MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-12 00:20:49+00:00
I can't help observing that Britain established a global empire (so vast in scope that they could truthfully say the sun never set upon it, until quite recently) and made it clear to the countries they colonized that Britain, and particularly England, was the center of civilization. We're surrounded by the artefacts of this empire, from Imperial measurements in the USA to Greenwich Mean time being the default timezone to which all others are calibrated.

If you establish a vast trading empire, and tell the often surprised new inhabitants of it that the empire requires their spices/ silks/ slaves, can you really be surprised that the more enterprising and adventurous colonised people gravitate toward the point of origin? Is it some sort of mystery that there should be more people from Algeria and Congo in France, or why there are so many Indonesian people in the Netherlands?

I feel a similar perplexity about many people in the USA making loud complaints about cultural adulteration despite a good quarter of the land having previously been part of Mexico and this being reflected in most of the place names (to take but one example). Some commentators object with an absolute straight face to hearing so many people speaking Spanish in cities with names like Los Angeles.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-12 00:21:29+00:00
On the model side, sure, instructions are data and data are instructions so it might be massaged to regurgitate its prime directive.

But if I was an API provider that had a secret sauce prompt, it would be pretty simple to throw another outbound regex/lem&stem cosine similarity filter just the same as a "woops model is producing erotica" or "woops model is reproducing the lyrics to stairway to heaven" and drop whatever the fuzzy match was out of the message returned to the caller.
by k310 | 2025-07-12 00:21:49+00:00
Entangled biphoton generation in myelin sheath [0]

Zefei Liu, Yong-Cong Chen, Ping Ao

Consciousness within the brain hinges on the synchronized activities of millions of neurons, but the mechanism responsible for orchestrating such synchronization remains elusive. In this study, we employ cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED) to explore entangled biphoton generation through cascade emission in the vibration spectrum of C-H bonds within the lipid molecules' tails. The results indicate that the cylindrical cavity formed by a myelin sheath can facilitate spontaneous photon emission from the vibrational modes and generate a significant number of entangled photon pairs. The abundance of C-H bond vibration units in neurons can therefore serve as a source of quantum entanglement resources for the nervous system. The finding may offer insight into the brain's ability to leverage these resources for quantum information transfer, thereby elucidating a potential source for the synchronized activity of neurons.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11682
by skydhash | 2025-07-12 00:22:52+00:00
> What if, instead of berating people for using social media, we discussed how we might build a healthier alternative?

Why do we need to build one? Before the internet, we had letters and memos. The Email and IM came. The reason to have a feed is to share things, it shouldn't be for people to come consuming it. And there's no reason for it to be social. To have a special feed that mix everything from everyone on the platform according to "the algorithm"

No need to build something else. Blogs, Email, and IM are still here.
by 747fulloftapes | 2025-07-12 00:23:21+00:00
The landing gear lever is rather prominently featured in the 787 in a panel central to the cockpit layout so that either pilot can easily reach it. For decades and across many manufacturers, the landing gear lever has traditionally featured a knob that deliberately resembles an airplane wheel. It's very hard to mistake it for anything else. It's actuated by simply moving it up or down.

The fuel control switches are behind the throttle stalks above the handles to release the engine fire suppression agents. These switches are markedly smaller and have guards on each side protecting them from accidental manipulation. You need to reach behind and twirl your fingers around a bit to reach them. Actuating these switches requires pulling the knob up sufficiently to clear a stop lock before then rotating down. There are two switches that were activated in sequence and in short order.

The pilot monitoring is responsible for raising the gear in response to the pilot flyings' instruction.

I would find it very difficult to believe this was a muscle memory mistake. At the very least, I would want to more evidence supporting such a proposition.

This idea strikes me as even more unlikely than someone shifting their moving vehicle into reverse while intending to activate the window wipers.
by lelandbatey | 2025-07-12 00:24:45+00:00
Using numeric IDs on an outward facing object is, for the most part, totally fine. It's a serious tradeoff to ditch the nice properties of numerical IDs and the legibility they provide in order to cargo-cult a "we must reveal nothing" approach, as you would here via UUID. It also misses the point of the actual security lesson: no matter the identifier, you need to be applying access controls to your data. Even if your UUIDs were generated via 100% airtight cryptographically random sources, you have to, y'know, communicate with them. That means you'll probably leak them, expose them, or other folks will collect them (often incidentally via things like system logs). If all it takes to gain access to a thing is knowing the identifier of that thing, you've blown it in a huge way. Don't stress about the theoretical benefits of something like an opaque identifier and then completely neglect the necessary real world access control.

