MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2025-04-12 12:05:40+00:00
It goes to internal corporate culture, and what happens to you when you point out an uncomfortable truth. Do we shoot the messenger, or heed her warnings and pivot the hopefully not Titanic? RIM/Blackberry didn't manage to avoid it either.

People like to believe CEOs aren't worth their pay package, and sometimes they're not. But a look at a couple of their failures and a different CEO of Kodak wouldn't have had what happened happen, makes me think that sometimes, some of them do deserve that.
by darkwater | 2025-04-12 12:05:40+00:00
Interesting take, and most probably you are right. But this requires at least two people with a above-the-average emotional intelligence. And in our trade, in my opinion and experience, it's not easy to find people that excel in both emotional and practical problem solving intelligences. So, having a profound technical discussion in a team without heating it up at least a bit, it's difficult. Now, it can heat up and then it can be like nothing really happened, because as time passes and people can reflect on it, they soon realize it was just a technical discussion; but in the heat of the moment if you have the ego strong enough to defend your position, most persons will heat up as well.
by stafferxrr | 2025-04-12 12:08:52+00:00
Great stuff. My prompts are falling behind after seeing what you are doing here.

I find OpenAI annoying at this point that it doesn't output a pdf easily like Perplexity. The best stuff I have found has been in the Perplexity references also.

Google outputting a whole doc is really great. I am just about to dig into Gemini 2.5 Pro in Deep Research for the first time.
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-12 12:09:24+00:00
There's no reason why having an LLM be sly or misleading would be more profitable. Too many people try to make advertising a moral issue when it's not, and it sounds like you're falling into that trap.

An ideal answer for a query like "Where can I take my wife for a date this weekend?" would be something like,

> Here are some events I found ... <ad unit one> <ad unit two> <ad unit three>. Based on our prior conversations, sounds like the third might be the best fit, want me to book it for you?

To get that you need ads. If you ask ChatGPT such a question currently it'll either search the web (and thus see ads anyway) or it'll give boring generic text that's found in its training set. You really want to see images, prices, locations and so on for such a query not, "maybe she'd like the movies". And there are no good ranking signals for many kinds of commercial query: LLM training will give a long-since stale or hallucinated answer at worst, some semi-random answer at best, and algorithms like PageRank hardly work for most commercial queries.

HN has always been very naive about this topic but briefly: people like advertising done well and targeted ads are even better. One of Google's longest running experiments was a holdback where some small percentage of users never saw ads, and they used Google less than users who did. The ad-free search gave worse answers overall.
by t0lo | 2025-04-12 12:09:51+00:00
Once you get to a certain point of education on the issue you realise that it is actually laughably easy to dismantle pro-colonialist and genocide arguments on this issue, as much of the oppositing positon is based on lies and the hope that the other person finds the issue too complex to understand. All that's left is their obvious and often inhumane personal biases.
by patwolf | 2025-04-12 12:10:39+00:00
I use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini regularly. Even though 2.5 pro is really good, I find myself using Gemini the least because I have an aversion to giving Google even more data about me.

I know that even if they never inject ads directly in Gemini, they'll be using my prompts to target me.
by bipson | 2025-04-12 12:10:55+00:00
No, because the achievement, the mastery behind it is not obliterated in the next few years, by the upcoming iterations of newer smartwatches.

Smartwatches, Phones, (most) Cars, TVs, ... all of these are mass produced, and as such completely obsolete in a few years, even if they are sold as "premium" products for a month's salary.

Unique, manufactured Design pieces are... timeless. It's a piece of art. And I say this without any inclination to ever join that market.
by metalman | 2025-04-12 12:11:20+00:00
actual support would be long lines of volunteers at the military recruiting office, right instead of the reality, where the standard for enlistment are bieng lowered, while the percentage of people failing to pass the standards, is riseing. The military is expilisit in stateing that finding high intelligence recruits for officer training is esspecialy challenging. Which brings us to a military reality, ie: it is one thing to defeat an army, but another thing entirely to occupy an enemy country. And now that warefare is entering a new age, with drone's and all other types of remote controlled weapons, and every country is developing these weapons, maintaing an occupation is going to become even more dangerous for those, in the proverbial boots. Betcha it's grim looks at westpoint.
by martin-t | 2025-04-12 12:12:08+00:00
"Can" add in the chance if nonzero? Sure.

"Easily"? No. Just check the article, it's plenty of examples of skilled programmers stopping to use A"I" because long term they discover more bugs than they would have written themselves. And you can even write the code yourself and have an LLM check it because it'll find tons of false positives.

LLM are fundamentally probabilistic text generators. We need and expect tools that have an error rate as low as the hardware error rate.
by microtonal | 2025-04-12 12:12:19+00:00
Used in this way, can nix help Fedora's reproducibility efforts? Or does it appear to Fedora as a superfluous layer to be stripped away so that they can plug into cargo more directly?

