MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by itake | 2025-07-20 19:58:28+00:00
We are in the early phase of VC fueled pollution.

Its the same as when Uber launched. VCs suppress prices, to create demand ($5 Uber rides anywhere in the city) which generates more transactions, which generates more pollution. Instead of a alternative lower cost transportation (like BART or muni), SF residents chose the highest environmental impact and lowest cost option.
by giantrobot | 2025-07-20 19:58:48+00:00
How big is the "gamer" market really? How much is it set to grow? Are "gamers" really going to be buying the high margin kit from Intel or are they going to instead spend their money with Nvidia on the beefiest GPUs?

Even today a mid-tier CPU is way more than enough to handle even the most demanding games so long as you've got a beefy CPU. Over the past twenty years games have demanded far more in the way of GPUs than they have in CPUs.

That market doesn't make Intel zero dollars or anything but I don't really see it a market that's going to drive a bunch of growth in Intel's revenue or specifically their margins. Long gone are the days where buying the Extreme Edition CPU got some appreciable extra performance in games.
by const_cast | 2025-07-20 19:58:52+00:00
These studies are legitimately worthless, and I'll explain why.

1. Ultra-processed foods contain a lot of hyper-palatable foods. You have to understand that UP foods is an absurdly broad category.

When you measure the harm of UP foods, you're not measure the harm of UP foods - you're measuring the harm of hyper-palatable foods, because naturally those are the foods people gravitate towards. Because they taste good and are easy to eat and overeat.

You also have to understand that UP foods are associated with poorer people, which get significantly worse medical care and just have overall worse lives. What you could be measuring is that poor people are more depressed - which, yeah duh.

The key problem here is that nutritional studies are almost always observation, NOT double-blind. Because following people for decades in a double-blind study where you control their diet is very, very, very hard and expensive.

If you just replaced all the UP food with burgers and fried chicken, would those people be better off? No. So you shouldn't be so confident you're measuring what you think you're measuring.

2. All sugar is bad, period. It's not HFCS that's causing liver disease, it's sugar in the absence of fiber. We know sugar causes liver disease.

If we want to decrease this, we must lean into Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. They are better than sugar, period. Straight up, Aspartame is healthier than any sugar, including table sugar you put in your morning coffee.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-07-20 19:59:10+00:00
The majority of the world censors or bans pornography, not just America. In Vietnam, China, Russia, Ukraine, just to name examples, you can go to literal prison for possession, not just pay a fine. Ukraine considers possession alone grounds for up to 3 years. This is despite Vietnam and China all-but-requiring atheism to run for positions.

I think this is sufficient to show there are plenty of non-religious reasons to refuse involvement. Framing pornography as a purely religious issue is a misdirection.
by teitoklien | 2025-07-20 19:59:51+00:00
I know for a fact they don’t hate pornography, i’ve been around their culture. They banned it because the judges felt like it.

There were no major protests to ban it, no government ongoing policy, nothing. It was just done because the court felt like it.

People were indifferent after that too, gov didn’t even comment, praise or shun the court. Life just went on and people just used vpns, gov doesn’t even care and doesn’t even enforce the ban outside of the 100 major urls and domain the supreme court itself decided and never revisited it.

India’s supreme court is extremely unusual compared to other countries, it’s as powerful as the executive branch if not more, the legislative branch have no say in electing supreme court judges the previous judges elect the next ones.

it just uses its power very sparingly out of fear that the legislative branch might come after their powers if they use them too much.

banning a few major porn sites, banning electoral bonds (india’s version of superpac), creating new right to privacy laws without consulting the parliament (because the court feared gov isn’t taking digital privacy seriously enough), legalise lgbt rights without any parliament input as it felt it needed to protect those citizens freedoms and rights to self identify and form their own families with legal protection.

are some places where the court has used its ultimate powers

I personally like India’s supreme courts, they are partially the reason why india is relatively stable compared to other south asian nations. Overall they use their super powers extremely responsibly and sparingly. Accounting for both political environment and balancing it against the long term interest of the nation’s citizens
by daveguy | 2025-07-20 19:59:58+00:00
Honestly we have no idea what the human split is between "context" and "weights" aside from a superficial understanding that there are long term and short term memories. The long term memory/experience seems a lot closer to context than it is to dynamic weights. We don't suddenly forget how to do a math problem when we pick up an instrument (ie our "weights" don't seem to update as easily and quickly as context does for an LLM).
by andoando | 2025-07-20 20:00:24+00:00
Sorry Im from LA.

