MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jbreckmckye | 2025-07-27 08:53:59+00:00
> I don't know what universe this SEO-consultant author lives in.

After looking over the author's blog I can see

1. Very high output

2. Lots of AI images

3. Weird writing and editing lapses in several posts

I am moderately confident this post was written with an AI. It may not be totally AI produced, I think the author has probably edited the work, but I think we are mostly debating synthetic content.
by nosianu | 2025-07-27 08:54:27+00:00
Gini does not give a full picture, it is just one measure.

Here is a German podcast on the high quality "Deutschlandfunk".

Headline: "Only the top four percent make it to the top in Germany."

> Despite political upheavals over the past 150 years, Germany's elites have remained the same. Sociologist Michael Hartmann criticizes the fact that only four percent of the population shapes the country. He calls for a quota of working-class children on executive boards.

Same with Germany's schools, my country has one of the worst records when it comes to mixing it up. Those who come from well-educated parents will become well-educated. Society is quite static.

Next, Germany puts the majority of the financial burden of financing the country on incomes from work. Income from capital, or much worse, inheritances, are not even considered, whenever the government needs to plug holes it's going to come from working income.

Also, the number of bad jobs, especially those where even many engineers don't work for the actual employer, but for companies that lend them out, has only risen decade by decade to absurd heights. Employers may claim that is to work around the strict labor laws, that they cannot just fire somebody they don't want, but that is an incomplete statement at best. The entire economy has gone away from stable long-term, even life jobs, to ever more insecure employment. That is part of why our birth-rate has just dropped to new record lows too, there is just too little security and too much uncertainty in one's live these days.

We are also terrible at providing housing, which also depresses the labor market because moving has become risky and costly, there just is no housing no matter where you go, and if you find something it's likely to be much more expensive than what you had.
by jbreckmckye | 2025-07-27 08:55:15+00:00
After looking over the author's blog I can see

1. Very high output

2. Lots of AI images

3. Weird writing and editing lapses in several posts

I am moderately confident this post was written with an AI. It may not be totally AI produced, I think the author has probably edited the work, but I think we are mostly debating synthetic content.
by mzk_pi | 2025-07-27 08:57:24+00:00
Here’s how we name our products:

We always begin with a prayer — a quiet wish for how the future might change through what we’re building.

It’s not just branding. It’s a form of intention: “May this tool help create the kind of world we want to see.”

Sometimes we use words with double meanings, or sounds that evoke multiple layers. But when no name comes, maybe it’s simply not the moment yet.

Wishing you a beautiful spark of insight soon.
by diwank | 2025-07-27 08:57:29+00:00
Exactly!

> It uses two interdependent recurrent modules: a *high-level module* for abstract, slow planning and a *low-level module* for rapid, detailed computations. This structure enables HRM to achieve significant computational depth while maintaining training stability and efficiency, even with minimal parameters (27 million) and small datasets (~1,000 examples).

> HRM outperforms state-of-the-art CoT models on challenging benchmarks like Sudoku-Extreme, Maze-Hard, and the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI), where CoT methods fail entirely. For instance, it solves 96% of Sudoku puzzles and achieves 40.3% accuracy on ARC-AGI-2, surpassing larger models like Claude 3.7 and DeepSeek R1.

Erm what? How? Needs a computer and sitting down.
by aetherspawn | 2025-07-27 08:57:35+00:00
Completely agree about working with companies in the same country so you actually get support, I learnt the hard way and now try and avoid overseas companies for this reason.

Calling out one company in-particular that we just got over an absolute nightmare of a messy divorce with, Freshworks. They are Indian-based, and their support in India treated us like we didn’t have any consumer rights at all after signing their SaaS contract (you know, one of those 1000 page things you have to sign when starting any random SaaS) and starting sending us random ludicrous invoices and refusing to ie downgrade the number of subscription seats or switch from annual to monthly billing, claiming that because we didn’t give them 60 days notice of reduction in seats we had to pay a whole year for the extra users blah blah blah, which might be legal in India, but is completely illegal in Australia.
by jdietrich | 2025-07-27 08:59:20+00:00
I get there's old timers flying their tail wheels from the 1950s that don't have any electrical components

Frustratingly, the FAA hasn't certified a straightforward solution to this problem. Here in the UK, we can use a fully standalone ADS-B transceiver that requires no permanent installation. After a rebate from the CAA, it costs about $500.

https://uavionix.com/general-aviation/skyecho/
by nirui | 2025-07-27 08:59:23+00:00
> We don’t need more “alternatives” to the cloud. We need a shift in architecture—from platform-centric to protocol-centric systems.

