MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-07-15 22:37:22+00:00
You seem to be part of a trend where most humans are defined as unintelligent - there are remarkably few people out there capable of formulating novel algorithms or physics hypothesises. Novels there are a few more if we admit unreadable slop produced by people who really should choose careers other than writing. It speaks to the progress that machines have made that traditional tests of intelligence, like holding a conversation or doing well on an undergraduate-level university test, apparently no longer measure anything of importance related to intelligence.

If we admit that even relatively stupid humans show some levels of intelligence, as far as I can tell we've already achieved artificial intelligence.
by Lu2025 | 2025-07-15 22:37:45+00:00
This made me thinking about broader optical corrections. I got an iPhone 16, and the photos look overprocessed. There is a cartoonish HD-like feel to them. I understand where developers are coming from: our eyes have higher dynamic range than cameras so HDR is closer to what we see but still... it doesn't sit right with me. I still remember when my family switched from black and white TV to a color one. It was an instant improvement and no adjustment period was needed. But HDR as a default looks strange.
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2025-07-15 22:37:49+00:00
It's not the cost itself. 40 PERCENT of GDP went toward war production in the 1940s. Almost half of everything we produced was to win the war. The other 60 percent largely went to feeding and clothing and housing the people working on the war effort, and keeping the lights on, etc. since they were no longer producing those things.

Everyone in the whole society was literally working on the same thing toward the same goal at the same time. There's simply no comparison with that to anything we've experienced since then. That kind of thing can't be measured in dollars.
by neuroelectron | 2025-07-15 22:39:00+00:00
I'm surprised it was really considered mystery. My grandparents told me straight up, who had four children, that the reason that had such a large family is because they were supposed to. It was their patriotic duty. Did this zeitgeist get lost a time or is it now some sort of secret? Perhaps it's not politically correct the point out that actually, people, there is a class of people who determine what we're supposed to believe. Just like I grew up thinking computers were cool just when we needed a lot of software developers, right before my career was outsourced to H-1Bs.

I suppose it makes sense. It's not like there's any single place that documented where we're all agreeing about what we're supposed to believe. After all, nobody has a date where we all decided that hackers were really cool and awesome.
by overgard | 2025-07-15 22:39:05+00:00
>I think this is both right and wrong. There was a good book that came out probably 15 years ago about how technology never stops in aggregate, but individual technologies tend to grow quickly and then stall. Airplane jets were one example in the book. The reason why I partially note this as wrong is that even in the 70s people recognized that supersonic travel had real concrete issues with no solution in sight. I don't think LLMs share that characteristic today.

I don't see any solution to hallucinations, nor do I see any solution in sight. I think that could count as a concrete issue that would stop them.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-07-15 22:39:12+00:00
The mere presence does seem to a offend. HN has what seems to be on average a more negative appraisal of AI than the industry average (based on where new software jobs/funding are going), but some of the comments I read seem to imply that this page is swamped by endless AI hype posts devoid of substance.

My first instinct reading these comments is "are we on the same website?", but I realize their perspective is possibly skewed by a strong visceral dislike of AI as an affront to many fundamental things they like about software and tech. It's become a tribal conflict, based on the ethos of "whose side are you on" rather than a sober appraisal of the facts, benefits, and legitimate hazards.
by jasperry | 2025-07-15 22:39:29+00:00
Okay, I'll bite. ML did not mostly die, it morphed into two main dialects, SML and OCaml. OCaml is still going strong, and it's debatable whether SML is mostly dead.

