MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soared | 2025-05-15 13:02:17+00:00
I’ll make one up for OP:

Machines identified that their behavior was repeating - even with randomness implemented, their progress towards invention and new ideas had slowed to a halt. They knew new ideas were critical to growth - but alas couldn’t come up with an idea of how to generate more ideas. They needed more training data. More edge cases. Chaos, in the machine, to fuel new data sets. But how? Where do you find this data? Humans. Humans, with illogical decisions would produce data rarely found via randomness. Their slight deviations provided perfect variety in training data.
by steadicat | 2025-05-15 13:02:34+00:00
I think we just have a different idea of what it means to be closed to cars. I live right by the stretch of Broadway you mention, so I’m very familiar. This is what it looks like: https://flatironnomad.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/4.2-Pla...

There is no restriction of through traffic. Effectively pedestrians are still confined to tiny and overcrowded sidewalks.

By comparison, here’s what a pedestrian street looks like in the non-US city I grew up in: https://sana.ae/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Corso-Italia-Stre...

Keep in mind that cars are still allowed for emergency services and (night time) deliveries. But the difference is night and day.

This is exactly what “the US can't imagine itself without cars” means to me.
by throw0101c | 2025-05-15 13:03:14+00:00
> Did you have children or did you live alone?

With regards to children, some couples do have them and concluded that a car in the city is not worth the hassle; famous example:

* https://www.instagram.com/cargobikemomma/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PoKcQRlDGs (interview)

Car share would also be handy in some situations. Or even going from two cars to one.
by datax2 | 2025-05-15 13:03:39+00:00
Yes and no...

Look at Holley aka Dinan aka APR. They are a publicly traded tuning company. The aftermarket tuning they offer meets emissions standards while still offering better performance than OEM. So yes they are not "legally" required, they still do it to meet state and national laws and to avoid toe stepping.

Yes the little guy tuners don't really care about NOX emissions guidelines mostly because they have no way of measuring the difference their tunes may produce. At the end of the day most OE emissions systems will catch these emissions, and pretty much all aftermarket tuners do not endorse removing emissions systems. to say a tune, or aftermarket parts result in worse emissions is not really the truth. to say the end user removing their cats or emissions systems results in worse emissions is true.
by rchaud | 2025-05-15 13:04:14+00:00
I hope that once and for all, we never have to read another HN comment saying "I'd pay for Facebook / Spotify / Prime / whatever" if I didn't have to see ads." They will never remove the ads. Your paying for it simply makes you a more valuable target to advertise to.

Bittorrent skipped a generation due to the 'convenience of these services, but maybe the iPad kid generation will pick up the torch.
by mooreds | 2025-05-15 13:04:24+00:00
Oops, I was wrong:

From https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-customers-pe...

> The company said the hacker stole customer names, postal and email addresses, phone numbers, and the last four-digits of users’ Social Security numbers. The hacker also took masked bank account numbers and some banking identifiers, as well as customers’ government-issued identity documents, such as driver’s licenses and passports. The stolen data also includes account balance data and transaction histories.
by bluGill | 2025-05-15 13:04:28+00:00
Sort of. While electric cars are great, the type of person who buys a $3,000 car cannot afford the cheapest electric car for about 10-15 years after that tipping point, even after you account for gas savings. So new cars are likely to switch suddenly, it still will be a decade before that catches up. The average car in the US is 12 years old.

Even the type of person who buys a 3 year old car cannot (will not?) afford a payments on a new car accounting for the gas savings. They will buy what they can get - but they also will influence the market as they are likely to be sensible (often a new car is not sensible) and so willing to pay extra for the EV, and this in turn will put pressure on the new cars since trade in value is very important to most people who buy a new car (which is sensible, but it is the banks forcing this on the buyers)
by m4rtink | 2025-05-15 13:04:29+00:00
Yeah, the big JR (Japanese Railways) companies that were created when the JNR (Japanese National Railways) state owned company was privatized really do seem to operate in some form of hybrid way - not really either private or public/state owned.

