MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-06-09 11:24:00+00:00
The Democrats have to appeal to the right to hold and maintain power, especially for Presidential elections. Hillary Clinton got millions more votes than Donald Trump in 2016 - but lost because (among other reasons) Trump was more successful campaigning in rural states and appealing to those voters. Democrats have to be seen in church and profess faith in Christ, they need the support of police unions and the military, they have to have homestyle meals in small town diners and prove to the South they aren't too "Northern." Republicans don't need to do any of that, as the de facto party of "Christian values" their bona fides are presumed by default, and they can be as intransigent and radical as they like.

It doesn't make sense if you assume the system is intended to be fair and equitable, and represent the will of the people. If you realize the system was designed to keep slaveholding states in the union by biasing rural votes (more likely to be white and conservative) over urban votes (more likely to be non-white and progressive) despite city-dwellers being the majority per capita, it makes perfect sense.
by miloignis | 2025-06-09 11:24:54+00:00
Do you have any evidence that they collect your data?

They go so far as to have an API to generate cryptographic proof of subscription tokens without revealing your identity for searching when using Tor, etc ( https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/tor.html ).

Beyond their data collection stance, which I believe, their results are better and worth paying for because they don't have all the extra ads and crap shoved in them and allow you to modify your own website rankings, etc.
by christophilus | 2025-06-09 11:25:29+00:00
It doesn’t sound good, but maybe they mean it in a more benign way, like, “We don’t have the funds to hire people who expect to twiddle their thumbs and get paid for it the way their over-funded VC peers do.”

In other words, maybe they’re saying they don’t have any BS jobs like Meta and Google seem to have.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-09 11:25:54+00:00
Profit-motivated (above all else) health care?

When that health insurance CEO got shot, there was a lot of venting about health insurance companies and their practices, but much less about the practices of the health care providers.

Noah Smith argued that the latter should be considered the main 'villain':

> This means that eliminating all administrative waste and inefficiency in the entire U.S. health care system — not just at insurance companies, but administration of government insurance programs — could save Americans at most about $680 per person every year, and probably not anywhere close to that amount.[3] A few hundred bucks a year is not nothing, but it’s only a small fraction of the $5683 more that we pay relative to other countries.

> So the fundamental reason your health care costs so much is not that the health insurance companies are lining their pockets. And it’s not that insurers are an inefficient mess. It’s that the actual provision of America’s health care itself just costs way too much in the first place.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...

* https://archive.is/https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-c...
by rnkn | 2025-06-09 11:26:10+00:00
> isn't this also telling us what "understanding" is?

When people start studying theory of mind someone usually jumps in with this thought. It's more or less a description of Functionalism (although minus the "mental state"). It's not very popular because most people can immediately identify an phenomenon of understanding separate from the function of understanding. People also have immediate understanding of certain sensations, e.g. the feeling of balance when riding a bike, sometimes called qualia. And so on, and so forth. There is plenty of study on what constitutes understanding and most healthily dismiss the "string of words" theory.
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-09 11:26:10+00:00
That's where extensible IDEs like VSCode (and with it the Language Server Protocol and Debug Adapter Protocol) come in.

It's not perfect yet, but I can do C/C++/ObjC, Zig, Odin, C3, Nim, Rust, JS/TS, Python, etc... development and debugging all in the same IDE, and even within the same project.
by eadmund | 2025-06-09 11:26:51+00:00
Also in 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which violated the First Amendment. The simple fact that a Congress included many Founders does not necessarily imply that its acts were all in compliance with the Constitution those same Founders wrote or concurred with years before.

Guaranteeing things even after people change their minds, and providing an agreed-upon process to change the agreement, is kind of the point of a constitution. Much like a contract between parties, it specifies the rules of the game ahead of time.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-09 11:26:59+00:00
bots or corporate drones I would normally think.

I mean there is a good reason to think it might be AI, but just as much reason to think the person who wrote isn't that good a writer but needs to write some stuff because engagement or whatever and then this is what comes out.

That said I wrote something I was pretty proud of where the narrator was depressed and burnt out, in a very small bit of a much longer and complicated narrative, and somebody assumed it was written by AI because the writing seemed emotionally detached - so I personally dislike casting accusations of AI at writing just because it doesn't match my taste.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-09 11:27:22+00:00
> Also, you’re suggesting because a company got away with bad behavior in the past we should never expect better of any other company going forward?

No, they are saying it is frustrating to see the focus on OpenAI rather than, for example, Cisco and Oracle, in an article with this particular title. On the topic of “supercomputers for autocrats”, a reader may be interested in what Oracle is up to.

https://fortune.com/2025/02/14/larry-ellison-ai-centralized-...

