MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-07-17 18:58:54+00:00
Are you using TOR or a VPN, spoofing your User-Agent to something uncommon, or doing something else that tries to add extra privacy?

That kind of user experience is one that I've seen a lot on HN, and every time, without fail, it's because they're doing something that makes them look like a bot, and then being all Surprised Pikachu when they get treated like a bot by websites.
by barbazoo | 2025-07-17 18:59:20+00:00
> These unified agentic capabilities significantly enhance ChatGPT’s usefulness in both everyday and professional contexts. At work, you can automate repetitive tasks, like converting screenshots or dashboards into presentations composed of editable vector elements, rearranging meetings, planning and booking offsites, and updating spreadsheets with new financial data while retaining the same formatting. In your personal life, you can use it to effortlessly plan and book travel itineraries, design and book entire dinner parties, or find specialists and schedule appointments.

None of this interests me but this tells me where it's going capability wise and it's really scary and really exciting at the same time.
by toast0 | 2025-07-17 18:59:29+00:00
> Do you think that pizza hut was doing this because of their love of reading?

Probably not; they really just wanted to make sure they didn't get out pizzaed.

> Is eating pizza regularly the good habit to build?

Pizza is a fairly balanced food, depending on toppings. Generally some protein, some vegetables. Macronutrient wise, it's a bit carb heavy, but not overwhelmingly so. Usually not a lot of added sugar, unless you're having a BBQ pizza, and not that much natural sugar either; some places might put more sugar into the pizza sauce though.

> Is using food as a reward a good habit?

No, probably not. But free food is a pretty effective motivator, so people use it.
by jitl | 2025-07-17 18:59:56+00:00
To elaborate:

The Notion desktop app will observe if there is a process running on your computer that is actively using your microphone, such as Zoom.

Notion does not and cannot listen to the audio coming from your microphone ambiently or snoop on the signal received by another application. This detection is done purely based on the existing of a process using your microphone, not on the audio coming from the microphone. Users can verify this because the OS-level microphone indicator will show that Notion is not listening to their microphone.

If one is detected, Notion will notify the user and try to associate it with a calendar event if you have connected your calendar. Connecting your calendar is not a requirement to receive this notification.

Users can disable this behavior via their account settings in Settings > Notifications > Desktop meeting detection notifications.

Only when the user has started a meeting note and clicked record, will Notion activate the user's microphone. We cannot do this without operating system mediated consent dialog, which is the way it should be! At this point Notion will show up as using the microphone in the OS indicators.

(I work at Notion)
by kccqzy | 2025-07-17 18:59:58+00:00
Here's a really nice if slightly out-of-date New Yorker article about such conversions: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/can-turning-of...

I prefer to read this in conjunction with just seeing a table of data. The author talked to the architects involved and added more color to it.
by matwood | 2025-07-17 19:00:22+00:00
Yeah, prices have been dynamic for a long time. My method for getting better sats is buy the cheapest ticket that can be upgraded. Then, check for upgrade pricing daily. You'll see prices move all over day to day. Buy the upgrade if the price hits your threshold.

I've received a number of upgrades very reasonably priced this way. It also helps that airlines would rather sell the seats for small amounts than give away 'free' loyalty upgrades which keeps seats open.
by vohk | 2025-07-17 19:00:29+00:00
I've not gone looking for videos specifically, but my experience there is that Kagi seems to focus on what you've explicitly searched for, where Google and others have increasingly leaned into interpreting your intent.

Google's approach works well enough when you're searching for a commodity and you don't care terribly much about the specific source. I get the impression Google, especially post-LLM, wants to divorce satisfying your question from the underlying sources.

