MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vonneumannstan | 2025-08-15 14:39:06+00:00
It's really very simple. As models become more capable they may become interested in deceiving humans or otherwise manipulating them to achieve their goals. We already see this in various places see:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14093

If the chain of thought of models becomes pure "neuralese" i.e. the models think purely in latent space then we will lose the ability to monitor for malicious behavior. This is incredibly dangerous, CoT monitoring is one of the best and highest leverage tools for monitoring model behavior and losing that would be devastating for safety.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D2Aa25eaEhdBNeEEy/worries-ab...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mpmsK8KKysgSKDm2T/the-most-f...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3W8HZe8mcyoo4qGkB/an-idea-fo...

https://x.com/RyanPGreenblatt/status/1908298069340545296

https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/notes-on-countermeasu...
by coldtea | 2025-08-15 14:39:36+00:00
Yes, let's not look at actual police reports of actual crimes, but on a Crime Survey, because you can't lie with statistics and governments don't have motive to present lower crime.

People are actually reporting knife crime and rapes and burglaries and shop lifting to the police in record numbers, but the CSEW survey doesn't reflect this, so all is fine!

After all what's more trustworthy? Some bureucrats asking census-like questions to some sample of the population to cook some numbers, or actual women reporting rape and victims reporting knife crimes to the police?

> In other words: Your wall of text is irrelevant

Live happily in your alternate reality.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-15 14:39:49+00:00
I own the hard drive. How I choose to arrange the little magnetic islands on the platter is my business. I do not exchange money to possess a copy of it, but sometimes I have to wait three days while libgen.li is doing whatever the fuck it's doing (being DDOSed, having Russian FSB datamine the logs, downtime to have all 14 million epubs get their covers replaced with the fuzziest 141x296 cover image that's a bad scan of a worn out paperback printed in the early 1980s, etc).

Copyright is unfortunately like one of the supernatural demons. You draw the little chalk circle on the ground and voice the incantations, and you think you're in control. That it can't leave the circle. But once summoned, this demon does not go away, and it just ignores the circle... it's just a scribble in chalk. Then you run around gibbering forever, crying about how it should've worked, you should've been safe while ignoring that it's a demonic force hellbent on burning down the Library of Alexandria and plunging humanity into a new dark age. Reject copyright. You'll never get it to play nice. They always feel hungry, always trying to take more. Every book on the New York Times Book Review Notable 100 list is available for 4 minutes of your bandwidth. Every Hugo winner, every Pulitzer novel, ever Nobel winner, every trashy little magazine you liked to skim through when you had to go to the grocery store with mama as a kid, all the classics of antiquity, everything. They're right there, waiting for you.
by slightwinder | 2025-08-15 14:40:20+00:00
> Ok, I'll bite... what if an "ad" on a website is a bit of javascript that mines bitcoins using my GPU? Does this mean I have to let it do this?

Maybe. The Court has only ruled that the lower instance has to research the topic more, there is no clear answer yet. But it's really notable how incredible wild the judgment is. They are speaking about objectcode and bytecode, and which of them are protected by law or not. F**ing insane. It's not really clear whether they are actually talking about JavaScript, or if someone explained/understood it wrong, or if they probably mean WebAssembly? Is WebAssembly used for ads and handled by Adblockers?
by phkahler | 2025-08-15 14:40:53+00:00
>> Well Qt license is not annoying.

Qt is a hodgepodge of many different components which have different licenses. This is made worse by Qt being an application development framework and not just a GUI toolkit. It includes much more than necessary and a lot of apps will use those other features and become tightly coupled with Qt. Not that its easy to switch toolkits, but it can be extra hard to move away from Qt.
by kleiba | 2025-08-15 14:40:58+00:00
> But most of the children in our survey said that they aren’t allowed to be out in public at all without an adult. Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.

This is probably a uniquely US problem because after we moved to Europe, we noticed that we see kids without their parents nearby all the time. But, this does not automatically imply that children here spend less time on their phones, we often talk with other parents about it and almost everyone thinks that their kids have too much screen time.
by sc68cal | 2025-08-15 14:41:01+00:00
>Both these issues are mitigated by other manufacturers with a trigger safety and longer trigger pull.

