MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alwillis | 2025-08-18 16:53:05+00:00
Thanks. Author mentioned TiddlyWiki as inspiration. But the whole point of TiddlyWiki was that it doesn't need a server right?

I did a deep dive on TiddlyWiki recently. No, it doesn't need a server; an entire site can be self-contained in one HTML file.

If you want to run it as a multiuser, web accessible wiki, it runs on top of NodeJS.
by colinsane | 2025-08-18 16:53:08+00:00
> Are there cons of being more aggressive with these settings?

well, the con is you might unknowingly break some setups. take NetworkManager: after tightening it down, did you check both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity? did you check that both the `dns=systemd-resolved` and `dns=default` modes of operation (i.e. who manages /etc/resolv.conf) work? did you check its ModemManager integrations, that it can still manage cellular connections? did you check that the openvpn and cisco anyconnect plugins still work? what about the NetworkManager-dispatcher hooks?

> Why don't distros flip more of these switches?

besides the bit of "how many distro maintainers actually understand the thing they're maintaining well enough to know which switches can be flipped without breaking more than 0.01% of user setups", there's the bit of "should these flags be owned by the distro, or by the upstream package?" if the distro manages these, they'll get more regressions on the next upstream release. if the upstream sets these, they can't be as aggressive without breaking one or two of their downstreams.
by bluGill | 2025-08-18 16:53:33+00:00
Roads are nothing to governments budget. They are big to normal people but the cost is very small to any town and they are visible. That is why so much happens - - you can build them for cheap enough and get votes without spending much. Or you can appear to cut spending without touching the budget. Anyone who really cares about spending ignores roads while those who don't play games with that area to look like they do something without affecting anything
by qgin | 2025-08-18 16:53:38+00:00
I guess where I'm coming from is there seems to be a lot of effort and energy available for discouraging and even banning this sort of LLM use without remotely comparable amounts of effort and energy put into figuring out how everyone can get access to mental health care from humans.

I'd bet a lot of money that very soon we'll have LLMs that are guiding people toward outcomes as good as (or better than) human therapists. I'd also bet a lot of money that we'll never manage to actually provide access to human therapists to everyone who could use it.
by amluto | 2025-08-18 16:53:45+00:00
> This is obviously wrong, given the crosswalks.

If you’ve marked the right spot, I count one single intersection within credible walking distance that has crosswalks at all, and it only has crosswalks in two (!) of the four places where they ought to be.

I guess that, if you happen to be at the SW corner of Lyon and W Hudson, then you’re just stuck there? There’s even a “SCHOOL” marking without a crosswalk a short distance to the south.
by brendang_sd | 2025-08-18 16:54:26+00:00
That’s the problem though, getting the email with a copy of the recording may be the unwitting participants first indication that the call was recorded without their knowledge or consent.

Otters defense is that it’s up to their users to inform other participants and get their consent where necessary, the claim of the lawsuit is that Otter is deliberately making a product which does not make it obvious that the call is being recorded, and by default does not send a pre-meeting notice that it will be joining and recording.
by triyambakam | 2025-08-18 16:54:59+00:00
Actually I have/had a lot of these. They can only be used with triple a batteries and don't last long. The usb c is only for development (and still lacks power so you still need batteries). The typing as maybe expected gets tiring. I tried using different compression ideas to save characters.

There is no resend or reliability in the message sending. If it fails you must retype it. I can't remember exactly if it even indicates it fails? I remember testing with two devices, one in a faraday to test bad conditions.

In the end they got salvaged for parts from my kids for other projects.

