MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-02 18:30:20+00:00
"…deaths caused to others by bicycles"

By simply doing that you'd just fuel the belief in the saying "there are damned lies and statistics". It does not make sense to compare the killing potential of a motor powered vehicle with one powered by a human.

The issue is simple and straightforward. As I've mentioned elsewhere, many cyclists have unpredictable riding habits and a high propensity to violate traffic law at the drop of a hat—which, on a per capita basis, is much more frequent than that of licenced drivers. There's no disputing the accuracy of that statement although there's argument over the actual numbers.

By their unpredictable riding habits and regular violations of the road rules, cyclists put motorists into invidious situations where they are more likely to have an accident with a cyclist (or pedestrian, or other vehicle or thing whilst desperately trying to avoid the cyclist).

Licensing cyclists won't solve everything but it'd sure improve their safety. If cyclists knew they could lose their license thus not be allowed to drive on public roads then their riding behavior would be more predictable and we would see many fewer traffic violations (such as running red lights which I see happen regularly). Moreover, motorists' behavior would be more predictable with licenced cyclists on the road because their behavior has become more predictable through them being licensed. All up, licensing cyclists would mean fewer accidents.
by fragmede | 2025-08-02 18:30:30+00:00
A look on TikTok for "lightsaber duel" draws me to the opposite conclusion. Yeah, lightsaber kid was cringe worthy; I'm glad it wasn't me. But in the meantime, Star Wars got cool, After Effects went subscription, and there are some really cool videos of fan-made lightsaber duels up on the Internet now.
by hebejebelus | 2025-08-02 18:30:59+00:00
I like the concept but it's basically a bisect / binary search simulator. Guess a reasonable but definitely high number as a high bound, a reasonable but definitely low number as a low bound, guess the average of the two, then the average of that and the high or low bound, etc.

This is especially the case when the question is asking for a bounded number in the first place (eg a percentage). In fact I'm pretty certain you should _always_ succeed within 4 steps given +-10 on a percentage question and nearly always within 3 steps. ChatGPT says it's provably so but I'm not smart enough to verify. Rings true though.

Certainly made easier by knowing whether it's higher or lower, and especially with the yellow arrows if you're not too far off.

One UX change that might be nice is to have a "spoken" version of your guess live-update below the input. I keep having to count zeroes and it would be nicer to see "Eleven billion".
by to11mtm | 2025-08-02 18:31:02+00:00
This is an interesting comment because I've lived a lot of sides of this.

At my first job (where I kinda 'weaseled' my way into doing software vs my job title) it was an incredibly collaborative experience. It started with finding ways to make tools that helped my colleagues do monotonous tasks faster. Which then evolved into fun dialogue. "Hey can you make a button to do X" and we'd get to talk about it, I'd hack the feature together, hit publish and wait for the team to give feedback. "Oh I got this error" I'd get up and walk over. It wasn't perfect but I was never lonely and only as still as I wanted to be.

At my second gig, It started a little lonely but thankfully the culture was just laid back enough I got to socialize (thankfully it was a shop full of fun and interesting people!).

Third gig, Uggh it was very 'heads down' for most of my time there, nobody liked small talk except the conspiracy theory guy. I learned a lot about what I did and didn't like in company culture there. It did get a little better before I left...

Fourth gig was a dream. It was the second place where I didn't just get to collaborate with my team, but the first place where it was a lot of software engineers. We even had a teams room for nothing but sharing music and it was always heartwarming to see a reply to some obscure tune and someone would reply with something that yes you would absolutely appreciate given what you originally posted. And it was hectic enough that I did get a reputation for being a 'floor runner'.

Fifth Gig... well it was 100% remote. And in fact one day I was so focused on a problem I sat in the wrong position too long and permanently fucked up my left ulnar nerve... But that was such a good group, and Ironically I was able to -take- the lessons from #4 and #2 and turned them into traditions that stuck around even after I left (hell even after they fired everyone, we kept doing the 'game night' for a while...)

