MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mpascale00 | 2025-07-14 21:07:05+00:00
This brings personal nostalgia to when I was very young and made an "OS" in PowerPoint using links between slides, animations, and the embedded internet explorer object. Similarly, I'm not sure I see any practical use in this. Still it's a really fascinating conceptual demonstration of networks understanding intent in the complex state-machine that is a graphical user interface.
by leakycap | 2025-07-14 21:07:10+00:00
That's what I've noticed: if you reference something real that exists in an LLM's training, it will cling onto that because it then has something credible to work from.

On the other hand, it is also challenging to accurately describe an AAA movie scene in any terms where the AI won't then connect the dots to a familiar scene from an AAA movie and incorporate those details.
by burningChrome | 2025-07-14 21:07:28+00:00
Used to stay and work in ND during my Summers in college. One of the businesses I worked for was a bin sealing company. The owner was a successful farmer and during the Summer, he would have two large families get work visas and would come up and help from Mexico during the Summer harvest.

It was basically three months of sun up to sun down work. At the end of the Summer, the family would celebrate and put on a huge fiesta and cook food for everybody. The farmer paid them extremely well and they would leave and go back to Mexico in August, fondly talking about coming back again the following Summer when the farmer needed them again.

This was my first exposure to migrant labor. It was clear the farmer took the appropriate steps to get visas and paid the family well for their efforts. Likewise, the family was thankful for the work, good pay and with the relationship.

When I moved back to Minnesota after college, I started playing hockey again and two of my teammates had done something similar and worked on poultry and cattle farms in the southern part of the state. Their stories were the complete opposite of what I had experienced. Illegals were used all over the operation. They were paid roughly $3/hour cash to work 12-16 hour shifts. If they spoke up about safety issues or the pay, a supervisor would pick them up, buy them a ticket back to the border and drop them off at the bus station.

The stories they had were pretty eye opening to say the least. I felt dumb for being so naive to think farmers just did everything legally.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-07-14 21:07:55+00:00
A one off anecdote here - I ended up in hospital for a TIA. I'm in Australia, and this is a public hospital. Free in other words. I have never seen so many seriously obese people in my life. They were all occupying hospital beds. I swear at least half the beds were use occupied by them. Meanwhile, we have ambulance lining the ramps of hospitals, with patients in them, waiting for bed to become free.

To put the this in perspective, where I live spends about $10,000/yr/person on health. That's all kinds of health. I'm not sure $5,000/yr (which is about the price here) of GLP-1 would be a generate proportionate decline, but I would not write it off. The $10K is paid by everybody, the $5k would only be for the obese.
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 21:08:01+00:00
Imagine PRISM, but all intercepted communications are then fed into automatic sentiment analysis by a hierarchy of models. The first pass is done by very basic and very fast models with a high error rate, but which are specifically trained to minimize false negatives (at the expense of false positives). Anything that is flagged in that pass gets fed to some larger models that can reason about the specifics better. And so on, until at last the remaining content is fed into SOTA LLMs that can infer things from very subtle clues.

With that, full-fledged panopticon becomes technically feasible for all unencrypted comms, so long as you have enough money to handle compute costs. Which the US government most certainly does.

I expect attempts to ban encryption to intensify going forward now that it is a direct impediment to the efficiency of such system.
by itslennysfault | 2025-07-14 21:08:03+00:00
I'm not a doctor or any kind of expert, but I think consistency is pretty much always the best. A lot of people get stuck in a weird mindset of "it's only a mile why bother" ... but even just going for a walk every day is infinitely better than doing nothing.

