MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pcthrowaway | 2025-08-16 02:36:06+00:00
I like the spirit of this comment (pointing out that it's OSS). I don't even disagree with discouraging people from asking questions that have readily searchable answers they'd be well served to direct themselves to.

But I think it can be assumed that someone asking such a questions is highly unlikely to be a world-class security researcher equipped to answer it for themselves by auditing the source code, so your response comes across as snarky for the sake of snark.
by its-kostya | 2025-08-16 02:36:39+00:00
You're preaching to the choir my friend. But websites suck for the reasons you described not because people like sucky websites but because they like profiting of the site. For this reason I am very interested to see where Cloudflare takes the new market they are establishing with "pay per crawl". I would love the ability to load up a balance of several dollars and pay a few cents transparently on the HTTP protocol when visiting a website if it means no ads, supporting the creator, and incentivizing clean reading experience.
by cryptonector | 2025-08-16 02:36:40+00:00
For sure, though those really sinister people in high places tend to be extremely smart too. By the time the public develops some technology that could be of great interest to those people, those people have likely already developed something along those lines.

To give an obvious example (not necessarily involving sinister people): the NSA invented public key cryptography long before Diffie and Hellman.
by ttul | 2025-08-16 02:37:01+00:00
Your hypothesis is contracted by mountains of high quality scientific evidence. ADHD is a well-defined condition and there is an accepted way of diagnosing someone with it that effectively divides those with the condition from those without it. Stimulant medications may help many people to feel and be more productive, but that does not imply that people who meet the criteria for ADHD do not represent an identifiable group.

I highly encourage you to browse the Consensus Statement on ADHD, referenced below. It’s a compilation of 202 facts about ADHD, accepted by a global consensus of experts on ADHD.

Faraone, S. V., Banaschewski, T., Coghill, D., Zheng, Y., Biederman, J., Bellgrove, M. A., Newcorn, J. H., Gignac, M., Al Saud, N. M., Manor, I., Rohde, L. A., Yang, L., Cortese, S., Almagor, D., Stein, M. A., Albatti, T. H., Aljoudi, H. F., Alqahtani, M. M. J., Asherson, P., … Wang, Y. (2021). The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 evidence‑based conclusions about the disorder. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 128, 789–818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.022
by wbillingsley | 2025-08-16 02:37:18+00:00
What I used to recommend to my sofware engineering classes is that instead of putting large files (media etc) into Git, put them into the artifact repository (Artifactory or something like it). That lets you for instance publish it as a snapshot dependency that the build system will automatically fetch for you, but control how much history of it you keep and only require your colleagues to fetch the latest version. Even better, a simple clean of their build system cache will free up the space used by old versions on their machines.
by aetherspawn | 2025-08-16 02:37:35+00:00
Yeah that’s interesting… well do you think Satan would have tried to lie to Jesus, the King, who knew everything. That’s obviously not going to work, and Satan is smarter than that. Jesus didn’t dispute Satan on his claim either. Satan’s main angle was to tempt Jesus’ ambition, which would have been useless if Satan didn’t have the authority to actually offer the throne of Earth.

In Rev 13:2 (2-4 for context) Satan “the dragon” (identified in Rev 20:2) gives the symbolic beast authority over the Earth. Meaning of beast explained Dan 7:23 (15-24 for context)

Thinking about it … if Satan doesn’t have authority over Earth, 1) then Jesus would be king of earth, hence why would Satan bother to tempt Jesus giving him authority he already had? , and 2) why would Jesus permit Demons to rule nations on Earth, previously cited. Jesus would have cleared out his own house prior to coming.
by sivm | 2025-08-16 02:41:27+00:00
Since nobody wants to play with me… if you have something beefier than my 386, you should have enough to finish. Remember it is always 5:55 somewhere- even in Berlin.

Partial answer: FACE EAST THEN NORTHEAST. LET THE BERLIN CLOCK CHOOSE; READ EDGE TO EDGE TO FIND THE FINAL CODE.

