MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-21 04:22:11+00:00
Disagree. Say I'm looking for a list of countries and their populations.

Wikipedia almost certainly has this in a nice table, which I can sort by any column, and all the countries are hyperlinked to their own articles, and it probably links to the concept of population estimation too.

There will be a primary source - But would a primary source also have articles on every country? That are ad-free, that follow a consistent format? That are editable? Then it's just Wikipedia again. If not, then you have to rely on the LLM to knit together these sources.

I don't see wikis dying yet.

At work, I had rigged one of my internal tools so that when you were looking at a system's health report, it also linked to an internal wiki page where we could track human-edited notes about that system over time. I don't think an AI can do this, because you can't fine-tune it, you can't be sure it's lossless round-tripping, and if it has to do a web search, then it has to search for the wiki you said is obsolete.

OpenStreetMap does the same thing. Their UIs automatically deep-link every key into their wiki. So if you click on a drinking fountain, it will say something like "amenity:drinking_water" and the UI doesn't know what that is, but it links you to the wiki page where someone's certainly put example pictures and explained the most useful ways to tag it.

There has to be a ground truth. Wikipedia and alike are a very strong middle point on the Pareto frontier between primary sources (or oral tradition, for OSM) and LLM summary
by mcswell | 2025-10-21 04:22:17+00:00
Reminds me of when Google brought out a revised Maps app some years ago. Everyone hated it; there was a website for comments, with literally 10,000 comments, and everyone I read except for one was negative--and that one was a parody. Did Google revert back to the earlier look? Are you kidding? The only company I've ever seen do that is Microsoft, after the Win8 debacle.
by teeray | 2025-10-21 04:22:42+00:00
> you don't get a clear charge price before you leave. So you have to check a page either some minutes or hours later and hope that the total is correct

Oh, I’m very much sure this is a feature. Because, you see, only some percentage of people will actually look at the receipt. Some fraction of them will notice the error. Some fraction of those people will actually be motivated to spend their time on the phone clawing back an extra $8 water. The complement of that small percentage is a lucrative chance to sell the same overpriced water more than once.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-21 04:24:51+00:00
> Read-time curation is obviously far better than write-time curation, but the former used to be very hard. Now we have the former for cheap

It's _kinda_ cheap. Wikipedia is so cheap you can fit it all on a phone and search it instantly.

I agree overall but LLMs are just so heavy. I don't know if most people can afford to run one locally, and they're lossy. Both on a phone would be great. I fret a lot about data ownership, you know
by ecstaticindian | 2025-10-21 04:25:46+00:00
I thought it would be cool to attach a canvas to image generation platforms so you could assemble the scene you want to create by grabbing components that give you the look and feel of the image. Curious if image generation companies will adopt canvases in addition to prompts? I made this tool btw and am running out of generation credits so have blurred the url - happy to share it if people want to support it!
by cjonas | 2025-10-21 04:27:04+00:00
One thing I despise about postman is how much friction there is to creating a new request. In my line of work, I'm often using an API client as a scratch pad to validate /poc. At the same time, it would be nice to just have a simple "history" that I could go back and search if I needed to find some request I made a few weeks ago.
by odogwu200 | 2025-10-21 04:27:39+00:00
Before I started working on AristoCarWare, I spent years managing data centers — optimizing infrastructure where efficiency and uptime mean everything. In that world, computing evolved from physical servers to the cloud, a model built on one core principle: don’t let capacity sit idle. The cloud made computing scalable, efficient, and cost-effective by pooling underused resources and distributing them on demand. The automotive world hasn’t had its “cloud moment” yet — until now. Across America, dealerships are sitting on hundreds of billions in idle inventory — cars depreciating daily, financed by loans that bleed them dry. At the same time, consumers are drowning in $1.6 trillion of car debt, locked into long, predatory loans that make ownership a burden. It’s the same inefficiency I used to see in data centers — just applied to mobility. That’s why I built AristoCarWare — the cloud for mobility. We turn idle dealership inventory into an active, revenue-generating network through car subscriptions. Just like the cloud, our platform connects unused capacity (idle cars) to real-time demand (drivers who need flexible access). Dealers earn recurring revenue on cars that would otherwise depreciate, and drivers get affordable mobility without the debt trap. The future of transportation won’t be owned — it’ll be accessed, scaled, and optimized, just like the cloud transformed computing. AristoCarWare is bringing that same revolution to mobility — where every car is connected, efficient, and profitable.
by pdt409231 | 2025-10-21 04:27:42+00:00
That is a strawman argument, or perhaps you misunderstand the comparison. Nowhere did I say it was a poor insurrection attempt. I said it was not an insurrection at all. They were set up and led into the capitol for the cameras, in a ploy to frame it as an insurrection. And ultimately, that's what happened.

