MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doppelgunner | 2025-08-06 19:20:41+00:00
For people like me who can't find what they want out of life:

When you feel like everything is falling apart — like rejection, failure, or hopelessness is too much — pause and imagine you're about to die in this very moment. Everything fades. Suddenly, all the pressure, shame, and fear lose their grip. What really matters becomes clear. You’re still here. You still have a chance to move forward, even if it’s just one step.
by wwarner | 2025-08-06 19:20:45+00:00
This is great, and I need it and will use it, but what I need even more is some kind of integration with org mode (or just note taking generally). I found out the hard way that github/copilot deletes conversations after 30 days! So much for building a knowledge base with an AI assistant! I really need something a bit like Goog's `notebookllm` for capturing research, except I'd like to control it locally.
by jmathai | 2025-08-06 19:20:58+00:00
Well:

1) Clicking on search results doesn't bring $ to Google and takes users off their site. Surely they're thinking of ways to address this. Ads?

2) Having to click off to another site to learn more is really a deficiency in the AI summary. I'd expect Google would rather you to go into AI mode where they control the experience and have more opportunities to monetize. Ads?

We are in the "early uber" and "early airbnb" days ... enjoy it while it's great!
by spidersenses | 2025-08-06 19:21:08+00:00
The more important question appears to be why it seems to difficult to follow the advice?

Personally, I'm well aware of the positive effects of drinking plenty of water, eating vegetables, exercising daily, and going to bed early. However, I buy myself a chocolate bar every day, love pizza, just want to unwind after a hard day at work, and still read Reddit late into the night.

All the healthy stuff has friction: a workout takes time out of the day, the veggies need preparation, while going to bed early means I'm missing out on fun or intriguing things that I would learn about otherwise.
by lwansbrough | 2025-08-06 19:21:46+00:00
You keep harping on the point that the laws haven't changed. Nobody is arguing that. But how would the average person access the text of the constitution?

Should they not expect to find the full text on the official government website for the constitution?

If I search "US constitution" and congress.gov is the first result, am I dumb for reading that source and believing that is the full text?

If I am detained illegally by ICE and I try to inform myself of my constitutional rights through the official government channels, and am not informed of my right to due process, have I been successfully ragebaited?
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-06 19:22:11+00:00
I know I am not taking relativity into account but outside of that it's something like 250 kilograms (~550lbs) of antimatter (and that value again for the matter for it to react to) or the equivalent in other fuels. The only difference is how quickly you burn through it.

Which doesn't sound like a lot but its probably as much or more antimatter than exists in the entire solar system, so if it were the fuel then whoever was using it would need to have figured out a method to create and store antimatter in bulk along with the ability to react antimatter as rocket fuel without destroying the rocket its fueling.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-06 19:22:16+00:00
The difference in this scenario is that bars and retailers can actually do that and it's perfectly legal (AFAIK in the US), while a porn site doing that is explicitly illegal according to all of the bills I've read. If you hand it to a store clerk to read and they scan it real quick, you can't even react before it's done, and then what are you going to do? You have no recourse. The clerk almost certainly can't even remove the information. In addition to the legal side, digital ids do have some protections against this designed in.
by Oras | 2025-08-06 19:22:18+00:00
Its a common issue now, search for "Jobs Copilot" or "AI Apply" and you'll see lots of results.

The problem (imo) started with companies ghosting candidates and never making an effort to reply or just having a generic rejection email. They used matching algorithms based on finding keywords in the CV.

Any job board will just redirect to an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) such as Lever and Greenhouse. These AI apply platforms are scraping these ATSs and applying on candidates' behalf.

Job boards are just distribution channels.
by ryandv | 2025-08-06 19:22:46+00:00
Yes well you see, women and the LGBTQ+ are always right and morally infallible; all men are simply subhuman conservative racists. As subhumans they are not entitled to basic human rights or required to provide consent for anything.

