MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orwin | 2025-10-07 22:47:21+00:00
Well, the only astrogeologist I know chose northern Europe, and the two nuclear physicists I know are doing their thesis in Zurich despite one of them having been proposed a subject by the MIT and a Singaporean university (I think he took the better subject tbh, probably didn't have anything to do with the current immigration policies in the US).

The admin stopping some research for no reason probably got a lot of PhD students quite distrustful of the US, that could cause some of them to go back after their thesis. Top PhD often choose countries for the lab director and the thesis subject. The US lost a few lab directors in the last 6 months, and at least in therapeutic engineering this year doesn't propose a lot of new thesis subjects (less than last year it seems), but maybe they keep them for their own students.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-07 22:47:32+00:00
> Bluesky has a problem of its user base demanding purity, and it will 100% be the death of it.

Yup.

As someone who describes themselves as Leftist, I wanted to enjoy Blue Sky, but the purity tests are insane.

To give a concrete example, I was called a Nazi for owning a Tesla Model 3. The fact that I bought the car 6 years ago, long before Elon Musk made his hard-right turn, was irrelevant. They literally expected me to sell the car and take a huge financial loss (Since I need a car and would then need to buy a new one, and the trade-in value of my M3P is shit) just to virtue signal.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-07 22:47:55+00:00
> Facebook and Twitter no longer bother with moderation, do you think the experience on those platforms is better or worse than 5 years ago? > It used to be common sense to immediately ban creeps of all stripes, especially the obvious ones. Singal certainly qualifies.

The experience on these platforms is somewhat better than it was five years ago, because the people making moderation decisions for these platforms have been largely replaced by people who are less prone to banning people because someone who dislikes their political speech labels them a creep. There are still serious moderation issues on these platforms, but yeah compared to five years ago there is somewhat more freedom to speak without risking getting arbitrarily banned, and a wider range of topics being talked about.

> Putting aside the super annoying 'just asking questions' vitriol that he publishes to national papers, his pdf-file chat log stuff alone would warrant an instant perma from me without a second thought.

You should be able to perma-ban anyone you want from your own feed for any reason. If it is possible for you to make the platform ban Singal (or anyone else) in a way that affects anyone other than ypu, then that platform is not meaningfully decentralized. I've occasionally read articles by Singal but I don't follow his output closely and don't have a strong opinion about him one way or the other. I should still be able to read what he posts even if you think it is not worth reading.

> Relatedly, I'm very very tired of the 4chan/crypto/ai gas-leak that has enshittified everything, aren't you?

I don't think 4chan, cryptocurrency, or AI have much to do with each other, nor that online discussion related to to these phenomena in some way universally constitutes enshittification or not.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-07 22:48:18+00:00
The original comment I replied to said "You can navigate a website without visually decoding the image of a website." I replied that decoding is necessary to know where the elements will end up in a visual arrangement, because often that carries semantics. A label that is rendered next to another element can be crucial for understanding the functioning of the program. It's nontrivial just from the HTML or whatever tree structure where each element will appear in 2D after rendering.
by stephen_g | 2025-10-07 22:48:21+00:00
The problem we have is that was OK when someone had to actually listen in or you had to have a tape recorder connected up to every line you want to tap, or physically open individual letters.

Now we have found “lawful intercept” can easily just become mass surveillance, and not just by the people who are meant to use it but other parties too. We saw this with CALEA which was used by China (and who knows who else) for espionage and spying for years before anyone realised.

You make a system for the “good guys” and it always turns out adversary, criminal groups etc. will gain access, even if the “good guys” don’t start acting like bad guys themselves.

Technology made mass surveillance easy, so every lawful intercept becomes mass surveillance as well as vulnerable to scammers, criminals and foreign intelligence.

And we don’t have any way of making lawful intercept possible without that unfortunately.
by aidenn0 | 2025-10-07 22:48:57+00:00
Also, it's very hard to make a b+tree that is ever faster than other data-structures in RAM.

Obviously if you don't need (or only rarely need) in-order traversing (or related operations like successor), hash-tables are very fast.

If you do need in-order traversing, for small amounts of data, sorted arrays are very fast, and for large amounts of data various types of prefix-tries do very well.
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-07 22:49:02+00:00
It's borne out in numbers. [0]

All of inflation-adjusted US spending growth has come from those in the top 20% income bracket ($175k+) and especially the top 3.3%.

So not Boomer spending, but wealthy spending. (Which overlaps but isn't completely the same thing)

[0] https://fortune.com/2025/09/17/economy-reliant-on-wealthy-co...
by mfdupuis | 2025-10-07 22:49:09+00:00
I think the sentiment in this post is shared with most folks: We don't need yet another workflow tool. That said, I don't think no and low (or even all) code are mutually exclusive. Today these tools definitely speak to an audience that's technical enough to know how to get around in these tools but not so technical that they know how to deploy, monitor and maintain these workflows. What will happen with time is that any complexity that does exist in these low-code tools will be abstracted away with AI but you can dig into deeper layer if you are technical. This might be that very last point you're making?

