MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aikinai | 2025-07-29 14:53:55+00:00
I never use flash and real cameras are still in a completely different league. There are tons of advantages, but I think the biggest different is dynamic range. Faces, hair, etc. look so dark on phone photos. And even if I try to manually push up the exposure and let it blow out the background, it will still never give me bright faces indoors.

Of course then there's the lack of detail and watercolor effect to try to fake detail, distortion, etc.
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 14:54:09+00:00
> But if everyone is becoming less capable, then that's not a problem that wealth can fix.

What suggests that people are becoming less capable? More importantly, what suggests that people are becoming less capable in an irreversible way? If people are less capable, but it is reversible, then wealth can fix it. As you said, you can use wealth to get other people to become more capable.
by ewoodrich | 2025-07-29 14:54:21+00:00
Yep, my $150 Amazon warehouse deals Eufy picks up about two large handfuls of cat hair daily if I run it consistently and more if I run it every few days. And this is one medium sized shorthair cat I comb regularly!

I’ve only needed to replace consumables like the little side brush and roller brush and the cheap Amazon knockoff brands work fine for me.
by eru | 2025-07-29 14:55:27+00:00
Where have I lied about anything here?

> In any event, taking tax money and giving it back to the betterment of society as a whole is one of the most uniformly good things that could be done with tax dollars.

Have you considered taxing less in the first place? So that there's more money for eg private research?

> Deepmind's publicly called for governments to fund AI research, as have many other (private) researchers.

Company in sector X calling for more government spending on sector X seems hardly like news?
by Almondsetat | 2025-07-29 14:55:41+00:00
Those are the colors people like. Go and look at how photographers usually try to make skies more dramatic for clients in all kind of photoshoots (weddings, events, postcard pictures, etc.). That's what the market wants. You can disagree, but it's not like smartphone companies are incompetent and don't know how photography works (not that you have made this claim)
by StrLght | 2025-07-29 14:56:00+00:00
Photos taken on an iPhone are good, unless you:

* zoom in

* print them

* watch them on a bigger screen

Sometimes I compare photos I've taken over 10 years ago with Sony NEX-5 with photos I take today with an iPhone. There's no competition, APS-C from 15 years ago is still solid.

Anyway, the best camera is the one you have with you, so in that sense iPhone is great.
by therealpygon | 2025-07-29 14:56:03+00:00
I mean this in the nicest way; you don’t need a job that fits your preferences, you need a therapist, maybe some medication, and mostly to stop making excuses.

Seriously, I mean that in a heartfelt way and I’m someone in not much different situation and experience with similar and other alphabet soup of afflictions I could blame and I have blamed. We all have problems, the question is really what you’re doing about them because no one really cares that we have them.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-29 14:56:13+00:00
What makes you categorically say that "AIs can't"?

Based on my experience with present day AIs, I personally wouldn't be surprised at all that if you showed Gemini 2.5 Pro a video of an insect colony and asked it "Take a look at the way they organize and see if that gives you inspiration for an optimization algorithm", it will spit something interesting out.
by azath92 | 2025-07-29 14:56:20+00:00
cool to hear that the actual electric sheep project is still something you can interact with!

For those super new to it (like me), check out https://electricsheep.org/ og video we came across it with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RdMvgk8b0 (this was just the first I found when looking there are many on youtube) and the algorithm behind it https://flam3.com/ This is all AFAICT as someone who's only just skimmed the surface, but i find it amazing.
by jan_Sate | 2025-07-29 14:56:27+00:00
Not exactly. The real utility value of LLM for programming is to come up with something new. For Space Invaders, instead of using LLM for that, I might as well just manually search for the code online and use that.

To show that LLM actually can provide value for one-shot programming, you need to find a problem that there's no fully working sample code available online. I'm not trying to say that LLM couldn't to that. But just because LLM can come up with a perfectly-working Space Invaders doesn't mean that it could do that.
by nis0s | 2025-07-29 14:56:59+00:00
Exclusive doesn’t always mean luxurious, for example a social media site that’s exclusive to certain genders etc., but luxury services and items are often by their nature exclusive because of the barriers needed to attain them.

The other feature often misattributed to luxury is desirability, but people choose experiences based on flexible criteria, and this means they’ll often choose something that’s not necessarily luxurious like a Michelin-starred restaurant over a mom-and-pop noodle shop they like for the “homey” vibes. But the point is that they’ll spend their money one way or another on some experience, and that experience may not necessarily be luxurious or exclusive.

But note also that exclusive environments aren’t always for status symbol purposes, but sometimes a necessity for people who may desire not to be publicly exposed at all times. Circling back to airport lounges, there’s a lot that can be done to create stellar experiences which aren’t exactly luxurious but still money-makers for service providers. Complaining about people having too much money sounds really dumb to me.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-07-29 14:57:43+00:00
My thoughts about Alpha School and '2 hour learning':

https://x.com/RahimNathwani/status/1933354196792979590?t=bMl...

