MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drdaeman | 2025-11-12 19:24:47+00:00
No party in the US seem to fight for a secure (end-to-end auditable) voting process. I've yet to hear any politician talk about anything like that, a process where no voter has to trust the system and can be still confident (assuming they understand the underlying math) their vote was counted and counted correctly.

It is true that every scheme out there (that I've read about) has some flaws. But I'd rather have NSA spending their budgets and talent working on this kind of stuff, than spying on citizens or whatever they do.

The current discourse is all about identification during registration vs when voting. Which is meaningful but feels like avoiding the actual issue, as it is still not really secure either way.
by joering2 | 2025-11-12 19:25:22+00:00
No matter how I tried, Google AI did not want to help me write appeal brief response to ex-wife lunatic 7-point argument that 3 appellant lawyers quoted between $18,000 and $35,000. The last 3 decades of Google's scars and bruises of never-ending lawsuits and consequences of paying out billions in fines and fees, felt like reasonable hesitation on Google part, comparing to new-kid-on-the-block ChatGPT who did not hesitate and did pretty decent job (ex lost her appeal).
by rossdavidh | 2025-11-12 19:25:27+00:00
Having fought several battles with raccoons myself (including once in my attic, when neither of us were expecting it), I can say that the best solution is to have dogs in the neighborhood which are big enough to handle a raccoon. Or, if that doesn't work, a trail of marshmallows to lead them into the raccoon trap (they are suckers for that). I hire pros to do the latter.
by cowpig | 2025-11-12 19:25:32+00:00
1. Anthropic pushed a change to their terms where now I have to opt out or my data will be retained for 5 years and trained on. They have shown that they will change their terms, so I cannot trust them.

2. OpenAI is run by someone who already shows he will go to great lengths to deceive and cannot be trusted, and are embroiled in a battle with the New York Times that is "forcing them" to retain all user prompts. Totally against their will.
by jacobgkau | 2025-11-12 19:25:33+00:00
Pizza chains have delivery fees that aren't paid to delivery drivers. Restaurants have service fees for cooking food and convenience fees for placing orders (even if paying, in cash, when you pick up), on top of the sticker price of the food itself, which used to just be the price.

Some people in this thread have talked about stores having signs saying they'll round change up to the dollar if you pay in cash, and advising to pay by card if you want exact change. I've personally seen businesses have signs on their cash registers that say "our cash register is easily hacked, we strongly recommend paying by cash instead instead of card" (I'm assuming so they can cheat on their taxes).

Businesses will do anything they can get away with to make more money, and they can usually get away with tiny fees like this. It's only a few cents, right? Except for them, it adds up.
by monocasa | 2025-11-12 19:25:43+00:00
A lot of devices that you commonly plug and unplug like flash drives and passkeys still make sense as USB-A for a lot of people because of the specifics of the USB spec.

C to A converters for devices are technically verboten since they would allow an enduser to make a A to A cable, which can fry hosts if you plug them into eachother if they don't support USB OTG. You can lose certification if you try to ship a device with a C to A converter.

Because of that, USB-A devices with an optional A to C converter (or neater devices that have both plugs on them natively) are what makes a lot of sense for a lot of people for the kinds of devices that live on a key chain. So it makes sense for that to be the default on the front of a desktop, IMO.
by nerdjon | 2025-11-12 19:25:57+00:00
Very very few people actually fundamentally disagree with the core idea of identification to vote.

The problem is the act of getting the ID itself. In most (all?) states getting an ID is not free, takes time, and if you lost everything will require jumping through a lot of hoops.

If getting an ID was actually simple, free, and not time consuming than we could have a genuine discussion about ID requirements. But until that point it is very thinly veiled classism and racism.

Also the numbers just simply don't back up this being a serious issue to begin with.

TLDR: Fix the fundamental issues with having identification in the first place and we can talk.
by danudey | 2025-11-12 19:25:59+00:00
The target users for this behavior are the ones using GPT as a replacement for social interactions; these are the people who crashed out/broke down about the GPT5 changes as though their long-term romantic partner had dumped them out of nowhere and ghosted them.

