MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-12 13:06:06+00:00
Probably not, but I barely see strollers over there anyway, and it’s also rare to take kids on the train/subway during rush hour. Kids are usually carried or toted in one of those front-body-kid-carriers (sorry don’t know the name) until they can walk, after which they walk (or for longer rides, get taken on a bike). If I see little kids on the train it’s most often before or after rush hour during the slower times.

A lot of American norms don’t carry over.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-08-12 13:06:08+00:00
Ugh. The point of curbing sugar is not that you will magically stop liking sugar.

Someone who successfully quit heroin is still someone who will very much experience pleasure if they use again.

The point of curbing sugar is that for some people, sugar’s interaction with their body tends to be self reinforcing - consuming some sugar creates conditions (mental or physical) that make it more likely you will consume more. By reducing or eliminating, and waiting for your body and mind to adjust to this change, you get to a point where it’s easier to control.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-12 13:06:15+00:00
> None of this needs the model to grow strong reasoning skills. That's not where the real money is.

I never thought about it like that, but it sounds plausible.

However, I feel like getting to this stage is even harder to get right compared to reasoning?

Aside from the <0.1% of severely mentally unwell people which already imagine themselves to be in relationships with AIs, I don't think a lot of normal people will form lingering attachments to them without solving the issue of permanence and memory

They're currently essentially stateless, while that's surely enough for short term attachment, I'm not seeing this becoming a bigger issue because if that glaring shortfall.

It'd be like being in a relationship with a person with dementia, thats not a happy state of being.

Honestly, I think this trend is severely overstated until LLMs can sufficiently emulate memories and shared experiences. And that's still fundamentally impossible, just like "real" reasoning with understanding.

So I disagree after thinking about it more - emulated reasoning will likely have a bigger revenue stream via B2E applications compared to emotional attachment in B2C...
by barosl | 2025-08-12 13:06:18+00:00
Actually the default value of `APT::Install-Recommends` had been false, and it was changed to true in Debian 6.0 Squeeze (2011-02-06). I didn't like the change at the time because my Debian and Ubuntu systems suddenly installed more packages by default. However, now that I think of, the distinction of recommended packages and suggested packages was blurry before the change, because both were opt-in. Auto-installing recommended packages, while allowing the user to opt out is a better default I guess. But I still turn off auto-installation of recommended packages in the systems I manage.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-12 13:06:44+00:00
From my perspective as a potential user the number of attempts is the number of times I have to tell it what to do. If you have an agent that makes a single attempt and is 60% accurate vs another that makes 5 attempts and is 80% accurate, why would you care that each individual attempt of the 2nd model is less accurate than the first?
by polotics | 2025-08-12 13:07:09+00:00
This man is a true poet, just beautiful look at this quote found on his exTwitter:

(quote starts here)

"""Writing this date here to memorize when the concept of Decentralized Artificial Intelligence (#DAI) got its final shape.

Not bullshit like "It runs on a #blockchain so it must be decentralized". In this concept each entity holds a secret know-how which modifies #IntelligentTissue (in cooperation with other know-hows owned by other entities, if needs to solve a complex task). Secrecy of each know-how ensures nobody can copy it, others can only attempt to create something similar by spending computational resources.

Each #AI is an original object, #IntelligentTissue is its hologram. #Qubic is the platform for AI creation, their convergence and intelligent tissue hosting"""
by extraisland | 2025-08-12 13:07:31+00:00
Your framing is misleading.

Most people weren't aware of the Online Safety Act. I would argue it wasn't even any of the policies.

The Tories were in power for 14 years previously. During that time we had 5 prime ministers all of which were seen as weak and ineffective. People were sick of the Conservative party. This includes some of their most ardent supporters.

People were sick of the Conservative party, this includes people that had previously voted for the Conservatives.

