MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RickJWagner | 2025-08-02 02:07:47+00:00
So you believe it was done just to hurt the American people?

No, that’s not plausible.

The article suggests Trump wanted to help tax software companies, but that overlooks the fact that Trumps previous increase to the standard deduction greatly simplified taxes for many filers. So that’s probably not it, either.

Trump is hell bent on raising taxes via tariffs, so it doesn’t seem likely that personal income taxes are a big part of whatever he’s planning.

Personally, I wish the government would start sending a bill, not putting the onus on the filer to make the calculation. That seems most sensible to me.
by worik | 2025-08-02 02:09:29+00:00
As I read it: Meta's culpability was using the menstrual status people reported into the app for advertising

"Meta intentionally used SDKs to record women’s communications through 12 “custom app events” with names like “R_SELECT_LAST_PERIOD_DATE” and “R_SELECT_CYCLE_LENGTH.” They claimed Meta received event data for each survey question users filled out and used the data for advertising."
by wslh | 2025-08-02 02:10:58+00:00
> ... Recognizing problem complexity as a first step...

Well, I don't think it's easy or even generally possible to recognize a problem complexity. Imagine you ask for a solution for a simple expressed statement like find an n > 2 where z^n = x^n + y^n. The answer you will receive will be based on a trained model with this well known problem but if it's not in the model it could be impossible to measure its complexity.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-02 02:11:42+00:00
The page that the person you’re replying to does have this so it may not be updated, or they were looking in the wrong place originally, or both:

> Industry Track Awards

> Best Paper

> Speed Without Sacrifice: Fine-Tuning Language Models with Medusa and Knowledge Distillation in Travel Applications

> Daniel Zagyva, Emmanouil Stergiadis, Laurens van der Maas, Aleksandra Dokic, Eran Fainman, Ilya Gusev, Moran Beladev

Per TFA, the paper we’re looking for is this one:

> Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

> Jingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, Junyu Luo, Liang Zhao, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhenda Xie, Y. X. Wei, Lean Wang, Zhiping Xiao, Yuqing Wang, Chong Ruan, Ming Zhang, Wenfeng Liang, Wangding Zeng

I’m not finding it by author on the page you linked but I think it’s this reference by title:

> DeepSeek × PKU × UW — Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

I did find it on this page:

https://2025.aclweb.org/program/main_papers/
by bigyabai | 2025-08-02 02:12:29+00:00
Isn't a larger concern that Tim "Services" Cook failed to skate where the puck was headed on this one? 15 years ago the Mac had Nvidia drivers, OpenCL support and a considerable stake in professional HPC. Today's Macs have none of that.

Every business has to make tradeoffs, it's just hard to imagine that any of these decisions were truly worthwhile with the benefit of hindsight. After the botched launch of Vision Pro, Apple has to prove their worth to the wider consumer market again.
by duskwuff | 2025-08-02 02:12:37+00:00
I'd be worried that doing that would invite bad followups - e.g. requiring web browsers to block tagged content by default (or always), defining LGBT or other politically sensitive content as pornographic and mandating that it be tagged, penalizing web site operators for failing to tag their web sites, etc.

But in principle, I still agree. As someone who has managed some adult-oriented spaces online, I would love to have a way to put a sign on the door that, in effect, says "adults only", and have it be technically enforced for users who have chosen to do so.
by adfm | 2025-08-02 02:15:11+00:00
I’m not a lawyer, but I’m curious about how such situations like this are handled legally. Seems that personal data should be handled as if it’s your own (golden rule) and that allowing others to access it without consent is akin to sharing a secret. Such a secret, in my opinion, constitutes a form of intellectual property and therefore facilitating unauthorized access would be akin to larceny. Does this make sense? Please feel free to enlighten ne otherwise.
by hoten | 2025-08-02 02:17:02+00:00
I'm not sure how to ask this without being rude, so I'll just shoot. Is this example satire? https://0x.co/examples.html

What normal person would find this glove and result in it being returned to its owner? Even if "0x.co" was written too, I think most people wouldn't understand it to be a URL.
by indiaupdate | 2025-08-02 02:18:00+00:00
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by lazyeye | 2025-08-02 02:18:15+00:00
Trump's comments on the sacking....

"I was just informed that our country's 'Jobs Numbers' are being produced by a Biden appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfar, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the jobs numbers before the election to try and boost Kamala's chances of victory.

This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the jobs growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 presidential election, in August and September, by 112,000.

