MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by huksley | 2025-07-28 06:48:54+00:00
shameless DollarDeploy plug: this is that we want to achieve. So you can self-host pretty much any open source software (self-sovereignity) and also your own apps.

and with AI, we just make it simple to do, no need to install docker, anything, it will automatically configure host.

and btw, for your own apps, we don't need docker - Linux is advanced as it is, you can just run apps locally.

next step is portability, so you can move your apps from server to server as needed.
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-28 06:49:19+00:00
> CoT models can, in principle, solve _any_ complex task.

The authors explicitly discuss the expressive power of transformers and CoT in the introduction. They can only solve problems in a fairly restrictive complexity class (lower than PTIME!) - it's one of the theoretical motivations for the new architecture.

"The fixed depth of standard Transformers places them in computational complexity classes such as AC0 [...]"

This architecture by contrast is recurrent with inference time controlled by the model itself (there's a small Q-learning based subnetwork that decides halting time as it "thinks"), so there's no such limitation.

The main meat of the paper is describing how to train this architecture efficiently, as that has historically been the issue with recurrent nets.
by gloosx | 2025-07-28 06:49:20+00:00
Such a pleasure to see a nice tailwind abstraction, at some point inlining starts looking just a bit too much, luckily there is a solution ;)

/\* tailwind.css \*/ .card-container { @apply flex flex-col md:flex-row items-center justify-between w-full max-w-screen-xl px-6 md:px-12 py-8 bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 border border-gray-200 dark:border-gray-700 rounded-lg shadow-md space-y-6 md:space-y-0 md:space-x-8 text-sm text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-300 font-medium tracking-tight leading-relaxed hover:bg-gray-50 dark:hover:bg-gray-800 transition-all duration-300 ease-in-out; }
by swiftcoder | 2025-07-28 06:49:34+00:00
I honestly don't think AI is the thing that is going to give self-hosting its "iPhone moment". The iPhone moment is all about UX, and putting a chatbot in front of your apache config files is still a terrible fucking experience for the average user.

If we truly want an iPhone moment for self-hosting, it's going to need an Apple-worthy investment in self-hosting UX. At minimum that's a double-clickable hosting app, with a sensible default configuration right out of the box, where you can configure everything relevant through the UI...
by tallanvor | 2025-07-28 06:49:37+00:00
I'm guessing you're in the US?

European washing machines take longer due to requirements around lower water and electricity usage. Plus, it looks like that device is a combined washer and dryer, and they take even longer.

My washer normally takes 104 minutes on the regular cycle, but if it decides I've overloaded it, it can take as long as 3 hours! And mine is just a washer.
by motorest | 2025-07-28 06:50:16+00:00
> I think tests should be rewritten as much as needed.

Yes, I agree. The nuance is that they need to be rewritten independently and without touching the code. You can't change both and expect to get a working system.

I'm speaking based on personal experience, by the way. Today's LLMs don't enforce correctness out of the box and agent mode has only one goal: getting things to work. I had agent mode flip invariants in tests when trying to fix unit tests it broke, and I'm talking about egregious changes such as flipping requirements in line with "normal users should not have access to the admin panel" to "normal users should have access to the admin panel". The worst part is that if agent mode is left unsupervised, it will even adjust the CSS to make sure normal users have a seamless experience going through the admin panel.
by hvb2 | 2025-07-28 06:51:22+00:00
> Just hasn’t happened yet because the benefit is too spread out to make it happen.

No, it doesn't happen because you can't make money out of that. So there's nobody to pay/hire the lobbyist.

Same reason why there's hardly research into new antibiotics. It's hard to make money on those as they tend to cure. Chronic diseases and their subscriptions to suppress symptoms, that's where money is to be made
by syockit | 2025-07-28 06:51:24+00:00
Isn't a clock and a gyroscope precisely two things that are needed for the missile to know where it is at all times? Like, it can then know where it isn't by subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is, to get the positional deviation. Combine that with the clock deviation, it can get the velocity and acceleration and then use all three information to generate corrective commands.
by dmurray | 2025-07-28 06:51:56+00:00
> REV captures about a third of the country’s $3B in annual fire truck sales, with runner-up Oshkosh reporting revenue of $767m (~26%) and Rosenbauer International at $254m (~9%).

