MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-10-09 08:59:11+00:00
It's best if you reserve the term "conspiracy theory" for grand conspiracy theories, which require secret coordination on implausible scales.

The theory here is merely that an influential socialite (what Maxwell was regularly described as before her arrest) was a reddit addict powermod, that some people running reddit were aware of her identity - not necessarily knowing anything about Maxwell's wider social network or the activities she was convicted of.

Nothing here is especially implausible. It may or may not be correct, but it's not a grand conspiracy theory, just a theory of everyday shady non-public coordination. It's no more a conspiracy theory than it it's a conspiracy theory that some people in your town sell drugs (yes, they do, and technically they have to engage in "criminal conspiracy" to do so, but we don't call people conspiracy theorists for believing it happens).
by re-thc | 2025-10-09 09:02:44+00:00
> It's entirely based on the perception that LLM training & inference is here to stay at ever growing scales when the shortcomings of Artificial Dreaming are increasingly scrutinized. Not all businesses want to end up paying refunds to their clients like Deloitte [1] because the LLM hallucinated crap into their reports (and they failed to correct it).

This assumes Deloitte didn't make more $$$ from the deal by "outsourcing" it to AI than not. It was a partial refund.
by surfmike | 2025-10-09 09:02:57+00:00
Perhaps, but then surely reading should be part of the curriculum at least by by grade 1 or 2 then?

But if reading is part of the curriculum (which it generally is for K and certainly for the years after) then it’s just the reality that there will be big differences in ability and trying to have everyone go at the same pace doesn’t serve either early or late readers.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-09 09:03:04+00:00
Pretty sure it is NOT the definition of that law, but my own definition is: You make a meal only of basic ingredients. A basic ingredient is something that does not have an ingredient list on its packaging. I.e. Fruit, vegetables, eggs, meat and fish does not come with an ingredient list. There are some exceptions like dairy products (butter, yoghurt, cheese) which are okay to use.
by elktown | 2025-10-09 09:03:57+00:00
All your examples are hand-wavey and and follows a stereotypical right-wing grieviences pattern, while still somehow trying to discuss polarisation in a neutral manner. You also suggest in another comment in this thread that Twitter is somehow a better place, suggesting a pretty significant lack of nuance.

I don't expect to see any, but I'd certainly be curious to see what posts that got you banned or admonished so I can form my own opinion on them.
by regularfry | 2025-10-09 09:06:16+00:00
The reverse - tow plane lands separately - has some interesting challenges. If the tow plane lands first and messes up the landing, blocking the runway, the lead plane now can't land. Fine if you've planned the fuel for a round trip, and fine if there's a currently-usable second runway, but I can see a huge draw for this in being able to get interesting cargo loads into and out of smaller airfields where that won't be available.

If the tow plane lands second then it needs to loiter, gliding autonomously, for as long as it takes for the lead plane to land and get out of the way. And that sounds like a much harder problem to do safely, particularly with the lead plane's pilot having to pay attention to landing and unable to control the tow plane if it gets into a dangerous state.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-09 09:06:55+00:00
> This is what I do all day: https://github.com/mnovati

You showed me yours, I'll show you mine[0]. It’s all organic. A pretty significant part of that is open-source, or source-available, so it’s easy to verify. I think I may only have two or three private repos (but one of them is where I do a lot of work).

I’m retired, and work on code all day, most days. I’m just a wee bit obsessive, being “on the spectrum.” I average about 1,900 checkins per year. Some of the days that I do the most work, have 1 or zero checkins. I will sometimes shitcan a whole day’s worth of work, if I find myself in a rabbithole.

Here’s a fun GitHub tool[1].

I have no opinion on the article, or the responses, other than there’s a lot of ugly going on, and it isn’t really making my life any richer, reading it.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff

[1] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-09 09:07:05+00:00
It's SIMD-based at the lowest level, but there's also the use of very high hardware multithreading (the threads are called, AIUI, "wavefronts" or "warps") on each compute unit/stream processor to hide memory access latency. Recent SPARC CPU's have 8-way hardware multithreading on the individual CPU core, GPU's can easily go even higher than that.
by eisen_matrix | 2025-10-09 09:07:26+00:00
This is based on Nova definition probably.

