MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by regularfry | 2025-07-24 09:00:49+00:00
Dyneema is much easier to work with, too.

I'm quite fond of bowstring as a material for this sort of thing. It usually has other fibres mixed in with it so it's a little more bouncy than raw dyneema but that's minimised if you get thread that's intended for crossbows. It's usually waxed so there's some friction to it when you're manipulating it, and it's also easy to source.
by 1659447091 | 2025-07-24 09:00:59+00:00
> Clinton was one of them, and he was president at the time?

The mass surveillance state didn't really get going until George W.

Epstein had better surveillance on his activities than the government.

> Even if Trump was one of them, he had no power at that time, so couldn't have done anything to stop (or bury) the surveillance, but Clinton could.

Who was president at the time Epstein told a reporter he had blackmail material on rich & powerful, later was arrested (and his blackmail material collected from his properties), and finally placed in a facility that had trouble following standard prison procedures while awaiting trial?
by XorNot | 2025-07-24 09:02:28+00:00
In so much as you could regard a goal function as an emotion, why would you assume alien intelligence need have emotions that match anything humans do?

The entire thought experiment about the paperclip maximizer, in fact most AI threat scenarios is focused on this problem: that we produce something so alien that it executes it's goal to the diminishment of all other human goals, yet with the diligence and problem solving ability we'd expect of human sentience.
by alecco | 2025-07-24 09:02:29+00:00
> a Nobel prize winner

Mandatory comment pointing out the "Nobel" in Economics is not a real Nobel Prize. It was made up by the central banking cartel to reward economists who say the things they like. From MMT to ideology stuff.

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

> established in 1968 by Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank)

> Some critics argue that the prestige of the Prize in Economic Sciences derives in part from its association with the Nobel Prizes, an association that has often been a source of controversy. Among them is the Swedish human rights lawyer Peter Nobel, a great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel.
by nusl | 2025-07-24 09:02:56+00:00
I dunno why but Proton's offerings turn me off. Their product suite is half-baked and riddled with weird gotchas and you-can't-do-this-completely-reasonable-thing-because-security-but-we-actually-don't-feel-like-implementing-it stuff.

Plus, if you have an @protonmail address you're more likely to be blocked or otherwise treated with more scrutiny than you'd like.
by denysvitali | 2025-07-24 09:04:10+00:00
I would love to have something more generic (and tried to build it already), but parsing tables and bank statements even from digital PDFs (as in, those that really have tables and not a picture) is still very difficult. Especially when the bank changes layouts from one month to another.

I would love to be proven wrong, but everything I have tried so far is... subpar.

Nowadays there's probably a solution based on LLMs, but I don't trust them with this kind of data
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-24 09:05:42+00:00
That's not the reason it's nonsense.

It's that "they should have done something" is an anecdote-based complaint that ignores everything they actually do.

If some service takes reasonable measures and solves the large majority of the problem, there will still be some instances that they miss and then critics will point to them and claim they're not doing enough. If they take more aggressive measures that aren't worth the candle, there will still be some instances that they miss and then critics will point to them and claim they're not doing enough.

It's "meet the impossible standard of having no bad things ever happen or you're not doing enough and we have to pass these bad laws".
by jansan | 2025-07-24 09:05:44+00:00
International recognized cocktails must be quite popular in Norway. I remember when going to Norway for a friend's wedding and they explicitly asked all guests to bring the maximum allowed limit of liquor with them. I understood this after I saw the ridiculous high prices at those liquor stores, which they shamelessly call "wine monopoly" and have higher security than bank buildings. You guys sure have a special relationship with ethanol.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-24 09:05:58+00:00
>and bad luck

Was it really bad luck or just bad management refusing to accept the reality that they were bad so they blamed luck?

Nokia CEO was famous for saying "We did everything right and still lost". Clearly he didn't do everything right if they lost.