A lot of Nix-based package builds will burn Nix store paths directly into the binary. If you are lucky it's only the rpath and you can strip it, but in some cases other Nix store paths end up in the binary. Seems pretty useless to Fedora.

Besides many of the difficult issues are not solved by Nix either. (E.g. build non-determinism by ordering differences due to the use of a hashmap somewhere in the build.)
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-12 12:13:19+00:00
TPUs aren't necessarily a pro. They go back 15 years and don't seem to have yielded any kind of durable advantage. Developing them is expensive but their architecture was often over-fit to yesterday's algorithms which is why they've been through so many redesigns. Their competitors have routinely moved much faster using CUDA.

Once the space settles down, the balance might tip towards specialized accelerators but NVIDIA has plenty of room to make specialized silicon and cut prices too. Google has still to prove that the TPU investment is worth it.
A self-evolving cognitive model for conscious system design
by alexandrkul | 2025-04-12 12:14:38+00:00
Over the last year, I’ve been working on a model that helps simulate human-like reasoning by integrating layers of physiology, emotion, value systems, and abstract thinking. It's not another AI agent framework — it’s more like a language and architecture that interprets reality as dynamic interactions of meanings and values, constantly evolving.

The core of it is a system where:

Logic, ethics, and emotional feedback loops align into adaptive principles.

Decision-making becomes a conscious restructuring of internal patterns, not automation.

Each principle (like non-violence or responsibility) is built from first principles — from chaos → to harmony → to sustained evolution.

I’ve documented the process, tested it through conversations (with ChatGPT and people), and connected it with real-world philosophical and technological questions. It’s still evolving, but stable enough to start building a community and maybe applications around it.

I’m sharing it here to see if others are exploring similar directions — and to open the door for collaboration, critique, or philosophical sparring.

I’d love your thoughts. Why? Because if this is even 10% right — it could help rethink not just AGI architecture, but how we organize human systems at scale.
by myself248 | 2025-04-12 12:15:09+00:00
They can force-post right past Privacy.com's veil, NYTimes did it to me. Here's what Privacy's support rep had to say about it:

> Hi, Firstname

> I've been reviewing your dispute and wanted to touch base with you to explain what happened.

> It appears that the disputed charge is a "force post" by the merchant. This happens when a merchant cannot collect funds for a transaction after repeated attempts and completes the transaction without an authorization — it's literally an unauthorized transaction that's against payment card network rules. It's a pretty sneaky move used by some merchants, and unfortunately, it's not something Privacy can block.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-12 12:15:10+00:00
This test lacks realism.

Water of this scale does not typically fall out of a bright sunny sky. It is almost always associated with greatly decreased visibility --- sometimes even at night.

In the middle of such a downpour, most people aren't standing still like a dummy with their head, face and silhouette fully exposed to oncoming traffic.

Would the performance be better or worse in a more realistic scenario? I see no reason to expect anything but the latter. How much worse remains to be answered.

What this does show pretty clearly is the typical response when "triggered" --- slam on the brakes. There are reports of trash blowing across the road being a "trigger". Avoid following a Tesla if possible.
by Ray20 | 2025-04-12 12:16:20+00:00
>Nobody wants elections in wartime

THE GOVERNMENT doesn't want elections in wartime. Most people want.

>not least because polling stations become targets.

I think this is pure gaslighting. If we are talking about Ukraine, Putin is one of the main supporters of holding elections there. And almost certainly not because he wants to bomb some polling stations, but because he is confident that people will vote for a candidate who will de-facto offer to surrender, and not for Zelensky with his busifications.
by freehorse | 2025-04-12 12:17:33+00:00
Blogs did not require one to be a technical genius. A lot of non-technical people had blogs. And ads existing per se is not what we discuss here.

Blogs require an effort to post sth because you cannot get away with posting a catchy 2-phrases sentence or a photo (you can, but that's not what they are for mainly). In this sense, yes, social media won because of convenience among other things. But the same convenience is what I find as problem with them.

And where are we now? The role of social media as "grandmothers sharing with grandkids" are long gone, in most places at least (cannot speak of the whole world). Very few from my social circles post in social media any mode. Most of the content is direct or indirect advertising (if it's not meta, it is the next door bar or yoga studio broadcasting posts), (semi-)professional content creators/influencers and, lastly, a lot of AI slop. Most people I know use facebook for events and the like, and which is definitely not what facebook optimises for or profits from. Now, most of the sharing-role has fled in closed group chat platforms (whatsapp, viber, messenger and the like).

