MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jononor | 2025-08-13 10:16:10+00:00
Automation can be useful and valuable (economically) even if not intelligent. Heck from a big picture view of solving a problem (say to manufacture something), then a solution/process/workflow etc that requires less intelligence may be the preferable one - if such a solution can be found, that is. It can be expected to be cheaper, more robust, repeatable.
by fleebee | 2025-08-13 10:17:01+00:00
The intention was to prevent tooth decay by regulating candy intake. But it turns out that mandating a special weekly(!) day for candy consumption had the opposite effect. Children are naturally interested in things that are forbidden from them, and so when the restrictions are lifted they tend to eat large amounts of candy. Furthermore, restrictions and rules are not a good way of teaching moderation. Practices like Saturday candy facilitate an unhealthy relationship with food, which is why it's not longer a recommendation in Finland -- I'm not sure about the other Nordics.
by noirscape | 2025-08-13 10:17:04+00:00
Do keep in mind that the EUs approach is very different from the UK one.

The UK law is basically a "go figure it out", which inevitably leads to making shady deals with third parties that are now handling the data of citizens... privacy and data leakage issues abound.

The EU meanwhile is working on a whitelabel application that can confirm nothing other than "this user is above 18" (which they can do because the EU has national ID for basically anyone living in it. It also works for another set of age ranges, as the idea is to also use this to confirm stuff like buying alcohol) and is designed to be easy to implement for anyone without having to get approval from the EU first. (Technical specification is available here[0]). It's not perfect (last I saw, they're apparently tying it to Google Play Services for device verification), but it's a far better attempt than the UK/Australia are doing.

[0]: https://ageverification.dev
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-13 10:18:32+00:00
Atheism is not per se a sin, but it may as well be, precisely because Catholics believe everyone is born sinful and only the correct configuration of beliefs in one's head is sufficient to undo that state of affairs. This is my big problem with Christianity. Salvation, in the end, is a matter of assigning the correct truth value to purely historical statements, not moral ones.

Like to be saved, most Christians say, one must believe a litany of things about the historical figure of Christ. But that is just a history exam! It seems highly implausible that the God most people think of when they think of the Christian God would assign torture and torment based purely on a failure to come to a certain historical conclusion.
by thecupisblue | 2025-08-13 10:18:55+00:00
Honestly the top brand right now. And if you don't want a watch, they also have a whoop-like strap for 99.99$

I had an Amazfit GTR-4, bought a Whoop because I wanted to wear classical watches and I really can't wait for my subscription to expire so I can go back to Amazfit.

The watch is amazing - it looks great, has a long lasting battery (2-3 weeks), quite a solid app to go with it, has GPS that you can enable when you need to and has mini apps on it that are sometimes quite useful (voice notes, timers, stretches, even a ChatGPT mini-app someone made). And it's a 3 year old watch - the new ones are even better and look nicer.

While they had some issues previously with algorithm accuracy for HR and sleep, last year it has improved wildly and the updates hit the old devices too, leaving it on par with top tier watches.

I really can't imagine getting a smartwatch whose battery lasts less than 2-3 days. Makes it super impractical for any traveling/hiking/camping or any kind of a trip where you won't have your charger with you.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-13 10:19:48+00:00
A clock can exist in more states than just "UTC with unconfigured local offset" and "maybe-local-maybe UTC, but at least it's configured!" - what about "Dallas RTC battery died, lol" or "we honestly have no idea because we use GPS for UTC, but China/Russia/etc are conducting GPS spoofing"?

...the way I see it, 1980s VCRs got it right the first time with "+00:00" on a flashing VFD display, taunting you to re-set it again - all because someone unplugged it by mistake (dumb-question: why couldn't VCRs get the time from the TV signal?).

(What I mean, is that I think all systems (hardware and software) around the world just should standardize on flashing a message simply reading "+00:00" for all unintentional clock states. Clocks are one thing that I feel should not feature graceful-degradation - consider that's the whole origin of the idiom that "a stopped clock is still correct twice a day"; I'd very much rather a stopped-clock's hands broke-off entirely instead of risking it being misinterpreted by people who think the clock works just fine but they themselves have a bad case of saccade chronostasis[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
by nicbou | 2025-08-13 10:20:21+00:00
The main difference is that the click economy did not rely on printed books and magasines' continued existence. It could produce its own original information. A magasine author could become a blogger, and they could still write their own café reviews.

Generative AI still relies on the work of the creators whose livelihood it threatens for its training data. It still relies on someone else experiencing the real world, and describing it for them. It just denies them their audience or the fruit of their labour.

