MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomhow | 2025-08-27 04:36:53+00:00
> Maybe spend more time researching than hating and you'll end up with a more factual state of the world.

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by jameshilliard | 2025-08-27 04:37:19+00:00
> you can hire people remotely from all parts of the world.

If a company is small enough that the rules don't apply, then national origin or racial discrimination may be legal, still probably not a good idea.

> Also, MENA is a region of the world and this is inclusive not exclusive.

I believe that would fall under "national origin" discrimination rules.
by ninjin | 2025-08-27 04:37:35+00:00
They seem closely aligned with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), so I could very well imagine that being a major ideological reason not to want to work with Apple. Yes, Apple sometimes upstream patches and they do contribute to open source here and there, but they certainly are no FSF poster child. Intel on the other hand are about as open as it gets when it comes to their track record in the graphics space. I personally have nothing but admiration for Rosenzweig's work and I hope they will continue to find environments where they can flourish and do great things in the years to come.
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-27 04:37:45+00:00
>If aliens did come here they'd have to be very brave, powerful enough not to worry about what we'd do

If aliens had the technology to visit us right now, the latter is a given.

You don't have to assume anything crazy. You can create a planet killer by simply accelerating a decently massive object at relativistic speeds and firing it at earth.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-08-27 04:40:05+00:00
Fun fact - I trained a lora on our almost-toddler at the time on SDXL and generated images of her doing dangerous things to send to my wife the first day she had a trip away from us.

It was all fun and games until the little shit crawled out of our doggy door for the first and only time when I was going to the bathroom. As I was looking for her I got a notification we were in a tornado warning.

Luckily the dog knew where she had gone and led me to her, having crawled down our (3 step) deck, across our yard, and was standing looking up at the angry clouds.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-27 04:42:28+00:00
> That's why I'm the developer and author.

It's bold to call yourself an author when you merely edited something that somebody else wrote for you. It's like me going to work and all my PRs being done by 3 North Koreans in a trench coat. I am not the author then, and neither are you when using an LLM.

> sin of the tools I chose to use for my work.

Your editor is a tool, your terminal is a tool, agentic LLMs are somebody else doing your work instead of you (badly, very very badly).
by marcus_holmes | 2025-08-27 04:43:06+00:00
Then you're not doing your tax returns properly.

You can claim depreciation on all your hardware (including your desk and chair).

You should be claiming some of your rent/mortgage as office expenses. And, obviously, your broadband cost, your electricity bill, your heating bill (if different), etc.

You can claim all the coffees you buy potential clients.

Having zero expenses is absolutely not what you want to efficiently run your business.
by trhway | 2025-08-27 04:43:26+00:00
>There won’t be a startup to fill Intel’s place.

That’s Intel management’s FUD building a moat against such startups with the government’s help.

Several billions of dollars is not a scary level of funding these days for such startups to happen. Plus CHIPS pile of hundreds of billions. Plus Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Apple and others can always form a consortium to build a foundry. A lot of options, yet all of them are being killed by the Intel management skillfully working the bronze ear. That is how a tech race is lost - by letting government instead of the market to pick winner.
by lmm | 2025-08-27 04:45:20+00:00
That's backwards. US companies moved manufacturing out of the US because other countries had competitive advantages (often cheaper labour), not because they weren't free enterprises but they were. Making stuff in the US doesn't make business sense. Patriotism doesn't make business sense. If you tell companies their business is to compete with each other to be the most profitable, that's what they'll do, and that's what they did.
by themafia | 2025-08-27 04:46:12+00:00
> It is a somewhat ugly constitutional question whether this speech would be protected

It should be stated that the majority of states have laws that make it illegal to encourage a suicide. Massachusetts was not one of them.

> and any civil-liberties minded person understands the difficult issues this case raises

He was in his truck, which was configured to pump exhaust gas into the cab, prepared to kill himself when he decided halt and exit his truck. Subsequently he had a text message conversation with the defendant who actively encouraged him to get back into the truck and finish what he had started.

It was these limited and specific text messages which caused the judge to rule that the defendant was guilty of manslaughter. Her total time served as punishment was less than one full year in prison.

> These issues are moot if the speech is between an adult and a child

They were both taking pharmaceuticals meant to manage depression but were _known_ to increase feelings of suicidal ideation. I think the free speech issue is an important criminal consideration but it steps directly past one of the most galling civil facts in the case.
by lubujackson | 2025-08-27 04:46:18+00:00
Sounded like ADHD annnnd it was ADHD.

