MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Veriane3 | 2025-07-15 02:18:04+00:00
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by SlowTao | 2025-07-15 02:18:06+00:00
Yep, this. Same for any kind of solar shielding. Some are so fixed on controlling a single metric (Carbon/Temperature)that they may end up inadvertently influencing hundreds of other things.

When simple solutions interact with complex systems, complex problems arise. As it is said, for every problem there is a solution that is simple, easy and wrong.
by dmix | 2025-07-15 02:19:00+00:00
I’m all for a competitive commercial space type approach to gov projects and contracts but I really don’t see what that has to do with this.

DoD is experimenting with LLMs and is using multiple of the top providers in the space… just like every other tech company is doing. Everyone I know is coding with Claude, Gemini, or GPT and my experiments with Grok 4 have easily been as good.

If this was an innovation fund, ala what Canada likes to waste money on - where the gov pretends it’s a really bad VC, I’d at least understand these critiques.
by cosmojg | 2025-07-15 02:20:18+00:00
For what it's worth, I think Kimi's modified MIT license still meets the OSI definition of "open source." For example, the explicitly OSI-approved "Attribute Assurance License"[1] contains similar wording:

> each time the resulting executable program or a program dependent thereon is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash screen or banner text) of the Author’s attribution information

[1] https://opensource.org/license/attribution-php
by supertrope | 2025-07-15 02:21:22+00:00
Android and iOS have pressure on app developers to support IPv6 or at the very least function on 464XLAT. On home broadband people could connect anything including programs that use literal IPv4 addresses and break on 464XLAT. Things like corporate VPNs, Skype, online gaming. Ironically these services would benefit the most from supporting IPv6 but they've evolved to deal with IPv4 NAT to the extent that they've become dependent on IPv4 connectivity.
by sothatsit | 2025-07-15 02:21:23+00:00
This is a stat from a pretty interesting study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

I quite like it actually because although I do use AI, I think you really do have to be careful about how you use it to avoid wasting more time than it saves when you run into a problem and insist on getting the AI to fix it instead of doing it yourself. It is very easy to fall into this trap of trying to get AI to do everything, because our brains are hardwired to avoid effort, and so we use it even when AI is not appropriate.

The biggest time saver for me with AI is to really try to avoid the round-and-round with AI and instead just get AI to take the first pass, maybe some small follow-ups, and then I take it from there and complete the task manually. AI can be a significant time-saver in that first pass at the problem, but after that you can waste so much time trying to get AI to fix something small that you could fix yourself in 5 minutes. And this can be especially damaging because it is less effort to use AI, so we don't necessarily notice when we are wasting time due to our own cognitive biases, which I think this study does a good job of pointing out.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-15 02:21:24+00:00
That is interesting. So far we are just using the task list to keep track of the list of implemented tasks. In the long run I expect there will be an even more rigorous mapping between the actual requirements and the specific lines of code that implement the requirements. So there might be a fourth file one day!

Coding standards / style guide are both part of the "steering" files: https://kiro.dev/docs/steering/index
by SlowTao | 2025-07-15 02:21:32+00:00
This is why I think it will not be done. Any possible blow back will be attributed to those who actioned it, even if it might not be their fault. Do some injection in one part of the world and breadbasket crop fails 6 months later, they can point the finger even if it would have happened regardless.

To risky in terms of liability.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-15 02:22:12+00:00
In any significant capacity? No. Because we'd see it in crime stats; the widespread successful use of license plate scanners should show up in a chart. The world before and the world after their introduction appears very similar from a crime rate standpoint; it stands to reason getting rid of them would be similarly low-impact.

I really don't think that'd be the same if we got rid of encryption tomorrow.
by chung8123 | 2025-07-15 02:22:47+00:00
Isn't there a whole trope about how the government is stupid and inefficient because agencies don't help each other out? Seems like in general sharing data is a good thing.

Questions are, should the police have the data and are our immigration policies correct. This issues need to be fix at the legal level. If we really want to change this we need to decide what we want immigration to be and not half ass it by looking the other way.
by breadwinner | 2025-07-15 02:24:51+00:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on whether AI will lead to job losses:

I would say, if the world runs out of ideas, then productivity gains translate to job loss. But over the course of last 60 years in the era of computers, not only did productivity go up, employment also went up. Now the reason for that is, if we have abundance of ideas, ways we could build a better future, if we are more productive, we could realize that better. Now, of course, in a world of zero sum game, if you have no more ideas, all you want to do is this, then productivity improvement results in job loss.
by King-Aaron | 2025-07-15 02:25:07+00:00
I see this argument of "oh it's been happening for a long time" getting thrown around a lot, and it feels like a really non-good-faith point of view that seems to ignore the administration directly targeting these institutions for destruction.

