MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maerF0x0 | 2025-08-06 17:14:55+00:00
kinda cynical, but that $1 per year will probably cost $1000 per year in red tape, getting approvals, managing information security, cutting the check, answering the questions of "How do i get access? Can I ask it how to train my dog?" "What courses and certifications exist, and will they be provided at no charge?" and the union telling employees "you shouldnt use this because it threats your job, or if you feel scared" ...
by bgwalter | 2025-08-06 17:15:07+00:00
I think many & cheap drones or whatever can be shot down with an increasing array of anti-drone technology (which is often a repackaging of the Oerlikon gun that was already used in the Gepard tank ages ago).

In Israel things that got through from Iran were the ballistic missiles.

If the drones turn into Skynet with hundreds of thousands of mini drones, we are doomed or probably new anti loitering drone treaties will emerge. Recall how nervous Russia already was about the claimed threat of stationing the Tomahawk missile in Ukraine.

There is an advantage for having few and large things that each side can monitor. That's why nuclear bombers were supposed to be parked in the open for observation by the START treaty.
by mywittyname | 2025-08-06 17:15:22+00:00
They put an absurd about of effort into their recruiting, so I'm not really surprised. Pretty much every math-related content creator I listen to has advertised for them.

I doubt anyone who works there is "take what we can get" calibre. They want to attract people who casually solve college-level math puzzles for funsies. So I imagine it's the opposite and if you get hired there, you're surrounded by people who are extremely accomplished.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-06 17:15:28+00:00
It was before my time, but my idea of these coffee houses was that people would also sit and read a book or newspaper by themselves.

> I've been in cafés in New York that looked like open plan offices because everyone was on a laptop (and there were no free tables), and many cafés in London now have laptop policies so I think the problem is broader than you suggest.

I agree it's bad taste to sit there with your laptop when there's no tables available, and establishments who suffer from this should implement laptop policies. But I've also been many times to cafés which would be completely empty if it wasn't for the people working on their laptops.
by Calavar | 2025-08-06 17:15:42+00:00
Fraudulent research can be damaging along multiple axes, and I completely agree that there is probably a mountain of undiscovered fraud out there that continues to have negative downstream effects. I'm more skeptical of the idea that undiscovered fraud has a negative effect on the public perception of science. If even highly prominent known frauds have had little discussion outside of academia, why would undiscovered frauds affect the way nonscientists think about science?
by cmdli | 2025-08-06 17:15:52+00:00
If there is no provable link between the service and the identity, however, there isn't that much harm in the leak itself. It just becomes a list of names and ages which are a dime a dozen on the internet. Hell, if the identity service was the government itself then it would be entirely useless outside of getting a list of people who have a driver's license (is this public info already?)
by pests | 2025-08-06 17:16:06+00:00
Hey, mind looking up a link to one of those antennas? Just don’t want to pick the wrong part, so many abbreviations and acronyms.

I picked up an rtl sdr about a year or two ago and haven’t done much outside of listening to local FM stations.

Would be fun to go a bit deeper. Track satellites or listen to boats/ planes / etc.
by jerf | 2025-08-06 17:16:27+00:00
I've been hearing promises about "better than C" performance from Python for over 25 years. I remember them on comp.lang.python, back on that Usenet thing most people reading this have only heard about.

At this point, you just shouldn't be making that promise. Decent chance that promise is already older than you are. Just let the performance be what it is, and if you need better performance today, be aware that there are a wide variety of languages of all shapes and sizes standing by to give you ~25-50x better single threaded performance and even more on multi-core performance today if you need it. If you need it, waiting for Python to provide it is not a sensible bet.
by kragen | 2025-08-06 17:16:43+00:00
Type checking and bounds checking aren't "real work" in the sense that, when somebody checks their bank account balance on your website or applies a sound effect to an audio track in their digital audio workstation, they don't think, "Oh good! The computer is going to do some type checking for me now!" Type checking and bounds checking may be good means to an end, but they are not the end, from the point of view of the outside world.

Of course, the bank account is only a means to the end of paying the dentist for installing crowns on your teeth and whatnot, and the sound effect is only a means to the end of making your music sound less like Daft Punk or something, so it's kind of fuzzy. It depends on what people are thinking about achieving. As programmers, because we know the experience of late nights debugging when our array bounds overflow, we think of bounds checking and type checking as ends in themselves.

But only up to a point! Often, type checking and bounds checking can be done at compile time, which is more efficient. When we do that, as long as it works correctly, we never† feel disappointed that our program isn't doing run-time type checks. We never look at our running programs and say, "This program would be better if it did more of its type checks at runtime!"

No. Run-time type checking is purely a deadweight loss: wasting some of the CPU on computation that doesn't move the program toward achieving the goals we were trying to achieve when we wrote it. It may be a worthwhile tradeoff (for simplicity of implementation, for example) but we must weigh it on the debit side of the ledger, not the credit side.

