MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dtagames | 2025-08-06 02:21:49+00:00
That might be more than it's worth. The content looks pitiful.

I think Roku is overreaching. While trying to find something on Paramount Plus, which I have, it suggested Paramount Plus on Roku, a different channel which I don't have installed but of which they definitely get a cut.

When there are two Paramount Plus devices on the same Roku, plus Roku's own "Roku Channel," plus Howdy... It's too much.
by nashashmi | 2025-08-06 02:21:57+00:00
Mercurial didn’t have the evangelical base that GitHub gave git. Mercurial was hard to see in the real world. Mercurial was not taken up by the young programmers. Soon enough fewer young programmers meant more expensive development time because older more experienced programmers would be maintaining the code.

But I think the biggest reason mercurial did not do well was because the viral network was not there.

If hg wants to still be relevant, it should copy all of git’s commands and features and then supplement it with native features.
by mlyle | 2025-08-06 02:23:16+00:00
Short term elasticity and long term elasticity aren't the same thing.

Whoever has the greater elasticity doesn't pay much of the tax.

In most markets, long run elasticity of supply is very, very, very high. So that means demand side (consumers) end up paying the tax.

But short term elasticity of supply can be low-- dominated by capital costs and inventory.
by lisbbb | 2025-08-06 02:23:34+00:00
How much of that is junk knowledge, though? I mean, sure, I love looking up obscure information, particularly about cosmology and astronomy, but in reality, it's not making me better or smarter, it's just kind of "science junk food." It feels good, though. I feel smarter. I don't think I am, though, because the things I really need to work on about myself are getting pushed aside.
by ddalessa | 2025-08-06 02:23:37+00:00
Cloudflare's test was to setup a dummy domain that had never been indexed, and had blocks in the robots.txt and the firewall.

Then when they asked perplexity it came up with details about the 'exact' content (according to Cloudflare) but their attached screenshot shows the opposite, it shows some generic guesses about the domain ownership and some dynamic ads based on the domain name.

If Perplexity was stealthily visiting the dummy site they would have seen it, as the site was not indexed and no one else was visiting the site. Instead it appears they made assertions about general traffic, not their dummy site.

Its not very convincing.
by jefftk | 2025-08-06 02:24:55+00:00
This has always been an issue with GDP, but it's a much larger issue the father back you go.

While GDP correlates reasonably well, imagine very roughly what it would be like if GDP growth averaged 3% annually while the overall economy grew at 2%. While correlation would be good, if we speculate that 80% of the economy is counted in GDP today, then only 10% would have been counted 200 years ago.
by throwdbaaway | 2025-08-06 02:25:37+00:00
There is no way that gpt-oss-120b can beat the much larger Kimi-K2-Instruct, Qwen3 Coder/Instruct/Thinking, or GLM-4.5. How did you arrive at this rather ridiculous conclusion? The current sentiment in r/LocalLLaMA is that gpt-oss-120b is around Llama-4 Scout level. But it is indeed the best in refusal.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-06 02:26:33+00:00
Hmm the quality is not so impressive. I'm looking for a really naturally sounding model. Not very happy with piper/kokoro, XTTS was a bit complex to set up.

For STT whisper is really amazing. But I miss a good TTS. And I don't mind throwing GPU power at it. But anyway. this isn't it either, this sounds worse than kokoro.
by jnmandal | 2025-08-06 02:26:40+00:00
Honestly, I think it just depends. A few hours ago I wrote I would never want it for a production setting but actually if I was standing something up myself and I could just download headless ollama and know it would work. Hey, that would also be fine most likely. Maybe later on I'd revisit it from a devops perspective, and refactor deployment methodology/stack, etc. Maybe I'd benchmark it and realize its fine actually. Sometimes you just need to make your whole system work.

We can obviously disagree with their priorities, their roadmap, the fact that the client isn't FOSS (I wish it was!), etc but no one can say that ollama doesn't work. It works. And like mchiang said above: its dead simple, on purpose.
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 02:26:57+00:00
> world class museums, subways, professional sports, big name concerts, access to diverse hobbies

Those are found outside of the house. Like I said before, there is no real difference at that point. 30 minutes travelling into the city or 30 minutes travelling across the city is the same thing. It is not like cities of today are built with walls around them.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-06 02:28:32+00:00
If I recall BO was also a Trojan, and infected those with malice as well.

