MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-17 18:51:54+00:00
I've got one that their phone robot says it's a message from my doctor's office, does not identify the office. Almost dismissed it as garbage, then realized it could be related to an upcoming appointment. And it's not even really right--unspecified doctor of mine would be my PCP, not the specialist.

Unfortunately, the medical world is caught between a rock and a hard place in this case. Can't give any info to anybody but the patient--which means they can't identify themselves when they call as the practice name directly reveals their specialty, or the doctor (google will reveal their area of practice.) And the office that's doing this is an area where some patients would want it confidential.

I think maybe it could be resolved by having the medical world go to a correct horse battery staple model--on first contact you're given a set of random words that will be used as an identifier for future contacts. Each patient gets different words so all anyone else can infer is that it's a medical provider.

I much prefer the places that go with don't leave a message/leave a brief message/leave a detailed message. No need to add security to situations that don't need it.
by whatever1 | 2025-07-17 18:52:16+00:00
I would say that portioning is super important as well. It is very easy if you don’t have calibrated brain to binge eat huge quantities of food while distracted.

Example you have an extra large bag of chips and you watch a show, likely you will finish before realizing. But if you just put in front of you a small plate of chips, you will likely not stand up to refill it while watching your show.

Add a bit of friction to eating more food. Brains are remarkably lazy.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-17 18:52:20+00:00
I have an Asus Vivobook S14 laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 258v processor. In Linux, it gets 12-15 hours of real usage (i.e. not manufacturer "playing videos off local storage with wifi off and the screen all the way down" battery life numbers). If I'm doing something like web browsing or streaming videos, the laptop doesn't get hot and the fan doesn't turn on. I've only had the fan turn on when I'm doing something intensive like compiling GCC or video encoding. It feels just as fast as my ARM Macbook Air.
by skissane | 2025-07-17 18:52:59+00:00
I think the intention behind things makes a big difference. The tests you are talking about were deliberately introduced as a scheme to deny a racial minority the right to vote; my idea has a very different intention behind it.

Of course, I totally see how it might lead to unintentional indirect discrimination (“disparate impact”)-but there is a difference between that, and what was essentially direct discrimination covered with a thin veneer of “plausible deniability”.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-07-17 18:53:05+00:00
I cancelled my kagi subscription upon seeing this response.

I donate to Ukraine to defend itself from Russia. I lost a family member to Russian artillery as well while providing medical aid to civilians. I very much do not want my dollars to fund the very thing that my donations are intended to defend against.

I'm going to assume you run a similar policy with Chinese search providers. After seeing Chinese warships off the Taiwanese Coast running invasion exercises (a roughly $30 billion annual expenditure for them last I checked), I very much want to minimize my funding of them.

I understand the argument you are making but war is far more serious than "politics".
by uniq7 | 2025-07-17 18:53:15+00:00
First I thought it was just a simple witty canned response ala Han Solo, and got confused of why we were elevating it to the level of joke that required to be understood by someone intelligent.

Then, as a non English native speaker, I thought it was a word play ("you have had a bad Phil o Sophie ass" + "I had too many" or something).

Then, reading the responses to your comment, found it was the witty canned response I originally thought all along...
Ask HN: Tor Hidden Services
by atomic128 | 2025-07-17 18:53:16+00:00
On the clearweb, busy social media sites like Hacker News or X or Reddit attract more activity in a self-reinforcing virtuous cycle.

On the Tor hidden service darkweb, the same thing has happened with a service named "Dread". It is, by far, the single most important site:

http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion

Most activity on Dread pertains to the drug trade. But sometimes it's people trying to avoid government persecution, sometimes it's Tesla vandalism, and so on. For example:

http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/d/Activism

The best way to find small hidden services appears to be scraping Dread to find onion links in posts and replies.

The alternative is the clearweb onion lists that are almost never updated: https://dark.fail, https://tor.taxi, https://tor.link, etc. A shoddy mess.

