MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grakasja | 2025-04-11 01:13:14+00:00
The old Marxists would say it's because Russia doesn't have an empire (outside the meager pickings of own immediate periphery) providing a trading network, access to cheap foreign labor and resources etc. as a buffer to its own domestic economy. Not sure how statistically verifiable that is, since the classical Marxian economic model doesn't seem to apply cleanly to the modern US or China.

Random anecdote, Russians arguably produce the world's best gaming mods. Their unpaid amateur programmers put out content that rivals or exceeds the quality of Western games, if you like doomer-y 90s vibes. An example would be Fonline 2236 (some Russian guy hacked Fallout 1 and 2 into a free, working MMO) or the Skyrim mod for DayZ, which I think is dead now and I needed a translator app to play before the current war started but was the best online RPG experience I've had since Ultima Online.
by perrygeo | 2025-04-11 01:13:20+00:00
You sound very certain of yourself. Yet you cite no evidence at all except your gut feeling. Let's review these so-called "poorly considered claims":

(2014) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24845118/

"Evidence suggests that alterations in mitochondrial morphology, brain energy metabolism, and mitochondrial enzyme activity may be involved in the pathophysiology of different neuropsychiatric disorders"

(2021) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8291901/

"we provide a focused narrative review of the currently available evidence supporting the involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction in mood disorders"

(2022) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36181925/

"Increasing experimental evidence supports a role for mitochondrial dysfunctions in neuropsychiatric disorders. "

(2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...

"We summarize the existing literature on mitochondrial dynamics perturbations in psychiatric disorders/neuropsychiatric phenotypes"

While psychology today ain't a scientific journal, they provide an excellent summary, providing that evidence is both widespread and well known. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-therapy-center/2...

Dr. Chris Palmer's book "Brain Energy" is a good introduction to the body of research. Dozens of pages of citations, you can judge for yourself how well-considered they are. - "Mitochondrial dysfunction has been found in a wide range of diagnoses that include pretty much every symptom found in psychiatry".

"Pretty much every symptom" is not going hard enough. There has yet to be a single psychiatric symptom that isn't theoretically and empirically linked to metabolic dysfunction. The only symptoms he left out were the ones which have no published research!

And finally, just this week Forbes had a feature about it. Again, not a sci journal but there's enough interest to name it the "quiet revolution underway in psychiatry". https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessepines/2025/04/05/could-mit...

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Do you still feel that the metabolic theory of mental illness is an unbelievable claim, poorly considered?

It may not be THE only answer. But at the very least, this theory is well supported with decades of research and deserves serious consideration.
by surge | 2025-04-11 01:14:03+00:00
I remember when this happened, it was in the news then, except the conversation was everyone in SV was doing it, including Google. They decided not to. We don't convict for thinking about robbing a bank, you actually have to attempt it and nothing being discussed was explicitly illegal, merely unethical by some arguments, but then again, NSA has several listening posts at AT&T hubs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A), and Apple is building backdoors for iCloud in the UK, its the cost of doing business in western countries, that ethically its simply complying with local laws at that point, just degrees of magnitude.
by m463 | 2025-04-11 01:15:21+00:00
I've been to a few ripley's believe it or not museums. A little touristy, but it seems like a pro/commercial-level mismash.

Things I remember:

- a picture of Bill Clinton painted in hamburger grease.

- a "roller toilet seat" to prevent people from standing on the seat.

- an image of steve jobs made entirely of black and white keyboard keys (pc keyboards lol)
by anyfoo | 2025-04-11 01:15:54+00:00
That may or may not be the case, but either way it's still valid to criticize that approach, in favor of a more nuanced and potentially more effective one.

Like, maybe that's the show the creators wanted to make. I'm not certain about that, but it's a valid premise. But then maybe I would prefer if the show was a bit different regardless of that. That's always allowed.
by mcdeltat | 2025-04-11 01:16:03+00:00
Could someone explain more why this should be a language feature?

