MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jfengel | 2025-08-01 15:50:45+00:00
It is an interesting fact, but I don't think it's news. This is a blog from some guy reporting what is probably a very old thing. (And he's repeating a tweet.)

It's notable that "round" here is a particular kind of roundness. It's not compactness or deviation from circularity. It's how "pointy" it is, measured by the angle formed when you balance it on a vertex.

It's interesting that by that metric, a 12-sided figure is rounder than a 20 sided figure, which is rounder by other metrics. But it's not news.
by nzealand | 2025-08-01 15:51:06+00:00
The real revenue opportunity for OpenAI is advertising. More than 25% of Americans use ChatGPT instead of Google, and OpenAI has already announced partnership with Shopify to directly list products. But for now they are focused on market share.

Google does not really own the complete AI stack, NVDA is extracting a lot of the value there.

Google has two other impediments to doing what ChatGPT does.

Googles entire business model is built around search. They have augmented search with AI, but that is not the same as completely disrupting an incredibly profitable business model with an unprofitable and unproven business model.

Also... Americans are in the habit of going to ChatGPT now for AI. When you think of AI, you now think of ChatGPT first.

The real risk is we are at the tail end of a long economic boom cycle, OpenAI is incredibly dependent on additional funding rounds, and if we recess access to that funding gets cut off.
by Nezteb | 2025-08-01 15:51:14+00:00
From `man pmset`:

SAFE SLEEP ARGUMENTS hibernatemode supports values of 0, 3, or 25. Whether or not a hibernation image gets written is also dependent on the values of standby and autopoweroff For example, on desktops that support standby a hibernation image will be written after the specified standbydelay time. To disable hibernation images completely, ensure hibernatemode standby and autopoweroff are all set to 0. hibernatemode = 0 by default on desktops. The system will not back memory up to persistent storage. The system must wake from the contents of memory; the system will lose context on power loss. This is, historically, plain old sleep. hibernatemode = 3 by default on portables. The system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will power memory during sleep. The system will wake from memory, unless a power loss forces it to restore from hibernate image. hibernatemode = 25 is only settable via pmset. The system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will remove power to memory. The system will restore from disk image. If you want "hibernation" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery life, you should use this setting. Please note that hibernatefile may only point to a file located on the root volume.
by bsenftner | 2025-08-01 15:51:22+00:00
From a traditional media production background, where media is produced in separate layers, which are then composited together to create a final deliverable still image, motion clip, and/or audio clip - this type of media production through the creation of elements that are then combined is an essential aspect of expense management, and quality control. Current AI image, video and audio generation methods do not support any of that. ForgeUI did briefly, but that went away, which I suspect because few understand large scale media production requirements.

I guess my point being: do you have any (real) experienced media production people working with you? People that have experience working in actual feature film VFX, animated commercial, and multi-million dollar budget productions?

If you really want to make your efforts a wild success, simply support traditional media production. None of the other AI image/video/audio providers seem to understand this, and it is gargantuan: if your tools plugged into traditional media production, it will be adopted immediately. Currently, they are tentatively and not adopted because they do not integrate with production tools or expectations at all.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-01 15:51:25+00:00
Democrats don't actually control those universities though. That's like saying Republicans control churches because churchgoers are more conservative on average. But we all know the Republican party isn't actually directing churches across the country, just as Democrats aren't directing universities.

So I don't see what kind of precedent was set as far as use of executive power goes. You're saying because BLM happened (which was under Trump BTW), that gives Trump the right now to control speech at universities?
by Ekaros | 2025-08-01 15:51:58+00:00
Lot of people are pretty decent at bullshit. And they can talk the shop well enough to coast for a while.

