MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ungovernableCat | 2025-11-29 17:52:29+00:00
It also permeates culture to the point that people imitate the LLM style because they believe that's just what you have to do to get your post noticed. The worst offender is that LinkedIn type post

Where you purposefully put spaces.

Like this.

And the clicker is?

You get my point. I don't see a way out of this in the social media context because it's just spam. Producing the slop takes an order of magnitude less effort than parsing it. But when it comes to peer reviews and papers I think some kind of reputation system might help. If you get caught doing this shit you need to pay some consequence.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-11-29 17:52:35+00:00
Yup, garbage in, garbage out. If a developer can't write clearly and precisely (and most can't write anything long-form worth a damn), they are not going to be able to prompt LLMs effectively; one of the L's in LLM is "language", for pity's sake.

Education (formal or not) matters _more_ in a LLM dominated world, not less. That's why people like Terrence Tao and antirez are able to get effective results out of LLM but the average LLM user produces slop.
by bee_rider | 2025-11-29 17:53:27+00:00
This seems more like informal and basically reasonable talk, rather than hyperbole.

The purpose of Earth, from the point of view of most humans, is to act as a comfortable host of humans. We are destroying the Earth by making it no longer fit for that purpose. I don’t think anybody reads “destroy Earth” and interprets it as something more like, “get rid of the iron ball as well.”

Unless you are one of those deep-sea vent dwelling creatures, we’re risking changes to the planet that will affect your life eventually.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-29 17:53:30+00:00
“ Employers could decide for themselves if they want to hire someone with just the technical skills and assume that the well-rounded part would either happen through socialization or not be relevant.”

While not entirely crazy, isn’t part of the assumption of being well rounded that it helps you own your own career? Like it seems weird to me to externalize this as if you have no power in it. I study things that aren’t technical because it makes me a better functioning person/employee.

College shouldn’t just be about getting a job, it should be laying the foundation that makes you a better worker 20 years down the road.
by DocTomoe | 2025-11-29 17:53:54+00:00
As someone who was mildly familiar with Bourdain ("some sort of American TV cook", some badly-dubbed shows in our private TV channels which didn't really catch on, because 'cooking show') until he decided to end it ...

... it is fascinating to me that one person, especially in a very niche profession, has had that kind of cultural impact that his random writing is being discussed seven years after his death.
by 486sx33 | 2025-11-29 17:54:08+00:00
It’s fairly easy to decrease susceptibility to this attack. #1 run your own node #2 monitor the nodes you are connected to with “sync_info” #3 ban nodes that aren’t up to current block height, strange port connections, and connections from typical spy IP addresses. There could still be a spy node connected when you send your transaction but it won’t have a very high probability of originating from any particular place
by Teever | 2025-11-29 17:54:18+00:00
I'm curious why this conversation tat is more or less a George Carlin bit from decades ago plays out over and over on social media. I bet that you knew exactly what they meant when they talked about the world being destroyed.

It wasn't a scenario where the Earth is literally annihilated by a black hole, or a super nova, or a meteor or a GMB, it was a scenario where the world is functionally ruined for human life as we know it in a time-scale far shorter than we can muster up the resources to stop or even mitigate it.

So like, what's going on here? Is your response a subconscious coping strategy to change the topic to something more comfortable than one of impending doom for the human species and civilization as we know it?
by qcnguy | 2025-11-29 17:57:20+00:00
How valuable YouTube really is depends a lot on several things the article didn't discuss:

1. To what extent scaling laws hold.

2. To what extent adding more amateur video data increases quality.

3. To what extent Google can stop other AI firms scraping the best quality stuff.

The OpenAI Whisper model is already nearly perfect, despite its habit of occasionally transcribing silence or noise as "Thanks for watching!". Adding another petabyte of data isn't going to make it better. Training on a gazillion terabytes of private videos probably isn't going to be allowed by the lawyers either in case the model memorizes something sensitive. And the long tail of public videos nobody ever watches probably doesn't add anything.