Still though, compare 90M to the amount of money that goes into car infrastructure, including the ~$500+ (on average, 20% of peoples income) people pay monthly for their automobiles.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DMVSRC1A027NBEA Over 360 billion spent in 2024 alone
by moron4hire | 2025-07-20 20:00:43+00:00
A lot of people's problems with Git would go away if they just took a weekend and "read the docs." It's shocking how resistant most people are to the idea of studying to improve their craft.

I've been spending time with my team, just a few hours a week, on training them on foundational things, vs every other team in the company just plodding along, trying to do things the same way they always have, which already wasn't working. It's gotten to where my small team of 4 is getting called in to clean up after these much larger teams fail to deliver. I'm pretty proud of my little junior devs.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-20 20:00:48+00:00
And that would be better why exactly? Bloated browsers trying to phone home, even if only to search for updates, or denying access because of overblocking DNS, false software security signatures, whatever? Ja. Klasse! I fucking know about Electron & Tauri. And V8, Node, Bun, TS. Hmmm so geil. Da steht mir der Schwanz steil. Oder auch einfach nur die Haare zu Berge.

Waldmeisterlicher Wackelpudding. Ahoi.
by joseda-hg | 2025-07-20 20:00:55+00:00
It's the association with unwell people that I don't get, and I do agree that it feels particularly US Centric

Coming from a place where it's a lot more normalized, I've taken the bus, twice a day for the last say 7 Years, the worst I've seen has been the ocassional drunk person (I've also slept 90% of my commute plenty of times, that's how safe I feel)

Mostly it's working people and high school students (But also, old people running errands or going to church) I assume most of those druggies/thiefs/etc, know that there's a lot to lose if they get caught messing with people on the bus (And I have seen a couple times a driver refusing service to specific people)

All the drivers know each other, and people on the same route are more often than not in you community and will tell people around

On the same note, a common thief usually avoids "working" places near his own house, because that's one quick way of destroying your life even if police never gets involved
by SiddanthEmani | 2025-07-20 20:01:01+00:00
Just launched "Daily AI Times" - 7 days in and it's already transforming how I consume AI research!

Instead of spending hours prompting ChatGPT/Claude for "latest AI developments," I built a fully automated pipeline that does the heavy lifting.

Manual AI Prompting vs Automated Pipeline:

Manual Way:

→ Limited by training cutoffs

→ Generic summaries

→ 30+ minutes of prompting

→ Miss breaking developments

Daily AI Times Way:

→ 42,000 articles processed in 7 days

→ 1,050 premium items via AI consensus

→ 115 live sources, 7 AI agents working 24/7

→ Zero manual effort, maximum signal

Meet the Complete AI Team:

Bulk Intelligence Squad:

• Quinn (Llama-3.1-8B) - Content Quality

• Riley (Gemma2-9B) - Relevance Scoring

• Casey (Llama3-8B) - Category Classification

Deep Intelligence Duo:

• Scout (Llama-4-Scout-17B) - Fact-Checking

• Sage (Llama-3.3-70B) - Bias Detection

Content Creation Team:

• Script Writer (Gemini-2.5-Pro) - Podcast Scripts

• Voice Duo - The Talented Jane and Joe (Gemini-2.5-Flash-TTS) - Multi-Speaker Audio

The 9-Step Pipeline:

1. Collection: 1,000 articles from 115 sources

2. Bulk Intelligence: Multi-dimensional scoring

3. Consensus: 70% agreement rule filters noise

4. Deep Analysis: Fact-checking + bias detection

5. Final Consensus: Weighted combination

6. Classification: Headlines, articles, research papers

7. API Generation: Frontend-ready endpoints

8. Audio: Auto-generated podcasts with dialogue

9. Deployment: GitHub Pages + global CDN

Results: 2.5% acceptance rate, 7.5-min cycles, 6x daily

Future Roadmap:

→ Enhanced audio formats (briefs, deep dives)

→ New categories (Healthcare AI, Climate Tech, Robotics)

→ Scale to 10K+ articles, 15+ agents, real-time processing

When 7 AI agents agree something is important - it probably is!

Live Demo: https://siddanthemani.github.io/daily-ai-times

GitHub: https://github.com/SiddanthEmani/daily-ai-times

How do you stay current with AI developments?
by boomskats | 2025-07-20 20:01:35+00:00
I like what RJSF did with uiSchema[0] for their presentation layer (to supplement the jsonSchema model definitions).

It's been a while since I played with it but I remember thinking it was well thought out & being surprised that it wasn't more widely adopted.

