MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thinkindie | 2025-10-02 20:52:09+00:00
It's incredible how two years of continuing pounding a small strip of land still leaves ample space for Hamas to operate. To the point that Israel international reputation is damaged because, check notes, they don't allow baby formula for babies that might otherwise die under those aforementioned bombs. Or being amputated.

Same with the latest "because Hamas": apparently Hamas, while being under the bombs with Israeli soldiers everywhere, was able to organise, finance and operate a flotilla of several boats to bring food that is otherwise blocked by Israel. Either the IDF has been bombing randomly in the last two years (to inflict the highest pain to civilian) or they are lying. Or both.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-02 20:52:15+00:00
"Without hazard" is pretty subjective, but I agree that it probably shouldn't include casually flying around cranes.

I don't know how drones are programmed, but landing immediately if the battery gets low certainly sounds like a sensible precaution. Electric motors might be reliable enough that you don't have to worry about gracefully handling failure of those. I hope so, because I don't think a quadcopter has much hope if any motor fails.
by vogu66 | 2025-10-02 20:52:28+00:00
I've been thinking of how to make a blog simple recently, and I came across xslt. It looks really cool and seems pretty set in stone, so I thought I'd ask, what are the advantages/drawbacks of making your own tech stack versus xslt? At first glance, it seems perfectly able to handle rss and other simple linking patterns, and pretty much anything can easily be turned into an xml then xslt could be used to generate an html (server-side, or rather writer-side, not like the blog is gonna change) that you serve?
by echelon | 2025-10-02 20:52:32+00:00
The correct way to phrase this is that humans have a level of cancer that does not greatly impede the fitness of the species in having offspring. We didn't hill climb into other evolutionary protective mechanisms because they either were not discovered or did not convey appropriate fitness benefits.

Our evolutionary biology doesn't "care" if we get cancer. Just that we have healthy children and can rear them for one or two generations. That was a (locally) optimal algorithm.

We have plenty of in-built checks and protections in our molecular biology, and they are sufficient to expand the species.
by sellmesoap | 2025-10-02 20:52:36+00:00
I run nixos unstable, at some point in the last few weeks the kernel supplied with * boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "bcachefs" ]; in my config, went from version 6.16.0 to 6.12.45 and I had very long boot times (30 minutes+) with a lot of messages. My solution was to switch to the latest kernel * boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest; Which bumped me back up to kernel 6.16.8 and smooth sailing.
by apsurd | 2025-10-02 20:52:45+00:00
You got downvoted but then I read some and you're not wrong.

I think we should call out bad writing assuming English is their first language. Bad, lazy writing, doesn't respect the audience.

> Instead of crowd sourcing the OKRs from the company and bubbling them up per function.

First sentence under the heading "Good Ole Projects". This is not a sentence.

edit: The charitable pov is that writing is very hard work and writing and publishing anything is a net good. I wish for more people to respect how hard writing is and also to take the time to write well! So that's why that sentence bothered me.
by gardnr | 2025-10-02 20:52:47+00:00
TBF, they all believed that scaling reinforcement learning would achieve the next level. They had planned to "war-dial" reasoning "solutions" to generate synthetic datasets which achieved "success" on complex reasoning tasks. This only really produced incremental improvements at the cost of test-time compute.

Now Grok is publicly boasting PhD level reasoning while Surge AI and Scale AI are focusing on high quality datasets curated by actual PhD humans.

Surge AI is boasting $1B in revenue, and I am wondering how much of that was paid in X.ai stock: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-startup-powering-t...

In my opinion the major advancements of 2025 have been more efficient models. They have made smaller models much, much better (including MoE models) but have failed to meaningfully push the SoTA on huge models; at least when looking at the USA companies.
by rayiner | 2025-10-02 20:53:05+00:00
> What it says is that the constitution cares a lot about the power of the government to regulate the natural right to hold weapons and monopolize violence and how that monopoly works.

That's not what it says! It says: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The operative language is no less emphatic than the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech."

Again, nobody would adopt this tortured reading if the underlying right was speech. You'd have Tik Toks saying "shall not be infringed means shall not be infringed!"

> Bodily autonomy comes for the natural born right of liberty from the government

What is the source of these supposed "natural born rights?"

> I don’t see the governments power to regulate medical care anywhere in the positive enumeration of powers in the constitution. Like I don’t even know what gives the government constitutional power to regulate medical care in the first place.