The goal was to have a simple backup/emergency communication device and get to learn about LoRa. Not sure which other devices I will try but definitely know more what to look for now.
by stevetron | 2025-08-18 16:55:19+00:00
I wouldn't trust it, myself. I was laying out a new circuit board design for a client when my eyesight went all wonky. It turns out I had a detached retina. Yhe first repair procedure failed. The second procedure went well. Then I got a cataract in that eye. My retina specialist sent me to a cataract specialist. The cataract specialist told me "I was allergic to laser beams" and didn't recommend cataract surgery. And also to get used to audiobooks. Like I could write program code and design GUI's by listening to audiobooks. For "fun" I read. Sometimes I write books. I put up with a 'weird' double vision and gave up driving a car. Audiobooks indeed.
by jethack | 2025-08-18 16:55:27+00:00
Sadly abbr with title doesn't work at all on mobile Chrome [1] or Firefox [2]. Probably not Safari either, since long press on mobile means "select text" so you'd have to do some CSS trickery (and trying to hit a word-sized target with a finger is quite annoying).

[1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/337222647 -> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41130053

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468007
by blitzar | 2025-08-18 16:55:31+00:00
> who is still on the call

On internet / app based systems yes ... but on legacy telephone systems you have to remember all 16 of the '<Person> is joining the call' and mentally check them off when you get the '<Person> is leaving the call' on the way out. Of course you have no idea who joined the meeting before you arrived.

You didnt even have to make the mistake once to know not to keep talking on the call anyone can dial into after you think everyone left.
by alexjplant | 2025-08-18 16:55:47+00:00
I started with CS: Source and quickly got into 1.6 because of the more expansive funmaps and modding scene. It was like the Wild West (or literally as was the case with de_westwood) - Nipper's penchant for glitchy drivable vehicles, ridiculously huge maps with teleports galore and weird music, fy_iceworld, gun game... it was so wonderfully weird. The fact that the core of the game stayed the same for so many years without DLC meant that people got good at it on their own merit without worrying about dropping money on upgrades or grinding long hours to get drops or whatever.

Maybe I'm old but I feel as though there's still a place for shooters of this nature. Every time I hear about new seasons dropping for some ultra-popular game I lose interest; I've no desire to keep up with the evolution of a game coordinated by a billion-dollar company to extract money from my wallet after I already paid for it.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-18 16:55:53+00:00
> What are you talking about? The return on investment from computers was immediate and extremely identifiable.

It is well-documented, and called the "productivity paradox of computers" if you want to look it up. It was identified in 1987, and economic statistics show that personal computing didn't become a net positive for the economy until around 1995-1997.

And like I said, it's very dependent on the individual company. But consider how many businesses bought computers and didn't use them productively. Where it was a net loss because the computers were expensive and the software was expensive and the efficiency gained wasn't worth the cost -- or worse, they weren't a good match and efficiency actually dropped. Think of how many expensive attempted migrations from paper processes to early databases failed completely.
by hellojesus | 2025-08-18 16:56:22+00:00
Do you get any pushback from users when it comes to the forced apple id to be able to use the computer or do updates?

I recently tried my former m1 air for the first time in a couple years, but the forced apple id to be able to even use the hardware soured my taste. That combined with the $99/year fee for development (vs one-time $35 fee for android) convinced me it wasn't worth my time, and I sold it.

Windows tries to do this, but you can at least bypass it with a pro version and a simple command during setup.
by Insanity | 2025-08-18 16:56:25+00:00
Ahh, I started playing CS back in 2004. I go back to it every year for a few weeks / months, but the latest iteration (CS2) leaves some things to be desired from the 'community server' perspective.

No good surf ("TDM") style games anymore, seems like that game mode has mainly died in favour of the timed surf game-mode.

So now I stick to the 'vanilla' game much more, but without a group of friends that plays regularly, it's a bit of a frustrating experience at times.
by themaninthedark | 2025-08-18 16:56:59+00:00
I would say, it pays more consistently than small jobs. As by nature small jobs are not generally continuous, most often piecemeal.

The other factors are: In any sort of manufacturing, the only time you are making money is when the equipment is making product.

If you are stopped for a change over or setup you are losing money. Changing over contains risk of improper setup, where you lose even more money since you produce unusable product.

