MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by didntknowyou | 2025-10-06 13:03:28+00:00
did you read the article? i have a medical background and his hematology results does not support sepsis. the family pointing blame at the hospital for ignoring the sepsis automated warning is barking up the wrong tree and probably why the hospital ignored them.

not saying the hospital is faultless because they clearly failed in this case but as in any courtroom if you charge a criminal with the wrong crime you are bound to lose.
by lucideer | 2025-10-06 13:03:55+00:00
One other thing that trips many people up I think is the idea that they shouldn't be feeling "avoidant" about certain tasks that they love, enjoy & are passionate about (why would you). Often that comes down to being more invested in a perfect outcome for those "passion" tasks which ultimately builds more pressure to do it well & associated anxiety around not living up to ones own invented standards. "It's my passion therefore I must not fall short" can be a massive avoidance trigger.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-06 13:04:08+00:00
I think it's not just some kind of humblebrag. I know this trope that college students feel like it says it's intro but it's hard so it's not an intro. But you only think this when you don't know the topic well. The "thing itself" is in the journals, at the conferences, and in the professional work of researchers, and (if applicable) the real-world applications of the content in various contexts. Any normal-sized book can really only be an introduction to all that for most topics taught in undergrad or master's level.
by tomhow | 2025-10-06 13:04:33+00:00
We've been procrastinating for years here...

Structured Procrastination (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433304 - June 2023 (1 comment)

Structured Procrastination - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33515388 - Nov 2022 (4 comments)

Structured Procrastination (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30292440 - Feb 2022 (37 comments)

Structured Procrastination - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884347 - Oct 2020 (9 comments)

Structured Procrastination (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16941717 - April 2018 (38 comments)

Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151481 - Sept 2015 (79 comments)

Procrastination and Perfectionism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287817 - March 2011 (29 comments)

Structured Procrastination - "the art of making procrastination work for you" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212590 - June 2008 (3 comments)
by fabian2k | 2025-10-06 13:04:46+00:00
I'm slightly confused about how solid the expected revenue has to be to be counted as RPO. Does this mean OpenAI actually signed a contract binding them to spend those 300 billions with Oracle?

The second interesting part is also the part you're assuming in your argument. Does the fact that OpenAI doesn't have 300 billions now and neither has the revenue/profit to generate that much matter? Unless there are deals in the background that already secured funding, this seems very shady accounting.
by andrewstuart | 2025-10-06 13:04:50+00:00
It’s quite a good strategy to counteract the prevailing sense that “No one ever got fired for buying Nvidia GPUs”.

AMD just doesn’t know how to compete with Nvidia. The best it can do is charge 10% less and release GPUs about the same level of underwhelming performance as Nvidia.

Maybe they wouldn’t need to sell equity if they made better faster cheaper products than Nvidia.

But Lisa Su can’t bring herself to compete. Which is very strange because she brutally competed with and destroyed Intel.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-06 13:04:55+00:00
Cooperation is better until it stops being better. You are taking last few decades, which were anomaly due to unprecedented situation of total global hegemony of US, and you extrapolate for the rest of future human history, whereas it dissolves right before your eyes.

And invasion or occupation is hardly the only example of adversarial policy, even if most obvious.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-06 13:05:00+00:00
The data you need is mostly not remote. A friend works at a software development company, they can use LLMs, but only local ones (local as in their datacenter) and it can only be trained on their code base). Customer service LLMs need to be trained on in-house material, not generic Internet sources.

The general advantage is that you know that you're not leaking information, because there's nowhere to leak it to. You know the exact input, because you provided it. You also get the benefit of being able to have on device encryption, the data is no good in the datacenter if it's encrypted.
by SkipperCat | 2025-10-06 13:05:05+00:00
> But I've never talked to a person in a rich neighborhood that would turn down more police

Rich people in safe neighborhoods very commonly turn down police because they don't want their local taxes to go up. It's as simple as that. You can also add to the fact that they don't want their children slammed into the pavement for minor infractions such as having an open container beverage or doing 35 in a 25 mph zone.

Its always been rules for thee but not for me.
by glenstein | 2025-10-06 13:05:28+00:00
The only part I would disagree with here is that there was a plan dating back to the George W. Bush Admin. I think "the plan" in earnest came into being between 2020 and 2024, and I don't think anyone from the Bush years would find a home in the party let alone the current administration. It's not that they had no plans necessarily, they just weren't the ones in charge anymore.

I do think the Bush years were the first major destabilization of rule of law domestically that helped create conditions for today, along with Obama's "look forward, not backward" enshrinement of it as bipartisan consensus. Bush also normalized a kind of partisan unresponsiveness to mass democratic uprisings that people used to believe were capable of influencing the government.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-06 13:06:03+00:00
<< don't play coy.