One life tip - leave loose ends on tasks. When you come back, it's easier to start from a minor tweak to get into the right head space.

If you keep avoiding doing a thing, don't do the thing. Start a list of the tasks you need to do, in increasing detail. If it's studying for a test it might be "get my book out of my bag" then "review X Y Z", etc. Get as tediously detailed as you can until you get annoyed and just start doing things to get them off you list.

List-making is a super skill for ADHD since it codifies (and gamifies!) executive function.
by transpute | 2025-08-27 04:47:09+00:00
It's a different approach:

Traditional detection approaches like YARA rules, IOC matching, and signature-based systems fall apart when: • You don’t have the actual malicious samples to create signatures from • The attackers use polymorphic techniques that change file hashes • The exploit leverages legitimate file format features in unexpected ways • You need to detect future variants of the same technique The Philosophy: Structure Over Signatures ELEGANTBOUNCER takes a fundamentally different approach to threat detection. Instead of looking for specific byte patterns or known-bad indicators, it analyzes the structural properties of files that make exploits possible.
by bgilroy26 | 2025-08-27 04:48:28+00:00
>I bet if you knew your house would burn down if you didn't do "normal" things you would have done them no problem

Getting yourself to do things in a boring situation that you might only do in an exciting situation is a big challenge in ADHD management

If everything was a "house on fire" level emergency, many ADHDers would get more done but would eventually collapse from running around on adrenaline for days

These problems are not easily solved
by KPGv2 | 2025-08-27 04:48:49+00:00
> Why do you presume I'm neurotypical and undiagnosed with any psychiatric disorder?

Because you talk like one, with no apparent empathy for the neurodiverse, except perhaps people with profound issues. "We shouldn't treat any problems except the catastrophically bad." Gross.

> I bet if you knew your house would burn down if you didn't do "normal" things you would have done them no problem.

This is not arguing in favor of your stance, but rather in favor of mine. You're essentially saying "ADHDers can't get shit done without being in dangerous situations, and THAT IS ACCEPTABLE." And yet you think this supports your idea that non-catastrophic disorders shouldn't be treated.
by autoexec | 2025-08-27 04:50:53+00:00
I doubt they'd be all that unfathomable. We come from the same universe after all, and as far as we can tell it's all governed by the same physics. It stands to reason that life on their worlds would have developed under at least some of the same rules we developed under on Earth. That should put at least some constraints on their forms and functions.

They might have learned different things than we have, they might know a lot more about our universe than we do, but I'd guess that much of what we've managed to learn so far will still be a part of their reality regardless of their level of familiarity with it. For example, more than 90% of the atoms in the universe are hydrogen. They might have discovered things that are more exotic and never seen on Earth, but the hydrogen atoms we've studied won't be any different from hydrogen they'd have studied. We share a home. By the time they've figured out enough of how the universe works to reach us it's pretty likely that we'll have some common ground to talk about.
by gck1 | 2025-08-27 04:51:06+00:00
As someone who has a few bank accounts in different countries of which I'm not a resident of, and also a user of the services you mention, its next to impossible to use them for banking purposes.

In US, for example, their addresses are classified as Commercial Mail Receiving Agencies, and have a "Commercial" address designator. USPS has an API for that. If you get a bank to accept this address somehow, then the next trouble comes - they're gonna ask for utility bill for address verification and you can't have any utility bills for it.
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by irtefa | 2025-08-27 04:51:26+00:00
Hey HN,

For a while now, our team has been trying to solve a common problem: getting all the context needed to debug a bug report without the endless back-and-forth. It’s hard to fix what you can't see, and console logs, network requests, and other dev data are usually missing from bug reports.

We’ve been working on a new tool called Recording Links. The idea is simple: you send a link to a user or teammate, and when they record their screen to show an issue, the link automatically captures a video of the problem along with all the dev context, like console logs and network requests.

Our goal is to make it so you can get a complete, debuggable bug report in one go. We think this can save a ton of time that's normally spent on follow-up calls and emails.

We’re a small team and would genuinely appreciate your thoughts on this. Is this a problem you face? How would you improve this? Any and all feedback—positive or critical—would be incredibly helpful as we continue to build.

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by k310 | 2025-08-27 04:51:45+00:00
Arguably, someone owes Putin more than money. The entire U.S. dismantled.

Every action to date is consistent with that hypothesis.

