MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by infecto | 2025-08-29 12:53:59+00:00
You’re not entirely wrong. India does have a problem with gambling and especially in Bank Nifty. I think something like 50% of options volume is retail, which is wildly high. Just because there is a gambling problem does not make it “pretty straightforward”. The courts will hopefully figure it out to their local pleasing.

Edit: I don’t think my point was clear. If you are going to allow retail in the options market, you should also be ok with sophisticated actors participating in it.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-29 12:54:27+00:00
> doesn't exactly make whoever peddles it look intelligent regardless of what context it arises in.

Contrary to people praising the transcendental spiritual experience of burning gas and shifting gear, who obviously are the creme de la creme of what an independent and strong human intellect is capable of.

I also liked cars as a kid, because of all the money funnelled in toy cars, car movies, car games, car magazines, at some point I realised it was just a gigantic multi generational ad campaign from the beginning, I started questioning my belief, and has it turns out I didn't really know why I dreamed of owning these expensive metal boxes, it felt like a very artificial goal, almost as if it was pushed on my from the outside...
by sillyfluke | 2025-08-29 12:54:38+00:00
>But the question was "why trust a company and not the government?"

The post you were replying to simply said the behavior of this administration made them care more about this issue, not that they trusted companies more than the government. That statement is not even implied in anyway in the comment you responded to?

The fact is whereas in the past it would be expected that the government could regulate the brutal and illegal overreaches of private companies, giving military rank to private companies execs makes that even less likely. The original comment is alluding to a simpler point: A government that gives blank checks to private companies in military and security matters is much worse than one that doesn't.
by milindsoni | 2025-08-29 12:55:34+00:00
I modified the OpenAI Realtime API Console Demo App to add a map to it, and I connected the map events to the Realtime API.

Result... Im able to move around the map and talk to it! Its fascinating how its able to reverse geocode out of memory, Ideally I should add tools to reverse Geocode the locations. Im planning to add more tools to it like internet speed locations and maybe weather

https://github.com/milind-soni/realtime-map-chat

Check out here if you would like to use the code
by lukev | 2025-08-29 12:56:26+00:00
One way I've been talking about this with people is that LLMs let you participate in a single-person echo chamber, potentially at a greatly accelerated pace.

It's not surprising that some people end up diverging pretty widely from social norms / beliefs when you look at it this way. We know social echo chambers could do that; now you can easily do it by yourself.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-29 12:57:59+00:00
Sounds like a pretty standard telemetry upload. You transmit it, keep your copy until you get acknowledgement that it was received so you can retry if it went wrong, then delete it when it succeeds.

It’s just worded to make this sound sketchy. I bet ten bucks “unlinked” just refers to the standard POSIX call for deleting a file.
by mrcsharp | 2025-08-29 12:58:03+00:00
As a side note: please avoid, as much as possible, putting `.Select(..)` before `.Where(..)`. You are wasting CPU cycles and memory space by forcing LINQ to map all the items and then filtering on the mapped value.

In most situations, you should be able to filter on the source enumerable before mapping making the whole thing more efficient.

Additionally, that `.Cast<TR>(..)` at the end should have been a dead giveaway that you are going down the wrong path here. You are incurring even more CPU and Memory costs as the `.Cast<TR>(..)` call will now iterate through all the items needlessly.[1]

Also, the design of this this method doesn't seem to make much difference to me anyways:

``` var strs = source.SelectNotNull(it => it); ```

vs

