MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crooked-v | 2025-09-10 21:44:57+00:00
Criminals, plus the other (and this is a very lowball number) 50,000+ people incarcerated for life with no due process. El Salvador has incarcated 2.5% of the entire adult population, most of those in sham mass trials where an entire group of people get marched through the same kangaroo court with no individual legal process.
by marcodiego | 2025-09-10 21:45:13+00:00
This is interesting, but there was something that was even more impressive many years ago: a GTK theme that rendered all decoration and widgets using text chars and a GDK backend that rendered to text. Combine both and you could run any GTK app on a terminal with legible text and a beautiful TUI.

http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/
by ignoramous | 2025-09-10 21:45:15+00:00
> As for disabling JIT, it would have the same effect as early Androids

DVM tried to mitigate the slowness with JIT+SSA, but ART mixed in JIT+SSA alongside AOT+PGO (that is, a no JITing ART means a full AOT ART, unlike in DVM where the Interp takes over when in vmSafeMode). Even if the runtime will continue to lag in terms of power/performance efficiency wrt ObjC/Swift, Google should at least let the developers decide if they want to disallow JIT from creating executable memory regions inside their app's sandbox, like Apple does: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/hardened-...
by kybernetikos | 2025-09-10 21:45:37+00:00
For fun over the last few days, I've built a compressor / decompressor that uses the logits from an LLM, for each token in the input, then takes the ranks and exponential goolomb encodes them. Then you work in reverse to regenerate the original

It took me ages to get the prediction for the second token after "hello" to match the same as the prediction for the second token when running the model on the string "hello world", despite the fact that I was using a causal model. I tried all kinds of things before discovering that `quantized: false` was the important setting.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-10 21:45:45+00:00
Another one of those things that will separate humans on different levels of consciousness even more.

Enough people simply don't want to train their minds. For a lot of people, IT is just a job. Programmers, consultants, ... CEOs and CTOs, people want money and that's fine. Some just don't want a boss.

Some of these people will replace the training of their minds with other stuff, pure experience and laughter. Somewhere else all the time. Other will only train specific parts of their minds, actively or passively.

The big question is, IMO: what will the young face when they enter school, when they enter university, the job market. Will humanity be able to keep the variety it is currently maintaining or is the reduction one of the first steps towards singularity?

All above is rather obvious but the side effects of outsourcing much of everything systematic and structural to AI will build up. Will people care less or more about law and justice? Or just the same? Privacy? Safety? Morals and ethics?

MITM already create a rift between customers and companies. AI will make this rift bigger.

So it's not just the training of the mind that we can't circumvent, it's the (heartwarming I know) the heart as well. How to care for your creation, product and customer if your are completely alienated from almost everything except the balance sheet? Ah, wait, there are a couple of million people like that already. So we'll just have more of those. But don't they read a lot and cooperate and mentor and fiddle with politics, investments and are life long learners and stuff ... I wonder.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 21:45:46+00:00
Not really. The great filter idea is only one of many proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox. The Dark Forest hypothesis would have the universe filled with life, which is all in deep hiding from an intergalactic civilization hellbent on destroying all other life.

Personally I think the great filter is a dumb idea for precisely the reason you posit. The universe is (probably) infinite, which means there's an infinite probability that we aren't special or alone. Maybe we're the first; the universe is (relatively) pretty young from what we can tell. I doubt that too, but I think it's one of the most plausible explanations.

But really what it comes down to is that in an infinite universe, the probability of anything happening exaxtlt once is infinitely small. It is infinitely more probable that there is or will be other life out there.

Really, out of uncountable trillions of planets in trillions of galaxies across tens of billions of years, how could it be that exactly one planet can produce life? I think it's egotistical navel-gazing in the extreme to assume we're alone.
by galangalalgol | 2025-09-10 21:45:53+00:00
There aren't any instances of politically motivated violence within a society increasing its fairness or plurality. That happens only when a large majority view it as desirable and worth risking harm for. Right now the US, Turkey and Poland are relatively evenly split between those who want more pluralism at the price of a decaying status quo, and those willing to discard that pluralism to fight what they view as existential threats to their society. They might not be wrong about the threats, but discarding political freedoms selectively doesn't work. The point is that in a polarized context, political violence only decreases pluralism, no matter who is better at killing. This political violence becoming self reinforcing is just as deadly to our democracy as a failure of judicial independence. The way back involves climbing out of echo chambers and having calm rational conversations with people who hold views you find incomprehensible. So that you can comprehend them. What are they worried about that drives their priorities? Don't dismiss those worries. The majority in any society want fairness and rule of law and to be able to meet their needs. The minority get us disagreeing on how those common goals should be pursued so that they can prevent it happening. Go find some grounds for agreement.
by Prcmaker | 2025-09-10 21:45:59+00:00
My position is that I've been in a failing start-up for years. Public company, but has burned through all their investment and has reached its ending days spiral. Small amount of equity has declined to be worth next to nothing, passion for the work has declined, both myself and more broadly.

