MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crackrook | 2025-09-12 05:02:34+00:00
> I'd love to collect on this debt somehow when you're proven wrong in our lifetimes.

Sorry, this is a thread on an internet forum, I'm afraid I don't owe you anything.

If you want to engage with the actual points I've endeavored to make, in good faith, instead of telling me how ignorant you think I am and doubling down on appeals to authority, I would gladly continue this conversation. For what it's worth: I'd love to see proof that you're right, sneaky non-human intelligences living and crashing known-physics defying spaceships in the shadows would be beyond interesting! However, I don't really feel like I can be "proven wrong" because I'm not really making claims here. You asserted something to be "basically fact", and I haven't told you that you're wrong, my argument was that your theories seem implausible, though possible.
by int_19h | 2025-09-12 05:03:23+00:00
Catacomb 3D (also by id Software) came first. Wolfenstein 3D was a further development of the same tech that happened to be much more popular, hence why people mostly remember that.

As I recall there were a few games using a similar engine at the time, it's just that they didn't left much of an impression. Some examples would be Blake Stone and Corridor 7.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-09-12 05:04:33+00:00
impossible you say. could the side that started shooting done nothing else either?

It is strange to me that you take such a fatalistic approach to history, where nothing else was ever possible.

of course at some point there is no turning back, particularly after the deed is done.

If nothing else is possible, what does that say about the current state and our choices about our future? what will be will be? might as well stay home watching netflix and see what happens?
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-12 05:04:38+00:00
>I understand your point. But even if he said otherwise would still be posting this?

>Point is it just seems like a giant gotcha and it’s not fair

Who says life is fair? Was life fair for those school kids in Minnesota? The kids murdered in Uvalde? And on and on and on. Where's the fairness for them?

And why is it more important for Kirk to be treated fairly than those children? That's not a rhetorical question.

I'm not condoning murder. Full stop.

Whoever killed Kirk -- for whatever reason(s) -- should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law by the state of Utah.

To be clear, I didn't know Kirk or anyone in his family. I don't celebrate his death either.

But while it's sad, and even tragic, why is his death more important or relevant than the thousands of other deaths by gun in the US just this year?

All that said, there is a certain irony here -- as he explicitly allowed for exactly this outcome as acceptable in support of the Second Amendment.

And if, as he explicitly said, a certain number of deaths are acceptable (I don't agree, BTW) in support of a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment, why isn't his death also an unfortunate, but necessary offshoot of that?
by ako | 2025-09-12 05:04:49+00:00
An LLM within the right context/environment can also converge: just like with humans you need to provide guidelines, rules, and protocols to instruct how to implement something. Just like with humans I’ve used the approach you describe: generate something one until it works the way you want it, then ask it so document insights, patterns and rules, and for the next project instruct it to follow the rules you persisted. Will result in more or less the same project.

Humans are very non deterministic: if you ask me to solve a problem today, the solution will be different from last week, last year or 10 years ago. We’ve learnt to deal with it, and we can also control the non-determinism of LLMs.

And humans are also very prone to hallucinations: remember those 3000+ gods that we’ve created to explain the world, or those many religions that are completely incompatible? Even if some are true, most of them must be hallucinations just by being incompatible to the others.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-12 05:05:14+00:00
I'm pretty sure I don't have aphantasia. I don't see the apple either; it doesn't occupy any portion of my visual field and it doesn't feel similar to looking at an image of an apple. There's more of a ghostly, dreamlike image of an apple "somewhere else" whose details I only perceive when I think about them, and fade when I pay less attention. But the sensation of this apparition is a visual one; the apple will have an orientation, size, shape, and colour in the mental image, which are defined even if they're ghostly, inconsistent, and change as I reconsider what the apple should look like.
by Eupolemos | 2025-09-12 05:05:29+00:00
Not 2 days ago, but in February, iirc.

We are thankfully on quite the shopping spree, we have also decided to include women into conscription (and that conscripts can be used for real missions, iirc) and we are financing and building Ukrainian weapons like the Flamingo.