I find Kagi is better at finding a specific thing, especially if you're willing to engage with it as a tool, ye olde search engine style. If my query doesn't find what I want, it's usually apparent why and I can reframe it.
by rdtsc | 2025-07-17 19:00:40+00:00
> Delta accomplishes this pricing through a partnership with Fetcherr, a six-year-old Israeli company that also counts Azul, WestJet, Virgin Atlantic, and VivaAerobus as clients. And it has its sights set beyond flying. “Once we will be established in the airline industry, we will move to hospitality, car rentals, cruises, whatever,”

Great. You go to rent a car or fly somewhere and you have to haggle with some AI which saw you paid more in the past, and has your credit report and just knows you can cough up more dough. If you hide from it and try to obfuscate you'll probably be "punished" with a higher price.

> Delta and other airlines might require passengers “to be logged in for purchase of tickets in order to obtain status benefits from an airline, essentially being fully within their ecosystem to gain the benefits of that system (i.e. submit to personalized pricing to get extra legroom seats),” Leff said. Early research on personalized pricing isn’t favorable for the consumer.

Yup. Punished for trying to "hide" from them.
by rindalir | 2025-07-17 19:00:41+00:00
Forget the "AI" label, this has been a goal of pricing people for ever. Who knows how good they are at it (note: used to work for a consulting company that specialized soley in pricing)

Somewhere in there, there's a model trying to estimate your willingness to pay and then present you with that price. What I don't know what other data they will use, it seems to me like a critical piece would be your previous purchase behavior (assuming it's personalized). But also your behavior of selecting other airlines because of price. So ... if Delta has access to all your airline purchases not good. If they don't, maybe an agent (human, code, whatever) can game the system, searching for airfare, starting the purchase process and then abandoning.

[edit: spelling]
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 19:00:48+00:00
> love your neighbor as you love yourself

This is just communism. If everyone did this, you would have a community-based economy and society. Communism.

The sheer idea of competition is antithetical to this world view. Because you would never compete against yourself - but you MUST compete against your neighbors. You would never advocate against yourself, either.

Look, it's a nice idea, everyone hold hands and sing Kumbaya. But it's not a Christian thing, Marx figured this out much more concretely. Like, he thought about the actual economic and political consequences of it.

And, I don't know, maybe it could work. But I think it's important we're all on the same page about what we're asking for.
by efitz | 2025-07-17 19:00:51+00:00
And just like that, I never did business with Delta again.

Amazon tried something similar[1] and the experience still gets mentioned in on-boarding

Most people don’t mind pricing that is based on scarcity or demand but recoil at the idea of pricing based on who you are.

[1]https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-02-fi-30029...
by jajuuka | 2025-07-17 19:01:18+00:00
Correlation does not equal causation. Why did teen drinking drop? We didn't ban flavored alcohol. It dropped because enforcement went up. Fines were greater for businesses and those who sold to minors. More time was put into ensuring common places of sale were not selling to minors.

Are you seriously making the argument that any flavor outside of tobacco and menthol is targeted at kids? That no adult likes the flavor of funnel cake and fruit? Because I can show you the massive amount of vape shops across the country that sell through flavors quickly and it's not to kids. The mentality of making something taste worse to prevent people from consuming it because you think it's bad is based in prohibition era puritanical thinking. Not to mention it's directly benefitting tobacco companies by keeping people smoking cigarettes.
by ActorNightly | 2025-07-17 19:01:42+00:00
Agents are nothing more than the core chat model with a system prompt, and wrapper that parses responses and executes actions and puts the result into the prompt, and a system instruction that lets the model know what it can do.

Nothing is really that advanced yet with agents themselves - no real reasoning going on.

That being said, you can build your own agents fairly straightforward. The key is designing the wrapper and the system instructions. For example, you can have a guided chat on where it builds of the functionality of looking at your calendar, google location history, babysitter booking, and integrate all of that into automatic actions.
by whyowhy3484939 | 2025-07-17 19:02:31+00:00
I'm shocked, shocked to find out capitalism's tricks are going on here.