``` var strs = source.Where(it => it != null); ```

A lot of other LINQ extension methods allow you to pass in a predicate expression that will be executed on the source enumerable:

``` var str = source.First(it => it != null); ```

[1] https://source.dot.net/#System.Linq/System/Linq/Cast.cs,152b...
by orsorna | 2025-08-29 12:58:44+00:00
Unfortunate, but frankly I didn't even know about them not training on user data.

Actually up until a few months ago I swore I just couldn't use these hosted models (I regularly use local inference but like most my local hardware yields only so much quality). Tech companies, nay many companies, will lie and cheat to squeeze out whatever they can. That includes reneging promises.

With data privacy specifically I always take the default stance that they are collecting from me. In order for me to use their product it has to be /exceedingly/ good to be worth the trade off.

Turns out that Claude Code is just that damn good. I started using it for my own personal project. But the impetus was the culmination of months questioning what kind of data I'd be okay with giving up to a hosted model.

What I'm trying to say is that this announcement doesn't bother me that much because I already went on my own philosophical odyssey to prepare for this breach of trust to occur.
by c22 | 2025-08-29 12:58:44+00:00
> Sarah has taken great pride in continuing Lyon’s legacy. She’s carved the cow so many times that she can almost sculpt from muscle memory. She starts with an armature, the wire frame that holds it in place, and then slowly shapes 600 pounds of Iowa butter into a 5½-foot-high and 8-foot-long cow over the course of a few days.
by klabb3 | 2025-08-29 13:00:02+00:00
EU or not, it baffled me that people don't see this glaring conflict of interest. AI companies both produce the model and rent out inference. In other words, you're expecting that the company that (a) desperately crave your data the most and (b) that also happen to collect large amounts of high quality data from you will simply not use it. It's like asking a child to keep your candy safe.

I'd love to live in a society where laws could effectively regulate these things. I would also like a Pony.
by latexr | 2025-08-29 13:00:10+00:00
So first they create a system which makes it easy for anyone to inundate maintainers with slop, then they create another system to help maintainers deal with that problem, poorly.

Meanwhile, features which users have been asking for years, like being able to disable PRs but not issues, are ignored. Their own repos are an unmaintained disgrace.

Reminder that GitHub is now under Microsoft’s CoreAI team, so this push to everything AI will only get worse.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas...
by achenet | 2025-08-29 13:00:22+00:00
I'm more "capitalism good" (8 billion people on earth, 7 billion can read, 5 billion have internet, and almost no one dies in childbirth anymore in rich countries, which is several billion people), but that is really interesting that he has no stock and just gets salary.

I guess if other people buying stock in your company is what enables you to have a super high salary (+ benefits like company plane, etc), you are still kinda selling stock though, and honestly, having considered the "start a random software company aligned with the present trend (so ~2015 DevOps/Cloud, 2020 cryptocurrency/blockchain, 2024 AI/ML), pay myself a million dollar a year salary and close shop after 5 years because 'no market lol'" route to riches myself, I still wouldn't consider Altman to be completely free of perverse incentives here :)

Still, very glad you pointed that out, thanks for sharing that information ^^
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-29 13:00:23+00:00
Whenever I move significant sums into my bank account, I guarantee that my bank is going to do an "Alex" call. I can also guarantee that there is no freaking way I am going to do a call with some rando not already in my contacts to discuss my financials. I really don't know why banks don't understand this.

Chase is not the only offender but they are unhilariously, shockingly bad at this: if you do a large transfer, they will sometimes cancel it unilaterally and without warning because of their fraud detection. And then they'll call you, but the dude speaking won't know anything about your account and ask you about what you just did. "We are clean on opsec" is very much not the vibe.

Lest this be just me moaning, Fidelity gets it right. When you log on you can see who your banker is and how to reach them. A real human with a phone! And that person is the one who calls you, emails you, and you can set up a call/mtg with, so you don't have these random calling you.
Show HN: A minimal TS library that generates prompt injection attacks
by yaoke259 | 2025-08-29 13:00:49+00:00
I made an open source, MIT license Typescript library based on some of the latest research that generates prompt injection attacks. It is a super minimal/lightweight and designed to be super easy to use.

