MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by borroka | 2025-11-06 19:58:39+00:00
May I recommend an alternative to Eastern Meditation practices?

The alternative is Autogenic Training (AT), a method invented by Dr. Schultz a century ago. It is a well-tested scientific approach, and the outcomes are generally very positive, if not life-changing.

AT does not involve interpreting obscure texts written thousands of years ago in other languages and referring to ways of life that have long been forgotten.

AT does not require silent retreats or attending workshops and seminars at the end of which you are more confused than before. It is simple and just requires following the steps outlined by Schultz and his students.

I am surprised that it is not popular at all, but its strengths are also its weaknesses. Most people long for the esoteric and unexplained, while AT is clear, easy to understand and practice.
by Y-bar | 2025-11-06 19:59:08+00:00
What I also would _love_ is a function based on velocity, or speed per logical pixel. So that a transition that happens over say 200px does not take the same time as the same transition happening over 450px.

--myidea-tranistion-timing: 1px/5ms;

The above would take one second (200pixels at 5ms per pixel) to transition a 200px distance, and would take 2.25 seconds to transition 450px because the velocity would be the same.
by pksebben | 2025-11-06 19:59:19+00:00
Define "allowed", esp. whom it is doing the allowing.

Any and all current international treaties are visibly toothless these days. Russia invades Ukraine and the UN shrugs while they say "hey, cut it out!". Israel colonizes parts of Gaza that it has specifically agreed not to colonize and the response is the same. The US commits a war crime with it's morning cuppa and every time the international community sorta whistles and heel-turns hoping that they're not interesting enough to be next.

The problem is that IOT have any kind of effective enforcement mechanism, you have to have the bigger stick, and we've just allowed countries to do nothing but build bigger sticks since the 40s.
by bonestamp2 | 2025-11-06 19:59:27+00:00
I assume he's planning to build a super mansion once he gets enough acreage.

Reminds me of a guy near me who bought three already massive adjacent properties. Tore down two of them. One become a pond. The other one was rebuilt into a massive $30M mansion. The third was already a $15M mansion so he kept that as his guest house. The funny thing is that his guest house... has a guest house.
by immibis | 2025-11-06 19:59:33+00:00
Same thing they do to every country, Pinky. Have a small team invade the country and disappear the people they don't like[1].

Or tap the fiber lines at the border and inject RST packets from off-path, which is something the Great Firewall of China does, and is ironically much more transparent than what they actually are doing.

Or cut the cables between the USA and Russia, or between the USA and any country that doesn't cut their own cables to Russia. The USA did this to Iran with the banking system and it worked: the USA cuts money transfers with any country that doesn't cut money transfers with Iran. I don't think it would necessarily go their way if they did it right now with the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case
by gradientsrneat | 2025-11-06 20:00:11+00:00
I will add, the news websites didn't start paywalling just because of LLM scrapers. They started doing it after certain parts of the GDPR passed, because they could no longer sustain themselves as much from targeted advertising and data sales. News has supplemented itself with advertising for a long time, but targeted advertising has sadly become perceived as mandatory by advertising companies, even before Google's dominance.
by riskable | 2025-11-06 20:00:13+00:00
Seriously? Beyond the unaccounted safety and traffic situation, you've obviously never lived next to a school. Kids are loud AF!

I lived right behind an elementary school (playgound was kitty-corner to my fence) two houses ago. During recess and lunch time, the kids were so loud I had to shout to hear people next to me inside my house.

...but forget all that: What you're advocating for is lawlessness. If you don't like the law, lobby to change it! Don't just violate it and screw over your neighbors in the mean time.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-06 20:01:02+00:00
> It may be viewed that way, but it’s also useful to empathize with someone and get more detail/nuance that can’t be conveyed simply over text. Especially when someone is not happy.

It can be, but maybe not when you're not actually replying to anything the other person wrote. The person who experienced the issues and chose to leave made a pretty clear list of "here is the exact reasons the bot is unbearable for us". This person who opened up the conversation is doing so via text, at least providing some sort of answer initially via the same channel before trying to get them to jump into a private call could have maybe came across a bit more empathic and collaborative.
by trhway | 2025-11-06 20:01:03+00:00
That is one of the things one learns with time (if one not smart enough to understand it from the beginning) - it is small guy who get caught in the fight between Big Guys who suffers the most and pays the price, so don't be that small guy.

