MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pessimizer | 2025-07-29 17:31:52+00:00
Yes, it is a pretense and the point of mentioning "the children" is to mobilize the child-worshipping demographic who believe, in all cases, that anything that raises any risk to children should be banned, and that this should not be discussed by decent people. The successful child-worshippers also instantly burst into hysterics and aggressive personal attacks when spoken to about the subject (hysterics and tears when they agree, the latter otherwise.) Their success lies in never lowering themselves to discuss anything with anybody. They're here to tell you.

They are an extreme minority of every population (mostly people who aren't interested in politics or civil liberties who enjoy and care about children.) But sensible people are also an extreme minority of the population; we normal people usually aren't so sensible, instead we listen to sensible people and follow their advice.

So the people who want everybody on the internet to identify themselves pit hysterics against measured voices in the media, in order to create a fake controversy that only has to last until the law gets passed. Afterwards, the politicians and commentariat who were directly paid or found personal brand benefit in associating with the hysterics start leaving quotes like: "This isn't what we thought we passed" and "It might be useful to have a review to see if this has gone too far." Then we find out that half the politicians connected with the legislation have connections to an age verification firm which is also an data broker, and has half a billion in contracts with the MoD.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-29 17:32:03+00:00
At my university I took a physics course where the homework was always 4-6 gimmick questions or proofs that were so hard that we would form groups after class just to copy whoever could divine the solutions.

I ultimately dropped the course and took it in the summer at a community college where we had the 20-30 standard practice problem homework where you apply what you learned in class and grind problems to bake it into core memory.

AI would have helped me at least get through the uni course. But generally I think it's a problem with the school/class itself if you aren't learning most of what you need in class.
by etune | 2025-07-29 17:32:39+00:00
ATOM could inject code before or after any basic block in a program: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/178243.178260. The general technique, IIRC, was to replace the first instruction of the basic block with a jump to code that contained your new code and then the overwritten instructions, and then jump back into the original code.
by threeducks | 2025-07-29 17:32:46+00:00
A human would likely have refactored the two collision checks between bullet/enemy and enemyBullet/player in the JavaScript code into its own function, perhaps something like "areRectanglesOverlapping". The C++ code only does one collision check like that, so it has not been refactored there, but as a human, I certainly would not want to write that twice.

More importantly, it is not just the collision check that is similar. Almost the entire sequence of operations is identical on a higher level:

1. enemyBullet/player collision check 2. same comment "// Player hit!" (this is how I found the code) 3. remove enemy bullet from array 4. decrement lives 5. update lives UI 6. (createParticle only exists in JS code) 7. if lives are <= 0, gameOver
by pavel_lishin | 2025-07-29 17:32:51+00:00
How much of that is The Machine, and how much of that is kids & grandkids not wanting grandma to pass away?

For what it's worth, when my grandma was in the hospital with congestive heart failure, the surgeon was very clear with her and with us that "do nothing, and die" was very much an option, and a choice that she and she alone could make.
by jononor | 2025-07-29 17:33:13+00:00
Print in TPU? There is a limit to how soft one can get, and the finish is not so great (stringing). But fantastic for very tough semi-soft functional objects. Ninjaflex Cheetah and Armadillo are my favorites, but generic TPU also works. Direct drive extruder recommended, though I manage on my cheapo Bowden fed Ender 3.
by TylerLives | 2025-07-29 17:34:19+00:00
>distribute the corruption, which remains constant

Why do you think the corruption would remain constant? When you have more centers of power, each tiny oligarchy is fighting for their piece of the pie. If they don't do something unethical, some other group might outcompete them. Meanwhile if you have more concentrated power, those in charge can think long term and won't be immediately threatened by the competition.
by atoav | 2025-07-29 17:34:28+00:00
So lets say you have twi buttons and you can only press one:

A) Your movement gains the support of a politician who flip-flopped and now would vote in laws that help ending the conflict and/or easing the humanitarian situation The price is literally just doing nothing and you can talk bad about the politician once they were useful for the movement B) You don't get that vote, but you pretend to keep the movement pure from an ideological standpoint. The price is potentially not passing needed legislation.

Don't get me wrong, I like neither option and whether I personally would chose A or B depends a lot on the specifics. But purely from a "we want to achieve tangible political goals"-position the former is superior.

If this is a false dichotomy (it might be), tell me.
by ashishact | 2025-07-29 17:35:01+00:00
I wanted to build this for myself. Could never figure out how to get audio output from Mac. Tried almost all audio loopback driver (Blackhole, Soundflower ...). There was problem everywhere wrt security.

Even tried making a teams meeting bot. But Teams doesn't give live audio to developer unless you are a special partner.

Glad you made this. Will play around
by ryandv | 2025-07-29 17:35:05+00:00
> My experience is that most progressive causes want to redistribute income from high earners to low earners.

