MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by em-bee | 2025-08-13 13:06:31+00:00
the problem is that every piece of navigation on a site turns a document into an application. separating actual document content from a "frame" that includes navigation and site styling has always been a problem. take hackernews for example. it is not a document. but every message is its own document and the rest is an application to view those documents. you practically can not avoid using application techniques if you have a site with multiple documents.
by lvl155 | 2025-08-13 13:06:46+00:00
> That's why people used to like using Grok so much, since it was never afraid to get edgy if you asked it to.

You said you liked it when it was more “edgy” and we all know what it used to say as recently as 2-3 weeks ago. And we all know what went on in those Halo/CoD lobbies. A lot of immature racism. I connect the dots. Why are you expecting an LLM to be human when it clearly is not. It’s a tool. Use it.
by jgalt212 | 2025-08-13 13:07:35+00:00
> Or, one can just relax in the knowledge that players have been cheating, chemically or otherwise, from time immemorial, and that it's impossible to retroactively sort out. So if we compare players relative to their peers and then use that to compare across eras we can get a better sense. But it's folly to read too much into all of this.

That's just way too hand-wavy for me. Not all crimes should be categorized as misdemeanors. We have misdemeanors and felonies for a reason.
by panzerboiler | 2025-08-13 13:07:38+00:00
A Bézier curve is not an interpolating spline. It is a parametric curve defined by a set of control points, which the curve typically does not pass through (except the first and last points). Bézier curves exhibit local control (changing a control point influences only a portion of the curve, especially in piecewise Bézier constructions). Interpolating splines may seem more user-friendly at first, since the curve passes exactly through all the given points. However, this can lead to unintuitive behavior: modifying a single point can cause global changes in the curve, including in areas far from the edited point. In some cases, these changes can be drastic, making precise control difficult or impossible. I may be biased by my 20+ years of graphic design work, but I prefer the precision and control given by Bézier curves.
by franga2000 | 2025-08-13 13:07:46+00:00
This is already fairly trivial to do. There are many DIY and commercial off-the-shelf solutions. The problem with all client-side blocking is that it can be bypassed by just...using a different computer. People who want this legislation want restrictions to apply everywhere, not just on parent-managed devices, so shifting the discussion to client-side blocks just makes our arguments trivial to dismiss as irrelevant.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-13 13:07:57+00:00
> I dont care what chatgpt said... that dude is the problem.

This reminds me of people who fall for phone scams or whatever. Some number of the general population is susceptible to being scammed, and they wind up giving away their life's savings or whatever to someone claiming to be their grandkid

There's always an asshole saying "well that's their own fault if they fall for that stuff" as if they chose it on purpose instead of being manipulated into it by other people taking advantage of them

See it a lot on this site, too. How clever are the founders who exploit their workers and screw them out of their shares, how stupid are the workers who fell for it
by Self-Perfection | 2025-08-13 13:08:14+00:00
I suspect this might be cultural thing. Some people might formulate their strong opinions that your approach is bad and your task should be done in another as gentle suggestions to avoid hurting your feelings. And Claude learned to stick to this cultural norm of communication.

As a workaround I try to word my questions to Claude in a way that does not leave any possibility to interpret them as showing my preferences.

For instance, instead of "would it be maybe better to do it like $alt_approach?" I'd rather say "compare with $alt_approach, pros and cons"
by chii | 2025-08-13 13:08:28+00:00
> as they cannot hire thousands of six-figure developers.

but they can hire about 12 engineers for 10 years, instead of the same cost to have a single [CEO during that time period](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker).

And i think 12 good engineers (at $150k/yr) for 10 years will have produced an excellent product (such as making firefox competitive with chrome...)

Of course, google, who pays mozilla the vast majority of their revemue, will have something to say about that.
by BeauNer | 2025-08-13 13:08:46+00:00
Fantasy football is no longer just a casual pastime. It is becoming a real-world experiment in how people adopt and trust artificial intelligence. A new survey from Qlik shows that more than two-thirds of U.S. fantasy football fans already use AI to make decisions for their teams, and nearly a third would hand over complete control. Among 35 to 44-year-olds, that number rises to almost half.

I absolutely love fantasy football. But I cannot imagine letting AI run my team. I understand wanting to gain an advantage, but part of the excitement is proving you personally know the sport. If a computer is making every decision, winning would feel empty.

Surprisingly, cheating is not what concerns most fans. In fact, only 13 percent think using AI is dishonest. Instead, 44 percent worry it will create too much parity and remove skill advantages. This is similar to the workplace, where simply having AI is not enough. The real advantage comes from feeding it quality data and making smarter, faster decisions than your competitors.