The federal government doesn't have the power to regulate medical care. But the state governments are not governments of enumerated powers. The state governments are successors of the British Parliament, and, "vested as they are with general police power, require no specific grant of authority in the Federal Constitution to legislate with respect to ... public health, welfare and morals." Joseph E. Seagram & Sons v. Hostetter, 384 U.S. 35, 41 (1966).
by smoe | 2025-10-02 20:53:17+00:00
Capability wise, they seem close enough that I don’t bother re-evaluating them against each other all the time.

One advantage Gemini had (or still has, I’m not sure about the other providers) was its large context window combined with the ability to use PDF documents. It probably saved me weeks of work on an integration with a government system uploading hundreds of pages of documentation and immediately start asking questions, generating rules, and troubleshooting payloads that were leading to generic, computer-says-no errors.

No need to go trough RAG shenanigans and all of it within the free token allowance.
by oofbey | 2025-10-02 20:53:43+00:00
MIG virtualization is IMHO weak sauce. Only seven slices. Seven? Extremely limited hardware support. Difficult to configure - like the early days of CUDA. It’s been in the works for what 7 years now and barely functional.

Meanwhile, don’t forget that if your workloads are cooperative, you can put all the processes you want on a single GPU and they’ll happily multitask. No security boundary of course, but who knows how good MIG is at that.

I’d greatly prefer better tools for cooperative GPU sharing like per process memory limits or compute priority levels. Also seems like it should be way easier to implement. As containerization and k8 have proven, there’s a ton of utility in bin packing your own workloads better without rock solid security boundaries.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:53:48+00:00
> Hamas did not start it though, according to history

Hamas absolutely started this war. It did not start the conflict, and is not the sole party that has antagonised the situation. (Iran, America, Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf countries each played a role in that.)

The Eastern Mediterranean is probably the most fought-over tract of land in human history, principally because it's on the shore of the largest easily-navigable body of water near where human history began. Before the British and French there were the Ottomans and Mongols; before them, the Greeks, Romans and Parthians; before them, the Macedonians; before them, the Achaemenids and Babylonians; before them the Egyptians. The last time the region of Palestine contained any independent power was under the Crusader Kingdom. (Before that, around the Jewish-Roman wars.)

I think one could credibly claim that pretty much every nation on Earth has some credible historical claim to some land in the Levant.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-02 20:54:08+00:00
Exactly. All we have is your feelings because approval rating polls either do not exist or are wrong according to you.

I’m guessing it’s something like this page doesn’t exist https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump...

This page is wrong https://www.reuters.com/data/trumps-approval-rating-2025-01-...

This page exists but they actually just meant to write “more popular than ever”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-appro...

This page doesn’t exist

https://apnews.com/projects/polling-tracker/

And these are just made up

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/tru...

https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/donald-trump-congres...

https://americanresearchgroup.com/economy/

We know this is true because the guy is more popular than ever. It’s written right there on the internet. People don’t just post lies on the internet, that would mess it up for everybody
by 9rx | 2025-10-02 20:54:42+00:00
They are so-called "human in the loop". They don't have a remote driver in the sense of someone sitting in front of a screen playing what looks like a game of Truck Simulator. But they are operated by humans.

It's kind of like when cruse control was added to cars. No longer did you have to worry about directly controlling the pedal, but you still had to remain the operator. In some very narrow sense you might be able to make a case that cruise control is autonomy, but the autonomous car bubble imagined that humans would be taken out of the picture entirely.
by willlma | 2025-10-02 20:55:14+00:00
Hey, thanks for building this. I'm trying to use it for this usecase. I'm trying to pause the script during the manual steps. How would you go about this? Example: 1. Change working directory block 2. Interactive terminal 3. Manual Step 4. Interactive terminal 5. Manual step

If I press run at the top, then it doesn't stop for me to do 3 before executing 4. Should I run each step individually for this usecase? Will changing the directory in step 1 apply to steps 2 and 4 if I don't hit run at the top?
by Grikbdl | 2025-10-02 20:55:25+00:00
> In theory, being ISO27001 means that you're environment follows best practices and has a somewhat sane security posture.

Nah, it just means you have defined, documented processes and document that you stick to them. They actual processes can be shit and maybe you also have something on the side the auditors don't get shown, but ultimately the certification is a total joke. Source: Worked at a place that got certified despite being a security joke.
by gridspy | 2025-10-02 20:55:29+00:00
> This feels like anxiety more so than anything.

When things are hard and you anticipate that you're going to struggle, it's perfectly natural that you're going to develop an anxiety response to those things. It's possible that you will describe the experience through the lens of anxiety even if there is more going on than merely anxiety.

> I'm not ASD just sound and light sensitive do to physical damage. Not a single person has bothered me about this even during conversation.

I'm glad that you have found a means to manage your difficulties and it does not cause you social issues. Bear in mind that someone who is very ASD is "manually" managing social situations which come automatically to "the rest of us." The same social disapproval you casually dismiss is likely a cause of anxiety for them.