I think EU leaders and CEOs have no accountability, hindsight or self reflection capacity to see how badly they're failing so then just blame bad luck because it always has to be someone else's fault.
by jajko | 2025-07-24 09:07:07+00:00
No its pretty logical, I often get more info in comments than in article, plus many angles on topic. I only actually read the most interesting articles, often heading right into comments.

Often the title sort of explains the whole topic (ie lack of parking in NY, or astronomers found the biggest quasar yet), then folks chirp in with their experiences and insight which are sometimes pretty wild.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-24 09:07:58+00:00
The displays are gradually less important because a growing fraction of the population are already carrying a display with wireless networking, on a personal device the UI can show you your exact route and where the bus you need is now etc.

These could still be smarter, I remember a year or two ago stood at a bus stop, watching the position indicator for a bus I wanted to catch and realising as it in real life appeared at the next junction - it was diverted away from my stop, one of the icons I'd been ignoring was a deviations from normal route, it's often set [road construction work] but that week the diversion avoided the stop I was stood at. That bus goes in long loops so I caught it about a quarter mile away after a breathless run, but a smarter app could say

"Hey, you seem to be waiting for the U6H, at the Broadway stop, and it's not going to that stop. Walk this way for a few minutes to reach a temporary stop at which today's U6H will pick you up instead."
by benrutter | 2025-07-24 09:08:01+00:00
A lot of the comments here are along the lines of "websites are often hostile, and AI summaries are a better user experience" which I agree with for most cases. I think the main thing to be worried about is that this model is undermining the fundamental economic model the internet's currently based on.

If I create content like recipes, journalism etc, previously I had exclusive rights to my created content and could monetise it however I wanted. This has mostly led to what we have today, some high quality content, lots of low quality content, mostly monetised through user hostile ads.

Previously, if I wanted to take a recipe from "strawberry-recipes.cool" and published it on my own website with a better user experience, that wouldn't have been allowed because of copyright rules. I still can't do that, but Google can if it's done through the mechanism of AI summaries.

I think the worst case scenario is that people stop publishing content on the web altogether. The most likely one is that search/summary engines eat up money that previously came from content creators. The best one is that we find some alternative, third way, for creators to monotise content while maintaining discoverability.

I'm not sure what will happen, and I'm not denying the usefulness of AI summaries, but it feels easy to miss that, at their core, they're a fundamental reworking of the current economics of the internet.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-24 09:08:11+00:00
>and now Anthropic is repackaging it a year later, calling it “subliminal learning”

No, distillation and student/teacher is a well known technique (much older than even the original chatGPT), and Anthropic are not claiming to have invented it (it would be laughable to anyone familiar with the field). "subliminal learning" is an observation by Anthropic about something surprising that can happen during the process, which is that, for sufficiently similar models, behaviour can be transferred from student to teacher that is not obviously present in the information transferred between them (i.e. text outputted from the teacher and used to train the student. For example, the student's "favourite animal" changed despite the fact that the teacher was only creating 'random' numbers for the student to try to predict)
by ricardobeat | 2025-07-24 09:08:49+00:00
> pair quality content with ads, make money

Huh, the exact opposite happened. Create as much filler content as possible, optimized for SEO, generate thousands of variants to capture search traffic, cover as much of the screen as possible with ads, use tricks to increase page view count, and then make money.

Publishers of quality content have moved to subscriptions, which is a different kind of trouble.

> only content which itself is directly monetizable will be created

We have already been here for a while and it can hardly get any worse.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-24 09:09:35+00:00
Matrix embedded Jitsi as their voice/video calling solution for a while, probably still does depending on what client you use. Automatically joining the call when you click the call button just makes sense from a UX perspective.

That said, I can't think of a reason why you'd want to permit it outside of very specific containers. Useful for integration, but outright bad design for a public instance.
by dubbel | 2025-07-24 09:09:52+00:00
If you don't break hard enough, it might still be the recuperation doing its work.