These were records – no one can be that wrong?"
by pxc | 2025-08-02 02:18:54+00:00
You might be able to use the extra time to have it do things like run some formatters, linters, run the code in a VM before you inspect it, or modify it for compliance with a style guide that you've written, and continually revise it for up to 5 tries until the conditions are met, something like that.

So maybe there's something useful to do with the extra speed. But it does seem more "useful" for vibe coding than for writing usable/good code.
by doodlebugging | 2025-08-02 02:21:07+00:00
>“Establish a contrarian position, cherry pick evidence to support that position, then claim that this position is under-represented in climate literature.”

I've always said that you can prove anything if you ignore enough data or facts. It's the foundation for all propaganda campaigns - cherry-pick the things that fit the message you want to convey and act like the overwhelming evidence against it doesn't exist. If you can't find anything to serve as a factual basis just invent something and repeat it to your audience, loudly if necessary, until that is the only thing they remember about their interaction with you.
by willglynn | 2025-08-02 02:21:10+00:00
This was TAMDAR data, which is a self-contained instrument package intended specifically for meteorological observations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAMDAR

Observations definitely fell off a cliff as commercial air travel slowed to a crawl. In terms of impact, though… it turned out not to be a big deal.

> Aircraft reports suffered a 75% decline in numbers from mid-March to mid-April 2020; in May the number started increasing again. Despite the loss of data there is no clear signal in the forecast skill—partly because the skill shows considerable variability on daily, seasonal, and interannual timescales (Figures 3 and 4). …

> …

> Overall, we can find no evidence that the decrease in aircraft observations has handicapped numerical forecasts of extreme weather to an extent large enough to incur significant economic impact.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
by bawolff | 2025-08-02 02:21:24+00:00
Given that solar power is 4% of electricity generation, a 15% increase is like 0.5% percentage points in total. Roughly 30% of co2 is from electricity generation, the numbers all seem to make sense.

If you replace 0.5% of things that emit carbon with non-carbon sources it reduces carbon emissions by 0.5%.
by xpe | 2025-08-02 02:21:40+00:00
> The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.

Be careful when anyone, even a giant in the field such as Sutton, posits a sweeping claim like this.

My take? Sutton's "bitter lesson" is rather vague and unspecified (i.e. hard to pin down and test) for at least two reasons:

1. The word "ultimately" is squishy, when you think about it. When has enough time passed to make the assessment? At what point can we say e.g. "Problem X has a most effective solution"?

2. What do we mean by "most effective"? There is a lot of variation, including but not limited to (a) some performance metric; (b) data efficiency; (c) flexibility / adaptability across different domains; and (d) energy efficiency.

I'm a big fan of Sutton's work. I've read his RL book cover-to-cover and got to meet him briefly. But, to me, the bitter lesson (as articulated in Sutton's original post) is not even wrong. It is sufficiently open-ended that many of us will disagree about what the lesson is, even before we can get to the empirical questions of "First, has it happened in domain D at time T? Second, is it 'settled' now, or might things change?"
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-08-02 02:21:41+00:00
The Nazis' rise to power was fueled by German grievances, in particular, with their opponents of long-standing, the French. How is it that research on the dynamics of grievance-fueled violence would not apply to Nazi Germany and lead to the same conclusion, that there are two stable equilibria that World War Two could have settled into: no grievances, or no surviving civilians?
by colechristensen | 2025-08-02 02:22:33+00:00
Axios does a pretty solid job of covering point and counterpoint on their stories not bias towards "equality" for different perspectives, but actually covering fully the different angles of a story.

See yourself in their article from a couple of weeks ago about the federal funding cut of CPB.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/npr-pbs-funding-senate
Ask HN: Is true democracy possible in online tech communities?
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 02:23:50+00:00
Most online communities start democratic but eventually become oligarchies. Reddit has upvotes but moderators have absolute power. Discord servers are basically digital dictatorships.

I've been wondering: Is it possible to build a truly democratic tech community?

Key challenges: - How do you prevent mob rule while maintaining democracy? - Should all voices be equal, or should expertise/contribution matter? - How do you handle spam/quality without authoritarian moderation?

Curious if anyone has seen successful examples, or has thoughts on what the key principles should be.

