MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sho_hn | 2025-06-23 15:58:39+00:00
> Also not related to America at all.

I'm honestly convinced it's a bit more prevalent in America, and I've explored this in earnest conversations with American friends. I don't mean to villify it either, as it makes a certain amount of sense. Their take is roughly that Japan is the benchmark case for a sufficiently alternative/different culture from an American POV and thus invites comparison. As in, yes, you could also cite equivalent examples in Europe (say, cozy hole-in-the-wall cafés in 200 year old structures with vines hanging off of them ...), but since the cultural overlap is much larger (or presumed to be), it's less striking. To quote one friend, "if you're going to make the comparison, why not go for the maximum you can?"

Add the surplus in shared history, the far greater exposure to Japanese products (e.g. car brands) inviting more interest, and so on.

Sure, you can find manga/anime fand pining for that Japanese lifestyle also in Europe, and Europeans are certainly no strangers to orientalism through the ages. But the incidence of finding "look at how the Japanese are doing it differently" in random mainstream media is a lot higher in US publications. And it's also largely been US-based consulting companies and/or organizations that have taken the hoishin and the kaizen and what not global in corporate culture and particularly in tech.
by stephenr | 2025-06-23 15:58:56+00:00
I'm not even going to point out the hundreds of counter examples to your argument.

You clearly didn't understand my point: I'm not arguing about whether GPL is better than MIT or BSD or even SSPL/etc.

My point is that if someone else chooses to release their software with less restrictions on it than I would choose, that's literally none of my business.

They wrote the fucking thing, they get to choose how it's fucking licensed.

Plenty of organisations (and thus people) skip using GPL licensed software due to inability or unwillingness to be bound by it's terms.

I'm still waiting for the day the GPL camp says they're not going to use things like OpenSSH, Apache, Nginx, Postgres, Python, Ruby - because they're too fucking permissive.
by fregazoid | 2025-06-23 15:59:00+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-06-23 15:59:01+00:00
Maybe. I don't know. I suppose if I knew I'd already know, and thus wouldn't gain anything from talking about it, and therefore wouldn't be here.

Perhaps a related question is: How do we bring back that old feeling cars used to give people? The old timers reminisce about them just like those here remember the internet, but these days they're just boring tools at best. So boring that the kids reaching driving age today are happy to not even go near them.

Or maybe there is no going back? Been there, done that, as they say.
by gus_massa | 2025-06-23 15:59:10+00:00
Yesterday Bluestein posted this: "Google is killing the web with AI Overviews – I made an extension to block them (tomshardware.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346440 (5 points | 1 day ago | 0 comments)

Is this what you are looking for?
by ergsef | 2025-06-23 15:59:12+00:00
Who are "capable" people? Do you think if the cafe owner was born in the US they would be working at Google?

Lots of people in North America work in jobs with positive externalities (teachers, nurses, etc) and they're generally treated like shit compared to 9-5 office workers. I don't think the issue is that the former is group is less capable, they're just not sociopathic resource-collecting robots.
by reylas | 2025-06-23 15:59:13+00:00
Dude, I agree! You are missing the point. I know it was a fringe theory. But that is my point. We are talking about losing faith in experts here. Not my beliefs. "Experts" and I use that term loosely, predicted a global cooling. It was not all of them, but when a few cry wolf and the press run with it, then people start dis-trusting "experts" even those that could be correct.

You keep harping on my beliefs, but I have not stated them. I did not believe in an ice age, and I have already stated that I believe in climate change. Why do you keep trying to talk about what I personally believe when you dont even know what they are?

When have I hurt you in the past? Go back to the article on what it is about. I am only trying to add to the discussion on what could be a cause.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-06-23 15:59:20+00:00
> the models I do use remain static and predictable

Some people overload "local" a bit to mean you are hosting the model - whether it's on your computer, on your rack, or on your hetzner instance etc.

But I think parent is referring to the open/static aspect of the models.

If it's hosted by a generic model provider that is serving many users in parallel to reduce the end cost to the user, it's also theoretically a static version of the model... But I could see ad-supported fine tunes being a real problem.
by ca_tech | 2025-06-23 15:59:49+00:00
The first definition of this type of procedural generation algorithm was called Model Synthesis by Paul Merrell [1] which built upon texture synthesis. You can even read Merrell's later comparison of the two algorithms [2].

[1] https://paulmerrell.org//thesis.pdf [2] https://paulmerrell.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/compariso...
by dmbche | 2025-06-23 15:59:50+00:00
Is the IAEA working for the DNI?

I think it's not an american org, and you've just shown that an international org talked about iranian uranium - which is a non sequitur.

