MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-23 01:08:18+00:00
#include <Usual IANAL comment>

> In the US usage like this may be considered "Fair Use", however UK copyright law is less generous in its "Fair Dealing" and associated exceptions to copyright[1].

> This is a problem when standards are pushed by US tech companies but don't consider the rest of the world.

Similarly, the German analogue to the US-American copyright laws (Urheberrecht) has no concept of fair use (meaning that a lot of memes that are based copyrighted material are actually illegal under German law), but on the other hand, as far as I am aware (IANAL), there is more explicit permissions for citations (Zitierrecht) in Germany (instead of relying on "vague" concepts such as fair use), meaning that I conceive at least fictional situations (but IANAL) where it might happen that quotations of copyrighted material are legal under German law, but not considered to be "fair use" under US copyright.
by syngrog66 | 2025-07-23 01:09:14+00:00
I used Gemini heavily the last several months and was both shocked and nauseated at how bad the quality is. Terrible UI/UX design mistakes and anti-patterns. I felt sorry for the folks who work there, that they felt it was shippable.

I hope to carve out free time soon to write a more detailed AAR on it. Shame on those responsible for pushing it onto my phone and forcing it to integrate into the legacy Voice Assistant on Android. Shame.
Show HN: Lossless Semantic Matrix Analysis (99.999% accuracy, no training)
by AyodeleFikayomi | 2025-07-23 01:09:16+00:00
I built an open-source system for lossless, structure-preserving analysis of matrix data.

It auto-discovers semantic relationships between datasets (e.g., drugs ↔ genes ↔ categories) with 99.999% accuracy — without deep learning or lossy compression.

It supports CSV/TSV/Excel data, runs via Docker, and outputs semantic clusters, property stats, similarity scores, and visualizations.

No setup needed. Works on any data. Fully explainable.

GitHub: https://github.com/fikayoAy/MatrixTransformer Docker: fikayomiayodele/hyperdimensional-connection

Happy to answer any questions!
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-07-23 01:10:20+00:00
I'm Polish and when I mentioned it I always get commentary about how smart or hard working Polish people are, and usually mention of some mathematician or programmer they knew at some point. And it makes me laugh because if you notice that Polish people are smart or hard working, why don't you give me a quick rundown of who you think is lazy and dumb? Ohhh, that's racist.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-07-23 01:10:36+00:00
That is a fantastic contribution to the conversation. I think I’ve heard or read accounts that, if I’d thought long and hard about, might have led me to understand this, but this is new information to me.

I have seen Most Secret War recommended to me by basically every physical and ebook seller I have an account with, so I guess it’s time to take one of them up on the offer. Thank you!

Any other similar insights from your readings?
by strangescript | 2025-07-23 01:12:02+00:00
“It’s only going to get better” "For LLMs to keep improving, we need one of three things: more data, more power or a breakthrough." "Breakthroughs are rare."

This is very short sighted. The amount of research and papers coming out on AI is staggering. Maybe raw power gaining breakthroughs are rare, but you literally only need one to have exponential impact.

If you look back at the history of LLMs, its a never ending timeline of "well, they will never be able to do this" that have been proven wrong, going all the way back to the early 20-teens.

Seems like a very strange bet to make at this point in time.
by ok_computer | 2025-07-23 01:12:28+00:00
Radon fan drawing from two basement surfaces (concrete slab crawlspace addition and original stone foundation with cement floor): $1,200.00 usd in 2020 with warrantied fan and included confirmation test kit. US mid Atlantic. The prior homeowner thought radon was a scam too. It doesn’t make sense as a scam for a one-time capital and labor purchase.
by gpsx | 2025-07-23 01:13:17+00:00
To be fair, the portion of the tariffs passed on to the consumer is a regressive tax. The portion of the tariff that is covered by the American companies is more complicated and probably goes mostly against the wealthy. (Then, of course, there’s the portion of the tariffs, covered by the foreign companies, which is article is saying it’s not a large portion.) There is hope the consumer is not completely screwed. We will have to see how it turns out. (I am not a fan of tariffs or the administration, but I am ok with people who are.)
by isodev | 2025-07-23 01:13:30+00:00
I think the parent comment acknowledges that it's indeed possible but all that are so many steps one shouldn't have to perform just to get to the feature.

