MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-10 00:18:22+00:00
Let's use neither term in some situations then.

It's not just "imprecise" when the term claims exactly one thing and that thing didn't happen.

If people start referring to any non-immediate disclosure as "coordinated", that causes the same kind of bad effect you were worried about. People get pressured to coordinate because they think most researchers are always coordinating. I don't want that to happen either.

I would never say "irresponsible" just because of timing. You're right that "responsible" is a mess. But "coordinated" if misused also is a mess and also gets coercive.
by jrockway | 2025-09-10 00:19:21+00:00
I think the reality is that your phone will always encounter something that can damage it (unless it's made out of diamond), and a case lets you easily replace the damaged part.

Just subjectively, I remember having a super scratched iPod and it just felt kind of ratty every time you looked at it. Meanwhile, a phone in a leather case gets kind of a patina that improves with age. It is kind of sad though, I got a really pretty blue iPhone and you wouldn't even know it because it's completely covered by a case.
by Retric | 2025-09-10 00:19:22+00:00
You linked CPI for July which covers 7 out of 12 months. However, pricing data isn’t quite inflation data as that includes housing data which is sampled every 6 months.

Now if you’re happy comparing 12 month CPI averages ending in July then sure 2025’s July was 0.2% lower than 2024’s July. But I’m assuming you’re talking Jan-Dec 2024 which we have vs Jan-Dec 2025 which IMO is to early to call.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-10 00:19:23+00:00
So if an organisation emails you from no-reply@notifications.example.com, mailing-list@examplemail.com, and bob.smith@examplecorp.com, and the phisher emails you from support@example.help, which filter based on their from addresses makes all the legitimate ones show up as the same sender while excluding the phishing email?
by skissane | 2025-09-10 00:19:36+00:00
Historically the colour “yellow” was associated with East Asian people, not people of European descent-who for whatever reason got associated with the colour “white”, despite the fact European skin colour is more pinky/peachy (but getting more “olive” as one heads south). And keep in mind emoji were invented in Japan, where I don’t think anybody was thinking “yellow smiley face=European ancestry”
by waterTanuki | 2025-09-10 00:20:31+00:00
That's really underselling it. Gaokao determines where you can live, where you can work, who your friends are, occasionally how much your family values you. They shut down airspace and conduct military/police patrols during examinations to sniff out cheaters. It's only the very wealthy who can just uproot their lives and send their kids to an Ivy/Stanford/Oxbridge/MIT and just skip the whole thing.

Responding to the OC, this is a downright awful solution to the current education problem in the U.S.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/PDF/9780674295391_sam...
by terminalshort | 2025-09-10 00:21:04+00:00
> Develop and publish safety frameworks, which describe how they manage, assess, and mitigate catastrophic risks—risks that could foreseeably and materially contribute to a mass casualty incident or substantial monetary damages.

> Report critical safety incidents to the state within 15 days, and even confidentially disclose summaries of any assessments of the potential for catastrophic risk from the use of internally-deployed models.

> Provide clear whistleblower protections that cover violations of these requirements as well as specific and substantial dangers to public health/safety from catastrophic risk.

So just a bunch of useless bureaucracy to act as a moat to competition. The current generation of models is nowhere close to being capable of generating any sort of catastrophic outcome.
by Pxtl | 2025-09-10 00:21:43+00:00
Yeah when my last phone case broke I tried carrying it nude and that was what immediately struck me. So I bought some adhesive rubber knurl stickers for the edges but they wouldn't stay on because my Pixel 7 has a curved edge - would probably work well on a phone with a flat edge.

I stuck on a MagSafe metal sticker thing on the back and that little bit of greebling makes me feel a bit better holding it.
by al_borland | 2025-09-10 00:21:51+00:00
I prefer a debit card to a credit card. I like seeing what I actually have in my accounts without having to worry about future payments for past purchases. I also like that the balance goes down instead of up when money is spent. The way credit cards display the balance feels like a physiological trick, and I’m sure it’s intentional.