Try as you might to refute this progressive axiom in vain; better to simply just double down on an assumption nobody has ever been able to refute, and carry it to its necessary conclusions.
by esafak | 2025-08-06 19:22:47+00:00
Thank you. To spare Mac readers time:

mlx 4bit: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-...

mlx 5bit: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-...

mlx 6bit: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-...

mlx 8bit: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-...

edit: corrected the 4b link
by neilv | 2025-08-06 19:23:12+00:00
As a long-time AI+HCI person, I have mixed feelings about "AI", but just last night I was remarking to colleagues/friends that even I have mostly stopped clicking through from Google searches. The "AI" summary now usually plagiarizes a good enough answer.

I'm sure Google knows this, and also knows that that many of these "AI" answers wouldn't pass any prior standard of copyright fair use.

I suspect Google were kinda "forced" into it by the sudden popularity of OpenAI-Microsoft (who have fewer ethical qualms) and the desire to keep feeding their gazillion-dollar machine rather than have it wither and become a has-been.

"If we don't do it, everyone else will anyway, and we'll be less evil with that power than those guys." Usually that's just a convenient selfish rationalization, but this time it might actually be true.

Still, Google is currently ripping off and screwing over the Web, in a way that they still knew was wrong as recently as a few years ago, pre-ChatGPT.
by errozero | 2025-08-06 19:23:15+00:00
Thank you! It's been a few years so I can't remember exactly without reading through the code but it's something like this:

It uses notes from the selected scale and octave (from the dropdowns). If the pattern is of an even length, say 16, it will split it into 4 chunks of 4, then randomly decide if it should generate new data for the chunk or copy the previous chunk. It uses the repeat slider for the probability on this.

It randomly applies the 303 modifiers (up, down, accent, slide) using probability set with the sliders on the pattern tab.

There's also an 'empty' slider which sets the probablity of an empty note appearing in a chunk.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-06 19:24:12+00:00
Yea, I don't think we ought to let (real OR imagined) fears of injury suffocate new inventions that might help get kids out of the house and active. Growing up in the 80s, we roamed freely and got injured all the time, sometimes seriously (broken bones, torn ligaments, probably concussions--I don't remember because my brain doesn't work anymore), and most of us turned out fine!
by timdumol | 2025-08-06 19:24:28+00:00
I've tried using Jules for a side project, and the code quality it emits is much worse than GH Copilot (using Claude Sonnet), Gemini CLI, and Claude Code (which is odd, since it should have the same model as Gemini CLi). It also had a tendency to get confused in a monorepo -- it would keep trying to `cd backend && $DO_STUFF` even when it was already in backend, and iterate by trying to change `$DO_STUFF` rather than figure out that it's already in the backend directory.
by apparent | 2025-08-06 19:24:39+00:00
The System Information application has a chip and calipers or something.

But regardless, even if CPU/GPU/RAM aren't represented in the Finder, it's still confusing to use such an icon (in many places — presumably Disk Utility and other applications also) since users wouldn't know which of those many things it could represent. TBH, many people don't know the difference between CPU/GPU or RAM/SSD, so they wouldn't know what would/should be shown where.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-06 19:24:52+00:00
So I was curious, in normal google search (with the AI summary) I put in "why is rum healthy" I got this, and then it listed a bunch of benefits: "Rum, when consumed in moderation, may offer a few potential health benefits. These include possible positive effects on heart health due to its potential to increase HDL (good) cholesterol, and the presence of antioxidants in darker rums, which may be beneficial."

But if I just simply remove the "why" it clearly states "Rum is an alcoholic beverage that does not have any significant health benefits."

Man I love so much that we are pushing this technology that is clearly just "garbage in, garbage out".