LLM training already became years ago about securing access to unique value adding data, not just throwing more web crawl data into the mix. That's why the big AI firms all pay PhDs to create transcripts of their reasoning as they solve hard problems and similar. YouTube is probably already tapped out as a source of really useful data, although of course there's a thin sliver of new high quality content being uploaded all the time that's useful to keep the knowledge base fresh.

The problem for Google is that it's only possible to stop scraping at scale. If an AI lab uses enough proxies, VMs and similar they can still grab a steady stream of new videos and it's hard to stop them (short of going full DRM for everything and maybe not even then). They can block bulk scrapes of YouTube and are doing so, but that slams the stable door after the horse has bolted.
by DenisM | 2025-11-29 17:57:26+00:00
> There is no such thing as an AI strategy. There is only Business Process Optimization (BPO).

Here’s your Ai strategy: every few months re-evaluate agent fitness and start switching over. Remember backstops and canaries.

Details:

Businesses usually assign responsibilities to somewhat flaky employees, with understanding there will be a percentage of errors. This works ok so long as errors don’t fluctuate wildly and don’t amplify through the system. Most business processes are a mess and that works ok.

Once agents become less flaky and there are enough backstops to contain occasional damage business will start switching.
by senordevnyc | 2025-11-29 17:57:41+00:00
How do you reconcile this with:

1. The absolute explosion of AI usage (revealed preferences)

2. The polling on AI, which is mixed and reveals lots of pessimism and fear among a slight majority of Americans, but hardly universal “utter hatred”.

My guess is some combo of: your family is not representative, the hatred was not as universal as it appeared (bandwagon effect), or your own hatred of AI caused you to focus on the like-minded opinions shared and ignore any contrary evidence.
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-29 17:57:51+00:00
I still don't "buy" that some people don't have an inner voice. In my opinion it's either a misunderstanding of what it means to have an inner voice (it's not the schizophrenic "other person" voice), or people simply lying to appear quirky and special.

If people don't have an inner voice, it also must be the case the some people (these people?) don't have consciousness. It isn't obvious that consciousness is essential to fitness, especially of an inner voice isn't. Some people may be operating as automatons.
by fastasucan | 2025-11-29 18:00:12+00:00
I am like this as well. It is nice to transition into a space where everything should be tailored to do work.

However, sadly my employer is doing their best to make this as hard as possible now. Despite not allowing people to work from home, they are allowing the consultants to do it, and now slowly implementing a "clean desk" policy which drives me up the wall. Sitting and working 8 hours a day on a "clean desk" with equipment you cant tailor to your needs just sucks.
by crote | 2025-11-29 18:01:57+00:00
Lat/lon are in thousandths of a second of arc. If I did my math right, that means the worst-case precision is a hair over 3cm. Altitude is in centimeters, so on a comparable scale.

Looks to me like it is accurate enough to locate even the smallest network-connected devices! Provided someone doesn't invent wifi-connected rice grains, of course.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-11-29 18:02:11+00:00
Oh, now I have a name for the epidemic pervasive through our company.

Almost all of the tech debt we have was introduced by leadership guidance to ignore. And all additional debt to manage it or ameliorate it (since problems don't just go away) is also guidance from leadership to fast track fixes.

What happened to the days where software engineers were the experts who decided tech priority?
by hysan | 2025-11-29 18:02:56+00:00
Yup, came here to say this. After reading the article, it became abundantly clear that the author doesn’t support Linux and most of the article is just a summary of the common Tauri talking points that are out of date. To add data to this - Tauri is looking to allow embedding chromium as an option because the creator of Tauri acknowledged that it doesn’t work well on Linux. To the point where if Linux is a serious target, they don’t recommend Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064#issuecomment-2...

The upstream projects aren’t in a place to support this yet so this feature didn’t make it into Tauri v2. I’ve been tracking this for a long time and hope that they will make it possible in v3.
by warangal | 2025-11-29 18:03:01+00:00
Currently (Semantic) ML model is the weakest (minorly fine-tuned) ViT B/32 variant, and more like acting as a placeholder i.e very easy to swap with a desired model. (DINO models have been pretty great, being trained on much cleaner and larger Dataset, CLIP was one of first of Image-text type models !).

