MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by miohtama | 2025-08-14 07:52:10+00:00
> It's sad to see old hardware support getting dropped like that.

The problem is that someone needs to work to support different hardware architectures. More exotic hardware, more complicated and expensive the work becomes.

People who run these 32-bit machines are unlikely to vouch in terms of work contributed or money contributed to get the people paid for this work, so it is better to drop the support and focus the same developer resources on areas which benefits larger user base.
by watwut | 2025-08-14 07:52:19+00:00
If you think human therapists intentionally string patients forever, wait to see what tech people can achieve with gamified therapists literally A/B tested to string people along. Oh, and we will then blame the people for "choosing" to engage with that.

Also, the proposition is dubious, because there are waitlists for therapists. Plus, therapist can actually loose the license while the chatbot cant, no matter how bad the chatbot gets.
by weatherlite | 2025-08-14 07:53:01+00:00
Could be, but not for learning honestly, and not for most things if we're being honest. If I want to learn Python then I want to learn Python, I don't need the sweat of another human involved in the experience. Plus A.I will probably do a much better job curtailing to my needs than some book.

Sure, for some niche artwork and prostitution there will always be demand for human labor.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-14 07:53:44+00:00
> 10 different streaming services where 5% of the content is of acceptable quality

Yet here is the thing: I’ll pay! I signed up for Paramount+ to watch South Park.

But if you literally don’t make the content available, either because you’re embargoing it (Rick and Morty) or it’s old (Medici), there really isn’t an alternative to pirating. And at this point, you don’t need to even download anything—you can pirate streaming.
by vidarh | 2025-08-14 07:53:44+00:00
Average cash handling cost is typically estimated in the range of 4%-15%. You're right that there might be individual differences in what it would cost to handle a single transaction, but a store isn't in a position to pick and choose - they handle an aggregate. If your electronics store only handles large transactions, maybe their percentage would be lower, but that's extremely rare. And even so, handling large cash amounts comes with its own costs around security.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-14 07:54:08+00:00
Most people I've heard from who want 'Ubuntu, but without the 'bs' end up on Mint, since there you get the benefits of Ubuntu, but without all the stuff nobody actually wants, rather than 'not Ubuntu to begin with'.

I guess if you like Gnome that doesn't really apply, since that isn't availible easily on Mint, but Gnome is one of the reasons I didn't want Ubuntu.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-14 07:54:09+00:00
The dichotomy you're implying is "that creepy uncle" on one hand and a large proportion of the population on the other, but it's the latter in both cases. The people between the ages of 14 and 80 are nearly the same number of people as the ones between 18 and 80, and the people between 14 and 17 don't have money to pay you during those years anyway.

Targeting them has a lower return than targeting people who are of age.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-14 07:55:06+00:00
You can up the voltage to 240 and re-use the wiring (with some minor mods to the ends), for double the power. Insulation class should be sufficient. That makes good sense anyway. You may still have an issue if the powersupply can't handle 240/60 but for most of the ones that I've used that would have worked. Better check with the manufacturer to be sure though. It's a lot easier and faster than rewiring.
by Symbiote | 2025-08-14 07:55:19+00:00
The cards was an aside.

What you describe sounds very similar to going to a pub in Britain, a tapas bar in Spain or a beer hall in Germany. (Presumably some traditional American equivalent, but I don't know the name.)

"And sometimes going to 2nd, 3rd, or 4th outings" is called a pub crawl or bar crawl in English.
by Yokolos | 2025-08-14 07:55:30+00:00
Anything coming out of a US government institution today is not trustworthy. Not sure why you'd reference the 2025 report. It's a laugh and a half that the country deploying the national guard in their own capital and putting the capital's police under federal government control is saying Germany is unsafe. The country that's rounding up immigrants and even US citizens to be deported to random countries.

