MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-04-17 20:13:14+00:00
Just because you can make up multiple straw men doesn't mean that I have to believe at least one of them.

The point is that the entire framing is backwards - treating "American elites" (and "spots at Harvard", for that matter) as some fixed quantity to be preserved. It ignores the overarching soft power dynamic of foreign students going back to their home country while remaining with some cultural ties to the US.

If foreign students want to then settle here and start climbing the US culture ladder to perhaps become part of "America's elites", that's a whole new process! And shamelessly professing aspects of their culture that go against American values will prevent them from climbing. Or at least I guess that was the case before they could find validation in the regressive anti-American maggot club.
by sebastiennight | 2025-04-17 20:13:20+00:00
> To your first point, conceded on further review, but it is unwise to host this on your corporate Github account. I would take it as a sign of good faith to see that change soon, which seems a trivial burden since personal hosting for Github Pages is also free.

It's not a "corporate GitHub account", it's a throwaway github account I created a while ago because some app required a GitHub login to give me access. I have zero other repos there, are my company uses GitLab.

> I appreciate you believe yourself to have acted in good faith, and on further review I concede I made some hasty assumptions, based on the nature of your own representations, about the nature of this work, which led me to conclude more than appears to be warranted in fact.

No worries, everyone can be mistaken from time to time, especially in a written medium.

> I know of no Tiktok thread, but infer from your mention of same I am not the only one who has reacted in a fashion which some could see fit to consider precipitous.

You replied to me just earlier today, on a thread called "TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale" where I made a cheeky comment about AI-generated YouTube content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718657

As an aside, I believe that AI should be used to enhance creation not replace it, which is why I built a video-editing agent (to help my customers who are experts or teachers who record themselves in real videos) and why we don't do avatar-style generative video.

So I have some strong opinions about AI content (that are vastly different from other founders in the space) and enjoy debate about it. Threatening legal action might not be the most constructive tool for debate when you could find out that you're mostly in agreement with your counterpart's position... this is one of the things HN is good for.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-17 20:13:57+00:00
The founder of Gumroad works inside DOGE now. One of the founders of AirBNB works inside DOGE now. Musk founded DOGE. Peter Thiel's Palantir is generating the information for ICE now.

https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-de...

David Sacks is the country's official Crypto czar now.

Chamath Palihapitiya brags that he's happy that his money can now buy access/influence /power. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-do...
by fragmede | 2025-04-17 20:14:15+00:00
In today's world, if Meta did release full source they used to create Llama, there are only about a dozen institutions that have the capacity to actually do anything with that, and no one has that kind of spare capacity just lying around. So the question of having the source for now in this case is less about being able to do something with it, and more about behind able to examine what's going into it. Aside from making it so it won't tell me how to make cocaine or bombs, what other directives has it been programmed with on top of the intial training run. That's what's important here, so I disagree that is a red herring. Both aspects are important here, but the most important one is to not let Mark Zuckerberg co-opt the term Open Source when it's only model available, and definitely not even actually Open at that.
by wormlord | 2025-04-17 20:14:43+00:00
> Are you expecting a perfect system that would never even accost an innocent man? Or do you suggest we just give up and eliminate all such enforcement?

Eliminate all enforcement.

You realize that it is (or was) legal to walk into the United States and claim asylum. At that point you have a legal right to reside until the US immigration system decides you need to leave. The alternative is Visa expirations.

The US labor system is designed so that asylum seekers and people on expired Visa's exist in limbo, so that this exact kind of violent force can be used against them to create a hyper-exploited labor class.

The solution is either 1. Close up the border entirely (inhumane and also not beneficial to capitalists) 2. Actually process immigrants instead of keeping them in limbo.

The US benefits from the ambiguity and terror it can inflict on your fellow human beings. I personally don't give a fuck about the law, so that's my bias, but I find it absurd that there are people who still believe that there is some legal basis to be followed, when this administration has already dropped habeas corpus. You value the rules created by the rich and powerful (your class enemies) more than the lives of your fellow humans-- you are truly a fool and I hope you can wake up soon.
by afavour | 2025-04-17 20:14:44+00:00
I’m sorry, this perspective is absurd. I’m talking about a web site that shows ads. You’re suggesting they pivot to running off billboards? To creating TV shows?

> What’s next, Burger King is a monopoly?

I think this just illustrates that you’re not grasping the concept. Of course Burger King isn’t a monopoly. With my car when looking for a drive through dining experience I can go to McDonalds. Or Wendy’s. Or whatever. When operating a small to medium size web site that depends on advertising for revenue the viable alternatives to Google essentially don’t exist.
by collingreen | 2025-04-17 20:15:00+00:00
I feel like the standard Apple response is "if it isn't working correctly you just aren't using it right"

I still regularly experience a bug where my mac sends sound to speakers instead of a plugged in headphone jack after waking up from sleep. 10 years ago when I first looked into it the official Apple response was "that's not possible with the hardware" and we haven't made any progress since. Gaslighting as a service I guess.

