MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vharuck | 2025-08-29 17:19:48+00:00
Here in Pennsylvania, the minimum wage is still $7.25/hour, but the Burger King near me is paying $11.96/hour for new "team members." Every fast food place and gas station around here started paying over $10/hour and often $15/hour for new hires during COVID. Retirees earning some extra cash made up a good number of their staff before that, but I rarely see them anymore. I guess they quit to stay safe and have since adjusted to their new budgets. That plus the tight labor market following COVID meant competition for employees was fierce.

>It's gotten so bad I just don't eat out nearly as much, which is probably just accelerating the downward spiral.

I've also noticed a quality drop in almost every aspect of fast food here: slower service, more mistakes, higher prices, shorter hours. It's like the owners are trying to inch more into cutting costs without going over the edge and losing too many customers. Personally, if I want something "familiar" while traveling, I now do take-out from a steakhouse chain. Only costs a small amount more, but accuracy and quality are so much better. At home, fast food is just too expensive to make sense.
by transpute | 2025-08-29 17:20:05+00:00
> rumors are that there will be no true successor for N150

N100/N150 reinvigorated the x86 ecosystem with price/perf of Arm plus compatibility with existing software.

> Wildcat Lake will be .. closer in price to $300

That price and P-core power budget would compete with compatible x86 AMD Ryzen instead of incompatible Arm/RISC-V boards.

Why would Intel surrender a long-sought advantage over Arm, after they finally succeeded with capable E-cores?
by Nevermark | 2025-08-29 17:20:05+00:00
The setting was turned on for me. And there is no way I explicitly granted access.

I don't understand why Mark Zuckerberg isn't in jail, or via a "no admission of guilt" agreement, prohibited from being a corporate executive, at this point.

My ungranted personal information should be mine, with force of law, just as much as Meta's trade secrets are theirs.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-29 17:20:16+00:00
I use uncommon web browsers that don't leak a lot of information. To Cloudflare, I am indistingushable from a bot.

Privacy cannot exist in an environment where the host gets to decide who access the web page. I'm okay with rate limiting or otherwise blocking activity that creates too much of a load, but trying to prevent automated access is impossible withou preventing access from real people.
by binoct | 2025-08-29 17:20:37+00:00
So this is a really good example of small sample size intuition being a big challenge. Fatalities happen on the order of billion miles driven - obviously people don’t come to that. Take a few thousand miles of positive experience sets a statistical floor on accident rates, but that is orders of magnitude away from how safe (or unsafe, depending on how you look at it) human drivers are on average. FSD and other, less capable L2 systems are amazing at paying attention in situations where humans fail, but also tend to have major limitations in places humans will largely do great most of the time. Your experience, as positive as it has been, doesn’t support the assertion that fatalities would decrease.
by lexicality | 2025-08-29 17:20:51+00:00
> Are you proposing that other cars' lane-keep software is better?

I'm proposing that less technologically advanced and software focused cars are less likely to unexpectedly swerve into incoming traffic for sure

> I guess you're going to figure this out somehow before buying your next car?

Do you not do research and read reviews before making large possibly life-changing purchases?
by someone7x | 2025-08-29 17:20:57+00:00
Very cool and fun toy.

I thought it would be a few trivial steps to reach the Emperor Maurice from Belle’s dad Maurice, but the best I could do was 5 torturous hops between List of Beauty and the Beast Characters and the Maurice disambiguation page.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=List+of+Disney...

Thanks for sharing this
by MaJiX19 | 2025-08-29 17:21:13+00:00
Unbelievable. This is on par ethically with bad Meta decisions as far as privacy is concerned. What a dark pattern! What a mess! Look at this botched rollout... It's not ok to do this folks. This is literally what the modal looked like for me on chats that were already in progress. And NO I did not want them to train on this or ANY OF MY DATA UNDER A DIFFERENT CONTRACT.

Anthropic PR: "Ma'am, you opted IN to training on your therapy sessions and intellectual property and algorithms and salary and family history!" Don't you remember the modal???

The Modal: https://imgur.com/afqMi0Z
by whatever1 | 2025-08-29 17:21:14+00:00
“ Everyday, I see ads on YouTube with smooth-talking, real-looking AI-generated actors. Each one represents one less person that would have been paid.”

The thing is that they would not have paid for the actor anyway. It’s that having an “actor” and special effects for your ads cost nothing, so why not?

The quality of their ads went up, the money changing hands did not change.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-29 17:21:51+00:00
> I made a new kind of AI, how do I make money from it?

Well, presumably, this new form of AI was created because it makes doing something of value easier than it would be without it, so use it to do whatever that is, and either sell the proceeds to people who are interested in the outcome or sell access to the tool to people who are interested in producing the outcome.

