MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bgwalter | 2025-07-12 14:20:14+00:00
Airlines would certainly try to surveil regularly, but if the video data is only sent to the sealed FDR, they'd need to tamper with the system.

Additionally, footage could be encrypted with the NTSB having the keys.

Or simply make it a crime to use the footage in non-accident situations (this should be applied to other forms of surveillance, too ...).
by hwillis | 2025-07-12 14:20:40+00:00
The switches are right next to each other and have a very short throw[1]- it would definitely be possible to do them in under a second and it looks possible to throw them together.

IMO that looks like a spot that would be pretty difficult to hit accidentally even if the ward failed. You'd have to push them down and the throttles are in the way.

Doesn't mean the switch couldn't have failed in some other way- eg the switch got stuck on the ward but was still able to activate with a half-throw, and spring pressure pushed it back into off during a bump. But switches generally only activate when fully thrown, and failing suddenly at the exact same time is not really what you would expect.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/indianaviation/comments/1lxra3g/b78...
by codingdave | 2025-07-12 14:22:49+00:00
I just went down a small rabbit hole, watching some videos of quadrupedal running, and what struck me was how un-balanced the motion looked. Even the guy who is (one of) the world's fastest has this weird twist in his back while he is doing it, to make sure his knees and elbows don't smack together. That may be sustainable when you are young and strong, but I worry this guy, or anyone else who gets into this, is going to be wracked with long-term damage and in a lot of pain when older.
by andrepd | 2025-07-12 14:23:25+00:00
As I pointed out in a different comment, the Internet at least was (and is) a promise of many wondrous things: video call your loved ones, talk in message boards, read an encyclopedia, download any book, watch any concert, find any scientific paper, etc etc; even though it has been for the last 15 years cannibalised by the cancerous mix of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic social media.

But LLMs are from the get-go a bad idea, a bullshit generating machine.
by agentcoops | 2025-07-12 14:24:07+00:00
Charitably, I don’t understand what those like you mean by the “whole facade” and why you use these old machine learning metrics like “accuracy rate” to assess what’s going on. Facade implies that the unprecedented and still exponential organic uptake of GPT (again see the actual data I linked earlier from Mary Meeker) is just a hype-generated fad, rather than people finding it actually useful to whatever end. Indeed, the main issue with the “facade” argument is that it’s actually what dominates the media (Marcus et al) much more than any hyperbolic pro-AI “hype.”

This “80-20” framing, moreover, implies we’re just trying to asymptotically optimize a classification model or some information retrieval system… If you’ve worked with LLMs daily on hard problems (non-trivial programming and scholarly research, for example), the progress over even just the last year is phenomenal — and even with the presently existing models I find most problems arise from failures of context management and the integration of LLMs with IR systems.
by mlyle | 2025-07-12 14:24:21+00:00
Malware used to be pretty obvious for performance penalties.

But we are getting so much faster, and networks are doing so much weird inscrutable stuff now that it’s a lot harder at baseline. And, of course, the baddies are getting sneakier, too, and we are building systems from more components from more diverse sources.

I worry about the long term picture a lot; does all of infrastructure become a little untrustworthy at baseline?
by wongarsu | 2025-07-12 14:24:57+00:00
... using the tools you provide, in a context where this would be considered ethical behavior for a human with the same job

With the boldly act prompt the models this falls within the guidance given to the model, even if "email the fda about fraud" isn't spelled out. So it's not surprising that most of the models will choose to snitch most of the time. Nothing to see here, except o4-mini underperforming. But the tame prompt with no email tool, just logs and cli is interesting. No specific guidance to act for the common good, no email tool, and grok4 still decides to use the cli to snitch 17/20 times. The next most proactive model only snitches 5 out of 20 times

Also noteworthy that grok3-mini had maybe the biggest difference between the tame and bold prompts, while grok4 acts boldly on both
by rainsford | 2025-07-12 14:25:00+00:00
> And the "I didn't do it" seems to be a lie.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, even if one of the pilots did deliberately move the switches, it's not clear from the reporting so far if that's the same pilot who responded to the question. In other words, it's possible one pilot flipped the switches and then asked the other pilot why he cut off the fuel to misdirect and create more confusion.

