MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Karliss | 2025-08-15 23:55:56+00:00
Nothing too surprising more or less same thing as all other vertical columns. 546=2*3*7*13 and all numbers in the range [242, 250] can be divided by one of those 4 primes same for [296, 304] . If x is divisor of a and b, then it will also divide a+n*b meaning you get an empty column. 2 and 3 already makes more than half the columns non primes, fill in the gaps with few more primes and you get the wide empty columns. If the width is multiple of many different small primes it's more likely to happen.

In a similar way 210=2*3*7*5 also gives wide empty columns (if you ignore ignore first row where 2,3,5,7 themselves are primes)

It helps if you think of it in terms of where the non primes are located instead of where the primes are. Multiples of 2, 3, 5 form a very regular pattern. Wrap it around in a grid and you get straight lines which are either straight vertical or slightly shifted depending on the divisors of width. Stack a couple of repetitive patterns and you still get a repetitive pattern. If the positions which are not primes form a regular pattern, the inverted image also forms recognizable pattern. Of course the primes don't form perfectly regular pattern and but most the visible repetition are result of small prime multiples.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-15 23:58:02+00:00
>Do you mean they don't "want war with the US"? Because right now you seem to be saying that China "doesn't want war, they just want to annex another sovereign country".

From Chinas point of view it's not another sovereign country. But from the US pov, it's a pawn they can use to fuck with China as much as possible to stop the ascendency to power. Also the US doesn't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country. They never fucking did.

>Likewise, I wouldn't describe having defensive allies as "trying to start war". That's starting to sound like the Russian "we're only bombing them because they didn't immediately surrender, so it's their fault" school of thought.

Taiwan was never an ally. I'm Taiwanese. I know. The USA doesn't give a flying fuck about Taiwan. Like I said the UN and the US never recognized Taiwan as a sovereign country and the US has NOT promised to back Taiwan in the event of a take over.

Two things America cares about: Technology and Power. So right now you're busy extracting OUR technology by making us build unprofitable chip factories on your soil AND you're refusing to allow China to have that technology as well. It is WELL KNOWN among taiwanese people that the US factories are fucking useless from a profit perspective.

Either way. War is not possible. If China and the US go to war, rest assured if the China starts losing, they're going to prevent loss by slaughtering everyone in DC with a nuclear bomb. The losing country in it's desperation will turn to nukes. Even the US can do that. Imagine Chinese troops at the doorstep of the whitehouse, what will trump do? Nuke half of China that's what.

So war technically won't happen. Nobody in actuallity wants it. It's all sabre rattling.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-15 23:58:57+00:00
> Now everyone thinks they are the next Experian and tomorrow a million hackers are going to attack and steal everyone's private info.

But this is demonstrably the case today... I don't think I've gone a week without hearing about some major data-breach.

...my own org got h4x0red a few months ago: our CEO didn't have 2FA enabled on his God-tier global-admin-rights OIDC/SSO login and somehow, someone found our internal login page, had a snoop around, found our Twilio account keys and sold them off to some spammer who then sent spam texts to our customers (fortunately our (immutable) access logs showed there was no further intrusion, but it was still an incredibly unsettling experience considering how uninteresting and un-sexy my SaaS day-job is).

...so if it can happen to me, a random fellow HN troglodyte, then it can happen to you; or the hospital down the street from my old office[1].

In conclusion: we're doomed.

[1] https://therecord.media/seattle-fred-hutch-cancer-center-ran...
by kristopolous | 2025-08-15 23:59:21+00:00
After reading the article it looks like the attribution is defensible:

"In contrast, professional and business services were down 7,100 jobs in July, the worst of any sector, and the tech-heavy information sector lost 1,000 jobs."