> These policies actively restrict freedoms by removing the freedom of choice from consumers.

Moreover despite all the constant pearl clutching about "systemic imbalances in resources between whites and People of Color" from the progressive left, you will find that most of these policies actually transfer wealth from the middle and upper-middle class ethnic minority demographics to rich white nepotists in the government.

If progressives were actually serious about correcting racial wealth disparities, we would implement a taxation scheme that taxes whites more heavily, and ethnic minorities less so, based on some metric of the overall injustices visited upon them.

Instead, the instant an ethnic minority gets a leg up on the system all the crabs in the progressive bucket demand that he get pulled back down. The words and slogans about "equity" are just hymnal responses that the white progressive uses to absolve themselves of all responsibility and accountability, since after accepting the Code of Conduct and the DEI statement they've already been "born again" out of the original sins of implicit bias and racism.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-29 17:35:08+00:00
If you are a “middle class” person that means if you don’t get a degree or don’t get a job you probably have parents to fall back on or at least go home. That means your parents can “subsidize your living” just like I said even if it’s just letting you stay rent free.

And there are plenty of degrees with negative ROI

https://freopp.org/whitepapers/does-college-pay-off-a-compre...
by nomel | 2025-07-29 17:35:24+00:00
Which has clear logically consistency, at the app owner level, which is the context of my reply.

If the app owner can't obtain PII, I don't believe the app owner is spying.

Is Apple spying?

> Routing like this requires trust

It depends on if you trust them, and their privacy policy. If they're functioning as a PII stripping proxy, as they claim, then I would claim no, to the extent of what's technically possible. I would also claim that a trustworthy VPN is not spying on you. YOMV.
by breadwinner | 2025-07-29 17:35:34+00:00
> elsewhere your goods cost 15% more than those coming from the rest of the world.

That's impossible. Goods manufactured in the US will cost way more than that. The minimum wage in Vietnam is under $1 USD per hour, while in the US it ranges from $7.50 to $15 USD. So unless the product is manufactured by robots (which defeats the point of tariffs), products manufactured in the US will be around 10x more expensive than those manufactured in Asia.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-29 17:35:34+00:00
I'm mixed on this one... In terms of schooling, it's about understanding how math works... not how to operate a calculator.

Similar to graphing calculators vs basic scientific calculators... if you're trying to demonstrate you understand an equation, having the calculator do that for you doesn't show you understand what it is doing.

Where in a job, you're probably not going to need to rebalance a B-Tree in any practical sense. For that matter, in my own experience, most actual development rarely has people optimizing their RDBMS usage in any meaningful way, for better or worse.

It's the difference between learning and comprehension and delivering value. Someone has to understand how the machine works to fix it when it breaks. And there are jobs at every level. Most of them aren't that constrained in practice though.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-29 17:36:19+00:00
If you genuinely believe he wasn't appealing to genocide, then here's a sampling of the rest of the Israeli leadership - who generally speak more directly.

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President of Israel: "It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware not involved. It’s absolutely not true. … and we will fight until we break their backbone."

Minister of Defense: "[We are] imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."

Minister of National Security: "To be clear, when we say that Hamas should be destroyed, it also means those who celebrate, those who support, and those who hand out candy — they’re all terrorists, and they should also be destroyed."

Minister of Energy and Infrastructure: "All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world."

Minister of Heritage: "We wouldn’t hand the Nazis humanitarian aid”, and "there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza."

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This is also far from the most extreme. See the "motivational speech" sponsored by the Israeli Army on page 64. [1] I will not quote it because it makes the above seem like softball. And these were things all said more than a year ago - they have only become more radical with time. Their rhetoric isn't ambiguous and neither are their actions. So many people don't realize how the West will be seen when the future judges us, though I think more are starting to realize.

[1] - https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/So...
by leakycap | 2025-07-29 17:36:55+00:00
I've enjoyed these videos in a similar way Coding Secrets by the founder of TT Games sharing how they worked with and around Sega and other early gaming system limitations

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkY047vYjF92-8HcoVTXAOg

The videos are interesting and gave me simple examples of how to work around limitations in a tech stack.
by sejje | 2025-07-29 17:37:14+00:00
Humans are used to ignoring things while LLMs are explicitly trained to pay attention to the entire text.

Humans who haven't been exposed to trick problems or careful wording probably have a hard time, they'll be less confident about ignoring things.

But the LLM should have seen plenty of trick problems as well.

It just doesn't parse as part of the problem. Humans have more options, and room to think. The LLM had to respond.

I'd also like to see how responses were grouped, does it ever refuse, how do refusals get classed, etc. Were they only counting math failures as wrong answers? It has room to be subjective.
by timost | 2025-07-29 17:38:28+00:00
Thank you for your answer !

