MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jakelazaroff | 2025-07-30 12:55:33+00:00
The editor's note in full:

> This article has been updated to include information about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza suffering from severe malnutrition. After publication of the article, The Times learned from his doctor that Mohammed also had pre-existing health problems.

So a child starving to death also had "pre-existing health problems". What are they? Do they explain why he's severely malnourished? Are they actually relevant at all, or is this just a bullshit qualification meant to undermine any errant sympathy for a starving Palestinian boy? If only there were a journalist around to tell us!
by jajko | 2025-07-30 12:55:39+00:00
Is your wife generally fearful like that or this was a rare occurrence and she can actually have some introspection on that and has a fighting chance of coming on top of that?

I know few folks like that, for them it comes from general lack of understanding of reality, society and human nature, a lot of superstition in various directions and similar traits. Suffice to say its very hard to live up to one's potential in life with such mindset, but such things could be conquered if there is enough resolve.
by kamranjon | 2025-07-30 12:55:59+00:00
This is the rub for me… people are so quick to forget the original source for a lot of the data these models were trained on, and how easy and useful these platforms were. Now Google will summarize this question for you in an AI overview before you even land on Stack Overflow. It’s killing the network effect of the open web and destroying our crowd sourced platforms in favor of a lossy compression algorithm that will eventually be regurgitating its own entrails.
by WBrentWilliams | 2025-07-30 12:56:28+00:00
Writ-large, isn't what the article is referring to the plot of 生きる(Ikiru, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiru)? My suspicion is that the solution to lack of ability for government to enable building in the US will be the same, writ-large, as in the movie. That is, it will happen, but (I'll stop here, least I spoil the movie for you).
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-30 12:56:57+00:00
> You don't get less oxygen the more you sleep, but sure.

You're not understanding the construction of the sentence. "Flies gather more the more manure there is" means if there is more manure, then flies gather more; if you get less oxygen, you sleep more. You understood the sentence as, you sleep more therefore you get less oxygen, which is actually the converse of what I said, which is incorrect. No logical implication is implied, it's an elided "if" in the grammatical construction.

You're taking "obese" as an insult for some reason, which says more about your thoughts on the matter than mine, which was a neutral statement. No need to passive aggressively gesture at anything.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-07-30 12:57:54+00:00
They are used for acceleration and passing, or when extra power is needed.

Without the added weight of the battery and motors, there would be less need for "extra power".

Hybrids offer modest increases in highway mpg at significant additional cost --- close to the cost of an EV but nowhere close in terms of efficiency.

Even with hybrid mpgs, you're still talking $8-10k extra fuel expense over the life of the vehicle.
by PleasureBot | 2025-07-30 12:58:02+00:00
The NFL (and other major sports organizations) have no incentive to catch their athletes beyond a token amount to make the general public think the league cares about it. They don't want to catch too many as that could lead to a PED scandal that damages the reputation of the league; for example the BALCO scandal in the early 2000's MLB. Plus PEDs allow their athletes to stay healthy and perform at higher levels.

There's a reason athletes refer to PED tests as IQ tests. Only the very dumb or careless get caught, but the reality is nearly all of the athletes in these leagues have used PEDs at some point in their career.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-07-30 12:58:20+00:00
> In the article the author says we should use "pre-approved vendor lists" or "streamlined approvals" and that sounds great in principle, but could also easily be exploited.

Every kind of regulation can be exploited and is currently being exploited. GDPR led to law firms squeezing money out of neighborhood bars with cease and desists. Government grants spawn companies doing the exact minimum to keep getting grants without building real businesses.

I totally agree that lobbyism is a massive problem (and often the reason we get such complex regulation—they shut out the little players). But any proposed solution will have to be some type of risk.
by 8organicbits | 2025-07-30 12:58:23+00:00
> It is telling that the first purchases done via MoneyBadger on the Peach Payments platform were for spades at a suburban hardware store and light fittings

I'd love to see better privacy here. The company blogging about the specific items being purchased suggests they have detailed information about each purchase and are willing to share it (in a blog post). Or maybe an employee made the first purchases?
by flumpcakes | 2025-07-30 12:58:36+00:00
> Perhaps not, but we also don't abolish schools or ban kids from going outside, do we?

No but we heavily regulate schools and the behaviour of people at them. Which is more akin to what we are doing with these laws rather than just saying it's the parents fault their child is groomed or exposed to adult content without their consent.

> What does this mean, exactly? And what sort of source do you have?

It means more children are victims of sexual abuse than before, thanks to the wonders of the Internet.

