MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krona | 2025-10-27 08:25:21+00:00
> Except long term effects from COVID are not fully understood yet, especially in children.

Most European countries don't offer vaccines for under 18's unless there's a very specific reason. Some don't offer the vaccine for general public except for vulnerable groups. Why? All medical interventions carry a risk and there is always a threshold where that risk outweighs any potential benefit. This is what sensible public health policy looks like.
by noduerme | 2025-10-27 08:25:42+00:00
Right. Absolutely. But then again, everyone can buy jeans now and you don't have to ride your horse across 500 miles of desert and hitch it up to Levi's store. So no one who orders em online now knows what they were worth then. No one's riding horses around in their underwear anymore.

To be serious: I don't think that overpopulation or delivering better things to more people is really the problem. Big companies are indeed a problem. Along with big governments on the other side. They both rely on rent-seeking methods of extracting value while lowering expectations, rather than providing better services. There needs to be a balance of regulation and innovation, that prevents regulatory capture and prevents monopolies without exploding bureaucracies that hamper small businesses. Small businesses are fantastic drivers of prosperity and creativity. That would be the civic ideal I'd implement if I had any interest in getting into government.
by proc0 | 2025-10-27 08:27:28+00:00
AI is the best teacher, short of a 1:1 with an actual human teacher. You can literally learn almost anything, and it's at the very least a starting point, and then you ask it for the best books to continue with.

For people that like learning on their own, it opens up all doors. With that in mind, as you're learning build everything by hand. Copy the code by typing it, not copy/pasting. Make sure you understand each line and can change things as you go while still having it compile and work.

Start with actual projects, first small projects, then larger and larger. Each project should be something you can show someone else, if not upload and share online. Once you have a few projects, the path forward reveals itself and you'll know which books to read and what to tackle next.

Honestly, for learning programming, university is no longer needed. It's at best a place to network and meet potential employers, but even that is not necessary and there are ways to network online.
by frm88 | 2025-10-27 08:27:45+00:00
On A Red Station Drifting - Aliette de Bodard: a wild mixture of a station, run by a failing AI and strict Vietnamese behavioural rules.

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel, plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven

Nine Fox Gambit: Yoon Ha Lee: disgraced officer of space fleet must capture fortress protected by complex mathematics.

Theatre of the Gods and Hunters and Collectors by Matt Suddain. Both defy a one line plot description, look them up. Theatre was one of the best books I have ever read.

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal el Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Two opposing generals mess with time to gain a personal meeting.

Sea of Rust - C. Robert Cargill: the story of a scavenger robot
by HenryAI | 2025-10-27 08:28:01+00:00
PDF started legit in 1993 when Adobe solved document compatibility, but today’s ecosystem is flooded with fake converters installing malware, predatory “free trials” that trap you in expensive subscriptions, and malicious PDFs disguised as invoices. This article traces how a legitimate technology became a scammer’s playground and shows how to spot trustworthy tools from the junk.
by alex_hirner | 2025-10-27 08:28:04+00:00
memray and later a custom request wrapper that output python gc statistics. Our main candidates for the leak are: grpc, asgi server itself, psycopg, django channels. All leaked to some degree. Alas, it did not became clear what caused the runaway leak at 30 MB/s. Capturing flamegraphs just before OOM kills would require some more engineering. Granian contained these situations until upgradings later that year made the system more stable to begin with.
by monooso | 2025-10-27 08:28:55+00:00
Don't tell me what I'm doing, it's very annoying and arrogant. I'm not looking for a master to tell me what to do, I'm asking OP to justify their slight.

As for the many, many things which could have worked in your opinion, people have been resisting the introduction of such laws for years. A common, and correct, refrain on HN is that the people resisting have to win every battle; the people trying to introduce such legislation only need to win one.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-27 08:29:48+00:00
> LLMs use human language mainly because they need to communicate with humans. Their inputs and outputs are human language. But in between, they don’t think in human language.