The complacency is staggering, though part of the strategy seems to be provocation of a grand crisis, each mini-crisis of increasing force and unconstitutionality. So a tipping point (of the "2 by 4 upside the head" variety) may be coming soon.

It may take a "Stanislav Petrov moment" to prevent complete destruction. Again, the complacency is staggering, given a live (second) coup attempt.
by lutusp | 2025-08-27 04:51:51+00:00
In principle, those being accused of a conflict of interest in the creation of DSM-5 could argue that, because the DSM is science-based, it's open to impartial statistical analyses and comparison with established scientific theory that would render moot any such accusation.

But the accused can't offer that defense, because the DSM is not based in science, and that in turn is because because human psychology isn't based in science.

The field of human psychology includes many scientific studies, some of them excellent, up to the point where a testable, falsifiable theory might be crafted based on those studies, but it stops there. Here's why:

For a study to be regarded as science, it must meet certain established standards, and many psychology studies meet or exceed those standards.

But for a field to be regarded as science, its practitioners must craft testable, falsifiable theories, based on natural phenomena, about their topic of study. Human psychology cannot do this, for the simple reason that human psychology studies the mind, and the mind is not part of nature.

In scientific fields, physics for example, a conflict-of-interest accusation is easily resolved: either a claim can be tested and potentially falsified by comparison with the field's defining theories, or it cannot (cold fusion comes to mind). But in psychology this doesn't work, because a claim cannot be compared to the field's testable, falsifiable scientific theories, theories that define the field, because ... wait for it ... such theories don't exist.

And how could such theories exist? Again, human psychology studies the mind, legitimate science must focus on natural (not supernatural) phenomena, and the mind doesn't meet that description -- it's not part of nature.

Neuroscience doesn't have these structural problems, it may someday replace psychology, but we're not there yet, and may not be for decades to come.
by satisfice | 2025-08-27 04:52:01+00:00
Why is it bizarre? I’m a tester with 38 years in the business. I’ve seen pretty much every kind of project and technology.

I was testing at Microsoft on the week that Windows 2000 shipped, showing them that Photoshop can completely freeze Windows (which is bad, and something they needed to know about).

The creed of a tester begins with faith in existence of trouble. This does not mean we believe anything is perfectible— it means we think it is necessary to be vigilant.

AI commits errors in a way and to a degree that should alarm any reasonable engineer. But more to the point: it tends to alienate engineers from their work so that they are less able to behave responsibly. I think testing is more important than ever, because AI is a Gatling gun of risk.
by 63 | 2025-08-27 04:52:23+00:00
There's a lot of both negativity and positivity here. I think both are warranted and important. I'm not generally a fan of Musk and think most of his ventures are overhyped. I also understand that Neuralink committed a series of horrific acts against macaques to develop this device and they ought to be investigated and have what they did shown to the public for scrutiny.

That said, as someone who has undergone screening for a neurodegenerative disease (thankfully I tested negative), I'm fairly confident in saying that it's an awful thing to experience and any technology that can provide more autonomy is invaluable. When I had to confront the possibility that I might have MS or ALS, I literally said "Neuralink probably shouldn't have killed those monkeys but, fuck it, they're already dead so they better hurry up. I don't want to live like that."

I hope we can develop further treatments more ethically and in a way that doesn't result in dystopian brain adverts of course, but even this level of technology is miraculous.
by rerdavies | 2025-08-27 04:52:53+00:00
The "RISC" thing is an experiment that failed in the 90s. There's nothing particularly RISCy about the ARM instruction set. It is a pretty darned complicated instruction set.

ARM processors ALSO decode instructions to micro-ops. And Apple chips do too. Pretty much a draw. The first stage in the execution pipelines of all modern processors is a a decode stage.
by idle_zealot | 2025-08-27 04:54:00+00:00
Then it's like cigarettes or firearms. As a distributor you're responsible for making clear the limitations, safety issues, etc, but assuming you're doing the distribution in a way that isn't overly negligent then the user becomes responsible.

If we were facing a reality in which these chat bots were being sold for $10 in the App Store, then running on end-user devices and no longer under the control of the distributors, but we still had an issue with loads of them prompting users into suicide, violence, or misleading them into preparing noxious mixtures of cleaning supplies, then we could have a discussion about exactly what extreme packaging requirements ought to be in place for distribution to be considered responsible. As is, distributed on-device models are the purview of researchers and hobbyists and don't seem to be doing any harm at all.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-27 04:55:18+00:00
The socket still has a significant impact, even if the CPU is soldered on. It puts constraints on where things can be.