Please. Stop falling for the right-wing propaganda.
Turning ChatGPT's "Saved Memory" into a Persistent, Self-Updating Runtime Tool
by Alchemical-Gold | 2025-08-14 07:55:53+00:00
Most people think of ChatGPT’s Saved Memory as a passive note-taking feature — a static knowledge store the model can “remember” between sessions. I’ve been experimenting with re-tooling this into something more like an active runtime environment — where the memory entry itself contains procedural rules that the model follows automatically, every single exchange, without me re-prompting. For example, I’ve configured it to run a live, persistent token counter that updates after every reply, tracks cumulative totals, calculates cost and energy usage, and always displays in a locked format. It starts at a fixed baseline, deducts usage on each turn, and persists across the entire chat session without breaking the sequence. This effectively transforms memory from a static data vault into a stateful computation layer that lives inside the conversation engine — no API hooks, no extensions, no servers, no scripts. It’s all done internally, purely through memory instructions and careful prompt engineering. This opens up a lot of possibilities: • Internal analytics dashboards that update every turn. • Multi-step, persistent workflows that don’t require manual restating. • Embedded “agents” that survive and adapt across exchanges. It’s a small but fundamental shift — making ChatGPT’s memory do something, not just remember something. Has anyone else played with this idea? I’d be curious about the broader implications for using memory as an in-model automation layer.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-14 07:56:53+00:00
That’s a good question to ask.

In terms of the browser itself, it’s not niche browser engine. The engine is Chromium (via Electron) by default, though WebKit is also supported as a compile time option.

So that should bring the same safeguards in terms of sandboxing from drive-by attacks.

Then risk here is code that has execution permissions outside of that sandbox. But here, that’s no different to running any kind of untrusted code (eg shell script, ELF, etc) on your local machine.
I just unlocked a hidden lever in ChatGPT's "Saved Memory"
by Alchemical-Gold | 2025-08-14 07:57:30+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT’s new “Saved Memory” feature, and I stumbled onto something that doesn’t behave like the public docs describe. On paper, Saved Memory is supposed to be a static note-taking / fact-retention system — great for storing your name, preferences, or background details between sessions. But with some careful structuring and persistent rule-layering, I think I’ve gotten it to behave more like a runtime environment than a passive note. It’s not an API hack, no plugins, no external code, no jailbreak. Purely within the official product UI — yet the way it operates feels… different. The implications? Let’s just say it could allow for continuous, system-level behavior tracking, adaptive state, and long-form automation without ever writing a line of code or hitting the API. I’m not 100% sure whether I tripped over an undocumented capability, or if this is an emergent side effect of how the memory system parses instructions — but it’s wild. Before I overshare, I’m curious — anyone else been deep-diving the Saved Memory internals? Have you noticed anything similar?
by low_tech_love | 2025-08-14 07:58:21+00:00
I don’t agree this is pessimism, actually I live a pretty content and optimistic life. However my comfort and optimism comes from being skeptical in a healthy way and knowing that human beings look out for themselves and that I need to look out for myself and my family, keeping others at check in a healthy, respectful way. I don’t buy into this idea that human beings are supposed to be “larger than life” in order to live happy and in balance with each other.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-14 07:58:43+00:00
They have all the money and there's nothing you can do about it. But that's what we love here on HN! VC and billionaires, corporations and executives!

As long as we get our highish salaries, our taxes don't rise and we can live in a nice neighbourhood away from the poor then we literally don't care about wealth accumulation, abuses of corporate power or lobbying.

Sure, pretend it's not true; but we've not done anything about it, we're not doing anything about it, and we're not going to do anything about it.
by tempodox | 2025-08-14 07:59:22+00:00
I always answer that with this question: When was the last time that productivity gains translated directly into a quality of life increase for the workers?

