MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gwd | 2025-08-05 21:38:07+00:00
> Why don't they count it as revenue the moment the credits are issued?

You've gotten the revenue but you haven't paid the cost for that revenue yet. Those are essentially un-cashed checks that the accountants have to keep on the books indefinitely otherwise. Imagine you're chugging along and out of the blue someone shows up with $100M of credits they bought 10 years ago, expecting you to do something for them. Now you're using electricity and displacing new revenue for money that may be long gone.
by SR2Z | 2025-08-05 21:38:12+00:00
> Another difficulty is that voters don’t reward Democratic Party for their efforts.

It is worth noting that the Biden admin passed a $42B package of broadband rollout funds in 2021, and then connected ZERO people over the next few years.

This is because special interest groups saddled it with environmental, union, and DEI requirements that were so onerous that nobody was able to actually get/use the funds.

Yes, Democrats plan to do the right thing, but frankly they should be penalized for boondoggles like this. Until the party can sideline its special interest groups to get things done, it's not as simple as "Democrats good, GOP bad."

[1] https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/the-42-...
by bgwalter | 2025-08-05 21:38:18+00:00
The mechanical loom produced a tangible good. That kind of automation was supposed to free people from menial work. Now they are trying to replace interesting work with human supervised slop, which is a stolen derivative work in the first place.

The loom wasn't centralized in four companies. Customers of textiles did not need an expensive subscription.

Obviously average people would benefit more if all that investment went into housing or in fact high speed railways. "AI" does not improve their lives one bit.
by gamblor956 | 2025-08-05 21:38:31+00:00
The fact that it's in in the instruction manual is irrelevant because consumers are not required to read the instruction manual before using the car. And either way, the manual conflicts with the marketing of the car, and with the CEO's many statements saying that the car could drive itself.

A consumer is not expected, nor required, to resolve this conflict that the company created for itself through its own choice of conflicting language. Tesla was able to get away with it longer than expected, but now the floodgates are open to reason again.
by themafia | 2025-08-05 21:38:55+00:00
> It is one of the reasons why people push for Wayland.

Really? You think they'd just push for a _firewall_. Wouldn't that just solve the actual problem? Oh, wait, yea, X11 disabled TCP networking by default more than a decade ago.

> it cannot use the active X11 connection to spy on your keyboard.

You understand what /dev/input/* is, right?

> I understand that this means this blog post lacks substance.

The whole undertaking lacks substance.

Too many projects drank the early 2000s kool-aid and thought they would get a second suck at the salve (a.k.a "start from scratch"). It never worked out and you just fraction an already annoyed userbase into an overtly warring userbase. I can't think of anything more wasteful of talent and energy.
by skeledrew | 2025-08-05 21:39:32+00:00
Typically when something is behind a login, it denotes a private space intended for a particular set of persons given explicit access. It's senseless to block people from using agents if the same people would otherwise have access, unless there is an abuse of that access, ie. action which is to the detriment of the space. And though some of that does happen, it obviously isn't the full story. I have a Perplexica instance running locally that I sometimes use (but often don't as Perplexity does a much better job). Should that also be blocked?

Hmm maybe a civil case could be potentially made here too, re disability. By blocking LLM use, sites are reducing the ability of select users to reasonably interact with the content. Just could become a thing in a few years if this nonsense continues.
by chromatin | 2025-08-05 21:39:35+00:00
I think his point is that slavery is not outlawed by the 13th amendment as most people assume (even the Google AI summary reads: "The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.").

However, if you actually read it, the 13th amendment makes an explicit allowance for slavery (i.e. expressly allows it):

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, *except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted*" (emphasis mine obviously since Markdown didn't exist in 1865)
by nomel | 2025-08-05 21:39:36+00:00
> Calvinist society who think nothing good comes without suffering

Or, some of us older folks have been around long enough to understand that we are, in an uncontroversial and factual way, the long term medical trial, and long term effects found in that trial, along with the eventual market withdrawal, may not show up until 10 to 20 years later, creating a healthy distrust in the money/corporations behind the, sometimes outright crafted [1], early medical trials.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w
by thecupisblue | 2025-08-05 21:39:38+00:00
This is definitely one of the potential issues that might happen to embodied agents/robots/bodies trained on the "world model". As we are training a model for the real world based on a model that simulates the real world, the glitches in the world simulator model will be incorporated into the training. There will be edge cases due to this layered "overtraining", where a robot/agent/body will expect Y to happen but X will happen, causing unpredictable behaviour.I assume that a generic world agent will be able to autocorrect, but this could also lead to dangerous issues.

