MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-10 14:34:45+00:00
That paper was flawed in many ways, but it had a catchy name so lots of 'fluencers and media pounced on it and slopped some content based on the title alone. Chances are it will be relegated to the blooper section of LLM papers, just like that "training on LLM outputs leads to model collapse" paper was...
by mousethatroared | 2025-06-10 14:35:09+00:00
Obviously the higher mass and torque of the EV causes more microplastics. This is basic materials science and the reason why EVs need tougher tires.

I dont get why we're comparing F150s to the Model Y. When Im looking to buy a truck, Im not considering the Model Y (although In peeved the Ranger isnt hybrid). I have never considered a Tesla (Im not in the market for another sedan) but if I were my comparison would be something like the Accord.

But sure let's compare the F150 to the model Y: back in 2021 - a base F150 weighed about 4000lb, less than a base Model Y and an F150 supercab V6 F150 was <4500 lb. [1] A long range model Y weighs about a little bit less, but the difference is less than 100 lb.

Sure, I can configure the F150 to weigh 5500, but few need to and few do. So the point stands:

The Model Y weighs as much as a half ton truck.

Meanwhile a Ford Maverick, a truck Ford can't make enough to meet demand, weighs 3700 lb

[1] https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...
by speak_plainly | 2025-06-10 14:36:00+00:00
This is a midwit-level take on Plato.

Arguments:

Plato is responsible for a dualistic model of mind and matter that hampers our thinking today.

Plato had an unrealistic ideal of what knowledge is.

Plato had weird methodological assumptions.

There are real criticisms you could make about Plato and his work, but this misses the mark by miles.
by csomar | 2025-06-10 14:36:11+00:00
As someone who got advice when I was younger and got older; I think we are doomed to not learn anything from history. This might explain the persistence of religion: Here are a set of rules that kind of worked, just follow them blindly and religiously.

The current US generation didn't go to a full blown war; and the US did little infighting in the previous decade (that requires mass mobilization). Think about it this way: Trump wants to lower the interest rate and ease monetary policy in good times. Putin maintain high rates despite him having a full blown war. Trump has never experienced hyper-inflation but Putin did.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-06-10 14:36:14+00:00
Hasn't happened yet, but I can't wait for the first shots in the US "war on fireworks". It's a natural extension of recent culture wars, combining many familiar elements of climate policy debate, worry over China, the inalienable rights of Americans to buy things that explode, etc. Have any big municipalities replaced their July 4th fireworks with drone displays?
by danaris | 2025-06-10 14:36:20+00:00
You're missing the point.

The reason Europe should use FOSS software is that it cannot, inherently, be beholden to any company or country. It can't be bought, or subverted without that subversion showing up in publicly-viewable code repositories. These are attributes that inherently go with the fact that it is built in the open, with anyone able to take the source and make their own version of it even if the people who originally built it want to start doing nefarious things. And there's nothing about this that makes software hard to use; that's a consequence of the volunteer, distributed nature of most independent open-source software, combined with the lack of strong incentives to create good UX.

So if Europe wants to get serious about this, it can, and should, make some that's high quality and still open. There are a number of ways it could do that, and the amount of money it should cost to make it happen should be pocket change by the standards of the entire EU working together. There are plenty of good programmers and UX engineers in Europe.
by kbolino | 2025-06-10 14:36:52+00:00
Setting aside the full enum API, as well as certain optimizations, this is a rough equivalent of the enum I gave:

public class Day extends Enum<Day> { private int _ordinal; private Day(int ordinal) { this._ordinal = ordinal; } public int ordinal() { return this._ordinal; } public static final Day SUNDAY = new Day(0); // ... public static final Day SATURDAY = new Day(6); }

with the added constraint that the Day constructor cannot be invoked by reflection, and the static instances shown herein can be used in a switch statement (which may reduce them to their ordinals to simplify the jump table). Each instance is ultimately a pointer, so yes it could be pulled from a sort of RNG (the allocator). As I said they are probably in an array, so it's likely that the addresses of each variant start from some semi-random base but then increase by a fixed amount (the size of a Day object). A variable of type Day stores the pointer, not the ordinal.