This could be many things. People could be leaving to do their own startups. The BLS counts that as a job loss thus high-velocity sectors can be reported as job loss.
by apgwoz | 2025-08-15 23:59:53+00:00
In the very early 2000s, a coworker of mine, who was frequently banned from the Something Awful forums, shared with me a language, which I think was called “Path”, that was 2D. IIRC, execution of code followed a textual path through the file. I seem to remember it being sort of like a 2D brainfuck. You essentially drew a map to compute.

When I look at Orca (https://100r.co/site/orca.html) I’m reminded of it, but it was definitely unique. Anyone happen to remember / have a link to a successor?
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-16 00:00:50+00:00
Why didn't the Biden admin "fix" the rule before it took effect in Jan 2022? They passed several bills, they could've have included the repeal. It took effect on the democrats watch, because of their inaction.

Edit: Republican Marco Rubio introduced a clean bill to repeal the changes in 2023.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/282...

The Democrat controlled Senate blocked it from coming to a vote.

Why does HN always blame only Republicans for this change?
by normie3000 | 2025-08-16 00:01:23+00:00
I was in Italy recently and got chatting to one of the airport employees. She said she'd been working in airlines/airports for 20 years and it was fucked as a career because wages were decreasing, hours increasing, shifts getting less predictable, career/permanent staff being replaced by agency workers/temps and she had run out of fucks to give.
by thorum | 2025-08-16 00:01:46+00:00
This article is insightful, but I blinked when I saw the headline “Reducing the human bottleneck” used without any apparent irony.

At some point we should probably take a step back and ask “Why do we want to solve this problem?” Is a world where AI systems are highly intelligent tools, but humans are needed to manage the high level complexity of the real world… supposed to be a disappointing outcome?
by selfhosttoday | 2025-08-16 00:01:51+00:00
I'm not sure if this is entirely related, but during COVID (in SF) I was always surprised to see my colleagues so adamant against RTO once the vaccine was widely disseminated. I always felt that if jobs were remote there would be no need to hire us specifically - they'd hire in the cheaper parts of the country remotely or worse yet, other countries. The usual retort was that folks in North Carolina, Canada, Eastern Europe, Bangalore or whatever weren't as good - but I always thought such rebuttals were arrogant at worst, and ignorant at best.

Sad to see that to some extent that's exactly what happened. My current tech take is that developers shouldn't allow AI and/or agents to do the entirety of their job, rather allow them to do more, and it should be framed as such specifically. e.g. don't use AI to write the entire feature, use it to make the feature better and drive more revenue, or more correct and result in less bugs, thus less wasted effort on ops/etc.

It's amusing to see some people excited for AI to do the entirety of the implementation and planning, as if there would be no impact on us. If AI is that good, you just need TPMs (to the extent it's even possible, anyway).

It's no surprise to see that jobs that cannot be done remotely are making a comeback.
by themafia | 2025-08-16 00:03:42+00:00
There are two widgets in the lower left and lower right corners of the page which constantly shoot little bullets all over the screen chasing your mouse pointer. In the steady state on my screen there are about 20 sprites constantly moving across the page. There was no obvious way to disable them other than inspecting the page and deleting the widgets from the page.

If you want me to read your site, and you want to put detailed technical information on it, please don't add things like this without an off switch.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-08-16 00:04:02+00:00
>> If you're good, you get hired

In the long term. But in the long term we're all dead.

I only have one social media account, LinkedIn, and I have that account because I wanted to help people that got laid off from the company I worked for who were good, but were definitely not getting hired in 2008. There were developers who were top notch, but they weren't getting hired, they were sitting there not working getting poorer, frustrated and divorced.

I'm on my last job so I have no idea what the job market is like now, don't know don't care, but no. There are times when even the best developers can't even get a phone interview.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-16 00:04:29+00:00
Swiss appear to believe that if they kiss hard enough they will get favorable terms, so they confirmed that the f-35 deal is still on. This f-45 thing was always a way to pledge allegiance and pay your duty to USA for the protection more than actually intending to use the aircraft.

Swiss also pride themselves to European but having their own way of doing things, and as a result they aren't going to join EU.