Can you tell I've been scarred by discussing designs with folks who focus on the "visible" problems without thinking about the fundamental question of "is this secure"?
Show HN: ElizaOS 1.0 - Powerful and useful multi-agent framework in Typescript
by moonmagick | 2025-07-12 00:24:57+00:00
We've just released elizaOS 1.0 this week. Try it yourself: `npx @elizaos/cli start`

elizaOS is a powerful new kind of agent framework. We've spent the last year iterating on a modular, plugin-based runtime with real use cases in real businesses: agents performing complex financial agents with realtime trading, camera and screen vision integration, voice and even 2D and 3D games.

Our project is MIT licensed, with contributions from over 600 contributors on Github. We have a crowd-funded in-house team of 10 developers. We see a lot of people using our agents to bring their existing startups to where their users are: on Discord, Telegram, Slack, or even text message and voice via our Twilio plugin.

While elizaOS is a powerful framework for developers, non-coders can build agents, too! Our GUI supports full agent creation and plugin customization, and our CLI has Claude Code-base generation of new plugins built-in. We've also made the framework very vibe-code friendly.

While we've been mainly focused on "useful agents", elizaOS is also a very powerful no-code character framework. Imagine character.ai but open source and fundamentally multi-agent, and your agents can have plugins to interact with the real world, from having their own e-mail address to being a full fledged voice assistant with screen vision and shell access (what could go wrong?).

We support pretty much every major inference provider, and you can also bring your own open source models. If you want to build agents that seamlessly integrate with your team or community, our project is probably a good option. The runtime will even run natively in your browser!

Github here: https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza

You can find our docs here: https://eliza.how/
by terminatornet | 2025-07-12 00:25:42+00:00
Only been on a handful of react projects at this point: gatsby, next.js, and remix, in that order.

Gatsby was fine for the time for our static marketing site. Not really good but not painful. Then we started converting our SPA to next.js and a deep seated rage for react began to fester in me.

After being forced to use react at my current job and convincing leadership to go with remix, it turns out I don't hate react THAT much, mostly just next.js. As far as I'm concerned, next.js and vercel are the same and they're both not great.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-12 00:26:33+00:00
>> reasonable

> Thats not the adjective I used.

Maybe, but that's what you meant when you said "realistic", right?

The holocaust and the holodomor were both, unfortunately "realistic". Surely you're interested in reasonable, acceptable, realistic options, not simply "realistic" ones, however unreasonable and unacceptable? Otherwise, you'll have to share why you're not interested in realistic, reasonable, acceptable options, which as we've seen, are superior to options which are simply "realistic".

> An appeal to the authority of two people with the same ideology and biases is not a convincing argument.

An appeal to the authority of one person with even stronger ideology and biases is even less of a convincing argument.

Since we're on the topic of soliciting alternatives from others: You might suggest a realistic, reasonable, acceptable alternative to what that other poster suggested. This time, I'll play judge, instead of you.
by Supermancho | 2025-07-12 00:27:11+00:00
Arbitrary scale:

https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...

> I should move from New York City back to Montreal and then stop worrying about it forever. ... My numbers aren’t that different from the average Canadian or (especially) American software developer nowadays.

Yes, they are.

I'm not in the 1% - even if I was, splitting between my dependents we're not in the 1% again. If we get sick, we have to worry about money. If 2 of us get really sick, we're broke. I feel like the blogpost is blowing smoke from the start.
by seadan83 | 2025-07-12 00:29:21+00:00
Okay, I understand your point I think. The analogy does not sit great with me. The cellular biology seems to me to be one of the most basic aspects of even starting to understand how the brain actually works. It's all mechanics without any semantics. As an extreme analogy, it's almost like saying leaves and money work the same way - they're both thin & green.

IMO, the analogy of how neural networks work as does the cellular biology is only useful as an analogy. They are not actually similar, and certainly the higher order functionality is not similar (namely because we don't know how that higher order functionality works, like we don't understand it _at_ _all_)
by soundofvictory | 2025-07-12 00:29:32+00:00
Maybe i'm dumb, but I really don't understand the point of this post.

Why even make it "reactive"? Just make your site static server-rendered pages? Or just static pages. Is it because additional-content-loading is something users expect?

"Write your site in plain javascript and html. Don't use a framework. Write some minimal css. Bamo. Well under 128kb." ???
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-12 00:30:07+00:00
> We'd assume they're mostly like our comets due to the Copernican principle.

We're still figuring out what our comets are like, let alone unusual ones spending a few million years in interstellar space. New types of comets(ish) bodies discovered in the 2000s:

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

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

We've spotted ~5k out of an estimated trillion. Each one we've sent a probe to has brought surprises. The Oort cloud remains theoretical at this time, and the first Kuiper belt object other than Pluto/Charon was found in 1992. It would be deeply silly to think we know everything about our local comets, let alone unusual ones from elsewhere.
by Larrikin | 2025-07-12 00:30:24+00:00
>Tax increases will trickle down

Piss trickles down, nothing else has trickled down since Reagan made that up.