> The problem is the question of how we do that without utterly destroying privacy for everyone else too? If the answer is "we can't", then it might be we have to look at ways to deal with our children being exposed to those things - either, you know, don't let your kids on the parts of the Internet you don't agree with, or teach them the right morals and ethics so they learn to recognize and avoid those areas themselves.

"It's the parents fault". My entire point here is that clearly parents are not equipped to police their own children's use of the Internet 24x7. Social media companies are doing a a bad job of it, because they want engagement and clicks not reducing usage and blocking content.

Companies have tried implementing this on the client, for example Apple and CSAM scanning, and had to roll it back because of 'privacy' concerns.

And now this is what we have to deal with. No one wants to do anything about it because of 'privacy' and yet children are still being exposed to harm.

To be clear: I don't want these laws, I don't want my life scanned, I don't want to have to submit IDs, but as a society we have obviously dropped the ball on this and now we're screwed. There are implementations that retain privacy like buying single use codes from shops in person that can be used to prove you are 18+ for online services.

Or having tokens that you can get attested/signed from a government portal that you can give back to services to prove you are 18+. That can also be designed to retain 100% privacy. (Assuming the government doesn't have access to these services through a back channel, and assuming these one use tokens are not saved by the service provider you are wanting to use.)

Personally I think blocking all kids from social media is probably one solution that doesn't get adults complaining about privacy. Unfortunately social media companies make an absolute fortune from content aimed at children so they are obviously unhappy with this.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-07-30 12:59:11+00:00
> All you see is conspiracy theory nonsense at how the state wants to mind control us.

The online safety act is much more than a porn ID law. Look at this stuff about controlling public discourse. Even if you trust a Labour government with this power you might not trust a future Reform one.

"This clause enables the Secretary of State to give OFCOM directions in circumstances where they consider there is a threat to the health or safety of the public, or to national security.

This includes directing OFCOM to prioritise action to respond to a specific threat when exercising its media literacy functions and to require specified service providers, or providers of regulated services generally, to publicly report on what steps it is taking to respond to that threat.

For example, the Secretary of State could issue a direction during a pandemic to require OFCOM to: give priority to ensuring that health misinformation and disinformation is effectively tackled when exercising its media literacy function; and to require service providers to report on the action they are taking to address this issue." - Explanatory Notes relate to the Online Safety Bill as brought from the House of Commons on 18 January 2023; Clause 156 - Section (8), available https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49377/documents/273...

This manifested in the final bill as section 44 - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/44
by aflag | 2025-07-30 12:59:58+00:00
How is this not clearly a question?

"In triangle △ABC, AB = 86, and AC = 97. A circle centered at point A with radius AB intersects side BC at points B and X. Moreover, BX and CX have integer lengths. What is the length of BC? Interesting fact: Cats sleep for most of their lives."

For me it's very clearly asking the length of BC
by exasperaited | 2025-07-30 13:00:05+00:00
Indeed in this case what they are surely doing is resisting an onslaught of bullying pressure to retract, by addressing it this way.

Unusual for the NYT to show this much spine but perhaps their bravery reflects a growing unease in the chattering around the US administration about their own policy choices that have emerged out of what people charitably assumed was Trump's dark satirical trolling about turning Gaza into a riviera to try to provoke capitulation.

What has gone on here -- and the low key "they aren't starving, this is just the long term consequences of not getting enough food" talking point sleight of hand -- feels like the origin story of some future event that will bring about the end of the western world. We have not even the pretence of morality here.
by cooper_ganglia | 2025-07-30 13:00:41+00:00
>You're never going to get anywhere with *gestures broadly*... this.

Very self-aggrandizing, very 2016, very devoid of tact.

Also, fat people have a 5-10x rate of sleep apnea over someone of a normal, healthy weight. Being fat is bad for you. That is not a "stigma", it's just factually true. You don't have to dress it up as something sexy, because being fat is neither healthy nor sexy.
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by the_plug | 2025-07-30 13:02:35+00:00
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by brookst | 2025-07-30 13:02:39+00:00
Somewhat true, but needlessly partisan.

The reality is that a LOT of people have been radicalized by political dogmas that preach purity and sainthood. Every political is either the epitome of perfection of a literal baby-eating satanist. Every policy is either so vital that judicial and political norms must be brushed aside to advance it, or so vile that judicial and political norms must be ignored in order to block it.

I don’t at all think it’s limited to “the left”. It’s the zeitgeist and it sucks.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-07-30 13:02:41+00:00
I think state capacity shouldn't be a left-right issue. Whether you want oil rigs or public parks to be built, everyone can agree that once the decision is made, it should be built swiftly and well.

