MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sellmesoap | 2025-07-17 20:12:46+00:00
I remember early on in the clone wars hearing that Intel was strong arming motherboard manufacturers with delayed chipset availably if you also happened to make compatible kit for competitors. Now at the time I was funding my computer purchases with a paper route so it was always going to be AMD (cost/performance) but the scuttlebutt made buying AMD seem like the rebel/moral move.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-17 20:12:58+00:00
Be sure you want to inhibit Imidazole propionate before you do so. It is know to inhibit prostate cancer. And here is a littel secret, it is kind of spoken about quietly that most people who have family history of heart disease have lower rates of cancer and visa versa.

Microbially produced imidazole propionate impairs prostate cancer progression through PDZK1 https://molmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s10020-025...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78787-4 There exists a statistically substantial inverse association between angina pectoris and lung cancer (β = − 0.118, p = 0.001), breast cancer (β = − 0.049, p = 0.029), and colorectal cancers (β = − 0.152, p = 0.003). A noteworthy inverse correlation was observed between heart attack and lung cancer

Also Imidazole propionate is metabolized by bacteria from histidine. And Histidine turns into Histamine withe the help of B6 via Histidine decarboxylase.

So maybe people with heart disease need B6?

Vitamin B6 and cardiovascular disease https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22116704/

So it is personal choice, but you have to know the choices. Many things deplete B6, alcohol being one opf them.
by aaroninsf | 2025-07-17 20:13:18+00:00
They might however "nod off" in consequence of losing control during risk-taking activities and being subjected to high Gs.

Whether "medical event" was prior to or resulted from risk-taking adventure,

and hence culpability, will await forensics I imagine. If those are possible.

That determination aside however,

risk-taking that puts others at risk (e.g., flying over other people) is morally and in many jurisdictions legally prohibited for obvious reasons.
by floam | 2025-07-17 20:13:18+00:00
It does. You can use it directly on iOS 26 beta - without writing a line of code I can toy with the on-device model through Shortcuts on my 16 Pro. It’s not meant to be a general purpose chatbot… but it can work as a general purpose chatbot in airplane mode which is a novel experience.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/018AYAPEm06ALXciiJAsLGyuA

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f9IzuYQwmhLIcUIhIuDiudFw

The above took like 3 seconds to generate. That little box that says On-device can be flipped between On-device, Private Cloud Compute, and ChatGPT.

Their LLM uses the ANE sipping battery and leaves the GPU available.
by ta8645 | 2025-07-17 20:13:54+00:00
No, you're not understanding what an oxymoron is. An oxymoron is a figure of speech where two contradictory or opposing terms are put together, like "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence."

In the phrase "survive just fine," the words "survive" and "just fine" are not contradictory. "Survive" means to continue existing or to endure a difficult situation, and "just fine" means adequately or without problems. Together, they suggest the organization will continue to exist without serious trouble, which is a coherent and logical statement—not contradictory.
by karaterobot | 2025-07-17 20:14:37+00:00
They didn't start tracking in 1983, the numbers I linked start in 1971. The trend line is pretty much the same from 1971 to 1983 as it is from 1983 to 2006. In any case, a skeptical person would not look at that graph and say that there was a successful effort to improve childhood literacy represented on it.

It's true that we don't know the counterfactual: it's possible literacy would have plummeted precipitously starting in 1984 if Reading Rainbow hadn't been a bulwark. But I don't find that the most likely explanation, personally.
by ok_dad | 2025-07-17 20:15:09+00:00
Value can be created from nothing, I am sure you can give an example or two, but in general nothing large and valuable is created without the effort of a lot of people together, relying on the societal systems that are funded by taxes.

I suggest that you could count on one hand the number of people in the entire history of humanity who could and would hide this kind of wealth who didn't earn it through somehow relying on others and/or society's structure.
by mandevil | 2025-07-17 20:16:01+00:00
> Presumably, curing a genetic disorder for a very small number of people using existing technology is low risk and low reward.

At the present state of medical understanding, in vivo gene therapy is not low risk, just from a financial perspective, leaving aside the medical risks.

In 2017 the FDA approved Luxterna, the first in vivo gene therapy treatment (it had an original list price of 425,000/eye). It fixed RPE65 associated Retinitis Pigmentosa. This spring J&J announced that their LUMEOS trial had missed its primary endpoint, even though it was basically treating the exact same disease, in the same way, just a different gene (RPGR). But only 22 of the 55 treated patients showed improvements on at least two of their measures, and there was no statistically significant improvement on their primary measure. So this stuff is still very much a financial risk, because we simply don't understand human bodies well enough to predict outcomes in a RCT for gene therapy. And if you have to do a Phase III trial to know whether it works or not, then you are going to be forced to spend a whole lot of money to bring any gene therapy to the market.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-17 20:16:01+00:00
There’s a bias here: video consumption is continuous, somewhat long and eye catching (both the movement on the screen and the focussed-starring position à la "look at the sky!"). Therefore we’re more encline to notice video consumption than other usages like music, navigation or notifications check.

