MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by podgietaru | 2025-08-26 22:16:35+00:00
Thank you. I am glad too, I sought help, and I got better. I think the state of mental health care is abysmal in a lot of places, and so I get the impulse to try to find help where ever you can. It's why this story actually hit me quite hard, especially after reading the case file.

For anyone reading that feels like that today. Resources do exist for those feeling low. Hotlines, self-guided therapies, communities. In the short term, medication really helped me. In the long term, a qualified mental health practitioner, CBT and Psychotherapy. And as trite as it is, things can get better. When I look back at my attempt it is crazy to me to see how far I've come.
by gruez | 2025-08-26 22:16:38+00:00
That would be a mistake, because "securities fraud" is one of the few ways you can get smacked for lying to the public. Lying to the public about climate change? Meh, it's hard to prove damages from the lie so you'll probably get away with it. However if you lie to shareholders about global warming, and that factors into your outlook of the company, you'll get smacked with securities fraud suits.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
by Uehreka | 2025-08-26 22:16:42+00:00
> I understand the issue with AI gen slop, but slop content has been around since before AI - it's the incentives that are rotten.

Everyone says this, and it feels like a wholly unserious way to terminate the thinking and end the conversation.

Is the slop problem meaningfully worse now that we have AI? Yes: I’m coming across much more deceptively framed or fluffed up content than I used to. Is anyone proposing any (actually credible, not hand wavy microtransaction schemes) method of fixing the incentives? No.

So should we do some sort of First Amendment-violating ultramessy AI ban? I don’t want that to happen, but people are mad, and if we don’t come up with a serious and credible way to fix this, then people who care less than us will take it upon themselves to solve it, and the “First Amendment-violating ultramessy AI ban” is what we’re gonna get.
by zb3 | 2025-08-26 22:16:51+00:00
Here's my diplomatic submission (bad english, but I post here because ultimately I'd want it to be read by someone and that form seems to be a black hole..):

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Let me start by saying that I don't even fully know in WHICH cases those requirements would apply.. would it only apply when "Play Protect" is on [understandable]? Would "adb install" be affected too [completely crazy]? How would that handle personal apps that are not distributed? Further, how would it even handle Android Studio, would we need to show a government ID to run the "hello world" app made in Android Studio, is that what you want Android to be?

Second, it's not fully clear WHAT those requirements are. How come you can cite security concerns yet claim that the contents of the APK are not verified.. then what if I create malware? It makes no sense.

As a "technical" person and a security researcher, I feel disproportionately affected. Not just by these requirements, because like I said above, I don't actually distribute any apps for others to use, I might just share the source code but that's it.

What worries me is that not only does Google not offer any usable system for developers/researchers directly (there are no official "userdebug" builds that we could use as a "daily driver"), but it seems Google is actually making it increasingly harder for others to make such systems..

As others have pointed out, AOSP seems to be getting killed piece-by-piece, more and more vendors are disabling the option to unlock the bootloader.. yet I NEED a version of Android that doesn't impose restrictions on me, I assumed the core feature of Android was that it was open and therefore suitable for technical people like me..

If Android becomes closed - even for expert users and developers - there will be no point in staying on Android, I might as well try iOS, because why would I choose a copycat when I could choose the original?

Sincerely, zb3
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by Hansenq | 2025-08-26 22:16:58+00:00
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This was built completely for fun and for personal use, but happy to take feedback and requests for improvement! Right now it's only built for United, but if there's enough interest I could expand this to American/Delta/Alaska.
by ljosifov | 2025-08-26 22:17:02+00:00
Were they ARM investors at the time they needed CPU for Newton? Was that before or after e.g. iPaq PDA-s? And latter - was it that it looked that Apple maybe in danger of going under, and then they sold their ARM stake and got a cash injection that way?

I remember iPaq PDA fondly. Wrote a demo to select a song from a playlist with few thousand author-album-song with voice query. The WiFi add-on was a big plastic "sleeve", that the iPaq slid into, not the other way around. Could run the ASR engine for about whole 10 mins before it drained the battery flat, haha. :-)
by jonkoops | 2025-08-26 22:17:06+00:00
But they are not in the actual Linux kernel, and are a separate module that does not adhere to Linux kernel code conventions. It also has no user-space driver that isn't NVIDIA's proprietary driver. Anything further open-source such as NVK is not being worked on by NVIDIA, but by other 3rd parties.

Compared to AMD and Intel, NVIDIA is very much not an 'out of the box', or stable experience.
by monagjr | 2025-08-26 22:17:11+00:00
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by yodsanklai | 2025-08-26 22:17:38+00:00
That's sounds like an exaggeration: most jewish people won't deal with any type of discrimination simply because they aren't identifiable as jewish.

