MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daedrdev | 2025-08-14 20:24:15+00:00
I've never been on slashdot before. And what stands out to me is it's really hard to follow the UI. It's better than the classic forum layout but it's still just not easy to read, I just can't see myself using it. Though I have similar opinions on new reddit and it is pretty popular so I think I don't represent the possible new user.

What seems more relevant is that I didn't know about it at all which seems common with many older internet sites dying a slow dead of no new users as younger audiences are literally unable to discover the site.
by jelambs | 2025-08-14 20:24:51+00:00
this is super interesting! MCP is really exciting in terms of what it can unlock for agent use cases, but still the wild west in terms of security. I was on a panel discussion yesterday where this topic came up, basically how do you trust the use of AI tools when so much is still unknown. I think the the idea of using something open source and tool agnostic is appealing, the landscape is evolving so fast that horizontal solutions like this feel valuable. Although I wish clients, anthropic, cursor, etc would build more protections in too so that we didn't have to spend so much time thinking about this. but they've barely implemented remote mcp support so I think we have a ways to go.
by leecommamichael | 2025-08-14 20:24:59+00:00
I think the mistake people make when trying to teach this stuff is in generalizing too much.

His input layer is good because it helped him emulate local multiplayer with keyboard and mouse. It solved _his problem_.

The graphics layer is good because it is so much easier to work with than OpenGL _for him_.

The library wrappers are good for him because they solve _his desire_ to run portably while maintaining the smallest possible interface.

This stuff matters to Eskil because he’s: - just one person - has deep expertise in what he’s wrapping (win32, OpenGL) - wants to make an impressive program solo

I think his expertise, historical perspective, and culture make it feel as if this is the only way to do this very hard task, so he wants to share it. It helps him believe his way is right that many great, and reliable projects are done in C89.

I think the truth at this point is that folks still using old versions of C have, on average, more experience than everyone else. It’s not just the language that’s making them strong, either. It’s having evolved with the platforms.

Now the only question that leaves is whether it makes a huge difference to really stick with one language over the decades. I know we’ve all heard both sides of that quandary.
by belter | 2025-08-14 20:25:00+00:00
The US is slowly becoming the USSR. The state has a share in every company, and every boardroom, has a political commissar nominated by one person.

"Bessent says unusual Nvidia, AMD revenue-sharing deal could be a ‘model’ for other industries" - https://fortune.com/2025/08/13/bessent-nvidia-amd-china-deal...
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-14 20:25:01+00:00
I think that's a good thing. I don't want a specific but largely useless checklist that absolves the party that ought to be held responsible. A hard guarantee of liability is much more effective at getting results.

It would be nice to extend the approximate equivalent of HIPAA to all personal data processing in all cases with absolutely zero exceptions. No more "oops we had a breach, pinky promise we're sorry, don't forget to reset all your passwords".
by dathinab | 2025-08-14 20:25:48+00:00
> imagine that is going to be a controversial statement.

not really

but compared to what seems to be happened nearly daily in the US it really is not a big deal

but compared to what is supposed to happen it was a big deal

which seems to be a common trend, being very pissed of about what happened in German politics, then looking to the US and being "they did what now!?", oh it seems things are still fine here
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-14 20:26:01+00:00
What was the party that continually lost all the important elections supposed to do? The law is very clear that they are not in power in any way.

There's no such thing as a power that the losing team has. The people with authority in the US come from the majority party.

You want the DNC to do stuff, to solve problems, to execute plans that grow this country, you have to put them into power first

Republican voters understand just fine that if republicans don't win the election, their will does not become law. Why is that so hard for Democrat supporters and voters to understand?
by mikewarot | 2025-08-14 20:26:37+00:00
3 months ago, I would have agreed with much of this article, however...

In the past week, I watched this video[1] from Welch Labs about how deep networks work, and it inspired an idea. I spent some time "vibe coding" with Visual Studio Code's ChatGPT5 preview and had it generate a python framework that can take an image, and teach a small network how to generate that one sample image.