The survey also found that 52 percent of fans admit to managing their teams during work hours, while 42 percent say they are more comfortable using AI at work than in their fantasy leagues. When fans do use AI, it is mostly for practical and repeatable tasks such as weekly start or sit decisions, draft picks, prep work, and trade evaluations. Only 9 percent use it for creative elements such as trash talk or naming their teams.

Generational differences are clear. Younger and mid-career players are more open to letting AI take control, while older fans are far more cautious. Just 12 percent of those aged 55 and older would allow AI to run their teams.

“Fantasy football may be a game, but it is also a low-risk, high-interest environment where people reveal how they will engage with AI in more serious contexts,” said Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik. “When you see people trusting AI with their lineups, worrying about parity over cheating, and using it for the same kinds of repeatable decisions that drive value in business, you understand how closely the lessons carry over to the workplace. In both arenas, the winners aren’t defined by access to AI, but by the ability to feed it the right data, interpret the insights, and act faster and smarter than the competition.”
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-13 13:09:50+00:00
> Wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX just continues to launch such satellites causing unintentional interference, to then claim in case of escalation how uneconomic it will be for them to correct this issue now and how the financial impact to SpaceX needs to be valued higher than scientific needs.

At least Starlink satellites need to be replaced every few years anyway due to their low orbit. That is a natural ceiling for economical questions - ITU et al take years anyway until anything is actually enforceable, so SpaceX has ample time to prepare should there be a relevant movement in ITU.
by petesergeant | 2025-08-13 13:10:17+00:00
> I find that it is much more likely to take a strong stance that might include pushing back against the user.

Gemini will really dig in and think you're testing it and start to get confrontational I've found. Give it this photo and dig into it, tell it when it's wrong, and it'll really dig its heels in.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-06-17/G7-leaders-including-T...
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-13 13:11:42+00:00
> Not every question is an excellent question. Not every statement is a brilliant observation.

A brilliant observation, Dr. Watson! Indeed, the merit of an inquiry or an assertion lies not in its mere utterance but in the precision of its intent and the clarity of its reasoning!

One may pose dozens of questions and utter scores of statements, yet until each is finely honed by observation and tempered by logic, they must remain but idle chatter. It is only through genuine quality of thought that a question may be elevated to excellence, or a remark to brilliance.
by aurizon | 2025-08-13 13:11:58+00:00
I have often wondered if a a very small Ion thruster, used intermittently, gravitationally stabilised, could be used to offset the variable atmospheric drag caused by inflation/deflation of the tenuous upper atmosphere to extend satellite life. It would add a little weight at launch but could extend orbital life by many years. It would need fractions of a gram of thrust, run off the current solar electricity budget, and could easily make them endure for 10+ years. When the satellite had failed or aged out, it could be used for improved de-orbiting at end of life. I also suspect that a mobile stream at a lower frequency could be added that would provide intermittent stream down loads of news directly to the Russian people via recently tested cell phone comms ability
by zamadatix | 2025-08-13 13:12:51+00:00
Nah, Windows 7 RTM was ~a month before most school years started back up in 2009 so relatively few schools even considered starting to roll it out until at least 2010 (usually upgrades are done by then, not just beginning). E.g. I was class of 2012 and it wasn't until my senior year the rollout started (it was about less than half complete that year). Meanwhile they had us doing Microsoft Office classes twice a week on XP since 2003.

Can't say for Macs, the district hadn't used those since the iMac G3. After I graduated it was only a couple of years (maybe 2015?) before they rolled out Chromebooks, so 7 didn't even have much staying power.

Shoutout to kipix studio deluxe.
by rootsudo | 2025-08-13 13:13:11+00:00
So it's interesting - this isn't new if you're in aviation, the redditors on /r/flying, /r/aviation, etc basically summed this up but it's just interesting that the floor to post an article is what is presented here. Just eerie the closer you are to a subject the more you see through the news.

But basically, yeah if you also go on the pilot facebook groups, you'd see alot of gossip about the flights happening and such too.
by UncleMeat | 2025-08-13 13:13:20+00:00
The gold standard are surveys that just ask people "have you been the victim of the following crimes." This does not rely on police at all. This does not rely on a fuzzy definition of violent crime. People are not motivated to over or underreport things.

We can further cross check this data against things like insurance reports, since people tend to report things like vehicle theft.

People, when asked, report being victims of crime far less today than they did in the 90s.
by kibwen | 2025-08-13 13:13:22+00:00
To reiterate, I'm not suggesting it should be able to listen in on conversations, but rather that it may plausibly be able to detect recurring environmental vibrations. For example, let's say your phone is left on a table unnattended, then if your house is near a train then it may be able to sense the regularity of the train's passing (whose schedule itself varies throughout the day, providing a unique fingerprint for both determining which train it might be and your position along that train's route).
by telesilla | 2025-08-13 13:13:23+00:00
It felt like we all had an equal chance at success back then. Now it's limited to those with enough money or very rare luck. The riches of today were sown almost in the first decade of the 2000s, it seems. Who today will get rich from AI starting from nothing? (not that wealth is the end goal, but in the context of this thread it is)
by Thorrez | 2025-08-13 13:13:26+00:00
>You could use a different term if this one is too fuzzy.