On other hand I wouldn't say it would be unreasonable for UI people to setup some basic UI or like that could be done fast. And then do some edits there. Even if it is just copying some toy project. Then again I am not sure what is the current state of fronte-end and how much crap you need to do basic UI.
by peeters | 2025-08-01 15:52:22+00:00
The article itself has the title:

> The FBI Seized Her $40,000 Without Explaining Why. She Fought Back Against That Practice—and Lost

I think it's decent, but still a bit ambiguous. Less ambiguous than if it just said "She Fought Back and Lost". My initial assumption formed by the title was still that she didn't get her money back.
by ozzy6009 | 2025-08-01 15:52:43+00:00
Looks like it is talking about the same thing:

> OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation, months ahead of schedule, as part of its plan to secure $40 billion in funding this year, DealBook has learned. Back in March, OpenAI announced its ambitious funding plans, with SoftBank committing to provide $30 billion by year-end.
by thijson | 2025-08-01 15:53:05+00:00
There's something called a Kalman filter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

It can combine several inaccurate sources and output a result that is more accurate than any one of them.

I was at an Amazon Fresh grocery store, and saw squares in the ceiling that look like QR codes. I guess that's how they are mapping the store.
by alfalfasprout | 2025-08-01 15:53:29+00:00
Yes, and they have a monopoly on the ad market. Whereas a SOTA LLM can be used to bootstrap an almost-as-good LLM. The gap is shrinking between SOTA models and there's now fierce competition.

Moreover, ads are a very high ROI business. The profit margins on SOTA LLM offerings are razor thin or negative.
by 9rx | 2025-08-01 15:53:56+00:00
Both my farm and non-farm businesses have a physical product, though. In fact, in both cases the product is food, as it happens. I expect the farm business is less "icky" because it is entirely dehumanized. You don't set the price, you don't have to win over customers, and increasingly with more and more automation you don't even interact with the customer at all. There is no "Poor service. 0 stars." or "Too expensive! Scam." to contend with.
by xyst | 2025-08-01 15:53:56+00:00
People have been crying foul about civil asset forfeiture for decades.

However nothing has been done yet because it’s yet another tool used to control the population. The current powers in government and their billionaire owners do not want civil asset forfeiture to disappear.

Thus part of the reason we are stuck in this endless "culture war" when we should be aiming our frustration at the billionaire class.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-08-01 15:54:14+00:00
It should also be noted that handling state like that is not really idiomatic Erlang. State is updated at a process level, thus traditionally you spawn another process which is trivial to do. On the BEAM that is fast enough for 95% of cases. If you really need mutation on local variables for performance reasons, you should already be writing NIFs anyways.

State variables are what I think corpos call a "code smell". The BEAM/OTP isn't a number cruncher, there are better tools out there if you're doing a lot of that. Erlang is, at it's core, about constraint logic programming. It should be best thought as a tool for granular, scalable, distributable userspace scheduling. If you need something outside of that, NIFs or Ports. Both are quite nice.
by rich_sasha | 2025-08-01 15:55:13+00:00
How much do investors make on average on VC? I mean, OpenAI is hardly a startup. But VC money can't be a one way street forever. So either:

- VC invests on the whole sensibly and makes a return that justifies 10-15 year lock-in

- VC has somehow changed and is now unsustainable, it is a one way cash flow and it will blow up like MBS did

- VC sustainably delivers mediocre returns and gets some money in, some money out, but nothing special

Im not sure which it might be.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-01 15:55:29+00:00
Certain units in NYC (about 1mm) are always rent stabilized. They’re rent stabilized because that was the agreement the developer made when getting permissions to build the apartments or more likely because they took advantage of tax abatements and benefits that required a certain percentage of rent stabilized apartments.

Mamdani’s stated policy is to set the y/y increase in rent for already stabilized apartments to 0% as opposed to the 3% average over the past 4 years. And in recent interviews he also has clarified he’s only promising it for the first year to counteract historically high rent increases over the past few years and subsequent years will be addressed like they always are, based on an analysis of the rental market.