Car producers can and do resolve this, e.g. iirc Audis don't use recuperation for the first breaking of the day. That way you don't have to remember to use the no-recuperation/break cleaning mode or break unnecessarily hard every now and then.
by MindSpunk | 2025-07-24 09:09:54+00:00
You're right. Petrol engines are air pumps so I should've realised the explanation wasn't correct.

Though the ECU would be doing the AFR management on modern EFI engines as the injectors aren't vacuum operated like Carburetors were. You should be able to cut fuel injection when coasting in a modern engine, can't run lean if there's no fuel at all. Not sure if carbs could do the same.
by akirahittoxyz | 2025-07-24 09:10:12+00:00
Orpheus & Eurydice in The Matrix The Matrix series integrates the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, particularly in The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and Resurrections (2021). Neo and Trinity’s love story parallels Orpheus’ quest to rescue Eurydice from the underworld. #Matrix #mythology
by dond1986 | 2025-07-24 09:10:23+00:00
Grow a Garden Calculators (https://growagardencalculators.net) is an essential online tool for all Grow a Garden players. It allows you to easily calculate crop values, mutation effects, and planting cycles, helping you optimize your garden planning and maximize profits. With a user-friendly interface and regularly updated data, this calculator simplifies resource management and supports smarter in-game decisions. Perfect for both new players and experienced gardeners who want to improve their strategies efficiently.
by dcminter | 2025-07-24 09:11:35+00:00
Eh, that's also kind of the East London aesthetic for you. It used to be (maybe 30 years ago) very dodgy and is now (mostly) very hipster.

The Bar Americain which he mentions but doesn't show a picture of, on the other hand, is excellent, slap bang in the middle of Picadilly, and quite opulent. That's great to combine with a meal at the surprisingly cheap (given the location) brasserie Zedel.
Ask HN: Undo muscle loss due to chronic overuse
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-07-24 09:11:56+00:00
I have a problem that I have a heavy physical regiment because I have an autistic child with ADHD who needs constant safeguarding and physical interaction, picking up throwing around, take to playgrounds 6-9 hours a day on weekend, constant watching etc.

I'm in Denmark so I get some help with this, but my muscles are basically worn out from overuse and I used to be quite muscular. My legs especially, I find it difficult to go up ladders, and other things requiring leg strength because I never get an adequate chance to rest my legs up (if my child goes away for a couple of days I need to spend those days fixing everything around the house, so constant movement)

Part of this is age obviously but from my experience guys who are in their late 50s generally don't have these problems if they have kept in shape, to me it seems a result completely of over stress and the problems of age regarding rebuilding muscles once they are torn down.

So what I'm asking is what medications etc. would one recommend to reverse chronic overuse muscle loss in a man near retirement age who also needs to keep using his muscles all day long?

I need a plan I can basically talk to my doctor and argue for, because the way the Danish medical system works is you don't get anything unless you fight for it. I've already been told there is nothing that can be done. But I find stuff about handling muscle loss in older people when I google so I think there is probably something that could be done to help.
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2025-07-24 09:11:59+00:00
Curb weight of a Tesla Model (Long Range) is only 9% over a comparable BMW 3 Series.

That's nothing compared to all the savings (tail pipes emissions, break dust, noise, ICE maintenance issues…). And we're just getting started with battery chemistries and renewables energy. This can only get better.
by sfRattan | 2025-07-24 09:13:19+00:00
I'm saying, even if both things are bad, there's a moral category difference between profiling based on immutable, born characteristics and profiling based on choices (in this case, choice of phone). They are not continuous or connected, but two different categories with a hard break or line between them you have to deliberately cross. That both involve profiling does not connect them, just as shooting a human and shooting a paper target are fundamentally different moral categories which are not made continuous by dint the fact that both involve pulling a trigger.
by Shaddox | 2025-07-24 09:13:58+00:00
Probably the only thing holding the reins on AI takeover is the lack of legislative coverage. Once the AI user is not held responsible for the AI's actions, (and let's face it, this is the likely outcome. It's not like politicians are going to decide in favor of regular people) then we are going to have a new social class of completely useless people.

