MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-15 22:30:59+00:00
That’s a good point on the nicotine.

I found out that i have ADHD through a process of dealing with a hearing issue - I have something called auditory processing disorder (APD), which means while I have excellent hearing, my brain has difficulty processing speech in high noise environments, especially with multiple people or frequencies that correlate to women. ADHD and autism spectrum disorders are highly correlated with it.

A friend who is an audiologist was out with me at an event and basically spotted the adaptations that I had adopted subconsciously over my life (I’m in my 40s). I then got tested and confirmed. It’s likely a result of many consecutive ear infections I had as a kid.

When reading up on APD, the literature describes stories of various people… and it was like looking back on a story of my life. The ADHD correlation is thought to be related because of the way the brain develops (or doesn’t) in the presence or absence of stimuli.

I say this because it would be easy to dismiss my scenario. By most measurements I’m successful and doing great. But had I known or maybe been treated in the past, certain difficult aspects of my life would have likely been managed better or avoided. Brains are complex, and it’s important not to dismiss that problems that people have.
by XorNot | 2025-08-15 22:31:07+00:00
"in some environments" being the Vietnam war the US was involved in, in reaction to casualty reports where a large number of men were killed with their rifles broken down for repair likely due to mid battle stoppages.

And the same applies to number of rounds: the entire point of a 5.56mm cartridge was to give soldiers more ammo so they could sustain volume of fire in the field: it was a design goal.

If design changes fixed a serious flaw with a weapon, then it was a flawed design.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-15 22:31:07+00:00
>arm twisting

This is exactly why countries are deciding to reduce their dependence on the US. If you're one president or one policy away from being cut off from technology, tariffed to death or otherwise bullied you're going to choose other partners.

Politics is about power, that much is true. But power exercised with restraint. China isn't increasing its influence by arm twisting but the opposite. Simply saying "we're open for business" and not interfering in the domestic politics of other countries as long as that's reciprocated. This is effectively a reversal of the Cold War, which they learned a lesson from. Acting like the Soviet Union isn't going to serve the US well.

The more you look like a desperate empire in its late stages losing its grip, replacing mutual benefit with brutality the faster you're done. That ought to be the lesson of the 20th century.
by namuol | 2025-08-15 22:31:08+00:00
Cambodia nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for his administration’s apparent role in their recent ceasefire negotiations with Thailand: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501734313/cambodia-officially-n...

Unclear if this is some kind of reactionary retaliation for perceived favorability toward Cambodia or if Trump’s apparently favorability toward Cambodia is retaliation for what he may have already known about Thailand’s shift toward EU weaponry. They’re hardly the first country to start shopping around, so the latter wouldn’t surprise me.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 22:31:11+00:00
Monogamy, as a concept, is socially constructed. The consequences are by their nature, abstract and "fake". Meaning, not physical.

Cheating doesn't physically harm anyone because it can't.

The only reason those consequences existed is because they were bandaids. The source of problems was more socially constructed stuff - marriage and monogamy.

In order to have property disputes about monogamy you first need to invent monogamy.
by combyn8tor | 2025-08-15 22:31:15+00:00
My meds have me on the ball from about 9am - 5pm. Outside that window I wouldn't trust myself flying a plane unless it was an unusual flight, like flying a new aircraft or flying into a storm, or on a rescue helicopter landing on a highway or mountain. The more routine the more dangerous it gets which is not ideal for your average pilot :-(
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-15 22:31:19+00:00
That descriptor wasn't included because of some sort of intelligence hierarchy, it was included to a) color the example of how experience in the field is relatively cheap compared to the AI space, and b) masters and PhD talent will be more specialized. An undergrad will not have the toolset to tackle the cutting edge of AI ethics, not unless their employer wants to pay them to work in a room for a year getting through the recent papers first.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-15 22:32:03+00:00
Dang, that sounds kinda like me though I never heard of RSD until now.

I guess it's like ADHD in that way: I thought I was just a lazy sack of shit until I found out I have a condition that I can treat with a pill. Then I could merely accept that it's not something I have control over, and I could move on.

Funnily enough no matter how great my life is nor how confident I feel, every once in a while a catastrophic fear of rejection will leap into my chest and I suddenly feel like I'm that poor terrified 15-year-old me, and I have to shake it off. I have much better tools for dealing with it now that I don't see it as part of my identity, much like I don't see myself as lazy.
by tkiolp4 | 2025-08-15 22:32:24+00:00
I don’t know that. But LLMs were not designed to be intelligent… among other things because we don’t know what intelligence is. So, if a) we don’t know how to define intelligence and b) we design a thing (llms) in order to predict text, then why would we claim that that thing is intelligent? The only thing we can claim is that they predict text.
by smitty1e | 2025-08-15 22:32:38+00:00
> That being said, what he is literally saying there is he made all his money young then coasted. I actually doubt that is what he did since he seems like one of those people who doesn't sit still, but the quote doesn't paint him in a great light.