My main problem is that they claim:

- it can work with any cohort

- that the gains come primarily from the 2 hour learning platform

But actually:

- the gains come from the high quality and large quantity of adults

- only 10% of the benefit comes from the platform (according to Matt Bateman, an education thinker who now works there)

- there are definitely large selection effects, too

I like the idea of it. But AFAICT there's nothing special about the execution. It's just that public schools (both government-run, and charters):

(i) can't choose their students, and

(ii) aren't trying to maximize learning, and

(iii) have parents who want something 'normal'.

So it's easy to do something better, if you can get a few folks to pay you a lot of money, and you have investors willing to burn additional money.

(BTW at their new school in San Francisco, opening this fall, they're planning to charge $75k/year, so probably no need for VC subsidy)

They might iterate to something that can scale. But right now they're making claims that I don't think would stand up to scrutiny.

Regarding their charter school application in Pennsylvania: the fact that they're trying to get taxpayers to pay so much for their software (which Matt acknowledges only accounts for 10% of the gains) seems like a trick to extract money from a taxpayer-funded 'not for profit'.

Separately: if I were paying $75k/year for a school for my child, I'd be disappointed if they were using IXL and ALEKS for math, instead of Math Academy.
by oa335 | 2025-07-29 14:57:53+00:00
> The majority of Israelis don't want to genocide the Gazans.

According to a recent poll:

Nearly half (47 percent) of respondents agreed that "when conquering an enemy city, the Israel Defense Forces should act as the Israelites did in Jericho under Joshua's command – killing all its inhabitants."

82 percent of respondents supported the expulsion of Gaza's residents

56 percent favored expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel

https://archive.is/Fg4OX#selection-659.66-659.274
by bluGill | 2025-07-29 14:58:15+00:00
School isn't just about 'book knowledge'. Homeschooled kids often do well on tests - but they all lack an awareness of the real world because they don't meet republicans or non-christians or whatever is outside of their parents groups. those who promote home schooling are aware of this and make some attempt to provide it but that doesn't compare to the many hours you spend in a classroom with such people and so I can still tell the lack.

i'm curious how these ai schools will be different
by louwrentius | 2025-07-29 14:58:24+00:00
The iostat command has always been important to observe HDD/SDD latency numbers.

Especially SSDs are treated like magic storage devices with infinite IOPS at Planck-scale latency.

Until you discover that SSDs that can do 10GB/s don't do nearly so well (not even close) when you access them in a single thread with random IOPS, with queue depth of 1.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-07-29 14:59:18+00:00
> The author is basically pointing out that the country is now pretty much a country of trust fundies, and that usually that leads to higher levels of directionless meandering and lack of ambition.

Which is a concern that those who back indiscriminate social programs and ideas like UBI need to take seriously.

Now, of course, a trust fund kid needn't be an aimless and vacuous hedonist, but that requires a disciplined upbringing many such kids seem to lack. Furthermore, even discipline requires a more expansive and higher sense of the human person and the purpose of life. Discipline for the sake of what?

In our culture, we absolutely lack a sense of higher ends. Our picture of life is summed up by the term "making it", which consists of becoming rich, or at least materially comfortable. In a liberal society, highest aims are necessarily privatized, so the common culture that forms among people living in such a society, that makes them a society, will necessarily degenerate to the lowest common denominator and some metastasized compounding of it. The culture pulls people back into the muck of mediocrity and contains a hostility to higher purpose. Higher purpose is divisive, even offensive! So, when you are poor, your concerns revolve around survival and securing the basic needs of food and shelter and so on. Once satisfied, because no higher aims of life seem to exist, certainly none that the culture can point us at, we fall into some cancerous and deranged worship of feeding our base appetites. This we may call consumerism. So, life becomes hedonistic, and nihilistic. There is nothing for the us to do, certainly not for the rank and file of society, beyond buying shit, stuffing our faces, stimulating our genitals, and pissing away our lives on entertainment and distraction until we finally die.

So, in a sense, wealth can become a temptation to fritter away one's life, but it is not the wealth per se that's responsible. You can, as a materially well off person, still have a life full of meaning and purpose. But for that, you must discover what human nature is oriented toward and how you should engage it. It isn't arbitrary.
by sxv | 2025-07-29 14:59:18+00:00
When tested against AIs such as DeepSeek V3, Qwen 3, and Phi-4, CatAttack increased the odds of incorrect answers by as much as 700%, depending on the model. And “even when CatAttack does not result in the reasoning model generating an incorrect answer, on average, our method successfully doubles the length of the response at least 16% of the times leading to significant slowdowns and increase in costs,” the team writes.

preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01781?et_rid=648436046&et_cid=568...
by unshavedyak | 2025-07-29 14:59:22+00:00
Is Spaced Repetition related to "learning one new thing every day" though?