Someone here put it nicely: AI companies are eating their seed corn.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-13 10:20:31+00:00
> The Sequences [posts on LessWrong, apparently] make certain implicit promises. There is an art of thinking better, and we’ve figured it out. If you learn it, you can solve all your problems, become brilliant and hardworking and successful and happy, and be one of the small elite shaping not only society but the entire future of humanity.

Ooh, a capital S and everything. I mean, I feel like it is fairly obvious, really. 'Rationalism' is a new religion, and every new religion spawns a bunch of weird, generally short-lived, cults. You might as well ask, in 100AD, "why are there so many weird Christian cults all of a sudden"; that's just what happens whenever any successful new religion shows up.

Rationalism might be particularly vulnerable to this because it lacks a strong central authority (much like early Christianity), but even with new religions which _did_ have a strong central authority from the start, like Mormonism or Scientology, you still saw this happening to some extent.
by imtringued | 2025-08-13 10:22:50+00:00
Why would you expect anyone to play fair?

The Brettons Woods inevitable collapse was known when it was introduced, but it was implemented anyway because it unfairly advantaged the US. Meanwhile Keynes proposed balanced trade via his Bancor System. This would have addressed abuse by any specific nation, but the US didn't want it, because it would have limited their ability to be abusive as well.
by 0points | 2025-08-13 10:23:34+00:00
> Why has it taken so long to get the Windows ecosystem fully on ARM?

Windows has been through several ARM phases.

The first one being Windows CE 2.0 in 1997. Win CE was used in the Dreamcast and the Gizmondo handheld.

Lately confusion arose when people started calling arm64/AArch64 for just "arm".
by 0vo | 2025-08-13 10:23:34+00:00
i think augment is the best ai assistance for me,i dont need many skills as claude code but i could get a better result.Although its also expensive(50$/month),its also better than claude code for me.But i meet someone says,"the claude code is better than augment,if you not agree with my opinion,its mean that you dont match the tool appropriately"
by weitendorf | 2025-08-13 10:23:36+00:00
I suspect you are interacting with LLMs in a single, long conversation corresponding to your "session" and prompting fixes/new info/changes in direction between tasks.

This is a very natural and common way to interact with LLMs but also IMO one of the biggest avoidable causes of poor performance.

Every time you send a message to an LLM you actually send the entire conversation history. Most of the time a large portion of that information will no longer be relevant, and sometimes it will be wrong-but-corrected later, both of which are more confusing to LLMs than to us because of the way attention works. The same applies to changes in the current task/objective or instructions: the more outdated, irrelevant, or inconsistent they are, the more confused the LLM becomes.

Also, LLMs are prone to the Purple Elephant problem (just like humans): the best way to get them to not think about purple elephants is to not mention them at all, as opposed to explicitly instructing them not to reference purple elephants. When they encounter errors, they are biased to previous assumptions/approaches they tend to have laid out previously in the conversation.

I generally recommend using many short per-task conversations to interact with LLMs, with each having as little irrelevant/conflicting context as possible. This is especially helpful for fixing non-trivial LLM-introduced errors because it reframes the task and eliminates the LLM's bias towards the "thinking" that caused it to introduce the bug to begin with
by nicbou | 2025-08-13 10:24:14+00:00
> New models can be trained completely on generated data.

How does that account for all the things that change in the world, but in ways only humans can observe?

How can AI discover that a beloved tourist destination has turned to crap, or that the best vacuum cleaner of 2022 has a new challenger, or that German tipping culture is shifting, or that the café down the road has great banana bread but is a little loud on Saturdays?
by simianparrot | 2025-08-13 10:25:09+00:00
We're speaking from different cultural backgrounds here, clearly.

In Norway, trans was never part of the gay and lesbian movement. Even bi -- where I fall -- have traditionally been outcasts, often jokingly (or not) described as "the fence sitters". I fall into this category, where given said "fence sitting" I was lucky in that I never felt a need to "come out" because I would just date girls and carefully approach my attraction towards guys. But for a lot of personal experiences it also meant I never quite felt I belonged because I was not gay, nor was I like the majority and completely straight. The gays didn't like "people like me" who "couldn't decide" (something I've heard often, and keep hearing).

Trans just has never been a thing culturally here. For one because we have strict laws of medical interventions on underage people, so the so-called "gender-affirming care" situation has not yet hit us. And most people don't feel this way when they reach adulthood, as it's _typically_ a part of puberty. Not to say gender dysphoria doesn't exist, but there's also no actual solution to it right now. You cannot transition from female sexual organs to functional male ones, nor vice versa. We're not there yet with medical technology, and truthfully I don't think it's likely we ever will. Until then all we can offer are cosmetic changes.

But because of internationalization and the media, trans has been lumped together with the LGB cause which is causing backlash and misunderstandings from the general population.

