MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brandall10 | 2025-08-15 00:25:03+00:00
For sure, his life was a wild ride.

There's plenty of WTF things you'll find upon digging in, such as his partner and her children (and other friends) being axed to death by a servant at one of his early compounds, and his time in Japan building the Imperial Hotel to be earthquake resistant - only for it to be hit by a 7.9 on its opening day, and being one of the few structures to survive mostly intact in all of Tokyo.

And with Fallingwater, after lying to his client that the design was complete, the client basically said, “great, I’m coming over.” Wright hadn’t produced anything - it was all in his head. According to his assistants, he worked feverishly over the next couple hours, putting the design to paper with virtually no mistakes - floor plans, elevations, scale drawings, site modifications - so that by the time the client arrived, it looked fully realized. A project of that scope would normally take months of work and dozens of revisions, but Wright had spent the better part of a year building it entirely in his mind, mostly on site visits just staring at the waterfall for hours at a time.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-15 00:25:22+00:00
I had a couple of regular Badgers, and a couple of regular Paasches. I almost never used the Turbo, as cleaning it was a nightmare, and I could get really fine with the regular brushes, with certain tips.

I also probably inhaled a lot of toxic paint. The respirators never seemed to work that well, as I would pick some really cool-looking boogers from my nose.
by _swfb | 2025-08-15 00:26:01+00:00
> If I'm hiring someone, I want to like working with them, and if I find them ranting online, I just mark them as negative and pessimistic. I can't help it - that's human nature

I understand this, but we can agree that this kind of sucks, doesn't it? Everyone has bad days where they're frustrated about something and could write something a bit cynical in the process. I don't think that's reflective of their entire personality. From Ted Lasso:

> I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments… but rather by the strength we show when, and if we’re ever given a second chance

Dunno, obviously you don't want someone who's a downer all the time, but I feel like the permanence of the internet can skew perspectives.
by filoleg | 2025-08-15 00:26:21+00:00
It you think that Palantir is the one doing the scamming, then oh boy, wait until you see what the likes of Deloitte/McKinsey do.

Hint: Palantir customers sign contracts with them not because they get coerced into it due to some vaguely political reasons, but because they are miles above the competition (with the competition here beiny the usual massive top government contractor suspects).

Which might be saying more about their competition than Palantir itself, but nonetheless. This has been true for at least the past 3 US presidents, and I can confirm as much since the 2nd Obama’s term.
by jacobgkau | 2025-08-15 00:26:59+00:00
Upvoted for ambition. But some of the things you listed (e.g. cloning) are likely tech limitations rather than financial ones. It's not that money wouldn't be needed to develop the tech-- it absolutely is. But just anyone with a trillion to invest wouldn't automatically be able to develop it, or find the right people to develop it.

Building infra for your city would be great (I wish Denver had an actual metro system and not just half-assed light rail for large swaths of the area). But you're going to have to deal with the legality of that beyond simply budgetary concerns-- liability, at least, and also things like eminent domain against people who may not want to sell.

The OSS stuff already has people working on it and depends more on market share than technical know-how at this point. Depending on whether AI will actually prove monumental in long-term history, simply buying e.g. OpenAI and open-sourcing their stuff might be the most history-altering thing you could do with a trillion (or it could be a footnote, depending on how things play out).
by nelox | 2025-08-15 00:27:50+00:00
The comment throws around impossible numbers and unverified claims as if they were facts. “1000% civilian casualties” is nonsense mathematically, and nothing backs it up. There is no public evidence the BBC “banned” the documentary, so that looks like hearsay.

Lavender AI is one lead-generation tool among several, with human analysts and other intelligence sources involved. It does not “automatically destroy” hospitals, churches or schools, that is an unfounded exaggeration. Many such sites remain standing, and damage in a war zone is not proof of an AI-driven targeting policy.

Social network mapping is used by counterterrorism agencies everywhere. Being on a graph does not mean you are on a kill list. Without solid data on actual misidentifications, repeating anecdotes does not prove the system works the way you claim.
by selcuka | 2025-08-15 00:28:09+00:00
Doesn't any scenario of time travel imply an unlimited amount of entities?

If you go back in time to observe (but not interfere with) your younger self, your younger self will get old and go back to that exact time too. So there will be an infinite number of your old selves observing your younger self.

Not to mention that travelling back also means adding matter to the universe.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-15 00:28:27+00:00
Relativity just says "nothing about space seems to require a preferred reference frame", not "such a thing as a preferred reference frame can't possibly exist". If we're allowing for the discovery of time travel in the story, I'm willing to allow for such a discovery as well.

In reality I'd bet neither are realistic, but that's what makes the stories interesting.
by defrost | 2025-08-15 00:29:10+00:00
The movies didn't fully explore just how addictive and warping seeing stones could be.