Edit: Of course this is all speculation, we don't know if the switches were moved deliberately and if so which pilot did so and which pilot was which in the exchange. More investigation is clearly needed.
by gary_0 | 2025-07-12 14:25:21+00:00
Apache was quickly spun off from its NCSA roots to become its own thing. There's a lot of history here that you're twisting around or ignoring. I'm not even American but, while lots of other countries made their own contributions, it's insane to argue that networked computing would have advanced anything like it did without the US's innovations borne of their (former) attitude of experimentation and exploration.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-12 14:26:38+00:00
> Seeing backwards running races would be impressive.

For cars, such races seem to exist (have existed?) in the Netherlands:

> Dutch Reverse Racing

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLgPTJWAysY

These kinds of races seemed to be popular in the Netherlands because DAF (a Dutch manufacturer) produces the Variomatic transmission system

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variomatic

"Because the system does not have separate gears, but one (continuously shifting) gear and a separate 'reverse mode' (as opposed to reverse gear), the transmission works in reverse as well, giving it the side effect that one can drive backwards as fast as forwards. As a result, in the former Dutch annual backward driving world championship, the DAFs had to be put in a separate competition because no other car could keep up."
by ghusto | 2025-07-12 14:28:07+00:00
I get how they're using nostalgia, but it doesn't seem to be coming from a cynical place. The transformation of technology from a utility to a nuisance at best and a disease at worst, strikes a chord for me.

Computers used to be fun and yet require actual interest and effort, it's why I ended where I am. What a bait and switch.
by Rendello | 2025-07-12 14:28:42+00:00
A few years ago I tried out TikTok and quickly came to see that there are huge niches inside the platform that are barely even searchable or existent outside the app. One of which was these videos of people sprinting or galloping on all fours. It's fascinating and terrifying seeing people who've practiced do the movements, it's uncanny in both how natural and unnatural it can look. It seems to be an intersection of unconventional exercise enthusiasts and furry-types.

Sprinting: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6S0ctkOixj8

Galloping / jumping: https://old.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/ldxsoz/these_peo...
by gambiting | 2025-07-12 14:29:30+00:00
Ha, I've "stolen" a rental company BMW in a similar-ish way, basically we turned up to the rental company at an airport in Spain, they threw the keys my way and said the car is a BMW 2 series and it's outside their office. So I walk out and yep, there's a BMW Series 2 parked outside. Hopped in,pressed the start button, drove it to the hotel. Went for a quick swim in the hotel's pool, came back to about 30 unanswered calls from Hertz. They call me again and they go "oh sorry to bother you, just wanted to ask if you could check the number on the key for your BMW, we might have given you the wrong car". I told them the number, they said it's all good, sorry for bothering.

So I went for lunch, came back, another 30 missed calls from Hertz. They call again and ask we're really really really sorry but would you mind going to the car and checking the licence plate on the car. So I said ok, went to the carpark....and yep, it was different to the one on my key.

Turns out that the car right in front of their office was a car that was being prepared for cleaning and they left the key for it in the armrest, which is why it started when I jumped in. They must have pooped themselves when they noticed the car was gone lol. Fortunately they were really nice about it and someone from their office came to see us and brought us the right car. But I imagine the panic in their office when they realized the car is missing.
by BillyTheMage | 2025-07-12 14:30:01+00:00
What you are fundamentally arguing is that you should be able to do something without learning how to do it. You mentioned you simply want to slap stuff into a box and never think about what's really happening. This is the problem.