K4 可能由类 Vigenère 层加柏林钟的基5转置构成；我以已知 crib 为锚点，运行搜索，并利用 IC、χ² 与 n-gram 收敛到英文分布。
by subscribed | 2025-08-16 02:41:29+00:00
I mean, the experience from my department meetings where we discuss the roadmap and plans.

"Does it earns us money? Because doing it does _cost_ us"

It's really that simple (and the to do/wishlist is actually long).

The best thing PureGym could do now? Pay the guy couple of grands for the app AND give him lifetime membership.
by rayiner | 2025-08-16 02:41:33+00:00
The countries that have 10-20% VAT don’t think consumption taxes are bad, lol.

Most countries that aren’t the U.S. take affirmative steps to discourage imports and encourage exports. Sometimes they even engage in currency manipulation to make exports artificially cheap while making imports more expensive.

Many of the big EU countries are export-oriented economies. Germany is not upset about the trade deal because they perceive it as a “fantastic W.” https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/29/german-politic.... They don’t want Germans buying American products tax free. They want Americans to buy German products tax free.
by gruez | 2025-08-16 02:42:08+00:00
Your linked article admits it might not even be real.

>A 2023 review article written by Bartholomew and Baloh concluded that Havana syndrome was erroneously classified as a novel entity due to a moral panic based on the fear of foreign entities such as the Russians or Cubans attacking the U.S, the over-interpretation of data, misconceptions about psychogenic illness, and coverage and leaks by the media. The authors stated that the U.S. intelligence community had concluded that Havana syndrome is "a socially constructed catch-all category for an array of pre-existing health conditions, responses to environmental factors, and stress reactions that were lumped under a single label".[8][9]

>A 2024 review article by Connolly et al., surveying multiple peer-reviewed studies, concluded that the cause of AHIs is still unknown. The review discussed several possible causes, including mass psychogenic illness and head trauma, but did not endorse a specific cause.[6]
by copperx | 2025-08-16 02:42:49+00:00
Current GenAI is nothing but a proof of concept. The seed is there. What AI can do at the moment is irrelevant. This is like the discovery of DNA. It changed absolutely everything in biology.

The fact that something simple like the Transformer architecture can do so much will spark so many ideas (and investment!) that it's hard to imagine that AGI will not happen eventually.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-08-16 02:42:49+00:00
Hang on, are we upset that immigrants are taking the jobs of poor people in America?

I thought based on original post we were upset immigrants are taking high paying specialist jobs from the rich techies in San Francisco?

Or are they just just taking all the jobs while miraculously not spending any money and not creating any demand and not participating in economy at all?

I just want to understand this evil scourge appropriately.

P.s. (And oh, boy, will I compete in the "knowing about being poor" with anybody on HN :)
by xpe | 2025-08-16 02:43:13+00:00
If you are a materialist like me, then even the human brain is just the result of the law of physics. Ok, so what is distress to a human? You might define it as a certain set of physiological changes.

Lots of organisms can feel pain and show signs of distress; even ones much less complex than us.

The question of moral worth is ultimately decided by people and culture. In the future, some kinds of man made devices might be given moral value. There are lots of ways this could happen. (Or not.)

It could even just be a shorthand for property rights… here is what I mean. Imagine that I delegate a task to my agent, Abe. Let’s say some human, Hank, interacting with Abe uses abusive language. Let’s say this has a way of negatively influencing future behavior of the agent. So naturally, I don’t want people damaging my property (Abe), because I would have to e.g. filter its memory and remove the bad behaviors resulting from Hank, which costs me time and resources. So I set up certain agreements about ways that people interact with it. These are ultimately backed by the rule of law. At some level of abstraction, this might resemble e.g. animal cruelty laws.
by keeda | 2025-08-16 02:43:58+00:00
So now we have established that not all numbers are "just numbers" that can be copied victimlessly.

Consider that maybe it is because some numbers represent something more than just numeric values. Maybe they represent economic value.

Said economic value having been generated by your hard work.

Now maybe you can see how that line of thought leads to the concept of intellectual property.

