MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simoncion | 2025-08-16 06:07:06+00:00
I'm not the fellow you replied to, but I felt like stepping in.

> That’s interesting, you added a tool.

The "tool" in this case, is a memory aid. Because they are computer programs running inside a fairly-ordinary computer, the LLMs have exactly the same sort of tool available to them. I would find a claim that LLMs don't have a free MB or so of RAM to use as scratch space for long addition to be unbelievable.
by nneonneo | 2025-08-16 06:08:45+00:00
Cute idea. Bit worried about the owners here; rasengan doesn't have a stellar reputation after what happened with Freenode.

The idea itself is sound: if there are no SGX bypasses (hardware keys dumped, enclaves violated, CPU bugs exploited, etc.), and the SGX code is sound (doesn't leak the private keys by writing them to any non-confidential storage, isn't vulnerable to timing-based attacks, etc.), and you get a valid, up-to-date attestation containing the public key that you're encrypting your traffic with plus a hash of a trustworthy version of the SGX code, then you can trust that your traffic is indeed being decrypted inside an SGX enclave which has exclusive access to the private key.

Obviously, that's a lot of conditions. Happily, you can largely verify those conditions given what's provided here; you can check that the attestation points to a CPU and configuration new enough to not have any (known) SGX breaks; you can check that the SGX code is sound and builds to the provided hash (exercise left to the reader); and you can check the attestation itself as it is signed with hardware keys that chain up to an Intel root-of-trust.

However! An SGX enclave cannot interface with the system beyond simple shared memory input/output. In particular, an SGX enclave is not (and cannot be) responsible for socket communication; that must be handled by an OS that lies outside the SGX TCB (Trusted Computing Base). For typical SGX use-cases, this is OK; the data is what is secret, and the socket destinations are not.

For a VPN, this is not true! The OS can happily log anything it wants! There's nothing stopping it from logging all the data going into and out of the SGX enclave and performing traffic correlation. Even with traffic mixing, there's nothing stopping the operators from sticking a single user onto their own, dedicated SGX enclave which is closely monitored; traffic mixing means nothing if its just a single user's traffic being mixed.

So, while the use of SGX here is a nice nod to privacy, at the end of the day, you still have to decide whether to trust the operators, and you still cannot verify in an end-to-end way whether the service is truly private.
by rikies | 2025-08-16 06:09:30+00:00
I built an AI with chatgpt 4o to answer this linkedin question every day by getting the time of the game posted every day. I tried claude, chatgpt, qwen3, deekseep and grok, as well as Google's gemini, and found that 4o was faster and had a higher accuracy rate. I found that 4o is faster and more accurate;

could you try it ~?~ and give me some advices, thx
by juniperus | 2025-08-16 06:09:52+00:00
the murder rate in American cities is out of control. Maybe Americans are blind to this, but there are 274 murders in DC alone in 2023. In ALL of Germany, there were something like 600 murders in 2023. DC has 730,000 people living there. Germany has 83 million people. What do you mean that DC doesnt have a crisis going on? The homicide rate is 4,500% higher than Germany, lol.
by wltr | 2025-08-16 06:10:10+00:00
Yeah, I know, and that’s why I mentioned that personally I won’t use tor network for downloading huge amounts of data, out of the respect for the network. It’s meaningful for countries where Internet is censored, and wasn’t invented for piracy, rather for censoring circumvention. But theoretically it’s possible to move your traffic through the network, that way nobody can tell you are torrenting, I assume. (Or at least what you’re torrenting.)

Personally, I know just one person who does that. We’re not close for me to ask him anything, though (a friend of a friend of a friend). For the context, he lives in Germany.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-16 06:10:27+00:00
It is addiction media, or dopamine hacking media.

Meta's recent earnings report was great partially because AI was used to boost engagement on ads by 5% to 10%, which was enough to get investors on board for the massive capex. ("Datacenters the size of Manhattan" as per Zuckerberg).