Won't say anything about my current place, that's all still a work in progress <_<
by CooCooCaCha | 2025-08-02 18:32:23+00:00
Most communication isn’t a legal contract, and a lot of meaning is implicit, not just what is explicitly said.

I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the statements you mentioned, but "wallowing in guilt over it would do nothing" implies wallowing in guilt is a natural or even expected feeling. The person you’re replying to is questioning why someone would wallow in guilt in the first place.
by toss1 | 2025-08-02 18:32:56+00:00
Yup, +1 for cycling! For me, it's some ankle cartridge destruction from an old fracture that finally put a halt to my formerly extensive trail & XC running & recreational racing. But cycling is coming back to the core of my exercise program (Mountain/trails: really miss road biking but traffic & drivers' attitudes seem to hazardous now). And not expensive either - plenty of bikes on Craigslist good enough to not give you bad habits and still get good exercise, even decade+ old race bikes.

It is really all about working with what capabilities you still have, and maximizing those. Even that may provide enough healing & fitness to get back to a bit of previously constrained activities.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-02 18:33:01+00:00
We also lived with roommates in small shitbox apartments. Very basic, old appliances. Cheap shag carpet. No other real amenities. We'd still have friends over to just hang out, drink some beer, play card games, listen to music, stuff like that. Didn't have to be anything fancy, in fact it almost never was. Just being together was the point.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-02 18:33:27+00:00
>Not many cheap hangout options in a lot of places.

When I stayed in the US for a while, I'm from Germany, what I noticed was is that there's an extreme "upward striverism" when it comes to going out. In most places I stayed you could find dirt cheap bars and clubs (although maybe clubbing overall in the US is worse), but people in their 20s and 30s just seemed to be reluctant to go in a way they're not in Europe or Japan.

I noticed it more with Gen Z than with American millennials, there seems to be an extreme Great Gatsby-ish fake richness.
by snickerbockers | 2025-08-02 18:33:50+00:00
Even if everything they say is true, that wouldn't prove a video is fake, at best it proves a video is real. If people will accept "our high-profile defendant in the segregated housing unit of a maximum security prison hung himself with a makeshift noose fashioned from blankets off a bedpost that isn't even as tall as he is while the guards were playing 3d space cadet pinball and the camera was broken and his cellmate was in solitairy", surely they will accept "our maintenance guy used regular lightbulbs from home depot instead of the super secure digital signature bulbs".

Or maybe "we installed the right bulbs but then we set the cameras to record in 240p MPEG with 1/5 keyframe per second because nobody in the office understands how digital video works".

Anyways I'm of the opinion that the ultimate end-state of deep fakes will be some sort of hybrid system where the AI creates 3d models and animates a scene for a traditional raytracing engine. It lets the AI do what its best at (faces, voices, movement) and eliminates most of the random inconsistencies. If that happens then faking these light patterns won't be difficult at all.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 18:34:20+00:00
You’re missing the biggest problem with the statistic you quoted: Discussing percentage changes in free time spent seems misleading without also explaining how overall free time has changed. Do people have more free time now? With the rise of remote and hybrid work it’s expected that less time on average would be spent commuting. A percentage change in free time use seems intentionally misleading.
by waaaaaaaaahhhh | 2025-08-02 18:34:27+00:00
(Scene: People meeting on an "internetscreen" and bs'ing around)

So if any type in just some big names... like that with the madonna true blue CD selling 1986 for US$40,- per CD, how do you think her and the studio label became richier, and specially founding a Copyright-war just after the ridigious pricedrops (around 2001/-2)?

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Ask: Do you made the populous take from you? Mark?

> You virtually starve them doing so.

Oh.

> Muahahaha!

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Now let me disturb You,

1st:) You consumed content, you have created content, now the machine kicks in creating content consuming you.

2nd:) Machines programming kicks in while consuming you - just a random guy on the internet said: "App deals are the way to go if you are 'cheap' and wanting to die fast."

Conclusion: Many can't pay for anything anymore, cos no work left via been consumed by AI (-absorbing), so even changed in-app-advertising for "better products" will result in prices no one in the masses may be able to pay anymore. And quality of "food" ('stuff for thought' you may think) needed for experience so (tough capitalistic view, as before in the scene told above) may sank more and more, to meet ends, prices...

