MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fpsvogel | 2025-10-27 11:41:36+00:00
In my experience, in the US, harmful chemicals in products are a lot more credible than climate change, to people who listen to the Right. An example that has been in the news: pregnant women taking Tylenol.

For whatever reason, a “natural” lifestyle is more compatible with American conservative politics than an environmentally responsible lifestyle. I think the two can easily overlap, but the former would have to emphasized for it to get any traction with that audience.

EDIT: Replace “for whatever reason” with “due to the influence of the fossil fuel industry”
by 63stack | 2025-10-27 11:41:46+00:00
It has been over a decade that big tech has been playing this script:

* Introduce a feature that is abysmal for user privacy

* Promise it's okay because $reasons

* Make the feature opt-out

* Change the EULA so that $reasons are no longer applicable/valid

* Roll out an update that "accidentally" turns the feature back on for everyone

* Apologize, deny, divert, deflect

* Siphon off all that sweet sweet user data

Rinse and repeat. Get away with it every time. People still go "oh I don't see the problem, they said $reasons". This time "it's stored locally". Until it won't.
by gambiting | 2025-10-27 11:42:08+00:00
>>Or are you suggesting that we shouldn't use a technology that is vastly safer than human drivers, but still causes a nonzero amount of deaths?

Absolutely this one. And the key word here is "causes" - if the deaths are being caused by mistakes of the algorithm(and by extension - their creators) then every single one of these systems should be disabled and pulled out from sale until it can be addressed, in the same way a plane autopilot would be. I suspect we will disagree on this.

Perhaps look at it this way - when I buy an automatic pressure cooker, I need it to explode exactly zero times, not "less than manual pressure cookers". If my car drives into a concrete barrier because it thought it's actually a perfectly straight road g - I really really don't care that on average fewer people have died while using it than when driving themselves. It's unsafe and it should be forbidden from sale and use on public roads.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-27 11:42:32+00:00
I think the central premise is a "wrong". The "point" of science isn't really to do useful things. Framing things from that angle is in subtle ways dangerous bc that shouldnt be part of the incentive structure.

you dont understand the mating behaviors of naked mole rats bc of some sense of "usefulness". Its just an investigation of nature and how things work. The usefulness comes out unexpectedly. Like you find out naked mole are actually maybe biologically immortal

You should just find interesting phenomena and invetigate. Capitalism figures out the usefulness side of things
by simoncion | 2025-10-27 11:42:44+00:00
> PS 300 CPM is nothing.

That depends on the instrument. It's an instrument-specific rate. I'd say that saying "300 CPM is nothing" absent any information other than the CPM is foolish.

As I indicated earlier, given all of the other context we have, we can reasonably suppose that 300 CPM from whichever instrument was used in this incident is nothing to be concerned about.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-27 11:43:46+00:00
+1 for Unifi. They’ve added “baby crying” to the audio monitoring for triggering alerts. Everything is kept local on your LAN. Can access remotely via an app if you wish, but that’s simply accessing the device on your LAN so no dumping all your footage into some random “cloud.” Stuff just works and requires no subscription so all your money goes towards better quality hardware.
by jFriedensreich | 2025-10-27 11:44:36+00:00
Its kind of naive satire that looks silly on second thought. Recall was not bad because of the concept but implementation details, rollout communication and of course the microsoft part. Recall by an open entity with data ownership, security and transparency would have none of those issues and its just a new take on the universal desktop search that is enabled by ai being able to utilise pixels. I refuse to be shamed by e2e encryption freaks that i want to be able search anything I encountered and having universal data control and ownership vs locked in app silos.
by adam_patarino | 2025-10-27 11:45:31+00:00
My instinct has been that decline in birthrate is directly connected to the distribution of wealth, at least in the US.

Boomers could afford a house and 6 kids on one person’s salary.

Today both parents need to work just to afford the basics, let alone child care and food. That economic pressure has to have some affect on birthdate.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-27 11:46:09+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)
by sipofwater | 2025-10-27 11:46:21+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)
by wongarsu | 2025-10-27 11:46:43+00:00
Look long enough at literature on any machine learning task, and someone invariably gets the idea to turn the data into an image and do machine learning on that. Sometimes it works out (turning binaries into images and doing malware detection with a CNN surprisingly works), usually it doesn't. Just like in this example the images usually end up as a kludge to fix some deficiency in the prevalent input encoding.

I can certainly believe that images bring certain advantages over text for LLMs: the image representation does contain useful information that we as humans use (like better information hierarchies encoded in text size, boldness, color, saturation and position, not just n levels of markdown headings), letter shapes are already optimized for this kind of encoding, and continuous tokens seem to bring some advantages over discrete ones. But none of these advantages need the roundtrip via images, they merely point to how crude the state of the art of text tokenization is
by nicce | 2025-10-27 11:47:51+00:00
> UPDATE: This honestly looks incredible and makes huge strides in the Rust UI landscape. You can run an impressive widget gallery app here showing all their components:

> https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component/tree/main/crate...