Datacenters the size of Manhattan and dedicated nuclear power plants, for an 8.5% boost in advertising engagement. The world is in a very sad state in some respects. The ideal end state of this optimization process is quite literally zombie consumers. I would think that heading off outcomes like this is partly why we create rules and guardrails as a society, but despite the occasional pushback, I do think that for now we are generally embracing this dystopia. I'm a positive person and think AI is incredible and will do many great things, but Meta's earnings report got to me.
by krmani | 2025-08-16 06:10:28+00:00
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by bryanrasmussen | 2025-08-16 06:10:52+00:00
in this case it is apt though because the actual goal is not turning "into the thing that everyone hates about the modern web." according to the antiscaling category but the metric given for avoiding that is making money.

profit is usually not the misplaced metric, because profit is the goal.

But if you have another goal such as well-being of the people of your country then you might set up GDP measures and call it a success when everyone is miserable. (I know GDP does not directly measure profit, this is in the nature of a real world example how something usually not thought of as a Goodhart's law measure might actually work)
by jondwillis | 2025-08-16 06:11:26+00:00
Provide a tool schema that requires deep analysis to fill out correctly. Citations and scores for everything. Examples of high quality citations. Tools that fail or produce low quality results should return instructions about how to recover or interpret the result.

Have agents with different research tools try to corroborate and peer review output from competing agents. This is just one of many collaborative or competitive patterns you can model.

Yeah, it can get quite a bit more dynamic than an if statement if you apply some creativity and clarity and conviction.
by imsh4yy | 2025-08-16 06:11:36+00:00
You're right that this isn't the "autonomous agent" fantasy that keeps getting hyped.

The agentic part here is more modest but real. The primary agent does make runtime decisions about task decomposition based on the data and calls the subagents (tools) to do the actual work.

So yeah, it's closer to "intelligent workflow orchestration." That's probably a more honest description.
by aorloff | 2025-08-16 06:11:45+00:00
Every time someone casually throws out UBI my mind goes to the question "who is paying taxes when some people are on UBI ?"

Is there like a transition period where some people don't have to pay taxes and yet don't get UBI, and if so, why hasn't that come yet ? Why aren't the minimum tax thresholds going up if UBI could be right around the corner ?
by mpweiher | 2025-08-16 06:12:24+00:00
LOL.

The rate increase in Georgia was around 1¢ per kWh, from 14¢ to 15¢.

The electricity price in California is 32¢ per kWh, due primarily to generating and transmission costs, not due to wildfires. Yes, wildfires contribute, but only around 10%. So without any of those, you'd still have 29¢.

For some reason you find the 1¢ increase horrible, but see no problem in the 17¢ difference.

Electricity prices correlate with intermittent renewables buildout worldwide.

https://stopthesethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cost-...
by leshow | 2025-08-16 06:13:45+00:00
UBI is not a good solution because you still have to provision everything on the market, so it's a subsidy to private companies that sell the necessities of life on the market. If we're dreaming up solutions to problems, much better would be to remove the essentials from the market and provide them to everyone universally. Non-market housing, healthcare, education all provided to every citizen by virtue of being a human.
by 0points | 2025-08-16 06:14:51+00:00
> That counts against you because now you have even fewer keys to work with to add copy/paste, shouldn't that extra physical key be instead used for those extra useful letters?

Those are not extra physical keys. Some buttons on the left of ENTER has the Å Ä Ö, that's all.

I'm currently on a Swedish TKL keyboard.

See https://typingdonewell.com/blog/what-is-a-nordic-layout-the-...
by qingcharles | 2025-08-16 06:14:56+00:00
I would counter that. I would say (good) web design has gotten simpler in the 32 years I've been doing it. The last few years where the browsers all started to cooperate on standards has made life a lot easier. CSS has gotten smaller because of better selectors, and HTML is simpler and more readable thanks to more semantic tags.

The div soups you see on sites like Facebook are obviously another story :)
by valzevul | 2025-08-16 06:15:04+00:00
OP here!