So three companies control around 62% of the market.

That doesn't seem like too much consolidation to me. If anything, it might be too little consolidation to hit the sweet spot where the gains from economies of scale outweigh the risks of monopoly effects.

For comparison, staying in transportation, in the US 3 companies have 45% of the market share for cars [0]. 3 airlines have 62% [1]. And there are a lot more flights or cars sold than fire trucks: maybe a better comparison is passenger airplanes where three companies worldwide have 99.6% [2].

Private equity may be greedy, and would charge monopoly prices if it could, but there's nothing in the article to suggest that fire truck manufacturers have that kind of pricing power.

[0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-automakers-by-u-s-ma...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/250577/domestic-market-s...

[2] https://simpleflying.com/how-airbus-boeing-production-change...
by resonious | 2025-07-28 06:52:42+00:00
If you know that LLMs are not thorough going into it, then you can get your failure rates way lower than 50%. Of course if you just paste a product spec into an LLM, it will do a bad job.

If you build an intuition for what kinds of asks an LLM (agent, really) can do well, you can choose to only give it those tasks, and that's where the huge speedups come from.

Don't know what to do about prompt injection, really. But "untrusted code" in the broader sense has always been a risk. If I download and use a library, the author already has free reign of my computer - they don't even need to think about messing with my LLM assistant.
by iamacyborg | 2025-07-28 06:53:17+00:00
> Remember, Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas already have similar laws in place in the US, so even a nation with better speech and gun laws is still not immune from the slow descent into technocracy.

I’m not sure what gun laws have to do with anything but guns are not unreasonably difficult to legally purchase in the UK or EU if you have a specific need for one. It’s a tool and treated as such
by tempnew | 2025-07-28 06:53:44+00:00
To me, Facebooks’ entire business model seems like spyware and selling personal info to third parties. Whether people at such companies are good or bad is not at issue. I assume most people everywhere are good people. But are the companies themselves “good”? Microsoft and Google maybe, certainly in the past (Google wave was very innovative). But Facebook?

The context was privacy and people being victimized by Indian scammers. We know those scammers use Facebook to gather info and target victims, all without any actual breach taking place. To me, not having a breach does not make Facebook “good”.
by zekrioca | 2025-07-28 06:53:58+00:00
> Quite a lot. Let's assume a hundred different LLMs of this scale are being trained at the same time.

It won’t be 100, you are underestimating it to make the number be small, ignoring the fact that people are talking about GW worth of continuous power, not counting the refresh rate of GPUs (every 3-5 years the whole infrastructure is renewed).

> Dunno, but the argument is that I should feel bad about my current impact on the environment as I use my LLM to autocomplete my code or answer my questions.

That’s not the argument. The argument is that you should be aware of your consumption and therefore the impact it has. Right now people use everything as a ‘’dumb’’ magical API that just spits things out from nowhere with no impacts.

> The report speaks about that, the inference cost in marginal when compared…

Don’t ignore how many of these are happening as we speak. ChatGPT went from 0 to 100mi users within months, all submitting hundreds of queries.
by derelicta | 2025-07-28 06:54:25+00:00
The Bourgeois love to divide the working class, typical divide and conquer. Indigenous worker vs imported worker, men vs women, queer vs straight, old vs young, car user vs bicycle rider. This is important because it weakens existing solidarities and prevent the emergence of class consciousness. It's part of their modus operandi and has been for centuries, only now they master it thanks to algorithms and machine learning. This increased surveillance also happens to be extremely useful at taming future strikes and protests, or rat out future pro-workers groups
by defrost | 2025-07-28 06:54:27+00:00
Let's assume I'm familiar with the theory, what pragmatic open verification exists for the implementation of this EU app?

Edit: the EU asserts the app is "privacy preserving" and "Additionally, work on the integration of zero-knowledge proofs is ongoing."

