MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by switknee | 2025-06-26 02:36:45+00:00
Part of solving that problem is to make it expensive for governments to violate human rights. If spying on everyone is easier than targeted spying, they'll spy on everyone. Governments have a lot of different priorities and it's not always easy to balance them.

Online identity verification is probably best handled by an organization with that as a single priority.

Under the government ID scheme, we have to trust [bad corrupt government] to verify all citizens of [bad corrupt government]. Since that government frequently lies and acts maliciously using every means at their disposal, platforms will treat IDs verified by that government similar to bot traffic and the country will be cut off from the public internet. You'll be banning scientists and journalists from working with others around the world, just because they live in a country with an obnoxious government.

Isn't it also best if people can have multiple identities? Or should someone's contributions to X field be discounted because of their dabbling in fringe Y field?
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-26 02:37:10+00:00
In the linear case a bomb twice the size goes twice as deep.

Take a bomb, cut it in half and drop each half separately, one after another into the same hole, would you except the cumulative depth to be greater than the whole bomb or less? Consider that in the case of the whole bomb it is equivalent to two halves arriving at the exact same time.
by doubled112 | 2025-06-26 02:39:33+00:00
I’ve had entries show up on my credit report that were not mine, but my father’s in another city 750km away. I did not want his bill payment history mixed in with mine. At all.

It was actually more difficult to have them removed than you’d expect. I’m sure it is by design. You could start the process only after signing up for an online account, but the actual request needed to be made via fax.
by foxglacier | 2025-06-26 02:40:51+00:00
I agree right and wrong is good when it's fundamental enough to bet it'll last their lifetime and isn't simple preaching. But also complex human emotions and interactions are useful and interesting to them. The politics I'm complaining about is far more specific than that and I don't think 3-5 year olds either need it or can understand it - like environmental pollution, punishing capitalists, which ancient battle some holiday commemorates, life story of a specific politician, endangered species, cultural headgear, etc.

My kid seems to prefer choosing classic stories over the piles of modern books we also have.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-26 02:41:43+00:00
Once upon a time, Keybank refused to block a merchant from debiting my account (I can't remember if by card or account number, it was a decade ago), because, they said, "if I hadn't canceled, I had an active subscription". They seemed apathetic to the concept that it wasn't their job to facilitate the merchant's attempt to have payment rendered (if I'm having a hard time canceling a subscription and this is my resort, then that's between me and the merchant. The bank is a neutral party, at worst - ideally they should be supportive of me saying "I don't want this entity to take my money").

Closed my account and moved on.
by arielzj | 2025-06-26 02:42:22+00:00
"Despite the last decade’s development of optogenetic methods for artificially manipulating engrams, and subsequent claims that there is a consensus that memories are stored in ensembles of synaptic connections, it remains unclear to what degree there truly is unanimity within the neuroscientific community about the neurophysiological basis of long-term memory. We surveyed 312 neuroscientists, comprising one cohort of experts on engram research and another of general neuroscientists, to assess this community’s views on how memories are stored. While 70.5% of participants agreed that long-term memories are primarily maintained by neuronal connectivity patterns and synaptic strengths, there was no clear consensus on which specific neurophysiological features or scales are critical for memory storage. Despite this, the median probability estimate that any long-term memories could potentially be extracted from a static snapshot of brain structure was around 40%, which was also the estimate for whether a successful whole brain emulation could theoretically be created from the structure of a preserved brain. When predicting the future feasibility of whole brain emulation, the median participant estimated this would be achieved for C. elegans around 2045, mice around 2065, and humans around 2125. Notably, neither research background nor expertise level significantly influenced views on whether memories could be extracted from brain structure alone. Our findings suggest that while most neuroscientists believe memories are stored in structural features of the brain, fundamental questions about the precise physical basis of memory storage remain unresolved. These findings have important implications for both theoretical neuroscience and the development of technologies aimed at preserving or extracting memory-related information."
by smileysteve | 2025-06-26 02:43:04+00:00
But antibiotics in the US are still over prescribed by doctors. There really are few cases for them for the mostly healthy adult; and they wreak havoc on your microbiome for what we're finding out is years. I know many people who will get antibiotics prescribed when they have a common cold (mostly a virus).

They're also under prescribed for things like appendicitis.
by azemetre | 2025-06-26 02:43:09+00:00
You're acting as if capitalists treat their workers well under the current system when the opposite has occurred. Nearly $50 trillion was stolen from workers [1] by the capitalists owners in the US. Income inequality is literally at worse levels than just prior to the French Revolution.

The first politician to offer $1 trillion in federal assistance to middle/lower classes (free healthcare, free university/vocational training, public housing, public jobs) will absolutely control the electorate at both sides of the aisles.

Remember that redistribution of wealth are very popular American activities. It swings both ways.