The network was simple... 2 inputs (x,y), 3 outputs (r,g,b), and a number of hidden layers with a specified number of nodes per layer.

It's an agent, it writes code, tests it, fixes problems, and it pretty much just works. As I explored the space of image generation, I had it add options over time, and it all just worked. Unlike previous efforts, I didn't have to copy/paste error messages in and try to figure out how things broke. I was pleasantly surprised that the code just worked in a manner close to what I wanted.

The only real problem I had was getting .venv working right, and that's more of an install issue rather then the LLMs fault.

I've got to say, I'm quite impressed with Python's argparse library.

It's amazing how much detail you can get out of a 4 hidden layers of 64 values, and 3 output channels (rgb), if you're willing to through a few days of CPU time at it. My goal is to see just how small of a network I can make to generate my favorite photo.

As it iterates through checkpoints, I have it output an image with the current values, to compare against the original, it's quite fascinating to watch as it folds the latent space to capture major features of the photo, then folds some more to catch smaller details, over and over, as the signal to noise ratio very slowly increases over the hours.

As for ChatGPT5, maybe I just haven't run out of context window yet, but for now, it all just seems like magic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7hirqgfuU
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-08-14 20:27:02+00:00
Goodbye Windows. I enjoyed WSL for a while, but now everything around it is becoming more and more annoying.

I wish they would offer a signature edition, with all the crap. Wouldn't mind paying a 50% premium for: * all future SW installs opt-in (no force feeding / teams!) * calm by design (no weather, no ads, no news, etc. without user opt-in) * no endless choices (all opt-in stashed away in a single settings page, a single hint to that as part of OOBE) * proper updates, even for third party (use market dominance to enforce security there). It's 2025, you have to be at least on par with Debian's apt. The app store is a mess -- that's not the way to do proper software maintenance; neither is orienting on f*ing app stores from Google, Samsung ... they are all bloated junk dealers; full of the millionth variant of the same crappy slot machine, basically.
by nialse | 2025-08-14 20:27:08+00:00
GPT-5 sounds like it knows a lot but the level of trust in ChatGPT is quickly eroding. Examples:

* Meeting notes which was read accurately from a handwritten note (impressive!) but the summary hallucinated information that was completely made up. * Running omplex pytorch benchmarks while getting the simple parts of it completely wrong. We're talking getting variants of y=f(wx+b), which is what was being compared. All the graphs and visualizations look very convincing, but the details of what's tested completely bonkers.

Is there a petition to bring o3 back? Please? At least it was obvious when it failed.
by Spivak | 2025-08-14 20:27:14+00:00
I get the feeling this is meant juxtapose the statements Democrats made about the election being very secure in 2020/2024 and how little election fraud is even attempted let alone is successful with the statements Democrats are making now about how the midterms and 2028 elections are going to be rigged.

There is surely nothing at all different about our government as it was in 2024 vs today. We don't have a president that openly told his supporters that they won't have to vote in the next election because "we'll have it fixed so good." We don't have a president helping states more effectively gerrymander their districts, we don't have an administration passing new regulations making it harder to register to vote, restrictions on mail in ballots, and new rules for voting machines designed to decease polling location throughout which affects population centers the most.

Democracy in the US isn't well protected against "find a thing that splits across parties mostly evenly and then make it harder for your opponents." The AlphaPheonix gerrymandering software can give you any election result you want. You don't have to ever stuff a ballot box to get whatever result you want.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-14 20:27:31+00:00
(a) LE keys don't have to be all powerful. It can require actions from other parties such as the company that is running the chat or a judge. It can limit the scope of who or what messages can be decrypted.

(b) Perfect is the enemy of good. Smaller services won't have the same utility and network effects of large ones.
by didibus | 2025-08-14 20:27:45+00:00
> Your confusion follows from your premise that this is about “banning.” This is about what books are made available to kids in school libraries

Maybe I'm wrong, I didn't look into the details. But it appeared to be a ban to me.

