MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bglazer | 2025-06-06 00:53:03+00:00
The problem with this machine-learned “predictive biology” framework is that it doesn’t have any prescription for what to do when your predictions fail. Just collect more data! What kind of data? As the author notes, the configuration space of biology is effectively infinite so it matters a great deal what you measure and how you measure it. If you don’t think about this (or your model can’t help you think about it) you’re unlikely to observe the conditions where your predictions are incorrect. That’s why other modeling approaches care about tedious things like physics and causality. They let you constrain the model to conditions you’ve observed and hypothesize what missing, unobserved factors might be influencing your system.

It’s also a bit arrogant in presuming that no other approaches to modeling cells cared about “prediction”. Of course, systems and mathematical biologists care about making accurate predictions, they just also care about other things like understanding molecular interactions *because that lets you make better predictions*

Not to be cynical but this seems like an attempt to export benchmark culture from ML into bio. I think that blindly maximizing test set accuracy is likely to lead down a lot dead end paths. I say this as someone actively doing ML for bio research.
by burningChrome | 2025-06-06 00:54:09+00:00
Uh, jamming has been used since the beginning of the Russian/Ukrainian war. Its literally one of the main areas that has become a game of cat and mouse on both sides.

The Black Eye is a suitcase-sized radio noisemaker that can muddle the signals that control all but the best fiber-optic drones. According to an electronic warfare expert who writes under the pseudonym “Roy,” Black Eye can ground surveillance and attack drones from as far as 4 kilometers away, “when located high enough.”

Unlike many other jammers, which target the drone, the Black Eye targets the drone’s operator—blocking a drone’s command signal at its source. The new jammer “is appearing across the whole front,” Roy wrote. “This is a serious development for Ukraine.”

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/06/blackeyejammers/

More recently:

Kvertus’ innovative EW backpack system provides Ukrainian troops with a mobile counter-drone shield for just $7,000. Operating in the 720-1050 MHz range, it jams and disables threatening Russian drones.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/17/the-ew-backpack-revol...
by CamperBob2 | 2025-06-06 00:54:14+00:00
I wish I knew what the eventual business model will look like, but I don't. A potential guess might be to consider what MSNBC was, or was supposed to be -- a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC network news, where the idea was to take advantage of the emerging WWW to get a head start on everyone else. The pie-in-the-sky synergies that were promised never materialized, so the outcome just amounted to a new name for an old-media player. As it turned out, the business of gathering and delivering news and editorial content didn't change much at all. It just migrated from paper and screens to, well, screens.

Now, as you point out, companies like OpenAI have a problem, and so do the rest of us. Fair compensation for journalists and editors requires attribution before anything else can even be negotiated, and AI literally transforms its input into something that is usually (but obviously not always) untraceable. For the big AI players, the solution to that problem might involve starting or acquiring news and content networks of their own. Synergies that Microsoft and NBC were hoping might materialize could actually be feasible now.

So to answer your question, maybe ChatGPT will end up paying journalists directly.

Again, I don't know how plausible that kind of scenario might turn out to be. But I am absolutely certain that countries that allow their legacy rightsholders to impede progress in AI are going to be outcompeted by those with less to lose.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 00:54:25+00:00
I apologize if it came off as tone policing. "Raw dog" sounds innocuous, if a bit strange. There was a radio station that had an internet stream out of Topeka Kansas called "Raw Dog Radio" that was a comedy station/stream; as an example - but it was a direct reference to the sexual connotation. For people who don't know, and notice that "raw dogging" is entering zeitgeist, maybe they'll say it because it sounds silly. It was merely a warning about what it means. The "definition shift" really isn't, people are comparing taking a flight without water, cellphones, etc to sex without a condom (Doesn't matter, flew through the air at hundreds of miles per hour, don't care!) The person i replied to was comparing using an LLM without RAG to risky sex.

