skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Live poultry markets ordered shut in New York City due to avian flu outbreak
Ah, so you’re just in favor of your guy getting to be the monarch. I see. No morals, you are just one of those people that bends or breaks the law when you think it’s beneficial to your side. You people disgust me.
The people inviting are not the same people as the people flagging? Like, how does it make sense that all of them are Musk fans? At this rate you might suggest that the people who are commenting here expressing their disapproval are only doing it in order to get the post flagged. Much more straightforward explanation - people who disapprove of this (along with people who have HN Muskery Fatigue) flagged it.
Project 2025 calls for breaking up NOAA, which NWS is a part of.

If they stick to the plan, this will be gone soon, or rather commercialized (sold to Accuweather).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/trump-presid...
> Instead, companies can seemingly do whatever they please whereas lawyers will send letters to your home for downloading a single episode of game of thrones.

I don't get it. All these companies took copyrighted data when they were tiny grew to be large, they still do that now. Google and OpenAI don't send these letters. They're not the copyright holders.

I have no idea what argument you're trying to make. Corporations bad?
OK, interesting to think about, but it seems a pretty wild hypothesis - not only do we have to assume these studies that revealed the U shape were so bad they failed to control for some massive health issues of some participants, the intervention itself of severely restricting salt intake failed to do what was advertised and still put these people on a rising slope of negative outcomes.
I know. I just dont think it fits particularly well with those cases.
It depends on if you want to model a point or an area. lat/lng gives you a point, but you often want an area to, for example, count how many people are in that area. A spatial index like H3 provides a grid of area units.
I disagree. This article is typical embellishment from the university that produced the research. The reality is that they're likely pre-trial stage. Even if they make it through all stages of clinical trials (historically, chances of a drug candidate doing that are 2-5%), that usually takes the better part of a decade. So the answer is "no, we're very far from curing it".
The link between BMAA and neurodegenerative diseases is well established. New Brunswick has huge BMAA problems. The fishing and aquaculture industry is alleged to suppress the BMAA theory, because less people would buy and eat New Brunswick lobster and fish.
Airbnb and Uber have showed us that laws matter only to the extent that the political will to enforce them exists.

Laws matter to the extent that they don't interfere with actual progress. Laws that would have prevented the LLMs we have today from being developed should be ignored, as should laws requiring us to pay tribute to taxi and hotel cartels.

Respect for the law is going to be an increasingly-hard sell going forward, and that's mostly the lawmakers' own fault. When the law does not respect the people, the people will not respect the law.
How this did not get upvoted to the sky is a mystery – I hope it gets into the second-chance pool.
I got a leaked preprint of his talk.

He's going to demo how you can use large language models and bot farms to manufacture consent on a media and communication platform you control.
No, these are not only the laws they allegedly broke.

They created a project named Greyball to identify law enforcement and mislead them.

They created a kill switch for the event of a government raid to gather evidence.

They ordered and then canceled rides on competitor apps.

They tracked journalists and politicians...

The list goes on and on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Uber
I do not view it as dismissive at all, rather it accurately characterizes the question as a silly question. "swim" is a verb applicable to humans, as is "think". Whether submarines can swim is a silly question. Same for whether machines can think.
The UK is betting that Apple’s greed outweighs their principles. Long odds.

Three weeks ago, I would have agreed with you.

Then Tim Cook wrote a check for $1,000,000.00 to help pay for Donald Trump's inauguration party.†

In spite of what they led us to believe over the last couple of decades, Tim Cook and Apple are no different than any of the other tech companies genuflecting before the new emperor, whose stated goals are the opposite of the "mission, vision and values" lies we were fed by the tech industry.

† In case you (or anyone else) missed it: https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-donates...
Not a philosopher, your message has gone unheeded.
> is going to kill a lot of RAG use cases.

I have a high level understanding of LLMs and am a generalist software engineer.

Can you elaborate on how exactly these insanely large (and now cheap) context windows will kill a lot of RAG use cases?
just more grift and control
Do you think there could be some sort of balance? Something between the tactical approach of redoing a single road at a time and ... flattening all of Paris?

The way I see it, it can be hard for a centrally planned approach to meet all of the needs of the residents of each area. Is there some sort of way to adapt the incremental approach for the modern era?
Let's not pretend that the taxi situation was hunkey-dory before big-bad-tech came onto the scene. There's no regulation that says if I call dispatch to request a taxi one has to show up, and "we'll pick you up when we pick you up" was (and is still) a common mode of operation.

In NYC, it was (is?) against the law to hail a black car on the street, even if they were sitting there ready willing and able to drive you, because the taxi cartel got _regulations_ to make it that way.
> So sick of Cloudflare

A sentiment I cannot agree with more.
As a Brit I feel you may have a point there.
Constitutionally guaranteed privacy and free speech have made America... the world leader.

