MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-15 15:45:23+00:00
> When you understand why someone has access, you can make confident decisions about managing it. It’s hard to know whether it’s safe to remove access if you don’t even know why it’s there to begin with.

I might be missing the basic premise of this piece.

Why is there someone making confident unilateral decisions about someone else's access ? If granting access went through a process with 2 or more parties involved, shouldn't removing that same access go to the reverse process and start with an exchange with the relevant entities ?

PS: this is IMHO the main reason negociating explicit time limits during the grant process makes it much easier to manage. These limits can be reset/extented as needed and there's no need to do additional back and forth when the user lets their access lapse after a set of reminders.
by dagmx | 2025-08-15 15:45:32+00:00
Safe area is an industry wide term for the “safe area to display in”. It means that it’s a high probability of being safe to have important content there, not that it is a safe guarantee.

Your suggestion here and in the responses would be bucking industry standard terminology for content creation.

Your suggestion for unobstructed area is also incorrect because you cannot guarantee it’s unobstructed depending on the display it’s on. Different displays and configurations might have differing levels of overscan causing content to be clipped.
by upperhalfplane | 2025-08-15 15:45:35+00:00
I don't quite think they cheat at math olympiads, but obviously there are blindspots for the unspectacular tasks. That being said, Mississippi is both a good and a bad question to ask. On the one hand, it's "the bare minimum" to require, on the other hand, is it really a feat? Like, most models can write a piece of code that would compute that. If you show me a task I'm not designed to solve (like count the number of i's in this text), the smart thing is actually to write a program to count them (which LLMs can do).

The best way to measure intelligence is probably to have a model know its strengths and weaknesses, and deal with them in an efficient way. And the most important thing for eval is that ability.
by bajero | 2025-08-15 15:45:46+00:00
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by mhuffman | 2025-08-15 15:46:10+00:00
I get a similar response when talking with other parents about allowing phones in school. We know that there are 130k+ schools in the US, and that a school shooting is statistically very, very small, however they still want to have a way for their children to contact them (or for them to contact their kids) if this happens. The mothers, in particular, all agree on this in my circle.
by jarjoura | 2025-08-15 15:46:39+00:00
Absolutely bonkers to think Jobs could have found the same success without Woz. Woz gave him access to a world and community ahead of its time.

Jobs was a fanatical asshole, and Woz knew he was making a deal with the devil. He was on that train until he nearly lost his own life flying a plane.

Woz didn’t need the fame and prestige that Jobs afforded him, but he definitely didn’t say no or walk away until his plane accident.
by bilkow | 2025-08-15 15:47:11+00:00
> though I don't think you have to launch games through the steam app, but they try to make it convenient to do so.

It depends on the game, they do offer some kind of DRM, which requires Steam to be open when launching the game, but it's optional for the developer to use it or not. See https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digital_rights_management_...

PCGamingWiki also usually has information on whether the game is DRM-free or not, e.g.: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hades#Availability
by alephnerd | 2025-08-15 15:47:48+00:00
> So what matters is being able to disarm people who exhibit violent tendencies and/or suicidal depression "left of bang."

I agree

> The Swiss model would be a much more reasonable approach. Shall-issue purchase permit on passing a background check, and the requirement to keep the firearm locked up when not used. But if you live alone, your locked front door counts as "locked up."

I disagree simply because unlike CH, our neighboring states like Mexico, Haiti, and Jamaica are all facing severe public security issues due to US originated gun trafficking, and this blows back into the US.

Adding some additional securitization to our rules more in line with those in Israel allow us to help defend ourselves from contagion.

If the party that support the 2nd amendment also views organized crime in Mexico and Haiti as a national security risk, then using the securitization framing is an easier sell.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-15 15:48:13+00:00
I'm a user, not an expert on all this but: SSO is indeed meant for a corporate environment, not for personal use. And from what I saw, companies would rather pay for a simple SSO provider than use any self-hosted solution. That means you either use Google or Microsoft, nothing else.

LastPass is out of question due to the security issues in the past. I always advocate for Bitwarden but I'm not sure they can handle any kind of SSO yet. And Vaultwarden, being a fork of a not-so-famous-yet password vault (at least in the managers's world), is not a contender anywhere.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 15:48:32+00:00
Well good news! I also don’t listen to podcasts! I think Joe Rogan is a big stupid idiot, and may have singularly caused more damage than nearly anyone currently alive. I used to listen to a lot of NPR podcasts but I haven’t in years.

I guess I do read The Onion so I am not divorced from politics, but I try to mostly avoid consuming much political shit.