So, darkweb experts, what have I missed?
by SirMaster | 2025-07-17 18:53:21+00:00
I measure it pretty often, and consistently and I make sure to at the same times of the day and under the same conditions.

I take my blood pressure often and that machine also measures it. That's actually how I first noticed it. For years my resting rate was always 52 like clockwork if I was like fully at rest for awhile and took a measurement.

Now it's never lower than 60 and usually around the mid 60s.

So I don't know. I went from it always being like 52-54 at rest, to I can't ever get a reading below 60 anymore, so I am pretty sure something has changed. The only thing I changed was going from an extremely sedentary lifestyle to a pretty highly active one. It's been a little over a year though since changing my activity lifestyle and noticing this change, and it hasn't seemed to change or go back down yet.

I continue to take readings and use my same BP cuff so I should notice when I start getting readings into the 50s and low 50s again if I ever do.

I mean I am not sure why it was ever so low before, when I was in pretty bad cardiovascular shape, but no doctor ever gave it any concern.

The best I could find about how my heart behaved was something i've seen some call "aerobic deficiency syndrome". Yes my resting rate was low, but with even fairly light activity, my heart rate would skyrocket up fairly high and stay at that level while I maintained the activity. Like there was a big disconnect between how some people can use the test of whether they can easily hold a conversation to estimate their HR target level, but mine was way off that. I could easily hold a conversation yet my HR was 140+

I am 37 years old, and so Zone 1 or Zone 2 (where it's said you can comfortably hold a conversation) is around 92-110 (1) or 110-128 (2) bpm, but I could easily breathe and talk at 140+, so I knew something was up.

Now after this year+ of consistent activity, my HR does not skyrocket up like this anymore under these light loads, and also comes down much faster.
by lumbroso | 2025-07-17 18:53:45+00:00
First, I think various models have various degrees of sycophancy — and that there are a lot of stereotypes out there. Often, the sycophancy, is a "shit sandwich" — in my experience, the models I interact with do push back, even when polite.

But for the broader question: I see sycophancy as a double‑edged sword.

• On one side, the Dunning–Kruger effect shows that unwarranted praise can reinforce over‑confidence and bad decisions.

• On the other, chronic imposter syndrome is real—many people underrate their own work and stall out. A bit of positive affect from an LLM can nudge them past that block.

So the issue isn't "praise = bad" but dose and context.

Ideally the model would:

1. mirror the user's confidence level (low → encourage, high → challenge), and

2. surface arguments for and against rather than blanket approval.

That's why I prefer treating politeness/enthusiasm as a tunable parameter—just like temperature or verbosity—rather than something to abolish.

In general, these all-or-nothing, catastrophizing narratives in AI (like in most places) often hide very interesting questions.
by ajkjk | 2025-07-17 18:53:54+00:00
fucking... all of it

the other day, the example that made this top-of-mind, was looking up the python string formatting options. Google found https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html which is a giant wall of text that I should not have to read all of just to find a reference. Plus it has the fucking formal grammar--who cares!? I just want a lookup table. But this is my experience every time I try to do anything. I always end up going back to https://learnxinyminutes.com/python/ because at least it just lists all the information I want! Of course if I programmed Python every day, which I haven't in a while, then a lot of this would be preloaded in my mind... but seriously, just make a damn reference, it's not hard. Python seems to constantly conflate "full technical specification" with "quick reference materials". Which, fine, if time and energy were no limitations, would be equivalent. But sometimes you just want to know the answer to a simple question in less than 30 minutes.
by wustep | 2025-07-17 18:54:09+00:00
Hey!

1. Notion records audio only during your use of the Meeting Notes feature. Here are the docs: https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes

2. Notion desktop app has notifications about meetings that ask you if you want to use Meeting Notes, it recognizes this by detecting that your microphone is on (i.e. it does not listen to audio coming from your microphone). This feature is a setting in preferences btw, under Notifications > Desktop meeting detection notification.

source: I work for Notion
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 18:54:12+00:00
Companies aren't living things and therefore cannot be killed. "Destroying" a company is a much more morally sound outcome then someone dying.