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand what llms are and how they work, honestly. Remove the human language from the model and you end up with nothing. That's the whole issue.

Your comment would only make sense if we had real artificial intelligence, but LLMs are quite literally working by predicting the next token - which works incredibly well for a fascimlie of intelligence because there is an incredible amount of written content on the Internet which was written by intelligent people
by kunley | 2025-10-27 08:29:55+00:00
Hmm, if one writes a library Zetalib for the language Frob v0.14 and then Frob v0.15 introduces breaking changes that everyone else is going to adapt to, then well, package managers and version control is going to help indeed - they will help in staying in a void as no one will use Zetalib anymore because of the older Frob.
by luisml77 | 2025-10-27 08:30:01+00:00
Awareness is just continuous propagation of the neural network, be that artificial or biological. The reason thoughts just "appear" is because the brain is continuously propagating signal through the neural network. LLMs also do this during their decoding phase, where they reason continuously with every token that they generate. There is no difference here. Then you say "we don't think most of the times using language exclusively" , but neither do LLMs. What most people fail to realise is that in between each token being generated, black magic is happening in between the transformer layers. The same type of magic you describe. High dimensional. Based on complex concepts. Merging of ideas. Fusion of vectors to form a combined concept. Smart compression. Application of abstract rules. An LLM does all of these things, and more, and you can prove this by how complex their output is. Or, you can read studies by Anthropic on interpretability, and how LLMs do math underneath the transformer layers. How they manipulate information.

AGI is not here with LLMs, but its not because they lack reasoning ability. It's due to something different. Here is what I think is truly missing: continuous learning, long term memory, and infinite and efficient context/operation. All of these are tied together deeply, and thus I believe we are but a simple breakthrough away from AGI.
by gambiting | 2025-10-27 08:30:26+00:00
The whole point of glyphosate is that it deteriorates very very quickly, and your oats should contain exactly zero of it. Obviously that's the theory, I'd love someone to test it. But in US wheat is routinely dessicated with glyphosate so either their bread is giving everyone cancer, or the compound does actually break down as expected. Or maybe it's somewhere in between.

Either way, it's like the article said - it's impossible for us consumers to figure any of this stuff out. We have to rely on public agencies, which are under constant attack from multinational corporations throwing billions of dollars at the issue, because following regulations costs money. And that's in developed countries, if you're buying stuff from places with barely functional food quality inspection then good luck I guess.
by Ianjit | 2025-10-27 08:32:21+00:00
For reasoning the data suggests models are in the logistic domain?

Grok 3 - Grok 3 reasoning: 15% increase in training compute for a 25% uplift in inteligence

Grok 3 reasoning - Grok 4: 80% increase in training compute for a 15% uplift in inteligence.

Inteligence: Source Atrifical Analysis

Training Compute: Source https://youtu.be/MtYsUdfZPMA?t=162
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-10-27 08:32:28+00:00
I don't have a good answer for that yet, mostly because TCP reads are expected to be done through std.Io.Reader which isn't aware of timeouts.

What I envision is something like `asyncio.timeout` in Python, where you start a timeout and let the code run as usual. If it's in I/O sleep when the timeout fires, it will get woken up and the operation gets canceled.

I see something like this:

var timeout: zio.Timeout = .init; defer timeout.cancel(rt); timeout.set(rt, 10); const n = try reader.interface.readVec(&data);
by ricardo81 | 2025-10-27 08:32:49+00:00
A thing you'll have to watch for is these agents actually being a user's browser, just the browser provider is using them as a proxy.

Otherwise, there are residential IP proxy services that cost around $1/GB which is cheap, but why pay when you can get the user to agree to be a proxy.

If the margin of error is small enough in detecting automated requests, may as well serve up some crypto mining code for the AI bots to work through but again, it could easily be an (unsuspecting) user.