For few decades it looked like we've been building around the world the system which would protect small guy, yet the last few years the system has come down crashing. Interestingly that one of the architects of that crash - Dick Cheney (RIP, was just on the news and this is why he came to mind) - has lived to see those fruits of his labor and ultimately even voted against the most prominent expression of his policies - ie. against Trump and for Harris.
by NiloCK | 2025-11-06 20:01:13+00:00
Maybe a dumb question but: what is a "reasoning model"?

I think I get that "reasoning" in this context refers to dynamically budgeting scratchpad tokens that aren't intended as the main response body. But can't any model do that, and it's just part of the system prompt, or more generally, the conversation scaffold that is being written to.

Or does a "reasoning model" specifically refer to models whose "post training" / "fine tuning" / "rlhf" laps have been run against those sorts of prompts rather than simpler user-assistant-user-assistant back and forths?

EG, a base model becomes "a reasoning model" after so much experience in the reasoning mines.
by jiveturkey | 2025-11-06 20:01:49+00:00
> The privacy guarantee we are making here is that no one, not even people operating the inference hardware, can see your prompts.

that cannot be met, period. your asssumptions around physical protections are invalid or at least incorrect. It works for Apple (well enough) because of the high trust we place in their own physical controls, and market incentive to protect that at all costs.

> This is how Apple's PCC does it as well [...] and you can audit the code running on those compute machines to check that they aren't doing anything nefarious.

just based on my recollection, and I'm not going to have a new look at it to validate what I'm saying here, but with PCC, no you can't actually do that. With PCC you do get an attestation, but there isn't actually a "confidential compute" aspect where that attestation (that you can trust) proves that is what is running. You have to trust Apple at that lowest layer of the "attestation trust chain".

I feel like with your bold misunderstandings you are really believing your own hype. Apple can do that, sure, but a new challenger cannot. And I mean your web page doesn't even have an "about us" section.
by chipsrafferty | 2025-11-06 20:02:18+00:00
It's adorable that you think every company actually abides by these rules. There have been class action lawsuits recently against the largest tech companies. Why wouldn't the smaller ones break the rules too?

It's akin to cheating in financial markets. Hedge funds will gladly commit fraud or other cheating methods as long as the fine is less than the income gained.
by skywhopper | 2025-11-06 20:02:54+00:00
As an English speaker, I 100% disagree. This does not come across as someone wanting to understand or to help. It’s someone wanting to avoid a scene. Private phone calls are not an appropriate way to deal with community issues like this. In other threads on the site (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717387...) it’s clear this change has received massive pushback for months since it was announced, and community members specifically called out the issues enumerated in the OP as potential problems. So the responder already knows exactly what is wrong. No clarification is necessary.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-06 20:02:58+00:00
When the proxy operator is (1) anonymous, (2) the potential target of coercion, and (3) outside the user's jurisdiction, how does a proxy user verify (a) whether the operator collects, or is being forced to collect, data or (b) what it might do, or be forced to do, with colllected data

Perhaps the answer is they don't verify
by hypeatei | 2025-11-06 20:03:30+00:00
> if you own any stocks outside a 401k, you probably already need to make quarterly estimated payments.

That's true, and I do. I guess I'm referring more to the accounting side of it. My brokerage reports/tracks all that for me and hands me a form later. With contracting work, it's all up to you to track and there might be better ways than a text file with some dates and amounts but maybe it really is that simple. I'm not sure.
by 05 | 2025-11-06 20:03:41+00:00
> I've been burned by trusting Matter to mean broad compatability; my Aqara lock doesn't indicate how the door was unlocked over Matter despite showing up in their app, and this is after having to buy their Zigbee bridge because it won't connect to Zigbee devices from other brands.

Matter was made by the same guys that created Zigbee, proprietary vendor extensions are their bread and butter. Anything trickier than a contact sensor or motion detector, you should definitely research compatibility and definitely not update firmware once it works.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-06 20:04:17+00:00
On the other hand, Swift has a more gentle learning curve with plenty of progressive disclosure (many features aren't strictly required to build something useful) and generally more approachable syntax.

Swift is also more conducive to "old style" retain mode imperative UI frameworks like AppKit (sometimes declarative and/or immediate mode doesn't fit the bill), which has to date been a major weak point for Rust.
by StarGrit | 2025-11-06 20:04:17+00:00
I was being hyperbolic because people seem to be overstating the cost of a cleaner.

I used to pay my Spainish cleaners about €20 euros a week for two cleaners. Granted that was while ago, but it was peanuts.

Also I'd rather have cleaner do it properly, than by a robovac that (as everyone says on the sibling comments) does half a job.
by thelastgallon | 2025-11-06 20:04:25+00:00
This won't happen because the lines are bi-directional. It would be like chopping off their own energy supply. Because of the Earth's rotation, neighbors can take advantage of each other's sunlight. Parts of Europe and North Africa's energy markets are already working on this.