~ https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-mak...

It's not the assertions made that trouble me, it's the quality of any actual implementation and the scope for deliberate or accidental side leaking of knowledge that should be zero .. but likely (in a pragmatic view of a political world) is not.
by dns_snek | 2025-07-28 06:54:33+00:00
You're confusing social media with the internet at large. "Traditional journalism" isn't a replacement for a niche blog writing about highly specific, highly detailed technical topics. What the blog post is describing isn't some bold prediction, it's already happening.

Today it's far more difficult (and personally quite frustrating) to find information written by actual people with actual experience on any given topic than it was 5 years ago, because for every one of those articles there are now 20 more written by LLMs, often outranking them. This frustration is only going to grow as the LLM proliferation continues.
by Oras | 2025-07-28 06:54:39+00:00
Great post, informative and precise.

I think the challenge is primarily the context and intent.

The spellchecker knows my context easily, and there is a setting to choose from (American English, British English, etc.), as well as the paragraphs I'm writing. The intent is easy to recognise. While in a codebase, the context is longer and vaguer, the assistant would hardly know why I'm changing a function and how that impacts the rest of the codebase.

However, as the article mentions, it may not be a universal solution, but it's a perspective to consider when designing AI systems.
by coryrc | 2025-07-28 06:55:20+00:00
We're definitely not undertaxed. A big problem is wholesale public corruption. We now pay inflated salaries for current public workers and for extremely-high retirement plans for past workers which was promised decades ago but not funded.

* Seattle cops blatantly defraud us and one gets 1 week unpaid vacation: https://publicola.com/2024/11/07/officer-suspended-for-exces...

* Those same cops retire at 55 years old with retirement packages worth over $4M (boosted fraudulently as above).

* Similarly, Seattle fire calls have a lot of people and a lot of them getting overtime https://publicola.com/2025/01/24/nearly-200-firefighters-mad...

All this means we get taxed a lot more for ever fewer workers.

And this only scratches the surface. NFPA demanding all breakers be arc fault (add $1k+ to every home build), Seattle permitting being years backlog, governments don't have workers which know how things should be built so our construction costs are 10x other developed countries. We're living off legacy and have an ever-dropping standard of living.
by thinkingemote | 2025-07-28 06:55:41+00:00
We also need what goes along with HUDs : switches, nubs, switches, dials. Actual controls.

Although we are talking HUDs, I'm not really talking about UI widgets having the good old skew-morphism or better buttons. In the cockpit the pilot doesn't have his controls on a touch screen, he has an array of buttons and dials and switches all around him. It's these controls that are used in response to what the pilot sees on the HUD and it's these controls that change the aircraft according to the pilots will, which in turn change what the HUD shows.
by closewith | 2025-07-28 06:56:16+00:00
This is like arguing with a wall. Right back from Gibson & Walk’s 1960 visual‑cliff experiment, there's endless research showing that babies don't have an innate fear of falling. It's so uncontroversial that it's now taken as undisputed fact in medical documentation and research.

You linked to an article about the visual-cliff experiment (apparently having not read it?) as it is what kicked off the avenue of research that came to this conclusion and which has been confirmed and uncontroversial since the mid-2010's.

It's also the lived experience of billions of parents.

There is no currently viable counter-arguments presented anywhere globally. There is more consensus about this issue than, for example, anthropogenic climate change or pangea or any number of other issues than reasonable people aren't expected to defend due to their overwhelming acceptance.
by rtpg | 2025-07-28 06:56:27+00:00
Maybe it's changed recently, but I knew a lot of locals just using the VPN stuff to use the outside internet (though, like a couple other countries, they have a big enough homegrown market to where for most people not having fb or whatever is a no-op)

My experiences in the country using VPN stuff was pretty interesting though... it _really_ felt like depending on where you were physically in the country that you were going through completely different censorship pipes. And things like Apple push notifications would just get through no problem so you could at least receive stuff via push from banned apps.