Nice idea, but that alone is not enough.

The POP3/SMTP protocol is still a server-client based model, and such model naturally gravitates towards centralized systems which leads to the problem we're facing today.

In my opinion, to encourage self-sovereignty, a protocol should decouple the creator and the publisher. The information created by the creator can be published on multiple publisher platforms selected/directed by the creator.

And ideally the creator should be able to directly sharing information with other creators too, like a P2P system. This should also help reduce the risk of information leaking thus more secure.

The protocol also needs to be flexible enough that it can adopt the needs of more modern users too, otherwise you'll found yourself back at the start line few years later.

P.S. If you think this comment is very empty, that's because it is. I've observed quite a few P2P based protocols over these years failing to gain popularity... this is one of the things really hard to get it right. I don't know how to do it, and many way smarter people also failed to do it. So, yeah, that's why this comment is so empty. But hey, if you can get it right, maybe they should give you a Nobel or something.
by mrtksn | 2025-07-27 09:01:11+00:00
Good framing but IMHO it’s a bit like thinking by analogy.

Last time, USA was behind in space race and they didn’t just use what they already had to go to the moon, instead they started a huge movement that inspired and educated generations of scientist and engineers. this redeemed all the issues with cutting services from other places to go to the moon.

This time around, it looks like a desperate attempt to do something that worked in the past and looks impressive on face value, but it’s actually empty inside.

Last time, huge number of people were provided with resources and education that had outstanding impact on America, much much more than the act of landing on the moon did by itself.

This time you get resources directed to a generation of hateful people and sex offenders who use the already available technology to produce a show.
by poisonborz | 2025-07-27 09:01:43+00:00
The base premise was already bent: sell access to community-uploaded material. I know Google Maps does this on a much grander scale but at least the data is more or less accessible for everyone.

I wonder why there aren't popular free/open projects that do what Komoot does. What they did above the contributions seem to be doable by a dedicated group or a nonprofit.
by barrkel | 2025-07-27 09:02:01+00:00
If you want to hide the LLM tells better, you need more consistent combing. E.g. "hasn’t", "they’ve", "wouldn’t", "“natural” and “synthetic”" all use curly quotes, but other parts use straight quotes. Somebody tapping away at a keyboard will probably be consistent instead.

Another big tell is the total overuse of antithesis. ChatGPT is cringy for this. "Not this, but that". I counted six instances of antithesis in your message. There were also three instances of hypophora, another beloved of essay generators.
by _dark_matter_ | 2025-07-27 09:04:46+00:00
I disagree, YMCA lessons are not accessible. First off, you don't know what level your child is, and I remember being stressed trying to read our Ys website to understand what the levels meant. This is important because 2, the classes fill very quickly. You have to know what you want and sign up as soon as they're available. And finally, the classes are at very specific times, which certainly do not work for all working parents schedules. For example, it will just be tue or Thur at 5:45pm. If you can't make that you are SOL.
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by IncreasePosts | 2025-07-27 09:05:21+00:00
It makes sense if you realize that there's no certainty a sale will go through and you don't want to pause all operations with the blind hope that a sale will happen

Having said that, if someone just joined before the sale and is laid off, they should get a generous layoff package similar to longer term employees since they may have just quit a job to go there and are now back on the market.
by jimbo808 | 2025-07-27 09:06:25+00:00
Do you remember when a President of the United States was impeached for an affair with an adult intern?

Do you remember when a Republican presidential nominee defended his opponent from a racist question at a Republican Rally, calling him a "decent family man?"

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Then, can you think of a time when a POTUS committed a pump a security he was selling, only to dump it immediately after his inauguration, and it it was barely talked about at at all?
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by pyman | 2025-07-27 09:08:38+00:00
Regulators are fed up with billionaires in the US turning a blind eye to porn just to make more money off it, even if kids can get around the restrictions. Look at Elon Musk, one of the first things he did after buying Twitter was open the floodgates, letting anyone upload or search for porn without any proper safeguards.

Reddit shows porn to kids too, as long as they tick the "Show mature (18+) content" box. Same with Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Facebook, and the rest.

The only apps that don't seem to turn a blind eye are Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat. Epic Games and Roblox also do a great job, both have strong moderation teams and built-in tools to protect younger users. Every company should use them as examples. They've shown it's possible to build huge platforms without ignoring the safety of kids online.

