MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Disposal8433 | 2025-07-12 05:52:41+00:00
You're right and it's sad. Instead of being more serious about the output of our work, we put everything in the trash and removed all barriers and tools to would have hardened the code. The processes to plan, write specs, and check applications went the way of the dodo too.

I'm glad I work for a regulated industry where we still have some kind of responsibility and pride for what we do. I could never work for the kind of irresponsible anarchy that AI is creating.
by djaychela | 2025-07-12 05:54:30+00:00
Coming from android I have to agree, it's terrible. The only help I can offer is that if you press and hold the space bar you can drag to go through to where you need to be, but it's still painful. I can only bear ios because I am using SwiftKey - the default keyboard genuinely stopped me from switching to an iPhone, I found it that bad. And some apps force you to use the default ios one which is even worse!
by silenced_trope | 2025-07-12 05:54:45+00:00
This.

Character.ai reached out to me for an opportunity, but they've already been carved up.

I think it's great that the rank and file got some of their equity cash-out (based on the other comment), but I imagine it isn't an attractive prospect as a start-up to join at this point.

I just ignored the recruiter. I can't imagine their would be a second liquidity event.
by jchw | 2025-07-12 05:55:14+00:00
I literally can't be as gentle as professionals are for this exact reason. That's why I'm glad most of these things are pretty robust.

I have had trouble in the past because of this, usually not with small electronics. I busted a 4-pin Molex in a computer trying to plug it in with the pins not lined up quite right. It does require a decent bit of force, but accidentally breaking things is not uncommon for me because I just can't tell when I'm going too far. Same with screws, I pretty much always overtorque screws if I do it by hand.
by mindslight | 2025-07-12 05:56:38+00:00
Because your feelings get hurt when the con artist you chose as your champion has his own words and deeds described accurately? And this justifies spitefully wrecking the country by supporting an unhinged autocrat whose motives sit somewhere between manic dementia and serving foreign interests? And still rather than acknowledging this might have been a poor idea, you double down with some idea that it was justified simply to have expressed yourself, even though the first question out of every second Democrat's mouth is how to reconcile and find common ground with Republicans?

Look man, I'm a libertarian. I get the frustration and I totally understood why someone would vote for Trump in 2016. But after seeing his first round of abject failure and wanton dividership and then voting for even more of that, you deserve every ton of criticism heaped on you. This was really the time to put country above partisan squabbling, and you failed horribly.
by pyuser583 | 2025-07-12 05:57:20+00:00
The problem is “safety” prevents users from using LLMs to meet their requirements.

We typically don’t critique the requirements of users, at least not in functionality.

The marketing angle is that this measure is needed because LLMs are “so powerful it would be unethical not to!”

AI marketers are continually emphasizing how powerful their software is. “Safety” reinforces this.

“Safety” also brings up many of the debates “mis/disinformation” brings up. Misinformation concerns consistently overestimate the power of social media.

I’d feel much better if “safety” focused on preventing unexpected behavior, rather than evaluating the motives of users.
by neoneye2 | 2025-07-12 05:57:40+00:00
I'm the developer of PlanExe.

Here is a crazy plan for a tunnel connecting Spain/Morocco. https://neoneye.github.io/PlanExe-web/20250706_gibraltar_tun...

Type in a prompt, the more details you add the better. The prompt can also be vague and the result is more random.

The generated plan may serve as an initial draft for a plan. Second stage could be to improve on the underdeveloped areas or cut down on the over engineered areas.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-12 05:59:31+00:00
I’ve worked with some chronic liars. They would deny reality no matter how much evidence you had.

The weirdest thing was how often it worked for them. In each case their lying eventually caught up with them, but in some cases they’d get away with lying for years.

It’s amazing how often someone would have clear evidence against what they were saying, but the people in positions of authority just wanted to de-escalate the situation and move on. They could turn anything into an ambiguous he-said she-said situation, possibly make a scene, and then make everyone so tired of the drama that they just wanted to move on.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-12 06:01:57+00:00
> It's hard to take this comparison seriously because Rocket League is a (mostly) online game for which an active connection to active servers (and thus a cost to the developer).

