MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trod1234 | 2025-05-05 01:20:24+00:00
The correct name for this is syndicalism.

Ludwig von Mises wrote extensively about how the organizational structure fails in his writings dating back to the 1930s-1950s.

There's a slightly indirect reference to it in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, with regards to the 20th Century Motor Corporation's fall.

The associated writings by Mises are largely aggregated in book form today under the title "Socialism", published by the Liberty Fund, for those that care to read first-hand.

While these system structures fail, they can do so quite slowly, especially if any kind of money-printing/non-reserve debt issuance is occuring (leveraging the currency through inflation as a whole to prolong the isolated system parasitically). When they do fail, the failures include properties of mathematical chaos, preventing differentiation or isolation of issues in time to act and resolve.

There are also issues with objective valuation that touch on other fundamental failure domains also described in said book.
by gngoo | 2025-05-05 01:20:27+00:00
Working on AI myself, creating small and big systems, creating my own assistants and side-kicks. And then also seeing progress as well as rewards. I realize that I am not immune to this. Even when I am fully aware, I still have a feeling that some day I just hit the right buttons, the right prompts, and what comes staring back to me is something of my own creation that others see as some "fantasy" that I can't steer away from.

Just imagine, you have this genie in the bottle, that has all the right answers for you; helps you in your conquests, career, finances, networking, etc. Maybe it even covers up past traumas, insecurities and what not. And for you the results are measurable (or are they?). A few helpful interactions in, why would you not disregard people calling it a fantasy and lean in even further? It's a scary future to imagine, but not very farfetched. Even now I feel a very noticable disconnected between discussions of AI where as a developer vs user of polished products (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) - you are several leagues separated (and lagging behind) from understanding what is really possible here.
by hakfoo | 2025-05-05 01:20:46+00:00
I love the idea of a downloadable version because I suspect there are a lot of business cases of

* Need to make a relatively narrow change to a PDF (add a line, reorder pages, concatenate two files)

* Adobe is $$$ and pretty much a subscription-only fiasco. Even the most trivial tasks are paywalled.

* Even if you're paying for Adobe at a corporate level, getting the IT clearance to get it installed might be more time sink than the actual task,

We have a server that had pdftk installed to generate some pre-filled documents and I ended up using that to concatenate two PDF files instead of fighting to get Real Acrobat.
by owenversteeg | 2025-05-05 01:20:49+00:00
Background: I am trying to produce some ABS parts in small volume (10s of kg per day) and going crazy trying to find any decent source of information about the print process. Everything seems to be based on anecdotes and if you're lucky maybe a Youtube video.

Here is what I have gathered so far, in case it helps anyone: 1) print ABS enclosed in a chamber temp of a minimum 50C, ideal 60-80C. 2) use quality filament, Polymaker filament is good; issues are plastic composition and diameter variation. 3) dry the filament properly. 4) the fumes will destroy your lungs and eventually the printers themselves, so they need to be vented out, and also filtered inside the enclosure. 5) bed flatness is critical. 6) use a good bed adhesive such as Magigoo.
by dangus | 2025-05-05 01:21:06+00:00
I actually think that many of the concerns the author doesn’t have are the more concerning ones and some of the concerns they do have are more likely to be not much of a big deal.

The privacy concern I find to be particularly overstated. This is an identical concern to ones that have existed before AI ever entered the fray. Anytime you send data to a system that someone else controls you run those exact same risks. I also think there’s an overstated fear that an app focused on private data (something similar to Signal) would just add some kind of AI functionality one day out of the blue and suddenly ship your data off to a hive mind.

Any app that is willing to cross that line already has done so (e.g., Facebook).

It also seems to be technologically simple to perform a lot of AI tasks without compromising privacy. E.g., chips with local-first AI computational ability are reaching consumer level devices. Even the much-maligned Windows Recall feature specifically emphasizes how it never sends information to Microsoft servers nor processes data in the cloud.
by zdragnar | 2025-05-05 01:21:28+00:00
It'd be great if it were trained on therapeutic resources, but otherwise just ends up enabling and amplifying the problem.

I knew of someone who had paranoid delusions and schizophrenia. He didn't like taking his medicine due to the side effects, but became increasingly convinced that vampires were out to kill him. Friends, family and social workers could help him get through episodes and back on the medicine before he became a danger to himself.

I'm terrified that people like him will push away friends and family because the LLM engages with their delusions.
by jodrellblank | 2025-05-05 01:21:33+00:00
Your other comment related because it shows the amount of projection in my comment was just the right amount.

> "Is it arrogant to have preferences?"

No, it's arrogant to not know what people are doing but still tell people that you know better what tools would be good to do what they are doing.

> "My point is not that LO is better, it's that we should work to remove our dependency on closed-source software for universal office work"

If that is what you had said, I wouldn't have replied.
by codingrightnow | 2025-05-05 01:21:51+00:00
I'm not sure anything 'just works'. I have an Ender 3 S1 with autoleveling. I still have to adjust 4 knobs while getting under the print head with a feeler gauge. It's absolutely maddening. I need to do this with every print. If I don't touch the thing for a few months it's really bad. If you don't get it right it will gauge your printing surface or alternatively rip your piece apart as it prints. Then you need to know about bed temperature, nozzle temperature, and a hundred other things. Then what types of filament work best with certain bed types. I wish I never got it.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-05-05 01:22:02+00:00
People who can never have enough money don't want the money. What they want is the dopamine hit they get every time they feel they have won. Money is the measuring stick they are using to keep track. No amount of money will make them happy. You can say the same about the elites in any field. It's not about the thing but about winning the competition.