What does the government plan to do with them? Kill them off? Because if they leave them to die, they will revolt.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-24 09:14:00+00:00
>While Anthropic and OpenAI are still trying to make sense of what China's top computer scientists pulled off a year ago

The whole reason they're accusing them of distilling their models is that this was a well-known technique that's relatively easy compared to creating or improving on one in the first place. Deepseek was impressive for how lean it was (and it shook the markets because it demonstrated obviously what the savvier observers already had figured, that the big AI companies in the US didn't have a huge moat), but they certainly did not come up with this concept.
by boudin | 2025-07-24 09:14:39+00:00
I'm attacking you because you use well known manipulating techniques to deny scientific facts. You use yearly rainfall data which is not weather or climate, just statistics. You hand pick wind storm sentence to deny the existence of extreme weather events.

We are talking about things happening now, I won't provide you studies from 20 years from now proving that it happened, I'm not from the future. This is about observation.

You want some other data? Just look around. Example in France, situation of water crisis over time https://www.notre-environnement.gouv.fr/themes/economie/l-ut...

Here's an article about water shortage in the UK https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/01/why-uk-f...

In the UK at least the Riverford farm has been talking about it for years when I was living there.
by crabbone | 2025-07-24 09:14:56+00:00
Not enough programmers talk to QA, and so are oblivious to testing.

The benchmarking here is... pointless. Here's my story (of writing a Protobuf parser) to illustrate why. I already wrote about it before, but it keeps happening, so, maybe repeating it is not such a bad thing.

So... the official (coming from Google) Protobuf parser for Python is ridiculously bad. It generates Python code for the parser. Not only is this unnecessary, it's also executed poorly. So, I decided to roll my own. Also, I decided to make it multi-threaded (I wrote it in C, with Python bindings).

Then I tried to benchmark it against the official implementation. I don't trust the quality of Python language implementation, so, that came under the spotlight first. For example, I chose Python's enumerators to represent Protobuf enumerators. Turned out that was a horrible decision because instantiation of Python's enumerators is extremely resource-intensive. I had to make a few similar adjustments, searching for the less resource-hungry Python built-in data-structures.

And yet I was still far behind on my benchmarks. So, I tried to understand what the Google's C++ code was doing. And then I realized that Google's parser in the "first pass" only extracted the top-level messages, not even trying to parse the hierarchical structure. This structure was only extracted on-demand. So, essentially, I was competing against memcpy()...

But, here's another catch: most real-world applications will not want the "intermediate" Protobuf structure made up of general-purpose data-structures such as dictionaries or enumerators. They will want them immediately parsed into domain-specific data-structures. So, a parser that offers this kind of functionality might be slower to parse into generic data-structures, but will win in real-world benchmarks.

Of course, the percentage of useful payload is also important. Typically, applications underutilize the messages they exchange. But, to what degree is different and completely dependent on application design. Similarly, mapping into domain-specific objects will depend on the sort of information the application wants to exchange. Protobuf is bad for column / tabular data, but somewhat better for object graph kind of data. Protobuf is bad for large messages with duplicated content, but is somewhat better for short messages with little duplication.

All of this, and much more, allows for a lot of variability in benchmark design, and would allow me, or anyone writing a parser to skew the numbers in whatever direction I want... to amuse the general public.
by yakkers | 2025-07-24 09:19:42+00:00
An aside on your last point: In the D gear, a lot of auto transmissions will be set up to allow for the wheels to spin somewhat independently of the engine (in any gear) when you aren't accelerating, which accounts a lot for how well an automatic will coast when you release the throttle, even if you're not going fast enough for top gear (especially apparent with older four speed boxes).