No. They are mitigated by a firing pin block that must be lifted by the full travel of the trigger, so that the block is lifted out of the way, for the firing pin to access the primer.

https://www.shootingillustrated.com/media/5nsj1a3l/firpins.j...
by dr_dshiv | 2025-08-15 14:41:47+00:00
My son recently had to get rabies shots. Well, that was the recommendation because there was a bat in the sleeping quarters of his camp. The probability that the bat had rabies is vanishingly small. Just like the probability that the bat bit him with no marks.

But, you read about rabies (no cure, horrible death), and even if it is a 1-10 million chance and you can do something about it — well, he got the shot (over my protest!).

I think this is similar — child abducted and god knows what happens to them? And it’s your fault as a parent for not supervising? Even a 1-in-10 million chance seems like too much.

It’s not rational, but I think that’s the psychology. It is countered by mentioning the side effects of the vaccine —in this case, identifying the potential harms of over-supervision.
by prettypoly | 2025-08-15 14:42:07+00:00
Why Optical Computing Matters for AI? Today’s AI systems rely on power-hungry electronic processors that face fundamental limits in speed and energy consumption. Optical computing—using light instead of electricity—has long promised a revolutionary alternative, offering ultra-fast, low-power processing ideal for AI tasks like image recognition, autonomous driving, and large language models. However, a major obstacle has persisted: noise and precision limitations in analog optical systems have kept them from practical deployment.

The Breakthrough: Merging the Best of Digital and Analog. Our team has developed a digital-analog hybrid optical processor (HOP) that achieves 16-bit precision in high-definition image processing—previously thought impossible for optical AI accelerators. Unlike conventional optical systems limited to ~4-bit precision, HOP could enable complex AI tasks (e.g., medical imaging, real-time object detection) without sacrificing speed or energy efficiency. By eliminating the need for power-hungry digital-to-analog converters, HOP could reduce the energy footprint of photonic computing devices. In tests, HOP could directly process a 16-bit high-definition image with a low pixel error rate, and achieves same accuracy in handwriting recognition (MNIST) as a desktop computer does. The HOP has also been explored to be applied in a YOLO object detection model, where it detects the distant vehicles while the conventional analog optical computing would completely fail —a critical capability for autonomous driving. This reveals the significance of having sufficient numerical precision in real-world complex AI models.

Why This Matters for the Future? As AI models grow larger and more energy-intensive, the world needs hardware that keeps up. Our work bridges the gap between the speed of light-based computing and the precision of digital electronics, paving the way for practical implementation of photonics for AI applications.

Future works? We are currently working on scaling the proof-of-concept photonic chip to a larger scale and exploring novel architectures that could achieve higher noise tolerance and numerical precision.

Links: European Innovation Council Pathfinder Project DOLORES: https://doloresproject.eu
by umbra07 | 2025-08-15 14:42:16+00:00
> First and foremost, there are members with tens of thousands of posts who become condescending and insulting when other members don't dance to their tune.

Yes, there are some regulars on the forums that get might get snippy with you if you ask for troubleshooting help while refusing to read the forum rules, RTFM, or are incapable of following basic troubleshooting steps. I don't really see the issue.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-15 14:42:42+00:00
The obvious one is definitely teaching, though not just English. For online teaching, English is a major lingua franca and any skill you might want to teach, from chess to calculus - there will be plenty of online students available in English, even if that may often not be their native tongue.

For in person teaching it's the same thing. Most countries have a system of bilingual schools, international schools, and then university type schools. And all of these offer English language instruction in everything from PE to Calculus. The major difference between a bilingual school and an international school is that the latter will generally pay much more and expect much more with certification a stated requirement, though in practice it often is not.

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Outside of that there's endless odd jobs available that are in need of English speakers. I have friends working in everything from marketing to rehab. A good idea there would be to pick a country you're interested, find the common job boards there (which LLMs may be excellent for, though I have not used them for this myself - yet) and simply search for 'English' or other such keywords. You'll be surprised.
by kypro | 2025-08-15 14:43:15+00:00
To be honest thing I find most doing most is asking the LLM to keep thing to some set number of sentences/paragraphs.

"In 4 sentences, how would you do x".

"In 2 paragraphs summerise the pros and cons of y".

Not really specific coding tasks, but ask these types of questions a lot because often I'm not trying to be an expert or deeply understanding something but get a feel for the consensus view.

LLMs tend to be verbose by default.

In terms of coding I often ask, "Don't make changes, but how would you improve this piece of code?" Or "Don't make changes, but what's wrong with this test?".

