MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mbrumlow | 2025-06-06 14:40:46+00:00
> Being able to pick what content they host is fundamental to freedom of speech for private entities

I simply don’t think this applies to places like YouTube.

But if does then they also must be responsible for the content. It makes no sense that curating content is their free speech but at the same time it’s not their speech when the content could have legal repercussions to them.

The argument that removing videos is their speech implies that hosting videos is their speech. So they should be liable for all content they post.
by krapp | 2025-06-06 14:40:49+00:00
Maybe, and maybe I'm just out of touch with the memes and falling victim to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but it isn't even that common a word, and all of a sudden everyone it seems like everyone using it. And Google Trends definitely shows a spike in usage[0]. It's probably my own paranoia but when I see the exact same phrase (like "roaring economy") being used by a lot of people it seems like propaganda, especially given how deeply manipulated and controlled every form of media and communication is nowadays.

For instance.. why did everyone all of a sudden care so much about the price of eggs during the last election? There's no way that was entirely organic.

[0]https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/17492196...
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-06-06 14:41:12+00:00
> I just don't understand how these people can do what they do

It's narcissistic personality disorder. The 45th administration had a surfeit of responsible adults putting up guard rails to contain the future felon. This one has taken the Hitler youth approach to recruiting like-minded individuals with an inflated sense of their own competence. Minimal critical thinking skills and life experience are a checkbox in the hiring process.
by mooreds | 2025-06-06 14:41:19+00:00
I wrote an article about this for my employer[0]. There's also a nice list of use cases in the RFC[1], including (text in parens mine):

* Migration of the Identities

* Single Sign-On (SSO) Service (allowing provisioning instead of JIT)

* Provisioning of the User Accounts for a Community of Interest (with complex infra)

* Transfer of Attributes to a Relying Party's Website (so profile data)

* Change Notification (of profile data and access)

0: https://fusionauth.io/articles/identity-basics/what-is-scim

1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7642#section-3
by XorNot | 2025-06-06 14:41:22+00:00
sigh all of that history existed before the development of ICBMs and submarine launched ICBMs particularly. Which happened around the 1960s-ish depending how you count it.

ICBMs, and in particular submarine based ICBMs, are what provide nuclear deterrence in a serious fashion. They arrive faster, and are effectively unstoppable at scale.
by ksec | 2025-06-06 14:41:25+00:00
>For Speedometer, these optimizations have resulted in a 10% improvement since August 2024.

The score is going from 42.8 to 53.4. That is 25% speed increase. I am not sure how that 10% figure came from.

And 25% improvement on top of an already insanely well optimised browser is quite an amazing achievement. Apple M4 Safari is something close to 48 / 50.

And Chrome is now great with memory too. They went through a few years of Firefox Memshrink like cycle. I still dont like the interface, but in terms of multi tab browsing it is a lot better. Probably not Firefox few thousands tabs great but definitely very useable for up to a few hundred tabs.

Safari continues to be the worst browser. Or may be good for Mobile and a few tabs usage only.
by Bender | 2025-06-06 14:41:40+00:00
My theoretical preference: as a file hosting provider, in Minecraft

- SFTP with anonymous login on disposable VM's, LFTP+SFTP for automation of batch transfers and rsync-like behavior in a chroot sftp-only login. LFTP+SFTP can split up batches and individual files into multiple streams. sch_cake balances throughput to and from each person, in Minecraft.

- Nginx+autoindex for people preferring happy-clicky access
by liampulles | 2025-06-06 14:42:19+00:00
On the surface, the principle of using AI to filter down contracts for human review seems like a good thing, because it increases efficiency. Especially if it makes something previously infeasible and/or very expensive now doable and/or relatively cheap.

Where it would become bad for me is if the next step is taken to remove humans from the loop, or more simply if the AI is not tested for accuracy regularly and updated as the nature of the world changes. Unfortunately, I think the chance of these outcomes occurring is high.