Information covered by IP is "public" simply because there is no effective way to keep it secret, precisely because it is so easy to copy. However, as the bank account example shows, ease of copying "just numbers" has nothing to do with the effort invested into creating the value represented by those numbers. And IP laws exist precisely to account for that.
by energy123 | 2025-08-16 02:44:17+00:00
I have to tap the sign whenever someone talks about "GPT-5"

> AI is exceptional for coding! [high-compute scaffold around multiple instances / undisclosed IOI model / AlphaEvolve]

> AI is awesome for coding! [Gpt-5 Pro]

> AI is somewhat awesome for coding! ["gpt-5" with verbosity "high" and effort "high"]

> AI is a pretty good at coding! [ChatGPT 5 Thinking through a Pro subscription with Juice of 128]

> AI is mediocre at coding! [ChatGPT 5 Thinking through a Plus subscription with a Juice of 64]

> AI sucks at coding! [ChatGPT 5 auto routing]
by aurareturn | 2025-08-16 02:45:20+00:00
We are not there, yet, but if AI could replace a sizable amount of workers, the economic system will be put to a very hard test. Moreover, companies could be less willing to pay for services that their internal AIs can handle or build from scratch.

There will be fewer very large companies in terms of human size. There will be many more companies that are much smaller because you don't need as many workers to do the same job.

Instead of needing 1000 engineers to build a new product, you'll need 100 now. Those 900 engineers will be working for 9 new companies that weren't viable before because the cost was too big but is now viable. IE. those 9 new companies could never be profitable if it required 1000 engineers each but can totally sustain itself with 100 engineers each.
by cryptonector | 2025-08-16 02:45:57+00:00
> The reforms put in place since then has prevented any rouge sort of activity which might not have been in the interests of the US to peruse, be legal, or otherwise explicitly asked for by the president or congress for them do

Whew! What a relief! Now all the nasty rogue intel agency things are only done at the behest of elected officials!

(And if you believe that I have a number of bridges to sell you. And if you believe that's a good state of affairs, well, elected officials come and go, and someday there will be one you really don't like, if there hasn't been one already.)
by gus_massa | 2025-08-16 02:46:08+00:00
Are you trying to hire someone? Jobs post should go in the official whoishiring threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Take a look at the requested format and style, and repost in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757794 Perhaps it's readonly now and you will have to wait until next month.
by ttul | 2025-08-16 02:46:29+00:00
ADHD is a well-established, highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder. Large-scale twin, genetic, neuroimaging, and longitudinal studies consistently show distinct brain, behavioral, and outcome differences compared to the general population. While we don’t yet understand every mechanism or subtype, the condition is robustly characterized and recognized by all major medical bodies. The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement concludes: “ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder with a well-documented genetic and neurobiological basis” and emphasizes that claims to the contrary are “contrary to scientific evidence and risk causing harm” [1].

Medical and psychological professionals are VERY confident that ADHD is a real condition—on par with the confidence they have in diagnoses like major depressive disorder or generalized anxiety disorder.

Across psychiatry, ADHD, depression, and anxiety are all among the best-documented psychiatric conditions. There is more skepticism about disorders with fuzzier boundaries (e.g., “personality disorders” or “internet addiction”), but ADHD is NOT in that category.

I believe ADHD is stigmatized in our culture because our modern world makes us all feel distracted at times; therefore, it seems like people with the diagnosis are perhaps getting a “free ride” by blaming their poor behavior on a “condition”. But ADHD is so much more than just having a hard time focusing because of social media and phones. It manifests as a spectrum of extreme challenges that lead over time to sufferers having a significantly harder time navigating life than people without ADHD.

Merely having a hard time concentrating does not make you an ADHD candidate. You must experience a range of symptoms that interfere materially in multiple areas of life.