I haven't looked into it much, it'd be interesting to know whether some of the AI requests are using mobile agents (and show genuine mobile fingerprints)
by listenallyall | 2025-10-27 08:33:15+00:00
I think the explanation is less about greed and more that ad-supported programming is almost always the only viable economic model. Cable worked brilliantly because everybody paid for a full range of channels, sure YOU only watched about 8 of them but other people had a totally different 8. Some channels survived many many years without earning any subscriber fees, just getting the distribution was enough and the ads paid the bills.

Anyone thinking that paid streaming subscriptions could entirely replace ad-supported for the long-term, never really thought it all through in my opinion.
by locallyHosted2 | 2025-10-27 08:33:39+00:00
"Currently, you cannot connect to a local model for code completions", and "Currently, using a locally hosted models still requires the Copilot service for some tasks. Therefore, your GitHub account needs to have access to a Copilot plan (for example, Copilot Free) and you need to be online. This requirement might change in a future release." - from the page you linked.
by zem | 2025-10-27 08:34:11+00:00
"an alien light" (nancy kress) and "windhaven" (lisa tuttle and george martin) are two underrated gems. windhaven has long been my go-to recommendation for sf/f fans looking for good books they might not have encountered; the nancy kress is a more recent discovery, one of her early books that i feel has quite undeservedly not gotten as popular as some of her later stuff.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-27 08:34:55+00:00
Then the real question is whether this bespoke syscall mechanism will be needed going forward, especially as things like time_t adopt 64-bit values anyway. Can't we just define a new "almost 32-bit" ABI that just has 64-bit clean struct layouts throughout for all communication with the kernel (and potentially with system-wide daemons, writing out binary data, etc. so there's no real gratuitous breakage there, either), but sticks with 32-bit pointers at a systems level otherwise? Wouldn't this still be a massive performance gain for most code?
by rcxdude | 2025-10-27 08:35:35+00:00
Short-term visas might be entirely appropriate for someone who's going to be working in the country for a short time to set something up. I've worked under one myself (You usually need to justify why someone already in the country couldn't do it, but "I designed the thing and literally no-one in your country has seen one before" tends to work). visa-waiver programs like the ESTA generally are not: they're mainly for tourism, conferences, and business/sales meetings, and the latter can get a little blurry depending on how much you are demoing something, but if you're doing actual work and you're being paid directly or indirectly by a US company you're probably not covered (which surprises a lot of people, and there's often stories of people getting kicked out of the country for relatively small pieces of 'work').

Either way, if these were actually workers in the country temporarily and in good faith to set up manufacturing, then it would neither seem to be a particularly good crackdown on illegal immigration nor encouraging manufacturing to be set up in the US.
by philjohn | 2025-10-27 08:36:03+00:00
It's not blocked in the UK, nor is it because of the OSA.

They decided to withdraw from the UK market as the ICO (not OFCOM, who handle OSA) fined them for mishandling the PII of children, not under the OSA, but under UK’s Children’s Code[1] which is part of the DPA (UK implementation of GDPR into law)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Code
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-27 08:37:00+00:00
That's really not my point. My point is, for the statistical parent in the West who doesn't vaccinate their children, the outcome is pretty benign (for the child, really). Median child doesn't even get sick. You'd have to go to the 99th+ percentile to get to a really nasty outcome. Most unvaccinated kids will be fine, because they're in a rich country. Not because it's a good idea, but because there's a secondary safety net that will still catch them.

But not so in poor countries.
by zwnow | 2025-10-27 08:37:05+00:00
I've watched my grandma play a mobile game a few days ago. It has been a simple word search game. A level takes her about 2-3 minutes to beat. Every single time she beats a level, she is getting 1-2 30 second advertisements that she has to sit through. Its honestly so sad to see. Thankfully she knows that all mobile ads are bullshit and how to close them, but still... This market is shameless.
by dmje | 2025-10-27 08:37:23+00:00
Oh, I’ve got many, many hills to die on. But at some level this is to me symptomatic of two broad things - maybe these are bigger hills:

1) a business making (seemingly) huge profits from the fears of others; more specifically from the fears of young parents who are quite often vulnerable. And, I’d suggest, offering a “solution” with no problem attached to it apart from that fear. Not to mention the issues around privacy, the fact that however many “it’s safe and encrypted” services get hacked, or sold on when the IPO comes around.

