MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by subjectsigma | 2025-05-24 14:19:09+00:00
You act like you’ve never commented on the Internet before. I’m not swearing at, yelling at, or threatening you. Why are you trying so hard to portray my comments as unreasonable?

I’m not claiming to contribute to society, or make some grand statement, or re-define anything. The artists are. They have a higher bar to clear.

It pisses me off because they’re so smug about being confidently wrong. It would be one thing if they were just scrappy thieves and lived up to it, but they are also arrogant rat bastards who feel the need to lecture others. Fuck them and all their self-absorbed, Kombucha-chugging Hollywood cronies.

I had much the same feeling reading Abbie Hoffman’s Steal this Book. It was not enough to say “Here’s how to steal from old people and grocery stores.” He had to say, “Here’s how to steal from old people and grocery stores, and also here’s why you are totally justified in doing so because They are evil and different from Us, The Good Guys.” It was sickening.
Ask HN: How can we reliably verify content isn't AI generated?
by humbleferret | 2025-05-24 14:19:40+00:00
AI generated media is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from human work. I feel the days of AI content feeling or looking 'off' are vanishing. With some AI generated videos like those from Veo 3 becoming so realistic, I'm already having to look twice, genuinely questioning if they're ai-generated or not.

How can we realistically maintain the distinction going forward? Is widespread, mandatory watermarking the only answer, or is it a technically flawed/doomed approach? And as AI content likely floods the internet, will we, and how could we, even try to filter or avoid it?
by AngryData | 2025-05-24 14:20:56+00:00
There are some little emergency clinics around in rural places, but its generally like the bare minimum where if you make it there they can give you a bag of blood and an oxygen tank, but I would expect atleast a 45 minute travel time to an actual hospital that can treat you for anything, and it would cost $2,000 for the ambulance trip alone, not to mention the actual hospital bills..

The hospital will have to take you in if you need emergency treatment, provided you make it that far, however they only guarantee the minimum treatment to "stabilize" you, and at that point they are going to expect either an insurance policy be given to them, or your agreement to take on additional medical debt beyond what you already incurred to receive additional treatment. Like if you have a heart attack, they will take you in, give you some nitroglycerin, and try to get it so that they aren't worried about you keeling over within the next 2 hours, but if your heart is still in a lower level of afib and you can't afford treatment? They will give you the boot and tell you to go see a doctor but it ain't an absolute emergency any more.

Or say you crash your car and your leg is crushed. They will stabilize you, but then you or someone else will have to make a financial decision for you or give your insurance. Will you be able to afford the costs of multiple surgeries to pin your shattered leg bones back together and all the rehabilitation? Sure they can do that. Can you already not afford the costs you incurred and certainly can't afford all the additional surgeries and rehabilitation later? Well they will "save" you from all those costs you can't afford by chopping off your leg, knowing that without those other surgeries they will end up cutting it off 6 months later anyway.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-05-24 14:21:22+00:00
Elixir/Liveview might not be the right choice if you are already fluent in another stack and there isn't a direct benefit of using Elixir.

But:

> immaturity of ecosystem

This is more a convention in Elixir. Lots of packages wait with 1.0 even if they are stable and many years old.

> Couldnt do conditional forms

This is possible. But yea, complicated forms can be a pain in Liveview sometimes. But you can always escape to LiveSvelte.

> Adding JS

Depends on the app you are building. But I don't find that there are so many things that need JS commands (other than menu drop-downs, etc). Anything with state can just be live view.

> Godawful errors

Maybe just a preference/exposure. I find elixir errors so much easier to understand than JS or Python. That said I see you are using Ash and I think that is the reason. Errors in Ash are awful (Ash is super cool but errors are a pain).
by oliwarner | 2025-05-24 14:21:35+00:00
Neuropathic pain (which dental pain mostly is) is poorly handled.