I'm trying not to pick sides but here are a few arguments they oppose to these key points :

- Technological advancement : Although it does play a role, they measure power in long climbs to limit that bias. Speeds are lower so aero plays less of a role. Bikes were already as light or even lighter in the 2000s. They also calibrate their power predictions against riders of the peloton who publish their power on strava.

- Nutrition has indeed changed, it helps producing near max power efforts at the end of long stages (aka durability) but doesn't play a direct role on pure max power (VO2 max related) which is what they are worried about.

- Regarding training, I'm not really sure, I think the pro peloton already had access to power meters in the 2000s.

- Regarding testing, it's indeed quite frequent but it's not bullet proof.

- I think the history of the sport is so bad it's hard to see the half full glass.
by nerevarthelame | 2025-07-29 17:38:45+00:00
I tried using it and am not impressed. I don't know if it's possible to do any of the things shown in the promotional videos. It seems like a typical web-enabled LLM, but in a browser extension. I didn't see ANY functionality from "Copilot mode" that doesn't already exist in any other web-enabled LLM. It couldn't book anything. It didn't move through the site. It did poor analysis. It hallucinated links. It gaslit me and told me that I needed to manually do the things I was asking - and gave me incorrect instructions on how to do that.

I had to double-check that I was correctly opted into this new feature because it seemed like a terrible implementation of very established technology. Every task I attempted was a frustrating failure. Embarrassingly bad stuff.

If you really want to know my specific gripes: I navigated to a major hotel chain's site that I have discounted rates at, subject to availability. I asked Copilot to find me a hotel within driving distance to my home with those discounted rates available for certain dates. It claimed that it checked that the rates were available (something I didn't expect it to be able to do), and gave me a few hotels. The hotels exist, but every one of the "View hotel details" links were broken. Although it said it checked to see if rooms were available under the discounted rates, it definitely didn't. I tried to get it to book a reservation anyway, and it said that the "page isn't loading properly right now - either it's been moved or there's a glitch on the hotel's site." The hotel's site was working just fine.

I navigated to a recipe website I often use. I asked Copilot to find me some recipes fitting certain basic criteria ("vegan," "quick and easy").

The links it provided to each recipe were all to the main page - not actually to the recipes themselves, even though the labeled link text suggested it would be to the individual recipe.

Although the site has a plethora of vegan options, 2/4 of its recommendations were non-vegan recipes that it gave tips on how to make vegan. Recommending that I make quesadillas by "swapping nutritional yeast instead of dairy cheese" is a terrible, awful idea. Especially in the context of all the other great, already vegan recipes on the site it ignored to make this recommendation.

For the other converted-to-vegan recipe, I manually searched for the original recipe (since it couldn't provide recipe-specific links) to see that the author already had a vegan version of the recipe linked in the original instructions. Copilot's veganization was unnecessary and lower quality than what the author had already provided on the site.
by crims0n | 2025-07-29 17:38:53+00:00
> Yes, that's probably why the first example of an out-group in GP is "republicans", while the second is "non-Christians"

My mistake, misread the sentence. Not that it is an excuse, but it is a common stereotype.

> And on what evidence should I believe either of those things?

I don't see how one could even go about collecting empirical evidence to substantiate either of those claims, and I expect you know that. Regardless, I am sharing an anecdote - not writing a thesis. Believe what you will.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-29 17:39:06+00:00
I don't think it's too unexpected: An LLM is an algorithm that takes a document and guesses a plausible extra piece to add. It makes sense it would generate more-pleasing output when run against a document which strongly resembles ones it was trained on, as opposed to a document made by merging two dissimilar and distinct kinds of document.

Sure, just one cat-fact can have a big impact, but it already takes a deal of circumstance and luck for an LLM to answer a math problem correctly. (Unless someone's cheating with additional non-LLM code behind the scenes.)
by dcbb65b2bcb6e6a | 2025-07-29 17:39:24+00:00
> LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation.

I haven't tested them on many things. But in the past 3 weeks I tried to vibe code a little bit VHDL. On the one hand it was a fun journey, I could experiment a lot and just iterated fast. But if I was someone who had no idea about hardware design, then this trash would've guided me the wrong way in numerous situations. I can't even count how many times it has built me latches instead of clocked registers (latches bad, if you don't know about it) and that's just one thing. Yes I know there ain't much out there (compared to python and javascript) about HDLs, even less regarding VHDL. But damn, no no no. Not for learning. never. If you know what you're doing and you have some fundamental knowledge about the topic, then it might help to get further, but not for the absolute essentials, that will backfire hard.
by yencabulator | 2025-07-29 17:39:39+00:00
Base64 is a bytes-to-ASCII encoding and does not magically transport file system metadata such as owner and suid bit. The sudo binary has no special powers by its mere byte content.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

https://xkcd.com/1053/
by bloomca | 2025-07-29 17:39:42+00:00
I am not really sure how bright the future is.