> it sounds like you get API access fairly quickly after that?

Yes, that's correct; I am yet to hit the rate-limit but from my experience with the official app/website, it's quite forgiving to failed attempts.

The scope in the post is the one used by the app and other unofficial clients on GitHub [1][2], so I doubt there are more options beyond that.

-- [1] https://github.com/0wain/puregym-api-php-wrapper/blob/main/s... [2] https://github.com/2t6h/puregym-attendance/blob/main/puregym...
by aworks | 2025-08-16 06:15:16+00:00
Back in the 90s, it was the opposite as miliary/aerospace declined in SoCal.

I'm a native Michigander and long-time Californian (both subject to booms/busts) who recently took a road trip to the Midwest and back. If it weren't for family and friends, I probably wouldn't venture east of the 100th parallel. I was surprised by this.
by Animats | 2025-08-16 06:15:45+00:00
Waymo has a control center, but it's customer service, not remote driving. They can look at the sensor data, give hints to the car ("back out, turn around, try another route") and talk to the customer, but can't take direct control and drive remotely.

Baidu's system in China really does have remote drivers.[1]

Tesla also appears to have remote drivers, in addition to someone in each car with an emergency stop button.[2]

[1] https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/05/comparing-robotax...

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/760863/tesla-hiring-humans-to-con...
by skissane | 2025-08-16 06:16:30+00:00
Since last year, lisdexamfetamine sold in Australia has been manufactured in Germany (API) and Ireland (packaging). The DEA has zero jurisdiction over a drug manufactured in Germany/Ireland and then exported from there to Australia–US quotas do not apply, the relevant quotas are the German/Irish/Australian quotas set by their respective governments (which governments appear to take a much more flexible and responsive approach to doing so than the DEA does). Takeda said that GMP issues in the Irish plant were causing supply problems – and I don't see any reason to disbelieve them; GMP is a TGA/FDA/EMA issue not something the DEA has any authority over.

The biggest cause of Australia's lisdexamfetamine supply issues isn't the DEA, it is patent law – the US patent expired in 2023, the Australian patent doesn't expire until 2028, which gives Takeda a continuing near-monopoly on lisdexamfetamine in the Australian market – so if Takeda is having problems meeting the growing demand, it is legally very difficult for other firms to step in. The TGA did for a period allow emergency parallel import – but I don't know if that included generics, and my own experience was it wasn't clear how to even access it – my impression is that for most patients it was more of a theoretical allowance than something practically helpful to them.

I think the biggest thing the DEA is doing here is damaging the US' own pharmaceutical manufacturing industry by pushing controlled substances production out of the US and into friendlier countries in Europe and Asia. The DEA can't cause any lasting issues with controlled substances availability in Australia because their jurisdiction is legally limited to the United States. Even if we suppose the DEA may have temporarily contributed to supply issues in Australia – surely equal blame lies at Takeda for being too slow at moving manufacturing out of the US.
by int_19h | 2025-08-16 06:16:37+00:00
> We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.

Hacker's Manifesto (1986)
by 0points | 2025-08-16 06:16:40+00:00
A ordinary user would use the clipboard manager installed on their desktop and no part of your description would fit:

* Copied text goes to the clipboard manager as it is selected

* Clipboard manager populates the clipboard buffers as you configured it. For example send copied text to multiple buffers to simulate non-linux behavior.

* User can query clipboard manager for the history whenever

* User can paste anything from clipboard manager. Yes, even if the original app has closed.
by xpe | 2025-08-16 06:17:05+00:00
> All markets do is express the collective opinion; in the short term as a voting machine, in the long term as a weighing machine.

I prefer the concepts and rigor from political economy: markets are both preference aggregators and coordination mechanisms.

