MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-15 04:36:27+00:00
>> All I can say to this is that my position is Large Language Models (LLM's) are a combination of algorithms and data.

>> As as such, for me they do not qualify as anything to be either "pro" or "anti", let alone a participant of an activist movement.

> They were not talking about LLMs being participants of anything ...

Clearly I was referencing LLM's being something to foment "an activist movement" in an attempt to de-escalate the implication of there being some kind of "anti-LLM activist movement."

> ... but people who are against LLMs in whatever capacity. Surely people can be participants of a movement.

At this point your replies to my posts appear to be intentionally adversarial.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-15 04:36:36+00:00
> it's already been proven that leading an active lifestyle is one of the most amazing things you can do for your health and happiness.

For your health sure. But for happiness, only if you actually like sporty activities. I don't, and it feels like a chore. Having to do chores all the time makes me unhappy. I've always hated anything to do with sports.

In think some people get an endorfin hit from it but for me that doesn't do much either. I just feel empty and exhausted after it.
by djtango | 2025-09-15 04:37:44+00:00
My boxing coach once described fighting as a conversation. I am inclined to agree.

In boxing you don't have the luxury of taking your time to think otherwise you get punched in the face.

Improving at conversation is like boxing - it can be reduced into structures and scenarios. Combinations and responses can be drilled in. Ultimately once the foundations are bedded in there is plenty of room for self expression and creativity.

The funny thing about social interaction is that we all talk to each other but there are people who live breathe and hone the art whether formally or informally while plenty of us just stumble along doing just good enough...
by kbelder | 2025-09-15 04:38:31+00:00
My brother set out to copy out mother's pie dough recipe, so had her do it in front of him. He recorded every measurement, each step of the creation process, but it didn't work. The result was a perfectly serviceable pie crust, but noticeably inferior to our mom's. Maybe the humidity in the kitchen, or subtle changes in rolling style... mom could do it every time and we couldn't copy it.

The truth is, we were trying to short cut past the effort involved of mastery by making hundreds of pies over decades...
by bb88 | 2025-09-15 04:38:51+00:00
That's one of the things I enjoy about Cook's Country on PBS. They like to dig into the historical contexts of dishes. Sometimes by researching in the past, they discover insights.

I was thinking of biscuit recipes where mixing was often done by feel of the dough, rather than exact amounts. Grandmas could just "feel" the amounts needed for their biscuits.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-15 04:38:53+00:00
> The entire purpose of their existence is

to make money.

Customers wanting or not the product is only one of the path to that. Aligning with competitors to avoid profit reducing change to the market is one way to optimize for money while giving the middle finger to customers.

> people eschewing responsibility by putting blaming the person selling

Eschewing the responsibility of companies with money flow the size of a small nation, crazy marketing budgets, plenty access to lobbying and political power at an international level is way worse in my book.
by toast0 | 2025-09-15 04:39:19+00:00
> However, that leaves much unsaid. Unmaintained gaming titles? Does this mean native, old macOS games? I thought many of them were already no longer functional by this point. What about Crossover? What about Rosetta 2 inside Linux?

Apple keeps trying to be a platform for games. Keeping old games running would be a step in that direction. Might include support for x86 games running through wine/apple game porting toolkit/etc
by perching_aix | 2025-09-15 04:40:34+00:00
> Clearly I was referencing LLM's being something to foment "an activist movement" in an attempt to de-escalate the implication of there being some kind of "anti-LLM activist movement."

Well, no, that really wasn't clear to me at all. I don't think it was clear in general either.

> At this point your replies to my posts appear to be intentionally adversarial.

Not my actual intention, apologies, although I 100% understand if at this point that is not at all believable.
by tacitusarc | 2025-09-15 04:40:45+00:00
There is this recent trend of languages enforcing 2 space indentation and disallowing any ability to override. 2 space indentation makes determining block nesting hard for many (maybe most?) people, including me. My understanding is that the trend started as a way to skirt line length limitations in Python. I think it’s one of the dumbest trends in programming languages.

Please stop.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-09-15 04:41:13+00:00
> CRL is a list that becomes huge over time - hosting it would require massive amounts of bandwidth and clients would need to download a lot of extra data.

Compared to what? 12MB JavaScript bundles and autoplay videos? Do CDNs still exist?

There's a finite number of CAs and browsers can be expected to perform caching. Delta CRLs also exist and the CAs can decline to include expired leaf certs.

This sounds like a made up problem that was solved 25 years ago.
by simonw | 2025-09-15 04:41:13+00:00
Honestly I feel like "training" is a bit of a distraction at this point. For a lot of types of content RAG-style search is much more important.