> Just "cargo run --release"

Very impressive! Only thing I am concerned over is that it uses around 900 dependencies. But I don't know whether it much for GUI applications.
by mannykannot | 2025-10-27 11:48:21+00:00
So, nothing to see here so far - I can't really respond to allegations that are imaginary.

You also claim that I am begging the question. How do you justify that? It is not, of course, begging the question for opponents of Searle to suppose his conclusion is wrong: everyone disputing any argument does that.

The Enigma response is very straightforward. While, in general, simulations are not equivalent to what is being simulated, it is often the case that for information manipulation they are, owing to the substrate independence of information. It is Searle who needs a better argument here, and he never came up with one.
by doright | 2025-10-27 11:48:23+00:00
I tried installing uBlock Origin but the web store says I have to sign in and enable sync to download it. I didn't want to do that so I tried unpacking the extension .zip from GitHub and loading unpacked, but then the app just crashed.

Is extension support only meant to work with a Google account signed in or am I missing something?

EDIT: I tried loading the store page in desktop mode but I can't install the non-Lite uBlock Origin, I guess because this Chromium version doesn't support Manifest V2 anymore. I'm still on Kiwi Browser which supports MV2.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-27 11:48:23+00:00
It’s an over engineered solution to a, relatively, simple problem of access long the device on the local network. This used to be a hard problem to solve but in 2025 I’d question why they’re going through the headache of all this cloud stuff when they could just build a quality device that runs locally with a simple base station that triggers alerts. They only hosting they really need is something to send alerts to an app.
by luisml77 | 2025-10-27 11:48:59+00:00
Complex output can sometimes give you the wrong idea, I agree. For instance, a study Anthropic did a while back showed that, when an LLM was asked HOW it performed a mathematical computation (35 + 59), the response the LLM gave was different from the mechanistic interpretation of the layers [1]. This showed LLMs can be deceptive. But they are also trained to be deceptive. Supervised fine tuning is imitation learning. This leads the model to learn to be deceptive, or answer what is usually the normal explanation, such as "I sum first 5+9, then add the remainder to... etc". The LLM does this rather than actually examining the past keys and values. But it does not mean it can't examine its past keys and values. These encode the intermediate results of each layer, and can be examined to identify patterns. What Anthropic researchers did was examine how the token for 35 and for 39 was fused together in the layers. They compare these tokens to other tokens, such as 3 , 5 , 9. For an LLM, tokens are high dimensional concepts. This is why you can compare the vectors to each other, and figure out the similarity, and therefore break down the thought process. Yes, this is exactly what I have been discussing above. Underneath each token prediction, this black magic is happening, where the model is fusing concepts through summation of the vectors (attention scores). Then, merged representations are parsed by the MLPs to generate the refined fused idea, often adding new knowledge stored inside the network. And this continues layer after layer. A repeated combination of concepts, that start with first understanding the structure and order of the language itself, and end with manipulation of complex mathematical concepts, almost detached from the original tokens themselves.

Even though complex output can be deceptive of the underlying mental model used to produce it, in my personal experience, LLMs have produced for me output that must imply extremely complex internal behaviour, with all the characteristics I mentioned before. Namely, I frequently program with LLMs, and there is simply zero percent probability that their output tokens exist WITHOUT first having thought at a very deep level about the unique problem I presented to them. And I think anyone that has used the models to the level I have, and interacted with them this extensively, knows that behind each token there is this black magic.

To summarize, I am not being naive by saying I believe everything my LLM says to me. I rather know very intimately where the LLM is deceiving me and when its producing output where its mental model must have been very advanced to do so. And this is through personal experience playing with this technology, both inference and training.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-27 11:49:04+00:00
Now do this for 300+ employees constantly. It's not sustainable.

We need scoped MCPs before any of this is viable.

The receiving end needs a setting that "user X's ChatGPT MCP can access directories [x,y,z] in Google Drive. This wouldn't require any changes to the MCP protocol in general.

OR the whole spec must be changed so that when an MCP is connecting, there is a negotiation about the scope (select which directories are shared) AND that list is checked on the receiving end against a whitelist of allowed directories.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-27 11:49:37+00:00
Yep. While there might be some use cases for his ultra-simplistic "Mossad/not-Mossad duality" - say, convincing Bob Jones that "b0bj0nes" is not a great password - it's 99% fairy tale.