For point about "girl drinking water", "girl" is the person/tagged name , "drinking water" is just re-ranking all of "girl"s photos ! (Rather than finding all photos of a (generic) girl drinking water) .

I have been more focussed on making indexing pipeline more peformant by reducing copies, speeding up bottleneck portions by writing in Nim. Fusion of semantic features with meta-data is more interesting and challenging part, in comparison to choosing an embedding model !
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-29 18:03:21+00:00
On my first visit to Amsterdam, my friend picked me up on a bike at Centraal Station, and I rode to his apartment in the traditional Dutch style sitting on the back rack.

On the way said "only three more mountains to go till we're home"! I asked "WTF?" and he explained that's what they call the bridges over the canals.

This is one of the intersections we went through right after one of the mountains, showing how much the local culture affects the traffic safety and bicycle friendliness as much as the geography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-29 18:04:16+00:00
> it was a scenario where the world is functionally ruined for human life as we know it

Sure. The AMOC collapsing doesn’t do that. It makes life shit for a lot of people. But it doesn’t make the Earth uninhabitable for humans or technological civilization.

“Destroy the earth” is hyperbole. Cause mass starvation, associated wars and refugee crises, and mass extinctions with renewed vigor are not.
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by notahacker | 2025-11-29 18:04:37+00:00
That's not the argument though. The argument is "it can be done, the methods to do it are known, but the claims about space being an optimal location to locate our AI datacenters are false and the tradeoffs and unit economics of doing it makes no sense compared with building a data centre on earth somewhere with power and water, preferably not too hot.

But for a more nuanced and optimistic take, this one is good and highlights all the same issues and more https://www.peraspera.us/realities-of-space-based-compute/

(TLDR: the actual use cases for datacentres in space rely on the exact opposite assumption from visions of space clouds for LLMs: most of space is far away and has data transmission latency and throughput issues so you want to do a certain amount of processing for your space data collection and infrastructure and autonomous systems on the edge)
by bee_rider | 2025-11-29 18:04:42+00:00
It is nice to see a country take it seriously of course. But, at some level I don’t love this type phrasing that has become generally accepted—it is a big deal, so we declare it a national security risk.

Everything is a national security risk when we look generally enough. Climate, education, economics, cultural diversity: failing in any of these fields makes the country weaker in some abstract way and that will impact national security down the road. “This impacts the general welfare and quality of life of the people” should be the highest category of urgent problem that needs to be fixed. A healthy, happy, productive populace can solve national security as a side effect.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-29 18:04:57+00:00
Preemptive multitasking is unrelated to page faults. And the 68k handled page faults just fine starting from the 68010.

Space constraints were certainly limiting on the earlier models, but later ones were plenty capable. Apple itself shipped a fully multitasking, memory protected OS for various 68k Mac models.

By the late 80s, the only reason the Macintosh system was still single-tasking with no protected memory was compatibility with existing apps, and massive technical debt.
by fred_ | 2025-11-29 18:05:35+00:00
Author here. I believe I did a poor job of explaining what I meant by this sentence in the article. Sorry about that.

As you, and many others, have pointed out, `?? ""` does not do what `.unwrap` does. `unwrap_or_default` would have been a better comparison for what it actually does. What I tried, and failed, to communicate, was that both can be used to "ignore" the unwanted state, `None` or `undefined`.

I guess the rust equivalent to what I would like to see is `nullable_var?`, and not unwrap as that will panic. That would be equivalent to the `?? throw new Error` feature mentioned further up in the comments.
by parasubvert | 2025-11-29 18:06:00+00:00
well sure I was a blue boxer, software pirate, talked to lots of creepy people on IRC, participated in online sexting, x.25 and tcp/ip network hacker, with a stack of stolen credit card numbers, and root access to a bunch of university labs ... when I was 13. that was 35 years ago. what were my parents supposed to do?

determined resourceful kids will do what they want. so long as I talk about the risks and dangers and put up a modicum of effort to police it, I'm fine if they figure out ways around it. some people have to learn the hard way.
by JohnBooty | 2025-11-29 18:06:03+00:00
You can spend $100B on a assets but it doesn't mean you'll turn a profit.