Keen to hear your thoughts and please be responsible and only pen test systems where you have permission to pen test!
by Someone | 2025-08-29 13:00:52+00:00
Another reason is if there’s other kinds of data that gets uploaded to Tesla, and the code for uploading crash data reuses that code.

For the first kind of data, deleting the data from the car the moment there’s confirmation that it now is stored at Tesla can make perfect sense as a mechanism to prevent the car to run out of storage space.

Of course, if the car crashed, deleting the data isn’t the optimal, but that it gets deleted may not be malice.
by mosburger | 2025-08-29 13:00:58+00:00
My previous employer stopped hiring in the EU (except for the UK, where they were based, and South Africa, where the CTO was from) because the labor laws there made it too difficult for them to fire people, which was a particularly troublesome for them as they had almost quarterly layoffs. They switched back to hiring in the UK and US where there are fewer worker protections.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-08-29 13:02:51+00:00
The person I was replying to said they had no idea how it had anything to do with PowerPoint. The article quotes the report as identifying over-use of it as one of the problems that contributed to the communication break down.

I'm not making the argument and I'm not interested in engaging with this quibbling, I'm just explaining how the article said the expert who conducted the investigation found a problem with their use of PowerPoint. If you have a problem with that conclusion, then take it up with the investigation report, not me. I would be fascinated to see you provide a rebuttal of it.
by razemio | 2025-08-29 13:03:10+00:00
Everytime this comes up, I am on the opposite site of this. It is clearly full self driving. It can stop at red lights, cross intersections, make turns, park, drive, change lanes, break and navigate on its own. There are various videos online where FSD managed to drive a route start to finish without a single human override. That's full self driving. It can also crash like humans "can" and that why it needs supervision. In this sense, we as humans are also "full self driving" with a much (?) lower risk of crashing.

Like also everytime let the downvotes rain. If you downvote, it would be nice, if you could tell me where I am wrong. It might change my view on things.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-29 13:03:12+00:00
If you live in a city, please send this article to your municipal and state electeds. Tesla is lobbying for the right to train and activate its Level 4 product, marketed as Level 5, in cities where Musk is deeply unpopular. There is massive political capital to be had in banning Tesla’s self-driving features on even the flimsiest grounds.
by al_borland | 2025-08-29 13:03:14+00:00
Yeah, they definitely changed something at some point. I actually changed mine when I made the comment. I remember setting it up in the past when you had to pick just one, and was frustrated when it took all of them over. I assumed it was a bug, but the comment here made me go check and sure enough, it now defaults to taking over all engines. Since I never really need to check other engines when using Kagi, it didn’t impact me enough to look before. I’ve seen 2 outages where it’s been a problem, but they were both pretty short, so I didn’t get to the point of looking for a work around.
by yourusername | 2025-08-29 13:03:17+00:00
In the 70s there we about 1/4 as many cars on the road in my country compared to today, but 5 times as many road deaths. People got killed or seriously injured all the time before improvement in safety standards. As a society having to replace 50 $1000 bumpers to save 1 person being seriously injured is a great deal.
by Havoc | 2025-08-29 13:03:33+00:00
Yeah - classifying an invoice into building rent or say printer ink it'll have some success. So we'll see some of it at the very bottom end.

>LLMs can't do arithmetic or count.

Yes. The fancy copilot stuff does use pandas/python to look at excel files so stuff like add up a table does work sometimes, but the parameters going into the pandas code need to make sense too in the garbage in garbage out sense. The base LLM doesn't seem to understand the grid nature of Excel so it ends up looking at the wrong cells or misunderstands how headings relate to the numbers etc.

It'll get better but there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of "use LLM to write boilerplate code" in this world.
by smokel | 2025-08-29 13:04:24+00:00
It would be nice if smart people would not require law to operate in an ethical way. For complicated problems, and for people who are just plain stupid, it's nice to have law and law enforcement, so that capitalist society can work properly.

But the idea that smart people should "push the boundaries" to find out "what is ok and what is not" is either naive or borderline sociopathic IMNSHO.