Yes, poor management is a big problem that could be seen as an intentional structural issue, but this is a totally different ball game that's being played right now.
by reactordev | 2025-07-15 02:25:13+00:00
I was just saying this today. I’m originally from the DC bubble. It’s been bad for a LONG time. Entire companies designed to fight and win government contracts so that they can milk the government until retirement. SAIC comes to mind.

These agencies haven’t been able to do their actual jobs in ages. Trump is doing what he said he was going to do (unpopular as that is) and we’ll have to figure out how to build back better (or whatever that term was).

I don’t agree with anything he’s doing but I do see opportunities in it. If we can survive without these departments until then.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-15 02:25:28+00:00
I remember studies in China that showed the natural antibacterial properties of wood help with chopstick safety. I mean, trees don't get eaten alive by bacteria.

So far as fires and such: your local fire marshal would live to put a scare in you by burning up a polyurethane couch at a training facility. Wood naturally forms a char and likes to pyrolize slowly: it produces benzopyrenes and such but not with the deadly efficiency of a plastics fire. They have to add really nasty stuff to plastics to make them form a nice char.
by alex-robbins | 2025-07-15 02:25:28+00:00
I'm not a physicist, but I took a class on special relativity in college, and I still remember some of it ... If I'm remembering it right, we still have conservation of momentum and energy in special relativity, with the caveat that these are defined differently than in classical mechanics. Specifically, E = γmc^2 and p = mvγ, where γ = 1 / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) and m is the invariant mass (aka the "rest mass"). [1] Note that when v=0 (so γ=1), this equation for momentum is the same as the classical p=mv, which is generally a good approximation when v << c.

So, using those relativistic definitions for energy and momentum, I think you're exactly right, at least up to the part about "since the final object is at rest". However:

- As I understand it, invariant mass, aka "rest mass" (which is equivalent to "rest energy", aka "rest mass energy"), is invariant, and it's the same before and after the collision, so the kinetic energy doesn't get "converted into rest mass energy". Rather, if the final object is at rest, then all of its kinetic energy has been radiated away; kinetic energy (E_K) is is total energy (E) minus rest energy (E_0 = mc^2, where m is invariant mass)

- I have no idea whether gravitational waves are the only way for the kinetic energy to be radiated away. I imagine other forms of energy could also be emitted.

- In order to know that the final object is at rest/has no kinetic energy (in an inertial frame), I worry that we might need to have specified more in the original question. In particular, I don't know how to handle spin. (I know that black holes have some concept of "spin", but I don't know if this is like rotational spin, or more like quantum mechanical spin, or something else, and I don't know how it figures into the black holes' total energy.) If we change the original question to say that the black holes are not spinning, then I think we can ignore this (since the collision is head-on).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity#Rel...

To reiterate, I'm not a physicist. I may be off base here, but that's my understanding.
by wonderwonder | 2025-07-15 02:26:24+00:00
Friend you misinterpret my point. I don't care that they post articles about disadvantaged groups or from particular view points. My concern is that when you openly state that you will decline valid scientific studies that may contradict other studies you publish then you are sacrificing your credibility as a journal. How can we trust science when one of its gateways actively states they will silence valid science for ideological reasons. You cannot. That is why I will not trust this journal. Open bias in a factual pursuit such as this is anathema.
by leakycap | 2025-07-15 02:26:53+00:00
MacBooks are metal. When you put them in the freezer, the likelihood of moisture damage, especially around very hot components, is much higher than if you try this with a plastic electronic device. I wouldn't put metal laptops in the freezer, as damage to small sensors could be your issue. In fact, anything with thermal paste really shouldn't go in the freezer. But too late to undo that, you can stop doing it though.

The way macOS/ firmware handles cooling can be confusing. Have you tried rebooting in single user mode and checked the temps from there? Have you ran the hardware diagnostics from boot?
by dmix | 2025-07-15 02:27:41+00:00
LLMs are only useful information systems, largely for parsing/managling variable data and building other information systems. Problem sets any large org like DoD has.

I don’t think anyone has even seriously proposed using them for weapons targeting, at least in the current broad LLM form.

If they are slow (2x as slow on a cruise missile or drone SOC) and are wrong all the time then why would they even bother? They already have AI models for visual targeting that are highly specialized for the specific job and even that’s almost entirely limited to very narrow vehicle or ship identification which is always combined with existing ballistic, radar, or GPS targeting.

Buying some LLM credits doesn’t help much at all there.