I imagine many of the orgs that are blocking "training" don't understand the difference between training and inference-time tool-based context extension (which really needs an agreed upon name, it's hard to talk about right now).
by furyofantares | 2025-09-15 04:41:32+00:00
"distinguishing facts from falsehoods" is so broad to encompass all of scientific and philosophical endeavor. I know they mean something much more narrow, but "fact checking" is also fairly broad.

You probably mean things where the truth is widely known and you should have no trouble sorting it out if you put a little effort in. TFA has nearly zero information about what sorts of things they're talking about here, and clicking around the website I found only a _little_ more info.
by afavour | 2025-09-15 04:41:55+00:00
A counterpoint:

> A third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking tobacco, research shows, meaning they are as likely to smoke as their peers were in the 1970s.

> The findings suggest that e-cigarettes are increasingly acting as a “gateway” to nicotine cigarettes for children, undermining falling rates of teen smoking over the past 50 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/29/third-of-uk-...
by jldugger | 2025-09-15 04:42:54+00:00
Well, the first paper on AI was published in 1943[1], but unfortunately requires some knowledge of brain science that was ultimately incorrect to understand, and includes some mathematical notation that is relatively obscure for high school.

And this, Turing, and Shannon predate the Macy conferences / Ratio Club by a few years, so I'm not sure I'd call cybernetics a predecessor so much as a defunct offshoot. Though where math stops and CS starts varies depending on the scholar you talk to.

[1]: https://jontalle.web.engr.illinois.edu/uploads/410-NS.F22/Mc...
by totallymike | 2025-09-15 04:43:48+00:00
Unrelated to my other point, I absolutely get wanting to lower barriers, but let’s not forget that templeOS was the religious vanity project of someone who could have had a lot to teach us if not for mental health issues that were extant early enough in the roots of the project as to poison the well of knowledge to be found there. And he didn’t just “move on,” he died.

While I legitimately do find templeOS to be a fascinating project, I don’t think there was anything to learn from it at a computer science level other than “oh look, an opinionated 64-bit operating environment that feels like classical computing and had a couple novel ideas”

I respect that instances like it are demonstrably few and far between, but don’t entertain its legacy far beyond that.
by massung | 2025-09-15 04:44:32+00:00
I’m sure your question was rhetorical and sarcastic (that the app exists makes me sick).

It absolutely is not. AI counts as a medical device: it’s used to help diagnose and inform medical treatments. However, this is a loophole, because (quoting fda.gov):

> FDA does have regulatory oversight over devices intended for animal use …. Pre-market Approval is Not Required: The FDA does not require submission of a 510(k), PMA, or any pre-market approval for devices intended for animal use.

The FDA will only step in after complaints or enough pets start dying.
by Theodores | 2025-09-15 04:44:53+00:00
Okay, you did ask...

Rather than use MatLab to create your bar charts, you could do something like this.

Here I am assuming you don't want standalone images that others can steal but you do want maximal SVG coolness.

Move the origin with viewBox voodoo witchcraft to 0,0.

Add a stylesheet in your HTML just for your SVG wizardry.

Create some CSS properties scoped to SVG for your colours, for example svg { --claude-code: red; --cursor: orange; --github-copilot: yellow; } and so on.

Put them in the stylesheet, and add some styles, for example claude-code line { stroke: var(--claude-code); } and so on.

Rather than use paths in groups with clip paths and whatnot, just use a series of lines, made nice and fat. Lines have two points, and, since the viewBox is zeroed out to the origin, you only need to specify the y2 value, with y1, x1 and x2 taking the defaults of zero. The y2 value could be whatever suits, the actual value divided by 1000, 10000 or something.

Put each line in a group with the group having a class, for example claude-code.

Add the label to the group with its own transform to rotate the text 45 degrees.

Add a transform to the group to move the fat line and its label along the y axis using a translate.

Rinse and repeat for all entries on the graph.

Now do some labels for the other axis.

As for the title of the graph, move that out of the SVG file. Put the SVG file in a figure element and put the title in a figcaption element. Add CSS for the figcaptions.

With SVG in HTML there is no need to do xlink and version things, just keep it simple, with just the viewBox and no width/height. Scale your figures in CSS with the SVG set to fill the space of the figure, so we are going full width.

You can also use some title elements for mouseovers, so, hover over a bar and you get the actual data number.

Why do it this way?

Say you don't like the colours or you want to implement dark mode. You can do the usual prefers media query stuff and set your colours accordingly, for all the graphs, so they are all consistent.

Same goes with the fonts, you want all that in the stylesheet rather than baked into every SVG, so you can update them all with one master change.