Firefox wants to be customisable, but instead of features, its out-of-box experience is focused on sharing activity with Google and giving you sponsored bookmarks... I agree that the priorities there are not exactly user-focused.
by tw04 | 2025-07-23 01:13:33+00:00
You’ve hit the nail on the head of why I think AI is counter productive.

In my experience, the place it’s most useful is an area you don’t have expertise in as a sort of bolster to your knowledge.

Also in my experience, it tends to be really good at producing outputs that sound extremely convincing to the non-expert that are completely incorrect in detail. And the only way to know if you got a good or bad answer is to be a subject matter expert… which sort of defeats the purpose.
Ephemeral video premieres – who might care?
by onetimeshowapp | 2025-07-23 01:13:48+00:00
I built a weird little experiment and I’m not sure who it’s really for.

The idea: You upload a video (say, 10 minutes), choose a premiere time — e.g. 16:00. At exactly 16:00, the video goes live. It plays in real time and then deletes itself.

If you join at 16:02, you’ll be watching minute 2 — not the beginning. You can't rewind. You can't save. Miss it, and it's gone. Kind of like a digital theatre.

I’m curious: – Who might this resonate with? – Is there a niche that would value something non-permanent and synchronous like this? – Any examples where "one-shot media" has worked before?

Not trying to pitch — just genuinely exploring the psychology and potential use cases. Feels like there's something interesting here, but I haven’t found the right framing yet.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-07-23 01:14:31+00:00
Their specific complaint was that because the forms often become part of a medical record, it just didn’t look right. Reading between the lines, they had comments from patients saying “a Google Form? Seems sketch.”

I don’t necessarily think that a Google Form is unprofessional either. It was accepting data into an environment that complied with their regulatory needs, which was a chief driver of the project.

I absolutely agree with you about TypeForm. Actually, if I was going to call a form service unprofessional “looking”, TypeForm takes the top slot. That’s not a criticism exactly. I just don’t think I’d use it for something that is public facing. It has a different kind of UX than I’d want to place in front of users.
by duxup | 2025-07-23 01:14:37+00:00
Congress and the courts should be the counterbalance to the Executive branch.

But congress is controlled by the GOP and seems downright afraid of Trump, and the majority of SCOTUS has decided the executive branch is both immune from the law, and not limited by the law in much of any way, including laws established by congress.

If anything the saving grace here should be congress asking questions in a situation like this, but instead the majority there are just sycophants.

This is very bad for democracy. The executive branch should be challenged by the other two, and same goes for those other branches.
by bjourne | 2025-07-23 01:14:49+00:00
Typos feel way harder to spot in proportional fonts. Maybe because proportional fonts are easier to read so your brain subconsciously ignores them. And typos, like a misplaced or forgotten comma, can cause some of the most annoying bugs. Also, most editors still mostly operate on individual characters. With a fixed width font I can immediately see how many cursor up and cursor left commands I need to send to move the cursor to a specific position in the text.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-07-23 01:14:51+00:00
Advice also applies to mold. A lot of people worry about mold in their house. It's actually quite straightforward to determine if this is actually a problem: Home Depot sells "test kits" for a few bucks that are essentially petri dishes. Buy two of these, put one inside where you are worried and then the other outside and wait 3-4 days. If they look radically different, then send the inside one in for actual analysis, which is an additional ~$40 USD. Then and only then do you need to action and by that point you know exactly what the problem is so you don't have to pay some "expert" to sell you some massively expensive mitigation strategy that you probably don't need.
by k310 | 2025-07-23 01:15:04+00:00
In case you forgot: The Streisand Effect. [0]

> The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.

> The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.

