MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tor3 | 2025-08-07 11:10:47+00:00
Well.. with AI, or whatever good statistical translation tool you use, it's possible to have a one-to-one conversation, kind of. A Japanese friend (not young, speaks only Japanese) stayed for quite a while in northern Europe and communicated with their host via a hand-held translator. It worked out well enough, they're still in contact long after.

But you can't be part of a group of more than two people and do that. You can't inject your opinion about something in real time when the chatter is going on. You can't even get a translation in your ear about what people are saying, as while you're waiting for the translator to start translating (with Japanese the verb, and thus the action, comes last..) the next person is already talking.

There'll never be a Star Trek universal translator. And today's AI doesn't understand context enough to handle pronouns and gender when translating between languages which don't have them, or handles them differently.
by throwanem | 2025-08-07 11:11:14+00:00
It's just that you come off as a high-handed, unbearable jerk even by my standards, which is saying a really enormous amount. Everyone thinks you're an asshole because you act like an asshole, and some people are afraid of you because of that and the social power they understand you to have, ie the ability to effectively blacklist people from a weird, unpleasant, mostly pointless, but highly remunerative niche labor market providing an expedited path to US citizenship which is still probably a few years out from its inevitable collapse in value. (You're not really special in this, of course; your pal Scott also has it, for example. So do lots of others.)

I suppose you have some justification for all of that, but I wouldn't really know; without the aid of either preternatural patience or some sort of pharmaceutical support that Shulgin would have no doubt highly favored, I've always found you so needlessly and interminably self-indulgent in prose as to consider it must be really fortunate for your sake you had firmly established your reputation before the advent of true conversational AI. Certainly I don't expect you to change your whole personality at this late date. I doubt you can even very reliably restrain yourself from indulging it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-07 11:12:27+00:00
> can "cure" brain tumour with painkillers too. That's the same thing - silencing symptoms, while the cause persists

Bad comparison. Taking painkillers doesn’t cause the underlying condition to go away. GLP-1 agonists do. The obesity goes away. The inflammation goes away. Hell, the dietary choices get changed. In some cases, including ones I’ve personally seen multiple times now, even after treatment is stopped.

> If they exercise, that's normal they gain weight. Muscles build up

They’re not gaining a persistent few pounds of muscle in a week that then get worked off with exercise.

The next few generations of humanity are going to be genuinely fascinating. One group with fewer and fewer transmissible diseases, without obesity, aging slower. The other anti-vax, anti-medicine and whatnot.
by o11ywhisperer | 2025-08-07 11:12:36+00:00
Tell me more about this idea of topology.

From the observability realm (check username!), the relationship of data is a challenging problem. Standards like OpenTelemetry try to solve this by focusing on the relationship between technology elements with attributes and resource.attributes, along with context propagation using span and trace ids.

OTel is effectively a relational database schema. The larger questions like “If the Detroit Tigers make it to the playoffs, how much will a head of lettuce be in Berlin?” require context that machines (and humans!) lack. And, since the question is entirely made up, there might not be any relevant context.

Context powered by topology feels like the next step. Extrapolating that topology to search queries still feels like science fiction today.
by codingdave | 2025-08-07 11:13:58+00:00
You are ignoring the energy cost to train models. AI is not just the surface layer of end user messages.

AI is also used far more often than TVs - if every app and device starts using it, that is constant AI messaging going on. So TVs aren't even the correct comparison, especially if AI starts to be used more to create content - there is then an AI energy cost to just watching that content. Even putting that aside, what screen are you looking at when making these queries to AI? Maybe a phone... but if not, you are burning the energy from both the large screen and the AI.

Even putting aside the poor comparison that TVs are, with today's energy production, the environmental damage from AI is unquestionable. Rather than asking whether or not that is OK, there are really 2 questions to answer:

1) What are the benefits of AI, specifically? Yeah, vague things like "research faster" is a benefit, but you need to quantify it if you are going to make comparisons. And most AI usage is frivolous. Some AI usage is downright damaging, especially in creative industries. All of that needs to be balanced.

2) Can we change energy production to get off of fossil fuels? If we can do that, the damage of burning more energy decreases greatly.

My takeaways from this entire line of questioning is that we need to balance AI usage with renewable energy adoption, while keeping a strong eye on what we actually do with AI.
by kenjackson | 2025-08-07 11:15:39+00:00
I read it as just some web page that was bad, but not necessarily imitating a good sits. For example some new gaming forum that pops up, which is bad, but uses the gaming forum to get people to send them six digit codes which they use for whatever sites they see fit. Then the people who run the gaming forum are now stealing your Etsy account.
by _heimdall | 2025-08-07 11:16:19+00:00
I don't think its about capitalism, people have repeatedly shown we simply just don't like idle time over the long run.