He comes off as an active person who enjoys what he does too much to consider his work labor.
by babypuncher | 2025-08-15 22:34:26+00:00
I think this is ultimately a benefit. I've had too many proprietary native Linux games that slowly broke overtime as libraries they depended on changed or became deprecated. Hosting unmaintained proprietary software like this has always been difficult with Linux.

With Proton we basically have a common stable runtime that handles all the platform specific needs of a video game. It just so happens that runtime is largely binary-compatible with Windows. It's easier for devs to support when all they have to do is stick to a Proton-compatible subset of the Win32 API. Users get way more games. And anecdotally my experience as a user is generally better than with true native ports. It's a big net win.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 22:34:31+00:00
This is the worst no you I've ever seen.

I'm not concerned about my files being leaked because that's stealing. I'm concerned because they hold sensitive information that can be used for actual stealing, like for example with money.

Malware isn't bad because it's stealing. That's stupid. I know you know it's stupid, so I don't know why you said it.
by dev0001 | 2025-08-15 22:34:42+00:00
U.S. legislation is delivered on the web as XSLT-styled XML and depends on web browsers continuing to provide native support for client-side XSLT. Examples:

https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr3617/BILLS-117hr3617ih.... https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr400ih/xml/BIL...
by firefax | 2025-08-15 22:35:25+00:00
>If removed in 3 years. So many societal norms are being broken, what's one more.

Are you American? I don't think you understand our culture if you go down this road. Trump operates in the gray -- gray enabled in part by two Democratic presidents doing things like keeping the minimum wage low while painting themselves as progressive as being "soft" on immigration. Is it a kindness to create instability in one's homeland, then look the other way if they flee as long as they don't insist on the same legal protections as others?

Anyways, the two term limit is a very basic rule, one that would provoke an overwhelming response the likes of which I do not think anyone who contemplates such a move fully grasps, and one that is difficult to put into words without sounding theatrical or shrill.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-15 22:35:55+00:00
It makes good sense though. International weapons systems integration has massive inertia. If not for that the US would sell a lot less than it does right now, people are not buying because they want to, but because they have to. There has been some progress on integrating more diverse systems but it is slow, the number of people able to do this work is not large outside of the circles where the systems were developed in the first place. But Europe has never really shut down its defense industry, and there has been a massive revival in the last couple of years. It is still ramping up as far as I can see and it will for the foreseeable future. No matter what the outcome of the Trump-Putin summit (I refuse to call it the Ukraine peace summit, just like I wouldn't call the Molotov Ribbentrop meeting the Polish, Latvian and Estonian peace summit).
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-15 22:36:46+00:00
1. What you're generally describing is a well known failure mode for humans as well. Even when it "failed" the riddle tests, substituting the words or morphing the question so it didn't look like a replica of the famous problem usually did the trick. I'm not sure what your point is because you can play this gotcha on humans too.

2. You just demonstrated GPT-5 has 99.9% accuracy on unforseen 15 digit multiplication and your conclusion is "fancy pattern matching" ? Really ? Well I'm not sure you could do better so your example isn't really doing what you hoped for.
by einarfd | 2025-08-15 22:37:06+00:00
This seems fine to me.

Having these models terminating chats where the user persist in trying to get sexual content with minors, or help with information on doing large scale violence. Won't be a problem for me, and it's also something I'm fine with no one getting help with.

Some might be worried, that they will refuse less problematic request, and that might happen. But so far my personal experience is that I hardly ever get refusals. Maybe that's justs me being boring, but that does make me not worried for refusals.

The model welfare I'm more sceptical to. I don't think we are the point when the "distress" the model show, is something to take seriously. But on the other hand, I could be wrong, and allowing the model to stop the chat, after saying no a few times. What's the problem with that? If nothing else it saves some wasted compute.
by Hikikomori | 2025-08-15 22:37:21+00:00
It's not so much the republican party anymore, it's project 2025 people and the federalist society, Christian fascists funded by people like Thiel and built on the plans of Curtis Yarvin. They'll still be there after trump as they are his entire cabinet, Vance is in deep on it so succession is already secured, they'll rig or cheat elections to keep political power. Part of project 2025 was a CV database so they could insert sycophants in all levels of unelected government positions as well. They're entrenched and chipping away at election integrity every day.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-15 22:37:49+00:00
Git is fundamentally broken and bad. Almost all projects are defacto centralized. Your project is not Linux.

A good version control system would support petabyte scale history and terabyte scale clones via sparse virtual filesystem.

Git’s design is just bad for almost all projects that aren’t Linux.