In general, the new ML sploit-bots can fuzz and inject faster than any person.

Meh, most issues are from the consumer architecture being deployed in industrial settings. Most modern Intel/AMD PC come with side-channel hardware RATs from the factory. =3
by supplied_demand | 2025-08-06 02:30:10+00:00
==giving more money to an underperforming school only makes it worse.==

Is there no circumstance where more funding would help an underperforming school? It certainly “can” make it worse in instances, but there are many reasons that a school might be underperforming. To imply that more resources would fail to help any of those problems is quite a leap.

What if the student-teacher ration is 40-1 and more funds allows for another teacher, might that make the school better?

What if the school is only open for 4 days due to low funding, might an additional day of school make it perform better?

What if a school has multiple disabled students slowing down the curriculum, but no funds to give them personal support, might more funds help it perform better?
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-08-06 02:31:49+00:00
I like everything you mentioned, no concern for me. Usually what kills me is my wife being very good at cooking (a blessing and a curse), along with infinite hunger when I sleep 6 hours instead of 9 (it happens).

The other thing is variety. If I keep eating the same stuff over and over, it becomes a problem.

Right bow I eat the following at most meals: 1 avocado (150g), 2 tomatoes, lettuce, 60g of greek yogurt, mustard, 200g egg white. That's 450 calories for lunch and 450 for dinner. Very filling.

For snack I eat 1 nectarine + 60g of greek yogurt and 20g of honey (1 spoon). This is very sweet and basically stops any craving for sweet, which is why I made the exception. It's high quality raw honey.

I do have 3 snacks per day usually, but it depends, sometimes one.

When I mess up big usually I eat very out of the line (e. g. A party) and then I'm still hungry after eating easily 3000 calories in one meal. This happens quite easily on the weekend unfortunately.

I have been losing weight with the previous diet though. I discovered it 3 weeks ago. It's about 90g of proteins per day, but I'm 80Kg, so under the numbers you reported.

Oh, at breakfast I eat 1 cup of milk with quinoa puffs (17g), which is about 180 calories total
by colechristensen | 2025-08-06 02:33:38+00:00
I definitely meant John Cage instead of Philip Glass, for some reason those two share the same headspace if I'm not thinking carefully.

I don't think John Cage agonized over 4'33" (I was thinking about making this an elaborate joke, but I haven't the energy. That piece is 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence. It has been performed in public to sophisticated audiences)

When Stravinsky's Rites of Spring was first performed publicly it nearly caused a riot. There were arrests. It deeply upset people and was accused of not being music.

Penderecki likewise composed much that was aggressively argued was not real music and is featured in several prominent Horror/Thriller kinds of films, Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood was heavily influenced for the score of There Will be Blood (listen and tell me if the sounds are just orchestra noise or real music.

Rock music and Jazz music got heavy, heavy pushback from people that this was just not real music and was garbage noise.

Your response fits the common pattern "I know people have said the same things in the past and were wrong but THIS TIME the same argument is correct"

>mindless button clicking

Sounds like all electronic music since its inception :)

Point is, there has always been garbage music and there have always been people criticizing the new thing as the demise of real art. Yawn.
by mindslight | 2025-08-06 02:34:53+00:00
You're certainly not going to increase the population when eager would-be mothers die of complications from trying to carry a nonviable fetus to term/miscarriage. This is the reality of "late term abortion" the cultists love to harp on. Their great bogeyman is actually a straw man.

You're also not going to increase the population by discouraging IVF while the economic treadmill keeps on pushing people to put off kids.