Hey, Mikey. Your congresspeople will have to go home and answer some pretty hot questions asked by constituents. Said legislators might not be so happy with your decision. As always, be careful what you wish for; you might get it.

In the end.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
by pessimizer | 2025-07-23 01:15:23+00:00
> The OP had no intent to offend and shouldn't have paid

That can't be how it works. The OP had a responsibility to check the that images that the OP published were adequately licensed. The rights holder makes a claim against the publisher (the OP), and the publisher can make a claim against their supplier (the newspaper.) The judge would then divide the amount of responsibility between the two in some proportion.
by verandaguy | 2025-07-23 01:15:39+00:00
> astrophotographers do not use cameras with UV-IR cut filters at all

I'll be pedantic here and say that the author's probably talking to people who use DSLRs with adapter rings for telescopes. I've been interested in doing this for a while (just unable to financially justify it), and I think this is actually something people in this niche do.

Then there are things like the Nikon D810A, which remove the UV-IR filter from the factory (but IIRC retain the Bayer filter).
by adfm | 2025-07-23 01:17:07+00:00
It’s a shakedown scam. IANAL and all that. Gaming it tells me it’s easier to remove the offending focus and ignore them until they send another nastygram. Never directly reply. Dave’s not here, man. Anybody doing this bullshit over an open graph image is looking for a mark. Generally, that’s why there are three strikes policies, etc. Why engage until they initiate? You speak through lawyers and they really have to have a real case or they’re wasting money because this is purely not malicious or profit seeking.
by Newlaptop | 2025-07-23 01:17:22+00:00
No one is risking multi-year commitments of millions or billions of dollars to build a factory in America when the tariffs change week to week.

If you want to incentive domestic reindustrialization, you do it with things like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS act or the "Green New Deal" where congress lays out clear sets of rules in law with a mixture of tax incentives, loan programs and spending to give investors and corporations confidence to make decade-long commitments of capital to major projects.
by TXTOS | 2025-07-23 01:17:24+00:00
I think both posts are circling the real interface problem — which is not hardware, not protocol, but meaning.

Brains don’t transmit packets. They transmit semantic tension — unstable potentials in meaning space that resist being finalized. If you try to "protocolize" that, you kill what makes it adaptive. But if you ignore structure altogether, you miss the systemic repeatability that intelligence actually rides on.

We've been experimenting with a model where the data layer isn't data in the traditional sense — it's an emergent semantic field, where ΔS (delta semantic tension) is the core observable. This lets you treat hallucination, adversarial noise, even emotion, as part of the same substrate.

Surprisingly, the same math works for LLMs and EEG pattern compression.

If you're curious, we've made the math public here: https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY → Some of the equations were co-rated 100/100 across six LLMs — not because they’re elegant, but because they stabilize meaning under drift.

Not saying it’s a complete theory of the mind. But it’s nice to have something that lets your model sweat.
by SecretDreams | 2025-07-23 01:17:38+00:00
Lol, I think I did the exact same thing with a Tucson. Similar mileage, too. Did you have the 2l or 2.4l engine? I had oil burning and reduced power. Dealer actually said they'd replace the engine... After it actually died. No shot I'm going to drive my car w/ my fam just waiting for it to die. I did absolutely love the vehicle otherwise, so that was a real bummer.
by worik | 2025-07-23 01:17:43+00:00
Absolute, resolute "no" to "autonomous driving". Not unless it is 100% reliable, and it will never be with current technology.

The development of autonomous driving has hit diminishing returns, and while "mostly reliable" is OK for a Taxi fleet with expensive experts on call 24/7, I do not want the deadly half-arsed crap from Tesla.
by threecheese | 2025-07-23 01:18:38+00:00
Didn’t read the article, and I’m an engineer who is using too many genai tools personally and professionally, but the title spoke to me: I am 100% pretending that my professional artifacts came from genai tools.

Part of it is that “what good looks like” - from leadership - looks a certain different way right now, thanks to LLMs. The other part is that knowing isn’t enough in a large org, you have to show.