I do think that you can look at what the DNI has been saying since 2003 on Iran nuclear program and notice they never raised the alarm about Iran making bombs - which would have been a real threat and merited some notice.

As an aside, your personal conclusions on what Iran says it has been doing and what the IAEA says are not very productive unless you have some experience handling uranium production/stockpiling. Is that something you're knowlegdeable on? If not, could you possibly be wrong? Could it be that they are producing uranium normally?

Has the IAEA raised alarms in 2022 when they got that 60% sample?

Could it be that you don't know enough about this?

Edit0: also your 87% is from an environnemental sample - no one saw a uranium product at that concentration anywhere. You just assume that Iran is lying from the get go. What if this was actually byproduct of moving to 60% as they said?
by taeric | 2025-06-23 15:59:51+00:00
I haven't been in a workflow where tramp is useful to me in a while. I recall it was borderline magical back when I did use it. I'm assuming it is highly reliant on how good your network connection is?

Definitely has more config now than I recall. Kudos on benchmarking the different settings here. I'm definitely curious to see what sort of stuff gets tried to make it even more seamless.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-06-23 16:00:10+00:00
This looks like a 'sponsored' 'research' by plastic producing companies, like how tobacco companies / wine producers used to push their products with such 'scientific research' and 'doctor's recommendations'.

"Look we don't need to cut down on our plastic production / usage. We can use microbes to convert them to 'painkillers'"

I will believe when I see some real-world results.
by pixl97 | 2025-06-23 16:01:27+00:00
>Yet somehow, the idea of an emergent consciousness is that if you instead get it to do 100 basic operations, or perhaps 2^100 then suddenly this becomes true

Why not? You can do a simple add with assembly language in a few operations. But if you put millions and millions of operations together you can get a video game with emergent behaviors. If you're just looking at the additions, where does the game come from? Is it still a game if it's not output to a monitor but an internal screen buffer?
by ec109685 | 2025-06-23 16:01:33+00:00
I don’t think addiction is the right way to look at it.

I think most people can easily do all the way through #6 if they put their mind to it. It’s not a physical addiction.

The real cost is when you’re not intentionally trying to deprive yourself. Do you gravitate back to unhealthy (at least the way you define it) behaviors?
by rockostrich | 2025-06-23 16:01:35+00:00
As someone who loves coffee as well as the culture around locally owned coffee shops, visiting Tokyo (and to a lesser extent Seoul) this past April was like a dream come true.

When my partner and I travel, we don't do a ton of planning for specifics so if we're in a big city we'll usually pick a neighborhood or 2 for the day and bebop around until we're tired. The start to any day is almost always finding a coffee shop and doing the crossword during our first cup. In Europe depending on the city this can be difficult because a lot of coffee shops just pump out overextracted espresso and then give the option to add water for an americano. There's still tons of amazing cafes in the European cities I've visited. Some really memorable ones are Café Tacuba in Lucerne, Faro in Rome, and Monks Coffee Roasters. in Amsterdam.

In Tokyo, we actually started off with a pretty mediocre coffee because nothing opened before 10 besides a cafe chain, but after we got adjusted we couldn't stop finding great spots. The first day we were going to the national museum and found AOYAMA COFFEE ROASTER in Yanaka. At first the owner was a bit standoffish because we were 2 Americans coming in at the very beginning of the day and I assume she has a lot of bad experiences with tourists, but we started talking after she noticed my portafilter/coffee plant tattoo and had a really great time. For the rest of the week, we walked into shop after shop that had at most 4 or 5 seats with one barista making drinks and each one felt special.

The one that connected me most to this post was the one from our day in Sumida City when we were going to a bunch of small museums (highly recommend the Hokusai museum). We stopped into CHILL OUT COFFEE &...RECORDS and it was one of the coziest coffee experiences I've ever had. The shop is a coffee bar with a couch and a couple of chairs. I forget what kind of cup I had but I remember it being just a really balanced cup with a little bit of berry and chocolate notes. I wish we could've stayed longer but after about 15 minutes a family of tourists with 2 toddlers came in and we figured it was time to go after we finished our drinks.

In Seoul, the shops we visited were all a lot bigger but one thing I couldn't help noticing was that all of the baristas were so deliberate in their movements. This is something that was probably true of folks in shops in general in Tokyo and Seoul, but I noticed it with baristas because I tend to think about it a lot when I'm making drinks at home. You could show me a silhouette of baristas making drinks in Tokyo and some western city and it would be night and day. I feel like that goes a long way in illustrating the differences between eastern and western culture even though we're all making and enjoying the same hot bean water.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-23 16:01:45+00:00
This is due to the addition of Meta AI in WhatsApp [0].