> How can we make code generation models better at writing LLM powered workflows/agents

For context, the approach we've taken at Fabi is that you can manually build the workflows or you can ask the AI to entirely build it out for you and you can pick up where the AI left off at any point and edit the code yourself -- we're not a generic workflow solution like n8n or AgentKit, we're 100% focused on data analysis, but the same should be easily applicable to these solutions.
by dashundchen | 2025-10-07 22:49:13+00:00
ICE has been denying due process to the people they've kidnapped, including US citizens and children.

The whole point is people are being arrested and deported without probable cause, or based on their race, and deported without real due process.

There is no chance for these people to call their lawyer or wife, in fact ICE can't even tell you where some of these people are being detained.

Understand what is happening here.
Ask HN: iOS 26 (Glasmorphism) Update Reluctance
by jemiluv8 | 2025-10-07 22:49:16+00:00
I had an eleven with the latest ios 26 that I kinda liked. After getting a new 14 pro however, I kinda liked the "almost retro" feel of the old UI. I don't want to update. Anyone with a similar experience?
by zigzag312 | 2025-10-07 22:49:16+00:00
My recent experience when roaming was that calls only worked on 2G even though 4G and 5G were avaliable. After a call, phone would sometimes stay stuck on 2G which meant internet was not working. I had to disable 2G to force the phone to switch to 5G. But if I forgot to enable 2G again, calls didn't work. I checked this with multiple people and they all had the same issue.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-07 22:49:22+00:00
Not really, they are part of the charter granted by government and they bind the company in its legal capacities.

Companies are de jure entities, they exist not de facto, but by registration with the state. For many reasons, you or others cannot go to courts and claim different things about a company as a separate entity from its owners without previously having declared to the state and courts that such a company exists and what the rules of the company were.

The mission of a company are thus part of the rules defined for a company at creation, such that if an owner made its riches in oil prospecting, but also had a company whose mission was software development, then other partners of the second company, or creditors in case of bankruptcy, would have no claim to riches that came from oil prospecting. For example.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-10-07 22:49:33+00:00
Yes, it certainly provides a lot more clarity than the handwaving.

While momentum seems to work, and the authors clearly state it is not intended as a practical optimization method, I can't exclude that we can improve convergence rates by building on this knowledge.

Is it guaranteed for the oscillating behavior to have a period of 2 steps? or is say 3 step period also possible (a vector in a plane could alternately point to 0 degrees, 120 degrees and 240 degrees).

The way I read this presentation the implication seems to be that its always a period of 2. Perhaps if the top-2 sharpnesses are degenerate (identical), a period of N distinct from 2 could be possible?

It makes you wonder what if instead of storing momentum with exponential moving average one were to use the average of the last 2 iterations, so there would be less lag.

It also makes me wonder if we should perform 2 iterative steps PER sequence so that the single-sample-sequence gives feedback along it's valley instead of across it. One would go through the corpus at half the speed, but convergence may be more accurate.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-10-07 22:49:43+00:00
Assume that I have 120 MB of data to process. Since this is quite large, implementations may want to process them in chunks (say, 50 MB). Now those implementations would call the WebAssembly module multiple times with different arguments, and input sizes would depend on the chunk size. Even though each call is deterministic, if you vary arguments non-deterministically then you lose any benefit of determinism: any bug in the WebAssembly module will corrupt data.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-10-07 22:49:59+00:00
> And pretending that (in the United States of America of all places) teens can just walk up to their doctors super easily and get surgery done somehow.

You should see some of the background evidence on this. NY Times did a podcast series not long ago, which covered the controversy, called The Protocol: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-protocol/id1817731...

It was about how the so called Dutch Protocol re: gender affirming care first came to the US, and how long-ish psychological evaluation times were often truncated because of how far patients had to travel in the US. Then the lid flew off when such care moved to California.

> Singal is a fellow traveler to people who defend conversion therapy

Yikes. One doesn't usually expect people to use the actual language of McCarthy-ites.

> So who is Singal out there fighting for?

The kids? It's really not crazy to believe that the children, perhaps not given adequate care, could simply be wrong, or even socially influenced (like everything else in a teenager's life).

> He's going out there writing this kind of stuff so consistently that he's known for it. And I have a very hard time understanding who he is the voice for, except for people who are just against trans people existing in public society.

