MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sinuhe69 | 2025-06-05 10:40:56+00:00
Why could a court favor the interest of the New York Times in a vague accusation versus the interest and right of hundred millions people?

Billion people use the internet daily. If any organization suspects some people use the Internet for illicit purposes eventually against their interests, would the court order the ISP to log all activities of all people? Would Google be ordered to save the search of all its customers because some might use it for bad things? And once we start, where will we stop? Crimes could happen in the past or in the future, will the court order the ISP and Google to retain the logs for 10 years, 20 years? Why not 100 years? Who should bear the cost for such outrageous demands?

The consequences of such orders are of enormous impact the puny judge can not even begin to comprehend. Privacy right is an integral part of the freedom of speech, a core human right. If you don’t have private thoughts, private information, anybody can be incriminated against them using these past information. We will cease to exist as individuals and I argue we will cease to exist as human as well.
by taylodl | 2025-06-05 10:42:31+00:00
And they'll all disagree on your spatial velocity and how much time has passed for you. The only thing they'll agree on is the spacetime interval between any two events, calculated using the Minkowski metric. That's a fundamental invariant, but it's not absolute spacetime in the sense of a fixed, unchanging background. Instead, it highlights that space and time themselves are relative to the observer's motion.
by ronakjain90 | 2025-06-05 10:43:04+00:00
Your product looks so good, congratulations on your launch.

Have you considered making a standalone devices with just sensors (think data only mode) and letting the users hook up their data on any eink dashboard of their choice.

Below are some of the example of community created Air Quality dashboards[1] installable on any e-ink hardware[2].

[1] https://usetrmnl.com/recipes/62233, https://usetrmnl.com/recipes/23306

[2] https://github.com/usetrmnl/firmware/

Disclosure: I work at TRMNL.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-05 10:43:34+00:00
> The diaeresis emphasizes that "naive" does not rhyme with "dive", "five", "hive", "jive", etc.

It can't emphasize that; there's nothing to suggest that "naive" would rhyme with those words. It emphasizes that it doesn't rhyme with "glaive" and "waive"...
by hkpack | 2025-06-05 10:44:10+00:00
Supposedly. As far as I understand, whether it was fixed or not will be decided by a completely separate group of people. At some point, Tesla can just lie, and don't expect people will be able to verify.

I think Elon found a glitch it tech-bro reasoning: you promise a product, people believe you and buy it, then they realise that it is not what was advertised, but it is OK, because new version has it now, so you can't complain, it is your fault in the eyes of your peers, you should have made a better research or whatever.

Your FSD has almost got you killed? Don't worry, this is your fault, and anyway the bug was already fixed in the update. Probably. This time for sure.
by News_Grid7 | 2025-06-05 10:44:45+00:00
Jesse Watters gives his take on former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre switching her party affiliation to independent on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’. #newsgrid #news #jessewatters #karinejeanpierre #whitehouse #politics #usnews #us #biden #primetime #washington #book #press
by LightBug1 | 2025-06-05 10:45:39+00:00
Still ugly af. Wouldn't touch it. The only well designed car ever made was the model S, and even that is long in the tooth now and was due a refresh 5 years ago. But CYbeRtrUck ...

Combine that with FSD rubbish bait and switch, nutjob CEO, and the cratering of any brand goodwill ... I won't touch those cars if you paid me (seriously).

And honestly, I recognise the innate progression of the technology ... but others have caught and surpassed to the point that I don't have to worry about buying the lesser car anymore when I go elsewhere.
by Turboblack | 2025-06-05 10:47:32+00:00
https://elpis.ws/9.gif

This time, a little late. This issue will be a little unusual - more nostalgia, more tears, more humor, I missed a little with the theoretical part, and the historical one, but I hope this will be compensated in future. Issues will be published less frequently now: it all depends on how many materials are sent. Sometimes articles come by themselves, and sometimes you have to correspond with authors for a long time, edit, explain - not because the texts are bad, but because it is not immediately possible to “get the style”. But it’s simple: read a couple of issues - and you will understand what voice this magazine speaks in.
by mythz | 2025-06-05 10:47:50+00:00
IMO it's a strategic misstep to try and create their own IDE with a fork of VS Code. I'm only going to consider AI Tools that integrate with my IDEs (primarily VS Code + Rider) as such my AI weapons of choice are now: augmentcode.com (fave), GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist and now Claude Code now that I can use it with my pro plan.
by herculity275 | 2025-06-05 10:48:19+00:00
Tbf a lot of the thought experiments around human consciousness hit the same exact conundrum - if your body and mind were spontaneously destroyed and then recreated with perfect precision (a'la Star Trek transporters) would you still be you? Unless you permit for the existence of a soul it's really hard to argue that our consciousness exists in anything but the current instant.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 10:49:22+00:00
I really cant hit a moving target. I cant explain the economic flaws in your arguments faster than you can generate flawed arguments.