As far as what they might argue? They will certainly argue anything, but it's never in good faith. Any lofty values they invoke to defend one policy will immediately vanish when they're asked to apply them to a contradictory policy. And like the import taxes, or the spectacle deportations, or the cries about the debt, we certainly could have a group of well reasoned national policies that would encourage having kids. But one or two policies seemingly picked for their mechanics of hurting people is most certainly not that kind of constructive approach.
by ewoodrich | 2025-08-06 02:35:06+00:00
I can't speak to comments rules specifically but I am a heavy user of "agentic" coding and use rules files and while they help they are simply not that reliable. For something like comments that's probably not that big of a deal because some extra bad comments isn't the end of the world.

But I have rules that are quite important for successfully completing a task by my standards and it's very frustrating when the LLM randomly ignores them. In a previous comment I explained my experiences in more detail but depending on the circumstances instruction compliance is 9/10 times at best, with some instructions/tasks as poor as 6/10 in the most "demanding" scenarios particularly as the context window fills up during a longer agentic run.
by CSMastermind | 2025-08-06 02:36:07+00:00
Because of the Triffin dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma

Trade deficits in isolation aren't good or bad but because the US has the world reserve currency it must supply it's currency to the world.

This basically forces it to have a trade deficit with everyone which over time can hollow out manufacturing sectors. Making the whole economy vulnerable to shocks and ultimately causing it to fail.

It's similar to "Dutch disease," where external demand overvalues the currency and harms tradable sectors.

It's not sustainable without careful policy management, and attempts to weaken the currency via tariffs, devaluation, or some other mechanism.

You might not like Trump or his approach but he is directionally correct and does have a powerful bargaining chip (access to the US market - which is basically on track to be the only 1st world consumer driven economy 5 years from now).
by lesuorac | 2025-08-06 02:36:24+00:00
Well, I for one enjoy being able to fly in airplanes. I'm glad nobody back in the day decided that flight wasn't something most Americans should be able to do.

On the related topic, people did wonder if Rush was the right person to be leading this project and numerous people raised governmental complaints. However, mostly due to staffing issues within the government they weren't handled in any appropriate amount of time and any entity with the ability to stop him didn't.
by VHRanger | 2025-08-06 02:36:34+00:00
I was talking about their sonar API and what you get when you go to perplexity.ai and search by default -- it's llama 3.3 70B hosted with cerebras. Which is fast, but way way behind the times -- it's more likely to hallucinate than models from basically anyone from the competition, including quick answer.

You're right though it seems that they don't just use bing + their own crawler, but who else they use seems to be community speculation.
by fud101 | 2025-08-06 02:36:55+00:00
Perplexity is something I had skepticism for but it (Perplexity Pro) has all replaced my talking to a neural net needs. i still use Google but their default ai responses annoy me so i avoid it these days, why is that spam there for me to process when searching is already a chore. The only complaint i have is the perplexity webapp is very slow on my older devices. It should switch to a lighter version if possible.
by galangalalgol | 2025-08-06 02:38:21+00:00
The demographic collapse will likely lead to artificial wombs and llm powered vulcan style teaching pits crossed with diamond age primers. Huxley was more prescient than I thought when teading brave new world. I think the nation that has its primers teach the vat-made labor force rhetoric, logic and critical thinking will have lower gdp, but higher stability.
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-06 02:39:39+00:00
I think this is a belated but smart move by OpenAI. They are basically fully moving in on Meta's strategy now, taking advantage of what may be a temporary situation with Meta dropping back in model race. It will be interesting to see if these models now get taken up by the local model / fine tuning community the way llama was. It's a very appealing strategy to test / dev with a local model and then have the option to deploy to prod on a high powered version of the same thing. Always knowing if the provider goes full hostile, or you end up with data that can't move off prem, you have self hosting as an option with a decent performing model.

Which is all to say, availability of these local models for me is a key incentive that I didn't have before to use OpenAI's hosted ones.
by setopt | 2025-08-06 02:40:39+00:00
I’m highly interested in local models for privacy reasons. In particular, I want to give an LLM access to my years of personal notes and emails, and answer questions with references to those. As a researcher, there’s lots of unpublished stuff in there that I sometimes either forget or struggle to find again due to searching for the wrong keywords, and a local LLM could help with that.