Also, Scandinavia has pooled our airforces into one airforce, surpassing the UK, France etc. in size.
by scarf9482 | 2025-09-12 05:06:01+00:00
For the past few weeks, I've been building a tool to solve a problem that always frustrated me: the constant context-switching between BI tools for visualization, separate scripts for data cleaning, and Jupyter notebooks for machine learning.

My goal was to create a single, web-based platform that could handle the entire data science workflow from end to end.

https://evepre.streamlit.app/

It’s built entirely in Python with Streamlit as the frontend. It’s fully self-contained and operates on user-uploaded files.

Some of the core features include:

- Conversational AI:: Uses natural language commands to perform actions. - Automated Data Cleaning* Analyzes data and suggests one-click cleaning operations. - AutoML Studio: Automatically trains and compares multiple models (RandomForest, MLP) to find the best performer for regression or classification tasks. - Dynamic Dashboards: Lets users build and customize a variety of interactive Plotly charts. - Production-Ready Features: Includes real-time performance monitoring (CPU/memory), robust error handling, and a comprehensive logging system.

Tech Stack: Python, Streamlit, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Plotly, Psutil.

The project is open-source, and I'm very open to feedback, technical critiques, and feature suggestions. Thanks for taking a look
by ars | 2025-09-12 05:06:45+00:00
The US has more good ideas than any other country. Don't be pessimistic, look at how things are actually going and you'll see how the US has more startups, R&D, and new products than any other county.

Also: This might be a good idea for them, but it's not a good idea for the US, the US is not exposed to a level of risk that makes this worth it.
by ionwake | 2025-09-12 05:07:15+00:00
Not sure if this is of interest but I was living in Denmark during the "announcement" that the country was closing flights as COVID was now being taken seriously.

Being somewhat of a "cautious" prepper mentality, though never having really done any prepping, I thought I would walk to the supermarket at night in a suburb of Copenahgen to get some extra tuna just in case. Mind you this was about an hour after the announcement say 8pm.

There was a queue of about 30 meters out of the supermarket of danish citizens, scared and ( possibly for the first time ever thought as a visitor I couldnt know for sure - the queue had ever been so long. As I walked away I could see through the window, that they were limiting the amount of people going into the store to a handful at a time.

And, very suprisingly I saw a normal Dane running round the aisle grabbing the milk cartons so quickly he knocked some onto the floor before continuing to run off down the aisle. Very movie like so to speak. Not something I ever saw in the UK during the same announcement a month earlier. Bear in mind this was also at night! A night food panic.

Well, the good news, is ( other than this one incident that lasted an hour or so), the Danes IMO handled the whole COVID thing with a stable level headed attitude, that night was the only mild panic I witnessed.

Months later they had a very honed and IMO fair, calm approach to testing and although teachers were forced to "take the vaccine" or "get into trouble" ( a teacher was expected to show they had taken it or a test or they simply coudln't be in school, thought the punishment was never explained), they were also the only country I noticed where if you were not vaccinated yet , you could still go to cafes as long as you had a "free" test in one of the many marquees around the city. ( To compare, in the UK for about half a year ALL cafes were closed, and it was mandatory to wear masks in public - not so in Denmark). One old lady started shouting at me whilst I drank coffee ( below my mask), on a train in the UK. When I asked her to calm down and stop shouting, that masks were not even worn in Denmark, she actually got extremely confused. (Just a memory.)

I just thought this was of interest. Clearly they are still trying to learn lessons. Good stuff.

EDIT> Sorry and my one funnny memory ( Im not complaining honest). Was a time in Denmark when it was (a) Cafe was open (b) You could go to cafe if you had been tested (c) You were given a literal FLAG that you would put on your table to warn other poeple you had ben tested but NOT vaccinated. A little white flag!!! Only once, I think that was at it worst, and about a month later I never saw the little flag again. Ah good times though.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-12 05:07:37+00:00
Jesse Owens example is literally one example and one where they would have the obvious inclination for him to be in-group.

