MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-29 02:13:11+00:00
(2024)

Thanks OP.

Some previous discussions among fifteen others:

Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41562750

Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825097
by ompogUe | 2025-09-29 02:13:36+00:00
I started with that one , too

1 GB Hard Drive in a Performa from Circuit City

wrt the topic, Kurzweil's exponential "Law of Accelerating Returns" used disk space vs. dollars over years as one of his predictive analysis metrics. Haven't looked into his stuff in years, so not sure how it has all turned out.
by ottah | 2025-09-29 02:13:46+00:00
In my opinion you really have to be skeptical. Its always possible drone reports are real, but also citings tend to cluster, and there is rarely anything outside of eyewitness reports. Humans are very bad at judging the size and distance of objects in the air, and a flying drone is much harder to spot than people actually imagine. But there is incentives to the state overacting to drone citings, if you're interested in keeping cameras out of public spaces.
by xp84 | 2025-09-29 02:16:22+00:00
Seconded. I remember a decade ago it was really easy to find legitimate ones just by googling. Last week I literally spent 20 minutes trying to find one that didn’t use a redirect through some sketchy site. It would have taken me less time than that to install a CLI tool, vibe code it, or self-host some OSS package, but I foolishly thought it couldn’t possibly take more than 60 [additional] seconds to find one, which I kept reassuring myself again each minute of my frustrated search.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-29 02:17:25+00:00
Boys are diagnosed with autism 4 times more than girls by age 8. There's a certain amount of supposition that this is due in part or largely down to "boys being boys" type handwaving, though my two nephews are on the spectrum and neurodivergent behavior in them presented as distinctly different from simply being energetic (one being almost nonverbal). Though it's possible, it seems unlikely to me that there isn't actually a difference.

However, the "greater male variability hypothesis" in terms of IQ scores is not terribly well supported by studies, and the difference isn't significant enough to account for the 4:1 ratio of autism diagnoses. As such, I imagine there's more at play here.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-09-29 02:17:51+00:00
Best advice I ever got: try to set aside a few thousand dollars in an IRA (a mutual fund for your retirement). Because you'll have 50 years for it to double, double, double, and double. Contributions are even tax-deductible -- and you can withdraw them penalty-free for medical expenses, education, and first home purchases.

Also, keep in touch with friends from college/high school. For career reasons, they can help you find jobs -- but it's also good for your mental health.
by freakynit | 2025-09-29 02:18:19+00:00
It’s an arms race between humans and bacteria.

On one side, bacteria have short lifecycles and huge populations, letting them mutate quickly to evade antibiotics, vaccines, or immune defenses.

On the other, humans don’t rely on slow genetic evolution - we adapt with medicine, vaccines, hygiene, and now faster tools like mRNA platforms.

The danger isn’t that we'll be "out-evolved" forever, but that we have to keep innovating or fall behind.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-29 02:18:54+00:00
I had a call with a new user for a SaaS product that I sell recently. During the call he mentioned that he found it by typing what he was looking for into Gemini, and it recommended my app. I don't do anything special for llms, and the public-facing part of the website has been neglected for longer than I like to admit, so I was delighted. I had never considered that AI could send new users to me rather than pull them away. It felt like I'd hacked the system somehow, skipped through all the SEO best practices of yesteryear and had this benevolent bullshit machine bestow a new user on me at the cost of nothing.
by candu | 2025-09-29 02:19:12+00:00
As a Canadian-American living in Denmark, I've seen both sides of this. In short: trust and mistrust are _both_ self-reinforcing concepts.

To take an example - would I want the current US government to be better at compiling information across all its agencies / departments? Absolutely not. What it does with its current level of consolidation is authoritarian enough that I'm not moving back there any time soon. I hear similar sentiments from my Hungarian colleagues, who are quite familiar with competitive authoritarianism in their own country.

Of course, this mistrust becomes self-reinforcing. I don't trust the US government, so I want it to be bad at its job - but then it's bad at its job, so I see it as ineffective and bloated and continue to mistrust it.

