MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-22 16:22:52+00:00
One of the issues with folks like that, is that they often consider themselves to be "Übermensch," and thus, cannot be held to the same standards as others (I won't use the other "-mensch" term, because that would Godwin the discussion).

Not just really smart people. Very rich people (usually second-or-beyond-generation rich. First-generation rich folks aren't usually that way -unless they are polymaths).

They feel that they can say whatever the hell they want, and no one can hold them to account (and they are frequently correct).
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-22 16:23:00+00:00
I partially agree, it seems a lot have shifted the argument to news media criticism or something else. But this study is also questionable, for anyone who reads actual academic studies that should be immediately obvious. I don't understand why the bar is this low for some paid Ipsos study vs. some peer-reviewed paper in some IEEE journal?

Like for a study like this I expect as a bare minimum clearly stated model variants used, R@k recall numbers measuring retrieval and something like BLEU or ROUGE to measure summarization accuracy against some baseline on top of their human evaluation metrics. If this is useless for the field itself, I don't understand how this can be useful for anyone outside the field?
by psunavy03 | 2025-10-22 16:23:28+00:00
I held a security clearance for 20+ years, and I am not in violation of my NDA to merely observe that government secrets tend to be a lot more mundane than conspiracy theorists often want them to be. Sometimes some really cool engineering is involved, but still.

The laws of physics are what they are, and governments keep things secret to avoid giving their playbooks and sources of information away to adversaries, not because they've re-discovered magic.
by Reubachi | 2025-10-22 16:23:37+00:00
You're missing the forest for the trees, and the point of OP.

That growing young male teen you reference (not sure why we need to focus on boys, here) would not in any circumstance choose a 500ml Coca Cola to satiate their "hormones". Nor word any trained dietican.

That's the point of this discussion. There is enough information to learn everything about a healthy balanced diet. Your point is not that; rather your point is that there are....different habits of animals. Yes, agreed.
by anonymars | 2025-10-22 16:23:40+00:00
If we're talking about Sequoia, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find something more entertaining than this fawning puff piece on Sam Bankman-Fried

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...

Highlights: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/101sjn2/imagine_b...
by ncr100 | 2025-10-22 16:23:58+00:00
Apparently https://shaunmaguire.fyi - he's monstrous, to be curt, being a wealthy and powerful bigot:

- said some bigoted things on X about Islam (the entire religion) and

- some racist and culturally stereotyping / xenophobic / Islamophobic stuff by "[Mamdani is brown therefore he is XYZ culture which itself is a bad culture]" (my summary also from the X tweet) logic.
by wolrah | 2025-10-22 16:24:05+00:00
If you're plugging in anyways why not make it ethernet though? Then you actually get multiple benefits (faster more reliable networking, freeing up wifi capacity for devices that actually need it) rather than just changing one cable for another.

I realize that for whatever unknown reason there are a subset of people who think everything should be wireless, but those people are wrong and should not be listened to.
by tmvphil | 2025-10-22 16:24:33+00:00
I know this in the same way that even though I don't know the exact credence to assign the probability of particular bad effects from global warming, I can confidently say that an increase by a factor of 1000 of the CO2 emissions would be a bad thing. This is not because I have done a simulation, but instead my beliefs are based on the assumption that while concerned experts might be wrong in the details, they are probably not wrong with a gap of 3 orders of magnitude.
by latexr | 2025-10-22 16:24:52+00:00
Presumably that also works as a sort of “these are the standards we want to meet, to continue striving for this kind of work/impact/ethics/whatever”. In that sense the past is being used as reference and inspiration for the future. It’s done in a sense of (as your parent comment put it) “we’ve done it before, we can do it again”. Which is fine if you’re truly achieving that goal.

The trouble arises when it’s 2025 and the last great achievement you can point to was 150 years ago. Then you have a problem and referencing the past becomes a misguided attempt to rest on old laurels. Like (to use popular American movie tropes) a popular high school captain of the team, boyfriend to the head cheerleader, who has been out of high school for 30 years and still talks about a goal in a game as the best moment of his life. That’s the “we already won!” attitude.
by renshijian | 2025-10-22 16:24:56+00:00
Ferron provides a concise and efficient way to handle state management in front-end frameworks. It adopts a responsive design concept and can greatly simplify the development process of complex applications. Its clear API and lightweight architecture allow developers to quickly implement dynamic interfaces without sacrificing performance. Overall, it is a tool worth paying attention to in modern front-end development, especially for projects with high performance requirements
by stackedinserter | 2025-10-22 16:25:33+00:00
France sucks for living tbh. I have a family there and while it's nice to visit, I would never live there. Salaries are low, there are no many jobs even in Paris, rent is high, taxes are high, everything is expensive and less comfortable than in US or Canada.