My understanding of template strings is they are like f-strings but don't do the interpolation bit. The name binding is there but the values are not formatted into the string yet. So effectively this provides a "hook" into the stringification of the interpolated values, right?

If so, this seems like a very narrow feature to bake into the language... Personally, I haven't had issues with introducing some abstraction like functions or custom types to do custom interpolation.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-04-11 01:17:17+00:00
As another commenter observed, having to trust a decompiler doesn't reduce the amount of trust you need to provide, it increases it. Reducing the amount of trust is our high-level goal, remember?

But let's not focus too hard on the logic side of your argument. The part that really convinced everyone that you're right was your opening statement, "Not a programmer, are you?". From that moment it was clear that you were taking the discussion to a higher plane, far above boring everyday logic.

Like a superhero, really. At least, that's how I picture you.
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-11 01:17:26+00:00
This is why you don't kneel to dictators. The only reason this has gotten so far is because people think they will give an inch and Trump won't try to take a mile. Do not forget that actual white supremacist are in high ranking positions of the US govt. "Antisemitism" is just a Trojan horse they use to justify their power grabs. They do not care about antisemitism.
by fuhsnn | 2025-04-11 01:17:42+00:00
> Anyway, so your means of forming trust in a compiler faithfully compiling code, is to trust a decompiler to faithfully generate human readable source code

No, it is to fully audit the binary of a compiler itself, if you don't trust a decompiler, learn to read machine code, the output from a simple C compiler tend to pretty predictable.

> manual review labor repeated by every user that wishes to distrust the maintainers.

Yes? What's wrong with that? Anyone wishes to distrust, you give them the tools and knowledge to verify the process, the more people able to do this the better.
by NoTeslaThrow | 2025-04-11 01:18:15+00:00
> Yes, it can cite sources, just like any other major LLM service out there.

Let's see an example:

Ask if america was ever a democracy and tell us what it uses as sources to evaluate its ability to function. Language really shows its true colors when you commit to floating signifiers.

I asked gemini "was america ever a democracy"? And it confidently responded "While the ideal of democracy has always been a guiding principle in the United States", which is a blatant lie, and provided no sources. The next prompt, "was america every a democracy? Please cite sources" gives a mealy-mouthed reply hedging on the definition of democracy... which it refuses to cite. If I ask it "will america ever be democratic" it just vomits up excuses about democracy being a principal and not measurable. With no sources. Etc. this is not a useful tool for things humans already do well. This is a PR megaphone with little utility outside of shitty copy editing.
by tzs | 2025-04-11 01:19:56+00:00
Except after he came out with the "insane higher tariffs that will ruin the economy" and then did the "go back to a lower level and capitulate" that was mostly for smaller trading partners.

At the same time he massively raised tariffs on China, and since the US imports so much from there the net result is the total tariffs on imports in the US after the "go back" step will be higher than if he had stuck with the "insane higher tariffs that will ruin the economy".
by coredog64 | 2025-04-11 01:20:01+00:00
Not to mention that I can: - Create a bucket and store 1MB in it without any overhead - Create 50 buckets with strong perimeters around them such that someone deleting the entire account doesn’t bring down the other 49 - Create a bucket and fill it with terabytes of data within seconds and don’t need to wait for hardware to be racked and stacked - Create a bucket, fill it with 2TB of data, and delete it tomorrow

Cloud is more than bare metal, but plenty of folks discount the cost benefits of elasticity.
by jdlshore | 2025-04-11 01:20:52+00:00
You’re confusing the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive. (And maybe getting that wrong too. I’ve read the GDPR but not the ePrivacy directive. Oh, and IANAL.)

The GDPR doesn’t require consent for cookies. What it requires is a lawful basis for tracking people’s personal information. Most of those lawful bases don’t require consent either.

The only time the GDPR requires consent is when somebody wants to collect your personal information and they don’t have a good reason to do so. Then they have to ask, they have to make it easy for you to decline, and they have to make it easy for you to withdraw your consent later. They also can’t withhold anything from you if you decline. They can’t charge more for their services, block it from your access, etc.