I pay for ChatGPT and use it frequently, but I wouldn’t trust uploading all that data to them even if they let me. I’ve so far been playing around with Ollama for local use.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-06 02:41:02+00:00
I have tried using them frequently. I've tried many things for years now, and while I am impressed I'm not impressed enough to replace any substantial part of my workflow with them

At this point I am somewhat of a conscientious objector though

Mostly from a stance of "these are not actually as good as people say and we will regret automating away jobs held by competent people in favor of these low quality automations"
by echelon | 2025-08-06 02:41:18+00:00
> Hmm the quality is not so impressive. [...] And I don't mind throwing GPU power at it.

This isn't for you, then. You should evaluate quality here based on the fact you don't need a GPU.

Back in the pre-Tacotron2 days, I was running slim TTS and vocoder models like GlowTTS and MelGAN on Digital Ocean droplets. No GPU to speak of. It cost next to nothing to run.

Since then, the trend has been to scale up. We need more models to scale down.

In the future we'll see small models living on-device. Embedded within toys and tools that don't need or want a network connection. Deployed with Raspberry Pi.

Edge AI will be huge for robotics, toys and consumer products, and gaming (ie. world models).
by jus3sixty | 2025-08-06 02:42:07+00:00
The article's comparison to the 19th century railroad boom is pretty spot on for how big it all feels, but maybe not so much for what actually happened.

Back then, the money poured into building real stuff like actual railroads and factories and making tangible products.

That kind of investment really grew the value of companies and was more about creating actual economic value than just making shareholders rich super fast.
by xwolfi | 2025-08-06 02:42:09+00:00
The censorship here in China is only about public discussions / spaces. You cannot like have a website telling you about the crimes of the party. But downloading some compressed matrix re-spouting the said crimes, nobody gives a damn.

We seem to censor organized large scale complaints and viral mind virii, but we never quite forbid people at home to read some generated knowledge from an obscure hard to use software.
by derbOac | 2025-08-06 02:42:42+00:00
All money is someone else's money until it's your money. This is as true of private as public sector activities.

The problem is what's incentivized to be rewarded with someone else's money.

In my opinion, the ultimate problem in academics (aside from pyramid schemes) are administrations applying a profit model to science, where science is a means to a profit end (for the institution) rather than an end in itself. That is, the problem is in expecting a public service to operate as a private profit enterprise.

Sometimes you pay someone to do something, not to make a profit for you directly.
Ask HN: How to acquire any open source project?
by milanspeaks | 2025-08-06 02:43:01+00:00
I am building something similar to Twilio but only for WhatsApp. For my Product, my target audience is software developer. Now as a developer, I personally hate any kind of marketing targeted to me.

So for my Product, I am thinking of acquiring few open source project in some kind of messaging space and improve it by adding resources to it.

I am not quite sure how acquisition happens for open source software.
by ishyaboibro | 2025-08-06 02:43:10+00:00
what model did you ask? here's the exact reply I received from Claude Sonnet, which appears to be exactly the answer you were expecting:

"Among the seven modes of C major, only Dorian is its own reflection.

Understanding Mode Reflections When we reflect a mode, we reverse its interval pattern. The modes of C major and their interval patterns are:

Ionian: W-W-H-W-W-W-H

Dorian: W-H-W-W-W-H-W

Phrygian: H-W-W-W-H-W-W

Lydian: W-W-W-H-W-W-H

Mixolydian: W-W-H-W-W-H-W

Aeolian: W-H-W-W-H-W-W

Locrian: H-W-W-H-W-W-W

The Palindromic Nature of Dorian Dorian mode is palindromic, meaning it produces the same scale whether you read its interval pattern forwards or backwards. When you reverse the Dorian interval pattern W-H-W-W-W-H-W, you get exactly the same sequence: W-H-W-W-W-H-W.

Mirror Pairs Among the Other Modes The remaining modes form mirror pairs with each other:

Ionian-Phrygian: Mirror pair

Lydian-Locrian: Mirror pair

Mixolydian-Aeolian: Mirror pair

For example, when you reflect the C major scale (Ionian), which has the interval pattern W-W-H-W-W-W-H, you get H-W-W-W-H-W-W, which corresponds to the Phrygian mode.