Hmm?

<< the perpetrators are obviously the gang members attacking a building in the middle of a night.

See.. this is what I find fascinating about this framing. US has a fair amount of various enforcement agencies at federal level. I mean, IRS has a division that has agents walking with guns. ATF messes with people in ways that are problematic and documented ways. FBI does morning raids. No one suggests they are a gang or that they kidnap people.

It is interesting, because the linguistic effort to suggest that ICE ( the linked story had border patrol, which adds interesting wrinkle to OP's line of argumentation ) is not a legitimate arm of US government. If there is something flimsy about this, it is that particular attempt. Their legal status will not change just because you say they 'kidnap' people.

<< Your movement often talks of freedom but as soon as dear leader throws you some red meat for your culture war hind brain, you're readily licking boots.

You assume a lot about me, but would you be so righteous if I told you I am into feet?
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-06 13:06:16+00:00
The preface has "I initially wrote this book with talented high-school students in mind, particularly those with math-olympiad type backgrounds."

Apparently the author tried to somewhat expand the audience from that, but to me it seems still mostly appropriate for smart high schoolers who have heard some pieces of lore from friends about these topics, but they can't put that puzzle in order in their minds yet.

It's most definitely not aimed at the average student. You need to be highly curious, motivated and find math fun already.

And I think that's a perfectly fine thing. It's great to have books for that kind of audience.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-10-06 13:07:04+00:00
They started the project about 20 years ago, they've gotten rave reviews, they've done TED talks, they talk about transforming society, but they've had almost no adoption of any of their tech tree. Remember how 3D RepRaps were going to go exponential, except they didn't?

https://permies.com/t/207426/OSE-GVCS-Global-Village-Constru...
by newyankee | 2025-10-06 13:07:13+00:00
The funny thing though is that on balance I believe that since the launch of GPT to the public almost 3 years back, I feel GPT has delivered more than it has disappointed. I still feel that we should run into limitations soon and may be GPT5 is an example of that.

Surely the tech still has a long way to go and keep improving especially as the money has attracted everyone to work on it in different ways that were not considered important till now but the financial side of things have to correct a bit for healthy growth
by JCM9 | 2025-10-06 13:07:31+00:00
The terms of some of these deals now are so completely bonkers it would be funny if it wasn’t so scary.

If someone was writing the script to “The Big Short 2” about the AI bubble they might struggle to come up with some of these things with a straight face.

Finance folks are salivating at the once in a generation opportunities ahead when this whole thing crumbles. CNBC seems to have at least one segment a day on “What’s your AI bubble burst play?”
by p2detar | 2025-10-06 13:07:36+00:00
Well, I like the guy but compare the electricity prices in Germany to other European states, and also to China and the US. It’s about $0.15 kWh in the US vs $0.40 kWh in Germany. I personally think this is absolutely insane, but I don’t blame Habeck but the poor renewables transition execution in Germany. It is currently a failure in terms of electricity consumer prices.

Edit: I just rechecked China and wow! $0.08 per kWh. Can anyone confirm?

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-industrial-power-...
by l5870uoo9y | 2025-10-06 13:07:49+00:00
I must admit that I disagree and believe that AI will only be used more as it improves. There is already a big difference between GPT-4 and GPT-5 in terms of hallucinations. If AI can do your tax accounting in 20 seconds with a 95% probability of accuracy (perhaps better than most accountants—after all, who can really understand tax legislation?) and with some clear checksums, who wouldn't use it instead of doing it themselves? In addition, AI is really excellent at inferring meaning from data (and see relations).
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-06 13:08:12+00:00
If anything has become clear in the last couple of years is that Russia doesn't act rationally, and their government lies as soon as they open their mouths. E.g trying to explain Russia's actions with 'reason' is just a waste of time.

Also: "if you want peace, prepare for war" has never been more true than now, as sad as that is.
by bko | 2025-10-06 13:09:37+00:00
'democracy' is used 4 times. Arguments like this:

>But as I said, this isn’t about crime. It’s about paranoid conspiracy theories and an attempt to dismantle democracy.

Most people don't think of 'normal law enforcement', they just see crime, people in the country illegally and others trying to make law enforcements job harder. They don't care about these types of arguments about how this is different from "normal" law enforcement.

You can care about these arguments , and a small percentage of people do, but if you want to be persuasive to the overwhelming majority, you have to put it in concrete terms how more police and law enforcement is actually bad.
by stared | 2025-10-06 13:09:44+00:00
To some extend it is countering Carl Friedrich Gauss' approach of "No self-respecting architect leaves the scaffolding in place after completing his building".

Yet, that way we abstract a proof - compare with a programming library that can be used "as it is" but there is not as much insight into details.

