MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by card_zero | 2025-08-20 04:38:36+00:00
Those are all examples of people looking down on other people.

To describe humans as exceptionalist, you must claim "animals are people too", but you didn't say that part. Or perhaps "rocks are people too", that would also work, but we don't tend to anthropomorphise rocks because they don't have faces. Or maybe "LLMs are people too". Whatever the claim is, it's an extraordinary claim, and yet you've chosen to present it in the form of a patronising telling off as if it was a foregone conclusion.
by Root_Denied | 2025-08-20 04:38:53+00:00
It's possible to believe that humans, as a species, in aggregate, are nasty and self-centered, all while maintaining that individuals can stray from that trendline. There's evidence for this in studies on mob mentality (not just in humans too, but any social animal group) that point to there being an inflection point where either the number of people or the circumstances (or a combination of both) pushes the group to act in predictable - and often nasty - ways.

"a person is smart... people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

- Tommy Lee Jones as "K" in MIB
by Covenant0028 | 2025-08-20 04:39:47+00:00
I suspect the analog will be that the "human in the loop" will bear all the consequences. Perhaps even if they did nothing wrong and are in fact the victim in that situation.

Take the case of Linda Yaccarino. Ordinarily, if a male employee publicly and sexually harassed his female CEO on Twitter, he would (and should) be fired immediately. When Grok did that though, it's the CEO who ended up quitting.
by pabs3 | 2025-08-20 04:40:15+00:00
Whisper doesn't list its training data (or code?), so can't be an open-source model, just an open weights model.

Parakeet does list its training data, and at least one of those is not FOSS, but some of them definitely are FOSS. I wonder if they nVidia would create a fully FOSS model by retraining on only the open data.

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b#datasets https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2004T19 https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/ldc-non-members-agreem...
by bee_rider | 2025-08-20 04:41:15+00:00
Humanity is obviously an exceptional species. We’ve launched 100% of the spaceships. Only 4% of the mammals on Earth are not either humans, or one of our domesticated species. We’re changing the climate.

I get the noble sentiment of wanting re-contextualize things to be less human-centric. But, for better or worse, we’ve taken control of the planet. It is our responsibility to take care of it. And if we do manage to, we’ll do so because the alternative is human suffering or extinction.
by cpldcpu | 2025-08-20 04:42:10+00:00
Thank you for your comment, indeed!

I think the main confusion for analog implementations of chaotic circuits is that they often have an inherent source of noise (e.g. johnson or flicker noise of resistors, transistors) which will be amplified into large changes by the sensitivity of the system to initial (and also intermediate) conditions.

So the actual implementation has an unpredictable behavior, but this is because the randomness of the components is amplified.

I don't know what the most obvious distinction between a chaotic analog circuit and a TRNG is. For me it was always obvious that any kind of visible structure in the trajectory (the attractors) contradicts randomness. But whenever people see Chua's circuit brought up, there are lots of commends regarding random number generators. It turned into a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-20 04:44:13+00:00
Unfortunately "just" is filler, I try to be concise but wasn't there. In fact it's worse, by "or" I really mean "and/or"; in a way, we're simultaneously the cells of cultures and religions and etc.

The point is that we typically think of humans as "conscious" and "alive", but consciousness isn't physical; whether a human is conscious or a "ghost in the shell" makes no difference to the universe. In theory, a cell or ecosystem could also be "conscious", "sensing" and "thinking", since it also makes no difference. Furthermore, although its sensations and thoughts would be much different than any human's, they aren't completely unimaginable.

For example, an ecosystem reacts to changes, experiments, and adapts via evolution (and cells react to things and display some level of sentience). Thus, evolution can be considered a form of thinking: like how we form and execute ideas to survive and prosper, an ecosystem forms and creates species to increase the coverage of life over the planet.
by devjab | 2025-08-20 04:44:36+00:00
Unless you turn telemetry off (and believe they respect it) your entire filestructure, error and metadata will be shipped to Microsoft with no audit log available, simply by using VSCode. Which is frankly what copilot is doing here, except it's doing it on your 365 documents.

I'm personally less concerned about Microsoft's impact on safety in terms of software development than I am with how all my data is handled by the public sector in Denmark. At this point they shouldn't be allowed to use Windows.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-08-20 04:44:43+00:00
Also, when filtering the imagery for "glints" was the only data used the consecutive imagery taken back then? I.e. are we certain it's not the other way around: a real object (star, comet,...) being obscured? I.e. there are 3 types of imagery to compare: the 2 consecutive images displaying a putative glint, and for example current imagery showing an actual star for example.
by yieldcrv | 2025-08-20 04:47:03+00:00
All good, I wouldnt say conflating, they both use bonding curves that Uniswap pioneered

For the uninitiated:

Uniswap’s liquidity pool concept changed crypto forever and there are infinite code branches from that at this point. Pump.fun is a homegrown version of the same blueprint, with scripted automation and gamification built on top of it.