We are embracing this SO HARD, I need my communication to look like this, and most importantly my teams communication needs to implicitly show that we are bought in (to accompany the explicit proof, measured in token kpis - not kidding).
by recipe19 | 2025-07-23 01:19:03+00:00
I think that term is reserved mostly for actual artwork (renderings, paintings, etc).

Some deep-space astronomy pictures are in completely made-up color, often because they're taken at wavelengths different than visible light and then color-mapped to look pretty.

But the point here is even if you're taking images with a regular camera pointed at the sky, it's pretty much impossible to match "reality".
by TXTOS | 2025-07-23 01:20:27+00:00
this is genuinely cool — lossless semantic alignment without DL is a breath of fresh air.

we’ve been exploring the inverse direction: letting semantic tension stretch and bend across interaction histories, and then measuring the ΔS divergence between the projection layers.

we benchmarked it as an external semantic resonance layer that wraps around Claude/GPT etc — boosted multi-turn coherence +42% in evals.

would love to see if your static-matrix pipeline could "snap-in" upstream for symbolic grounding.

drop by our playground if curious (PDF only, no setup): https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY
by 9rx | 2025-07-23 01:21:11+00:00
> My point is that there is no motivation for balance

There is motivation, though! The wealthy don't want another wealthy guy to have it — they want it for themselves. That's why we have property tax, so that the owner actually has to find a good use for it, else be compelled to give it up to other other wealthy guy who wants it even more.

> since you have the people with the wealth and power determining the laws.

The problem is the opposite, really. The average Joe makes the laws, and Average Joe doesn't want to risk their job that depends on intellectual property. Musk wouldn't bat an eye at squashing Gates like a little bug if he could, but Joe working at Microsoft is deathly afraid of what happens to him if Gates is challenged.

> You allude to a “normal functioning” capitalist environment but as counterintuitive as it might seem, that’s what we have.

You're right that it is basic human nature. But capitalism emerged to try and work around the limitations of human nature. That's its whole purpose. However, it largely predates the concept of intellectual property, so it doesn't really have that idea woven into its fabric. Hence why IP is bolted onto the side, with all kinds of bizarre effects because of it.
by daemonologist | 2025-07-23 01:22:18+00:00
It varies with geology yes, produced by the radioactive decay chains of U-238 and Th-232.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408084121

If I recall correctly it can accumulate more readily in basements, so that's another factor. The house I grew up in had an exhaust system installed due to elevated radon levels.
by vharuck | 2025-07-23 01:22:25+00:00
I'm not willing to believe this was the plan while the tariffs also apply to crops we can't reasonably grow in the US, like cocoa and coffee. And the tariffs are also single across-the-board numbers for each country. And were originally based on trade deficits with the countries (unless we had a trade surplus with a country, in which case it was 10% anyway).
by klysm | 2025-07-23 01:23:06+00:00
Recently I've been on a bit of a deep dive regarding human color vision and cameras. This left me with the general impression that RGB bayer filters are vastly over-utilized (mostly due to market share), and are they are usually not great for tasks other than mimicking human vision! For example, if you have a stationary scene, why not put a whole bunch of filters in front of a mono camera and get much more frequency information?
by okanat | 2025-07-23 01:23:37+00:00
There are different reasons for that. Things like black holes are really hard to observe even in other light spectrums. Same for other objects like planets. So the drawings are made in hypothetical expectations based on simulations rather than direct observations.

Many observations come from scientific cameras rather than actual visible spectrum cameras discussed in TFA. They are not artist's impression like the first case. They will have a completely different view of the object so any visible-light predictions will have some guessing in it but the final picture will be not 100% you would see.
by jmyeet | 2025-07-23 01:23:59+00:00
All of this is by design. You get:

- Lower taxes for the ultra-wealthy

- People working longer to make the ultra-wealthy slightly wealthier; and

- Younger people getting padi less, again making the ultra-wealthy slightly more wealthy.

The entire policy and government appratus of the US in particular is designed as a massive wealth transfer from the poor and young to the old and wealthy.