To this claim that "5 people died" - how many were shot by the "violent insurrectionists"?

The answer: none.

1 policeman had a stroke and 4 committed suicide. You cannot blame the J6ers for the policemen's pre-existing conditions or suicidal tendencies. None of the suicides were coerced. The only person who was killed was the aforementioned pro trump woman.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-21 04:28:52+00:00
> Crucially, three-quarters of cancers detected were those which have no screening programme such as ovarian, liver, stomach, bladder and pancreatic cancer.

That's exciting. The first step of many. The bar is so low because it remains to be seen if this earlier detection prevents deaths. And of course we still don't know the root causes or triggers, which promotes the same thing occurring a few years later. Remission is not solved, we need cure still.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-21 04:28:58+00:00
I am not deeply enough immersed in the AI-hype world to fully understand what this person is trying to say, but if there was a GUI S-curve, it peaked a long time ago: before the browsers took over.

If we're suggesting that "chat", as in typing back and forth with an AI, is going to be an ordinary functional way of getting things done, I have doubts. I have yet to meet a chatbot worth any time spent.
by mcswell | 2025-10-21 04:29:37+00:00
> Then they complain a few years later when the UI they complained about and ultimately adopted gets changed again.

1) A few years later and you (or at least I) can't remember what the previous UI looked like. So if I don't complain about the change, it's only because I don't remember enough to recall what it used to be.

2) Exception: Windows 8. Nobody complained when Windows 9 came out, because they remembered what Windows 7 looked like (indeed, many of us were still using 7). (Of course some did complain that 9 didn't look exactly like 7, but since 9 was such an improvement over 8, their voices were muted.)
by univalent | 2025-10-21 04:30:02+00:00
Kramnik should be held accountable for making Danya's life hell the past year. Not blaming him for what has happened but this bullying has to stop. It was clear to me and many others that he started attacking Danya because he was a "Russian boy" who did not defend him when Hikaru mocked Kramnik. I'm really upset now so maybe not making much sense.
by ryanwhitney | 2025-10-21 04:30:22+00:00
They reported a headcount of 644 for 2024–2025.

It's all very open if anyone wants to track down details themselves: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundatio...

2025–2026 is in-progress: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

>Similar to last year, technology-related work represents nearly half of the Foundation's budget at 47% alongside priorities to protect volunteers and defend the projects of an additional 29% – a total of 76% of the Foundation's annual budget. Expenses for finance, risk management, fundraising, and operations account for the remaining 24%.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 04:31:00+00:00
> This is literally unimaginable in any European country