by skydhash | 2025-08-29 13:04:28+00:00
That's why we have snippets and code generators for those. And even in the absence of that, I usually copy code from some other place and gut it out to make place for the new logic. This can be done in 30 seconds or less if the code is organized.

> IIRC there are no languages where I can just open an empty file and write "put: <business logic>" and it magically knows how to handle everything correctly.

Are you sure it's done correctly? Take something like timestamps, or validations: It's easy to get those wrongs.
by nicce | 2025-08-29 13:04:40+00:00
> I'm not talking about "replacing" workers. I'm talking about hiring the most qualified which in a global talent pool will almost always be someone from abroad. There's no reason for a company to hire a relatively unskilled graduate domestically when they could hire someone with more experience from abroad.

What I meant with replacing was that when someone retires, you hire a new worker and hope that they immediately produce a similar value. If the company has unique skill requirements, it is unlikely that the new hire provides similar value, at least immediately. How long it takes, is a question.

Alternatively, you have hired a junior already _on top of the_ already existing senior person. Junior doesn't have so good value/cost ratio but they still contribute. But this will increase over time.

And when the senior then retires, you are comparing the value of this trained junior vs. the associated risk of random new hire. You are never replacing retired person directly with "junior", junior is just an additional less necessary investment worker.

> If you look at the workforce makeup of many large tech companies today there's a reason Indian and East-Asian talent is so overrepresented, and it's not because they lack talent. It's because if you actually want to hire the best of the best you're not going to bring in juniors from the domestic workforce and train them up.

I haven't heard yet a company that actually has produced valuable product because of it. Usually the flow has been, that some Western country has created a succesfull product, and then later the workforce has been changed. And almost always the quality has decreased. But it does not matter because the product got already decent market share, and it takes years for revenue to drop because of that.
by degamad | 2025-08-29 13:04:40+00:00
Being locked out of your email which is the user name for most of the services you access is a lot more than "you can't have your data back". It's you can't log on to anything which uses email 2fa, you can't restore access to other services, you can't validate your identity with online government services, you don't get your bank statements or warnings, etc. It's not as bad as being arrested, but it is massively disruptive to your life.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-29 13:05:36+00:00
If a company is a position where government aid is needed and it is objectively identified as strategically important to the nation, then I think that support can be justified. However, the current executive classes should be fired - they were bad at their jobs. No golden parachutes, no deferred bonuses, no pensions. Any bonuses in the years leading up to the bailout should be taken back. Shareholders should also take a hit. Bailouts should be so painful and costly as a disincentive to the manager class. They shouldn't get to reap the rewards when things are good AND when things are bad.
by layoric | 2025-08-29 13:05:58+00:00
The VPS is like renting office space. You don't own the space, but for the most part get to use it how you want, and all the responsibilities that come with that.

"Serverless" is like paying for a hot desk by the minute, with little control of your surroundings, but it is convenient and cheap if you only need it for an hour.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-29 13:06:00+00:00
Framing is crucial. Example, why was the Autonomous Emergency Braking configured to brake violently to a full stop? Lets consider two scenarios, in both cases we're not paying enough attention to the outside world and are about to strike a child on a bicycle but the AEB policy varies.

1. AEB brakes violently to a full stop. We experience shock and dismay. What happened? Oh, a kid on a bike I didn't see. I nearly fucked up bad, good job AEB

2. AEB smoothly slows the vehicle to prevent striking the bicycle, we gradually become aware of the bike and believe we had always known it was there and our decision eliminated risk, why even bother with stupid computer systems?

Humans are really bad at accepting that they fucked up, if you give them an opportunity to re-frame their experience as "I'm great, nothing could have gone wrong" that's what they prefer, so, to deliver the effective safety improvements you need to be firm about what happened and why it worked out OK.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-29 13:06:05+00:00