If all they did was say: "these are the books that must be made available at school libraries"

That would be very different, and we wouldn't be talking about a ban.

But if they specifically targeted certain books (who might have not even been at all the school libraries to begin with), and said here are the books that are not allowed to be made available... I mean, that's called a ban.

I support your desire to make sure your kids feel at home and are able to, like everyone else, consider themselves American. I'm from an immigrant family, and it bothers me when people ask "what am I", I'm American, and they're always like... Come on! What are you really? And it's like, dude, you're also 'not really" American, you're German, you're British, etc. Except we're all really American, born and raised.

So I'm with you on that point, and the "born and raise" part, yes it means you should be raised the same as well, raised American.

Where I'll have to disagree with you, is that the books made available and the school curriculum isn't about any of this. It should focus on education, kids shouldn't be dumb, they need to learn history and it's effects, they should engage with hard topics and real problems, they should be exposed to well reasoned and intelligent diverse opinions from all sides, etc. You don't achieve that by selectively banning books whose narrative you personally don't like.

If you came at me complaining that the current selection of books and curriculum goes against that, that it's pigeonholing kids into "brown" and "not brown", and so on, I'd be like, damn right that's a problem, and I'd put forward the same argument I'm making now for why it's an issue that needs addressed.

But like I said, banning books just feels like pigeonholing and propaganda the same that you're trying to avoid just someone else's agenda.
by glial | 2025-08-14 20:27:50+00:00
Hopefully someone better educated than me can answer this - several of the definitions in the link feel constructivist, i.e. they describe constructions of of real numbers. It seems easy to think of methods of constructing non-rational numbers, by e.g. using infinite sequences, by taking roots, or whatever.

It seems harder to prove that every real number can be constructed via such a method.

Is there a construction-based method that can produce ALL real numbers between, say, 0 and 1? This seems unlikely to me, since the method of construction would probably be based on some sort of enumeration, meaning that you would only end up with countably many numbers. But maybe someone else can help me become un-confused.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-14 20:27:57+00:00
There was no IP to poach. The IP was in a publicly available patent.

Every company that proactively reaches out to an employed individual is doing so because that employee has demonstrated elsewhere and probably at their current job skills and experience that they find valuable and I assume is willing to make a better offer for them.

Other posters said that Masimo was paying developers $140K - $180k. That’s a nothingburger for good developers. The BigTech company I was working for two years ago was offering returning interns about that much in cash + liquid RSUs

I once worked for a startup where everyone loved the CTO, the startup got acquired after I left by a PE company.

When he left to be the CTO of another company in the same vertical, 10 of the employees followed him within the next six months basically taking all of the developers and sales that he wanted and all of the worthwhile staff from the startup. I assume it was for more money.

If I had still been at the startup when he left, he would have easily “poached” me too?

Should that also have been illegal? Was that unethical?
by deeg | 2025-08-14 20:28:20+00:00
I debated with myself on whether to use "naive" but it seems the most appropriate description. I barely know Woz outside of a 3-hour lecture but it appears that Jobs took advantage of his naivete, lying to him on multiple occasions. It worked out (financially) for Woz and he seems to have a great attitude about it, one of the reasons I admire him. He seems to successfully walk the line of not caring if people take advantage of him while not getting wrecked. I think it fair to consider that a facet of being naive.
by danaris | 2025-08-14 20:28:21+00:00
I'm not sure what this subthread has to do with having neighbors?

But regardless, "if you try to make the rich actually participate in and contribute to society, don't be surprised if they try to destroy society instead" is exactly the kind of threat that supports the idea that we should, instead, make it impossible to be rich enough to carry that threat out.

Having a functioning and mutually beneficial society is much, much more important than letting outlandishly rich selfish people stay rich.
by mijoharas | 2025-08-14 20:28:40+00:00
Oh wait, maybe you do support linux for owhisper: https://github.com/fastrepl/homebrew-hyprnote/blob/main/Form...