In The Silmarillion the point was made that they misled users who were weak while allowing users who were strong to mislead others.

Objective unbiased use for the greater good of all, while possible, was extremely rare.

The stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented. A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones. \*

Which nails a great issue with the concentration of data and data interpretation in the hands of a self selected few.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr
by lumost | 2025-08-15 00:30:11+00:00
Human's are able to quickly converge on a pattern. While I doubt that I could immediately catch all LLMs, I can certainly catch a good portion by having simply worked with them for a time. On an infinite horizon Turing test, where I have the option to state that Chair A is a machine at any time - I would certainly expect to detect LLMs simply by virtue of their limited conversational range.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-15 00:30:13+00:00
> I don't care about that.

That's precisely my point.

Even for these $2-$3 dollar non-premium movies to be digitized and made available for streaming costs money. Let's just say at a minimum $50k (which is on the low end), 50,000/3 = 16,667 people willing to rent/buy that movie for that $3. Is that a guarantee? No, especially when it is not "premium". Out of curiosity, how many movies do you rent/buy through Apple/Amazon type rentals? There are many times where the math of renting from a platform is much cheaper than going to the movie to see it. It is still hard for me to do it since I'm already paying Apple/Amazon a monthly fee. That's for the "premium" content, so it would be hard to convince me that 16k people would be willing to spend for non-premium at all.
by glitchc | 2025-08-15 00:31:12+00:00
If this is north america we're talking about, then 14 gauge is the standard for 120V 15A household circuits. By code, 20A requires 12 gauge. You'll notice the difference right away, it's noticeably harder to bend. Normally a house or condo will only have 15A wires running to circuits in the room. It's definitely not a standard upgrade, the 12 gauge wire costs a lot more per foot, no builder will do it unless the owner forks over extra dough.

Unless you performed the upgrade yourself or know for a fact that the wiring was upgraded to 12 gauge, it's very risky to just upgrade the breaker. That's how house fires start. It's worth it to check. If you know which breaker it is, you can see the gauge coming out. It's usually written on the wire.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-15 00:31:29+00:00
Don't think of notches as something stupid that takes away from screen area.

Think of them as something that allows the overall screen area to increase, as bevels shrink.

And then when the corners of the screen are so close to the corner of the laptop, and the corner of the laptop is rounded, it looks weird if the corner of the screen isn't rounded. Like a square peg in a round hole.

Fortunately, it's all context-dependent. So when you watch a video that is inherently rectangular on a Mac, that takes precedence. It's only shown below the notch, and the rounded corners on the bottom disappear.

So it's kind of the best of all worlds. Bigger screen with round corners for actual work (the notch is not particularly objectionable in the menu bar), slightly smaller screen with rectangular corners for video (and games too I assume?).
by Munam | 2025-08-15 00:31:57+00:00
Hi! Really big fan of the work you guys are doing over at Stytch as well! We actually got started by thinking of what "agent native auth" looks like as a first-principle and realized the problem space was more than that, and what we actually wanted to tackle was making it as easy and seamless as possible for teams to ship with the tools they want.

We've talked to several massive Fortune 100 companies that have hundreds of models/workflows that have been developed but are stuck in purgatory because they can't get approved for production because of IT, Compliance, and Security Teams blocking them (for good reason!).

This MCP Security Analyzer was a natural thing that we would've had to build out regardless as we felt like it was table stakes for our Confidential Compute stack and we wanted to open-source it for everyone.

Would love to get in touch with you and chat because I think that there's a lot of areas where we trade notes.

My email is munam@ninesuns.io or you can drop your email and I'll shoot you a note! Thanks!
by simonw | 2025-08-15 00:34:12+00:00
Right - that's more or less the idea behind https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/ and the DeepMind CaMeL paper: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/

The challenge is that you have to implement really good taint tracking (as seen in old school Perl) - you need to make sure that the output of a model that was exposed to untrusted data never gets fed into some other model that has access potentially harmful tool calls.

I think that is possible to build, but I haven't seen any convincing implementation of the pattern yet. Hopefully soon!
by virgildotcodes | 2025-08-15 00:34:30+00:00
I think oversimplifications like this are rooted more in ideology than reality.

Government has of course done, and continues to do, many vital things well for its citizens in many countries around the world (universal healthcare, for ex.).

There has also, of course, been a push for generations by capital to privatize its various functions, and one of the most common approaches is to defund and degrade an aspect of the government (see current admin) and then afterwards point to the degraded entity as an example of ineffective government that must be replaced by private enterprise.