Never, of course, you just have to do more work in less time and the win materializes in lower costs and higher profits for the capital owners. Workers may get some crumbs that fell from the table as an unintended side effect.
by brainless | 2025-08-14 07:59:48+00:00
I have thought of this issue quite a few times. I use Claude Code, Gemini CLI, etc. for all my new projects. Each of the typical CLAUDE.md/GEMINI.md file exists. I do not use MCPs. I ask agents to use `gh` command, all my work happens around Git/GitHub.

But text is just that, while scripts are easier to rely on. I can prompt and document all mechanisms to, say, check code format. But once I add something, say a pre-commit hook, it becomes reliable.

I am looking for a human readable (maybe renderable) way to codify patterns.
by close04 | 2025-08-14 08:00:42+00:00
The same way you do in monoculturalism, so that's a meaningless distinction.

If the families did not impart these values to children from a young age, the "owner" of a space advertises and enforces the rules.

In this particular case the coach company should have had clear rules displayed in the coach (at least the basic and generic ones) and the driver should have enforced them at least on demand. Follow the rules or get off the coach.
by grishka | 2025-08-14 08:00:57+00:00
Social media as a concept can definitely be fixed. Just stop doing algorithms, period.

Strip the platforms of any and all initiative. Make them dumb pipes. Stop pretending that people want to use social media for entertainment and news and celebrities. Stop trying to turn it into interactive TV. Stop forcing content from outside of my network upon me. Make the chronological feed the only option.

Social media is meant to be a place where you get updates about the lives of people you follow. You would visit several times a day, read all new updates, maybe post your own, and that's it. The rest of the time, you would do something else.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-14 08:01:10+00:00
Parking fines aren't debts, and thus, legal tender doesn't apply.

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/seventh-circuit/city-sanc...

> The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that city-levied fines are not debts under the FDCPA... District courts, for what it's worth, uniformly agree that a fine does not stem from a consensual transaction, and thus is not a debt under the FDCPA.
by cgravill | 2025-08-14 08:01:32+00:00
We do something similar with a mix of C++, Fortran, and CUDA dependencies. Using https://cibuildwheel.pypa.io/en/stable/ and the repair functionality to restrict the manylinux to something sensible seems to have handled the complexity - while we mostly use Debian and Ubuntu the Arch folks seemed OK too.

We want to share the wheels more smoothly though and having been looking at pyx for that. Seems promising.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-14 08:01:45+00:00
> I see the current situation a weakening of copyright law, a massive one. And not for the average joe, but instead for the most commercial of entities.

You gonna have to explain this in more detail because it isn't clear to me how you justify this claim. What exactly is being weakened? In what way?

> Some of these companies have downloaded torrents. If a person did what they did, they'd receive billions in fines!!

The one I am assuming you are referring to is Meta, and they are getting sued. They arguably should also be facing criminal charges too under current law.

> Yet they're getting a lesser outcome, as in freaking nothing.

That court case hasn't finished and that doesn't have anything directly to do with LLMs but with our legal system and power/wealth imbalances.

> And of course, there'd be no GPL without copyright law.

I personally strongly prefer MIT to GPL. GPL sort of makes sense as a reaction to copyright law but I don't think GPL justifies the existence or state of copyright law.

> Further, I support sliding scales too.

What does that mean? Just the fines / judgements because along with having to pay, the activity itself must be stopped.

If copyright only prohibited larger entities from copying, it would be less onerous and would make copyright more tolerable, but I don't think that would solve the AI training issue in any way and seems like a tangent.

> an entity scanning all of humankind's knowledge and laughing in our faces.

Knowledge is not copyrightable. If you want to stop this, expanding the power of copyright to make learning/knowing something an infinging activity is one of the worst possible ways to go about it.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 08:02:00+00:00
> So the tax necessary to pay for only pensions without constant growth ... is more than half of your wage.

Sounds like the easiest and fairest fix would be to slash the pensions and benefits of current retirees to match the current real world economic conditions, so that funds can be freed for economic investments in the future generations of people to allow society to evolve and not collapse later.