I.e. if the simulation has enough videos of firefighters breaking glass where it seems to drop instantaneously and in the world sim it always breaks, a firefighter robot might get into a problem when confronted with unbreakable glass, as it expects it to break as always, leading to a loop of trying to shatter the glass instead of performing another action.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-05 21:39:49+00:00
There's anecdotes, and there's science.

Individually, there's (previously) been nothing better to suggest than "try harder (and, maybe, smarter)".

Statistically it was almost useless, but it's the best we had. It's not bad advice exactly, it's just extremely unlikely to work for long-term, sustained weight loss.

It also very much appears to be the case that weight gain and loss are heavily influenced by environmental factors. Skinnier countries aren't skinnier because the people there have more willpower, it seems, but because they live in a skinnier country and are surrounded by the culture, laws, physical layouts of the created world, et c., that come with that. It'd be kinda weird if we expected "just try harder" to work very well when that's evidently not the mechanism by which skinny countries are skinny. Alternatively, if it is willpower doing it, we're just adding a step, because then it appears that environment strongly influences willpower, instead, since the same observations hold.

Sure, sometimes it works for individuals. In fact, it often works temporarily, causing a yo-yo effect. It can work for long periods (many years without a slip) but that's rare.

If your solution to the obesity crisis is "people need to try harder" your solution is demonstrably not helpful. Can it work for one person? Yes. Over a population, will it? No, it won't, it's amazingly ineffective, even very expensive high-touch interventions involving multiple experts aimed at weight loss and lifestyle change and such are wildly less effective than "inject GLP-1 agonists" or "move somewhere skinnier".
by nosignono | 2025-08-05 21:39:52+00:00
It has nothing to do with stupidity. Stop painting people as idiots because they exist in one of the most information hostile environments in human history.

This isn't some natural state that's unrecoverable. The people you describe have been given a highly addictive media environment tailor made to engender outrage and drive behavior. It shouldn't be a shock when most people cannot resist it. The first step to changing it is not writing them off or insulting them for being had.
by markatlarge | 2025-08-05 21:39:59+00:00
Google won’t tell me the name of the file—or files—they believe violated their policy. So IT IS baseless speculation. I only know what I was doing prior to the account deletion—and I’m guessing that’s what triggered the issue.

Google should at minimum publish the filenames of the content they consider violations. I have Colab notebooks for everything I’ve downloaded from the internet. With a filename, I could trace the origin and have the image independently reviewed.

I suspect it wasn’t CSAM at all. We know nothing about how their detection system or hashing works. I’d also like to point out that I benchmarked my model against Google’s own commercially available NSFW detector—and mine actually performed better: https://medium.com/@russoatlarge/benchmark-study-punge-yolov...

As for datasets: COCO is the most widely used dataset in computer vision, with hundreds of thousands of labeled images. One image in the COCO Train2017 set—000000001790.jpg—shows a child brushing his teeth while looking in the mirror in his “birthday suit.” But if Google's system flagged that as CSAM, then every researcher using COCO is at risk.

If Google genuinely cared about addressing CSAM responsibly, they would share the filenames so they could be independently verified and—if needed—removed from circulation. Instead, they’re silent. That silence creates fear, not safety.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-05 21:40:07+00:00
> I’m convinced that this is all what it looks like to live through the end of an empire (or whatever term you’d like).

It feels to me like it's more like the beginning of an empire, in the sense of existing under an emperor.

> I think our lives are short enough that it can be easy to perceive something like America as “always was, always will be” and the rest is just trivia you learn in history class.

