MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mijoharas | 2025-09-30 22:40:13+00:00
Seems to boil down to "we don't trust Andre[0] and btw Shopify totally didn't make us do this[1]".

I still don't understand the mistrust of Andre though. Also, the second point seems a bit disingenuous when their own board member speaks about a specific deadline[2]. He says it's something they agreed to, so it's necessarily external. That and the teams of reports of other people saying they've heard it's Shopify putting pressure for this specific point makes me look for a higher standard of rebuttal than "dude trust me". Explain why it was urgent. Explain what the deadline was.

[0] A recent access review had revealed that many systems were under the control of a single individual, which we determined presented a risk to the security and operational sustainability of those systems.

[1] The Board acted independently, and financial support was NOT conditioned on taking these steps.

[2] https://apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-members-perspective-of...
by coffeefirst | 2025-09-30 22:41:11+00:00
Yeah. I really like Kagi. This is a terrible idea.

1. It seems to omit key facts from most stories.

2. No economic value is returned to the sources doing the original reporting. This is not okay.

3. If your summary device makes a mistake, and it will, you are absolutely on the hook for libel.

There seem to be some misunderstandings about what news is and what’s makes it well-executed. It’s not the average, it’s the deepest and most accurate reporting. If anyone from the Kagi team wants to discuss, I’m a paying member and I know this field really, really well.
by bluGill | 2025-09-30 22:42:02+00:00
Frankly, a moon base might be cool, but nobody has sold me on it is worth having for any other reason. Some smart people have given good arguments that it isn't worth having.

And here I'm sitting in my basement not working on space projects and realizing money spent on space is money I don't have for something else I want (even it is is only $.10 that is still money that adds up).
by legitster | 2025-09-30 22:42:59+00:00
There's a really good video by Road Guy Rob that goes into very good detail about the specific causes of pedestrian fatalities in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEj-pyjA2oo

TL;DW: It's most likely happening at night, on an arterial street, by a truck or SUV.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-30 22:43:46+00:00
I've seen a lot of "this is impressive" but I'm not really seeing it. This looks to suffer from all the same continuity problems other AI videos suffer from.

What am I looking at that's super technically impressive here? The clips look nice, but from one cut to the next there's a lot of obvious differences (usually in the background, sometimes in the foreground).
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-30 22:44:18+00:00
You can think that something doesn't exist in the general case, while still allowing that it might exist in unspecified narrow cases where additional constraints could apply. For example, there might be algorithms that can decide the halting problem for some non-Turing complete class of programs. Being able to talk in full generality about how such special cases might work is the whole point of non-constructive reasoning. It's "non-constructive" in that it states "I'm not going to construct this just yet".
by firesteelrain | 2025-09-30 22:44:42+00:00
This comment summarizes the issue

https://x.com/chier578563/status/1972806760789667908?s=46

“ Congratulations on your O-1 visa but I don’t understand. When were you kicked out of the US? Showing up in the US with a one way trip without having a visa that authorizes for a long stay has always been problematic. You are making too much ado about nothing.”

Feels very much like clickbait

Also why is the form he posted looking AI generated
by fluoridation | 2025-09-30 22:46:02+00:00
"Easy". You make the model distinguish between information and references to information. Information may be fabricated (for example, a fictional book is mostly composed of lies) but references are assumed to be factual (a link does point to something and is related to something). Factual information is true only to the degree that it is conveyed exactly, so the model needs to be able to store and reproduce references verbatim.

Of course, "easy" is in quotes because none of this is easy. It's just easier than AGI.
by WaltPurvis | 2025-09-30 22:46:20+00:00
It's not going to be good, but it's really just an accelerant for a denial of reality that's been building for a long time. I mean, there are corners of the Internet where people still vigorously deny that video of planes hitting the World Trade Center towers is real. (Or, more recently, that Charlie Kirk was actually shot.) I wonder if we'll soon see a "War of the Worlds" kind of panic touched off by very convincing AI-faked news reports and first-hand videos of [something], with a significant number of people so deep inside their insulated social media bubbles that they don't even see all the other people saying "hey, this is a bunch of crap that's not actually happening."
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 22:46:30+00:00
FYI the above poster is the founder of the company selling these tests (EDIT: He edited his comment to include the "OP here" intro after I posted my comment. Thanks!)