2) As another commenter says below - this is symptomatic of a type of parenting which ultimately creates fearful, anxious, badly adjusted children. Study after study shows that “free roam” children end up as better balanced humans. I’m not saying that watching and monitoring and stat-ifying your newborn is immediately going to make them anxious, but it says something about parenting which to me is unhealthy, obsessive, and ultimately not about freedom for the most important beings here: the kids.

I’m extrapolating of course, but hopefully my drift is somewhat clear..
by torginus | 2025-10-27 08:38:26+00:00
Considering how many places are actively going to sh*t in the world right now, I'm not surprised that people have grown weary of keeping track of which are the 'bad' countries we're supposed to dislike, at the same time, thanks to globalized work and social media, people have realized that people are people everywhere, and governments are varying degrees of shitty in every country, with people even in the supposedly more democratic ones feeling powerless in affecting how they are governed.

I know a ton of Russian emigrees, and basically nobody gives them grief (until some of them start talking politics).
by wseqyrku | 2025-10-27 08:39:25+00:00
> I used to believe that Apple were unequivocally ‘the good guys.’

So did I about YC until I watched their videos on bootstrapping and the rest of that wonderful series about a year ago. This happens because your made up image of 'the good guys' is based on their past which is not going to hold up indefinitely by accident.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-27 08:40:21+00:00
But then rather than leaving a non-blocking review, why not leave a blocking review and approve it as soon as the author responds with a link to the ticket or adds it to TODO.md?

If it's important enough to be tracked then I'd want to make sure that it's been filed properly. It's too easy to forget about such a trivial task, especially in a time crunch.
by catmanjan | 2025-10-27 08:40:26+00:00
No we have a Microsoft graph connector which inserts externalitems into graph, copilot is able to surface these, probably via the same semantic search database

The capability was there for years, but it was expensive - something like $0.60 per 1000 items indexed, then sometimes after copilot was added it became free for up to 50 million items, and now it's free for unlimited items - you just can't beat that for price... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilot...
by Nursie | 2025-10-27 08:40:30+00:00
> anytime their content is used

So ... every time a model is used? Because it has been trained on these works so they have some influence on all its weights?

> I see absolutely no reason why they can't do this

They didn't even pay to access the works in the first place, frankly the chances of them paying now seems pretty minimal, without being forced to by the courts.
by modo_mario | 2025-10-27 08:40:46+00:00
> No one is taking jobs away from citizens or legal immigrants (locals don't want those jobs, either at all, or at the wages offered)

Sorry but i absolutely despise this argument as someone who did the job that "locals don't want" and knew others that did. It's cheap and very right wing classism by the privileged. Essentially only the last bit is true and the last bit is true because there is a cheap alternative that doesn't involve much unionization either.

Mind you I'm in western europe and the other arguments don't hold up either here but that first one is universally shit.
by sampullman | 2025-10-27 08:42:36+00:00
It's not quite the same though, when I search Google I'm generally directed to the source (though the summary box stuff might cross the line a bit).

With AI, copyrighted material is often not obvious to the end user, so I don't think it's fair to go after them.

I think it's non-trivial to make the AI company pay per use though, they'd need a way to calculate what percent of the response is from which source. Let them pay at training time with consent from the copyright holder, or just omit it.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-27 08:45:39+00:00
It's interesting and heartwarming to see how similar the spirit of many successful software projects was. Creative collaboration, open play, extremely high trust, by people who really intrinsically love what they do.

It goes against so much of the MBA-worldview and bigcorp offices.