If government were to infiltrate Apple, fire 80% of its staff at random, cut budgets across the board by 50-80%, put in place a CEO that has spent their entire career campaigning to rid society of the scourge of electronics, and refuse to fill necessary vacant positions for years, would it then be an intelligent assessment to say "man, private corporations like Apple really suck at making phones, they should be nationalized"?
by benoau | 2025-08-15 00:35:24+00:00
Don't worry, they plan to gut Rosetta 2 so it will only support Mac games from the Intel era, that should help shrink that number!

> Rosetta was designed to make the transition to Apple silicon easier, and we plan to make it available for the next two major macOS releases – through macOS 27 – as a general-purpose tool for Intel apps to help developers complete the migration of their apps. Beyond this timeframe, we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou...
by Seattle3503 | 2025-08-15 00:36:04+00:00
> You're doing the thing where you hold age-verified requests to an unreasonably high standard of privacy, ignoring the status quo.

There is a lot of this going on in this thread and frankly it is quite frustrating. Texas and France are two jurisdictions I know implemented privacy laws and now porn websites are collecting PII. I know this because when I traveled to Europe, my account on an adult website (gasp, yes I admit to having one) started asking me for ID. When I tried to proceed through verification with their chosen third party *the flow requested a video of my face*. Yuck. When I got back the US, it was still requesting face verification. I talked to support and, basically, once I used a French SIM card it "blew a verification fuse" and the only way to get my account back was to send that video of my face. I found this unacceptable, so I abandoned my account.

If we refuse to find a workable solution that respects privacy and is based in open standards, we are going to cede this space to private third party companies.
by gpm | 2025-08-15 00:36:08+00:00
Ah, sorry, the paragraphs in [3] I'm looking at are

21 - For the claim that there was public reporting that Facebook was presumably aware of in 2019.

26 - For the claim that in February 2021 Facebook refused to review and destroy the data they had collected from Flo to that date, and thus presumably still had and were deriving value from the data.

I can't say I read the whole thing closely though.
by godelski | 2025-08-15 00:36:37+00:00
Piracy also offers:

0. Ability to watch offline!

1. Ability to fix subtitle issues with minimal tweeks like change size or moving location.

1.2 Ability to get subtitles if they aren't offered (or offered in your language)

2. Ability to normalize audio.

3. Ability to buffer videos when on a poor connection.

4. Ability to create collections, organize, and track your movie as you wish

5. Arbitrary number of user accounts

6. Multicast streams to watch the same show across different devices regardless of if someone has an account or not (see JellyFin's SyncPlay)

7. No big organization tracking you and selling your data to the highest bidder

There's more, but honestly pirating is just a better experience. I can't tell you how many times Netflix has fucked up the subtitles so they are covering half my screen. There's tons of little issues like that that are just random and the only option is to just not watch Netflix (or pick your streaming service) that day.

Besides that, for the price of a yearly subscription you can build a NAS that can do all this for you and you get to keep the movies. Instead of having a monthly fee you can progressively add more drives and this can also be used for all your other things. Pictures, home videos, games (you can make a Steam cache), your local AI models, or whatever else you want. With $1k you can build a pretty good system, though that's 3 years of 4k Netflix, so not the cheap route in the short term.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-15 00:36:51+00:00
Considering a common trope is that most people are barely skilled at their main profession these days and almost clueless at everything else.. is this really that bad?

Most people need help with things that are trivial to experienced people in that field, but don't have the access or time or funds to get experts.

Most Americans can barely understand fractions and have no idea how a refrigerator works. If LLMs can help them troubleshoot their fridge and find out it's probably the circulating fan that needs help because their freezer works but not their fridge, isnt that mission accomplished, even if an HVAC tech can't use it to solve all his problems yet?
by IgnatiusLoyola | 2025-08-15 00:37:58+00:00
I mentioned those companies above because I’m not sure how to go about arguing it. This is a 40 year long struggle that no politician or president wants to talk about. We have gotten to the point where the companies I listed are 70 percent Indian <Fannie Mae, Freddie>. H1B abuse is clearly rampant, but it’s, I think, a nepotistic hiring spree they are going through. How is Fannie Mae 70% Indian? They can’t hire that many H-1Bs. How is Deloitt, and all the companies listed the the same? We are being colonized I’m trying to appeal to the masses.
by bugbuddy | 2025-08-15 00:38:18+00:00
We would assume that the time-space traveler would have to tell the machine both the time and space directions from their current position in time and space. Assuming the time-space traveler cannot stop to observe his or her “location” in time-space coordinate along the way in small increments, he would have to calculate the entire travel trajectory beforehand.