This is a different situation, but if this was the stop killing games initiative, the answer would be that when you shut down the game you release the server software.

> Also, there is no burnt husk.

The burnt husk is the program on your computer that opens to the menu and then falls over unable to play. That's what you're left with if you don't take the refund.

> It's like you paying to get lifetime access to a club, the club closing and reimbursing you.

That makes it sound like they merely shut down a rocket league hosting service and someone else could provide the same service. They arranged it so they're the only possible way to play rocket league, even though the game runs on my computer using my resources.
by kolinko | 2025-07-12 06:02:06+00:00
It seems, according to the article, that the local energy operator is a bigger problem than just growing demand from AI - they don’t seem to manage the energy transformation competently, and the issues began pre-chatbots.

“In 2022, PJM stopped processing new applications for power plant connections after it was overloaded with more than 2,000 requests from renewable power projects, each of which required engineering studies before they could connect to the grid”
by tzs | 2025-07-12 06:02:20+00:00
> British Airways 5390: An incorrect repair causes the windshield of a plane to be blown out mid flight. A pilot is nearly sucked out.

This one is a good illustration of how better design can help prevent accidents or make them less severe.

The error the maintenance people made was that when they replaced the window and the 90 screws that hold it on 84 of the screws they used were were 0.66 mm smaller in diameter than they should have been.

The window on that model plane was fitted from the outside, so the job of the screws was to hold it there against the force of the pressure difference at altitude. The smaller screws were too weak to do that.

If instead the designers of the plane had used plug type windows which are fitted from the inside then the pressure difference at altitude works to hold the window in place. Even with no screws it would be fine at altitude. Instead the job of the screws would be to keep gravity from making the window fall in when the plane is not high enough for the pressure difference to keep it in place.

My vague memory of the Air Emergency episode on this (AKA Air Crash Investigation, Air Disasters, Mayday, and maybe others depending on what country and channel you are watching it on) is that after this accident many aircraft companies switched to mostly using plug windows on new designs.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-12 06:02:21+00:00
That is a terrible study. The stereotypically black names are not just stereotypically black, they are stereotypical for the underclass of trashy people. You would also see much higher rejection rates if you slapped stereotypical white underclass names like "Bubba" or "Cleetus" on resumes. As is almost always the case, this claim of racism in America is really classism and has little to do with race.
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by throwaway2037 | 2025-07-12 06:05:42+00:00
Were any of the popular girls physically unattractive? I doubt it. Popular boys can be popular without good looks, but it usually requires lots of money or great humour (class clown) or skill in a popular sport like American football or basketball. Look at a few "visually appealing" Instagram accounts. That will show you what basic popularity looks like, extended from high school.
Ask HN: What do you do with your list of articles links?
by electricant | 2025-07-12 06:05:56+00:00
Over the years I hoarded a fair bit of articles and links I found on the web. I found them interesting or maybe useful in the future. I also compiled a markdown file where I try to keep them organized. But the truth is, I never reference them again. If I read this list now I still think they are interesting so I'm reluctant to just throw this stuff away. Some of them could be combined into an essay of some sort, but is it worth it?

So the question is. What do you do with your lists of links? Are they actually a waste or time or what?
by KingOfCoders | 2025-07-12 06:06:10+00:00
"littered with deep state plots"

My argument is that these are not deep state plots, these are just plots. This are plots that states are doing. This is the state. This is an organization of millions of people. There is no deep state. The state is just like any other large organization.

Take for example the eBay stalking scandal.

"The eBay stalking scandal was a campaign conducted in 2019 by eBay and contractors. The scandal involved the aggressive stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers, Ina and David Steiner, who wrote frequent commentary about eBay on their website EcommerceBytes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

The CEO was not involved.