I miss my suburban home after a week there, every time.
by dcre | 2025-10-22 16:25:40+00:00
In my experience there is a big difference between good models and weak ones. Quick test with this long article I read recently: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-...

The command I ran was `curl -s https://r.jina.ai/https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna-... | cb | ai -m gpt-5-mini summarize this article in one paragraph`. r.jina.ai pulls the text as markdown, and cb just wraps in a ``` code fence, and ai is my own LLM CLI https://github.com/david-crespo/llm-cli.

All of them seem pretty good to me, though at 6 cents the regular use of Sonnet for this purpose would be excessive. Note that reasoning was on the default setting in each case. I think that means the gpt-5 mini one did no reasoning but the other two did.

GPT-5 one paragraph: https://gist.github.com/david-crespo/f2df300ca519c336f9e1953...

GPT-5 three paragraphs: https://gist.github.com/david-crespo/d68f1afaeafdb68771f5103...

GPT-5 mini one paragraph: https://gist.github.com/david-crespo/32512515acc4832f47c3a90...

GPT-5 mini three paragraphs: https://gist.github.com/david-crespo/ed68f09cb70821cffccbf6c...

Sonnet 4.5 one paragraph: https://gist.github.com/david-crespo/e565a82d38699a5bdea4411...

Sonnet 4.5 three paragraphs: https://gist.github.com/david-crespo/2207d8efcc97d754b7d9bf4...
by ajkjk | 2025-10-22 16:26:06+00:00
ya, we're kinda talking about the same stuff. I appreciate the list of examples.

I have some ideas about how to do this, and I think the basic building block is something like "a partially specified object". For example, suppose you want to write a CLI application. The normal way to do this is write a bunch of, say, Python code that processes the args, does the thing, writes the outputs, prints the help, etc. I think there is a different architecture where you say:

1. I want a CLI application. Okay, this sets up a scaffold with all the parts unfilled out. It doesn't "compile" at the moment but you can still run it and inspect it using something akin to devtools / a visual inspector/debugger, kinda like a level editor in a game engine's authoring tools (picture Unity's editor).

2. next I fill in the commands that I want to run. These have a type (provided by the parent application), which is a union of all the things that that a CLI application can do (flags, args, etc). the CLI library translates these to function calls that don't do anything yet. Now I can call all the commands, print the help, etc, but they don't do anything.

3. Next I implement all the commands, etc.

Now this is all isomorphic to writing a bunch of files of code. But my feeling is that you want to be writing the code by authoring the data structures directly. You have a pre-existing type for "CLI application", and you fill in all the slots. Each change is a diff at the level of the data structure. There's some internal code for how you do the things, but those are calls out into functions that are potentially in another language. Diffs and etc are at the level of the data structure itself, not the underlying code (or rather: the underlying data is code, but the visualization of the diff is in terms of how the data structure changed, not how the code changed).

The goal is then to find a way to generalize this method of authoring across all software, to do it very generically so that your "IDE" is a tool for visualizing abstract applications, of which common architectures (CLI app, library, GUI application, server, website) are just particular libraries, and in which the compilation process turns the thing you're authoring into an actual application in an existing programming language (which is now treated as a data format, like assembly code, rather than the actual language you author things in).
by username223 | 2025-10-22 16:26:15+00:00
Interesting. I was a fairly serious amateur guitarist in a former life, and the physical skill was the hard part. Playing a Bach lute suite, or something like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXvMWojs28), takes an incredible amount of strength and precision. With 1-2 hours per day of practice, learning that kind of material took weeks or months.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-22 16:26:36+00:00
Lol this is a rhetorical trick. A joke is expected in the middle of a speech. Audience responses to a question generally aren't. If you were speaking to all the mathematicians in the world and decided halfway through to say "What's the integral of e^x dx?" you'd likely get silence in response. "OMG most mathematicians don't know how to integrate e^x holy shit humanity is doomed".
by qnleigh | 2025-10-22 16:26:46+00:00
This is quite different from their previous random circuit sampling (RCS) experiments that have made headlines a few times in the past. The key difference from an applied standpoint is that the output of RCS is a random bitstring which is different every time you run the algorithm. These bitstrings are not reproducible, and also not particularly interesting, except for the fact that only a quantum computer can generate them efficiently.

The new experiment generates the same result every time you run it (after a small amount of averaging). It also involves running a much more structured circuit (as opposed to a random circuit), so all-in-all, the result is much more 'under control.'

As a cherry on top, the output has some connection to molecular spectroscopy. It still isn't that useful at this scale, but it is much more like the kind of thing you would hope to use a quantum computer for someday (and certainly more useful than generating random bitstrings).
by whycome | 2025-10-22 16:26:49+00:00
That's interesting. It has literally gotten worse over time. The same queries that were fine earlier now fail or go wrong. Too often it fails with basically "I can't do that" but not explain why.