Kind of hard to be more specific without information on what the "new form of AI" is or at least what it is for.
by mjr00 | 2025-08-29 17:22:51+00:00
> Everyday, I see ads on YouTube with smooth-talking, real-looking AI-generated actors. Each one represents one less person that would have been paid.

Were AI-generated actors chosen over real actors, or was the alternative using some other low-cost method for an advertisement like just colorful words moving around on a screen? Or the ad not being made at all?

The existence of ads using generative AI "actors" doesn't prove that an actor wasn't paid. This is the same logical fallacy as claiming that one pirated copy of software represents a lost sale.
by tzury | 2025-08-29 17:23:13+00:00
at its foundation, the bots issue is in fact 3 main issues:

bots vs humans:

humans are trying to buy tickets that were sold out to a bot

data scrapping:

you index my data (real estate listing) to not to route traffic to my site as people search for my product, as a search engine will do, rather to become my competitor.

spam (and scam): digital pollution, or even worse, trying to input credit card, gift cards, passwords, etc.

(obviously there are more, most which will fall into those categories, but those are the main ones)

now, in the human assisted AI, the first issue is no longer an issue, since it is obvious that each of us, the internet users, will soon have an agent built into our browser. so we will all have the speedy automated select, click and checkout at our disposal.

Prior to LLM era, there were search engines and academic research on the right side of the internet bots, and scrappers and north to that, on the wrong side of the map. but now we have legitimate human users extending their interaction with an LLM agent, and on top of it, we have new AI companies, larger and smaller which thrive for data in order to train their models.

Cloudflare simply trying to make sense of this, whilst maintaining their bot protection relevant.

I do not appreciate the post content whatsoever, since it lacks or consistency and maturity (a true understanding of how the internet works, rather than a naive one).

when you talk about "the internet", what exactly are you referring to? a blog? a bank account management app? a retail website? social media?

those are all part of the internet and each is a complete different type of operation.

EDIT:

I've written a few words about this back in January [1] and in fact suggested something similar:

Leading CDNs, CAPTCHA providers, and AI vendors—think Cloudflare, Google reCAPTCHA, OpenAI, or Anthropic could collaborate to develop something akin to a “tokenized machine ID.”

https://blog.tarab.ai/p/bot-management-reimagined-in-the
by fuzzzerd | 2025-08-29 17:23:14+00:00
I don't begrudge folks trying to make a decent wage. I also have to agree that it seems a few factors have all combined to make the experience pretty bad for the consumer.

Order kiosks, long waits for food, skyrocketing prices all contribute to choosing other options. If you're going to spend $15+ per person and it still takes 30 minutes to order, wait, and eat youre alternative comparable options are greatly expanded and people are chosing to go to independent cafes for better food and experience at the same price point.
by indigoabstract | 2025-08-29 17:24:18+00:00
Modern AI is built on data. Trusting that our conversations will not be used for training the model is a bit like giving a glutton their favourite food but making them promise not to eat it. Sure, why not.

I still expect that our conversations will not leave the premises (ie end up on the internet), because that would be something else, but other than that, I knew what I signed up for.
by vunderba | 2025-08-29 17:24:31+00:00
I'd recommend putting together some side-by-side comparisons of your tool with a set of diverse input images against other popular upscalers like ESRGAN [1], ControlNet Tile approaches, SUPIR, DAT [2], etc.

- [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00219

- [2] http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03364
by alkyon | 2025-08-29 17:24:49+00:00
This might have its roots in Nazi era when even children happened to denounce their parents to the Gestapo.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20756166

"Several historians have claimed that ordinary citizens who volunteered information on suspected infringements of the letter or spirit of the laws played a crucial role in everyday terror under Hitler's dictatorship"
by devilbunny | 2025-08-29 17:24:58+00:00
Really? I thought heat-of-passion killing was indeed murder. Whereas voluntary manslaughter is more like when you punch someone in the face and they crack their head on a curb and die. You intended to hurt them, but you had absolutely no intent to kill.

But IANAL, and to the extent I pay attention to the law, that kind of basic criminal law isn't it.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-29 17:25:00+00:00
Yes, the US military has been known to throw people under the bus to cover up their own fuck ups.

Just one particularly notorious example of many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

> The first investigation into the explosion, conducted by the U.S. Navy, concluded that one of the gun turret crew members, Clayton Hartwig, who died in the explosion, had deliberately caused it. During the investigation, numerous leaks to the media, later attributed to U.S. Navy officers and investigators, implied that Hartwig and another sailor, Kendall Truitt, had engaged in a romantic relationship and that Hartwig had caused the explosion after their relationship had soured. However, in its report, the U.S. Navy concluded that the evidence did not show that Hartwig was homosexual but that he was suicidal and had caused the explosion with either an electronic or chemical detonator.
by jcranmer | 2025-08-29 17:25:06+00:00
> (We also have world-class municipal and regional rail in the New York area.)