> In the past, when we've gone through insurance, the insurer's "negotiated rate" for the same exact panel comes out to $1,400-$1,500.

hs-CRP is not going to be a $1500 negotiated rate under any insurance these days. No sane insurance company is going to pay that.

I understand that the negotiated rate you're talking about is for an entire panel of many markers, but most of these are not necessary for a quick screen and many would already be covered by an ACA annual checkup.

> It includes hs-CRP ($59 by itself online),

hs-CRP is $50 right now at privatemdlabs.com before the 25% off coupon they're blasting me with in the pop-up. It appears to be in the $40-45 range at a few other direct lab companies.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-30 22:46:35+00:00
> On what basis should you be allowed to violate British law when interacting with a British resident?

If all I do is host a website that serves images, and I'm not hosting nor operating out of the UK, why would I be subject to their laws? Just because it's accessible globally means I now have to factor in every possible regulation from around the world?

The burden shouldn't fall on me, the website operator, to block UK traffic because they want to restrict content or enforce age verification. Nor should they be able to fine me. It's up to the UK to have UK based ISPs block my site then.

Obviously a different story if I'm deliberately offering a paid service to UK citizens, or advertising to them, etc.

But to suggest that every website owner now needs to be aware of, and follow, ever nation's unique regulations will spell the death of the internet as a global network.
by _aobj | 2025-09-30 22:46:47+00:00
What is the difference between google blocking a search, and some one at google pretending to be an AI. Personally, I do think the President should be allowed censorship out of respect for the Title of Office. But then so should past Presidents. Which seems to show that Google has no respect and actively discredits its customer base. Judging by Microsoft Co-pilot AI performance, I feel a shake up of Google is over due. As the Meta/Google split has done nothing. In fact with the introduction of Android mobiles. The impartiality of a Telecommunications carrier has been legally breached! But I am not a lawyer, so only the evidence of past Telecommunications practises, exist to be examined and compared! (Remember when mobile phones had voice mail messages. Like "Please leave your your name and number, and the Presidents 'AI' will get back to you" De La Soul !)
by latexr | 2025-09-30 22:47:25+00:00
> There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society

Are there? “A lot” of them? Please name a few that will be more beneficial than the very obvious detrimental uses like “making up life-destroying lies about your political opponents or groups of people you want to vilify” or “getting away with wrongdoing by convincing the judge a real video of yourself is a deepfake”.

That last one has already ben tried, by the way.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/27/elon-musk...
by rayiner | 2025-09-30 22:47:36+00:00
Your quote above from the article you linked says:

> [T]he DA has explained the case concerns an attempt by Trump to interfere in the outcome of the 2016 presidential election outcome.

If the DA himself says that Trump’s crime is interfering with the 2016 election, why doesn’t the DA have to charge the law that covers that, and prove every required element of the crime under that law?
by phil-martin | 2025-09-30 22:47:51+00:00
I think this is a potential building block for transforming how MSP organisations manage documentation and workflow.

Despite the goal of homogenizing each clients environment to simplify support, there will always be uniqueness amongst them. Having documentation that can be collaboratively edited, versioned, that is also runnable to perform management tasks would be a HUGE deal.

I understand this isn't the target audience, but its exciting to imagine the possibilities of other uses.
by bluGill | 2025-09-30 22:48:15+00:00
The body needs SOME. Evolution doesn't care about when you die, just that you reproduce first. Even the highest cholesterol cases generally have kids old enough to have their own kids before they die. That is enough for evolution to not care.

As someone who lost the genetic lottery (has the high cholesterol gene) you bet I care. There is every reason to think that treating cholesterol will increase my lifespan - I'm hoping for quite a few more healthy years.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-30 22:49:08+00:00
> How many hours a week are you actively using AI tools yourself?