Yeah yeah I know everything is political, I promise you that you don’t need to lecture me on that fact. I am just saying that most of the shit I consume now largely boils down to videos about how video games work or “documentaries” about lolcows on YouTube. I have tried to unplug from everything that gravitates around the political news sphere. The only place I get any “news” is HN nowadays, and I mostly try and read the tech shit.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-08-15 15:48:53+00:00
HN has a whole lot of people trying to make it really big financially, for a huge variety of reasons. One of the things that excludes someone from that group is an understanding that our culture is dominated by the idea that wealth is the first, biggest, best priority.

We collectively give the wealthy extra protection, status, and influence. Basically every definition or subcategory of power.

When you do this, it creates a disgusting race to the bottom from those trying to reach the top. We are seeing the ultimate result of that: a mafia kingdom. A feudal clown show.

You will see a weirdly large amount of people supporting that here because a large number of people have conditioned morality out of their ideology. Or reduced it to a very superficial level, completely subservient to the almighty dollar. "Greed is good", "the ECONOMY", "my peers do it so it's okay". And in and on and on.

In short, many would be doing the same thing in the same position and they can't see just how amoral that is. And how it reflects the utter rot that is our culture.
by DICloak | 2025-08-15 15:49:16+00:00
Ever had your Facebook account freeze mid-task because it suddenly wanted a live selfie video? For personal use, it’s annoying — but for marketers, agencies, or anyone managing multiple accounts, it can wreck campaigns and waste hours. DICloak’s Video Stream Spoofing (built into its antidetect browser) fixes this by letting you upload a pre-recorded verification video right inside the page, passing KYC checks without you being physically there. No more waking up at 3 AM to record a blink-and-smile clip or losing momentum because a client can’t verify in time. Works on Windows, keeps your device fingerprint consistent, and is a lifesaver for teams juggling profiles across time zones.
by Lutger | 2025-08-15 15:49:16+00:00
> "In the Red Sea, lionfish have predators. There are sharks and barracudas. Here, we have none of that."

I don't know when the sharks will move in, but this final sentence of the article points to a broader problem with climate change induced migrations: species don't move at the same pace. Plants move much slower than insects, and insects faster then their predators. This will create imbalances, which will lead to big problems with new diseases and pests.

Eventually things will re-calibrate, but a lot of species may go extinct and we could see a very long period of reduced biodiversity. It takes a long time to adapt.
by mgfist | 2025-08-15 15:49:33+00:00
Well the biggest difference is most of the big foundation labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI) are private companies, so it's not like you have to go out of your way to not hold any equity. This wasn't the case with Enron which was part of the SP500 and thus included in many passive funds.

You could say there's spillover with Nvidia and the clouds and such, but that still makes this a different case than Enron. It could be like the dotcom bubble, but bubbles != fraud.
by stroz | 2025-08-15 15:49:43+00:00
You're right, we see everyone else's fences perfectly while blind to our own.

Here's what helped me most, when I hit a painful thought, I try to think about it as, "What are you protecting me from?"

Usually it's something that happened once, often years ago. Next time you feel that electric fence, just notice it. Then take one tiny step towards it (Joe Hudson talks about this as emotional fluency). The fence will beep (your emotions). You'll feel the old pain. But nothing actually happens. And slowly, slowly, you realize you're actually free.
by anon-3988 | 2025-08-15 15:49:47+00:00
> To be fair there is a lot of talk about "bringing manufacturing back".

The reality is that you will also have to bring back less worker protection to make this competitive. The way I see it, it doesn't matter how good you are, if you have invest in R&D, China will simply spend 1/10 of the effort to copy it and produce it for less. What is your recourse here? I am pretty sure they are working their damnest to copy semiconductor manufacturing and if they can fully scale that up I can safely say the West is screwed technologically.
by californical | 2025-08-15 15:50:19+00:00
That’s the opposite of the conclusion, though?

> Drug treatment for ADHD was associated with beneficial effects in reducing the risks of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, transport accidents, and criminality but not accidental injuries when considering first event rate. The risk reductions were more pronounced for recurrent events, with reduced rates for all five outcomes. This target trial emulation study using national register data provides evidence that is representative of patients in routine clinical settings.
by entaloneralie | 2025-08-15 15:50:25+00:00
Besides Orca, Befunge, etc.. the McCulloch-Pitts Neuron is a graphical language with a discrete timestep, it solves some of the shortcomings of Orca and Recto where the evaluation has to do a lot of walking to traverse space.

https://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/325-mcculloch-pit...

