MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cameldrv | 2025-06-06 04:22:44+00:00
It’s easier and safer to make that flight if you can stop somewhere in the Russian far far east. Most people these days take the southern route through Hawaii, but the problem is that Hawaii-California is about 2300 miles, and not that many planes of the day could do that.

The other option is through the Aeutians, but they famously have some of the worst weather in the world and there aren’t that many places to land.

Especially back then when weather reports were terrible and radionavigation wasn’t that accurate, it was extremely chancy to fly somewhere like that without a big fuel reserve, ideally enough to get back to your origin if the weather at the destination turned out to be unlandable. Stopping in the Russian far east gives you a shorter leg to the Aelutians.
by perihelions | 2025-06-06 04:22:46+00:00
I don't know why you're worrying about batteries; LEO satellites spend only a few minutes in Earth's shadow at a time.

The current model (v2 mini) Starlink satellite has 105 meter^2 solar arrays, and there's thousands of those orbiting already. That should be in the 10's of kilowatts on each Starlink. (Those solar arrays are so large they're already artificial stars of their own, though they're not designed to be).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#v2_(initial_deploymen...

And to repeat what I might have underemphasized: this is an estimate of isotropic power, if you were radiating uniformly in all 4pi directions.
by VanTheBrand | 2025-06-06 04:23:19+00:00
The part where they go out of the way to call the lawsuit baseless is spin though, and mixing that with this messaging does exactly that, presents a mixed message. The NYT lawsuit is objectively not baseless. OpenAI did train on the Times and chat gpt does output information from that training. That’s the basis of the lawsuit. NYT may lose, this could end up being considered fair use, it might ultimately be a flimsy basis for a lawsuit, but to say it’s baseless (and with nothing to back that up) is spin and makes this message less reassuring.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-06 04:24:13+00:00
> essentially equivalent to saying "there is no right to privacy at all".

As others have said, in the United States this is, legally, completely correct: there is no right to privacy in American law. Lots of people think the Fourth Amendment is a general right to privacy, and they are wrong: the Fourth Amendment is specifically about government search and seizure, and courts have been largely consistent about saying it does not extend beyond that to e.g. relationships with private parties.

If you want a right to privacy, you will need to advocate for laws to be changed; the ones as they exist now do not give it to you.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-06 04:25:47+00:00
It would be interesting to see how toxic these newts would remain if the garter snakes were eradicated. If this was indeed a costly trait, we should see a drop in toxicity over a long period of time (possibly evolutionary time). To rule out coincidence, you could follow multiple lineages as they speciated.

In fact, looking at related newts whose ancestors were toxic (assuming the trait is not novel in these ones) would give us some idea as well.
Ask HN: How to Teach AI?
by etienne89 | 2025-06-06 04:26:25+00:00
I am currently in the application process of an assistant professor for AI and would be interested in how it should be teached today.

Up until recently, most courses always focused on the technical aspect like backpropagation, but with GenAI and LLMs the focus is shifting. Does anybody have good resources for a really good up-to-date course? Or what would you have liked to be taught when you learned it? How can tools like ChatGPT be implemented in the curriculum as a benefit without having the students just using it without correctly learning it?
by godelski | 2025-06-06 04:26:53+00:00
> teaching is demanding

But rewarding. What makes it less rewarding online is we don't see the benefits. We don't hear thanks. Which we should say more often

> a lot of linux documentation comes across as barebones

One thing I try to encourage is writing documentation. People are extremely resilient to this and I'm not sure why. It has a lot of benefits. I forget what I did, it helps remind me.

But people often claim no one else will read it or it's obvious. I think we've all dealt with the frustration of dealing with undocumented code. Seen how much time it takes because of the lack of documentation. Why doesn't this encourage writing documentation?

When docs are scarce and you have access, add a little. It can be built over time. Some is better than none.

The other thing I do is write notes. I put a lot of them in my dotfiles actually. This means I keep them just text (or link for images) and these can get carried around with me. I hand them out frequently and am always happy to have others contribute or share theirs but honestly I don't know a single other person that does this. But I find it extremely helpful. I reference them all the time. Granted, they're written for me but I think more people should.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-06-06 04:27:36+00:00
I think the voices are impressive, yet still uncanny and awkward. I don't want to hear them ever outside of the passing fascination of witnessing technological progress.