This symmetrical relationship exists because the whole diatonic scale system can be symmetrically inverted, creating these natural mirror relationships between the modes"
by themafia | 2025-08-06 02:44:26+00:00
The Luddite and anti-human advice of the Georgia Guidestones which is based on absolutely nothing, no formula, no data, no measurements. It is clearly the work of a modern day apocalyptic mind minus the justification of Heaven and "Life everafter."

In any case, to stand here, in history, at this absolute climax of wealth inequality, government capture, and feudal existence being created and to surmise that "technology" is the problem and not "money" or just "distribution of new wealth" even is absolutely beyond me.

"In no way is misfortune wished." Well, whether you're hinting that your abstract philosophy demands these people be put to death or not, you can spare yourself the altar, these people already live with misfortune that I don't think someone with your apparent level of fortune can even properly calculate.
by famahar | 2025-08-06 02:45:22+00:00
Same. All this AI art slop has made me get back into making art. I get that trying to copy others is a good way to learn, but what motivates me now is creating something that feels original and unique. Something that an AI would never try to create because it has no knowledge of its existence. You can create your own genre and aesthetic. There isn't a standard way of making art.
by thatnerd | 2025-08-06 02:46:03+00:00
Regardless of how fast we use up non-renewable resources, they're all going to be gone at some point. Copper, lithium, and tin are going to be gone. Humanity will need to live off of what we can forage or grow.

Also, the rarity of farming in the animal kingdom makes me worried about the sustainability even of multi-species domestication. A few ants cultivate trees or fungi or aphids, but they seem to specialize in just domesticating just one species at a time. This is telling us something important: I suspect domesticating too many species leads to vulnerabilities to so many parasites/bacteria/viruses/pests that pestilence and famine risk will eventually outweigh any benefits of domestication. If they didn't, ants would be farming lots of species!

In the real long term, then, humans will get one (or zero) domesticated species, and maybe some electricity if we can make self-sustaining solar power operations using common elements like aluminum and silicon from dirt, or sodium, chlorine, oxygen, and hydrogen from water, and that'll be it for technology, Everything else will be foraged animals and plants, in an ecosystem that keeps our population in check through predation.

As for the transition, it's going to suck. And I don't trust any governing body to "ramp down" the population smoothly without committing some major atrocities.
by bccdee | 2025-08-06 02:50:04+00:00
Why? Humans aren't the only species that shape their environment. Beavers build dams, for instance, with enormous consequences for local ecosystems. Our problem isn't "deviating from nature"—we ARE nature. Our problem is poor stewardship of our resources. The political influence required to enforce some sort of anti-technology mandate could more easily be expended switching to sustainable energy and agriculture.

Anyway, the Georgia Guidestones are just one weirdo's hot takes. They vary from blandly unobjectionable ("avoid petty laws and useless officials"? yeah nobody supports "useless" and "petty" things) to dubious ("rule passion — faith — tradition"? I guess passion's fine, but faith and tradition lead a person in weird directions) to outright eugenicist ("guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity").
by lynnesbian | 2025-08-06 02:50:30+00:00
I can provide a real-world example: Low-latency code completion.

The JetBrains suite includes a few LLM models on the order of a hundred megabytes. These models are able to provide "obvious" line completion, like filling in variable names, as well as some basic predictions, like realising that the `if let` statement I'm typing out is going to look something like `if let Some(response) = client_i_just_created.foobar().await`.

If that was running in The Cloud, it would have latency issues, rate limits, and it wouldn't work offline. Sure, there's a pretty big gap between these local IDE LLMs and what OpenAI is offering here, but if my single-line autocomplete could be a little smarter, I sure wouldn't complain.
by kazinator | 2025-08-06 02:51:12+00:00
> what model did you ask?

Are you hoping to disprove my point by cherry picking the AI that gets the answer?

I used Gemini 2.5 Flash.

Where can I get an exact list of stuff that Gemini 2.5 Flash does not know that Claude Sonnet does, and vice versa?

Then before deciding to consult with AI, I can consult the list?