On a week of vacation leave, I went and helped an extended family member in their home business. It combines the best aspects of my past three jobs. High tech, optics, design and manufacture, it's hard, and it's fascinating. There's a clear path to profit, with demand. Might be weeks, might be months, but in the meantime I can't make enough to cover my costs.

I can't risk my family's security. Having loved out of my car while studying, despite over a decade passing, the memory is fresh.

A pay cut would be fine, worth it, but the risk feels so high.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-10 21:46:03+00:00
What if you are reading an interesting book ? I think it would be a great way to train your attention to the level it used to be.

And if you can’t even do that, I suggest you start reading a book right before sleeping until you pass out. Every night. You will fall asleep extremely fast at beginning but I managed to get back to reading while having extreme difficulty concentrating from a completely different illness than TikTok. It only took 2 years.
by PhilippGille | 2025-09-10 21:46:12+00:00
I think micropayments are important for a healthy web economy.

In 2018 I built a pay-per-call API paywall using the Lightning Network (a Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol/network that enables instant, low-fee payments): https://github.com/philippgille/ln-paywall

But most people are either unwilling to touch crypto at all, or holding on to it tightly as investment and not willing to use as payment. So I wish you luck to make this work in the fiat world!
by daralthus | 2025-09-10 21:46:28+00:00
I thought this was pretty well known (at least in the JAX/XLA world). I've hit this many times and got batch variance explained to me before: https://github.com/google-deepmind/penzai/issues/82 and https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/issues/20047#issuecomment-1975...
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-10 21:46:30+00:00
many are desensitized, for anyone reading, if you consider yourself that way it’s not haunting or giving feelings of sickness, it depicts a predictable outcome of a high powered shot that hits an artery in a neck. No ability or physical capability for your body to react no matter who you are.

It is graphic and shows how fragile we are, how it will go down if you are in that situation
by philwelch | 2025-09-10 21:46:39+00:00
> When people chose that, would that be considered drawing attention to their skimcolor or gender

Absolutely. But let me posit a scenario that’s actually realistic.

Suppose you’re running an orchestra. People are concerned about discrimination so you implement a blind audition policy where the auditioning musician can’t actually be seen by the people evaluating their performance. Afterwards, it turns out your orchestra is still predominantly made up of white and East Asian musicians so you decide to make the blind audition optional and make a bunch of tedious statements about how the orchestra isn’t diverse enough and you want more underrepresented minorities. What’s going to happen then is that the underrepresented minorities are going to do non-blind auditions because you’ve all but promised them you’d give them preference while the white and Asian musicians will continue doing blind auditions.
by zzrrt | 2025-09-10 21:47:00+00:00
Like many pro-gun Americans, he said "The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government." https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-charlie-kirk-once-20550...

Is that not pro- political violence, albeit at some vague threshold that's hoped to never be breached?
by tguvot | 2025-09-10 21:47:05+00:00
unrwa schools teach since 50s about liberation of entire palestine from jews by force[0], jihad and glorification of martyrs[9]. change of curriculum was one of main israeli demands since oslo days because it was obvious that when you teach hate in schools it's not going to end up well for anyone. not sure that "even more hate" is something that people in Israel care about now.

Israel was biggest employer of palestinians from gaza and west bank. In fact, week before oct 7 number of work permits for gazans went up by 10k or 15k. This was because there were thought that economically stable gaza will be less likely violent and that hamas is somewhat interested in state building and prosperity. In aftermath of oct 7th turned out that workers from gaza (with permits) were scouting areas where they worked in order to make a detailed maps for attack and a bunch of attackers actually carried work permits.

when israel left gaza in 2005, inside israel was popular expression that "now that palestinians have complete self rule there, it's up to them what to build there, singapore or somali".

there is an israeli investor [1] who created design center in gaza, donated there money to hospital and employed palestinians from gaza and west bank. he daugher was murdered at nova. a bunch of people who lived in kibutzim around gaza were hardcore left and used to drive palestinians from gaza to treatments in israeli hospitals. they were murdered as well.

[0] https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1961/10/208-4/132...

[9] https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/Gazas-Education...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67679634
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-10 21:47:14+00:00
> The USA has four times as many guns per capita as Finland

42% of US households have one or more guns. 37% of Finland households have one or more guns. That US collectors are aficionados doesn't seem relevant. Access to guns is similar.

> And in fact Finland has a much higher gun death rate

This is an amazing claim given everything we've talked about. Finland's homicide rate is the same as Germany's, and significantly lower than the UK. Do you understand how catastrophic this is for your very argument?