Regardless, antisemitism exists in France and elsewhere. It's just not the case that France doesn't do anything about it. These crimes are punished. Maybe not as severely as one would hope, but by French standards, it's pretty serious.

But as parent comment mentioned, the current situation has little to do with that.
by nagisa | 2025-08-26 22:17:51+00:00
I have the external apple trackpad (the most recent usb-c version at that) and this click-to-drag and then attempting to scroll does not work on Linux. Seems like this might have been a particular attention to detail on part of macOS devs.

As far as I know touchpad implementations just report finger locations and its up to software to interpret what a combination of these gestures means.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-26 22:18:29+00:00
> A graphics library is usually divided into 3D like *GL variants and 2D like SDL

OpenGL (what I assume you are referring to by *GL) is both 2D and 3D; it also, as one might expect of purely a graphics library, doesn't provide control events or audio and considers that something else's problem.

SDL ("Simple DirectMedia Layer") does do things like control events and audio, but does not describe itself as a graphics library, but as "a cross-platform library designed to make it easy to write multi-media software, such as games and emulators."
by fluoridation | 2025-08-26 22:18:31+00:00
They don't use memory if they're not used, but you do save storage. Neither one has any effect on power efficiency, though. None of these savings require the hardware to lose useful features. Microsoft could at any time decide to drop WOW64.

Saving die space also has no effect on power efficiency, beyond reducing the total transistor count. I'd be very surprised the x86-specific decoding logic makes up a significant area of your typical die. Maybe you'd make the processor 3% more efficient? Something like that?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-26 22:18:37+00:00
"While anecdotal evidence has emerged showing AI's effects on certain professions, such as software coding, there has been little harder evidence that the technology was significantly weighing on the labor market."

Anecdotal evidence accompanied by repeated wild speculation about _other_ occupations, including ones with educational and certification requirements

"The Stanford economists first looked at areas where AI can automate many of the tasks workers perform, and therefore potentially replace them. Those include jobs such as software developers, receptionists, translators and customer service representatives."

Generally, none of those require professional certification or even a college degree; they are "unregulated"

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Guidance-on...

"Head counts among customer service representatives a category that, unlike software development, generally doesn't require a college education followed a similar pattern."

The author assumes that software development requires a college degree

NB. Even if it is common to have one this is not the same as a legal requirement

https://www.nocsdegree.com/blog/companies-that-hire-programm...
by jibal | 2025-08-26 22:19:31+00:00
> The URL is formed using the date, just FYI.

As they stated, so who are you informing?

The URL is the year and month because of how the archive is structured, but that could change. The article is not dated but should be--all articles should be. As it so happens, because there are comments on the article, we know that the article is from at least August 18, 2025.
by luma | 2025-08-26 22:19:33+00:00
That’s the specific problem a well organized governmental body can address. Funding research through university and private R&D lab grants and spreading/licensing the knowledge to domestic companies. Fund grants for universities and scholarships to spread that further. Invest in multiple startups attacking the problem at different levels in the stack (semi manufacturing has a LOT of inputs).

There are loads of ways you can effectively steer an economy to stimulate growth while also meeting geopolitical needs through effective and liberal application of the national purse. DOGE seems to have different ideas about the value of such programs.
by BeetleB | 2025-08-26 22:20:42+00:00
It was because Intel likely wasn't going to get the rest of the grant money, because Lip-Bu Tan openly told the world he won't develop 14A without commitments from customers.

If Intel is going to cease semiconductor development, then why should they get the rest of the taxpayer money? Even under Biden and Pat Gelsinger, the government was signaling to Intel that they may not get the full money if they don't make progress.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-08-26 22:20:45+00:00
Outrage culture is so exhausting. This incident reminds me of the Cracker Barrel fans who collectively lost their shit when they started testing offering impossible sausage on the menu a few years ago.

That being said, the new logo does look like it was designed by an intern in high school using photoshop or illustrator for the first time.
by Ukv | 2025-08-26 22:21:28+00:00
That there are fuzzy boundaries is not a blocker for a field that is largely built on drawing lines on fuzzy boundaries - a judge can make the determination if necessary.

My answer would be: yes "text messages" includes RCS as well as SMS, but not whatsapp/telegram/an email attachment, and that the warrant should've been more specific if it wanted the latter - but ask your lawyer if you're uncertain what's being requested.
by dbeardsl | 2025-08-26 22:22:16+00:00
I think you missed a 0. I've never heard of an AC unit for a house that's 400W. 4000W and above is more common.