And no, it wasn't my intention to write something that damned mixed up dark-and-ugly-thinking...but ...yet i did, or consumed it, hey there it was... and sure, "via easy distractions!" ^^

Regards...
by DoctorOW | 2025-08-02 18:34:38+00:00
At no point in this post does she even write the word "censor"/"censorship". The post relentlessly criticizes Nazis but wanting silence to her dissent isn't pro-speech, it's just pro-nazi.

I'm really sick of this argument. You never see free speech extremists defending anti-fascism or even questioning the decisions of governments as long as they're right wing.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-08-02 18:34:38+00:00
This is going to be the ultimate issue if we do achieve some sort of post scarcity world where human labor is redundant. The idea that it’s not someone’s fault their indenture is unnecessary let alone a moral failing deserving of punishment is foreign to a lot of American thinking. The puritanical labor is godly mentality combined with the long term warping of anti Soviet propaganda is going to lead to some serious wide spread suffering that would take what should be the greatest achievement of man kind and turn it into a scourge.
by wpm | 2025-08-02 18:34:39+00:00
It is loathable and contemptible behavior. I despise it. Writing in fancy code editors is an exercise in "remember this display was very expensive calm down".

> type out 'i' and 'f'

RED ALERT! RED ALERT! UHHHHH HEY THERE CHAMP YOUR IF-THEN STATEMENT ISN'T CLOSED OUT PROPERLY!

Yeah, I know, I'm not done fucking typing yet. Give me a second.

Thankfully I can usually turn this crap to only show these after a certain delay, for many languages I write in I usually turn it off completely except for on build/run. Let the complier/shell throw me errors, the LSP can take a chill pill.
by Gud | 2025-08-02 18:34:58+00:00
Don't underestimate the lack of functioning public transport. I always considered trains, tram slow teleporters.

A functional rail network allow the public to move with much less restraint. Think about it. A highly car dependent society which much of the world unfortunately still is, will make going to 3rd places much less attractive. Easier to sit at home, doom scroll and watch Netflix.

Inter city trains should run at least every half hour, reliably.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-02 18:35:40+00:00
The answer is still terrible for the model size. Maybe it's the 4 bit quantization, smaller models tend to react worse to that

For reference, [1] is what stock quen3-0.6B would answer. Not a perfect answer, but much better at nearly half the number of parameters

1: https://markdownpastebin.com/?id=7ad4ad9f325d4354a858480abdc...
by fragmede | 2025-08-02 18:35:43+00:00
And if your kid has downs or gets hit by a car or is an addict or a fuck up, they're not going to be able to support you into old age either. And then you're responsible for them as well, until you're too old and senile yourself, and then what?

That's not to say don't have kids, but go into it with your eyes open, don't assume they're your lifeline to the future.
by neilv | 2025-08-02 18:35:56+00:00
My last question is a bit different. What if there is a huge number of these watermarked light sources deployed, such as in consumer products, each with a unique code that could be verified against... can you identify which one/few of those millions/billions of devices were present?

(Once you have an identifying code, you can go through supply chain and sales information, and through analysis of other videos, to likely determine location and/or owner/user/affiliate.)
by lysecret | 2025-08-02 18:36:22+00:00
I have been coding with claude code for about 3 weeks and I love it. I have bout 10yoe and mostly do Python ML / Data Eng. Here are a few reasons:

1. It takes away the pain of starting. I have no barrier to writing text but there is a barrier to writing the first line of code, to a large extend coming form just remembering the context, where to import what from, setting up boilerplate etc.

2. While it works I can use my brain capacity to think about what I'm doing.

3. I can now do multiple things in parallel.

4. It makes it so much easier to "go the extra mile" (I don't add "TODOs" anymore in the code I just spin up a new Claude for it)

5. I can do much more analysis, (like spinnig up detailed plotting / analysis scripts)

6. It fixes most simple linting/typing/simple test bugs for me automatically.

Overall I feel like this kind of coding allows me to focus about the essence: What should I be doing? Is the output correct? What can we do to make it better?
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-02 18:36:44+00:00
It could be considered similar to this. In a way the Penfield Mood Organ could be seen as something that gives people emotional autonomy and optimization, not too different than choosing the right music for the moment to shift your mood.