> (Remind me, which one of us is arguing that it's awkward and uncomfortable to emphasize someone's race?)

I don't think its awkward or uncomfortable to emphasize someones race. I'm mixed and I identify as both black and white, purposefully.

I can tell how deep you are into the culture war because you seem to be arguing right past me and with some imaginary figure of me that you have in your head.

Tell me what do you think the civil rights issues were/are about? Nah, ill tell you: That "american" didn't actually mean all of us on a constitutional/federal/state level and even cultural level.

I'm not gonna pretend I'm a sociology expert for internet points but there are many papers that show evidence of what I'm saying and they are not hard to find at all. Literally put a small amount of effort and you'll see at least 5 pop up. You can analyze their results if you want.

> Legos are Danish. It's not actually clear how the history of American racism or the applicability of the term "American" to black people prior to 1945 has any bearing on the creative intent of a Danish toy manufacturer, and if anything it's a little ethnocentric to judge it in that context.

Hilarious, dude. You totally lost the plot. I was using "american" vs "african american" bias as an analogy to explain the "yellow was universal" but that lego then decided to add brown lego figures. Yellow wasn't actually universal, yellow was white. White was then implicitly seen as universal.

The culture warrior has ended themselves.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-12 05:08:15+00:00
Again, I think if you simply searched for studies on these things - you'd find a million results. Here [1] is one with volunteer tutors improving student performance on the order of about 0.3 standard deviations relative to their peers.

I don't entirely understand the fetishism of expertise among a certain segment of society. Don't you realize that most of all teachers and other educational institutions are staffed by those who would be considered nominally experts? And this has even been taken to the next level by widespread adherence to a national curriculum (common core), again composed by even greater ostensible experts. And all of this has been complimented by the 5th highest spending per student in the world. And the result? Educational outcomes are falling off a cliff.

Obviously this isn't to say that anti-expertise is the answer, but rather that motivated people of reasonable intelligence and objectivity, regardless of expertise, are a [measurably] excellent source of value in just about everything. And, by contrast, expertise itself does not guarantee good results nor effective performance, especially in the context of other issues that might otherwise impair performance like large class sizes, minimal motivation, poor work environment, etc.

[1] - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291335232_The_Effec...
by techpression | 2025-09-12 05:08:15+00:00
The standards are really bad and it’s not just about protocols but hardware. Should they give away every hardware design needed too?

Lighting was an incredible boon in an era of micro usb, people just seem to forget how shit everyone else was. Now we have usb-c where companies are required to supply the port but doesn’t have to follow any actual specification, yay for standards.
by wannabebarista | 2025-09-12 05:09:23+00:00
You're right that this doesn't work. I seem to have thought of verifiability as provable from outside the theory and discoverable as provable from inside the theory. This clearly doesn't get at what Greg is arguing.

Thanks for pointing this out! I'll update the post.

I'm now not sure what's the distinction between verifiability and discoverability among truths in a formal system.
by tcmart14 | 2025-09-12 05:09:52+00:00
Just some other fascinating things about WW1 and Italy. Mussolini was heavily was heavily in the Italian socialist party. His family was socialist. World War 1 breaks out, he leaves/get kicked out of the party for his support of WW1. And it wasn't just Mussolini, it caused a huge fracture in the socialist party. The main party line was neutral with a heavy anti-war stance. Which I would suggest leads Mussolini to what would become Mussolini and perhaps with a lot less opposition. I would say there is probably some evidence there giving credit to the claim that today it is probably much more easier to maintain an anti-war stance than in the past.
Show HN: I built a tool to find trading signals that aren't just random luck
by OzanEnginsal | 2025-09-12 05:11:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a solo dev and for the last few months I've been building Hikaro, a tool to find statistically significant trading signals for [e.g., US equities, crypto, forex].