Now, it really seems to be in the weeds of pedantry when you start talking about discriminated unions that have only discriminants and no payload. Taking from your examples, the key point is that a Foo is not a Bar and is also not an int. Regardless of whether the variants are distinct or overlapping in their ordinals, they are not interchangeable with each other or with machine-sized integers.
by redczar | 2025-06-10 14:37:00+00:00
People say Apple has not innovated much lately but they’ve innovated in the advertising space. They have just enough services and products to make it worthwhile for them to covertly advertise them to their customers. They don’t feel like ads and it seems natural the way they do it. To me it is quite clever. I never noticed it until it was pointed out to me.
by MarkusQ | 2025-06-10 14:37:07+00:00
And the carefully checked textbooks are just as full of factually incorrect information. If you doubt this, look at any textbook from 50+ years ago; they were also carefully checked--more so than today's--and yet contained many things we now know to be incorrect. In fifty years, our present textbooks will look just as bad, if not worse (seriously; look at a modern K-12 textbook).

So the key thing to get across to kids is that argument by authority is an untrustworthy heuristic at best. AI slop can even help with this.
by anonfordays | 2025-06-10 14:37:21+00:00
>So was it only white boys interested?

No, great technologists like Ted Ts'o were critical to OS development 20+ years ago.

>True, maybe, nobody cared.

No maybe, fact.

> But it was all white boys, with very few exceptions, when I started.

No it wasn't.

>I think we need diversity. Am I wrong?

If by "diversity" you mean racism, then yes, you are wrong.
by mindslight | 2025-06-10 14:37:34+00:00
These events are not the opposites you're implying. Both are being directly caused by the same person! Trump is needlessly escalating the situation, to create a divisive crisis, for which he will force his "solution" of even more chaos and destruction. This guy turns everything he touches to shit, which should have been strongly apparent to everyone based on his first administration. Too many people were unwilling to put aside their gripes with the government and listen to their fellow citizens telling them this is exactly what would happen.
by rayiner | 2025-06-10 14:37:52+00:00
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a company hires someone to say, mine coal or brew beer, the expense of those employees is an expense any company can claim a full tax deduction on. If you're a line chef or wait tables, your salary is tax deductible to the restaurant.

The question is: are you getting the value of that work in the same tax year, or is it creating an asset that creates value over time? If you hire a guy to brew a batch of beer, you’re getting the value with that batch of beer. Once you sell that beer, the value is gone.

But if a brewery hires someone to build a fermentation system, then that person’s salary cost must be allocated to capital expenses that must be depreciated over time.

There’s a good argument that most software development is creating an asset that pays off over time. If you hire someone to upgrade the payroll software, you’ll get the value of that in future tax years.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-06-10 14:38:12+00:00
I would agree with your "coincidence" explanation if it weren't for the consistent pattern of "coincidences" in which Trump does something dictator-like and right-wingers rush to his defense with "coincidence". It's just a coincidence that all of these foreign diplomats invest in his meme coin or some family business and then suddenly are granted meetings with the president! It's just a coincidence that Qatar sends him a luxury airliner and his rhetoric about Qatar does a 180 degree flip! It's just a coincidence that he tried to interfere in a presidential election! It's just a coincidence that he consistently claims Article I and Article III powers for himself! It's just a coincidence that he's rounding up people and sending them to foreign prisons!

I've never met someone so unlucky /s
by api | 2025-06-10 14:39:24+00:00
I've believed for many years that Plato got something incredibly fundamentally wrong: he believed that logic, math, and the language of thought was primary and preceded existence.

This error underlies all kinds of things all the way up to and including the present-day philosophical fad of "rationalism." (the Yudkowski variety)

It's a popular idea because it's a "truthy" idea. When we introspect, thought feels primary, and there are certain patterns that exist in the universe that are so fundamental that they seem to precede any concrete.

Logic and mathematics are chief among these. It is impossible to imagine a universe where 2+2=15 or not-true=true. The apparent transcendental fixity of these things leads us to think there exists some category of truths that precede existence.

I do believe these things are fixed and axiomatic, but I do not believe this implies that they precede existence. It implies that they are deep fundamental laws of the universe, and nothing more. Being something that exists within and is embodied in this universe means that we have inductively learned (both through evolution and neural learning) these laws. We can't imagine a universe where they are different because such a universe would be fundamentally alien to a degree that would invalidate our very cognitive processes. Something that evolved in such a universe -- if such a universe were even able to support life -- would have an utterly alien form and function.

Ultimately it all reduces to the anthropic principle. We are here and exist in this universe because we are having this conversation. If we didn't exist, we would not be, and if the universe were fundamentally different we might be having a similar conversation in which we assume those laws are axiomatic and immutable, and would be incapable of imagining any different.

