MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bogozi | 2025-07-09 07:19:44+00:00
Just wanted to post a quick follow-up on this project for anyone who might see it.

After the initial launch, I spent some time hardening the core logic and polishing the UI. I've just pushed a significant update with several improvements that make the tool much more reliable.

Here’s what’s new:

Smarter robots.txt parsing: It now correctly handles group precedence (so the most specific rule wins), wildcards (*), end-anchors ($), and rules with query strings (?) to better match how Googlebot actually interprets these files.

Better error handling: I've polished the error messages on both the frontend and backend, so it's much clearer what's happening if a URL can't be fetched or a robots.txt file is malformed.

Mobile & accessibility fixes: Pushed a few improvements for the experience on smaller screens and for better overall accessibility.

Just wanted to log the progress here as I continue to work on the tool.

Cheers.
by reify | 2025-07-09 07:19:46+00:00
I would change the voting system in the UK.

I would get rid of first past the post voting scam and change to proportional representation.

Labour won at the last election with just 33% of votes, not 33% of the population of the UK, this is not representative of the people.

Only about 50% (35 million) of the entire population voted. So about 10 million people out of 70 million people decided who should run my country. Thats why they do not represent me or us.

I would charge every person in the UK just £1 to vote.

This money, say £50,000,000, would be shared equally among political parties. They would then sell us their proposals and we would vote on them.

Instead of our Government working for big business, government would be working for the people.

get rid of lobbying and business money influencing politics.

A minumum tax of 75% on the rich.

stop private ownership of housing specifically to generate profit. you can buy a house to live in not to rent it out.

A local housing project recently built near me, was sold as affordable housing, to help wth local homelessness etc.

It was very affordable for the rich, One guy I know bought 19 of those brand new properties on a huge mortgage, and rented them out at extortionate prices. He raked in a tidy £30,000 a month profit! Plus the accrued increase in value of the properties each year.

Private renters generally pay the house owners mortgage, its a scam.

The renter pays the mortgage and the house owner walks away with the tax free profit.

Tax unearned income on profits on housing.

The bigger the house the more tax you pay.

get rid of the BBC

I am a socialist, which for me means, to create an equal society
by ACCount36 | 2025-07-09 07:20:01+00:00
Nah, the "definition of consciousness" is nine circles of philosophical bullshit where no one can agree upon the exacts.

Plenty of AIs are capable of something very much alike to "dreaming and simulating situations in your head" too. Humans really hate the idea of AIs being conscious, so surely that means dreaming can't be in any way important for determining whether something is conscious or not.
by chithanh | 2025-07-09 07:20:09+00:00
And that is totally fine, as long as people know what they are investing their time and money into.

I know that some years back, getting your mobile phone financed on two-year contracts was a normal thing. But it was a debt trap for consumers. Some EU countries noticed, and now carriers have to declare such contracts a consumer credit, and need to afford the same consumer protection to their customers as banks have for loans (in Netherlands for example registering with the BKR).

So carriers can still do that but they cannot pretend it's not a loan.
by alok-g | 2025-07-09 07:21:00+00:00
If I had the Infinity Stones [1], I'll redefine human legal, political, cultural practices and beliefs so that we set right fitness function as it relates to 'survival of the fittest'. Nature evolved its own criteria for what is fit and unfit. We humans have twisted those around with our beliefs and systems, often for good, but often incorrectly and often inconsistently.

'Fit' cannot be meaningful unless 'unfit' too is, and the unfit are set to some real disadvantage. Trying to attain equality over both fit and unfit is detrimental when taken collectively. Having ethics defined in a way that in practice, those who follow ethics suffer more while those who don't follow have higher chances of success, is not good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Stones
by ralfd | 2025-07-09 07:22:33+00:00
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people ... that’s a hate group”

Is that wrong though? If the poll is true it would be half of Blacks who are racist. If half of Muslims would say it is not OK to be a Jew, would a jewish person be in the right to be wary of them?