A tool like that shouldn't just be "mostly competent" -- the failures just mean it's not worth the time to try (i might as well use another guaranteed tool rather than the coin flip and time sink of asking siri).
by gradschool | 2025-10-22 16:26:50+00:00
Former backblaze customer here, the trick is that you can't copy and paste your password as one might do with a password manager. You have to type it manually so that the web page can interactively tell you how strong the password is getting as you type it.

Backblaze lost me as a customer due to the new password and 2FA requirements, which would lock me out if I were to lose my devices, the exact scenario I'm trying to mitigate. Not affiliated, I'm now trying my luck with pixeldrain, mega, and koofr (having quit proton lately as well since it broke rclone compatibility a few weeks ago).
Anyone built an email or calendar assistant that syncs and indexes data?
by Bahushruth | 2025-10-22 16:27:06+00:00
I’ve been exploring what it takes to build a simple email and calendar assistant that connects to Gmail and Google Calendar. The goal is to make it easy to search and reason over your own data in a useful way.

The part I’m still trying to figure out is how much data actually needs to be synced and indexed. Some tools seem to just call APIs on demand, while others keep everything in a local or vector store for faster retrieval.

If you’ve built something like this:

- Did you bother syncing and indexing the data, or just query live APIs?

- How painful is it to keep that data fresh without hitting rate limits?

- Did you use something like Merge.dev or Composio, or just wire it all up yourself?

I’m mostly trying to understand what the practical tradeoffs are before going too deep.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-22 16:27:12+00:00
> HLS requires on-orbit refueling. Anything from 10 to 20 refueling launches will be required. Did you think it required one refueling launch? The SH+SS stack will never be reusable or reliable enough to accomplish the refueling operation in time and on budget.

>This means one moon mission will require the use of 10 launch pads

The refueling ships are to be launched weeks/months in advance, one at a time. If you look at the rate of Falcon launches this is nothing out of the ordinary.
by vidarh | 2025-10-22 16:27:19+00:00
> I don’t have a personal human news summarizer?

Not a personal one. You do however have reporters sitting between you and the source material a lot of the time, and sometimes multiple levels of reporters playing games of telephone with the source material.

> The comparison is between a human reading the primary source against the same human reading an LLM hallucination mixed with an LLM referring the primary source.

In modern news reporting, a fairly substantial proportion of what we digest is not primary sources. It's not at all clear whether an LLM summarising primary sources would be better or worse than reading a reporter passing on primary sources. And in fact, in many cases the news is not even secondary sources - e.g. a wire service report on primary sources getting rewritten by a reporter is not uncommon.

> The fact that you mark as cynical a question answered pretty reliably for most countries sort of tanks the point.

It's a cynical point within the context of this article to point out that it is meaningless to report on the accuracy of AI in isolation because it's not clear that human reporting is better for us. I find it kinda funny that you dismiss this here, after having downplayed the games of telephone that news reporting often is earlier in your reply, thereby making it quite clear I am in fact being a lot more cynical than you about it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 16:27:58+00:00
I think there's a bit of a monoculture in L.A. and the same kind of people keep writing the same kind of movies in big committees.

I think a lot of westerners are getting into anime and manga and part of it is that a manga is typically drawn and written by one person who is responsible for the whole story, contrast that to the "Marvel System" where four people worked on each book -- Stan Lee had a writing credit and it's true that he had a special talent for picking the exact words but the art team had a big influence on deciding how the story would go.
by Shocka1 | 2025-10-22 16:28:11+00:00
I was curious too and found these pretty quickly - I dunno if this applies to all topics, but at least the political ones:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5022797

https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/is...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241750096_Is_Wikipe...
by renewiltord | 2025-10-22 16:28:40+00:00
That's the mistake, isn't it? Like many hard to believe things, it is nonetheless true. Stephen King wrote books a lot of people like, and a lot of people were willing to give him money for that. He didn't rob them for it. He just happened to write a book a lot of people like. Steph Curry is far wealthier than the median American, let alone the 10th percentile. Who did he rob by landing 3 pointers better than anyone else?

Perhaps Taylor Swift is the thief for singing in a way a lot of people like. Must be an Eleventh Commandment or something.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-22 16:28:56+00:00
> where the former are far more likely to profess strict adherence to the text of the law (particularly constitutional law)

This is a fiction and just an excuse conservative justices use to make conservative rulings when they don't like a law.

They are perfectly fine to abandon the text of the law whenever it doesn't move forward a conservative agenda. The shining example of this is the voting rights act. Something never amended or repealed by congress but slowly dismantled by the court counter to both the intent and the text of the law.