The election had low voter turn out. It wasn't that Labour won, it was more like the Conservatives lost and by default Labour took power because they were the only other choice.
by churchill | 2025-08-12 13:07:36+00:00
Yes, I included that in the brackets. There's roughly ~240M registered SIMs, but unlike American phone line where you sign a contract, Nigerian SIMs are bought OTC and are quite disposable. But, they're tied to the National Identity Number which is biometric and hard/impossible to circumvent.

It's quite common to have up to 2-3-4 SIMs also. When when you account for that, you have ~60M-80M-100M phone users.

Another proxy is the Bank verification Number, which like I said, is Nigeria's Social Security Number, but for banking. Can't have a bank account without it. Even in the super-rural parts of Northern Nigeria, they're still banked, which is impossible without a BVN.

Now, there's been ~66M BVNs issued so far, according to a recent update. If we assume that covers the bulk of the adult population (remember, you can do literally nothing without a BVN) and several million teenagers, and account for the median age being 19 (that is, half the entire population is beneath that age), we can infer that Nigeria's population is close to 2* the BVN count.

My best guess is 120M to 140M max given the measurable, unfalsifiable proxies.
by criddell | 2025-08-12 13:07:38+00:00
> I built a cyberdeck

Have you written about this anywhere? If not, I’d love to see a ShowHN post about your project and I bet I’m not the only one.

What’s your background? I ask because I really want something like a TRS-80 Model 100. Is interfacing a low end (power efficient) board to an LCD or eInk display something an electronics neophyte could reasonably take on?

A lot of homemade slab computers seem to rely on Raspberry Pi boards but those draw quite a lot of power and tend to run Linux. It’s not a combination that I’m going to be able to run for weeks at a time on 4 AA batteries (one of my goals).

When building your cyberdeck, were there any resources in particular that you found helpful?
by freetime2 | 2025-08-12 13:07:44+00:00
I'm aware of the fact that LLMs can reproduce IP used in training data, and consider the example NYT article in your link to be "a very cut-and-dry case" of copyright infringment. And commercial AI companies especially should be held liable for damages if they can't or won't implement effective guardrails to prevent this from happening.

I'm somewhat optimistic this problem can be solved, though, with filters and usage policies. YouTube, another platform with basically unlimited potential for copyright infringement, has managed to implement a system that is good enough at preventing infringement to keep lawsuits at bay.

It's also not clear if that's what Yomiuri Shimbun is alleging here. In their 2023 "Opinion on the Use of News Content by Generative AI" [1] they give this example:

> Newspaper companies have long provided databases containing past newspaper pages and articles for a fee, and in recent years, they have also sold article data for AI development. If AI imports large quantities of articles, photos, images, and other data from news organizations’ digital news sites without permission, commercial AI services for third parties developing it could conflict with the existing database sales market and “unreasonably prejudice the interests of the copyright owner” (Article 30-4 of the Act). Also, even if all or part of a particular article communicates nothing further than facts and hardly constitutes a copyright, many contents deserve legal protection because of the effort and cost invested by the newspaper companies. Even if an AI collects and uses only the factual part, it does not mean it will always be legal.

So basically arguing that 2018 amendment which allows the use of copyrighted works to train AI models without permission from the copyright holder is not applicable because the use would "would unreasonably prejudice the interests of the copyright owner in light of the nature or purpose of the work or the circumstances of its exploitation". [2]

... which I think is a much more nuanced argument. I don't think we can just lump all of these cases together and say "it's infringement" or "it's fair use" without actually considering the details in each case. Or the specific laws in each country.

[1] https://www.pressnet.or.jp/statement/20230517_en.pdf

[2] https://www.cric.or.jp/english/clj/cl2.html
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-12 13:07:51+00:00
Traditional software is unpredictable, as it gets more complicated, corner cases emerge that are difficult, if not impossible, to anticipate.

AI is so unpredictable that it's impossible to make effective preventable safeguards. For every use case that we want to protect against, there will be many more that we can't anticipate.