There are more guns so murderous people use them, but murderous people have other methods otherwise, as seen by the UK having over 40% more murders despite having 1/7th the number of households with guns...
by recursivecaveat | 2025-09-10 21:47:20+00:00
I have to stop people from doing this in presentations all the time lol. Just say "Runtime decreased from 117s to 34". It is really easy to mentally compare two numbers; it is much harder to start with "Runtime decreased by 71% to 34s" and find the old value. Equally brief, never any ambiguity, easier on the mind, and no weird explosions as you approach zero.
by digitalbullshit | 2025-09-10 21:47:27+00:00
Hello. I witnessed racial and religious persecution.

I can tell you my stories. But I always wonder what is the alternative when someone like me is attacked? Should I give my left cheek? Should I attempt to be a pacifist?

People who are against violence by all means necessary are privileged because they never have to witness someone’s head roll down. So they don’t know how it feels to be the receiving end of suffering.
by bradgranath | 2025-09-10 21:47:33+00:00
The only sources cited are you and the anonymous testimonials from your website. I don’t see anywhere in the article that says that anyone at Fortune has ever seen your product at work, let alone that someone at Fortune observed it outperforming human negotiators.

And to top it off, it says right at the bottom that it was written by AI.

This is an ad.
by Amezarak | 2025-09-10 21:47:47+00:00
Yeah, there are just so many mismatches it doesn't make sense.

- Nearly all European countries have and support a very high consumption tax (VAT). In the US, nobody would be really for this (although some conservatives favor such taxes), but US liberals would be extremely against it due to the regressive nature of consumption taxes.

- The majority of EU countries institute voter ID laws, something supported only by conservatives in the US. States with voter ID laws almost always allow some valid voter ID to be gotten for free, but they are still opposed by liberals.

There are plenty of other examples when you start thinking about it.
by kidehen2 | 2025-09-10 21:48:07+00:00
RDF provides a very natural layer for AI systems. Today, LLM-based AI systems are fundamentally challenged by hallucinations, which makes RDF-based knowledge graphs—constructed using Linked Data Principles—a powerful complement. By using hyperlinks to denote edges and nodes, these graphs enable context enrichment through ontology lookups combined with reasoning and inference.

For a detailed post on this synergy, see: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/large-language-models-llms-po...

Disclaimer: I am the Founder & CEO of OpenLink Software, creators of Virtuoso.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-10 21:48:18+00:00
They already have a 45% income tax above €177k, a 30% capital gains tax, a 36.2% real estate gains tax, and a corporate tax rate of 25% - much higher than their peers in the rest of the EU.

The reality is France can't afford the status quo (in reality, only the expansion from 2005-25 was prolifigate) much longer.

Under IMF or ECB receivership, taxes would rise AND social services would be cut. By cutting stuff today, they can at least minimize the pain from cuts.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-10 21:48:24+00:00
> to say “people (writ large) are okay with sex trafficking”

They certainly seem okay with it but it's difficult to know for sure without polling them. Perhaps we have to wait for midterms to see if they re-elect the congressmen who voted against releasing the files.

The rest is just infantilizing adults. They won, they are in power, they reap the benefits and consequences.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-10 21:48:30+00:00
Only a tiny minority of firearms need to be registered. My guess is that covers NFA weapons like machine-guns, which are uncommon. Virtually all typical firearms people own don't need to be registered.

No one really knows how many firearms there are in the US or who owns them. Just the fact that something like 15 million firearms are sold every year in the US gives a sense of the scale. The number of firearms in the US is staggering, no one knows the true number, and they have an indefinite lifespan if stored in halfway decent conditions.
by Fricken | 2025-09-10 21:48:44+00:00
>There's a lot of diversity in terms of other on-board hardware, software architecture, and the role of geospatial data in the AV system

I'm curious to know where you get information on stuff like this. The Google self-driving car project was fairly transparent in the early days but since things have gotten competitive everybody is pretty tight-lipped about the particulars of what they're doing.
by pixl97 | 2025-09-10 21:48:47+00:00
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-...

>"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe." --Charlie Kirk 2023

Is irony a sickness? It may be unpleasant, but as he says, maybe it's a prudent deal.
by engeljohnb | 2025-09-10 21:49:23+00:00
10-15 minute videos are usually nothing more than an extended /r/todayilearned post. I'm not interested in learning some new trivia, I like it when the videos are structured and detailed in a way that makes it flow like a narrative. Although some creators (like Quinton Reviews) pad with unnecessary fluff, most of the really popylar ones (Hbomberguy, Lemino, Jenny Nicholson, Lindsay Ellis, Summoning Salt) don't.

You could argue that anything except the thesis statement is a "waste of time," but the videos are for entertainment at the end of the day.It wouldn't entertaining for someone to say "The Oof sound in Roblox was invented by Joey Kuras for a game called Messiah. Tommy Tallarico says he made it but he probably didn't." then the video ends.