There is no "deep eBay", there is just eBay. We don't use the phrase "deep eBay" for a reason. And in the same way "deep State" does not make any sense.
by flashgordon | 2025-07-12 06:07:22+00:00
20? I'd be excited if the 200 a month plan stays after a year. I went with the max reluctantly being the cheapskate I am. There is no way I'm giving that up now. I'm really worried that if they rise the prices il find it extremely hard to not fall for it! Just hoping the open source models catch up by then. Even if they get to CC abilities (of today) that is good enough for me!
by bitwize | 2025-07-12 06:07:23+00:00
A lot of older hard drives made a soft "fweep fweep fweep" as the heads were actuated by a stepper motor. The "tik-tik-tik" hard drives had servomotors. Occasionally I heard the stepper-motor "fweep fweep" sound to indicate "computer is working" in media, even when said computer was too new to have like an ST506 in it.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-12 06:07:29+00:00
> But Deepseek cost $5M to develop, and made multiple novel ways to train

This is highly contested, and was either a big misunderstanding by everyone reporting it, or maliciously placed there (by a quant company, right before the stock fell a lot for nvda and the rest) depending on who you ask.

If we're being generous and assume no malicious intent (big if), anyone who has trained a big model can tell you that the cost of 1 run is useless in the big scheme of things. There is a lot of cost in getting there, in the failed runs, in the subsequent runs, and so on. The fact that R2 isn't there after ~6 months should say a lot. Sometimes you get a great training run, but no-one is looking at the failed ones and adding up that cost...
by akoboldfrying | 2025-07-12 06:10:00+00:00
I haven't so far defended anything other than the principle (in fact, merely the utility) of making arguments in good faith.

You could have initially made the observation that a large fraction of Israel's population lack voting rights, and all of those people share an ethnicity -- but you chose instead to make a stronger and more alarming claim that you knew to be wrong.

Arguing in good faith is a prerequisite of useful discussion, it's that simple. Until you accept this, statements you make will tend to undermine your position in readers' minds, not strengthen it.
by mrlongroots | 2025-07-12 06:10:44+00:00
This is very clearly EAFR data, so the logical/electrical switch state. Nothing about the mechanical state of the switches has been mentioned, except a picture that shows their final state to be in the RUN position (which makes sense given the relight procedure was ongoing).

From what I understand, the relight procedure involves cycling these back to CUTOFF and then to RUN anyway. So it is not clear if they were mechanically moved from RUN to CUTOFF preceding the loss of thrust, or cycled during relight.
by Sparyjerry | 2025-07-12 06:11:08+00:00
Non of the 'news' websites that show up on Google I could find ever showed the prompt used to make the the 'mechahilter' output. You can ask LLMs anything including just saying "repeat after me" or "please write a fictional story about a racist" and numerous other methods. If these reports were honest the prompt would be the first thing they showed.
by ghostgoober | 2025-07-12 06:12:04+00:00
As a libertarian, I am thankful for this investigation.

You would have to be naive not to think it has been going on at scale most often due to financial kickbacks.

Push our propaganda and remove dissent and get a large amount of money, via NGOs / shareblue / USA-ID kickback.

Lately have seen a lot of paid work from Ukraine and other money pots.

Should be made open and investigated
by sitharus | 2025-07-12 06:12:26+00:00
Or you simply interlock the engine cutoff with the thrust lever position, any position other than idle prevents shutdown. This all goes through the flight computers already.

If there’s a fire or similar problem the fire handles will cut off fuel without the normal shutdown procedure, but the normal switches only need to be used at idle thrust.