As for the last graph with lots of squares, those squares are 'rect' not path, for maximum readability. The rectangles can be put in a defs container as symbols, so you have veryLightBlueSquare, lightBlueSquare, BlueSquare and so on. Then, with your text you can put each value in a group that contains a text node and a use tag to pull through the relevant colour square.
by FearNotDaniel | 2025-09-15 04:45:25+00:00
Yes, except for this part:

> The failure of the potato crops created starvation and emigration so profound in scale

This bears repeating a thousand times over because the political-economic lessons have still not been learned: the famine in Ireland was not caused by potato blight. The island of Ireland at the time was growing more than enough crops to feed its people. The famine was caused by the British Government of the time refusing to divert resources in order to prevent starvation. A “Christian” government that, with the support of its electors, had no problem deciding that some ethnic groups among its citizens were somehow less human than those of the majority.
by arrdalan | 2025-09-15 04:45:59+00:00
There are several differences.

1) Usage model: RTSP cameras can be used for on-demand livestreaming. In contrast, the usage model of our camera is similar to a Ring camera: not only does it support livestreaming, but also it detects events (motion, person, pet, etc.), records a video clip, and sends it to the phone.

2) Connection and ease of use: with an RTSP camera, the camera acts as a sever. You can easily connect to it from your phone if your phone is connected to the same LAN. But if you're outside (which is very typical in the case of home security camera), you will need to connect to your LAN from outside. You have several options to achieve this (port forwarding, VPN, reverse proxy, etc.). Some of these options are not very secure. And they all require some non-trivial setup. In contrast, with our camera (again, similar to a Ring camera), the camera sends the videos to a cloud server and the app downloads them. Therefore, there's no need for the phone to access the LAN. (But note that in contrast to Ring, the videos in Secluso are always end-to-end encrypted. Ring supports an optional end-to-end encrypted mode, but you will lose advanced AI features such as person detection if you enable that since that is performed in their servers.) With the cloud-based video relay, we can then make it very easy to set up and use our camera. More specifically, our plug-and-play camera (https://secluso.com) is very easy to use: scan a QR code, pair, and you're good to go.

3) Encryption: Secluso uses MLS, which provides advanced end-to-end encryption features such as forward secrecy (per message) and post-compromise security.

4) Trust in firmware: Our goal with our recent Raspberry Pi camera is to provide a home security camera with a fully open source firmware. In fact, we now support a reproducible build, which allows you to verify that the firmware binary is built from the open source software in our github repo. This is in contrast to IP cameras that come with closed source firmware, making it difficult to assess their trustworthiness.
by musicale | 2025-09-15 04:48:30+00:00
iPads already outsell Macs. I imagine Apple is willing to accept lower margin overall for iPad hardware (vs. Mac) since it gets a cut of iPad software sales on the App Store. This is perhaps a business reason for why you want macOS on an iPad and Apple does not.

However, Jobs also believed in product differentiation and thought that having too many products in the same space was confusing. Arguably by making iPadOS more macOS-like Apple is reducing that differentiation and increasing confusion.
by nick-watchful | 2025-09-15 04:48:56+00:00
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by bb88 | 2025-09-15 04:50:09+00:00
It's a pretty common mechanism in humans to replace one craving with another. AA (e.g.) doesn't necessarily care if you have a two pack a day smoking addiction -- that's not what they're "optimizing" for.

> Are you saying a lot of people just stop experiencing hunger? Like does their stomach not growl and feel empty unless they’re high?

I think maybe a better way is to understand what the best solutions are. Right now it seems to be replacing one craving with another. People who stop cigarette smoking often gain weight -- that's been well documented for decades now. Knowing that, is type 2 diabetes better or worse than smoking and risking lung cancer?

People who run get a lot of endorphins from the exercise. People who haven't run and start running get a lot of pain from it at first. Maybe after a few months they get endorphins.

GLP-1 agonists (wegovy, zepbound) do reduce food cravings, but they also are being studied for alcoholism. I've heard it could affect gambling addiction as well. The real question is, why would a GLP-1 agonist affect a gambling addiction at all?
by fy20 | 2025-09-15 04:50:23+00:00
I visited the region around Dharamshala last year which is the same altitude (1500m) and was somewhat surprised I did not notice any effects of the altitude. My whole life (nearly 40) I've been living at sea level, except for trips.

I've lived mostly outside cities though so no major pollution. I'd imagine for Delhi folks the pollution must have a big effect on their lungs - but you'd think it would translate to working well for high altitude.
by schiffern | 2025-09-15 04:50:32+00:00
>claims to refute the whole discipline based on a single incorrect prediction

I'm not so sure about "incorrect" even. The retrospectives have been generally positive.[0][1]

Citing economic growth as a counterexample is pretty silly, because in the Limits models many parameters look great right up until the collapse.[2]

I would encourage everyone to see how the original authors describe their findings[2][3], rather than (potentially motivated) retellings.