America used to push the rest of the world to give their people those rights. Used to....
What's really happening here is that the laws are supposed to reflect the political will, i.e. the will of the people, but in many cases they don't, because the lawmakers have been captured by incumbents.

Then if a little guy comes in and tries to challenge them, they don't have the resources to resist the incumbents' pocket government officials and get destroyed. But if a big fish does it, people actually notice if the government tries to enforce stupid laws against them, and then government officials are afraid to do it because the public would not only not like it but actually notice the unreasonableness of the law.

But the problem here isn't that the law isn't being enforced against a well-heeled challenger, it's that those laws exist to be enforced against the little guy, when they should instead be repealed.
Question from someone who's not going to even pretend to understand quantum physics..

The explanation says the visualization shows the coin in all possible states. I'm trying to count quickly and it seems like about 8. Does all possible states mean there's an infinite number and 8 are shown for visualization purposes, or is there a finite predictable number of possible states.
Firefox on Samsung S21, worked fine albeit slow, around 20-25s for the demo text.

Quality sounded good compared to a lot of other small TTS models I've tried.
Too late to edit, but someone chimed in in the thread linking to another issue, this time about the word "retard", here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/79223

From my testing, I see that one still shuts down the Copilot completely. It may mean "late" in French, but it's also often used (at least where I live) to mark SR/Slow Release versions of drugs. Apparently, now, even writing software for pharmacies is immoral and should be blocked... :D
Very different use case -- ZIPs/ZCTAs have some semblance of population normalization
I started reading and it talks about something where a warrant and a case are required to request interception on each case. Is that whacky? You don't think it helps you know fight crime and stuff? Or you have an actual specific example?
Show HN: Comind – A cognitive layer for the ATProtocol/Bluesky social network
I'm building Comind, an experimental AI system that acts as a cognitive layer for ATProtocol/Bluesky. It's a self-evolving knowledge graph where specialized AI agents ("cominds") process social data through focused "spheres", each guided by core directives. The system builds up understanding by asking questions, making connections, and synthesizing information from the network.

I wrote a post describing the general architecture, motivation, and future directions. There's a few small results from Comind's early run.

Built with neo4j, a small Modal GPU instance, and the Python atproto library (https://atproto.blue/en/latest/readme.html).

Would love any feedback! Hopefully you think it's kinda cool.

My Bluesky if anyone wants to ping me: https://bsky.app/profile/cameron.pfiffer.org
Google can keep talking about user safety all they want but their talk is hollow because:

(A) Chrome Web Store is full of malicious extensions. Google doesn't appear interested in consistently enforcing their own policies.

(B) Requiring DNR does nothing about all the other avenues for stealing user data. The fundamental problem is that a totally safe set of extension APIs is a totally limited set of extension APIs. No real innovation or differentiation is possible.
Are you looking for in person or remote?
In the framework we are trying to support all this kind of request. But the integrations like MCP will help to this process by connecting to other developers.
It's Meetup.[1] Apparently people use it for walks as well, who knew. Wonder if there is a space for a dedicated / more focused app.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/fancy-...
It works great when the innovation happens elsewhere and is freely shared.
60 Hz sure makes it easy to keep clocks on time.
> Even at a decade copyright, pretty much anybody who was going to buy the book and read it has already done so. It costs you virtually nothing in sales, and society benefits from the resulting movie.

If the movie can be made then the book can be printed and sold by any publisher, under the current system. It creates a race to the bottom on the price of the book as soon as the copyright duration is done. Perhaps extending "fair use" stuff could allow one and not the other.
I really wish sites would stop with the clickbait style headlines. “Mysterious” is unnecessary here since there isn’t much mystery about this. If anything, this kind of wording gives non-experts and non-scientists the wrong message since mysterious often gets read as “scary” or “unexplainable”, which is often misleading.
Why do you think 3 letters agencies care about the law? Ever heard of Snowden leaks?
Some interesting points from this paper:

- All simulated agents use the same neural net with the same weights, albeit with randomized rewards and conditioning vector to allow them to behave as different types of vehicles with different types of aggressiveness. This is like driving in a world where everyone is different copies of you, but some of your copies are in rush while others are patient. This allows backprop to optimize for a sort of global utility across the entire population.

- There is no modeling of occlusion effects. Instead, agents are given the state of nearby agents, but corrupted by random noise. In the real world, occluded nearby agents can be extremely close (think about a child running out from behind a parked car). The paper comments on this.

> Both Waymax and nuPlan construct observations, maps, and other actors with auto-labeling tools from realworld perception data. This brings occlusion, incorrect or missing traffic-light states, and obstacles revealed at the last moment. Despite the minimalistic noise modeling in GIGAFLOW, the GIGAFLOW policy generalizes zero-shot to these conditions.