>LVT should be set to approximately tax all land rents.

What does this even mean?

>so that the land-poorest 20% of the population have no net LVT payments to make.

Right but you just added a huge cost that you have to tax from somewhere. So the LVT rate goes up again.

(Very common experience discussing LVT - New taxes, regulations and handouts that will randomly make criticism go away)

>Why are you so obsessed with income that's measured in money?

Why are you against it lmao?

>There's also plenty of in-kind income. Eg when you have an apple tree, you get apples. If you have a house, you get housing.

How is this relevant to anything being discussed?

And under an LVT, having a house or apple tree gets you a tax bill, measured in money. Of course economic calculation is relevant.

>What's with you and punishment?

I don't have a better description for what you want to happen to people with income lower than their LVT bill. Feel free to suggest something. "Economic Defenstration" maybe.
by thijson | 2025-06-05 10:49:35+00:00
It is interesting how human psychology works. When my Dad was a kid, there was a park that normally cost money to be admitted into. Him and his brothers would sneak in though, and the owner did nothing about it. My Dad realized it's because when other kids saw my dad and his brothers having fun, they would bug their parents to pay for them to get in. Kids are pretty susceptible to copying each other I guess, and parents are easily influenced by their kids.
by rafram | 2025-06-05 10:49:59+00:00
I actually like programming, and I find typing and having the model autocomplete my changes pretty useful.

I’d rather do that than painstakingly put my request into prose, cross my fingers, and hope the “agent” doesn’t burn 100,000 tokens making stupid and unrelated changes all over my codebase.

I believe in “show, don’t tell,” and autocomplete is the former while agents are the latter.
by pzo | 2025-06-05 10:50:05+00:00
cats are amazing hunters with great reaction. Most likely small dogs or different animals won't handle such drop from 2 story building so well. Check some 1st person (cat) video to see how they behave, they can analyze and make decision very fast - human reaction time when driving car is very big comparing to cat reaction.

So this is what I find as motor inteligence. If someone can process and think very fast we consider them intelligent and in the same way we should consider cat smart how fast and well they can plan escape from dogs chasing them or they hunting for prey. Imagine how difficult would be to make robot to do this all calculation about different jumps etc.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-05 10:50:28+00:00
That is not true of either publication:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/22/1117294/a-new-at...

> It’s the third-dimensional counterpart to latitude and longitude, says Sanchez, who helps coordinate the standardization effort.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/09/1108076/satellit...

> Now, the scientists were poised to catch this reentry as it happened.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/12/11/america-...

> The compact is far from perfect. It is vague about how countries should cooperate on many issues, such as border management and access to public services.

The New Yorker is famous for its commitment to unreality on this issue. It's only the New Yorker.
by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 | 2025-06-05 10:51:03+00:00
We will start to see the emergence of frameworks and libraries (and languages?) that are optimised for LLM coding rather than human coding. Maybe - overly verbose and repetitive, but easy to generate correctly and very flexible? Or maybe super obscure syntax that allows an LLM to output much more information per token emitted?

At lot of current paradigms are about things like abstraction and DRY that matter to humans creating and maintaining a code base. An agent driving some LLMs will have other priorities.
by lynx97 | 2025-06-05 10:51:48+00:00
Yes, we are already here, but you don't have to reach as far as malicious code for a real-world example...

Motivated by the link to Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect posted recently here on HN, I grabbed the HTML, textified it and ran it through api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech. Out came a rather neat 5h30m audio book. However, there was at least one paragraph that ended up saying "I am sorry, I can not help with that", meaning the "safety" filter decided to not read it.

So, the infamous USian "beep" over certain words is about to be implemented in synthesized speech. Great, that doesn't remind me about 1984 at all. We don't even need newspeak to prevent certain things from being said.
by cj | 2025-06-05 10:52:09+00:00
> Some established businesses will need to review their contracts, regulations, and risk tolerance.

I've reviewed a lot of SaaS contracts over the years.

Nearly all of them have clauses that allow the vendor to do whatever they have to if ordered to by the government. That doesn't make it okay, but it means OpenAI customers probably don't have a legal argument, only a philosophical argument.

Same goes for privacy policies. Nearly every privacy policy has a carve out for things they're ordered to do by the government.
by miav | 2025-06-05 10:52:23+00:00
The author is not advocating for friendlier messages in the googlesque sense of dumbing them down or introducing more positive wording, but in the sense of making them more readable and useful.

Of course it does not matter for "a straightforward computer error message", in cases where the error is a simple type mismatch or a missed semicolon, but if those were the majority of the problems we encounter as programmers, our work would be trivial.