Frankly I like the arts strictly because they're expressed by humans. The human at the core of all of it makes it relatable and beautiful. With that removed I can't help wondering why we're doing it. For stimulation? Stimulation without connection? I like to actually know who voice actors are and follow their work. The day machines are doing it, I don't know. I don't think I'll listen.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-06 04:28:38+00:00
Yeah there's something wrong with the idea of brainfuck having character literals. The de bruijn indexing is definitely on point but the lack of continuations feels wrong to me given the stated goal.

Also shouldn't the indexes be expressed as a repeated character? Like "---" would be index 3. Integer literals are decidedly non-brainfuck as well.
by fishtoucher | 2025-06-06 04:29:13+00:00
I think I have a fairly similar experience to the author. Different in some respects, I'm not aphantasic, but I resonate strongly with the lack of autobiographical memory and feeling like an observer in my own history.

I can't describe how many times someone's asked me what I did last weekend and I told them that I did just had a quiet one at home, then later I'm reminded I actually went skiing or something notable that I completely forgot. Not just passing conversations with strangers either, this happens with family just as much.

I take a more pessimistic view on how it affects my life than the author does though. He handwaves the downsides even saying that he '... had learned my lessons from them [trials in university], even though I forgot how they unfolded.' I understand the desire to think that but I'm not sure how you can really justify it. The brain definitely learns to compensate in other ways and I have really unbalanced cognitive tests I took as a kid as evidence, but memory deficiencies are undoubtedly a disadvantage.
by zer00eyz | 2025-06-06 04:29:31+00:00
> However, legal protections against directly spying on the actual decrypted content of Americans are at least in theory stronger.

This was the point of the lots of the five eyes programs. Its not legal for the US to spy on its own citizens, but it isnt against the law for us to do to the Australians... Who are all to happy to reciprocate.

> Snowden's leaks mentioned the NSA tapping inter-DC links of Google and Yahoo...

Snowden's info wasn't really news for many of us who were paying attention in the aftermath of 9/11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A (This was huge on slashdot at the time... )
by rashunain | 2025-06-06 04:30:28+00:00
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by vlovich123 | 2025-06-06 04:33:24+00:00
I agree it seems transparently insincere yes, but the reason it’s done is because it works on some people who either don’t detect it or need it as politeness norms and the ones who see it as insincere just ignore it and move on. Thus net, you win by doing this because it rarely if ever costs you and thus you only have upside.
by godelski | 2025-06-06 04:34:04+00:00
You can probably find an archive somewhere but it's utility is probably low. It did need constant maintenance. Which was fine. There were enough of us.

In fact, I even got more people to contribute. I used to say the best way to learn Linux is to install arch. To come back to me after your third failure. It's rough, but you learn a ton and accelerate really fast. Telling people to expect failure helps. They know it's not them being dumb and they won't ruin their computer. Plus, they have a safety net and I promise I will help, but the real lesson is the struggle.
by tiahura | 2025-06-06 04:34:26+00:00
Every concerned ChatGPT user should file an emergency motion to intervene and request for stay of the order. ChatGPT can help you draft the motion and proposed order, just give it a copy of the discovery order. The SDNY has a very helpful pro se hotline.

The order the judge issued is irresponsible. Maybe ChatGPT did get too cute in its discovery responses, but the remedy isn’t to trample the rights of third parties.
by jschveibinz | 2025-06-06 04:35:16+00:00
I think this is a good threshold for a startup or lean small business, but perhaps a bit low for Intel? A 50% gross profit is basically like a 100% markup: the cost to make the product is doubled to get the sale price.

But that 50% gross profit remaining has to cover all of operations overhead--which includes G&A and R&D--and still leave a net profit > 5% for shareholders. Note that software products usually deliver in excess of 80% gross profit; and hardware products are 50% or more.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-06 04:35:50+00:00
Right. But requiring logs due to suspicion that the service itself is actively violating the law is entirely different from doing so on the basis that end users might be up to no good entirely independently.

Also OpenAI was never E2EE to begin with. They were already retaining logs for some period of time.

My personal view is that the court order is overly broad and disregards potential impacts on end users but it's nonetheless important to be accurate about what is and isn't happening here.
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-06 04:36:01+00:00
I don’t use word processors often (less than once a year in general), and did something comparatively advanced in LibreOffice Writer a few months ago, involving mixing English and an Indian language, and trying to use styles and such (equivalent to tacking on a stylesheet in HTML). I learned that the toolbar button for lists creates a list with hard-coded inline styles for bullet appearance, indent amounts, &c. If you want to change it, you can’t use that button any more, and have to make your own style with the appropriate properties (not easy) and apply them to each list item.