I'd also avoid saying "So. How are we going to fuck this pig?" in a meeting about infra problems.
by fasbiner | 2025-06-06 00:55:13+00:00
If you cut someone who is in a deep coma, they will respond to that stimuli by sending platelets and white blood cells. There is data and it is being received, processed, and responded to.

Again, your poor understanding of biology and reductive definition of "data" is leading you to double down on an untenable position. You are now arguing for a pure abstraction that can have no relationship to human biology since your definition of "pause" is incompatible not only with human life, but even with accurately describing a human body minutes and hours after death.

This could be an interesting topic for science fiction or xenobiology, but is worse than useless as a metaphor.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-06 00:58:08+00:00
> Getting rid of unused products costs money

Storing unsold product also costs money. A brick-and-mortar storefront is extremely conscious of what's allowed on their shelves, because if the product isn't moving, it's not only an overhead cost that they are paying rent, keeping the lights on, doing maintenance, but also an opportunity cost of something else that could be put on the shelf and sold and taken away by a customer.

So if you toss 30 cubic meters of junk in a storage locker, and it doesn't appreciate in value, and you pay rent on the storage locker for 3 years, but you still can't use your junk, and it costs you $$$ to sort it and transport it away, you should stop holding your junk so tightly.
by princealiiiii | 2025-06-06 01:00:37+00:00
Any app built on top of these model providers could become a competitor to these providers. Since the model providers are currently in the lowest-margin part of the business, it is likely they will try to expand in to the app layer and start pulling the rug from under these businesses built on top of them.

Amazon had a similar tactic, where it would use other sellers on its marketplace to validate market demand for products, and then produce its own cheap copies of the successes.
by VonTum | 2025-06-06 01:01:19+00:00
My experience is similar to the SDAM described in the post. Indeed factual information, or things that are linked to locations are easy to access, yet more arbitrary information like "That one restaurant is named Fleep Burger" or "That person I met a while ago is named Bert" completely escape me.

I do feel like it's a major disadvantage. I often have to act the part when people remenisce about important shared experiences that I was involved with.

Luckily it does tend to only come rushing back when they tell me "Ah yes, it was in the mountain range with the red cabin", but that's usually past the point where I've already made a fool of myself
by jjk166 | 2025-06-06 01:02:57+00:00
While it's a particularly brazen scenario meant to illustrate the concept, the point is the law does allow that. This doesn't simply apply to cars left on the side of the road, this is any car that's been towed for any reason. A car worth a heck of a lot more than $1500 can have an expired parking permit and no one available to pick it up (or even recognize it has been towed) within 15 days. You go on vacation or you're in the hospital and when you get back home you don't have a car anymore because you were parked only 13 feet away from a fire hydrant. And particularly for low income individuals, coming up with the money to pay the fine to get your vehicle out of impound within 15 days may be a legitimate financial burden, especially if without your vehicle you can no longer commute to work, or you lost your job for whatever reason led to the vehicle being impounded. It's an obvious scenario for abuse.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 01:03:10+00:00
algospeak originated on Tiktok, with all that implies. You couldn't post videos about sexual assault, suicides, murders, any of that directly, so people started self-censoring and using words - unalive maybe came from Deadpool in 2013? I'm not real interested in the actual etymology right now.

and you jest but there's been pushes to change things like "master/slave", "kill", "whitelist/blacklist", and the like to something different. I don't know how much traction, and i may have been tricked by april 1st posts or something.
by wat10000 | 2025-06-06 01:03:48+00:00
Same for me. I can visualize fine, but the author’s description of their memory, or lack thereof, is exactly what I experience. The thing about spatial memory especially. I could draw a decent floor plan of every place I’ve lived since the age of about 4. Some of those places I’d struggle to tell you about any concrete events I experienced there.

It isn’t something I’ve thought about too much. I’ve noticed that other people seem to remember events better, but it didn’t seem too remarkable. But the author’s presentation of this as anomalous really reframes it.

