MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IlikeKitties | 2025-07-11 15:09:04+00:00
I looked it up, there's not a dictionary I can find that would define "higher power" as your friend did. Words have meaning, you know?

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/higher-power https://www.dictionary.com/browse/higher-power https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/higher%20power

And it's beside the point anyways because again, look at the 12 Steps, quoted directly from their website, as a canonical source [0]:

> 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

> 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

> 7. Humbly asked Him [God] to remove our shortcomings.

> 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

If your argument is that to stop alcohol addiction you need to stop using alcohol and most of the 12 Step Program is irrelevant nonsense, than we are in agreement. But they don't talk about "higher power" they literally talk about God (And they obviously don't mean Xenu here) in the majority of their steps. [0]https://www.aa.org/the-twelve-steps
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-11 15:09:09+00:00
Hyping up AGI is a good way for tech companies to distract people into thinking AI is actually not that big a deal, when it is. It may not be in terms of its pure reasoning or in the goal of reaching AGI, but it is very disruptive, and it's a guaranteed way to heavily reinforce the requirements of using big tech in daily life, without actually improving it.

Yes, it may not be AGI and AGI may not come any time soon, but by focusing on that question, people become distracted and don't have as much time to think about how parasitic big tech really is. If it's not a strategy used consciously, it's rather seredipitous for them that the question has come about.
by lxgr | 2025-07-11 15:09:10+00:00
> An iPhone is not a general computation device, it’s not an open ecosystem.

And yet it's many people's primary computing device. That's exactly the problem.

As a historical example, consider telecommunications. Phone networks were "natural monopolies" for many decades, and people must have found it hard to imagine any other way back then. Without regulatory intervention enforcing competition, we'd probably still be paying double-digit cent amounts for long-distance calls.
by gspencley | 2025-07-11 15:09:16+00:00
Not only that, but these business owners are actively complaining about an influx of business.

I get it if your goal is not necessarily to make as much money as possible and just wanted to create some small, local, "underground" thing. As a small business owner myself, I can think of a few different ways you could accomplish that in spite of massive attention. I mean you can have certain days of the week where you're closed to the general public but patrons with a loyalty card can get in or something. That's just one idea; point is there are solutions.

So I tend to agree with you - this reeks of "we just don't like foreigners. They're ruining our business by being foreign."

My wife and I are about to open our first brick and mortar business and it would be our dream come true to get popular on TikTok and to be a tourist destination. Even though we are a small business in a trendy neighbourhood doing something rather niche that is [hopefully] going to attract a loyal local following.
by MengerSponge | 2025-07-11 15:09:18+00:00
It's the origin of 99 Percent Invisible's name: https://99percentinvisible.org/

I was about to recommend an episode or two, but it's an institution at this point. If you have a reasoned opinion about flags, there's a reasonably good chance it's because you saw or heard Roman Mars talk about vexillology. https://www.ted.com/talks/roman_mars_why_city_flags_may_be_t...
by rsynnott | 2025-07-11 15:09:34+00:00
... I mean, when evaluating "45 + 8 minutes" where the expected answer was "63 minutes", as in the article, a competent human reviewer does not go "hmm, yes, that seems plausible, it probably succeeded, give it the points".

I know LLM evangelists love this "humans make mistakes too" line, but, really, only an _exceptionally_ incompetent human evaluator would fall for that one.
by cedws | 2025-07-11 15:09:51+00:00
I live in Tokyo at the moment. I get the overtourism thing, because after you've been here even just a little while (months) you start to have a disdain for tourists that do tourist things. Like breaking the rules, being a nuisance, swarming parts of the city.

I don't know what can be done about it though. Japan's economy is in trouble, and the tourist money helps and hurts at the same time. It creates tax revenue, yet inflates prices for locals. Japan's stumbling economy is a factor in itself of the tourism influx due to the weak yen.

In the next few decades I fear Japan is going to go through a difficult period of cultural erosion. It needs foreign workers and at the rate they'll be entering, they won't integrate to the level that the Japanese people want.

I'd like to think I'm one of the "15%" that the article describes - I go to great lengths to integrate despite not speaking a lot of Japanese. But deep down I know that I don't belong here, and that Japan would prefer to be a homogenous society without expats like me. And I hold no hard feelings toward them for that.
by jen20 | 2025-07-11 15:09:58+00:00
I suspect there's more to it in than that.

I'd wager there was a solid amount of general incompetence involved at the PO "corporate" - management politically couldn't admit that their consultingware could be anything other than perfect, because they signed off on the decision to buy it, and probably on all the work orders that got them to that point.