Google:

> An AC unit's electricity usage varies by type, with window units using around 500–1,500 watts and central air systems using 3,000–5,000 watts, though usage can range from 2,000 to over 6,000 kWh annually for central units

Also, how much you use it during the year can vary hugely from 0 (when I lived near the coast) to like 10 hours a day for months in hot or cold places. There's not a standard, but 55kwh for a year means you live someplace that doesn't really need AC / heating.
by homefree | 2025-08-26 22:23:28+00:00
What is "education"? Is it degrees? There are a lot of problems with this. It's hardly a sign that someone "thinks critically".

A lot mediocre students I knew in school stayed on to do more school because they were not able to do something else. A lot of degrees and classes are frankly bullshit and this problem has gotten worse since the 60s - the details matter. Time wasted studying pseudo-intellectual nonsense doesn't imply someone has a better understanding of the world than someone else (often the opposite) - just that they wasted time getting indoctrinated in a particular culture (often subsidized by others if not the taxpayer).

What about the people doing interesting and useful things in society, building stuff, creating wealth - what these people think matters a lot more than someone that got a PHD on olfactory ethics. Not all education is equal.

Even then, the meta analysis matters less than the details of the actual underlying argument. Appeal to authority and experts is a poor substitute for rigorous good faith debate of the actual issues.

There's a reason William F. Buckley said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people listed in the phone book than by the faculty members from Harvard.

"I am obliged to confess that I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Not, heaven knows, because I hold lightly the brainpower or knowledge or generosity or even the affability of the Harvard faculty: but because I greatly fear intellectual arrogance, and that is a distinguishing characteristic of the university which refuses to accept any common premise."

So it's not that I dispute the data that there's a lefty bias in universities (there obviously is), I dispute what that actually means.
by jibal | 2025-08-26 22:23:32+00:00
When I search for Cr2Gr2Te6, Google Gemini tells me:

"AI Overview Cr2Gr2Te6 is a miswritten, imaginary compound; the correct compound is Cr2Ge2Te6 (Chromium Germanium Telluride), where Cr stands for chromium, Ge for germanium, and Te for tellurium. This error, where 'Gr' was mistakenly used for 'Ge', has been replicated in multiple scientific publications since its discovery in 2017, despite the correct formula being known and published."
by snozolli | 2025-08-26 22:23:44+00:00
Government control over transportation

No idea what you mean. Public transportation? If that's socialist, then any functional, modern society is going to be socialist on your book. If you mean control over private transportation, then I guess America was socialist during WWII.

newspapers

There's nothing socialist about that.

Welfare state with free healthcare and expanded pension funds.

I really don't think that you can call a "welfare" program Socialist when it excludes Jews, non-Germans, and even anyone who was against the regime.

Sometimes 'bad' people have the same 'good' ideas you have.

You have absolutely no idea what ideas I have.

Now sure why this is so difficult to grasp.

Not sure why you choose to be rude.
by janzer | 2025-08-26 22:24:04+00:00
The 650 main memory was a drum; but what IBM called Random Access Memory (and RAM) for this machine was a hard drive. As described in the Manual of Operation linked above. Here are a few quotes:

"Records in the IBM Random Access Memory Unit are stored on the faces of magnetic disks."

"The stored data in the Random Access Memory Unit are read and written by access arms."

"The IBM 355 RAM units provide extemely large storage capacity for data... Up to four RAM units can be attached to the 650 to provide 24,000,000 digits of RAM storage."

The main memory on the other hand: "The 20,000 digits of storage, arranges as 2000 words of memory on the magnetic drum..."
by asdff | 2025-08-26 22:24:21+00:00
You'd be surprised. There is quite a bit of polymorphism within the human species that is very much distinguishable per population. E.g. haplogroup analysis or microsatellite analysis is remarkably accurate in this regard due to a lack of interaction between far flung populations until quite recently in human history. Now, does this imply all the bullshit eugenicists and other racists tend to preach about with race? Hell no, social factors are responsible for most of that variance, but to suggest there would be no biomarker for "race" in its colloquial definition as proxy for population of origin is inaccurate.

This is also why there is a big focus now to seek out underrepresented populations in genetic analysis, because there may be population specific biomarkers that are relevant in disease that you miss if you limit yourself to the handful of widely sequenced homogeneous populations (e.g. there are Utah and Iceland datasets that are popular to use for this).
by kristianp | 2025-08-26 22:24:41+00:00
You've got a 16 inch Laptop, why are the arrow keys so tiny! And where's the PgUp PgDn Home End Insert Delete cluster? I wish a design-based shop like Framework would have some leadership in the keyboard area. This is why I have been exclusively Thinkpads for my last 3 laptops.