And if you don't believe me, I suggest reading over the Shelby County v. Holder [1] decision because they put it in black and white.

> Nearly 50 years later, they are still in effect; indeed, they have been made more stringent, and are now scheduled to last until 2031. There is no denying, however, that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.

IE "We know the law says this, and it's still supposed to be in effect. But we don't like what it does so we are canceling it based on census data".

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/570/529/
by president_zippy | 2025-10-22 16:29:05+00:00
You did a lot of cool things, mister. How do I send you pizza (from one of the good places)?

Glad to see how many high-value changes OpenBSD is receiving. You just inspired me to get Chicago95 up and running on an old MacBook I have lying around right now, and replace the battery. I run it off of an old Lenovo Thinkcentre that I use as a server on my local network, but I haven't been using it as my daily driver. The number of things I can run on macOS is a lot smaller than it used to be 15 years ago, so I might give OpenBSD another shot as my daily driver.

P.S. I didn't know there were other people interested in using Chicago95 on OpenBSD, let alone OpenBSD contributors. Good stuff, man!
by roguecoder | 2025-10-22 16:29:11+00:00
There were numerous studies that associated early exposure to peanuts with increased risk of peanut allergies, because that is much cheaper and easier and easier to justify ethically than random assignment trials. And for skin exposure via peanut oil, they were absolutely correct.

For example: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013536 https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/74207249/j.1399-3038.1...

It is also the case that after sensitization, avoiding the food can lead to eventual desensitization (although it is riskier in the meantime), which was interpolated to support avoidance: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1536-4801....
by vanviegen | 2025-10-22 16:29:15+00:00
I think that does eventually solve it. If clicking "deny" is as easy as clicking "accept", people will mostly just do the former.

As that will erode most worth derived from tracking, sensible operators will decide to stop annoying users and just ditch the tracking altogether. Or so I hope. I wouldn't know, as Brave does a pretty good job of hiding cookie banners in the mean-time.
by cyberpunk | 2025-10-22 16:29:30+00:00
I don’t really understand the threat to banking. Let’s say you crack the encryption key used in my bank between a java payment processing system and a database server. You can’t just inject transactions or something. Is the threat that internal network traffic could be read? Transactions all go to clearing houses anyway. Is it to protect browser->webapp style banking? those all use ec by now anyway, and even if they don’t how do you mitm this traffic?

Where is the exact threat?
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by andrewla | 2025-10-22 16:30:37+00:00
How could updating the software possibly make a difference here? If the encryption is cracked, then who is to say who owns which Bitcoin? As soon as I try to transfer any coin that I own, I expose my public key, your "Quantum Computer" cracks it, and you offer a competing transaction with a higher fee to send the Bitcoin to your slush fund.

No amount of software fixes can update this. In theory once an attack becomes feasible on the horizon they could update to post-quantum encryption and offer the ability to transfer from old-style addresses to new-style addresses, but this would be a herculean effort for everyone involved and would require all holders (not miners) to actively update their wallets. Basically infeasible.

Fortunately this will never actually happen. It's way more likely that ECDSA is broken by mundane means (better stochastic approaches most likely) than quantum computing being a factor.
by cedws | 2025-10-22 16:30:40+00:00
For the protections part: it means creating a legal framework in which white hats can ethically test systems without companies having a responsible disclosure program. The problem with responsible disclosure programs is that the companies with the worst security don't give a shit and won't have such a program. They may even threaten such Good Samaritans for reporting issues in good faith, there have been many such cases.

For the rewards part: again, the companies who don't have a shit won't incentivise white hat pentesting. If a company has a security hole that leads to disclosure of sensitive information, it should be fined, and such fines can be used for rewards.

This creates an actual market for penetration testing that includes more than just the handful of big tech companies willing to participate. It also puts companies legally on the hook for issues before a security disaster occurs, not after it's already happened.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-10-22 16:30:47+00:00
The benchmark against MinIO is nice, but I don't care much for the table vs. "Other object storage" which seems to try to aggregate all the worst points of all the others with no citation (e.g. why should I believe RustFS has no intellectual property risk but others do? What's different about them to back that up?).
by wolrah | 2025-10-22 16:31:05+00:00
> I have a mild obsession with the idea that there should be a PoE lighting standard.

Ubiquiti did this for a while, the product line was called UniFi LED and IIRC it didn't get much further than a few panel lights intended for drop ceilings and a wall mount dimmer switch.

IIRC the justification was that because it was low voltage it could be installed by anyone instead of potentially requiring an electrician and you then also got the ability to dynamically adjust grouping, switch behaviors, etc. if for example your floorplan changed.