And even if the CIA/Mossad/NSA/whoever is "interested" in you - this is the era of mass surveillance. The chances that you're worth a Stuxnet level of effort is 0.000000001%. Vs. 99.999% chance that they'll happily hoover up your data, if you make it pretty easy for their automated systems to do that.
by lpln3452 | 2025-10-27 11:50:02+00:00
No. It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that one must read some unknown script just for the simple task of adding a binary to the directory on PATH. Unless, of course, you're the type of person who just runs any script without verification.

Furthermore, for files installed 'automatically' like that, it's nearly impossible to remember what was done and where. This means that to remove it, you have to find and read 'that specific version' of the script you ran, and then delete the files. It's not like the script is always in a place with a persistent history, like a git repository. Good luck with that.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-27 11:50:50+00:00
> <html lange="en">

s/lange/lang/

> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">

Don’t need the “.0”. In fact, the atrocious incomplete spec of this stuff <https://www.w3.org/TR/css-viewport-1/> specifies using strtod to parse the number, which is locale dependent, so in theory on a locale that uses a different decimal separator (e.g. French), the “.0” will be ignored.

I have yet to test whether <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.5"> misbehaves (parsing as 1 instead of 1½) with LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8 on any user agents.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-27 11:50:50+00:00
It's not the age of printing presses anymore. It's the 21st century, the age of information, the age of globally networked pocket supercomputers. Copying is so trivial that it's become normal. It happens every day at massive scales. People do not even realize they are doing it.

We're discussing this in a thread about AI laundering of copyrighted works, for god's sake. If you keep believing this delusion, you'll eventually watch it shatter right before your eyes.

Let's not waste time comparing bits of infomation to physical objects either. We can revisit this discussion when Star Trek replicators are invented.
by moogly | 2025-10-27 11:50:55+00:00
Breaks way less often than FreeTube. I think there might be some lessons to learn there for the latter. One feature I wished it had: periodic background downloading of subscriptions. I use NewPipe fairly rarely, and when I do, I have to wait perhaps 90-120 seconds to download the list of latest videos. I'm pretty sure that contributes to me not using it super often, exacerbating the problem.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-27 11:51:47+00:00
Gaming consoles are even more limited by software. They're literally running normal gaming PC hardware.

I'm always baffled when people are up in arms wanting to run _everything_ on their phones, which have very specific and niche hardware, but at the satime time are just fine with their consoles being 100% locked down without even a chance of side-loading. Nevermind an open 3rd party store.
by Aransentin | 2025-10-27 11:55:17+00:00
Note that <html> and <body> auto-close and don't need to be terminated.

Also, wrapping the <head> tags in an actual <head></head> is optional.

You also don't need the quotes as long the attribute doesn't have spaces or the like; <html lang=en> is OK.

(kind of pointless as the average website fetches a bazillion bytes of javascript for every page load nowadays, but sometimes slimming things down as much as possible can be fun and satisfying)
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-10-27 11:55:19+00:00
going to my last page of comments at this time

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bryanrasmussen

I have 4 comments of more than 3 sentences and 3 comments of 2 or 3 sentences and 5 comments of 1 sentence.

The sentences were generally pretty short.
by redhale | 2025-10-27 11:55:31+00:00
This is a cool idea!

But my question is: why not just use HTML+CSS?

This is what I do, and it works amazingly well in my experience. LLMs are really good at HTML, and they can generate a clickable prototype in a few seconds.

And the benefit of HTML is that it can actually resemble the thing I'm going after. It's still throw-away code -- when it comes time to build, this HTML is usually used in screenshot form as I might use a quick and dirty Figma mock-up.

Going through ASCII feels like forcing the LLM to go through a translation layer that is going to make things more complicated (like needing 6 skills to be able to do it, for instance).
by tokioyoyo | 2025-10-27 11:55:35+00:00
I'm curious, how many more years do we need to get decent data points to have a controller experiment between "people who min/maxed their health" vs an average person? Life expectancy here in Tokyo is 81/87 years (for men/women), and if constant chase for the "peak health" results in the same average... I'm not sure if it's worth it other than the general 80/20 rule of suggestions?
by analog8374 | 2025-10-27 11:55:50+00:00
Consider the levels generated in any roguelike.

Consider the patterns generated by cellular automata.

Both tend to stay interesting in the small scale but lose it to boring chaos in the large.

For this reason I think the better approach is to start with a simple level-scale form and then refine it into smaller parts, and then to refine those parts and so on.

(Vs plugging away at tunnel-building like a mole)
by viraptor | 2025-10-27 11:55:51+00:00
> My feeling is that devs in general are not into the "learning how to use tools" idea.

Given the number of vim, emacs, nix, git, i3, etc. users who are proud of it and all the customisations they do, I don't think so. Like, there will be a decent group, but not generalisable to "devs".
by krisoft | 2025-10-27 11:56:22+00:00
> In that case no parent needs to know about Synology or even IP addresses.