Too much of AI gets uncritically packaged with these hand wavy FUD statements IMO.
by smcleod | 2025-07-15 02:28:13+00:00
My 2c-TLDR; after doing some battle testing over the few weeks (so keep in mind some of this was on pre-release versions):

The good: It's great to see they've baked in the concept of setup -> plan -> act into the tool with the use of specs If you're someone who currently only has Copilot / Q dev, this is a good step in the right direction - if you don't mind changing your IDE. I love that it has a command / task queuing system. Hooks = good.

Goes either way: Even though it uses Q under the bonnet, it does seem somewhat better than Q although I think most of that is down to the use of plan -> act workflows

The not good: There's no reason at all for it to be a VSCode fork and running multiple IDEs for every vendor that wants me to use their products is a PITA. It seems to massively over-complicate solutions, for things that could be quite simple even if the tasks are well defined it likes to create many files and go down very extensive and complex implementation patterns. This has to be something to do with the app itself as Sonnet 4 does not do this with Cline/Roo Code so hopefully it can be fixed (but maybe it suits the kind of folks that write big java apps!). It doesn't seem to have any integrated web browser capabilities to allow the model to run up and explore the app while inspecting the js console browser side like Cline / Roo have. My installation has mysteriously become 'corrupted' and needed reinstalling several times. There's no global rules, you have to keep a note of them somewhere and copy paste them into each project. GH Issue #25

The bad: It's slower than Cline / Roo Code, it just takes a lot longer to get things done. It's very easy to hit the rate limits and be blocked for an undefined amount of time before you can continue working. There's lots of MCP bugs mainly relating to it still not supporting the standard streamableHTTP or SSE modes and breaks all MCPs without any warning or logs if you try to add one. GH Issue #23 The version of VSCode it's built from is quite out of date already, which rings alarm bells for how well such a large, complex application will be maintained and rolled out at speed over time.
by fennec-posix | 2025-07-15 02:28:30+00:00
I think the most impressive part about these sites was the way they networked them together with UHF/Microwave Troposcatter links, which basically just scream RF into the sky and then listen for the small amount of energy that's reflected off the troposphere on the other end. (It's a little more complex than that)

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

This method was the back-bone of long distance Cold War communications links (As well as HF using ionospheric propagation) until Satellites started becoming more commonplace in the 70's
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-07-15 02:28:40+00:00
You’re going really hard on loving capitalism

The problem is that capitalism mathematically ensures inequality which subverts the concept of survival because it creates extreme imbalances in agency.

What results is that capitalism must always use as reference a forever unchanged “state of nature” mythology which never existed.

Capitalists view themselves as a different species than modern anatomical humans, more enlightened etc… but I have seen firsthand that millionaires billionaires and even “middle class” people have less consciousness than those who have very little capital.

Capital enables alienation by letting the capitalist offload “life” to people who do it for them, leaving them nothing but Vice. It always corrupts
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-15 02:28:47+00:00
I’m not making a legal or moral argument, merely an observation. I think it’s silly to assume that corporations have values beyond line go up.

People have values. Deciding who you work with is a legitimate concern. No one alive today at IBM is likely to be a Nazi collaborator, but the company benefitted from Nazi money. I’m not sure if IBM ever paid any reparations or was ever asked to.

I think any company as old and as involved with government contracts as IBM is going to have some conflicts of interest, which says more about the world than it does about IBM.

My original point was that I believe the reason the math was so complicated for the Census and indirectly for the IRS regarding taxation in that period, was due to the Census Bureau also being responsible for tracking the frontier line. The release of the 1890 census marked the official closure of the frontier in the American West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_census
by simoncion | 2025-07-15 02:28:56+00:00
> Google Fiber isn't rolled out to most of the bay area.

I'm aware. And it's my understanding that -sadly- much of the Google "Fiber" deployment in the area is a WISP, just like Monkeybrains is. Quite a while back, Google Fiber bought Webpass and continued doing WISP deployment in the SFBA under the Google Fiber brand. (Because it's politically dreadfully hard to run fiber optic cables in the area.)

If you haven't contacted Monkeybrains for a minimum and expected speed quote at your site in a year or five, it's worth doing it again. It's my understanding that they aperiodically upgrade the hardware in their core network as well as the sort of hardware that they deploy at customer sites.

Monkeybrains' down-to 100/100 service is -on paper- far, far slower than the up-to 1400/40 service I was getting from Comcast, but the actual, delivered speed that I'm seeing from Monkeybrains varies between 300mbit and ~1000mbit (sustained) depending on what other folks are doing on their network. [0] I'm in a fifty-apartment building, so it's possible that they've installed faster gear on my roof than they install in smaller (or single-family) buildings. Reports on the Internet seem to be somewhat mixed, with some single-family buildings reporting ~1gbit service, and others reporting ~45mbit.