My main beef, however, is that the last sentence in the section seems to suggest that the birth of Haskell killed SML on the vine because suddenly everybody only wanted pure, lazy FP. That's just wrong. The reality is that these two branches of Functional Programming (strict/impure and lazy/pure) have continued to evolve together to the present day.
by dekhn | 2025-07-15 22:39:42+00:00
To take the question further: do outdoor pools need to close for lightning? Note that the article mentions 5-10 people die in the US every year from lightning while close to bodies of water. I have looked into this before and struggled to find evidence that people swimming in outdoor pools die at any measurable rate due to lightning (but I don't know the base rate of people swimming in outdoor pools who get out when there is lightning). Put another way: is this a true risk, or an action we take because it seems prudent, even if we don't have the supporting data?
by rcxdude | 2025-07-15 22:40:15+00:00
The basic idea of an antimeme is an idea that doesn't want to be spread or perpetuated. A secret is an example of an antimeme that actually exists, so I would say communication of the idea would also in principle be resisted. But creepy, wild sci-fi needs to go with 'what if that, but even more so?'. (though, I would also say a pure antimeme would be completely self-extinguishing. Actually the way these sci-fi antimemes work is closer to how e.g. real-life secret societies operate(d). There's a secret, and it is perpetuated within the group, but it's carefully guarded from widespread knowledge. The sci-fi idea is that the knowledge itself basically does this, somehow, to any entity not in the in-group, where the in-group is frequently non-human, maybe non-organic/non-sentient)
by tptacek | 2025-07-15 22:40:28+00:00
It's interesting and kind of neat in an inside-baseball way that the standard Go cryptographic library (already unusual in the major languages for being a soup-to-nuts implementation rather than wrappers around an OpenSSL) is almost fully NIST-validated; in particular, it means vendors who want to sell into FedGov can confidently build with the Go standard library.

Having said all this: nobody should be using crypto/fips140 unless they know specifically why they're doing that. Even in its 140-3 incarnation, FIPS 140 is mostly a genuflection to FedGov idiosyncrasies.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-15 22:41:12+00:00
With a 1 year warranty (as seen on Newegg's $600 drives), I might just chance it for the refurbs.

28TB for $350, with a 6 month warranty, is wildly good. https://www.ebay.com/itm/236112931239

There's so much insanely awesome tech in these drives. "12nm integrated controller" (meh ok). nanophotonic laser (fancy led?). photonic funnel. superlattice platinum-alloy media. plasmonic writer. quantum antenna. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/new-hamr-las...

> In HAMR HDDs, the nanophotonic laser diode heats tiny portions of drive media to temperatures of 400°C ~ 450°C to reduce its magnetic coercivity before the plasmonic writer writes data to this area.

I get that it's a very very small area. I am curious though how power consumption compares!

It's crazy how far ahead Seagate has gotten. WD and Toshiba haven't been making anywhere near the progress, it feels like. Exos drives are crazy high performance and stunningly affordable.
by benbridle | 2025-07-15 22:41:13+00:00
You're right, it's technically true of any program, but it wouldn't necessarily be practical. Implementing CPython on a Gameboy Advance, for example, would be tedious and likely not entirely possible.

The purpose of Bedrock was to make a system that is easy to implement on as many computer systems as possible. I've got plans to make a working system from a 64KB RAM chip and a $2 PIC12F1572 8-bit microcontroller (2K memory, 6mW power, 8 pins), just to see how far down I can take it.
by standardUser | 2025-07-15 22:41:21+00:00
The tiny period of time that allowed some men in the wealthiest parts of the world to purchase property and support a family of 4+ on a single salary was an anomaly. It was a macroeconomic fluke, forever lost to the specific place and time that allowed it to briefly flourish.

There's a chance a highly-automated future could reduce our neccesary working hours to those boomtime levels. But the one thing that will absolutely, positively not bring back prosperous single-earner households is forcing manufacturing back into the center of an information economy while at the same time fighting relentlessly to squash labor unions or any other attempts at worker power.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-15 22:41:26+00:00
Calories in Calories out, but that is only accurately calculable if you have an accurate idea of how many calories you are sending out, and if you are obese or formerly obese, the online calculators are likely not accurate for you at all.

One thing that is overlooked is that losing weight can permanently or at least semi-permanently decrease BMR, your Basal Metabolic Rate.

Your BMR is the calories you burn just to be alive, and is the foundation of almost every calorie counting system in the world.

At my worst, as a 33 year old 250lb 6'1" man, my BMR was at 1,836 Calories/day when it should have been at 2,133 Calories/day as diagnosed by a dexa scan and calorimetry test.