2 or 3. Mostly LLMs to check code.

> What percentage of public comments that you’ve made about AI tools have been skeptical or critical?

Probably around 90%.

So sell me. Why is this super impressive? I'm happy to admit that I'm pretty pessimistic about AI.

I have an eye for continuity issues, they are pretty obvious to me. Am I just too focused on that sort of a thing?
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-09-30 22:49:24+00:00
I use one for software development and it's great. Sometimes rust builds are slow and I'd love to force that to be faster with hardware (optimizing build time would be a huge undertaking with not-so-great returns), otherwise I'm totally content. I also have an M2 Max with 32GB of RAM that still feels like magic. I've never had computers that felt so fast for so long.
by CharlesW | 2025-09-30 22:49:54+00:00
> Honestly the best argument for uncompressed is actually nothing to do with file quality or loss - it's that Apple only supports uncompressed Fuji RAWs.

Nitro¹ (macOS, xOS), the spiritual successor to Aperture², does support Fuji compressed RAW: https://www.gentlemencoders.com/extended-raw/

(I left Lightroom for Nitro + Apple Photos a couple years ago, and can strongly recommend Nitro to fellow photo takers.)

¹ https://www.gentlemencoders.com/nitro-for-macos/ ² https://www.gentlemencoders.com/about/
by orev | 2025-09-30 22:50:24+00:00
Yes, generally. The mistake most people make with a boiling pot of water is they start the heat on high, and when the water gets to a boil they keep it on high. You really need to turn it down to medium or lower to just maintain the boil. If it stays on high, the violent agitation breaks down the pasta and releases a lot of starch.

If you turn the heat down to a reasonable level, then yes, the oil will do a lot to help prevent boil over.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-09-30 22:50:51+00:00
>> The highest level of economic growth (GDP), and total factor productivity growth, was between 1929 and 1973

That's also the time period that immigration to the US was at its lowest. The Immigration Act of 1924 strictly limited the number of immigrants allowed. That law was reversed by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Only 5% of the population were immigrants by the 1970 census, the lowest in US history. It's close to 15% now, a level which hasn't been reached since around 1900.

Income inequality plummeted because immigrant labor wasn't allowed to enter the US to drive down the wages of US workers.

H1B labor drives down the wages of US workers. Illegal immigrant labor drives down the wages of US workers. If you care about income inequality, then maybe consider supporting enforcing the immigration laws, and maybe consider supporting ending the H1B and other programs that drive down the wages of US workers and increase income inequality.
by MammaMia2025 | 2025-09-30 22:50:58+00:00
No worries! Trump will call Den Von Deleten, whatever her name is -- and she will just do what she is told whatever is the thing she is told to do. Exactly like it already happened with EU buying $700B of natural gas. We paid just a bit over $100B to Russians for the same thing... but you know... Trump told, so here we go!
by timr | 2025-09-30 22:51:38+00:00
You started this subthread by saying:

> I for one appreciated the clarification that it was not mainstream, since sneaking a random controversial take into a comment thread as if it was fact without noting that it's contentious is disingenuous.

(emphasis mine)

In other words, you didn't just passively ignore the parent (which would be fine), you posted about it, and not only that, you called it a lie. [1].

When you call something a lie like that, you're making an argument, so you'd better be prepared to bring the evidence.

[1] I realize that you're actually saying that it's "disingenous" that they posted this without some kind of disclaimer that it's a "controversial argument", but to the core of the issue: if you need that disclaimer, you aren't qualified to judge the content. For all you know, it isn't controversial at all.
by saulpw | 2025-09-30 22:51:40+00:00
> I was kicked out of the US by the government. All because I booked a one-way ticket to chase my Silicon Valley dream. here's the story

> The last time I tried to move to San Francisco, I never made it past the border. 12 hours in a white detention room. Question after question. Wondering if my dream was over before it even began.

> From that day, every US trip turned into a nightmare. I had to arrive 5 hours early to airports, carry stacks of documents to “prove” I would leave, sit through interrogations every single time, and miss flights I’ll never forget.