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† Well, unless we're trying to debug a PyPy type-specialization bug or something. Then we might work hard to construct a program that forces PyPy to do more type-checking at runtime, and type checking does become an end.
by Kranar | 2025-08-06 17:17:11+00:00
There are good public resources but they are expensive. One of the best resources for learning in depth quantitative techniques that is actually legit as opposed to Youtubers telling you how to squint to see patterns in a bar chart is the ARPM, which provides both a week long course and a year long course:

https://www.arpm.co/

It is a very math heavy course, highly technical and requires a great deal of existing math background. But the truth is that you will not be able to do much quantitative finance without that background anyways, so if what you want is a way to gain that math background then just crack open a textbook and get working.
by Cartoxy | 2025-08-06 17:17:11+00:00
We would never condone dropping the elephant man into nature. If you like people you don't do that.

I've been a vegetarian for 12 years and it's not because i love animals, I'm just not into suffering and torture basically I suspecr most are probably assholes, there are lots of things don't like but I don't torture them, and atleast to me it's pretty clear that nature is careless about pretty much everything except your own, wether or not it's intended nature makes tortureeverywhre. It is literelly incapapble of giving a thought let alone care for you. Period.

Big cats are mandate carnivores. What is your solution.?? Atleast at the zoo the Euthanize the animals used for food. What would you prefer. Do you know the survival rate for tiger cubs in the wild. Perhaps you should do some reading. The zoo is comparitivlt a bastion of safety and considerations from people who actually think and care about things, leave it to the savannah. You get nothing and usually less then that. Eaten alive. Die of thirst. Disease. Sexed Fighting. And all the emotional truama that an animal can stomach, loss of loved one, abondment, fear, every kind of illness, congenital, contagious, psychological.. It's not just captivity in a zoo capable of mental truama. Pick your flavour but one has less nails in it. Enjoy the cats keep them happy. Minimize harm maximise good. Don't make more. That's all there is to do.
by llm_nerd | 2025-08-06 17:17:11+00:00
>The idea that Trump was sitting at his desk and randomly pissed about the bottom 1/6th of Section 1 and was like "take that off congress's website!" is basically zero.

Who said this happened? What a ridiculous strawman.

Trump has, however, installed loyalists throughout the government. You know, the Deep State™, including demanding staff complete loyalty pledges and installing an entire cabal of grossly unqualified clowns and criminals. The very possible scenario that a loyalists serving the agenda decided to help throw off LLMs is not remotely unimaginable, given literally everything this horrendously corrupt banana republic administration is doing.

>the clear answer here is: someone was using an LLM to write, review, or edit content, and it deleted the bottom of section 1 b

This beyond absurd claim has been made multiple times, and it seems the Trump Apologists are just copy pasting it now. It's so profoundly ignorant that...are you guys for real? Do you know how anything works?

Ignoring that the idea that someone is using an LLM to rewrite the constitution is fantastically stupid, even the workflow doesn't have an iota of logic behind it. It's the sort of desperate cope that apolgists do when they have nothing.

Is it possibly if not probably accidental? Sure, could just be some data corruption. But these apologist screeds are beyond embarrassing nonsense.
by kylecazar | 2025-08-06 17:17:12+00:00
In the U.S, to get into an R-rated movie without a parent you need to show ID to prove that you are 17.

But you can watch videos of people being beheaded in subreddits by simply signing in.

My point is that if a society decides that certain content should be age restricted -- it being on the internet shouldn't make the difference.

I largely think that age restriction laws are ridiculous. BUT, I don't think the internet is some special haven, exempt from all of society's standards/laws enforced offline.
by Spivak | 2025-08-06 17:17:15+00:00
There is clearly a tension here where a bunch of people want to call their software open source without actually believing in what open source actually means. And this is absurd because it is betraying the fact that it's a marketing term. It seems like a bunch of startups realize that if they're trying to market to certain kinds of developers, if the software isn't open source, they won't touch it.

You seem to believe that we shouldn't create closed source software but at the same time directly advocating for it—that's what it is that's what you're describing. If you want a more practical and less idealistic reason why it sucks when software companies prevent people like AWS from using their software, it's because the actual users of your software, the customers of AWS, wish to pay AWS to host it for them. They would like to hire the lovely folks who work at AWS to host and manage the software for them and the license prevents that. You are preventing your users from doing what they want with the software. And that's the rub, that's why it's important to not discriminate based off of use.
Tell HN: I created an Agent Reliability miniconference because of HN
by swyx | 2025-08-06 17:17:24+00:00
4 months ago this HN thread went semi viral: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535653

and i realized that folks are finally fed up of flight booking demos that nobody asked for and flashy twitter demos that are extremely cherry picked. we wanted more reliable agents to have ai that actually improves our lives and frankly doesn't piss us off.

so i made a dedicated track for Reliability. i just posted all videos today.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcfpQ4tk2k0VLQeSLhVinP0lVhNcXa-Ai
by stego-tech | 2025-08-06 17:17:33+00:00
> What is so special about services delivered over the internet?