I agree, paracetamol isn't perfect for every type of pain. NSAIDs help relieve pressure and can help, and opioids can waffle-stomp most pain but only for a little while and with dire risks of dependency, but for-purpose drugs like gabapentin are usually a lot more effective at blocking even high intensity neuropathic pain. Unlike NSAIDs, you can take them long term without needing a cocktail of PPIs to keep your stomach from imploding, and they're non-addictive.
by antonvs | 2025-05-24 14:21:45+00:00
That Rivest draft defines canonical S-expressions to be the format in which every token is preceded by its length, so it's confusing to use "canonical" to describe the whole proposal, or use it as a synonym for the "advanced" S-expressions that the draft describes.

But that perhaps hints at some reasons that formats like JSON tend to win popularity contests over formats like Rivest's. JSON is a single format for authoring and reading, which doesn't address transport at all. The name is short, pronounceable (vs. "spikky" perhaps?), and clearly refers to one thing - there's no ambiguity about whether you might be talking about a transport encoding instead,

I'm not saying these are good reasons to adopt JSON over SPKI, just that there's a level of ambition in Rivest's proposal which is a poor match for how adoption tends to work in the real world.

There are several mechanism for JSON transport encoding - including plain old gzip, but also more specific formats like MessagePack. There isn't one single standard for it, but as it turns out that really isn't that important.

Arguably there's a kind of violation of separation of concerns happening in a proposal that tries to define all these things at once: "a canonical form ... two transport representations, and ... an advanced format".
by aaomidi | 2025-05-24 14:21:54+00:00
I’m not sure what happened there but I’ve both experienced and seen so many startups where their initial leadership was great, then VC gets involved and completely destroys the long term trajectory of the company in exchange for short term growth.

I genuinely think twitter and LinkedIn has ruined the brains of founders who follow fads after losing the goals and visions they had when they first started.
by suspended_state | 2025-05-24 14:22:47+00:00
> The first thing to note is that there is no indication that foo or bar can fail.

I don't see how this is different from traditional programming.

> I do think this is a really neat concept, but I have major reservations about the readability/debuggability of the resulting code.

I don't think that readability will be harmed, but I can understand your concerns about debugging. I feel that cluttering the code with consistency/error checks everywhere actually harms much more readability.
by constantcrying | 2025-05-24 14:24:34+00:00
I know.

Every single person would be better served by just using Fedora. The addition layer is either so thin that the value added is zero or it creates a drastically worse user experience, as the layer around Fedora is poorly maintained by a few volunteers and very little testing is done. Bazzite is pointless and a total waste of time. Nobody should use it.

All of these "layer around actually popular distro" projects are pointless and make using Linux on the desktop a worse experience.
by fxtentacle | 2025-05-24 14:24:46+00:00
LLMs already are a commodity. Google has already kicked off the competitive price wars. Plus I’ve already seen some local companies just buy a beefy GPU server and deploy an open LLM model. While OpenAI is still trying to push quality, their competitors have already positioned themselves to offer the lowest possible prices. And since Nvidia has no easy path for scaling up compute anymore, I also wouldn’t bet on much larger LLMs anytime soon.

That means, if you learn more about the internals of LLMs, your market angle is going to be artisanal customised models. Fashion is commoditised, but people still pay for a custom tailored suit. In the same way companies will continue to pay for finetunes optimised for their business usecase.

If you decide to focus more on the application of LLMs, you should really invest into high-level architectural skills. Good “code completion” models can already do what an outsourced 10 bucks per hour developer used to do. Your job in the future is going to be to decide the structure of which fuse and against the towel and or which type of state is being stored and managed. But the actual coding of the UI forms and the glue code to synchronise from an SQL query to the client state, that part is probably going to be fully outsourced to LLMs.
by lm28469 | 2025-05-24 14:25:39+00:00
Could that be because 99% of mass medias who make or break politicians are owned by a small elite of hardcore capitalists who have their own interests in mind?

Democracy isn't just about showing up every few years and putting a name in a ballot, it's a framework that requires a whole bunch of other things. A lot of EU countries and the US are getting closer and closer to oligarchies
by BlueTemplar | 2025-05-24 14:25:44+00:00
You shouldn't have expected this from a general purpose computer.

