MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon7000 | 2025-04-01 04:30:11+00:00
I mean I still love going to the theatre for a nice big screen movie. I have a great IMAX theatre nearby, and a lot of local cinemas. There are showings of older films — Lord of the Rings last year, Interstellar in IMAX, etc. People show up for these. “Movie theaters are dead” is definitely a big exaggeration.

But yeah, I’m not gonna pay to watch the average mediocre new movie at the questionable regal/AMC and pay like $40 for refreshments. But I’ll totally go out to see any movie (new or old) which are great experiences and benefit from a huge screen and fantastic audio system.

Theaters have over-indexed on quantity over quality. There are loads of locations with poor projection quality and shitty sound, dozens of screens, and lots of crap movies coming out. Why would people show up for that when they can stream something better at home on a potentially nicer TV?

So yeah, the industry will change a lot, but it probably won’t die.
by GrumpyCat42 | 2025-04-01 04:30:38+00:00
If calling half of your opponents supporters bigots while simultaneously giving the bigots the marketing opportunity of a lifetime isn't a massive campaign problem, then what is? I still see and block people who have "deplorable" in their name eight years later.

He insults christians and veterans, and yet they vote for him overwhelmingly. The rules and issues are obviously different for the left and the right, and whataboutism just doesn't work. Fighting the "fair fight" instead of the actual fight won't end well.
by tacotime | 2025-04-01 04:31:00+00:00
I could imagine a vision-enabled transformer model being useful to create a customizable “reading mode”, that adjusts page layout based on things like user prefs, monitor/window size, ad recognition, visual detail of images, information density of the text, etc.

Maybe in an alternate universe where every user-agent enabled browser had this type of thing enabled by default, most companies would skip site design all together and just publish raw ad copy, info, and images.
by t-writescode | 2025-04-01 04:31:39+00:00
Chiming in, this is exactly how I use LLMs in my yet-to-be-released product. Document reading, parsing, organizing, distilling

Synonym+context finding, rewriting text based on rules, etc.

Works not terribly for that! Sometimes needs a couple passes to get it right; but let it run a few times, put it in the background, and you're off to the races!
by melling | 2025-04-01 04:32:31+00:00
Yeah, everyone knows you wouldn’t run a nyc subway at 300 mph.

Where do you get maglevs ant low speed are less efficient? They are frictionless. Of course, I don’t even care if they are. You know what they’re more efficient than? Cars!

Building medium-speed and high-speed maglevs are part of the solution to getting people out of cars.

They are building them in China. Let’s see how far they get.

China built almost 30,000 miles of HSR before the US finished any.

Maybe maglevs will turn out to be one of those things that just doesn’t work in America but works everywhere else.
by trsohmers | 2025-04-01 04:32:46+00:00
I was put on it in 2015 after an acquaintance of mine that was previously on the list recommended me… I only heard from Forbes a few days before the list came out, they asked me for a photo and asked if I approved the 2 sentence blurb they prepared, and that was it. For years afterwards they would try to get me to come to their events, but I never had any interest, and I assume that was how they made money… but I never paid anything to be on the list or had real interest in being on it, and I don’t think it led to anything other than my technically illiterate parents thinking that it was impressive.
by m463 | 2025-04-01 04:32:54+00:00
I think there are plenty of movies that aren't remake-of-a-copy-of-a-sequel out there. I recall I liked Didi.

I also think a lot of people have a better experience at the movies. The movie gets watched straight through. It isn't abandoned, stopped to get snacks, or text, or take a phone call. If someone keeps falling asleep, you don't rewind 10 times. If the movie starts out too slow or subtle, you keep going instead of scrolling to find another movie. etc.
by willchen | 2025-04-01 04:33:00+00:00
If you like chat interfaces, you might like this open-source tool I built, which is basically a chat UI but it saves you the hassle of copying and pasting files https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad

Basically it's running a chat UI locally on a Git repo and you can reference files like "#foo.py" and then if you want to edit a file, you hit "Apply code" for a markdown code block and then it shows you a code diff so you can review the changes before actually updating the files. I've found this makes it much easier to curb stray edits and keep the LLM edits focused on what you actually care about.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-01 04:34:16+00:00
We also recently went to the Interstellar at the local IMAX. Was dead silent in the audience, even through the credits.

Also watched Nosferatu at ghe IMAX during its opening weekend. Was concerned when I saw the many groups of teenagers clearly going out on a "fright night". But I had no reason to fear, could hear a pin drop during the silent scenes.