Yet we keep praying at its altars. Delta are just playing the game. It might not be the nicest thing to do, but it is honest at least. All entrepreneurs are pounding their collective fists on their skulls to think of ways to extract as much value from the market as possible. Let's blame the game instead of the players.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-17 19:02:44+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner

https://felixbaumgartner.com/

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

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/projects/red-bull-stratos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYw4meRWGd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raiFrxbHxV0
by jibal | 2025-07-17 19:02:45+00:00
"While they will agree with you that they don't, it's also the case that this is via training."

Um, that's what I said.

And of course we know that LLMs don't have qualia. Heck, even humans don't have qualia: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DennettQuiningQualia1988...
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-17 19:02:59+00:00
> Shipping things by air is expensive enough; shipping them by rocket will be even more expensive.

As if the US military would take care about costs. They transported fuel into Afghanistan and provided it to its military at insane costs, but a large amount of it got stolen because no one cared about auditing [1].

> And shipping troops by SLS? Utterly demented. So this cannot be an argument for SLS.

Not for SLS... but for SpaceX with Starship. The USSF plans a demo flight for 2026 [2]. And militarily, this capacity is definitely worth it. 100 tons of cargo, delivered to any place in the world that has a suitable landing facility in one hour of flight time. There's absolutely nothing that can come close to this kind of logistic capability, and there is no competitor in sight. It would be an absolute edge over Russia, China or anyone else who thinks they can wage war against the US or whomever the US thinks is worthy enough of its protection.

[1] https://www.airandspaceforces.com/watchdog-report-blasts-us-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Cargo
by illwrks | 2025-07-17 19:03:03+00:00
In my view, only in a marketing context as some promotional tool - think “advice is give myself at 21”. That sets the context (advice for younger people) and allows you to define roles/filters = “I as a an ABC person to give advice to my XYZ younger self.”

And then market it to agencies who do content for media (books, films etc) as it might be relevant to their client base.

The issue is you’ll likely need some filtering mechanisms to remove scams, unsolicited messages etc, perhaps that could be done with some classification in the middle.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 19:03:26+00:00
Yes, it's called power dynamics. You're weak and irrelevant, they're rich and powerful. When they do the same things you do, the consequences are different. I can make selfish decisions all day long and the blast radius is pretty small. When rich people make selfish decisions, or worse, when political leaders do, the entire economy suffers and in the worst cases millions of people can die.

In some developed nations, we're almost comically unaware of power dynamics, sometimes to the point of inverting power dynamics.

Consider a McDonald's employee versus a Police Officer. The McDonald's employee can make almost any mistake and it's not a big deal. Pickles on your burger when you didn't want pickles? Eh, you'll get over it.

When Police Officers make mistakes, innocent people die. Taxpayers pay out sometimes millions of dollars.

Based on that, you would expect the standard of behavior for Police Officers to be much higher than a McDonald's cashier. But no, we've inverted it.

If the Police Officer accidentally kills someone they shouldn't, they'll likely keep their job. If a McDonald's cashier's drawer comes up 1 dollar short, they're terminated immediately.

Oops. Messed that up, didn't we?
by bsoles | 2025-07-17 19:04:20+00:00
When I got locked out of my mobile banking app, I got a security code in email to reset the app or something, but it didn't work. Then, I've called my customer representative for help, who promptly asked me to tell her the security code in the email so that she can reset the app. Yet, the email, in bold letters, said to never divulge the code to anybody, including the bank personnel...
by mionhe | 2025-07-17 19:04:27+00:00
Mold design is still difficult when the parts aren't dead simple. The software I've seen is okay with the simple stuff, but once you get even a little more complex you have to understand simultaneously how to design good parts for molding and how to design good molds, both of which are heavily dependent on the type of plastic you're using and the size of the press you have access to. Not to mention how to machine good molds from metal, which is a challenge all on its own due to surface finish and tolerance requirements (and weird geometry that makes the CAM choke...)

In other words, we're not really there yet to bring that activity into the hobby realm. But I hope that we're not too far away.
by belter | 2025-07-17 19:04:35+00:00
Europe runs 3% deficits and gets universal healthcare, tuition free universities, 25+ days paid vacation, working trains, and no GoFundMe for surgeries.

