MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mariiyaah | 2025-08-14 10:08:54+00:00
Tough spot when every feed is engineered for outrage, but it also feels too easy to say folks have no choice in what they lean into. You could try Loyally ai to think about it like habits and rewards, small nudges change what we return to. Over time that can shift preferences toward stuff that holds up, not just what feels good in the moment.
by meindnoch | 2025-08-14 10:09:09+00:00
@on user > onAskAboutConvoLang() -> ( if(??? (+ boolean /m last:3 task:Inspecting message) Did the user ask about Convo-Lang in their last message ???) then ( @ragForMsg public/learn-convo ??? (+ respond /m task:Generating response about Convo-Lang) Answer the users question using the following information about Convo-Lang ??? ) ) > user

Who in their right mind would come up with such a "syntax"? An LLM?
by Nevermark | 2025-08-14 10:09:37+00:00
Here is a slightly sideways take on the question. Since some misunderstandings crop up over and over.

Things that are not true about neural networks and LLMs:

1. They are not stochastic parrots. Statistics can be used to judge model performances, as with any type of model whatsoever.

But that doesn’t make a model statistical. Neural network components are not statistically driven, they are gradient driven. They don’t calculate statistics, they learn topological representations of relationships.

2. LLMs are not just doing word prediction or text completion. Yes, that is the basic task they are trained on, but the “just” (that is often stated or implied) trivializes what the network actually has to learn to perform well.

Task type, and what must be learned to achieve success at that task, are two entirely different things.

To predict the kinds of human reasoning documented in writing in training sets, requires that kind of reasoning be learned. Not just some compressed generalization of people’s particular responses.

Simple proof that LLMs are not just compressing a lot of human behavior comes easily. Just ask an LLM to do something involving several topics unlikely to have been encountered together before, and their one-shot answer might not be God’s word on the issue, but is a far cry from the stumbling that good mimic could ever do. (Example task, ask for a Supreme Court brief to argue for rabbits rights based on sentient animal and native rights, with serious arguments, but written in Dr. Seuss prose by James Bond.)

3. LLMs do reason. Not like us or as well as us. But also, actually better than us in some ways.

LLMs are far superior to us at very wide, somewhat shallow reasoning.

They are able to one-shot weave together information from tens of thousands of disparate topics and ideas, on demand.

But they don’t notice their own blind spots. They miss implications. Those are things humans do quickly in continuous narrower deeper reasoning cycles.

They are getting better.

And some of their failures should be attributed to the strict constraint of one/few-shot(s) to well written responses, that we put on them.

We don’t hold humans to such strict standards. And if we did, we would also make a lot more obvious errors.

Wide & shallow reasoning in ways humans can’t match, is not a trivial success.

4. LLMs are very creative.

As with their reasoning, not like us: very wide in terms of instantly and fluidly weaving highly disparate information together. Somewhat shallow (but gaining) in terms of iteratively recognizing and self-correcting their own mistakes and oversights.

See random original disparate topic task above.

First, spend several hours performing that task oneself. Or take a day or two if need be.

Then, give the task to an LLM and wait a few seconds.

Compare. Ouch.

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TLDR; somewhat off topic and high level, but when trying to understand models it helps to avoid seemingly endlessly repeated misunderstandings.
by watwut | 2025-08-14 10:09:44+00:00
In medieval setup, no you could not just look for another master. That is not how the society functioned. There was hierarchy and you had your place in it - bottom.

Also, apprentices duties involved also general housework and pretty much any random thing they told you to do. They would beat you if they thought you do not do what they want and you would be serving literally whole day and that was it. And no it was not whole day of learning. Based on book I read, that frequently involved things wife of the master ordered - they had nothing to do with the trade and that was normal.

With eating, you would wait behind the master while their lunch and tend eat whatever remained.
by Roark66 | 2025-08-14 10:09:44+00:00
I feel quote uneasy about stuff being recorded and sent to big corps routinely with cameras strapped to random bystander faces. I'm much more bothered by the fact this gets sent to a central location and processed than mere fact of being recorded without consent.