[1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html
by protocolture | 2025-06-26 02:43:18+00:00
If I buy a book, and use it to prop up the table on which I build a door, I dont owe the author any additional money over what I paid for it.

If I buy a book, and as long as the product the book teaches me to build isnt a competing book, the original author should have no avenue for complaint.

People are really getting hung up on the computer reading the data and computing other data with it. It shouldnt even need to get to fair use. Its so obviously none of the authors business well before fair use.
by beej71 | 2025-06-26 02:44:19+00:00
I'm not really in the field any longer, but one of my favorite things to do with LLMs is ask for code reviews. I usually end up learning something new. And a good 30-50% of the suggestions are useful. Which actually isn't skillful enough to give it a title of "code reviewer", so I certainly wouldn't foist the suggestions on someone else.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-26 02:44:22+00:00
Right. But it's also not the bank (or Visa's) job to act as an arbiter for paying my subscriptions, especially if I'm in dispute with the merchant. If I am advising the bank / issuer that I do not want to authorize these transactions, it's not on them to say "well, we're here to help them continue to be able to authorize them, not for you to keep your money."

That's an issue between me and the merchant. I don't want MY bank acting as an enabler for the merchant over my wishes, with my money.
by protocolture | 2025-06-26 02:45:57+00:00
Fair Use and similar protections are there to protect the end user from predatory IP holders.

First, I dont think publishers of physical books in the US get the right to establish a contract. The book can be resold for instance and that right cannot be diminished. But secondly adding more cruft to the distribution of something that the end user has a right to transform, isn't going to diminish that right.
by whitefables | 2025-06-26 02:46:28+00:00
Saw an interesting job post from Wise yesterday that was hiring for an SEO specialist for a project called "owned sites".

This got me digging, and I think I've uncovered something big about their AEO/GEO strategy:

Wise seems to be building a network of sites beyond their main domain. I did some digging and found that out of 10 results for a transfer query on ChatGPT, 4 were owned by wise.com (including exaip.com), and 1 was from their partner remitfinder.

This strategy allows them to dominate more of the conversation in their industry, appearing in multiple contexts when users ask AI systems about international money transfers.

It's a smart move for AEO (AI Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). By controlling more sites, they're increasing their chances of being cited by AI systems.

This approach goes beyond traditional SEO. It's about creating a wider content footprint to influence AI perceptions and responses.

The job posting specifically mentions an "Owned Sites" team, suggesting this is a deliberate, long-term strategy for Wise.

Also did a few more interesting experiment to uncover how ChatGPT forms an opinion from search & how to find the queries used by ChatGPT - happy to share more.

Anyone else here performing your own experiments to understand how AEO/GEO is gonna be different from SEO?
by gus_massa | 2025-06-26 02:47:39+00:00
Old discussion from another source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361

In my opinion the ridk is exaggerated. A lot. My cherry picked comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408731

> no. antibodies will work just fine on a d-protein and one of their mechanisms of killing is to generate ozone, which is an achiral molecule. there is currently ~no risk because generating mirror life is such a monumental task. we dont have a full biological bootstrap sequence currently. [...] and the expense of mirror dna monomers is... i can't even imagine. you'd probably bankrupt a midsize nation on that. [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415682 (it's a good comment in spite it's grey)

> It would still have antigenic properties, just not the ones we are familiar with, because antigens are proteins or proteins bound to sugars. Both have "left" vs "right" variants.

> It can't eat any ordinary food, except simple fats. Common proteins and sugars won't fit it's enzymes. [...]. It also means it can't attack and decompose our tissues. With only simple lipids as food, it would need to take all Nitrogen from the atmosphere or inorganic compounds,[...]
by peeters | 2025-06-26 02:48:15+00:00
It's a meaningless distinction. A solid is defined by a 3D shape enclosed by a surface. It doesn't require uniform density. Just imagine that the sides of this surface are infinitesimally thin so as to be invisible and porous to air, and you've filled the definition. Don't like this answer, then just imagine the same thing but with an actual thin shell like mylar. It makes no difference.
by yndoendo | 2025-06-26 02:49:02+00:00
This functionality is still used in software after 16-bit. It is even used by Skyrim software developers when it was "mark for compatibility by Microsoft". There is a project that hacked around this bad API [0]. You are going off the documentation wording versus real-world usage. Anyone that plays Skyrim today or in the future is still being harmed by this bad API.

INI files are 100% different than the Registry. I rather have an configuration file over registry entries because the registry is just another kluge of bad design. Configuration files are text files that are well defined.

Example would be the registry settings to mark a URL that it needs to run in IE compatibility mode because the source use old IE features that are now obsolete and don't even work in Edge or a modern browser. It should of just been a simple string array.