Eggs were slightly up in price at the end of Biden's term, but the tariffs have done nothing except increase the price of everything by 10% across the board. The Trump bill just makes recession more likely. The tax cuts benefit nobody but companies and the most wealthy, which Trump used to pretend he was part of but now actually is.
by eska | 2025-07-12 00:31:04+00:00
Making a website is what made me interested in programming as a 10 year old during the dot com bubble. Even back then I realized very quickly that webdev is a cargo cult and I switched to C and assembly to learn how to program “real” programs. Even now, almost 30 years later, I can make high quality software based on technology from back then (compared to the constant dependency drift nowadays in webdev). It’s just a constant assault by young programmers who don’t know better in webdev.

Some years ago I made a website again. Screw best practices, I used my systems engineering skills and the browser’s debugger. I had written game engines with soft realtime physics simulations and global illumination over the network. I knew what computers could do. This website would render within 1 frame at 60 FPS without any layout recalculation, garbage collection events, web requests that can’t be parallelized without dependencies etc.

I showed it to friends. They complained it doesn’t work. They didn’t realize that once they clicked, the site displayed the next content instantly (without any weird js tricks). This was a site with a fully responsive and complex looking design. The fact that users are SO used to terrible UX made me realize that I was right about this industry all along as a child.
by wadefletch | 2025-07-12 00:31:20+00:00
the founder is on a vesting schedule set with the vc. walking away forfeits his ownership in the company (not sure of the specifics of this weird deal, but this is true in 99% of situations) which returns his ownership to the VCs either directly or functionally.

the only reason he'd walk away is because he thinks other opportunities are higher EV. if he believes this, a) the investors investment is likely worth virtually 0 anyway and b) if it's not, removing a leader who doesn't want to be there probably increases P(success) for the company and further increases the value of the investment.

founder departure isn't good for the narrative, but it's a symptom of an investment going bad, not often a cause.
by lostmsu | 2025-07-12 00:31:26+00:00
Puritanical is just a label here that you slap on the idea you don't like. In the US drug overdoses are the top cause of death under 35. I have no idea how to properly estimate severe harm that does not result in death but if you take say war as the first approximation, you can 4x the deaths to get non-fatal severe cases.
by seadan83 | 2025-07-12 00:31:38+00:00
I was hoping it would be more than a semantic debate. The author of the article makes the point that humanity currently has no real clue how the human brain actually "works."

> agreeing on everything relating to how LLMs and human brains work

Hence, my question is "how does the human brain work?" Nobody really knows, therefore we can't know if LLMs actually work in a similar way. It's a big point of the author in the paper, it's a big reason why it is so inappropriate to anthropomorphize LLMs.
by xandrius | 2025-07-12 00:32:06+00:00
One could try to be poetic with LLMs in order to make their point stronger and still convince absolutely no one who wasn't already convinced.

I'm sure nobody really reject the notion of LLMs but sure as hell do like to moan if the new technology doesn't absolutely perfect fit their own way of working. Does that make them any different than people wanting an editor which is intuitive to use? Nobody will ever know.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-12 00:32:16+00:00
Others have said it's for the global site, but would 64 million really be that off for the US?

I just looked it up 13 of the 40k francises are in the US. Assuming linearity, thats about 21 million US applicants since they started keeping centralized, digital records.

20% of Americans younger than 40 is not a bad guess.
by gpm | 2025-07-12 00:32:23+00:00
Be the change you want to see! This is pretty close to a best case task for these models because it's a relatively direct "translation" of existing code.

There's a big difference between "something actually ready for use" and "claude hacked sometime together with bubblegum and ducttape that works on my system" though - doing it properly will probably take a bit of work.
by analog31 | 2025-07-12 00:33:50+00:00
I have a couple of those type of switches, though smaller, in my parts bin. They were from some piece of surplus equipment that got junked. Where I've seen them used is in a crowded control panel where they might just get bumped. The two red plastic levers to the left are another type of safety switch: The lever is spring loaded, and covers the handle of a toggle switch.

In my view it would be quite hard to move them by accident, and probably not possible to move at once.

It would be interesting to know if the plane has any other switches of the same type, that are routinely activated.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-12 00:34:49+00:00
> Can you list those "many times"?

The Palestinians spent most of the 1980s trying to simply get the Israelis to come to the table and talk, and 1990s trying to get the Israelis to agree to a Palestinian state on 1967 borders. The Palestinians were consistently more interested in a peace deal than the Israelis were. The simple reason is that Israel suffers very few negative consequences from its occupation of the Palestinian territories. It has very little incentive to make any peace deal.

> You mean the one that Israel won? You do realize that your argument holds no water for the simple reason that there was like 5-6 years between the war of 1973 and siding of the peace deal?