I realise writing this on a US-centric website is likely to get me ostracised but sometimes I think it's important for different cultures to talk about their differences. We want multiculturalism, right? This is what that means.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-13 10:25:19+00:00
Mitigation is going to be the name of the game. Whether they like it or not, low earth orbit (LEO) is becoming a very busy place and it's not just SpaceX launching lots of little satellites there. The Chinese are very busy launching their own satellites into LEO. And there are other companies and countries doing or considering the same. Spacex and Star link get most of the attention; but the Chinese are doing a decent job to keep up with them in number of launches. And there are a growing number of companies with LEO launch capability.

Mitigation might have to involve some sacrifices. I don't see how policy is going to be able to mitigate much here. And of course the Chinese are under no obligation to listen to US policy makers. They might have their own debates domestically around this topic and they might be reasonable about the topic internationally even. But building international consensus; or even enforcing what little there is on that front could be challenging.

A more practical approach might be accepting that earth based observations are inevitably going to suffer a bit as the number of satellites grows from thousands to tens of thousands and eventually well beyond that. Luckily we now are able to launch stuff into orbit a lot cheaper. Including astronomy related hardware. That's already happening of course. And otherwise, astronomy is very interesting and cool but mostly it concerns observations about things that are really really far away and not directly relevant to a lot of things on earth. Unless of course the thing under observation is on a collision course with us.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-08-13 10:25:24+00:00
Rising since 2015, but legitimately barely. Enough to look into and attempt to remedy of course, but nowhere near enough to justify the absolutely unhinged rhetoric constantly being used to justify awful legislation and amoral crackdowns.

You can specifically look at people's assumption at violent crime rates charted against actual violent crime rates and see that the gap has never been wider.

Also, 1980 to 2025 is not a "very specific time frame" and it still shows the trend described above. Very large cliff in the 90s we are still nowhere near.
by defrost | 2025-08-13 10:26:34+00:00
Tinder dates and market moves, maybe.

Real time scientific, physics, and engineering data acquisition and processing applications? Goodness no.

Certainly nothing that might want to generate a waypoint heading update via a division of elapsed time. Not with those random UTC leap seconds that can go either way (although, until now, they've all fallen in one direction).

There's a reason serious real time real world data processing goes with epoch based time, lapsed time since <mark>, it has the nice feature of being monotonically increasing.
by Ma8ee | 2025-08-13 10:27:01+00:00
Not at all. My wife and I, living in Sweden, are practicing it today with our kids (5 and 8 years old), and my impression is that most families around us do the same.

Energy drinks, vapes and snus might be popular among teenagers, but has there ever been a time when you have been able to control what teenagers do to any higher degree.
by bnegreve | 2025-08-13 10:27:23+00:00
> There's no "True" to an LLM, just how probable tokens are given previous context.

It may be enough: tool assisted LLMs already know when to use tools such as calculators or question answering systems when hallucinating an answer is likely to impact next token prediction error.

So next-token prediction error incentivize them to seek for true answers.

That doesn't guaranty anything of course, but if we were only interested in provably correct answers we would be working on theorem provers, not on LLMs
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by flohub | 2025-08-13 10:27:27+00:00
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by makeitdouble | 2025-08-13 10:28:28+00:00
> However, many older cars were small, light, simple, and raw - characteristics that have largely disappeared from modern cars.

I feel parent's point still stands.

Sure, you won't be able to go to a random Ford dealership and go home with a small light and simple car, but there are plenty of modern car accessible through a modicum of effort. Even buying something new abroad and bring it back home will probably be less hassle than restoring an old car.

I wonder if buying a kit car would still be simpler, for still better results.
by krapp | 2025-08-13 10:29:41+00:00
Hacker News has more in common with Reddit than you'd think. Plenty of people who post here also post there. A lot of the content that gets posts here gets posted on Reddit first. You won't believe it but there's an intersection between HN and 4chan as well. I've never seen people gas up 4chan anywhere as much as I've seen them do here.

Yes any technical subreddit averages out to the average HN thread. In some specialized subreddits like /r/AskHistorians the quality far exceeds HN because you're required to know what you're talking about to even state an opinion.

Here's an illustrative example: the thread for "LLMs aren't world models (https://yosefk.com/blog/llms-arent-world-models.html)"

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854518

/r/programming: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1mnc9qf/llms_a...

I don't see a qualitative distinction between HN and "literally a cesspool of humanity" here.

I won't belabor the point because I know it's futile and diverging far from the topic.
by dasKrokodil | 2025-08-13 10:30:30+00:00
I previously asked about how hard it would be to create a forgery and got a nice answer here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29173562#29175946

TLDR: it would be very hard, perhaps next to impossible to create one, and then you'd still have the issue how to convince people it's real, given that the existing ones are pretty well documented and accounted for.
by lproven | 2025-08-13 10:31:26+00:00
Well, yes, we know that. I mean, that is the reason for doing it.