From my own experience, after 2020 threw me into a bit of a depression I gained a bunch of weight for the first time in my life. I decided I was going to "workout every day" but gave myself a ton of grace about what the definition of "workout" meant. If it was bed time and I hadn't done anything yet I'd just do a couple sets of pushups to "check the box" and go to sleep. I tried to do as much as I could every day, but still gave myself a pat on the back as long as I did ANYTHING that I could call a "workout" ... I lost the weight shockingly quickly and felt a lot better even though most days I was only working out for 10-20 minutes.
by magicalist | 2025-07-14 21:08:38+00:00
I mean you're saying a lot for rhetorical effect, but it doesn't get around the fact that there aren't that many avenues to reliably collect this data, with high enough resolution and tied to identity, for thousands/millions of individuals, and if you do have that data, you're basically a data broker. I mean, yes, all those things are true, and they're pooled together and available for sale by data brokers.

It's also disappointing that the root comment is distracting from the 4th amendment violations by making the conversation about their vague claims of selling mini-palantir demos through abusing web ads.
by d1l | 2025-07-14 21:08:45+00:00
This is strange on so many levels.

SQLite does not even do network I/O.

How does sharing a connection (and transaction scope) in an asyncio environment even work? Won’t you still need a connection per asyncio context?

Does sqlite_open really take long compared to the inevitable contention for the write lock you’ll see when you have many concurrent contexts?

Does sqlite_open even register in comparison with the overhead of the python interpreter?

What is an asyncio SQLite connection anyways? Isn’t it just a regular one that gets hucked into a separate thread?
by spandrew | 2025-07-14 21:09:36+00:00
I have to admit, everytime I hear the "Two guys hated x, so they built their own!" I see the XCKD cartoon https://xkcd.com/927/

It's not a fair comparison; competition can drive price down, but I pessimistically just see two guys who'll inevitably join the Comcast billionaires club. That's just where these "small guys" end up.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-07-14 21:09:54+00:00
> I still think the separate UI(-flow) is worthwhile, but I guess I will die on this hill.

Oh, it's totes fine if this is configurable by the end user.

> Yes you can, that's what I claim. You convert the search results into a list and then you can use the filter as always.

I think there is some miscommunication: what I mean is what when you search anything, the search results are shown on a separate tab ie there is no way to search and stay on the main tab.

Sure, when you have the search results on a separate tab you can have the whole tab and place any usable controls there, precisely because this is a separate tab.

> Changing that to work on other not displayed folders will be very inconsistent

Yes, this is why I stress what if such functionality would be made it should clearly separate the filter and the search results, visually. Hell, even "N messages found in other folders" could be sufficient.

> You know you can press C--, right ?

Along with Ctrl+MWHEEL. It works but then the users starts to type with an additional empty line between the sentences and I need my vertical space back. Win11 with a forced taskbar at the screen bottom doesn't help.

> Maybe I have stockholm syndrome

Ahhah!

> since we won't get rid of that bar entirely, it will be completely empty besides that "hamburger" menu.

> Wait did you crop the search bar out, or is there a way to disable it???

Yep, this is the problem with the current UI iteration. You literally RMB -> Customize on it, remove the Search bar and... you are left with that empty space. And it is empty because this is a former toolbar. Without any buttons aside the hardcoded right-side hamburger. And this is why it so infuriating for me: sure "if I don't like the search bar I can just remove it", but it doesn't return back the place it uses!

NB: regarding the vertical toolbar - yes, you can but then it leaves the button on that former horizontal toolbar.

> Do you have disabled the button descriptions or why do I have them and you don't?

If you mean the quick filter buttons, then it does that automatically depending on the total TB windows width. On my 4k screen it shows the descriptions if the window width is > ~75% and on the laptop 1920 screen it doesn't show the descriptions even if maximized.

> I think you still didn't get my semantic argument about filtering vs. searching, but whatever.

I somewhat addressed this up there. I'm totally for having them both but I'm very against how TB's developers made it in the UI.

> what do you dislike about v102?

If you run it without the main menu then the tabs doesn't allow to grab the window to move it around, you need to specifically hunt for a 'tab-free' space. Sure, Firefox is the same - yet with TB this is somehow works way worse.

Two search boxes, search and filter actually but anyway, one on top of the other.

That useless vertical toolbar with a whopping 6 buttons, of which I need 1 (one).