Also, we do not literally need to "destroy" a company. If we think those jobs or IP is valuable, just nationalize it. Everyone keeps their jobs, the IP lives on, and for a lot of companies they now enjoy competent leadership. When ready, the company can be resold to the private sector.
by hemloc_io | 2025-07-17 18:54:39+00:00
Generally speaking it’s “quality of life”.

NYC doesn’t have any physical gates, but living in manhattan in particular, has a high financial gate, keeping out people who can’t afford it.

Generally people paying 5k+ rents aren’t committing violent crime, homeless sweeps actually happen here and it’s not really possible to sleep on the street.

If you live in an exclusive neighborhood, it’s pretty clean and safe.

there’s angst cheaper rent would change that

EDIT: In a lot of ways NYC’s wealthy and the upper middle class that mostly lives in manhattan have mutual interests the biggest being public safety

interesting interview if you’re interested in more

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?...
by karaterobot | 2025-07-17 18:55:18+00:00
There may be a bit of that—watching things so that you can talk about them with other people. But, when I've done that (in the last 5 years or so), it's usually because there are one or two people I know who want to talk about a show. It's never been show that everyone I knew was watching.

The same is true of books, only moreso, since I only know a few other people who regularly read for pleasure, and with whom I might share a reading experience.

So it may be hyperbolic to say that no two people will be reading the same books, I think it's directionally true that we'll continue getting more and more narrowcasted, personalized content over time, thanks to AI, and devoting a larger portion of our time watching it, compared to content aimed at a wider audience.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-07-17 18:55:39+00:00
I'll let you in on a secret: engineering the world over is mainly about rules of thumb and knowing when you need to actually do some math.

e.g., when I started my EE career, if you wanted to light up a red LED from 5V, you'd put a 330ohm resistor in series. If it was driven from 12V, then you'd use a 1kohm. Standard values that everyone has in inventory and you don't need to think about it. Similar "rules" would apply if you wanted to use an NPN transistor as a switch and so on.

Actual calculations would only come into play if I needed to e.g., make sure that the LED always had a constant 15mA through it whether the drive voltage was 5V or 24V.
by freediver | 2025-07-17 18:55:46+00:00
I understand your perspective and don't take these concerns lightly - I was a refugee of two wars myself, so I'm deeply aware of human suffering and its impact. Our mission to humanize the web means ensuring universal access to human knowledge, regardless of politics, delivered with clarity and protected with integrity - for everyone, regardless of their location or circumstances. A search engine that filters sources by political approval becomes something else entirely - it becomes a biased information provider that denies the very universal access we're fighting for. The most humane thing we can do is build tools that serve humans first by providing the best possible search results to everyone - before this conflict, after this conflict, and during all other 100+ armed conflicts taking place in the world today.
by sejje | 2025-07-17 18:56:09+00:00
> Most products and services available to us today are unnecessary, unsustainable, destructive (economically and socially

Can you provide some examples of this to anchor your argument?

I can sometimes come up with a few niche jobs, but not really that many overall.

I can also see a lot of bloat in large orgs, but those companies are typically providing big value somewhere.

I just want to understand which jobs we're talking about in this frequently-made argument.
by theGnuMe | 2025-07-17 18:56:31+00:00
epistemic game theory -> mean field games -> Tao's take on NSF funding cuts etc... In this case, the solution in the latter is to pander to the audience (aka Trump). There are multiple ways to do that. I would emphasize US loss of status, China etc... Anyway, it is interesting to see mathematicians think about this. I wonder if there will be formal ways to identify a lynch-pin or to otherwise influence the lynch-pin.
by jksmith | 2025-07-17 18:56:48+00:00
Forgive, but that smells of youth and recency bias. How do you judge lisp and k/qdb? Is C# the best language? Is Nim anachronistic? How would you write a desktop app using your exact same codebase on Win, Linux, Mac? That would be Free Pascal. Or maybe the desktop is now anachronistic, even though it still produces a richer UX.