So while I highly appreciate that audiences here are well-behaved, I'm not sure that alone is the cause. Because I do feel like the rooms are less filled here too.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-04-01 04:34:34+00:00
Special effects when done right make the movie a lot more watchable. There is a decade-old movie (besides many others), Oblivion, which I can re-watch repeatedly. The effects there seem to have been done with the right purpose and meaning. Of course, there are a lot more but this is the one I remember from my recent re-watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)
by rramadass | 2025-04-01 04:35:20+00:00
It depends on what exactly your program does and equally important, where it is deployed and used. Security is a matter of degree based on context i.e. there are levels of Security. It is not a all or nothing proposition.

If your program is going to be used for some non-critical work internally you don't have to bother much about attack surface/vectors etc. Just use some standard "healthy" compiler options and you are good.

If you would like to know more on this subject, i recommend reading the classic The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities by Mark Dowd et al.
by lelanthran | 2025-04-01 04:35:27+00:00
> If I may ask - how are humans in general different? Very few of us invent new ideas of significance - correct?

Firstly, "very few" still means "a large number of" considering how many of us there are.

Compared to "zero" for LLMs, that's a pretty significant difference.

Secondly, humans have a much larger context window, and it is not clear how LLMs in their current incarnation can catch up.

Thirdly, maybe more of us invent new ideas of significance that the world will just never know. How will you be able to tell if some plumber deep in West Africa comes up with a better way to seal pipes at joins? From what I've seen of people, this sort of "do trivial thing in a new way" happens all the time.
by fezz | 2025-04-01 04:35:55+00:00
When Data/File based workflows started in movies (around 2004), 2-3 copies was the standard from the get go and ideally this was with MD5 checksums (currently xxhash is more common because it's alot faster). LTO backups are also generally part of the copy chains as the 3rd or 4th copy. Before that, duplication with tape was while recording wasn't as common, but it was more common to duplicate after recording. Although you'd have some amount of generation loss depending on the format, not so with recording to multiple decks with the same source video. With film it obviously wasn't possible but original negative (o-neg) was much more cautiously handled. You'd have copies made going to an interpositive for editing and dailies process. Those wouldn't an identical quality so to get a negative copy, you'd be 2 generations of loss. By the time you're seeing a print in a theater, it would be 3 generations. (one->IP->IN->print)
by drellybochelly | 2025-04-01 04:36:12+00:00
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by OuterVale | 2025-04-01 04:36:56+00:00
Absolutely love KOReader. I use it on my Kindle 3 and have moved my parents and brother over to using it on their Kindles as well. You can even install it on relatively new models thanks to the recent WinterBreak gaolbreak.

There was some discussion about it on HN not long ago:

All Kindles can now be jailbroken | 1377 points by lumerina | 2025/02/17 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073969

I found KOReader's Android app a tad buggy, but the experience is wonderful on Kindles. If you've got an old Kindle kicking around, I also wrote up a little thing about bringing them up to speed which mentions KOReader: https://vale.rocks/posts/improving-early-kindles
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-01 04:37:02+00:00
These articles (both positive and negative) are probably popular because it's impossible really to get a rich understanding of what LLMs can do.

So readers want someone to tell them some easy answer.

I have as much as experience using these chatbots as anyone, and I still wouldn't claim to know what they are useless at and what they are great at.

One moment, an LLM will struggle to write a simple state machine. The next, it will write a web app that physically models a snare drum.

Considering the popularity of research papers trying to suss out how these chatbots work, nobody - nobody in 2025, at least - should claim to understand them well.
by lrpe | 2025-04-01 04:38:43+00:00
I've run numerous interactive text adventures through ChatGPT as well, and while it's great at coming up with scenarios and taking the story in surprising directions, it sucks at maintaining a coherent narrative. The stories are fraught with continuity errors. What time of day it is seems to be decided at random, and it frequently forgets things I did or items picked up previously that are important. It also needs to be constantly reminded of rules that I gave it in the initial prompt. Basically, stuff that the article refers to as "maintaining state."

I've become wary of trusting it with any task that takes more than 5-10 prompts to achieve. The more I need to prompt it, the more frequently it hallucinates.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-01 04:38:57+00:00
Agree on Oblivion, also like it a lot and rewatch it from time to time.

Saw The Abyss[1] at the big screen recently, and that too held up very well in terms of special effects, despite being 35 years old and breaking CGI ground when it was released.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss
by neom | 2025-04-01 04:39:00+00:00
Oh, his theory wasn't about video games though, they didn't exist in 1910, it was about the full breadth of human sensorial systems being used in the context of our neurology for a prolonged period of time during high neuroplasticity (0 to 6 was his theory). I haven't really played video games, so I don't know much about them personally.
by bb88 | 2025-04-01 04:40:28+00:00
Or just wait until it comes out on a streamer, and you'll enjoy it just as much with delicious Costco popcorn that costs around 30 cents per microwave packet. You can see if the hubbub about the movie was really worth it.