Now that the UK forced these reckless billionaires to update their software to comply with the rules, every government should do the same.
by ashvardanian | 2025-07-27 09:09:08+00:00
It’s true that they compare to different Intel CPUs in different parts of the webpage, and I don’t always understand the intentions behind those comparisons.

Still, if you decode the unreadable footnotes 2 & 3 in the bottom of the page - a few things stand out: avoiding AMX, using CPUs with different core-counts & costs, and even running on a different Linux kernel version, which may affect scheduling…
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-27 09:09:39+00:00
* A media player with playlist of local media that executes in a web browser.

* proxies for http and WebSockets. Apache made this challenging and I thought I could do it better. I can now spin up servers in seconds and serve http and WebSockets on the same port

* tools to test dns, http, WebSockets, hashes, certificate creation, and more
by chii | 2025-07-27 09:09:55+00:00
> unthinkable that everyone would have their own desktop computer at some point

it was unthinkable not because people didn't want it, but that it costed too much back then. Half a mil for a microcomputer that took up a room?!

Current self-hosting requirements are similarly expensive - time and money. If someone were to sell an appliance for which you could just plug into the outlet, and you get it all, then it would be pretty good. Like a washing machine.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-27 09:09:56+00:00
Two of the reasons I eventually gave up on Desktop Linux, were virtualization getting good enough for just keep using Windows instead, back in the day with VMware Workstation and Virtual Box, nowadays with WSL (macOS is anyway UNIX enough for me to care otherwise).

And exactly the same experience with OEM vendors that were supposed to be Linux friendly, on my case the whole netbooks effort, where graphics, video decoding and wlan never worked as well on Windows, even though they were supposed to.

Dell XPS also had their issues for something that was supposed to be Canonical certified as running GNU/Linux properly.

It seems Android, ChromeOS and WebOS are the only ones where OEMs actually care to make it work properly, naturally the cloud and IoT vendors with their custom distros as well.
by Theodores | 2025-07-27 09:12:29+00:00
The massive dataset, the GRIB, is either free or close to free if you get the US version but is expensive if you get the UK version. I appreciate your point that a fair price should be charged but you can't compete with free.

The UK government has made questionable decisions over the years regarding what it does, personally I think the government has no business making cars (British Leyland) or making planes (Concorde). But weather is important to the realm and a fair candidate to be funded by the taxpayer but with that data also being free.

It would be nice to think that uses of weather data are going to be life saving things, but the applications fall off quickly once you have the farmers and the sailors sorted out with what they need. You soon go from this to betting on horses and whether the ground will favour particular horses.

As for the example of selling deckchairs or umbrellas, consumer spending is what drives Western economies, like it or not.

Not all public goods have to benefit everyone, but there does have to be a clear distinction between what is best provided as a public good by government and what is best left to the private sector.
by Retr0id | 2025-07-27 09:13:44+00:00
> One thing I've noticed is that when I post something here I know for a fact but that isn't common wisdom, nobody believes me.

No, you're just wrong.

> It doesn't though

It does on Android. hardware-backed safetynet attestation can be required, as a mater of policy. Many things do not require it though, for aforementioned reasons.

See https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity/verdicts...

"MEETS_DEVICE_INTEGRITY: The app is running on a genuine Play Protect certified Android-powered device. On Android 13 and higher, there is hardware-backed proof that the device bootloader is locked and the loaded Android OS is a certified device manufacturer image."

> you can get banned from the eShop if you jailbreak your Nintendo Switch

Nintendo bans for a bunch of things, but the act of jailbreaking alone is not one of them. They are known to ban you from online services if they detect you cheating in online multiplayer, or if their telemetry detects game piracy.

If they locked you out of playing legitimate physical games for the act of jailbreaking, that would probably be illegal in a lot of jurisdictions. It would also be strategically silly, because a jailbroken console could just pirate the games anyway.
by pseudo0 | 2025-07-27 09:15:27+00:00
The problem with those stats for Ireland is that the Gini coefficient measured by the World Bank just looks at household income, not wealth. Much of the inequality in Ireland in the last few decades has been driven by the explosion in property prices and rents. This has created a great deal of inequality between people who benefited from the rapid increase in price of those assets, and the people stuck paying much higher rents. In roughly a generation (30 years) property prices have increased by roughly 600% after adjusting for inflation.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QIEN628BIS
by tonyhart7 | 2025-07-27 09:18:35+00:00
NASA should launch internet sattellite like starlink so they can profit off something but its too late

I think the thinking that government body is not for profit is misleading since you want a bit of independence in terms on financial budget

see what happen when government change stance, NASA hiring and firing depends on political mood at the point

having an profitable business wouldn't make NASA cut the job if government decide to cut the budget
by sneak | 2025-07-27 09:20:59+00:00
One thing I’ve been doing lately is storing data on SSDs or raid0s of SSDs, then running continuous backups of changed files to a slow HDD. I don’t have single-transaction data safety requirements and the window in which I can lose data is very small, given that the backups run continuously.