That's the only fair thing because the current economic conditions are the making of the generation of current retirees who built a system that only serves their generation and wasn't scalable, and it's not the fault of the younger workers of today that their parents and grandparent wrote cheques in their name that they now have to cash, which should be illegal since that would be like me taking a mortgage for a McMansion, and saying to the bank that my 3 year old and his grandkids will pay for it, not me lol.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-14 08:03:50+00:00
Totally agree; because us humans are animals. Without editing the genetic history of our evolution and hence all a manner of behaviours out of ourselves this will never change - because would we be human afterwards?

It's human to help your friend because they're in need; that's how tribes work. But it's just as human to disparage or sabotage someone who isn't a part of your tribe, to not care about them. To lie and cheat and be corrupt.

As for police effectiveness; there are shady groups of people that hang out in dark alleys in some central London areas every single weekend. You need only walk around/down the wrong place to meet them. All it takes is sting operations where a plainclothes officer acts drunk and hits a "get 'em, boys" button to bring in the fuzz when they inevitably get attacked.

There are all sorts of socio-economic-political issues that contribute to all this, though. But the root problem is in the apathy of the general public, none of us care about anything unless it affects us personally.
by gyomu | 2025-08-14 08:03:52+00:00
> Strip the platforms of any and all initiative. Make them dumb pipes. Stop pretending that people want to use social media for entertainment and news and celebrities. Stop trying to turn it into interactive TV. Stop forcing content from outside of my network upon me. Make the chronological feed the only option.

Congrats, you now have platforms no one will care about, as attention span gets sniped by competitors who want to maximize engagement and don't care about your arbitrary rules (ie, literally what happened 15 years ago).
by low_tech_love | 2025-08-14 08:04:04+00:00
It doesn’t as long as we keep each other at check. I do believe it’s natural for humans to take advantage of opportunities that arise in your environment; if a human being sees that they can do better, at the expense of others, then it seems to me that is a very natural response for an individual that has a single, disconnected brain (as opposed to some kind of hive mind).

But don’t mistake “natural” with “good”. Actually that is much more natural (in a wild sense) than having a complex society full of moral and philosophical constraints. I myself believe very strongly in ethics and try to be ethical as much as I can, but that doesn’t mean ethical behaviour comes “naturally”. If you can’t accept that not everyone will be ethical, and some will act “savagely”, then you’re being naive and opening yourself to, well, opportunities of exploitation.
by lillecarl | 2025-08-14 08:06:02+00:00
Let's rephrase: 10A is the effective standard that's been in use for a long long time, if you walk into a building you can assume it has 10A breakers.

On new installations you can choose 10A or 16A so if you're forward thinking you'd go 16 since it gives you another 1300 watts to play with.
by hobofan | 2025-08-14 08:06:36+00:00
From what I can tell they (had to?) ramp up their aggressiveness regarding getting paid though.

They had contacted a company I had worked for asking them to purchase a license, because apparently somewhere in the company some dev workflow had contacted the conda servers regularly. We never ended up tracing it down as it stopped some weeks before them contacting us, according to our network logs.

In general, you don't resort to such sales tactics unless there is good cause (significant usage, where you as unpaid vendor also have leverage) or you just end up burning potential future customers (as was the case here, as they chose a bad contact point inside the company).
by reify | 2025-08-14 08:06:41+00:00
Am I to assume that people with ADHD are prone to criminality, drug addiction and accidents.

Why are people with ADHD even taking any prescribed medication in the first place.

More than 85% of children with ADHD worldwide are in the mild or moderate group.

It is so often in that grey area of diagnosis, where there is a struggle to draw the line between ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’, that diagnostic inflation happens.

The UK has seen a 400% increase in adults seeking an ADHD diagnosis between 2020 and 2023. Gradual adjustments to the diagnostic criteria in the DSM have made adult diagnosis increasingly possible. ‘Hyperkinetic reaction of children’ that disappeared in adolescence has passed through many iterations to become ADHD, diagnosable at any age, as it is now.