> my kid has autism and anxiety and she has solutions for these problems.

I'm glad that she appears to be high functioning. Even those who are might want to avoid the shop because it's just a challenge they would rather avoid today. But for others I can imagine it being all too much.
by overfeed | 2025-10-02 20:55:36+00:00
> Ask yourself why did Linus "solve" VC decentralization, but not social software decentralization

Perhaps because it was out of scope? Linux kernel diffs are emailed, so Linus solved for email as the social layer, and it works well with mailing lists. If Pull Requests had predated git and the kernel had used them, Linus would have solved for
by ale42 | 2025-10-02 20:56:33+00:00
As far as they say, messages are deleted once delivered, or retained up to 45 days if not:

Devices are always retrieving messages from their mailbox when they are online, and as soon as the device confirms they’ve gotten a message, it is deleted from the Signal servers. If a device has been offline for a while, it may have a lot of messages waiting in its mailbox when it returns. Today, Signal will hold a message in a device’s mailbox for up to 45 days, giving an idle device a chance to wake up and fetch it.

(source: https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devi..., dated Jan. 2025)
by ndneighbor | 2025-10-02 20:57:02+00:00
I am more than happy to add color here, I am sorry, I try my best to write everything but my editor cuts as much as I add. We also tend to hire really autonomous engineers who tend to like just going off on their own to try to solve the issue.

There have been a few times where we would commit to the problem, assign a DRI, and then find out midway that... no we have to hire/consult our way out of the issue. I think that's okay, we then look back at the retro to see what we missed.

If interested, I think we can blog about what happens when a problem gets converted to an RFC and then we have more engineering discussions with the stakeholders but the piece was pushing a 10 min read time as it was...
by runako | 2025-10-02 20:57:14+00:00
I am not willing to render my personal verdict here yet.

Yet it is certainly true that at ~700m MAUs it is hard to say the product has not reached scale yet. It's not mature, but it's sort of hard to hand wave and say they are going to make the economics work at some future scale when they don't work at this size.

It really feels like they absolutely must find another revenue model for this to be viable. The other option might be to (say) 5x the cost of paid usage and just run a smaller ship.
by zahlman | 2025-10-02 20:57:26+00:00
> To manufacture a protein, researchers typically need to order a corresponding DNA sequence from a commercial vendor, which they can then install in a cell.

... and the point of the security system, as I understand it, is to deny the purchase, on the grounds that the DNA sequence is somehow useful for something harmful:

> Those vendors use screening software to compare incoming orders with known toxins or pathogens. A close match will set off an alert.

But this supposes that being a "close match" is either necessary or sufficient evidence.

But presumably the entire point of the AI — the reason why it would be applied to the task — is the premise that one or more completely different DNA sequences could be used to produce the same harmful protein, yes?

... And is that not where the research was already going with conventional techniques?

> But Clore says monitoring gene synthesis is still a practical approach to detecting biothreats, since the manufacture of DNA in the US is dominated by a few companies that work closely with the government. By contrast, the technology used to build and train AI models is more widespread. “You can’t put that genie back in the bottle,” says Clore. “If you have the resources to try to trick us into making a DNA sequence, you can probably train a large language model.”

Right, the problem is still agency rather than knowledge. The threat of AI isn't so much the discovery of a novel synthesis, but rather the social engineering required to gather the materials (and orchestrate the process).
by lapcat | 2025-10-02 20:57:36+00:00
> Do you actually believe CNN readers will see this story as good news?

No.

> It's presented in a way that feel like a bad thing.

Now you've switched from "serious disaster" to merely "bad thing". You're moving the goal posts.

> "No clear path out" suggests it's something they should get out of.

"No clear path out of the shutdown" is the phrase. And yes, the shutdown is something they should get out of.

> Anyway, that's just the most prominent story I saw when I first looked at cnn.com.

The government shutdown is deservedly the top story. The headline is the latest news in that ongoing story. I'm sure there are many legitimate criticisms of CNN, but this quibbling about the headline ain't it.

> Their existence shows how factually correct stories still mislead people.

Misled about what? You haven't even given an example of people getting misled.
by WickyNilliams | 2025-10-02 20:57:44+00:00
Yes of course you don't need to fully endorse someone's politics in these situations. Though _not fully endorsing_ usually implies a disagreement on a minority of points. But here, for any reasonable person, it would be quite the opposite - you have to entirely ignore TR's storied violent criminal past, because you're fond of a march.

And as the article linked points out, the speakers at this march were quite extreme. So it's not as if the march is even defensible in isolation. I think DHH is too smart to be ignorant to any of this.