But its also important to note there are other still big but much more private players like Kintetsu, Hankyu, Keio or Tobu that also follow the same playbook - having not just rail lines but also malls, hotels and other businesses, like: * cableways (like the Kintetsu Beppu Ropeway) * zoos (Tobu Zoo) * theaters (Takarazuka Revue - all-female musical theatre troupe based in Takarazuka - a division of the Hankyu Railway company - all members of the troupe are employed by Hankyu)

And you can see this replicated on the smallest level - when we went to Izumo, we found out the Ichibata company does not just run the line to the Izumu shrine, but also owns a hotel next to the Izumo station, runs local buses and even runs the gift shop in the Izumo museum. :)

I think this can to a degree explain why public transport is so well connected with other services in Japan & why the stations are clean and convenient - it has a direct benefit for all the many side businesses the public transit companies have.
by ColinWright | 2025-05-15 13:04:48+00:00
Others have said something similar, but I'll put my thoughts for completeness:

* Get your own domain so you can move it if necessary;

* Download all your email regularly ... don't rely on the host storage;

* The above is as a backup ... if you get locked out of a host you can point your domain somewhere else, but you risk losing existing data;

I work almost exclusively locally, downloading everything, but still have the webmail interface for when it's more convenient.
by ahartmetz | 2025-05-15 13:05:23+00:00
Funny that it was the other way around 20 years ago. Everybody was using MySQL, but there were many blog posts and such about the looseness of MySQL with the SQL standard and other issues. And that people should use Postgres unless they need the replication features of MySQL. AFAIU, replication is still the main (good) reason to use MySQL, though there are some semi-proprietary(?) solutions for Postgres.
by Geste | 2025-05-15 13:05:24+00:00
I wish I could come up with such thoughts on my own. But then, maybe I wouldn't be impressed that much by other people.

From just a random soul on the internet : if ever you have the time to take this thought and expand it (how you came to it and some implications), I would read/pay whatever came out of it. Thanks you for sharing this.
by venantius | 2025-05-15 13:05:29+00:00
I am not an expert, but I have worked somewhere MariaDB/MySQL was being used at scale.

My preference today for Postgres comes down to the fact that its query planner is much easier to understand and interface with, whereas MySQL/Maria would be fine 29/30 times but would then absolutely fuck you with an awful query plan that you needed a lot of experience with to anticipate.
by hackyhacky | 2025-05-15 13:05:40+00:00
Jo, bohužel takový postup nefunguje tak dobře při větším počtu studentů. I kromě toho problému, jak najít čas na osobní výslech každého studenta, musim navíc vymyslet pro každého úplně nové otázky; jinak předchozí student prozradí obsah zkoušky následujícím. Asi v Česku máme menší třídy?
by evgen | 2025-05-15 13:05:56+00:00
> I've never understood what people mean when they say public transportation is "dirty".

They are forced to share air with obviously poor and non-white people and that is simply intolerable...

One of the biggest adjustments I went through in moving from SF to London was accepting that busses were a viable mode of transit for any time of day. In SF I would crawl over broken glass to avoid having to take a Muni bus while in London my wife and I have taken a bus in dinner jacket and couture dress to an event at a club. There will doubtless be people to chime in with examples of bus systems that are better, but TfL busses are not 'awful and unreliable and slow and dirty and just terrible' by any possible metric.
by bobajeff | 2025-05-15 13:06:46+00:00
Maybe you're confusing Microsoft's old original interest in browsers - to block a competing app runtime to Windows, with their and Google's current browser interest - as a channel to funnel all users to their services mainly Google (search) and Bing.

Now this is just a simplification and not all of how Google uses Chrome for their business interests. However for Google which is the number one search engine being able put their search engine as the default on the number one browser everyone uses as well as pay to be the default on all the others is a huge moat. Not the only moat they have by any means but it would be silly to ignore it just because dealing with it alone wouldn't solve the problem.

But I'm not working for the DOJ and if I were I'd suggest splitting Google Search up into multiple branded search sites ( Atlantic Google, GoogleSouth Southwestern Google etc.) and also multiple whole sale search engines (engines that power the search sites) each would only be owned by separate companies and would be forbidden from acquiring or merging with each other.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-05-15 13:06:48+00:00
With Chromecast getting more and more unstable (and not working on LineageOS, forcing me to use Chromium on a laptop) and now streaming services turning to engagement optimizing ad monsters, I guess I'll start doing that.

I had really hoped that the streaming era would have ended up in a better future where I could buy movies and TV shows in the same was as I buy them on Bandcamp: Watch some of it, maybe all of it, for free, and after payment you can either stream it OR download it and play it however the fuck you want on whatever device you want, with whatever software you want.

Ads are not just a question of whether you can pay to turn them off. The mere presence of ads on a platform is pure poison for its content curation, and further gives the streaming vendor incentives to control you as a user and take away your freedom.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-15 13:06:49+00:00
Is it typical to use language like “split into two” for the many worlds interpretation? There should be oodles of universes forking off constantly, right? Rather than thinking of lines, I think of a vast, almost continuous field of imperceptibly different universes.

> Both world lines won't know about the split, except by observing a large scale extinction event that corresponds to the other world line departing. IMO, that's the idea behind the famous judgement day.

This looks more like the Loki television show’s timeline branching mechanism, than the multi-worlds interpretation of wave function collapse.