America (19.5/10k, of which 12 unsheltered) has fewer homeless per capita than, in increasing order of homelessness, Czechia (22), Austria (22), Sweden (26), Serbia (29), Canada (29), Germany (31), Latvia (35), Greece (37), Luxembourg (38), France (49, of which 4.5 unsheltered) and the UK (56, of which 0.9 unsheltered) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ho...
by Yeroc | 2025-10-21 04:31:21+00:00
I tried Happy Coder for a bit. It seemed exactly what I was missing but about 1/2 the time session notifications weren't coming through and the developers of the tool seem busy pushing it off in other directions rather than in making the core functionality bullet-proof so I gave up on it. Unfortunate. Hopefully something else pops up or Anthropic bakes it into their own tooling.
by foxglacier | 2025-10-21 04:31:39+00:00
If you had been born early enough, you probably wouldn't be a programmer at all because far fewer people were. Conversely, everybody is born at the right time to join in the heyday of something amazing. You just have to identify that something and be lucky enough and/or try hard enough to become one of the few future-gandalfs. There are companies today making flying cars and dexterous humanoid robots ffs! Or SpaceX! Amazing engineering work never stopped, it just didn't linger on in the same fields.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-21 04:31:55+00:00
I don't think you understand what capital intensive means. Many tech companies are started out of their founders apartments for essentially 0 startup cost and from here the only serious costs are salaries and AWS. There's a reason that tech founders get so much richer than founders in other industries and that reason is because the minimal capital requirements allow them to sell off so much less of the company before reaching massive scale.
by krst252009 | 2025-10-21 04:32:24+00:00
Yes, this issue is real and affecting many Firefox users — YouTube videos show a black screen or error message, while working fine in Chrome. It’s not adblock-related, and likely tied to how YouTube’s new player interacts with Firefox’s rendering engine.

What’s Happening YouTube’s new player rollout seems to be causing playback failures in Firefox.

Users report:

Black screen or “An error occurred” message

Videos not loading at all

UI glitches on mobile and desktop

Chrome-based browsers (Brave, Edge, etc.) work fine — suggesting a compatibility issue, not a network or account problem. What You Can Try Clear Firefox cache and cookies

Corrupted data can block video rendering.

Disable hardware acceleration

Go to Settings > General > Performance and uncheck “Use recommended performance settings.”

Try Firefox in Safe Mode

Launch with extensions disabled to rule out conflicts.

Switch to YouTube’s mobile site temporarily

Use m.youtube.com — it often bypasses player issues.Use an alternate browser until fixed

Chrome, Brave, or Edge are working normally.
by al_borland | 2025-10-21 04:32:40+00:00
> Become self sustaining through investments so it can live for 1000 years.

I always wondered why more companies or organizations didn’t do this. Pile up money during the good years to allow themselves to not need continued outside income to keep going, so they can do what is right instead of compromising their vision for the sake of hitting quarterly earnings. That isn’t to say they can’t keep making money, but do it for the right reasons that will keep the core business around for the long run.
by lazaruslong | 2025-10-21 04:33:29+00:00
Okay, a couple things:

1) ideation is baloney. But you do need to have ideas. I dont particularly care how it’s built. I did try building it on my own, i just have other things to do. So I want someone more efficient to take it off my plate.

2) That would be true if they committed full time. I’d love it if they do. But until then, they are interns. As far as pay goes, i wouldnt pay any less per hour. Actually, i dont pay any less per hour considering I already have an “intern”. I just need to get one more to work with him.

3) I was only trying to tell what I can bring to the table. I guess a better way of saying it is that I would be someone who can understand their plan/strategy/implementation rather than someone who just has the user experience in mind. I rather not micromanage either.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-10-21 04:34:16+00:00
If we assume this about intelligence:

> Even when we "generalize" our intelligence, we can only extend it within the realm of human senses & concepts, so it's still intelligence specific to human concerns.

...then we might fail to recognized them as intelligent when we meet them. Same goes for emergent artificial doohickeys. A theory that allows for generalization might never fine an example of it, but it's still better than a theory which doesn't because the second sort surely won't.
by DavidSJ | 2025-10-21 04:34:38+00:00
The article seems to suggest the false positive rate is only 38%:

The trial followed 25,000 adults from the US and Canada over a year, with nearly one in 100 getting a positive result. For 62% of these cases, cancer was later confirmed.

(It also had a false negative rate of 1%:)

The test correctly ruled out cancer in over 99% of those who tested negative.
by js8 | 2025-10-21 04:35:33+00:00
A CIL to LC compiler is effectively an emulator of CIL in LC. That is, every primitive of CIL has a corresponding LC term, which operates on the CIL execution state. So then you can express functions from .NET standard library as terms in LC.