What would we use? Existence of brain waves? Existence of neurons? Those both would include most animals.

>like recognition of self, by which you prioritize e.g. a person over a dog

Babies cannot recognize themselves in the mirror until around 1.5 years old. Several types of animals can recognize themselves in the mirror: elephants, dolphins, primates, mice, some birds, some fish.

If we justify the value of babies by saying that they'll have certain abilities in the future, that same thing could be said about a zygote.

>> A sperm isn't a young human; it isn't growing into an adult human. An egg isn't a young human; it isn't growing into an adult human.

>But they are? The only reason they try to fuse together at all is in service of the growth of a human.

Sure the only reason they fuse is in service of the growth of a human. However, before fusing, a sperm only has half the DNA of a human. A sperm's DNA doesn't define a human, and isn't sufficient to grow into a human, and thus cannot be called a young human. Same for an egg. A zygote has the full DNA of a human, which defines a human, and thus the zygote can grow into a human, and thus the zygote can be called a young human.

>>Just because they're nearby each other doesn't make them a human life.

>Right. By the same token, I don’t think a single cell constitutes a “human life”

That's not the same token. I was saying that 2 (or 3) things being nearby each other doesn't make them 1 entity. You're talking about whether a single entity has certain abilities or not. Those are 2 different discussions.
by andai | 2025-08-13 13:13:35+00:00
Your options are now effectively 4o and o3 (GPT-5 and GPT-5 Thinking). There's no equivalent to o4-mini (at least not via ChatGPT -- I think you could emulate it through some combination of gpt-5 model size (-mini?) and reasoning effort).

o4-mini was the best reasoning model in my experience, because it gave you approximately o3 performance in a very small fraction of the time o3 would take.

ChatGPT's GPT-5 Thinking is even worse than o3, it's closer to o3 Pro! Some messages take 4 minutes to get a reply. Which is great when that's what you want, but the niche of "5 seconds to get an actually intelligent response" has been deleted for no good reason.
by simonw | 2025-08-13 13:15:30+00:00
If that was the case they wouldn't have so much stuff in their system card desperately trying to stop it from behaving like this: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts

> Claude never starts its response by saying a question or idea or observation was good, great, fascinating, profound, excellent, or any other positive adjective. It skips the flattery and responds directly.
by jon-wood | 2025-08-13 13:15:44+00:00
Unless I'm doing an exercise where the candidate is actually writing software (in which case they can have Google, their favourite IDE, and if they must an LLM) I never expect exactly correct syntax in an interview. I'm assessing whether they demonstrate the sort of thought processes you'd expect from someone who knows what they're talking about, and can get in the same ballpark.
by boxed | 2025-08-13 13:15:48+00:00
From the first URL:

> but it means that God labors tirelessly to bring all people — Christian or not — to salvation in Christ.

That is a hilarious quote. Only believers can say that with a straight face and not see the absolute madness it implies. How could "God labor[] tirelessly" to help everyone into salvation? That's on its face absolute garbage. Is God so incredibly weak that he could only show the path to salvation to 12 dudes 2000 years ago? If so, why should we worship that god, which seems like a pitiful figure compared to many nobel prize winners. I certainly would think we owe more worship to Normal Borlaug than a god that can't get his message across because he could only intervene in a credible way once in front of 12 people, and then never again.
by 47282847 | 2025-08-13 13:15:53+00:00
> it should be possible to claim or cheaply register one of

RIPE is not the level to interact with as an end user for IP resources. LIRs act as intermediaries towards such end users. The reason why 255 IPv4 addresses is the smallest chunk you can route these days is a technical one, but apart from that IPv4s are not meant to be moved with end users. This is what DNS is for.

As a hosting or access provider, you are meant to acquire single IP addresses or blocks from LIRs, which in turn assign and route them to a host. It is a federated, layered organizational structure.

I get that you are upset, but I wonder who you are upset at exactly? It is not RIPEs mandate or responsibility to design Internet Protocols. If you want to argue for a better design, you should direct it at the IETF working group based on a study of the current tradeoffs, goals and technical limitations? “I want a different internet!“ Ok sure, go contribute! This openness and collaborative approach is the amazing thing about the Internet. If you have a great idea with technical merit, you will be welcomed with open arms and heard.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-13 13:16:03+00:00
Does it seem like hacktivism is at an all time low? In the 2010s there were a lot of groups calling themselves anonymous which attacked petty tyrants at the state and local level who were trying to cover up crimes. Now we're diving headfirst into a fascist takeover of American government and it feels like the only hackers you hear of anymore are criminals or state actors from eastern europe
by lardbgard | 2025-08-13 13:16:16+00:00
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by graemep | 2025-08-13 13:16:34+00:00
> God-denial is a big deal in the Bible. I recommend people do a small survey on what happened to entire people(s) when they pursued God-denial in the Old Testament.

