MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-09 21:08:38+00:00
Uh, the Sahara is absolutely massive and insanely deadly for the unprepared and challenging even for the prepared. Especially in the context of ancient times, it was an almost sure death to enter the Sahara in an attempt to cross it. Temps swing from 100F (38C) to 120F (49C) during the day to below freezing at night in the winter. Water is extremely scarce. It is 3.6 million sq miles or 9.2 million sq km.

It spans huge across Africa. It's part of the same climate system and cycles as the Arab desert.

If an environmental feature leads to racial and species adaptations, you should note that its not some propaganda but an actual feature of physical reality that nature and mankind had to work around (and largely avoid).

You should also avoid assuming that everything is a conspiracy. Deserts are actually very harsh and deadly especially without motorized vehicles and modern infrastructure like paved roads and electricity.
by nxobject | 2025-10-09 21:09:07+00:00
The analogy doesn't quite match up –

– Parent is talking about making public the identities of ICE employees, doing things in public, which is by far and large true of your local sheriff;

- Individuals are reporting the presence of ICE in the area. A deliberate ambiguity is maintained about what ICE does beyond "detain people" -- whether as "collateral damage" or targeted. Intervening with the two gives us two very different circumstances.
by ben_w | 2025-10-09 21:09:11+00:00
I don't think so.

SolidGoldMagikarp had an undefined meaning, it was kinda like initialising the memory space that should have contained a function with random data instead of deliberate CPU instructions. Not literally like that, but kinda behaved like that: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm...

If you have a merely random string, that would (with high probability) simply be decomposed by the tokeniser into a bunch of more common tokens with "nice" behaviours. SolidGoldMagikarp etc. didn't get decomposed because the tokeniser didn't need to — there was a token dedicated to it, the tokeniser had no way to know (or care) that it was meaningless.

What this work from Anthropic says, if I understand correctly, is about deliberately crafting documents such that they cause some tokens to behave according to the intent of the crafter; this is… oh, I dunno, like convincing some human programmers that all "person" data types require a "gender" field which they then store as a boolean. Or could be, at least, the actual example in the blog post is much bolder.
by mrandish | 2025-10-09 21:09:16+00:00
Yep. When such a massive "yuge new ground floor opportunity!" hype hits the mass media zeitgeist it not only triggers an influx grifters but lots of lower-effort dilettantes. They're attracted not only by the promise of quick success but also a need to identify themselves with this 'hot new thing'. So they tend to seek out forums where they can express their new identity in the hope of receiving validation. In essence, they need a place to try out and practice their new identity before they trot it out to their friends and family IRL.
by alganet | 2025-10-09 21:10:26+00:00
> What aspects of humanity are so fundamentally human that we don't want to automate them?

That's a black hole question, essentially.

The artist would say it's art. The lawmaker would say it's law. The tinkerer would say it's tinkering, and so on.

It's so easy to answer and reveal something about yourself without actually revealing something about the issues with AI.

It's also a very broad question. Maybe it deserves a very broad answer, such as "I don't want it to automate anything that could unjustly lead to shifts in societal power dynamics". I think the answer puts the issue in the foreground, without being too narrow or easily dismissed as personal point of view.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-10-09 21:10:49+00:00
I think it's better for my argument, not worse.

The difference is that I will actually explain what I mean instead of just making claims with no evidence.

Can you explain what distinction you meant

The distinction is that the computers making millions of trades per second are owned by few people and have a huge advantage. They don't lose money and they don't hold anything.

They aren't wanted by actual people making decisions, they are there in spite of what traders buying stocks to own them actually want. They are there because they make money and from the exchange and make money for the exchange.

Retail traders are the product even though they don't want to be.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-10-09 21:11:10+00:00
~2:00pm PDT it was erroring because my chat was exceeding the message size limit, which was odd because it absolutely wasn't even close at all. That somehow fixed itself.

2:08pm PDT it kicked me off and I can't log in again (google login).