IMHO the only way out of this spiral is the hard way: a system must do the hard work to show itself trustworthy, and it must do so _before_ people will entrust it with the information that would make the job of being trustworthy easier. As with human relationships, it takes a _lot_ more work to repair trust than it does to break it. Unlike with human relationships, you also have systemic factors: the system needs an unbroken series of good, principled leaders; it needs to visibly and credibly punish corruption, not turn a blind eye; it needs to de-escalate divisions, not inflame them; it needs various institutional safeguards to work properly, not chop away at them; it needs to allow meaningful dissent and criticism, not crack down on it; it needs to learn from expertise, not undermine it.

Most importantly: the system needs to learn from its failures, and adjust the rules and incentives of the system itself to prevent those failures from recurring. This is generational work.
by easytube | 2025-09-29 02:19:29+00:00
Wan Animate is an AI-powered video generator that enables users to create short animated videos from either text prompts or static images. It leverages a state-of-the-art model (Wan 2.5 Animate) to produce cinematic 720p/1080p footage with realistic motion and detail. Designed for content creators, VTubers, marketers, and developers, Wan Animate makes high-quality video creation accessible without any editing skills or expensive software.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-09-29 02:20:15+00:00
This is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_... in particular.

(Note the separate case which determined Google is running an illegally anticompetitive operation in Search was a separate case which can be referred to as "United States v. Google LLC (2020)" and there is a third case they lost recently, Epic Games Inc. v. Google LLC, which determined Google operates an illegal monopoly with Android as well.)
by sombragris | 2025-09-29 02:20:48+00:00
English is not my native language, and whenever I can watch TV or movies, I'll always try to watch it with English subtitles. This is because:

- As I said, English is not my first language. Thus I'm not that proficient in listening.

- Actors nowadays speak with worse diction. Sometimes they just mumble something unintelligible, no matter how much you rewind and replay.

- The sound balance makes voices to come off as drowned by the environmental sounds and the soundtrack. This is very different from, e.g., classical movies where sound and diction was very clear almost at all times.

- Some accents are very hard to parse. Canadian folks, for example, make it very difficult to be understood.

So, the subtitles feature are a lifesaver a lot of times.
by aeonfox | 2025-09-29 02:24:24+00:00
> We live in a world where contempt for culture based on its level of sophistication or intellectual value is considered deeply passé, if not borderline evil. The derogatory labels – guilty pleasure, idiotbox, dumbed-down entertainment, disposable pop, trash TV – are no longer in circulation.

I don't know what world the author lives in, but cultural capital and authenticity never left the building, we just became less shameful in what we indulge in. Even still, the premise of the article misses the mark by equating pop culture with AI slop, when the former is the yield of highly talented and creative people behind the scenes. I really don't see AI producing the next Taylor Swift album end-to-end.

Most of AI output looks AI, or sounds AI. Generative AI is only capable of making middle-of-road content at it's best, and pop is not actually middle-of-the-road; it's highly refined and captures the zeitgeist. Using AI in your production is a great way to lose cultural capital. The craving for authenticity isn't new, but it certainly is intensifying the more AI generated content floods the zone.
by dsykes | 2025-09-29 02:24:43+00:00
Know any successful uses of quantum computing to break contemporary encryption?

Meanwhile high profile data breeches, usually with a human-based root cause, aren’t uncommon these days.

I’m not implying Cloudflare will someday be breeched, but it’s a non-zero possibility, and thanks to their position as an SSL-decrypting and re-encrypting intermediary, would be totally transparent to origins and end users.

That said, I use Cloudflare for sites I host. It’s just an interesting philosophical discussion point.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-09-29 02:25:23+00:00
Yeah, people keep saying that Chinese build wherever they want to, whenever they want to. It's just not really true. It's correct that there are less bureaucracy (less environmental analysis, less consultation and etc.), but people still go and protest in their local areas when something happens that they don't like. There are people that don't move, but their lives become increasingly harder when they don't, because everyone else might take the money and go forward.