Does your framing (voting machines and weighing machines) offer more clarity and if so, how? I’m not seeing it.
by pygy_ | 2025-08-16 06:17:37+00:00
I don't know if the evidence is more than anecdotal, but I've read that ADHD smokers who are taking adderal have to increase the dose of their treatment to remain functional when they quit smoking.

I've been taking nicotine patches for half a year now, with great success (and it is available OTC unlike other stimulants). Nicotine in itself isn't toxic at these doses (7, 14, 21mg), it's a cool life hack :-).
by astrobe_ | 2025-08-16 06:19:02+00:00
It sounds like a submodule... But certainly if the problem could be solved with a submodule, people would have found out long ago. Git's submodules also support shallow-cloning already [1]. I can only guess what the issues are with large files since I didn't face it myself - I deal with pure source code most of the times. I'm interested to know why it would be a bad idea to do that, just in case. The caveats pointed out in the second SO answer don't seem to be a big deal.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2144406/how-to-make-shal...
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-16 06:20:52+00:00
I think another reason people think this is that people often do not notice there is a problem until rents have risen enough that they're noticeable less affordable. And when that happens, a small reduction due to supply increase is not really enough. It's not enough for rents to "go down", they actually need to become affordable.

In places where a third of renters are spending half their income on rent (as some stats have shown for CA), it is implausible to believe that nibbling around the edges of the problem is going to result in enough of a reduction to make a difference. I haven't seen any estimates of how many market-rate units would need to be built to, say, reduce the number of rent-burdened households to 10% or 5%, but presumably it would need to be in the millions. I haven't seen any studies of supply/price issues that contemplate anything like that scale.

Just as important, such studies generally ignore the issue of inequality. It doesn't really matter what rents are; if there is someone who can afford to own multiple vacation homes that sit empty most of the year, rents should be lower.
by int_19h | 2025-08-16 06:20:55+00:00
GPT-5 is extremely "aligned", by which I mean that it will refuse to engage with anything even remotely controversial. I'd say it's worse than Claude in that regard. Whether you care or not depends a lot on what you're doing with it.

That aside, GPT-5 is also very passive. When using it in agentic applications specifically, it will frequently stop and ask for confirmation on absolutely trivial things.
by jdjwk2843738 | 2025-08-16 06:20:59+00:00
If you don’t believe that you can be harmed verbally, then I understand your position. You might be able to empathise if the scenario was an LLM being used to control physical robotic systems that you are standing next to.

Some people can be harmed verbally, I’d argue everyone if the entity conversing with you knows you well, and so i don’t think the concept of safety itself is an infantilisation.

It seems what we have here is a debate over the efficacy of having access to disable safeguards that you deem infantilising and that get in the way of an objective, versus the burden of always having to train a model to avoid being abusive for example, or checking if someone is standing next to the sledgehammer they’re about to swing at 200rpm
by ausbah | 2025-08-16 06:22:03+00:00
i don’t this article really says anything that hasn’t been already said for the past two years. “if AI actually take jobs, it will be a near-apocalyptic system shock if there aren’t news jobs to replace them”. i still think it’s at best too soon to say if jobs have permanently been lost

they are tremendous tools but seems like they make a near equal amount of work from the stuff the save time on
by ipnon | 2025-08-16 06:22:31+00:00
I think it's right in practice. Your first users are the kind of people who need something new and don't care if it's unscaled. They just need the new solution. You have to find the 1 person who needs the new thing you have, and it's the greatest filter stage for startups. Any time spent optimizing for the next 10 or 100 users is time spent wasted against looking for that 1 person.
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-08-16 06:23:09+00:00
A jobless utopia doesn't even come close to passing a smell test economically, historically, or anthropologically.

As evidence of another possibility, in the US, we are as rich as any polis has ever been, yet we barely have systems that support people who are disabled through no fault of their own. We let people die all the time because they cannot afford to continue to live.

You think anyone in power is going to let you suck their tit just because you live in the same geographic area? They don't even pay equal taxes in the US today.

Try living in another world for a bit: go to jail, go to a half way house, live on the streets. Hard mode: do it in a country that isn't developed.