So yeah, shit's fucked yo. I'm sure they will be using ChatGPT to fix it.
by FinnKuhn | 2025-10-09 21:11:48+00:00
As I said, it's a loose definition, but the same could also be said, if I place a second computer at my parents place for example so I can have an offsite backup. They technically could also be monitoring it and have physical access. I don't think anyone would argue that this isn't self-hosting though.

For me at least self-hosting is mostly about having control of a computer/server software wise, not physically. That is probably an important differentiator from homelabbing, which is more focused on controlling the hardware. You can combine the two, but for self-hosting you don't need to physically control the hardware.
by tptacek | 2025-10-09 21:11:57+00:00
Presuming, as a group full of security peers kibitzing about this in a chat right now all do, that the "unauthorized actor" here is Andre Arko, this is Ruby Central pretty directly accusing Arko of having hacked Rubygems.org; it depicts what seems to be a black letter 18 USC 1030 violation.

Any part of this narrative could be false, but I don't see a way to read it and take it as true where Arko's actions would be OK.
by saghm | 2025-10-09 21:12:00+00:00
The rogue maintainers have apparently been been successful enough with their stewardship for years to the point that people still use and care about the tools they had maintained today. On the other hand, the new maintainers sponsored by the rich corporation have managed to draw scrutiny immediately about how they became the new maintainers and apparently failed to effectively protect their new assets from a major breach within two weeks of acquiring them despite security being their main argument for why they should be in charge in the first place.
by gardnr | 2025-10-09 21:12:15+00:00
The model weighs 1.5GB [1] (the q4 quant is ~500MB)

The demo is impressive. It uses reference audio at inference time, and it looks like the training code is mostly available [2][3] with a reference dataset [4] as well.

From the README:

> NeuTTS Air is built off Qwen 0.5B

1. https://huggingface.co/neuphonic/neutts-air/tree/main

2. https://github.com/neuphonic/neutts-air/issues/7

3. https://github.com/neuphonic/neutts-air/blob/feat/example-fi...

4. https://huggingface.co/datasets/neuphonic/emilia-yodas-engli...
by chimeracoder | 2025-10-09 21:12:40+00:00
> a businessman who was modestly famous in his lifetime and now is pretty much unknown.

This is quite an understament about who John MacArthur was and what is impact and legacy has been. You're talking about a guy whose name appears in multiple US history textbooks.

I haven't read that biography, so I can't speak to it, but I wouldn't call him "pretty much unknown".
by yorwba | 2025-10-09 21:12:43+00:00
The actual sorting is typically automated with scanners reading the labels and shunting packages from one conveyor belt onto another, basically a physical sorting network.

Tasks left for human "sorters" to do are:

- put packages on conveyor belt so the scanner can read the label (as done by the robot in the video)

- deal with damaged or unreadable packages that can't be processed automatically

- when a package gets jammed and forces the conveyor belt to stop, remove the offending package before restarting

- receive packages at the other end and load them into vehicles

Generally the difficulty with all of these is dealing with variability and humans act as variability absorbers so the machines can operate smoothly.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 21:13:07+00:00
So DASH-sodium (https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.03.320) seems like it meets those goalposts? As does TOHP (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39147.604896.55).

When we scale out to what I believe to be a superior intervention - replacement of sodium with potassium, we have really robust data. The SASS trial (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2105675) showed reductions in stroke and CVD incidence from consuming salt substitute, along with reduction in all cause mortality.

I have a real salt taste - if I had no care for health outcomes I’d absolutely cover my food in it! However I think the evidence in favour of reducing or, ideally, replacing it with potassium-heavy substitutes is really convincing.
by jagged-chisel | 2025-10-09 21:13:33+00:00
This was early in the online poker hype. I worked there for about a year, and they didn’t last long after I left the company. Forum posts from when they were still in business showed players suspected bot activity. The company wasn’t all that big, and I’m sure the lack of player trust did them in.

Maybe it’s worth a couple hundred words.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-10-09 21:14:18+00:00
I think the point being that whatever was going on with access controls here was blatant gross negligence, because what is this guy doing with access who doesn't literally own the organization or the intellectual property?