Luckily I can just unplug and plug back in. Maybe they can bring the great Apple minds together to make my iPhone stop blasting an alarm in my ear at regular volume if I happen to be talking on the phone when it goes off (issue since my very first iPhone 3).
by xbmcuser | 2025-04-17 20:15:09+00:00
I had similar experiences few months back that is why I am saying it is becoming shockingly good the 2.5 is a lot better than the 2.0 version. Another thing I have realized just like google search in the past your query has a lot to do with the results you get. So an example of what you want works at getting better results
What Shopify got wrong – and how we're unbundling it
by ovief72 | 2025-04-17 20:15:47+00:00
I’ve been obsessed with how traditional businesses in Africa and beyond are still stuck on Instagram, WhatsApp, and walk-ins — not because they don’t want to grow, but because today’s platforms don’t speak their language.

Platforms like Shopify, Wix, and Bubble are too horizontal. They require too much thinking, design, configuration. The next wave? Hyper-vertical platforms that "think" for the user.

Imagine:

A platform just for spare part dealers — with inventory categories built-in.

A platform just for mobile barbers — with preloaded service menus and booking calendars.

A platform just for tailors — with customer measurement tracking and fitting reminders.

That’s what we’re building: the unbundling of Shopify, into verticalized, plug-and-play platforms for real businesses around the world.

We’re starting in Africa — where this leap can have a generational impact.

I'd love feedback on:

Best vertical to start with

How to balance UX simplicity with extensibility

Building a scalable engine for multiple verticals

AMA — and brutally honest feedback welcome.
by stickfigure | 2025-04-17 20:15:59+00:00
Yes, I make my kid wear a helmet. I make sure his bindings are set properly. I make sure he's dressed warmly. I make sure he's fed and hydrated.

I am the parent. The ski resort provides the mountain, the snow, and the lifts.

He's a bit too young to be interested in taking pictures of his wang but I'd like to think this is a topic I can handle. Teaching him to navigate a dangerous world is sort of my job. I'm not losing sleep over it.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-17 20:16:06+00:00
> This has allowed various Presidents to use one of the active AUMFs to justify actions, but for those who don't know or pay attention to the details it seems like the President is going around Congress.

That is going around congress. It's not breaking the letter of the law, but authorizations not having a time limit is a mistake, and the involvement of congress is supposed to be needed for that kind of action.
by krashidov | 2025-04-17 20:16:27+00:00
>Alcohol exists

And is taxed to minimize consumption, and recoup losses from negative externalities

> gambling exists

Yes and is banned or highly regulated in many counties. It is also age restricted.

>cigarettes exist

same as alcohol

> cars can drive fast, and yet because I have self control and good judgement

Cars today are much safer than they were in the 50s because many many people have died leading to regulations. It's difficult to create a car for the American market because of how many specific American safety regulations there are.

Traveling by car is probably one of the most regulated things we do. There are speed bumps, cops, speed cameras, red light cameras etc. It's not like it's the wild west out there.

>and yet because I have self control and good judgement, I haven’t allowed any of those things to get a hold over me either

Congratulations? Because you are perfect I guess we can just assume everyone else is and should be as well?

I am not saying the government should tell you what you can or can't do with your phone. I'm saying the government should do something against very large private corporations hacking the dopamine loop on individuals. This could be an engagement tax. This could be just pausing scrolling every 30 minutes for 30 seconds. I know it's a slippery slope. They say television killed the neighbor in the 60s. We have a chance to not repeat the same mistakes of the past.

> And even if you did, can you really trust our technophobic corrupt out-of-touch lawmakers to get such regulation right?

If we are voting in "technophobic corrupt out-of-touch lawmakers" then that seems to be a bigger problem. Why are we voting these people in? Lawmakers are representatives of the people. Not everything they do is dumb. America has done pretty well so they must've done something right in the last 250 years.

I'm very much in the pro liberty, pro individual camp, but there is no developed country on earth that has 0 regulation. It is in the nation's best interest to not have a major part of the populace have 6-7 hours of their day sucked by TikTok, Youtube, and Instagram. 6-7 hours a day on the phone probably the norm for children. Children are actually losing their ability to read from this [1].

There are movements to ban phones in schools, which I wholeheartedly agree with. Do you think we should not ban phones in schools because you have "self control and good judgement" therefore children in schools should simply have "self control and good judgement?"