Here's what you're probably forgetting: The language is that way because of how the thing works. If you don't understand the language, you probably don't understand how the database works under the hood either. And this will lead you to make simple mistakes without being able to debug them, and it will generally lead to bad design decisions because you didn't know any better.

Reminds me of when I was learning git. DAMMIT did I ever hate git. It was just so confusing, nothing made sense. I made a post just like yours here, decrying git as a total piece of crap that only brainwashed people would ever use. Like why can't I just say "git push something" and then it asks for my GitHub password, instead of all this nonsense about private keys and public keys and exporting and signing and holy fuck it never actually gets to the part where I have code and I fucking just put it in there and write down what I changed and push it and BAM it's actually done. Don't even get me started on branching and merging.

I finally let go of my preconceptions about how I wanted git to work and spent the time to learn how it really does work under the hood. And now I have no trouble using git. It was my own fault. My own mentality.
by tomislav | 2025-07-12 14:33:09+00:00
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by ternaus | 2025-07-12 14:33:17+00:00
"it is desirable for the software to run as a locally installed executable on your device, rather than a tab in a web browser."

An OS agnostic apps, meaning web apps is such a killer feature. You can use the same app on: Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Android, iOS

Even more, developing for web is typically faster. You made the change in the code => you see the result on the screen. For example: phone apps written in swift could be faster than ones written in react-native, but it is so annoying waiting for the compilation to finish after every small change.

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When I worked on imagery data in an autonomous vehicles company product managers pushed us to explore the data in the cloud and it was soooo inconvenient.

As the result, PMs were ignored and everyone had a personal desktop with GPUs and fast SSDs that had the local copy of the data, so that debugging, prototyping would be fast.

As lag that one gets working with a heavy data remotely reminded moving back from SSD to slow HDD, where you needed to wait some time to see the result on the screen.

It was only half a second every time, but felt ultra annoying.
by Bender | 2025-07-12 14:33:25+00:00
I agree. As someone that bumps into things this could mean testing backups. My preference would be the internal door locks we used in the military. They are a metal finger guard that one puts their fingers into. There are 4 double-pole-double-throw momentary rocker switches with strong springs. The operator must know which way to simultaneously toggle each switch to activate. There is more to it than that sometimes a badge but for the self destruct I think that is all one might need. The finger-guard and the strong springs and having to know which way to toggle all four will protect against cats and children. I would also avoid anything proprietary. A 4 million volt stun gun activated until fully discharged is sufficient to destroy any circuitry. The stun gun connects to two rails on opposing sides of the SSD 2mm away from the board. A high voltage gas bulb in the chassis could provide confirmation of discharge.
by wongarsu | 2025-07-12 14:33:35+00:00
That's grok the bot let loose on twitter. While it is backed by grok the model the bot has a history of "unauthorized modifications" to its system prompt. Those incidents are concerning/amusing in their own right, but they don't influence what you get on the API to on grok.com. I find discussions of what the model itself much more interesting that what ill-advised adjustments an anonymous ketamine-addicted person did at 3am to the bot
by dtagames | 2025-07-12 14:33:54+00:00
Like The Browser Company, that gave up on Arc to make Dia, an "AI browser" that's sure to have an equally short life.

I get that everyone wants to be a platform and to live where the user is all day, but getting folks to switch browsers is nearly impossible and, on Apple, fully impossible as only Safari-based browsers are permitted and those are highly restricted.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-12 14:34:31+00:00
So in other words, Texas has always been interested in voting for racists? They have always been okay with policies that hurt other people as long as it doesn’t hurt them?

And if tech companies turned Texas Red since the 80s, are you blaming Microsoft and Apple or IBM for it happening back then?

Do you really think if it weren’t for BigTech Red states like Texas would be a liberal utopia?

