MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by luisfmh | 2025-08-27 05:57:53+00:00
So people that look to chatgpt for answers and help (as they've been programmed to do with all the marketing and capabilities from openai) should just die because they looked to chatgpt for an answer instead of google or their local suicide helpline? That doesn't seem reasonable, but it sounds to me like what you're saying.

> So did the user. If he didn't want to talk to a chatbot he could have stopped at any time. This sounds similar to when people tell depressed people, just stop being sad.

IMO if a company is going to claim and release some pretty disruptive and unexplored capabilities through their product, they should at least have to make it safe. You put a safety railing because people could trip or slip. I don't think a mistake that small should be end in death.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-27 05:59:13+00:00
> It would be crazy for Google to treat that as authorship date, and I cannot believe that they do.

I'm not sure what Google uses for authorship date, but if you do date-range based web searches, the actual dates of the content no longer have any meaningful relationship to what was set in the earch criteria (news seems mostly better but with some problems, but actual web search is hopeless). In both directions -- searching for recent stuff gets plenty of very old stuff mixed in, but searching for stuff from a period well in the past gets lots of stuff from yesterday, too.
by intofarlands | 2025-08-27 05:59:43+00:00
I’ve been fascinated by the Roman Empire and their road network that was unprecedented at this time in history.

Paul was able to traverse thousands of miles along these networks and what he did really changed the course of history. He confronted the Roman Empire at its absolute height, and despite being shipwrecked twice, imprisoned at least three times, beaten and stoned many times… he still carried on. I thought it would be cool to visualize what he accomplished in a unique way.
by sschueller | 2025-08-27 06:01:18+00:00
The requirement of verification to side-load any app is fascist control. It is clear as night and day.

Shame on Google and Apple, it was always clear this was the end goal and next up is also your PC.

Right after will come the removal off apps they don't like and there is nothing you can do about it.

Stallman was right
by doikor | 2025-08-27 06:02:29+00:00
Usually you loop the treated waste water through nature for dilution (and more filtering if you use ground water) in case there is some problem with the treatment process.

Also it is kinda hard to sell to people the concept of “you are drinking literal shit/piss” even though if you stop and think about it all lake/river/reservoir water is full of fish, bird, etc shit.
by pavon | 2025-08-27 06:02:41+00:00
The damage to the trailing edge of the aft flaps was caused by whatever took out the skirt. You can see they are torn up and sheet metal flapping long before they start to descend and heat up. It is possible they would have held up to the heat if that hadn't occurred. I didn't see any burning through along the flap hinge like in previous flights (although they only showed direct side-on video of two of the flaps).
by thinkingemote | 2025-08-27 06:02:57+00:00
According to the left exploitation can occur when people choose and are paid for it.

For example demeaning work. Also much of slavery, indentured servitude in the past was chosen and fully reimbursed. Most classic lefties would say all work is exploitation under capitalism.

It's the idea of individualism mostly seen on the right wing and the modern/American democratic left that says that people make free and rational choices in an amoral economic model. When money sets the rules there is no exploitation. I think the reality isn't so black and white and people can make good and bad decisions.

So while I agree he probably wasn't exploited it doesn't mean that others in the same place doing the same things will not be.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-08-27 06:03:05+00:00
How would you go for weight loss then? This is calories in - calories out.

And as for which state one wants to be in, this is a matter of personal choice. I know that I will commit suicide right after I get a diagnosis of, say, Alzheimer's (after cleaning up my stuff). If I went blind and had a reasonable chance to get back to sight, then I would also go for it, weighing the risks.

It all boils down to what someone perceives as "better"
Units of Economics of LLMs. Reply to Ed Zitron's "AI Is a Money Trap"
by tudorizer | 2025-08-27 06:03:15+00:00
A lot of attention is aimed at the huge investment rounds, cash burned into training foundation models (the trillions mentioned by Sam A.) and not enough analysts explain the units of economics to understand a business.

If you wonder why investors still think it’s a good idea to part with their money, I tried to break down the economic units and long term potential how all this could make sense.