Don’t take me wrong: I do agree that "the vast majority of people use their phones as video viewers", but the duration/day is not uniform and many don’t want/need to carry a half-tablet all day long in case someone shared a tiktok on the messaging group.
by runarberg | 2025-07-17 20:16:14+00:00
I think you might be misunderstanding the purpose of consumer protection. It is not about consumer choice, but rather it is about protecting consumer from the inherent power imbalance that exists between the company and their customers. If there is no way to doing a service for free without harming the customers, this service should be regulated such that no vendor is able to provide this service for free. It may seem punishing for the customers, but it is not. It protects the general public from this harmful behavior.

I actually agree with you that cookie banners are a bad policy, but for a different reason. As I understand it there are already requirements that the same service should also be available to opt-out users, however as your parent noted, enforcement is an issue. I, however, think that tracking users is extremely consumer hostile, and I think a much better policy would be a simple ban on targeted advertising.
by gh0stcat | 2025-07-17 20:16:25+00:00
Just wanted to say that last bit really articulates my feelings as well. However, I think that life is more than just finding success, in the traditional way. I hope that these changes allow for more talent to seep into places where the average employee has no idea how a computer works, let alone can leverage any kind of automation tooling. I think for a long time, there has been a huge disparity between these (at least) two very different cultures of work.
by wferrell | 2025-07-17 20:17:03+00:00
It is not genuine to say that Notion cannot listen in. Notion can listen in. Anytime it wants. Yes on Macs an indicator will be displayed - but not always prominently depending on what other apps/devices are being used (for example using continuity camera)

Source: I built the same listening infrastructure into other meeting note taking apps. Our team spoke at length about this security issue with Apple.
by deeshee | 2025-07-17 20:17:10+00:00
It's great to see even the most hardcore developers who are not fond of change being happy with the latest releases related to AI-assisted development.

My workflow now boils down to 2 tools really - leap.new to go from 0 to 1 because it also generates the backend code w/ infra + deployment and then I pick it up in Zed/Claude Code and continue working on it.
by philipkglass | 2025-07-17 20:17:12+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia (née Vella; 26 August 1964 – 16 October 2017) was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta. She was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers and subsequent assassination by a car bomb. Caruana Galizia focused on investigative journalism, reporting on government corruption, nepotism, patronage, and allegations of money laundering, links between Malta's online gambling industry and organized crime, Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme, and payments from the government of Azerbaijan. Caruana Galizia's national and international reputation was built on her regular reporting of misconduct by Maltese politicians and politically exposed persons.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-17 20:17:33+00:00
>The cognitive burden is much lower when the AI can correctly do 90% of the work. Yes, the remaining 10% still takes effort, but your mind has more space for it.

I think their point is that 10%, 1%, whatever %, the type of problem is a huge headache. In something like a complicated spreadsheet it can quickly become hours of looking for needles in the haystack, a search that wouldn't be necessary if AI didn't get it almost right. In fact it's almost better if it just gets some big chunk wholesale wrong - at least you can quickly identify the issue and do that part yourself, which you would have had to in the first place anyway.

Getting something almost right, no matter how close, can often be worse than not doing it at all. Undoing/correcting mistakes can be more costly as well as labor intensive. "Measure twice cut once" and all that.

I think of how in video production (edits specifically) I can get you often 90% of the way there in about half the time it takes to get it 100%. Those last bits can be exponentially more time consuming (such as an intense color grade or audio repair). The thing is with a spreadsheet like that, you can't accept a B+ or A-. If something is broken, the whole thing is broken. It needs to work more or less 100%. Closing that gap can be a huge process.

I'll stop now as I can tell I'm running a bit in circles lol
by mm263 | 2025-07-17 20:17:54+00:00
Okay, propaganda, sure. Propaganda is a different argument - it compromises the quality of search - and I will happily agree with you. I want to emphasize, that the claim was: using Yandex through Kagi is supporting war criminals. Which war criminals? Which war crimes is Yandex complicit in? I plainly do not accept that propaganda === war crimes.
by delusional | 2025-07-17 20:18:23+00:00
I'm thinking something much more boring than that. Basically I think we could have a conference where a participant could share some problem they are having that they believe generalizes across other participants (maybe some regulatory reporting requirement, or maybe some question about implementing AI in sharepoint or whatever) and the other participants could then sign up for further discussion and participation in creating some software systems that would solve the problem.