> Six months ago, I finally decided to fight for permanence and applied for an O-1 visa. I knew this is where I needed to be if I was serious about building a trillion dollar company.

> The process wasn’t easy. It cost more than $15K in legal fees, required six extensive recommendation letters from industry leaders, and months of gathering proof for every achievement.

> But today, it became official. The US now calls me an “extraordinary individual.” This story isn’t really about visas. It’s about resilience. It’s about chasing your dream even when the system works against you. It’s about learning that rejection isn’t an ending.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-09-30 22:53:09+00:00
Clearly there is divergence. Examples that I run into on a daily basis:

My credit union login does an infinite redirect on login. Works fine on Chrome (and all other major browsers)

Perplexity on the mobile version web search entirely broken. Loops with some error and becomes unresponsive. Works fine on safari.

Many other random stuff breaks at least a few times per day usually from login redirects and authentication. Extensions like 1Password have autofill only working some of the time. The list goes on
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-09-30 22:53:26+00:00
I'm admittedly very much not an expert in this area. But my post is less about the C919 specifically, and more about China's track record of developing manufacturing processes very rapidly such that they compete on the world market. Specifically I'm thinking of how China is suddenly exporting tons of EVs throughout the world at prices that USA/EU auto-makers can't really compete with. Over 50% of EVs sold in the world are Chinese (and none of those cars are allowed in the USA).

If China decides they want to continue developing and building commercial airplanes, where will they be in 5-10 years? Where will Boeing be?
by latexr | 2025-09-30 22:53:45+00:00
> but it's also completely overblown.

Speak for yourself. I for one despise the current direction of the Mac and the complete disregard for the (once good) Human Interface Guidelines. It’s everywhere on macOS now.

Simple example: The fugly switches which replaced checkboxes. Not only to they look wrong on the Mac, they’re less functional. With checkboxes you can click their text to toggle them; not so with the switches.

I’m not even going to touch on the Liquid Glass bugs, or I’d be writing a comment the length of the Iliad.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-09-30 22:54:04+00:00
He was in America then, if you go to America then you’re going to get arrested - Skylarov found that out.

The cases I listed the people were not in the country which performed the actions (dotcom in Nz but upset America, Skripal in UK but upset Russia, etc)

If you break Thai law and insult their king it’s generally good enough to simply not go to Thailand. Piss off the wrong country though and they will persue you to a third country even without extradition agreements

(Then there cases like Gary McKinnon where they try to extradite you and make your life hell even if they lose. He’d never been to America but they tried very hard to extradite him there)

If a country wants you, it will get you. If it wants to protect you, it will, if it is powerful enough. When an American killed Harry Dunn she fled and was protected by America.
by brandonb | 2025-09-30 22:54:53+00:00
I updated the above post to say (OP here). I thought it was fairly clear from my phrasing of "we offer the tests as cash pay", but never hurts to be even more explicit.

I checked privatemdlabs.com, and they're asking $249 for a cardiovascular panel that covers the same biomarkers. So I think our pricing compares pretty favorably, especially when you consider that we offer an MD review.

> hs-CRP is not going to be a $1500 negotiated rate under any insurance these days.

The $1500 insurance price is for the $190 panel. We've actually dealt with this exact situation in the last month, since every so often labs will make a mistake when they process the order (we obviously fix these situations). Perhaps the insurance companies aren't sane (a topic for another day), but this is unfortunately how the system works today.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-30 22:54:53+00:00
Rust has many high-level constructs available as well as libraries ready and available if you stick to "python-like" things. Saving a "few keystrokes" is not what I described, it was specific: `: Dictionary[int, str]`, this is hard to remember, write, and read, and there's lots of punctuation. Many defs are even harder to compose.

Cementing that in early on is a big pre-optimization (ie waste) when it has a large likelyhood of being deleted. Refactors are not large at this point, and changes trivial to fix.
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-30 22:55:07+00:00
> The point stands that virtually no apps used AMX (either directly or through a framework).