Partial TL;DR

- Cash burn is not a fair approximation for COGS. OpenAI spends mostly on R&D like a pharmaceutical company does. - ChatGPT 4o could be making more than 12.8% in gross margin. - ChatGPT OSS 120B could be making 89% gross margin. It is 90% cheaper than 4o-mini with equivalent reasoning and 3x faster inference. - ChatGPT 5's gross margin is most likely to fall between 12.8% and 89%.

Full breakdown: https://medium.com/@brenoca/openais-road-to-profitability-8c7231f8494b
by lucyjojo | 2025-08-27 06:04:59+00:00
because pianos are real physical things, high and low strings have overtones that do not match the harmonics (and in different ways), so for stuff to "sound good" piano tuners tune on overtones and not fundamentals.

on a more fundamental level our perception of pitch (the musical psychoacoustic thing) also vary with loudness and frequency (physical reality)...

add to that, that at low frequencies we have difficulties tracking the pitch in the first place (so we rely on overtones/harmonics) -- which makes it even more important to tune on evertone (because our heads can recreate/track the note through psychoacoustic effects... so we will ear it "nice" when without the overtones we would be lost)

funny extra fact, our ears are cavities with resonances and distortions... (some musicians exploit that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Amacher )

i might be wrong on some points since i starting learning about music 2 years ago as a hobby but i think it is mostly correct. the whole thing is fascinating.
by thunderbong | 2025-08-27 06:05:45+00:00
> People fall for complex lies all the time.

Of course. My comment was nothing about what people choose to believe.

> I don't think any truth is fundamental at all

Neither did I mean that.

> You all seem to want "settled science" but science is never settled, nor is truth.

I don't think there was any intent of this in my comment or in the comment I replied to.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 06:06:55+00:00
People are too eager to tackle problems using regulation. Taxes are often preferable, because they're simpler to administer and they generate revenue for the state.

Here's one way to address the problem of ghost jobs using taxes:

Force every job post to include a salary range. Make companies pay a small "job posting tax" for every listing, which is proportional to the product of the job's stated salary, and the number of views or applications it gets.

Including a salary range in every job will improve gender equality and help jobseekers save time.

The nominal "job posting tax" should aim to be a small fraction of the actual cost of making a new hire (say 1-5% of the equivalent labor cost for all the work that goes into filling a role). The tax needs to stay small, so companies aren't seriously discouraged from hiring. (Heck, you could even have the tax automatically get reduced a little bit if the economy is in a recession -- or automatically go up if data analysis determines there are too many ghost jobs. Or even refund some taxes once a hire actually gets made!)

The goal is just to apply some financial drag to companies that spam job listings. If you're inconveniencing jobseekers, you've got to pay a little tax for it. Identify the right tax scheme and everything should sort itself out.
by Animats | 2025-08-27 06:07:12+00:00
Pretty much.

At the windings, all motors are driven by some alternating waveform. A classic "DC motor" has a mechanical commutator which turns DC into square wave AC, with the phase leading the motor so the motor turns. Classic AC motors are driven from sinusoidal waveforms. There's a whole theory of DC motors, and an elegant theory of AC motors that goes back to Tesla. Here's the motor family tree.[1]

Then came power MOSFETs. Today you can make pretty much whatever waveforms you want. It took a while for motor designers to learn how to exploit that properly, and for MOSFETs to get small, cheap, and heat-tolerant. Then drone and electric vehicle motors got really good, at the cost of needing a CPU to manage the motor.

[1] https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/alternating-curren...
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-08-27 06:07:13+00:00
How do you feel about not having THE sense that defines your whole life? This is a matter of personal choice and weighing risks vs your life as it is.

Nobody is forcing anybody to have the chip - my question was about the reasons behind not taking it for someone who is blind, as a matter of curiosity. It is obvious that everyone will react differently.

As I mentioned, my wife went for that and it was quite a ride initially. You do not want to be on the witnessing side of such treatments but I respect her choice despite the risks.
by teiferer | 2025-08-27 06:08:16+00:00
> On a broader note I believe governments regulating what goes in an AI model is a path to hell paved with good intentions.