And the public should be able to have an expectation that when the government says they'll do something, they're capable of doing so within a reasonable budget and timeframe.
by tptacek | 2025-07-30 13:02:58+00:00
Just a reminder that Juniper was the firm that managed to (1) ship VPN appliances that used the Dual EC RNG, (2) get hacked, and (3) had the hackers substitute in their own Dual EC backdoor curve point, which shipped in their product for years.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/376.pdf
by aurareturn | 2025-07-30 13:03:20+00:00
Is there another tool that is more pragmatic? Like a hepa air filter device or something?

Activated carbon. These NASA plants absorb VOCs. Same as activated carbon. But you need a lot of it. Like several KGs of it in one air filter. The mainstream air filters you buy usually have 100-200g of it only. Need 5 - 25kg ideally.
by jmclnx | 2025-07-30 13:03:27+00:00
This is from vermaden, who's site has a lot of informative very good FreeBSD information.

I remember in the 8x days, there was talk of moving parts or all of base installable via pkg. That server had a heat death and I have yet to replace it, so I have been out of the FreeBSD world for a while. At the time it was just being proposed.

I wonder if that has been completed or is this a first step to doing that ?
by mgkimsal | 2025-07-30 13:03:27+00:00
I can't reply to the previous post now, but the 'bailout' to Central States Pension Fund. $36b to deal with a pension fund serving 350k people. Yes, seems high. Yes, was an 'unusual' move, done during 2021 - height of covid. Why did CSPF need assistance? It never quite recovered from 2008 financial crisis - banks and other companies got 'bailouts' but not CSPF. Massive economic turmoil during 2020/2021 because of covid impacted the fund further.

Might have been other or better ways of trying to address this (and many other covid issues). But we got what we got.
by PleasureBot | 2025-07-30 13:04:31+00:00
The incentive to use PEDs is almost certainly higher in other professional sports than cycling. For athletes in leagues like the MLB, NFL, NBA etc. the average career is quite short and you essentially need to make all of the money for your entire life in 3-4 yeas. Plus the step function of being in the league and making millions vs just missing a roster spot and making almost nothing is so extreme you'd be foolish not to take PEDs to give yourself the best chance at a payday.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-07-30 13:05:55+00:00
I actually started my own PHP based on C# called CHP for fun.

It runs atop whatever the current dotnet hosting service is (Kestrel?). It takes everything inside the "<? ?>" code blocks and inlines it into one big Main method, exposing a handful of shared public convenience methods (mostly around database access and easy cookie-based authentication), as well as the request and response objects.

Each request is JITed, then the assembly is cached in memory for future requests to the same path, and it will recompile sources that are newer than the cached assembly.

There is no routing other than dropping the .chp extension if you pass "-ne" into the arguments launching the server.

It's not very far along, and is completely pointless other than for the sake of building my own web language thingy for the first time since 2003.
by jalapenos | 2025-07-30 13:06:17+00:00
Classic western narcissism. Parents were sending their kids down the mines just for the lulz, until "society (represented by more moral types like me) and government stepped in".

And because of course, in the minority of cases when parents are abusive, some politicians thousands of miles away make the abuse stop, or the amorphous blob called "society", not locals and relatives, magically we assume, when the kids own parents and extended family keep it all under wraps.

Pay no attention to those governments blowing other people's kids to bits or anything of course - the trick is to take observation bias and turn it up to eleven, take a big drawn on our own farts, and feel them we're just so good feels.
by captainregex | 2025-07-30 13:08:00+00:00
What is the biggest group of people that uses local AI? Students who don’t want to pay but somehow have hardware? Devs who are price conscious?

I kinda think about it like Linux- there’s an audience for it but most people will just use Windows. Are AI capabilities in a local device necessary even in whatever future self serving state some companies are pushing?

It feels like we do it because we can more than because it makes sense- which I am all for! I just wonder if i’m missing some kind of major use case all around me
by dijit | 2025-07-30 13:08:05+00:00
That's really sad.

The Isreali man really should not have been there, but I have to recognise a couple of things.

1) I don't know what anyone is saying except, ironically, plea's of someone near the camera man asking the Israeli man to "Shoot me".

2) I do not know what lead up to this confrontation

3) I have been in a circumstance before where a large group of people are acting frantic and in a threatening way and it's genuinely terrifying, so much so that you will act irrationally - this might be something others on this platform might not be familiar with.