I've worked with LLMs to aid humans in the domain of text review. I've encountered inexplicable inaccuracies that are very difficult to robustly remove from the system (you can patch one thing and then another pops up when you try some new data). I've found it very difficult to try and explain this issue to business people: I suggested that there needed to be humans in the loop, because it seemed like some level of inaccuracy is insoluble.

This is not ideal for the business, because obviously it hurts their ability to scale (reasonable). Also from the perspective of business people I've interacted with: AI is the greatest thing since the invention of the transistor, and its only a matter of time until these LLMs are perfectly intelligent (not reasonable), and vitally important that they get ahead of the curve before potential competitors do.

I can just see how this issue is going to lead to so many important aspects of our society being eaten up by imperfect software that we are forced to accept, because there are not competitors able to justify a less scalable and accurate alternative. I hope I'm wrong, but until then I hope people will flag this sort of shit when they see it.
by twic | 2025-06-06 14:42:25+00:00
How come integrated graphics is in the CPU, rather than being part of the chipset? For an actual single-chip SoC, i suppose it has to be, but even my Ryzen 5 7600X has graphics. I would have thought resources on the CPU would be at a premium, so you'd put them all towards compute. Particularly since integrated graphics doesn't need to be that powerful.
by blargey | 2025-06-06 14:42:45+00:00
Counter-anecdote: I have a smallish build and have well-tuned satiety, but a consistent measured TDEE of 2400~2500 kCal, and would go hungry and waste away at 1.5k.

I agree there’s no substitute for measuring your numbers. But meticulous calorie and weight tracking is probably a big ask for the average person, even though it’s imo absolutely necessary for controlling your weight one way or another.
by constantcrying | 2025-06-06 14:43:21+00:00
Obviously. And I do believe the same type of person who wants to "bring your whole self to work" also is the most disgusted by seeing it implemented. If there had been a culture of professionalism you obviously do not ask some random other employees about gay slang.

Ultimately work is a give and take. And it gets easier when it is clearly defined what is given and what is taken. That is what "professionalism" in a work environment is about. Pretending that work is some great family adventure can only lead to terrible results when conflict inevitably arises.
by oulipo | 2025-06-06 14:43:51+00:00
Exactly, and it's funny because here everytime we discuss the impact of AI on vulnerable population, be it for taking jobs / increasing CO2 consumption / destabilizing politics, there's always a rich white guy with his cushy programmer job saying "but I don't understand, to me all this AI stuff is nice, I can work even more comfortably"...
by ericmay | 2025-06-06 14:44:25+00:00
One of the pillars of weight loss is "eating right" as we all undoubtedly know. It's eating whole foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and lean meat, and all that good stuff.

If you ever go to a nutritionist they'll tell you that, and they may even give you recipes!

But this is mostly an exercise in futility. Why? Because going to McDonalds tastes better. So people will revert and not solve their problem. Diets don't work, and new fad diets come out, and the industry cycle continues.

The problem with diets and lifestyle changes that are proposed in common social discourse is that we are always missing the most important step which is teaching citizens how to cook. As a nation I wish we would spend more time focusing on good culinary skills, and that is an investment that would pay dividends not only in healthier waistlines, but also in an increased interest in the quality of our food and produce.
by gruez | 2025-06-06 14:45:16+00:00
>We live in a time when half of our produced food is thrown away.

I don't see how this is a relevant fact. If we threw away 10x the food does that make our diet even more unhealthy? Moreover if technological innovations like refrigeration decreases food waste, does that magically make our diet healthy again?

>That's why veganism makes so much sense nowadays. Nothing about the modern diet is "natural" for most people.

>Meat was awesome when calories were sparse/intermittent. Now it's just excess for the sake of a status symbol. Same can be said about a lot of our foods.

If you turn back the clock even more (ie. pre-agriculture), you'd probably see the reverse (ie. more meat consumption).
by Bender | 2025-06-06 14:46:02+00:00
I pay for those services and do not get ads and that is on a machine dedicated to corporate crap. No addons installed. I even use Microsoft Edge so they think they are tracking me.