> It is clearly full self driving. It can stop at red lights, cross intersections, make turns, park, drive, change lanes, break and navigate on its own. That's full self driving

All this demonstrates is the term “full self driving” is meaningless.

Tesla has a SAE Level 3 [1] product they’re falsely marketing as Level 5; when this case occurred, they were misrepresenting a Level 2 system as Level 4 or 5.

If you want to see true self driving, take a Waymo. Tesla can’t do that. They’ve been lying that they can. That’s gotten people hurt and killed; Tesla should be liable for tens if not hundreds of billions for that liability.

[1] https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update
by mvieira38 | 2025-08-29 13:06:47+00:00
> It moves RAG away from approximate "semantic vibes" and toward explicit reasoning about where information lives. That clarity can help teams trust outputs and debug workflows more effectively.

Wasn't this a feature of RAGs, though? That they could match semantics instead of structure, while us mere balls of flesh need to rely on indexes. I'd be interested in benchmarks of this versus traditional vector-based RAGs, is something to that effect planned?
by buran77 | 2025-08-29 13:07:03+00:00
The process of collecting and uploading the data probably confuses a lot of non-technical readers even if it worked as per standard industry practices.

The real issue is that Tesla claimed the company doesn't have the data after every copy was deleted. There's no technical reason to dispose of data related to a crash when you hold so much data on all of the cars in general.

Crash data in particular should be considered sacred, especially given the severity in this case. Ideally it should be kept both on the local black box and on the servers. But anything that leads to it being treated as instantly disposable everywhere, or even just claiming it was deleted, can only be malice.
by lgeorget | 2025-08-29 13:07:29+00:00
I guess one charitable way to look at it is that after a crash, external people could get access to the car and its memory, which could potentially expose private data about the owner/driver. And besides private data, if data about the car condition was leaked to the public, it could be made to say anything depending on who presents it and how, so it's safer for the investigation if only appointed experts in the field have access to it.

This is not unlike what happens for flight data recorders after a crash. The raw data is not made public right away, if ever.
by low_key | 2025-08-29 13:07:30+00:00
I was thrilled to learn about this, too. I wasn't aware of it even as a long-time Debian user.

However, trying the specific example that was listed in the article, I installed extrepo and enabled the mozilla repo. Unfortunately, firefox is not installable on trixie in it's current form because it depends on libasound2 and the trixie package is called libasound2t64. : (
by ribtoks | 2025-08-29 13:07:44+00:00
1. At it's core, it's a Proof-of-Work captcha, so compute load depends on the usage pattern. AI (LLMs) does get better at image/audio recognition, but compute task is the same anywhere, does not matter who "clicks" the checkbox.

2. Bots usually have such access patterns that cause compute task difficulty to become prohibitively high, requiring exponentially more CPU resources. This renders bots economically nonviable for submitting forms or scraping website.
by Havoc | 2025-08-29 13:08:34+00:00
Better yet - use the phones built in app restrictions to block or selectively allow photo access.

When a corporate does shady shit the last thing you'd do is trust the tools they provide to limit that. That's just insane.

>"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." -Mark Zuckerberg
by Paul_S | 2025-08-29 13:08:51+00:00
20 years ago it was a chore but nowadays it's faster than baking a cake. 10 minutes prep time (configure os and add drives), 10 minutes bake time (installation) (or 10+ hours bake time if count building the array)

But let's assume you don't have a clue and have to follow some tutorial and do some reading and it takes you 2 hours. That's amortised across a decade. Especially now when easy distro upgrades are basically unattended so you can use the same setup for a decade and stay up to date.
by ratg13 | 2025-08-29 13:09:15+00:00
I gave up Samsung Galaxy entirely over this .. even ended up switching to iPhone because I couldn't find another Android I liked as much.

Every Galaxy I ever owned came with uninstallable facebook apps, despite paying over 1k for the phone.

On the last one I had, I went in and did the ritual deleting facebook, and going in the settings to disable their other background apps.

I checked the phone 8 months later, and found that they had installed even more facebook apps that were now running without my consent.

That was the end of those phones for me, and I'm amazed that I put up with it for so long.