MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hellotheretoday | 2025-07-07 10:25:51+00:00
One alleviating factor (potentially) to this is cross state compacts. This allows practitioners utilizing telehealth to practice across state lines which can mitigate issues with things like clients moving, going to college, going on vacation, etc but also can help alleviate underserved areas.

Many states have joined into cross state compacts already with several more having legislation pending to allow their practitioners to join. It is moving relatively fast, for legislation on a nationwide level, but still frustratingly slow. Prior to Covid it was essentially a niche issue as telehealth therapy was fairly uncommon whereas Covid made it suddenly commonplace. It will take a bit of time for some of the more stubborn states to adopt legislation and then even more for insurance companies to catch up with the new landscape that involves paneling out of state providers who can practice on across the country
by spwa4 | 2025-07-07 10:26:05+00:00
> The last one always struck me as implausibly dumb.

Really? The current world is over 60% globalized.

Another way to state the exact same thing is: "all ideologies except one have failed. The vast majority have failed multiple times".

So it seems very obvious to me that 80% of the population would want to forget most of history. Plenty of countries do that explicitly. China, North Korea, all muslim countries (muslim countries of different branches outlaw different parts of their own history, e.g. Iran vs Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia they say "in the name of racial harmony" and erase essentially all history, even their own), ...

Forgetting history is just not something the west does, and most people here have grown up in that culture. So it "feels" implausible. It doesn't feel implausible to other cultures though. It's called the "Judeo-Christian west" and, well, Judaism is obsessed with history and Christianity, perhaps a bit less than Judaism, but I bet anyone from a different culture would still call it obsessed. Islam, by contrast, has a rule that states there's pre-islamic history, which is "wrong" and is to be destroyed entirely and there's post-islamic history, which doesn't matter because islam is the answer.

(and there's the issue that islam is all conquest. In other words, go back further than a few hundred years in most muslim countries and all history is churches or synagogues. And recent muslim history ... well muslim economies were built on slavery as recent as 1965, so ... there's a bit of "that's not a ditch inside a locked room, that's where we shackled the slaves during the night" architecture)
by ta1243 | 2025-07-07 10:26:31+00:00
> 1. Headphones can prevent you from responding to outside sounds in at least two ways: (1) the sound from the headphones might mask the outside sound so it is not audible to you, and (2) you might be distracted enough by the sound from the headphones that even if the outside sound is audible through the headphones you fail to notice it. Also that distraction can also take your attention away from other important things needed for safe driving.

Cars have come with radios for nearly a century, tape players for 50+ years, and many drivers play their music so loud you can hear it even when sitting in another car

Clearly depriving or overloading auditory input is not deemed to be a risk
by sho_hn | 2025-07-07 10:26:50+00:00
The article fails to mention that some of the songs including the lead single have vocal performance by members of Twice, consistently one of the most popular kpop groups in the past decade. So these also come with a built-in audience and not exactly out of nowhere.

It's a bit like Mariah Carey singing the soundtrack to an animated movie in the aughts or something: Yeah, that sells.

It's a little more surprising that in 2025, the BBC couldn't find a knowledgable music editor to fill this piece with relevant detail.
by sReinwald | 2025-07-07 10:27:29+00:00
The article reports that xAI operated gas turbines without required permits and pollution controls for over a year. That's not a "hit piece" - it's documenting regulatory violations with thermal imaging evidence and official permit records.

If this were actually a hit piece on Musk, wouldn't his name be in the headline? Instead, it's mentioned once in paragraph four as standard journalistic context - exactly how articles about AWS mention Bezos. And yes, the affected neighborhoods are predominantly Black - that's a factual demographic statement about who bears the health burden, not "playing the race card." Environmental justice reporting routinely documents how industrial pollution disproportionately impacts minority communities.

