not solve a problem at all.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-13 01:34:43+00:00
Yes and many pilots being walkie talkies in GA as backup. Not sure if airline pilots do this though. And its kinda hard to root around for it and fiddle with it while trying to keep an unpowered jetliner in the air. They're more for emergencies where the radio is the only problem.

By the way, the age old rule is "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate" in that order of priority. So it could be they just had their hands full with the Aviate part.
Ask HN: Is it possible to fine tune LLMs on data you want them to remember?
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-13 01:35:50+00:00
Basically I want to take large codebases and transfer train an LLM on them so that I don't have to have to insert the code into prompt and deal with context windows and token limits.

Is this doable or is there a better way of handling large code bases in terms of being able to ask LLM questions about them?
by Spivak | 2025-06-13 01:35:52+00:00
From the horse's mouth. https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112202687764571433

> In the past, I have been telling anyone who wanted to listen that if all you want is sd_notify() then don't bother linking to libsystemd, since the protocol is stable and should be considered the API, not our C wrapper around it. After all, the protocol is so trivial

I'm actually surprised that they added the note about code duplication after adding the standalone implementation specifically so people won't do that.
by mousethatroared | 2025-06-13 01:35:57+00:00
I don't buy it

1. The technical solution relies heavily on fantasy.

2. It is not needed. We have no significant power transmission across the low lying fruit of continental America or Eurasia, and those lines are built! Why bother crossing an ocean?

3. Why not cross Greenland and the North Sea and its islands? Under sea cables are expensive.

4. Why not cross the Bearing Strait?
by eru | 2025-06-13 01:36:03+00:00
> Listen to yourself here. Your solution is "be rich"

I never bought a used car, or any car at all. And I did that before I was rich.

In fact, poor people generally can't afford cars in the first place.

> So what happens is you either create a cliff or you pull everything down too. Lemon markets for the poor or lemon markets for everyone. Neither is good

Huh, what? Reputation still works, even for poor customers. And so do warranties and insurances.

And you seem to imply that regulation can magically make the problem go away? It can't. Typically, regulation in this case raises the prices for everyone by demanding certain features, whether users want them or not. (But details depend on exactly what regulation you propose.)
by mbreese | 2025-06-13 01:36:14+00:00
That reminds me of the Guarantee scene from the movie Tommy Boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4

To briefly summarize (and sanitize), just because someone puts a guarantee on the box doesn't mean they'll stand by it. The guarantee on the box makes you feel warm and toasty, and that's what you bought -- the warm feelings. But if you have a quality product, you don't need to advertise the guarantee... the product is good enough on it's own.

(or something like that...)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-13 01:38:59+00:00
I still write my own code. What I have, are a couple of LLM subscriptions (Perplexity and ChatGPT), that I regularly consult. I now ask them even the “silliest” questions.

The last couple of days, I tried having ChatGPT basically write an app for me, but it didn’t really turn out so well.

I look forward to being able to train an agent on my personal technique and style, as well as Quality bar, and have it write a lot of my code.

Not there, yet, but I could see it happening.
by andersco | 2025-06-13 01:39:01+00:00
Yes, after working as a dba for a law firm and discovering that I was the administrator for thousands of lawsuits against tobacco companies. In many cases the victim had already died of lung cancer and the suit was being brought by family members. Many of the families’ income was near poverty level. At the same time, the law firm was in a plush nyc office building. I spent day after day feeling like I wanted to throw up and finally quit.
by wongarsu | 2025-06-13 01:39:25+00:00
That assumes that EV batteries are used to 100% and will reach end-of-life together with the rest of the car or before the rest of the car. That is increasingly untrue. If your EV battery would outlive your car then you can use some of those "extra" cycles at very low marginal costs (until there is an efficient market for used EV batteries for old cars).

Another factor is that not all charge/discharge cycles are the same. Going between 60% and 80% five times is a lot lighter on the battery than going between 0% and 100% once. Which pairs great with EV batteries, because their batteries are deliberately oversized compared to average use to account for uncommon events.
by neilv | 2025-06-13 01:39:38+00:00
If the reasoning didn't need to be exposed to a user, are there any ways in which you get better performance or effect by using the same LLM methods, but using a language better suited to that? (Existing language or bespoke.)

(Inspired by movies and TV shows, when characters switch from English to a different language, such as French or Mandarin, to better express something. Maybe there's a compound word in German for that.)
by qingcharles | 2025-06-13 01:40:44+00:00
I see and use these devices when I help newly released parolees, who are sometimes prohibited from having any apps while on parole, and these are the "dumbest" phones you can currently buy.

They're honestly pretty horrible. Everything is just so much effort on them. Nothing makes sense. And I'm no dummy. I worked for Nokia for a while on prototypes in the mid-2000s, which is the kind of era these Kai phones hark back to.
by bloomingeek | 2025-06-13 01:41:04+00:00
I think most people get taken advantage of at a car dealership because they don't understand that they must do their homework on what the value is of the vehicle they're interested in, understand the financing, knowing what the extended warranty is worth and always walk away from pressure salesmanship.