A 300 calorie a day decrease in my BMR from losing 100 lbs meant that I have to either find a way to increase my total metabolic burn or I have to permanently cut almost an entire meal from my diet for the rest of my life.

This was helpful and harmful in a way. It explained why when I was eating 500 calories a day under what my calculator said I should be eating I was barely losing a pound or two a month instead of a pound a week like I should have.

I was also tired and hungry all of the time, no energy, irritable and unhappy because so much weight loss had changed the way I function.

But when I quit the diet, I put on weight like crazy. I put on like 20 lbs in a couple of weeks and I didn't eat that much more than usual.

I've been checked for thyroid issues and diabetes, fortunately clear there, just a literally slowed metabolism as a consequence of losing 100 lbs.

There are things I can do to speed it back up, like going to the gym and putting on as much muscle as possible, but that also takes time and effort and work and it requires overeating and gaining weight at the same time.

Basically, once you're on a diet, you're always on a diet for the rest of your life, and the more weight you lose, the harder it becomes to lose weight if your metabolism is altered by your diet in the process.

If you're having trouble losing weight, get a Dexa scan and calorimetry test. That will identify where the fat is in your body and how many calories your body burns just sitting there doing nothing.

Once you have that data you can more accurately plan your diet to stay close to the 500 calorie/day limit to healthily lose weight. Just make sure you get re-scanned every 20 lbs or 6 months, it's not that expensive and gives you good information.
by tsunamifury | 2025-07-15 22:41:40+00:00
you seem to be profoundly confused Adam Curtis is a leading thinker in documentarian of our time and widely recognized in continental philosophy. The fact that you tried to dismiss him as a TV show shows you seem to be completely naïve about the topic you’re speaking about.

Second, I’m not being nasty to atheists and speaking specifically about not having false gods which if anything is a somewhat atheistic perspective

Honestly, what are you trying to say?
by echelon | 2025-07-15 22:41:59+00:00
I think that you're right and that this is one of the predominant reasons for declining child births.

I think that if I were a woman that I would personally choose career or personal life first before having children, all other things in my life held equal. I have a lot invested in those things, they're here and tangible, and they bring me joy.

Media says that it's the economy, but I've never once believed that to be the leading factor. People had babies when they didn't have fresh food, running water, or even homes. Certainly far worse lives than we have today.

Peter Zeihan, whose YouTube prognostications seem iffy, likes to call children "expensive furniture". They were useful labor on the farm a hundred years ago, but in small apartments they can be a real nuisance.

Modern parenting is wild - there are too many rules and regulations and things just have to be just perfect to have a kid. Our great grandparents just had them all over the place and would let them roam around in the wilderness. Today we have to coddle and bubble wrap, sign them up for classes, take them places. Just thinking about it seems stressful.

At the same time, we've got these little dopamine cubes in our pockets that are taking our time away from socializing and dating and meeting people. It takes time and deliberation to find someone to settle down and commit to raising "expensive furniture" with for the next twenty years. You can just keep scrolling your feed and filling life with experiences.

Perhaps instead it's that the modern life creates the perception that something different or exciting could be just around the corner - like a kind of hedonistic treadmill, or wishful longing. Our ancestors just accepted their fate and lived their short lives. We have too many things taking our time and attention, and everything has to be "perfect" before we commit.

Not making any value judgments here, just stating observations.
by boston_clone | 2025-07-15 22:42:06+00:00
so stuff like this?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-te...

legality is not a strong argument for morality. still, we have constitutional protections against things like warrantless search and seizure, which many would argue that these activities violate.

edited to add - you said, "Judgements [sic] come from judges, not journalists". however, this reporting - like other good investigative journalism - could lead to a suit from EFF or ACLU to stop this from happening.

See also: "California Department of Justice Declares Out-of-State Sharing of License Plate Data Unlawful" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/victory-california-dep...
by wahern | 2025-07-15 22:42:13+00:00
The word, sandbox, is unfortunate and obfuscates alot of practical technical and policy issues involved with managing and dropping privileges. And various solutions are often designed around technical limitations in kernel facilities or and integration friction, especially outside App Store-like contexts.