1 - https://substack.com/home/post/p-139758866
by jniles | 2025-04-17 20:16:33+00:00
I am curious how you are suffering from not having a "white celebratation". I understand why there might want to be a protected space for certain groups that, up until recently, were systematically treated harmfully. Whites don't fall into that category. So, I don't understand how it harms you that you cannot have a white party. Can you explain what harms you suffer?
by porridgeraisin | 2025-04-17 20:16:59+00:00
I'm on the other side of the divide from you.

However, mine and many other folks' position is not preferring untargeted intrusive annoying ads over targeted intrusive annoying ads. It's preferring almost zero ads with maybe the rare, non intrusive easily avoidable ad on certain appropriate websites[1]. That is why we aggressively use ad blockers and go to great lengths to avoid the status quo.

[1] a shopping website having a _single_ banner on the home page announcing an ongoing sale for HP laptops is OK. However, if I search for lenovo laptops and I see a HP laptop as the first "sponsored" result....(Looking at you amazon).

And about tracking, I absolutely don't want my librarian running to my travel agent telling him I recently looked up france travel guides. The digital equivalent of this happens daily to everybody. It's simply a no-no for me, there can never be a justification for it.

The fact is that if you ban these two classes of practices, the whole of ad tech comes crashing down. I hope everyday for this to happen.
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 20:17:04+00:00
Oh, that Tiktok thread, of course. Sorry, I inferred from your mention in the context here that you were hearing about someone else complaining on Tiktok, on similar grounds to mine.

I threatened legal action when I believed you to be creating an unlicensed derivative work of my carefully considered original words, for the commercial purpose of promoting your business which I see functions in a way technically somewhat similar. I now understand that not to be the case, and for the sake of absolute clarity, I acknowledge that the cause for action I initially suspected is not in fact present, nor any other of which I'm aware, and I intend no further action of the sort I earlier described.

Sorry to blow you up over it. The folks who understand me to be "unhinged" don't know what it actually looks like to see someone care about something in a way that requires courage, and I don't blame them for failing to recognize it, but I'm not so small a person I can't concede I overreacted somewhat here.

That said, my voice - the way I use words, in text and in speech - has been the work of a lifetime, and to see that processed into AI-generated garbage may possibly be nothing I can eventually prevent but certainly is nothing I would intend to take lying down.

I'm sure someone here will take these words as reason to use your tool to generate something they can try to bother me with, and I hereby disclaim any intent of pursuing action against you, Sébastien, or OneTake, on that basis, unless I come to believe at some future time that you were substantially involved. (I'm sure I won't!) I don't expect to be particularly bothered in such event, but do intend to see someone else be, and I would advise anyone against the attempt.

I'm glad we had the opportunity to clear that up, and I look forward to following your further doings with the same favorable interest that's attended on our other conversation, and I hope now to some extent for both of us even at the end of this one, today.
by maronato | 2025-04-17 20:17:14+00:00
On the few times I've used Cursor or Claude Code for tasks beyond simple tests or features, I found myself spending more time correcting their errors than if I had written the code from scratch.

I like Cursor and use it daily, but none of its models are even close to being able to take nontrivial work. Besides, it quickly gets expensive if you’re using the smarter models.

IMO these AI tools will become to software engineers what CAD is to mechanical and civil engineers. Can they work without it? Sure, but why would they?
by aylmao | 2025-04-17 20:17:24+00:00
> “Think it would be interesting to investigate how healthy Snapstreak sessions are for users… If I open Snapchat, take a photo of the ceiling to keep my streak going and don’t engage with the rest of the app, is that the type of behavior we want to encourage? Alternatively, if we find that streaks are addictive or a gateway to already deep engagement with other parts of Snapchat, then it would be something positive for “healthy” long term retention and engagement with the product.”

For I second I thought this employee was talking about what's healthy for the user. Certainly not though; they mean what's healthy for the "user-base". I find very interesting how this sort of language leads to certain employee behaviour. Using the concept of "health" to mean retention and engagement, might overcast thinking about health from a user's perspective— it's similar terminology but very different, and sometimes even opposite, goals.
by kgwgk | 2025-04-17 20:17:37+00:00
> There is no mention of information or communication theory anywhere in his 1927 paper or 1932 book. Young Von Nuemann was doing real physics extending and updating Gibb's entropy.

We agree then! John von Neumann’s work on entropy was about physics, not about communication theory. S(p)=Tr(p ln(p)) is physics. If you still claim that he “was extending Shannon's information theoretic entropy to quantum channels” at some point could you maybe give a reference?

> Formal similarity with Shannon's entropy is superfluous and conveys no new information about any system, quantum or otherwise

What I still don’t understand is your fixation with that.

“Entropy can't be a measure of uncertainty, because all the uncertainty is in the probability distribution p(x)” makes zero sense given that the entropy is a property of the probability distribution. (Any measure of “all the uncertainty” which is “in the probability distribution p(x)” will be a property of p(x). The entropy checks that box so why can’t it be a measure of uncertainty?)