Plenty of people could already work less today if they just spent less. Historically any of the last big productivity booms could have similarly let people work less, but here we are.

If AI actually comes about and if AGI replaces humans at most cognitive labor, we'll find some way to keep ourselves busy even if the jobs ultimately are as useless as the pet rock or the Jump to Conclusions Mat (Office Space reference for anyone who hasn't seen it).
by thinkingQueen | 2025-08-07 11:17:24+00:00
Are you really saying that patents are preventing people from writing the next great video codec? If it were that simple, it would’ve already happened. We’re not talking about a software project that you can just hack together, compile, and see if it works. We’re talking about rigorous performance and complexity evaluations, subjective testing, and massive coordination with hardware manufacturers—from chips to displays.

People don’t develop video codecs for fun like they do with software. And the reason is that it’s almost impossible to do without support from the industry.
by ben_w | 2025-08-07 11:18:34+00:00
Right now, it's easier to scan than to simulate.

That said, we definitely don't have the means to 3D print even relatively simple tissues, last I checked we are still limited to structures thin enough to be kept alive by oxygen diffusion.

One of my open questions on this topic is: given we can cryopreserve small tissue without the freezing-damage problem, why can't we do a repeated process of:

1. cell culture tissue sheets that are ~1mm (or whatever) thick

2. cryopreserve each sheet

3. then assemble those sheets, still frozen

4. then thaw out as per normal procedure for cryopreserved organs

Caveat: I have minimal knowledge of biology, this may be a stupid idea for a whole bunch of reasons I don't even know the names of.
by gibsonsmog | 2025-08-07 11:18:35+00:00
Holy moly, for years I've had in the back of my head this thought about why, earlier in my career, I'd see random doubly submitted form submissions on certain projects. Same form code and processing as other sites, legitimate submissions too. Eventually we added more spam filtering and restrictions unrelated to these legitimate ones, but it was probably the double-click users causing those errant submissions. I'd never even have thought of those users. Fascinating
by dotancohen | 2025-08-07 11:18:52+00:00
I do not understand why you insist on being polemic to win an internet argument, when I'm giving you all the tools to win the internet argument by virtue of being correct.

I did read your comment, because my intention here is to learn. I already described how tools such as pdftotext do not produce strings when each letter is positioned independently. I even gave an example of a few replies up.
by account42 | 2025-08-07 11:18:53+00:00
Yes. Unless you are pecking at your keyboard your eyes are free to look at the results on the screen and stop typing once you get the result you want. The only thing that's needed is for the results to be stable, i.e. if the top result for "abc" also matches "abcd" then it should also be the top result for "abcd". Unfortunately many search/autocomplete implementations fail at this but that's still a problem even with "debouncing".
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by withinboredom | 2025-08-07 11:19:39+00:00
> There has been no explicit peace deal with Russia. There has been an ongoing negotiation and attempts at agreements but my no means was Trump suggesting to surrender all of Ukraine to Russia.

I think you've been watching US propaganda? This "deal" explicitely happened, there was a lot of "wtf" moments at that. It was a thing that sparked protests.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-08-07 11:19:48+00:00
Jupiter is a gas giant. It's near the threshold where adding more mass to it makes it smaller, not larger, as the added gravitational pull would make it denser.

But what would make it larger is if it was warmer. The radius of a planet like jupiter scales to the 1.6th power of it's temperature. Jupiter is actually slowly shrinking in size as the primordial heat of its formation is radiated away.
by account42 | 2025-08-07 11:20:09+00:00
No you should not filter user input like this. Keep user interfaces simple and predictable.

If it really only makes sense to perform the action once than disable/remove the button on the first click. If it makes sense to click the button multiple times then there should be no limit to how fast you can do that. It's really infuriating when crappy software drops user input because its too slow to process one input before the next. There is reason why input these days comes in events that are queued and we aren't still checking if the key is up or down in a loop.
by 5555624 | 2025-08-07 11:20:19+00:00
> The thing is the Uber/Lyft model identifies both people.

In theory. I can't speak about Uber; but, with Lyft, I've seen husbands driving instead of their wife (and vice versa). According to some drivers, this is not uncommon. I had one driver who's name, according to the app, was "Google."

I've also had a number of drivers tell me that many riders don't have their picture on their account.
by siva7 | 2025-08-07 11:22:06+00:00
> I tried to do a basic thing (add a service account) in Google Cloud recently, which wasn't allowed due to default rules that are deprecated and are so confusing to change due to their confusing UX.

Similarly I tried contacting some human support for billing issues but was denied because automated checks deemed me unworthy for consulting anything besides documentation pages which i didn't understood so i gave up and switched to another cloud provider.
by jtrn | 2025-08-07 11:22:13+00:00
The amount of time I have to spend on investigations, to understand the basics of what something ACTUALLY IS, never ceases to amaze me. Having to scrape away buzzwords, ill-conceived descriptions, and unnecessary verbose stuff... it's tiresome.