That's not an obvious conclusion. One could make the same argument with physical weapons. "Regulating weapons is a path to hell paved with good intentions. Yesterday it was assault rifles, today it's hand guns and tomorrow it's your kitchen knife they are coming for." Europe has strict laws on guns, but everybody has a kitchen knife and lots of people there don't feel they live in hell. The U.S. made a different choice, and I'm not arguing that it's worse there (though many do, Europeans and even Americans), but it's certainly not preventing a supposed hell that would have broken out had guns in private hands been banned.
by itchingsphynx | 2025-08-27 06:09:36+00:00
According to the study methods [1], data was taken from BirdWeather, which is crowdsourced from users running local BirdNET [2], including BirdNET-Pi and BirdNET-Go [3], which runs easily on most Raspberry Pi (including slowly on Zero 2 W). BirdNET has popped up a few times on HN [4].

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv9472

[2] https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

[3] https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi and https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by sfn42 | 2025-08-27 06:09:45+00:00
I was imagining the coolant comes in at a lower temp like 20 and maybe keeps the air from going above 40.

It doesn't have to do that much, but maybe you're right. I'm sure they'd be doing this if it was practical, being able to onit thousands of fans would probably save a pretty penny both on hardware and electricity.
by raverbashing | 2025-08-27 06:11:00+00:00
Stallman's fallacy is thinking every system is perfect and unbreakable and that people have a perfect understanding of software and systems (for better or for worse)

People will be running pirated debugger copies if that comes to shove

99.9% of people DNGAF about OSS. They do care about doing what they need on their phone without malware/bloatware/nagware

Also publishing and development are separate activities
by mjwhansen | 2025-08-27 06:11:58+00:00
For people outside DC:

18F [1] was the government’s design group, and did incredible work to improve the level of visual, UX, and UI design as well as usability across federal government websites. They created standards, led trainings and workshops, and were a go-to resource for people in and outside of the government.

You may have heard about the US Digital Service, but 18F were equally rockstar-level in the local community. Highly dedicated civil servants who were very good at what they did and very good at communicating it to others.

In May, DOGE unceremoniously gutted the department and shut it down.

Thankfully, they’ve archived their guides on an external site [2]. I didn’t even work for the federal government but I used to use these all the time when I was a product manager.

If you happen to see a resume come across your desk from someone who worked at 18F, jump on that. You’re lucky.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F

[2] https://guides.18f.org/
by usr1106 | 2025-08-27 06:13:17+00:00
Intel and Nokia partnered around 2007 .. 09 to introduce x86 phone SoCs and the required software stack. Remember MeeGo? Nokia engineers were horrified by the power consumption and were convinced it wouldn't work. But Nokia management wanted to go to a dual supplier model instead of just relying on TI at all cost.

MeeGo proceeded far too slowly and Elop chose his former employers' Windows instead in 2011. Nokia's decline only increased and Intel hired many Nokia engineers.

Soon Nokia made no phone anymore and Intel did not even manage to make their first mass-selling product.

ARM-based SoCs were 10 years ahead in power saving. The ARM ecosystem did not make any fatal mistakes, Intel never caught up.
by jajko | 2025-08-27 06:13:47+00:00
So many incorrect statements... you know the world is bigger than your (presumably US) backyard.

I suggest travelling around the world a bit and visiting ie Borneo how entire rainforest ecosystem is being reduced to nothing just due to palm oil plantations, mostly for biofuel and cheap&bad for health food additive.

Similar sight across many places out there. What you wrote ain't valid for a single one.
by whs | 2025-08-27 06:13:51+00:00
I used to run Shizuku for my phone to run Hail (an app suspension tool). Now that my credit card bank start checking for USB Debugging I stopped using the app (and now my 3DS OTP has to be over SMS). I believe there's only two banks left in Thailand that do not check for one and it is just a matter of time, because any time these banks could have hired any of those "security" people who will ask why don't we block that.

So I moved to Dhizuku. It's a bit hard to setup, but once I'm done it's felt like untethered jailbreak - I don't have to complicated dance to start Shizuku now. Dhizuku basically make your phone a company phone, except it report to you. To setup a "managed main profile" you'd need to remove all accounts visible in Android account system and type a long ADB command so I don't think it can be maliciously done.