Of course that is already happening and in the US all racial/ethnic groups cluster together and segregate themselves.
by bogozi | 2025-07-09 07:23:11+00:00
Thanks so much for the great feedback!

That's a fantastic point about adding a summary. I agree, it would make the results much easier to scan, especially because I'm planning to add even more rules. I'll definitely work on adding that.

Good point on llms.txt too. I'm watching that standard evolve and plan to add it once it's more established. Appreciate you bringing it up!
by sameermanek | 2025-07-09 07:24:58+00:00
Devil is in the details, they said each company would have to pay for less than 23 hrs to a low level engineer to avoid the $100 mil impact.

How much time do you think an intern would need to render a button on screen that says "cancel" in red mapped to an already implemented function in the code base. Especially with trillions poured into the AI?

This is non sense and horse shit, and these bench full of idiots know it
by strogonoff | 2025-07-09 07:25:26+00:00
The priorities are mutually exclusive: delegating scene data conversion to in-camera engine grants you the most simplicity and ease of use at the expense of control; the territory of technical details grants you the most ability to make the photos looks the way you want at the expense of simplicity. You dial one up, you dial the other down.

For example, your choice of demosaicing method can make a tangible difference in finer details: some methods would make them less noisy (better for some styles), others would better preserve finer details (better for other styles). Abstracting it behind one “more detail—less detail” slider isn’t going to work because “detail” can mean a multitude of things, of which sometimes you want one and not the other, and inventing new sliders with user-friendly but inscrutable labels a la “brilliance”, “texture”, and so on, can only get you so far.

There are shades between simplicity vs. control, of course, and so I am curious to know the answer from the horse’s mouth so to speak: to what end they choose to compromise simplicity.
by pixelfarmer | 2025-07-09 07:25:45+00:00
I haven't read the actual paper, but alone from the abstract many questions come up.

Personally, I doubt the any "near" to "mid" term population decline will have larger effects on the climate change we are seeing. It is just too slow. Meaning that we certainly get (much!) larger effects about climate change done with other stuff, no doubt about that.

However, using that as an inverse argument to foster population growth is a stupid idea, because more people means more resources needed for everything, starting with food and water, climate change resistant shelter, and all the other stuff that is needed for actual living. All of that isn't created out of thin air. Considering that there is increased pressure just to provide food and water already (climate change anyone?!), the lower the population in the long run is, the better. Also, food supply destroys a lot of our environment, alone the meat industry is a planet wide killer because of that.

If I add all this up, population decline is a good thing. And if I read something like "Meanwhile, a smaller population slows the non-rival innovation that powers improvements in long-run productivity and living standards" I start to question the sanity of the people writing something like that.
by deepak-singh | 2025-07-09 07:26:23+00:00
Your leaning feels correct, and more if the listed company deals with health or financial data where personal data and privacy is of utmost importance.

User-impersonation, and unauthorized access would probably leave them open to potential lawa suits and loss of credibility, hence the NDA or more like a gag order.

Non-disclosure even after patch is surely a big red flag.

In the interest of the users and public accountability, it is suggested to publish an incident report, only after notifying the company of sufficient time to patch the vulnerability.
by imiric | 2025-07-09 07:26:30+00:00
You use invisible characters whenever you press Enter or Space. If you're referring to Tab, many of the most popular programming languages like Go and Python use them as part of their syntax.

The reason YAML was popularized is because it was a response to XML which isn't user friendly to write. It's unfortunate that the spec got so convoluted, and uses a lot of implicit behavior, but I'd rather write YAML than XML, JSON or TOML for things like configuration files. Nowadays there might be better alternatives, but YAML is the de facto standard.