Your logic seems to be: "Musk has done good things for the environment globally, therefore local reporting about his company's regulatory violations must be a hit piece." That's a non sequitur. Both can be true - Tesla can advance EV adoption while xAI can violate air quality regulations in Memphis. One doesn't negate the other.

The real tell here is that you're more upset about accurate reporting than about a tech company potentially exposing already-vulnerable communities to additional pollution without proper permits. Your priorities seem to be incredibly misplaced, if you ask me.

How's your Tesla Model 3 doing, by the way? Not that I'd want to imply your choice of transportation has anything to do with your incredibly unfavorable interpretation of this article and defense of Musk. But I have to wonder if your perspective would be different if this facility was in your neighborhood rather than South Memphis, or if you drove a Hyundai.
by Xss3 | 2025-07-07 10:27:41+00:00
Behavior isn't what needs to change here. It's a poor system design. Humans make mistakes. Systems prevent mistakes.

Do you think the mistake would have happened if a machine checked the numbers vs the address? How about if a 2nd person looked it over? How about both?

In this case a computer could have easily flagged an address mismatch between your account number and the receiver (your work).
by bl1ndl1fe | 2025-07-07 10:28:08+00:00
There's a lot to say about this topic.

First, the piece of research isn't really strong IMO.

Second, wherever is AI today (with gpt-4o in the research vs o3 which is already so much better) on the issues raised in this research, they'll be ironed out sooner than later.

Third, the issues raised by a number of people around advantages and disadvantages is exactly this: plus and minuses. Is it better than nothing? Is it as good as a real therapist? And what about when you factor in price and ROI?

I recommend listening or reading the work by Sherry Turkle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Turkle).

She's been studying the effect of technology on our mental health and relationships and it's fascinating to listen to.

Here's a good podcast on the subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/ted-radio-hour/id52312...

tldr: people using AI companions/therapists will get used to inhumane levels of "empathy" (fake empathy) so that they will have a harder and harder time relating to humans...
Show HN: I made a tool to list your AWS account Lambda Function invocation time
by pxsnlrbg | 2025-07-07 10:29:26+00:00
I made a tool to list your AWS account Lambda Function last invocation time.

Currently, AWS doesn't provide Lambda Function's last invocation time on AWS console. You can only check it for individual Lambda Function by using its metrics or logs manually. This tool aims to help Cloud Administrator to perform account checkup and cleanup by providing a list of Lambda Functions last execution time in a CSV table.

This tool works by querying Lambda Function logs in the CloudWatch Log Group and check the latest log timestamp. I made it so that it queries multiple log groups concurrently for a faster execution time.

I'd love to listen to the feedback on the code, project architecture, and design pattern I made.
by futevolei | 2025-07-07 10:29:52+00:00
“Manipulation” is what? You want to create a rule that says a firm can’t buy more than x shares/dollars/% in a certain amount of time? Or if it does it has to hold onto those shares for a minimum time? A firm should be able to buy as much as it wants, subject to its margin requirements, and then sell whenever it wants, be it one second, one minute, one hour, one day…later.
by 9rx | 2025-07-07 10:30:57+00:00
I would be in better shape if I didn't!

Although I will posit that physical exhaustion is typically more manageable, so that helps. There are certainly exceptions, but by and large in our modern, sedentary world, physical exertion can easily be limited to controlled environments where one is able to stop when they reach the point of exhaustion. It is unlikely that stepping outside means that you will have to outrun a lion, unable to pause else become lunch. Chances are these days you will only ever reach exhaustion if you purposefully push yourself to (e.g. hitting the gym). But if I have reason to worry that I am going to find myself in a situation where I cannot meaningfully rest when I reach my physical breaking point, absolutely the anxiety will be running hot.