Israel came very close to defeat in 1973, and had to rely on an unprecedented resupply effort by the United States, which replaced nearly the entire Israeli tank force and much of the airforce within days. The Israelis were aware of their vulnerability after 1973, which is why they entered negotiations with the Egyptians. Negotiations take time, which is why the whole process took several years.

> Can you point me to the part of this "program" that increases the pay to IDF soldiers with number of Palestinians they kill?

The IDF is a massive organization that kills hundreds of Palestinians every day. Every week is another October 7th for the Palestinians, for two years in a row. But you're quibbling about the details of how IDF soldiers get paid, as if that made any moral difference.

> So, you can continue with these false equivalences

I'm not trying to draw any equivalence. The IDF is a thousand times more evil than any Palestinian organization.
by the_af | 2025-07-12 00:34:50+00:00
It's not Disneyland, what's with the mania of taking everything to extremes?

> You don't have to do a "prepackaged vacation", but do something more substantial than moving around constantly and looking at stuff through a camera -- volunteer, take a course, attend a conference, teach English...whatever! Just go there for a reason other than "being a tourist".

The hell? We're discussing vacationing, not volunteer work. Teaching English? It's not my native language, why would I? I already have a job where I live, and I responsibilities here. Volunteer work? My country needs it way more than wealthy Japan, why would I go there?

What's wrong with tourism, seeing Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto? I don't get more than 2 weeks vacation where I work, I should use them to volunteer according to you?

I swear, the first world entitlement in some of these comments... like yours...
by timr | 2025-07-12 00:35:09+00:00
I didn't say "speak Japanese" (I said try to use the language, which is just table stakes for visiting a country), and it should go without saying that you cannot change your race.

You can still blend in far more than most tourists do by a) watching the people around you, and b) being a little bit self-conscious.

It's absolutely astounding how much tourists stand out in Japan (or Paris, or London, or New York...), and it's mostly about their behavior and clothing. Ten minutes of internet research and a little bit of introspection would go a long way to solving both problems.
by wadefletch | 2025-07-12 00:36:42+00:00
flip-flopping on pricing has led users to feel nickel-and-dimed

i like cursor fine, but check out the forum/subreddit to see people talking like addicts, pissed their fix is getting more expensive

i think this aggressive reaction is more pronounced for non-programmers who are making things for the first time. they tasted a new power and they don't want it taken away.
by danmarket | 2025-07-12 00:37:05+00:00
This is going to be anectodal. In my experience, they mostly don't know. Also, I have been to countries where Uber would charge you 4-5x of what they pay to drivers. In those countries, taking a cab would be half the cost of Uber albeit at a "perceived" risk to your well-being. Uber knows how to monetize convenience and risk-aversity.

There is also a fundamental floor how cheap compute can be: infrastructure costs, hardware depreciation, maintenance. Realistically, in next 5 years, we will not reach negligible compute costs. You can ask crypto-currency community about the limits of compute costs.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-12 00:37:57+00:00
It seems to work fine in the USA? Lots of guns illegal in California are legal elsewhere? There are also lots of municipalities that ban guns like NYC.

Also consider that huge amounts of illegal guns cross the Canadian federal border, despite there being border control.

Same thing with bear spray, illegal to carry in most cases but anyone over the age of 18 can get it because it has real legitimate uses.
by userbinator | 2025-07-12 00:37:57+00:00
One thing the reported averages already show, which is more about reliability stats in general than about Flash, is that the average write cycles survived is way higher than, say, the cycle count after which you'd see 5% of devices fail.

These endurance tests aren't testing retention much at all; they answer the question "how many cycles can the flash go through before it can't hold data for the very short amount of time it takes to read it back again on the next pass", which is not surprisingly much higher than e.g. the number of cycles before which the data will disappear after 3 months. The cells can be so worn and leaky they erase themselves within a few hours, but as long as that's more time than it takes until the data is read back, this test will still consider that successful.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-12 00:39:37+00:00
Disable the fuel system cutoff controls during the takeoff climb phase of flight. Once the aircraft loses contact with the runway, these controls shouldn't function without tripping certain thresholds (speed & altitude), or following a two-man procedure that is physically impossible to execute solo. In any other flight regime, the controls function as originally designed.

The danger of a burning engine is irrelevant if you are heading into terrain.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-07-12 00:39:42+00:00
At my company we have an enterprise subscription and we're also all allowed to see the analytics for the entire company. Last I checked, I was literally the number one user of Tab and middle of the pack for agent.

It's interesting when I see videos or reddit posts about cursor and people getting rate limited and being super angry. In my experience tab is the number one feature, and I feel like most people using agent are probably overusing it tasks that would honestly take less time to do myself or using models way smarter than they need to be for the task at hand.