The U.S. runs 6–8% deficits and gets vibes, weapons, and insulin at $300 a vial. Who's on the unsustainable path and really overspending?

If the average interest rate on U.S. government debt rises to 14%, then 100% of all federal tax revenue (around $4.8 trillion/year) will be consumed just to pay interest on the $34 trillion national debt. As soon as the current Fed Chairman gets fired, practically a certainty by now, nobody will buy US bonds for less than 10 to 15% interest.
by duxup | 2025-07-17 19:04:35+00:00
This seems like a good idea if customers never ever know that someone else is at the same time getting a lower offer for the same thing.

It seems like a PR disaster the moment people talk about the pricing / compare what they're seeing, and realize they've been tagged as someone Delta can scam and the relationship is broken on a very personal level.

"Delta hates me and chooses to charge me more, personally."

I'm not sure there's a good recovery path for that problem / what people will see as a very personal attack of sorts ...
by JamesSwift | 2025-07-17 19:04:57+00:00
Right, and even the 2nd/3rd gen SE got much bigger than the original. I basically want the original SE (which I believe is the same as the iPhone 5s), with no bezels.

Actually, looking at that handy link you provided, it appears the 13 mini is basically that. Discontinued in 2023 : /
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-07-17 19:05:48+00:00
That list seems to be focused on parties showing up to court with AI-hallucinated information.

The majority involve false quotes and citations. These are verifiable things. A citation reference can be followed and it will either refer to a real case or it doesn't, and then the citation either matches what was said in that case or it doesn't.

Proving that the ticket price AI discriminates in an illegal fashion would be much more difficult in court, especially when there is no longer any basis for a "normal" ticket price.

It results in the same kind of situation as when someone is not hired because of their race, but the hiring manager would never say that. They'll construct some other reasoning. How do you prove what was in their head when they made the decision?
by tempnew | 2025-07-17 19:05:56+00:00
The scammer calls the bank rather than trying to login. When calling, they will be asked to verify with info and the code which they will get from you. Think mitm but telephone based. The verification info (maybe just a zip code or last 4 of ssn or something publicly available) can be acquired beforehand so they only need the code to be relayed. Obviously they have to get the timing right, so you might be on the phone for a few minutes before they find a reason to ask for the code.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-07-17 19:06:17+00:00
>Can you explain what benefit could come from making NYC more expensive?

People in cities have fewer children, and since children are the future tax base you might want that to occur so that you're not ground up into dogfood in your old age to pay down the national debt.

I do wonder how people think office buildings will comply with fire code which demands multiple avenues of escape from bedrooms during such a catastrophe.
by 7bit | 2025-07-17 19:06:46+00:00
> Years pass, economies evolved, and now it’s harder to get a job. Companies start looking for dead weight and discover people doing jobs that barely contribute, if at all.

It sounds like you blame their own lack of effort for losing their jobs. Like, if they would have worked harder, it wouldn't be them on the line.

But the reality is, they did not let the corporations take advantage of them. They turned table and had a good Work-Life-Balance and got paid for it. Yes, maybe it cost them their job. But at the same time, they had one for years, and for many people it would have meant that they had been ready for a change anyway.

Eventually, happiness is a personal measure and what fulfills you is your own desire and the way the people worked, that you talk about, may not be your preference. But it does not sound like they made a poor choice.

I worked my ass off for 20 years. I'm an expert in the field that I work in, but when I had been skipped for raises in three years I said fuck it and put my personal life in front of everything else. I wake up when I want, start my work when I want, work way less than I should. I still don't get no raise, but all my peers and my manager continue to tell me what a great job I do. Now I'm slacking hard, but why should I feel bad, when hard work is not valued? That my boss and peers are happy are a positive thing, but I would not concern myself much, if they were less.
by makestuff | 2025-07-17 19:07:02+00:00
I have toured a few converted buildings in NYC. You end up with weird apartment layouts for reasons you mentioned. For example, a lot of the layouts were really long and narrow to satisfy the window requirement since office buildings are generally just giant square floors where you can have desks without direct window access. I think the other issues are running plumbing and electrical to each unit where an office building just needs a central room with plumbing for a common bathroom area.