Can you help me out to find where the code you've built is? I can see the folder in github[0], but I can't see the code for the cli for instance? unless I'm blind.

[0] https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/tree/main/owhisper
by windowshopping | 2025-08-14 20:28:56+00:00
Here I thought you were about to link something genuinely bad, like a sexual allegation, and you link him creating a blockchain coin (that was probably indeed useless) in 2020 at a time when all anyone was talking about in tech was how the blockchain was going to change everything and EVERYONE was launching blockchain-based apps.

Do you really think he did this with bad intentions? He almost certainly just thought it was cool and maybe would be useful or profitable. There's no reason to frame this as if it's a reason to ignore everything else about him. Completely disingenuous. Honestly shame on you imo. As if everyone who bought into the blockchain hype is a bad person.

I hope by the time you're 75 you don't have people linking a single failure to sum up and dismiss your entire character and the work of your entire lifetime.
by LearnYouALisp | 2025-08-14 20:29:14+00:00
And what understanding of the chains of custody, any audit processes, formal validation, authentication and security, and any FOIA-requestable information do you have that qualifies you to say that?

--- Is that really your own-developed opinion, based on concrete available data and reasonable examples, having passed through your own mind and examined by yourself? Or just entertaining oneself by spouting vehement political rhetoric for gratification? (i.e. opinion entertainment. as FN is rightly called)
by yujonglee | 2025-08-14 20:29:15+00:00
> I'm on linux

I didn't tested on Linux yet, but we have linux build: http://owhisper.hyprnote.com/download/latest/linux-x86_64

> also, it looks like the `owhisper run` command gives it's output as a tui. Is there an option for a plain tex

`owhisper run` is more like way to quickly trying it out. But I think piping is definitely something that should work.

> Same question for streaming, is there a way to get a streaming text output from owhisper?

You can use Deepgram client to talk to `owhisper serve`. (https://docs.hyprnote.com/owhisper/deepgram-compatibility) So best resource might be Deepgram client SDK docs.

> diarisation

yeah on the roadmap
by rekabis | 2025-08-14 20:29:39+00:00
I’m talking about not putting all your eggs into one basket. Of which OP’s nightmare is the perfect example.

I wouldn’t lean on a Gmail eMail when building Android apps in the same way I wouldn’t lean on an iCloud eMail when building iOS apps. If they get ticked off at you, they can cause you to lose everything. They can pull the rug out from under you at a moment’s notice. And while I have accounts under both, they’re throwaways that only see use as backup eMail.

It’s why you always need to fully separate your concerns. Use a third-party hosting that won’t otherwise skullf*k you because of something you have done elsewhere or with a service they don’t own. I mean, if they don’t own that service, why would they shaft you?
by doright | 2025-08-14 20:29:47+00:00
In my opinion "we need mandatory age verification" is an admission that we can't really address the overarching issue of parents that can't/won't parent at a good enough level. Narcissistic parenting without any added access to questionable content on a smartphone is still... narcissistic parenting. The definition of "parent better" differs between people and is often non-negotiable, even way before anything involving CPS occurs. Not to mention, the content being withheld will become available at adulthood anyway, and can still be harmful if the person has not been given the tools to navigate it well.

Admittedly the bar is far higher with ubiquitous social media and smartphones. I'm not sure a parenting license system would ever work out in practice. Yet a lot of issues stemming from upbringing can cause irreversible harm and I don't feel like those root causes are brought up that much in the broader discussion about mental health symptoms.

It pains me to think that some amount of debilitating childhood trauma is unavoidable, but content restriction at least sounds like an actionable problem that doesn't require uprooting the fabric of society to correct.
by mikrl | 2025-08-14 20:29:53+00:00
This is missing one extremely cynical interpretation.