Where I live, the local machine shops support themselves in two way: 1. Consistent volume work for an established customer. 2. Emergency work for other manufacturing sites: repair or reverse engineering and creating parts to support equipment(fast turn around and high cost)

They are willing to do small batches but lead times will be long since they have to work it into their production schedules.
by paulmoulinex123 | 2025-08-18 16:57:00+00:00
A lot of folks here seem sure that models cannot hold long-form context. In my experience that is not true. The real issues are model choice and how you frame the task. For the past few months I have been generating full-length fiction on topics I care about, and the quality is good enough that friends in blind reads get just as absorbed as with solid human-written work.

Example of a long book I put together in about 20 minutes: docs.google[dot]com/document/d/1mA-q1ugWRa6BaOghUTH17kYdjHpaNPIWgoNKg6OvOko/edit?usp=sharing Yes, there are rough edges, but the character arcs and the lore stay coherent from start to finish.

Disclosure: I am building an iOS app that lets anyone spin up a book with any cast and starting situation, in a voice close to a favorite author, and then steer the story while reading. On-demand long-form content is already here. It is just not packaged very conveniently yet.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-18 16:57:35+00:00
There's a lot of nuance to marked crossing vs not. You can definitely make an argument that waiting for a break in straight, undistracted, traffic and then jumping to the median is safer than trying to cross at an intersection where there's other things going on. If you do it right, it can be much safer.

On the other hand, if you do it wrong it can be way worse. Considering that we're talking about children who have no experience behind the wheel and no ability to accurately predict what the drivers will do I think "use a crosswalk and wait for traffic to let you cross" is likely the best advice.

All that said, your race baiting language policing game is stupid, malicious and actively detracts from the discussion.
by hackitup7 | 2025-08-18 16:57:40+00:00
So many great memories growing up playing this game decades ago, but you can still pick it up and have a blast. Counterstrike is a great example of a simplistic concept executed flawlessly, in a way that a lot of modern games choose not to match. It's the video game equivalent of soccer or beer pong, you can pick it up in 10 minutes and play forever.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-18 16:58:15+00:00
Of course it was.

It was six years older and this was the era when CPUs evolved massively from one generation to the next. Just like the Acorn 'Atom' was 'nothing like the BBC Micro' in spite of using the same processor.

For some contrast: when the BBC Model A came out in 1981 originally it had cassette tape as mass storage, an 8 bit cpu clocked at 2 MHz, 16K RAM and if you were very lucky yours came with the optional floppy drive which cost nearly as much as the machine itself. When the first ARM was sold to the public, six years later it came with a 32 bit RISC CPU clocked at 4 MHz, 512K or 1M of RAM, an ST 506 based harddrive option.

That's just six years of progress, and we're skipping over many steps in the lineage, the BBC Master series, the tube expansions and the Olivetti saga. You could pick 1980 to 1990 and write a pretty large book about personal computing progress during those years and you likely would still miss important events.

But the lineage was - for those that owned all of the intermediary machines as well - pretty clear, and that is before we get into the lineage of the software that the Archimedes shipped with, MOS and BBC Basic, which both worked more or less as you would expect given the new machines capabilities.
by lxgr | 2025-08-18 16:58:28+00:00
Some countries already do this!

For example, the German LF time signal, DCF77, dedicates some of its "spare bits" to broadcast civil protection and weather forecast information, the latter of which many simple LCD "home weather station" thermometers can receive and decode.

GNSS (navigation satellite systems like GPS or Galileo) are also an obvious candidate for this, given that essentially all phones already can receive their signals.
by brendang_sd | 2025-08-18 16:58:36+00:00
That’s part of it too, the bigger issue is the knowledge and consent of other participants.

I know someone who is involved in a lawsuit regarding a child, and one of the lawyers used this service to record and transcribe a very confidential meeting. Their first awareness of the illegal wiretapping by this company was when a summary email showed up at the end of the meeting. Needless to say, they weren’t happy, not just about the surreptitious recording, but also the discovery that the contents of that confidential coal will live forever in Otter’s training set. When the company was asked about this, they dismissed any kind of responsibility of their own, and noted it the responsibility of their subscribers to use the product appropriately.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-18 16:58:48+00:00
A question for folks who know things I don't: if I wanted my phones to work in an area without cell signal, for just me and my family, is it possible to build a "personal" cell tower that our phones would just connect to and work, and allow us to text each other? Or is there a whole layer of auth required for our various phones to actually be able to use a fake network?
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-08-18 16:59:07+00:00
Strange to be arguing for investing in children but against owning the roof over their heads, thus building community and stability.