I do still have one credit card to maintain my credit score, just because I ran into several annoying situations early in life when I didn’t have a credit history at all. I use it for stuff I have on auto-pay, and the bill gets auto-paid, so I never have to look at it or think about it, so I can avoid most of their attempted manipulation.
by MostlyFragile | 2025-09-10 00:22:18+00:00
As a young person with Multiple Myeloma, these articles give me hope but I know a cure is a long way off.

I feel like I'm at the stage where Ill be one of the last people to die from it or I'll be one of the first to be cured of it.

I'm watching companies like Deepmind with great interest. It's my hope that these AI tools speeds up a cure before it's too late.
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-10 00:22:21+00:00
The way these people think - if employees like it, it must be a perk/benefit.

Therefore with the current job market we don’t need to be generous with it.

Related - JPMorgan is opening a new HQ with a big nice gym, and plan to charge employees to use it, lol. Thanks I’ll just leave the building Jamie.
by tonypapousek | 2025-09-10 00:22:30+00:00
> credit card to automatically purchase stuff on your behalf

Why would anyone _want_ that?

Or, let’s pretend for a moment they did, wouldn’t it make more sense to grant access to a purchasing account (e.g. Amazon) with payment info pre-linked?

Especially given the “record absolutely everything for evidence” approach companies are taking, giving them auto access to payment info isn’t very smart.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 00:22:37+00:00
No, it hasn't. The small web is quite healthy to this day. I haven't heard anyone who actually runs services like this complain about any of the problems you suggest.

Those problems only happen to large entities. There's simply nothing to gain from DDoSing frankshobbytrainsandflowers.com other than sheer malice, and then it only lasts for as long as you care to spend resources. Frank won't care and likely won't notice if his website is unreachable for any length of time.

Conflating the small web with enterprise problems is an extremely ignorant take.

Besides, the single biggest threat today is not some motivated attacker trying to deprive you of your three visitors a week, the threat is gigacorps exploiting the public commons with reckless abandon. The only thing small web admins are actually concerned about is LLM scrapers.

You should try actually talking to small web admins before spouting off nonsense like this.
by ajross | 2025-09-10 00:22:50+00:00
The only people certain about economics are the kind of folks who run around on HN talking about "printing money". Too lazy to look up your post history to see which camp you belong in.

But no, macroeconomics is understood from sound general principles, but it is not a robust predictive theory. The analogy upthread to Navier-Stokes is apt.
by baby | 2025-09-10 00:23:09+00:00
I remember thinking that the first iPad was dorky, oh boy did I misread the market.

Oh and I remember everyone mocking the airpods pro when they came out. Now everyone is wearing them.

For phones what really matters for most people is... the screen size. And a folding phone is basically the best thing you can get right now for that.

The only problem is pricing at the moment.
by p1necone | 2025-09-10 00:23:43+00:00
It's a hard question to answer for products that rely on user created content like this.

Rumble and vimeo provide basically the same service, but if you got fed up with YouTube and wanted to take your money (eyeballs) elsewhere, you can't, because rumble and vimeo don't have the same content at all. And if you were a creator you can't take your content elsewhere because there's no viewers.
by xyst | 2025-09-10 00:24:19+00:00
I wonder why parents are not in the home. Could it be a rising cost of living far outpacing the wage increases? Decades of wage stagnation? Decades of boomers ripping up our safety nets? Decades of Reaganomics that have eroded trust in our government?

We have decades of evidence yet these types of comments still pop up.

Why aReNt PaReNts HomE eNoUgH? Are they stupid??
by VirgilH2Oss | 2025-09-10 00:24:31+00:00
This is a just-published preprint on Zenodo. It lays out a falsifiability scaffold for a void-based unified field approach linking EM and GR through ratios only (dimensionless structure). Absolute calibration is deferred to Part II.