Set that aside, which obviously stinks, but then why is said obviously incompetent organization sharing confidential corporate emails with the public, saying this guy proposing a corporate data access plan in exchange for consulting fees is crossing "ethical and legal boundaries?"

Are you serious? This reeks of someone or a number of people who have no idea what they're doing. Have these people never worked with a business before? Never spoken with a software firm? A marketing firm? Any consultancy whatsoever?

Who owns the registry? What is going on here? This is insane.

It makes the entire Ruby ecosystem look like it's run by children.
by danudey | 2025-10-09 21:14:38+00:00
If there were a box you could buy that let you think of someone and then push a button and that person died, you could argue all you want that "the technology is just a tool, it's how you use it that matters" but it would be difficult to argue that having that technology out in the world for anyone to use would be a net benefit to society.

The fact that we cannot trust humanity to behave with such tools means that the tool (or maybe the tool being accessible) is the problem.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-09 21:15:22+00:00
> But because of the later stage when it becomes 600ms vs 60s.

What later stage though, as I said I worked with big code bases on old hardware without issues.

I'm simply not convinced that there exist a situation where incremental rebuild of the crate you're working on is going to take 60s, at all, especially if you're using hardware from this decade.
by mhb | 2025-10-09 21:15:55+00:00
"The current work started when Nitsan Goldstein, who was a graduate student in Betley’s lab at the time, found that other urgent survival needs such as thirst and fear can also reduce enduring pain. That finding supported behavioral models developed in collaboration with the Kennedy lab at Scripps, suggest filtering of sensory input at the parabrachial nucleus can block out long-lasting pain when other more acute needs exist.

“That told us the brain must have a built-in way of prioritizing urgent survival needs over pain, and we wanted to find the neurons responsible for that switch,” says Goldstein."
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-09 21:16:23+00:00
I was thinking about this the other day; and realized this would probably end the tech industry as we know it.

No new unicorns, no new kernel designs, no need for new engineered software that often. With the industry in stasis, the industry is finally able to be regulated to the same degree as plumbing, haircutting, or other licensed fields. An industry no longer any more exceptional than any other. The gold rush is over, the boring process of subjecting it to the will of the people and politicians begins.

I think we're also getting to the limits, across the board, soon. Consider AWS S3, infrastructure for society. 2021 - 100 trillion objects. 2025 - 350 trillion objects. Objects that need new hard drives every 3-5 years to store, replenished on a constant cycle. How soon until we reach the point even a minor prolonged disruption to hard drives, or GPUs, or DRAM, forces hard choices?
by danudey | 2025-10-09 21:16:46+00:00
Deepfake stuff, now that it's trivial to produce, is going to be used for an infinite amount of harassment, constant "look here's a video of AOC kicking a dog" posts, etc.

The problem is that the potential for truly positive stuff is minimal and the potential for truly awful stuff is unlimited. That's even ignoring the fact that the massive energy and water costs of these technologies is going to be a massive ecological disaster if we don't get it under control - and we won't, because the billionaires running these systems donate millions to the politicians voting against these protections.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-09 21:17:17+00:00
Just taking this opportunity to vent.

When my wife and I married, she changed her name to [Her First Name] [Her Maiden Name] [My Last Name], like from

First: Jane Middle: Ann Last: Smith

to

First: Jane Middle: Smith Last: Mylastname

All was well and good until very recently when I was at the DMV with her and we were renewing her drivers license. We found out then that the person entering her name change form at the Social Security department had misentered it as

First: Jane Middle: [none] Last: Smith Mylastname (no hyphen, just a space)

For fun, her US passport shows it correctly, like:

Given names: Jane Smith Last: Mylastname

So two federal agencies have her name in two different ways. Yay! The DMV lady was unhappy with this but we talked her into accepting the truth on her passport so we could renew her license, but obviously you can't count on the cheerful disposition of all future DMV clerks. The correct long term answer is that we have to have her name changed legally, which will cost about $400 all told. My favorite part is that we have to run an official notice ad in the local newspaper, but that's just a plain templated text message that will read:

"Notice is given that Jane Smith Mylastname is changing her name to Jane Smith Mylastname"

for which privilege we get to pay $75.