Sure, for some people it will be insanely good: you can go for as stupid questions as you need without feeling judgement, you can go deeper in specific topics, discuss certain things, skip some easy parts, etc.

But we are talking about averages. In the past we thought that the collective human knowledge available via the Internet will allow everyone to learn. I think it is fair to say that it didn't change much in the grand scheme of things.
by deredede | 2025-07-29 17:39:48+00:00
If people need "`expect` scripting and a few open source packages [to] automate it to be 1 factor", it is effectively 2 factor for 99.9% of the population.

Also, if someone uses a password manager to store both the password and the OTP credential, that is still an improvement to security. Intercepting (e.g. shoulder surfing) or guessing the password is no longer enough, an attacker needs to get into the password manager's vault.
by theodorewiles | 2025-07-29 17:39:52+00:00
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97652-6

This isn't study mode, it's a different AI tutor, but:

"The median learning gains for students, relative to the pre-test baseline (M = 2.75, N = 316), in the AI-tutored group were over double those for students in the in-class active learning group."
by no_wizard | 2025-07-29 17:39:58+00:00
>Now, everyone basically has a personal TA, ready to go at all hours of the day

This simply hasn't been my experience.

Its too shallow. The deeper I go, the less it seems to be useful. This happens quick for me.

Also, god forbid you're researching a complex and possibly controversial subject and you want it to find reputable sources or particularly academic ones.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-29 17:39:58+00:00
Well, really the purpose is to inculcate the next generation with the common culture, history, rules and norms, as well as the practical knowledge they will need to become self-supporting functioning adults in society.

Every human civilization and tribal community does this.

It's why we in the USA spend so much time in the early grades not just on arithmetic and ABCs, but on stuff like the Pilgrims, the first Thanksgiving, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, etc. It's not really anything anyone needs to know for day to day life in 2025, but it's a set of common stories that we all can relate to, draw analogies to, and yes rally around if called to do so. I'm not sure really how much this is true today, I'm reflecting on my experience in the 1970s.
by ewoodrich | 2025-07-29 17:40:15+00:00
Hmmm I haven't used for Cline for several months but in Roo I have made some (fairly minor) changes to my Roo Code code modes and have not experienced this at all. Especially that frequently, I use GPT 4.1 via my Copilot Pro plan and Gemini 2.5 Pro via OpenRouter as my daily drivers. That being said I have had found using Gemini through the AI Studio API much less reliable in Roo/Cline and I'm not sure how you are accessing it.

I have auto approve turned on for most routine tasks and run Gemini for relatively long (by Cline/Roo standards) tasks unsupervised without issue, with the normal caveats of any LLM going off the deep end every now and then but haven't seen that more frequently with Gemini except in the first couple months 2.5 Pro was released.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-07-29 17:40:24+00:00
I mean, it's about context, isn't it?

Just like it's easier to be productive if you have a separate home office and couch, because of the differing psychological contexts, it's easier if you have a separate context for "just give me answers" and "actually teach me the thing".

Also, I don't know about you, but (as a professional) even though I actively try to learn the principals behind the code generated, I don't always want to spend the effort prompting the model away from the "just give me results with a simple explanation" personality I've cultivated. It'd be nice having a mode with that work done for me.
by jfengel | 2025-07-29 17:40:47+00:00
A lot of people supported the Iraq War, in the belief that experts supported it. It took something that was effectively a top-level government conspiracy to cover up the fact that the actual experts disagreed.

It wasn't a complete suppression of the facts, but an awful lot of genuine experts were manipulated into saying things that were misleading.

So I could pardon that particular mistake, at least a little. But I hold it against him for not recognizing where this manipulation was coming from, for well over a decade after it was blindingly obvious.
by WillieMacBride | 2025-07-29 17:41:03+00:00
"Scramble Squares" is a card-tiling puzzle which looks like a specialized form of Truchet Tiling.

https://scramblesquares.com

There are 9 square (non-identical) tiles in a set. Each edge of each tile displays half of a two-sided symbol (eg cats, dogs, flags, etc.). Goal is to arrange the tiles in a 3x3 grid so that all touching edges match with corresponding symbol halves.

Looks simple at first, but a real challenge.

Size of the entire solution space is 9! * 4^9 (billions), and brute-force solvers have been written in Python:

https://github.com/roadfoodr/scramble-squares-solver

What are the combinatorial rule(s) used to construct these tiles ?? Some clues: https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/comments/1e09up6/help_how_t...

Kathie Gavin (designer of Scramble Squares) says the design was inspired by "ancient Egyptian tile patterns" she saw in a museum. Does anyone know more about this?