Capitalism certainly favors those with the most... capital, but there are quite a few other factors. Market fit, efficiency, etc. The Dutch East India Company had the most assets, yes, but also the best ships and a killer (literally) business model.

The notion of a sector where success is determined almost entirely by who can stockpile the most assets (GPUs in this case) is a somewhat unique situation and probably merits its own term
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-29 18:06:34+00:00
Also not the OP, but I use a NanoPi M5 for my home router. I've got OpenWRT (technically FriendlyWRT, but it's the same) running on it with Docker for running NgINX and PiHole.

https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-29 18:06:48+00:00
> we’re risking changes to the planet that will affect your life

Most people should already be seeing changes to their life in a statistically significant way.

But the AMOC collapsing doesn’t mean plenty of the Earth isn’t comfortable for humans. Global temperatures peaking in their pessimistic state still leaves, for better or for worse, most of the industrialized world viable. Poorer. Less comfortable. But viable nonetheless.

This is important because committing to long-term projects requires avoiding nihilism and complacency. Pitching everything as disaster tips into the former.
by kylecazar | 2025-11-29 18:07:02+00:00
That's interesting. I know vitamin D can improve sleep quality in people who are deficient, and sleep quality helps with dream recall -- I wonder if that's the mechanism or it's something else.

A cursory search shows lots of redditors taking Vitamin D (some of them way, way too much btw) and having wild dreams too.

I take 800IU a day and haven't noticed anything on that little.
Show HN: Web Checker – Browser extension for cycling through website lists
by NickeaTea | 2025-11-29 18:07:20+00:00
I built a Chrome extension to help with routine web browsing. If you regularly check the same set of websites (news sites, dashboards, webcomics, etc.), Web Checker lets you organize them into lists and cycle through them systematically.

Each day I check through a set of the same websites and now instead of clicking through bookmarks or trying to remember what I've already visited, I now go through my lists in order. The extension remembers where I left off if I don't finish a list in one sitting. I built this primarily for my own use but figured others might find it helpful. Feedback welcome.

It's open source (MIT license) and available on the Chrome Web Store.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-checker/cbcncii...

GitHub: https://github.com/ntaluzek/web-checker
by hedora | 2025-11-29 18:07:47+00:00
That’s an overly optimistic way to look at it. The geological record shows there were glaciers in parts of France and Germany the last time th current shut down. (When it shut down due to CO2 induced global warming.)

Also, the temperature change was rapid: Somewhere between 50-100 years. If we’re in the same cycle, we’re more than a decade in already.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-29 18:08:07+00:00
> Let’s start by looking at the text in front of us and pointing to something very small: a single word, or punctuation mark, or even something that’s not there, a gap. Tell me, I would ask as we sat down and opened our books, what is one detail that you noticed? What snagged you? Where were you surprised?

It can be marvelous to try notice detail in the world around us. Not only in cultural artifacts, but also in the natural world. Trying to capture that small detail in writing or painting or music composition is a wonderful thing.
by monster_truck | 2025-11-29 18:08:17+00:00
None of these glass breakers are any good at what they're supposed to do anyways, I'd wager all of their websites delinate that they are for tempered glass only. What you want is porcelain or ceramic.

Unfortunately, afaik, porclean/cermaic glass breakers are illegal in most states. They are "Burglary Tools".

Nothing wrong with keeping a box of spark plugs in your center console though
Ask HN: Is there a HN but more business/startup oriented?
by vasilzhigilei | 2025-11-29 18:08:27+00:00
I really like reading HN, but I find that there's not quite enough startup, founder, and business content being posted as I would like.