But what is much more rarely discussed are the costs. There are multiple penalties.

It hurts performance.

It impedes dual-boot.

It impedes setup in general; you lose most of the nice friendly GUI tools, replaced by clunky harder CLI tools.

It makes data recovery vastly harder, which is one of those things people discount until they need it and then realise how critical it is.

It makes troubleshooting OS problems vastly harder. Many it simply prevents: the answer becomes, reinstall your OS and restore from backup. If you have no backups, tough.

It's inconvenient, unless you use modern TPM-backed systems, in which case it dramatically reduces the security benefits, while also severely reducing OS compatibility.

It adds a new vital credential people don't know they have and don't know they need to keep secure backups of.

It generally makes everything worse, to fix a threat that most people simply do not have.

The 2 employers I personally had who insisted on it published all the company info on my machines to Github anyway, making it not even security theatre. More like security pantomime: an act of pretending to pretend to do something.

The answer to all this is, in my experience as tech support type: don't do it. Conduct a proper analysis of who has what secrets and what they need to keep, and use other better-targeted tools just for them.

Because without that, it causes problems for no good reason. It's treated as a panacea but it isn't -- it fixes nothing for 99% of users -- and the very real problems and issues it causes are ignored.

This _may_ be worth it for some companies and organisations but it's not for anyone else. I can see its worth for governments and military forces but few others.
by Ma8ee | 2025-08-13 10:31:28+00:00
Children are naturally interested in sweets! You don't need to make them forbidden for that. And just you are allowed to eat sweets only one day of the week doesn't mean that they are allowed to unlimited amounts of it, and, in my experience, interested to overeat it.

Why would it foster an unhealthy relationship with food to learn that some things are unhealthy and eaten only at special occasions? An unhealthy relationship with food would rather be to think that you can eat sweets whenever you feel for it.
by paufernandez | 2025-08-13 10:31:36+00:00
Very snappy, I like the animations very much (they keep changing, you had fun!). I tried signing in with Google and it didn't work (blank screen). But I've played a lot with these games and I've made my own, and yours is very addictive because feels quick and the feedback is clear. Also I found the jump from the first wave (short words) to the second (very long words), a little too big. I would put an intermediate one in between.
by willis936 | 2025-08-13 10:34:00+00:00
When an individual transmits on a band they shouldn't the FCC issues a fine. When a company transmits on a band they shouldn't the FCC gives them the band.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/despite-spacex-protests-fcc-clear...

Comment period ended in July.

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(pr...
by mlindner | 2025-08-13 10:34:33+00:00
I'm not sure why they're complaining when the SKA isn't even active yet. Once it's active Starlink will do just like they have for other radio telescopes, avoid transmitting while they're in the boresight and in general don't transmit toward the antenna. This is a well practiced interaction at this point with scientific agencies in multiple countries.

The only thing that they can't stop would be things like reflected unrelated ground communications off of the satellite, but that would be very weak.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-13 10:34:47+00:00
I'm not placated by your response here. Whether or not there is good treatment for gender dysphoria, which you seem to think is the key issue, is beside the point. Many trans people don't even want medical treatment, they want the freedom to perform their gender in whatever way makes them feel comfortable (more or less the same way that you want the freedom to perform your sexual orientation in whatever way you feel comfortable).

Trans rights is not about a specific interpretation of the experience of being trans and thus it isn't about hormones or surgery. It is about trying to encourage the world to be open to a broader set of gender expressions and more freedom for people to live out the life that they want.

There are some tough issues here, yes. But the analogy to the gay rights movement is pretty straightforward.
by uecker | 2025-08-13 10:35:21+00:00
I do not see how this adds a substantial cost and it is required for C programs to work correctly and the C standard carefully describes the exact situation where unspecified values are chosen - so the idea that the compiler is then free to break this is clearly in contradiction to the wording. Clang got this wrong and I assume mostly fixed it, because non-frozen values caused a lot inconsistency and other bugs.
by eadmund | 2025-08-13 10:35:47+00:00
> I'd assume that a modern CPU would do the same amount of work with a fraction of energy so that it does not even make economical sense to run such outdated hardware.

There are 8,760 hours in a non-leap year. Electricity in the U.S. averages 12.53 cents per kilowatt hour[1]. A really power-hungry CPU running full-bore at 500 W for a year would thus use about $550 of electricity. Even if power consumption dropped by half, that’s only about 10% of the cost of a new computer, so the payoff date of an upgrade is ten years in the future (ignoring the cost of performing the upgrade, which is non-negligible — as is the risk).

And of course buying a new computer is a capital expense, while paying for electricity is an operating expense.

1: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...