What used to be separate processes and cost teams tens of thousands of dollars to code and review (creating a token, getting it audited), is now rolled into a click of a button for pennies free.

Pump fun creates your token, fills it in a liquidity pool, initiates the initial purchases for price discovery, and locks the dev into a game where the it stays in the pump fun smart contract until the token hits a certain marketcap, then it transfers the liquidity pool (which is a bearer asset itself) into a more open trading smart contract called Raydium. This is an important goal because people provide liquidity with their own capital to raydium liquidity pools, increasing the collective respect and liquidity depth. These marker makers earn basis points from trades through the liquidity pool. (I so wish this was available on the stock market, coming soon I hope). Pumpfun keeps all their trade volume earnings to themselves.

Look at how much pump fun has earned over the past year. Launchpads are lucrative.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-20 04:48:05+00:00
I found this fun and interesting. It's a bit long, but it felt like there was a lot to build out. Doing that reading while not knowing where things are going is tough, but I found the reward, the synthesis of different sides, to be a surprisingly good conclusion to the piece.

And just having the pleasure of this paragraph, I think, will impact me forever:

> Most people I spend time with — leftists prone to anxiety and depression — are skeptical of "self-improvement." Many of us, following the critic Mark Fisher, think that depression reflects an encounter with the harshness of reality, rather than a merely pathological distortion. We definitely want to feel better, but we don’t want to be hijacked by acronyms or worksheets or positive thinking in the process. We try to attribute suffering to crappy world systems rather than personal deficiencies. We find ways to trust that our negative emotions signify something other than our own inadequacy — that they contain a deeply rational response to the world’s irrational injustice.
by sub7 | 2025-08-20 04:48:46+00:00
Windows and any softwaqre coming out of Redmond today is pure spyware with little to 0 utility.

This Clippy 2.0 wave of apps will obviously be rejected by the market but it can't come soon enough.

The higher $msft gets, the more pressure they have to be invasive and shittify everything they do.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-08-20 04:48:48+00:00
I imagine when people started using the typewriter, some people writing on paper said similar things. Ultimately 'shady' things are irrelevant. Shady is subjective, and people don't use a technology for lack of related things they might not agree with, let alone what others dislike. They want to get things done, said technology gets thing done.
by zeagle | 2025-08-20 04:49:22+00:00
“the space around Earth generated ~340 glints per hour mostly from brief (<0.04s) glints of sunlight off of at least roughly 6-14cm equivalent ideal circles”

I don’t think this is the smoking gun the author thinks it is. This is near 3 million objects observed per year. Logically how could there not be some conclusive evidence in the decades of observation and launching satellites?
by usr1106 | 2025-08-20 04:50:25+00:00
How does their auditing even work? Auditing should happen at kernel level, I sure hope they don't have Copilot in their kernel. So how can any access go unaudited?

Well, the article did not say whether the unaudited access was possible in the opposite order after boot. First ask without reference and get it without audit log. Then ask without any limitation and get an audit log entry.

Did Copilot just keep a buffer/copy/context of what it had before in the sequence described. I guess that would go without log entry for any program. So what did MS change or fix? Producing extra audit log entries from user space?
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-20 04:50:36+00:00
@AlanClifford got on my soap box before I had a chance to. But even if you ignore AI (don’t do that), the larger issue is that software development, especially generic enterprise development has been headed toward commoditization for years.

If all you have to sell is “I codez real gud” and “I pull well defined tickets off of a Jira board”, you’re screwed. No being able to reverse a b tree on the whiteboard while riding a unicycle on a tightrope won’t differentiate you.
by iLemming | 2025-08-20 04:51:42+00:00
Transient is indeed very nice, even though I wish its programmable API was simpler and made more sense, sometimes it feels annoyingly quirky and unreasonably complex.

Shameless plug for further ideation and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025635 - it's a long video - ~1hr, it's unscripted and unedited. I guess I just couldn't fit all my Transient use cases in a smaller one. I have a lot of these bad boys in my Emacs.
by m463 | 2025-08-20 04:51:48+00:00
I look back at the beginning of the PC era, which I hated.

We had modern multi-user and multi-tasking operating systems. We had decent high-level languages.

But the PC era started with DOS, a single-user operating system. And basic, which was so unsophisticated.

But looking back later I realized that the unsophisticated operating system and the unsophisticated language... they let normal people do things. You didn't need to understand semaphores or event-driven programming to make simple single-user programs.