[0]: https://rjsf-team.github.io/react-jsonschema-form/docs/api-r...
by ajdude | 2025-07-20 20:01:41+00:00
Since the title is click bait, here's the answer from the abstract:

Our findings indicate that DeepSeek-V3 performs best in simulating U.S. opinions on the abortion issue compared to other topics such as climate change, gun control, immigration, and services for same-sex couples, primarily because it more accurately simulates responses when provided with Democratic or liberal personas For Chinese samples, DeepSeek-V3 performs best in simulating opinions on foreign aid and individualism but shows limitations in modeling views on capitalism, particularly failing to capture the stances of low-income and non-college-educated individuals
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-20 20:02:23+00:00
>Japan famously has censorship;

In Japanese culture there's often an 'official' layer of proper behavior that in some sense is a pretense and in reality people are much more free-wheeling, including in the adult sector where Japan is pretty big globally, which is likely understating it. The country is actually very sexually liberated.

The pernicious thing is that the US and Anglosphere work exactly the other way around, legally you can say anything but it's the people who chase you around the globe and you have Mumsnet and American soccer moms hound you across the ocean. Which is a moral tyranny any dictator is envious of. The US was the only Western country where Leon was censored, the actually made like a 20 minute shorter version for the US market. Censoring actual art, not just porn or slop, is foreign to anyone in continental Europe or Japan.
by krylon | 2025-07-20 20:02:31+00:00
OTOH, yes.

OTOH, when coding, I consider FILE to be effectively opaque in the sense that it probably is not portable, and that the implementers might change it at any time.

I am reminded of this fine article by Raymond Chen, which covers a similar situation on Windows way back when: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-20 20:02:54+00:00
You've forgotten your Pratchett. Quoth Men at Arms:

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

> But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

> This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.
by llbbdd | 2025-07-20 20:03:20+00:00
For me it comes down to a very binary decision. Any measurable number of passenger-on-passenger incidents in the NYC subway is enough to give me pause over taking a taxi or Uber. It doesn't happen on planes, and taxis and uber have better audit trails, and the bad stuff mostly happens outside the US, where I live. In both of these situations I'm also at the mercy of a bunch of lazy engineers and a Jira board. It's valid to try to pick the better engineers. But my immediate concern is my physical safety, and the safety of the people I bring with me, and a private situation is always going to be the safer option when the primary threat is the strangers around me.
by phars | 2025-07-20 20:03:29+00:00
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Tonuino project yet. For those looking for a DIY alternative to the Toniebox: it's an open-source project based on an Arduino, MP3s, and an RFID reader, allowing you to build your own custom music and audiobook player for kids.

My children absolutely adore their Tonuino box, and the community around the project is fantastic, constantly sharing creative and impressive builds. If you're a bit handy and enjoy a good DIY project, I highly recommend checking it out. https://www.voss.earth/tonuino/
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-20 20:03:48+00:00
Years ago I was interested in agents that used "old AI" symbolic techniques backed up with classical machine learning. I kept getting hired though by people who were working on pre-transformer neural nets for texts.

Something I knew all along was that you build the system that lets you do it with the human in the loop, collect evaluation and training data [1] and then build a system which can do some of the work and possibly improve the quality of the rest of it.

[1] in that order because for any 'subjective' task you will need to evaluate the symbolic system even if you don't need to train it -- if you need to train the system, on the other hand, you'll still need to eval
by walleeee | 2025-07-20 20:06:38+00:00
I am glad for our (rather dismissive) interlocutor's comment, because I can now ask you: do you see this in any tension with Marx as an early constructivist? Social construction as I think of it is hardly compatible with a teleological cosmology. What am I missing?

Another quibble: I don't think Marx thought of it as supernatural in our sense of the latter; rather his sense of the natural (like that of many of his contemporaries) had an element of what we might call the supernatural, located in a certain directedness or inevitability.

I guess where you see Marx as an early advocate of modern relativisms, I read him as deeply bound up in positivisms pervasive at the time. Maybe these are not contradictory positions. Curious to hear your thoughts.
Ask HN: Looking for alpha testers for HRAM (asm)
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-20 20:06:59+00:00
Hi everyone. I'm making an app called HRAM (hand-rolled assembly machine), and I plan to release it this week. But I need some beta testers first. Please send me an email at admin@90s.dev if you're interested. Your feedback will be helpful enough that I'll give you a free license. The app is only for Windows (10 or 11).

The app is programmable via Lua and has an assembly library built in, so you can create and run assembly functions at runtime. It has a 320x180 pixel screen that you can manipulate to help you practice assembly. The point of the app is to help learn low level concepts, in the fun environment of making a retro style game. I'm also in the process of adding threading/mutexes/etc also, but that may have to wait post release.