If anyone from PO management or that of the consulting firm (Fujitsu, I believe?) ever get any work again, it will be a travesty of justice.
Show HN: Director – Local first, open source MCP Gateway
by bwm | 2025-07-11 15:10:07+00:00
Hey HN. we’re Barnaby and Tom from Director (https://director.run). A fully open source, local first MCP gateway that allows you to connect Claude, Cursor or VSCode to any MCP server in 30 seconds.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4mGLp-aSk

Website: https://director.run

Repository: https://github.com/director-run/director

MCP is a promising technology, but it's still early and there are lot's of (well known) problems:

- Configuration: Hard to setup, requiring writing JSON for each new client <> server connection.

- Observability: No easy way to inspect (and modify) traffic flowing between clients and servers.

- Security: MCP is often vulnerable to remote code execution attacks and prompt injection attacks.

- Context Window Management: It's very easy to load too many tools into the context window at which point the LLM can get confused.

We're looking to solve these problems by building director. We're starting with a simple local experience, but intend to add features like oAuth very soon that will allow you to run this in the cloud (or in a secure container).

Looking forward to hearing any feedback or ideas you have!
by tehryanx | 2025-07-11 15:10:09+00:00
I don't think it is beyond the scope of MCP. Browsers have controls to prevent cross-origin data exposures, and this protocol is designed to bridge origins across a context that they all have access to. It's breaking the existing isolation mechanism. If you're building a system that breaks the existing security controls of the environment it's running in I think you have an architectural responsibility to figure out a way to solve for that.

Especially in this context, where decades have been spent building and improving same origin policy controls. The entire web has been built around the expectation that those controls prevent cross origin data access.

I also don't even think it's that difficult to solve. For one, data in the context window doesn't have to be a string, it can be an array of objects that contain the origin they were pulled from as metadata. Then you can provide selective content to different MCP-B interfaces depending on their origins. That would live in the protocol layer that would help significantly.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-11 15:10:20+00:00
I think drugs like Xanax are playing a huge, but under-the-radar type of role in all kind of social contagions that we are witnessing. Every time someone does something crazy or even just a bit "off" I ask myself: "Is that person on drugs?" The answer is likely "yes!" Not illegal drugs, per se, but still.

I don't overschedule my kids. It's ridiculous what I see going on and I'm not friends with those "driven" parents whose motivations I simply can't fathom. There is a total lack of respect for basic academics amongst them, too.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-07-11 15:10:40+00:00
> It's such a contrast to USA, where I doubt that such a thing would even be legal.

The sign itself is probably protected speech.

As for the policy, it is probably also legal here. Private businesses have broad rights to refuse individual customers without stating a reason.

Fabricating a legitimate business reason to deny service to a particular group of customers is usually trivial, as well. Proving it was fabricated for discriminatory reasons can be difficult.
by armada651 | 2025-07-11 15:10:50+00:00
System prompts are a dumb idea to begin with, you're inserting user input into the same string! Have we truly learned nothing from the SQL injection debacle?!

Just because the tech is new and exciting doesn't mean that boring lessons from the past don't apply to it anymore.

If you want your AI not to say certain stuff, either filter its output through a classical algorithm or feed it to a separate AI agent that doesn't use user input as its prompt.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-11 15:10:55+00:00
The person you replied to said

>> Caregiving is an amazing opportunity. It is life-changing for the person receiving the care. It is fulfilling and soul-affirming for the person delivering the care.

That the market doesn't pay well for the work is immaterial to its value.

If you're agreeing to everything they said, and only disagreeing that it pays well: yes.
by octopoc | 2025-07-11 15:11:04+00:00
Many vegans think everyone else is evil/demonic for eating meat. “Meat is murder” etc etc. So the natural conclusion to that is, according to several vegans I know, that everyone who eats meat should be forced to either stop being a mass murderer or kill themselves.

Keep in mind there was a point where I was vegan, I know several vegans, so I know what I’m talking about.

They’re not shy about it either—look up That Vegan Teacher on YouTube for relatively middle-of-the-road vegan behavior in action.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-11 15:11:10+00:00
It's not a hatchet, you can go Google what it looks like in <10 seconds. It's a halberd, a polearm used for harassing people at-range.

Plus, even if it was a symbolic hatchet, I don't think many civilians would like the notion of their government mutilating them and feeding them to a fire.
by rossant | 2025-07-11 15:11:10+00:00
Read about this [1, 2]. This is not yet a well-known scandal, but I expect (and hope) it will surface in the coming years or decade. It is on an even bigger scale, not limited to a single country, and it has been going on not just for 10 years but for many decades.

[1] https://cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-11 15:11:11+00:00
That non-deterministic claim, along with the rather ludicrous claim that this is all just some accidental self-awareness of the model or something (rather than Elon clearly and obviously sticking his fat fingers into the machine), make the linked piece technically dubious.