Sometimes it's also the opposite, the local government fight for the new build ups, so they can get the money and investments in. Or block development through their areas when there is no real reason to allow it (think of rails but with no stops there).
by TuringNYC | 2025-09-29 02:25:59+00:00
The article writes "“Code first, ask questions later” AI coding agents such as Claude Code are making it astonishingly fast to write code in isolation. But most software lives within complex systems, and since LLMs can't yet hold the full context of an application in memory at once, human review, testing, and integration needs will remain."

But this is the case also with human teams. Plenty of human teams cannot understand "the full context of an application [sometimes ever]" -- same with contractors who roll on and off teams or entire contracting firms who roll on and off.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-09-29 02:26:07+00:00
> Display strings in a consistent, documented, manner.

IMO, "Treat any sequence of digits as a number for the purpose of sorting" is consistent. I'm not sure if it's documented—I've never needed to look up the documentation—but if it's not, the developers could certainly fix that.

> this is your preference for a specific situation.

Sure, but we generally make decisions based on which situations we think will be most common. I think having ten or more things (screenshots, audio samples, whatever) named "Thing 1" – "Thing 10" in a folder is extremely common. And if Thing 10 comes before 9, it's really annoying!

Let's say I have a directory of 32 numbered files. Under the author's preferred sorting method, they'll get displayed:

1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3 31 32 4 5 6 7 8 9

If I download a folder with files like this, I basically have to pause whatever I'm doing and edit the files to have leading zeroes before I can make sense of what I'm looking at.
by nucleardog | 2025-09-29 02:26:32+00:00
Yes, you need some way to connect to the BMC. That is never going to be something like "eh just throw it on the public internet" or similar. It's going on a separate, isolated network with strict access controls.

There are others here more qualified to comment, but I do have some old rack mount enterprise servers making a racket in my basement, so I can provide some sort of half-informed opinion here--

Besides the security issue with the BMC here, it sounds like SuperMicro _also_ has absolutely insane defaults.

Every system I have has a separate, dedicated NIC for the BMC. There is an _option_ which is disabled by default to instead have it share one of the other interfaces. So the only ways you're going to "accidentally" put the BMC on an insecure network are:

1. Rebooting the server, going into the BIOS configuration, going into the options for the BMC, and explicitly telling it which other network device to use.

2. Physically accessing the server, attaching an ethernet cable to a clearly labelled BMC port, and attaching the other end to an insecure network.

From what I'm reading here, SuperMicro's default approach is apparently more "eh, just use whatever happens to be plugged in at the time". So even if you do have it running on a separate, secure interface... if someone unplugs it, it's going to switch to using whatever other connection is available!

To connect to the BMC on my servers you first need to be on the internal network already. Then you connect via wireguard to the router on the rack. Then you can connect to it and given a username/password you can log in. I would be pretty pissed if a cable got unplugged and that meant that the server decided to instead throw the BMC _on the interface connected directly to the public friggin' internet_. And this is just equipment I use for play and hosting my own random junk!
by itissid | 2025-09-29 02:27:04+00:00
If you are near Columbia the visiting students post baccalaureate program(run by the SPS last I recall) allows you to take for credit courses in the Social Sciences department. Professor Ben Goodrich has an excellent course on Bayesian Statistics in Social Sciences which teaches it using R(now it might be in Stan).

That course is a good balance between theory and practice. It gave me a practical intuition understanding why posterior distribution of parameters and data are important and how to compute them.

I took the course in 2016 so a lot could have changed.
by blindriver | 2025-09-29 02:27:29+00:00
You are the one that is misguided and uneducated.

If someone is suffering as badly as the people in the article and the doctors have no idea what is going on, then the benefit of taking antibiotics outweighs the risks.