I think it very interesting that one of the things the USA is going to have to grapple with, in the middle of the most contentious presidency in its history, is the semiquincentennial of independence itself.

The bicentennial of independence in 1976 was I think largely an uncontentious thing even though the Vietnam conflict had ended only a couple of years beforehand and the presidency was in the hands of a guy who had taken over the job from, and pardoned, a crook who was forced to resign. Internationally people were pretty kind and generous to the USA.

I don't think anyone, anywhere on the planet, is prepared diplomatically for how it will play out this time. Next year is going to be a heck of a year.
by gamblor956 | 2025-08-05 21:40:20+00:00
If Tesla is liable to some degree so should the NHTSA,

That's ridiculous. Tesla chose to make dangerous claims that resulted in the loss of dozens of lives. Tesla alone should be liable for this, not the regulator that eventually forced them to add the disclaimers so that consumers would have at least some modicrum of notice that Tesla's advertising was actually just a package of lies.
by firefax | 2025-08-05 21:40:22+00:00
I wrote a network security tool (if you can call a glorified shell script that) and it was used by script kiddies to harass people.

It made me feel maybe magicians had something, when they decided some knowledge should be esoteric and earned, given that it was so trivial I never listed it on my CV.

I think infosec, as a field, sometimes darts between too much obscurity and too much openness.
by rhdunn | 2025-08-05 21:40:31+00:00
The slow mo guys did a video [1] at 10 trillion FPS. They also recently did another video [2] at 5,000,000 FPS. Their other videos vary between 50,000 FPS and 850,000 FPS.

Edit: They mention in [2] that the Phantom camera they have can go to a 95ns exposure up to 1,750,000 FPS.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ&pp=ygUMc2xvdyBtb...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTkZ36g4GOs
by yellowapple | 2025-08-05 21:40:39+00:00
Yes, but there are various annoyances that I was tired of dealing with:

- RCS chats not sending/receiving, which has caused me to not be able to receive or send messages from/to multiple group chats with friends/family (probably going to be an issue with GrapheneOS, but at least plenty of people have reported that to be possible to work; currently doing the "disable RCS and wait 10 days" dance, so we'll see how that shakes out)

- Every other reboot the speakers would fail to initialize, meaning I couldn't hear anything except through Bluetooth (massive problem for getting up in the morning if I'm relying on my phone's alarms!).

- Microphone quality was inconsistent; sometimes I'd sound fine, and other times I'd sound muddy. Also not an issue through Bluetooth; it was just the phone's built-in microphone(s).

These were probably fixable issues, but I'm lazy and I wanted to give GrapheneOS a go, anyway (and so far I'm pretty happy with it, minus RCS still being a work-in-progress).
by cyphertruck | 2025-08-05 21:40:47+00:00
This is like an old fashioned Civilization game trade. Taiwan gets a significant ownership in a blue chip US company, TSMC should then take %51 control over intel, and turn it around. The US gets a stronger position with China such that china attacking Taiwan would be like bombing Apple or Google. The USA will go to war over that.

Only the willingness to go to war, stops aggressors. War is terrible and economic competition is the path to peace, but if you can't defend yourself you will get destroyed.
by smackeyacky | 2025-08-05 21:41:02+00:00
It's not really a speed run.

The seeds were planted after Nixon resigned and it was decided to re-shape the media landscape and move the overton window rightwards in the 1970s, dismantling social democracy across the west and leading to a gradual reversal of the norms of governance in the US (see Newt Gingrich).

It's been gradual, slow and methodical. It has definitely accelerated but in retrospect the intent was there from the very beginning.
by turnsout | 2025-08-05 21:41:05+00:00
The environmentalist in me loves the fact that LLM progress has mostly been focused on doing more with the same hardware, rather than horizontal scaling. I guess given GPU shortages that makes sense, but it really does feel like the value of my hardware (a laptop in my case) is going up over time, not down.