I get that those people were distraught/emotionally devastated/upset about the change, but I think that fact is reason enough not to revert that behavior. AI is not a person, and making it "warmer" and "more conversational" just reinforces those unhealthy behaviors. ChatGPT should be focused on being direct and succinct, and not on this sort of "I understand that must be very frustrating for you, let me see what I can do to resolve this" call center support agent speak.
by sofixa | 2025-11-12 19:26:08+00:00
It would be pretty dystopian when we get to the point where ChatGPT pushed (unannounced) advertisements to those people (the ones forming a parasocial relationship with it). Imagine someone complaining they're depressed and ChatGPT proposing doing XYZ activity which is actually a disguised ad.

Other than such scenarios, that "engagement" would be just useless and actually costing them more money than it makes
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-12 19:26:14+00:00
I have a global prompt that specifically tells it not to be sycophantic and to call me out when I'm wrong.

It doesn't work for me.

I've been using it for a couple months, and it's corrected me only once, and it still starts every response with "That's a very good question." I also included "never end a response with a question," and it just completely ingored that so it can do its "would you like me to..."
by eikenberry | 2025-11-12 19:26:25+00:00
Shell tooling is as successful today in large part due to it's simple byte string/file based protocol. Adding structured data types to the shell and shell command pipelining would turn it from something with a good UI but meh for scripting to one that is good at scripting but meh for UI. Shells are primarily a UI and the focus should stay on that.
by dpark | 2025-11-12 19:26:39+00:00
This is nonsense. No store is going to charge a multi item fee so that they can try to scrape an extra penny off their customers. As someone else’s already pointed out, they could just do this today if they believe their customers will accept it. Did you forget that stores can just raise prices?

Your premise that stores will find a way to force rounding up is nonsense. It’s nonsense because stores aren’t actually going to do it, but also because we’re talking about *pennies*. Oh, no. The store ripped me off for 2 cents. How will I survive?
by tracker1 | 2025-11-12 19:26:47+00:00
If you use the same base image, is it really as bad as you're making it out to be?

I understand that you're getting a roughly 100mb dist directory for a .Net web app, and that it uses quite a bit of ram.. but people also use Node and Java which have similar issues.

Don't get me wrong on this, I'd like to use Rust+Axum a lot more and C# a bit less.. but I don't dislike C#.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-12 19:27:08+00:00
Would AGI actually be better than just giving all these dollars to various rote and boring sciences?

Bioscience is the next real revolution IMO. Figuring out our bodies as systems and how to program them will lead to a change bigger than information technology.

But what we need for that is not AGI. Bioscience suffers from a total lack of data. We only mapped the human genome a couple decades ago, and that's overselling it. We are currently in the process of slowly mapping out many proteins and receptors and interactions in the body.

We finally have the tooling to do that. We finally have the understanding to do that. What is limiting us right now is mostly the amount of graduate students being paid to laboriously analyze those proteins and what they interact with and other data points.

Once we have enough of that data, we can approach big ideas and other extremely beneficial models.

Right now we are in the calm before the storm. We are mid-1800s physics, just collecting the data necessary to discover and quantify models of electromagnetic energy and fields, the modeling of which is what directly lead to the information and then computer revolution. Most advancements of the 20th century were about utilizing those models to master the electromagnetic field. Similar data was how we figured out the nuclear forces.

We should be funding the mapping of the human biological system. We should be gathering the data required interact with our bodies.

No amount of "self improving superintelligent AGI" can actually overcome the whole "There's no data" problem. If we had a magical AGI in 1750, it would not have been able to produce Maxwell's equations.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-12 19:27:11+00:00
Well... I have many new, emerging problems with YouTube as of lately.

For example I have to scroll down a lot to get to the comment section, the suggestions are all over the place, and so forth. Annoying.