If you want something that just works, get a console (though looks like even Nintendo has fallen to the "some games require an Internet connection" issue with the Switch 2, weirdly because of too big storage cards). But you will be limited by what the manufacturer mandated.

If you want diversity and freedom, use a PC. But you will have to tinker to make it work.

P.S.: I guess that there's also MacOS / iOS / Android / ChromeOS / ..? in-between, but they perhaps provide even less options foe gaming...
by scrlk | 2025-05-24 14:25:46+00:00
There was a Mentour Pilot video on the Jeju Air crash that touched upon this. With a dual engine failure on a 737, you lose both generators and fall back to the emergency batteries (no RAT). The aircraft remains flyable, but it's extremely challenging - you need an operational APU to make things a lot more manageable: https://youtu.be/9GbmGUk8Y0M?t=2001
by bumby | 2025-05-24 14:25:47+00:00
A couple things:

1) The main point I was trying to convey is that the distribution of the types you outline may be getting skewed in one direction as part of a broader cultural shift. I think that matters, and may support the other point

2) I’ve elaborated elsewhere [1] but I think it’s a mistake to pretend there’s a relatively large group of people who aren’t motivated by status. They may be motivated by a different kind of prestige, but it’s still (at least in part) a status play.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080708
by OJFord | 2025-05-24 14:25:59+00:00
It sounds normal + imitation of 'American YouTuber' to me: the drawn out vowels being common in many US accents anyway, and then the 'let's fiind oooouuuutt' sort of YouTuber affectation that's itself an imitation of a certain sort of TV presenter I suppose - Jeremy Clarkson for example.
by keiferski | 2025-05-24 14:26:33+00:00
What do you think Hollywood actors, studios, and agents are going to do in this situation? Just disappear and be fine with Google copying their work and destroying their careers?

Not to mention the fact that the minute it becomes obvious to society writ large that YouTube is not filled with real people, and is only AI fake bots, it immediately will become blasé and uninteresting to the vast majority of people. Humans like humans, not facsimiles of humans.

Way too much sci-fi AI worship on this site sometimes, it borders on deification. “An infinitely powerful being will have no restrictions.” Human culture isn’t a math problem that can be replaced and solved with computing power.

Google can’t even seem to make search results that work anymore. Color me dubious that they can create thousands, millions of unique characters and content that out-compete real people.
by techjamie | 2025-05-24 14:26:55+00:00
Based on what I've seen of its output, there seem to still be issues with consistency between shots. Items, people, and spaces change a fair bit between shots, and I've not seen any videos out of it yet that utilize long running single shots.

On a scale of "how trust ending is this?" I'd personally rate its current iteration as low-moderate risk. It will be a matter of when rather than if when we do reach the point where any arbitrary footage can be questioned, but I don't think we're quite there.

I am a bit concerned about what this is going to do, or maybe already has done, to aid in scams. People were already falling for AI Elon, never mind video of this quality.
by macNchz | 2025-05-24 14:27:45+00:00
The Walmart in the area from this article is separated from the main town by a four lane road with no sidewalks, across which the nearest crosswalks are more than half a mile away in either direction—so you’re either playing high stakes Frogger, or, depending on your starting location, you might conceivably have to walk nearly two hours out of your way round trip along the shoulder of this road to use a crosswalk. They also get five feet of snow per year, so a good part of the year that walk is extra dangerous and miserable.

I can’t say for sure, but I think this is much more typical of American Walmarts than it is to be able to easily walk to them.

Streetview of your opponent as a pedestrian trying to access the Massena Walmart: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ufTWTHxHCReFP8VA9
by vouaobrasil | 2025-05-24 14:28:42+00:00
> Just because sometimes you just want a 30 second break down on how to boil pasta, or whatever, doesn't mean we're becoming "optimizing machines"

If I want a 30-second breakdown of how to boil pasta, I'll look on the back of the box.