Side Note: totally now going to tell my doctor I have been drinking more rum next time we do blood work if my good cholesterol is still a bit low. I am sure he is going to be thrilled. I wonder if I could buy rum with my HSA if I had a screenshot of this response... (\s if really necessary)
by ASalazarMX | 2025-08-06 19:24:59+00:00
The official website has an interesting footer

> As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more. Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

On one hand I applaud that their community standards are inclusive, but on the other hand, it shouldn't be that blatantly ideological from the get go. It's just another programming language, not a political platform.
by emptysongglass | 2025-08-06 19:25:42+00:00
Danes are very proud of Denmark. It's a tiny country. There's a sense that we need to protect this tiny state from criticism because it's taken care of us. We've given the world Lego, Hans Christian Andersen, and we rank in the top two happiest countries in the world according to terrible measurements.

So now we're the baddies, what do we do? We don't mention it. Ignorance is bliss.
by stackskipton | 2025-08-06 19:26:03+00:00
> Probably because previous generation of people who are now parents, grew up with uncensored internet and turned out largely all right, or at least the issues they have (economy, jobs, housing) aren't due to a lack of internet censorship to "protect" them.

As Millennial, internet we grew up in is vastly different from internet the kids are growing up in. Our access was different and content pushing was much different.
by jmb99 | 2025-08-06 19:26:13+00:00
> I don't think they want to risk losing that.

It depends on the cost.

Translating the OS to Slovene really just costs whatever a translation service costs, plus review & a bit of ongoing maintenance. Even on the high end, I doubt it would push 8 figures up front, and probably 6 in yearly maintenance.

If compliance with the Japanese law means every iOS build in every region must support alternate browser engines, what's the cost to Apple? They clearly must believe it's high (otherwise they would have done so already). Brand risk? Maybe, and hard to price that, but at Apple's valuations and revenues that could be 9+ figures depending on severity. Loss of revenue from Google (if they still pay to be the default search engine in Safari)? That could be a large number too.

It all comes down to the numbers. How much will Apple lose by pulling out of Japan (possibly betting on such a move being temporary, hoping Japan changes their mind, and also hoping that their reputation worldwide doesn't suffer) vs allowing alternate browser engines worldwide?
by nebben64 | 2025-08-06 19:27:04+00:00
+1 on context window remaining

better memory management: I have memories that get overlooked or forgotten (even though I can see them in the archive), then when I try to remind chatGPT, it creates a new memory; also updating a memory often just creates a new one. I can kind of tell that Chat is trying hard to reference past memories, so I try to not have too many, and make each memory contain only precise information.

Some way to branch off of a conversation (and come back to the original master, when I'm done; happens often when I'm learning, that I want to go off and explore a side-topic that I need to understand)
by sensanaty | 2025-08-06 19:28:01+00:00
I mean, antibiotic resistance and superbugs are a thing. Overuse of antibiotics has been and still is definitely a problem, and there's a good reason that you're very strongly advised to fully finish whatever dose of antibiotics you're given.

Also broad-spectrum antibiotics can cause havoc to the body. They're amazing of course, don't get me wrong, but far from a panacea and there are issues in their use and overuse, some of which we're still learning about despite it being a century (in only 3 years!) since their initial discovery.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-06 19:28:14+00:00
True, but beside the point. Presumption of innocence applies to criminal proceedings, and only to criminal proceedings. If a public prosecutor is trying to land you in jail. No other cases. It does not apply to immigration proceedings, juveniles, tax law, family law, contract law, administrative law ...

A judge is allowed to take the IRS's word, without evidence, that you've violated tax law.

A judge is allowed to take anyone's word, without evidence, or even without a complaint at all, to lock any minor in juvie (which "is not prison"), or take them away from their parents.

A judge is allowed to take the word of a business that someone violated a clause in a contract, without evidence, even if the other party denies it.

The ONLY thing a judge is not allowed to do is to take ONLY the word of a public prosecutor that you've committed a crime. A police testimony or some other form of proof is required to make the difference between guilty and innocent. But nothing else. A judge can add to a sentence because the prosecutor says, without any proof, "he almost hit a girl in the street with his after the robbery", for example.