Whereas social interaction can be harder to control. For example, reaching your social limit in the middle of the workday does not usually, for all practical purposes, enable you to remove yourself from the situation. You are expected to keep going until the end of the business day, no matter how you are feeling on the inside. Us techies might have enough individual work to slink away to, perhaps, but for many jobs there is no such luxury. Or you might come up against a Chatty Cathy who will continue pushing to keep the social engagement going even after you try to back away. There aren't all that many HN-esq situations in the real world where you can just magically pop in when you want to engage and then disappear as fast as you came. And where you might find something approximate, you are apt to find it much too limiting to be an exclusive social outlet.
by cyanydeez | 2025-07-07 10:34:36+00:00
The point is: "perfomative" refers to aping Ethical and Moral behaviors. That is _not_ why Apple would do this. They would do this because Legally, they could be culpable if an LLM told a 14 year old to do _anything_ thats illegal.

That's all. I'm constantly amazed how this basic CYA legal world escapes into griping about social culture war nonsense.
by gugagore | 2025-07-07 10:36:25+00:00
The concept of "state" conveys two related ideas.

- the sufficient amount of information to do evolution of the system. The state of a pendulum is it's position and velocity (or momentum). If you take a single picture of a pendulum, you do not have a representation that lets you make predictions.

- information that is persisted through time. A stateful protocol is one where you need to know the history of the messages to understand what will happen next. (Or, analytically, it's enough to keep track of the sufficient state.) A procedure with some hidden state isn't a pure function. You can make it a pure function by making the state explicit.
by ta1243 | 2025-07-07 10:36:35+00:00
This sounds great in theory. I don't have a midi interface, but using the home row is a great idea.

If I install the hosted .deb and run it though, then press a, s, d with a 5 second wait it's fine. If I push them after half a second, so while the previous note is playing, it goes very wrong. Is that supposed to happen?

a (C plays, wait 1 second, C still plays), s (after C finishes D plays, a long time later).

press a,s,d and it's C for about 3 seconds, then D and E together.

Is this just a bug with my desktop environment?
by sho_hn | 2025-07-07 10:37:28+00:00
Probably more relevant to the audience, Korea has experimented with CG pop idol bands and CG advertising influencers a bit in recent years:

https://youtu.be/1wGOHbcQKIc as one of various examples.

The vocals are typically still provided by human performers (often not named), but they've held "fan events" or given interviews using AI voice generation with models trained on the human speakers I believe.
by NilMostChill | 2025-07-07 10:37:30+00:00
>I'm no Elon fan, but I can not think of a single human who has done more to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

We could use some of that clean energy he's facilitated to extract a small amount of gold from seawater.

Enough to fashion a gold medal we could then award you for first place in olympic level mental gymnastics.
by notahacker | 2025-07-07 10:38:07+00:00
Yeah. Also sounds like Gorillaz (which for those unfamiliar is a cartoon "fictional band" publicly associated with Damon Albarn from Blur, one of the iconic British bands of the nineties. Their mixture of catchy music and cartoon characters sold very well when they launched in the early 2000s, collaborated with other bestselling artists and are still releasing albums, and even touring with a cartoon band projected behind the silhouetted actual band). Would an obscure cartoonist releasing similarly catchy songs without a Blur connection have gained the momentum to manage multiplatinum albums and UK No 1s? Probably not...
by chmod775 | 2025-07-07 10:38:29+00:00
> The OK gesture has always been very inappropriate in most parts of the world.

No, it isn't, and especially hasn't been historically. The negative connotations are overwhelmingly modern.

The areas where it is very inappropriate right now tally up to maybe 1 billion people*. That's pretty far from "most". For everyone else it is mostly positive, neutral, or meaningless.

*Brazil, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other parts of Eastern Europe
by Yuuns | 2025-07-07 10:38:45+00:00
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by bee_rider | 2025-07-07 10:40:16+00:00
I don’t think we should treat human interactions like a technical problem, where we look for edge cases and outlandish hypotheticals to probe the edges of what is possible.