I suppose this will be how we'll use F-Droid in the next year for enthusiasts.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-27 06:14:18+00:00
I think I totally agree with you.

I don't know exactly why Microsoft chose to combine a browser and the file explorer. Maybe it was solely to keep their monopoly. However exposing the Internet as a file system is not so far fetched. Most protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP) are about the transmission of files. To me it sounds totally sensible to implement HTTP as a file system driver and then have the "browser" only consist of rendering, without any network features. Honestly that sounds like a really cool idea. It results in a browser that transparently browses from websites hosted on servers to websites hosted on the disk. Saving websites could be really simple. Uploading also.

Passing parameters to a website could be the same, as executing a program. page?foo=bar&baz would be ./page --foo=bar --baz. su -c "systemctl enable --runtime" becomes path://root@/systemctl/enable?runtime . Of course you need a secure sandbox, otherwise you just built remote code execution as a service to anyone.
by tomhow | 2025-08-27 06:15:05+00:00
I believe you when you insist you were trying to be encouraging. It’s just that it didn’t come across that way, and several other users flagged and downvoted it, presumably for that reason. We often underestimate how our words come across. What seems like reasonable, friendly advice when formulated in our minds can end up coming across as a snarky personal attack by the time end turns into words on a screen read by strangers.

It’s all good, please just be mindful of this and think about how you can avoid your intended sentiment being lost next time you post this kind of comment.
by Gys | 2025-08-27 06:15:22+00:00
Nowadays it is still accessible? The article states: ‘ The falls usually flow from 12:00 to 13:00 and again from 16:00 to 17:00 daily, with extended hours on holidays. There is an entrance fee to access the falls and its nearby areas. Visitors can follow a path leading to the falls' summit. En route, a tunnel provides access to an observatory adjacent to the falls. Another observatory near the peak offers a panoramic view of both the falls and the Nera Valley below’
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-27 06:15:58+00:00
Break the law? The app mentioned isn't unlawful. Many map apps track speeding camera locations. Asking for badge numbers from a police officer is also normal.

And why is a phone different from a computer? Nobody bats an eye when downloading program on computer, or visiting a website with arbitrary code.

The example was recent and very clearly put the developer at personal risk. But there are many gray-zones.

An app to decode car diagnostics codes isn't unlawful, but being personally identified could get you in alot of trouble by car companies anyway.

And what about making an independent news app in Russia? More clearly ok by our morals and law, but very dangerous for the developer.
by jackjeff | 2025-08-27 06:16:11+00:00
Don’t cars and ropes and drills occasionally kill people too? Society seems to have accepted that fact long ago.

Somehow we expect the digital world to be devoid of risks.

Cryptography that only the good guys can crack is another example of this mindset.

Now I’m not saying ClosedAI look good on this, their safety layer clearly failed and the sycophantic BS did not help.

But I reckon this kind of failure more will always exist in LLMs. Society will have to learn this just like we learned cars are dangerous.
by kazinator | 2025-08-27 06:16:43+00:00
I doubt that Stallman, of all people, thinks literally that. But systems which are breakable have ways of improving themselves, closing off the exploitable holes. So it makes sense to regard systems as being eventually unbreakable. Or at least having an unacceptably long "mean time between cracks". The game plan cannot simply be "oppressive software and hardware systems will always have imperfections so the good people will cheerfully get around them", even if is is de facto that way at some point in time w.r.t. certain systems. That's actually a kind of defeatist attitude disguised as optimism; passively accepting crap based on the faith that you will scrape through somehow.
by reilly3000 | 2025-08-27 06:17:20+00:00
100%. I’m seeing all of the new capacity in public clouds shift towards AMD. It’s hard to beat faster for cheaper. ARM has an even stronger value proposition, albeit with the requirement of compatibility. The switch would happen faster if there were enough equipment to go around… we switched all of our CI fleet to the latest AMD generation C4D‘s and got 36% faster builds, but had to go back a generation because GCP kept running out of boxes for us.
by teekert | 2025-08-27 06:17:34+00:00
Why is it so complex to have a foss mobile OS.