I wonder what kind of detailed explanations of the mechanics there are, because I don't have a mental model of it that works beyond "censors just tell each regional office of national operaors to do stuff and they all do it slightly differently"
by mceoin | 2025-07-28 06:57:34+00:00
I'm working on an AI spreadsheet platform called Sourcetable (https://sourcetable.com).

Most people use it for analysis and ops work, + data science.

I find myself using Sourcetable to run our company: query the DB, analyze the user data, make projections, write copy, help with technical SEO (search the web, scrape data, check status codes, clean my sitemap, run vector space analysis etc.), talk to apps, financial modeling for our operating model + forecasting, etc.

The main idea I'm thinking about is LLM related: we're all having a social experience with machines (!) while building the machines (!!). I'm not sure my brain fully grasps that it's talking to silicon while I work.
by AngryData | 2025-07-28 06:57:46+00:00
This why im still a huge advocate for building nuclear power. In order to synthesize this kind of stuff from air instead of wasting all our farmland on it to have carbon neutral liquid or gas fuels available, we need insane amounts of energy. For some things batteries and other tech are the better option to switch to, but petroleum is still king for many applications and farming it with plants is extremely land inefficient. So direct air synthesis using ass tons of energy which nuclear could provide is the clear and straight forward solution that doesn't require hand wavy future technology improvements or unrealistic ideas of using over half our farmland to grow fuels or covering significant percentages of the earth's surface with solar panels.
by yreg | 2025-07-28 06:59:02+00:00
There are bio solutions, e.g. my city puts mosquito-larva-killing bacteria in the river and the lakes.

It works okay, but they are unable target _all_ water surface. They use drones, they give out these bacteria to people so they put it in the rainwater tanks, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis_israele...
by kidnoodle | 2025-07-28 06:59:25+00:00
I’m still slowly working on a location intelligence data union (https://wherelabs.info) - the idea is people install an app and agree in a very upfront way to have their location tracked over time.

The union monetises this by selling privacy preserving aggregates (think ‘where is everyone in London right now’, or ‘where did people commute from?’), and acts on behalf of union members to stop data brokers selling their location data.
by mariusor | 2025-07-28 06:59:34+00:00
I don't understand projects like these. Open source is mainly driven by people that want to do something with computers that's not yet possible so they write some code to help them.

However TUI IRC clients already exist in the form of venerable weechat, and all the other examples people already gave in the thread.

So I ask what is the purpose? Learning? Sure I can see that, but why is a project with 5 commits being presented on HN as some kind of innovative application? Trustworthy projects need tenure and they need humility. This has neither.
by Glawen | 2025-07-28 06:59:53+00:00
Most rigs in Europe (I'm in France) are Sprinter type van like an ambulance, which is the one which gets mostly called. The other Sprinter are with tools, and or two big ladder trucks for the real fires which rarely happen.

To me they seems to have tuned their rigs to what they need most In rural area prone to forest fire, they have big all terrain trucks with water tank (useless in cities)
by Brajeshwar | 2025-07-28 07:00:35+00:00
Honestly, I believe you have made it a tad complex than it needs to be. I migrated to Jekyll from WordPress about 4 years ago. It does have all 100s in Google PageSpeed. I used Jekyll as just another tool so I can stick to GitHub Pages. There is nothing tied to anything, and I can move all the Markdown contents to another system within hours, if not minutes. I can also upload the generated HTML via FTP, and it will work as well.

Almost all audio, images, and videos are rather ornamental, and the content will be OK without them. I try to have all content as standalone on its own as possible. For instance, the posts follow the pattern "_posts/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD-url-goes-here.md," so I know where the yearly content is, despite each post having its own designated published date. I also have a folder "_posts/todo" where published (but work-in-progress) and future dated posts live.

For images, I stopped worrying about serving multiple sources. I optimized it somewhere between good enough for both mobile and higher (I now consider tablet and desktop the same).

https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
by derdi | 2025-07-28 07:00:46+00:00
I wasn't able to cram all hunting propaganda tropes into one post, but you are right that "when we kill for fun, its actually an important service we provide to society, and you should show some gratitude!!" is right up there. Bonus points for forgetting to state the problem you are supposedly solving.