It's a new treatment and how it is practiced here in the US is the very Q he is examining. I'm not saying he's right, but I do feel better if there is someone with a critical eye looking at new treatment methods.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-07 22:51:28+00:00
By this definition anyone talking to you is socialy manipulating you. Manipulation is an every day part of life and it's not healthy to try and avoid it as it means you must cut off all social interaction.

There is a beauty in how humans can impact other humans in how they act and think. How they choose to group up. What they spend their time doing. Working together to accomplish things. Helping each other.
by bruckie | 2025-10-07 22:51:54+00:00
I didn't ignore it, but perhaps I wasn't clear. My point is that if Safari is in use throughout the system, but used, say, 50% less often (vs. a hypothetical 100% secure browser), then 50% of the time attacks that were previously feasible become infeasible. Frequency / probability of usage matters, not just whether something is installed.

And yes, a 100% safe browser is a fiction (thus "imagine" and "hypothetical"). But I think it's possible that another browser could be vulnerable to fewer attacks than Safari.

I think we're in agreement: adding a new browser increases the number of vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited (assuming the new browser isn't 100% secure, which will always be the case in practice). And at the same time, moving some usage to a more secure browser makes attacks less likely in practice. I think the latter is more important than the former.
by stockresearcher | 2025-10-07 22:52:25+00:00
> prosecute Google for fraudulently marketing Android as open and force them to keep their promise.

Sorry man. The EU Cyber Resilience Act is forcing these changes. An operating system is a class 1 important product. A tamper-resistant microchip is a class 2 important product. A device with a secure element is a critical product. Your smartphone has all of these pieces. Manufactures must follow a list of best practices to enjoy a presumption of conformity. That list of best practices is being compiled and made ready for publication, with full effect in 2026/2027. Google knows what is coming. Everyone big knows what’s coming.

True open source with no monetization can get a pass. Everyone else has to do this.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...
by orthozato | 2025-10-07 22:52:41+00:00
It's not that obvious...

Let's do a chronological analysis of some prior definitions of sepsis.

The first one, from the 1990s, utilized an elevated white blood cell count plus three clinical variables (temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate). This definition is very broad; statistically speaking, it's very sensitive but has low specificity.

The most recent definition describes sepsis as 'life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.' Septic shock is defined as a subset of sepsis in patients who have a vasopressor requirement and a lactate level greater than 2 mmol/L.

Scores such as NEWS, SOFA, and qSOFA exist, but they primarily assess disease severity and prognosis for patients who are already in a hospital setting.

It is very important to always maintain a high degree of suspicion for sepsis, but it seems to me that few clinicians would have had a strong suspicion of it in this case...
by bccdee | 2025-10-07 22:53:42+00:00
> merit is highly hereditable

That's a foolish statement on its face. "Merit" quantifies whether someone deserves something, and it depends both on the deserved thing and the rubric for judgment. Some forms of merit are fairly heritable (basketball skill) and others aren't (trivia knowledge).

My grandparents didn't make money by passing admission exams for the grade 1 gifted program.
by astrange | 2025-10-07 22:54:15+00:00
> and people who think they are living in a fascist state that has declared, and intends to treat, them as domestic terrorists and are protesting to rally opposition.

You're describing the US South in the 60s. The civil rights protestors did not respond by becoming black block anarchists, they responded by doing civil disobedience and getting their faces on TV.

If you're an upper middle class internet user you're actually more respectable than the security forces and can defeat them by showing up. What are they going to do, get NTBed again?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/proteste...
by duxup | 2025-10-07 22:54:26+00:00
>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy fired back at Newsom, posting, “News Flash! Your Democrat friends shut down the government because they want to make Americans pay the health care for illegals. And no state has more illegals than California! You care more about illegals than our hard-working American air traffic controllers. If you’re looking for someone to blame, look in the mirror - we all know it’s your favorite thing to do.”

This administration tweets like ... particularly immature jr. high kids.
by lkey | 2025-10-07 22:54:37+00:00
Speaking of confirmation bias, do you disagree with Singal about anything in particular? What about agreement?

Who else have you read on this 'controversial issue'? Why did you consider them less persuasive than a journalist with no particular expertise?

Why have you not named what the 'issue' is?

Are 'people' an 'issue' to be solved in general, or just in this case?

If we changed topics to 'what should be done about the "autism issue"', does your opinion change? If so, why? There are perfectly valid questions being brought up by heterodox thinkers all the time. We're not even certain that those people experience emotions, there's literally no way to tell, and we shouldn't shy away from hard questions and even harder truths, don't you think?

Do you believe that the executive branch of the federal government is best-suited to dealing with undesirable minorities generally? If so, what national-level 'solutions' currently being discussed in the halls of power are your favorites?