Many languages have their great qualities. Whether or not they're outdated is a determination full of biases. Measure the language choice against resources and potential revenue. I'd be happy to write an app in Ada to proclaim its advantages as a sales pitch.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-07-17 18:56:59+00:00
This world doesn't have the 500 cultures/civilizations that it had circa 3000 BC. It only has the one culture, it's global, dominant, and ubiquitous. It is the "less natal" culture, it is the only culture. It assimilates any subculture that dares raise its head. When it dies, there won't be another to fill the niche.

This is why, for instance, when immigrants from high-fertility countries (all in central Africa) come here, our culture assimilates them and they're back to low fertility within 2 generations. Not only that, but our culture slowly creeps inward towards the epicenter of that high fertility, damping it down even at its source. The Chinese belt-and-road initiative is likely to murder it entirely within our own lifetime.

This is something different, never seen before. Saying "oh gosh shucks, it happened back in eleventy-twenty-fourven and we survived fine then!" is dismissal, not contemplation. Never before in human history has actual fertility sunk this low (or even really sunk). People didn't ever stop fucking, and they didn't have birth control, or abortion, or a dozen other factors. When population declined historically, it was due to war, disease, and famine. But because fertility remained high, just as soon as those pressures relented, population recovered. When fertility goes below replacement, population can never recover, it can only continue to shrink. When it goes below replacement, every girl growing up learns from the adults around her that low fertility is "normal", and she's not going to grow up and decide to have 8 herself (or even 2). She'll have as many as she saw those adults around her having, or maybe fewer (it acts as a ceiling, but not a floor).
by internet_points | 2025-07-17 18:57:01+00:00
I had similar qualms, but after seeing the actual effects I've changed my mind, at least as regards Sommerles (I'm less positive to other forms of gamification, especially if they're considered an alternative to non-gamified learning instead of a minor supplement in a well-rounded system). We already have prizes and competitions and these external structures for sports and such. People send little kids into soccer tournaments, we just make sure the rules aren't too strictly enforced and the major part of the reward is for just playing.

I have a kid who loves listening to stories but isn't at all motivated to read alone – and probably would not have read a single book alone this summer if it wasn't for Sommerles. Maybe it's not motivating for all kids, but I'm sure happy it's helping my kid get some much-needed reading practice. I also think you underestimate children. My other kid, already a self-motivated reader, re-read short books really fast to get all possible prizes within the first week (librarian eyebrows were raised). Who was doing the manipulation here? :-)
by nomad_horse | 2025-07-17 18:57:24+00:00
There are larger models in there, a 8B and a 6B. By this logic they should be above 2B model, yet we don't see this. That's why we have open standard benchmarks, to measure this directly - not hypothesize by the models' sizes or do some cross-dataset arithmetics.

Also note that, Voxtral's capacity is not necessarily all devoted to speech, since it "Retains the text understanding capabilities of its language model backbone"
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-17 18:57:36+00:00
Doesn't need to be IT being slow. I've seen it happen--we warned the guy to talk to us before putting up the new website. Admittedly, I was on the other side of the world and only reachable by e-mail, but the other guy was there in his office.

I don't know if he ever truly understood how he took out all company e-mail for nearly a week.

And trust links from Google? Keep up with the times! Sometimes the first hit is the scammers.
by seszett | 2025-07-17 18:57:44+00:00
> If China stays open, then the rest of the world will build on open

I was listening to a Taiwanese news channel earlier today and although I wasn't paying much attention, I remember hearing about how Chinese AIs are biased towards Chinese political ideas and that some programme to create a more Taiwanese-aligned AI was being put in place.