Paper is here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17081170

I’m interested in feedback, criticism, and discussion — both from physicists and from those who care about Science. Strong pushback is welcome.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-10 00:24:51+00:00
LocalLLMs would be useful for low latency local language processing/home control, assuming they ever become fast enough where the 500ms to 1s network latency becomes a dominate factor in having a fluid conversation with a voice assistant. Right now the pauses are unbearable for anything but one way commands (Siri, do something! - 3 seconds later it starts doing the thing...that works but it wouldn't work if Siri needed to ask follow up questions). This is even more important if we consider low latency gaming situations.

Mobile applications are also relevant. An LLM in your car could be used for local intelligence. I'm pretty sure self driving cars use some about of local AI already (although obviously not LLM, and I don't really know how much of their processing is local vs done on a server somewhere).

If models stop advancing at a fast clip, hardware will eventually become fast and cheap enough that running models locally isn't something we think about as being a non-sensical luxury, in the same way that we don't think that rendering graphics locally is a luxury even though remote rendering is possible.
by pas | 2025-09-10 00:25:08+00:00
If the EU and US would each commit to build, fund 100+ NPPs over the next years then it would make sense to gear up for a scheme.

Unfortunately each plant is a fucking special snowflake. Due to new sites somehow requiring changes which is absurd, since the containment and everything under it should be 1:1 copy, right? Yes, because the NRC doesn't work like that. Designs are tweaked.

Anyway as you said it's a very expensive bespoke weld and pour festival.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-10 00:25:44+00:00
I feel like these more extreme efforts barely qualify as running Doom. Technically I guess it's Doom in pure SQL, not running on it (since that suggests hardware).

Other efforts such as Doom (like) CAPTCHA or Doom in TypeScript types are either so incomplete, unplayable, or so absurdly abstract that it strikes me as desperate cries for attention.

That said, people have all kinds of weird interests, so to each their own. I'd just prefer these absurd efforts didn't take up so much attention that they distract from artistic efforts with more to say than "look what I can do". Even some other efforts in Doom; like "Thatcher's Techbase", "Kriegsland: Blutorden", "Blades of Agony", or HDoom.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-10 00:25:53+00:00
>modern desktop operating systems are not really designed for strong security boundaries

I agree, I do not want AI anywhere near my Laptop. But there are Operating Systems that do not and probably never be controlled by "AI".

The quote above is curious, there are OSs with strong security. OpenBSD is touted as one, plus there is Linux and other BSDs, which can be configured to be far more secure than the operating systems the article is referring to.
by bhelkey | 2025-09-10 00:26:39+00:00
> i dont believe that nobody would want to build much of the things we have now, if there wasnt IP around them. Making and inventing things is fun

People write fanfiction without being paid, however, Avatar 2 cost hundreds of millions to produce [1]. The studio didn't spend this money for the heck of it, they spent this money with the hope of recouping their investment.

If no one can make money off of intellectual property, people will continue writing fanfiction. But why would a studio spend hundreds of millions making a blockbuster movie?

[1] https://variety.com/2022/film/news/avatar-2-budget-expensive...
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 00:26:54+00:00
For anyone about to disagree with this; you've been lied to.

Many thousands of admins are currently operating independent email servers with zero problem, and have been for decades. Mine is going on 15 years. In practice, you have to actually try pretty hard to misbehave enough for Google and Microsoft to notice and block you. For the vast majority of independent servers, we have no problems at all routing to gmail or outlook.

Reports of the death of decentralized email have been greatly exaggerated. Independent mail servers are alive and well to this day, just as they always have been and (probably) always will.
by thelastgallon | 2025-09-10 00:27:17+00:00
The Average College Student Is Illiterate. Students are not what they used to be. The crisis is worse than you think: https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-average-college-stude...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43522966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537808
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-10 00:27:27+00:00
2 is overrated, there are 25 approaches to quantum gravity in Wikipedia the problem is not formulating such a theory it is doing the experiment to prove it.