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Reference

[1] Faraone, S. V., Banaschewski, T., Coghill, D., Zheng, Y., Biederman, J., Bellgrove, M. A., Newcorn, J. H., Gignac, M., Al Saud, N. M., Manor, I., Rohde, L. A., Yang, L., Cortese, S., Almagor, D., Stein, M. A., Albatti, T. H., Aljoudi, H. F., Alqahtani, M. M. J., Asherson, P., … Wang, Y. (2021). The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 evidence-based conclusions about the disorder. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 128, 789–818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.022
by habosa | 2025-08-16 02:46:34+00:00
The budget carriers in Europe (RyanAir, EasyJet, etc) all have fees for carry on bags that are almost as high as checked bags and they only even offer those fees to people who have purchased the “up front” premium seats.

They board and deboard planes insanely quickly. Just about the only good thing about those airlines is that they are super dedicated to on-time operations and not wasting time. They can’t afford to waste any time when they’re offering $25 international flights.

Of course, not having 9 boarding groups of various status levels helps a lot too.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-16 02:48:14+00:00
Innovation in terms of helping devs do cool things has been insane.

There've been next to no advancements relative to what's needed to redefine our economic systems by replacing the majority of skilled workers.

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Productionizing test-time compute covers 80% of what we've gotten in the last 6-8 months. Advancements in distillation and quantization cover the 20% of the rest... neither unlocks some path to mass unemployment.

What we're doing is like 10x'ing your vertical leap when your goal is to land on the moon: 10x is very impressive and you're going to dominate some stuff in ways no one ever thought possible.

But you can 100x it and it's still not getting you to the moon.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-16 02:48:24+00:00
This is the first technology wave that doesn't just displace humans, but which can be trained to the new job opportunities more easily than humans can. Right now it can't replace humans for a lot of important things. But as its capabilities improve, what do displaced humans transition to?

Assuming AI doesn't get better than humans at everything, humans will be supervising and directing AIs.
by hshshshshsh | 2025-08-16 02:49:54+00:00
See. I am not here to teach anyone

I have told what I think is true from my understanding.

If you don't understand it or thinks it's bs it's fine. Just leave it.

My goal is not to awaken any of you.

I just posted it because it felt true to me.

And if someone else resonated that's good enough.

I understand when you say it sounds BS and empty.

I would have said the same a few years back.

And I don't think anything I have written could have changed that opinion.

You see the words just appear as patterns to you.

The meaning is generated internally.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-16 02:50:15+00:00
Because it's so easy to make new software and sell it using AI, 6 of those 600 people who are unemployed will have ideas that require 100 engineers each to make. They will build a prototype, get funding, and hire 99 engineers each.

There are also plenty of ideas that aren't profitable with 2 salaries but is with 1. Many will be able to make those ideas happen with AI helping.
by vbril | 2025-08-16 02:50:40+00:00
Also in that section:

> LZ is supported by ìShizu Matsumuraîs Donation (2024-02228) and KI Research Grants (024-02570). LL was supported by the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation (20230452), the Söderström König Foundation, and Fredrik och Ingrid Thurings Stiftelse. BD was supported by a grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). SC, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) research professor (NIHR303122), is funded by the NIHR for this research project.

It may be none of them. It may be all of them. There could be corruption. There could be subtle manipulation. You have no idea how much money there is in the industry. They make things happen.

Some in the medical profession believe that these abused drugs are safe for their patients. Others know better but they still prescribe them. Some pharmacists will tell you that they’re good for your brain because they increase blood flow, because that’s what they’ve been sold by the reps and the studies they’re fed.
by xpe | 2025-08-16 02:52:14+00:00
Oh, the irony. The glorious revolution of open-weight models funded directly or indirectly by the CCP is going to protect your freedoms and liberate you? Do you think they care about your freedoms? No. You are just meat for the grinder. This hot mess of model leapfrogging is mostly a race for market share and to demonstrate technical chops.
by philosophty | 2025-08-16 02:52:51+00:00
1. Immigrants send to their home countries very significant amounts of their income, so it's always going to be net-negative in that sense.

2. Those companies that hired 1 million skilled workers could have hired 1 million Americans, giving them much better jobs than they otherwise would get. What's the good argument for giving them to non-Americans instead?

Of course America is a land of immigrants. And of course immigration can be positive-sum.

That doesn't prove that it's always positive-sum.