AMX has been present in every M series chip and the A series chips starting with the A13. If you are comparing M series chip scores in Geekbench 6 they are all using it, not just the latest ones.

Any app using Apple's Accelerate framework will take advantage of it.
by duxup | 2025-09-30 22:55:58+00:00
Will the White House get to monitor students and staff for "viewpoint diversity" as they initially demanded?

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

>“And they’ll be operating trade schools, and they’ll be teaching people how to do AI and lots of other things. Engines, lots of things,” he added.

This man has zero clue what he is talking about doesn't he ...
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 22:56:02+00:00
The Medium blog you linked has 9 citations and none of them are actual scientific research. They're all news articles.

Regardless, the OP doesn't actually claim that cholesterol is not correlated with heart attack risk. If you read the entire article (not just the headline) it has a section explaining that the results are confounded by the fact that many patients were on statins already and therefore had lower measured LDL cholesterol than they would normally have due to their diet and lifestyle.

LDL isn't the only factor in determining heart disease risk. We've known this for a long time. Measuring LDL in heart attack patients can be misleading because it doesn't represent lifetime LDL area under the curve and they are more likely to be on LDL-lowering therapy than people with lower heart attack risk.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-30 22:56:15+00:00
> There's also CAD software, many DAWs.

Assertions like this are what kill the iPad. Yes, DAWs "exist" but can only load the shitty AUs that Apple supports on the App Store. Professional plugins like Spectrasonics or U-He won't run on the iPad, only the Mac. CAD software "runs" but only supports the most basic parametric modeling. You're going to get your Macbook or Wintel machine to run your engineering workloads if that's your profession. Not because the iPad can't do these things, but because Apple recognizes that they can double their sales gimping good hardware. No such limitations exist on, say, the Surface lineup. It's wholly artificial.

I'm reminded of Damon Albarn's album The Fall - which he allegedly recorded on an iPad. It's far-and-away his least professional release, and there's no indication he ever returned to iOS for another album. Much like the iPad itself, The Fall is an enshrined gimmick fighting for recognition in a bibliography of genuinely important releases. Apple engineers aren't designing the next unibody Mac chassis on an iPad. They're not mixing, mastering and color-grading their advertisements on an iPad. God help them if they're shooting any footage with the dogshit 12MP camera they put on those things. iPads do nothing particularly well, which is acceptable for moseying around the web and playing Angry Birds but literally untenable in any industry with cutting-edge, creative or competitive software demands. Ask the pros.
by dpark | 2025-09-30 22:56:25+00:00
I was replying to this:

> I've always taught my children never to use their real names online. Precisely to avoid creeps. Mandatory age verification means mandatory identification.

“Adults shouldn’t have to reveal their identities” is a totally legitimate concern. It’s also very different from the child scenario in this case because the entire point of revealing the identity is to gain access to features a child should not have access to.
by cubefox | 2025-09-30 22:57:02+00:00
I think it will mainly be used for inpainting and outpainting, i.e. for adding and removing stuff in a scene. Things that currently have to be done with relatively expensive CGI. More complex things, especially things that have to look identical between scenes, or have to look a very specific way, will still require filming or classical CGI, or both. (For now.)
by ThrownOffGame | 2025-09-30 22:58:01+00:00
That depends on what other drivers, I guess

The Waymos I ride have developed a habit of swinging right into bus turnouts.

A bus turnout looks like a dedicated right-turn lane, except it ends and you must merge before turning right!

So these Waymos are illegally entering these lanes for no good reason and seem completely unaware of their actual designated use or signage. I cannot figure out why.
by bluGill | 2025-09-30 22:58:05+00:00
The real issue with the 747 is people will take a point to point route if at all possible. Worse, flying a small plane point to point is cheaper for the passenger than flying 2 747s. If you live in Lincoln NE - sorry your city is too small to get direct flights to anything but close major hubs (even then odds are you drive to nearby Omaha thus further reducing demand options). However if you live in a Larger non-hub city airlines can undercut each other by just doing direct flights to other large non-hub cities.