- Unprocessed or minimally processed foods (fresh or frozen products, yoghurts, etc)

- Processed culinary ingredients (oil, vinegar)

- Processed foods (foods created from combining elements of the first 2 groups using typical cooking processes, like bread, pasta, some meats, canned vegetables)

- Ultra-processed foods (foods requiring industrial processing).
by michaelsshaw | 2025-10-09 09:07:46+00:00
If you've never worked in food before, you may be unaware that borderline half of the foods you eat, in restaurants, hospitals, prisons, even schools, are just the same frozen foods from Sysco. Their products are sold nationally and are lower quality than the frozen foods you get at the grocery stores, sold at ridiculous markups at restaurants. Sysco UPFs are at best "mid" and usually worse. They also involve a lot of worker exploitation in Mexico and the far-east.

A popular meme variation in the chef community is as follows:

"Wait, it's all just Sysco?" "Always has been"
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-09 09:07:57+00:00
>She was born in the UK as a UK citizens to parents that were naturalised UK citizens.

Her parents were not UK citizens, they were Bangladeshi citizens making her Bangladeshi first. Her parents had "settled" status in the UK granting her UK citizenship but her parents were not UK citizens. It's literally in the wiki link you shared.

"Begum was born in London to immigrant parents of Bangladeshi Muslim origin and citizenship"
by liendolucas | 2025-10-09 09:08:46+00:00
So it's free... Until is not. My take on this would be that if Oracle makes any change to that "free" tier and you do not take proper action you might be automatically charged hefty amounts from your credit card. No, thanks. It's way way safer to spend few bucks a month in other VPS options than get a big surprise on your credit card.
by farseer | 2025-10-09 09:09:16+00:00
Censorship may not be as severe as China but the Iranian government is very paranoid these days due to security breaches in the recent war. Some of those breaches were hilarious Tbh and reflected badly on the regime. Its best not to be caught with your pants down while using a VPN illegally. There is not telling what they are up to in their extreme paranoia.
by paganel | 2025-10-09 09:10:39+00:00
There’s no unbreakable secure tooling, none. It might be unbreakable against script-kiddies level of hacking, even though I have my doubts even about that, but Snowden and the general atmosphere during the last decade or so have proved that State actors can put their hands on almost any piece of data out there, either through genuine hacking or other means involving their monopoly on violence.
by aquariusDue | 2025-10-09 09:11:22+00:00
These days I feel like a stick figure drawing in MS Paint even if crude denotes that an actual effort was made compared to "Generate an image of XYZ that includes blah blah blah..." sadly.

In my mind both are first steps to something more "proper" but one is at least hand-crafted artisan-ish compared to the other.

I have no qualms about using AI generated images as placeholder stuff or as a first step in an iterative process but when someone just slaps the image without the least bit of retouching it ends up looking kitsch.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-09 09:12:27+00:00
the author might be talking about "expert embarassment", which is very different than tacit knowledge.

The expert knows that there is a hole in his domain knowledge, but is exasperated because he can't say for sure what it is! That's quite a legit unknown unknown. Even an expert needs the Beginner-Mind to deal with such situations (as author hints towards end of TFA)
by seec | 2025-10-09 09:12:38+00:00
Yes this is exactly why there is the qualifier "my experience". Others may have different experiences but I would easily argue that most would side that way as well. There is a reason the Chinese crap stereotype exists. And there is also a reason most Chinese made stuff selling well in western countries are still largely designed and marketed by western companies.

Also, I have hundreds of orders for various product categories, ranging from tech/IT stuff, passing by audio equipment, kitchen tools, common household items and clothing. My experience told me that when it's considerably cheaper it's definitely going to be much worse and when it's just price competitive, there is a high level of "chance" that it's still going to have some weird flaw that will make the product not as good even if it is decently built.