A baked LLM is 100% deterministic. It is a straightforward set of matrix algebra with a perfectly deterministic output at a base state. There is no magic quantum mystery machine happening in the model. We add a randomization -- the seed or temperature -- to as a value-add randomize the outputs in the intention of giving creativity. So while it might be true that "in the customer-facing default state an LLM gives non-deterministic output", this is not some base truth about LLMs.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-11 15:11:16+00:00
Steve Jobs was an asshat and the restrictions Apple puts on their software are exactly in line with what he would've done. He was firmly against third party apps on the iPhone in the first place and had to be convinced to permit it. Everything Apple is doing right now is in line with what Apple was doing when Jobs was still around. He would've had plenty to talk about, but none of it would be about no longer infringing users' rights.

Back in the early 2000's when Apple was still the cool, alternative, underdog computer company, it did things very differently, but for the same reason as it always did: make a profit.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-07-11 15:11:50+00:00
The first link is someone responding in kind to another inflammatory comment from the same person. It's all part of the same thread in which the person I originally responded to was being a doofus on purpose. I could have just responded to his first root instead of his leaf comment, it was the same content twice.

The second I can't even view, I guess it's removed, in which case probably more of the same and my comment applies equally to it. Not like I'm going to go down every branch of the convo and reply to every one of them.
by LiKao | 2025-07-11 15:12:01+00:00
These "maddeningly repetitive questions" are exactly the internal issues that are being talked about. If they ask "why not" just let them ask.

It's not your job as a parent to 1) make sure your children are happy all the time 2) defend your decisions against all attacks.

I found that when children say "why not" repeatedly, they are actually saying "I am unhappy and want to find an argument to reconsider your stance". If you signal them that this is actually something to argue about, e.g. by repeatedly answering these questions, they will just play the game you are offering them.

I found that it's actually a good approach to only directly answer "why not" the first time, and to just answer it the second time by "I understand that you are unhappy about my decision. I have already explained it and will not explain it again. If you need help dealing with your unhappiness I will be there for you."

A lot of the maddening part of these questions is most often the parent not being able to deal with the unhappiness of the child. Once you accept that unhappiness is a natural part of life 1) this will be easier for you 2) you will model much better for your child how to deal with unhappiness.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-11 15:12:21+00:00
Cool!

When I was a tyke I had a powertool set that worked on 1/8-inch balsa wood (not easy to find!). It was powered with a 12V radio battery, and Could Not cut fingers. There was a drill (spade bit, so it sucked), a circular saw, and another tool I have forgotten.

Pulled it out decades later for my niece to play with.

This, however, has more input material than 1/8th inch balsa. And thus, more outputs possible.
by jen20 | 2025-07-11 15:12:22+00:00
> They are assumed correct in UK courts. IT systems were legally considered infallible

This will change when elected officials start getting hoisted by their own electronic petards.

The Venn diagram of midwit enterprise developers who build systems with audit trails yet could not swear under penalty of perjury that the audit trail is absolutely correct in every case is almost a circle.
by paul7986 | 2025-07-11 15:12:32+00:00
I can ask Orbitz with one question without going to Orbitz to say create me a full itinerary with the best prices for my Iceland trip?

That's advantage of LLMs you dont have to go to the websites and soon you can just talk to your LLM like chatGPT or an advanced Siri to do this and boom it does all the research and shows you the top deals for you to purchase with a click (after you reviewed the prefered one and or talk to the LLM who makes the updates/edits you need before u do one click purchase).

If I was Orbitz I would be begging to work with Open AI / chatGPT (use Orbitz API) before Open AI does it themselves. Website visitation is and going to be dropping precipitiously along with the field of web design and development. That's my own field but it's so clear to me as technological evolutions that get adopted are the ones that reduce steps and make things easier to more magical.
by dudeinjapan | 2025-07-11 15:12:37+00:00
I'm the CTO & Founder of TableCheck, the booking system used by 10,000+ restaurants in Japan. My two cents: the issue isn't simply "too many tourists" but rather over-concentration at a few hotspots, a domestic-first market, low English proficiency (ranked #87 globally, a notch above Afghanistan), and a culture deeply focused on orderliness and not causing inconvenience for others.

That said, nearly all hospitality owners in Japan I work with now recognize the importance of inbound tourism--critical for a country facing a 30% population decline by 2070. When I started TableCheck ~12 years ago, many places avoided non-Japanese guests--not always from "racism", but often a fear of miscommunication and dissatisfying guests. That mindset is rapidly fading: venues that don't capture inbound guests' revenue simply won't survive.

Happy to answer questions!
by spoaceman7777 | 2025-07-11 15:12:45+00:00
Seems this is likely due to ongoing work on FP8 support on nvidia/cutlass. From my reading, the alternative code path was likely added recently for testing by external contributors to the cutlass project, and other involved parties. (Rather than attempting to distribute custom packaged internal builds of cuda.)