Also, just wanted to credit you for being one of the five people on Earth who knows the correct spelling of "lede."
by coderatlarge | 2025-08-05 21:41:36+00:00
i’ve personally known a number of tenured professors who’ve systematically shirked all responsibility after their tenure event. they’ve been willing to live as semi-pariahs within their peer group though.

even when required to teach they simply repeat classes they’ve taught many times before making no effort to optimize for reviews.

i don’t doubt your experience but i wonder how much it has to do with not wanting to endure your colleagues’ and departments’s disapproval vs actual threat to employment.

and fwiw, i’m not saying it has to be this way just that it can be this way due to the structure of the system. similarly there are many corporate situations in which one can scrape by for extended periods of time, but there is rarely a “for life” clause. even so, it hasn’t prevented the university system from helping to catalyze all the amazing discoveries we all benefit from in society every day.
by paxys | 2025-08-05 21:41:51+00:00
https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing/ - $0 / $20 / $200 / $25 (team) / custom enterprise pricing / on-demand API pricing

https://www.anthropic.com/pricing - $0 / $17 (if billed annually) / $20 (if billed monthly) / $100 / $25 (team) / custom enterprise pricing / on-demand API pricing

Sounds like tiers to me.
by BigglesB | 2025-08-05 21:42:05+00:00
I also wonder the extent to which "pseudo-black-box-AI" is potentially driving some of these crazy valuations now due to it actually being used in a lot algorithmic trading itself... seems like a prevalence of over-corrected models, all expecting "line go up" from recent historical data would be the perfect way to cook up a really "big beautiful bubble" so to speak...
by syncsynchalt | 2025-08-05 21:42:18+00:00
I think the audience already understands why it works, it's more the knowing there's a relatively small set of mnemonics for these things that's interesting. "eyJ" for JSON, "LS0" for dashes (PEM encoding), "MII" for the DER payload inside a PEM, and so on.

I've been doing this a long time but until today the only one I'd noticed was "MII".
by dylan604 | 2025-08-05 21:42:23+00:00
Most ad sales platforms have auctions for ad slots and/or keywords. If you want to game the system and have money to burn as growth hacking, you can place a larger value in those auctions/keywords to win a chance at your ad being placed in front of more eyeballs. When it comes to apps/games especially, people will chose whatever is posted from laziness, fomo, or just tired of looking and picking the easy route. I suspect that when you get an unrelated ad to your search, it's because someone else was willing to spend more money for those search terms than someone with more relevant matches. It's always going to be about those Benjamins.
by samtp | 2025-08-05 21:42:25+00:00
Thanks for sharing and that is interesting to read through. But it's still just a demo, not live production code. From the readme:

> As of March, 2025, this library is very new, prerelease software.

I'm not looking for personal proof that their workflows work as well as they say they do.

I just want an example of a project in production with active users depending on the service for business functions that has been written 1.5/2/5/10/whatever x faster than it otherwise would have without AI.

Anyone can vibe code a side project with 10 users or a demo meant to generate hype/sales interest. But I want someone to actually have put their money where their mouth is and give an example of a project that would have legal, security, or monetary consequences if bad code was put in production. Because those are the types of projects that matter to me when trying to evaluate people's claims (since those are what my paycheck actually depends on).

Do you have any examples like that?
by nextos | 2025-08-05 21:42:56+00:00
Firejail discusses this briefly in their X11 guide:

The sandbox replaces the regular X11 server with Xpra or Xephyr server. This prevents X11 keyboard loggers and screenshot utilities from accessing the main X11 server.

https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/x11-guide

It's not a common issue, but obviously a security concern to make it so easy for keyloggers to record your keypresses or screen. I currently prefer X11 to Wayland, and I'd love if this problem was possible to address without Firejail. I use Firejail for other sandboxing tasks, but sandboxing X11 is too impractical.
by blacksmith_tb | 2025-08-05 21:43:24+00:00
Presumably because that's been our experience with human societies? You might protest Germany in the 1930s was "modern" technologically but still "barbaric" morally - but I think that overlooks the way all the European powers were behaving in Africa and Asia, barbarism wasn't so uncommon as all that. And it's less common now, even as we've made more technical advancements? I don't think we develop on all axes in lockstep, but there's still a general trend, and I'd be pretty surprised to find aliens advanced enough to come visit who didn't already have plenty of resources, so why bother messing with us?
by ninkendo | 2025-08-05 21:43:33+00:00
> It has been so long since I've had to !g something that I don't even remember the last time.