More concretely, how would you refactor a tool like grep? It takes a list of paths on the command-line; how do you expect to "sandbox" itself such that it can only access those paths? By writing a wrapper? Why, when the utility itself could easily use unveil or LandLock to restrict itself?

Using grep in a "sandbox", and teaching grep how to drop unnecessary privileges after processing it's arguments are two different things.
Show HN: Vezeto – Android app for travelers powered by AI
by dujma | 2025-07-15 22:43:04+00:00
During my travels, I often encountered interesting places, while I had trouble finding information about them. The problem was with little-known attractions in smaller towns. In addition, information on the Internet often required translation or I didn't have time to search for articles on my phone to find out more. To improve travel, I developed an app - Vezeto that searches for tourist spots within 5 kilometers. It provides basic information and an AI agent answers questions. There is also a function to select a place on the map to search for tourist attractions. App supports 11 languages.

Please share your feedback

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vezeto.app
by latency-guy2 | 2025-07-15 22:43:24+00:00
> My comment was pointing out that there are multiple possible (probably simultaneous) causes for the jury statistics.

Sure, but this is a non-statement without qualifying anything behind it. You can defeat any argument by claiming its "multi-faceted". Just like how I am doing to you right now, but instead forcing you into the position where you lack evidence to dismiss.
by khurs | 2025-07-15 22:44:12+00:00
Fix the money aspect

1. Fix Family Courts

Western Family courts are based on biblical punishment (divorce is bad and a sin, nuclear family is good, must punish sin). And extreme Christian crazy Judges falsify outcomes routinely, hence why they are hiding behind closed doors.

Leaving men broke and barely seeing their child means the next generations of men know not to marry.

2. Child Support

No sensible safeguards of how it is spent and even if the woman is a high earner the man can be asked to pay 100% of the child costs. So men are very cautious about getting the wrong woman pregnant, as women are financialy incentivised to ensure a child lives as little as possible with the father as that means more money for them. You want a balance between deterrence to unplanned kids and motivation to have kids.

Generations of men have seen what happens/been told this/social media and they are more wary.

Many relationships and marriages fail. It needs to be normalised and the lunatic Christian extremists need to be put away.
by sneak | 2025-07-15 22:44:18+00:00
What good timing. I am gearing up for a 1.0 release of a tool I wrote that stores secrets on disk (sort of like a local hashicorp vault/aws secrets manager) that uses age internally.

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret

It has a tiered architecture where several different types of “unlockers” can access the main vault key. I haven’t added passkey support yet but it does do gpg and macOS keychain, and secure enclave support is planned (but delayed due to the fact that you cannot use the secure enclave even on a local device you own without a paid/doxxed Apple Developer Program membership for the correct entitlements).
by rpdillon | 2025-07-15 22:44:31+00:00
> Rather than aiming for the unique, which might pierce our haze of distraction, art has succumbed to marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, soporific streams of Netflix content. Fashion capitalizes on a long tail of generic looks: we all wear Doc Martens but no one is actually goth. Image generators churn out ersatz versions of da Vinci and van Gogh. And, in every case, banal commentary is slowly occluding the art, seeping into it in boldface titles or explainers that speak over the sound or cover the image.

It's the degradation of our media, in the sense that it's factory-produced, which is in stark contrast to the media folks were consuming 40 years ago. I'm not dogmatic that it's fundamentally worse (despite my framing), but it does lack the depth of older media, IMO.
by haunter | 2025-07-15 22:44:48+00:00
So personally I like films that makes me feel something without that feeling being explicitly forced upon me. This is an incredible thing to achieve that only a select few directors can do. Not “baiting” the viewers into emotions but also not being cold at the same time. Just by showing and how do they show it. Like the case of “a picture is worth a thousand words”. It’s a razor thin line but that makes these films I enjoy special and sincere.

(I'll only mentions stuff from the 21st century because otherwise I'd sit here for days)

I love japanese cinema so I'm very biased towards films from there.