Of course, a judge, including an immigration judge is ALSO allowed to require proof anyway for any proceeding. However, immigration judges are appointed and fired at will by the state department. So if an immigration judge actually does that, it'll stand, but it'll probably be the his last act as a judge. In other words, if you want this, it needs to be bad enough that the judge is willing to risk/sacrifice their career over it.
by furstenheim | 2025-08-06 19:28:22+00:00
> But if you want an existence proof: Maven. The Java library ecosystem has been going strong for 20 years, and during that time not once have we needed a lockfile. And we are pulling hundreds of libraries just to log two lines of text, so it is actively used at scale.

Maven and Java is simply broken when dealing with transitive dependencies.

I've been hit so many times with running time exception "MethodNotFound" cause two libraries have the same transitive dependency and one version gets picked over the other one.
by adrianmsmith | 2025-08-06 19:28:33+00:00
If you use two dependencies, and one requires Foo 1.2.3 and the other Foo 1.2.4 then 99% of the time including either version of Foo will work fine. (I was a Java developer and used Maven for about 10 years.)

For those times where that's not the case, you can look at the dependency tree to see which is included and why. You can then add a <dependency> override in your pom.xml file specifying the one you want.

It's not an "insane" algorithm. It gives you predictability. If you write something in your pom.xml that overrides whatever dependency your dependency requires, because you can update your pom.xml if you need to.

And because pom.xml is hand-written there are very few merge conflicts (as much as you'd normally find in source code), vs. a lock file where huge chunks change each time you change a dependency, and when it comes to a merge conflict you just have to delete the lot and redo it and hope nothing important has been changed.
by derriz | 2025-08-06 19:28:50+00:00
I’m not sure Set theory and Type theory compete for the same foundations people.

Type theory’s stomping ground is in the foundations of computation. I’m guessing if you sampled a theoretical comp. sci. audience, I’m pretty sure type theory would “win” the popularity contest.

Somewhat similar to intuitionism and constructivism - interesting to people interested in computability but considered almost silly or at least niche by “mainstream” math theoreticians.
by II2II | 2025-08-06 19:28:51+00:00
Vim and Neovim are pretty close to being infinitely customizable, but vi is a different story. Likewise, Emacs can be used as is. If anything, the difference was in the core audience. A sysadmin is more hesitant about customizing their tools because they tend to deal with many different systems. It's also the main reason why they use vi (Vim and Neovim are simply substitutes), because it is always available. Emacs tended to attract people who customized their tools.

These days, things are a bit different. Vim and Neovim are more easily customized, and have gained a following because it is more finger friendly (even if it is harder to learn).
by smaudet | 2025-08-06 19:29:00+00:00
I went (10 years ago) JetBrains because of emacs. Back then, they were the Kool Kid in town that made emacs-style functionality more accessible.

More and more they've become just another IDE with too-much-to-do. Still one of (the?) best, but as soon as your editor becomes impractical to use to edit a text file... (because it really just likes to work on projects...).

But yeah, emacs remains functional in a way that JetBrains...probably won't. I'm already more than several years behind on their releases because they stopped putting a decent product...
by extr | 2025-08-06 19:29:08+00:00
At one point these SEO pages were in fact providing a real service, and you could view them as a sort of "manual", prototypical, distributed form of AI. Millions of people trying to understand what information was valuable and host webpages to satisfy the demand for that info, and get rewarded for doing so. It obviously went too far, but at one point, it did make sense to allow these websites to proliferate. I know without AI, I probably just would have clicked on the first link that said "types of wrenches" and read a little bit. I probably would have gotten my answer, it just wouldn't have been quite as laser-targeted to my exact question.
by ak217 | 2025-08-06 19:29:10+00:00
OK, here is a study with 10x the sample size reading out the opposite effect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26746907/

The point of my post was that these experiences are highly personal and specific to your physiology. Different shoe models labeled the same type can have drastically different dynamics depending on their design and the specifics of your gait and strike. If you have pain or injuries, don't trust the studies, try different shoes and cross-training/stretching techniques until you find what works for you.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-06 19:29:14+00:00
> I don't understand how Maven's YOLO is different from NPM's range.