Unsurprisingly, data egress to third parties is a major security vector - especially for mission critical jobs like working in the House. MS apps incorporating Copilot have faced similar blocks as well.

This requirement for data stewardship is called out in HITPOL8 as well [1][2] (the AI tool standards set by the House CAO).

[0] - https://faq.whatsapp.com/203220822537614/?cms_platform=iphon...

[1] - https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/4/2/42dca19e-194b-481e-b1...

[2] - https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/0/8/08476380-95c3-4989-ad...
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by holowoodman | 2025-06-23 16:02:04+00:00
For the last 10 years or so, namespaces in Linux were the source of the absolute hightest number of local privilege escalations and sometimes even arbitrary code executions in kernel space. Building a kernel without user namespace support has been goto-advice for multiuser systems for almost as long. Ubuntu is just late to the game because they mostly have server or single-user-desktop customers.
by shermantanktop | 2025-06-23 16:02:44+00:00
The problem with gearheads is that they can displace their passion for the activity itself onto the gear around the activity...and get better at having gear but not get better at the activity.

E.g., guitarists who own 80 of the same guitar and spend many hours on the internet arguing about tiny variations in what Fender was doing in 1961. And then they put out a video and it turns out they can barely play guitar at all.

I wouldn't exactly criticize them for that choice, but it's definitely a choice. Or maybe not a conscious choice, because the road to improvement is hard, but the road to more gear is loaded with honeypots of dopamine.
by jacobr1 | 2025-06-23 16:02:44+00:00
Side consideration - my local utility has a program (targeted at lower income households - but there is no restriction on who can enroll) that average out the annual costs. For the first year they look at your total annual cost and divide by 12 for a flat monthly. Every year after that, they also true it up with cred/debit on the difference. For example if they overcharged by $120, they will take the average and then subtract $10 for the new, adjusted monthly bill that resets annually. I still look at the bills since I'm interested in their benchmarking data on how much power I'm using relative to the community - but I don't really need to care about seasonal fluctuation.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-23 16:02:55+00:00
Junk study. Literally everything about it is garbage. I know that I shouldn't be, but I'm astounded that this passed peer review.

The manuscript's claim that DHEA-S shortens male lifespan relies on a fundamentally flawed Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. The core problem is extremely weak genetic instruments: Only 3 variants per sex, explaining just 1% of DHEA-S variance (!), likely inflated by a small discovery cohort. These variants are also pleiotropic (affecting multiple steroid/metabolic pathways), and thus violate a key MR assumption. With only 3 variants, standard pleiotropy tests (MR-Egger, weighted median) are useless. Under the circumstances, claims of "no pleiotropy" are completely untenable.

Critical biases compound this: Adjusting the exposure GWAS for BMI introduces collider bias. Using noisy parental lifespan as a proxy outcome injects measurement error, socio-economic confounding, and sex-discordant genetic issues. Statistical power is overstated, and multiple testing (10+ primary tests) is ignored -- the key lifespan finding wouldn't survive correction.

Also LOL(!!!) at using this junk to push policy recommendations against DHEA supplements. Is this a hatchet job funded by a private interest group?! Even if we take the most generous interpretation of their findings, MR assesses lifelong genetic exposure, not short-term supplementation in relevant populations.

And basically it's a textbook case of why so much of the scientific literature is junk. Maybe I'll seriously write the editors a letter regarding this paper.
by bubblyworld | 2025-06-23 16:03:40+00:00
Haha, this is the weird thing about definition debates, you often don't disagree about anything substantial =P thanks for the measured response.

> An AGI has to be autonomous. It cannot "go nuts" without handholding [...]

So I think this is where I get off your bus - regardless of what you call it, I think current agentic systems like claude code are already there. They can construct their own handholds as they go. I have a section in all my CLAUDE.md files that tells them to always develop within a feedback loop like a test, and to set it up themselves if necessary, for instance. It works remarkably well!

There are lots of aspects of human cognition they don't seem to share... like curiousity or a drive for survival (hopefully lol). And creativity is very bad right now - although even there I think there's evidence it has some ability to be creative. So if you want that in your AGI, yeah, it's got a ways to go.

Situation seems very murky for an impossibility theorem though (to me).

> in the end I think we can agree that "something like how we do thinking" is pretty close to any valid definition, no?

I agree, we aren't even close to human-level ability here. I just think that people get hung up on looking at a bunch of tensors, but to me at least the real complexity is when these things embed in an environment.

All these arguments considering pure Turing machines miss this, I think. You don't study ecology by taking organisms out individully and cutting them up. There's value in that, of course, but the interactions are where the really interesting stuff happens.
by cma | 2025-06-23 16:03:57+00:00
"tons what they" autocorrected from "to do what they do."