5. never. Cancer is more than one disease, I can imagine it finds a way to cure some cancers but if you think there is a cure for “cancer” you don’t know what cancer is.

7. Emily noether already disproved it.

10. Metal fists?

11. Easy. It won’t die if it fucks up.

12. Will happen with or without AI

16. I was trained as a quantum mechanic and I don’t care.
by kelnos | 2025-09-10 00:28:08+00:00
> And what about $OTHER_AI_COMPANY, who did the same thing?

If there's evidence of this that will stand up in court, they should be sued as well, and they'll presumably lose. If this hasn't happened, or isn't in the works, then I guess they covered their tracks well enough. That's unfortunate, but that's life.
by Draiken | 2025-09-10 00:28:21+00:00
Honestly reading comments in these types of news on HN makes me lose some hope in humanity. People are actively against anything that's not helpful for them and salivate at the idea of somehow profiting on top without a care for the human needs underneath it all.

They cite government inefficiencies when they just want to "fix them" by pocketing the difference.

It's depressing how much capitalism propaganda is deeply ingrained in so many supposedly smart people.
by habinero | 2025-09-10 00:28:36+00:00
> I've never understood why women are so eager to go work

You're romanticizing it, that's why. Staying at home and not working makes you incredibly vulnerable. You're entirely reliant on the goodwill of someone else, and you can end up trapped, unable to leave a bad situation because you have no access to money. Or your husband just leaves you with kids to feed and no money to do it with.

It's fine if you choose to do it with a partner who treats you as an equal, but there's a reason why female suicides instantly dropped by 20%[0] when no-fault divorce was adopted by their state.

If you want another data point, ask your older female relatives what their mothers and grandmothers told them about money. Bet you more than a few will have a story where they were told to save money in a secret place and never, ever tell their husbands about it.

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w10175
by mintplant | 2025-09-10 00:28:51+00:00
I noticed that, too, but I thought perhaps the write-up was simply "LLM-assisted".

I came across this while debugging the "Malformed anchor records, not an array" log message on iOS 18.6.2 and seeing weird behavior: some parts of the system suddenly rejecting certificates with an anchor error (the MDM layer) while other parts accepted them just fine (Safari). So that's n=2 for something being wrong with the trust system in recent iOS versions.
by araes | 2025-09-10 00:28:54+00:00
Add a couple thoughts to that general idea:

- There's also a reward issue, in that reading, especially long form is "soft punished." It's not directly punished, yet there's very little reward, mostly a lot of struggle, not much of the candy feedback of TV, movies, and video games. It requires personal imagination and visualization of often difficult concepts rather than simply taking what someone else has "imagined correctly" for you. If you've never seen the Lord of the Rings movies, imaging what Frodo, Aragorn, and the rest are actually doing, where they're going, and the struggling through Tolkien's complicated prose is quite challenging. And socially, there's also significant peer pressure issues involved, that evoke “epidemic” or “contagion” comparisons. Once large numbers of peers discount reading, then the population on average starts receiving negative feedback. Notably, if peers are high achievers, then students who interact with these peers may also adopt those habits. [1]

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jameskim/files/jep-peer_in...

- Part that's less nefarious, like a teen highlights about the difficulties of reading in this paper [2] (pg 34.) "You can’t ask a book to explain what it means right now. I go to people because of their interactive nature."

[2] https://alair.ala.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/0051cf84-91...

- The social media companies and the world wide web culture in general have also implemented a form of reading detriment. There's little reward to blogging, writing, or reading long form writing. Incendiary writing and rage-farming was long ago found to be an extremely effective tactic compared to informative discussion. And a lot of the time, almost all you can look forward to with your informative post is your contribution being aggressively scraped, while being compensated nothing, and then churned out to make someone else money.

- There's actually a few positive though, apparently teen and juvenile literature is actually increasing in sales somewhat from [2] compared with adult literature sales. Young adult books have been the fastest-growing category over the last 5 years, with print unit sales jumping by 48.2% since 2018. 35.03 million print copies of young adult (YA) books are sold each year as of 2022. [3]

[3] https://wordsrated.com/young-adult-book-sales/#:~:text=Compa...