The DSM lists ADHD as a neurodevelopmental disorder. Something interesting happens to a medical problem when it enters the DSM. Although only born out of consensus by committee rather than through scientific advancement, it is suddenly made to seem scientifically concrete.

The frank truth of it is that despite decades of work, no biomedical research project has succeeded in finding any brain abnormality common to people with ADHD.

There are no biomarkers that allow behaviours exhibited by people with ADHD to be distinguished from other disorders or even from normal human experience. Even those researchers intent on finding the biological ‘cause’ for ADHD will admit it is a condition that manifests in many ways in a wide range of people and has lots of different long-term outcomes.

Yet we continue to gather people who have the traits considered consistent with ADHD under one medical category, studying and treating them as if they were a single group, all of whom unequivocally have a brain development disorder.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-14 08:07:02+00:00
> I really don't think this holds.

Only if you consider DoS as the only downside.

As with this analogy:

1. I put out a bowl of (infinite and cost-free) candy, with my name written on each piece so people know where they got the candy.

2. Some other resident, who doesn't have an infinite and cost-free source of candy like I do, comes along and grabs all the candy at periodic intervals.

3. They then scrub my name from all the candy wrappers and replace it with their name.

4. They put out all the candy, pretending it is their candy.

This analogy is much more accurate than either mischaracterisation in this thread:

1. I have no objection to the other resident using me as an unlimited source of candy.

2. I object only to them obfuscating their source of candy, instead misrepresenting the candy as their own!

Because, you see, no one cared when search engines directed candy-hunters to your door. No once cared when search engines presented the candy with your name still on it.

The whole issue, which is unaddressed by your post, is scrubbing the attribution, and then re-attributing the candy.
by SEGyges | 2025-08-14 08:07:49+00:00
My short explanation would be that even for RL, you are training on a next token objective; but the next token is something that has been selected very very carefully for solving the problem, and was generated by the model itself.

So you're amplifying existing trajectories in the model by feeding the model's outputs back to itself, but only when those outputs solve a problem.

This elides the kl penalty and the odd group scoring, which are the same in the limit but vastly more efficient in practice.
by godelski | 2025-08-14 08:08:38+00:00
What the fuck is with the comments here? Guys, it is a postmortem. So you all are complaining about the scrolling and accusing it of being advertising or an announcement?

Frankly, I find this admirable and want to encourage these kinds of things. Guys gave it a shot, failed, and are putting their work out there. They are communicating why they think they failed and what they think would help someone pick up the mantel. What did you all want? Them to just die in quiet and all that code disappear? Hell, their READMEs have more documentation than most of the open source projects out there.

What happened to that hacker mentality? That belief in an open source world, even if as just a pipe dream. To me it looks like they still care about their dream but realized they can't make it happen. They aren't asking for investment and their website says they are inactive, so what makes this advertising? FFS do we have to assume everything is done in bad faith? You don't advertise by giving your competition a leg up. If this gets them investment, who cares, the result is the same. Code and information is out there, you can't take that back. Honestly, I don't care even if the code was garbage (I don't know if it is or isn't), I'll respect anyone that releases their code instead of letting it die with the business. It's just a better outcome, so why are you all complaining?
by exasperaited | 2025-08-14 08:08:39+00:00
Pharmaceuticals manufacturing is an obvious way to sustain a business that has a "halo" product that is a product of chemistry. If you think you still need to sell film to even be Kodak, then having boringly profitable chemical work keeps a lot of your processes, certifications and facilities ticking over, I guess. Fujifilm do much the same thing with cosmetics.
by Zobat | 2025-08-14 08:09:34+00:00
> Human beings, it appears, are nearly unique in the animal world for being able to learn something by watching somebody else do it.

This is just blatantly wrong. If nothing else I myself have shown dogs how to solve problems, but here's a link to Wikipedia for good measure.

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