I built this to solve my own problem: I was tired of backtests that looked great on paper but failed in practice. Simple metrics like "win rate" can be misleading, so I wanted a way to quickly tell if a signal's performance was genuine or just noise.

Hikaro ingests daily market data and runs statistical analysis on various trading signals. The goal is to surface signals with strong properties, like:

Low p-value: Evidence that the performance is not a random fluke. High Sharpe Ratio: Better risk-adjusted returns. Healthy 'Core Performance': The average return after removing the single best outlier trade, for a more conservative view. Other key metrics like Profit Factor and Max Drawdown that you can filter by.

I'm looking for my first users and would love your feedback. I'm offering a 30-day free trial of the Pro plan (which includes Telegram alerts) with no credit card required.

I'll be here all day to answer any questions. I'm especially keen to hear feedback on the concept and the metrics.

Thanks, HN!
by poemxo | 2025-09-12 05:11:48+00:00
Why should I worry about anti-competitive practice when every third party app is literal spyware mining the everliving crap out of any data source they can get their hands on? We are in a dark age where all apps are borderline malware. Is it anti-competitive to turn my firewall on and to lock my doors too?

In my opinion Apple is the only one acting in the interest of the consumer. These efforts to open up Apple's platform are nothing more than attempts to weaken the security that Apple's customers enjoy by default. How we got here and whether Apple is truly "good" is irrelevant. If you care about your data not being used against you, Apple is your only option.

I doubt I am the only one who feels this level of discomfort with the way other technology companies treat their users (and those who aren't their users).
by resonious | 2025-09-12 05:12:06+00:00
For a serious web project it's hard to imagine picking SQLite, unless you're using a proper "serverified" SQLite service like Turso or Cloudflare D1. I'd think zero-downtime deployments alone would be a dealbreaker for many. Then there's high-availability and horizontal scaling.

I love that SQLite lets me run the app locally with no "setup". And so I actually kinda like Turso and D1 for bridging the gap. I can have the best of both worlds: no setup, AND primetime-ready deployment.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-12 05:12:47+00:00
What server do you run? I'm planning to re-cloud my music, I mean I divide my music to two parts: that I listen to casually, and that which I want to own by myself. Spotify is so cheap it tempts really well, but I've already lost a few of my music from it (for example I had a title in my playlist, but it's lost, and I can't even see what the title was). I tend to re-buy each month a CD or two, so I re-own my music.
by pkphilip | 2025-09-12 05:14:16+00:00
If you go by examples like that then there are a number of nations you cannot support at all - consider for example that China has the Uyghur concentration camps, US has Guantanamo Bay and now the new prisons in partnership with El Salvador. Belgium got away scottfree with their genocide in Africa, Turkey carried out a genocide in Armenia, France still collects fines from its previous colonies etc.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-12 05:16:09+00:00
Like I said in the other chain:

What were civil rights issues about if not that "american" literally didn't apply to all of us on a constitutional/federal/state and cultural level?

You seem to be fixated on pointing out that ultimate neutrality has always existed when referencing the term "american" when everything proves otherwise.

And on top of that you want to say I'm biased because I'm pointing out that neutrality hasn't always existed around that term.

Chill out, dude.
by Merad | 2025-09-12 05:17:25+00:00
I made a MCP tool for fun this spring that has memory storage in a SQLite db. At the time at least, Claude basically refused to use the memory proactively, even with prompts trying hard to push it in that direction. Having to always explicitly tell it to check its memories or remember X and Y from the conversation killed the usefulness for me.

Repo: https://github.com/mbcrawfo/KnowledgeBaseServer
by quamserena | 2025-09-12 05:18:48+00:00
Thanks! I followed the instructions to install it, they were super straight forward. This is exactly what I was looking for! Some notes:

- FYI there’s a typo in the docs of the sample use-package declaration, should be one dash instead of two in "org-latex-preview--mode”.

- Live preview works for me but only if I first do M-x org-latex-preview, it doesn’t do it automatically. Probably an issue of missing config on my end, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

- Unrelated issue is that org-cdlatex isn’t recognizing \begin{array} as math, e.g. it is inserting text mode latex there instead of math mode. No idea here, I don’t think I touched cdlatex from the built-in Doom Emacs version.