I find Cursor at least loves to make changes when I didn't really want it to. I was just asking for some thoughts / opinions.
Show HN: Turning Hand Movement into Music
by getToTheChopin | 2025-08-15 14:43:27+00:00
I'm experimenting with a musical instrument design, using hand rotation to change tempo and note cycles.

Created with javascript, mediapipe computer vision, tonejs, threejs.

This runs in real-time in the browser.

Live demo here (requires webcam access): https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/radial/
by ivansavz | 2025-08-15 14:43:54+00:00
I love the simulations. They are such a good way to learn STATS... you can still look at the theorem using math notation after, but if you've seen it work first using simulated random samples, then the math will make a lot more sense.

Here is a notebook with some more graphs and visualizations of the CLT: https://nobsstats.com/site/notebooks/28_random_samples/#samp...

runnable link: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/minireference/noBSstats/main?labp...
by _aavaa_ | 2025-08-15 14:44:02+00:00
Whether you think that making an online safe space is crazy is beside the point.

Roblox markets its space for kids. Nobody is forcing them to do that. But if they chose to, then they should be held to at lest the same standard as if they were offering an in person experience targeted at children.

Slapping “buyer beware, there may be pedophiles” on every in-person experience is something society has deemed unacceptable and require a higher standard of care on the parts of institutions working with children. That should not magically go away just because the experience happens online.
by mtalantikite | 2025-08-15 14:44:13+00:00
> ...we asked parents what they thought would happen if two 10-year-olds played in a local park without adults around. Sixty percent thought the children would likely get injured. Half thought they would likely get abducted.

During summer vacation when I was 10 (early 90s) I'd leave the house in the morning and head down to the local park to play basketball or roam the neighborhood with the other kids. We'd ride our bikes to wherever we wanted, and aside from stopping back to eat lunch and dinner, I'd be out until the streetlights went on. I don't recall any major injuries, aside from getting scraped or bumped up from time to time.
by richardlblair | 2025-08-15 14:44:46+00:00
Can't speak for others, but my 3yr old has definitely gone done an aisle alone. Much to my dismay, but alas, it did happen. These are the things that happen when you don't put your kid in carts and strollers all the time.

It also has the added benefit that he interacts with a lot of strangers while we're about 10ft away. It's good for him to learn that people are usually good.
by satrainfall | 2025-08-15 14:44:57+00:00
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by righthand | 2025-08-15 14:45:06+00:00
Nope. I’m right there with you. I can’t even use my laptop undocked because half my applications use the toolbar to store their icon. So I have to plug my laptop into my monitor just to see what is in my screen space.

I have no idea why people praise these laptops, for a cpu I guess. Their design is a joke and feels like a Playskool laptop toy.

At least when the old Apple forced “phablets” as the standard phone size they included a software work around for reaching the top of the screen.

Not adding a dropdown menu for the toolbar is brain dead.
by bitbasher | 2025-08-15 14:45:30+00:00
I can relate a lot to this post.

I learned Japanese around the same time (2010~). I even lived in Japan and studied at a Japanese university.

To this day I have a hard time recalling Japanese on the spot. However, when I hear Japanese or see it written, I can read and understand well. Even kanji I haven't seen in a decade. It's kinda strange.

I'm pretty sure if I re-studied Japanese I would learn very quickly as I re-activate that part of my brain... something that has been on my todo list for a long time!
by pc86 | 2025-08-15 14:45:39+00:00
"There has to be a round in the chamber for a round to be fired" seems sort of tautological if I'm being honest.

Very, very few serious people would argue that anyone carrying a firearm should carry it without a round in the chamber. Yes, "Israeli carry" is a thing, but is almost entirely endorsed simply as a training carry-over from a time when people carried different weapons of widely varying mechanical safety features in a very unique high-threat environment.

If you're carrying a firearm professionally, or in the US "recreationally" for personal protection, carrying without a round in the chamber will be seen by most people as a pretty stupid decision.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-15 14:46:01+00:00
In fairness, Texas started it before Newsom...

And in fact, politically, it's already total war. When they're talking about redistricting now, openly saying that it's to pick up seats for Trump, that's open political warfare.

It's total war on the information front, too. Killing the labor statistics is one sign of that, but there are others.

It's total war on the legal front. When Trump is threatening to remove judges who rule against him, when the budget denies funding for courts that do a particular part of their job, that's a war without restraint on the legal front.