And I kind of see people stuck in this distracting learning environment with too many moving parts, I think back.
by Qwertymango_13 | 2025-08-20 04:52:24+00:00
I wrote an essay exploring how the rise of American power in the 20th century was tied less to military dominance than to interest rate cycles and capital flows. It compares U.S. hegemony to the past Empire and then PT 2 asks what today’s tightening cycle might mean for America’s global role. Curious to hear whether others think markets, not wars, are the real foundations of empire.
by computerdork | 2025-08-20 04:52:44+00:00
Don't disagree with that survivorship bias isn't real, everyone thinks the music of their time was the best. Still it's not the only factor at play here, because the music industry was in crisis in the early 2000's and its revenue dropped in half. That is a huge drop, and the less money in the industry, the smaller the pie that goes towards all types of projects, from Tubthumping to Smashing Pumpkin's Rocket.

But do agree that most of the 90's was still pop music (just looked at through the top 100, forgot about most of those groups:)
by kogepathic | 2025-08-20 04:53:16+00:00
Xperia 5 IV owner here, don't give Sony any of your money.

Their support is garbage: 1 Android version and only 3 years of security updates for a phone that cost nearly $1000. Google and Samsung offer 5+ years on their flagship phones.

The cameras are held back by incompetent software; the camera app does not even rotate for a left handed mode (they only need to rotate text and icons). Their camera app behaves like a point and shoot camera from 2004, and you have to treat it like that or your photos will be a blurry, underexposed mess. The cameras are technically fine, but the software implementation is truly terrible.

Yes, the phone has a headphone jack and micro SD slot, but those aren't worth it when everything else sucks. Sony is far, far behind other major Android manufacturers when it comes to software quality and support.

I gleefully gave Sony money for the 5 IV in late 2022. The phone stops receiving all updates next month (September 2025). Custom ROMs (e.g. LineageOS) are nonexistent because Sony has such an insignificant market share.

I won't be giving Sony any money for a new phone.
by catmanjan | 2025-08-20 04:54:29+00:00
In this scenario Copilot is performing RAG, so the auditing occurs when Copilot returns hits from the vector search engine its connected to - it seems there was a bug where it would only audit when Copilot referenced the hits in its result.

The correct thing to do would be to have the vector search engine do the auditing (it probably already does, it just isn't exposed via Copilot) because it sounds like Copilot is deciding if/when to audit things that it does...
by t_mann | 2025-08-20 04:56:17+00:00
I get that Org-mode is extremely powerful, but I was talking about Org-social specifically. Take a look at the spec, does it use much programmability? To me it looks like just annotating a bunch of metadata plus a unique ID (which is actually just a timestamp, which seems problematic to me for a number of reasons, eg tracking edits, not being necessarily unique,...).
Show HN: STIX – Institutional positioning in US equities revealed as a score
by STIX_Trading | 2025-08-20 04:56:37+00:00
Hi HN — I built STIX, a tool that calculates a simple 0–100 score for US stocks and ETFs. The score describes whether the ticker is institutionally sponsored and thusly primed for higher pricing. It’s meant to help active traders decide what to lean into—and what to avoid.

What it is: STIX produces a per-ticker score for US equities and ETFs, plus sector and market aggregates, updated daily. Higher and rising scores suggest stronger structural support; lower and falling scores suggest potential distribution or fragility. It’s not a price predictor—think of it as a distilled view of where larger players appear to be accumulating or distributing risk.

Why I built it: Most trading tools surface signals that are incredibly complex to understand and require a lot of subjective interpretation. I wanted a positioning-centric tool that simply and concretely expressed to users whether a stock had a higher probability of appreciating or deteriorating.

How it works (high level): Each day STIX ingests trade/quote data from all US exchanges and engineers features around size/lot anomalies, time-of-day behavior, persistence, breadth, clustering and more. A rules-plus-ML pipeline weights these features and normalizes them from which a 0–100 score is derived per symbol. Zones where larger players campaign tend to mark areas of interest; holding above those zones can indicate supportive positioning, while trading below can indicate distribution or short pressure.

Outputs: Current score, short-term change, sector rollups, and simple screens.

Try it: https://stix-v1.onrender.com — use promo code STIXTRIAL to waive the $2.50 day pass and get 24 hours free.

Feedback I’d love: Does the signal explanation make sense? What, if anything, is confusing in onboarding or UX? Did you hit any latency or performance bottlenecks? Which programmatic outputs (API or CSV) would be most useful?

Notes: This is research/analytics, not financial advice. No trackers or ads. Emails (if used) are for key generation only. I’m iterating actively—candid criticism is welcome, and I’ll be in the thread.
by spankibalt | 2025-08-20 04:56:39+00:00
> "I don't understand why anyone thinks that seeing and editing format codes all over the place is good UX in 2025."

Two neatly separated editing, or one editing plus one preview, mode(s) don't equate to "all over the place".