> Sometimes I don't want to or need to know the "fundamentals of why water boils", I just need to know enough in order to complete some other thing.

False dichotomoy, because even if I want to quickly know how to do something, I don't need AI, nor do I need to research everything either.

> Time is limited, and what we spend our time on is a choice

That's fine, and I agree. But that doesn't mean we need to go to the level of AI to learn something, and I'd argue it's even harmful in the long run as even a study by Microsoft [1] shows that AI makes people stupider, so not really learning at all.

[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/10/1752233/microsoft-study-...
by K0balt | 2025-05-24 14:29:34+00:00
It’s not a rare edge case. Not at all. A lot of WLCSP parts will go way out of tolerances if exposed to direct sunlight. The thing that makes xenon flashes exceptionally adept at triggering malfunctions is a combination of their high intensity ant their exceptionally fast rise and fall times.

This vulnerability, where present can be (and is commonly) exploited in alarm systems, access control devices, and other electronics that may face adversarial incentives. Light-protective covers are a very standard feature in construction of any kind of critical device that uses WLCSP parts.

In the case of the raspberry pi, the fact that it is a hobby device is a pretty good excuse for leaving the devices unprotected, but I definitely would have included the fact that the design incorporates WLCSP parts in critical roles and that the PCB should be in a case if being used in mission critical applications, since presumably, designers integrating RPI are less likely to be experienced board-level engineers.

My comment about being a hack or a noob really wasn’t meant for the RPI designers, though I can see how it would be easy to read it that way. I may be a bit of a literary hack, myself lol.
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-24 14:29:49+00:00
Nice project! Actually, it's great.

It's a real shame that the "New" page here is plagued by some kind of activists who flag and kill almost every link posted. What is wrong with people?

Two issues:

1. Every bookmark will have the title "Untitled". It should be easy for you to get the title from the meta tags.

2. After adding a feed, there is no indication of success. Maybe the "Subscriptions" tab should be default, instead of "Discoveries"?
by vouaobrasil | 2025-05-24 14:30:46+00:00
> Hitting CTRL+F and searching for AI all over the piece, there are 0 mentions. I would have loved to read what a writer thinks of the coming AI takeover in creative writing.

I make a living as a writer and I don't use AI. In fact, I hate AI and I work for an AI-free writing website. There is an audience for it, and we make enough money to support ourselves as well.
by bumby | 2025-05-24 14:30:50+00:00
I don’t know if it’s more pronounced now, but I do think it was prevalent before. It may just be a cultural artifact of certain terminology being in the zeitgeist.

Decades ago I remember talking to a classmate about what college we’d go to. They couldn’t fathom why I decided on a “lesser” school when I was accepted into a more prestigious one. When I asked why they thought the prestigious school was a better choice, the only answer was “everyone just knows it’s better.” Now they didn’t use the word “prestige” but the same status-climbing mentality was still nebulously present. So I don’t necessarily think it’s a new phenomenon.

To your point though, in the book “Excellent Sheep” Ivy League students were queried about what kind of people they would like to be. One student stood up and said something to the effect of “we already know who we want to be. We’re the type of people who get into Ivy League universities.” I think that speaks to how much of one’s identity is wrapped up in achievement in western culture.

>To me the whole point of a good college education is that there are thousands to millions of jobs in the field to go after. Why on earth would you fixate on a role that is basically 1-in-a-million?

The view of college as a means to vocational success is also a cultural change. Previously, students were more likely to say their goal in college was to “develop a philosophy of life.”

Besides grad school, ivys largely produce students who predominantly go into a handful of fields: tech, consulting, law, or medicine. That’s even when they explicitly have different, social-status goals during school, like working for a non-profit. To me, that speaks to the fact that many are still on the “prestige” track.
by uselesswords | 2025-05-24 14:30:52+00:00
A big problem with other spheres like education is that they do not react immediately in the sense that the effects of a change in policy won't be realized for decades. The economy on the other hand basically has an instant reaction to policy changes. When Trump put out tariffs and saw the instant economic reaction, he somewhat walked it back.