This is so much faster than these hyper-vigilant HA setups, too, while being quite a bit cheaper (the HDDs can be in a different box or building, or be Glacier, or whatever).
by TylerE | 2025-07-27 09:22:33+00:00
To be clear, we're actually talking about two separate things, they both just use an iPad.

You're talking about what's known as an electronic flight bag, which is using a tablet as a replacement for paper maps and charts. This is legal and has been for some time.

What I and Animats are talking about is running an app on a ipad as a "replacement" for equipment or training that is required for safe, legal, operation. NOT legal.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-07-27 09:22:37+00:00
They want to fix the online hack that allows people to create their own sub culture and become financially independent with it

It is only just about controlling people, has nothing to do with porn

Otherwise they'd go after Valve for empowering and facilitating the biggest legal (disguised) online gambling market to minors (counter strike case gambling, steam cards and the whole marketplace)

Again, this is all about controlling individuals, they do not care about anything else, you can drink 1000L of Vodka a week, they won't care about your insignificant life

They have an agenda (digital wallet/ID), they'll do what ever it takes to make it happen
by rockskon | 2025-07-27 09:22:48+00:00
NASA has been downsizing a lot.

Friend of mine is a contractor for NASA who has been trained as a parts engineer for sourcing and testing electronic components that go into satellites and spacecrafts will be out of a job in a few months as her entire branch is eliminating all contractor positions.

Now she has a specialized skillset that isn't very readily transferable to other local companies and industries.

Sucks. Can't imagine she's the only one from NASA facing this crisis.
by lispitillo | 2025-07-27 09:22:52+00:00
I hope/fear this HRM model is going to be merged with MoE very soon. Given the huge economic pressure to develop powerful LLMs I think this can be done in just a month.

The paper seems to only study problems like sudoku solving, and not question answering or other applications of LLMs. Furthermore they omit a section for future applications or fusion with current LLMs.

I think anyone working in this field can envision their applications, but the details to have a MoE with an HRM model could be their next paper.

I only skimmed the paper and I am not an expert, sure other will/can explain why they don't discuss such a new structure. Anyway, my post is just blissful ignorance over the complexity involved and the impossible task to predict change.

Edit: A more general idea is that Mixture of Expert is related to cluster of concepts and now we would have to consider a cluster of concepts related by the time they take to be grasped, so in a sense the model would have in latent space an estimation of the depth, number of layers, and time required for each concept, just like we adapt our reading style for a dense math book different to a newspaper short story.
by can16358p | 2025-07-27 09:22:52+00:00
So if I follow 1000 people,

I make 1000 requests every time I open the app or refresh my feed?

Also not everyone can be on a stable connection with a public IP address with good upload speeds 7/24. In the ideal world: sure. In the real world: impossible (at least for any foreseeable near future).
by nosianu | 2025-07-27 09:24:02+00:00
I checked and found some numbers from Australia (they fly a lot down there, and use similar airplanes).

Rotax engines were not worse than Lycoming or Continental ones, 1 in 36 vs. 1 in 35. Japiru engines were the bad outlier.

"Engine failures and malfunctions in light aeroplanes 2009 - 2014"

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/2013/ar-2013-107_resear...

The relevant excerpt, paragraph breaks added:

"Over the 6-year study period between 2009 and 2014, 322 engine failures or malfunctions involving light aircraft were reported to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and/or Recreational Aviation Australia (RA-Aus). These reports involved single-engine piston aeroplanes up to 800 kg maximum take-off weight.

Aircraft powered by Jabiru engines were involved in the most engine failures or malfunctions with 130 reported over the 6 years. This represents about one in ten aircraft powered by Jabiru engines in the study set having reported an engine failure or malfunction.

Reports from Rotax powered aircraft were the next most common with 87 (one in 36), followed by aircraft with Lycoming (58 – one in 35) and Continental (28 – one in 35) engines.

When factoring in the hours flown for each of these engine manufacturers, aircraft with Jabiru engines had more than double the rate of engine failure or malfunction than any other of the manufacturers in the study set with 3.21 failures per 10,000 hours flown."

(When you read on, it appears the Jabiru engine was improved and now has less failures)