There is no reason why the wealthiest countries on earth can't afford to let people who are 60 years old retire. Other than of course the wealthy would have to pay slightly more in taxes.

I can't find it now but I saw an article talking about all the social and policy ideas that unwittingly got tested in the Covid pandemic. The effects of giving money to poor people (it's not the moral hazard it's made out to be), how schools increase the spread of disease and a whole host of others.
by nojs | 2025-07-23 01:24:20+00:00
> I see. It seems I can't rename the directory I'm currently in.

> Let's try a different approach.

“Let’s try a different approach” always makes me nervous with Claude too. It usually happens when something critical prevents the task being possible, and the correct response would be to stop and tell me the problem. But instead, Claude goes into paperclip mode making sure the task gets done no matter what.
by LargeWu | 2025-07-23 01:24:49+00:00
A complicating factor when talking about rationality and propensity towards either left- or right-wing authoritarian impulses is brain structure, according to a recently publish study.

"Young adults who scored higher on right-wing authoritarianism had less gray matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in social reasoning. Meanwhile, those who endorsed more extreme forms of left-wing authoritarianism showed reduced cortical thickness in the right anterior insula, a brain area tied to empathy and emotion regulation."

Not only is it tribalism, it's also individuals fundamental anatomy. This seems like a very challenging problem if the people you are hoping to convince are hardwired against your message.

https://www.psypost.org/authoritarian-attitudes-linked-to-al... (layperson's summary)

https://www.ibroneuroscience.org/article/S0306-4522(25)00304... (actual study)
by TXTOS | 2025-07-23 01:25:31+00:00
Pretty cool direction — CLI tools for coders make total sense. But every time I test these with multi-turn prompts, they start hallucinating like a drunk intern reading from an old terminal log

The deeper issue isn't just fine-tuning or prompt phrasing — it's that once your semantic path drifts (especially in multi-hop tasks), even the best coders end up talking to an agent that's silently forgotten half the context.

We ran into the same issue and had to build a projection-based reasoning core just to keep the thread from collapsing after turn 3.

Would love to see how Qwen handles semantic drift over longer sessions. If you've tested that, do share!
by ethagnawl | 2025-07-23 01:26:29+00:00
One of my cars is a 2011 Volvo XC90 with ~250K miles on it and I plan to drive into the ground. It's definitely the tail end of that sweet spot and it's quite surprising that it's (technologically) as simple as it is. It has a basic AWD system and only a simple cruise control system but it's the perfect feature set and I use it 80% of the time I'm driving. (I've driven late model rentals which have "smart cruise control" systems and find their "corrections" very unnerving.) For A/V, it doesn't have a backup camera (admittedly kind of a bummer), any LCD screens or touch screens and it doesn't even have Bluetooth for auxiliary audio input. The keys and fobs are about the only aspect of it that I'd say are over-complicated, as it's never had a working fob since I've owned it and getting one is prohibitively expensive ($500+).

That all being said, it's (probably?) not spying on me and isn't likely to do anything unexpected and weird on the highway like the post mentions. I can also totally work on it myself or get my local mechanic to. Although, unsurprisingly, parts are hard to find and more expensive than they are for my Honda.

I've taken it into the Volvo dealership for service on a few occasions and they legitimately laugh at me. ("How many miles are you looking to put on this thing?") I trust their technicians and am willing to pay for certain jobs and diagnoses (probably their most valuable offering) but their service and salespeople look down their noses at me and it's unpleasant. As others have said, Volvo was absolutely a great car company in the past but it doesn't seem to one anymore. Despite how much I like my car, I can't imagine buying one of their modern, tech-centric models -- in part because of posts like this one.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-23 01:27:37+00:00
tariffs that apply to crops we don't grow in the US still discourage purchase of those crops, making the sellers unhappy. if the seller country has been putting tariffs on US goods, the seller country is now incented to bargain on the tariffs in both directions. I'm not saying this is a good idea, but explaining something you have not accounted as a reason.