When I check back on HN posts from a decade ago, there appears to have been more emphasis on those sorts of topics than there is now. Where did that go? Where do folks go for business related posts?
by dataviz1000 | 2025-11-29 18:08:41+00:00
Both the recent Acapulco and Jamaica hurricanes had non-normal intensification as they hit the warn coastal waters. I wonder how devastating this is going to be to Florida and the Atlantic states. Every time there is a hurricane it hits the Cat 5 physical limit.

Fort Lauderdale and Miami are underwater several times a year as is. The seawall at Daytona is gone.

It is going to be destabilizing. As long as it doesn't affect the corn growing in Iowa.
by awinter-py | 2025-11-29 18:08:55+00:00
what's good? have been shopping for something to cut medium EVA sheets. seems like brother scan N cut is most likely to work with SVGs + linux, but can't handle anything past 2mm. siser juliet + silhouette get recommended too but I think both rely on proprietary software

laser cutters seem better on the software side, but more expensive, less safe? (and also not safe at all for vinyl)
by ck2 | 2025-11-29 18:09:02+00:00
the "local AQI" is usually from a single government sensor for 100 mile radius which is useless as pollution is highly localized (think neighbor idiots burning leaves all day)

also doesn't tell you indoor air quality which where you sleep REALLY matters if the co2 is sky high

best third party AQI network is PurpleAIR but even with them certain cities have few or none

https://map.purpleair.com/air-quality-standards-us-epa-aqi

airgradient barely has any in some US states

https://www.airgradient.com/map/

US doesn't even have mandatory air-quality sensors at airports, which it should because that's where most of the other weather measurements are coming from on most apps, even if you are 30-50 miles away
by banana_sandwich | 2025-11-29 18:09:34+00:00
I feel it’s a bit disingenuous to discuss that a developer might pay more for a lot with a house on it, to build more houses, but you don’t really touch on, at all, how much the resulting housing might cost. Surely 20 units on a single lot will be cheaper than the single family house.

Now you have potentially 20 families, or at least 20 individuals, paying taxes, participating in the local economy, etc instead of just one single family. Lots of economic benefits to consider here but saying “downzoning good, actually” because a developer might pay more? Idk. seems pretty poorly thought out.
by fruitworks | 2025-11-29 18:09:53+00:00
The current implementation of monero's tech is less advanced than zcash, but stealth addresses are as secure as ECC gets. The idea comes from ECDH.

The weakness in monero's cryptography is dependence on ring signatures, which will be improved with the FCMP++ upgrade. In other words, it is an issue of sender privacy. Stealth addresses protect recipient privacy.
by nialse | 2025-11-29 18:10:58+00:00
Nothing points out that the benchmark is invalid like a zero false positive rate. Seemingly it is pre-2020 text vs a few models rework of texts. I can see this model fall apart in many real world scenarios. Yes, LLMs use strange language if left to their own devices and this can surely be detected. 0% false positive rate under all circumstances? Implausible.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-29 18:11:12+00:00
> What happened to the days where software engineers were the experts who decided tech priority?

Outside of a very small number of firms that were called out as notable for being led in a way that enabled that, often by engineers that were themselves still hands on, they never existed, and even there it was “business leadership that happened to also be engineers, and made decisions based on business priorities informed by their understanding of software engineering”, not “software engineers in their walled-off citadels of pure engineering”, and it usually involves, in successful firms, considerable willingness to accept tech debt, just as business leadership can often not be shy about accepting funancial debt.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-11-29 18:11:14+00:00
Are you referring to on-exchange volume of a coin that has pumped 10x in a few months? And it's only 6x the on-exchange volume of monero? It sounds like people still don't use it. If you look at the blockchain, you will see very few transactions per block (literally less than one per minute), so it seems the volume is almost entirely on the exchanges. It's probably people speculating on privacy for some reason, combined with some dumping of the pre-mine.

The majority of the on-chain use is also public transactions, so it seems the "privacy by default" setting doesn't really matter.