If something is confusing, have them print out an offer on the vehicle and take it to someone for help. If they don't want to do that, walk! If the buyer remembers the dealership wants to make as much money as they can, then it's you against them. Since this is a given, what's on paper counts.
by defrost | 2025-06-13 01:41:19+00:00
Albeit that standing on the shoulders of giants was a primo bitchy jab that likened Robert Hooke to a dwarf who rode on the shoulders of true giants.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on...

https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/...
by nagonago | 2025-06-13 01:41:58+00:00
The problem is not so much the carbon footprint of just using LLMs, but the impact from building and running massive data centers needed to train the models. Check out this report from the ITU:

https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-06-05-green...

> According to the latest edition of the report, electricity consumption by data centers — which power AI development and deployment, among other uses — increased by 12 per cent each year from 2017 to 2023, four times faster than global electricity growth.

> Four leading AI-focused companies alone saw their operational emissions increase in the reporting period by 150 per cent on average since 2020. This rise in energy that is either produced or purchased – known as Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions – underscores the urgent need to manage AI's environmental impact.

> In total, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions reported by the 166 digital companies covered by the report contributed 0.8 per cent of all global energy-related emissions in 2023.

It's worth noting that it's not all gloom and doom. As the report optimistically notes:

> Renewable energy adoption: 23 companies operated on 100 per cent renewable energy in 2023, up from 16 in 2022.

> Dedicated climate reporting: 49 companies released standalone climate reports, signaling greater transparency.

> Scope 3 consideration: The number of companies publishing targets on indirect emissions from supply chains and product use rose from 73 to 110, showing increasing awareness of industry impacts.

So the environmental impact is alarming, but at least companies seem to be growing more conscientious about it. We must continue to hold tech companies accountable for their environmental impact, and keep pushing for renewable energy.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-13 01:42:23+00:00
Like the hot take but it is needlessly negative because it doesn’t go far enough.

You could make the same argument about musical instruments, or being able to record and playback music, dj tools, etc.

I think what you get is the power law distribution for tons of content. Some of the stuff is still mega valuable, but distribution just gets more and more important and it’s harder and harder to break through. This is what the “democratization” of any previously difficulty-gated endeavor does.

More niches will be created, more fragmentation in tastes, stuff like that. Not just completely valueless content.

Incumbents and platform providers get to win through it all though, because humans still want to fill their time.
by anonymid | 2025-06-13 01:42:37+00:00
I do have a bias, and I don't think that negates the points. I think that's the benefit of establishing a common factual basis. You can argue with the bias by presenting competing facts, or a different interpretation of the facts, but at least we can agree on what we're starting with.

I think the question is - why is the national guard and the military being sent to CA without the governor's consent?

Part of the justification for this from the administration is that the riots are out of control, are posing an immediate risk of violence and property damage. Based on what I've found of the actual violence and damage being done, this justification does not hold up, as the violence and property damage are lower than previous protests in which there didn't seem to be a need for interference.

The rule of law is a different argument. What is the rule of law that is being undermined? I think here too you can have an argument about the operations that ICE is conducting, are they lawful - given that they are being conducted in sanctuary cities? Who has jurisdiction in this case? Is the administration lawful in sending in the national guard without the consent of the governor? What about the military? Newsom is now suing Trump over deploying the marines and the national guard despite his wishes, so there is a claim that such actions were unlawful.

Based on my brief research into this, ICE was operating in an unconstitutional way and making many procedural violations. City Sancutary status is lawful and has been upheld in the court of law. Newsom's challenge of Trump's deployment of the National Guard also held up in court. [link](https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/99a64b2d-e3b6-4d37-956f-c...)

When you say that "the law is being attacked" in this case, what do you mean?
by matheusmoreira | 2025-06-13 01:43:35+00:00
> that says exactly nothing about their intelligence or knowledge of the law

I disagree. I have far more confidence in judges who competed vigorously for their positions than in judges who were merely appointed by presidents.

> If these tests were actually that good in filtering the cream of the crop, how do we end up with people like Sérgio Moro

Every test has the potential for false positives and false negatives. We want to select good judges and reject bad judges. There is an inherent risk of selecting bad judges and rejecting good judges.

Of course, the exact statistics have never been determined. It's reasonable to assume that the tests optimize for low false positive rate. Rejecting good judges is not as bad as accepting a bad judge.

By reading court cases, I formed a very positive opinion of concursado judges. I've always found their argumentation to be lucid and persuasive, even when I didn't agree with their rulings. I simply can't say the same of the supreme court.

> One of the largest corruption scandals in the history of the country ended up mostly annulled

That fact deeply disgusts me. It really does. I wish things had worked out differently.

> how is that compatible with the lack of admission tests?

It's not. I believe supreme court judges should also have to pass admission tests. That should be the one and only way to become a supreme court judge.

I claim the supreme court has amassed so much power it is now openly legislating. It's effectively running the country. These people are not elected representatives. Therefore, it follows that Brazil is not actually a democracy. That is the point I sought to make in this thread.

I don't actually want judges to be elected. I just think that's a requirement for Brazil to be called a democracy at this point in time. If we're a democracy, and judges hold all the power, then we should be able to vote for them.

The only reason I go out of my way to point out that these are unelected judges is to highlight the fact that Brazil is a democracy in name only.
by spookie | 2025-06-13 01:43:58+00:00
France's RN appears moderated. They are financed by Putin, my friend [1]. Meloni's coalition party also has ties with Russia [2].

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-plays-down-her...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/12/matteo-salvini...