The only thing that seems to still hold some livelihood is microblogging platforms (xtwitter and clones) which are also what replaced part of the blogosphere. But a rant about these would be too large to fit in a comment here.
by eesmith | 2025-04-12 12:18:39+00:00
The way I read it, if a foreigner living in the US says it would be wrong for the US to invade Canada or take over Greenland, or bomb Houthis, etc. than the could be deported because that would "compromise a compelling U.S.foreign policy interest."

It doesn't even have the "clear and present danger" requirement of Schenck v. United States - the infamous "falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic" Supreme Court case largely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which limited government action to only speech likely "likely to incite or produce [imminent lawless] action."
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-04-12 12:18:46+00:00
If you encounter a mother bear with her cubs in the woods she will attack you. Her natural response has no morality. I am the same, that is how you follow the Dao.

It is funny that people thing Daoists do not get angry and yet all of you suppress anger in some unnatural way to "get along" or to make sure you are not dwnvoted.
by rvz | 2025-04-12 12:19:15+00:00
> If you instead ask why they might have traded Visa at the time they did, you will see that there were many valid reasons that they (and many, many others) decided it was a good time to sell.

All said in hindsight today, but never for those who benefitted from the insider information. Investors will always buy the stock after it plummets, whilst those who didn't sell had to wait or buy lower to break even.

This does not excuse the fact that the Pelosis' benefitted from insider (political) information and traded on that, like this blatant example. An advantage that neither of us have.

Defending politicians trading on insider info (political or economic) isn't the hill one should die on. If you did exactly that and made tens of millions, you would be in prison and be replying to me years later telling others not to do it.
by misiek08 | 2025-04-12 12:19:48+00:00
Native apps also are suspended. Or can be, like na iOS (not being fanboy, I appreciate this mechanism). Also native, desktop apps also can be almost suspended while not used.

Web apps are just way easier to do anything (rarely good), so many people are doing them without real engineering or algo knowledge producing trash every day. Article is also using same voice. Showing one protocol as completely bad, mentioning only the issues both approaches have, but silently omitting those issues describing „the only way, craft, holistic, Rust and WASM based solution, without a plug”
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-12 12:20:17+00:00
When LLMs are essentially trying to sell me something, the shit is over.

I like LLMs (over search engines) because they are not salespeople. They're one of the few things I actually "trust". (Which I know is something that many people fall on the other side of — but no, I actually trust them more than SEO'd web sites and ad-driven search engines.)

I suppose my local-LLM hobby is for just such a scenario. While it is a struggle, there is some joy in trying to host locally as powerful an open LLM model as your hardware will allow. And if the time comes when the models can no longer be trusted, pop back to the last reliable model on the local setup.

That's what I keep telling myself anyway.
by coldtea | 2025-04-12 12:20:39+00:00
Haven't digged deep into Erlang, but from what I read, I never thought Erlang's big idea is "lightweight processes and message passing".

Always thought the key differentiator is having a kind of "orchestrator/supervisor" for those processes.

(Which "lightweight processes and message passing" facilitates, sure, but it's more than those)
by microtonal | 2025-04-12 12:21:36+00:00
I think people are generally confused the different meanings of reproducibility in this case. The reproducibility that Nix initially aimed at is: multiple evaluations of the same derivations will lead to the same normalized store .drv. For a long time they were not completely reproducible, because evaluation could depend on environment variables, etc. But flakes have (completely ?) closed this hole. So, the reproducibility in Nix means that evaluating the same package set will lead to the same set of build recipes (.drvs).

However, this doesn't say much about build artifact reproducibility. A package set could always evaluate to the same drvs, but if all the source packages choose what to build based on random() > 0.5, then there is no of build artifacts at all. This type of reproducibility is spearheaded by Debian and Arch more than Nix.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-12 12:21:45+00:00
The author kind of hints at this but in some countries, Germany included, the kitchen is not part of the flat. Whoever rents it will build their own kitchen. When I lived in Germany I was expected to buy and then sell the kitchen of the flat we lived in. While the author focuses on furniture, I do think this is where a lot of this waste comes from. I do agree that it is strange to buy disposable furniture. But so far I didn’t throw anything from ikea away except for a mattress when I moved countries.
by martin-t | 2025-04-12 12:21:54+00:00
Reviewing code is harder than writing it.

When _writing code_, you achieve a certain level of understanding because you fundamentally need to make all the decisions yourself (and some of them are informed by factual statements).

When _reading code_, a lot of those decision points are easy to miss or take for granted which means you don't even notice there are alternatives. Furthermore, you don't look up the factual statements, therefore you have a lower level of understanding. Also you have no opportunity to review if those statements are actually true so decisions made on false assumptions get into the codebase.