Good grief.
by toast0 | 2025-10-09 21:17:46+00:00
Or you get something like Someone FNU. Where FNU at some point meant 'first name unknown', but is now the person's last name at least in the people I've known... But I see references to it ending up as their firstname, so FNU Someone, which would make a little more sense, but is still pretty bizarre. Someone Someone seems like the best way to handle it, assuming single names aren't allowed (because yeah)
by jakubmazanec | 2025-10-09 21:17:53+00:00
> React is only popular because large companies

Hard disagree. React became popular because it was much better than its predecessors like Backbone, and also better than its contemporaries like the first Angular. I was still learning JavaScript, when I was doing a browser app for my thesis, and I used Backbone as a framework. Awful experience, using React was much more intuitive. While Backbone was imperative, React was declarative, with composable components, no custom HTML template syntax. Using React made web development fun for me.

> extremely in opposition to the fact that XML anything with composable functions is more intuitive than HTML templates

And I hate HTML templates. I think there are just two groups with different preferences and therefore it's somewhat useless to argue about this stuff.
Show HN: I Built Claude Code for CUDA in 18 Hours (Open Source)
by rightnow_ai | 2025-10-09 21:18:21+00:00
I locked in for 18 hours and built Claude Code for CUDA. It is completely open source!

It writes CUDA kernels, debugs memory issues, and optimizes for your specific GPU. It is a fully agentic AI with tool calling built specifically for the CUDA toolkit

This is the CLI version of RightNow AI code editor, our GPU-native code editor with a built-in emulator, visual profiling, and remote GPU access. The CLI is open source, lightweight, and fast. It is designed for anyone who wants AI help with CUDA without setup

I used Python because it is the most common language, so anyone can build on top of it. You can clone it and customize it for your own use case, not just for CUDA:D
Show HN: GYST – Digital organizer that replicates the feeling of a physical desk
by ricroz | 2025-10-09 21:18:29+00:00
Hi HN! I’ve been working on a tool that merges file explorer, whiteboard, bookmarking, note-taking & simple graphic design into one lightweight interface.

The idea is to make all these tools feel like one fluid space instead of 5 separate tools. The hope is to replicate the feeling of a physical desk : where order and freedom coexist.

This 15-min video walks through the current alpha and the vision for the full product : https://youtu.be/AcWzuBBuiPM

I’d love your feedback — especially around the concept and UX. The alpha is online if you want to try it: https://gyst.fr

This is a solo project for now, inspired by the “second brain” / PKM movement and my own frustration with fragmented tools and outdated UX.
by Philip-J-Fry | 2025-10-09 21:18:40+00:00
I feel like we're entering the era of general and inefficient solutions to problems.

Like LLMs being used to pick values out of JSON objects when jq would do the job 1000x more efficiently.

This is what this whole field feels like right now. Let's spend lots of time and energy to create a humanoid robot to do the things humans already decided humans were inefficient at and solved with specialised tools.

Like people saying "oh it can wash my dishes for me". Well, I haven't washed dishes in years, there's a thing called a dishwasher which does one thing and does it well.

"Oh it can do the vacuuming". We have robot vacuums which already do that.
by vkou | 2025-10-09 21:18:48+00:00
Someone disapproving of things isn't grounds for comparing it to a cycle of vengeance that leaves everyone blind.

If you think there's a better set of global rules that reddit should adopt, that's a fair observation. But until it does, it's not fair to call out other subs for mirroring the rules of a problem sub. If it can behave that way, so can they. If it can exist as a safe space for MAGAs, the rest of us are free to create a safe space from MAGAs.
by veber-alex | 2025-10-09 21:19:54+00:00
> This sample code took 12 minutes on a clean build on my travel netbook, now dead.

> Maybe nowadays it is faster, I have not bothered since I made the RIR exercise.

Took me 18 seconds on a M4 Pro.