Oftentimes, such scaffolding is didactic - allows to us to learn why a given path was taken, why a "simpler" or "more straightforward" approach didn't work. I would be something like "negative results" in mathematics, no in terms we proved negative, but for some reasons a different approach does not work. Sometimes it is also good for grounding intuition of sorts.

Vide https://mathoverflow.net/questions/459252/when-has-the-scaff...
by lsaferite | 2025-10-06 13:09:55+00:00
FWIW, in Claude Desktop you can edit previous user context and Claude will fork the conversation from that point. I know it's not quite what you as asking for, but it's something.

There are 3rd-party chat interfaces out there that have much better context controls if it matters enough for you that you're willing to resort to direct API usage.
Show HN: PromptTray – Visual AI prompt manager (now supports Sora 2)
by poppobit | 2025-10-06 13:09:59+00:00
I built PromptTray — a visual prompt manager for organizing and sharing AI prompts.

It lets you build prompts with a simple GUI: create parts, combine them into trays, and reuse or share them easily.

It works with text, image, and even Sora 2 video prompts. I also added a new Sora 2 example to the public Buffet.

I first launched it on Product Hunt and got 0 signups — so I improved the UI, added examples, and rebuilt the site.

It’s free to try, with most features available without payment.

Would love feedback from the HN community.
by piva00 | 2025-10-06 13:11:13+00:00
It might take a couple more generations, a lot more misery, and maybe even a complete breakdown of democracy in the USA, for its population to finally learn that Democrats or Republicans are bound to the same higher power in the USA: money.

Money is what decides everything, the speeding up of its accumulation brought by neoliberal economic policies under Reagan and onwards just made it abundantly clear that either party will always look out for the moneyed interests, anything else they might champion for is just there to give a veneer of democratic legitimacy. It's the foundation of American democracy, donations, aggressive lobbying, business-first mentality, the votes are there just to decide which side of the coin will move these interests forward, not to decide what platform is best for the citizenry in general.
by rvba | 2025-10-06 13:11:38+00:00
At the end od the day it is not the CEO who invents / designs / builds the stuff.

I mean, they could recognize that Nvdidia has better ecosystem and they could provide something similar (CEO's job is to set this), but saying "just make better chips" is kind of funny.

I mean, I worked in companies where the CEO couldnt figure this out, but come on. It's AMD.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 13:11:52+00:00
To be fair, tape backups are very much ok as a disaster recovery solution. It's cheap once you have the tape drive. Bandwith is mostly fine if you want to read them sequentially. It's easy to store and handle and fairly resistant.

It's "only" poor if you need to restore some files in the middle or want your backup to act as a failover solution to minimise unavailability. But as a last resort solution in case of total destruction, it's pretty much unbeatable cost-wise.

G-Drive was apparently storing less than 1PB of data. That's less than 100 tapes. I guess some files were fairly stable so completely manageable with a dozen of tape drives, delta storage and proper rotation. We are talking of a budget of what 50k$ to 100k$. That's peanuts for a project of this size. Plus the tech has existed for ages and I guess you can find plenty of former data center employees with experience handling this kind of setup. They really have no excuse.
by ZiiS | 2025-10-06 13:12:05+00:00
Are we actually sure they didn't do due diligence?

This is the individual's work files of civil servants. These will overwhelmingly be temporary documents they were legally obliged to delete at some point in the last 8 years. Any official filings or communications would have been to systems of record that were not effected.

This is more that a very large fire, probably unlucky for once a decade, caused civil servants to lose hours of work in files they were working on. A perfect system could have obviously prevented this and ensured availability, but not without cost.
by integralid | 2025-10-06 13:12:43+00:00
I'll tried a leaf blower only once (it was when visiting family) and I raked every other autumn day as a kid. Leaf blower was... extremely painful to use, for me. It felt like it took me 2x more time to achieve what rake would do effortlessly.

But a lot of it was probably familiarity with rake and a lack of skill with leaf blower. I am sorry ready to believe that technology progressed enough that leaf blowers are now usable. I'd like to see how it feels with wet leafs though.
by zenmac | 2025-10-06 13:12:46+00:00
>Those are "souls" of humans that a AI is torturing in that story though, not exactly analogous, but it does sound funny.

Yeah well there seems to be some real concerns regarding how people use AI chat[1]. Of course this could be also the case with these people on social media.

https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-06 13:13:54+00:00
I have found it very useful to discuss possible diagnoses and diagnostic steps with the LLM before going to the ER. Once there, I told them what my expectations were along with the rationale for it. They agreed with 80% of it.

Ultimately the ER was of no use in treatment, but the preparation did help rule out a serious diagnosis.
by while1 | 2025-10-06 13:14:39+00:00
We are using neo4j to power our agents at QA.tech.