Some other small inconveniences what I forgot about.
by dataflow | 2025-07-14 21:09:59+00:00
> The volume of a black hole (assuming you're measuring at the event horizon) is determined only by its mass, so the final density is the same as you'd get for any other black hole of that mass regardless of how it came to be.

Wait, really? So if you had a super massive disk that was just 1 electron away from having enough mass to become a black hole... and then an electron popped into existence due to quantum randomness... then it would become a sphere instantly? Wouldn't that violate the speed of light or something?
by gamblor956 | 2025-07-14 21:10:27+00:00
In Los Angeles, crime on the Metro public transportation system has fallen by almost 70% in the three months since the LAPD was booted off the job and replaced by...security guards.

This is pretty good evidence that high crime rates in cities with large police forces are directly related to the police force not actually doing the job it's already being paid to do.

(LA Metro was forced to use LAPD for security a few decades ago, at which point crime rates went from very low to skyrocketing. LAPD serviced the Metro contract exclusively with officers that were in overtime hours (1.5x pay) so at best could only provide 2/3rd of the contracted manpower. That changed earlier this year; the contract was terminated for cause and LAPD was replaced with contract security guards. The contract security guards make substantially less than LAPD officers, so Metro is currently able to field a security presence about 5x the size as the LAPD force. Metro reported this that crime has fallen dramatically in just 2 months.)
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 21:10:41+00:00
LLMs don't make for a particularly good database, though. The "compression" isn't very efficient when you consider that e.g. the entirety of Wikipedia - with images! - is an order of magnitude smaller than a SOTA LLM. There are no known reliable mechanisms to deal with hallucinations, either.

So, no, LLMs aren't going to replace databases. They are going to replace query systems over those databases. Think more along the lines of Deep Research etc, just with internal classified data sources.
by paxys | 2025-07-14 21:11:09+00:00
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/anthropic-google-openai-xai-...

> Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department

So it is "up to" $200M, and 4 companies are getting it.

I get the first 3, but what on earth is xAI providing to the military?
by 1dom | 2025-07-14 21:11:29+00:00
I'm looking at doing similar stuff right now. I already have a house battery.

However, looking at getting an EV - were you able to get bidirectional charging going?

I saw a few places mentioning demos of it over the past 5 years, but I can't find any v2x charger/car configurations I can buy and use in the UK.

Before looking at any of this stuff, I didn't realise how large and cheap the battery in an EV is compared to house batteries. Now I'm struggling to justify getting an EV if I can't do at least V2H bidirectional charging.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-14 21:11:30+00:00
Or they architect their system better so that they never collect the IP addresses to begin with. I think Privacy Pass and other things Mullvad is doing help in this area, but I am not aware of Proton working with them to implement anything like this. But Proton should do this, because it’s relevant to customers of Proton.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/privacy-pass-the-new-pro...

Apparently not Privacy Pass related, will keep looking as I seem to remember that Mullvad was doing that implementation, but I may remember incorrectly.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mullvad-has-partnered-wi...
by frollogaston | 2025-07-14 21:12:22+00:00
Maybe it's good enough that not very many people care. I moved around San Jose, Mountain View, Berkeley, and Sunnyvale, never noticed problems with Comcast or AT&T. Was expecting flakiness after hearing all these bad stories, but no, it was reliable.

What you don't get often is fiber-to-home, or great upload speeds. But most people aren't running big home servers.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-07-14 21:12:25+00:00
End state of market economics leads to cartel and monopoly.

In tech this is done by controlling people's information and collecting their personal data

Combine the centralization with control and privacy intrusion with authoritarianism in government and you have a worse than 1984 future

It's all RIGHT THERE. Turnkey. Ready to go. And all the cultural institutions in government, the popular those of the ultra rich, the populist desperation of the poor, disappearance of the middle class, is leading to authoritarianism.
by gruez | 2025-07-14 21:12:44+00:00
If you're talking about

>It's a prison that we have no information on in a totalitarian country. We do know they routinely torture their prisoners. I would think Americans, of all people, would take issue with this.