Also due to uBlock Origin, some videos do not start and I have to refresh. It is not much of an issue for me but the fact that apparently I need a huge monitor to see the "old layout" is a problem for me.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-12 19:28:07+00:00
pyswip is a one-way python-to-SWI-prolog interface; there's also a first-party (maintained as part of SWI-prolog), two-way one called janus-swi.

https://pypi.org/project/janus-swi/

https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=janus-call-prol...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-12 19:28:09+00:00
> the very idea that they owe you anything

All I'm asking for right here is consistency about whether the library is mostly secure. The ethical requirement is to follow through on your claims and implications, while making claims and implications is completely optional.

> Computer security is always contextual, but as a general rule, if you're going to be accepting random input from unknown parties, you should have an expert that knows how to do that safely. And as mentioned elsewhere in these comments, such an expert would already be compiling out codecs they don't need and running the processing in a sandboxed environment to mitigate any issues.

Sandboxing is great defense in depth but most software should not require sandboxing. And expecting everyone to have an expert tweaking compilation is not realistic. Defaults matter, and security expectations need to be established between the site, the documentation, and the defaults, not left as a footgun for only experts to avoid.
by firefax | 2025-11-12 19:28:25+00:00
Are you on the autistic spectrum and/or not a native speaker of English? If we are discussing if FFMPEG's stance is reasonable, then it follows we are discussing of Google's actions are unreasonable.

Google is absolutely being unreasonable here -- they should instruct their engineers to submit a patch when submitting CVEs, and FFMPEG is perfectly valid to engage in a little activism to nudge them along.
by tym0 | 2025-11-12 19:28:27+00:00
Now that they've ported Steam to Android with FEX + Proton [0] (what this is running), the question is will they release it for the rest of Android devices? There is a ton of Android gaming handhelds and people are already experimenting with things like Winlator [1] but having well supported way could be awesome.

[0] https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

[1] https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator
by gcau | 2025-11-12 19:29:09+00:00
Yea, I don't want something trying to emulate emotions. I don't want it to even speak a single word, I just want code, unless I explicitly ask it to speak on something, and even in that scenario I want raw bullet points, with concise useful information and no fluff. I don't want to have a conversation with it.

However, being more humanlike, even if it results in an inferior tool, is the top priority because appearances matter more than actual function.
by johnuterry | 2025-11-12 19:29:12+00:00
Building MAUI with Binding/Layout/Themes on top of another engine with Binding/Layout/Themes doesn't sound efficient.

Plus, it is my assumption/understanding that there's no way 3rd party controls will be able to run on Linux/Browser unless they're built directly against MAUI API without any Native our Skia dependencies, which is almost never the case from the libraries I've been using.

Am I right?
by pclmulqdq | 2025-11-12 19:29:19+00:00
If OpenAI truly didn't keep conversation records for any length of time, they would not be subject to this kind of order. Lots of stateless services get these and are able to defeat them because they never store the user's data. The fact that they store them at all means that they are in scope for a preservation order. It also means that they are in scope for all manner of usage by OpenAI themselves even if a user requests deletion.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-11-12 19:29:33+00:00
Yes, but I think at least in this instance, OpenAI needs people to think that what they ask ChatGPT is private. They will have no business model if everyone thought that whatever private question they ask could fall into the hands of a media company and be used for anything. Also, at least when I signed up, you had to provide either a highly trusted email address or phone number to sign up, so your identity is definitely attached to whatever question you ask ChatGPT. They know how high the stakes are for them in this suit.
by dchu17 | 2025-11-12 19:29:37+00:00
> What's the performance of the models trained specifically on this task, and random guessing, compared to the expert pathologist?

I should probably first clarify here, the disease classification tasks are about subtyping the type of cancer (i.e classifying a case as invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast) rather than just binary malignant/benign classification so random guessing is much more difficult and makes this model performance more impressive.

> Would also be curious how the LLM compares to this and other approaches.

There aren't a lot of public general purpose pathology benchmarks. There are some like (https://github.com/sinai-computational-pathology/SSL_tile_be...) but focus on just binary benign/malignant classification tasks and binary biomarker detection tasks.