Though it's refreshing to see a hunting proponent admit that humans with guns are not actually capable of solving the problem they are claiming to solve.

It's clear that we need some sort of distributed self-organizing agent-based solution that doesn't rely on humans in the loop. We could call it the Low maintenance Unsupervised Predatory Ungulate control System, or L.U.P.U.S. for short.
by dotancohen | 2025-07-28 07:00:53+00:00
I actually have a USB-A to USB-A cable. It came with priority Windows software on an 80mm CD-ROM. It wasn't long enough to connect two desktops in the same room if not on the same table, and I just never tried with a laptop because all my laptops have run Debian or some variant thereof since 2005 or so.
by t4h4 | 2025-07-28 07:02:07+00:00
Science article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads4779

IMO this is the most interesting part: Postevent analysis revealed several limitations to the detection algorithms that have since been improved. First, the duration of monitoring has increased. At the time of the event, the algorithm only allowed updates to earthquake parameters for 10 s after first detection. The number of allowed updates was limited because there was a trade-off between more updates providing additional information for larger earthquakes and more updates introducing outlying single-epic data causing a large overalert. We now allow updates for 30 s and use other checks on the rate of variation in earthquake parameters before updating an alert. Second, there were a large number of noisy phones in the monitoring pool at the time of the Türkiye earthquakes. These high-noise phones triggered late, particularly after the P wave for the M 7.8 event, which had a slow start and complex rupture (31–34). The AEA system is now more selective about which phones are included in the monitoring pool. Individual phones determine their noise level when they become available for monitoring, and this noise level is factored into the detection algorithm. Third, many phones were receiving a BeAware alert and vibrating, which prevented them from triggering on the earthquake ground motion. The alerts now issued by Android EEW no longer cause phones that are detecting to vibrate.
by Aachen | 2025-07-28 07:02:57+00:00
Ineffective? Extremely so? From open borders to open roaming to the various legislation that my tiny country would never be able to force corporations into if we didn't have it at the EU level. Heck, the currency. There's so many aspects I take for granted in life and don't even think about anymore. I can just pay anywhere without thinking or conversion fees. Must have been amazing for trade though it's nearly as old as I am so I don't know how things were before. How in the world you come to a worldview of the EU being extremely ineffective, I cannot imagine. Are you from the EU?
by dmurray | 2025-07-28 07:04:43+00:00
Also, the top chart tells you the actual answer: the price of fire trucks tracks pretty well with inflation.

Fire trucks are up 860% since 1973, as measured by one Illinois municipality. But everything else is up 620% [0], so that explains 3/4 of the price rise. Nobody thinks manufacturing in the US has got cheaper in real terms over the last fifty years.

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1973?amount=1
by exodust | 2025-07-28 07:04:55+00:00
> that the law “was used to take down” politically sensitive video?

You've misquoted the chatbot, which is a new one.

The video wasn't "taken down" and Grok never said that. It was blocked for some users in the UK due to the new authoritarian age verification laws which everyone should be concerned about if access to newsworthy content requires "papers please".
by mattlondon | 2025-07-28 07:04:59+00:00
Not saying I agree with the legislation, but the UK experienced a lot of pretty bad domestic terrorism in the rememberable past (namely IRA bombs detonating in towns and cities etc, often with devastating impacts). Then there were the tube and bus suicide bombings more recently. And there has also been a constant pitter-patter of "radicalised lone wolf" type things like the Ariana Grande concert bomber, the guy who killed a load of 8 year old girls at a summer camp and so on.

None of this is porn of course, but supposedly a lot of the lone wolf's are radicalised online so it creates a lot of "someone needs to do something!!!!" type attitudes (and no public gun ownership would not work like everyone says it would because the USA had that yet no one lifted a finger when they needed to recently, and now look what's happened), and sadly the older and more little-c conservative population carriers more clout in terms of policies because historically they tend to vote in greater numbers than younger groups. N.b. that 16 and 17 year olds have very recently been given the right to vote so things may change.