I only have Linux PCs (laptops) and servers, 100% of my work and personal stuff is done there (though for work I do need to hop into MS365, Google Workspace, Zoom, etc, hooray for browsers, my final firewall between me and the walled gardens, though we can have a whole discussion on that).

For mobile, we have PostmarketOS, Phosh, Ubuntu Touch. I really must try living in them, is it on me? IDK, our government even has an identity app for iOS and Android. I should not be using it, I should stick to web. But its so much more convenient. I'm just weak, aren't I?

Maybe I should go for Ubuntu touch, with an iPad on the side or something. At least my most personal device is something I control then. Or just keep my Linux laptop handy (or make a cyberdeck!). But I want a computing platform that does not require carrying a bag. It's kinda sad. Even GrapheneOS (one of the most personal and secure mobile computing experiences out there)'s future is in the hands of its greatest adversary, the one that does not want you to have a personal computing experience.
by brainless | 2025-08-27 06:17:39+00:00
I do not think this is fair. What is fair is at first hint of a mental distress, any LLM should completely cut-off communication. The app should have a button which links to actual help services we have.

Mental health issues are not to be debated. LLMs should be at the highest level of alert, nothing less. Full stop. End of story.
by guptadeepak | 2025-08-27 06:18:13+00:00
Getting tired of biased vendor comparisons and scattered information when evaluating CIAM solutions. Created this comprehensive directory with real analysis of Auth0, Clerk, Keycloak, Firebase Auth, and dozens more. Organized by categories like 'Developer-First', 'Enterprise Leaders', 'Open Source' to match actual decision criteria. Each entry includes honest pros/cons and when to choose each platform.
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-27 06:18:21+00:00
I like Framework as an idea, but we're talking about a 1500$ premium over this competing 16 inch laptop.

1200$ https://www.bestbuy.com/product/gigabyte-aero-x16-copilot-pc...

I literally can buy 2 of the Gigabyte laptops for the same price.

Even if I can swap out some parts, odds are it's still easier( and cheaper) to just buy a new competing laptop ever 3 years.

If your motivation is "the environment" you can always just donate your old laptop , give it to a friend, etc. "Gaming" laptop might as well be for code for cheaper , but it has RGB and your co-workers might look at you weird.
by Jlagreen | 2025-08-27 06:18:24+00:00
So, it's basically trying to catch up again: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computing/

Or some interesting news here: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-powers-worlds-larg...

At least, they aren't waiting until CUDA quantum becomes as large as CUDA for GPUs.
by self_awareness | 2025-08-27 06:19:01+00:00
I'm a nobody, but let me answer these questions in 60 seconds.

1: None, no anonymous accounts allowed. 2: None. Civil what?. 3: It's the Google's company policy, don't use our products if you don't agree to it. 4: If devs write apps for this nearly impossible to develop Mac AppStore ecosystem, I don't see even a slightest problem here. 5: Just change package IDs.

Thank you for listening, see you again next time.
by jmorenoamor | 2025-08-27 06:19:59+00:00
Everything is paid by the customer. As a manufacturer I can temporaly absorb some costs to keep prices steady, but at some point, I have to adjust prices to maintain a reasonable margin.

So yes, I will pay for my country's tariffs and you will pay for yours.

It's a bad scenario where things are more expensive and both manufacturers and customers get harmed. The only ones winning are, as always, intermediaries.
by distortionfield | 2025-08-27 06:20:37+00:00
I’m familiar with those applications of exploitation, too, but they also wouldn’t apply here. This wasn’t demeaning work and wasn’t predicated on necessity, past their disability.

And of course, all work is exploitation under capitalism (from a true lefty point of view) but I didn’t perceive the original comment as referring to that level of exploitation. Just saying that this isn’t the hill to die on if one wants a case for capitalist exploitation.

I do understand the dangers of others being exploited down the line but again, that wasn’t what OP was saying either.

Really, if this is exploitative it’s only an indictment of profit incentives in healthcare, which are abhorrent.