If “thank you” became widely associated with bigots, and had some negative meaning, to the point where it genuinely distressed people, I’d avoid it. I think it has a widespread enough normal meaning that there’s almost no chance of that happening, but it isn’t impossible.
by bflesch | 2025-07-07 10:40:22+00:00
I'm sure there are cases where the website CMS was hacked and then malware served instead of the normal install script. The `curl | sh` approach has been around forever.

And depending on what "interesting" IP address you are coming from, NSA/Microsoft/Apple will MITM your npm install / windows update / ios update accordingly.

Same in the linux ecosystem, if you look at the maintainers of popular distributions, some of them had .ru / .cn email addresses before switching to more official email addressess using the project domain - IMO this change of email addressess happened due to public pressure on russia after the Ukraine invasion. Having access to main package signing keys for a linux distribution, you can provide special packages from your linux package mirror to interesting targets.

All of these scenarios are extremely hard to prove after the fact and the parties involved are not the type of people who do public writeups.
by tliltocatl | 2025-07-07 10:40:48+00:00
Anthropomorphising implicitly assumes motivation, goals and values. That's what the core of anthropomorphism is - attempting to explain behavior of a complex system in teleological terms. And prompt escapes make it clear LLMs doesn't have any teleological agency yet. Whenever their course of action is, it is to easy to steer them of. Try to do it with a sufficiently motivated human.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-07-07 10:41:09+00:00
>Why should we expect the model to be anything more than a model ?

To model a process with perfect accuracy requires recovering the dynamics of that process. The question we must ask is what happens in the space between bad statistical model and perfect accuracy? What happens when the model begins to converge towards accurate reproduction. How far does generalization in the model take us towards capturing the dynamics involved in thought?
by markus_zhang | 2025-07-07 10:41:47+00:00
I think maybe we can introduce a law saying that any X% portion of poetry or book (e.g. 20% for poetry and maybe 200 words for a book) is in the public domain immediately following its publication IN ONE QUOTE.

But it probably introduces other complexities such as how to define one quote. Ah, wish we could advance from rule of lawyers to something better. What is it? I have no idea.
by ramon156 | 2025-07-07 10:42:11+00:00
Pirate and pay the fine is probably hell of a lot cheaper than individually buying all these books. I'm not saying this is justified, but what would you have done in their situation?

Sayi "they have the money" is not an argument. It's about the amount of effort that is needed to individually buy, scan, process millions of pages. If that's done for you, why re-do it all?
by voidUpdate | 2025-07-07 10:43:26+00:00
Wikipedia has a whole list of "Virtual bands", though I'm unfamiliar with most of them. I think they're seen differently because they are a standalone band, rather than being part of a movie or promotional item. Something more in line with Huntrix would be Alvin and the Chipmunks, being a group that are part of other things, rather than a group in their own right
by saati | 2025-07-07 10:43:34+00:00
That was very different, here the problem is the game's threads get scheduled on the weak E-cores and it doesn't like that for some reasons, with the PS3 that would have been impossible, SPEs had a different ISA, and didn't even have direct access to memory, the problem was developers had to write very different code for the SPEs to unlock most of the performance of the Cell.
by ragazzina | 2025-07-07 10:43:59+00:00
This article feels to me as it was written in bad faith, trying and failing to prove a point, but then positing the point was proved.

The author happily start the article by submitting:

>The purpose of this page is to describe [...] the rules that tell you how to pronounce a written word correctly over 85% of the time.

but then they quietly show that with their whole page of rules, the reader will not actually pronounce 85% of the words correctly as they just claimed, but actually less than 60%. By arbitrarily deciding that a number of errors can be considered small, the author bumps the number of "correctly pronounced words" to 85%.

Are we talking about 85% of the whole language? No, just 5000 words. Even if they are the most frequent in the written language, they would still only account for around 95% of all the words.