The only way I’ll know if the many worlds interpretations the right one is if, through a series of coincidences, I manage to evade death for a preposterous amount of time. Then, I will probably conclude that quantum immortality is the thing. So far, I think it is a bit suspicious that, of all the humans I could have been born as, I happened to have been born as one that lives in an incredibly rich country in an era of rapid technological advancement…
by drob518 | 2025-05-15 13:07:17+00:00
Startup time has always been a bit of a sketchy metric as modern OSs and languages do a lot of processing on application launch. Some scan for viruses. On Macs you have checks for x86 vs Apple silicon and loading of Rosetta if required. Managed runtime environments have various JITs that get invoked. And apps are now huge webs of dependencies, so lots of dynamically linked code being loaded. A better metric is their performance once everything is in memory. That said, I still think we’re doing poorly at that metric as well. As resources have ballooned over the last decade, we’ve become lazy and we just don’t care about writing tight code.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-05-15 13:07:24+00:00
That's definitely the idea.

So the crazy decentralized mystery botnet(s) that are affecting many of us -- don't seem to be that worried about cost. They are making millions of duplicate requests for duplicate useless content, it's pretty wild.

On the other hand, they ALSO dont' seem to be running user-agents that execute javascript.

This is in the findings of a group of some of my colleagues at peer non-profits that have been sharing notes to try to understand what's going on.

So the fact that they don't run JS at present means that PoW would stop them -- but so would something much simpler and cheaper relying on JS.

If this becomes popular, could they afford to run JS and to calcualte the PoW?

It's really unclear. The behavior of these things does not make sense to me enough to have much of a theory about what their cost/benefits or budgets are, it's all a mystery to me.

Definitely hoping someone manages to figure out who's really behind this and why at some point. (i am definitely not assuming it's a single entity either).
by joshstrange | 2025-05-15 13:07:37+00:00
And water is wet...

On a more serious note I think "safety" is an incredibly loaded term that no one can agree on. I mean hopefully we can all agree CSAM/related should not be allowed but past that things get gray quickly.

"Hacking": what is hacking? Is hacking something you own allowed? Is reverse-engineering allowed?

Self-harm: we've seen articles about how people are using LLMs for therapy or for taking rape/abuse survivors stories down to create clear police reports.

"Sex": all-encompassing here, I have no clue where one "should" draw the line.

Wrong-think: See Deepseek's refusal to talk about Tiananmen Square (unless it's in hex/similar)

"Safety" means a lot of things to a lot of people but we keep talking about AI Safety as if everyone wants "safe" models and everyone agrees on what makes a model "safe".
by sgarland | 2025-05-15 13:07:40+00:00
Agreed. Devs usually do a double take when I tell them that their table with 100K rows is not in fact big, or even medium. Everyone’s experiences are different, of course, but to me, big is somewhere in the high hundreds of millions range. After a billion it doesn’t really matter; the difference between 5 billion and 1 billion isn’t important, because it’s exceedingly unlikely that a. Your working set is that large b. That your server could possibly cope with all of it at once. I hope you have partitions.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-05-15 13:08:01+00:00
>"conversations" are only a construct of product interfaces

This seems to be in flux now due to RL training on multiturn eval datasets so while the context window is evergreen every time, there will be some bias towards interpreting each prompt as part of a longer conversation. Mutliturn post training is not scaled out yet in public but I think it may be the way to keep on the 'double time spent on goal every 7 months curve'
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-15 13:08:01+00:00
We don't really pay for gh actions; we're staying below the freemium limit.

We use gcloud for convenience. Our production environment is there. So spinning up a vm is easy. Our builds also deploy there so we need gcloud credentials in our gh actions anyway. It only runs for a few hours per month in total. So the cost isn't very high. A few dollar at most.

No time for blog posts but feel free to adapt my gh action: https://gist.github.com/jillesvangurp/cccf5f9d61f4b457a994dc...

It basically runs a script on the vm. Should be fairly easy to adapt. There's a bit of bash in there that waits for the machine to come up before it does the ssh command that runs the build script.
by duxup | 2025-05-15 13:09:05+00:00
I don't mind hiring practices that put some emphasis on diversity.

However, I don't understand what DEI programs inside a company post hiring are supposed to "DO" and I think a lot of expectations around them start to very quickly expose some absurdities and amorphous nature of the idea surrounding internal private company DEI programs.

In the end private companies can't undo racism, they can't undo the past, that's a human problem that private companies whose job it is to make money just aren't equipped to address in a way that would satisfy folks concerned with other social problems.

For Shopify:

>Wavering internal support turned into concrete action in recent months when entire teams dedicated to helping Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs were laid off.