Very early manual, likely to change dramatically: https://hram.dev/docs.txt

Thanks for your time, have a great Sunday!
by opan | 2025-07-20 20:07:10+00:00
Gajim has been genuinely pretty unstable and buggy for me on Wayland (Sway) with lots of "crashing", in quotes because they tell me it's not crashing if I try to report it, but it's more like the windows are lost suddenly (this has improved over time somewhat at least, it used to be the whole client several times per day and now it's just the file picker, which can mostly be avoided). As for Conversations, mostly works great, if I had to complain it would be that you're forced to use relative timestamps with no way to configure them.

To compare Matrix and XMPP, I like that with Matrix you can edit messages that are as far back as you want, not just the most recent one sent from the same device you're on. Sometimes I fire off a storm of messages and then while I'm waiting for replies I go to read over them again and catch some things I wanna fix that I didn't see before. I also like that Matrix is a bit more distributed in that if the homeserver the room is on/from goes down, everyone else can still chat. I even have a group chat originally made on a now completely dead homeserver but we're all still happily chatting in it. I'm using both XMPP and Matrix daily, but Matrix is the one I got IRL friends and family on. XMPP seems more popular with people from fedi and the like, what you might call "internet weirdos". I have considered trying to convince more IRL contacts to get on XMPP, but I'm not sure they could handle another move, and I'm not sure I could justify it when it's not an objectively better across the board upgrade. When we moved people off Facebook chat or Google Hangouts, we were going from something proprietary and centralized to something free and decentralized, also there was encryption I guess. XMPP is kind of a sidegrade. Ideally it wouldn't be a full move anyway so much as getting them all to sign up on it as back-up comms, but again I'm just not sure they could be bothered at this point.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-20 20:07:13+00:00
It very well might be superior.

I have dealt with a pregnancy test only once in my life, and that was in acting as an interpreter (me: English, wife: Chinese and some English, couple: Chinese, very little English. Not easy!) Reading the instructions is one thing, but figuring out whether the result was positive was another matter. (Although I suspect it was an edge case--the woman's period showed up soon thereafter, I suspect reality was a very early miscarriage and the result was about at the dividing line.)
by qayxc | 2025-07-20 20:07:28+00:00
The red inside, reddish-orange outside was a little strange - I'm not colour blind, but have a really hard time distinguishing shades. As soon as I focused on the white dot, the red circle started to blend with the background and disappeared completely (was just one single colour for me). Only when it started shrinking did I hallucinated a faint green aura around it until it was gone.
Why do we still flatten embedding spaces?
by Intrinisical-AI | 2025-07-20 20:07:49+00:00
ost dense retrieval systems rely on cosine similarity or dot-product, which implicitly assumes a flat embedding space. But embedding spaces often live on curved manifolds with non-uniform structure—dense regions, semantic gaps, asymmetric paths.

I’ve been exploring the use of:

- Ricci curvature as a reranking signal

- Soft-graphs to preserve local density

- Geodesic-aware losses during training

Curious if others have tried anything similar? Especially in information retrieval, QA, or explainability. Happy to share some experiments (FiQA/BEIR) if there's interest.
by addaon | 2025-07-20 20:07:52+00:00
I want to love this, but it's basically an aesthetic experience, and I have two and a half complaints that prevent me from loving it:

1) It needs an option to be the exact height of the menu bar when collapsed. On my system, it's ~4 pts taller then the menu bar, which means it intrudes into the chrome of maximized windows. Ewww. The goal is to reclaim wasted space, not take more!

2) It pretty consistently drops frames when expanding on a system under light memory pressure. Seems like there's likely a few pages that need to be wired to keep it from needing to page in too much on activation? Tracing memory accesses on activation, clustering those functions (with order files) and variables (with linker scripts) to a minimal number of pages, and wiring those pages could make this better. Dropping frames is a bug!

2.5) I don't use my laptop for music. Let me turn off the red "note" that launches Music, because (a) it's useless and (b) it's really buggy for those of us who have never accepted Apple Music terms of service -- full UI lock-up when waiting for permission. Instead, let me put something useful there. A CPU meter would be amazing! Or even better, an indication of whether a terminal is still executing a command / done and ready for input -- not sure how to hook this in general, but would be great.
by llbbdd | 2025-07-20 20:08:41+00:00
That's reasonable, and as I noted in another comment I've only lived in the US and can only provide that perspective. Though I see a lot of discourse around this dismissed as "US-centric" while avoiding the fact that the US, the melting-pot of the world, is potentially one of the best test-cases for whether public transit works.

All of the situations you describe are just carpooling with extra steps.

Public transit as described in the US is a bunch of strangers with different goals and different jobs getting together in the same car at approximately the same time to go to roughly the same block. As a system it needs to be able to handle those, and when you scale it past the carpooling step, it doesn't.

Perhaps that's the problem to be solved, but if the US isn't handling it, I'm not sure you could point to a country solving the same problem and doing it better.