I am saying this trajectory calculation relative to current coordinates is impossible. Even modern satellites with super precise instruments still need regular ongoing “adjustments.” Time travel requires many order of magnitude more precision than satellite orbital maintenance.
by owlninja | 2025-08-15 00:38:46+00:00
I was surprised to hear the name Palantir being thrown around where I work (manufacturing company) and I looked it up and they have something called 'Foundry' for shop floors. Reading the other comments here plus seeing that makes me just see them as another consulting company that wants to get its claws in you and then actually start building the things they advertise at an incredibly high price. They have some skills and want to just get into business wherever there is a business. The demo was certainly slick but very short on specifics, and the sales people seemed top notch (you know the type).
by dogman144 | 2025-08-15 00:39:22+00:00
You’d have to define “good” and your understanding of fires targeting chains before I feel I could make a useful response!

You’d be mistaken to think of me as a fan. But, I understand, I think you miss, what Palantir did as a net positive for defense acquisitions and the very legitimate impact on warfigter safety. And, how huge of an achievement it was, given what vendor impact on basic military’ing in the 2000-2010’s was like.

Also, good or bad, all this modern defense innovation new American Century VC stuff, which good or bad is part of the tech industry and it’s continued stability, in my mind sources from this break through.

Also, maybe the software tracked down an IED network or two. And that means there are some limbs on Americans that aren’t robotic. Pretty great too.
by gerdesj | 2025-08-15 00:39:27+00:00
HA Proxy has been doing this sort of thing for a very, very long time.

You have stick tables and a very rich way of populating them and then you can use these tables of in RAM data to make routing decisions.

Sometimes you need another proxy too - eg Apache/nginx or whatever, perhaps for authn/authz.

Yes it is a tricky concept and this series of articles merely scratches the surface. Good effort though.
by project_chimera | 2025-08-15 00:39:52+00:00
Appreciate you diving into Project Chimera and for the sharp, critical eye. It's precisely this kind of rigorous scrutiny that fuels our belief in the Socratic self-debate methodology – it mirrors the very process we're trying to automate!

Your observation about the post's generation is quite meta, isn't it? If it reads like a well-structured AI output, perhaps that's a subtle testament to the clarity we aim for when communicating complex AI concepts – a goal that Chimera itself strives for in its reasoning. While I personally crafted the post, the parallel to AI's own evolving communication capabilities is certainly an interesting thought.

More importantly, you've zeroed in on the crucial question: *"convince me."* You're right, simply stating a novel methodology isn't enough. The core of Chimera's approach is the structured, iterative debate itself, designed to expose and rectify flaws that single-pass generation might miss. This process isn't just for show; it's intrinsically linked to our *rigorous validation pipeline* – PEP8 compliance, Bandit security scans, AST analysis – which serves as the concrete proof that this methodology does lead to demonstrably better, more robust, and secure outputs.

To truly convince you, I'd welcome the opportunity to engage directly:

1. *Benchmark Challenge:* Do you have a specific complex coding task or reasoning problem where you'd expect current methods to falter? I'd be happy to run it through Chimera and share the detailed debate log, validation results, and final output. Seeing the process and its validated outcome is the best demonstration.

2. *Codebase Exploration:* The full codebase is available on GitHub. You can trace how the `Security_Auditor`'s critiques are integrated, how the `Impartial_Arbitrator` synthesizes validated code changes, and how the entire debate is orchestrated and validated.

Your skepticism is valuable – it mirrors the critical self-reflection that Chimera's AI agents perform. We believe that by forcing AI to debate and validate its own reasoning, we achieve a higher caliber of output.

And thank you for the HN formatting tip! I'll ensure proper paragraph separation going forward.

Looking forward to your thoughts on how we can best demonstrate Chimera's value, or if you have specific aspects of the validation or debate process you'd like to discuss further.

Best, tom
by drdeca | 2025-08-15 00:40:50+00:00
Ok, but you can explain properties of sounds to deaf men, and properties of colors to blind men. You can’t give them a full understanding of what it is like to experience these things, but that doesn’t preclude deaf or blind men from having mental models of the world that take into account those senses. A blind man can still reason about what things a sighted person would be able to conclude based on what they see, likewise a deaf man can reason about what a person who can hear could conclude based on what they could hear.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-08-15 00:41:14+00:00
It would probably be enough to stop an unsophisticated eight year old from seeing porn.

If it turns out to be a real issue, we could figure out a way to implement pairwise pseudonyms, so that each ID has a pseudonym with each service that is unlinkable to other services. If you see a million requests from a pseudonym, that pseudonym probably an ID being abused and you can block it.
by m463 | 2025-08-15 00:42:50+00:00
> neglected software

I think it's sort of sad that this happens.

There is some really important software that - with a little talented person attension - could make everyone's life better.

I think of "make" and how useful it is, and how tiresome it is for everyone. I think taking effort out of cryptic makefiles and putting a little effort into make itself could really make lives easier. (one easy example: tab handling in makefiles)