However, even with this uneasy feeling, one has to recognise a street is a public space and I don't see how one can have reasonable expectation of complete privacy there. There is nothing rude about recording what you can see.

The privacy expectation I have is not that my picture will not be captured, but that such recordings from many unrelated people will not be aggregated to trace my movements .

So in summary, I think everyone has a right to photograph or record whatever they like in a public space, but the action of pooling all such recordings, and running face tracking on them to track individual people (or build a database of movements, whatever) is breaching these people's privacy and there should be laws against it.
by netsharc | 2025-08-14 10:10:36+00:00
I wonder if I can make a device that recognizes Meta, etc, glasses and aim and shoot laser at the camera lens (and send my users to jail after the device misses the lens and hits the glasshole's eye instead). If there are many glassholes, the laser would just shoot at them alternatingly at eg. 30 shots/seconds.. and make pew-pew noises each time.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-14 10:10:40+00:00
At least for btrfs, very little.

It's also almost instantaneous.

You can think about it like this: the snapshot creates a bunch of hard links to the existing files. So every file basically has 2 pointers to it.

The upgrade now updates the files in the non- snapshot paths, creating new files/keeping the snapshots on the original file. (That's afaik why it's called a CoW filesystem - copy on write)

Now, every changed file will be stored "twice", but all unchanged files are still only on the disk once.

As most upgrades still keep the majority of all files unchanged, there is effectively little space used for the snapshot
by e33or-assasin | 2025-08-14 10:11:01+00:00
@anyg you're absolutely right, and Prexist is not there to determine whether to work on an idea or not. It just tells you how you should plan your product and compare it with existing solutions.

A one shot cross-platform product research, before working on your idea goes a long way, and can save you multiple hours of going through different platforms.
by teamonkey | 2025-08-14 10:11:23+00:00
Realistically, CCTV probably will help catching and prosecuting the people who invaded your home.

But CCTV doesn’t act as a deterrent like a bobby on the street would. And because there’s a lack of visibility of criminals being caught, it just feels like the police are doing nothing.

If they’re caught down the line it’s unlikely you’d hear about it anyway. The police can’t tell you without it being proven in court unless essentially caught red-handed, and even if proven successfully that could be months or even years away.

Unfortunately, it’s impractical for them to track down your stolen items without investing much more time than the value of those goods (though I would rather they did that than, say, arrest hundreds of peaceful protestors).

This isn’t unique to the UK; my house was raided when I lived in another country and the police attitude was only to record the theft and assume it was gone for good. It really hurts and makes you feel unsafe but I doubt the police force in any major city in any country will spend time looking for stolen goods after a break-in.

(I’m not saying that the surveillance aspect isn’t a very real problem.)
by LarMachinarum | 2025-08-14 10:11:38+00:00
that could indeed be an option depending on your use case. The problem with those (aside from finding a suitable enclosure) is that while more powerful, they aren't at all optimized for use in really low-power conditions and that their energy consumption is consequently enormously higher than that of e.g. an nRF52 (e.g. nRF52832 or nRF52840), so that the battery time would likely be significantly shorter.
by crinkly | 2025-08-14 10:12:06+00:00
Oh another monthly subscription with no accredited learning.

If you want to actually learn mathematics, buy Open University book sets and work through them. MU123 -> MST124 -> MST125 -> M208 -> MST224. Diversion of M140 if you want stats. They are written by actual professionals, the course is accredited and if you like it you can turn that into an actual qualification as well. All the textbooks are in-house written over the space of over 40 years (!) and designed for self-learning.

The whole set is on github somewhere as well if I remember - search for it.
by gruturo | 2025-08-14 10:12:10+00:00
In both this comment and the previous one you describe issues which do not exist on a TenKeyLess keyboard. You must be confusing TKL with other layouts.

On a TKL setup, the arrow keys are not cramped, they're full size and precisely where they're supposed to be.

The PgUp PgDown Home End (and Ins-Del, since that's the rest of that 6-key block) are full size and not cramped, and also precisely where they're supposed to be.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-14 10:12:18+00:00
What huge drop? I see 58% to 54% in the previous year. It was 62% to 58% from 2023 to 2024.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-al...