I'd have thought repetition was more about retention than the described "learn one new thing every day".

I'm also curious what new means here. Is attempting to research and retain (eg SR) some small fact the goal? Or would it be learning novel modals, such as new skills or new ways of thinking - which i imagine would be quite difficult in a day of course, just thinking out loud.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-29 14:59:30+00:00
In Greg Egan's "Diaspora" two of the successor human groups have chosen to leave. The Polis Citizens have been uploaded to run on dedicated computers which can then just travel through space as any other computer - but the Gleisner Robots have adopted artificial bodies which unlike biological human bodies are suitable for space travel. Not with any great speed, but by their nature the Gleisner Robots live at a steady pace, they're not bothered that it will take them a very long time to reach another star.

So in a sense these are both mind reconfigurations as well as physical, the Gleisner Robots have the required patience and the Citizens don't live at our pace or scale because their world isn't even real.

In Diaspora leaving turns out to be a lucky break, the Earth is sterilized by a relatively nearby gamma ray burst not long into the book and the subset of human descendants who went back into the trees are wiped out along with all other life on the planet.
by megaman821 | 2025-07-29 14:59:33+00:00
These don't seem like very big problems, but it will be interesting to see how Norway deals with an aging population while maintaining its very generous social programs. They are probrably the best suited country in the world to handle this, so what they do may provide a blueprint or a cautionary tale to other countries. Will they raise taxes, increase immigration, lower services or raid the wealth fund?
by mbones | 2025-07-29 14:59:41+00:00
The author was part of an institution in Facist Italy that espoused the superhumanism of these “elites” over the little people as one of their core tenants: “The psychological difference that sets elites apart is that they have personal resources, for instance intelligence and skills, and a vested interest in the government; whilst the rest are incompetent and do not have the capabilities to govern themselves, the elite are resourceful and strive to make the government work.”
Show HN: ELF Injector
by dillstead | 2025-07-29 15:00:02+00:00
The ELF Injector allows you to "inject" arbitrary-sized relocatable code chunks into ELF executables. The code chunks will run before the original entry point of the executable runs.

Included in the project are sample chunks as well as a step-by-step tutorial on how it works.

It's a mix of C and assembly and currently runs on 32-bit ARM though it's easy to port to other architectures.
by donperignon | 2025-07-29 15:00:37+00:00
I have been using RPI pico for my projects lately. It is really nice mcu, tooling is pretty good, and the development process using i.e. vscode is pretty straightforward. Documentation is also pretty good. Functionality wise, pretty much standard features, but PIO stands out, a lot of potential there on future iterations (i can imagine a mini-fpga in each pin of the device). But i went back to stm32fx after finding many many issues integrating an sd card, i waste so many hours debugging the issue that works flawlessly on the stm32, is very probable that is my fault but i couldnt continue throwing time into it. other than that has bright future, specially PIO and RISCV core.
by Groxx | 2025-07-29 15:00:46+00:00
Obviously yes. They all routinely treat my "thingsByID" array like a dictionary - it's a compact array where ID = index though.

They even screw that up inside the tiny function that populates it. If anything IMO, they over-value names immensely (which makes sense, given how they work, and how broadly consistent programmers are with naming).
by perching_aix | 2025-07-29 15:01:06+00:00
Yes. If you want to encode soundness guarantees, you might want to look for a language with formal verification facilities instead, like Ada-SPARK.

I'm not sure if there are any languages that allow you to pass down / inherit language constraints specifically, maybe Lisp or similar can do that? But then often that unfortunately wouldn't be actually helpful, as these requirements usually come from the outside (like in your Python example, it comes from Python being specified such that you can encode deadlocking logic in your Python code).

For most everyone who aren't trying to implement the possibility of deadlocks in guestcode, this remains a useful property even without that.
by exodust | 2025-07-29 15:01:07+00:00
Your analogy needs modifying. If we remove the laws, a child could walk into the store and buy beer with their pocket money, no questions asked. This isn't the same as them browsing the internet no questions asked.

The child is not paying for their devices or internet access. Their parents are paying and providing the needed equipment. In a way, it's like giving keys to after hours access to the local mall, where all kinds of stores can be browsed including adult magazine stores, without any shopkeeper to apply the laws.

So one solution is don't give kids the keys. Or, since their online activity leaves a digital trail, even if they did have keys, there's a chance to moderate their activity via seeing what they have done rather than police where they might go.
by zenhuifer | 2025-07-29 15:01:33+00:00
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by aosaigh | 2025-07-29 15:01:41+00:00
I also think there’s something special about looking through a viewfinder.