At some point it is not just anecdotal evidence and a pattern, I am really curious why you would want to invalidate my experience. China is a very different country with very different set of standards and expectations; it is not something as controversial as you seem to think.
by regularfry | 2025-10-09 09:12:44+00:00
It is, but that only happens at one end of the trip. It can still drop cargo on a smaller airfield at the other because the braking can be done independently by both.

Plus there's an interesting wrinkle here: a lot of the media on the site show the tow plane as one with engines, and not a glider. I'm sure that's because those are the aircraft they could get their hands on, so that's what they made it work with, but the option is there to have the towed plane powered on takeoff. Doing that safely, with the two aircraft tethered... that sounds like a mess. But it's an option!
by rkomorn | 2025-10-09 09:13:04+00:00
There is an asterisk that you have to be at the right glide velocity, but yes: they'll have the same glide angle. The leaden one will just go significantly faster. And yes, it does sound unlikely. That's why I made my previous comment.

Here are a couple of many posts on the topic:

- https://gronskiy.com/posts/glide-ratio-lift-to-drag-and-weig...

- https://skybrary.aero/articles/glide-performance
by somenameforme | 2025-10-09 09:13:52+00:00
> "or there will, sooner or later, be a breach of their poorly secured system."

It doesn't even need to be poorly secured. The oldest form of hacking is social engineering. If a company is storing valuable enough information, all one needs to do is compel the lowest common denominator with access to it to intentionally or inadvertently provide access.

You can try to create all the sort loopholes and redundancies but in general the reality is that no system is ever going to be truly secure. Another reality is that many of the people with the greatest level of access will not be technical by nature. For instance apparently the DNC hacks were carried out by a textbook phishing email - 'You've like totally been hacked, click on this anonymizer link to leads to Goog1e.com so we can confirm your identity.'
by saaaaaam | 2025-10-09 09:14:55+00:00
I’ve no idea whether the allegations in this piece are true.

But what is noteworthy is that the author of the article has also - on the same blog - written a bunch of content about how Reddit is used for spamming search results.

That includes one piece with detailed step by step instructions for how to spam Reddit apparently because Google and Reddit have poisoned the well of SEO.

“Why I’m Sharing Secret Tips on How to Manipulate Reddit: Shouldn’t I keep this all to myself? […] Because fuck Google that’s why… Reddit used to be a reliable source… Google torched all that.”

Make of that what you will - but the author seems to waging a one man campaign targeting what he identifies as dodgy Reddit moderation practices.

When you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail and all that.
by sph | 2025-10-09 09:14:55+00:00
> It's just like spending time with a human bullshitter.

I am close to a very prolific human bullshitter. The hardest thing is that anyone unfamiliar with them will have bought hook, line and sinker into their latest story, and you have to work hard to explain how that's a complete fabrication, while getting attacked as a naysayer and a hater. It's exhausting, and often it's just easier to nod along.

The parallels with discussing the pros and cons of LLMs in this atmosphere of hype are undeniable.
by doctorhandshake | 2025-10-09 09:15:19+00:00
A good example of one of my favorite diagnostic axioms, Hickam’s dictum:

Hickam's dictum is a medical principle that a patient's symptoms could be caused by several diseases. It is a counterargument to misapplying Occam's razor in the medical profession. A common version of Hickam's dictum states: "A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickam%27s_dictum
by Rochus | 2025-10-09 09:15:30+00:00
That all sounds very interesting, but it goes far beyond the scope of my current concern with microkernels. At the moment, I am satisfied with extending a well-documented approach such as Minix with sel4 (or other candidates) in such a way that the performance meets contemporary expectations. With regard to Parnas' approach, there is still considerable scope for possible solutions, as he has formulated conceptual ideas rather prescriptions and policies. I can understand your fascination with new, previously untried approaches, but considering that Tanenbaum's book is already twenty years old, there is obviously a gap in the literature on the proven state of the art that should be closed.
by rm445 | 2025-10-09 09:16:10+00:00
I think the claim is that plugging in the USB device is enough. If people needed to try running an executable from the device, some devices would still be compromised, but with lower frequency. I don't know exactly what happens. Automatically-triggered 'driver' install that is actually malware? Presenting as a keyboard and typing commands? Low-level cracks in the OS USB stack?