I agree that americans should take issue with this, but as bad as totalitarianism and torture is, those do not make a death camp. By the same token, for all the human right abuses committed in Guantanamo Bay, it's not a death camp. Yes, totalitarian torture camps are bad, and so are death camps, but they're separate things and we shouldn't be in the habit of equating bad-but-not-death camps to Auschwitz just to score some rhetorical points.
by davrosthedalek | 2025-07-14 21:12:46+00:00
True, but there is a large fraction of people who are not like this, but haven't given the dangers of data collection enough thought. You can reach those. Are that enough people? Let's hope so.

I really fear for our older generations and those who are less tech-affine. What chance do they have to not be scammed by AI generated videos, fed by exfiltrated private data of them and their family. Grandparent scam on steroids.
by sellmesoap | 2025-07-14 21:13:19+00:00
Would you expand on how nasty lard is? I had a quick search and the top result was a reddit thread of people breaking down the different fatty acids in lard and coming away surprised that the good outweighs the bad. I don't eat a lot of lard personally, but I'm not as concerned about it compared to microplastics or highly processed foods. Looking at the nutritional info on the side of the blackstrap molasses carton indicates a small amount of it covers a significant portion of daily intake for a few key minirals against less surgar then one puts in their coffee. I agree it's cake, but does a slice of generic sheet cake get part of your daily dose of iron, potassium, b2, b6, magnesium?
by gamblor956 | 2025-07-14 21:13:27+00:00
To second this: LAPD got fired from providing security for the LA Metro public transportation system, and crime rates fell through the floor in the three months since the LAPD officers were replaced with security guards.

It turns out that simply patrolling the stations was enough to deter almost all crimes in the system, which makes everyone immediately wonder: WTF was LAPD during the last few decades?
by smaudet | 2025-07-14 21:13:35+00:00
Yes, and so you should always assume every (large) company is lying through it's teeth as hard as it can, because it is in their best interest to confuddle the consumer as much as possible...

It's not ideaology to want things to work. Last time IE lost because it lost sight of the fact that it was utter dogshitte.

Chrome is now utter dogshitte, users will (eventually) be unable to ignore that...
by treetalker | 2025-07-14 21:13:42+00:00
There's more than a grain of truth here.

I think we're in a Gall's Law situation.

The system has evolved to extreme complexity and no longer works as intended because people learned to game the system, which keeps the best people for the job out of the system; emasculates the essential checks and balances; and creates a vicious cycle that adds further complexity and races to the bottom.

The (likely) only way to fix things is to treat our history to date as a rough draft and to start over with simple systems that work, evolving only as necessary.
by qwertox | 2025-07-14 21:14:00+00:00
Is this an Amazon product? When I click on "Legal" at the bottom of the page, I'm sent to AWS.

The docs state at https://kiro.dev/docs/reference/privacy-and-security/#servic... that "Kiro is an AWS application that works as a standalone agentic IDE."

But nowhere on the landing page or other pages it states that this is an Amazon product.

What is going on?

Edit: I see that @nathanpeck is the "author" and he works for Amazon, why are they trying to hide that fact?
by simoncion | 2025-07-14 21:14:21+00:00
> ...you only have to install plant (physical infrastructure) at the customer's house and one central location, not all the places leading up to the customer's house.

In a rural environment, yeah, sure. Based on what I'm seeing in San Francisco, in an urban environment, you're going to be negotiating for roof space for many transceivers on many separate roofs. (I do absolutely agree that even that annoying tasks is certainly way less work than dealing with a local or state government that wants it to be impossible to run fiber through or along streets and sidewalks.)
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 21:14:39+00:00
The problem with these things is that they allow humans to pretend that they are not responsible for those decisions, because "computer told me to do so". At the same time, the humans who are training those systems can also pretend to not be responsible because they are just making a thing that provides "suggestions" to humans making the ultimate decision.