In the spirit of cooperation, I'll go first. Openly trial-ballooning the revocation of the second amendment for trans people is my favorite in terms of pure audacity.
by neolemon | 2025-10-07 22:54:48+00:00
I'm Sachin, and I spent the last year fixing a problem that drives creators nuts: getting AI to make the same character over and over. The problem: You create a cartoon character in Midjourney or ChatGPT. It's perfect. Then you ask for the same character sitting down, or wearing a hat, or holding a book... and you get a completely different person. Same description, different face. This ruins everything for:

- Children's book authors who need 20-30 illustrations of the same character - Teachers making learning materials with characters - Content creators building animated stories

Why does this happen? AI image tools don't remember what they just made. Every time you hit "generate," they start fresh. It's like asking 30 different artists to draw your character – you'll get 30 different versions.

What we built: A tool that remembers your character. You create them once, then make as many versions as you want – but everything stays exactly the same: the face, body proportions, shape, and even the tiny details that make your character unique. How it works:

Describe your character once (or upload a reference image) Use our editors to create variations: Action Editor – make them run, jump, dance Pose Editor – change how they stand or sit Expression Editor – happy, sad, surprised, angry faces Outfit Editor – different clothes and accessories

Every image keeps your character exactly the same

NEW: Multiple Character Consistency Our most requested feature just launched! Put 2-3 consistent characters in the same scene. Users are loving this for conversations between characters, family groups, and character interactions.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/7auCya47lEI

What we've learned from 100,000+ images per month: People care deeply about every detail staying consistent – not just the face, but body proportions, unique shape, and tiny features like freckles or how their hair curls. These small details make a character feel real. The site is consistentcharacter.ai – built it solo, now at 700+ subscribers (mostly children's book authors who used to spend $300+ per illustration).

Happy to answer questions!
by iamnothere | 2025-10-07 22:55:03+00:00
The archives can be quite important, I frequently have to reference my email history for one reason or another. If I temporarily cannot receive new email, it’s not such a big deal as long as we aren’t talking about hostile account takeovers. But mostly I use self-hosted services so even that wouldn’t be the end of the world. It would be annoying to deal with, yes.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-07 22:55:15+00:00
> Control of the currency is one of the core governmental functions, I find it hard to imagine a world where governments are OK with this.

Many governments do not perform this function. The Eurozone is a shared currency standard and it's not like most Eurozone countries have a domestic currency and keep a liquid market of EUR <-> Domestic Currency to transact in the Eurozone. Their credits and debts are denominated in EUR.

Then there's countries that use other countries as legal tender, like El Salvador. There's countries that peg their currencies to other currencies like Gulf States to the USD and the CFA Franc Zone which pegs to the EUR.

So... there's plenty of world governments that do not control their own currencies.

> And more generally, if this is your plan, it's profoundly idiotic to say it in public before you've accomplished it, as you're giving your counterparties more time to adjust (which you probably don't want).

If you're going to call someone's plan idiotic it's best to get your own facts in order first. I mean this is the internet so you can say whatever you want and get internet points but some of us like to think in terms of facts.
by rtpg | 2025-10-07 22:55:46+00:00
I am going to re-insist on the idea that parental consent is going to play a big role in practice in US healthcare practices, if only for financial reasons. I have very little patience for the idea that access is easy.

Perhaps there is a debate to be had on treatment protocols, but I generally feel like, for something that covers such a small segment of the population, the default is to err towards letting that debate happen in professional circles.
by jeffbee | 2025-10-07 22:56:40+00:00
I don't think this has much or anything to do with Trump. Data center industry is beset from the left by those ignorant of thermodynamics and angry that they studied English. More articles are published every week about how much energy or water the data center industry consumes than have ever been written about any industry in the history of written commentary, even when the other industries are hundreds or thousands of times more energy intensive. So the data center industry is out here trying to defend itself even though it is the only industry that builds its own renewable power plants, the only industry that is thoroughly transparent about its energy and water consumption, and an extreme outlier in terms of value gained for little impact.
by dang | 2025-10-07 22:56:41+00:00
Related. Others?

bat: A cat(1) Clone with Wings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33382307 - Oct 2022 (2 comments)

bat, a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting, Git integration written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24850244 - Oct 2020 (6 comments)

Bat: A cat(1) clone with wings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17887819 - Aug 2018 (12 comments)

Bat: A cat(1) clone with wings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849535 - Aug 2018 (1 comment)

Bat: cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16968755 - May 2018 (1 comment)
by mmaunder | 2025-10-07 22:56:57+00:00
Dont' be evil. → Do the right thing. → Investing in America. → Asking America for Investment. → Asking NVidia for Investment. → Begging NVidia for Chips. → Getting in the government free chip line with everyone else. → Selling retro Google logo t-shirts on ebay. → The Museum of AI discovery with the original Attention is All You Need hardcopy on display under a cheap glass case.