Essentially to make it behave more like a human so that it learns and builds up an understanding of the pages it should test we map interactions into a knowledge graph stored in Neo4j. The consists of Pages and Actions on the page as well as links to documentation sections and other relevant info, together with descriptions, metadata and embeddings for search.

To make the agents better at planning and understanding the context of the page it can search the graph for relevant information and expand through the graph for more context.

This works remarkably well. I think our agents (when they have interacted a bit w the page) are some of the best browser agents I have tested.

I would highly recommend this but you need to put some effort into a nice ontology for the graph and making the tolling right for your use case. Its really not just plug and play. :)
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-06 13:14:48+00:00
> stupid rules of engagement

This should be repeated far and wide in the media for, as you have specified, what it really means.

I mean, Secretary Pete Hegseth, in his prior role as a Fox News mouthpiece, he defended the actions of a convicted war criminal[0][1], so he has form in displaying a total lack of ethics.

[0]: https://time.com/7176342/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-pardon-wa...

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/turning-a-blind-eye...
by morcus | 2025-10-06 13:15:13+00:00
Two thoughts here:

1. I don't think it is at all intended to serve the beginner.

It's geared towards readers wait a reasonable amount of mathematical maturity already (it explicitly says that in the landing page).

2. Many, many of the pages of most introductory calculus textbooks are spent on exercises and on the specifics of computing integrals and derivatives of particular functions - none of this is necessary to understand the concepts themselves.

For example, Baby Rudin (the standard textbook for Analysis for math majors) covers Sequences, Series, Continuity, Differentiation, and the Riemann integral in less than 100 pages (including exercises).
by arw0n | 2025-10-06 13:15:18+00:00
The biggest and most difficult to mitigate attack vector is indirect prompt injection.[0] So far most case studies have been injecting malicious prompts at inference, but there is good reason to believe you can do this effectively at different stages of training as well.[1] By layering obfuscation techniques, these become very hard to detect.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12173

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2410.14827v3
by grafmax | 2025-10-06 13:16:02+00:00
Maybe the disconnect in our perspectives comes from your belief that the issue is China vs the US. So when I criticize the US government in response to your criticism of CCP, you interpret that as a contest between two authoritarian powers.

But my point is that the underlying rivalry is between the international ruling class and their people. When I criticize the US, my intention is to broaden the picture so we can identify the actual conflict and see how the NIST propaganda works contrary the national security interests of US and Chinese people.

Actual whataboutism would be arguing that US authoritarianism justifies Chinese authoritarianism. My argument is the opposite: it’s consistently anti-authoritarian in that it rejects both the NIST propaganda and Chinese censorship.

> As for this particular case, I haven’t read the NIST report, nor plan to.

Ugh - at least read the first page of what you’re defending. It summarizes the entire document.

> But DeepSeek is also a hosted service.

Which you can also run it yourself. That’s precisely its appeal, given that ALL major companies vacuum our data. How many people actually rely on the DeepSeek service when, as the NIST report itself notes, there are so many cheaper and better alternatives?

And if your concern truly is data collection by cloud capitalists, how can you frame this as China vs the US? Do you not acknowledge the role of US companies in the electronic surveillance state? The real issue is our shared subjection to ALL the cloud capitalists.

The antidote to cloud capitalism is to socialize social networks and mandate open interop (which would be contrary to the interests of the oligarchs). The antidote to data-hoarding AI providers is open research and open weights. (And that is precisely what makes Chinese models appealing.)

Thankfully, we are not yet at war with China. That would be disastrous as we are both nuclear powers! War and rivalry are only inevitable if we accept the shallow framing put out in propaganda like the NIST report. Our rulers should be de-escalating tensions, but they risk all our safety in their reckless brinkmanship.

Now, you are right that’s it’s wise to acquaint oneself with propaganda like the NIST report - which is why I did. But taking propaganda at face value - blithely ignoring the way that chauvanism serves the ruling class - that is foolish to the point of being dangerous.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-06 13:16:27+00:00
Similar to how Microsoft bought out nearly half of OpenAI, though they offered compute credits IIRC. I wonder how much into Microsoft's investment OpenAI is in.

Edit: Apparently what Microsoft owns is 49% profit-sharing interest in OpenAI, specifically in the 'capped profit' for profit subsidiary. So weird, but hey, it's still a slice of the pie. Plus they can exclusively sell access to the models.
by nekusar | 2025-10-06 13:16:29+00:00
Indiana, but yeah, close for sure.

I think it was Illinois' state lotto that encouraged Indiana to also unrestrict it initially for government based gambling ($1 scratchoffs and weekly lotto drawing). Pretty sure they also did the "school budget scam" by transferring tax proceeds from the lotto instead of adding it as well.

Again, though, news in the 1980's didnt have as much traveling power, unless it showed up in the NY Times or other national level papers. And the local papers actuually did local news then.