Oh, and if you want more popcorn, that's another 30 cents.

And you can pause it if you want to use your own private restroom.

And if it's a terrible movie you don't feel guilty if you leave the theater.

Also you can drink beer while watching a movie, if you're into that kinda thing.

Also you don't have to deal with teens on phones texting each other about how good or bad the movie is, or trying to take calls in the middle of the theater.

Or parents with screaming children that didn't want to afford a babysitter.

Or ...

Or ...

There was a time when movies were revered -- back when motion pictures came out, and it was a shared social experience, and people actually cared about it. People dressed up. There were ushers in uniforms.

~20 years ago when I saw one of the matrix sequels in a theater in Chicago, the popcorn was no longer freshly popped. It was stored in plastic trash bags, and then opened and poured out into the popcorn machines. It tasted like the bags it was stored in.
by jjani | 2025-04-01 04:40:38+00:00
> I feel like you underestimate the degree to which AI developers are influenced in just the same ways as everybody else.

I feel like you're overestimating that. I work every day on developing LLM-based products, use them a lot while developing those, and have been doing so since November 2022 (beta release of GPT 3.5). So I should be a prime representative of the demographic you're talking about.

When a new frontier model is released, I run a series of tests, play around with it, and decide whether or not to use it based on that. Anything else would be ridiculously stupid, leaving either cost savings, product quality improvements, or development velocity increases on the table. We're not talking about databases or cloud VMs where there's a big switching cost. It's changing a model string and provider, so frictionless that it's a no-brainer.

We actually have some data that's on my side. Take a look at OpenRouter's model usage statistics. Note how OpenAI mmodels make up a tiny share on there, despite having more general mindshare on social media than all other model providers combined. Their data also shows people are very quick to switch when improvements to price/performance are released.

It's a bit like how vacuum cleaner specialists never use Dysons despite them having the most mindshare and overwhelming marketing budget. Regardless of vacuum cleaner specialists also just being normal people. Even if this one doesn't hold in your region, there's countless of these examples.
by petesergeant | 2025-04-01 04:42:57+00:00
> What we ended up with at the end of the ~2 days was a whole bunch of Python orchestrating 11 different prompts, no cases where the user could directly interact with the LLM, only one case where we re-used context across multiple queries, and a bunch of (basic) RAG to hide game state from the LLM until the user caused it to be revealed through their actions.

Super cool! I'm the author of the article. Send me an email if you ever just wanna chat about this on a call.
by matrix87 | 2025-04-01 04:43:36+00:00
"Moreover, when this non-conceptual, substantial knowledge professes to have sunk the idiosyncrasy of the self in essential being, and to philoso­phize in a true and holy manner, it hides the truth from itself: by spurning measure and definition, instead of being devoted to God, it merely gives free rein both to the contingency of the content within it, and to its own caprice. Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of the divine substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over self­ consciousness and surrendering understanding they become the beloved of God to whom He gives wisdom in sleep; and hence what they in fact receive, and bring to birth in their sleep, is nothing but dreams."

-- Hegel
by daveguy | 2025-04-01 04:43:58+00:00
Agreed. We wouldn't have distributed version control, container environments, profilers, etc without people trying to to make programming better. But those are all based on improving single aspects (better versioning, repeatability, debug, etc).

When the goal is "re-invent programming to make it easier" all you get is a hodgepodge of half-ass solutions like GP said. Enhancing traditional focused workflows seems a lot more interesting to me than "coding assistant".

Hopefully AI tooling will continue to evolve. I don't see how you get around the reliability issues with this iteration of AI (GPT+RLHF+RAG, etc). Transfer learning is still abysmal.
by partomniscient | 2025-04-01 04:45:34+00:00
I can't tell from here, but the fact his version of the story got 'overruled' even though he was there makes me think it had just as much to do with image/future sales. They are trying to sell F-35's to an international market. Any equipment rather than pilot error is a major drawback to potential future sales, thus I think but can't tell, the guy was the sacrifical goat.

The decision making process he went through in those 1-2 minutes with what looked like a cascade failure with no available fallback to visual confirmation due to the whether must have been an extremely intense stressful experience.
by matrix87 | 2025-04-01 04:45:54+00:00
> Most thinkers and ideologues that represent what is rotten in modern society have to thank Hegel.

You just need to jump through a few more hoops to get to the self-consciousness and then you'll see, it all makes sense in hindsight

(like the preface to the phenomenology, this comment will only make sense once you've read the whole damn thing)
by kin | 2025-04-01 04:46:00+00:00
That's fair.

But consider a retailer who has budget to spend with the goal of increasing sales. Here's a study one of the largest affiliate networks did on shopping extensions - https://junction.cj.com/article/cj-demystifies-shopping-brow...