They do say that only half of people who have this also have aphantasia, so we’d expect plenty of people without aphantasia too.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-06-06 01:03:51+00:00
So, prostitution? Bartender? There are still jobs now that require human interaction, but unless interacting with another human is the job itself, then, yes, those jobs are going. McDonalds already has kiosks for ordering. Yo Sushi has beer taps at your table. Young men are walking around having relationships with cute anime girls who listen and validate them (and how are they ever going to deal with an actual human female who has her own needs??). Others on HN are saying AI isn't good enough for this or that, but have you ever tried dealing with a real person in a call center, or a minimum wage employee at the job center, or a sales person at a cheap cosmetics counter. So sure, there are jobs at Chanel, or Audi, or Michelin starred restaurants, for the rich who can not only afford such luxury but enjoy lauding it over the rest of us, but for the rest of us there's Johnny Cab if we even have any way of paying for a ride in one.
by Trenthug | 2025-06-06 01:04:53+00:00
Your statement that “The Truth is a perturbation of existential reality” is poetic but undefined—ironically mirroring the vagueness you accuse others of.

In information theory and modern science, complexity and emergence demand probabilistic reasoning. Consciousness, as an evolving informational process, can be approached with models that use approximation and symbolic mappings—imperfect, yet incrementally refined.

Asserting that “symbols are delusions” while relying on linguistic symbols to communicate that assertion undermines itself.

If you’re proposing a new standard for truth, one that transcends all representational systems, I’m open to hearing how it works. But dismissing symbolic systems wholesale without presenting a clear alternative leaves us in silence—and silence, too, is a symbol, one we must interpret.
by jkillick | 2025-06-06 01:05:41+00:00
Across twelve concise essays, the author traces the evolution of mapping from Paleolithic carvings to iPhone screens. The scope is ambitious, covering millennia, but the tone remains grounded—welcoming even. This isn’t a dry academic slog; it’s a personal, occasionally wry, journey through the strange, stubborn, and often brilliant ways humans have tried to not be completely, hopelessly lost.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 01:05:52+00:00
> If you follow the reasoning through those two claims appear to be at odds.

No, the claim that the purpose of the second amendment was to assure that the state could rely on a citizen militia for internal and external security instead of denying them that ability and forcing them to rely on professional forces is not at all at odds with the claim that large professional internal and external security forces were not something that the framers trusted.

Your excerpting a verb phrases from each of the two claims to claim a conflict while ignoring the rest of the claims may suggest the source of your misreading -- because you seen to think that the thing that I said that the 2A was not meant to deny the states was the same thing the framers didn't trust, rather than something that was an alternative to it.
by mr_toad | 2025-06-06 01:08:26+00:00
Do we know that? I thought that the evidence suggested that early hominids lost muscle mass, especially in our arms, as they came down from the trees. We also switched from stronger muscle fibres to high endurance muscles.

You’re right that there was an energy trade-off, but it was being able to run faster and longer that was more important than strength for our ancestors, who still had quite small brains (the brain of an Australopithecus is only 35% the size of a human).

Brain size developed later, probably in a feedback loop with our diet - as we began to eat more meat our brains got bigger, which made us better hunters. And hominids actually got bigger and stronger as their brains grew.
by kjhughes | 2025-06-06 01:09:54+00:00
I'll try to give you credit for more than dismissing my question off-hand...

Yes, it may not need to know with perfect certainty when it's unsure or stuck, but even to meet a lower bar of usefulness, it'll need at least an approximate means of determining that its knowledge is inadequate. To purport to help with the hallucination problem requires no less.

To make the issue a bit more clear, here are some candidate components to a stuck() predicate:

- possibilities considered

- time taken

- tokens consumed/generated (vs expected? vs static limit? vs dynamic limit?)

If the unsure/stuck determination is defined via more qualitative prompting, what's the prompt? How well has it worked?
by jsnell | 2025-06-06 01:11:15+00:00
The model providers are not in the low margin part of the business. The unit economies of paid-per-token APIs are clearly favorable, and scale amazingly well as long as you can procure enough compute.