What if the output isn’t the real goal, it’s having a workforce that thinks more like footsoldiers than professionals?

Of course 2x hustle doesn’t scale to 2x output, you can’t tell me that all these smart people are just ignorant of that. It has to be a different thing getting selected for.
by zingababba | 2025-08-14 20:29:54+00:00
It's pretty bad. I've also been very interested in the non-organic way certain topics get introduced. It's often chains of non-organic posts/replies that will seed topics in a way that makes it seem like opinion 1 is proposed then someone else will come in and make some obvious fallacy in a counter-argument, then another post will respond calling them out in some inflammatory way. This kicks off a cycle of user engagement either defending or attacking one of the participants. However the entire initial chain of 3-4 back and forth is all bots just subtly guiding topics.
by immibis | 2025-08-14 20:30:45+00:00
Well, money would be the most obvious one, but the parent comment is talking about the anti-science regime currently in power in the USA. I can't remember which, but I thought I read they banned some effective treatments because RFK Jr (famous conspiracy theorist now in charge of the country's health) didn't believe in them. They shut down research into mRNA medicines. at least, because they think it's population control to keep you docile, or something like that. There was also a mass shooting at a CDC office on similar grounds.
by monster_truck | 2025-08-14 20:31:02+00:00
I was trying to watch The Big Short the other night, after checking 7 streaming websites I came to my senses and downloaded the 4k rip off the pirate bay

I was trying to put on a show for background noise this morning. Just two nights ago I was able to sign in with my cable provider and watch it. Now it's telling me there's a network (as in the channel the network is on) authorization error, customer support can't tell me why it doesn't work and they are not authorized to issue me a credit.

So I pirated that too.

And what the fuck is up with Netflix? Why do I have to install a browser extension to hide the games? I don't want games I want to watch The Big Short.
by leobg | 2025-08-14 20:31:16+00:00
They take an exorbitant fee to clean up the mess government created when they outsourced their tech infrastructure to private sector companies preying on dumb government money.

That’s the thing with government: They always believe you can drown out problems with taxpayer money. They don’t get that what solves problems is never money, but competence, hard work, and having skin in the game.
by SamBam | 2025-08-14 20:31:20+00:00
> Almost all kids under 18 have parents or guardians. Almost all of those parents or guardians are 18 or older. So literally all you have to do to bypass age verification is steal their ID for a few minutes?

Presumably this is the purpose of the PIN, which I assume is in the owner's head, not on the card (otherwise it would be redundant with the NFC chip).
by jchw | 2025-08-14 20:31:22+00:00
There is a chance he did not run new wires if he was able to ascertain that the wire gauge was sufficient to carry 20 amps over the length of the cable. This is a totally valid upgrade though it does obviously require you to be pretty sure you know the length of the entire circuit. If it was Southwire Romex, you can usually tell just by looking at the color of the sheathing on the cable (usually visible in the wallboxes.)
by jonplackett | 2025-08-14 20:31:28+00:00
It’s actually quite clever: Release an ‘update’ to everyone - even free users.

Then ‘roll back’ to the real version - but only for paid users.

Imagine how much worse it’d have gone if they called it GPT-4o lite and gave that to free users only and kept 4o for paid only.

Maybe it will make more people subscribe?

But it will make people cancel their subs too - I miss o3
by chrsw | 2025-08-14 20:31:39+00:00
My rent did not go up this year, actually. And it did not go up one year during COVID either.

Plus, as a renter, I took the option of renting in a cheaper (unattractive) building with no amenities in an otherwise expensive neighborhood in a very expensive city, to be close to work.

If I wanted to buy a condo in the same neighborhood as I live in now, roughly the same layout, I’m looking at a monthly mortgage payment plus condo fees at least 75% more than my _total_ cost to rent where I am now, including utilities.

Is owning a home the financially responsible thing to do, generally? Yes. But owning a home is more money and more work than most people wondering about the decision realize, even if in the end you come out on top when you look at your bottom line.