I think this is a very bad error, and one with a body count. It leads to beliefs like "only one form of human being is consistent with the eternal order of nature," which implies that anything else is an abomination and should be marginalized or killed.

I leads to insane forms of magical thinking like New Thought / "The Secret" / prosperity gospel / etc. where people believe that our thoughts determine reality. It leads to nonsense like the AI hard takeoff "foom" idea, which only makes sense if you think that a sufficiently intelligent being can deduce all that it needs to know from the laws of logic and mathematics without embodiment. (The Yudkowski super-AI is just a philosopher king.)

I don't think it's a coincidence that Plato is the father of many forms of authoritarianism either. Authoritarianism naturally precedes from the idea of transcendent laws that can be grasped by sufficiently intelligent philosopher kings without feedback from reality.

Edit:

I'm not 100% certain it's impossible to imagine mathematically and logically alien universes. I wonder if one could simulate such a universe by encoding an alien system of logic/math behind the scenes in the form of a kind of translation table. There's been some work in artificial life and cellular automata like this.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-06-10 14:41:05+00:00
> The first (and only) time I tried to make a plan with my co-founder, and there was an obvious constraint, he couldn't work with the constraint.

Lots of teams have this problem.

The tandem word here is "discipline". Once the constraint is created, then discipline is required to stay within that constraint.

Case in point: deadlines. Deadlines are fine. Deadlines without discipline with respect to scope creep is just setting a team up for failure and low quality work.
by pu_pe | 2025-06-10 14:41:11+00:00
Benchmarks suggest this model loses to Deepseek-R1 in every one-shot comparison. Considering they were likely not even pitting it against the newer R1 version (no mention of that in the article) and at more than double the cost, this looks like the best AI company in the EU is struggling to keep up with the state-of-the-art.
by selcuka | 2025-06-10 14:41:19+00:00
When I was a kid, I had a ZX Spectrum 48K with a cassette tape as the storage unit. Tapes are notoriously unreliable. One day I loaded a game [1] and got the dreaded "R tape loading error".

Instead of adjusting the azimuth and retrying, I decided to take my chances and typed RUN to execute the one-line BASIC bootloader that starts the actual machine-code game.

To my surprise, the game started, but there was something odd. Even though I should have lost all my lives, the game kept going. Somehow the loading error had modified a few bytes in the game that were responsible for checking the game-over condition.

I finished the game several times without ever seeing the Game Over message. Well, the probability isn't as low as accidentally writing a game from scratch, but it's certainly interesting when you think about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebirds_(video_game)
by AngryData | 2025-06-10 14:42:01+00:00
I hope not. It was interesting the first few times I saw it, mostly because of the complications of coordinating all those drones in formation, and a bit in the capital expenses required to set it up. But I don't really find any enjoyment from watching a bunch of drones make simple slow moving animations in the sky.

Its like digital watches, impressive the first few times it is accomplished, but now that they are pretty easy to find and you can see a demonstration of it working without much effort, I don't see much point in seeking it out nor have any desire in watching it work.
by seniorThrowaway | 2025-06-10 14:42:12+00:00
Watched an expat video on youtube recently where he said he would never go back to America because the legal system is effectively lawless. Reading things like this, and others, makes me agree. There is this idea in America that countries with Civil Law systems instead of Common Law are more dangerous, but are they really more dangerous than "the law doesn't actually mean what it says, it means what this judge said 80 years ago it says"? The financial asymmetry just makes it worse, wealthy people and entities can very easily lawfare their enemies out of existence.
Ask HN: Wrongly banned from Facebook Marketplace – can anyone help at all?:/
by HAL9OOO | 2025-06-10 14:42:13+00:00
Ugh what a cluster**

I was recently banned from Facebook Marketplace for no clear reason (some AI algo going wild) and it’s been a huge pain. I live in Thailand where basically everything is done through Facebook

I suspect it might’ve happened after I took a trip to Vietnam—maybe something flagged my account as suspicious? But of course, there’s no real way to talk to a human. I even tried signing up for Meta Verified just to get proper support, but that didn’t help either. The responses felt AI-generated and they just told me I need to talk to the “commerce division,” which isn’t something a normal user can actually do.

To make things worse, my entire Facebook account was banned too (not just Marketplace), and only got unbanned a month later after I sent them one of those video selfies of my face—because of course that’s how things work now.

Anyway, I’m at the end of the rope here. Is there any kind HN reader who works at Meta or knows someone who does and might be able to help me get this fixed? I've even tried making another account with a new computer and it gets flagged/banned in hours. I'll leave my FB profile/email in my bio praying here basically.