It's not difficult to imagine a situation where structuring a compiler in such a way that it keeps more state and perhaps has to perform more analysis is worthwhile, since a more useful error message saves the user time in understanding and fixing a problem.

An example that comes to mind is when in Rust I tried to create a dynamically dispatched trait, where the trait in question contained a function an argument of which was generic over a different, statically dispatched trait. Since the compiler did not know at compile time the exact object which would be instantiated, it was incapable of inferring the exact type of the second, statically dispatched trait at compile time, thus failing to compile.

The error was presented to me in a clear way that pointed out the problematic relationship between dispatch types of the two traits allowing me to understand and fix the problem quickly. If the error message was far simpler, such as "can't dynamically dispatch trait", I would have figured that out too, but it would have simply taken more valuable time. Most importantly, having to track down the issue from a minimal error message, would not have been an honorable test of my intelligence and emotional maturity, it simply would have been inefficient.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 10:52:25+00:00
>The LVT itself will have no impact on rents.

Any tax levied on landlords will impact rents. Any business where the input costs increase, has an effect on prices. If you have a heck of a lot of competition AND the businesses can eat the increase you might get away with it. But LVT is a regressive tax that doesnt care about income, so the "businesses" aka landlords in this scenario can (and probably will) have tax that reduces their income to a deficit. Theres no getting around this, you need to stop pretending that LVT is magic.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-05 10:53:40+00:00
This is a value chain issue. At one specific point in the value chain, people see the potential for difficulty, so they resist it. But what if the value you get as a result is greater than the difficulty? Afaik, the main issue of transportation isn't time, it's cost. If this lowers overall cost then it's a value-add.

Think of the consequences of removing battery/fuel:

- Pros - Reduced shipping costs (you have to ship vehicles again, plus somebody has to cover the costs of these lost ships) - Lower insurance premiums (from reduced insurance payouts) - Reduced inventory losses (which require more inventory to be stocked and shipped to resist sales losses from lost vessels) - Reduced vehicle price - Cons - Additional transportation time - Additional labor cost

There are other ways to attack the problem too. Relocating the battery/removing fuel could be performed well before the vehicles are brought to port. This could be mandatory, or made a shipping surcharge if relocation is not done before being brought to port (the surcharge could pay for the extra time/labor to do it at port).
by iamflimflam1 | 2025-06-05 10:54:41+00:00
Tariffs are having a big impact on people outside the US using CrowdSupply.

CrowdSupply ships everything via Mouser US - so if you are outside of the US you need to export your products to Mouser. That hits you with tariffs and the tariffs are charged on what CrowdSupply are paying you for the products.

If the majority of your product is manufactured in China (e.g. PCBA) then it's very likely that the COO for your product will be China. So, you will get stung with whatever crazy tariffs are currently in place.
by Topfi | 2025-06-05 10:55:35+00:00
You clearly seem to know more than me in this regard, so I hope it's ok if I ask you:

While the current demand being priced in by some investors may be correct, wouldn't a lowering of the sale price still have to be reflected in TSLAs public disclosures and couldn't that still have an impact, both for investors and creditors?

Mind you, I tried my hand at shorting TSLA a long while (nearly a decade) back and learned, as many who undertook this, that rationality/EMH would likely never apply to their valuation. Made that (and then some) back thanks to Twitter though, so all is well, but not exactly coming at the idea of applying sensible concepts to TSLA neutrally.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 10:55:53+00:00
>You got lucky with the old owner. They gave you a sweetheart deal.

I shopped around and found a good deal. It including moving to a suburb with cheaper rents and still making sure I found something good.

But this is the market. Its not full of spherical cows, its full of human beings making human decisions.

I found humans who valued longevity over pure profit. This is not a unique scenario, people use rents as retirement income all the time. They wanted a consistent tenant, and the suburb I wanted to move to is famous for inconsistent tenants.

I valued low prices and outdoor space. We found a price we both agreed on. I know of other examples of this happening near where I live, it isnt unique.

Likewise, costs being passed directly to the renter, not unique.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-05 10:55:59+00:00
Right, that weirdness is why it should be depreciated over the length of the copyright term. You spend $200k this year, and now you have a useful asset for the next 95 years (or 120 years if you never publish it).

If it turns out it's not useful, we could then allow companies publish the source and release it into the public domain to immediately "destroy" the asset (the copyright) and claim their deduction. So failed r&d projects would be deductible right away as long as the public gets them, and ones that result in a useful asset get depreciated based on how long they actually last, which is currently potentially multiple lifetimes.
by imiric | 2025-06-05 10:56:12+00:00
This is a moot issue. OpenAI and all AI service providers already use all user-provided data for improving their models, and it's only a matter of time until they start selling it to advertisers, if they don't already. Whether or not they actually delete chat conversations is irrelevant.