Of course with something like this there are also concerns about emotional conformity and losing authenticity. And questions about what is considered a real authentic emotional experience vs a manufactured one.

Some might consider what we're building "manufactured" emotional experiences. But are emotions elicited from music and movies manufactured? Just because something is happening on a screen or coming through speakers doesn't make it any less meaningful. Our brains don't know the difference and the feeling is real.

Media influences our emotions probably more than anything right now and for the most part is currently being fed to us by algorithms designed to prey on our most vulnerable feelings. What we're building gives you the ability to regain control over your emotions and inner world. It's more about using art, audiovisual, media, storytelling, and guided practices to move you through something real. It's about emotional awareness, exploration, and transformation more than artificially induced control. Of course like any tech it's up to people how they choose to use it. But we are trying to design it in a way that prioritizes the emotional benefit and personal growth of each user.

It's an interesting philosophical conversation that could go much deeper. I appreciate the feedback and reflection.
by gyulai | 2025-08-02 18:36:56+00:00
...the amout of code we've been writing has increased with the progress of technology, just comparing what it was like to write desktop UIs with Delphi in the 90s versus the amount of code it takes for an equivalent app in 2025. Low-code and vibecoded software from the 2020s are going to be the unemployment insurance for all those greybeards who will still know how to code in the 2030s :-)
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 18:37:26+00:00
> as a vibe coding skeptic, I was amazed.

The interesting thing about all of this vibe coding skepticism, cynicism, and backlash is that many people have their expectations set extremely low. They’re convinced everything the tools produce will be junk or that the worst case examples people provide are representative of the average.

Then they finally go out and use the tools and realize that they exceed their (extremely low) expectations, and are amazed.

Yeah we all know Claude Code isn’t going to generate a $10 billion SaaS with a team of 10 people or whatever the social media engagement bait VCs are pushing this week. However, the tools are more powerful than a lot of people give them credit for.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-02 18:37:30+00:00
What happens when usage limits go away?

Way back in the day there were usage limits on everyone's internet service. Nowadays, not so much. Inference won't be expensive forever.

I mean, just Devil's Advocate, but I could see this becoming an addiction crisis like none we've ever seen in the past. Only since it wouldn't be as public, no one would really be aware of it. (Assuming most people won't broadcast what they're doing in their homes during their waking hours.)
by alan-crowe | 2025-08-02 18:37:41+00:00
I've been thinking of the issue like this: a traditional approach to symbolic artificial intelligence frames problem solving as a search of a tree. Do you go depth first, dodging infinite branches? Or breadth first (do you have enough memory?). What about iterative deepening?

Sometimes the solution is in the tree, but it is too deep, and one runs out of time before it is found.

Statistical based learning could act as a branch predictor. Sometimes guiding the search to go very deep in the right place and find the hidden solution. Sometimes guiding the search to go very deep in the wrong place; one runs out of time as usual.

Notice the strength of hybrid approach. One isn't accepting the probably correct answer of the statistical part. It is only a guide, and if the answer is found, and the symbolic part of the software is correct, the answer will be reliable.

I think this is already being done with maths problems. The LLM is writing proof attempts in Lean. But Lean is traditional symbolic AI. If the LLM can come up with a proof that Lean approves, then it really has a proof. From your comment I learn that Stockfish has already got something like this to work very well.
by nvllsvm | 2025-08-02 18:37:46+00:00
mind.in.a.box's album "R.E.T.R.O." (2010) has a few songs that sound keygen-esque (aka chiptune).

Not all their stuff sounds like that, but I've been a big fan since first discovering them via a sample included in the XMMS2 media player way back in the early 2000's.
by Terretta | 2025-08-02 18:37:59+00:00
Cool idea and cute icon, but for growth ideas (ha!), the user has to decide:

How does this beat asking ChatGPT about a photo: What is this and how do I care for it? Especially when wanting $5 for 20 identifications (and more).