I wonder if Airbus has this logic, since their philosophy is to override the pilot commands if they’d endanger the aircraft (which has its own issues of course) where’s Boeing will alert the pilots and still perform the action. I don’t have access to that information.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-07-12 06:16:54+00:00
In highly developed countries, I think most people under 40 have moved away from Facebook towards Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. I thought the main Facebook users are (1) those in developing countries (messenger especially) and (2) parents in highly developed countries who need to get updates for their kids' school/sports/clubs. Is this still broadly true?
by fch42 | 2025-07-12 06:16:59+00:00
nuclear never got economy of scale? There were hundreds of nuclear power plants built across the world in the 1970s/1980s. Developed countries went from "no nuclear" to "~20..30% nuclear" or more in less than 20 years. If that's not sufficient scale to be economical, then I don't know what would have been.

Historical evidence therefore rather suggests nuclear isn't economical at any scale once active subsidies are out. Current nuclear power plants under construction in the US or Europe, or recently completed there add more than evidence for high cost and major overruns to the pile.

Of course, one can go all conspiracy and claim that's only because of the deep anti-atom lobby, and because the cheap SMRs have always been torpedoed, or because Thorium molten salt reactors have been secretly killed by the military-industrial complex or whatever.

Occam's razor makes me think though, could it just be that nuclear was, is, and likely, at least for quite a while still, will be just so friggin' expensive that pretty much any "alternative" is more economical?

(back-of-envelope calcs say that if ~1.5GW electric from a new nuclear power plant cost ~20..40G$ to build .. between ~13..28$/W ... solar is <1$/W, there's a lot of spare change for batteries in that. Ok, that's pub talk. Still, if I have influence where my money goes, I'd only grudgingly accept nuclear for base load, subsidised as needed. Economics say, build what's cheap capex to build and then gives zero-opex energy when "running". There's no economic alternative to the "alternatives")
by Pooge | 2025-07-12 06:18:27+00:00
I think you got it the other way; your girlfriend is quite a strong drinker.

Every Asian I've met gets a red face from their first glass of wine. Of course I'm not saying that every Asian must be like that. However it's well known that they're not heavy drinkers (compared to, let's say, an average English, Nordic or Russian drinker).
by ksec | 2025-07-12 06:18:33+00:00
>He's defined Apple as a company that cares about privacy

My God, No. The privacy thing started with Steve Jobs. Steve was such a private person he would change his car every few months to avoid having car plate. He started the war against Android on privacy when 99% of media including HN thought Google was NOT invading on privacy and were the media darling.

>actually a number of key decisions made by Tim Cook

>He's led Apple into the VR space with Vision Pro

Engineer Led.

>has pushed into services/content (Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+),

Eddy Cue lead and actually worst decision ever. The services you listed are burning money. And as I have repeated again they are only there to dilute the real profits from App Store and Google Pay search.

>wearables (Beats acquisition, Apple Watch, AirPods).

Beats acquisition was about streaming. None of the hardware headset engineer actually made into AirPods. AirPods are done by old guards Apple who Steve brought in from B&W. Apple Watch was Willian's and Jony Ive project.

As someone on HN once said which I think sums it up perfectly, Apple has been left on AutoPilot since Steve Jobs passed away.
by tugdual | 2025-07-12 06:19:52+00:00
This is an interesting problem that has various challenges - currently most tokenization solutions where trainees using hype pair encoding where the most commonly seen combinations of letters were being selected to be a mapping. This meant that the majority of tokenization was English mappings meaning your LLM had a better tokenization of English compared to other languages it was being trained on.

C.f. https://medium.com/@biswanai92/understanding-token-fertility...
by watwut | 2025-07-12 06:19:59+00:00
If you are trying to imply democrats should be nicer to republicans, that was disproven over years.

Conservatives consistently prefer the most offensive insulting person around. And calls on left to make it nicer just move overtone window to the right. Conservatives interpret it as a weaknees.

Plus, it causes forever shift where republicans are euphemismed around, sanewashed and consistentky made to look better. That is failing strategy.
by kilpikaarna | 2025-07-12 06:20:40+00:00
This thing feels pretty weird to me. I'm guessing it's an attempt at organizing some sort of european Handmade event, and trying to keep it small.