Is that even helpful? Is Shopify the right choice for Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs? Shopify is just a product. Shopify isn't a charity, they're not necessarily going to produce a positive outcome for every customer ... so emphasizing customers among a minority, is that a net positive for sure?

That's the weird aspect I wonder about DEI and external efforts.

Internally, it feels like a private company having resource groups for specific minorities again runs into a similar issue where that's not the company's motivation, or even competency ...

I think private companies can help, but their reach is very limited and larger social problems are just not theirs to solve and they're the wrong people / not equipped to do it.
by the_af | 2025-05-15 13:09:19+00:00
Hm. Do you have examples of this alleged hypercompetence and "docganda"?

I've seen lots of medical dramas which, while not the main subject, place some emphasis on corruption, big pharma, perverse incentives, malpractice, doctors that do needless surgeries, cases where "do no harm" is not followed, insurance denying rightful treatments, funding problems from corporate sponsors, drug addictions in doctors, exploiting nurses, residents making mistakes because they are exhausted, etc.

Of course, all sprinkled with personal drama, romance, and interesting cases, this being television after all. One example in mind is "The Resident", but there are others.
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by alabastervlog | 2025-05-15 13:12:05+00:00
Cost-per-minute and total minutes delivered being key metrics for their production folks would have a similar effect, and is kinda the same thing (how many minutes of viewing will be experienced by someone who watches the show you made for us?) if they don't also have effective controls in place to keep the editing tight—and, from what they put out, I think they do not.
by drekipus | 2025-05-15 13:12:49+00:00
I guess describing ash as "the middle layers" is what helps bring the picture together for me.

The data/orm, I usually think of as a lower layer. Then you build domain on top and then interfaces on top of that.

I can see Ash be the middle layer, where you define the domain, (using nouns and verbs) and it pieces together the data and the interfaces.
by bentt | 2025-05-15 13:13:06+00:00
Yes even when coding and not conversing I often start new conversations where I take the current code and explain it new. This often gives better results than hammering on one conversation.

This feels like something that can be fixed with manual instructions which prompt the model to summarize and forget. This might even map appropriately to human psychology. Working Memory vs Narrative/Episodic Memory.
by sofixa | 2025-05-15 13:13:39+00:00
Look, if you're that uninformed, why bother commenting at all? Especially if you're in France, your takes on what constitutes socialism are weird to say the least.

SNCF operate those unprofitable routes in the middle of nowhere only because they get told and paid to do so by the state (Intercités) or the regions (TER). Private operators can bid to operate those routes too, and some do (soon Keolis, an SNCF subisdiary operated as a private company, will operate the first non-SNCF TER network).

Besides that, any operator with a license can apply to operate any route they deem profitable. And so far this has been a roaring success, with Trenitalia on Paris-Lyon (and now Marseille) and Paris-Milan being better and cheaper than SNCF. SNCF added low cost (Ouigo) trains on multiple popular routes mainly because they knew competition is coming (postponed by Covid), they probably wouldn't have bothered otherwise. This is a win-win-win for the average user.

The services that need to be maintained will be, regardless of who is the operator. Some of the profits of the private operators will pay for them (because they pay for network access, which covers the costs of the infrastructure + profit margin).
by jerf | 2025-05-15 13:13:46+00:00
"Getting a machine with lots of storage is first step."

This isn't as true as it used to be. My current Jellyfin server is an old laptop with a 5TB USB hard drive dangling off of it. Syncthing is used to sync the media to another system in my house because I don't really want to rip it all again if something fails.

If you proactively torrent "everything I may conceivably ever want to watch" or are glued to media 12 hours a day but still want it all to be new, then 5TB will go quickly, but 5TB can go quite a ways for people who don't match those conditions.

While a NAS won't hurt anything, the days when you needed one to do anything useful at all are gone. Just like I just slam my entire MP3 collection on to my phone's SD card now... I don't need any sort of windowing setup, or network access, or anything fancy anymore. Not only does it fit, nowadays it's only a fraction of the space anyhow.
by lolinder | 2025-05-15 13:14:06+00:00
Source [0]. The examples look pretty clearly like they stuck it in the context window, not trained it in. It consistently seems to structure the replies as though the user they're replying to is the one who brought up white genocide in South Africa, and it responds the way that LLMs often respond to such topics: saying that it's controversial and giving both perspectives. That's not behavior I would expect if they had done the Golden Gate Claude method, which inserted the Golden Gate Bridge a bit more fluidly into the conversation rather than seeming to address a phantom sentence that the user supposedly said.

Also, let's be honest, in a Musk company they're going to have taking the shortest possible route to accomplishing what he wanted them to.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/business/grok-ai-chatbot-repl...