- The resulting policy simulates agents that are human-like, even though the system has never seen humans drive. This is a great result when one considers other reinforcement learning projects produce extremely high performance agents that humans would consider to be abusive or pathological.
Took me a second that this is not about higher order translation but human to non-human.
That's exactly their point (and mine), with respect to the person above arguing humans unlike AI can create "new things". For that distinction to make sense "new things" must be interpreted as "something that can't be deterministically derived from the current world state", as they're trying to create a distinction between a purely deterministic algorithm and human consciousness.
Perhaps in the summer there are no cars but from their photo I can see several cars.
UK Rejects 'Stop Killing Games' Petition
Show HN: Wordle Charts – insights about Wordle you don't need
Hello HN! I'm a big fan of Wordle and I originally got this idea from seeing people gripe about Wordle suddenly being "harder" than usual. Wondering if this was true, I set out to snoop around the NYT's publicly available data, which gave me some pretty cool insights. I've put some of them on this simple site made with React and Claude.

There's a grand total of 7 visualizations, with some fun little touches here and there. My favorite is probably "Clairvoyant Guesses," which shows some (to put it nicely) suspicious day-to-day guessing patterns. There's also a fun little easter egg when you type "cat" and then enter a word into the "Find Word:" box. Let me know if you have any suggestions, and any feedback at all :)

Github Repo: https://github.com/crtez/is_wordle_harder_or_am_i_just_stupi...
Right, all this talk about getting rid of copyright and no one is talking about what should replace it? how would we we incentives people to write good books? to pour 1000s of hours of their time to produce new knowledge?
Richard Feynman is famous for being an educator, and he's clearly quite good at it. Who cares if he has no formal training? I reckon he deserves at least a 1.2 on this scale.
And if you were in any doubt before, this lesson is now exemplified by the holder of the highest office in the land and approved by popular vote. The rewards of acting ethically are, unfortunately, sometimes only personal. This must be a hard environment to raise children in, given the examples they see around them.
Why would you suspect that the US pushed their hand on this? This is not out of character at all for the UK.
I would like to try it someday, but I had some really bad trips on dissociative drugs in the past, and I'm worried ketamine will invoke flashbacks.
You people always have an excuse for why your handouts are valid but everyone else is a lazy pile of shit. Literally, every time you guys talk it’s, “laws for thee, but not for me!”
So true. It seems like there is a controlled operation to shut open models down starting with Meta. Obviously they can't go after deepseek atm
https://waymo.com/blog/2024/12/year-in-review-2024

from their blog that GP linked to, which says they gave 4 million rides in 2024, which seems like more than a "science faire side project", whatever that's supposed to mean.
Too many people though love cars. Some cities are banning cars. Of course buses, trains, delivery vehicles still exist.

Wide open places like US and Canada sure but many places are super crowded. Southern China, Lagos Nigeria, Tokyo, Mexico City. They're all implementing trains for a reason. There is just no way for cars to move if packed into a small area with hundreds of thousands of people.
“DOGE chief Musk asks X users if staffer who quit over racist tweets should be rehired” (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasu...)

Musk wants to normalize this kind of racism.
Fun fact: Japan uses BOTH 60Hz and 50Hz for mains electricity due to historical generator purchases. This means the Japanese electric grid is split into two regions that cannot easily share electricity.
> what's to stop Russia or China making them provide data on UK minister's phones, or more likely dissidents in exile?

Realistically: Apple is a US company (with lots of foreign entanglements) with US leaders, and the US and UK are close allies with extradition treaties and the like. I'd expect the US government to put lots of pressure on Apple to prevent it from acting on such requests from Russia or China, and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple execs would get slapped with espionage charges if they didn't head the warnings (especially if they "provide data on UK minister's phones").
Here's the video response from Ross Scott, who is leading the 'Stop Killing Games' campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI2G4xLBVkY

In summary, the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport responded to the petition once it reached 10k signatures. Their response suggests they did not understand the original request. They said they would not pursue a remedy for the issue and pointed those affected by it to the UK Competition and Market Authority. If the petition reaches 100k signatures before July 15, 2025 it will be considered for debate in Parliament.

Here is the actual petition, along with the UK's full response:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/
I know the blog is named 'On Verticality', but I find the horizontal padding to be a bit wasteful. It also stays fixed when zooming in or out.
I love the idea, wanna se where it goes. Gives me the same vibe as when jq came out all those years ago.
that's completely false
It has become painfully clear that HN needs to make flaggers public.

What evidence do you have that this was flagged by 'users'?

Are all of these such posts that are flagged by the same 'user'?