I would expect drastic changes after orforglipron hits the market. An easy to take pill that can help keep your A1C down and save money by avoiding excess calories and alcohol, seems like a no brainer for most.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-14 10:13:03+00:00
It doesn't have to be a crisis time-wise.

In music you usually have a small amount of one-on-one instruction and then you practice. In tennis you usually have a small number of one-one-lessons and then you practice and play matches.

You could probably do the same for maths. You're given some problems to try to solve and given two hours, then once you've made a serious attempt you get individual tutoring for an hour, then you go back to solving problems and there's a short one-on-one question session at the end, let's say 30 minutes. Then you have a 5 hour study session with 1.5 hours of teacher time, so he can have around three students.
by stephenr | 2025-08-14 10:13:27+00:00
Given that Caddy has a history that includes choices like "refuse to start if LE cannot be contacted while a valid certificate exists on disk" I'm pretty happy to keep my certificate issuance separate from a web server.

I need a tool to issue certs for a bunch of other services anyway, I don't really see how it became such a thing for people to want it embedded in their web server.
by nromiun | 2025-08-14 10:14:02+00:00
Programming on my phone (with Termux) is the only reason I am still using an Android phone. That and a real filesystem. I actually use so many terminal tools that I can't imagine migrating to a bunch of GUI apps. Like gopass for passwords management, git for syncing my notes, nvim for writing etc.

With Android 15 you even get a full blown Linux VM running on KVM.

I was actually tempted to switch when AAA games like AC got ported to iOS, but then I remembered I love programming more than gaming.
by jphoward | 2025-08-14 10:14:14+00:00
$49 seems a surprisingly high amount for something aimed at students and learners - I appreciate the content may be good, but it's effectively 3 times a Netflix subscription.

It's meant to be something you stick with in the "long term" by its nature, and yet an annual subscription is $500 - this is just completely unrealistic for any student. Someone in a lower end job hoping to "up skill" is going to really struggle with this.
by andorellefsen | 2025-08-14 10:14:50+00:00
Well I have a very specific use case. Me an my team made like this shared memory for LLMs: So an llm makes an mcp call to our api with a general question. An ai agent on our side determines which tools to call (search, graph exploration, etc) to find memory "fragments" based on tags and semantic search. and then the ai agent determines if the content of the "memory fragment" is relevant to the initial question and then it returns it.
by crinkly | 2025-08-14 10:15:24+00:00
It worked until the people who manipulated elections worked out how to manipulate elections and started forming parties. Breaking it down to policy level makes it far harder to manipulate an election.

A good example is the UK Labour party. People want the social side of their policies but not the surveillance. They could have voted for the social policies and against the surveillance. But no we have to eat the surveillance if we want the social policies.
Ask HN: A new AGI safety plan created via Human-AI synergy. Seeking feedback
by KarolBozejewicz | 2025-08-14 10:15:48+00:00
Hello HN, I am an independent researcher from Poland with a non-traditional background. For the past weeks, I’ve been engaged in a deep, collaborative process with an advanced large language model (Gemini) to develop a new non-profit initiative for AGI safety, called the Nexus Foundation. Our core thesis is that Embodied Cognition is key to solving the AI "grounding problem," and our first goal is a rigorous scientific manifesto proposing a novel comparative experiment to test this. The unique part is our methodology. We used the AI not just as a tool, but as a co-strategist and a "red team" critic. The AI’s harsh, logical critique forced us to evolve the plan from a sci-fi fantasy into a realistic, fundable research proposal. Our collaborative process itself became a real-time experiment in Human-AI alignment. We have published our full founding story (which details this process) and the complete Scientific Manifesto (v3.2) that resulted from it. We believe this collaborative, transparent, and iterative method might be a powerful new paradigm for AGI research. However, we are fully aware of our own biases and limitations. We are now submitting our entire concept to the ultimate peer review: this community. We are asking for your most ruthless, critical feedback. Does this approach have merit? What are the critical flaws you see? Here is the link to our Founding Story on Medium (which contains the link to the full Scientific Manifesto)https://docs.google.com/document/d/10wxmSJhc0WY2OoEeBlKT5d1_JiozUJ28y7NtWopK_MQ/edit?usp=drivesdk Thank you for your time. We are here to learn.
by eadmund | 2025-08-14 10:16:09+00:00
> Offline folders