You seem to forget that this patient is suffering. Having their gut biome wiped out is nothing compared to them chronically suffering as they are.
by kreelman | 2025-09-29 02:27:39+00:00
I couldn't find evidence of an interpreter on the scm2wasm github page, but I only did a shallow look.

Hoot (uses Guile Scheme), mentioned above, has a working interpreter, to quote...

"The toolchain is self-contained and even features a Wasm interpreter for testing Hoot binaries without leaving the Guile REPL."
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-29 02:27:44+00:00
I'm watching a video sent to me by somebody I trust, and it stops to show me a video about the same topic made by somebody I don't trust, an interference which was targeted by--and an interference that I'm discouraged from preventing by--those standards. The connection is quite direct.

Now I don't know if there are any home cleaners that attempt to reach a wider audience on YouTube. Maybe there's a different medium that might suit their business better. But whatever it is, if it tries to be faster than meatspace gossip, there's some advertising platform selling the ability to interfere with it.
by sipofwater | 2025-09-29 02:28:03+00:00
* "NetworkManager: Set up an Access Point?": https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/networkmanager-set-up... (discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/networkmanager-set-up-an-access-point/138829)

* "WAN direct internet connection from a Fedora (Server) computer to the Internet Network through a PPPoE over-VLAN setup": https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/wan-direct-internet-c... (discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/wan-direct-internet-connection-from-a-fedora-server-computer-to-the-internet-network-through-a-pppoe-over-vlan-setup/144395)
by weikju | 2025-09-29 02:28:48+00:00
> hasn't made me slower without it

> > cannot make progress without AI. When I use up my Pro account limits, I'm done for the day

Aside from the contradictory statements, I did address your points in my edit. I get the tradeoff. As long as whatever you do is in line with the providers of the services, and as long as you're ok with the surveillance, then sure... It's a tradeoff that MUST be considered and be aware of..
by sandreas | 2025-09-29 02:28:58+00:00
> I will add that I'm plenty "smart" enough to understand that "10" comes before "9" in a strictly alphabetical sense, and I still want my file managers to sort "9" before "10".

Amen.

> I split all of my audiobooks into chapters. I use the format "Chapter 01.mp3" (or "Chapter 001.mp3" when there are > 99 chapters) because some (all?) MP3 players are too stupid to sort numbers properly and I want my audiobooks to work everywhere.

Well, some car and kitchen radio manufacturers will probably never get this right. In my car (which tends not to be brand new) they even messed up UTF-8 chars, which gets me laughing every time a track has them. It's become a running gag with my wife, "Oh, listen up, it's &%=?! again".

> (all?)

Well, I kind of hate to say this, but Apple got this right with the iPods. They even regarded the metadata fields `sort-*` (e.g. sort-album), movement-name (for series) and movement-index (for part). With these fields they really group and sort my audio books as I expect it to be.

I even wrote my own software to fill these tags appropriately, so that I don't need to split my audio books. I'm pretty happy using `m4b` files - an mp4 / m4a container with chapter support, which is supported perfectly fine on my iPod Nano 7g and my Android Phone (using Audiobookshelf[1] and Voice[2]). After all these years, the iPod Nano 7g to me is the PERFECT portable audio book player with 2 exceptions: Repairability and the proprietary Apple headphone remote protocol [3].

1: https://audiobookshelf.org

2: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice

3: https://tinymicros.com/wiki/Apple_iPod_Remote_Protocol
by zdragnar | 2025-09-29 02:30:14+00:00
1- I want my dependencies to define a range for the libraries that they work with, so we don't have 20 different versions of some common library because our dependencies are hyper specific

2- I want every install of my project- be it on a dev machine or deploy machine- to have the exact same versions of dependencies, including transitive ones. I don't want to deal with bugs caused by surprise version changes

3- if I upgrade a dependency or remove it, I want the transitive dependencies managed automatically. I don't want orphaned transitive dependencies. In fact, I don't even want to think about them at all other than know that they work and aren't adding bloat or security risks.