That’s what the GDPR has to say about consent. Nothing to do with those cookie banners, which are the result of scummy companies doing scummy things.
by alisonatwork | 2025-04-11 01:21:03+00:00
Emoji selector is fast and works perfectly fine over SSH, it's no different to any other input method that needs to use characters beyond 7-bit ASCII.

grep is a bit more iffy. UNIX command line tools seem to be a bit of a crapshoot in how or if they support Unicode, especially if you switch between different systems like Linux, BSD, Cygwin etc. You might need a bit of experimenting with the LANG variable to get it work (e.g. Git Bash on Windows needs LANG=C.UTF16 to match an emoji). I've also had cases where grep or sed works, but awk doesn't, or vice versa. On the whole it works a lot better nowadays than it used to, though, and that's a win for non-English users of the command line as well as emoji fans.
by pablopeniche | 2025-04-11 01:21:05+00:00
>it seems to be even faster >runs locally

This is obviously a lie. If this was true, all the inference provider companies would go to zero. I support open-source as much as the next guy here, but it's obvious that the local version will be slower or break more often. Like, come on guys. Be real.

To illustrate this, M4 Max chips do 38 TOPS in FP8. An NVIDIA H100 does 4,000 TOPS.

Prakash if you're going to bot our replies, at least make it believable.
Tried to Cancel Adobe. Got Ghosted. Now I Owe $500
by lovegrenoble | 2025-04-11 01:21:18+00:00
Adobe raised my subscription mid contract by almost $30/month, then told me it’d cost $500 to cancel. So naturally, I entered the customer support hunger games. I open the chat, pour my soul out and mid sentence they just vanish. Every. Single. Time. No goodbye. No “we value your feedback.” Just a soft digital fart and an empty chat box. I’m not even mad anymore, I’m impressed. I’ve never been held hostage by an app before.

So yeah, I bought Affinity and DaVinci like a recently divorced dad getting into cycling. I’m free now. I export TIFFs recreationally. I sleep with one eye open in case Creative Cloud tries to update in my dreams.

Adobe doesn’t sell software, they sell trauma.

https://old.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1jvv14h/tried_to_cancel_adobe_got_ghosted_now_i_owe_500/
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-04-11 01:21:30+00:00
Words to know:

Anocracy - Imitation democracy

Kakistocracy - Least fit rulers

Kleptocracy - Thieving rulers

Kratocracy - Government by the strong

Neocracy - Government by amateurs

Ochlocracy - Mob rule

Plutocracy - Rule by the rich, subset of oligarchy
by thorum | 2025-04-11 01:24:00+00:00
They're listing the use cases where a 10-20% hallucination rate isn't a big deal. They can't advertise the truly useful applications of the tech because it's not reliable enough (yet).

But they can make it more reliable over time by deploying the product now and training on user data:

> Google collects your chats (including recordings of your Gemini Live interactions), what you share with Gemini Apps (like files, images, and screens), related product usage information, your feedback, and info about your location. (...)

> Google uses this data, consistent with our Privacy Policy, to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine-learning technologies, including Google’s enterprise products such as Google Cloud.

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-11 01:25:16+00:00
I 'vouched' for your comment because the actual content doesn't seem out of place to me. My guess is that users flagged it solely because it was all lowercase, and informal (the last part, that is).

HN has Reddit-anxiety: people here want to avoid comments that are too casual, jokey, meme-y, 'meta', etc. Anyhow, welcome!
by lolinder | 2025-04-11 01:25:20+00:00
Every conversation about art runs into this problem: you can't criticize art without someone saying that the critic simply doesn't understand the art. Maybe in some cases this is true, but I don't think that's what's happening here. It seems pretty clear that OP understands Black Mirror's point perfectly and still thinks that unrelenting pessimism devoid of nuance is a bad point—they understand what the art is saying and don't like it.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-11 01:25:42+00:00
That “long time” is a blip on the historical timeline. Most of history is people expecting things to basically stay the same or to get worse.

