MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GMoromisato | 2025-09-10 19:17:02+00:00
I really hate that I have to defend something the Trump administration did, but sucking up to the current president is something that all government organizations do.

Here's a NASA press release celebrating the third anniversary of when Obama gave a speech: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-marks-third-anniversa...

And this NASA press release leads with this quote: "Since President Biden and Vice President Harris were sworn in one year ago, their administration has made generational progress for Americans". https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/one-year-into-the-biden-ad...

NASA press releases have always had "overt political propaganda". It's just more noticeable now because we're on the other side.
by k-warburton | 2025-09-10 19:17:51+00:00
This is a very intriguing application of physical AI. It is astounding to see demos of how simple, human instructions can produce complex machine actions. What can we do to improve the safety of protecting assets or people in the case of misuse? I see some code contributions regarding permission controls, but are there other steps we can take to ensure this technology "understands" when the physical motion being requested is not appropriate because it might endanger people or expensive hardware that is difficult to replace?
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-10 19:18:12+00:00
Here's the data from 2018.

https://authorsguild.org/news/six-takeaways-from-the-authors...

Median income was $3100 which is greater than the $3000 average award from the Anthropic settlement.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settl...

But yes, one set of data is from 7-8 years ago, the other figure is from a few weeks ago. And median and average don't mean the same thing. And it's unclear how the population from the Author's Guild survey maps to the plaintiff class from the Anthropic settlement.

But it seems we're in the same ballpark.
by reissbaker | 2025-09-10 19:18:14+00:00
For API prompts or completions, we don't store after we return the completion to your prompt (our privacy policy allows us to store for a maximum of 14 days, just to cover accidental log statement deploys). For the web UI we store them in Postgres, since the web UI lets you view your message history and we wouldn't be able to serve that to you without storing it.
by maeln | 2025-09-10 19:19:06+00:00
> Why? What exactly makes it possible or impossible to have a coalition government, in your opinion?

Mostly because it is a different system. The parlement in France doesn't elect the government. The president choose the prime minister, and the prime minister form the government.

The parlement can, at basically any point, vote to "censor" the government, effectively terminating it if a majority is reached (they do stay in position until a new government is formed, but can only take care of the "affaire courante", i.e simple daily affairs, no big laws, reforms, policy changes, ...).

Indirectly, this means that the parlement can have a lot of power over who will be in the government. If one party has an absolute, or almost absolute, majority in the parlement, it more or less mean that they can decide who shall be in the government.

Due to the way our election works, the party of the president usually has the majority in the parlement. This is even more true since Chirac changed the duration of the presidential mandate to match the duration of the parlement mandate (and their elections are very close). This usually give a lot of power to the president, effectively making him the sole judge of who shall be in the government (since he choose the prime minister and the parlement member of his party follow his lead).

But what we have right now is a very unique situation. Nobody has even close to an absolute majority in the parlement. The left "union" (which is not really united, but that's another story) control roughly ~33% of the seat, the extreme right party control ~21% of the seats, the presidential party control ~15%, and the rest are various centrist and right wing party.

The issue is that there is no way to get a solid absolute majority with this assembly. For the left, even if they were to compromise heavily and add as much center-right as possible in their coalition, it would barely give them a majority, and the government would have to compromise so much, it would piss off all their voters, which would be a political suicide for the next presidential election. Nobody want to ally with the extreme right except a few members of some right party, which would never give a majority (and the RN would only go to the government if they don't have to make any important compromise, for the same reason). So, you have to remove the two biggest block. And so, even if all the other party would somehow make a coalition (which is more or less the government we had since the assembly dissolution), it would still give less than ~45% of seats in the parlement, not enough to ensure that your governement would not be censored (which is what is happening, we've had like 3 or 5 government since the dissolution, i can't even remember all of them).

This is an unprecedented situation in France and basically the achilles heel of the fifth republic. Our system cannot function without a clear majority in the national assembly, and the way the assembly is divided right now makes any majority coalition impossible (or a political suicide).
by jack_h | 2025-09-10 19:19:10+00:00
> A free market actually requires a lot of surrounding regulation to work

While I am not a free market absolutist, I think your assertion is based on judging negative outcomes of a free market vs the positive intentions of regulations trying to prevent those negative outcomes, i.e. you’re not considering the negative outcomes of regulations. I don’t think any free market advocate would state categorically that they produce perfect results, merely that any attempt to prevent certain negative outcomes through law will produce different negative outcomes elsewhere.