It is odd to focus such a broad topic on OpenAI.
by noodlesUK | 2025-06-09 11:27:48+00:00
Interestingly in this case the tram fits far fewer people than a typical British bus. A modern London route master fits a maximum of 87 people (standing and seated). This tram only fits 50 (standing and seated). I'm nonetheless certain that it will be a much nicer way to travel, but I'm not sure that the maths work out the way you might initially expect.
Ask HN: Who is still using Perplexity?
by warthog | 2025-06-09 11:29:02+00:00
Raise a hand if you are still using Perplexity.

Perplexity labs seems promising however its focus used to be good web search and research. Now that ChatGPT and Claude both has it, I struggle to find anyone using Perplexity - particularly as a paying user.

If you are still using it, curious on what you find is better than ChatGPT or why you stick with it.
by koolba | 2025-06-09 11:29:21+00:00
It's a charitable interpretation but there's a lot of specifics at play here.

The tax was not 1%. It was defined as a fixed 20-cents per person, not a percentage of income.

The wording of the law was that the US government would use the funds for health care for the seaman and any surpluses for building hospitals and related facilities. It had no open ended mandate to provide coverage beyond the sums collected.

It could be argued that maritime commerce, by its very nature, is a Federal jurisdiction, thus operating within the Federal governments power (in contrast to the rest of us landlubbers).
by K0balt | 2025-06-09 11:29:24+00:00
> Perhaps, but this already disproves the idea of superhuman PhD+ level AI agents.

The value in AI is not some higher level of understanding, but rather the ability to (potentially) carry on millions of independent and interleaved thought threads/conversations at once, and to work tirelessly at a high throughput.

Perhaps with some kind of recursive approach with iterative physical grounding that tests hypothesis against ground truth, AI can transcend human levels of understanding, but for now we need to understand that AI is going to be more of intern-level assistance with occasional episodes of drunk uncle bob.
Show HN: Easy-to-use collaborative whiteboard (Google Jamboard alternative)
by gregives | 2025-06-09 11:29:45+00:00
In my opinion, the deprecation of Google Jamboard was a massive loss for the education sector. Most of the alternatives are too complicated for young students to use e.g. infinite canvas, too many tools.

Over the past year I've been building an easy-to-use alternative called Jotboard. If you know any teachers or educators, I'd love for you to share Jotboard with them!
by mattlondon | 2025-06-09 11:30:33+00:00
I recently heard that an apartment block near me cannot have automatic emergency lighting or fire sprinklers retrofitted incase there is a fire on a Saturday.

Forget about burning to death or falling down pitch-black stairs and breaking your neck, it is apparently more important that electrical circuits are not energized or a valve is not opened on a saturday!

Absolutely absurd.

I am indifferent to people stringing up wires to lie to themselves. They are not "invisible" and the poles they are on are an eye sore in my part of London and also attract negative attention (e.g. people put palestinian flags or stickers etc on them). But whatever.

What I do have an issue is that someone's religious beliefs are preventing basic fire safety protections for everyone else. We in London/UK are rightly getting a lot of fire protections retrofitted to older apartment blocks because of the Grenfell disaster [1] - this is not some hypothetical thing, its a real problem in older buildings and it disgusts me individuals can veto fundamental basic fire protection for everyone else in their building just because of their own personal beliefs, despite being totally willing to go along with this Eruv sleight-of-hand.

Fire does not respect religion.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
by aplanas | 2025-06-09 11:31:04+00:00
What I do not understand is why not to work with the openSUSE community, or fork from them. But instead use a USA based distro like Fedora.

openSUSE has all their tooling based in EU ground. For example, OBS that is the build service, has the machines around Germany or Prague. A big bulk of the community is EU based, (with very relevant contributors from many other places), and SUSE, the company that is helping (via infra and some packages) is from Germany.

I do not known if sovereignty makes sense in the open source world, as at the end is a joint effort of multiple developers from many (and some times confronted) places, but if it does make sense then I would value more those other criteria.
by xixixao | 2025-06-09 11:32:13+00:00
> By lunch, it was in a test environment, and I was working with the developers to hook up the data to the back end

This isn’t really ambitious. Tools like Chef[0] can already one shot full stack apps with db and API integrations.

So the question is what the “limit” will be.

[0] https://chef.convex.dev/
by throw0101c | 2025-06-09 11:32:18+00:00
> Also in 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which violated the First Amendment. The simple fact that a Congress included many Founders does not necessarily imply that its acts were all in compliance with the Constitution those same Founders wrote or concurred with years before.