The only area on which it is not already open warfare is the physical front. If nothing changes, though, it's coming.
This thing is hard. 8 years in. 20 failed projects. Only 2 made it
by leonagano | 2025-08-15 14:46:06+00:00
It is super hard. Every now and then, I keep thinking of giving up.

Now it’s happening again with FoundersAround. I launched it last June on PH. I had so much good feedback. Then, I tested some hypotheses, most of which failed.

Then, last week I almost threw the towel but the founders were so supportive and gave me so many good ideas that I decided to push it forward and keep going.

My takeaway: I don’t know. Launch more? Quit? lol
by linksnapzz | 2025-08-15 14:46:09+00:00
There was nothing wrong with the M16/AR-15; the Marines had been issued the weapon in Vietnam as well (with different ammo than the army received) and it worked fine.

The issue was that the Army Bureau of Ordinance insisted on making 5.56mm ammunition with a propellant composition different from the one that Stoner had specified when designing the weapon, one that was entirely unsuitable and led to jamming.
by joyeuse6701 | 2025-08-15 14:46:27+00:00
In my circles, what was astounding was the right wing gun club were doubly offended by this attempted blame. Either because they were offended for being called anti-gun leftists for having concern over the p320 or because Sig seemed to be ducking responsibility with some Trumpian style PR. Maybe both. I recall seeing comments like “it’s not the left, they don’t even know what a f**n sear is”
by gambiting | 2025-08-15 14:46:36+00:00
At 7 years old my parents would leave for work before I had to go to school, so I had to eat breakfast, dress myself and go to school, locking the door behind me - the walk was across few busy streets which I was told how to cross. Then I would come back before they were home so likewise, I had to let myself in and just wait for them to come back.

I think nowadays if I did that with my son I would have child services called on me.
by oriel | 2025-08-15 14:46:43+00:00
For me, it was when a movie wasn't the way I remembered it. Then I found a pirated copy.

Turned out the 'official' release was heavily edited, with tone, characters, and even some plot had been completely reshaped. I've found this to be increasingly prevalent, and not just in a "made for TV" or "adapted for Flying" type modifications.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-15 14:46:58+00:00
Well, I haven't observed that. Research this century has tended to suggest that conservatism is associated with physiological hyper-fixation on negative stimuli. E.g. Carraro L, Castelli L, Macchiella C. The automatic conservative: ideology-based attentional asymmetries in the processing of valenced information. PLoS One. 2011
by TheJoeMan | 2025-08-15 14:47:06+00:00
This is a completely incorrect interpretation of a FMEA (failure-modes-and-effects-analysis) / "Risk Chart". ISO quality systems regulations / the army mandate engineers sit in a room and dream up every way the device could fail and/or harm someone. You then classify the risk of that harm, so in all cases an unintentional discharge would be "high risk". This does not mean the pistol has a high chance of discharging, that is a separate metric for odds of occurrence. Even if the pistol was redesigned to only have a 1 in a million chance of unintentionally discharging, the "risk" category would stay "high".
by reedf1 | 2025-08-15 14:47:12+00:00
Blocking high-speed rail in the name of conservation makes me want to bash my head against a wall. Guess we'll buy 10000 diesel trucks to move goods north-south instead. Car-world isn't good for conservation, rail is. It's missing the forest for the trees. These laws are selectively invoked by interest groups, they don't event serve the legitimate cause of conservationists - there is enough ammo in UK law to block any development.
by jack_h | 2025-08-15 14:47:14+00:00
> Where does this idea come from?

It seems to be acquired through social osmosis, i.e. hearing people talk about it and then repeating their assertions as if it were a fact - usually with subtle changes colored by the speakers own world view - until some version of "truth" permeates society. I guess you could consider it like a game of telephone at a societal level. The Citizens United case is another great example where what people think it held is very different from what it actually held. It's also frustrating given the fact that we live in a time where the barrier to verify these claims is incredibly low or even non-existent because of the internet.
by paulpatan22 | 2025-08-15 14:47:51+00:00
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by sneak | 2025-08-15 14:48:17+00:00
> I own the hard drive. How I choose to arrange the little magnetic islands on the platter is my business.

Most people do not agree, in that they think arranging the magnetic fields in your drive to represent and store child pornography should be punishable.

It isn’t a stretch then to presume that storage of other types of data might also be proscribed.