What is fun is watching a long deep-dive pulling apart all the ridiculous lies and exaggerations of a fascinating narcissist like Tallarico.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-10 21:49:26+00:00
(a) Just Stop Oil has disbanded.

(b) They only pulled that stunt on art that was already behind suitably-protective covers. (Whether the stunt is effective or not, they weren't putting artwork at risk: just temporarily disrupting the operation of galleries, and getting themselves arrested.)

(c) This is completely off-topic.
by spc476 | 2025-09-10 21:49:28+00:00
The hardest bug I had to track down took over a month, and a debugger wouldn't have helped one bit.

On the development system, the program would only crash, under a heavy load, on the order of hours (like over 12 hours, sometimes over 24 hours). On the production system, on the order of minutes (usually less than a hour). But never immediately. The program itself was a single process, no threads what-so-ever. Core dumps were useless as they were inconsistent (the crash was never in the same place twice).

I do think that valgrind (had I known about it at the time) would have found it ... maybe. It might have caught the memory corruption, but not the actual root cause of the memory corruption. The root cause was a signal handler (so my "non-threaded code" was technically, "threaded code") calling non-async-safe functions, such as malloc() (not directly, but in code called by the signal handler). Tough lesson I haven't forgotten.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-10 21:49:43+00:00
I assure you we do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Insurance_Contribution...

> The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA /ˈfaɪkə/) is a United States federal payroll (or employment) tax payable by both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare—federal programs that provide benefits for retirees, people with disabilities, and children of deceased workers.

7.65% of your check until you hit the cap. Employer pays a similar amount.
by drak0n1c | 2025-09-10 21:49:58+00:00
I'm old enough to recall MSNBC in 2011 cropping video footage of an Obama townhall protestor to only show his long-sleeve shirted back with slung open-carry rifle. They used it to immediately launch into a pundit discussion claiming that the protestors were motivated by racial animus. Turned out the protestor was black.

News manipulating footage to cast aspersions to historical boogeymen is routine. All it takes is one pundit mentioning an imagined similarity to play the edited B-roll.
by ralfd | 2025-09-10 21:50:03+00:00
> For the “POWERFUL HEX SPELL,” I had to provide Kirk’s date of birth for “accuracy.” The witch performed the hex, but her response was unsettling: “I just completed your spell, and it was successful. You will see the first results within 2–3 weeks. However, I did notice disturbances… negative energy not only from you, but projected at you. Likely from toxic family members, co-workers, or new acquaintances.”

Wow!
by otterley | 2025-09-10 21:50:08+00:00
> A gun license literally means you are licensed to use this weapon for sport or self defense.

I don't know what that has to do with anything. Plus, the 2A forbids mandatory licensing for firearms users.

> I’m not a public figure but I support the 2A, would you feel sorry for me if I was shot giving a speech?

It's not about whether someone supports the 2A or not. It's what they do with their lives that matters. If a person's life's mission is to deny white privilege and defend the 2A despite its obvious risks, then make a public statement that school shootings are an acceptable price to pay so that we can have it, then no, I'm not going to feel sorry for that person if they are shot. It's poetic justice. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

> Would you feel different if Charlie was murdered by a machete or hand grenade?

A machete, yes. That has a legitimate use; as with a car, its primary purpose is not to hurt people. A hand grenade, no, as its primary purpose is to harm people, and Mr. Kirk's mission was to protect the rights of those who want to possess devices whose sole purpose is to harm people.
by gobdovan | 2025-09-10 21:50:19+00:00
Pretty cool. Not from a big firm, but I really like the idea of adding metadata to PRs! One counterintuitive thing about navigation is that I keep hitting the Back button, hoping to go back to `Pull request summary`, which feels like the main navigation page, but nothing happens. You already implement navigation back and forward in history, so why not do it in the browser router too?
by tolerance | 2025-09-10 21:50:31+00:00
Welp. You caught me. And I appreciate your point.

I still might batch process all my notes to break at words up to 72 characters anyway! But I’ll be mindful to where safety goggles and proofread before grinding axes in public.

And I’m leaving the typo above in situ so as not to mislead you that I’m less prone to error under normal circumstances. I’m a WIP.
by kanodiaashu | 2025-09-10 21:50:51+00:00
I would really want to use this, maybe about once a week, for major PRs. I find it absurd that we all get AI help writing large features but very little help when doing the approx same job in reviewing that code. I actually would even read my own PRs with it, as my workflow with AI is to prompt it to acheive building some feature/goal, then only review the code once things work (this is an oversimplification).
by giveita | 2025-09-10 21:51:03+00:00
What's the Weissman score? Or more seriously :) did it perform well. Sounds like it should. If more and more text is AI slop it should do well.

I dont fully understand what you said but I guess higher probability logits are encoded with fewer bits. If your text is the LLM output then you may need a bit or two per token?