Or they were not 'absolutists' in regards to the Constitution they themselves wrote, and understood some play / slop was needed in interpretation and implementation.
by theK | 2025-06-09 11:32:48+00:00
From what I can remember from the "Munich Linux" days, the biggest two hurdles where that 1. all processes had proprietary data formats (Office, exchange and some Adobe stuff) as a de facto standard and it was hard fo move suppliers to open ones and 2. That even mundane Public Sector PCs needed to interface with weird/old/arcane storage or authentication protocols.

So while on the surface that Desktop is something that should work with oob Linux parts it ends up being much more involved once you try it.
by benrutter | 2025-06-09 11:32:59+00:00
First line of "What is EU OS":

> EU OS is not a project of the European Union, but it should be.

Just flagging this because a lot of comment here and anywhere else EU OS gets discussed, end up assuming this is affiliated with the EU in some way.

It's not affiliated in any way, so whatever you feel about this project, and the EU as a political institution, you probably shouldn't infer anything about one based on the other.
by atmosx | 2025-06-09 11:34:36+00:00
> because when the constituency (read: supporters) are put in an emotionally agitated state, they can be manipulated to believe just about anything […]

That’s democracy, at its most basic. Often, it means people with little access to education, but with a lot at stake, casting votes that go against their own interests. And in the U.S., it’s not as if party leadership on either side truly represents them anyway.

The upside, though, is significant: when power shifts, we usually don’t resort to violence. That simple fact - the peaceful transfer of power - provides the stability necessary for society to function and potentially thrive.
by w10-1 | 2025-06-09 11:34:52+00:00
The 1% roughly corresponds to a few ER's at concentrated sites where sailors can first seek care, where the main cost is provider salaries. State of the art then, but not comparable.

Also I suspect the main goal was to displace anger about working conditions and get the distressed sailors out of the hair of ship owners and captains, likely prompted by the need to isolate society from infectious diseases and horrifying cripples. I.e., the goal was to contain the damage from the sailors to the shipping business and society, not to protect the sailors.
by fidotron | 2025-06-09 11:35:07+00:00
One of the massive lessons of the AI hype is users hate much of the self indulgent output of the tech industry in the prior decade.

The two major areas are writing and design, where way too much blog style tech writing injects so many side comments that it conceals any substance, and design has become about the expression of the designer as opposed to connecting users to what they are trying to achieve. The emergence of these chat interfaces side steps both, although unfortunately the writing style of LLMs tends to ape many of the worst aspects of human writing it can at least be told to filter it out.

I once worked with a product team that wrote a user story "The system should establish the user intention and then do it" and they're dangerously close to getting something resembling what they asked for, but it will get rid of our current work divisions of product/dev/design in the process, along with the associated tooling.
by hermitcrab | 2025-06-09 11:36:28+00:00
I took a photo of the statue years ago. A friend told me that he knew an old gent who has been in the commandos and was a model for one of the figures in the statue. But he had never seen the statue. So I was able to give him a copy of the photo to pass on to him.

Fancy having a statue of yourself and never bother going to see it!
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-09 11:37:01+00:00
You're right about interactivity, something that I overlooked -- but I think it's nevertheless the case that a large fraction of human interrogators could not distinguish a human from a suitably-system-prompted ChatGPT even over the course of an interactive discussion.

ChatGPT 4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time in this RCT study, where human interrogators had 5-minute conversations with a human and an LLM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23674
by diggan | 2025-06-09 11:37:03+00:00
That implies that people who aren't empathetic and/or caring aren't human, which I guess could be argued too, but feels too simplistic.

> Which the LLMs will never be

I'd argue LLMs will never be anything, they're giving you the text you're asking for, nothing more and nothing less. You don't tell them "to be" empathic and caring? Well, they're not gonna appear like that then, but if you do tell them, they'll do their best to emulate that.
by rjmunro | 2025-06-09 11:38:09+00:00
"Back to the Future: The Ride" was also an Omnimax dome system, but with moving platforms instead of seats. It was installed in 3 locations, with 2 screens at each, so a total of 6 screens.

I'm not sure if any later similar rides used a similar system, (for example Disney's Soarin') or if they are new enough to be digital from the start.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-09 11:38:21+00:00
By enabling you to think in terms of what you ate, rather than numbers. If you eat a varied but regular diet, this enables you to stop having to track. You'll just know your approximate caloric budget and intake for the day, and what that means in terms of food items.

When you have to take ownership of your diet (and thus your weight), that means a permanent lifestyle change. Tracking is simply not sustainable indefinitely, so you must establish better consumption habits while you do so, that will stick past the tracking. Tracking and getting to know what you eat, rather than tracking your calories, is what enables you to form such a habit and knowledge base.