Using the numbered gear options will enable clutches/bands that provide more engine braking.
by edg5000 | 2025-07-24 09:20:12+00:00
With TypeScript, I would agree with you. With JavaScript, you are trading one problem for another. And why not a pleasant, modern. C++ extension API. Because I've found with large JavaScript applications, it becomes harder and harder avoid bugs that would be avoided with a good indexer/linter during development. But with JavaScript, anything can be anything so there is not much to index.

PS Thunderbird also uses quite a lot of JavaScript. The calendar WebDAV sync is JS-based.
by zhaohan_dong | 2025-07-24 09:20:43+00:00
I use checklist as a pilot, but trying to introduce the same habit to software engineers are hard.

The cost of reversing a decision is cheaper in software, than to say flying or doing hardware. Plus the spec requirements for flying and hardware design rarely changes as often as software.

Still swear by checklists and SOPs but have to be at peace that others don't see it the same way.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-24 09:21:00+00:00
>Where I am from in Europe, the rise in property value thanks to rail lines is captured by lucky property owners.

Sure, "lucky". Lucky as in, I'm well connected and I hear in advance from the politicians where the transit lines will be so I make sure to buy properties/land in those areas, so later I turn out to be really lucky when the government projects just happen to cross over my private land/property.

Funny how that kind of luck only turns out to favor the already wealthy and connected, 100% of the time, and never the poor. How do you call that type of luck?
by tekkk | 2025-07-24 09:21:41+00:00
Here's my take as TS dev. You just never learned to use types in the first place where there is very little ambiguity on any types anywhere because there is close to no any's used. Sounds like you guys get high and mighty on your tunnel-visioned copium—I mean I used to write JS for god's sake and thought it was okay. And I remember when I first tried TS felt annoyingly hampered by having to actually use interfaces properly.

Sure, the nature of Elixir probably makes it easier but I find little joy in dynamic whack-a-mole and mental gymnastics to infer types instead of fricking actually being able to see them immediately.

I could go commando in TS as well and switch to JS and JSDoc, leaving everything gradually typed and probably be fine but I'd feel terribly sorry for anyone else reading that code afterwards. It'd be especially silly since I can now just infer my auto-generated Postgres zod schemas with little effort. Moreover, a good type system basically eliminates typing-related bugs which you guys apparently still have.

So please, don't over-generalize just because you think you got it figured out.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2025-07-24 09:21:57+00:00
Having one payment option is better than none. There are three alternatives:

1. Regulate the payment processors. This would need widespread agreement and some kind of global initiative—possible, but sounds like a LOONG process.

2. Invent an open payment technology that isn't crypto. Probably the most desirable outcome, but another LOONG process.

3. Bow down to the payment processor mafia. Sadly, this is where we exist; I think it's the worst possible option. Imagine what else we may be prevented from buying in future. Cash is becoming harder and harder to spend in the real world. First, they came for our porn; why wouldn't they come for our food, eventually?
by ColinWright | 2025-07-24 09:21:57+00:00
The title here is copied from the author's post on Mastodon:

https://sigmoid.social/@raphaelmilliere/114659355740586289

"Despite extensive safety training, LLMs remain vulnerable to “jailbreaking” through adversarial prompts. Why does this vulnerability persist? In a new open access paper published in Philosophical Studies, I argue this is because current alignment methods are fundamentally shallow."
by ninjin | 2025-07-24 09:23:05+00:00
If you read the interview and walk away with that impression I will be amazed. You may not like his distinction between science and engineering, but he admits it is somewhat arbitrary and as someone that is solidly in the deep learning camp his criticism is not entirely unfair, even if I disagree with it and will not change my own course.

Personally, I find it somewhat amazing that you put Demis on that list given that he, himself, on very good accounts that I have, explicitly pushed back against natural language processing (and thus large language model) development at DeepMind for the longest of times and they had to play major catch up once it became obvious that their primarily reinforcement learning-oriented and "foundational" approaches were not showing as much promise as what OpenAI and Facebook were producing. Do not get me wrong, what he has accomplished is utterly amazing, but he certainly is not a father of large language models.