It boils down to making numbers go up. Maybe for you, Honey doesn't do much. But add Honey to the picture, and retailers are seeing an increase in sales and a decrease in cart abandonment. So you choose to partner with a coupon company and pay them commission and for some percentage of users, seeing that popup pushed them over the edge to make the purchase.

In the attribution chain, when you compare an initial referral vs. the coupon app, it's fair to say that the initial referral has more impact. So maybe you want the initial referral to take most or all of the credit. But what about when there's no referral? Doesn't the coupon app deserve to be a part of the chain if it is ultimately driving positive return?
by famahar | 2025-04-01 04:46:26+00:00
I'm one of those weirdos that enjoys going to the theatre and paying that much. For me, going to a movie theatre is a way to be in a space that captures my full attention. It means going to watch a movie with intention, focus, and zero distraction. It feels like a ritual. The journey and build up to the experience is something I can't replicate at home. A change of environment away from my home lets experiences sink in deeper for me.
by defrost | 2025-04-01 04:47:05+00:00
The Guardian US expects to hit $44 million in voluntary reader donations in the U.S. and Canada this year, up 33 percent over last year [..]. These contributions account for more than 60 percent of the American operation’s total revenue, which last year exceeded costs by $16 million (the rest of its revenue comes from advertising and philanthropic support from foundations).

By my reckoning "more than 60 percent of the American operation’s total revenue" + "the rest of its revenue comes from" adds up to 100 percent.

Can you expand on what it is that you feel is not accounted for?
by Gud | 2025-04-01 04:48:17+00:00
What makes you think you have to spend "a few hours every week" to keep a FreeBSD setup up and running?

I have pretty much every server running from web server to mail server and I don't spend "a few hours" per YEAR to keep it running. about once a week I run a pkg update, pkg upgrade and service x reload in each jail to update the software and 99.9% of the time it works smoothly.It really doesn't get much simpler than that. This could also be done with cron like in your example, but I don't think automating updates is such a great idea. I think updates should be monitored.

I have a lot of confidence in the nginx/postfix/dovecot/etc developers ability to develop professional software.

FWIW I am also not a sysadmin.
by Animats | 2025-04-01 04:48:43+00:00
This reads like an ad from the Hass Avacado Board.[1]

Turns out that California is having a good avocado production year. Last year was bad, for usual farming problem reasons.[2] Not really much need for imports for the next few months.

[1] https://hassavocadoboard.com/

[2] https://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2025/01/30/california-...
by progbits | 2025-04-01 04:49:30+00:00
I mean they should, film can get damaged too. The reason they don't are probably because it would be too expensive, bulky and film is single-use so also wasteful.

Even hobby level DSLRs have two card slots with option to write to both.

Professional cameras have tons of gear strapped to them, a second drive or some link to external storage is a no-brainer.
by jjani | 2025-04-01 04:50:39+00:00
Thanks. I think Zalo's only big in Vietnam, so we're at one example outside of China, where the rules have never been the same anyway. GGP's premise doesn't seem to hold up, though I can see the idea of banks getting exceptions being potentially more accurate.

Though if it's similar to Line I wouldn't even count Zalo either, as said, from what I've seen with Line it doesn't have an app-store-in-app, all functionalities are predetermined and preinstalled. It just does a lot of things, but that in itself doesn't go against any App Store rules.
by gcp123 | 2025-04-01 04:51:00+00:00
I've spent the last six months building a coding agent at work, and the reliability issues are killing us. Our users don't want 'superhuman' results 10% of the time - they want predictable behavior they can trust.

When we tried the 'full agent' approach (letting it roam freely through our codebase), we ended up with some impressive demos but constant production incidents. We've since pivoted to more constrained workflows with human checkpoints, and while less flashy, user satisfaction has gone way up.

The Cursor wipeout incident is a perfect example. It's not about blaming users who don't understand git - it's about tools that should know better. When I hand my code to another developer, they understand the implied contract of 'don't delete all my shit without asking.' Why should AI get a pass?

Reliable > clever. It's the difference between a senior engineer who delivers consistently and a junior who occasionally writes brilliant code but breaks the build every other week."
by xhevahir | 2025-04-01 04:51:28+00:00
This argument about progress falls apart as soon as you consider previous eras in sport that were found wanting. Was the bruising play of the 2004 NBA superior to previous kinds of basketball? Most people would disagree. Were the stickhandling of Martin Brodeur and the Left Wing Lock the culmination of decades of hockey "progress?" Not even a Devils or Red Wings fan would say that. Should everyone have celebrated when it was discovered in the 1990 World Cup that the most efficient strategy was to deliver the ball into the hands of the goalkeeper over and over? No, because it was incredibly boring.