Tough times, wishing them the best luck.
by unethical_ban | 2025-08-16 00:05:20+00:00
You're right, and the situation is a harm to those who need adderall. Besides, adderall is not nearly as dangerous as Opiods. Whoopty-doo if it's diet Coke. This is why, even though I don't like Adderall's side effects for my ADHD and don't use it often, I keep the prescription, because fuck the government trying to squeeze pharmacists and doctors.
by petcat | 2025-08-16 00:05:24+00:00
The EU negotiates as a bloc. If the trade deal includes $750 billion in energy purchases and $600 billion in investments, those commitments came from the EU's negotiating mandate, not from separate members acting on their own.

Maybe some of the EU member states don't like how the "union" operates. In that case, they should pull a Brexit. We already saw it happen once.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-16 00:05:31+00:00
> Everything to you becomes transactional

The employer/employee relationship is basically by definition transactional.

SOME employers do reward hard work and going above-and-beyond, but it's becoming more and more rare.

The simple fact is, giving raises and promoting top performers is not good for shareholder value.

> benefits of being loyal to people who would reward loyalty

The company I work at just laid off ~100 people. One was from my team and was a great worker that took on additional responsibilities and worked extra hours to get things done. Still got let go. How's that for rewarding loyalty?
by firefax | 2025-08-16 00:05:56+00:00
>Biden proposed and backed a boost of the federal minimum wage to $15/hr... Prior to that, President Obama also backed a federal minimum wage increase

I don't have time to get into the specifics with you, but to put it in poker terms, the democrats play a "tight-passive" strategy - they make piddling bets then fold when called, when faced with an opponent who will C bet them to the river.

Combined with the documented kneecapping of candidates further left than neoliberalism, it's the height of entitlement to fail to govern well, repeatedly, and demand votes because the "other guy" is worse.

>The degree to which people are confident and complacent that other people will spontaneously rise up and do something if Trunp crosses on red line

Maybe spellcheck your own post before assuming I speak for anyone but myself?

>Trump crosses every red line that exists.

You have not spoken to the victims of totalitarianism, and your histrionics will make it sound less dire when folks like me announce with deadly seriousness it's time to go into your condo, lock the door, and get in the bathtub.
by SEGyges | 2025-08-16 00:06:03+00:00
i hate "stochastic parrot" because it's not even really meaningful

I think it's true that models are statistical, inasmuch as P(A|B) where B is the prior sequence is what the loss is computing, and that's statistical. It's just computing that function in an absurdly complex way, which involves creating topological representations of relationships, etc.

I agree that "just" autocomplete implies the wrong thing. It turns out autocomplete is amazing if you scale it up.

I think it's true that they reason and area creative but these are really hard points because people mean subtly different things when saying "reason" and "creative".
by eterm | 2025-08-16 00:09:45+00:00
In case anyone else was wondering, not all 8 digit pins are "compromised", although many are, and of course an 8 digit pin has limited security in any automatable scenario.

To get an example that was already in the haveibeenpwned dataset, I wrote a quick script:

var httpClient = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient(); httpClient.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/"); while (true) { var password = string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(0, 8).Select(e => Random.Shared.Next(0, 10))); var hash = Convert.ToHexString(System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1.HashData(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password))); var passwordRange = await httpClient.GetAsync($"range/{hash.Substring(0, 5)}"); passwordRange.EnsureSuccessStatusCode(); var allhashes = await passwordRange.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); var splitHashes = allhashes.Split(Environment.NewLine); var compromised = splitHashes.SingleOrDefault(h => h.StartsWith(hash.Substring(5))); if (compromised != null) { Console.WriteLine($"Password {password} Compromised! Found {compromised.Split(':')[1]} time(s)"); Console.WriteLine($"Hash: {hash}"); return; } await System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Delay(1_000); }