"Paucity of the stimulus" is the term for what I'm talking about with the brain needing much less data, but beyond just more parameters we may have innate language processing that isn't there in other animals; Chomsky has been kind of relegated away now after LLMs but he may still have been right if it isn't just parameter count and or the innate thing different from animals isn't something like transformers. If you look at the modern language program in Chomsky's later years, it does have some remarkably similar things to transformers: permutation independent internal representation, and the merge operation being very similar to transformer's soft max. It's kind of describing something very like single head attention.

We know animals have rich innate neural abilities beyond just beating the heart and breathing etc.: a baby horse can be blind folded from birth, several days later blind fold taken off and it can immediately walk and navigate. Further development goes on, but other animals like cats have a visual system that doesn't seem to develop at all if it doesn't get natural stimulus in a critical early period. Something like that may apply to human language, it may be multiple systems missing from other apes and early hominids, but whatever it is we don't think it had many generations to evolve. Researchers have identified circuits in songbird brains that are also in humans but not apes, and something like that may be a piece of it for tracking sequences.
by leviathant | 2025-06-23 16:04:07+00:00
I took a business to small claims over a $1500 invoice they decided they weren't going to pay. It took a year before I was in court, the judge decided in my favor, and I had to schedule a sheriff's sale because the bully I was dealing with refused to acknowledge that they lost.

I did get paid in the end, and there was the satisfaction of sticking it to a bully, but financially, it was not worth the effort.
by decide1000 | 2025-06-23 16:04:34+00:00
Why does it take so long? Existing EU recipes are already compliant Kraft’s European products have for years used natural colours such as turmeric, paprika, beet juice or no colouring at all. That is why the 2025 U.S. pledge to go dye free by 2027 is largely irrelevant on this side of the Atlantic. So 2027? That does not make sense at all.. it's a n economic perspective, not a healthy one.
by pedrocr | 2025-06-23 16:04:51+00:00
> I don't know what a "nuclear roll-out simulation" is, exactly.

Any simulation where building nuclear power plants makes economic sense would do.

> I'm unconvinced that renewables+storage alone can solve the Minnesota winter problem.

You're again asking for simulations about Minnesota specifically which doesn't make sense. Unless you're thinking of seceding from the union and closing the borders to energy trade, as long as the US as a whole can do it Minnesota in particular can be a net energy importer in winter if that's what's needed. Here's the RethinkX simulation of that:

https://www.tonyseba.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Rethinki...

"Our analysis makes severely constraining assumptions, and by extrapolating our results from California, Texas, and New England to the entire country we find that the continental United States as a whole could achieve 100% clean electricity from solar PV, onshore wind power, and lithium-ion batteries by 2030 for a capital investment of less than $2 trillion, with an average system electricity cost nationwide of under 3 cents per kilowatt-hour if 50% or more of the system’s super power is utilized."

This is almost 5 years old at this point. Others have linked other such analysis. At this point asking people to show them simulations for renewables while trying to argue for nuclear is disingenuous. Renewables are the ones being built out at scale all over the world while nuclear struggles to deliver new projects and doesn't seem to have a viable path to being cheap.
by btreecat | 2025-06-23 16:05:36+00:00
> Projects like this often refer to them being "For educational purposes." > > I presume the "education" is the user learning how the legal system works, the laws that get applied when they are caught and the typical fines imposed.

Sure that could be part of it, learning the laws is certainly part of getting your ham ticket.

But let's step back from a less snoody POV, and view it from another angle.

In your own home, it's fully legal to experiment with RF if you have a ham ticket, provided you don't cause destructive interference to _others_.

Jamming yourself, is like hacking your own wifi, you are not technically interfering with communication. Under the rules that you are allowed to manufacturer your own RF equipment provided you don't cause destructive interference with authorized transmission.
by seethishat | 2025-06-23 16:05:59+00:00
Or just call, email or txt.

Signal is only as secure as the device it runs on. Cell Phones are not secure. They are blackboxes and probably track you and may have built-in backdoors (only to be used to catch 'real' criminals), etc.

The idea that you can turn a device like that into some form of secure communication platform by installing an app is not realistic.
by latexr | 2025-06-23 16:06:17+00:00
> It's a 1 storey building.

I’m not talking about the building in the article, or even Japan specifically, but addressing the general point of trees and other growths which cause literal cracks and compromise structural integrity.

> If we were talking about public infra where thousands will die if a structure fails prematurely

That is exactly what I’m talking about. Well, maybe not thousands, even a four story building with a compromised structure can lead to unnecessary deaths.