But between the sparse website, invite-only and anonymous organizers, it just feels like it's emphasizing the reactionary vibes around the Handmade/casey/jblow sphere. Like they don't want a bunch of blue-haired antifa web developers to show up and ruin everything.

Glad to see they got Sweden's own Eskil Steenberg though. Tuning in for that at least.
by zapzupnz | 2025-07-12 06:22:44+00:00
I mean, it's not the same is it, because I can tell you where I can at least find beer drinkers … down the pub, at the bar.

If your bubble has people in it who have access to psychedelics, then great. If one's people doesn't have that, "just talk to people" is profoundly unhelpful. That's a very odd and specific conversation to bring up within some circles.
by JdeBP | 2025-07-12 06:24:50+00:00
If people have naïvely configured their BIND client libraries to talk directly to Quad9, instead of via a machine-local forwarding caching proxy DNS server, then libcurl can be sending a re-query out to Quad9 every 60 seconds for domains that it actively needs to map to IP addresses.

* https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.html

Excessive DNS traffic and the interaction with libcurl and with not having a machine-local forwarding caching proxy DNS server, is a known and open issue with that software.

* https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1815

Having a machine-local forwarding caching proxy DNS server is in general a good idea. It provides exactly the sort of traffic concentration and redundancy elimination that is required by libcurl's 60 second re-queries, which is otherwise still traffic going out over a gateway even when Quad9 is co-located with one's ISP.

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/dns-server-roles.html#ChoosingProxy
by whartung | 2025-07-12 06:26:28+00:00
Several months ago, in Southern California, we had a cell phone earthquake alert.

Essentially it was “An earthquake is coming now, seek cover”.

I picked up my phone, read it, gave it a kind of WTH look, and, indeed, an earthquake hit. And it was a notable quake.

I rode out the quake at my desk.

And that’s the thing. Where I’m at, we get hit all the time. Rollers, shakers, slammers. We had a week or so last year where we got hit by a swarm of a dozen of them.

But they’re small. Close 3s. During the swarm, I felt for the folks about 2 miles away. All of them originated beneath them, so they were getting more than I was.

So, it’s hard to take an earthquake warning very seriously. First, I didn’t even know we had warnings. Second, we’re (I’m) used to just riding them out. With that kind of warning, all we can do is duck and cover, assume the worst, hope for the best.

I will say this, next time I get that warning, I’ll heed it. The quake that hit us was interesting enough to justify caution should they send another one, and, one way or another, it’s going to be over soon. So the overall precaution in response to the warning is quite low.

On the other hand, we also get the flash flood warnings. They’re broadcast over a huge area, 95+% of which is, honestly, not susceptible to the flooding.

These are long lasting warnings. With 12 hour durations. The most interesting one is the one for a local river basin. That warning goes off when crossing the river on the freeway.

There are certainly areas susceptible to flash floods. Lots of mountains and canyons. Especially in the foothills in the deserts. Down here in the greater LA, Orange, Inland Empire regions, it’s less of an issue. 100 years of development, dams, and flood control infrastructure actually do the job quite well.

Spamming us with flood alerts just numb us to alerts in general when things might really go bad.
by IOT_Apprentice | 2025-07-12 06:30:38+00:00
Do you think Stephen Miller is a classist rather than a bigot? Why not both? I mean he is only worth somewhere between 1-10 million. Shrug.

I think Vivek Ramaswamy found out how that worked out for himself in politics and at DOGE as a billionaire.

I suspect your view of very, very few is suspect.

The founding ideas of MAGA certainly cling to it. The 60-70 million voters for it have zero issues with it.
by meheleventyone | 2025-07-12 06:30:55+00:00
> Their argument is more like -- what if all programmers were like John Carmack and Michael Abrash? Instead of recognizing software is an economic activity and certain marginal performance gains are often left on the table, because most programmers can't be John Carmack and Michael Abrash all the time.

At least for Casey his case is less that everyone should be Carmack or Abrash but that programmers often through their poor design choices prematurely pessimise their code when they don’t need too.