I don't see why people would be interested in investing in community businesses when I can't even guarantee I can live in that community long enough to see a benefit because I'm at the whim of the land owner and might have to just move somewhere else because I can't own anything.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-18 16:59:09+00:00
The contortions people will go through to defend a technology or concept they like blows my mind. Irrational exuberance is one thing, but denial of history in order to lower the bar for the next big thing really irritates me for some reason.

Computing was revolutionary, both at enterprise and personal scale (separately). I would say smartphones were revolutionary. The internet was revolutionary, though it did take a while to get going at scale.

Blockchain was not revolutionary.

I think LLM-based AI is trending towards blockchain, not general purpose computing. In order for it to be revolutionary, it needs to objectively and quantifiably add value to the lives (professionally or personally) of a significant piece of the population. I don't see how that happens with LLMs. They aren't reliable enough and don't seem to have any path towards reasoning or understanding.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-18 16:59:11+00:00
I'm genuinely glad for the people in India. But that progress doesn't reduce the feeling of inequality here in the U.S.

Dismissing people with arguments doesn't work either. It doesn’t eliminate the feeling of inequality or change people's perspective about absolute vs relative wealth.

Why? Because the promise used to justify labor - that hard work will be rewarded - was deeply believed. The contradiction becomes visible when the wealthy hold 36,000 times more wealth than the average person[1]. No one can work 36,000 times harder or longer than someone else, so the belief is no longer tenable.

That leaves us with two choices: either acknowledge that "hard work alone" was never the full story, or take real steps to fix inequality. Pointing to poverty reduction in other countries doesn’t resolve this. It simply makes people feel unheard and resentful.

Average billionaire has $7B in wealth. Median individual U.S. wealth $190,000.
by everdrive | 2025-08-18 16:59:41+00:00
I'm 40+, have two kids under two, and I'm the parent who is doing the most cleaning. The problems I outlined in the example were _always_ true in my household, but the added stress of two kids have made the flaws in our process that much more clear. ie, we could do a fine enough imperfect job before we had any kids. With one kid it was busy but do-able, and with two kids I'm trying to get the household to rethink how we tackle this.

I didn't use kids in my example to preach to parents. I used it because it's painfully top of mind for me currently.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-08-18 16:59:51+00:00
Recently I stumbled upon an online port of CS 1.6, called play-cs.com.

It's just great - exactly the same game and works very smooth in a browser. I played it briefly for a few months and was happy I was able to get into the top rankings overall.

Just sharing it here if anyone wants to try it out.
by foxyv | 2025-08-18 17:00:14+00:00
An LLM based therapist should be tested like any other medical device. Your comment contains an underlying assumption that they are beneficial. That assumption has not been proven. It is just as likely that they are hurting the people they purport to help.

Without a bevy of studies to prove one way or another, their use is unethical at best and actively harmful at worst.
by _hyn3 | 2025-08-18 17:00:34+00:00
Excellent evaluation. From reading the code, it appears that the units for the numbers column is usually milliseconds (ms)

It also looks like squinn is the clear leader for most but not all of the benchmarks.

Even though it's "not scientific", is still very useful as a baseline - thanks for taking this effort and publishing your results!

Also taking a look at monibot.io , looks cool
by PhantomHour | 2025-08-18 17:00:49+00:00
I'm sorry but you're asking me here to dig up decades old data to justify my claim that "The spreadsheet software has an immediately identifiable ROI".

I am not going to do that. If you won't take it at my word that "computer doing a worksheet's of calculations automatically" is faster & less error-prone than "a human [with electronic calculator] doing that by hand", then that's a you problem.