But they need to know about networking enough to be on the same network. I understand that sounds easy, but every time someone gets confused about their cursed setup the company making the device will get a returned product and an angry review. Client isolation, multiple wifi networks, some devices being on wifi some on the mobile network.
by andrepd | 2025-10-27 11:56:41+00:00
> many people are pro-library and pro-archive, but get angry at AI as having somehow stolen something

Yes! They're angry that there are two standards, an onerous one making life hell for archivists, librarians, artists, enthusiasts, and suddenly a free-for-all when it comes to these AI fad companies hoovering all the data in the world they can get their paws on.

I.e. protecting the interests of capital at the expense of artists and people in the former, and the interests of capital at the expense of artists and people in the latter.
by vidarh | 2025-10-27 11:56:50+00:00
Sure, but my point being that saying SF/Fantasy contains elements that aren't possible is a too restrictive constraint - a whole lot of SF would fall outside of that category.

While Tau Zero that was mentioned elsewhere is believed to not match the laws of nature now, the science the entire plot rests on was considered scientifically plausible at the time it was written.

It was speculative, but it explicitly did not set out to make up a world in which some scientific law is different.

In other words, that isn't a defining factor of SF.

The speculative nature of it is closer to it - hence the shared label of speculative fiction often used to group SF and fantasy.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-27 11:57:17+00:00
The real story will be when companies report valuation losses from their investments in AI companies after the bubble bursts, or even deflates a bit.

Expect lots of hand wavy “non-GAAP” numbers pushed by leadership trying to gloss over their failed AI investments.

That’s earnings call speak for “If you ignore the pile of your money we lost with bad AI investment decisions, we’ve had a good quarter. Moving on…”
by kouteiheika | 2025-10-27 11:58:11+00:00
It's crazy how anti-Rust people think that eliminating 70% of your security bugs[1] by construction just by using a memory-safe language (not even necessarily Rust) is somehow a bad thing or not worth doing.

[1] - https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-27 11:58:28+00:00
That's interesting. How does it work?

PEB *peb = (PEB *)__readgsqword(0x60); LIST_ENTRY *current_entry = peb->Ldr->InMemoryOrderModuleList.Flink->Flink;

It just obtains a pointer to the loader's data structures out of nowhere?

Is this actually supported by Microsoft or are people going to end up in a Raymond Chen article if they use this?
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-27 11:59:08+00:00
There are plenty of smartphone companies locking down their bootloaders, but there are others that will let you unlock your bootloader by just running the basic command.

A much bigger problem for running Linux on phones is that standard Linux runs like crap on phones. It doesn't have the mainline driver support amd64 computers have, and the battery life optimizations that make Android usable need to be reimplemented on top of Linux to get a day's worth of use out of your phone. Unfortunately, most Linux applications are written for desktops where they expect the CPU to be running all the time, the WiFi to be accessible whenever they want, and for sleep/suspend to be extremely incidental rather than every two minutes.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-27 11:59:17+00:00
> I don’t think you have an inalienable right to run code of your choice

> more importantly crack down on those who would pirate their, software.

If you represent the interests of corporations then try leading with that next time.

> Escape hatches are great, but each also represents a security weakness waiting to be exploited.

Besides being a broad statement that lacks citations and no doubt relies on contrived examples where this was implemented poorly, it's also clearly a violation of the EU Digital Markets Act.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-27 11:59:43+00:00
Exactly. There is no video analysis if the video is encrypted and they cannot decrypt it. If there is E2EE and you expect them to do the video analysis, they need to be able to decrypt the video. Alternatively, you do it locally, but then why bother uploading anything at all, encrypted or not? So ultimately E2EE would not help here at all.
by Ygg2 | 2025-10-27 12:00:01+00:00
This isn't just a developer experience. It's user experience as well. As in "shit doesn't work on my Windows Arm."

Sure reuse where possible, but sometimes you need to rewrite.

> which causes abandonment and other issues, as mentioned in my comment.

Did Linux being written in C stop Intel from abandoning it? The abandonment issues mentioned are mostly orthogonal.

C stopping retreat of corporations from the open source space, is about as likely as a paper mache figure will have an effect on the Dark matter distribution. You are suggesting picking prog. languages will have an effect on global economics.

C being unpopular and thus not picked for development is more due to it being a very footgunny language, without modern programming language conveniences. Like package management or linters available out of the box.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-27 12:00:24+00:00
<html>, <head> and <body> start and end tags are all optional. In practice, you shouldn’t omit the <html> start tag because of the lang attribute, but the others never need any attributes. (If you’re putting attributes or classes on the body element, consider whether the html element is more appropriate.) It’s a long time since I wrote <head>, </head>, <body>, </body> or </html>.