I am currently working on self-hosting the available open-source models.

> this seems like the sort of task where being right 90% of the time is not good enough, so even if the LLM beats other approaches, it still needs to close the gap to human performance

Yep, your intuition is right here, and actually the expectation is probably closer to mid-high 90%, especially for FDA approval (and most AI tools position as co-pilots at the moment). There is obviously a long way to go, but what I find about interesting about this approach is that it allows LLMs to generalize across (1) a variety of tissue types and (2) pathology tasks such as IHC H-score scoring.
by martin_a | 2025-11-12 19:29:44+00:00
I think the CYBER thing is a joke from the German part of the internet. Our government (and companies alike), liked to cyber-everything. Cyber as a word alone or prefix became a joke and that might be the origin.

Have a look at this cybervideo for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY6KkRsS26M
by hnuser123456 | 2025-11-12 19:29:46+00:00
I used colorcontrol to enter the service menu of my LG C2 and disable all anti-burn-in features. No auto dimming, no auto picture level, no anti-logo, etc. The only one I kept is pixel shift because it's only noticeable if you're looking at the edge of the screen when it moves, it's a tiny movement. I skip the "pixel cleaning" prompt every time it wants me to wait. When I'm gaming in HDR, I use filters to increase the exposure to get the maximum brightness range of the panel. Been using it like that for ~8hrs/day for over 2 years now. Zero detectable hint of burn-in.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-12 19:29:55+00:00
>When we will have true abundance, what the elites will target is the convex hull of progress

We have abundance. The elite took it all.

Every single dollar gained from increased productivity over the past 50 years has been given to them, by changes in tax structures primarily, and their current claim is that actually we need to give them more.

Because that's all they know. More. A bigger slice of the pie. They demonstrably do not want to make the pie bigger.

Making the whole pie bigger dilutes their control and power over resources. They'd rather just take more of the current pie.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-11-12 19:30:26+00:00
> and not on this sort of "I understand that must be very frustrating for you, let me see what I can do to resolve this"

You're triggering me.

Another type that are incredibly grating to me are the weird empty / therapist like follow-up questions that don't contribute to the conversation at all.

The equivalent of like (just a contrived example), a discussion about the appropriate data structure for a problem and then it asks a follow-up question like, "what other kind of data structures do you find interesting?"

And I'm just like "...huh?"
by zahlman | 2025-11-12 19:30:40+00:00
Honestly, it's still potentially fun because of the logistical challenge (your carrying capacity is limited, so staying fed interferes with the ability to carry loot and equipment) and because of unique food effects that may confer mutations and resistances. Eating is very often not a "no-brainer" decision.

On the other hand, I love auto-explore and I don't think I could ever go back to a traditional roguelike that lacks it. "I want to see the entire level in case there are interesting things here" is only "not a no-brainer" if prepared food is very scarce and butchery is implausibly inefficient; walking around without interaction doesn't improve the game experience, etc. (And sure, you can balance the game around not needing to explore entire maps to gain experience, but then you spoil the fun for people who do want to do that.)
by rubyn00bie | 2025-11-12 19:31:01+00:00
Yeah, big same here. It’s pretty frustrating, because I pay for YouTube premium, but cannot use my preferred browser. I have to use Chromium in order to have it work reliably. Doubly so considering it worked fine in Firefox for YEARS… until maybe six months ago?

It feels like something the FTC should be investigating, or perhaps a European equivalent, but I doubt it will.
by amberjcjj | 2025-11-12 19:31:14+00:00
As an AI researcher, over the past few months I’ve been working with Claude Code to help me with my day-to-day research workflows, however, i found its current abilities quite limited when it comes to leveraging existing open-source frameworks (like vLLM, TRL, etc.) to actually run real research workflows.

After Anthropic released the concept of skills, i think this is for sure the right direction for building more capable AI research agents. If we feed these modularized AI research skills to an agent, i basically empower the agent to actually conduct real AI experiments, including preparing datasets, executing training pipelines, deploying models, and validating scientific hypotheses.