(Context: Currently researching governance models for a developer platform)
by gnabgib | 2025-08-02 02:24:07+00:00
Superwood

Recently:

(15 points, 1 month ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413282

Previously:

(78 points, 2020, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466660

(78 points, 2019, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965564
by thomashdang | 2025-08-02 02:25:17+00:00
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by jaredklewis | 2025-08-02 02:25:46+00:00
Lost part of his base? What because of the Epstein stuff? You new here or something? If history is a guide, any drop in support among the base is temporary. They just need a few more weeks to get comfortable with the mental gymnastics they’ll use to spin this to themselves as being Hunter Biden or Hillary Clinton’s fault and then Trump’s base support will be right back where it was.
by duskwuff | 2025-08-02 02:25:57+00:00
> That doesn't prove he'd never use AI, but it does mean it's not some random blogger trying to sell their reputation for cheap karma before anyone notices.

It wouldn't be the first time I've seen a formerly reputable web site start churning out AI slop, unfortunately. And, for what it's worth, this other article on the site, published a few days ago, doesn't fill me with confidence either:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/veil-vigilance-tails-60...

It's mostly a paraphrase of the official release notes (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-60/), and it's over a year late - Tails 6.0 was released in February 2024. Even if it's human-written, it's a weird topic to choose and an extremely lazy way to write about it.
by gruez | 2025-08-02 02:26:15+00:00
>"Meta intentionally used SDKs to record women’s communications through 12 “custom app events” with names like “R_SELECT_LAST_PERIOD_DATE” and “R_SELECT_CYCLE_LENGTH.” They claimed Meta received event data for each survey question users filled out and used the data for advertising."

The "intentionally" wording seems like a stretch. The same article also says

>Facebook prohibited Flo from sending any health data, she said, and required Flo to provide notice, obtain consent, and allow users to opt out of any data sharing. She claimed the plaintiffs intentionally omitted efforts by Facebook to mitigate the risk of sensitive data being shared.

It sounds like what happened was that Flo used facebook's SDK to send events, and facebook wasn't involved aside from providing such an SDK/backend service. If so, I think the jury reached the wrong decision here. Why should it be up to facebook to police what SDK events app developers send to it? Should Firebase be liable for privacy violations if it "intentionally" used SDKs to record women's drivers license photos[1], and then allow them to be downloaded by anyone?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(app)#Data_leaks
by Ygg2 | 2025-08-02 02:26:18+00:00
> Different users.

But same principle. Everyone loves for someone else to maintain backwards (and forwards compatibility).

> The users that GP was accusing of malpractice would be the Maxis devs in this case, not the end users who were trying to install SimCity on their Windows 95 machine

And Windows devs aren't to blame for backporting buggy allocators? If SimCity depended on buggy behavior was malpractice, what the hell is backporting bugs? Exporting malpractice?
by orionblastar | 2025-08-02 02:28:19+00:00
No matter what, you won't have free speech; you will have censored/moderated speech where the users or mods vote it down. Some will vote it down because they disagree, others because they find it offensive or wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy Look towards Aaron Swartz on how he wanted information to be free and not behind a paywall. He wanted true Democracy and freedom of speech without being censored.
by NomDePlum | 2025-08-02 02:28:40+00:00
Maybe related to the stealing of land, killing and displacement of those that lived on the land now claimed as Israel?

Slaughtering peoples family and relatives is an act of violence that should expect repercussions.

The deliberate casting aside of any responsibility for death, including tens to hundreds of thousands of children, plus others, is astounding and frankly unforgivable.
by shutupnerd0000 | 2025-08-02 02:29:55+00:00
I was just answering the question posed above. I don’t think I’ve broken any rules. It just seems like you’re uncomfortable with my opinion.

The quote in your profile is very ironic right now: “…It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it…”
by aunty_helen | 2025-08-02 02:31:33+00:00
Or, apples just so bad at this they’re fumbling the bag. Billions in cash on hand each quarter but don’t have the balls that zuck has to pay unreasonable money. They have their own hardware like google does but are talking about perplexity??? They have all data but can’t seem to get an llm that can set an alarm and be a chatbot at the same time?

Sometimes company’s just don’t do good enough.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-02 02:32:06+00:00
Well, define "big military" then. Do you mean the military industrial complex? Because famously, the private corporations aren't the ones demanding that we design superweapons or send your loved ones to war. That's congress, that's the Commander-in-Chief. Your elected representatives take the deterministic actions that decide who lives and dies in conflict, otherwise war would be apolitical.

He's well within his rights to protest whatever he wants. Prioritizing a beef with Spotify just seems hardly self-consistent with protesting the technological advancement of the military.

> if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.