Again, look at what's happening in Gaza right now for a good example of how this all is different from before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-14 21:14:48+00:00
Last week: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-...

> "We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions."

> Indeed, the update did not go unnoticed. By Tuesday, Grok was calling itself "MechaHitler." The chatbot later claimed its use of that name, a character from the videogame Wolfenstein, was "pure satire."

Apparently the fixes didn't take.
by rollcat | 2025-07-14 21:15:51+00:00
Django Admin is a bit of a trap though ;) it's powerful enough that you can build an entire application with it, custom views and powerful filtering and ACLs and whatnot, it easily gets 80% of your job done with almost nothing but a declarative DSL.

But the remaining 20%? Now you've dug yourself a hole with no recourse but a complete rewrite. It's time/money you would've otherwise spent anyway, but that sunken cost fallacy hits hard.
by Klonoar | 2025-07-14 21:16:11+00:00
This damn framework has provided me more value than almost anything else I've ever used in my 20+ career.

It's also somehow wound up being a north star of sorts when I find myself needing to reimplement behavior in other web stacks; I usually just go read how Django has done it, then adjust as necessary.

Hell of a run, here's to the next 20.
by CPLX | 2025-07-14 21:16:17+00:00
< This about enacting tboughtcrime and normalizing that two Americans cannot exchange whatever arbitrary information the current administration has decided is disallowed. It starts with porn and ends with any form of dissent. It's another step towards Newspeak.

No, it's not.

It's about regulating consumer product safety. The above argument is one employed to avoid that obvious fact. Nobody wants to decide what you can email another adult. We want to make these giant conglomerate tech companies accountable for the harm they cause to people. Giving massive amounts of unlimited porn to children is harmful and we shouldn't be OK with it.

I get that "oh think of the children" is often used disingenuously. So what? This isn't one of those times.
by lubujackson | 2025-07-14 21:16:24+00:00
I mean, if we are vibe coding the future let's go all the way.

This is surprisingly similar to a book my son got from the library about how to code for 5 year olds or something along those lines. The example was how do you tell a robot to tie their shoes? With plenty of examples of the robot tying shoes not on its feet, or placed on its head, etc.

The underlying point: computers are stupid, but iteratively less so if you course-correct them a little bit each time. There is absolutely no reason we should need to bother with human readable computer languages within 10 years - straight to Assembly! Blazingly fast and self-healing and inscrutable.

Now we will still need "computer operators" to define what we want with as much fidelity as we need, but ask yourself this - if we could guarantee the program wpuld be correct within the boundaries we define, aren't we in the exact same position as today? It comes down tp our fallible, human ability to precisely tell the computer what we want. It's just a change in the I/O, and potentially a big change for the better.
by DAlperin | 2025-07-14 21:16:45+00:00
The story here isn't that they've invented a new format for user defined indexes (the one proposed here is sort of contrived and I probably wouldn't recommend in production) but rather demonstrating how the user defined metadata space of the parquet format can be used for application specific purposes.

I work on a database engine that uses parquet as our on-storage file format and we make liberal use of the custom metadata area for things specific to our product that any other parquet readers would just ignore.
by mnemonk | 2025-07-14 21:16:50+00:00
Man, that is some seriously interesting phenomena:

"The black holes appear to be spinning very rapidly—near the limit allowed by Einstein's theory of general relativity," explains Charlie Hoy of the University of Portsmouth and a member of the LVK. "That makes the signal difficult to model and interpret. It's an excellent case study for pushing forward the development of our theoretical tools."
by cpgxiii | 2025-07-14 21:16:53+00:00
Not everyone believes defense contracts are inherently unethical, or at least that they are any more unethical than all of the other consumers GenAI firms are already serving. Given that a (if not the) main business proposition for GenAI is massive reductions in employment costs (which means unemployment and massive economic disruption) this is not a business sector built on any ethical high ground.