It's also unfortunate that YAML got abused by people who wanted to turn it into a DSL, so we ended up with thousands of lines of Ansible playbooks, CI workflows, and Helm charts, but here we are.
by musicale | 2025-07-09 07:26:40+00:00
MIPS seems like a story of missed (mipsed?) opportunities. If MIPS had really been (or remained) an open architecture, there would have been little need for RISC-V. They had a decade+ head start in terms of tool support and silicon implementation, compressed/16-bit instruction formats, full 64-bit instruction sets, and scaling from embedded systems to HPC.
by menaerus | 2025-07-09 07:27:56+00:00
So, after introducing the euro, and everything overnight becomes ~2x more expensive, salaries will match that trajectory and eventually also become ~2x larger, almost universally no matter the job type? Did I get your argument right? I ask because I don't think this actually has been the case with pretty much any EU country.

From what I have seen, salaries will certainly adjust themselves, and they will grow, but the resulting purchasing power is going to remain lower than it has been prior to introducing the euro.
by chithanh | 2025-07-09 07:30:45+00:00
That is not how it works. When car licenses expire then you can still download the racing games in your library from Steam etc., even after new sales are discontinued. You are already the owner of the licensed content and you get access to it anytime.

Steam even says that in the event of that they go out of business, measures are in place to ensure gamers' continued access to their games.
by reify | 2025-07-09 07:32:44+00:00
I am particularly looking froward to:

Lung cancer barbie, with her own hospital bed and mortuary.

Paraplegic barbie aned Quadriplegic barbie, with their own mobility scooters.

Heroin addicted Barbie, with her own sharps bin and safer injecting Paraphenalia.

Blind Barbie, with her own blind dog.

Autistic barbie and ADHD barbie, these can be ai voices, adjusted to fit onto any range of the spectrum.

anything goes in the pursuit of profit.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-09 07:33:23+00:00
This is where they put the people they "arrest": https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detain...

> "They only brought a meal once a day and it had maggots. They never take off the lights for 24 hours."

> "They took the Bible I had and they said here there is no right to religion. And my Bible is the one thing that keeps my faith, and now I'm losing my faith," he said."

> "They're not respecting our human rights," one man said during the same call. "We're human beings; we're not dogs. We're like rats in an experiment."

> "I don't know their motive for doing this, if it's a form of torture."

It's a straight up concentration camp, and ICE is the Gestapo.

Wake up, Americans. Ever wondered what you would've done during the rise of the Nazis? It's whatever you're doing right now. Are you gonna be on the right side of history? Or are you going to be a collaborator?
by 0dKD | 2025-07-09 07:34:02+00:00
Totally. During the last year of working in this space ive come to think everything starts on the side, either for five minutes while you think about it or for fifteen years as a "by definition" SideProject (one thats not meant to become anything else). Yeah ill have to share more stories like that. We also have some examples already of people meeting here and then starting stuff, so those examples are awesome as well. Im also thinking i need a marketing strategy, ive considered nerding on my SideProject wizard alterego and making content where he inspires to make things. Like i did here: https://youtu.be/K6aC6vFkiG4?si=b53SYSX8HRST4yTt
by bcraven | 2025-07-09 07:35:25+00:00
I suggest you look up the documentary _Hokusai: Old Man Crazy to Paint_ .[0]

It discusses how Hokusai changed his artistic style every ~10 years for his own pleasure.

[0] https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Hokusai:_Old_Man_Crazy_...
by consp | 2025-07-09 07:35:47+00:00
This all reads as symbolic nationalist policies with an added burocracy thus costing more than it should. "We need own coin to control [insert nationalist thing here]" but in practice you won't and never did.

The last time I was in Denmark my bank nicely charged me for the conversion despite the coin being fixed to the euro. It is just a money costing machine which adds no value.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-09 07:37:41+00:00
Yes, Chinese room is a well-known way of building up a system that's capable of understanding something from parts that individually are not (even though it was formulated in an attempt to prove the opposite).

I find some irony in the mention of elan vital upthread - on the one hand, most people here wouldn't let themselves be caught dead believing in elan vital, but then switch to any thread discussing AI, or even cognition in animals (or plants, like here), and suddenly vitalism becomes the mainstream position once again.
by strogonoff | 2025-07-09 07:37:48+00:00
One way could be exporting lossless 16-bit TIFF or PNG from RT, in some wide colour space and without sharpening, and then doing relighting + final processing steps in another tool… However, if you want to apply a CLUT after relighting then yeah, tricky.