Metaphor time:

Consider a liquor store in a physical space, and a porn site on the internet.

The liquor store requires ID at point of sale because it has limited entry and exit into the building. It has physical restrictions making it harder for minors to enter, and harder to exploit their way into accessing age-restricted items. This is because the physical world is always shared by default, and we must make rules securing adults-only spaces in a world that’s intrinsically shared with children.

A digital porn site exists on a realm solely built by adults, that requires adults to access in the first place. A child cannot sign up for an ISP, a child cannot buy their own cellular phone[1], and a child cannot decide to share their coffee shop or library WiFi for free to everyone within range. At some point, a child requires the assistance of adults to enter the internet. That makes the internet a de facto space for adults first, not children, and that is why I vehemently disagree with vilifying the majority of users (adults) just to “protect” kids who will bypass those age checks like they’ve successfully done for decades.

There will always be youth finding a way to procure pornography, drugs, or alcohol underage. The difference with the internet is that it’s by adults, for adults, and that children are guests who should be supervised by adults in their circles - not by policing all the adults online through intrusive surveillance measures.

[1] Children can, of course, use cash or cards to buy prepaid phones and airtime in many countries. I do not think this should be allowed and would be a better venue to restrict access than a surveillance state.
by mh- | 2025-08-06 17:17:33+00:00
> unsure how best to overlap aliases and configs that are sensitive to my workplace

I have a .zshrc that sources .zshrc_mh, .zshrc_$employer, etc. That way my .zshrc is always a shareable config of sane defaults, and weird/opinionated aliases can go in my _mh, stuff particular to my employer goes in the other one, so forth.

In the past I had a more complex loading system I used (and made) that worked out of ~/.zsh.d/, but I no longer bother with all of that.
by danielfetz | 2025-08-06 17:17:35+00:00
One of the main downsides of the game so far was the focus on doing somewhat trivial binary search if one did not succeed in getting within ±20% of the correct answer with the first guess.

I think I did find a solution to bring the focus a bit away from the binary search and would greatly appreciate feedback from all of you.

The game now shows a hint after the second incorrect guess. For example the hint "The US covers 1.87% of the Earth's surface." is displayed for the question about what percentage of the Earth's surface is land.

I hope that this brings into the game a whole new dimension where you have a second moment after the initial Fermi estimation to really think through your guess and the assumptions you have made. How does the new information received through the hint impact your model?

I think those things put together now make the game a very compelling training ground for getting better at Fermi estimation and updating your beliefs in light of new information without over or under-reacting.
by ibdf | 2025-08-06 17:17:59+00:00
I asked it to explain the offside rule in soccer. It did fine at explaining it with text + voice, and it answered my questions fast. However it wasn't so good at generating images. It failed to generate any images a few times, and when it did, it wasn't a good image (the soccer field lines were all wrong).

When I switched to another language, it was able to understand me but horrible at pronouncing the words on the screen, it was a bit comical.

Anyway, it seems fun.. unfortunately the image generation suffers of common issues you find with many models.
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 17:18:23+00:00
> it is a surprise how many people in the country are supporters of pedophilia.

Do you mean ephebophilia? There is no prominent pedophilia movement. The Epstein saga, which is presumably at least somewhat related to what you are referring to, is clearly centred around "almost adults". Assuming that is what you meant, I don't see what is surprising about it. A revolt to the "Teen Mom", "16 and Pregnant" movement was inevitable. People are increasingly growning tired of being shamed for having children.
by KenSF | 2025-08-06 17:18:36+00:00
In the real world, we have many businesses which will look at ones gov't issued ID, most bars for instance. We have other businesses which will record the information off ones ID, most dispensaries for instance. I will go into the first. I will not go into the second. Verifying my eligibility is one thing. Recording my data for later use is a very different thing. I can tell the difference in the real world because I can see the process. Online, it is impossible to tell. Providers can build a reputation for privacy, think Proton.

You say we are looking for solutions. There are better solutions, including privacy preserving solutions, which can work. We just don’t have any of those yet.
by saati | 2025-08-06 17:18:41+00:00
But fiber optics are different, they stay good for a very long while and you just need to add better transceivers at the ends to upgrade them, it's questionable whether the current GPUs are even worth powering up once 2nm ones are out, and we also don't know how long they last, electromigration might start killing them in 5 years.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-06 17:18:49+00:00
> What matters is how fast and cheaply you can build things, not how durable they are.

Even WWII demonstrated that.