[0] https://www.livescience.com/collapse-human-society-limits-to...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhSpzQhvFS8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3SWj-hjTE
by rtpg | 2025-09-15 04:52:05+00:00
I feel like some of that is just branding efforts. Lots of food companies will put their brand onto the soy sauce/butter/whatever that they are promoting when writing recipes and those get copied.

But while you can talk about reproducibility etc, at the end of the day the amount of variation between various brands of canned pumpkins are less that the amount of variation _you_ should consider when making a recipe to match the tastes of those you are making it for.

We have plenty of foods we make at home where we routinely just look at the base recipe and decide "that is too much/little salt/sugar/etc" and we are happy in the end. Harder for baking tho.
by kaffekaka | 2025-09-15 04:53:15+00:00
If you spend months in isolation, true, but if it is a matter of answering something on the spot vs the next day that is not a problem.

But the main point of my comment was that the situations in which I have felt slow, I have later realized that is only because some other people confidently state the first thought that comes to their mind. They are quick to answer but not any quicker to the final conclusion (which may be days away).
by munificent | 2025-09-15 04:53:58+00:00
> I'm not sure of the value of seeing all of the variables used listed in one place

It means the compiler knows how much memory the function's activation frame will take and the offset into that for every variable before it encounters any code in the function.

Basically, it makes it easier to write a single-pass compiler. That was important in the 70s but is less important these days.
by carimura | 2025-09-15 04:55:33+00:00
Yes Mark is the Chief Architect with vast responsibility, in addition is Chief Language Architect Brian Goetz [1] and the OpenJDK Amber Project members [2][3].

[1] https://inside.java/u/BrianGoetz/

[2] https://openjdk.org/census#amber

[3] https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/
by h4ny | 2025-09-15 04:55:35+00:00
Not speaking for everyone but to me the problem is the normalization of bad behavior.

Some people in this thread are already interpreting that policies that allow contributions of AI-generated code means it's OK to not understand the code they write and can offload that work to the reviewers.

If you have ever had to review code that an author doesn't understand or written code that you don't understand for others to review, you should know how bad it is even without an LLM.

> Why do you care? Their sandbox their rules...

* What if it's a piece of software or dependency that I use and support? That affects me.

* What if I have to work with these people in these community? That affects me.

* What if I happen to have to mentor new software engineers who were conditioned to think that bad practices are OK? That affects me.

Things are usually less sandboxed than you think.
by epistasis | 2025-09-15 04:57:25+00:00
Not at all, this is the size of a supermassive black hole, 50 million times the mass of the sun, like the one at the center of every galaxy. Sagittarius A*, the super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, only has a mass of 4 million suns.

They have always been a mystery, because it's not entirely known how these supermassive black holes could have formed, since the known methods of star collapse have upper bounds on size too small to account for these large black holes. The article mentions two hypotheses, primordial black holes somehow formed in the first second after the big bang, and direct collapse of large gas clouds into a black hole.

It's also very exciting to have an explanation for one of the many many "red dots" that were first spotted by JWST and have been very mysterious. If all these were super massive black holes without galaxies that would be fascinating.
by citizenkeen | 2025-09-15 04:57:41+00:00
“It’s not a problem for me so I struggle to see why it’s a problem for anybody else”.

The lack of empathy throughout your comments here is staggering.

I’m a fantastic baker. I can bake a much better cake than my grandma ever could, but I can’t bake the cake I had in my childhood without a box. “Just but two” is nonsense dumb advice.
by realityfactchex | 2025-09-15 04:58:21+00:00
As an everyday person, you can continue to use YouTube to discover and consume content.

It's more like, if you find a maker of content that you like, they might happen to have a PeerTube or other independent YouTube-like site up as well, as a backup or larger archive of their material.

The independently hosted FOSS alternatives are more for people who create content and don't want to or can't depend on the good graces of bigtech to indefinitely host their content for whatever reason (usually a practical matter, sometimes even underlying political factors).

For instance, YouTube will scan new content automatically and zap the channel if it says the wrong couple words more than a few times.

Maybe that's not a problem for a lot of channels. But there were definitely tons of creators who got burned by that kind of cancelling over the last n years.

So I imagine, yes, some entrepreneurial, technical, and communication-oriented folks would be interested in things like PeerTube, YouPHPTube (which is actually quite good) [1], etc.

[1] https://youphp.tube