That 'user' could even be dang, sama, pg, musk, or any number of the bots deployed on this forum.
elon has a bunch of young newbs working for him at the treasury department. script kiddies. one of them already resigned because of all his racist tweets[1]. another tweeted something recently asking "are there any LLMs made specifically for parsing things like documents/forms/PDfs/json/html/excel/etc and converting them from one format to another" [2]

oh and can't forget about big balls - https://www.newsweek.com/who-big-balls-teen-doge-engineer-ed...

- [1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/doge_staffer_twitter/

- [2] https://x.com/Quaker_Opes/status/1886596488505053618
I appreciate your "attack at all costs" comment style, but I was just pointing out how irrelevant your condescending "econ 101" comment was. There's no point debating me now about someone else's point; I was just saying they addressed it already.
Show HN: A configuration management system for minimal *Nix environments
I built this thing to scratch my itch for a simpler alternative to Ansible and similar for basic jobs like setting up a dev env, building containers, and provisioning small fleets of servers.

Grateful for feedback on the approach! A couple of friends and I have found it useful for day-to-day automation tasks and I'm wondering if there's enough utility in its ability to target minimal environments like Alpine containers or IoT devices to warrant fleshing out a proper 1.0 release.
Simply answering "no" when that's the truth could be illegal too. The ability to say no creates the ability to say yes as well. If I ask Apple whether they got an order and they say "no", then a year later they say "we cannot confirm nor deny", well then that's a yes.

Kinda depends on judicial interpretations of free speech, but that's how warrant canaries work. Are warrant canaries legal in the UK? They seem to be in the US but idk how well established that is.
Only idiots expects morals from venture capitalists or those that work in companies funded by venture capital.
This is a projection of your inner state onto the word and not the word itself. It truly is a mystery. Like most things.
"Mysterious Radiation Belts Detected Around Earth After Epic Solar Storm"

I'm sure there was a 1950's sci-fi movie based on this premise.
Everything may be explainable, just not by humanity.

How does our biology affect the limits of what we can comprehend?
1/60th of a second isn't a common unit of time though
Yep, welcome to reddit.
No. I'm gonna murder the shit out the next trump fuck that lies to my face with that trademarked shit-eating smile.
If you have a spare few hours, the Acquired podcast episode on Meta is enlightening. They just stumbled through growth hack experiment after experiment without seemingly any risk assessment or ethics.
Asteroid's chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher
> Avoid using * or + in the right part, as it can cause infinite loops

Why not just disallow this? I understand it would make the grammar more difficult to specify - but I don't see any good reason to keep it.
Right, so this is 100% a coup. There is absolutely no denying it at this point.
The training was done by AI. In fact, the intern is also AI.
The low dose lozenges very rarely lead to negative experiences.
If you want to learn a bit more, there was a recent, really good Planet Money episode[1] about this exact same topic. They focus on the problems that you might face when using zip code for demographic analysis.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/1223466587/zip-code-history
True. Interestingly, RFK is the one Trump nominee that I have the least problems with because I agree very strongly with him on big food corps pushing unhealthy garbage on society -- there seems to be very little political will to solve the problem of unhealthy food especially by those who can't afford healthy food (which is expensive!). And then we wonder why we're so unhealthy as a society.
I seem to recall a lot of expectation that Trump would usher in the era of post-neoliberalism and we would be focusing more on improving the lives of everyday Americans and not fighting foreign wars.

But then it seems like there’s a lot of talk of violence and sort of neo-colonialism lately. What’s the dissonance, did I miss this in the zeitgeist or campaigning of the last few years?
Lots of rest. By the time it starts to hurt its too late. Take lots of rest.

By that I mean take a week or two off work. No devices at all, no similar movements.

You can either nip it in the bud or you'll just end up having to do this anyway if it gets bad.

If I could go back and tell myself not to have ignored it and played on my ps4 I'd be much better off.
Several of those things aren't even necessarily illegal and are the sort of things they shouldn't have had have any reason to do unless they were being targeted by a media campaign or captured government. There is also some dispute about whether some of those even happened or are just mischaracterizations from the media campaign.

It's like saying "well, they weren't only violating the taxi medallion cartel laws, they were also violating laws against evading enforcement of the taxi medallion cartel laws". There is a central cause here.
YC lost its hacker ethos over ten years ago. That ship has sailed, unfortunately.
"Character matters."

https://x.com/dflieb/status/1851656958371057890 | https://archive.today/1QW1a
Every neighborhood is a car-free neighborhood if you’re rich enough, poor enough, or determined enough.

Source: Me, determined enough.
It definitely benefits Elon because it hurts his competitors, who are just getting into the game and trying to catch up.
I'd say it's feedback/reward loop plus small, quick to achieve, progressive goal setting.
Treaties Lost in Translation
Gustav, thanks for giving us Pikuma.