Part of the mess is that it doesn’t seem to actually model lists, just paragraphs which might have a list level associated with them. I have no idea why this was ever deemed acceptable: it precludes multiple markers on one line:

1. a) Sorry, but you can’t do this. b) It’s not expressible. 2. You need a paragraph first. a) Then it can be done.

My guess is that LibreOffice inherited this limitation from Word. No idea if Word is so affected.
by godelski | 2025-06-06 04:37:57+00:00
> That's an easy one to answer

It was rhetorical

Really, I'm calling people dumb for gatekeeping the things they enjoy. Things change regardless.

With Linux, you can have your distorts. Because Linux people tend to understand that you don't build "products" but environments. Places to build from. To build in. It's not always but it's a good idea. You can't make a product for everyone, but you can make an environment for everyone. It's why a computer or a phone is so universal but iOS or Android isn't
by crabmusket | 2025-06-06 04:39:30+00:00
I quite like this. While we experience our own thought process as unique, and see it that way in other people who come up with ideas we'd never have thought of, there is nevertheless an entire ecosystem around even the most brilliant genius.

I also think there's something about the nature of reality which suggests that if we try, we will eventually discover what is there to be discovered. As David Deutsch puts it, "everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge". Of course the "invention" is about discovering the right knowledge, in what order and how we come about that.

(And, to throw in a fun pet issue of mine, this infuriated me about Atlas Shrugged - the idea that solitary geniuses can invent mind-boggling technology and that therefore the rest of society needs to bow down to them. Like, no - once it was known that free energy could come out of the air, the world's scientists would be racing to reproduce this finding, and would probably do so in short order.)
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-06 04:41:15+00:00
From the first article:

> Humans owe their big brains and sophisticated culture to a single genetic mutation that weakened our jaw muscles about 2.4 million years ago, a new study suggests.

_A new study suggests_

I don’t think you can treat these claims as categorically true. It’s plausible and probably warrants further study, like most things in biology.

Edit: I could not read the second article you linked as it was behind a paywall, but I found the full text of the original paper[1]. The paper appears to make a much weaker claim: that a weakening of jaw muscles in humans coincided with acceleration in brain size. This is certainly intriguing, but correlation does not imply causation.

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4035273/
by fastball | 2025-06-06 04:41:19+00:00
This is the nature of the civil court system – it exists for when parties disagree.

Why would a defendant who agrees a case has merit go to court at all? Much easier (and generally less expensive) to make the other party whole, assuming the parties agree on what "whole" is. And if they don't agree on what "whole" is, we are back to square one and of course you'd maintain that the other side's suit is baseless.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 04:41:30+00:00
> There's decades of legal disputes in some European countries on whether it's even legitimate for the government to mandate your ISP or phone company to collect metadata on you for after-the-fact law enforcement searches.

> Looking at the actual data seems much more invasive than that

Looking at the data isn't involved in the current order, which requires OpenAI to preserve and segregate the data that would otherwise have been deleted. The reason for segregation is because any challenges OpenAI has to providing that data in disccovery will be heard before anyone other than OpenAI is ordered to have access to the data.

This is, in fact, less invasive than the government mandating collection for speculative future uses, since it applies only to not destroying evidence already collected by OpenAI in the course of operating their business, and only for potential use, subject to other challenges by OpenAI, in the present case.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-06 04:41:49+00:00
They 'ran out of soldiers' because they were surrendering en masse. It's difficult to know the exact numbers on anything from that era because there are ambiguities and poor record keeping abounds, but it's estimated that some 11 million Germans ended up surrendering. [1]

So yeah as morale collapses you're left expanding the age of conscription, which further collapses morale. There were plenty of sardonic jokes about the Volkssturm, 'the people's brigade.' Why is the Volkssturm the state's most valuable resource? Because they have silver in their hair, gold in their teeth, and lead in their bones.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befehlsnotstand#Nazi_Germany
by tuckerman | 2025-06-06 04:41:55+00:00
Even if the laws give them this power, I believe it would be extremely difficult for an operation like this to go unnoticed (and therefore unreported) at most of these companies. MUSCULAR [1] was able to be pulled off because of the cleartext inter-datacenter traffic which was subsequently encrypted. It's hard to see how they could pull off a similar operation without the cooperation of Google which would also entail a tremendous internal cover up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR
by junto | 2025-06-06 04:42:11+00:00
For many consumers typing your credit card into an unknown website where you don’t know how securely they are storing your data is a huge turn off.