Unix, GNU, Linux, early Python, early Rockstar Games etc.
by jcattle | 2025-10-27 08:46:02+00:00
There's a podcast by 99% Invisible about state lottery. Basically the journalist reporting the story kind of reversed his view on state lotteries over the course of reporting the story. Going from: It's good that we have state lotteries because the money goes back to fund social activities to: It's bad to have lotteries altogether, mainly because of the societal cost of gambling that you've outlined.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-27 08:46:27+00:00
In a sense it's anything but obscure, that is, it's one of the most basic of features of the tool and the first thing (well, git init anyway) anyone ever uses.

But that's why people don't know about it, because they skip past the basics because in practice you never use it or need to know about it.

This is the reality of software engineering and the like though - mostly you learn what you need to know, because learning everything is usually wasteful and never used, and there's a lot available.

(I haven't been able to read documentation or a software book end to end in 20 years)
by lm28469 | 2025-10-27 08:46:28+00:00
My youtube experience:

- open video

- 2 unskippable ads

- click somewhere in the video to skip the creator's sponsor section (more ads)

- 2 more unskippable ads

- video plays, the original audio was automagically replaced by a dogshit 1995 tier "ai" dub

- it's not the part I wanted to see, click somewhere else

- 2 more unskippable ads

At that point I spent 5 minutes watching ads and forgot why I came here...
by onion2k | 2025-10-27 08:46:53+00:00
I don't think any of the use cases suggested really make sense though. For a compute-intense task like audio or video processing, or for scientific computing where there's likely to be a requirement to fetch a ton of data, the browser is the wrong place to do that work. Build a frontend and make an API that runs on a server somewhere.

As for cryptography, trusting that the WASM build of your preferred library hasn't introduced any problems demonstrates a level of risk tolerance that far exceeds what most people working in cryptography would accept. Besides, browsers have quite good cryptographic APIs built in. :)
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-27 08:46:59+00:00
That's the biggest problem I have with Recall. Not that the idea or functionality is bad, but that the probability that the company behind it will abuse it is so large that it's not worth the risk.

If the system worked fully locally, didn't come from Apple/Microsoft/Google/Facebook/etc., and had decent data isolation, I would probably turn it on.

Unfortunately I find that getting basic OCR to work reliably on Linux is a challenge in itself compared to Windows' APIs and quality of OCR results, so I doubt an honest, well-intentioned implementation will make it to Linux.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-27 08:48:42+00:00
> I'm down for this, but only if the people who are getting paid by OpenAI/etc also turn around and pay any inspiration they've had, any artist they've copied from, etc over their entire life.

Why? Things are scale have different rules (different laws as well) from things done individually or for personal reasons.

What is the argument for AI/LLM stuff getting an exemption in this regard?

I don't see why AI/LLMs should get exemptions or special treatment.
by whitehexagon | 2025-10-27 08:49:34+00:00
Well done to you both. I'm only a 1/4 way down your useful TODO list after 12 months. I got bogged down in setting up IRQ vector tables on armv8 and took a huge detour to refresh my assembly skills. So I feel some of the journey you have been on. It takes a lot of patience, but can be very rewarding. Congrats!
by gambiting | 2025-10-27 08:50:12+00:00
>>What is the logic here? You are complaining about Tesla Autopilot being unsafe,

Sorry, I should have made it clearer perhaps 3 posts ago. My #1 issue is with Tesla calling it autopilot and selling a "full self driving" upgrades for real money even though they don't exist. Call it "smart lane assist" and I'll shut up.

If you care why - because while you and I might understand that "it's just a bunch of cheap cameras keeping your car in the lane" - the public perception clearly doesn't see it that way. People cut naps behind the wheel of teslas far often than they do behind the wheels of Volvos of Peugeots, despite both of them sporting very advanced adaptive cruise systems. And we can say ok, but these people are dumb - sure, they definitely are, but I think pretending like Tesla's marketing isn't playing at least some part of it is just dishonest.