The one and only exception was the movie "Person of Interest" which was FreeVee only for reasons I do not understand so I put up with their ads and then purchased the box set on DVD. The ads were so weird it was entertaining to watch them. They were clearly all created in China and I am still not convinced the actors were real people.
by fallingknife | 2025-06-06 14:46:15+00:00
It's obviously 3 because the entire point of the NYT is that it's a newspaper and probably 99% of their traffic is from articles new enough that they haven't had time to go into the training data. So anybody who wanted to use ChatGPT to breach the NYT paywall couldn't get any new articles. Also there are so many other ways to breach a paywall that you would have to be insane to try to do it through prompt engineering ChatGPT. The whole case is a scam and I hope the court makes them pay OpenAI's legal fees.
Ask HN: Should I build a directory product?
by alizaid | 2025-06-06 14:46:23+00:00
"just build a directory, they’re easy to monetize" - one of my friends

but there are already hundreds of those most of them feel the same

if i ever build one it won’t be another uneed or tinylaunch clone it’ll have taste, soul, and real utility

that’s the same mindset behind thumblifyai.com not just another ai thumbnail tool

it’s a content machine for creators built to help them get real clicks, real reach

this “build a directory” idea’s been stuck in my head for a month

i don’t know… should i actually build it?
by karmakaze | 2025-06-06 14:46:35+00:00
Fun read. I grew up with small everything by default writing machine/assembly on 8-bits.

One thing about small capable languages is that they're sort of proto-languages where it's used to create a specific flavour/dialect with programming abstractions which are then used to implement a program. This is true of all languages but especially the tiny ones like assembly language or Lisp. This is the reason I believe that Lisps never got more popular because each project is it's own dialect and not applicable elsewhere. It's why Clojure a larger more opinionated language with 'batteries included' is more useful elsewhere.
by 9rx | 2025-06-06 14:46:48+00:00
> I'd argue that a large part of why people don't write code using them as error handling more often is because of the syntax

I don't see meaningful difference in the syntax as compared to other languages with a similar feature: https://go.dev/play/p/RrO1OrzIPNe How deep are we really going to split hairs here?

If it were commonly used you could clean it up a little, like how the somewhat recently added iterators feature cleaned up what people were already doing with iteration, but in this case since it is so rarely used in the first place, why bother? "If you build it, they will come" is Hollywood fantasy. Unlike this, the use of iterators was already prevalent before the iterators feature was added.

Let's be honest: If it were useful, people would already put up with the above being slightly less than perfect. People will actually put up with a lot of shit when something is useful at its core! But that they are doing this almost never is quite telling.

> What's strange to me is that the main reason this seems like the best path forward to me is because it doesn't require large fundamental changes to the language

Or maybe no changes at all. Would using the above really be so bad from a syntactical point of view? The much bigger problem, and why pretty much all modern languages have moved to returning errors as the defacto solution, is that it exhibits all the same fundamental problems as errors under Java exception handling. That is something syntax cannot fix.

And, well, for the exceptional (pun intended?) cases where Java-style exception handling really its the best option to suit your circumstances: It's there to use already!
by kuschku | 2025-06-06 14:46:50+00:00
> Where on earth did you get that idea from?

Well, countless court rulings in Europe?

e.g., https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/05/finland-court-br...

That's why you can play or a rip a DVD with common open-source software (e.g., VLC) without requiring any special piracy tools.

See https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html for details.

> libdvdcss is a library that can find and guess keys from a DVD in order to decrypt it.

> This method is authorized by a French law decision CE 10e et 9e sous­sect., 16 juillet 2008, n° 301843 on interoperability.

> https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ceta/id/CETATEXT000019216315/

Btw, that - as well as software patents - is why the official binaries of VLC and ffmpeg are illegal to have or use in the US.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-06 14:48:03+00:00
But, like, in this case, _even if the LLM was a superhuman AGI_, there is _still_ no way it could do what he wants based off the prompt he gave it because it simply would not have the sort of in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of the VA required to make these determinations.