Please stop spreading FUD about Rust. Compile times are much better now then what they were and are constantly improving. Maybe it will never be as fast as one of those old languages that you like that nobody uses anymore but it's plenty usable.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-09 21:20:13+00:00
> Is it when the select panel banks, the primary dealers are legally obligated to make fair market bids for every issuance? (there aren't many other markets where the buyer legally obligated to buy)

Yes, it comes in at the 'fair market bids' part. When yields spike, the mechanism still “works” legally, but the government’s interest costs and financial stability risks explode in real terms.

The “law” doesn’t immunize you from inflation, balance sheet stress, or a collapsing yield curve. The Fed can’t conjure real resources; it can only reprice claims on them. Monetizing debt isn’t free. Ask the U.K. gilt market in 2022 how far “sovereign currency issuer” logic got them before the Bank of England had to step in. The government isn't immune from market forces.
by byroot | 2025-10-09 21:20:20+00:00
Author here.

> at which point the only claims made are fairly vague allusions to there being more to the story with even a hint at what that might be.

The goal of my post was mostly to provide "character evidence".

It's not for me to relay accusations made by others that I can't substantiate myself. Some other people did that previously and that is what caused that massive controversy.

> The grievances against Shopify seem pretty legitimate based on the only knowledge we have as outsiders.

My whole post is about how these allegations are horseshit.

But since then, new information came out, you may want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530832, that may change your perspective.
by aziaziazi | 2025-10-09 21:22:28+00:00
While AGS is an interesting subject you may consider renaming the title of your post as being allergic to mammalian meat hasn’t much to share with veganism. Someone with that condition doesn’t even need to consider to have a vegetarian diet [0]

I suggest "Mammalian meat allergy" because it’s factual and easy to understand.

0: from the article : > Individuals with an alpha-gal allergy do not need to become strict vegetarians because reptile meats, poultry—including red meat from ostriches, emus, and other ratites—and seafood naturally do not contain alpha-gal.
by jerbear4328 | 2025-10-09 21:22:40+00:00
It (hopefully) took exactly 30 seconds, the page delays every item until 30 seconds after its posted date. It doesn't poll HN's server, it opens a websocket to the official HN Firebase, and without the delay, items appear in large chunks. I'm pretty sure the HN server syncs with Firebase every 30 seconds, so this is as fast as it can go while still being accurate.
by 93po | 2025-10-09 21:22:41+00:00
I think the use case here is smaller to medium size businesses that don't need a $150k suction robot arm 24/7, but do need 24/7 help with warehousing, packaging, restocking, taking inventory, sorting mailing, applying shipping labes, etc. With a single humanoid robot you can do all that for, at some point, possibly as low as $20k for a one-time robot purchase.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-09 21:22:50+00:00
> My favorite part is that we have to run an official notice ad in the local newspaper

For anyone else curious about the legal name change process in the US, this varies depending on state.

I legally changed my name doing it the court process way. My state didn't require the newspaper thing. Was just $83 to file and show up at the hearing, and it was done.

Where it gets really fun is I have an apostraphe in my last name, and in 2025 we still can't make web forms that handle it. Some allow it, some don't, and it causes mismatch issues all of the time.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-09 21:23:03+00:00
I grew up in the US and didn't realize for quite a few years that most people pronounce my last name differently than my family does. After a while I decided that they were right, and just rolled with it. Our pronunciation is closer to the original spelling we see in old genealogy docs. I have no idea why they changed it. Maybe universal literacy wasn't such a thing back then. "What's your last name?" "Suchandsuch." "Is that spelled like [...]?" "Yeah, sure, I guess?"

But I grew up around a lot of Polish families, and my classmates had the annual fun of explaining to our teachers that "Salchow" is pronounced like "Sargrow". I won't complain to much about people "mispronouncing" mine.
by delichon | 2025-10-09 21:23:10+00:00
I'd like to give an off switch for pain to every adult. Here you go, just turn it off if you need to. But if someone gave one to me I'd be in trouble, if not dead. When my back pain got severe I may well have killed the messenger, ignored the pain, and not have made the lifestyle changes that eventually gave me relief by fixing the problem. People with congenital insensitivity to pain usually have multiple damaged joints by adolescence. It's not very enviable.