You need a package manager with more than a passing thought for handling lock files. For the longest time, npm wasn't it. I'd argue that it still isn't, because "npm install" should NOT be the command used for both "set up a project for the first time" and "add a new package". In the first case, I want a reproducible, deterministic result of a known state. In the second case, I want to modify the dependency graph, producing a new state.
by Animats | 2025-09-29 02:30:56+00:00
Here's a short CUDA demo from NVidia, of adding two arrays of a million numbers each, elementwise. The line that actually does the add is

add<<<1, 1>>>(N, x, y);

All N adds are conceptually done in parallel, with no side effects. In practice, hundreds or thousands of adds are done simultaneously, depending on the available hardware.

This is true branchless programming.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/even-easier-introduction-c...
by godelski | 2025-09-29 02:32:29+00:00
While I generally agree with the conclusion of that, I think it might be a bit too naive.

The quantity group has a trivial way to "hack" the metric. I can just sit there snapping photos of everything. I could just set up a camera to automatically snap photos all day and night. To be honest, if I'm not doing this at a stationary wall there's probably a good chance I get a good photo since even a tiny probability can be an expected result given enough samples.

But I think the real magic ingredient comes from the explanation

> The group never worried about the quality of their work, so they spent time experimenting with lighting, composition, and such.

The way I read this is "The quantity group felt assured in their grade, so used the time to be creative and without pressure." But I think if you modified the experiment so that you'd grade students on a curve and in proportion to the number of photos they took then the results might differ. Their grade might not feel secure as it could take just one person to communicate that they're just snapping photos all day as fast as they can. In this setting I think you'd have even less ability to explore and experiment than the quality group.

I do think the message is right though and I think this is the right strategy in any creative or primarily mental endeavor (including coding). The more the process depends on creativity the more time needs to be allocated to this type of exploration and freedom. I think in jobs like research that this should be the basis for how they are structured and effectively you should mostly remove evaluation metrics and embrace the fundamentally ad hoc nature. In things like coding I think you need more of a mix and the right mix depends highly on the actual objectives. But I wanted to make the above distinction because I think it is important if we're trying to figure out what those objectives are.
by ziml77 | 2025-09-29 02:32:34+00:00
I assure you that hearing "pin you dependencies" is not why people create a requirements file using pip freeze. It's simply because that has long been how people have said to generate a requirements file, because Python spent much of its life lacking proper project dependency management.

And now it's extremely hard to get people to stop. There's so much info out there on the internet that says to use pip freeze that people are going to continue to run into and continue to learn to use.
by throwaway808081 | 2025-09-29 02:33:15+00:00
Why do services need to verify identity?

What service needs a solution to verify identity that doesn't already exist?

Banks do KYC now. Employers already need a National Insurance number to employ someone. Benefits get paid to a named payee. Emergency healthcare needs no insurance and waiting lists come via a GP who indeed knows me.

What service needs a further centralised deposit of power over identity?
by phantomathkg | 2025-09-29 02:33:33+00:00
As an adult, you probably need to authenticate yourself in the following situation.

opening a bank account, getting a credit card, getting a mortgage or a loan, buying a flight ticket, signing up for internet service, signing for mobile services, buying a concert ticket and the list goes on.

What's common here is the service provider need to know you are actually the person say it is you and not someone else.

Back in the old days where we apply the service in person, you can take your driving license or passport to authenticate yourself, but with myriad of services now moving online, we need a centralised system that mimic the physical ID.
by doom2 | 2025-09-29 02:34:05+00:00
> Most of America is car-centric and it's pretty good once you buy into that model of living.

Is it though? I'm for public transit because one day I'll be of an age where I probably shouldn't be driving but am still able and independent enough to get around.

In a car-centric culture, what's the solution? Making the elderly take taxis or rideshares everywhere (assuming there is taxi services or Uber available where you live)? That feels like an ageist tax unless those services are heavily subsidized somehow. Or allowing the elderly to drive, which in my experience can be its own hazard both to drivers and everyone else.