Even if we waive the "LLMs are bit shit" stipulation, it still doesn't really help much.
by pyman | 2025-06-06 14:48:15+00:00
There's no evidence for that. It's very easy to write in a blog post "they told me" or "an engineer said".

Why don't they contact the Head of AI, Craig Saunders (ex-Director of Amazon AI), and ask him directly. This was never done, which raises serious doubts about the credibility of the person who wrote it.

We need to stick to the facts, especially now that pseudo-journalists are flooding the web with fake news.

Let's keep this site reliable, please.

I read their site and blog, and they have a lot of screenshots of their internal apps.

Here's the dashboard where you choose an app: https://www.builder.ai/images/Choose.jpg

And here's the project progress dashboard showing how long it takes to build. In this case, it's 7 months. Clearly, there's no GenAI involved if it takes that long:

https://www.builder.ai/images/builder-studio-project-progres...

They also show in the menu things like "Releases" and "Meet the squad" (I'm assuming the devs). It can't be fake! One of them shows templates of well known sites. Based on what I read, you choose a template, Natasha or something else handles the assembly, which I assume is just a fancy way of saying it checks out a repo and installs dependencies. Then the Indian programmers do the rest. This is clearly explained on their website.

Take a look at their blog. There's plenty of information about their apps, which were reviewed by Microsoft before they invested 250 million.

Verdict: FAKE NEWS
by AstroBen | 2025-06-06 14:48:44+00:00
As someone that moved to the US somewhat recently.. the portion sizes here still blow my mind. My girlfriend orders chinese food and makes 3-4 meals out of it

+ food is viewed strongly as entertainment here

+ everything is very noticably sweeter or saltier than I'm used to. So many brands of plain bread taste like cake!

I very much sympathize with americans that are pushed by their environment to be overweight
by the_af | 2025-06-06 14:48:49+00:00
Suits me fine, since you're dishonest about what you wrote:

> Jewish people have no moral high ground here

and

> I pointed out an instance of bigotry done by jews

There you have it: written by you, about "the Jews" and "Jewish people". People are rightfully calling you out on this, and flagging you. You mentioned it, and now you're playing dumb, so there's truly nothing more to discuss.
by romaaeterna | 2025-06-06 14:48:51+00:00
This comment does not follow the context of the discussion.

Circling back up. Article author: Twitter might be untrustworthy and could bruteforce your keys. Use Signal.

Me: That's unreasonable. You also have to trust Signal.

Your answer just now: Why are people picking on Signal?!?

In fact, what the world really needs, rather than 3rd-party controlled encrypted messaging solutions like Twitter and Signal, is public apis for public key cryptography on non-trusted infrastructure, not tied to single groups. Everybody knows this. The reason that we instead have bodies like Signal -- a company that just so happens to tie every encrypted message to a real phone number and real human identity for no easily explained reason -- and the reason we have people who surely know better defending bodies like Signal in public, is an exercise left for the reader.
by badpun | 2025-06-06 14:49:27+00:00
> When I entered the tech industry about a decade ago, it was a time of optimism.

Ten (well, nine) years ago we already had the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The tech industry was already rotten to the core. Heck, you could say it was that already in the nineties, when Microsoft's business practices made millions of people outright hate them - it's just that the reach of the industry wasn't as prevailing as it is now.
by tromp | 2025-06-06 14:50:37+00:00
> Kolmogorov complexity (wikipedia.org) is: "… the length of a shortest computer program (in a predetermined programming language) that produces the object as output."

> Small programs are interesting. But I’m also interested in small programming languages. Generally speaking, the smaller the language, the less expressive it is.

It was the study of Kolmogorov complexity that motivated me to come up with the smallest and most expressive language for writing minimal size programs, and define the various flavors of Kolomogorov complexity in terms of it [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/tromp/86b3184f852f65bfb814e3ab0987d8...
by mooreds | 2025-06-06 14:51:15+00:00
I had a directory of local farm shares/CSAs for about a decade. That one wasn't super easy to monetize, so I'd pick your niche carefully. It also was a ton of work right around the holidays. It helped a lot of people though.