An apple II cost $1300. VisiCalc cost $200. An accountant in that time would've cost ~10x that annually and would either spend quite a bit more than 10% doing the rote work, or hire dedicated people for it.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-18 17:00:53+00:00
> They are paying Google rather than building out their own products.

This is the real death knell people should focus on. Apple buried their AI R&D to rush complete flops like Vision Pro out the door. Now that the dust has settled, the opportunity cost of these hardware ventures was clearly a mistake. Apple had more than a decade to sharpen their knives and prepare for war with Nvidia, and now they're missing out on Nvidia's share of the datacenter market. Adding insult to injury, they're probably also ~10 years behind SOTA in the industry unless they hire well-paid veterans at great expense.

Apple's chronic disdain for unprofitable products, combined with boneheaded ambition, will be the death of them. They cannot obviate real innovation and competition while dropping nothingburger software and hardware products clearly intended to bilk an unconscious userbase.
by Insanity | 2025-08-18 17:01:32+00:00
Modding and mapping were what made CS great in my opinion. Since CS:GO, Valve has been quietly killing that scene by making it harder and harder for people to find these game modes.

But to be honest, I think it's an artifact of our (or at least my) generation. I've played CS for thousands of hours, same with l4d and cod2/4, and I don't _need_ a battle pass, seasons, constant updates etc. Though when chatting with my ~14 year younger cousin about this some months ago, he said it'd be "boring to play a game that doesn't get updates". So.. different times :)
by troupo | 2025-08-18 17:01:32+00:00
This is the first third of the article:

--- start quote ---

"Men would rather pop Viagra forever than let a leech near their body,” Dr. Andrei Dokukin says.

Dokukin, an alcoholic in recovery, received leech therapy himself to treat his liver cirrhosis. Dokukin tried hirudotherapy at the behest of his mother back in Russia, where it remains common practice. Five years later, he claims that his liver has fully compensated

Leeches have been used across centuries and cultures to treat a litany of conditions <list of different disparate conditions>.

The problem, however, is that we don’t know just how well they work. Despite leeches’ having gained FDA approval as a medical instrument in 2004, a frustrating lack of clinical evidence persists.

Still, it would be a mistake to write off leech therapy as an ancient tradition of little worth. Many highly beneficial modern treatments, from bacteriophage therapy to cancer drugs, began their journey as “folk remedies.”

--- end quote ---

I stopped reading after this lengthy intro. I think my paraphrasing is rather on point.

I've now skimmed the rest.

There's a very tiny section in "why leech works" that only describes hirudin as anticoagulant.

And then the conclusion: "Good remedies back in action" when actual "action" is that at vest it's a coagulant.

Oh look. The conclusion:

--- start quote ---

It may be some time before we can come up with robust evidence for the efficacy and safety of leech therapy. But that is not the crux of this story. People all over the world continue to use this treatment even in the absence of clinical evidence. It is mostly patients in the West who lose out.

--- end quote ---

Right. I have a set of healing crystals to sell to you
by svara | 2025-08-18 17:01:57+00:00
> Why WOULD it be assumed to be possible to get some solid generalized output via next token prediction when we haven’t seen it yet?

Because it's such a general concept that it doesn't imply any important limits in and of itself, as far as text based AI goes.

It really just means creating an output sequence from an input sequence in a discrete, iterative manner, by feeding the output back into the input.

Regarding your example, I've got to admit that's hilarious. I'm not sure it's as much of a fundamental issue even with current state of the art models that you make it sound; rather they're trained on being usable for role play scenarios. Claude even acknowledged as much when I just tried that and lead with "In this imaginative scenario, ..." And then went on similarly to yours.
by brobdingnagians | 2025-08-18 17:02:20+00:00
We recently got a customer support request asking if we were going to "implement AI" on our website and then saying we could use it in our marketing if we did. No suggestion as to why they would find it useful, or what feature could be augmented with it. It's crazy that the hype is so high that random non-tech users suggest adding AI for marketing.