Eating random stuff and thus having to use AI due to a lack of easily accessible and personally learnable nutrition information makes a total mockery of this process, and runs pretty much antithetical to it.
by msephton | 2025-06-09 11:38:22+00:00
I made this project. It was first posted to Hacker News a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985221. I’m sharing it again now because this time of year is generally your best chance to catch an impression of The Great Wave on display.

About The Great Wave: the original woodblock prints were mass-produced around 1830, but only a limited number of those impressions survive today. They’re sensitive to light and are rarely exhibited—typically about once every four years. That’s why I built this site: to help people time their visits and have a chance to see one in person. Art lovers will understand the appeal of seeing a classic like this up close. Others may find the idea pointless or ridiculous. So it goes.

About the Site: it tracks the display status of various impressions of Katsushika Hokusai’s "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (神奈川沖浪裏) across museums worldwide. I monitor official museum collection pages and check for changes in “on view” status. In the ~30 years I’ve been interested, I’ve only managed to see two different impressions, and I want to see as many as I can.

The backend is powered by a series of Huginn scenarios that scrape museum websites on a schedule and track changes. Not every museum has a suitable website for this, but enough do to make the project worthwhile. The hardest part was initially finding all the relevant collection pages, understanding the structure of their data, and setting up the automation. I also run automated searches for press releases and news articles to catch anything the scrapers might miss. The whole process is largely hands-off, with only a final manual check before publishing updates.

Over the past two years, I’ve simplified and optimized the system. The final data is compiled into a small CSV file, which is used to generate the web page and an RSS feed. These are cached as static files and are only updated when there’s new information. The files are hosted on a free Oracle Cloud Compute Instance running Caddy web server. That’s pretty much it!
by AnonymousPlanet | 2025-06-09 11:38:53+00:00
Does that generated UI code include dark patterns like that annoying popup that covers the post while you're reading and scrolling?

Do you have to ask for them to be included? Is the AI going to refuse their inclusion? Or will a future version of that AI service include them every time without asking, and you have to either scrape the code out by hand or move to the extra premium tier?
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-06-09 11:39:00+00:00
You are conflating different and irrelevant arguments. The discussion was never about Byzantium or modern Greece. It was whether we can trace the beginning of Western civilisation in Ancient Greece instead of Rome, which indeed we can. Far before Christianity, a topic which you seem blindly passionate about, with some apparent beef against Orthodoxy.

This has little to do with Christianity.

And I find little interest in this pointless discussion, therefore this is my last reply.
by elp | 2025-06-09 11:39:17+00:00
Kids especially once the second one arrives kill your money, your sex life, your free time and they will probably destroy at least one item that has sentimental value to you.

Feel squeamish about bodily fluids? Don't worry the kids will cure you. Nothing like trying to do a Matrix style bullet time dodge when you are changing a nappy and the cold air makes your son let loose with a stream of pee.

And then they look at you and giggle and the world is perfect. Wouldn't change it for the word, but enjoy life first then have the kids. Its not worse just very very different and you can't go back.
by _petronius | 2025-06-09 11:39:38+00:00
> The article skirts around a central question: what defines humans? Specifically, intelligence and emotions?

> The entire article is saying "it looks kinds like a human in some ways, but people are being fooled!"

> You can't really say that without at least attempting the admittedly very deep question of what an authentic human is.

> To me, it's intelligent because I can't distinguish its output from a person's output, for much of the time.

I think the article does address that rather directly, and that it is also is addressing very specifically your setence about what you can and can't distinguish.

LLMs are not capable of symbolic reasoning[0] and if you understand how they work internally, you will realize they do no reasoning whatsoever.

Humans and many other animals are fully capable of reasoning outside of language (in the former case, prior to language acquisition), and the reduction of "intellgence" to "language" is a catagory error made by people falling vicim to the ELIZA effect[1], not the result of a sum of these particular statistical methods being equal real intelligence of any kind.

0: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
by intended | 2025-06-09 11:39:52+00:00
This isn’t that hard, to be honest. And I’m not just saying this.

One school of thought is - the output is indistinguishable from what a human would produce given these questions.

Another school of thought is - the underlying process is not thinking in the sense that humans do it

Both are true.

For the lay person, calling it thinking leads to confusions. It creates intuitions that do not actually predict the behavior of the underlying system.

It results in bad decisions on whether to trust the output, or to allocate resources - because if the use of the term thinking.

Humans can pass an exam by memorizing previous answer papers or just memorizing the text books.

This is not what we consider having learnt something. Learning is kinda like having the Lego blocks to build a model you can manipulate in your head.

For most situations, the output of both people is fungible.

Both people can pass tests.