Ask anyone who has done any of those things if they believe in a "jobless utopia"?

Euphoric social capitalists living in a very successful system shouldn't be relied upon for scrying the future for others.
by lanstin | 2025-08-16 06:23:33+00:00
Pre terraform it would take a half day to setup I new account, create buckets meeting our policies, replicate to backup buckets, etc etc. with terraform we could do same in thirty minutes so we could service many more development teams with same head count.

This work made it easier to keep terraform in sync with aws and so maintenance (e.g. adding a new policy to existing S3 buckets was just edit the S3 bucket module and re-applying to every account. The parser was way easier than manually editing the files manually (especially since I had so much terraform as a test bed of data).
by shermantanktop | 2025-08-16 06:23:58+00:00
There’s always some level of change coming - e.g. the petrochemical industry giants attempting to get into renewables, or the US healthcare absorbing Obamacare and thriving, or the industrialization of organic dairy production. This one feels different.

I think one element is that AI can be a very effective bullshit generator, and most CEOs and middle managers are deploying some amount of bullshit all day long. So they see a new player on the field who undercuts their strengths and they are responding existentially.
by dsrtslnd23 | 2025-08-16 06:24:34+00:00
What do you guys use to actually implement this? I used AWS Lambda functions for what is called 'subagents' here and do the main orchestration via long running Step Functions. This is more structured but also allows me to use the common patterns in mentioned in the article (e.g. parallel vs serialized). I noticed however that it can get quite complex and am debating to just implement everything served as a single FastAPI app. I do want to keep it scalable though.
by 01100011 | 2025-08-16 06:24:53+00:00
Yes this.

While I sympathize with folks calling for weaker patents as an alternative solution, I think that's a non-starter given the power of entrenched interests.

If this were easily fixed, it would be fixed by now.

Best approach might be some OSS patent collective driven by community contributions and a legal team that heavily leverages things like AI to drive down costs. Even then, a big, well funded corp could just drain the coffers with a single, expensive legal battle.
by aworks | 2025-08-16 06:25:15+00:00
Except climate. I was on a road trip this summer and stayed in Iowa City while driving East and then St Louis driving West. Downtown Iowa City was appealing. I had a good hotel at a bargain price near the St Louis airport although the area was not the best.

But it was hot. My time back in coastal California has been mostly in the 70s. Camping in Marin County this week, the high was in the 60s. Refreshing after heat warnings in Nebraska, Illinois and Ontario.
by jokoon | 2025-08-16 06:25:19+00:00
I like c++, but it is so complex to compile that this situation was bound to happen.

I wish new C++ standards would make old c++ not work: old code could still be compiled with old compilers, and it would encourage developers to fix their code or rewrite it.

C++ needs it's python2to3 moment.

Cpp2/cppfront feels a bit like that.

I don't mean to say that c++11 to 20 are bad, but they are probably expensive and fastidious to implement.
by xlii | 2025-08-16 06:27:23+00:00
One thing to keep in mind that methylphenidate is contextual and metabolic related.

Hard focus work could make it work shorter, but also some have metabolism so quick that they burn through medication. That's controlled by doctors so no worries, but I know people who take IR forms every 2 hours, and for those XR forms don't work at all (as it's like 2 complete cycles with all side effects).
by tavavex | 2025-08-16 06:27:40+00:00
Some VPNs kind of offer that. I know at least one that sells physical redeemable cards you can buy - maybe physically in some countries, but in mine it's only available on Amazon. Even that option should be safe for keeping your identifying data from the VPN provider, even in the situation where they betray their promises on not holding onto your data. This is because Amazon can't know which exact code was sent out to you, and the provider in turn doesn't have any additional info to associate with that code, besides knowing if it's valid or not. The biggest downside is that now Amazon knows you paid for this service, even if they don't know the specifics.

There's also an option to just mail them cash, but some countries may seize all mailed cash if discovered.