- You may be slightly down biasing how much people read Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit edition from 2007 has 76,000 ratings and 12,000 reviews on Amazon. [4]

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0618968636/re...
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-10 00:28:56+00:00
Because he’s a football coach and there is almost always an implication that you toe the line or face reprisal.

It’s also in poor taste. Jesus himself commented on performative piety:

“Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may observe them doing so. Amen, I say to you, they have already received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees everything that is done in secret will reward you“
by linuxhansl | 2025-09-10 00:29:01+00:00
I followed a different approach with my son. We gave him a phone pretty early, and didn't even have a lot of rules around it (no family controls, etc).

The agreement I had with him: "Scroll all day, play video games, etc. That is my side of the agreement. And you also do your school work, learn, practice for exams, homework, etc. That is your side of the agreement. I'll trust you. If your grades get worse, i.e. you need help managing device time, we'll review/change this agreement."

We also sat down many times looking at content together, in attempt to teach him what's trust-worthy and what isn't, what's "healthy" and what isn't, etc. And of course we do other things together as well.

So far (knock on wood) my son has managed well - he is 16 now. He organizes his own time, and has learned when to play and when to work. And crucially he has learned when to disconnect from his devices to do what's necessary.

No kid is the same. I am not saying my approach is best or even right, I just offer it as another data point.
by myth2018 | 2025-09-10 00:29:37+00:00
> Likewise many companies in my slice of the industry point to one of the big leaders RTO policies as the reason to do the same

This also explains other things, not only RTO. Like when the mass layoffs started about three years ago. Overstaffed big-tech fired a few thousand allegedly idle employees and (not surprisingly) saw no impacts on output. That was enough for many smaller companies, some of them understaffed, to go on and do the same, surely encouraged by their investors. I have friends in a half dozen companies complaining about permanent overtime and severe project delays after the layoffs. Yet, referred companies are either not hiring, or doing it in a very leisurely pace.
by altairprime | 2025-09-10 00:29:49+00:00
It weighs a lot less. My pinky hurts and 99% of my photos are selfies, so I’d rather have less mass than more camera; I’ll rent a Leica if I want truly excellent photographs. Also my purse is hella full all the time so every less millimeter of phone makes it easier to get stuff out of the pockets, get phone out of purse, etc. Also it’ll fit with less bulge into my side-thigh pockets and pull less on the waistband, which is handy for my skirts and leggings and undershorts that all that have that.
by mgerdts | 2025-09-10 00:31:55+00:00
If you compare the specs of the 10 and 11 series watches you will see they both claim high blood pressure detection.

https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/?modelList=watch-series-...

In the past few weeks the oxymeter feature was enabled by a firmware update on series 10. Measurements are done on the watch, results are only reported on a phone.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-10 00:33:35+00:00
OK, I've investigated Matrix enough to suspect it's not going to work for the things I've been using Mattermost for, but I'm curious to hear what your stack is (client and server software)?

It sounds like, if Matrix worked seamlessly (which is not the experience of... anyone(?)... in this recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617309 ) it would give us federation and better identity access management (compared to the Mattermost community edition anyway) which would be really nice

It also has video calls built in... also really nice, but people are saying since they migrated from jitsi to their MatrixRTC, setup & admin have been a nightmare.

Element X seems to be the more popular client, though it sounds like, while faster than Element, many features (such as threading) are not yet available, and people have been lamenting the extreme sluggishness of Element
by Liftyee | 2025-09-10 00:35:04+00:00
I half-expected them to have removed the charging port with how thin it was, but looking at the specs it's (thankfully) still there.

USB 2.0 speed only is a little disappointing but it's not the only high-end device not to have faster speeds.

I'm not an Apple user but from an engineering perspective it's hard not to be impressed by the levels of miniaturization involved.