It is a measure of the uncertainty in the probability distribution that describes a physical system in statistical mechanics. It is a measure of the lack of knowledge about the system. For a quantum system, von Neumann’s entropy becomes zero when the density matrix corresponds to a pure state and there is nothing left to know.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-04-17 20:17:38+00:00
Hey nice! We have similar interests. I built something similar, but with way less calculator functionality than you did :D

But the main idea I was going for was real-time JIT evaluation with rendered errors (specifically learning / using cranelift JIT) - less to do with the calculator aspect.

I ended up choosing miette for errors.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/basic-treesitter-cranelift-j...
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-17 20:17:54+00:00
With the UK currently battling Apple, Discord has no chance of not getting a lawsuit.

Ofcom is a serious contender in ruling their rules especially where Discord is multi-national that even "normies" know and use.

And if they got a slap of "we will let you off this time" they would still have to create some sort of verification service to please the next time.

You might as well piss off your consumers, loose them whatever and still hold the centre stage than fight the case for not. Nothing is stopping Ofcom from launching another lawsuit there after.

> Is there a market for leaked facial scans?

There's a market for everything. Fake driver licenses with fake pictures have been around for decades, that would be no different.
by m-hodges | 2025-04-17 20:18:20+00:00
2017: U.S. Citizen Held By ICE For 3 Years¹

2019: US-Born Marine Veteran Detained By ICE Was Carrying His US Passport When He Was Arrested²

¹ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...

² https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/us-born-ma...
by cynicalpeace | 2025-04-17 20:18:37+00:00
1. The main transformative aspect of LLMs has been in writing code.

2. LLMs have had less transformative aspects in 2025 than we anticipated back in late 2022.

3. LLMs are unlikely to be very transformative to society, even as their intelligence increases, because intelligence is a minor changemaker in society. Bigger changemakers are motivation, courage, desire, taste, power, sex and hunger.

4. LLMs are unlikely to develop these more important traits because they are trained on text, not evolved in a rigamarole of ecological challenges.
by gtirloni | 2025-04-17 20:18:53+00:00
Here on HN you frequently see technologists using words like savant, genius, magical, etc, to describe the current generation of AI. Now we have vibe coding, etc. To me this is just a continuation of StackOverflow copy/paste where people barely know what they are doing and just hammer the keyboard/mouse until it works. Nothing has really changed at the fundamental level.

So I find your assessment pretty accurate, if only depressing.
by _mlbt | 2025-04-17 20:19:29+00:00
You should unplug more and vary your news diet.

I always feel at my best when I spend some time outside, going for a walk, sitting on my back porch sipping my morning coffee, reading a good book, or getting in a good workout. If you're like most people, you're spending way too much time online and looking at a screen.

It's also important to consume news from a variety of biases and view points. Unfortunately completely unbiased news reporting is very difficult to come by, so the best alternative I've found is to balance things out. There's a lot of news stories that each side suppresses or misleads on to fit their pet agendas. You'll find that a lot of media hype is meant to scare you into continuing to follow their big stories and giving them your eyeballs.

Finally, control what you can control and make your peace with everything else that you can't. Once you come to terms with the fact that nothing is permanent, you can find comfort in that.
by nabilhat | 2025-04-17 20:19:47+00:00
They caught on, but with more appropriate stainless alloys. Columbus has XCr, Reynolds has 931. Either can be brazed, or silver soldered into lugs, or TIG welded. Cinelli does mass production of the bike you're describing, minus the lugs.

304 can't be optimized to a point it'll compete with the vast range of other stainless steels that already exist. Something else will always be more corrosion resistant, or stronger, or tougher. 304 exists on price. It's quick, common, and cheap. This process makes 304 expensive, uncommon, and slower to produce. The proven concept is what's carrying value here.
by abletonlive | 2025-04-17 20:20:13+00:00
How is Snapchat a black mirror episode? Do you think even 10% of Snapchat users are harmed in the ways discussed in this article?

This is like saying we are living in Dune because we have some people in space.

So just because some people are harmed in society suddenly black mirror is not too on-the-nose or unrealistically pessimistic?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-17 20:20:15+00:00
> All this talk about "alignment", when applied to actual sentient beings, is just slavery.

I don't think that's true at all. We routinely talk about how to "align" human beings who aren't slaves. My parents didn't enslave me by raising me to be kind and sharing, nor is my company enslaving me when they try to get me aligned with their business objectives.
by astrange | 2025-04-17 20:20:25+00:00
> That strikes me as an odd opinion. Surely the colorspaces and display technologies that predate HDR had as much dynamic range as they could reasonably squeeze out of the technology at the time.

Some of it was just bad historical decisions. In particular SDR video only uses the values 16-235 instead of 0-255 because of some NTSC compatibility thing I don't quite remember. That's a huge loss!