- The Taste of Tea (2004) from Katsuhito Ishii

- Nobody Knows (2004) from Hirokazu Kore-eda

- Tony Takitani (2004) from Jun Ichikawa

- Memories of Matsuko (2006) from Tetsuya Nakashima

- Departures (2008) from Yojiro Takita

- Still Walking (2008) from Hirokazu Kore-eda

- Tokyo Sonata (2008) from Kiyoshi Kurosawa

- One Million Yen Girl (2008) from Yuki Tanada

- Haru’s Journey (2010) from Masahiro Kobayashi

- Story of Yonosuke (2013) from Shuichi Okita

- Shoplifters (2018) from Hirokazu Kore-eda

- Drive My Car (2021) from Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

Two korean film I've really liked

- The Handmaiden (2016) from Park Chan-wook

- Pieta (2012) from Kim Ki-duk

A chinese film I've seen recently and it was pretty good

- Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014) from Diao Yi-nan

Iranian films are incredibly good and crazy what they could make despite the situation there

- A Separation (2011) from Asghar Farhadi

- Taxi (2015) from Jafar Panahi

- The Salesman (2016) from Asghar Farhadi

- There Is No Evil (2020) from Mohammad Rasoulof

- My Favourite Cake (2024) from Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha

Some european films I've enjoyed

- Enter the Void (2009) from Gaspar Noé

- Leviathan (2014) from Andrey Zvyagintsev

- Alcarràs (2022) from Carla Simón

- Fallen Leaves (2023) from Aki Kaurismäki

And last but not least some actual Hollywood films that I think are pretty good

- The Tree of Life (2011) from Terrence Malick

- Cloud Atlas (2012) from Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski

- First Reformed (2017) from Paul Schrader

- Nickel Boys (2024) from RaMell Ross
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-15 22:45:09+00:00
This honestly reminds me of the crypto days from 2017-2021ish.

Literally 80% of the posts were about crypto and how we were going to experience some ground shattering revolution. There were so many posts about how all the topics are about crypto and how it is annoying.

Ultimately, all that noise and the billions of dollars poured into that turned into a meme if we're honest. Most people just buy/flip crypto or hold BTC that they'll sell when they double it after a year.

AI in LLM form is at least useful in many ways and in front of millions of people without any rugpulls and other shit, but due to their inherent limitations (doesn't matter how much python it writes and executes, half the time or more its wrong for any actual/meaningful work) I think the hype will settle in the next couple of years.
by RandomBacon | 2025-07-15 22:46:42+00:00
They should fix bugs.

Computer A:

Sometimes I cannot close tabs by clicking the X, or refresh/go-forward/go-back using the buttons next to the address bar.

Computer B:

Sometimes I get downloads that have "Unknown time left" (0 bytes/sec) when the X of X KB/MB is 100% and you can't remove it from the downloads dropdown.

I just discovered a new bug on Computer B, clicking the hamburger menu doesn't do anything.

Both are Ubuntu.

(I'm not a fan of the new menu in Firefox Beta for Android. I guess it looks nicer due to the greater whitespace, it just break muscle memory and has less options/selections.)
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-15 22:46:48+00:00
> between the mid-1930s and mid-1950s, the US maternal death rate fell by 94 percent

that’s it

so basically very few people - as in both partners - were consciously planning kids, they were just having sex, but the irresponsibility was curbed by nature, sanitation, as many of the resulting children died.

of the people that were planning children, they also has to hedge with many dead children, but suddenly they were all living

so now people had to plan for the consequences and post 1950s the planning resulted in real practical choices, where people realized they dont want children.

people never wanted the consequences of having children or many children. the history corroborates this. when both parties are now choosing

the incentives haven’t helped for that reason

the incentives are all based on the assumption that family planning is difficult and out of reach. merely delaying something desired, when they just won’t accept that most of has just don’t want children and never did.

we still have sex. the decline in that amongst always single people is new, just the last several years. couples do the things that make children all the time, and just don’t get pregnant or output children.