Btw, the rent freeze was done at least 3 times in the 2010s with a 0% increase y/y, so this is not even new policy.
by ThomasBerbas | 2025-08-01 15:56:23+00:00
Ozzy’s music and fearless spirit changed the world and inspired generations. His unforgettable voice and boundless creativity brought comfort, energy, and joy to millions. Thank you, Ozzy, for sharing your talent and your heart with us all. My deepest condolences to Sharon, his family, and all who loved him. The Prince of Darkness will never be forgotten - his legacy will live on forever. Rest in peace, legend. Sincerely, Thomas Berbas
by kubbelz | 2025-08-01 15:56:32+00:00
Wrong. 2b is compatible with 1. You can have peace without military supremacy, for a time at least. But you can guarantee peace with military supremacy. That's the difference.

You are at your enemy's mercy without it. They may conquer you on a whim, and there's not a thing you can do about it.

I would much prefer that military supremacy in the hands of the wise and moral, there's nothing idiotic or immoral about that (indeed, the opposite is idiotic and arguably immoral).
by jfengel | 2025-08-01 15:56:35+00:00
There are a lot of rookies on the road. This is the kind of thing that human drivers do all the time.

My standard for self-driving cars isn't zero-accidents. It's fewer accidents than humans. That's actually a pretty low bar.

It's still not going to get me to buy a swastikar, or pay for one to drive me around. But I hope they, or somebody, manages to get human drivers off the road, because human drivers cause tens of thousands of deaths per year and should be banned.
by therealpygon | 2025-08-01 15:56:37+00:00
It’s not that companies can’t do it; plenty do. Companies are bad at hiring. The whims of managers and middle management decide the best person for a job. These people also frequently get duped by fast talkers and people who use AI. Companies have a hiring issue (sucking at it), so they use WFH as the excuse that they would have made better hires if they were in the office. And yet, Sally has been cruising on payroll for 10 years while barely doing anything and no one batted an eye until Sally wasn’t in the office and people started seeing she wasn’t working. The solution? Bring Sally back to the office because WFH is the problem.

Companies also realized that if all the jobs are WFH, suddenly how well you pay and your benefits become more important than corporate BSing. The major companies were all advised they should end work from because it will lead back to lower wages in the long run. Instead of having options, employees will be sucked back into a down labor market with artificially inflated numbers where there aren’t a lot of jobs in your area so you have to suck it up and take crappy pay and benefits so you don’t end up with even worse pay just to avoid becoming homeless.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-01 15:56:47+00:00
Those apocalyptic prophecies are a big part of it, yes. Many politicians are believers in those prophecies, and many more count on votes from those believers. There's also the whole "God's chosen people" stuff, and a lot of older people think Israel should be given a blank cheque due to WW2 stuff. And of course some of it comes from wealthy donors like Miriam Adelson, a desire to go overboard to distance themselves from the threat of being labelled an antisemite, a desire to paint themselves as more pro-Israel than the other party, etc.
by infogulch | 2025-08-01 15:56:58+00:00
> Chromium merged almost 900 CLs ... Ladybird had 7

Imagine being in your annual review and your boss has a chart of your performance compared to your peers and it's just the count of PRs you merged. You begin to protest that merged PRs is not a good metric for contributions, then he switches to the next slide which is just this comment you made on HN...
by vicpara | 2025-08-01 15:57:06+00:00
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by superkuh | 2025-08-01 15:57:40+00:00
They replaced the entire wallet. The new wallet has no transactions at all while mine should've had many many dozens. So there were no addresses to check. I certainly didn't memorize them back then.

As for stirring trouble again with a lawsuit: I definitely don't want saurons eye back upon me. I just can't handle that kind of stress. Even if I'm in the right and it'd be a life changing amount of money. Even posting about it here on HN makes my anxiety spike and me start sweating. Just typing this kind of thing in public is risky.

It takes a strong person to stand up to the FBI. I wish Linda Martin all the luck and support. Hopefully they don't use her fighting back as a reason to target her for more harassment.
by bredren | 2025-08-01 15:57:43+00:00
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by phyzix5761 | 2025-08-01 15:58:16+00:00
I, personally, believe tipping is detrimental because it encourages preferential treatment. When workers know someone is a generous tipper, they often provide better service to that person than to others who tip more modestly.