Have you drawn the correct conclusions from that? It is certainly not the conclusion the Catholic Church draws which is what we are discussing here. You may think the Catholic church wrong about this, but that is a different argument.

> going up against Judaism was his first major imperative

Everything he said and taught was in the context of the Jewish tradition. He said "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them" - Matthew 5:17
by animal531 | 2025-08-13 13:18:04+00:00
I use GPT about daily now and have noticed a funny thing, which is to be expected really.

I can ask it to help me code for example a physics engine, so we're talking really hard and intricate code and it'll come up with some amazing optimizations, we're talking (recent) research paper level implementations.

Then I ask it to work on something that's relatively trivial, let's say we need a flowfield. It'll think and reason about it just as well as in the first example, but then it'll start spitting out a lot of subpar code. Its error rate will increase 10x while the global cohesiveness of the produced code will be substantially worse.

As to why that's happening, maybe its being trained on a lot more as well as worse examples of the second, whereas the first is relatively "pure".

These programming competitions are pretty much the same thing in my opinion. For us humans its a hard challenge, but in general they're asking the same-ish questions, just in different formats. They should add some questions where the participant has to invent something new, or alternatively use two or more existing concepts in a totally novel fashion.
by abdusco | 2025-08-13 13:18:12+00:00
I solved it by generating English subtitles, then passing those to an LLM in chunks that are ~20 entries in size. Include preceding and following subtitles as context for better translation. Make sure to replace the timestamps with simple integer ids, because LLMs like to mangle those, no matter how hard you prompt.

I could share a python script that is working pretty reliably for me.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-13 13:18:19+00:00
> That experiment is really non significant

That's been anecdotally my experience as well, I have found juniors benefitted the most so far in professional settings with lots of time spent on learning the tools. Senior devs either negatively suffered or didn't experience an improvement. The only study so far also corroborates that anecdotal experience.

We can wait for other studies that are more relevant and with larger sample sizes, but till the only folks actually trying to measure productivity experienced a negative effect so I am more inclined to believe it until other studies come along.
by cvoss | 2025-08-13 13:18:53+00:00
But what is the winning strategy? It would be interesting to know whether the decision tree has a compact algorithmic, since that would serve as an explanation of the strategy. Even if not, I'd be curious if there is some other simple proof of its existence. And failing that, it would be interesting to see an optimal game: a game in which player 2, though doomed, makes the game take as long as possible (presumably 21 moves).
by andsoitis | 2025-08-13 13:19:06+00:00
> Though flights have been a part of US immigration operation for years, the speed and scale of the ICE program today is unprecedented. Since Trump's inauguration, there have been more than 1,000 deportation flights to other countries, up 15% over the January to July period last year, according to Witness at Border.

What this is really saying: Trump administration continues long-standing US government policy (incl. previous Democratic administrations) of deporting flights , improving effectiveness by 15%.

A couple of questions arise for me:

a) is this a good policy?

b) is the execution being done in a legal manner (due process, etc.)?

c) why did the Democratic Party not advertise their immigration enforcement to the electorate, when that was probably the most foundational issue the opposition ran on?
by moduspol | 2025-08-13 13:19:41+00:00
I continue to be surprised that LLM providers haven't been legally cudgeled into neutering the models from ever giving anything that can be construed as medical advice.

I'm glad--I think LLMs are looking quite promising for medical use cases. I'm just genuinely surprised there's not been some big lawsuit yet over it providing some advice that leads to some negative outcome (whether due to hallucinations, the user leaving out key context, or something else).
by const_cast | 2025-08-13 13:19:42+00:00
Linux has two application toolkits and they work pretty well together. Windows, again, has a dozen. And they're closed source. Microsoft could just... not... do that. They control the entire thing. But they chose to do it.

Greed is maybe not the right word, but maybe it's more like ideological greed. Like everyone wants things their way 100%. They won't settle for 99%!

Like okay, with Apple and vulkan and metal, is vulkan the best API? No. Is it the most performant? No.

But it's pretty fucking good. Its 95% of the way there. But for greedy apple, that's not good enough. So they say "fuck you, heres metal, good luck developers!"

And now people only make Mac apps if there's a gun to their head and they really need that tiny slice of market share.

Its the same thing with Qt versus bespoke UIs in ImGUI or whatever. Qt is really, really good. Its not perfect.

But we're really gonna burn it all down and start over for like... a 1% improvement in code architecture or something? Really? We're chopping off both our legs so that our pinky finger hurts slightly less?

Sigh. Okay. Such is the way of developers, I guess.