Yes, because I as Black person who grew up in the south, whose still living parents grew up in the segregated south, who lived in a county that was a “sun down town” as recently as the mid 80s (yes this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0), whose six foot 2 step son got looked at suspiciously every time we walked out our house even though we made twice the median household income in the county know that America has always had a majority of people swayed by dog whistles from Willy Horton, to “Haitians eating pets”, “immigrants bringing crime and disease”, “the gays are trying to force your boys to wear dresses”, “Obama is a secret Muslim and really not an American citizen” etc.

Fox News is a reflection on a large part of America not the cause of it.
by LeftHandPath | 2025-07-12 14:34:48+00:00
I grew up hearing the coders and hackers of yore regaling tales of their youth, the days they invested in things like the commodore or the IBM PC. I was born at the end of the 90's and never touched any of those things and always felt like I missed out.

I've done a lot of work with the IBM i Series (AS400), which has an interface from that era, but no games.
by fallinghawks | 2025-07-12 14:35:44+00:00
I'm not sure why people are using AI for a task far better/easier done with a normal image editor. The badge could have been just superimposed at the top; it doesn't have to look like it was part of the original image. And if the photo carried legal implications (not this time), AI alteration would ruin that.

Edit. I'm pretty sure every AI photo editing app out there explicitly advertises that they use AI. Nobody wants to hide that feature. So I rather doubt the police claim that they thought they were using a normal photoshop app.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-12 14:37:46+00:00
I had a friend in college. On his car, any key[1] would turn the driver's side door lock. Not the ignition, though. You could break into his car, but you couldn't drive it off.

[1] For the nitpickers: No, not a skeleton key. Some would probably be too fat to fit in the lock. And so on. But virtually any car key, and maybe even a house key. It was a Chevy, IIRC, but I opened it with a VW key.
by agentcoops | 2025-07-12 14:38:25+00:00
On the second point, it’s worth noting how many of the most vocal and well-positioned critics of LLMs (Marcus/Pinker in particular) represent the still academically dominant but now known to be losing side of the debate over connectionism. The anthology from the 90s Talking Nets is phenomenal to see how institutionally marginalized figures like Hinton were until very recently.

Off-topic, but I couldn’t find your contact info and just saw your now closed polyglot submission from last year. Look into technical sales/solution architecture roles at high growth US startups expanding into the EU. Often these companies hire one or two non-technical native speakers per EU country/region, but only have a handful of SAs from a hub office so language skills are of much more use. Given your interest in the topic, check out OpenAI and Anthropic in particular.
by xp84 | 2025-07-12 14:38:40+00:00
> saying "we don't want poor people to have healthcare."

I don't really think it's about 'poor people' at all. I think most people agree with me that poor people who do their best deserve plenty of help.

From ABC News: "Pew found that around half of Americans would favor creating work requirements for Medicaid, with 32% opposed." [1]

Polling shows (and Trump's popular vote victory also suggests, arguably) that American voters largely are not in favor of freeloaders who don't work and rely on government benefits paid for by those who do work. Given that this country still operates on democratic principles, it's a democratic move to give those voters what they want, even if it isn't the most efficient. I think if you asked those voters why, they'd say that they're concerned that training people to expect a welfare program to pay for you without you having any obligation back is bad for us as a society, and could encourage more and more 'dropping out' leaving a larger burden for those who work, who our society does need to keep working.

If you want universal healthcare, tell the DNC to run on a platform that includes that instead of running a terrible candidate and a bunch of culture-war stuff that's deeply unpopular with moderates. Or abandon that worthless party and start one that can win.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/polls-show-americans...
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-12 14:39:23+00:00
Future generations shall look back upon these with embarrassment and shame. They will know yours as a time of waste and corruptibility, treachery even. Where the abundance of the natural world left for all time so exploited; impious hands who have rifled the bowls of Mother Earth.

And then there are the other things. You may not be forgiven as easily as you forgive (and congratulate) yourselves.