(I will say I don't condemn everyone who attended the march, I imagine many went with good intentions)
by nradov | 2025-10-02 20:57:44+00:00
Genocide is a terrible thing. But that doesn't mean the USA has any obligation to directly intervene in foreign conflicts. Most of these aren't worth sacrificing the life of a single US soldier, and even when we do intervene it often makes the situation worse. Unless critical US national interests are involved, our actions should usually be limited to sanctions and diplomacy.

(I am commenting on the general US policy and not making a statement about the current situation in Gaza.)
by RobertoG | 2025-10-02 20:58:31+00:00
Do you really believe that this have anything to do with the hostages? They want the land, that's it. It could be done little by little or it could be done like now, when they have an excuse. But the end goal is the same.

Do you think that what they are doing in the west-bank have anything to do with the hostages or Hamas?
by remus | 2025-10-02 20:59:02+00:00
I think you're right to an extent (it's probably fair to say e.g. Einstein and Euler advanced their fields in ways others at the time are unlikely to have done), but I think it's much easier to work out who these people are after the fact whereas if you're dishing out a monster package you're effectively betting that you've found someone who's going to have this massive impact before they've done it. Perhaps a gamble you're willing to take, but a pretty big gamble nonetheless.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-10-02 20:59:11+00:00
Without going in to spoilers, the recent season of the Revolutions podcast about a future fictional revolution on Mars touches on this a fair bit. Someone about to die seizes power for himself, but no one cares much because he was already in charge and extending his reign a few more years till he dies was no big deal, until he extends his life and lives another 75 years.
by p_ing | 2025-10-02 20:59:21+00:00
You're misunderstanding the purpose of NAT, which is not a security boundary. Apple, for instance, has (or had) nearly all of their workstations on a public IP space.

You can still equally as effectively firewall and port map devices on public IPs as you can behind NAT -- and actually just a bit easier, since you're taking NAT out of the picture.
by 0rzech | 2025-10-02 21:00:08+00:00
Yup, in Poland, a mobile phone number (pre-paid or not, it doesn't matter) is tied to a PESEL number [1] at the time of purchase. The official justification, as usual, was combating crime, but the end result is a tighter grip on citizens' privacy by the government while spammers and others continue their business as usual.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PESEL
by elcritch | 2025-10-02 21:00:16+00:00
Specifically for doctors, that seems a reasonable point or question. I know intimately from my PhD studies that some procedures performed widely in the US aren't that effective (meniscectomies in particular). Though that's gotta be balanced with procedures that are helpful that Europeans don't do enough.

More broadly though, I believe what's occurring with doctors is also happening across the board in other professions. Landlords as an aggregate are charging more than if fair, and the median landlord isn't a billionaire or Blackrock but probably part of the professional managerial class (PMC) [1]. No idea if landlords as a whole are charging 25% or 250% more for rent, but rent seems to have outpaced inflation by a fair bit.

Similarly others here mention doctors owning portions of diagnostic imaging companies who go on to request unnecessary imaging. That's the PMC enrich-yourself-first mindset. Historically it was the local landed nobles.

Repeat that across more fields and professions and you see that the middle and lower classes will be squeezed much more by PMCs than by billionaires, IMO. For example, it'll be some VP at Google who's pushing to raise the cost of YouTube premium rather than Sergey Brin or the Youtube CEO. Another VP who's figuring out how to move software to a never-ending subscription, etc. Though it'd be hard to split out the effect of say PMC's vs corporate profiteering. Perhaps they are part of the same effect.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%E2%80%93manageria...
by anonym29 | 2025-10-02 21:00:20+00:00
Sorry, I forget not everyone is as up-to-date on related studies on the subject from earlier this year that are not TFA: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02224-z

The study "speaks to the need to be a bit more fine-grained in our approaches to diagnosis" with subtypes rather than a single condition, as one of the authors put it, there. Additional context: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/four-new-autism-s...

Nobody's making the argument that the DSM-4 had it right: the argument being made is that the DSM-5's direction of fewer categories and more generalization was the wrong direction, and going instead towards more categories and less generalization was and is the right direction for increasing understanding, treatment attempt outcomes, and greater efficiency in diagnosing and serving those with greater needs.
by apinstein | 2025-10-02 21:01:14+00:00
It’s not a hand wave…

The cost to serve a particular level of AI drops by like 10x a year. AI has gotten good enough that next year people can continue to use the current gen AI but at that point it will be profitable. Probably 70%+ gross margin.

Right now it’s a race for market share.

But once that backs off, prices will adjust to profitability. Not unlike the Uber/Lyft wars.