For instance regulations tend to incentivize very large corporations to advocate for more regulation as it raises the barrier to new competition entering the market place. Another example would be over burdensome regulations that slow the production of housing which constrains supply and prices a lot of people out of the market. I would have loved to take public transit where I lived a few years ago, but they spent a decade on environmental impact studies while traffic and the environmental impact from it got significantly worse.

There’s also a time component where the effects of regulations can take decades or even generations to really play out, but people tend to only remember the well-meaning goal of the regulation if they remember it at all. This tends to be very beneficial for politicians who end up being judged not on outcomes, but intentions.
by snow_mac | 2025-09-10 19:19:16+00:00
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been shot at a campus event in Utah

Kirk - an influential ally of President Trump - is known for holding open-air debates on campuses across the country

Trump and Vice-President JD Vance urge people to say prayers for Kirk

There was shock in the White House when the news broke, reports Bernd Debusmann Jr

https://x.com/AaronGogley/status/1965850380845437082
by ospray | 2025-09-10 19:19:27+00:00
As a pentester kerberosting used to reveal a service password on about 50% of networks on the 2010s when admins were making the passwords. Today our advice to clients on kerberosting is the same as it was back then, use a password manager to generate a 21 character password for all service accounts and disabled RC4 where possible. 52^21 is quite a large key space and even at 10^10 guesses per second over a year your chances are less than 1 in a billion of a successful crack.
by rob_c | 2025-09-10 19:19:53+00:00
In the UK it comes off the back of "decolonize this" and "imperialism bad that".

Frankly I'm fed up of it over here and it's a shame this is being replicated in countries built a lot more strongly on actual modern scientific progress.

There's plenty of affordable interactive exhibits (the cost of crayons and paper hasn't inflated that much since the 90s!), but there's this false b$ that interactive digital media or 3d VR wish-wash is what people want. This mostly comes from asking the wrong people, the great unwashed who you were never going to attract away from the latest Disney flop.

As is being played out en-masse within hollywood and the wider entertainment industry. Ask the people who were your strongest supporters and original fans what they liked about your thing and you'll cut through all the noise and know where your priorities should be. Stop tyring to please everyone and focus on doing what you do well, growth and expansion numbers are good for one place the valley, and lets look where that got social media...
by reissbaker | 2025-09-10 19:20:02+00:00
Oh I don't disagree that the authors may have a compelling case — I was just responding to the statistical similarities vs copying argument. Anthropic may have violated the authors rights, but technically that doesn't extend copyright via a "causal link."

The authors can still sue for damages though (and did, and had a strong enough case Anthropic is trying to settle for over a billion dollars).
by mid-kid | 2025-09-10 19:20:23+00:00
If this is not a statcounter anomaly, the explanation seems obvious: more people are dropping windows in general (both 10 and 11), mostly in favor of phones and tablets (as has been a trend for years now), or in the niche cases, linux. Meanwhile 10 stays strong thanks to all the offices and old machines that won't be upgrading for a while.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-10 19:20:29+00:00
It's the next evolution of people branding themselves as "senior" developers just because they followed a Next.js tutorial and managed to deploy it on some PaaS (and having worked with such, I'm impressed they actually even managed that).

Problem is: it works. Being against it just puts you at a disadvantage, so enjoy your new "AI Engineer" title. Call yourself Senior AI Engineer while you're at it.
by jfengel | 2025-09-10 19:20:43+00:00
Your second paragraph is right on the money.

The difference now is that prior politicians had at least some interest in actually governing the country. That limited just how viciously they could engage with their political opponents. There was never any golden age of collegiality, to be sure, but even people like Newt Gingrich wanted to at least try running the country in between political campaigns.

And yet there's no immediately apparent runner-up gigabastard. All of the politicians, even Trump's most dedicated sycophants, are still hampered by the notion of wanting to actually run the nation. It doesn't work without a 100% commitment to smashing your enemies. If you let the conversation drift to figuring out valid policies, people lose attention, and realize that you're an idiot.