[0] https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18860
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-26 02:49:07+00:00
Regarding #1, at least in the mainframe/cloud model of hosted LLMs, the operators have a history of model prompts and outputs.

For example, if using Copilot, Microsoft also has every commit ever made if the project is on GitHub.

They could, theoretically, determine what did or didn't come out of their models and was integrated into source trees.

Regarding #2 and #3, with relatively novel software like QEMU that models platforms that other open source software doesn't, LLMs might not be a good fit for contributions. Especially where emulation and hardware accuracy, timing, quirks, errata etc matter.

For example, modeling a new architecture or emulating new hardware might have LLMs generating convincing looking nonsense. Similarly, integrating them with newly added and changing APIs like in kvm might be a poor choice for LLM use.
by UltraSane | 2025-06-26 02:49:28+00:00
The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced on Wednesday that it was moving its headquarters out of Washington and into a building in Alexandria, Virginia, already occupied by the National Science Foundation, with no clear plan in place for the foundation’s employees. Union representatives for the foundation’s employees said that more than 1,833 people with the agency work in the building, and that they did not know where those employees would go.
Ask HN: If you translate with LLMs, GT or DeepL–what features are missing?
by orencoda | 2025-06-26 02:50:19+00:00
What is still the single biggest headache when you translate with GPT, DeepL or Google?

If you use DeepL – what would you need to finally pay for GPT translation?

Which features are still missing in current classical or LLM based translators.

How do you prefer pricing: SaaS, per-token, seats, or a flat plan?

Context: I’m exploring a side-project and don’t want to build the wrong thing. Not looking for promotion—just war-stories and must-have features (LLM model selection? scanned-PDF OCR? bilingual output? segment-level edits? glossary? missing format support?).
by lmeyerov | 2025-06-26 02:51:08+00:00
Traditional security follows the CIA triad: Confidentiality (ex: data leaks), Integrity (ex: data deletion), and Availability (ex: site down). Something like SOC2 compliance typically has you define where you are on these, for example

Does availability not matter to you? Great. For others, maybe it does, like you are some medical device segfaulting or OOMing in an unmanaged way on a cfg upload is not good. 'Availability' is a pretty common security concern for maybe 40 years now from an industry view.
by switknee | 2025-06-26 02:53:50+00:00
Fair enough, you got me there.

Bitcoin ATMs are supposed to be more of a currency exchange business, but I can see how a lot of people would treat them as a money transmitter business.

Bitcoin and similar were created in part as a workaround for these regulations, it appealed to people who wanted control of their own money. People who wanted an end to chargeback fraud, and credit card fraud. I wonder which sort of system has the lowest total fraud costs, including costs of preventative and compliance measures. Do you think we have enough data to make that sort of estimation?

It's ultimately a have your cake or eat it scenario. Regulated bitcoin will look a lot like the system that unregulated bitcoin was meant to be an alternative to.
by quacksilver | 2025-06-26 02:54:30+00:00
Counterexample: Storing the bcrypt hash by appending it to a CSV file containing the usernames and hashes of all users then having a login process where that CSV file is downloaded to the client and the password is verified locally against that CSV file using client-side JavaScript would probably be very bad.

Cryptography part is fine but storage or the auth process isn't.

You would like to think that no-one would write their app that way, but there are plenty of slightly less worse things that happen in practice and vibe coding probably introduces all sorts of new silliness.
by westurner | 2025-06-26 02:55:14+00:00
Notes for such efforts:

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44043518#44053779 re: deep learning poised:

> jax-cfd mentions phiflow

> PhiFlow: https://github.com/tum-pbs/PhiFlow/

>> A differentiable PDE solving framework for machine learning

SymPy can solve ODEs and some PDEs.

sympy.solvers.pde: https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/solvers/pde.html

SymPy's sympy.utilities.lambdify.lambdify() compiles things to faster solvers like CPython math module, mpmath, NumPy, SciPy, CuPy, JAX, TensorFlow, SymPy, numexpr, and PyTorch. https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/utilities/lambdify.htm...

dynamicslab/pysindy; https://github.com/dynamicslab/pysindy :

> A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems from data

A question about fundamental Anosov flows and CFD in pysindy; due to "Flow Proof Helps Mathematicians Find Stability in Chaos" (2023) https://www.quantamagazine.org/flow-proof-helps-mathematicia... .. https://github.com/dynamicslab/pysindy/issues/383 :

/? site:github.com anosov https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+anosov

> GitHub topic: quantum-fluids: https://github.com/topics/quantum-fluids

GitHub topic: Gross-Pitaevskii: https://github.com/topics/gross-pitaevskii

OSIRIS-code can simulate laser emissions in plasma, nonlinear optics in plasma,; and supports Checkpointing and thus probably parallelization; https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=44371059

For simulations of gravity-assisted spacecraft trajectories, in n-body (vortical fluidic) gravity:

> JPL SPICE toolkit: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html

> SpiceyPy: https://github.com/AndrewAnnex/SpiceyPy

"Gravity as a fluid dynamic phenomenon in a superfluid quantum space. Fluid quantum gravity and relativity." (2017) https://hal.science/hal-01248015/ :

> [ Bernoulli, Navier-Stokes, Gross-Pitaevskii vortices in a field with curl ]

Shouldn't solving NS also solve for n-body gravity?