A functioning democracy only requires that people vote. If you want to take serious action towards world disarmament, stop voting pants-on-head insane representatives into power. You could bankrupt every single PMC and military contractor in the world, and governments would invent their own to fill their own security needs.
by Twey | 2025-08-02 02:32:22+00:00
Precise causes of RSI are, as far as I know, still largely unknown, but (at least as far as current hypotheses go) there does have to be some kind of strain involved.

From a quick search, it seems piano players do suffer from a high incidence of RSI (e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12611474/, which also correlates it with smaller hands, i.e. more stretching).
by p_ing | 2025-08-02 02:33:21+00:00
> How do you prevent mob rule while maintaining democracy?

You don't. Look at California's direct democracy, allowing voters to put propositions on the ballot that alter the State Constitution.

(That's not really "mob rule" but it can lead to all sorts of interesting consequences)

> Should all voices be equal, or should expertise/contribution matter?

So if you're not an expert, your vote only counts for 3/5ths of a vote?

> How do you handle spam/quality without authoritarian moderation?

Stupid people are allowed to vote.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-02 02:34:12+00:00
It would be nice if the "destruction to self" impacts self-concept only and not executive function. Alas these 2 seem to be intertwined..

(Because I'd argue that all politics is identity and so much goes into identity hence "narcissism of minute differences"?

Cite here just for potential others to join in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...

>...which was the best end to break an egg."

)
by mdaniel | 2025-08-02 02:34:15+00:00
> Open source: Pontoon is free to use by anyone

And yet, the top level license file contains two licenses, a goddamn if statement, and finally a default to Elastic License which is not open source

Then, because if this trickery, lawyers get to make good money because does "2. LICENSE file in the same directory as the work" combined with "4. Defaults to Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2)" mean that this zero byte file NAMED LICENSE but devoid of any content match clause 2 or 4?

https://github.com/pontoon-data/Pontoon/blob/v0.2.0/data-tra...

I hate cutesy licenses with all my heart. Just say you want to use Elastic, drop the Open Source pretense, and go back to selling software instead of trying to position yourself as "open"

No educated person is going to give you free commits in the current state so no need to be opaque in hopes of tricking them
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 02:34:43+00:00
You're absolutely right about the fundamental tension here. Aaron's vision of truly free information is inspiring, and his work shaped how I think about these problems.

The challenge is that even the most open platforms eventually hit practical problems - spam, harassment, off-topic flooding. The question becomes: who decides what stays and what goes?

What you're describing sounds like the difference between censorship (authority-driven) and curation (community-driven). Maybe the goal isn't eliminating all filtering, but making the process transparent and democratic?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-02 02:35:01+00:00
I feel fairly confident asserting that users are not trained to go through the steps to enable screenshots. Blindly clicking allow is one thing. Going back and forth to enable restricted settings and then grant the permission is quite another. I use a screenshot app, and am pretty technical, and it took me multiple tries and several minutes including having to go read https://support.google.com/android/answer/12623953#allowrest... because Android is so concerned with protecting me.
by dredmorbius | 2025-08-02 02:37:25+00:00
The flagship big-city / large-state stations will very likely continue to function. The real hit for this action will be in rural regions where alternatives to the local NPR translator station are typically religious stations, right-wing talk, and increasingly Spanish-language programming.

If you've access to streaming media, podcasts, or shortwave, you still do have options.

There are several excellent national broadcasters, with the CBC, BBC, and ABC (Australia) operating in English, or a reasonable facsimile. There are often English-language broadcasts from non-anglophone countries, including France (France-24) and Germany (Deutsche-Welle English service), off the top of my head.

Of course, these will get you international news (and occasionally national stories from the broadcaster's home state), but you're straight outta luck for journalism local to your area. OTOH, NPR and PBS have struggled to deliver that (as has commercial news media) for the past decade or two.

If you've always wanted to learn a foreign language but never quite had the inspiration to do so, a further option is to start listening to non-anglophone country's native programming, whether broadcast (shortwave or Internet streaming) or podcast. There are many excellent options. I'm particularly fond of German radio's programming (Deutschlandfunk and its variants, the federated public broadcasting model might offer some lessons and learnings to PBS and NPR going forward), though there are others on top of that.

I round things out with text-based news, typically major newspapers (e.g., NYTimes, Guardian), or newswires (Reuters is pretty good).

But yes, the state of streaming / OTA / linear-programmed news media in the US is absolutely abysmal.