None of the other tech-bros seem to have it, either. If Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos run for office, they're going to discover that people don't actually like them. They're smart enough to think that they can actually talk about policy, and nobody really likes policy. They want simplistic, vacuous solutions. Musk has the requisite cruelty to distract people from that, but he's not enough of a buffoon to really entertain the far right.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-09-10 19:21:17+00:00
If by robotaxi you mean the vehicles used in the tesla test in Austin and now in the bay area, they are just regular model y with an emergency "stop so you don't kill me button" on the right side. They have a special version of the software that is unreleased. The current model Y's / "robotaxi" have all the regular hardware, including pedals and steering wheel and sensors. If you search, you can even find cases during the Austin Texas where the safety drier gets into the driver seat in a few situations.

We don't really know what a special robotaxi hardware would look like.
by culopatin | 2025-09-10 19:21:48+00:00
The pricing wave Waymo went through is interesting. After the limited access you’d often find them offering same or cheaper rides than Uber/Lyft. People tried them and realized they arrive without the whiplash you get from a start/stop Tesla uber in SF, no smells, no weird interactions. Every person we talked to prefers the Waymo even with its quirks and getting stuck sometimes. Now waymo is 3x uber every time I check it. I’ve gotten rides across the city for $6 on Uber, not sure what driver is making any money at that rate. Per hour you’re much better off working at In and out.
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-10 19:21:48+00:00
It's really not, because speeds are so much lower - and injury is, by and large, related to kinetic energy which is the _square_ of speed.

OK, cycling at 50km/h in a city is dangerous and stupid (if you're even physically capable of doing so, which few are?). 30km/h in suburbs / 20km/h in the centre is mostly fine, and 10 for busy complicated spaces.

30km/h is slow enough to prevent the vast majority of crashes being fatal, and 20km/h will avoid most serious injuries.
by card_zero | 2025-09-10 19:22:00+00:00
I think you're mistaken if you got the impression that the museum once had guides. This isn't a recent trend, so far as I know it's been delightfully free from tour guides since 1881.

You had to buy tickets prior to 2001, so that's changed. (Was entry free in its early history too? Not sure.) That used to be your greeting, the ticket desk.

They had an earthquake machine in 1985, it must be the same one.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-10 19:22:15+00:00
> the bus shares the cost of the road with other users

A bus does much more damage to the road than a tramway though (to say nothing of trucks, these are even worse). Anything rail based, the load from weight and movement is transferred via the rails and subterranean sleepers to the foundation, whereas a decently used bus road will need to be resurfaced at least every five years, more in a hotter climate as the buses will inevitably seriously groove the asphalt. Tramways is more like every 20 if not 30 years until you need to do a full replacement.

On top of that, this "the cost is already paid" math is annoying to me on a personal ethical level because it excuses putting people into cars and freight onto trucks because "they already are there".

> A bus is a lot more energy efficient than a car (assuming people use it), the additional gain from a tram for the same number of people is minimal.

A single Class R 3.3 tramway vehicle (~36 tons) in Munich carries 218 people, more if you squish the passengers ("Sardinenbüchse" feeling). Munich's largest bus with a carriage unit, in contrast, carries 130 people [1] at ~20 tons. The gain from regenerative braking that you get on tramways actually matters at that scale, and as said, drivers are already short in supply.

Fully agree on your calculation regarding traffic by the way, however the problem in practice often is that a bus network is planned and installed based on very conservative estimates, induced demand hits and the buses are overcrowded, but no one wants to put up the money and upgrade to a tramway because "we just got buses, they aren't even paid off yet".

[1] https://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/setzt-anhaenger-busse...
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-10 19:22:55+00:00
> And where it looks like the budget has been going are the screen rooms. They occupy the huge central spaces on the main floor of the museum, and I’m sure a lot of time, money, and passion went into these things. But it’s misguided.

It reminds me of a Reddit thread about if someone should divorce their spouse because they significantly overdid it with smarthome tech. They (the other spouse) insisted that controlling everything with phones was "the future" and did things like drill out locks so they could only get in with a smartphone, and update the toilets so they would only flush from a smartphone.

It's too bad the content was deleted, but you can get the jist from reading the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmITheAngel/comments/1lv1t0r/aita_f...
by GMoromisato | 2025-09-10 19:22:59+00:00
Sadly, our best chance of confirming/refuting this finding is in a sample return mission, but our current Mars sample return project is in deep trouble.

It is likely that China will complete a sample return from Mars before we do.

Rocket Lab has proposed an innovative sample return mission, which it offers to do for a fixed price, but so far no one in Congress or NASA is returning their call.
by timvvvht | 2025-09-10 19:23:07+00:00
I've been helping non-technical founders use AI builders (lovable/bolt etc), and I noticed a pattern: they can explain their app idea perfectly to me in conversation, but the moment they try to write prompts, everything falls apart. Outputs are generic, and look obviously AI-generated.