The author position is:

- people complain about the English spelling all the time, saying it's horrible

- the English spelling is actually pretty systematic and this page will explain the rules to understand it

- when you will have mastered these rules, you will pronounce half of the words perfectly - for extremely common words such as "give", "get", "real", "very", "put", "half" you are still SOL

- the english spelling is not so horrible after all: as a perfect student you will only butcher more than 1 word every 10 spoken

To me, the author has proved the point he was trying to disprove.

(and in which rule do /ˈsɪŋɚ/ and /ˈfɪŋɡəɹ/ end up?)
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-07 10:45:39+00:00
This has been the worst thing about my experiences on Threads. A lot of people make what they - and the US mainstream, apparently - defines as a heterodox personality their entire sense of self. So almost everyone is some combination of queer, "neurospicy", a witch, "creative", and so on.

This often seems to come with some assumption of moral superiority.

But under the label many of them are absolutely mainstream people. Their posts aren't genuine spontaneous comments - they're calibrated and calculated as a marketing exercise for "engagement" and to promote a product, course, Insta lifestyle, and so on.

I realise it's tough out there and everyone has to hustle. But there really aren't many who acknowledge the gulf between the vocabulary of rebellion from the reality of "Please buy my course on how to be anticapitalist." (Actual example - not made up.)

If I looked I imagine I'd find a mirror image of hustle conformity and superiority culture on far right boards, only more so.

It's all quite weirdly Social Media™.

Edit: to add, I'm not criticising specific subgroups. I'm very aware the US is a dangerous place and being certain kinds of person significantly decreases your life expectancy.

It's more how social media has somehow distorted the online experience of those subgroups away from straightforward human exchange into commercial opportunity without people being aware of it.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-07 10:46:28+00:00
“Unalive” is sort of… awkward in that silly online way. But, we also have phrase like “off oneself,” or just euphemistically describing the person as having died. It’s always been a difficult topic to talk about, I don’t understand using it as a specific example of gen-Z fragility.

Just that they suck at coming up with pithy new slang terms.
by ghxst | 2025-07-07 10:46:45+00:00
I feel like this argument is a byproduct of being relatively well-off in a Western country (apologies if I'm wrong), where access to therapists and mental healthcare is a given rather than a luxury (and even that is arguable).

> programmers that think that real world problems can be solved by an algorithm that's been useful to them.

Are you suggesting programmers aren't solving real-world problems? That's a strange take, considering nearly every service, tool, or system you rely on today is built and maintained by software engineers to some extent. I'm not sure what point you're making or how it challenges what I actually said.

> Haven't you thought about that it might be useful just to you and nothing more? It's the same pattern again and again, first with blockchain and crypto, then nfts, today ai, tomorrow whatever will come.

Haven't you considered how crypto, despite the hype, has played a real and practical role in countries where fiat currencies have collapsed to the point people resort to in-game currencies as a substitute? (https://archive.ph/MCoOP) Just because a technology gets co-opted by hype or bad actors doesn't mean it has no valid use cases.

> Think about it: how nn LLM that by default create a react app for a simple form can be the right thing to use for a therapist?

LLMs are far more capable than you're giving them credit for in that statement, and that example isn't even close to what I was suggesting.

If your takeaway from my original comment was that I want to replace therapists with a code-generating chatbot, then you either didn't read it carefully or willfully misinterpreted it. The point was about accessibility in parts of the world where human therapists are inaccessible, costly, or simply don't exist in meaningful numbers, AI-assisted tools (with a human in the loop wherever possible) may help close the gap. That doesn't require perfection or replacement, just being better than nothing, which is what many people currently have.
by compsciphd | 2025-07-07 10:46:56+00:00
So after pondering this for a few days, why wouldn't the "easiest" anti-cheat, be to

a) have windows attest to the servers that its running in "secure" mode b) have windows provide the ability to apps/games to run in a validated / secure mode, where the OS would not let things like debuggers and the like attach to the game, as well as validate the game executables and assets that are loaded. i.e. part of "A" would be attesting that the executable it loaded had a specific signature and the game itself would then test the signature of all the assets they load.