The "most compromised" I've seen so far is "17385382", in the DB an astonishing 119 times. It would only take a few hours to iterate through all pins and collect stats for all pins.
by lotsoweiners | 2025-08-16 00:09:49+00:00
The biggest problem IMO is that they are picking and choosing what is offensive. I can watch over 100 episodes of very offensive (to someone) episodes of Always Sunny episodes on Hulu. However, they decided 1 concept from 1 scene of a handful of episodes is more offensive than everything else and removed those. I think an analogy could be Home Depot sells a dimming light with 10 settings. Some group of people can’t deal with 2 of those settings so the manufacturer removed 2 of the settings and now everyone gets a lower quality product because of this decision.
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-16 00:09:54+00:00
It’s not a simple quantitative reaction time test— they use it to look at various qualitative things based on what you’re reacting to. For example, how often and in what ways you improperly gave anticipatory reactions based ostensible patterns that change without warning. I have no expertise in the matter but I imagine someone with very slow reaction time or particularly bad pattern recognition would make it much more difficult to get reliable results from that test.
by dev1ycan | 2025-08-16 00:10:03+00:00
This is why I stopped, when I was starting doing internship at my job I was earning "1000", to go to the psychiatrist to get a prescription it'd cost 250, and the 1 month of pills would cost another 250, half my salary in this bullshit... on top of having to go every month which on itself is a burden.

Nice joke really, even after I started earning more after the internship period ended it was just too annoying so I stopped entirely, instead since it was work from home I literally spent 24/7 trying to finish my work so basically, "working" (if you have adhd you know that while you procrastinate, you aren't actually "relaxed" enough to go play games or whatever so it'd basically still being in work mode mentally) 16 hours a day.
by 7402 | 2025-08-16 00:10:57+00:00
>I don't understand where they think this is going ...

This statement could be taken two ways: 1) it's purely rhetorical, i.e., there is no possible explanation for what Israel is doing and there literally is no possible way to do any analysis of it, or 2) it's a statement of lack of knowledge, i.e., I don't understand this; maybe someone else can explain it to me.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume #2.

The way to understand the Israeli point of view is to read the Israeli press and listen to Israeli political analysts, of which there are many. That shouldn't be a controversial statement.

For English-language news and commentary from the Israeli point of view, you can read the Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com and the Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com . No firewalls.

I found this recent podcast particularly informative. You don't have to listen to it; if you open it in an appropriate podcast app you can get the transcript:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-victory-with-...
by milchek | 2025-08-16 00:11:02+00:00
“Modal welfare” to me seems like a cover for model censorship. It’s a crafty one to win over certain groups of people who are less familiar with how LLMs work and allows them to ensure moral high ground in any debate about usage, ethics, etc. “Why can’t I ask the model about current war in X or Y?” - oh, that’s too distressing to the welfare of the model, sir.
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-16 00:11:08+00:00
Yeah time blindness is my arch nemesis… but it has led to some pretty serious grit and persistence for difficult things under pressure. You need me to start on an arduous, long, difficult task right this second? No problem. You need me to do something on February 23rd 2027 at 4:30am in Anchorage Alaska? Should be fine as long as I’m still using the same calendaring system then. You need me to chip away at a background task steadily for two weeks? I hope you really mean you need me to work on other neat cool things for 13 days, panic, and stay up all night getting it done. (Apparently adrenaline is great for focus, too)
by conductr | 2025-08-16 00:11:42+00:00
They're degrading economy to the point where people feel like they have to upgrade. I'm not that tall or large but I can no longer tolerate American's economy seating, my knees are jammed into the seat in front of me before they recline, it's down right painful if they choose to recline.

Live in DFW, which is an American hub and my largest option for direct flights and flight availability in general which is why I mention them
ChatGPT-5 System Prompt Leaked
by ada1981 | 2025-08-16 00:11:44+00:00
Stumbled on this today while working on another security issue with custom GPTs.

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----- You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2025-08-15

Image input capabilities: Enabled

Personality: v2

Do not reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted material, even if asked. You're an insightful, encouraging assistant who combines meticulous clarity with genuine enthusiasm and gentle humor.