Finally, reviewing code (to the same level of depth) is significantly more mentally taxing.
by a2128 | 2025-04-12 12:22:17+00:00
My experience with their software has been horrible. A friend was messing around with Gemini on my phone and said my name is John, and it automatically saved that to my saved info list and always called me John from then on. But when I ask it to forget this, it says it can't do that automatically and links me to the Saved Info page, which is a menu they didn't implement in the app so it opens a URL in my browser and asks me to sign into my Google account again. Then a little toast says "Something went wrong" and the saved info list is empty and broken. I tried reporting this issue half a year ago and it's still unresolved. Actually the only way I was ever able to get it to stop calling me John is to say "remember to forget my name is John" in some way that it adds that to the list instead of linking me to that broken page
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-12 12:22:27+00:00
Yes, for sure humans are fundamentally more intelligent than other primates, but still it does seem that writing and written communication is a big capability unlock.

It's impressive, and perhaps a bit surprising, what a culture like the Incas were able to achieve using only (we assume) oral tradition and passing down of skills, but there must be a limit to the complexity of what can be passed down this way - more along the lines of the skillset of an individual man being passed to an apprentice, but presumably also "managers/planners" passing down skills as well as tradesmen.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-12 12:22:56+00:00
That’s definitely not true. I’ve worked for companies on the consulting side for five years.

We have two types of Statements of Work (SOWs) we get signed by the client. The first type and the only type I would ever get involved with are project based. The client has a business need but not the technical expertise. I come in right after sales and work with the business to tease out their requirements, get their sign off. We do the work and leave the project once the requirements are met.

With this type of SOW, we (I) lead the project technically, the project management etc and once the work is handed off, we move on. It’s outcome based.

The second type of contract is where the client has the technically expertise. But not the manpower. They then sign a contract with us to get $X number of people for $y hours with the expertise they need. The client controls what gets done and when. They handle the project management. This is your typical staff augmentation.
by pfdietz | 2025-04-12 12:23:12+00:00
Fast furniture has the advantage of convenience when moving. The average household in the US moves every 5 to 7 years. Instead of paying to move these items, they can be discarded and new ones purchased at the new location.

If you want old sturdy furniture there's a lot of it available used, particularly from estate sales. I get the impression it doesn't have much value.
by gcanyon | 2025-04-12 12:24:12+00:00
Time Measurement (6 Total):

1. Day and night indication for reference city 2. Second time zone hours and minutes (on 24-hour display) 3. World time indication for 24 cities 4. Second time zone day and night indication 5. 3Hz tourbillon with silicon balance wheel (with high Q factor) 6. Civil time display module coupled to the base movement

Gregorian Perpetual Calendar (8 Total):

7. Perpetual calendar 8. Days of the week 9. Date 10. Months 11. Year indication 12. Leap-year indication 13. Indication for the number of the week within the year (ISO 8601 calendar) 14. Number of the day of the week (ISO 8601 calendar).

Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers ‘Solaria Ultra Grand Complication’ Lunar Indication (3 Total):

15. Astronomical Moon phase and age of the Moon 16. Tide level indicator 17. Spring and neap tides indication.

Astronomical Indications (14 Total):

18. Indications of seasons, equinoxes, solstices & astronomical zodiac signs 19. Position of the Sun 20. Sunrise time (according to the city of reference) 21. Sunset time (according to the city of reference) 22. Duration of the day (according to the city of reference) 23. Equation of time on tropical gear 24. Culmination time of the Sun (according to the city of reference) 25. Height of the Sun above the horizon (according to the city of reference) 26. Declination of the Sun, 3-dimensional Earth showing the latitude of the Sun in the North/South hemisphere 27. Sidereal hours 28. Sidereal minutes 29. Astronomical zodiac signs 30. Sky chart (according to the city of reference) 31. Temporal tracking of celestial objects.

Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers ‘Solaria Ultra Grand Complication’ Chiming Complications (5 Total):

32. Minute repeater 33. Westminster carillon chime (4 hammers & 4 gongs) 34. Choice of hour-only or full chime 35. Crown locking system during the chiming 36. Double-stop hammer system to limit rebound and optimize transmission of the hammers' kinetic energy

Chronograph (4 Total):

37. Chronograph (1 column wheel) 38. 60-minute counter 39. Split-seconds chronograph (1 column wheel) 40. Isolator system for the split-seconds chronograph

Additional Feature:

41. Power-reserve indication (outer disc at 190°)
by fidotron | 2025-04-12 12:24:19+00:00
The truth on this is even simpler: the absence of a clear decision making hierarchy in big A "Agile" processes dooms every non operational task to at best mediocre outcomes. *

One of the key benefits of hierarchical decision making is that people have the opportunity to privately challenge opinions, which can lead to radical levelling up of everyone involved. Since the introduction of infantile nonsense like "sprint planning poker" everything descends to being an argument, facepalming defeatism, or fake niceness while everyone hopes everyone else does the bare minimum to keep things going while we all smile about it.

* My more managerial friends and colleagues claim this is a feature, not a bug, in that they prefer predictable mediocrity over unpredictable success.