(I know this will get downvoted. But most modern programmers have never used anything but Git and so they don’t realize their tool is actually quite bad! It’s a shame.)
by snowwrestler | 2025-08-15 22:39:10+00:00
The article itself shows why scheduled times grew: so that airlines could report a very high percentage of on-time flights, which have regulatory and marketing advantages that they did not before.

Passengers preferred carry-on long before fees because checked bags take longer or get lost. I’m not aware of any data showing per-passenger load / unload times have increased.

Per-plane load / unload times have definitely increased, because the average passenger count per flight has increased. Bigger planes + fewer empty seats.
by derektank | 2025-08-15 22:39:38+00:00
>Consciousness serves no functional purpose for machine learning models, they don't need it and we didn't design them to have it.

Isn't consciousness an emergent property of brains? If so, how do we know that it doesn't serve a functional purpose and that it wouldn't be necessary for an AI system to have consciousness (assuming we wanted to train it to perform cognitive tasks done by people)?

Now, certain aspects of consciousness (awareness of pain, sadness, loneliness, etc.) might serve no purpose for a non-biological system and there's no reason to expect those aspects would emerge organically. But I don't think you can extend that to the entire concept of consciousness.
by firefax | 2025-08-15 22:39:56+00:00
>It's morally repugnant to blame someone for their own death from cancer like this.

No, it's rude and weird to chastise someone for rightfully advocating treatment. He didn't state that he didn't want to risk the horrors of treatment with the end result being the same -- he spread disinformation. It is good he died, because when others repeat his disinformation, we can point back at his death as evidence against his beliefs.

You weigh the feelings of a dead billionaire higher than the lives of young people with hopes and dreams.
by the_af | 2025-08-15 22:40:12+00:00
As I said, we already had this conversation ages ago and your side lost.

Shout until you're blue in the face, and you'll be just as wrong.

I've already stated my position, and "because you can get away with it" is no part of it. You must be confusing me with someone else in this conversation.

Half your examples fail to make the point you intend, and are not at all analogous to watching a pirated TV show. A lot of the rest use an informal (not legal, and highly subjective) definition of the word "theft" -- but you knew this.

It's exhausting to keep repeating this. Please read what's been said (hint: these are decades old arguments, we're not going to rehash them here for your benefit).

All of this harkens back to even before the days of the silly "you wouldn't steal a car" (2004) antipiracy campaign. I hope I don't need to explain that stealing a car and pirating a TV show are nothing alike, neither legally nor morally.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-15 22:40:13+00:00
That's great news!

I suggest also establishing an organization for the young recruits, because they are the future, and it will make future recruitment for adult ICE easier.

Let's call the organization something like "Trump Youth", I think that's as good name as any. Maybe throw in a uniform and a little red band on their right arm, and there you have it.
by oinfoalgo | 2025-08-15 22:40:15+00:00
Deep Dream was 2016.

The problem with 2025 is I have seen thousands of better examples than that landscape. The reflections in the lake are complete trash.

Then I think of Veo 3 that is just incredible. So no, it is not impressive if a still from the video model is vastly better than the static image generator from the same company.

I find it especially annoying because I can't think of another company this would happen at. It is just so Google.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-08-15 22:41:16+00:00
Alternate URL:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-haven-t-tariffs-...

"Ultimately, Barclays expects weighted-average tariffs to end up at around 15%, up from a current 10% and 2.5% last year. Other economists calculate even higher rates. That could mean much of the likely tariff hit is still in the future."
by jfengel | 2025-08-15 22:41:36+00:00
Some people suck so much that the average works out to "suck".

It doesn't help that it's a weighted average. The people who don't suck tend to require fairly little time. (In fact, many of them may well suck, too, but you don't have time to notice.) The people who suck a lot always require a lot of your time.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-08-15 22:42:16+00:00
OpenBSD is many things, but 'fast' is not a word that comes to mind.

Lightweight? Yes.

Minimalist? Definitely.

Compact? Sure.

But fast? No.

Would I host a database or fileserver on OpenBSD? Hell no.

Boot times seem to take as long as they did 20 years ago. They are also advocates for every schizo security mitigation they can dream up that sacrifices speed and that's ok too.

But let's not pretend it's something it's not.
by johnklos | 2025-08-15 22:43:16+00:00
I'm planning to help several friends with this very thing.

Too often solar companies want to "calculate" how much capacity you should buy. I've learned the hard way that you can't just buy what you want.

For instance, a family member likes having the shade of a tree. Several solar companies say they can't and won't install panels unless the tree gets cut. Forget about the fact that the shade means less A/C is needed in the summer and the extra power is needed more in the winter, when there are no leaves. They don't care.

So instead, it's easier to just install it myself.

Likewise, what if you want to buy all the panels you can afford and an inverter that can handle twice the number, then add more when you've got money? Not a single one of those solar "installers" will do that.