This ticket is a good starting place to see the chain of issues around the ongoing work: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass/pull/2037
by bayindirh | 2025-07-11 15:13:02+00:00
> You aren't doing that with ZFS or btrfs, though.

ZFS can, and is actually designed to, handle that kind of workloads, though. At full configuration, ZFS7420 is a 84U configuration. Every disk box has its own set of "log" SSDs and 10 additional HDDs. Plus it was one of the rare systems which supported Infiniband access natively, and was able to saturate all of its Infiniband links under immense load.

Lustre's performance is not RAM bound when driving that kind of loads, this is why MDT arrays are smaller and generally full-flash while OSTs can be selected from a mix of technologies. As I said, when driving that number of clients from a relatively small number of servers, it's not possible to keep all the metadata and query it from the RAM. Yes, Lustre recommends high RAM and core count for servers driving OSTs, but it's for file content throughput when many clients are requesting files, and we're discussing file metadata access primarily.
by varispeed | 2025-07-11 15:13:08+00:00
There are other scandals in the UK, like IR35 that basically prevents worker owned businesses from making profit, then resulting cottage industry of parasitic "umbrella companies" and tumbling economy. But directly affected people are easily generalised as those with broader shoulders so the public couldn't care less if they cannot run their little businesses. Meanwhile big consultancies that lobbied for it are getting minted on public sector contracts, they have very much a monopoly now. Things are more expensive and shittier. Oh and then Boriswave - as if captive services market wasn't enough for big corporations - they also got to import the cheapest available workers instead of hiring locals.
by _fat_santa | 2025-07-11 15:13:24+00:00
I live in Colorado and we have a similar issue (though not nearly to the scale of Japan). The line about getting "TikTokked" really struck a chord because there have been a few places that have fallen to the same fate, spots that the locals only knew about are now filled to the brim with both locals and tourists from out of state.

My rule now is when we travel somewhere, we look to see what all the viral places from TikTok, and then we don't go there unless the place holds some incredible cultural significance (ie. The Louvre, Sagrada Família, etc).

What we found is cities are usually filled to the brim with the kind of spots that get "TikTokked" but only a few select places actually go viral and attract all the attention. When you use the "viral places" as a guide of where NOT to go, you end up going down some paths that lead you to some really special experiences with practically no other tourists around.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-07-11 15:13:28+00:00
That's awesome, just please don't tell other people that its the only way. Which has been my experience with 12 step people.

Its the most unscientific method of treating addiction we have, one of the least effective, yet the government literally uses it as its ONLY tool (in a lot towns) to fight addiction in their communities, partly because propagandists of the 12 step methods have ingrained the idea that its the only thing that works into society (USA), when in fact, it is the opposite. My guess is, they like or don't care about recidivism also.

I think the decentralized community-based nature of 12 steps programs is cool though, and we do need more stuff like that.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-11 15:13:35+00:00
I don't really buy that they're even necessarily useful for comparing models. In the example from the article, if model A says "48 + 6 minutes" and gets marked correct, and model B says "63 minutes" (the correct answer) and gets marked correct, the test will say that they're equivalent on that axis when in fact one gave a completely nonsense answer.
by Y_Y | 2025-07-11 15:13:58+00:00
Pardon me, but I think you may have mistaken my point.

I agree entirely with your first two paragraphs, except that I don't feel I'm making any comparison or absurdity.

I'm not talking about extended holidays. I don't like giving much detail about my own life here, but I didn't get automatic citizenship in the country of my birth due to being from a mixed immigrant family. I have lived, worked, and studied for multiple years around Europe and North America. I've felt at times genuinely disenfranchised, despite paying taxes, having roots, and being a bona fide member of those societies.

All that said, I never had to live in a warzone, and even the areas of political violence and disputed sovereignty have been Disneyland compared to Gaza. This isn't about me though!

I am merely arguing that Israel can reasonably be called a democracy by sensible and customary definition which is applied broadly throughout the world. I don't mean I approve, or that I wouldn't change anything, I'm just trying to be precise about the meaning of words.

(I think your efforts to advocate for the oppressed may be better spent arguing with someone who doesn't fundamentally share your position, even if we don't agree on semantics.)
by lharries | 2025-07-11 15:14:01+00:00
I used this last week and it's excellent - feels like the same increase in productivity increase from when I first used Cursor.

Are you thinking of doing a hosted version so I can have my team collab on it?

And I found I could open lots of PRs at once but they often need to be dependent on each other - and then I want to make a change to the first one. How are you thinking of better managing that flow?
by throw0101c | 2025-07-11 15:14:29+00:00
> From what I understand (as a foreigner to the UK) is that it was the mini-series that sparked national interest in the case.

The case was done with by 2019:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_%26_Others_v_Post_Office...

The mini-series aired in 2024. Perhaps it was a bit more obscure pre-airing, but things were sorted out already.