Now let's say you do the same for JVM. Now you can start looking at all these lambda terms and search for some similarities. For example, you might notice that some list functions are equivalent if you transform the representation in a certain invertible way. This gives you a way to express functions from one standard library in the other.

In general, I think we should try to translate wide variety of human programs into lambda calculus and then try to refactor/transform the lambda terms to spot the common patterns.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-21 04:36:03+00:00
This is an important and unintuitive reality about all kinds of tests. You have to take into account the base rate - the likelihood that you have the disease given what you know prior to the test.

If you're otherwise healthy and would have a 1/1,000,000 chance of having the disease before the test, and then you test positive with a test that is 99% accurate, you are ~100x more likely to have the disease than before - but that's still only 1/10,000 - not at all 99% likely, even though the test was "99% accurate"

That said, I think with this knowledge the test still confers helpful information. I might decide to spend $1000 on an additional diagnostic, even knowing that I'm still very likely to be negative. Depends on how wealthy I am, and how serious the disease is, and what the treatments for it are.
by mmooss | 2025-10-21 04:36:37+00:00
Definitely keep at it. Also, we should know the accuracy of comparable tests.

Reading the article, I'm still not sure about the accuracy, and don't have the time to carefully parse the whole article. I see at least the following statements (there may be more):

The trial followed 25,000 adults from the US and Canada over a year, with nearly one in 100 getting a positive result. For 62% of these cases, cancer was later confirmed.

and

The test correctly ruled out cancer in over 99% of those who tested negative.
by vacuity | 2025-10-21 04:37:13+00:00
The thing is, the most fundamental obstacle to unification, is that unification is a very hard feature to obtain. Even in an LC formalization, do you expect that two "text editor" programs would be interchangeable? Would only a canonical text editor be allowed? Does the LC facilitate arbitrary extensions, that perhaps follow some rules at the interface/boundary? While I also lament what is, on the whole, wasted work and interest, I think the alternative is not some much simpler solution, but rather to offer something that is better. https://xkcd.com/927 is a warning, as true as it is annoying. We gravitate towards variety because it is simpler and natural to how we act; how will your proposal fundamentally improve on this? You call out misguided "defenders", and again I note the same problem, but you seem to be calling for One True Way with no significant realizable improvement.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-10-21 04:37:34+00:00
I've worked out one that "can" be built (it's beyond ridiculous, though.)

Build towers around the equator. Build a ring around the equator on those towers. Build a ring inside the ring, maglev supports. Evacuate the ring, spin the inner ring above orbital velocity. The objective is to generate as much outward force as the weight of the entire assembly including the towers.

Do it again, on top of the first one. Keep doing it until you reach synchronous orbit. If you want to go higher the inner ring is not moving, exerting downward force countering the outward force of the rest of it being above orbital velocity.

Forces:

1) Compression on the towers. Note that this goes to zero as tower height goes to zero.

2) The outward force on the ring exists across the whole ring, but the downward force of supporting the towers only exists where there is a tower. Your ring needs to be stiff enough to counter this. But, again, note that this force goes to zero as the space between towers goes to zero.

3) Maintaining a very hard vacuum in the structure.

We know how to do #3, the others must have answers. Thus it can be built.

Nothing else is feasible with current technology, the taper of the cables is highly dependent on the strength of the material (in tension, an elevator is based on always pulling out as the upper end isn't hooked to anything.) You need much better than anything we can currently do before the taper blows up so badly you can't build it.
by musicale | 2025-10-21 04:37:53+00:00
5ms input lag isn't a dealbreaker. Even the Apple II was around 30ms touch-to-pixel latency, limited by its ~30fps.

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

According to the above, the 2017 iPad pro with Apple Pencil replicated the Apple II's 30ms touch-to-pixel latency, four decades later! (Current M4/M5 models are supposedly 5-10ms, so perhaps a good emulator platform...)