The problem isn't that they don't know what they want. It's that they literally don't speak the language these tools expect. "Modern but approachable" or "Duolingo, but slightly more serious" means nothing to an AI builder.

Instead of teaching them to write better prompts, I prototyped a voice AI that interviews them about their idea. You just talk (voice, not text). The AI asks clarifying questions like a technical, design-minded co-founder would:

- "Show me an app that has the feel you're going for" - "When you say 'premium,' do you mean expensive-looking or well-crafted?" - "Walk me through what happens in the first 30 seconds"

After 5 minutes of conversation, it outputs: - Professional PRDs with user stories, acceptance criteria, technical requirements - High-fidelity mockups that actually match what's in their head - Everything formatted to work as prompts for any AI builder

The insight: Non-technical vibe-coders shouldn't need to learn what z-index or a modal is. They need their vision translated into a language / schema coding agents understand.

I'm looking for feedback from both sides: - Non-technical folks: Does this solve a real problem for you? - Technical folks: Have you seen this translation problem when helping non-technical friends?
Tell HN: Tradition Isn't Useless – It's Chesterton's Fence
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-09-10 19:23:27+00:00
Tradition is just innovation that stood the test of time. There's value in that. Humans are bad at predicting what will work or understanding the unintended consequences of something new. We can only see clearly in hindsight.

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.” ― Donald Kingsbury
by zakeria | 2025-09-10 19:23:53+00:00
uGMM-NN is a novel neural architecture that embeds probabilistic reasoning directly into the computational units of deep networks. Unlike traditional neurons, which apply weighted sums followed by fixed nonlinearities, each uGMM-NN node parameterizes its activations as a univariate Gaussian mixture, with learnable means, variances, and mixing coefficients.
by BMFXX | 2025-09-10 19:24:02+00:00
Admittedly I had a client with this. He was on Shopify. We did everything thgat franze highlighted. We did a full screamingfrog audit of the sitemap, and fixed everything from title length down to html and script problems. Wound up being really toxic backlinks that we needed to disavow. It still took a few months but finally his links were listing. The crazy thing is we had cloned competitors getting higher ranking before.
by mattkrause | 2025-09-10 19:24:08+00:00
Art museums are even worse. "Portrait of Duke von Duke (London, 1841). Oils."

Who is this guy in the painting?! How did he merit a painting? What's unique about the style/composition/whatever?

Conversely, I went to an exhibit of Napoleonic Art and they had a whole breakdown of the symbolism. For example, Napolean liked bees as a symbol of hard work and order, apparently, and they were snuck into most depictions of him as little Easter Eggs.
by krutik_bajariya | 2025-09-10 19:24:11+00:00
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by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-09-10 19:24:19+00:00
I'd be terrified if we allow them to go really fast. They have software and sensor faults, the Teslas are just regular teslas without redundant hardware. They don't have extra sensors, they don't have two sets of their HW4 hardware. If there is a fault the driver has to immediately take over. They can't handle rain well, snow etc. FSD is interesting but it's not nearly ready to be a near fulltime driver. Waymo is much more advanced and experienced but I don't want to see them driving at high speeds. Maybe after 10 years of exp with reundant hardware and software.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-09-10 19:24:40+00:00
I think that’s always the thing with any of these things. The companies private equity or Bending Spoons acquire are frequently inefficient, bloated and not the best-run businesses.

But its basically an admission that the business is in its extraction phase and will no longer innovate.

Relevant quote:

Private Equity is engaged in buying artisanal semi-businesses, turning them into businesses, propping up the numbers while destroying them —then, hopefully, destroying itself.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-10 19:25:22+00:00
> I believe museums exist to present the real thing for the visitor to experience with their own senses. Here’s the sculpture — the actual piece of stone, two thousand years old, Greek sculptor unknown — now go ahead and form your impressions.

When I'm in a museum with ancient sculptures, ironically, I don't want to see them as-is. Instead, I want to walk into a room that attempts to emulate how the sculptures looked in the context that they were originally displayed in, often with original paint that's been lost over the millennia since they were made.

Even cooler would be a projector that could "turn on and off" what the sculpture looked with original paint and possibly other decorations that have long since decayed.