I use !g once a week or so in Kagi, and 100% of the time, google’s results are worse. It’s usually something bogus I’m searching for, and there really isn’t anything to be said about it, but when I search google for it, I get a ton more junk that is totally unrelated to my query.

Kagi’s results are better than google’s 100% of the time that I compare the two. It’s no exaggeration.
by jfengel | 2025-08-05 21:43:37+00:00
Taiwan really, really does not want to be part of China.

Or rather, they see themselves as the legitimate government of China, which is undergoing a temporary Communist junta. The separation was extremely violent. I mean, you saw the Three Body Problem.

The US fosters this, to retain a toehold there. Taiwan doesn't exactly love us for it, but they know which side their bread is buttered on.
by dsotm17 | 2025-08-05 21:43:40+00:00
The problem is someone posts a comment and there's an immediate response from a spergy contrarian having to interject (wink) for a moment AKKSSSSHHHHULLLLY and point out how every single thing you wrote is incorrect. If they'd written the opposite, the contrarian would spout the opposite also. Contrarianism. The internet has always been this way - before and after the normie invasion.
SoftBrowse – Hide Reels, Explore, and Feed on Instagram (But Keep DMs)
by softbrowse | 2025-08-05 21:43:42+00:00
I built this because I couldn't delete Instagram — I still use DMs for work and friends — but I was getting pulled into Reels and Explore way too easily.

SoftBrowse is a browser extension that hides the most addictive parts of Instagram:

Reels tab

Explore/Search

Suggested Posts

Like/View counts

Entire Feed (optional toggle)

It still lets you view profiles, send/receive DMs, and post.

No backend. No tracking. No account. Just a client-side script that modifies the DOM.

Built it for Orion browser (iOS) first — ZIP download: https://tinyurl.com/softbrowse

Open to feedback — Chrome/Firefox/Safari versions coming next.
by layer8 | 2025-08-05 21:43:44+00:00
> high speed trains in Italy run better than Germany

Not to excuse the German performance, but part of the reason is that the Italian high-speed railway network is significantly simpler than the German one, also in terms of interconnections with neighbouring countries:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italy_TAV.png#/media...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ICE_Network.png#/med...
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-05 21:43:58+00:00
I imagine SpaceX having pretty fishbowl conference rooms for customers in the center of everything, with guest network ports just segmented off from the main but using the same hardware. Oh man that would stress me out if I was IT. And of course the '<Customer name> needs to print something off and needs access to the MFCs'. No, you print it out for them, like has been discussed and agreed to and keeps with ITAR. 'No, they need access, and now. Because I'm a sales guy and I won't tell them no' but if they get into/past the MFC, it's all on IT and IT being bad at their job/security, not the sales guy that demanded they get physical access.
by cyphertruck | 2025-08-05 21:44:17+00:00
It actually wouldn't. The sale price will be pretty close to the current market price, maybe %10 more. If the Government kicks in funds to underwrite the deal (say a loan to TSMC) then the deal would likely happen exactly at market price.

That means investors who sell are getting the current low market price or a little bit higher--- they will still be down the massive amount.

This is really bailing out current management-- letting them be replaced by the more capable TSMC people and getting an attaboy for helping the US government strengthen the alliance with Taiwan, keeping peace in the region.
by davorak | 2025-08-05 21:44:31+00:00
> Even Eliezer Yudkowsky, a figurehead of the "rationalist" movement, has written about "metabolic disprivilege" and claimed that his genetics do not allow him to lose weight through dieting. This thinking runs deep.

I thought EY's point was different. Am I misremembering? I thought it was about not being able to do mental work productively when dieting enough to loose weight(maybe maintain a low weight too, though I do not remember that being mentioned explicitly).