The person who wrote the range selected a range that they deem likely to work.

I don't use NPM, but in Python it definitely happens that you see e.g.:

foo >= 0.3.4, <= 0.5.6

Which can save a lot of headaches early on for packages that use ZeroVer[1]

1: https://0ver.org/
by chollida1 | 2025-08-06 19:29:22+00:00
It depends on how they measure profitability, but a 99% win rate isn't uncommon if you just write options.

Covered calls are a good example, you own the stock and sell calls with a strike that is in the money.

You make money on your option as it either expires worthless and you win getting to keep the premium you got paid to write the option or it expires in the money and you sell the shares to the option holder at the strike.

In both cases you can claim you didn't lose money on the option. But you did lose out on potential profit from your share as you were forced to sell them for less than they are worth on the open market and its very easy to get into a case where you would have been better off if you hadn't wrote the option in the first place.

If you manage your own money you can say you didn't lose on the option but you probably did on the underlying stock.

If the stock closes lower you lost money on the stock but make a tiny bit from selling the option.

If the stock closes higher than the strike you wrote you "make" money on the option from the premium but lose out on profit as you have to sell your stock for lower than what you could have in the market.

So again you can say the option didn't lose money but you are worse off than if you hadn't wrote the option, assuming it went up more than the premium you got from writing the option.

So amateur traders can fool themselves into thinking they are geniuses as their option leg doesn't lose money but the overall trade still makes them worse off than if they hadn't of sold the option at all.
Ask HN: Does simulation theory invalidate its own evidence?
by Jimmc414 | 2025-08-06 19:29:36+00:00
I've been thinking about the simulation hypothesis (Bostrom, Moravec, etc) and I'm stuck on what seems like a paradox:

The standard argument as I understand it goes: (1) Computing power grows exponentially -> (2) Civilizations will create ancestor simulations -> (3) Therefore we're statistically likely to be simulated

But if we're in a simulation, then (1) and (2) are just features programmed into our simulation, not facts about base reality. We'd be using potentially fictional evidence to prove the evidence is fictional.

It's like characters in a video game using the game's physics engine to prove they're in a video game - but the physics engine could be nothing like actual physics.

What am I missing? How do simulation proponents resolve this circularity?

Genuinely curious about responses to this, especially from those who find the simulation argument compelling.

[0] Bostrom - https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

[1] Moravec - https://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Bodies,%20Souls,%20and%20Robots/Texts/AI%20and%20Robotics/Simulation,%20Consciousness,%20Existence.htm

[2] Moravec article - https://www.wired.com/1995/10/moravec/

[3] Discussion that prompted this post: https://x.com/AndrewMayne/status/1953148275407913073
by xethos | 2025-08-06 19:29:45+00:00
The writers and editors understand that privacy is central to their lifestyle and work - few sources will allow exclusively on-the-record interviews.

The accountants that pay the writers and editors believe that, to make the math work of "Cheap enough that a viable number of subscribers will pay", the subscription must be ad-subsidized.

These are two seperate groups, and lumping them in to call them both hypocritical is lazy in thought, or ignorant in recognizing that the New Yorker is more than one person. Yes, change should start at the paper running the story. The fact they haven't yet convinced all their subscribers or accountants, and ~~possibly not even~~ presumably the public at large, does not detract from their point.

Edited, but struck-through instead of deleted
by herval | 2025-08-06 19:30:30+00:00
I’m I being pedantic or does the jules.google landing page screams “howdie, kids” (the Buschemi meme).

It tries to be funny and authentic, but the cheap looking mascot and low contrast text makes it feel like IBM pretending to be vibecoded startup.

Google has/had a distinct branding with its austere and no-nonsense style in the past, then moved into a clunky-but-not-AWS design aesthetic with GCP (which is still recognizable), and now the AI products just look so completely inconsistent, you can’t even tell they’re from Google