The PayPal option has always been an effective proxy to my credit card as a consumer.

I trust my credit card to Amazon or sellers that redirect to a known payment provider like Stripe, but that’s it.

As an example, Dominos online in my country recently removed PayPal and Apple Pay from their payment options. I now only pay cash on delivery because I simply don’t trust that they might get hacked at some point.

This is based on my 20+ years experience as a freelancer who worked on various e-commerce projects where every so often the client would ask me to implement dark pattern post sale “third party subscription” scams. Things like obscurely hidden checkboxes where the customer post sale agrees to an annual subscription to receive coupons and discounts from discount networks.

The implementation is nearly always taking the customer data including credit card information and shipping it off to the third party and they’d get a kickback.

The customer often didn’t notice the extra payment later on and by the time they did rarely charged it back.

I’d walk away every time I got asked to do such scummy things, but there of plenty of people who would.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-10061167/am...
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-06 04:42:29+00:00
This are the seven smallest violins and they play a whole concert just for you

≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠

(Didn't know that phrase was first used in a episode of m.a.s.h. - always thought, it's originally was coined by Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino's "reservoir dogs" - and I always used it in the same context: at a restaurant, when a (small) tip isn't accepted as such or when a tip is not justifiable bc of the bad service ...)
by landl0rd | 2025-06-06 04:44:49+00:00
Do you think Wikipedia starting in '24 was polluted by AI slop? This is certainly possible, I'm just not aware of it happening.

Wikipedia periodically publishes database dumps and the Internet Archive stores old versions: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22enwiki%22%20AN...

Plus you could also grab the latest and just read the 12/31/23 revisions.
by artdigital | 2025-06-06 04:44:51+00:00
Add a `product.json` and set the extension gallery URL through that

``` { "extensionsGallery": { "serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery", "itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items", "cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index", } } ```

https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2195

This is technically against the ToS of the extension gallery though
by 7speter | 2025-06-06 04:46:57+00:00
I dunno everyone, but I think Intel has something big on their hands with their announced workstation gpus. The b50 is a low profile card that doesn’t have a powersupply hookup because it only uses something like 60 watts, and comes with 16gb vram at a msrp of 300 dollars.

I imagine companies will have first dibs via the likes of agreements with suppliers like CDW, etc, but if Intel had enough of these battlemage dies accumulated, it could also drastically change the local ai enthusiast/hobbyist landscape; for starters this could drive down the price of workstation cards that are ideal for inference, at the very least. I’m cautiously excited.

On the AMD front (really, a sort of open compute front), Vulkan Kompute is picking up steam and it would be really cool to have a standard that mostly(?) ships with Linux, and older ports available for Freebsd, so that we can actually run free as in freedom inference locally.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-06 04:47:10+00:00
I suspect that as the number of mimics increases (either an individual species or convergent evolution of mimicry, like we see with the number of insects with bee or wasp-like coloration), the relative risk of consuming things that look poisonous drops to a level where it’s sustainable for a population of predators.

To your point I wonder if eventually some truly toxic species can become a victim of their own success
by theogravity | 2025-06-06 04:48:20+00:00
This is really cool considering how expensive DataDog can get. I'm the author of LogLayer (https://loglayer.dev), which is a structured logger for TypeScript that allows you to use multiple loggers together. I've written transports that allows shipping to other loggers like pino and cloud providers such as DataDog.

I spent some time writing an integration for HyperDX after seeing this post and hope you can help me roll it out! Would love to add a new "integrations" section to my page that links to the docs on how to use HyperDX with LogLayer.

https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx-js/pull/184
by jorkingit | 2025-06-06 04:50:05+00:00
getchar does take a continuation of sorts (as in continuation passing) which is passed the input. In one my initial drafts, getchar was a special form that would accept input at the point of evaluation, which was really funny and unpredictable.

putchar I feel kind of weird about, it acting as an identity function with a side effect is kind of weird; I'm not sure changing it to take a second argument as a continuation would make it better or worse.

Regarding the de Bruijn indices, I don't think there's a huge distinction between writing 3 vs writing ---: it would still form a single lexical token, so I feel like --- is just more noise.

Perhaps a de Bruijn index register you could move around and dereference? e.g. from index 1, index 3 is >>*, then index 2 from there is <*. But that feels less functional, because you're now imperatively manipulating some hidden state.