I'm thinking something akin to FRONTEX JAD's or that conference the EU has where lawyers show up to discuss cases they need EU assistance with.

Concretely, my company recently did a migration into Azure, if we were at a meeting like that and somebody said they were planning to do the same, we would have a bunch of experience to share with them.

I imagine that could maybe help foster some shared European understanding about what our big tech problems are. Maybe we could even let the solutions end up as open source or something.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-17 20:18:29+00:00
>Billionaires, oligarchs, and other members of the uber rich, known as “elites”

it's a small point but, "elites" usually refers to those with good educational credentials who hold down white collar jobs at universities, newsmedia, law and finance firms, political campaigns, non-profits, etc., jobs they got because their parents know how to help them network and who can afford to pay their rent in major cities while they "pay their dues" as interns in these same organizations. Yes, they do have higher than average incomes, but I heard a great word for them (from a left-leaning source fwiw) who called them "the 19%". They are not the 1%, but they make up the rest of the 20% and they work for the 1%, and though they often have left leaning political ideals, it's human nature to want to defend what you have and feel you earned it, and also to pass it along and take care of your own children's futures. According to this guy, they control 2x the wealth that the 1% controls and flex a lot of political muscle.

Billionaires, oligarchs, and other members of the uber rich are generally referred to as just those things. The people behind this study I would guess are in the 19%, and by labelling the billionaires and oligarchs as elites, unconsciously they shed the shame of being elites themselves (Dartmouth? pure ivy league).
by ok_dad | 2025-07-17 20:19:04+00:00
companies aren't baseball cards, their growth is tied directly to work that the humans in the company do, and they sure are paid for it, but if they were paid a fair share of the company's profits then that increase in share price would evaporate, because the workers would be getting the rewards from the productivity.

In other words, you owe taxes on the capital gains because someone is working to make those gains for you.
by karaterobot | 2025-07-17 20:19:22+00:00
We'd also have to figure out whether children who already loved reading watched Reading Rainbow, or if children who hated reading started liking it after watching. Since nobody has that data, I'll go with the aggregate.

> In other words, I don't believe the data you cited supports a conclusion that the show was ineffective at educating individual viewers.

I don't think it conclusively proves anything, but I do think it supports a skeptical position. The article doesn't cite anything supporting the notion that Reading Rainbow improved childhood literacy, so I'm wondering if you take the position that it did—and if so, on what basis?
by DanHulton | 2025-07-17 20:19:33+00:00
There is almost guaranteed going to be an attack along the lines of prompt-injecting a calendar invite. Those things are millions of lines long already, with tones of auto-generated text that nobody reads. Embed your injection in the middle of boring text describing the meeting prerequisites and it's as good as written in a transparent font. Then enjoy exfiltrating your victim's entire calendar and who knows what else.
by smsm42 | 2025-07-17 20:20:03+00:00
The whole concept of "identity theft" is this. Consider this: some dude D comes to bank B and says "I'm actually John Smith, given me $TONS of money". Bank gives the money and D disappears. Now B comes to actual John Smith and demands the money back. John is like "how it's my fricking fault that you gave your money to some random dude?!" And the bank pulls out the "identity theft" card out - you see, your "identity" got stolen, so now it's your fault for not guarding your "identity" properly, not ours! So now you should spend your time and money to fix it and we will treat you for years as a suspicious character, borderline criminal, for it. A very neat system.
by yorwba | 2025-07-17 20:20:33+00:00
It's more likely that such an architecture would be bigger rather than smaller. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 demonstrated that score-matching diffusion models approximate a process that combines patches from different training images. To build a model that makes use of this fact, all you need to do is look up the right patch in the training data. Of course a model the size of its training data would typically be rather unwieldy to use. If you want something smaller, we're back to approximations created by training the old-fashioned way.
by Havoc | 2025-07-17 20:21:21+00:00
>Is there a good primer on how this kind of offshoring works, for people ?

There isn't. People with deep knowledge of this don't invest their time writing blogs. Bit like OpenAI employees don't write blogs about how to train world class models. It's just not a thing.

There is an abundance of shrill articles by journalists writing about it that derive their knowledge from other articles written by journalists who in turn...

The big tech stuff flowing through Ireland is indeed lets call it convenient for both ireland and big tech, but what people don't realise is that chances are very high that their own pension likely flows through offshore structuring too. These places act as a central neutral clearing house of sorts that is acceptable to a lot of jurisdictions so even actors not after tax evasion use them.
by bredren | 2025-07-17 20:21:27+00:00
It slices, it dices...