Anyone concerned about their privacy wouldn't use these services to begin with. The fact they are so popular is indicative that most people value the service over their privacy, or simply don't care.
by rietta | 2025-06-05 10:56:51+00:00
I never found bash scripting disagreeable. I have thousands of scripts for both work and my everyday computer usage. I keep a ~/bin folder in my path where I place useful scripts that I have written for my own use. One thing that keeps me using bash for this purpose over Python or Ruby (which I use for serious programming) is that I can take a command line invocation that I manually constructed and tested and put it in a script without modification.
by benchly | 2025-06-05 10:58:02+00:00
What's a good alternative?

My understanding (which may be wrong, so I am open to being corrected) is that the greatest power consumption you'll see from ESP32 is connecting to a network and uploading data, the idea being less connections mean less power consumption. The ePaper display should be nice and low power consumption, too. I'd expect a common pocket battery bank to power it for a few weeks if one were using it to gather data for later use.

Again, happy to be corrected. It's really fortunate that this post showed up on HN since just last month, I ordered a few components to start making my own air quality sensors, the goal being to create some units that I can strap on my car and gather data while I travel for work (personal curiosity, mostly). There's tons of great projects and info being referenced in this thread.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-06-05 10:59:12+00:00
The problem is that we keep using RLHF and system prompts to "tell" these systems that they are AIs. We could just as easily tell them they are Noble Laureates or flying pigs, but because we tell them they are AIs, they play the part of all the evil AIs they've read about in human literature.

So just... don't? Tell the LLM that its Some Guy.
by eviks | 2025-06-05 10:59:26+00:00
hm, here is the original iphone user guide for ios 3.1

> When you’re typing, you canalso double-tap to select a word. In read-only documents, such as webpages, or email or text messages you’ve received, touch and hold to select a word.

Also, double tapping selects by words in editable notes vs by letter in read-only, so the OS will continue to fight you feeble attempts at trying to have a consistent experience!
by ulugbek7 | 2025-06-05 11:00:35+00:00
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by HappMacDonald | 2025-06-05 11:01:30+00:00
I'm curious which use cases you're reaching for that aren't client server?

Not to suggest that those don't exist or anything, just that there are so many dimensions available there that knowing more about which dimensions you'd most value having reach in might be enlightening. :)

Like: Video games? Desktop apps? Mobile apps? Embedded? Systems-level programming like OS or hardware drivers? Or one of a thousand other directions I can't think of just off the top of my head?
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-05 11:02:33+00:00
> This is why Afghanistan, in terms of outcomes, is essentially the strongest military nation in the world. They've defeated both the US and the USSR in spite of being orders of magnitude behind in every single measure of military strength - except for morale.

The problem is, in Afghanistan the Western nations didn't do much else than depose the Taliban that took around two years and provide education abilities for women afterwards. But in order to actually achieve change, you have to invest significantly more resources to actually build the foundations for a viable society: democracy, rule of law and an economic perspective for the populace.

In Germany, the Allied Forces stayed for about 45 years, two generations worth of time. Just think of the massive amount of money and resources invested... the first years were taken similarly to Afghanistan - depose the Hxtler regime and rebuild a rule of law afterwards and, as in the Luftbrücke, ensure basic survival. But then, they stayed in for over three decades to make sure that a healthy democracy would not just form but also establish and entrench itself against threats, and that Germany had an industrial base which was used to provide employment and income for the populace. Also, thank God for the Americans deciding not to follow the "Morgenthau plan" that proposed turning Germany into a purely agrarian state with no industrial capability ever again - that would have caused us to follow down the Afghanistan path with utter certainty.

In Afghanistan however, the situation after the immediate war and short post-war period was markedly different. The troops were locked up in their bases outside of bombing jihadists, which meant that local warlords had little to no oversight in their atrocities and stuff like "bacha bazi" (organized child sexual abuse) and slavery went on with effective impunity. The local puppet government barely had any income sources other than foreign aid (and selling opium on the black market) which meant there was no way to form a national identity and storytelling or even a common purpose, and a lack of oversight of the occupying forces over the puppet government led to widespread corruption and looting of the external investments, which led to it losing support across the country. And on top of that, we didn't even do decent oversight over our own troops. Abu Ghuraib is far from the only scandal that was barely prosecuted, not to mention all the other shit that was quietly swept under the rug - that led to the populace despising our troops even more.

We didn't lose Afghanistan because the Taliban are a strong army - they were and are not, just look at the videos from right after the takeover. We lost Afghanistan because we didn't give anyone in the wide population a reason to fight for themselves and not just submit to the next best warlord.