I'd avoid building software--you can find Wordpress plugins that give you everything you need. That will get you up and running quickly from the tech side.

If you follow my advice you'll spend most of your time doing marketing and sales to try to get both free and paid listings.

If that excites you and you love the space that you're cataloging, go for it! Otherwise I'd avoid.
by topaz0 | 2025-06-06 14:51:19+00:00
The problem with all syntax-based writing advice is that it's an extremely poor substitute for taste, and taste has to be developed by years of sitting with prose, good and bad, and seeing what makes you cringe and what gives delight. If you closely read the expert writers and teachers of writing who purvey these rules, you find that none of them follow their own admonitions entirely. That doesn't mean the rules come from nowhere -- in this example, I have observed plenty of novice writers who use adverbs badly, so if you're trying to learn to write well, adverb-dense prose is a common sign of inelegant writing, and a sign that that prose might need some attention. But the solution is not "eliminate the adverbs at all costs" -- the solution is to read closely, feel it grate against your ears, and try revisions until it doesn't grate anymore.
by foxyv | 2025-06-06 14:51:27+00:00
For those who don't know, the helium we use for party balloons is mostly the accumulation of Alpha particles in petroleum reserves. When that helium is released it floats into the upper atmosphere and boils off into space. All other methods of helium acquisition are extremely costly and inefficient.

This means that in the next couple hundred years more or less, humanity will run out of helium cheap enough to use for piddly things like MRIs and particle accelerators. It will essentially become the most valuable resource on the planet mostly extracted from volcanic gasses.
by ghaff | 2025-06-06 14:52:04+00:00
It's unlikely that you come close to saving money with a long distance sleeper even if the additional time you spend isn't a factor. But this isn't even all that specific to US. As was just noted on a Facebook thread I was reading, the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Edinburgh isn't a particular bargain and I recall other European night trains I've taken didn't really save me money either.
by overu589 | 2025-06-06 14:52:27+00:00
> crucial questions about their true reasoning capabilities

It may be found once and for all, these are automated statistics of thoughts presented beforehand.

Those ideas and circumstance diversely represent in input sets will influence accuracy of output.

That is to say, it is only doing what it has learned from us to degrees of ever more complexity (more indexes).

The LLM is an index with vector tables computed in real (answer) time.

These are not inventing new views they are repostulating existing experiences into a situational context. They are stitching together a narrative, that’s it.

Btw, I love the think feature. “Tell me something profound” was an adventure of tangential consequence.
by DoctorOW | 2025-06-06 14:52:34+00:00
Bandages are very common, even at hospitals. The solution isn't just to pretend nothing's wrong until the patient bleeds to death. There's other steps here too, I continue to advocate for education and culture shift. I've spoken specifically to both the public and lawmakers about the importance of inclusion. The work isn't done.

Don't get me wrong, YouTube is deeply flawed in its implementation of moderation. The website is borderline unsupervised when it comes to human beings, and the algorithm/AI has been very destructive. That's not the fault of rules as a concept though. There are so many rules, which in theory, I'm prepared to defend even if they aren't working in practice. Does it suck when I'm falsely accused of violating copyright? Yes. Would it also suck to have no recourse if my work got stolen? Absolutely. Could they allow adult imagery and I just filter it out on my end? Yes. Is it a huge overreach that they don't allow child pornography? No. The line does have to be drawn somewhere.
by iamwpj | 2025-06-06 14:52:42+00:00
I tend to agree. It's pretty easy to have cooking skills that out pace the trouble of driving, waiting, and ultimately only kind of enjoying fast food.

The advice I give people when rarely solicited, is that you work all day to ensure you have food and shelter. 1/3 work, 1/3 food, 1/3 shelter. If you routinely don't have time to cook and enjoy your food -- frankly, what are you doing with you life? Planning a menu, shopping for groceries, cooking meals, these things should take up your time! It's what you need to be doing. That's the point of this all!