Seriously, though. Vassar Robotics (YC company) has an arm kit available for order now. The original ship date for my order just got pushed back due to an upgrade in the camera spec.

It won't be able to hold knives (I don't think) but there are companies working to bring about your hoped-for wall arm right now.
by pretzellogician | 2025-07-17 20:21:31+00:00
Yep, totally agree with your points.

>What would it even mean for lifestyle choices to directly cause some condition?

The glib answer would be something like woodworking and missing fingers :-)

But there are plenty of people (not me!) who believe, for example, that obesity and type-2 diabetes are directly caused by overeating and/or lack of exercise.
by jfarmer | 2025-07-17 20:21:45+00:00
From John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct:

“The fallacy in these versions of the same idea is perhaps the most pervasive of all fallacies in philosophy. So common is it that one questions whether it might not be called the philosophical fallacy. It consists in the supposition that whatever is found true under certain conditions may forthwith be asserted universally or without limits and conditions. Because a thirsty man gets satisfaction in drinking water, bliss consists in being drowned. Because the success of any particular struggle is measured by reaching a point of frictionless action, therefore there is such a thing as an all-inclusive end of effortless smooth activity endlessly maintained.

It is forgotten that success is success of a specific effort, and satisfaction the fulfillment of a specific demand, so that success and satisfaction become meaningless when severed from the wants and struggles whose consummations they arc, or when taken universally.”
by rapnie | 2025-07-17 20:22:26+00:00
There was a documentary on Dutch TV a couple of years ago, about 'DYI tax haven management' for common people. Can't remember which public channel it was on, and what the name was. Might have been part of "Tegenlicht" series.

Update: Maybe it was the program Rambam where the makers set up their own tax haven based on the methods of the big corporations. Information in Dutch:

https://pers.bnnvara.nl/rambam-ontduikt-belasting-met-medewe...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-17 20:23:21+00:00
> If it says the certificate for your bank is expired, you need to stop.

No I don't. At least not if it's recent. A certificate that expired in the last month is roughly equal in safety to a certificate that's valid for another month or two.

Expiration is a backup safety measure and the risk is mostly based on how long it's been since the certificate was issued.

Unless any banks are going around leaking keys right after they expire for some weird reason?
by lairv | 2025-07-17 20:23:24+00:00
In general most of the previous AI "breakthrough" in the last decade were backed by proper scientific research and ideas:

- AlphaGo/AlphaZero (MCTS)

- OpenAI Five (PPO)

- GPT 1/2/3 (Transformers)

- Dall-e 1/2, Stable Diffusion (CLIP, Diffusion)

- ChatGPT (RLHF)

- SORA (Diffusion Transformers)

"Agents" is a marketing term and isn't backed by anything. There is little data available, so it's hard to have generally capable agents in the sense that LLMs are generally capable
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-17 20:23:36+00:00
Firefox sticks to the spec, Chrome makes you type out base64 manually to ignore the spec.

The TLS errors that aren't unbypassible by specification (i.e. HSTS, see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6797) can be bypassed on Firefox just fine. It's only the ones where the spec says bypassing the error shouldn't be possible where Firefox takes a hard stance.

Chrome had to alter their bypass string several times because vendors documented the override rather than fixing their insecure crapware. It makes total sense to me that Firefox does the same.
by ccorcos | 2025-07-17 20:23:46+00:00
I’m always surprised that banks don’t have a better way of authenticating themselves to their customers (Chase and Vanguard, in particular).

They call, they say I can call back and wait in a queue, but that’s stupid.

Also crazy they don’t have a TOTP (e.g. Google Authenticator)based two-factor authentication. It’s just way more secure than email or phone number.
by mauvehaus | 2025-07-17 20:23:52+00:00
> you could also say the baseball card company was exploited and lost out on pricing their cards at $100?

The baseball card company is in the business of selling lottery tickets. If there wasn't a secondary market for the ones that get really valuable, they'd sell a lot fewer new cards to people looking for a winning lottery ticket.

It's a weird business for them because they're selling lottery tickets, but don't necessarily know which ones will be winners. Although with all the statistics and moneyball stuff, they'd sell a probably have a better idea now than in the past.
by JohnMakin | 2025-07-17 20:24:00+00:00
I thought it was pretty clear that's why, but I guess people will read what they will. Not sure why you're being downvoted - it's extremely angering to have a condition that severely limits your quality of life have a cure that society easily has within reach that will likely never become available to you because market forces deemed so. Wouldn't that anger anyone? Like am I supposed to go, "oh gee shucks, that's just the all knowing invisible hand, oh well?"

Weird comment thread. Not bad, just surprises me.