We’re talking a few decades at a time in a few places scattered over a couple hundred years, maybe, if we mean the median person in that time and place.

The 20th century got a big optimism and productivity boost from finally all but ending cyclical famines, antibiotics, and vaccines, and most of the stuff since has been of far smaller consequence. We’re coming down off the brief high of Haber-Bosch and penicillin, and haven’t found another fix yet. Computers and the Internet ain’t it, so far.
by jcalx | 2025-04-11 01:27:05+00:00
Reminds me of this article from two years ago [0] and my HN comment on it. Yet another AI startup on the general trajectory of:

1) Someone runs into an interesting problem that can potentially be solved with ML/AI. They try to solve it for themselves.

2) "Hey! The model is kind of working. It's useful enough that I bet other people would pay for it."

3) They launch a paid API, SaaS startup, etc. and get a few paying customers.

4) Turns out their ML/AI method doesn't generalize so well. Reputation is everything at this level, so they hire some human workers to catch and fix the edge cases that end up badly. They tell themselves that they can also use it to train and improve the model.

5) Uh-oh, the model is underperforming, and the human worker pipeline is now some significant part of the full workflow.

6) Then someone writes an article about them using cheap human labor.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37405450
by gnabgib | 2025-04-11 01:27:07+00:00
That's not the title, and it's misleading (it's a UI toolkit for go). Popular in:

2022 (181 points, 110 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785556

2021 (43 points, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691156

Last I tried it wasn't ready for production (used Wails[0] instead).

[0]: https://wails.io/
by anyfoo | 2025-04-11 01:27:10+00:00
Hmm. One thing I have noticed, and something that I discuss with my wife relatively frequently (she notices it as well), is that when I engage with "new" people in something like a professional context, the initial contact indeed often starts as "rough", not rarely unfriendly, even. And that's not just the first sentence, it's through the first few minutes or so.

But when I persist in being nice, and having an "I know you're just doing your job attitude", and depending on the situation also an "I know my problem is convoluted" attitude, then more often than not, people suddenly switch to being nice. Depending on what's appropriate, I add in that I'm not in a rush, or signal for unpleasant situations on my side that I understand that it's not the fault of the person I'm talking to (I rarely, if ever, explicitly state that one, it's just clear).

Just recently I've even had it that several people then suddenly went out of their way to help me, for example giving me "private" extensions to people who should definitely be able to help me, despite that very explicitly not the procedure they or I am supposed to follow.

I always put it down to: People with more public facing jobs have to deal with a lot of angry, dumb, and/or generally unpleasant people, and when they sense that they are now facing someone who is understanding, cooperative, and wants nothing more than for both sides to resolve an issue in a mutually friendly way, but that also understands the limitations of their positions, they jump at that opportunity.

So in some sense, this strengthens your point: Society is full of badly acting (I'm explicitly not saying "bad") people, and this fosters the initial rough response of people in public facing positions.

But on the other hand, my relative success in "turning" people to be friendly and helpful in an instant, suggests that often, people are not like that at their core, but rather are inherently friendly and helpful and have just adopted a defense mechanism.

We have an expression in Germany: "How you shout into the forest, is how it sounds back."
by ryandrake | 2025-04-11 01:27:42+00:00
Without looking at his profile, my guess is: Guy is probably an Ivy Leaguer, or at least has an MBA from a prestigious school, rubs elbows with the "right" crowd, networks with the "right" sorts of folks, looks the part, talks the part, and is a smooth charmer. These guys put all their skill points into Charisma during character creation, and just ride that magic carpet to riches. Investors, when faced with these bullshitters, can't help themselves. As Mulder put it, I Want To Believe!
by rottc0dd | 2025-04-11 01:27:49+00:00
It's not necessary for a work of fiction to focus on diverse and realistic characters, particularly when its primary aim is to critique a specific aspect of technology. In such cases, characters often function as just means to highlight and amplify that central theme.

Take 1984. It reads like a thought experiment reflecting the author's deepest fears about the dangers of unchecked power structures. Allegedly, Orwell’s own son would have been around 40 years old in the year 1984 (I read so in Pynchon's introduction to this book in Penguin's edition. It was a great essay.)