It would be great if RT supported something along the lines of “take the entire canvas after initial raw processing but before CLUT and final touches and put it into a temporary file; allow me to do something with it in any other tool; then load it back and apply the rest of the steps on top of that”, but that might require it to store that edited canvas somewhere in addition to .pp3 file.
by monocasa | 2025-07-09 07:38:41+00:00
A lot of synchronization primitives in the NT kernel are based on a register width bit mask of a CPU set, so each collection of 64 hardware threads on 64 bit systems kind of runs in its own instance of the scheduler. It's also unfortunately part of the driver ABI since these ops were implemented as macros and inline functions.

Because of that, transitioning a software thread to another processor group is a manual process that has to be managed by user space.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-09 07:38:56+00:00
Really cool paper, lots of examples of what worked, lots of interesting ideas. Some things I got from a first read-through:

- sample selection while training - while removing 0/8 and 8/8 problems was done before, I think it's interesting that they're doing it during training as well (as the model learns to solve some problems, they shift from x/8 closer to 8/8, and in this paper they remove them dynamically). Cool idea.

- increasing temp after an "entropy decrease" in the model - As the model "learns" new patterns, the entropy of answers decreases (based on ngrams) so they dynamically increase temperature to encourage discovery of more diverse answers.

- rope gives you free gains.

- each model is different and what works at one scale doesn't necessarily work at other scales - I think this was "known", but cool to see it applies to RL as well.
by dmos62 | 2025-07-09 07:39:56+00:00
Greece underreported its debt until 2009: i.e. it borrowed too much while lying about how much it's already borrowed. That's the main difference between Greece on the one hand and Italy, Portugal on the other, in my eyes. Italy and Portugal too suffered a public debt crises, but they weren't so blatant about it. I sympathize with the common Greek man, and I wish their crises had been managed with more success, but I also don't feel especially interested in bankrolling Greek policies that led to this crises.
by GeneralSyb | 2025-07-09 07:40:12+00:00
I'm not really an embedded engineer, just getting my degree in EE and doing hobby projects with embedded. For one particular project I've been using a number for different BLE microcontrollers to see what works best. Started out with the ESP32 where I got everything running pretty quickly but the current consumption was about 10x as high as I wanted it to be. Then made a design with an STM32 and at first I liked the IDE and the documentation, but I sort of ran a ground and also disliked how incredibly expensive this particular microcontroller was. Now on my desk I have one which I think is the cheapest BLE microcontrollers from Silicon labs. EFR22BG22CC something. Neat little thing in a QFN-32 package, a simple hardware design and a lot cheaper than the STM32. The IDE seems pretty simple and I think that most of their tooling is open source since there is also an implementation for it in visual studio code. Documentation isn't as great, but I can get by. And also, despite the wide range of microcontrollers they offer, they do seem to be available in large quantities. The one I used mouser had like 350k of and more on the way.

I've yet to see anyone here talk about silicon labs microcontrollers. Why's that?
by kasabali | 2025-07-09 07:40:30+00:00
> I don't think it works.

Duh. Of course it doesn't work, because they cancelled it in 2018!

> making it a lot cheaper to launch, especially as "7nm" isn't the leading edge any more.

Same logic cuts both ways. If they didn't think it was financially viable in 2018 when it'd be a leading edge process and their customers would be willing to pay top dollar for it, why would they think it'd be feasible now when it isn't the leading edge lithography and nobody would be paying top dollar for it?

On top of that I doubt even your claim that it'd be cheaper to do the investment now would hold given how everything got more expensive since 2018. I'm also doubtful that machines got cheaper since ASML is still the only ones building them and they've probably got their hands full with their existing customers. They'd probably laugh at GloFo if they'd come with a request like that "Sorry GloFo, we're already booked until 2030 building machines for TSMC, Intel and Samsung maybe try at 2032" :P

GloFo got off the train and there's no going back.
by oblio | 2025-07-09 07:41:07+00:00
It's not hard to implement, in the sense of "hard to implement software feature".