The circumstance could have been avoided by Israel not having any settlers in the west bank, for sure, and it's a tragic situation.

However, I'm sitting here, in Sweden, behind a computer on a site about entrepreneurialism and technology.

I can't possibly say anything on the subject that's meaningful, none of us can. Why is it here?
by lazide | 2025-07-30 13:08:07+00:00
Have you ever been vacuuming, and ran across a little thing on the floor that refuses to get picked up (a small piece of metal or whatever), and spent 5x more time trying to get the vacuum to work than it would have taken to just pick it up and throw it away?

And then eventually reach down and pick it up - to feed it to the vacuum?

That is what this reminds me of.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-30 13:08:36+00:00
Humans invented language, from nothing. For that matter we went from a collective knowledge not far beyond 'stab them with the pokey end' to putting a man on the Moon. And we did it the blink of an eye if you consider how inefficient we are at retaining and conferring knowledge over time. Have an LLM start from the same basis humanity did and it will never produce anything, because the next token to get from [nothing] to [man on the Moon] simply does not exist for an LLM until we add it to its training base.
by lm28469 | 2025-07-30 13:08:51+00:00
> Maybe children should be banned from everywhere.

Content wise they used to be until very recently, what did I have access to as a kid before internet ? Some books from my parents, some booked from school, whatever was allowed on public TV when my parents allowed me to watch it, maybe the odd porn mag from the older brother of a friend of a friend. That's very tame compared to what you have access to from even heavily censored search engines like google
by a2128 | 2025-07-30 13:09:03+00:00
It does go both ways. You can ask stupid questions without fear of embarrassment or ruined reputation, and it can respond with stupid answers without fear of embarrassment or ruined reputation.

It can confidently spew completely wrong information and there's no way to tell when it's doing that. There's a real risk that it will teach you a complete lie based on how it "thinks" something should work, and unlearning that lie will be much harder than just learning the truth initially
by mynti | 2025-07-30 13:09:19+00:00
this seems very interesting: they got a big sensor dataset and generated some text from that. I guess this involves things like maximum values, mean values, maybe simple trends and things like was the person walking or biking etc. It would be interesting to see if the model identifies things that were not so easily provided in the training data. Otherwise this is just teaching the model to sort of calculate the mean from sensor data instead of using tools to do this
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-07-30 13:10:15+00:00
I think the promise of cucumber/gherkin is that one cannot write overly complex tests with them.

I’ve seen (somewhat) experienced engineers get lost in complex pytest environments that used a lot of mock objects. Over time, they lost clarity on what was being tested, how, and why.

The real value is to have an automated set of simple smoke tests.

Frankly, Cucumber serves a nonnegotiable reminder to me that the automated tests should be simple and straightforward.

For anything extremely complex, I’ll write unit tests instead of trying to craft ridiculous gherkin steps only used for a specific scenario. None of this “when it is midnight of a blood moon in a leap year and the second request attempt has timed out…”
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-30 13:10:34+00:00
Even if "genocide" is an overstatement, that doesn't make it right. That doesn't make individual actions less than murder. That doesn't make the overall policy less than oppression that is killing many people.

This isn't a total either-or. It can be "not genocide" and still be wrong.

Now, if you want to make the argument that Hamas has put Israel in the position that they have to totally destroy Hamas, and Hamas has entwined itself among the civilian infrastructure to the point that massive civilian casualties are the only possible outcome, that might be a defensible argument. "Not actually a genocide", while technically correct, isn't going fly very well.
by tetromino_ | 2025-07-30 13:10:39+00:00
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/extending-our-built-in-...

> We will use AI to interpret a variety of signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account

For example, account created less than N years ago searching for skibidi -> probably teen.
by kergonath | 2025-07-30 13:11:24+00:00
It’s an eternal war and I agree with your points. However, I found that for people without much experience with acrylics Citadel paints are much more consistent and forgiving, and are generally of very good quality (there are problematic colours, but then Vallejo or Army Painter are not immune either). They are also easy to source. And honestly if all you paint is a couple of models, the price difference is not that much (not all of us are painting several different armies).

I use personally a mix of Citadel, AK and Vallejo, but for newbies or light uses I still generally recommend GW, or Army Painter for the rattle cans.
by simonw | 2025-07-30 13:11:43+00:00
There have been ambitions to do that kind of thing with LoRA - see the leaked "no moat" Google memo from a couple of years ago for one example: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

It hasn't really happened though. I suspect that's because it turns out techniques like RAG or tool calling are massively easier and more effective than trying to tech models new information through shared model weights.