So i THINK this is what it IS:

A GitHub Action that can be included in GitHub workflow YAML files. It executes the Gemini CLI, passing in prompts, repo context, and event data (like issue text or PR diffs) to generate responses or perform actions. In other words: it's a wrapper that installs and runs the Gemini CLI inside GitHub Actions environments.

It can use GitHub's API (via tokens or apps) to read repo data (issues, PRs, code) and write back (e.g., add labels, comments, or code suggestions). It makes calls to standard HTTPS API endpoints for Gemini LLM" (via the CLI's backend interactions with Google's Gemini API)
by eggspurt | 2025-08-07 11:22:36+00:00
From Leonardo, who founded MPEG, on the page linked: "Even before it has ceased to exists, the MPEG engine had run out of steam – technology- and business wise. The same obscure forces that have hijacked MPEG had kept it hostage to their interests impeding its technical development and keeping it locked to outmoded Intellectual Property licensing models delaying market adoption of MPEG standards. Industry has been strangled and consumers have been deprived of the benefits of new technologies. From facilitators of new opportunities and experiences, MPEG standards have morphed from into roadblocks."
by dathinab | 2025-08-07 11:23:12+00:00
sure, it being a 6 digit code which has potential for social engineering can be an issue

like similar to if you get a "your login" yes/no prompt on a authentication app, but a bit less easy to social engineer but a in turn also suspect to bruteforce attacks (similar to how TOTP is suspect to it)

through on the other hand

- some stuff has so low need of security that it's fine (like configuration site for email news letters or similar where you have to have a mail only based unlock)

- if someone has your email they can do a password reset

- if you replace email code with a login link you some cross device hurdles but fix some of of social enginering vectors (i.e. it's like a password reset on every login)

- you still can combine it with 2FA which if combined with link instead of pin is basically the password reset flow => should be reasonable secure

=> eitherway that login was designed for very low security use cases where you also wouldn't ever bother with 2FA as losing the account doesn't matter, IMHO don't use it for something else :smh:
by smokel | 2025-08-07 11:23:19+00:00
> The company that creates an AGI first will win and get the most status.

I doubt it. History has shown that credit for an invention often goes to the person or company with superior marketing skills, rather than to the original creator.

In a couple of centuries, people will sincerely believe that Bill Gates invented software, and Elon Musk invented self-driving cars.

Edit: and it's probably not even about marketing skill, but about being so full of oneself to have biographies printed and making others believe how amazing they are.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-08-07 11:23:33+00:00
No, the population is completely in the dark about it because there is no media reporting on it. A real European media doesn't exist. Only people in tech aligned circles even know about these topics at all.

There are no real polls. Any positive poll asks about protecting kids in a populist way or it is framed as something combatting big tech, which is just as dishonest.

But the real numbers will be in if people don't submit any photos or IDs for some flimsy age verification.

Be that as it may, there are also constitutional protection against surveillance, regardless of popular support, which I argue doesn't exist.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-08-07 11:23:35+00:00
> LALR(1) is probably fine; I have never encountered a useful language that must resort to LR(1)

An LR(1) parser can have many more states in it's DFA than LALR(1). That was important back in the 1970's when I was fighting for every byte of RAM, but now it's a total non-issue. I don't know why you would bother with LALR(1) now if you had a LR(1) parser generator.
by tux3 | 2025-08-07 11:23:46+00:00
If all you want is to make a bot that can use passkeys automatically, add a transistor between your Yubikey's touch button and GND. When you turn the transistor on, the capacitive sensor is activated.

Now the Yubikey is just an API you can call, websites cannot tell the difference. You can't export keys, but a bot can add new keys after using existing keys to log in.
by Ntrails | 2025-08-07 11:24:24+00:00
> taking a group of volunteers to Antarctica to format them to a supposed sociocultural blank slate

I'd love to see an actual blueprint for making this work. I don't believe in it at all.

> They are not just governed with "mere" discipline

Unclear to me what discipline exists. There's no mention of crime and punishment or enforcement. It seems assumed that you'll have indoctrinated everyone sufficiently to not need it?

My working model of indoctrination and control is based on power imbalance. Once they're on the ship, I don't think "the AI's will control everything" is gonna fly forever.
by diggan | 2025-08-07 11:24:49+00:00
> LMStudio/llama.cpp

Even though LM Studio uses llama.cpp as a runtime, the performance differs between them. With LM Studio 0.3.22 Build 2 with CUDA Llama.cpp (Linux) v1.45.0 runtime I get ~86 tok/s on a RTX Pro 6000, while with llama.cpp compiled from 1d72c841888 (Aug 7 10:53:21 2025) I get ~180 tok/s, almost 100 more per second, both running lmstudio-community/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-07 11:24:59+00:00
When someone becomes sufficiently and necessarily old and grizzled, our existence collapses into schadenfreudian enjoyment of confusing the uninitiated.