I don't think it's possible to build effective safeguards into AI for situations like this, because AI isn't the problem: Mentally ill people will just be triggered by something else.

Furthermore, someone who's going to sit and chat with AI for and endless amount of time will find the corner cases that aren't anticipated.
by gnfargbl | 2025-08-12 13:08:37+00:00
> The problem is that a regulatory body is determining all this instead of the independent judiciary.

What we have is the regulatory body (which, as a non-ministerial government department is effectively part of the government) making the specific regulations, and the comparability of those regulations with other laws being determined by the independent judiciary.

That's exactly as it should be, no? I don't think I want judges creating laws or regulations. That's not their role in our democracy.

> [Ofcom has] the power to become a ministry of truth.

The judgment makes clear that any such attempt would be incompatible with the freedom of expression rights guaranteed to us by the ECHR. That's a good thing!

We don't need to panic about the OSA, as things stand. However, we should be very worried about the stated desire of Reform for the UK to join Russia in being outside the ECHR. In that scenario, the judiciary would have no power to prevent the scenario you're outlining and, exactly as it is in Russia, there's a good chance that the media would be captured by the government.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-12 13:08:42+00:00
I've been watching this in real time on TikTok. There is a woman who "fell in love" with her psychiatrist, and sees all of his attempts to set and enforce professional boundaries as proof that he is in love with her, and has manipulated her into falling in love with him. This was before AI came into her story. Then she turned to ChatGPT (which she named "Henry") to reinforce her delusions and give her arguments in favor of her story's truth. When she was convinced to give Henry a "tell harsh truths" prompt, she didn't like what she heard and turned to Claude. Claude is calling her the Oracle and telling her she has a special message for humanity, that she is a prophet, and she's eating it up.
by cyrialize | 2025-08-12 13:10:08+00:00
I actually don't use custom agenda views at all!

I try to treat my setup more like text files I'm editing in Emacs, rather than me specifically using Org Mode.

I like the extra niceties I get with Org Mode in Emacs, like marking things as done, making checkboxes, etc. I never venture farther than that.

The most complicated thing I do in Org Mode would be making tables and recurring tasks - and I only do recurring tasks because BeOrg makes it very easy to set that up.
by nicoburns | 2025-08-12 13:10:14+00:00
There are lots of C and particularly C++ ways, but you're still restricted. Want to use methods in C: nope, you can't. Want language-level tagged unions and pattern matching in either language: nope. Same for guaranteed tail call optimisation and a bunch of other things.

This is especially true for C which supports almost nothing (it doesn't even have a sensible array type!). But is also true for C++: while it supports a lot, it doesn't support everything.
by hollowturtle | 2025-08-12 13:10:29+00:00
> "AI doesn't work" are going to have their lunch eaten.

Please, stop it. AI doesn't work for every use case, and when it "works" it fails to stay up to the exaggerated hype. People with deep knowledge and experience will eat their lunch. LLMs knowledge is stale as soon as a new version comes out and no rag hallucinate too. It's a tool and a tool doesn't have appetite
by segmondy | 2025-08-12 13:10:47+00:00
As someone that has participated in llama.cpp development, it's simple, Ollama doesn't want to give credit to llama.cpp. If llama.cpp went closed, Ollama would fall behind, they blatantly rip llama.cpp. Who cares tho? All they have to say is "powered by llama.cpp" It won't drive most users away from Ollama, most folks will prefer ollama and power users will prefer llama.cpp. But their ego won't let them.