It’s currently a growing library of 43 AI research & engineering skills, covering:

- model pre-training and post-training (RL) workflows

- evaluation and visualization

- optimization and inference

data prep, model, dataset, etc.

i'd love your feedbacks :)
by ivanbakel | 2025-11-12 19:31:24+00:00
> Where's the law preventing stores from imposing an accounting fee for multi-item purchases, conveniently totaling a few cents?

Where’s the law preventing someone from doing this right now? I don’t think this cynicism is justified.

Similarly, if places are willing to price stuff at $1.03 for the few extra cents they’ll collect some of the time, then they can just raise prices on 99c items right now to $1 to collect the extra cent, which they don’t do because such prices have a psychological effect on the consumer that outweighs the small gain.
by neilv | 2025-11-12 19:31:46+00:00
> That's how it found out that the last "new" drive I bought on Amazon was actually a used Backblaze drive. It contained terabytes of customer data, and a shit ton of cleartext files. SMART, of course, reported it was a brand new drive with zero hours. Cleartext logs on the drive showed many thousands of hours of runtime.

This sounds like it could be a big problem for Backblaze customers, and consequently for Backblaze.

Can you alert the Backblaze CEO about their insufficiently-decommissioned drives leaking out like this?

Backblaze customers also need to know, but I would give Backblaze the first shot at figuring out how to notify, whom, of what.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-12 19:31:49+00:00
> [...]then it follows we are discussing[...]

It's all connected but... Here, I'll phrase it more simply:

They didn't agree that google is being unreasonable. You are not interpreting them right.

I don't care how confident you are that google is being unreasonable. The "your stance seems to be" statement in your previous comment is wrong.
by realusername | 2025-11-12 19:32:20+00:00
> NYTimes has produced credible evidence that OpenAI is simply stealing and republishing their content. The question they have to answer is "to what extent has this happened?"

Credible to whom? In their supposed "investigation", they sent a whole page of text and complex pre-prompting and still failed to get the exact content back word for word. Something users would never do anyways.

And that's probably the best they've got as they didn't publish other attempts.
by burningChrome | 2025-11-12 19:32:32+00:00
>> and we won't have $100 bills anymore.

Heard some pundits on the radio talking about the elimination of the penny and one of them who worked at the Secret Service as an analyst talked about why the US paper money only goes to $100 bills. He said it was to reduce criminals and illicit activity and criminals having to store it.

He related the story of Pablo Escobar's brother or cousin who was the accountant for the cartel. He said they were losing billions of dollars every year because of various kinds of attrition like rats chewing up the money, it getting too wet and disintegrating. They were losing so much because they had to store it and that wasn't always the best because they had so much of it on hand which seemed to lend credence to his story.

So if you were to get rid of the $100 bills that would further erode the ability of criminals to store so much of it.
by pimeys | 2025-11-12 19:32:34+00:00
My NVIDIA Shield is getting old and slow. I can see this as a good replacement, because it supports HDMI CEC, so you can control it with your remote control.

Install Plex, JellyFin, FreeTube et.al. to it and you have a nice open source TV box.

You also get 4k gaming from Steam, GOG, Epic etc. and you get emulators. I've been wanting to build a computer like this, but CEC is hard to find and the adapters that exist don't support full 4k resolution.
by jacobgkau | 2025-11-12 19:32:39+00:00
> As someone else’s already pointed out, they could just do this today if they believe their customers will accept it. Did you forget that stores can just raise prices?

As I already pointed out, customers would be more likely to accept it if there's an excuse for it (pennies are being phased out) than just randomly. The discussion's about what rounding may cause, not about what stores have the legal ability to do.

> It’s nonsense because stores aren’t actually going to do it, but also because we’re talking about pennies. Oh, no. The store ripped me off for 2 cents. How will I survive?

So this argument is just "you may be right, but I don't care." That's not an argument, imo.