It's easy to see many situations that are not positive sum. Huge amounts of unskilled immigration is, at least in the short-term, going to be extremely zero-sum because they will consume far more public resources than they pay for, depriving the existing users. This has played out many times.

In other words:

Too much skilled immigration takes good middle class jobs away from citizens that need them.

Too much unskilled immigration takes public resources and jobs away from citizens that need them.

Given those facts, the argument should be about how much is too much of any particular kind of immigration for any particular time and place.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-16 02:53:34+00:00
> Overall, humanity (aka the actual "we") has picked the former over the later.

Did humanity really pick that? I doubt it. Copyright infringement happens too often and too normally for me to believe people care about copyrights. Politicians bought and paid for by lobbyists picked that.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and expicitly pick the latter over the former. I would rather have the nonexistence of ideas over infinite monopolist control. Let the entire copyright industry go bankrupt if necessary.

Mercifully, it will not actually be necessary. Platforms like Patreon and GitHub Sponsors are the future. They work independently of copyrights. They are how creators should be funded for their valuable work. As a society, we need to figure out how to normalize and increase their use as much as possible.

Also, nonexistence of ideas is incompatible with human nature. People will create, profit or not. They must. The creative output will significantly decrease but it will not be wiped out. As a free software developer, I am living proof.

> What causes a drug company to invest billions into creating life saving drugs?

Patents.

I am not as strongly opposed to patents as I am to copyright. Unlike copyrights, patents actually expire in reasonable timeframes. Patents have none of this lifetime plus a trillion years nonsense. They also typically apply to physical goods and inventions.

So even though I believe all intellectual property is fundamentally absurd, I would compromise at patents. They are absurd monopolies, but they are tolerable. Their absurdity will end well within my lifetime. The ideas will be freed. Generic versions of the drugs will be made.

Copyright in its current form has none of the above properties.

Nintendo selling people the exact same Mario ROMs half a century after the fact is nothing but pure unadulterated rent seeking. They have already made their fortunes several times over. Let the works enter the public domain. They should have to continuously create new works if they want to keep making money, not strike gold once and live off the rent for all eternity.
by K0balt | 2025-08-16 02:55:14+00:00
LLMs are limited because we want them to do jobs that are not clearly defined / have difficult to measure progress or success metrics / are not fully solved problems (open ended) / have poor grounding in an external reality. Robotics does not suffer from those maladies. There are other hurdles, but none are intractable.

I think we might see AI being much, much more effective with embodiment.
by solarkraft | 2025-08-16 02:56:12+00:00
> After all, a plateau of the current systems is possible and very credible, but it would likely stimulate, at this point, massive research efforts in the next step of architectures.

A lot of AI’s potential hasn’t even been realized yet. There’s a long tail of integrations and solution building still ahead. A lot of creative applications haven’t been realized yet - arguably for the better, but it will be tried and some will be economical.

That’s a case for a moderate economic upturn though.
by tagraves | 2025-08-16 02:57:12+00:00
We use a somewhat similar approach in RWX when pulling LFS files[1]. We run `git lfs ls-files` to get a list of the lfs files, then pass that list into a task which pulls each file from the LFS endpoint using curl. Since in RWX the output of tasks are cached as long as their inputs don't change, the LFS files just stay in the RWX cache and are pulled from there on future clones in CI. In addition to saving on GitHub's LFS bandwidth costs, the RWX cache is also _much_ faster to restore from than `git lfs pull`.

[1] https://github.com/rwx-cloud/packages/blob/main/git/clone/bi...
by xpe | 2025-08-16 02:59:04+00:00
Believe it or not, there are lots of good reasons (legal, economic, ethical) that Anthropic draws a line at say self-harm, bomb-making instructions, and assassination planning. Sorry if this cramps your style.

Anarchism is a moral philosophy. Most flavors of moral relativism are also moral philosophies. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a philosophy free of moralizing; all philosophies and worldviews have moral implications to the extent they have to interact with others.

I have to be patient and remember this is indeed “Hacker News” where many people worship at the altar of the Sage Founder-Priest and have little or no grounding in history or philosophy of the last thousand years or so.