If by world-class you mean something that most of the world would consider a rail system, yes (in comparison to most US cities' attempts which aren't really worth even pretending constitutes regional rail). If you mean something that most of the world would consider as something worth emulating, nope.
by nsaintt | 2025-08-29 17:25:08+00:00
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by dragonwriter | 2025-08-29 17:25:19+00:00
> I have a tool that can up-scale heuristic images based on a training sample, and a smaller input image.

What, in this context, is a "heuristic image" as distinct from any other image and how is this different (in utility, not in mechanism) from the vast array of AI image upscaling tools that already exist? What does this do that you cannot do (or cannot do as well, cheaply, or easily) without it?

Explaining—and demonstrating—this would probably help gain traction.
by ikishade | 2025-08-29 17:25:21+00:00
It's applicable in a large variety of cases, but I originally invented it for procedural generation of 2D video game levels. But after I created it, I began to see other (better) use cases. I tried to launch the tool I originally built, but during my beta with developers I knew, everyone was unwilling to try it because the UI was a CLI based domain specific language.
Show HN: OVH VPS keeps being out of stock, so I made a tracker
by AndreBaltazar | 2025-08-29 17:25:25+00:00
OVH launched some new VPS plans but they have been out of stock pretty much since the start. I've been trying to get one but its hard to check, so I hacked together a simple page that checks all the datacenters and shows where they are available.
by disqard | 2025-08-29 17:25:31+00:00
Jane Street is in hot water in India:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0zgrevl1o

Basically, SEBI investigated Jane Street's trading on January 17, 2024, when the firm allegedly made about $86 million in a single day through what regulators term "intra-day index manipulation."

HFT and Ads are two places which (currently) print money, so it vacuums up all the talent, and puts it to use growing their already-huge revenue streams.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-29 17:25:34+00:00
> Maybe 1 hour of work. On my own it would have taken me close to a working day to figure it all out.

1. Find out how to access metadata about the node running my code (assumption: some kind of an environment variable) [1-10 minutes depending on familiarity with AWS]

2. Google "RDS certificates" and find the bundle URL after skimming the page [1] for important info [1-5 minutes]

3. Write code to download the certificate bundle, fallback being "global-bundle.pem" if step 1 failed for some reason? [5-20 minutes depending on all the bells and whistles you need]

Did I miss anything or completely misunderstand the task?

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Using...

edit: I asked Claude Sonnet 4 to write robust code for a Node.JS application that downloads RDS CA bundle for the AWS region that the code is currently running in and saves it at the supplied filesystem path.

0. It generated about 250 lines of code

1. Fallback was us-east (not global)

2. The download URLs for each region were hardcoded as KV pairs instead of being constructed dynamically

3. Half of the regions were missing

4. It wrote a function that verifies whether the certificate bundle looks valid (i.e. includes a PEM header)... but only calls it on the next application startup, instead of doing so before saving a potentially invalid certificate bundle to disk and proceeding with the application startup.

5. When I complained that half of my instances are downloading global bundles instead of regional ones (because they're not present in the hardcoded list), it:

- incorrectly concluded that not all regions have CA bundles available and hardcoded a duplicate list in 2 places containing regions that are known to offer CA bundles (which is all of them). These lists were even shorter than the last ones.

- wrote a completely unnecessary function that checks whether a regional CA bundle exists with a HEAD request before actually downloading it with a GET request, adding another 50 lines of code

Now I'm having to scrutinize 300 lines of code to make sure it's nothing doing something even more unexpected.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-08-29 17:26:04+00:00
Interesting. I looked up the UCMJ articles for manslaughter and murder, and the language is actually quite plain; reads to me like you are obviously correct that this case would clearly be involuntary manslaughter.

In case anyone else is interested:

UCMJ Article 119 (Manslaughter): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/919

UCML Article 118 (Murder): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/918
by red75prime | 2025-08-29 17:26:15+00:00
> Under the hood, the models still work the same way (after training), and the analogy still applies, no?

Under the hood we have billions of parameters that defy any simple analogies.

Operations of a network are shaped by human data. But the structure of the network is not like the human brain. So, we have something that is human-like in some ways, but deviates from humans in ways, which are unlikely to be like anything we can observe in humans (and use as a basis for analogy).
by kmacdough | 2025-08-29 17:26:15+00:00
If you have an idea and are putting it together, you might use Claude for a few things:

- Search the web for related ideas. This could help if someone's already had the idea or if there are things to learn from related ideas. - Review your writeup or proofs for mistakes and clarity

None of these things make the idea Claude's. Claude merely helped with some of the legwork.