It feels to me more like OSes ought to be more secure. But USB devices are extremely convenient.
by drakonka | 2025-10-09 09:17:19+00:00
What about approaching it from the other direction, where instead of trying to physically inhibit the thing you don't want to be doing you aggressively fill your schedule with things you _do_ want to be doing instead?

What do you want to do instead of digital media consumption? If you do more of those you'll naturally have less time for browsing.

For me, that's been taking up the following (the specific items change with time, but when I notice myself spending more time mindlessly scrolling it is a good reminder that I need something else to keep me busy):

* Running (with race goals) - doing this 4x a week sure takes up a lot of my time.

* Physical meetups (local philosophy groups, museum events, actively scheduling coffee with friends, etc)

* Crafts (cross stitch - started when I took on an ambitious Birthday gift project for my boyfriend and now it's kind of a meditative experience)

* Studying (part-time university course where I have to read a paper and complete a study guide once a week)

Those four things, along with full time work, don't leave much time for mindless scrolling unless I intentionally want to just chill and schedule a block of that in (and I don't feel guilty about doing that anymore because with all the other stuff enriching my life I feel there's nothing wrong with some occasional browsing).
by elktown | 2025-10-09 09:17:41+00:00
I'm just continuing the thread of conversation? And also because figuring out biases is basic critical thinking? Especially relevant in this kinda thread.

Furthermore, I'm sick and tired of self-created right-wing narrative of censorship when they're ever so eager to do it to the fullest possible extent they can with their current powers and societal acceptance. And then we're not just talking about random people being mean to you on Twitter, but government power. All while leaning on a narrative of "We're just doing what you did before" that they've created themselves by endless repetition.
by kome | 2025-10-09 09:17:51+00:00
That's an annoying question. When you add industrial chemicals, yes, it's ultra processed.

If you buy a fresh hamburger at the butcher, made by him with salt and pepper, it's processed food.

But if you add sodium nitrite/nitrate, monosodium glutamate, phosphates, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, sodium erythorbate, carrageenan, bha/bht, propyl gallate, tbhq, soy protein isolate, modified food starch, dextrose, caramel color, red 40, yellow 5, etc... it's ultra-processed food.
by Jensson | 2025-10-09 09:19:08+00:00
> Freedom of speech we don't like is the true litmus test of free speech. It is trivial to say I support free speech when someone says nice things about me.

People are free to say mean things, they just aren't allowed to encourage violence. There is a difference between saying "I hate how Trump runs the country, he is an idiot" and "Can't someone kill Trump already".

I have seen a lot of the second kind on reddit. The first kind gets you arrested in Britain though, they don't have any meaningful free speech there.

But as you say what constitutes "encouraging violence" is not entirely clear, but most agrees that encouraging violence shouldn't be protected by free speech laws.
by skatingaway | 2025-10-09 09:19:41+00:00
It just we’ve seen the same thing for over four decades. I was getting stock certificates mailed to me from IBM in the 1980s when the savings and loan scandal rocked the market in 87. Then Enron. Then the internet bubble. Then the subprime meltdown. It just happens every decade or so when “too good to be true” runups happen.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-09 09:19:45+00:00
Are you sure? I wrote an essay at the end of 2016 about the state of AI research and at the time researchers were demolishing benchmarks like FAIR's bAbI which involved generating answers to questions. I wrote back then about story comprehension and programming robots by giving them stories (we'd now call these prompts).

https://blog.plan99.net/the-science-of-westworld-ec624585e47

bAbI paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05698

Abstract: One long-term goal of machine learning research is to produce methods that are applicable to reasoning and natural language, in particular building an intelligent dialogue agent. To measure progress towards that goal, we argue for the usefulness of a set of proxy tasks that evaluate reading comprehension via question answering. Our tasks measure understanding in several ways: whether a system is able to answer questions via chaining facts, simple induction, deduction and many more. The tasks are designed to be prerequisites for any system that aims to be capable of conversing with a human.