Something more niche is that I also enjoy the mouse buttons above the trackpad, I can move with the thumb and click with a finger.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-26 22:25:00+00:00
We do make our own beef and our own corn. But beyond that, even at my house we make our own lemons (2 trees), tomatoes (60 plants), grapefruits (6 trees), and then process and freeze enough to last as long as possible. Because the stuff you can buy in stores is a fraction of the quality you get from home if you know what you're doing.

If only this specialization was focused on making good products instead of making 3% more money.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-26 22:25:05+00:00
I’m not sure in these specific cases, but they are frequently referred to as “diplomatic cables.” I don’t have much insight into how they are sent, delivered, or received, but they likely have formal agreements with host nations that specify how these cables are presented. Due to the sensitive nature of the communications, many of these messages are delivered in person, whether on paper or verbally, one diplomat to another. Electronic means of communicating cables are likely classified.

Animats in a sibling comment has the details. See section i:

> i. Delivery from the Department to Foreign Embassies in Washington, DC[…]

Executive Secretariat InfoLink seems to be doing the electronic heavy lifting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_cable
by tastyface | 2025-08-26 22:25:06+00:00
Well, no. This is no longer really an option. 47% of Republicans would still support Trump even if he was unequivocally proven to be a vicious pedophile: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-survey-found-...

These people have lost all sense. The only remaining option is to make their party electorally impotent. Dominate through any available dirty trick. Redistricting. Impeachment. Ignoring judges. Endless executive orders. Shock and awe. Whatever they've done, return straight back to them. (Except the really grotesque parts like sending innocent people to a foreign torture prison.)

It seems that many people still haven't gotten the memo that we're not really living in a democracy anymore.
by raincole | 2025-08-26 22:25:20+00:00
How are you going to present this information to users? I mean average users, not programmers.

LLM: I'm going to call the click event on: {spewing out a bunch of raw DOM).

Not like this, right?

If you can design an 'actual deterministic traditionally programmed layer' that presents what's actually happening at lower level in a user-friendly way and make it work for arbitrary websites, you'll get Turing Award. Actually Turing Award is downplaying your achievement. You'll be remembered as someone who invented (not even 'reinvented') the web.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-08-26 22:25:22+00:00
It's true that AI makes the slop easier.

That's actually a good thing.

Slop has been out there and getting worse for the last decade but it's been at an, unfortunately, acceptable level for most of society.

Gen AI shouts that the emperor has no clothes.

The bullshit busywork can be generated. It's worthless. Finally.

No more long winded grant proposals. Or filler emails. Or Filler presentations. Or filler videos. or perfectly samey selfies.

Now it's worthless. Now we can move on.
by amalcon | 2025-08-26 22:25:52+00:00
The problem is that, while I agree with more or less everything you say here - "writing off" approximately half the population is not going to work. You can't do that in a democracy, if only because that approximately-half actually have rather a lot of collective power. If they didn't, it wouldn't be much of a democracy.

My argument here isn't moral. It's that this class of strategy simply cannot be effective. I'm not claiming a better one, only that it's on all of us to look.
by jleyank | 2025-08-26 22:26:18+00:00
Given that their main demographic is aging out, they had to do something. Grandma-tacky doesn't really resonate with younger folks. The stuff being sold wasn't even the original "old" stuff, just knockoffs. It's a so-so chain restaurant that has reasonable breakfasts and filling, somewhat bland food.

If it's so important for culture, they should receive grants.
by antves | 2025-08-26 22:26:34+00:00
This is a very valid concern. Here are some of our initial considerations:

1. Security of these agentic system is a hard and important problem to solve. We're indexing heavily on it, but it's definitely still early days and there is still a lot to figure out.

2. We have a critic LLM that assesses among other things whether the website content is leading a non-aligned initiative. This is still subject to the LLM intelligence, but it's a first step.

3. Our agents run in isolated browser sessions and, as per all software engineering, each session should be granted minimum access. Nothing more than strictly needed.

4. These attacks are starting to resemble social engineering attacks. There may be opportunities to shift some of the preventative approaches to the LLM world.

Thanks for asking this, we should probably share a write-up on this subject!
by brokencode | 2025-08-26 22:27:28+00:00
At what point in time were we ever responsible adults with technology?

Deepfakes have the potential to totally destroy the average person’s already tenuous connection with reality outside of their immediate vicinity.

Some will be fooled by an endless stream of fakes and others will never believe anything again.

Politicians will dismiss footage of them doing or saying something bad as fake. And many times, they’ll be telling the truth.

We are already living in a post-fact world to some extent, but buckle up, because it’s about to get a lot worse.