Single or pairs of panels with tie-in inverters are an excellent idea and neatly get around all of the things that "installers" refuse to do.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-15 22:43:29+00:00
The one advantage SW has is the open seating. People will naturally disperse along the length of the plane so as to avoid the middle seat. This could prevent many traffic jams that otherwise slow boarding with the rest of the passengers stuck behind a slow loader.

Not sure if it would actually make an impact -you will still get blockages. Would need a queuing theorist to comment.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-15 22:44:03+00:00
> For the first time in my life I've stayed at a job for more than three years.

This is exactly my experience... I'm on leave now and it's just barely past my 3 year mark at this job. And the last time I burned out this hard was also the last time I passed 3 years at a job

I feel very defective at times, for being unable to stay at a job longer than this without burning out
by sureglymop | 2025-08-15 22:44:03+00:00
Switzerland also has an open fixed-price deal for 36 F-35s.

The US are trying to alter the deal and raise the price to ~1 billion USD more than agreed to.

I wish Switzerland would do the same and cancel the deal.

On top of that Switzerland should go a step further and impose a tax on gold exported to the united states if they don't stop with their silly little 39% tariffs on imported Swiss goods. Just ridiculous and embarrassing to sever long running trade relationships out of ignorance.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-08-15 22:44:55+00:00
anubis and others allow some user agents to pass without proof of work. bad bots (and user) just use an extension that detect anubis and change the user agent instead.

it's well intentioned but just waste electricity from good people in the end.

anubis does nothing to impact bad crawlers, well only the laziest ones. but for those generating fake infinite content on the fly is much more efficient.
by gottorf | 2025-08-15 22:46:06+00:00
> And I didn't have to pay property taxes, insurance, real estate commissions, maintenance, repair vandalism, clean up after teen hookup parties, evict squatters, or any of my time.

And of course, had you let it sit empty the whole time, you still would have had to pay commissions, taxes, insurance, and maintenance (because an empty home goes bad very quickly).

There are very few scenarios where the appreciation at the end would be big enough to leave you with a profit after all those expenses, especially considering financing and/or opportunity costs.
by er4hn | 2025-08-15 22:47:16+00:00
Wandering around my dungeon, doing things, in the first person was such a fun experience as well. It felt like such a novel way to explore what I was doing and look at my creatures "in the face" so to say. In some ways it feels like a precursor to things like minecraft, where you could do some tasks as an imp in the dungeon.
by joegibbs | 2025-08-15 22:48:14+00:00
Yeah me too, I think 3 does a much better job for photos or even just images that look like realistic renders. I use 3 for generating grids of age-progressed portraits for a game and it does a better job at sticking to the prompt. 4 also seems to spit out ones that have that really smooth look that makes it really obvious it’s AI.
by throwawaysleep | 2025-08-15 22:48:26+00:00
> even if someone is simple minded or mentally unwell enough to think that current LLMs are conscious

I assume the thinking is that we may one day get to the point where they have a consciousness of sorts or at least simulate it.

Or it could be concern for their place in history. For most of history, many would have said “imagine thinking you shouldn’t beat slaves.”

And we are now at the point where even having a slave means a long prison sentence.
by delichon | 2025-08-15 22:48:28+00:00
Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics: "A robot may not harm humanity, or by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."

This is an addition to the other three laws embedded in positronic brains:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

To me the zeroth law echoes the paternalism built into LLMs, where they take on the role of shepherd rather than tool.

The other day I asked one a question, and didn't get an answer, but did get a lecture about how misleading the answer could be. I really don't want my encyclopedia to have an opinion about which facts I shouldn't know.
by K0balt | 2025-08-15 22:48:50+00:00
Maybe I’m just still starry eyed from watching LLMs explode over the last few years after watching decades of minimal AI progress… but even this model would have been absolutely stunning in 2015. The fact that you could run it effectively in a children’s toy is extremely impressive.

Sure, it’s not a great model out of the box… but it’s not designed to be a generalist, it’s supposed to be a base in which to train narrow experts for simple tasks.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-15 22:49:11+00:00
The USA has left Ukraine in the lurch after signing the Budapest memorandum. They should’ve kept their Nukes and Russia wouldn’t have been able to invade and steal all their land, kidnap and auction off children , commit massacres etc.

Because America is currently an untrustworthy ally who is 100% American first and thinks deploying the military on home soil and applying harsh tariffs to its allies is more important than anything else, it’s best to countries no longer rely on the USA for basically anything. That will probably mean the end of the USD as a global reserve currency at some point too. Which is fine because it’s what the majority of voting Americans wanted. Isolationist, American first policies.

Go look at how Zelensky was treated in the interview with Trump and Vance and how the literal red carpet is rolled out for Putin and other world leaders with a brain see that and say, no thanks…