Really appreciate it if you’ve read this far. Thanks.
by techpineapple | 2025-06-10 14:42:18+00:00
I’m sure this runs the gamut, but I think vibe coding, when effective, I find to be an unabashed win, it was always about the output for me, and making mind to page faster for me is good. But then again, I’m in devops, not software engineering. I’ve done more personal projects than the mean devops engineer, but one thing I’ve noticed is: streamlining the process of making games, workflows, and my favorite thing, dashboards is just all positive. My only real complaint about vibe coding is that it’s not where I want it to be. It can’t keep up, often doesn’t know what I want, abides and patterns and best practices that are in a nuanced way different than the problem I’m trying to solve, and worst of all, constant regressions, particularly when trying to link different vibe coded modules together.

In some sense it makes me wonder if this is a solve able problem. Can you have an AI optimize both for understanding previous patterns and for innovation? Can you really dial in just the right amount of autocomplete recommendations? When it is common to have a part of your code that goes against the patterns in other parts of your code? Right now, there are so many autocompletes in cursor that just distract me from my coding, and I have to intentionally ignore them and not accidentally press tab, because the pattern I started is not the pattern I want to continue.
by larrled | 2025-06-10 14:42:21+00:00
It’s sad how addicted people are to his button pushing. I’ve got an elderly family member with dementia who can’t go more than 2 hours without watching a outrage video about Trump. You know the ones on YouTube, still doing hourly updates on russiagate and other “legal analysis” around Trump prosecutions, still. She lost much of her life savings because these YouTube “experts” explained how Trump would crash the market when in actuality, from 2016 to today, the market has actually gone up. A lot. Thanks medias touch or whoever it is for destroying the sanity and financial security of so many American seniors. What a business model.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-06-10 14:42:31+00:00
> Section 1076 is titled "Use of the Armed Forces in major public emergencies".

> The President may employ the armed forces ... to ... restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition ... the President determines that ... domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order ... or [to] suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such ... a condition ... so hinders the execution of the laws ... that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law ... or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws. [1]

So if I understand correctly, given the modifications to Posse Comitatus, and to the Insurrection Act, there is a legal theory under which the President can "send in the troops." Isn't that the real issue here, whether those statutes and conditions apply?

The linked article doesn't seem to mention the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act#2006%E2%80...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
by defrost | 2025-06-10 14:42:48+00:00
Twelve, not three, in my first year university math 100 class, I gave three typical examples of the twelve.

It was almost the only university in the state at that time, two others opened in the year or so prior and these were (at the time) free universities for any that got a sufficient TAE score (high school exam for tertiary entrance).

All in all many more people were educated in mathematics or in their particular interests in this small state, and that began in primary and high school.

I attended a non specialized high school in a remote corner of a large state (3x size of Texas) with a small population (less than 2 million at that time).

I don't think that the book can be taught to any 15 year olds, I think it can easily be taught to 15 year old students interested in math, as other similar books have been.

In a not disimilar manner I know others who started olympic level swimming training in high school as part of their high school curriculum. Not for everyone, just for those high school students with aptitude.

I have spent time in a classroom as a mathematics assistant tutor, it was good pick up money during the five years I attended university.

Naturally many people that were awarded Ph.D. attended high school, I'm unsure why you would choose to exclude them from the population of high school students.

The state of things in average state run Western Australia high schools in the 1980s was that most student got mainstream education and students that showed promise in any number of different ares would get moved to specialised stream or invited to subsidised speciality camps; these existed for math, literature, theatre, music, sports, machining, etc.

eg. Heath Ledger got more theatre exposure in his High School years in this state than the majority of other high school students .. the fact that they didn't go on to play the Joker in a major Hollywood production doesn't negate what he did in high school.

You clearly have no idea about the average high school in the place and time to which I refer.

My own son attended a state high school (free public education) that had an aviation course, he and his classmates built an aircraft over two years and then took turns flying it. ( https://www.kentstreetshs.wa.edu.au/aviation )

It's sad that you seem to want to homogenize the high school experience to the least common denominator.

EDIT: “I did it therefore you can too” - not a claim I made, please stop strawmanning.

Again, there is nothing preventing a university level text being taught to high school students with aptitude and this actually happens in some education systems outside your ken.

In parallel other advanced subjects and skills can also be taught to high school students with aptitude .. and some education systems do this.

I'm sorry you apparently have not experienced such a system.