But, 1984 also features a great protagonist and an absolutely haunting language. While many of the other characters mainly serve to convey the broader ideas, it’s him who grounds the story emotionally. His suffering, his moral collapse, and the eventual loss of his ability was so tough to read and will forever haunt me. When he breaks, it feels like a loss for all of humanity. But, what I mean is characters are not essential to make a great work. When Orwell wants to convey his ideas, the characters are sidelined and ideas take the front wheel.

I understand your perspective. I'm not a fan of many of the episodes either. I really liked the first season, but the ones that followed just didn’t live up to it. And it does not rise above a horror centered around some particular technology. But, it's them give it cultural relevance.
by yoru-sulfur | 2025-04-11 01:28:14+00:00
It reminds me of javascripts template literals (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) and .nets FormattableString (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.formatta...)

The best use case I know of for these kinds of things is as a way to prevent sql injection. SQL injection is a really annoying attack because the "obvious" way to insert dynamic data into your queries is exactly the wrong way. With a template string you can present a nice API for your sql library where you just pass it "a string" but it can decompose that string into query and arguments for proper parameterization itself without the caller having to think about it.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-11 01:28:22+00:00
Mechanical Turk exists because there is a line below which people are cheaper, even for massively parallel tasks.

If the LLM really costs less for the level of tasks that are paid for in MT right now, there sure would be a brief arbitrage period followed by the reajusting of that line I assume (of just MT shutting down if it doesn't make sense anymore)
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-04-11 01:28:22+00:00
Oh, OK. Well I don't call that a grifter, just an ordinary, garden variety, techie. Many (not all) do that; actively seek funding from militaries for their work.

E.g., just this week MS fired two people for protesting the use of Azure to power the Palestinian Genocide [1].

When people talk about the military-industrial complex, what they really should be talking about is the military-FAANG complex. AI and military intelligence are both the same sad joke.

Lenat was no different in that, so I don't think it's fair to call him a grifter. I do think it's fair to call him out on being an asshole who put money above peoples' lives.

Btw, I've released some of my free stuff under a modified GNU 3.0 with an added clause that prohibits its use for military applications. I've been told that makes it "non-free" and it seems that's a bad thing. Lenat is only one nerd in a long line of nerds that need to think very hard about the ethics of their work.

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[1] https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-protest-employees-fired...

They were protesting about this:

https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-c...
by xeromal | 2025-04-11 01:28:29+00:00
Someone posted a link in response to you, but no money actually crosses borders.

I think the best way to explain it is an example.

My contact needs to get money to his family across the world. I happen to have a cousin that I love and trust who lives there and runs a gas station. My contact gives me 10k USD + a fee and then I call my cousin and tell him to give 10k to the contact's family member if they give the right password. At the end of the year, I meet up with my cousin and I bring him some gold or other goods depending on what our deficits are to each other.
by LeFantome | 2025-04-11 01:29:27+00:00
LLVM/Clang is evolving more quickly than and is a much richer base for innovation than GCC is. LLVM spawned Rust, Swift, and Zig. The most recent GCC languages are Spark and COBOL.

One of the reasons that LLVM has been able to evolve so quickly is because of all the corporate contribution it gets.

GCC users want Clang/LLVM users to know how dumb they are for taking advantage of all the voluntary corporate investment in Clang/LLVM because, if you just used GCC instead, corporate contributions would be involuntary.

The GPL teaches us that we are not really free unless we have taken choice away from the developers and contributors who provide the code we use. This is the “fifth freedom”.

The “four freedoms” that the Free Software Foundation talks about are all provided by MIT and BSD. Those only represent “partial freedom”.

Only the GPL makes you “fully free” by providing the “fifth freedom”—-freedom to claim ownership over code other people will write in the future.

Sure, the “other people” are less free. But that is the price that needs to be paid for our freedom. Proper freedom (“full freedom”) is always rooted in the subjugation of others.