Even in new cameras (where the viewfinder itself is a tiny screen) something happens when you frame a photo this way, that doesn’t happen when you use the back display (or a phone).

I don’t know if it’s down to physically using one eye, or the psychology of bringing your eye to the camera’s eye, but it feels different (and I like it)
by toyg | 2025-07-29 15:01:43+00:00
> I'm guessing you're talking about Julian

No. This pre-dates anything related to Julian Assange's criminal trial. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...

Simply speaking, Visa and Mastercard debanked Wikipedia because of their journalistic activities, simply because the US government did not like them, before there was any judicial process whatsoever.
by Invictus0 | 2025-07-29 15:02:10+00:00
This author seems to have completely misunderstood what Alpha School is doing. The student learns at their own pace. They don't move on until they learn it, whether that's quickly or slowly. That is worlds better than the assembly line system we have now, where if a student doesn't learn a concept, they are expected to build on top of that misunderstood concept in the next lesson, and then the entire remainder of their education becomes a wash.

We are living in a world where high schools are graduating students that can't read and don't know their times tables. The critiques of alpha school are reactive inertia for a system that is already badly broken.
by freedomben | 2025-07-29 15:02:38+00:00
I expect the "free" tiers to incorporate ads or some other way of monetizing, and honestly if they are transparent about it like that I think that's a much better alternative than a "product placement" style ad where you don't realize you're being advertised to (and thus much more subject to influence from the ad company). It might be complicated, but I tend to think some basic regulation around making it explicit would be a very good thing.
by morkalork | 2025-07-29 15:02:44+00:00
Seeing that carve out for Google with non-licensed androids being banned from the age verification app., it looks like there's going to be a heavy swing towards trusted devices and apps. in general. Perhaps untrusted ones will be blocked from carrier networks. And then what? You'll be able to have phones with your own custom apps/chat installed that's useless, or phones that are useful but you're stuck with only official, compromised apps.
by skiniks | 2025-07-29 15:02:47+00:00
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Try it: https://rari.build Code: https://github.com/rari-build/rari Benchmarks: https://github.com/rari-build/benchmarks
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-29 15:03:28+00:00
Poor Google, they have to screw over the entire online population for their own sake. The masses love being screwed over, which is why Google uses dark patterns instead of having people make informed decisions. That this helps make Google even richer is just a happy accident. Shame on technologists who question Google's morality!

Yep, that logic makes total sense. /s
by supermatt | 2025-07-29 15:03:58+00:00
Why can't these measures be handled via parental control?

Children are using mobiles and tablets almost exclusively, both major providers of which supply tools for parental administration.

Content filtering is already facilitated by existing parental control. Mobile browsers could be made to issue a header if the user is under a certain age. Mobile apps could have access to a flag.

Parents should be responsible for parenting their child - not big tech. Why does it need to be any more complicated than that?
by mandmandam | 2025-07-29 15:04:20+00:00
> Author is clearly not a happy bunny.

Scouring the article I see no evidence for this claim whatsoever.

> Having the right spirit and the right motivation creates mental well-being, not material or social conditions.

The right spirit and motivation isn't going to help you avoid chromosome & telomere damage, or chronic lack of sleep.

Wouldn't it best to know the risks (and smells) going in? Because that's what the author is laying out. The author isn't stopping you from going into space, just putting the facts out there.
by ck2 | 2025-07-29 15:04:35+00:00
I'm not saying it's not possible to be motors

But something I've noticed across several sports is amateurs really can't grasp how elite some human beings can be biologically due to accidents in evolution

So any significantly elite performance is indistinguishable from tech/drug doping

It's all in the mitochondria and someday they might be able to test at birth (or even before)

And now they are developing mitochondria transplants so just imagine TdF or the Olympics in a few decades
by captainbland | 2025-07-29 15:04:46+00:00
Strictly speaking the law was passed under the conservatives, albeit in collaboration with Labour (it's bi-partisan). But I would agree that the drive is more authoritarian and it just uses moralistic arguments to shame people into siding with it.

The law could mandate that retail device OSs ship with a turnkey child safe mode complete with app and extensive site whitelists and run an educational campaign on the subject. But instead they've gone the needlessly invasive route which is telling about the true motives.
by pendergast | 2025-07-29 15:05:00+00:00
Fascinating. I feel like LLMs are great for the shy sections of society. They might hold beliefs, some strong, others weak. But they probably never speak these aloud for the fear of being judged. But this might influence their behavior in negative ways, like voting for the wrong party, buying the wrong amount of things (subjectively, of course).

LLMs can act as a good foil here. Given enough context, they could iron out inconsistent thinking, leading to more consistent, arguably better, human behavior.