Overall the economics seem to work in NYC since rents are so expensive, but I would imagine converting an office tower in a MCOL or LCOL city would be harder to make profitable.
by jajuuka | 2025-07-17 19:07:05+00:00
I think this is true for a lot of different features that get a lot of play on social media as "I wish my device had X feature." And it's not like QWERTY or small screen phones didn't try. They had models that were best of the best, cheapest of the cheap, mid range, offered a range of options and choices. And the audience just isn't there.
by ck2 | 2025-07-17 19:07:12+00:00
thought that was going to be about TMAO (Trimethylamine N-Oxide)

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120....

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9235870/figure/F1/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6213249/figure/nutr...
by ameliaquining | 2025-07-17 19:07:23+00:00
The Gartner hype cycle assumes a single fundamental technical breakthrough, and describes the process of the market figuring out what it is and isn't good for. This isn't straightforwardly applicable to LLMs because the question of what they're good for is a moving target; the foundation models are actually getting more capable every few months, which wasn't true of cryptocurrency or self-driving cars. At least some people who overestimate what current LLMs can do won't have the chance to find out that they're wrong, because by the time they would have reached the trough of disillusionment, LLM capabilities will have caught up to their expectations.

If and when LLM scaling stalls out, then you'd expect a Gartner hype cycle to occur from there (because people won't realize right away that there won't be further capability gains), but that hasn't happened yet (or if it has, it's too recent to be visible yet) and I see no reason to be confident that it will happen at any particular time in the medium term.

If scaling doesn't stall out soon, then I honestly have no idea what to expect the visibility curve to look like. Is there any historical precedent for a technology's scope of potential applications expanding this much this fast?
by pessimizer | 2025-07-17 19:08:03+00:00
> Does everyone use their phone with two hands

They have to because of stupid pinch-to-zoom. You either have to balance the phone in the palm of your non-dominant hand (literally switch the phone from one hand to the other) while pinching with your dominant hand, or do a sort of goatse thing with your thumbs while holding the phone in both hands.

Screw-to-zoom is a million times better: draw a spiral to the right and you get closer, spiral to the left and you get farther away (agreeing with the "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey" standard.) Easily done with any single finger, or even with the thumb of the hand holding the phone (for people with adequate thumb-wrestling skills.)
by jitl | 2025-07-17 19:08:11+00:00
Notion doesn't like making things opt-in.

A feature that's opt-in will get like 1% of the use of a feature that's opt-out. A happier middle ground would be to enable by default and show a "I don't like this, pls turn it off" button the first few times.

EDIT: shouldn't single out any specific role here. We think opt-out, enable-by-default makes a feature have far greater total utility. But we could do more to provide user agency for these features in-line during first use or find a different balance point.
by advael | 2025-07-17 19:08:17+00:00
The effects of wealth on outcomes meaningful to most humans look mostly like a step functions, with some continuous-lookin' bits here and there. Anecdotally my assumption is that partying x wealth is bimodal, with peaks near the top and the middle-bottom of the wealth distributions. But homeless people and people scraping by on two minimum-wage jobs, both of which comprise a larger portion of america than when I was a child, are unlikely to be able to host or even often attend parties, like I think there's a sharp step to basically zero after a certain poverty line unless you're in a really integrated community (also less common over that time period, to be fair)
by bee_rider | 2025-07-17 19:08:18+00:00
I think they are talking about the technical definition of free markets and the mathematical result that they result in efficient pricing under some conditions (one of the conditions is perfect pricing information).

We aren’t in an ideal capitalist system in the theoretical sense, of course. It is just a model. But it is maybe worthwhile to keep tabs on how far we’re diverged from it…