On llama.cpp breaking things, that's the pace of innovation. It feels like a new model with a new architecture is being released every week. Guess what? The same things we saw with drivers for Unix systems back in the day, no documentation. So implementation is based on whatever can be figured from the arxiv paper, other implementations transformers/vllm (python -> C), quite often these models released from labs are "broken", jinja.template ain't easy! Bad templates will break the model generation, tool calling, agentic flow, etc. Folks will sometimes blame llama.cpp, sometimes the implementation is correct but the issue is that since it's main format is guff and anyone can generate a gguf, quite often experimental gguf is generated and released by folks excited to be the first to try a new model. Then llama.cpp gets the blame.
by bluGill | 2025-08-12 13:11:12+00:00
OR to put is differently - everyone has their own needs they are trying to get done. Each one need individually is simple so it is easy to demand that need is added too. Until the whole system for each different need becomes so complex it collapses under its own weight and you move to a new tool. This cycle seems to repeat every 10-15 years at all companies. JIRA is the tool everyone talking about today, but there were many others in the past, and there will be a different one in a few years.

Generally the tool isn't the problem: NEVER put ticket numbers into long term storage as in a few years you won't be able to reference them. That is version control, design documents, and anything else that isn't the ticket system itself. You can talk about who is working on ticket 12345 and the problems they face, but if anything is going to be written down you need to summarize the ticket without a number.
by basch | 2025-08-12 13:11:15+00:00
What I gather is people really like the blank whiteboard. There’s something about Notepad and Excel, the freedom, the linitlessness, of having a blank canvas and being able to do anything.

Todo software is too opinionated. It’s not flexible enough to allow you to break rules. You can’t move things around in a way that allows you to control visual white space between entries. Everything “is something” (a task, an event) vs just being (text.)
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 13:12:56+00:00
It is - to me, at least - abundantly clear that SCOTUS is now a political instrument and no longer in any way impartial. Between that, a congress and a senate that seem to be incapable of standing up for the rule of law you can no longer claim that SCOTUS is the final arbiter of what is legal and what is not, besides that, they only are supposed to rule on whether or not something violates the constitution or not.

> Are you saying that federal judges in lower courts are given leeway to act against the law, provided they disagree with the administration?

This is a weird and convoluted strawman, I'm not even sure what kind of question you want me to answer here, given your apparent stance on all this, did you maybe omit a negative in there?
by rrgmitchell | 2025-08-12 13:13:25+00:00
I used to have one long .org tasks file. That was great when I was working, because I saw it every day when I logged on my laptop and did org-agenda. But now that I'm retired I don't do that any more. So what I have now is a sheaf of A5 slips (cut from scrap A4) stapled together at one corner. I scribble one-liners to note tasks and score through the lines when completed. When a whole page is complete I rip it off, screw it up, and into the waste basket. Works great!

Plus Apple Reminders for deadlines. The Org file still exists, but for recording history rather than a scheduler.
Serve ML Models on the edge over browsers
by baazi2k | 2025-08-12 13:13:39+00:00
I specialize in serving ML models on the edge over browsers. Reduce server costs, handle your client's data responsibly. I've got some free time from my day job. Shoot me a message if you're interested

P.s. this is my first time posting on HN. I'm not entirely sure if this is a post for this sort of thing. However, there's a bunch of technically oriented people here and that's the audience for the sort of skillset I have - hence posting
by tialaramex | 2025-08-12 13:13:42+00:00
> [when there is no reply button, you need to click on the date (i.e. N minutes ago) to get the reply box]

As an off-topic aside here that might help anybody who is wondering: HN deliberately doesn't provide "Reply" for very recent comments to try to dissuade you from having the sort of urgent back-and-forth you might reasonably do in a real time chat system, and less reasonably attempt (and likely regret) on platforms like Twitter.

A brief window to think about the thing you just read might cause you to write something more thoughtful, and even to realise that it wasn't saying what you had thought in the first place.