It does so by creating instant connection between events across large distances.

Its inerrant parallalelism makes it also possible to do pretty complex evaluation on large canvases.
by zahlman | 2025-08-15 15:50:58+00:00
What the hell. Amazing to learn that people actually try to get things like this off the ground. I can remember many years ago having the kernel of a similar idea. Except I also imagined using JSON to describe page layout, like a common "UI form designer" language. On the other hand, this gets much further into the transport protocol, as opposed to just page content.
by tonyarkles | 2025-08-15 15:51:03+00:00
I don't think the article is saying what you think it's saying:

> Drug treatment for ADHD was associated with beneficial effects in reducing the risks of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, transport accidents, and criminality but not accidental injuries when considering first event rate. The risk reductions were more pronounced for recurrent events, with reduced rates for all five outcomes. This target trial emulation study using national register data provides evidence that is representative of patients in routine clinical settings.
Ask HN: If you were a grad student writing a blog, where would you host it?
by skadamou | 2025-08-15 15:51:41+00:00
I'm looking for some input from the bloggers/blog enjoyers on this forum for what ya'll think is the best way to run a personal blog. I'm open to building it from scratch myself and self hosting on my residential network but I know that comes with some tradeoffs.

TL;DR: What is your advice for a new grad student launching a blog?
by tombert | 2025-08-15 15:51:52+00:00
I know a bunch of people who say they’re offended by it. I don’t believe them, they’re lying to me or themselves, but I think the former.

I could be wrong, it’s likely even, but it’s just not something I am going to be convinced of. I think they’re pretending to be offended, because if they act offended then it’s easier for them to “both-sides” stuff, or they think it shows how good of Christians they are.
by multjoy | 2025-08-15 15:52:02+00:00
Oh, I entirely agree. It just seems absolutely nuts that the US government (or rather the state governments, because ultimately they'd be dealing with it) cannot attribute a gun to a purchase because they've specifically made it illegal to do so.

When you're dealing with that mindset, no wonder gun control measures as unremarkable as mandatory safes and training are anathema.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-15 15:52:06+00:00
> It's a shame because a Mac Mini is a solid gaming computer

Well, Apple doesn't sell 'em with RGB LEDs built-in, so I dunno.

...more seriously though: I don't know how you can say that with a straight-face. On paper, the Apple Silicon M3 and M4 seem comparable to NVIDIA's mid-tier offerings from 3-4 years ago... when rendering to a 1080p-sized display; assuming you'd like to render your games at native Retina or even 5K resolution (given that Apple would really rather you used their display hardware for the best experience, right?) then you'll have to limit yourself to games from the last decade (assuming they've even been ported to macOS in the first place) or convince yourself that this year's AAA titles are fully playable as a slideshow.

...and that's assuming your Mac doesn't start thermal-throttling itself too.

Also, you'll also need a very non-Apple mouse: I'm flabbergasted by how even still in 2025 you cannot independently left-click and right-click on Apple's Magic Mouse[1]; while, ergonomically a multitouch mouse is great for many things, but navigating a wheel-driven UI (e.g. weapon-wheels) is not one of them.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/188431/apples-magic-mouse-an...
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-08-15 15:52:18+00:00
i'm going through a similar learning experience: i've been playing the drums for nearly 3 decades and only now am i starting to learn jazz/swing and appreciate the extremely subtle dynamic variations that go into playing those rhythms (especially at lower volume). even something that seems as basic as switching to traditional grip can be a huge learning experience with a whole new set of small muscle groups to cultivate.

i think my guitar technique will always be pretty punk rock though :)
by nkrisc | 2025-08-15 15:52:38+00:00
> I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app.

How about pitching an hour of work to make it easy to read on mobile? Not that I think BH cares, but in this day and age making it layout nicely on mobile is the least you can do and isn’t particularly difficult anymore.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-15 15:52:46+00:00
Woz on Musk's Tesla, Inc.:

https://www.slashdot.org/~SteveWoz

Comment Re:No Autonomy (Score 2) 125

by SteveWoz on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:13AM (#59940526) Attached to: Elon Musk Still Predicts 1 Million Tesla Robotaxis By the End of the Year

You might have missed that Musk made the same claim about 2016, with the 1-camera sensor system. The 2017 claim was with the newer 8-camera system, and the claim was made before Tesla even had software for the new sensors, and the Tesla then lacked adaptive cruise control, adaptive high beam, self parking, summon, and other things that the prior model did have. I'm embarrassed that I actually believed these claims.