I wouldn't be surprised if just for this reason, at least a few different open models kept being released, because even if they don't directly bring in money, several actors care more about spreading or defending their ideas and IAs are perfect for that.
by n2d4 | 2025-07-17 18:57:47+00:00
> said we'd have self driving cars "in a few years" back in 2015

And they wouldn't have been too far off! Waymo became L4 self-driving in 2021, and has been transporting people in the SF Bay Area without human supervision ever since. There are still barriers — cost, policies, trust — but the technology certainly is here.
by nlawalker | 2025-07-17 18:57:59+00:00
I think it's interesting that the industry decided that this is the milestone to which the term "agentic" should be attached to, because it requires this kind of explanation even for tech-minded people.

I think for the average consumer, AI will be "agentic" once it can appreciably minimize the amount of interaction needed to negotiate with the real world in areas where the provider of the desired services intentionally require negotiation - getting a refund, cancelling your newspaper subscription, scheduling the cable guy visit, fighting your parking ticket, securing a job interview. That's what an agent does.
by arbitrary_name | 2025-07-17 18:58:08+00:00
I know lawyers using it, plumbers using it. My sweet little ol grandma uses it. I depend on it as an office worker.

My belief is that it is similarly transformative as the Internet. The bubble will burst, some use cars will never materialize, others will emerge as costs come down, and as value chains adapt.

Your belief is opposite to mine. Time will tell who is right.
by SirMaster | 2025-07-17 18:58:19+00:00
Delta never seemed to be the best price as it was, looking back at all my flights over the last few years.

So I guess either this will make them cheaper for me and actually competitive with the other airlines, or it will just make them even more expensive and I will still not buy them as I have already been doing. So I guess the change could maybe be good for me?
by Neywiny | 2025-07-17 18:58:31+00:00
Agreed. I had a uni roommate who played video games during his internship because he had nothing to do. Struggled to find a job and I think changed careers.

Also interviewed someone my year but we were both a year out of school, same major, roughly same job title, at our first post-undergrad jobs. I was thrown into the deep end and learning a lot. He was buying software licenses. I commend him on sticking it out for a bit but also realizing it was a bad fit.
by jjk166 | 2025-07-17 18:58:34+00:00
Pretty sure for all the examples given at the beginning, these can easily be explained as natural parts of the writing process.

The Gladiator II example is just lampshading. If you just wrote "the prisoner grabbed the weapon the guard brought in to the cell, and then killed the guard with it" the very first thing someone's going to ask is "well why did the guard bring a weapon in?" and then the writer says "oh well he didn't consider it a usable weapon" and then "but clearly it is, so that doesn't really solve anything" and rather than coming up with a better escape method the writer just leans into the absurdity of it - the on the nose dispensing of folksy wisdom establishes that the guard is just an idiot rather than leaving the audience to contemplate the contrived situation.

For Megalopolis, “What do you think of this boner I got?” [he shoots her] isn't exactly a compelling scene when reading it. It makes a lot of sense to punctuate the scene with some emotion to make it make some sort of sense. Can this emotion be shown on film without dialogue? Possibly, but the writer can't be sure how it'll actually look, and they need to convey to both the actor and director what emotion needs to be conveyed. It sounds like placeholder dialogue which could be cut or changed as needed.

For the Apprentice, again the writer likely doesn't know exactly how the scene is going to turn out. Is "Trump Tower" going to be clearly legible on the model as the scene is shot? Do you even want to spoil it by showing the name on the model? The point is this is supposed to be a reveal.

In all three cases, these lines very well could be great with proper setup and delivery, or perhaps could have been reworked into great lines. The issue is just these are mediocre films. None made any serious attempt to polish their scripts. It's not a deliberate tactic to dumb down movies or deal with poor attention spans, it's just the makers of the movie saying "eh, good enough."
by spankalee | 2025-07-17 18:58:37+00:00
One maybe(?) not terrible outcome is that flight searches evolve to become instant auctions like ads.

I do a search, and the airline bots get a chance to bid on that flight itinerary. This _should_ drive prices down if there isn't collusion with the market-maker. But could lead to marketplace consolidation like ads too, which would then enable the collusion.