For the past 100+ years, the US has been spending a significant amount of money on protecting oil supplies to protect its oil billionaires and its economy. It's the #1 budget item, outspending the combined military spending of the next 10 economies. This can be reduced to zero, and ultimately, the $ 39 trillion deficit can be eliminated.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-06 20:04:34+00:00
Re: author's comments about exwm

imho exwm is imho fundamentally flawed, especially when running emacs or doing emacs stuff inside it. You end up in a battle over keybindings, etc.

I think a better model would be a window manager in a separate process that your emacs elisp processes can communicate with over IPC.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-11-06 20:04:47+00:00
MSFT already operates in Europe via subsidiaries for a whole host of reasons. But hiving certain assets off in a subsidiary is very rarely effective to avoid laws and regulations that apply to the parent. The parent controls the subsidiary so a court or regulator having jurisdiction over the parent could order it to get what it needs from the subsidiary. This is particularly so in the US, which is kind of known for enacting overreaching extraterritorial laws.
Show HN: Bet on Auction Results with PolyBets
by h100ker | 2025-11-06 20:05:08+00:00
Ten days ago, I challenged my buddies and myself, all devoted car enthusiasts, to build something. We often argue over BaT/C&B/RM Sothebys auction results, so I thought, why not create a platform where we can put our money where our mouths are? In just 10 days, I finished the project and I’m calling it PolyBets.fun, where anyone can create a speculation market with just a link.

Lmk what you all think! I don't want to hear the legalities; I've already addressed everything in the terms of service. Use at your own risk (I am not responsible if you don't read the ToS or understand how it works).
by robenkleene | 2025-11-06 20:05:35+00:00
> My point was mainly that the keyboard (efficient use is difficult to learn) vs mouse (arguably easier to learn) is just one example of why the current desktop metaphor won over something I'd say is designed for heavy keyboard use (even if usable without it).

This comparison of the mouse and keyboard seems to have programmer tunnel vision. Anything involving layout, graphs, media editing (audio, video, image), 3D modeling, and drawing I think we can all agree are better served by the mouse (in tandem with the keyboard). It's really the mouse and keyboard together that's made the computer such a successful creative medium. Programming seems to me like a bit of anomaly in that it's one of the few creative tasks that doesn't benefit greatly from a mouse.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-06 20:06:04+00:00
> he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

In observing the current dark political period, we see clearly that the energetic but stupid person can be entrusted to cause damage. He is a type of zealot or fanatic.

If you can marshal groups of such people, especially at arm's length from your own reputation and assets, such groups of energetic but stupid people can do significant damage.

I think I would re-order the Laws as stated:

THE THIRD (AND GOLDEN) BASIC LAW _ A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses. Human beings fall into four basic categories: the helpless, the intelligent, the bandit and the stupid. (The four categories are H, I, B, S.)

combines with

THE SECOND BASIC LAW _ The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

leads to

THE FOURTH BASIC LAW _ Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

leads to

THE FIRST BASIC LAW _ Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

leads to

THE FIFTH BASIC LAW _ A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. The corollary of the Law is that: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.
by anigbrowl | 2025-11-06 20:06:32+00:00
GMAFB. The US is famous for using 'extraordinary rendition' to take custody of people it deems terrorists and either try them or hold them in isolation at military camps. Do you really buy the line that they're being 'sent home to be prosecuted' by the same countries that are condemning these strikes? It seems far more likely that they're being sent home because they don't want to put them in front of a judge.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-06 20:06:33+00:00
> that is the end of the internet as we know it.

Eh. Some of us remember an internet before the free-with-advertising became the norm. In the 90s and early 2000s people were putting stuff online for free with no desire to monetise that content. And it was way more expensive back then to do so. Today you can host a personal blog for less than a coffee. I for one wouldn't mind going back to people sharing stuff for the fun of it, isntead of the myriad of content that's only there to promote/sell/advertise for this and that.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-06 20:06:38+00:00
>A pretty small fraction of the NYPD budget could cover shortfalls. That's why it's brought up. These grocery stores, even if they never turn a profit, won't be costing the city $100M, or $10M. They likely won't even shortfall to $1M. For a city with a budget of billions, adding 1M in is really just a drop in bucket.

This. A city with not just a budget of "billions" but of USD$116 billion[0].

Even if each of the five pilot stores required USD$1 million in subsidies, that's 0.0000431% of the city budget or USD$0.61 per NY resident. We're definitely going bankrupt over that right?