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

Nearly 300,000 planes built by the US during that war. Peak production in 1944 approached 100,000 new planes built in one year. The nature of the aircraft also changed substantially across the war, it's not like they took a few 1938 designs and churned out more and more each year. What was being made was constantly changing as their understanding of what was needed and what did or didn't work changed and engineering advances led to better systems (by some measure).

These weren't planes meant to last a century like the B-52 is currently targeting.

The JSF project began in 1993 (studies) with competitions later. First flight training batches delivered in 2012 and it reached operational status in 2015. 22 years from conception to operation. A grossly unsustainable approach for a military capability. It's not even one of the worst systems I'm aware of.
by missedthecue | 2025-08-06 17:19:00+00:00
US Forest Service: 'hi chatgpt, here are three excel files showing the last three years of tree plantings we've done by plot and by species. Here's a fourth file in PDF format of our plot map. Please match the data and give me a list of areas that are underplanted relative to the rest, so we can plan better for this year'

I use it for stuff like this all the time in a non-government job. 100% doable without AI but takes an order of magnitude as much time. No hyperbole. People here talking about security risks are smart to think things through, but overestimate the sensitivity of most government work. I don't want the CIA using chatgpt to analyze and format lists of all our spies in China, but for the other 2.19m federal workers it's probably less of a huge deal.
by IronyMan100 | 2025-08-06 17:19:07+00:00
Honestly, i'm tired of Hearing this. I am a Scientist and i work in science. On HN i feel a breeze of Anti-science sentiments which are only dwarfed by the Anti-Vax Community. I Don't Like my Profession being called a fraud, i also do not call a programmer, a Typewriter Monkies.
by danielfetz | 2025-08-06 17:19:09+00:00
I think I found a solution to bring the focus a bit away from the binary search and would greatly appreciate feedback from you.

The game now shows a hint after the second incorrect guess. For example the hint "The US covers 1.87% of the Earth's surface." is displayed for the question about what percentage of the Earth's surface is land.

How does the new information received through the hint impact your guess and assumptions?
by harambae | 2025-08-06 17:19:33+00:00
Yeah 49cc mopeds that aren't registered appear to still be a thing where I am (Boston). And I think it's 49cc 2-stroke so equivalent to like a 90cc 4-stroke (whether that ends up violating a different emissions rules, I don't know).

Still, parking is such a racket in Seaport, including unnecessarily strict ticketing on motorcycles, that I don't blame the delivery guys for using the mopeds. I'm not sure what their realistic alternative would be.
by andix | 2025-08-06 17:19:39+00:00
> On .NET 9, I just now did `dotnet new webapi` followed by `dotnet publish --self-contained -p:PublishSingleFile=true` and the binary is 103MB.

I've just tried the same, but with native-aot (build to native code). On Windows it was around 10mb, including routing, JSON serialization and openapi support. Startup is nearly instant.

If you include the dotnet runtime it's much bigger, but that's expected.

Edit: built with dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release /p:PublishAot=true /p:PublishTrimmed=true /p:PublishSingleFile=true
by rabidonrails | 2025-08-06 17:19:50+00:00
Agreed and this is a good comment.

It's strange that people in SV pretend like if they refuse to build software then nobody else will. Palantir exists (and has been so successful) because the government was trying to build this software (either themselves or through defense contractors) and ended up spending WAY too much money and only delivering a product that put US soldiers at risk.
by mindslight | 2025-08-06 17:20:15+00:00
No, we most certainly should not! Zero knowledge proofs are not some magic privacy faerie dust that can be sprinkled around to provide any desired security property.

For this use ZKPs are trivially proxyable, and thus this type of system also requires additional security properties from treacherous computing [0] - specifically remote attestation which prevents your ability to run code of your choosing on your own device.

And Google (et al) are quite eager to supply this type of environment ("Safety" Net, WEI, etc). This is exactly why the new UK system requires the use of a locked down corpo-controlled phone, and why corpos are pushing this idea that there is a "secure" way this can be done.

Essentially they are advertising the cool privacy-preserving half of the system, without mentioning the necessary other half that destroys privacy and freedom.

[0] "trusted" computing in corpo speak. In other words, a crippled model of computing that the corpos can trust us to have.
by matznerd | 2025-08-06 17:20:17+00:00
Here are the LM Studio MLX models:

LM Studio community: 20b: bhttps://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gpt-oss-20b-MLX-8b... 120b: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gpt-oss-120b-MLX-8...
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-06 17:20:33+00:00
A lot of the tech "movements" that are all about disruption have leaned heavily conservative in the past decade, and its the conservatives that are implementing these rules.

There was some merit to being anti-establishment in the past under Democratic leadership because for sure there were issues, but thinking that the conservative party is the way out because they are all about personal liberty and freedom, when in reality they are the complete opposite, is why you don't see the same amount of effort being put into this now.