> This is like rsync for your phone. In fact I would not be surprised if this is implemented using rsync. Once you configure an offline folder, it will two-way sync that folder while you use the app. The kicker is: on your phone you can now open that folder in another app (like an editor) and make changes. When you switch back to the shellfish app, the changes are uploaded almost instantly.

One can get this killer feature for free with Android and Syncthing. It’s definitely pretty nice!

And of course one can also run Emacs and other free (as in speech or beer) text editors on Android.

IIRC there are a couple of ways to get a full Linux command line environment as well.

I ended up moving away from it just because ‘typing’ with my thumb is painful.
by rendx | 2025-08-14 10:16:22+00:00
I agree that there are probably more users of Discord and yt-dlp outside of the computer field than Debian users. However, people who use computers do use an operating system, and typically have/require somebody that they ask for help when they can't fix it. The question was, why Debian on a Desktop. Like other commenters, I had great success moving people to Debian because all they need nowadays is a browser, and it requires a lot less maintenance (by themselves or third parties) than other distributions. Most "ordinary" people just want their system to stay the same, and are not enjoying constantly having to adapt to new UIs.
by microtonal | 2025-08-14 10:16:46+00:00
I think Fairphone 6 does not have DP-Alt and only USB 2 data transfer, so there is no way to drive a hi-res screen.

Google Pixel is supposed to ship a more complete desktop in Android 16 QPR1. Also has a Linux VM.

Of course, Samsung has had a pretty complete desktop on phones that support DeX for a while now.
by nelgaard | 2025-08-14 10:17:03+00:00
That is the problem with this kind of stuff. If it was only used by aging parents it might be OK. But it will be used by everyone. Even if OP manage to somehow prevent abuse, others will just build it themselves.

Because why would you want to make phone calls in the first place and not just send an email, or an SMS?

Because of spam filters and because people do not read their emails immediately because we get so many. But now we just get the same with phone calls.

It was already bad enough with fake Microsoft support.
by thyristan | 2025-08-14 10:17:36+00:00
Thought this was common knowledge. When TLS1.3 was standardized, it explicitly left out all NULL and weak (such as RC4) ciphers. It also left out all weaker RSA/static-DH key exchange methods, such that easy decryption of recorded communication became impossible. To that the enterprises who would like to snoop on their employees and the secret services who would like to snoop on everyone reacted negatively and tried to introduce their usual backdoors such as NULL ciphers again:

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/new-nccoe-guid... with associated HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849754

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9150.html was the one reintroducing NULL ciphers into TLS1.3. RFC9150 is written by Cisco and ODVA who previously made a fortune with TLS interception/decryption/MitM gear, selling to enterprises as well as (most probably, Cisco has been a long-time bedmate of the US gov) spying governments. The RFC weakly claims "IoT" as the intended audience due to cipher overhead, however, that is extremely hard to believe. They still do SHA256 for integrity, they still do all the very complicated and expensive TLS dance, but then skip encryption and break half the protocol on the way (since stuff like TLS1.3 RTT needs confidentiality). So why do all the expensive TLS dance at all when you can just slap a cheaper HMAC on each message and be done? The only sensible reason is that you want to have something in TLS to downgrade to.
Show HN: I built a universal robot renderer in the browser
by victor_24 | 2025-08-14 10:18:02+00:00
I was trying to build a website for sharing robotics projects and realized the coolest way to visualize a robot is in 3D.

I could only find a few open-source projects that did this, but each was for a specific environment (think MJCF vs URDF vs USD) and some were damn hard to run. I know Next.js so I decided to merge them all and call it mechaverse.

I wanna fix bugs and make the viewers faster so please test it and break it.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-14 10:19:53+00:00
> Not at all, I stand by Oracle on their lawsuit.