But Claude now has your idea in clear, plain text to train on. The next time someone hits on even a similar idea, Claude might well suggest your idea outright. Not seeing your idea published, the user has no way to know it isn't a novel idea. If the person is less diligent/thorough, they may well publish first and claim it as there own, without any nefarious intent.
by csa | 2025-08-29 17:26:18+00:00
> Given that that they coded this functionality and expose it in their app, I really don't see how Tesla can be let off by making the statement that you must officially be in front of the wheel all of the time.

Just to be clear, Tesla says that the person doing the summoning should be able to see the car at all times and be able to force a stop if necessary when using Summon. At least this was the case the last time I used it.

I’m not necessarily giving a pass to Tesla here, but it doesn’t seem reasonable to throw all the blame on a manufacturer when a user doesn’t follow directions and misuses a function.

A debate could be had about whether functions should be allowed if a certain (high?) percentage of users will abuse it, but that’s a tricky discussion imho.

Almost all of the public examples I’ve seen of Autopilot or Summon being unsafe were when people were misusing it.

There are definitely examples when these functions don’t work (there’s one spot near me when my car makes the wrong choice consistently), but it’s trivial to correct if one is paying attention like you’re supposed to.
by lanstin | 2025-08-29 17:26:38+00:00
Yeah. I use it for analytics/dataviz stuff (which involves a lot of python to run spark jobs, glue different APis to get some extra column of data, making png or svg pictures,, making D3 based web sites in html and JavaScript). That all works pretty well.

I also write high performance Go server code, where it works a lot less well. It doesn't follow my rules for ptr APIs or using sync mutexes or atomic operations across a code base. It (probably slightly older version than SOTA) didn't read deep call chains accurately for refactoring. It's still worth trying but if that was my sole work it would probably not be worth it.

On the other hand for personal productivity, emacs functions and config, getting a good .mcp.json, it is also very good and generates code that partakes in the exponential growth of good code. (Unlike data viz where there is a tendency to build something and then the utility declines over time).
by abap_rocky | 2025-08-29 17:26:44+00:00
One of the most recent inter-city routes to open, the Borealis service between Chicago and St. Paul, far surpassed expected ridership levels in its first year servicing 212K passengers over a projected 155K [1]. This comes despite the fact the trip would be faster not only by air but also by car. I doubt we'd see this sort of overperformance if "most people don't want trains".

[1]: https://www.news8000.com/news/amtraks-borealis-line-celebrat...
by duxup | 2025-08-29 17:26:48+00:00
>Google told the appeals court in April that "the Complaint's own allegations make it obvious that Gmail presented a portion of RNC emails as spam because they appeared to be spam.... The most obvious reason for RNC emails being flagged as spam is that Gmail users were too frequently marking them as such."

>Google also said that "the RNC's own allegations confirm that Google was helping the RNC, not scheming against it... The RNC acknowledges, for example, that Google worked with the RNC '[f]or nearly a year.' Those efforts even included Google employees traveling to the RNC's office to 'give a training' on 'Email Best Practices.' Less than two months after that training, the last alleged instance of the inboxing issue occurred."

Thus the dangers of having politicians who have no real interest in the truth. Every inconvenience is some bias against them, some boogie man did it to them ... even those consequences they do to themselves.
by benbenolson | 2025-08-29 17:27:40+00:00
Back in the day when Xeon Phi was around, I'd run `make -j 256` to run on the ~240 available hyperthreads. Those things were build machine beasts, assuming there weren't too many dependencies. For example. the Linux kernel would build files approximately ~240 at a time, which greatly sped up the build process, but linking was extremely slow (single-threaded on one very slow Phi core).

Even more interestingly, the Knights Landing series had a PCIe coprocessor version, which ran a stripped-down Linux kernel, and you could SSH onto it. One of my friends got one for free at a conference, and I really wish I'd picked one up!
by ikishade | 2025-08-29 17:27:46+00:00
In this context, an image where there's some data represented by each unique RGBA value, and less of the "smooth" complexities of normal images like from a camera. So ones with small color palettes. Depending on the output size, it can run very fast and I've used it to up-scale a simple 2-color map for an island in water off one 512x512 training image.

I tried to demo this to HN back in July, but my post back then was buried.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-29 17:27:49+00:00
McDonald’s and Taco Bell actually have a great, working solution to this. You order in their app, and they provide a code you give to the drive thru attendant (to pick and place the order into the queue). The customer places their order on their own mobile device at their own pace, but you still have a human for people who don’t use the app or don't have a mobile device. They provide free food and other incentives when placing your order with the app, which I think is fine from a behavioral economics and price discrimination perspective. No AI required.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-08-29 17:28:42+00:00
I linked the UCMJ articles in a sibling comment. I think gp's description is correct for the UCMJ. Part of the problem IMO is that there are ~52 definitions of manslaughter/murder in the US (one for every state, civilian federal law and the UCMJ) so that answer is always highly context specific.