So at least FAIR was thinking about making AI that you could ask questions of in natural language. Then they went and beat their own benchmark with the Memory Networks paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.3916

Fred went to the kitchen. Fred picked up the milk. Fred travelled to the office.

Where is the milk ? A: office

Where does milk come from ? A: milk come from cow

What is a cow a type of ? A: cow be female of cattle

Where are cattle found ? A: cattle farm become widespread in brazil

What does milk taste like ? A: milk taste like milk

What does milk go well with ? A: milk go with coffee

Where was Fred before the office ? A: kitchen

That was published in 2015. So we can see quite early ChatGPT like capabilities, even though they're quite primitive still.
by ofrzeta | 2025-10-09 09:20:18+00:00
It's not steady, though, when there are 9 projects in 2023, 5 projects in 2024 and 1 project in 2025 (until now). Maybe steady but a steady decrease. I don't want to exaggerate the importance of the case study quantity but overall it's not that promising.

Are you using Julia?
by rzwitserloot | 2025-10-09 09:21:17+00:00
> Debatable

This war either ends eventually or we move back to 'there are clear questions about what is going to happen to the stability of the regime' territory.

And when it ends we... also move back to that.

Probably, anyway. I have no crystal ball and you make a good point; the regime has enjoyed nearly 4 years out of stability out of this, that's a win of some sorts.
by simonh | 2025-10-09 09:21:24+00:00
What HFT arbitrage does is rapidly push markets with different prices into alignment with each other. If you banned HFT but kept multiple markets, the inevitable result would be markets with bigger differences in prices for longer.

The only kind of trading that really good HFT trading pushes out is other slower less efficient arbitrage traders, but why should we want more worse arbitrage traders if the result is markets being more out of sync?

What's important economically is that traders that trade based on fundamentals can do so efficiently across multiple markets. Efficient HFT arbitrage trading helps that, it doesn't hinder it.
by azangru | 2025-10-09 09:22:15+00:00
I am baffled by this take that I've been seeing all over the internet recently. A CEO is a person. He is human. Can't a human be on the wrong side of history on various matters, and what does it matter if he is? Can't he still do a decent job (whatever it is that CEOs do)? Why do we expect random entrepreneurs, celebrities, engineers, and so on to also be moral authorities or role models?
by lenkite | 2025-10-09 09:22:32+00:00
In the above kind of described situation, a meticulous coder actually makes no mistakes. They will however make a LOT more mistakes if they use LLM's to do the same.

I have already had to correct a LOT of crap similar to the above in refactoring-done-via-LLM over the last year.

When stuff like this was done by a plain, slow, organic human, it was far more accurate. And many times, completely accurate with no defects. Simply because many developers pay close attention when they are forced to do the manual labour themselves.

Sure the refactoring commit is produced faster with LLM assistance, but repeatedly reviewing code and pointing out weird defects is very stressful.
by FlynnLivesMattr | 2025-10-09 09:22:48+00:00
It's even worse than that now. In privacy circles, it is widely advised to not enable Do Not Track headers, as they are rarely respected and are actually unsurprisingly and commonly used as an additional identifier/data point during browser fingerprinting—in effect, making you less tracked if you deselect "Do Not Track" and more tracked if you enable "Do Not Track."
Anyone working on bringing enterprise software to wearables using AI?
by sudopaeg | 2025-10-09 09:22:50+00:00
tldr - I'm getting quite sizable user requests asking if there's any tech to show customer info on meta glass based on face recognition.

This is a wild request and I'm feeling to bite it - wanted to ask if anyone is working on something similar.

Been building a SaaS that automatically pulls contacts and convos into CRM with AI - then we recently pivoted to provide pre-meeting briefs and daily briefs based on this automatic CRM based on user feedbacks, calling it an AI Executive Secretary.

The thing is it's still stuck in the SaaS format - web/apps and I feel like theres way more we can do with this tech.

Ideas, critiques, or "telling me an idiot" welcomed.