Unfortunately I’m out of time to spend configuring emacs… I’ll have to continue using Obsidian for now, but this is really cool! Hopefully I’ll have some time to come back to configuring emacs soon
by autoexec | 2025-09-12 05:19:33+00:00
> More often than not art styles are unique to the artist

I'd disagree. Art styles are a category of many similar works in relation to others or a way of bringing about similar works. They usually build off of or are influenced by prior work and previous methods, even in cases where there is a effort to avoid or subvert them. Even with novel techniques or new mediums. "Great Artists Steal" and all that.

Some people become known for certain mediums or the inclusion of specific elements, but few of them were the first or only artists to use them. "Art in the style of X" just comes down to familiarity/marketing. Art develops the way food does with fads, standards, cycles, and with technology and circumstance enabling new things. I think evolution is a pretty good analogy although it's driven by a certain amount of creativity, personal preference, and intent in addition to randomness and natural selection.

Computers could output random noise and in the process eventually end up creating an art style, but it'd take a human to recognize anything valuable and artists to incorporate it into other works. Right now what passes for AI is just remixing existing art created by humans which makes it more likely to blindly stumble into creating some output we like, but inspiration can come from anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if the "AI Slop" art style wasn't already inspiring human artists. Maybe there are already painters out there doing portraits of people with the wrong number of fingers. As AI is increasingly consuming it's own slop things could get weird enough to inspire new styles, or alternately homogenized into nothing but blandness.
by wannabebarista | 2025-09-12 05:20:19+00:00
I find the naturalism vs spiritualism debate to be one of the most compelling parts of what's going on in the late nineteenth century and plan to continue covering it in future installments.

It's always an interesting exercise choosing which books or articles to write about. There's a balancing act between what I want to read, what I think is important or representative, and what do I know enough about to have anything to add.
by agar | 2025-09-12 05:20:53+00:00
Same can be said for search. And your statement is provably correct, depending on the definition of "good tool."

But it's not only money's influence on the company, it's also money's influence on the /data/ underlying the platform that undermines the tool.

Once financial incentives are in place, what will be the AI equivalent of review bombing, SEO, linkjacking, google bombing, and similar bad behaviors that undermine the quality of the source data?
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-09-12 05:22:43+00:00
This must have taken them a really long time. That worries me, don't they have other things to do? If engineers have so much free time that they can work on nice & fun things like this that aren't totally necessary, they must have overhired (which is wasteful and a sign of impending layoffs) or they don't have enough actual work to do (which is a sign the company is stagnating).

Or the time and money required to do this is coming out of a very large advertising bucket. In which case my gut is still not cool with it, but I don't know enough about advertising to make a judgment on if this is a waste of money.
by xp84 | 2025-09-12 05:25:08+00:00
Yeah, in my humble opinion anyone in Europe that considers wider war breaking out to be farfetched is not paying enough attention.

You can be forgiven however if you're a millennial (as I am) or younger, because the long peace has been so long that it seems crazy that Russia might start dropping bombs, say, on Copenhagen or London. "They wouldn't dare attack NATO" we would have said 10 years ago. But today, NATO is at risk since too much of its credibility is tied to the US and the US is now unpredictable. With one stroke of an "executive order" pen the US could just call backsies and pull out if one man considers it politically advantageous to him to do so. That has been unthinkable for 75 years and now it's just reality.

Russia is a lot less afraid of Western Europe than they were/are of NATO. Would they win? IDK. But my perception is that the very notion of war would shock the s**t out of the 20-somethings that Western Europe would need to conscript in order to fight an all-out war. If too many refused to fight, Putin might just roll in there relatively unchallenged.

Note: US civilians are certainly not any more ready to enlist than Europe's! But the US is the only Western country with (almost) enough people already enlisted to be a credible threat in a major war.