Congratulations, Apple - seriously.
by mdeeks | 2025-10-21 04:38:12+00:00
I signed up and tried it with Cursor. It is very close, but still has a lot of rough edges that make it hard to switch:

* Once in Cursor I can't click on modified files or lines and have my IDE jump to it. Very hard to review changes. * I closed the Ona tab and couldn't figure out how to get it back so I could prompt it again. * I can't pin the Ona tab to the right like Cursor does * Is there a way to select lines and add them to context? * Is there a way I can pick a model?
by chrysoprace | 2025-10-21 04:40:11+00:00
Cool game, but when I was doing the map game it gave me the same article about 5 times.

It's also not clear if there's a goal in each game. So far as I can tell it goes on forever.

Edit: both the lock and dial game modes put me into the same dial game mode; I'm going to guess it's a bug. They also seem to be for the same article.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-10-21 04:40:43+00:00
The loan amount is small & revolving to be too risky for a bank the size of JPM, but undue optimism about OpenAI also isn't justified.

Google, Amazon, Apple, MSFT, Meta & Nvidia didn't face "China risk", but AI firms do. As Tik Tok saga has proven, the days of running large losses for years, to recover it all back in IPO, and monopolize thereafter, may be over.

China might win the AI race and force the hand of USG for yet another national security imperative, to expropriate foreign assets.
by uecker | 2025-10-21 04:40:57+00:00
With a binary, one can compare a hash or store a copy on the binary on another computer. And one person doing this might be enough to figure out something is wrong. But even if people don't, it needs additional effort by the attacker to search for the binary and clean up their tracks, which also creates more opportunities for detection. It is really not at all comparable to "curl | bash". You sound like the people who told me two decades ago that reproducible builds are a waste of time.
by wraptile | 2025-10-21 04:41:10+00:00
Well said, I actually live on the border province Trat as an expat from Europe and Thai-Cambodian relationship in the real world is actually quite nice. We work and party together and share many aspects of cultural identity going way back as you correctly pointed out.

The bad blood is completely manufactured here and as someone who works in IT the power of information control has never been as apparent as it is today.
by wodenokoto | 2025-10-21 04:42:19+00:00
I think Wikimedia needs expensive outreach and modernisation to stay relevant. And most of those attempts will be in vain.

A poor comparison is how much money coca cola spends on advertisement, even though it is one of the best known brands in the entire world. And most of their advertisement is simply "This is our name, we exists", not even a value proposition or call to action.

If Wikimedia sets themselves up to pay for servers and maintenance for perpetuity, they will fall into obscurity.

With that being said, I also don't think they are spending their money in a good way.
by vitorgrs | 2025-10-21 04:42:39+00:00
> Not in all cases. They can and will make the patient and multiple doctors fill out half a dozen forms to "justify" the use of an expensive medication.

But any doctor can do it, not just SUS doctors. You know the country we live in. Private doctors will do the prescription... Actually, to buy it you already need a prescription, and yet, even skinny healthy folks buy ozempic.

And to get in the SUS, it's pretty simple here in Paraná at least (and as a SUS user). The worst that happens, it's that for expensive/controlled medicines, they centralize into a single public pharmacy in the city center, and you need to schedule a day/time, and bring the ID - don't even need to be the user, you can ask anyone you want to get it if the prescription and ID it's there.

Which is why for my cheap medicine, I prefer to buy it. Not worth for me going to city center only for 30 pills that cost R$ 15.
by intended | 2025-10-21 04:42:44+00:00
> Imagine if your Indian politicians were to sell out India to the West or maybe import Africans or something similar,

…

Firstly, this is so wildly tone deaf, that I don’t know what to say.

Secondly - India (and most developing nations I will bet) have had violent protests at some point in their history about people from other parts of the same country coming in to take jobs.

Most of the world understands why America feels the way it does. Hell I personally have better articulations of America’s problems than many Americans do.

But for the love of all that is holy, please don’t end up betraying your ignorance of the rest of the world and reminding us of some of the worst features of American stereotypes. It may be meant as an effort to find common ground, but only succeeds in irritating and potentially alienating.

Believe it or not, compared to the vast majority of humanity, your problems are better than what they will face.

I do not ask you to take an interest in the world. It would be nice if you did.

I do ask that you serve your own purpose, your own argument, better.