I think it's the subscription-based models that are tricky to make work in the long term, since they suffer from adverse selection. Only the heaviest users will pay for a subscription, and those are the users that you either lose money on or make unhappy with strict usage limits. It's kind of the inverse of the gym membership model.

Honestly, I think the subscriptions are mainly used as a demand moderation method for advanced features.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-06 01:12:05+00:00
I'm certain I got aphantasia, but while I don't "see" my memories, I have a very decent recollection of events in my life. Both my mom and my sister have said they were surprised at how well I recall things from my past.

It's more like I "feel" I'm there though, and I know who was there, what items and such. I'm in my mid 40s, and could easily talk for several hours about when I was 4-6, for example, recalling events from that time.

Of course some are a bit more fuzzy than others, but most memories capture the salient points.

The weird thing is that if I see a name of someone I know, I don't picture them in my head, but if I see a face I've seen before, even briefly, I usually always recognize them. I'm terrible with names though.
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-06 01:13:51+00:00
This is exactly what I experience, and for me, this is a huge issue when it comes to 'selling myself', whether it is in an interview, or writing a self-assessment for a review.

And just like the author, I couldn't answer questions about hard problems that I've solved, until someone pointed out a moment where I did something they would call an achievements.

Now, at that moment I have the right references. It is still hard to talk about it as an achievement, but at least the recollection is there.

And just like the author, I have an excellent spatial memory, remembering roads and direction, and the ability to use that to recall other details.

I wonder how much of this is related with having ADHD, which often makes things feel like you're merely a spectator in your own mind. While I was never hungry as a child, and had access to a good education, the situation with between my parents had a lasting impact on me.
by rsfern | 2025-06-06 01:14:07+00:00
I don’t think so? the double descent phenomenon also occurs in linear models under the right conditions. My understanding of this is that when the effective model capacity is exactly equal to the information in the dataset, there is only one solution that interpolates the training data perfectly, but when the capacity increases far beyond this there are many such interpolating solutions. Apply enough regularization and you are likely to find an interpolating solution that generalizes well
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 01:15:53+00:00
> The root of this problem is the core problem with k-anonymity: there is no way to mathematically, unambiguously determine whether an attribute is an identifier, a quasi-identifier, or a non-identifying sensitive value. In fact, all values are potentially identifying, depending on their prevalence in the population and on auxiliary data that the attacker may have. Other privacy mechanisms such as differential privacy do not share this problem.

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy which alleges to solve this; that is, wiki says that the only attacks are side-channel attacks like errors in the algorithm or whatever.
by wellhome | 2025-06-06 01:17:32+00:00
The anti-detect browser space has essentially become a “bread and butter” necessity — many people with multi-account needs are more than willing to pay for a stable and streamlined experience. Open-source projects that can appeal to these users are great, of course, but once you reach a certain user base, the temptation to commercialize becomes hard to resist (after all, there was a tool that used to promise 1,000 free profiles but later walked back that promise). Hope you can find a sustainable balance in the long run. Big support! (grammar improved by AI)
by fingerlocks | 2025-06-06 01:18:52+00:00
Routing push notifications, telemetry, marketing and promotions, sales analytics, they handle all the internationalization of sales such as currency exchange and local sales laws. They also provide cloud storage for core dumps and other crash logs, persistent iCloud storage for user data, and remote build pipelines. That’s just off the top of my head.

And of course the absolutely massive SDK that makes it easy to build all these apps natively without rolling your own computer vision framework or audio processing engine.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-06-06 01:19:42+00:00
It was a big company that said they'd be fined per day for non-compliance with mass surveillance. Core Secrets etc says that was done by FBI for FISA warrants. So, whoever enforces that.