Or: too much weed tweeting.

Twitter is such a superficial format that obliterates all context, reason, and sense of humanity. I'm still 100% unsure what the intent of that conveyance was. Brain fart? That's why I don't tweet. Also, I'm too old.
by ichihara_naruki | 2025-08-07 11:25:18+00:00
I completely agree. For large-scale problems, specialized methods remain essential, and that’s exactly why reliable simulation tools will continue to play a critical role.

At the same time, I started developing this library with a future in mind—where large-memory GPUs are affordable and ubiquitous. JAX has dramatically lowered the barrier to GPU computing, and with FEAX, users can instantly generate GPU-compatible FEA code.

Over the past few days, I’ve been testing it on mid-scale problems with vectorized batch boundary conditions, solving hundreds of linear systems in parallel. These are use cases where traditional FEM frameworks often fall short.

I hope that features like this can help accelerate interdisciplinary research at the intersection of physics simulation and AI.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-08-07 11:28:08+00:00
> Passkeys is the way to go.

I agree but...

Passkeys are cloneable though and a clear step back compared to Yubikeys for FIDO2/webauthn.

Heck, we even used to have a counter where the user could know if one of its key had been duplicated. I tested this years ago and it worked. That's gone now.

For people with strong interests to introduce backdoors worked very hard to lower the security we had: it was too good. The people behind this are going to pretend they lowered security in the name of convenience but to me that's just the excuse: the goal was to lower security and they'll say "we need cloneable passkeys otherwise it's just too inconvenient". xxxINT.

Now I'll agree: for regular people passkeys are way better than PIN code or whatever. But if you're a target like a journalist reporting on crooked politicians or a whistleblower exposing frauds, don't go think your passkeys cannot be cloned and used to access your various accounts. Passkeys can be cloned by design. And it's all in totally opaque part of the hardware stack under the control of a few very state-friendly corporations.

And those pushing passkeys as the next best thing since sliced bread happen to very often also be the one always turning a blind eye to their states' wrongdoings.

So yup, passkeys are good but, no, they didn't lower the security for no reason. So don't rely on passkeys if you're the next Snowden.

And certainly don't go to listen to state-apologists explaining that states wouldn't do such things as lowering security standards in order to make sure they've got their shiny backdoors.
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-07 11:28:11+00:00
So gay Zoomers can use AI to make meth but I can’t understand a thing?! I hate this future!

Meanwhile we’ve got Kanye and Kim teaching math using angry birds in split screen vertical video. https://youtube.com/shorts/puy_DBrhnyg?si=dRdbM9HPAS3cPJnu
by pornel | 2025-08-07 11:28:15+00:00
IP law, especially defence against submarine patents, makes codec development expensive.

In the early days of MPEG codec development was difficult, because most computers weren't capable of encoding video, and the field was in its infancy.

However, by the end of '00s computers were fast enough for anybody to do video encoding R&D, and there was a ton of research to build upon. At that point MPEG's role changed from being a pioneer in the field to being an incumbent with a patent minefield, stopping others from moving the field forward.
by Taek | 2025-08-07 11:28:20+00:00
I avoided a career in codecs after spending about a year in college learning about them. The patent minefield meant I couldn't meaningfully build incremental improvements on what existed, and the idea of dilligently dancing around existing patents and then releasing something which intentionally lacked state-of-the-art ideas wasn't compelling.

Codec development is slow and expensive becuase you can't just release a new codec, you have to dance around patents.
Show HN: Generate Fine-tunning dataset using deep research in terminal
by FineTuner42 | 2025-08-07 11:28:28+00:00
Just open-sourced a small terminal tool I’ve been working on. The idea came from wondering how useful it’d be if you could just describe the kind of dataset you need, and it would go out, do the deep research, and return something structured and usable.

You give it a description, and it pulls relevant info from across the web, suggests a schema based on what it finds, and generates a clean dataset. The schema is editable, and it also adds a short explanation of what the dataset covers. In some cases, it even asks follow-up questions to make the structure more useful.

Started off as a quick experiment, but a few people found it interesting, so I figured I’d release this first version. It’s simple, fast, runs in the terminal, and is fully open source.

Repo is here: https://github.com/Datalore-ai/datalore-deep-research-cli, do give a star if u like it.

Also been playing around with the idea of local deep research, where it works offline or on top of your own files or saved pages. Might explore that more soon.

Would love to hear what you think or how you'd improve it if you give it a try.