In many cases, tipping functions like a form of bribery, incentivizing employees to offer favors or services beyond what is appropriate, which can come at the employer's expense.

It can also create resentment toward customers who don't tip, leading workers to offer poor service and fall short in their duties.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-08-01 15:58:43+00:00
Several years ago I thought a good litmus test for mastery of coding is not finding a solution using internet search nor getting well written questions about esoteric coding problems answered on StackOverflow. For a while, I would post a question and answer my own question after I solved the problem for posterity (or AI bots). I always loved getting the "I've been working on this for 3 days and you saved my life" comments.

I've been working on a challenging problem all this week and all the AI copilot models are worthless helping me. Mastery in coding is being alone when nobody else nor AI copilots can help you and you have dig deep into generalization, synthesis, and creativity.

(I thought to myself, at least it will be a little while longer before I'm replaced with AI coding agents.)
by anosidium | 2025-08-01 15:58:45+00:00
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by anosidium | 2025-08-01 15:59:12+00:00
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iOS and macOS developer with a strong focus on native development for Apple platforms. Actively building and maintaining personal projects whilst staying up to date with the latest in Swift, Apple frameworks and industry trends.

Currently developing a macOS Mastodon client, Oliphaunt — more details, screenshots and feedback are available here (https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support). Previously built HacKit (https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549557075), a macOS Hacker News reader, which has been well received for its simplicity and adherence to platform design language. (https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support)

Open to freelance or full-time roles. Particularly interested in working on meaningful software that makes a positive impact — whether as part of a small, focussed team or a larger organisation with a clear and thoughtful product vision.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-08-01 15:59:16+00:00
Not really. Dismissed isn't the same thing as losing. The suit couldn't go forward because they returned the money, so she has no damages to sue over. I wonder if you can sue for lawyer fees...they took her money and made her hire a lawyer to get it back "willingly", something she wouldn't have had to do if they didn't take the money in the first place.
by dweekly | 2025-08-01 15:59:18+00:00
Dumb (?) question but how is Google's approach here different than Mixture of Experts? Where instead of training different experts to have different model weights you just count on temperature to provide diversity of thought. How much benefit is there in getting the diversity of thought in different runs of the same model versus running a consortium of different model weights and architectures? Is there a paper contrasting results given fixed computation between spending that compute on multiple runs of the same model vs different models?
by ofjcihen | 2025-08-01 15:59:21+00:00
A Statement I am a Scala developer and speaker who was cancelled three years ago. Yesterday I attended the High Court in London to hear an apology from several prominent members of the Scala community for making untrue claims about me on 27 April 2021. I sued them for libel, and they admitted fault and settled, paying me costs and damages. Their allegations were sensational and squalid, but unfounded. Their source was the resentment of one woman following a relationship in 2018, which I ended against her wishes. She fabricated or was offered an alternative narrative, which developed into claims of a pattern of behaviour, and culminated in the defendants' publication of an open letter, which they now agree is defamatory. In two years of legal action, the defendants never presented any evidence to support their allegations, and admitted in court that they had no proper reason to make them. They have given undertakings to the court not to publish further or similar defamatory statements, or have anyone else do so on their behalf. No signatory contacted me about the allegations before publication. I received no warning, and had no knowledge of the claims' substance. I only discovered what I was accused of at the same time as I learned of my indefinite exclusion from the community; at the same time everyone else found out. I had no opportunity to defend myself. It is no coincidence that the absence of due process led tp an abject injustice. The experience of cancellation and enduring the online hysteria was traumatic, I responded by withdrawing from the life I knew. Its consequences hurt me and people close to me, and have been immiserating. My employment opportunities were obliterated. My charitable and educational projects, and my small business, could not continue. Despite my transferable skills, the allegations were a transferrable red flag recognised across programming communities and industries, and I have barely earned a living since. It has taken two years of legal action to receive fair scrutiny in a forum reliant on facts.