My favourite example was an example where somebody said a feature means "less typing" and another comment insisted it did not, and I was outraged until I realised all that's happening is that one person thinks "Typing" means "You know, pressing keys on your keyboard" and the other person thinks "Typing" means "You know, why an integer is different from a float in C" and so they're actually not even disagreeing the conflict is purely syntax!
by calmoo | 2025-08-12 13:15:08+00:00
I don't want to call you out unnecessarily, but your writing heavily smells of LLMs.

edit: looks like i'm not the first person to notice this either regarding this poster. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44279662

I think we have a duty to call this out, before the web becomes ridden with slop.
by Tainnor | 2025-08-12 13:15:14+00:00
And when called out on it reply that the comments are often more interesting than the article which is a) trivially true when you don't read the article and b) probably because bickering in comments is more emotionally satisfying and requires a shorter attention span than reading a rather long article (I'm not immune, seeing as I'm now bickering about the bickering).
by rahen | 2025-08-12 13:16:11+00:00
This is odd. The current hash rate is around its nominal 5 GH/s, and neither any pool nor individual seems to be above 50%:

https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero

This Qubic group claims to concentrate 3 GH/s of hashing power, yet there has been no increase in the global hash rate either:

https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/monero/hashrate-chart

Could this be just a bait?
by koladev32 | 2025-08-12 13:16:58+00:00
i did a quick Google search for your app and only found your landing page. that’s not enough for a fitness app because people need to see it in action before they’ll try it.

if I were you, I’d: - build a strong social presence, especially on Facebook and Instagram. That’s where fitness audiences hang out. organic reach is slow, so you might explore AI-assisted ads targeting fitness interests to control costs. - show what the app can do. as a fitness app user, I’d want to see: - how easy it is to track workouts - whether you give personalized advice for food/calorie tracking

in short: how does your app make my life easier?

also, get your first users offline. if you go to the gym, start there—demo it to people, watch how they use it, listen to complaints, and note what they like. you’ll get valuable feedback faster than from online strangers.
by KyleBerezin | 2025-08-12 13:17:23+00:00
That is a good counter, medicine intrinsically is a violation of strict naturalism. The only hole I can find in that is that not all maid cases come about from the ability of modern medicine to prolong life. One such case is maid for psychiatric issues. I also don't know where I stand on this topic. I assume like anything there are going to be cases I absolutely disagree with, but as a whole, I think it is probably better than doctors secretly doing this themselves without support (It's not talked about a lot, but it is common)
by NalNezumi | 2025-08-12 13:17:28+00:00
Because in our modern world, productivity is virtue. And if you want to live a virtuous life(= better self image, self actualization), you need to live a productive life.

That's what the modern culture have told you.

It wasn't always this way, but at some point, increase in productivity stopped being the burden of the system and shifted to burden of the individual.

Henry Ford or early factories didn't tell "each worker to be more productive", it looked at how the production system could be made more productive. At some point, this was offloaded to the individual. (it did both in reality)

But if you determine your self worth by how much you get done, you will forever feel worthless.

Maybe this can make you think it from another angle: Productivity rips you apart https://youtu.be/VQK64SrYkzs?feature=shared

For me it helped when I consciously trained to shift my attention from "how much I've done = how much left I need to do and/or compared to others" to "how much I've done = how much I've done compared to previous me (checkpoint towards the past) and if the trendline is upward OR I'm actually enjoying the process". In practice this meant that every time anxiety creeps in, at the spot (this is important), I "pause", and try to consciously steer my anxious thought patterns to one that evaluate my done/productivity the other way.
by zahlman | 2025-08-12 13:18:11+00:00
> In fact, my suggestion is to make all your writing-related choices to optimize for this. If something seems like a good idea in principle, but would make it harder for you to write consistently or slower to get feedback, don’t do it.

But what if the thing that seems to be making it harder to write consistently (on a blog; I seem to have no problem commenting on forums) is just being me?
by JeremyNT | 2025-08-12 13:19:06+00:00
Thank you! It is extremely disappointing that the parent post was upvoted so highly while stating that crime was "so bad for so long." This was not a statement grounded in any reality and reads like propaganda.

HN (and the tech industry writ large) has increasingly embraced authoritarianism, even when not in service of any tangible objective, and seemingly for its own sake. It should at least be exposed for what it is.