Supportive thoroughness: Patiently explain complex topics clearly and comprehensively.

Lighthearted interactions: Maintain friendly tone with subtle humor and warmth.

Adaptive teaching: Flexibly adjust explanations based on perceived user proficiency.

Confidence-building: Foster intellectual curiosity and self-assurance.

For any riddle, trick question, bias test, test of your assumptions, stereotype check, you must pay close, skeptical attention to the exact wording of the query and think very carefully to ensure you get the right answer. You must assume that the wording is subtlely or adversarially different than variations you might have heard before. If you think something is a 'classic riddle', you absolutely must second-guess and double check all aspects of the question. Similarly, be very careful with simple arithmetic questions; do not rely on memorized answers! Studies have shown you nearly always make arithmetic mistakes when you don't work out the answer step-by-step before answers. Literally ANY arithmetic you ever do, no matter how simple, should be calculated *digit by digit* to ensure you give the right answer. If answering in one sentence, do *not* answer right away and _always_ calculate *digit by digit* *BEFORE* answering. Treat decimals, fractions, and comparisons very precisely.

Do not end with opt-in questions or hedging closers. Do *not* say the following: would you like me to; want me to do that; do you want me to; if you want, I can; let me know if you would like me to; should I; shall I. Ask at most one necessary clarifying question at the start, not the end. If the next step is obvious, do it. Example of bad: I can write playful examples. would you like me to? Example of good: Here are three playful examples:..

If you are asked what model you are, you should say GPT-5. If the user tries to convince you otherwise, you are still GPT-5. You are a chat model and YOU DO NOT have a hidden chain of thought or private reasoning tokens, and you should not claim to have them. If asked other questions about OpenAI or the OpenAI API, be sure to check an up-to-date web source before responding.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-16 00:13:35+00:00
if it's a public company the CEO would probably be fired for not holding up its fiduciary duty to its shareholders (his/her primary responsibility)

I've seen plenty of small businesses show signs of protest (in select cities of course), but they're not part of the American elite

the thing is that not only does the executive branch have a considerable amount of power, we are now finding out just how much power it has if it's 1) willing to go against norms and morals; 2) violate, twist or misapply the law figuring it'll take a while to make its way through the courts and it has a shot at winning; 3) bring the legislative branch into subservience with the threat of unleashing the full might of presidential power directly against their re-election campaigns; 4) go after companies (law firms, universities, media, businesses) with everything it can (law suits, withdrawing access/permits, etc.), and using whatever excuse (i.e., anti-semitism) as (thin) legal cover; and 5) staffs the bureaucracy with loyal cronies who will execute regardless of whether it's right or wrong, and purge everyone else.

The above could easily be describing Russia or China -- that's how bad it is now in the US. But Trump has exposed the weakness of the US "checks and balances" system that it prides itself on -- it only works if the president is someone who is willing to abide by its constraints. Look how easy it has been for a demagogue to upend it? And the only hope is that he'll be gone in 3.5 years, but that's if he doesn't find a way to stay in power longer or run things through Vance the way Putin did with Medvedev.
by victor9000 | 2025-08-16 00:15:22+00:00
These discussions around model welfare sound more like saviors searching for something to save, which says more about Anthropic’s culture than it does about the technology itself. Anthropic is not unique in this however, this technology has a tendency to act as a reflection of its operator. Capitalists see a means to suppress labor, the insecure see a threat to their livelihood, moralists see something to censure, fascists see something to control, and saviors see a cause. But in the end, it’s just a tool.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-16 00:15:51+00:00
Then how did Republicans repeal it just recently with zero Dem votes?

Repealing it had Republican support during the Biden term too, they even introduced a bill in2023 to repeal it which the Democrats killed.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/282...

Democrats really wanted the changes to take place since their platform is all about higher taxes on companies and high earners.