I think it will be very hard for us to find anything in common to agree on then.

Anyway, it’s pretty clear Google is pushing Kotlin because they don’t want to have anything to do with Oracle which has not been cleared by the verdict of their last trial. The situation has nothing to do with anything technical.

Blaming them for pushing Kotlin when the alternative you offer is them using a language they have already been sued for their use of seems extremely misguided to me.
by xg15 | 2025-08-14 10:20:41+00:00
> There’s very few Palestinians in Gaza alive from that time.

Ok and then who are those people that are living in Gaza and the West Bank right now? To which country do they belong?

> Even then, while they may have a desire to return home it’s not something any other people in similar conflicts have gotten.

I notice this kind of double-sided argument in lots of discussions. Human rights, Post-WWII world order when Israel is in the defensive, but "Everyone is doing it" and a weird fallback into 19th century "Great Game" morals when Israel is on the offensive.
by brabel | 2025-08-14 10:22:49+00:00
> ... the trailing lambdas feature. That is definitely directly OCaml inspired...

Kotlin has a very similar syntax to Groovy, which already had that feature (it looks identical in Groovy and Kotlin)... and I believe Groovy itself took that from Ruby, I believe (Groovy tried to add most convenient features from Python and Ruby). Perhaps that is what came from OCaml?? No idea, but I'd say the chance Kotlin copied Groovy is much higher as JB was using Java and Groovy before Kotlin existed.
by Nursie | 2025-08-14 10:24:13+00:00
Pix seems to be working really well in Brazil.

I'm adjacent to it in that we provide some of the infrastructure around identity etc in Brazil, and it seems to be really popular. I think there's a similar system in India.

In the UK you can do payments via Open Banking. I'm not sure how popular it is, but I've used it a few times to send money to Wise to then send over to Australia.
by SvenL | 2025-08-14 10:25:02+00:00
If you need to get into math and are not really motivated I can recommend 3blue1Brown by Grant Sanderson (https://www.3blue1brown.com/). The best part is not only, that he explains math problems in an easy way, but also show how to approach math problems in general. I think it’s one of the best sources to start with Math.
by ApeWithCompiler | 2025-08-14 10:25:24+00:00
I agree to this oppinion. But I furthermore want to add: It's not just about unsubscribing or ignoring the noise. In fact, unsubscribing or ignoring means to break with the premise sold, to begin with. If it is true, that one must learn this or that to stay employed, he can not just "unsubscribe" from it.

Additionally the notion of productivity in our industry is problematic. While working with machines, somehow we developed their standard of productivity as our ideal. May it be the pressure of competition for companies and employees alike, but the current notion is not sustainable. Exaggerated, but what I think: Turn away from two week sprints and work in a quaterly waterfall. Give developers a break, a constant plan and environment.
by admissionsguy | 2025-08-14 10:26:49+00:00
Had a very similar experience also with regards to deposit not returned. The person never showed up or did anything at all so I had the pleasure of picking the "repossession man" (for lack of a better word, it was in a country with a bit different system) from a list. I went with the one with the most ominously sounding name and he subsequently very effectively garnished the wages after adding his fees on top.
by ahartmetz | 2025-08-14 10:28:50+00:00
Especially on older cards actually! The new hardware, since the 3000 generation or so, moved some "secret sauce" (probably bullshit) into the firmware so that everything that the drivers need to do is something that Nvidia is willing to disclose, so there can be open source drivers that can get the hardware out of low power mode. That lack of "reclocking" crippled performance with nouveau.

Eh, I'd still buy AMD if possible.
by pointlessone | 2025-08-14 10:28:53+00:00
There’s dependency in the nginx config. You have to specify where your certs are. So you have to have a working config before you start nginx, then you need to get certs and change config with the cert/key location before you can HUP nginx. This is extremely brittle, especially if you have a new box or a setup where you regularly bring up clean nodes as that’s when you can get all sorts of unexpected things to happen. It’s much less brittle when you already have a cert and a working config and just renew the certificate but not all setups are like that. I can’t even confidently say that most are like that.