Anosov diffeomorphism; hyperbolicity of complex nonlinear dynamic fluid systems, Lyapunov exponents : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosov_diffeomorphism

Curl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(mathematics)

Vorticity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticity

Bernoulli's principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle

Gross-Pitaevskii equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%E2%80%93Pitaevskii_equat...

Navier-Stokes equations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equation...
by sysmax | 2025-06-26 02:57:01+00:00
It's not the IP, it's sadly how people react. Some folks will be appreciative of help, credit to them. Others will immediately get back how they tried it, it didn't work and now they need you to rewrite everything, or do their project for them, or redesign your product to match what they want it to be. And if you politely refuse, it quickly escalates to threats of trashing your business through every channel, and other things.

So, the safest thing to do is not give details at all, or "leak" them like another reply in this thread mentions.
by behnamoh | 2025-06-26 03:00:36+00:00
Yes! The main pain points I've faced are:

1. There should be no need to create a project to use the Vertex Gemini API. I know Google AI Studio doesn't need a project, but that API is limited compared to Vertex API, which brings me to the next point.

2. There should be one unified API, not two! That'll help scale products with ease. Currently Google recommends using Google AI Studio API for simple projects and one-off scripts, and Vertex for "real" projects. No other competitor does this (look at OpenAI for instance).

3. The OpenAI compatibility layer isn't complete and doesn't support other Gemini features that only the Gemini API supports (e.g,. setting safety level).

4. Devs should need to install only one package to use Google Gemini. Please get rid of gauth.

5. The documentation on Gemini API is fragmented. Ironically, Googling "gemini api doc" doesn't lead to the page that discusses how to get started easily and quickly.
by chillfox | 2025-06-26 03:01:00+00:00
Been a Linux gamer for years now and I think you are correct on your frame rate observations in general.

If you use ZFS (single nvme) then you can beat windows load times by a fairly large margin. My husband and I have identical hardware for our gaming computers (he uses Windows and I run Linux), it's not uncommon for my computer to load games 10 seconds faster than his.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-26 03:01:28+00:00
That doesn't sound quite right to me. ICCv2's 'curveType' gives the option of a full lookup table instead of a simple gamma function. Maybe it has to do with ICCv2 saying that the reference viewing condition has an illumination level of 500 lx for the perceptual intent? (But how does that apply to non-reflective media?)

I don't doubt that there's lots of problems in the chain from RGB samples to display output, but I'm finding this whole thing horribly confusing. Wikipedia tries to distinguish 'HDR' transfer functions like PQ [0] from 'SDR' transfer functions in terms of their absolute luminance, but the ICC specs are just filled with relative values all the way down.

(Not to mention how much these things get fiddled with in practice. Once, I had the idea of writing a JPEG decoder, so I looked into how exactly to convert between sRGB and Rec. 601 YCbCr coordinates. I thought, "I know, I'll just use the standard-defined XYZ conversions to bridge between them!" But psych, the ICC sRGB profile has its own black point scaling that the standards don't tell you about. I'm still not sure what the correct answer is for "these sRGB coordinates represent the exact same color as these Rec. 601 YCbCr coordinates".)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_quantizer
by pierrec | 2025-06-26 03:02:26+00:00
Author here, glad people are exploring this. Some fun details (should be in the "about" section but that's easy to miss):

- It's open source, including the code that produced the audio: https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGarden

- All the generated music is in just intonation. This was mostly for convenience at first (JI is easy to produce with code), but it led me down a massive harmonic rabbit hole in which I'm still located.

I'm currently hacking away at the next iteration of this, where rhythm is fully embraced. I have to say the ambient genre was super convenient and allowed me to play fast and loose with synchronization, while really focusing on how harmony can be laid out in space. But rhythm was always in the books and I'm hoping it takes things to another level.
by exidy | 2025-06-26 03:02:40+00:00
You're thinking like an engineer. From the perspective of the bank, you (the individual) has given a merchant (gym etc) a standing authority to bill you. That authority is between you and the merchant, not between your specific card number and their payment processor. Having your card reissued is not a withdrawal of that authority.

Based on the brief detail provided, I think OP's mistake was to cancel/reissue the card rather than dispute the charge / block the merchant.