It's hard because businesses don't want cancellation to be easy, as they lose money. A lot of people forget to cancel or just can't be bothered for a long time, especially if cancellation is hard.

And yes, it's as predatory as it sounds.

It's basically the financialization of business, as some point one of the few ways towards "growth" is nickel-and-diming everyone you can.
by db48x | 2025-07-09 07:41:22+00:00
Suppose I am selling magazine subscriptions. I basically already follow all of the FTC’s new rules, because I’m not trying to cheat. But the new rules are pages and pages of amendments to pages and pages of existing rules. Those rules are complicated and detailed. How can I be _sure_ that _all_ of my marketing materials are compliant with these new rules, which detail exactly what information I must disclose to my customers and potential customers. I have to first understand the new rules, then review all my existing marketing materials, possibly with the aid of legal advice. Maybe I have to reword some things so that I’m using exactly the language specified by the FTC. Changing a website is cheap, but what about my printed materials? I’ve got 6 editions in various stages of completion for each of my dozen different brands.

Those costs are definitely going to be passed along to the consumer in some form or another. Fewer sales, fewer discounts, higher subscription prices, higher advertising prices, thinner magazines, it doesn’t matter. It all flows down to the consumers in the end. I don’t see how you can argue that these costs _can’t_ be passed down to the consumers.

And it’s definitely going to cost more than $1,000. The FTC estimates that there are over a hundred thousands entities offering subscriptions of some kind to customers in the US. 100,000 × $1,000 = $100,000,000. That’s the threshold beyond which rules changes need additional review.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-09 07:43:11+00:00
> and doing a public write-up once the issue is fixed

I'd also check with UK laws, as even that might be close to gray-ish territory if they're willing to go after you. Litigious companies are a pain to work with. Especially if they seem to be looking for no bad PR. Worth a few hours of research, maybe reach out to a non-profit and see if they can help?
by Thorrez | 2025-07-09 07:43:13+00:00
That argument could be made to reject any form of lossy compression.

Lossy compression enables many use cases that would otherwise be impossible. Is it annoying that streaming companies drive the bitrate overly low? Yes. However, we shouldn't blame the existence of lossy compression algorithms for that. Without lossy compression, streaming wouldn't be feasible in the first place.
by musicale | 2025-07-09 07:43:32+00:00
Metaverse (virtual worlds) did catch on - virtual offices and storefronts didn't really catch on, but people enjoy virtual worlds for: competitive and cooperative gaming; virtual fashion and environment construction; chat and social interaction; storytelling; performance; etc. Mostly non-commerce recreation activities. Look at the success of fortnite, minecraft, world of warcraft, etc. These share the dimension of shared recreational experiences and activities that give people a reason to spend time in the virtual world.
by bjornsing | 2025-07-09 07:44:03+00:00
Our ability to adapt to a changing climate without too much human suffering should radically increase with a shrinking world population though.

In general I think too much emphasis is placed on trying to preserve the current climate as is, and too little on trying to make this planet a good place to live for generations to come. The climate changes over time, that’s just how it is. The climate changes we are seeing now are not extraordinary when viewed over the course of the Earth’s history. The current climate has no intrinsic value and will be long gone in a billion years, regardless of what we do.
by reify | 2025-07-09 07:44:33+00:00
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No more searching the very tiny tiny small print at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe.

you were sure you ticked or was you supposed to untick that scam tick box when you signed up or bought something online,

https://proton.me/support/auto-unsubscribe
by pjerem | 2025-07-09 07:47:32+00:00
That was not the point of the discussion.

I could answer "iOS may be shitty but it doesn't phone home every touch and your health data stays local". I really don't want to argue abour iOs vs Android. I used both. They are both shit made to lock their users in an ecosystem that solely benefits Google or Apple. I really couldnt care more about arguing which is worse, I would just want the market to allow something better than both for me, the user.