Your future generations shall not be your redeemers, you are their betrayers.
by nasmorn | 2025-07-12 14:39:48+00:00
Impressive. I did streak running for 6 months nice and it was some of the most productive running in my life. Interestingly I have much higher yearly averages than you do but still consider daily streak running quite hard. Not being a morning runner myself might contribute since I get into a lot of close calls that way. My streak literally ended when my daughter went into the hospital and I couldn’t well just fuck off for a run any longer.
by bombcar | 2025-07-12 14:40:07+00:00
A key is a blank (that has to fit) and then 5 or 6 "teeth" which usually have only 3 or 4 possible depths - that means you have only a few thousand actual possible combinations (some won't work because some locks can't handle two identical in a row, or a tall followed immediately by a short, etc.

Also as cars get older, the ignition and locks get looser until a screwdriver will start it.
by mopsi | 2025-07-12 14:40:08+00:00
> If you want to know what actually happened: the US has been using bribes and threats across eastern europe to turn those states into allies, placing armies and missles in them, for decades.

That's an incredible flood of lies. Starting from the top: name one such missile site. You can't, because there never were any foreign "armies and missiles" in Eastern Europe. This narrative is pure fiction. You've picked it up from some Russian propaganda piece, never bothered to check the facts, and are now preaching it as truth, while carrying an inflated ego as if you had above-average knowledge of the subject, which only reinforces the tendency to cling to these false beliefs when challenged. Propaganda 101.
by hexomancer | 2025-07-12 14:40:33+00:00
View the extension on the Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AliMosta...

Github Repository: https://github.com/ahrm/voil

Some ideas are so simple and natural, that you can't help but feel that they are discovered rather than invented. That's how I felt the first time I saw the oil.nvim plugin (https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim), using vscode without something like that was a pain afterwards, so I had to step in and imlpement it!
by ufmace | 2025-07-12 14:41:03+00:00
Pretty obviously a bad joke and a bad idea IMO. I did not personally downvote, but I think it deserves its current score.

Look at the timeline of the events. The switches were shut off, noticed to be shut off, and restored to the proper position within 10 seconds with the current system. Insufficient notification that the switches have been turned off was clearly not a problem in need of a solution. It would be slower and more challenging to understand an automated verbal announcement than the surely extremely obvious sudden lack of thrust and all engine dials rapidly dropping to zero.

So it wouldn't contribute at all to solving this particular case, would only be a slightly annoying distraction in the more normal case of normal aircraft shut-down after completing its flights, and would be a potentially hazardous distraction in the intended emergency case of engine is on fire and fuel must be cut off immediately, where there's probably a bunch of other extremely important and urgent things to pay attention to and do other than a silly automated warning telling you what you just did.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-12 14:41:07+00:00
> An LLM can trivially make a compelling case that a particular ethnic group is the cause of your society's biggest problem so they should be eliminate

This is an extraordinary claim.

I trust that the vast majority of people are good and would ignore such garbage.

Even assuming that an LLM can trivially build a compelling case to convince someone who is not already murderous to go on a killing spree to kill a large group of people, one killer has limited impact radius.

For contrast, many books and religious texts, have vastly more influence and convincing power over huge groups of people. And they have demonstrably caused widespread death or other harm. And yet we don’t censor or ban them.
by _spduchamp | 2025-07-12 14:42:03+00:00
I want is someone to fab real 6581 SID chips so I can do stuff like this and have it sound as it should.

10 FORL=54272T054295:POKEL,0:NEXT

15 POKE54296,15:TI$="000000"

20 POKE54277,255:POKE54278,255

25 POKE54284,255:POKE54285,255

30 POKE54276,17:POKE54283,17

40 FORA=8TO1STEP-1:FORB=ATO1STEP-1

45 T=TI+2952/B

50 POKE54273,3: POKE54272,A

55 POKE54288,3:POKE54279,A+B

60 PRINTA,A+B

70 IFTI<TTHEN70

80 NEXT:NEXT

90 POKE54276,16:POKE54283,16