> "But my main problem with Notion and other document systems is that invariably dissolve into the equivalent of a hoarder's house, full of outdated, hard-to-find garbage deeply buried under other garbage."

I have never used Notion. But if said program does support good enough search as well as tagging functionality (an essential of any KM tool to be considered at least decent), then the "hard-to-find and deeply buried" is on the user for being incompetent at managing (meta) data... which is often enough an inherited problem, e. g. through bad company policies or practices.

And if the tool, in 2025, does not support such essential functionality, the user is obviously also (at least partly) at fault: for choosing it.

> "That's because Notion only has hierarchy."

Easy to avoid as there have been lots of freeform knowledge management tools out there... since the likes of Lotus Agenda. In my experience their freeform-style makes them unpopular with most people for it takes... some... effort (e. g. discipline) to make proper use of them. Such software obviously has to be adapted for any corporate use, which makes them rather unpopular in that space. See below.

> "Where I work, any attempt to carefully "garden" pages is futile because there is no discipline enforced by the tool."

The garden's consistency and associated enforcement ("discipline") is the job of the gardener(s), not the tool.

You don't like Notion's hierarchy-only structure... but then complain about "poorly thought-out folder hierarchies" of the people that use it at your workplace. I mean... whatcha think is gonna happen when you introduce your crowd to powerful freeform KM tools... in a structure that is hierachical (your workplace) and conducts its affairs accordingly? XD
by rekabis | 2025-08-20 04:57:38+00:00
> I prefer my French dumb car.

You are smart.

I have a 2001 Mazda 626 and a 2002 Ford F-150 7700 in the driveway, and there are days I forget to lock the doors. Which is an unwise thing to do in my neighbourhood. But even after half a decade living here I have yet to find any evidence they’ve been rifled through, much less attempted to be stolen.

Plus, I recently ran the numbers, and ignoring fuel and insurance, adding up purchase price + all repairs and maintenance - including brand-name tires! - has both vehicles together amortize under $1,000/year. And that is _BOTH, COMBINED._ I know some people in my own tax bracket who pay more than a $2,000 a month just for a single vehicle.

Now granted, AC is still dead on both, and will cost a pretty penny to resurrect (heavy corrosion in the lines). But for getting from point A to point B, those are some pretty cheap fucking rides.
by TheRoque | 2025-08-20 04:57:47+00:00
Sending some telemetry metadata on private servers is vastly different from sending code chunks and in some cases private environnement variables. On top of that, there are already many exploits and failures related to these tools which one again don't compare to simple telemetry. And I'm not even talking about the ethics of reproduced code without proper attribution, which is a different subject.
by alwahi | 2025-08-20 04:57:51+00:00
i am almost the exact same but its more like 20 years for me. its not like i can't code, but i have never built anything. i have used python for my grad studies so i have some level of comfort with it and can do data related tasks to some degree in it. but i have never built anything.

there is this huge like "potential well" that becomes almost impossible to leap over.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-20 04:58:35+00:00
Have you followed what Robinhood is doing? They were tokenizing private shares of OpenAI and others, way before most private investors would have access to these shares. That allowed Robinhood to also fractionalize them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/openai-robinhood-tokens.html

They also are doing a lot of stuff with prediction markets, which is pretty interesting even if I think the issue there is one of deferring trust to an oracle, but that’s kind of the gambit with most gambles, so it sort of comes with the territory. I think there have been some bad calls by oracles there, and I think there’s a brand risk to Robinhood if RH users identify strongly with the RH brand when placing prediction wagers even when they are outsourced to a third party.

https://www.theblock.co/post/367417/robinhood-launching-spor...
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-08-20 04:59:45+00:00
It corresponds with this famous UFO sighting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_inci...

I've been watching Ross Coulthart who has been interviewing the main author of the paper. It's aliens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylw_NRxJEgM
by cossatot | 2025-08-20 05:01:40+00:00
Rocks could be potential sources. Crystals that large are by no means rare, with feldspars being the most common on Earth and perhaps on most rocky planets (quartz is well known of course but I think would be rare without the magmatic fractionation that happens due to plate tectonics, which is perhaps unique to Earth in the solar system.)

Volcanic glass (eg obsidian) is also shiny and by no means rare in the solar system.

Many asteroids are also metallic, and perhaps metal crystals or fracture planes could produce reflectors of the right size.

But maybe it’s just aliens.
by jerrysievert | 2025-08-20 05:01:59+00:00
for me, the end of handwriting wasn't where/when I learned it, I learned cursive in kindergarten, and continued it for many years. it wasn't until I ran into teachers who valued time over accuracy that I faulted (it's not defaulted) and started writing scratch (which I can't even read!), and then typing.

now, while I have decent typing skills, I can't write a sentence in cursive, let alone in non-cursive - my goto is "please excuse my handwriting, I can't read it either".