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Comment Die in your sleep... (Score 1) 213

by SteveWoz on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:30PM (#58807154) Attached to: People Keep Spotting Teslas With Snoozing Drivers On the Freeway

At least Tesla respects our right to die in our sleep.

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Comment Re:Maybe they just realized (Score 1) 172

by SteveWoz on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:55PM (#54537213) Attached to: Denmark Is Killing Tesla and Other Electric Cars

You meant to say 'great' cars with 'some' quality problems. Autocorrect can be a bitch...
by loning | 2025-08-15 15:52:57+00:00
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by upofadown | 2025-08-15 15:53:00+00:00
There has been some recent research on this sort of thing. It ends up being whatever you are used to. Everyone used to think serif was better for reading but then everyone started reading a lot of sans on computer screens. So now people think sans is somehow inherently better.

It's the same for mono vs proportional spacing. You are better at reading that which you have the most practice with. Most people are not used to reading monospaced prose even if they have seen a lot of monospaced code.
by mlyle | 2025-08-15 15:53:15+00:00
The deal is supposed to be that there's a trade:

* You are given an exclusive right to exploit a work, for enough time to make it worth your while.

* Everyone gets the work in the end.

We're not succeeding at this. The terms are a little too short for biotech. They're wayyyyy too long for software. The barriers to entry to get and enforce IP are too large for small businesses. But it's also too easy to figure it all out and generate tons of fake IPR to harass real business with.
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-15 15:53:38+00:00
A couple I can remember off the top of my head, since I can't check my server right now. Scrubs with original music, since they didn't have the license for the original songs for streaming (or the DVDs, I can't remember). Daria with the original music for the same reason. I can't think of any fan visual remasters of tv shows though.
by ajross | 2025-08-15 15:54:02+00:00
> [Nerds] sit in a room and dream up every way the device could fail and/or harm someone

Well, yeah. And as it happened they postulated the failure mode that was actually (allegedly) seen in practice. And they were right. So the "no one could have known" side of Sig's defense seems out the window here. They could have known, and they did, and relevant experts told them.

I really don't get your point here. You seem to be saying that risk analysis, in the abstract, as a whole field of practice, has no value because of the lack of certainty? But... managing uncertainty is the whole point. Do you really live your life like this? "I mean, people say fentanyl is dangerous but you never really know, right?"
by mulmen | 2025-08-15 15:54:17+00:00
It’s a Twitter link so I can’t be bothered to actually read it. My immediate reaction is to ask if this is some form of bias.

Survivorship bias: People who had access to stable lives and institutions are more likely to have their photos passed down to the present day.

Selection bias: are you looking for old fashion photos or just statistically random old photos of people?

Sampling bias: Aren’t well dressed people more likely to be photographed because they are better subjects and because the privilege that allows them to be well dressed also affords them access to cameras and photographers?
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-15 15:54:43+00:00
That's the problem with DRM in everything. Once the levers of power are there, it takes one overeager bean counter or paranoid executive to use them to squeeze out more revenue or exercise additional control. In the era of physical media none of this was possible - I could lend my DVDs to as many people as I want without approval from Reed Hastings.
by AftHurrahWinch | 2025-08-15 15:54:53+00:00
1. A bot-generated argument is still an argument. I can't make claims about the truth or falsity based on the enunciator, that's simply ad hominem.

2. A bot-generated image is not a record of photon-emissions in the physical world. When I look at photos, they need to be records of the physical world, or they're a creative work.

I think you can't rationally apply the same standard to these 2 things.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-15 15:55:02+00:00
I don't wish to join you in framing intelligence as a step function.

I think winning a Go or a chess competition does demonstrate intelligence. And winning a math competition does even more so.

I do not think a trivia competition like Jeopardy demonstrates intelligence much at all, however. Specifically because it reads like it's not about intelligence, but about knowledge: it tests for association and recall, not for performing complex logical transformations.

This isn't to say I consider these completely independent. Most smart people are both knowledgeable and intelligent. It's just that they are distinct dimensions in my opinion.

You wouldn't say something tastes bad because its texture feels weird in your mouth, would you?
by pitpatagain | 2025-08-15 15:55:19+00:00
I can't decide how to read your last sentence.

That reflection seems totally off to me: fluent, and flavored with elements of the article, but also not really what the article is about and a pretty weird/tortured use of the elements of the allegory of the cave, like it doesn't seem anything like Plato's Cave to me. Ironically demonstrates the actual main gist of the article if you ask me.

But maybe you meant that you think that summary is good and not textually similar to that post so demonstrating something more sophisticated than "shortening".