I dont know the mechanics of it, like jurisdiction. It might be as you say. I just know they and their targets were both clear at different times they could force a company to do it.
by wolrah | 2025-06-06 01:20:04+00:00
I would assume that this is also because Netflix is designing their CDN servers to be tied in to existing ISP networks, so they're using interfaces ISPs of sufficient size will be expected to have.

1.6TbE will surely eventually make it to ISP networks, but probably not any time soon. I'm certainly not an expert in ISP networking, but Wiki doesn't list any real long range variants of 800G or 1.6T being standardized either at the IEEE or vendor levels yet.

For now this is for high-density high-bandwidth cluster networking. Once there are long range variants I'm sure it'll start appearing in tier 1 ISP backbones, then moving down the line from there.

Part of me wants to say we'll never see this sort of speed in the last mile, but at the same time there was a point in my life where I dreamed of having a 128k ISDN line and now I have a five gigabit XGSPON at home from a national provider so who knows what the future brings.
by mtndew4brkfst | 2025-06-06 01:20:27+00:00
Making this point in typed vs untyped debates about Elixir/Erlang specifically has never once lead to either an educational moment or a change of opinion on either side. You know exactly what they meant by that, and you're using a different definition than they are to try to pull a pedantic gotcha. It's snide and unproductive.
by BoorishBears | 2025-06-06 01:21:04+00:00
It doesn't make sense and the co-founder is being an intentionally crappy communicator.

He's trying to paint it as removing access to something everyone gets by default, but in reality it's removing special treatment that they were previously giving Windsurf.

The default Anthropic rate limit tiers don't support something Windsurf sized, and right now getting increased rate limits outside of their predefined tiers is an uphill battle because of how badly they're compute constrained.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 01:22:09+00:00
right, but that is CPU only, there's no "tensor cores" in a GPU getting lit up for that 4t/s. So minimum to actually run deepseek is $2000, and the max is, well it's basically whatever you can afford, based on your needs. if you're only running single prompts at any given time, you only need the number of GPUs that will fit the model plus the context (as i mentioned), at minimum your outlay is going to be on the order of $130,000 in just GPUs.

If i can find it later, as i couldn't find it last night when i replied, there is an article that explains how to start adding consumer GPUs or even 1-2 Nvidia A100 80GB GPUs to the epyc build, to speed that up. I have a vague recollection that can get you up to 20t/s or thereabouts, but don't quote me on that, it's been a while.
by serf | 2025-06-06 01:22:13+00:00
>Why? Claude Code already gives you the option to accept requests permanently going forward. The cost of configuring rules is worse than the cost of just telling Claude Code "yes and you don't need to ask again".

want to see this mode fail catastrophically? write enough CLI stuff w/ python w/ powershell or wsl or some other 'leaky' cli. It will eventually fail a command and then try to pipe a shell command through the python interpreter or a specific PS incantation.

This means that you now need to approve 'git' , and 'python sh git' and 'powershell.exe git' and 'wsl.exe ubuntu git' as separate and independent commands. (I dont remember the shell incantation command so excuse the pseudocode).

That means that for the entire gambit of approvals needed for continued permission for a singular task might be 4x greater than normal -- probably more given that claude is aware of so many different ways to pipe to shell..
by Groxx | 2025-06-06 01:23:08+00:00
I don't believe[1] any of those are part of the MCP protocol - it's essentially "the LLM decided to call it, with X arguments, and will interpret the results however it likes". It's an escape hatch for the LLM to use to do stuff like read a file, not a monitoring system that acts independently and has control over the LLM itself.

(But you could build one that does this, and ask the LLM to call it and give your MCP that data... when it feels like it)

So you'd be using this by telling the LLM to run it when it thinks it's stuck. Or needs human input.

1: I am not anything even approaching deeply knowledgeable about MCP, so please, someone correct me if I'm wrong! There do seem to be some bi-directional messaging abilities, e.g. notification, but to figure out thinking time / token use / etc you would need to have access to the infrastructure running the LLM, e.g. Cursor itself or something.