I believe the framework CEO himself mentioned in an interview how the chipset and socket are kinda at the core of designing the whole laptop, because it necessitates the placement of the cooling and all other components. I sadly didn't bookmark that YouTube video, so I cannot provide a link however

And fwiw, Apple is the only company that could make their laptops fully compatible and upgradeable, because they've got the relevant stack under their own control. Sadly, they're not interested in reducing ewaste, as that would mean less profit for them
by hackermiles | 2025-08-27 04:56:23+00:00
We're releasing TinyPoll, which can be added to any Slack org for free. It includes anonymous polling, summaries, poll editing, and comes with security and privacy as a primary concern - we remove all polling data after 7 days and just keep what we need for analytics (no PII is ever stored).

You can install this and start using it now and we'd love your feedback.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-27 04:57:03+00:00
> Given that this has been a serious problem with Google models

It hasn't been though, has it?

At one point one of their earliest image gen models had a prompting problem: they tried to have the LLM doing prompt expansion avoid always generating white people, since they realized white people were significantly overrepresented in their training data compared to their proportion of the population.

Unfortunately that prompt expansion would sometimes clash with cases where there was a specific race required for historical accuracy.

AFAIK they fixed that ages ago and it stopped being an issue.
by thomasmg | 2025-08-27 04:57:12+00:00
Right. An example regex that can be slow is CSV parsing [1]:

.*,.*,.*,.*,.* etc.

I believe a timeout is a better (simpler) solution than to try to prevent 'bad' patterns. I use this approach in my own (tiny, ~400 lines) regex library [2]. I use a limit at most ~100 operations per input byte. So, without measuring wall clock time, which can be inaccurate.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2667015/is-regex-too-slo... [2]: https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/src/test...
by tomhow | 2025-08-27 04:57:22+00:00
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by kelnos | 2025-08-27 04:57:55+00:00
On one hand I agree with you on the extreme litigiousness of (American?) culture, but on the other, certain people have a legal duty to report when it comes to minors who voice suicidal thoughts. Currently that's only professionals like therapists, teachers, school counselors, etc. But what does an LLM chatbot count as in these situations? The kid was using ChatGPT as a sort of therapist, even if that's generally not a good idea. And if it weren't for ChatGPT, would this kid have instead talked to someone who would have ensured that he got the help he needed? Maybe not. But we have to consider the possibility.

I think it's really, really blurry.

I think the mom's reaction of "ChatGPT killed my son" is ridiculous: no, your son killed himself. ChatGPT facilitated it, based on questions it was asked by your son, but your son did it. And it sounds like he even tried to get a reaction out of you by "showing" you the rope marks on his neck, but you didn't pay attention. I bet you feel guilty about that. I would too, in your position. But foisting your responsibility onto a computer program is not the way to deal with it. (Not placing blame here; everybody misses things, and no one is "on" 100% of the time.)

> Responsibility is a thing.

Does OpenAI (etc.) have a responsibility to reduce the risk of people using their products in ways like this? Legally, maybe not, but I would argue that they absolutely have a moral and ethical responsibility to do so. Hell, this was pretty basic ethics taught in my engineering classes from 25 years ago. Based on the chat excerpts NYT reprinted, it seems like these conversations should have tripped a system prompt that either cut off the conversations entirely, or notified someone that something was very, very wrong.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-27 04:59:15+00:00
I would put forward that we can do many things collectively but not individually because we are part of a collective organism much more than we are individuals, though we are unable to see it due to a human having a limited perspective of only a part of a whole.

It is a common tendency to see humanity as a set of standalone humans[0] (if we cannot do something individually, but we can collectively, then we sort of can’t do it). However, a human only exists in context of others, and all we do is always in many ways (even if not real-time) a collaboration (starting from our education).

I’d argue an individual human being able to understand enough to navigate major problems of their world can’t be expected to exist and was probably never the case.

What is an alarming issue is that sometimes even a figurative anthill of many humans, as a collective super-entity, cannot adequately understand and navigate the reality it is facing.

[0] It is not helped by sci-fi that depicts various aliens as being collective beings, somehow contrasted with humans. In reality, we almost never go completely alone[1] for prolonged periods (except pathological cases), we are smarter when there is multiple of us, and the core of our interpretation of consciousness/sentience requires it to be social (anything else, and I don’t think we would even recognize it as consciousness—maybe that somehow relates to the great filter, too).

[1] When we do, our consciousness still supplies models of others in our lives, one way or another motivating our actions.