[0] Typical prime-time speed is something like 400mbit. Off-hours speed is frequently very close to 1gbit. The only time I've seen the minimum speed was when I had a poorly-crimped Ethernet cable between my router and the rest of my LAN that would intermittently only link up at 100mbit.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-15 02:30:12+00:00
I saw few clips of this thing, it's... mild. It's just questionably clothed but not particularly anything 3D girl speaking in robotic TTS, the concepts abandoned long time ago in the VTuber scene. Some says it also moans a lot.

It perplexes me that this is happening after jet engines around campus story and MechaHitler controversies. This feels like the company had ran out of both dopamine and talent at the same time, resorting to controversial choices for it's own sake, and now failing to even being controversial.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-15 02:32:14+00:00
>> Either you have not "become wealthy", as you "traded a million dollar painting for a million bucks" or the effectual value of money exceeds the purchase value of the "million dollar painting". Both cannot be true.

> I became wealthy by creating wealth, not concentrating it. Concentrating it requires it be taken from somewhere else. There is no taking going on, there is creation and exchange.

The scenario you have described is logically consistent while being representative of a tiny subset of commerce. Revisiting the original use-case:

Let's say I buy $20 worth of art supplies, and I paint a landscape and sign it with my moniker, "bright". Since "bright" paintings are very rare and go for a million bucks each, I now have created a million bucks of value.

Assuming all of the above, this business model does not account for at least the following:

A - Businesses having more than one employee.

B - Asset deprecation, such as when purchasing a new automobile.

C - Consumable goods, such as food, petrol, etc.

D - Services such as commercial/residential rent and physical security.

E - Taxes.

F - Stock dividends and/or performance bonuses.

A and E involve direct wealth transfer from the business to relevant parties.

B is a second order effect only realized when the buyer attempts to sell the asset to a third party.

C and D are direct wealth transfers as the seller retains the remuneration for as long as they desire (excluding applicable cases identified above) and the buyer eventually does not have a physical equivalent. Note that this often remains a valuable exchange for both parties.

F is where wealth concentration commonly resides.
by a_bonobo | 2025-07-15 02:32:21+00:00
Interestingly, as a direct outcome of the Nazis misusing this data Germany did not have a census for the longest time.

Here is an article from 1987 on the German protests against the new census, that was also the last Germany-led census: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/10/world/germans-stand-up-no... (BUT Germany has fairly strict rules on registration of your place of living, so perhaps a census is now unnecessary)
by charcircuit | 2025-07-15 02:32:36+00:00
>China or Iran and the open society is the US and other western countries, right?

Sure, but of course it isn't black and white.

>In which case we shouldn't have any such thing in the open countries.

I still think being able to effectively apply the will of We the People would be good to do. Being afraid that the people will be able to want for something you don't like to happen is disrespectful to the will of the people.
by buggy6257 | 2025-07-15 02:33:17+00:00
I do not have the same physical situation as you but was out of work for 7 months with similar experience level and got to the “offer or no” with 10 companies Before I finally got a job thanks to a referral and good interview.

What I’m saying here is that (a) your time in the market isn’t absurd for this current economy, and (b) it’s also not provably due to your disability so don’t go blaming that without proof or you’ll talk yourself into giving up. Shits HARD right now man just keep trying and focus hard on networking and referrals. It seems the only way to get a job right now
by jampa | 2025-07-15 02:35:35+00:00
Most banking apps here only allow their own app as a 2-factor authentication, not even TOTP is allowed. (I think they make it to increase user engagement.)

The worst one is Mercado Libre, which also requires you to use your phone to "scan" your face every time you log in with a new device. My friends were locked out due to having an allergy or growing a beard. Nowadays, I don't even bother with them... I just shop elsewhere.
by analog31 | 2025-07-15 02:36:31+00:00
Depends on where you live. In the upper Midwest, it's common to see a roadside booth at the end of a driveway, where kids can keep out of the weather while waiting for the bus. Most are pretty simplistic, but I can't discount the idea of making a fancy one.

In my urban neighborhood, there are some houses with interesting or odd art works on their lawns, often what you'd call folk art.
by infecto | 2025-07-15 02:36:51+00:00
You’re right that many .com companies lacked fundamentals but you’re cherry-picking survivors. For every Amazon, there were dozens of Pets.coms. The current AI wave does feel different in terms of revenue traction (e.g., Cursor’s $500M ARR), but the broader lesson still applies: hype cycles don’t discriminate between good and bad execution in the short term.

Cursor’s growth is impressive, but sustained dominance isn’t guaranteed. Distribution, margins, and defensibility still matter and we haven’t seen how durable any of that is once incentives tighten and infra costs stop being subsidized.