And if it results in the poorest NYers getting access to cheaper, healthier food, that's good for business (healthier people work more), education (healthier people learn better), healthcare (healthier people consume less healthcare), quality of life (reasonably priced healthy food allows folks to live better lives) and a host of other benefits.

As a NYC resident, I'm happy to give the poorest folks in the city $0.61 a year or even $2.00 a year. Isn't $0.61 a reasonable price to pay for making the lives of thousands of your neighbors demonstrably better?

[0] https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/30/nyc-council-passes-11...
by shiandow | 2025-11-06 20:06:41+00:00
I'd be surprised if this isn't already the case. The extent to which you can do business in the EU without legal presence is limited.

It is not a huge amount of protection though. I mean we've already established that selling to 'terrorists' can be sanctioned even when selling through an intermediary. So what's stopping the US from ordering Microsoft to stop selling licenses to the ICC?

And then we've not touched on who is in control of the closed source of the many proprietary applications.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-06 20:07:13+00:00
bollocks. now I have to question the validity of their statements since it's 100% clear they have a profit motive.

the hard part is that there may be legitimate benefits to fiber, but a claim that there is almost a quarter difference in mortality strains credulity.

obvious snake oil is obvious, but this is likely snake oil masquerading as real
by noahho | 2025-11-06 20:07:14+00:00
When we released TabPFNv1 over three years ago, I didn’t expect at all the hundreds of comments and reposts we would see. Tabular data had been a field getting little love from AI research—but we immediately felt that this was a topic that data scientists, scientists, financial analysts, and enterprise users deeply cared about. Glad its useful to people!
by kevincox | 2025-11-06 20:07:17+00:00
Personally I don't mind an offer to subscribe to the newsletter but Substack is way to aggressive. They show the prompt even before I have finished the article (How do I know if I want to subscribe?) and obscure the article (actively working against what they know what I am trying to do). So I now just immediately back out when I see that. I won't visit sites that are purposely harming the experience.
by keybored | 2025-11-06 20:07:20+00:00
What if work felt easy?

> I felt like I should catch up to stay relevant in the changing tech landscape, but that feeling just didn’t translate to action.

> Then, a few months ago, I had this silly idea for a Trader Joe’s snack box builder. It made me smile to think about it existing in the world. So I downloaded Cursor, and built and shipped a basic version in two hours.

And what if AI was what made it feel easy?

> That tiny spark of joy reminded me how much I love to build. A few weeks ago, I got pulled into building a Community Library app — something I’d been noodling on for months as a shared Google Sheet. Once I had the idea for a real site, it just made sense to build it.

What if all your problems could be solved with AI? Visualize it. Find that tiny spark of joy. Magnify it.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-11-06 20:07:31+00:00
Monopolies become entrenched because of network effect. Phone companies had the same problem until the government stepped in.

Web standards are great. And the web is really something special. No one owns the web. I can publish my own website with a ton of different vendors offering hosting. There's a power law distribution of provider success but it's still a fair game.

App publishing is owned by two companies. Messaging is siloed. Discoverability is pay to play. There is no townsquare not owned.

The way to solve these problems is forcing platforms over a certain size to open their protocols. So We can make on own messaging client that communicates with the gatekeepers. We can offer, without the app stores, our software to their users in the same way that the gatekeepers allow.

Monopolies kill markets. Allowing a fair market on network effect platforms would make the categories competitive. Smaller businesses could compete. The margins would lower for the gatekeepers. The consumers would benefit from lower prices and more innovation.

Most of all, we'd finally be able to reverse the trend of cynical software - 'enshitification' - that comes when a monopoly understands that they no longer need to compete.
by skywhopper | 2025-11-06 20:07:34+00:00
This isn’t out of the blue. The responder was the lead on rolling out this new translation workflow to the community. Check out the thread (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717387...) and you’ll see people immediately called out the exact potential problems the OP here is complaining about, nearly three months ago. This is no need for the responder to follow up to better understand the complaints. They know exactly what the issues are.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-06 20:07:36+00:00
> For what it is worth, I would rather read through speculative AI policing than to read through actual AI slop.

At least one of them is human (until we have AI pointing out AI slop.. turtles all the way down).

I'd prefer it if there was less AI content overall but given where I'm posting I don't expect that either.
by mamonster | 2025-11-06 20:07:42+00:00
The article is okay, but it kind of buries the lede: The real reason they (Montyan, Alyokhin, Markov) all were targeted was because they all went after Solovyov, the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck of Putinism.

Run this article through Google Translate:

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/10/31/zlo-pobezhlaet-zlo-ili...

and see what you think.