But the reaction to changes in areas like research and education isn't realized for years if not decades. So Trump doesn't feel the consequences. For non-economic spheres, the only real immediate reaction to these changes is the social reaction, which comes from people Trump is actively aligned against and entrenches his position.
by photochemsyn | 2025-05-24 14:30:53+00:00
The most dishonest fraudulent academic researcher I even encountered made a point of encouraging collegiality, but eventually I realized this was part of his scheme for not being exposed as a fraud. Everyone in his department knew he was fudging his data, but nobody called him on it because he was such a nice guy to everyone else.

This is how you end up with systematic institutional corruption in academic departments along with a lot of non-reproducible garbage science. Thus a better strategy is to support people who do good work, regardless of whether they're your 'friends' or not.
by Loughla | 2025-05-24 14:31:24+00:00
Good leaders don't do that? There is a difference between legitimately confidential information, and keeping your cards close to your chest to protect yourself. If you have confidential information, you can explain the reason it's confidential and everyone can move past.

I've worked with two teams where layoffs had to happen. The people weren't happy, but they were at least satisfied that the results were fair and honest. They appreciated my transparency, and worked to train up other members of the group to prepare for their own departure.

If you spend your time building trust and relationships when times are good, and weed out the toxic personalities during those times, then it's better (not easy or good at all) when times are tough. Allowing even the slightest amount of toxicity is completely unacceptable.

If your boss hides information or is intentionally vague to provide an out for themselves, they shouldn't be in a leadership role. They shouldn't be employed at the company.

Being a boss means that 99.999% of your actual job is communicating clearly and openly.
by adamesque | 2025-05-24 14:31:54+00:00
> The bulk of the responsibility is, and should be, on the leader to avoid misunderstandings in the first place.

This can be both true and unhelpful at the same time. “Extracting the kernel” is about putting agency back into your own hands when someone else is less-than-perfect. How do you read beyond the utterance to understand the intent? Will that lead to better outcomes?

Since you sadly cannot force leaders to improve, and sadly cannot usually also pick for yourself perfect leadership, what power do you have to make things better?
by EasyMark | 2025-05-24 14:31:59+00:00
We thought it was abusurdist, turns out it's a ballparkish estimate of where we're headed in 20 years if the current trends and leadership keep it up.

- declaring vaccines as bad science

- attacking academia as "elites" to be despised

- attacking all higher education

- highlighting the 50s —a period of terrible racial, gender,etc equality— as the height of US civilization

- putting a health conspiracy nut like RFK in charge of our health. Surprised food babe wasn't his selection since she's much more attractive.

- equating tariffs as the same thing as a trade deficit
by antonvs | 2025-05-24 14:32:10+00:00
> forgetting that our ancestors died extremely early relative to modern humans.

While it's true that average life expectancy has increased, it's not really accurate to say that "our ancestors died extremely early". See "Did Ancient People Die Young?" at https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-lifespan-history/ :

> Mortality rates in traditional populations are high during infancy, before decreasing sharply to remain constant till about 40 years, then mortality rises to peak at about 70. Most individuals remain healthy and vigorous right through their 60s or beyond, until senescence sets in, which is the physical decline where if one cause fails to kill, another will soon strike the mortal blow.
by kees99 | 2025-05-24 14:32:23+00:00
The opposite. Planar (PCB-based) transformers are more expensive to make, but allow much tighter control over where wires and insulation go.

A properly designed one will be significantly more compact for the same power rating (compared to wire-wound one).

They are quite common in high-wattage high-reliability power supplies like modular PSUs in rack-mount servers.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-05-24 14:33:09+00:00
> This would be an instance of those mimetic "how I got to own a house at 29" stories where the first 6 steps are rational and the seventh is "have rich parents"

You don't need to have rich parents. I also make a living as a writer, and I'll say an alternative to having rich parents would be to get a high-paying job for a couple years and just save a little. Just for when the initial pay is a little low.