I am a fan of purpose-built apps, but it's tough to beat the "general" nature of ChatGPT that's already installed and now even bindable to Siri.

As for the smart reminders (not shown in your app page, probably should be, to help answer the first question) — to my initial surprise, ChatGPT can make you an iCal file. Works better than its built in reminders.

Btw, I got a kick out of:

> struggling to identify my houseplants correctly

As if they were immigrating under false identities. :-)

PS. Rights King... You're consistent with the puns, that one is great.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-08-02 18:38:00+00:00
It has more to do with demand than being anything. Demand for healthcare is highly inelastic. If the price of Pokémon’s grew faster than GDP consistently we would be fine. But if the price of a necessity for life does, we will not be fine.

This is why life necessities are often treated as a public responsibility. Health care is one of the few that is treated as a luxury.
by sdenton4 | 2025-08-02 18:38:17+00:00
I lived in communal houses for a very long time. The best was something like this - we had communal meals four nights a week, and everyone had one cooking night. The other nights, you know you just show up and there's food. It's way easier to scale a single meal up to more people than it is to cook a smaller meal every night. And as folks cook together and rotate around, they learn and cook better. And you end up with more variety, as you experience the full gamut of idiosyncratic tastes. :)
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-02 18:38:18+00:00
> I need to tow a 5000lb boat 300 miles without charging

That's a 4-5 hour trip and you don't want to stop to charge for thirty minutes? One bathroom break or stop for food and you've already spent probably half of those 30m stopped anyway.

> fit 6 passengers

This truck does? It has a third row.

But I'm curious what truck you think will comfortably fit six passengers for under $30k. If the second row fits three people and the front row fits two passengers (and frankly, having a person ride in the middle of the front row is ridiculous), you only seat five passengers. Even if you count the driver as a passenger, at best you've got one uncomfortable occupant.

- Ram 1500 starts at 40k

- F150 starts at 38k

- Silverado 1500 starts at 37k

- Ford Superduty starts above 40k

- Sierra 1500 starts at 38k

And most of these are just bench seats in the front, not a third row.
by rootusrootus | 2025-08-02 18:38:38+00:00
I walk every morning and hit 80-80% of my max heart rate for parts of it. Walking can be quite good exercise, unless you live somewhere very flat. My V02 max continues to climb steadily 0.1/week like clockwork, and no running yet. Granted, it's got a ways to go, it's just barely above average, but still, walking is working.
by zeta0134 | 2025-08-02 18:38:46+00:00
The general idea is for the signature to be random each time, but verifiable. There are a bajillion approaches to this, but a simple starting point is to generate a random nonce, encrypt it with your private key, then publish it along with the public key. Only you know the private key, so only you could have produced the resulting random string that decodes into the matching nonce with the public key. Also, critically, every signature is different. (that's what the nonce is for.) If two videos appear to have the same signature, even if that signature is valid, one of them must be a replay and is therefore almost certainly fake.

(Practical systems often include a generational index or a timestamp, which further helps to detect replay attacks.)

I think for the approach discussed in the paper, bandwidth is the key limiting factor, especially as video compression mangles the result, and ordinary news reporters edit the footage for pacing reasons. You want short clips to still be verifiable, so you can ask questions like "where is the rest of this footage" or "why is this played out of order" rather than just going, "there isn't enough signature left, I must assume this is entirely fake."
by qrios | 2025-08-02 18:39:17+00:00
Isn't "Private Compute Cloud" just a marketing term with some restrict sec architecture? The real personal assistant LLM would mean to have the realtime data available in hot memory (to make sure to give instant responses).

Audio, video, screen recordings, etc. from a single customer could be something between 1 and 10 GByte per day on average. After training you might get something like 3 MByte in additional model size per day. Even with 1 billion active users you would need to store additional data with 1 billion GByte (again on hot storage, like expensive GPU memory). The total amount of the memory of GPUs sold by NVIDIA is not even close to 400mio GByte (NVIDIA 3.8mio data center GPUs in 2023).