Many of us will hit a point where what we have is enough. If we are lucky enough to hit that point then we will retire or keep doing what needs to be done to maintain that point. Looks like you hit that point. Good for you...
by jakelazaroff | 2025-05-05 01:22:21+00:00
My wife and I did this last year and it was an incredible experience. A year ago today we were driving up to Cape Tribulation in Australia. Along the way, on a small hike on a boardwalk through the woods, we were startled by a cassowary crossing our path less than 20 feet from us!

We did manage to pull out our phones and grab a video. A year later, I’m so glad we did — even more fun than seeing the cassowary step across the trail is hearing our voices excitedly whisper to each other about how big and close it was.

I’m jealous of your trip. Not a day goes by that I don’t reminisce fondly on ours. And I’m sure you’ll strike the right balance between being a photographer and being in the moment :)
by andrehacker | 2025-05-05 01:22:26+00:00
When I was young and easily swayed, I took life advice from a well-known Dutch comedian (Youp van 't Hek) who loved to mock tourists taking those cringe “holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa” photos. The message was clear: tourist photos were tacky, and besides, you could always find a better photo in the gift shop anyway.

So for years, I smugly avoided taking photos—too cool for clichés. It only hit me much later that I wasn’t missing out on better shots of monuments… I was missing pictures of the people I was with. Family and friends looking younger, sometimes happier, and—how shall I put it—sometimes still alive.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-05-05 01:23:46+00:00
I think LLMs, if used correctly, can be useful for BOTH the credentialing and the human resource development (*cough*)

Essentially, since they are a summary of "the" state of knowledge, the teacher should be able to ask them to put a number on how novel a piece of text is.

Once LLMs are able to evaluate, independently, the soundness of an argument... (Hopefully, this will be achieved AFTER $5 H100s reach the average consumer)
by cue_the_strings | 2025-05-05 01:24:05+00:00
Oh, I do remember I was thinking like this in high school, "live through the moment, don't take pictures".

I didn't account for my memory being shot even in my 30s. I would love to have a couple of photos or videos of some events, but I don't, and I can no longer remember what it was like at all.
by bumby | 2025-05-05 01:24:07+00:00
This attitude is part of a more general cultural shift. Back in the 1960s, the majority of students said the primary motivation for going to college was to develop a philosophy of life, and a minority said the main goal was to be very financially successful. Somewhere around the 1980s this started to shift and the proportions are now inverted.

* according to the UCLA CIRP freshman survey
by solardev | 2025-05-05 01:24:22+00:00
I love that Mermaid is portable, but I hate its syntax. I wish I could just define the things graphically, dragging nodes around an auto layout canvas, and then have it generate the corresponding code that I could then further edit.

In other words, the graphical output wouldn't just be a preview of the code, but an editable canvas like Figma or SVG editors.

Mermaid is so terrible to work with I usually have to use ChatGPT to make all but the simplest diagrams. It is not very good at it though and will frequently hallucinate invalid syntax, especially for less common charts like sankeys.
Show HN: LLM-Exe – A Modular TypeScript Toolkit for LLM Application Development
by llm-exe | 2025-05-05 01:26:38+00:00
I've recently updated llm-exe, a modular TypeScript library built specifically to simplify creating applications with Large Language Models (LLMs). The package allows you to call LLM's from various providers without changing the underlying code.

The library focuses on a structured, lightweight, modular design that lets developers easily assemble complex workflows from reusable components:

Prompts: Structured templating for managing sophisticated prompts with built-in Handlebars support.

Parsers: Components that transform raw LLM responses (strings) into structured data, supporting JSON, arrays, enum extraction, and custom parsing logic.

LLM Providers: Abstracted interfaces for various providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, and Ollama, allowing seamless switching without changing implementation logic.

Executors: The LLM executor takes an llm, a prompt, optionally a parser, and wraps in a well-typed function. An LLM executor is a container that can be used to call an LLM with a pre-defined input and output; with additional values provided at the time of execution. An LLM executor's input and output types are determined by the prompt and parser respectively.

Utilities: Helpers for common tasks such as prompt debugging, caching, and managing conversation state.

Here's how you might create a structured executor:

--- import { createLlmExecutor, createChatPrompt, createParser, useLlm } from 'llm-exe';

const llm = useLlm("openai.gpt-4o-mini");

const prompt = createChatPrompt<{input: string}>('Translate the phrase "{{input}}" into French, Spanish, and German, returning the results as an unordered markdown list.');

const parser = createParser('listToArray');

const translateExecutor = createLlmExecutor({ llm, prompt, parser });

// result is typed as string[]

// the input is also well-typed!

const result = await translateExecutor.execute({ input: "Hello, world!" });

console.log(result);

// Outputs: ["Bonjour le monde!", "¡Hola, mundo!", "Hallo, Welt!"] ---

Check out the documentation and more examples here: llm-exe.com. I'd love your feedback or contributions!
by ghc | 2025-05-05 01:27:46+00:00
I'm in much the same boat. While I can recall minute details about major events from long in my past, I cannot "see" them in my head like other people apparently can. Instead I feel like my brain is a police sketch artist with my memory providing a list of details. With the advent of smart phones, I've been able to non-disruptively capture tens of thousands of visual memories I might not otherwise have. And with modern photo management software it's been great to revisit the memories from time to time without having to painstakingly organize them.
by dangus | 2025-05-05 01:29:14+00:00
And I totally understand why counter cultural types have latched on to disliking AI especially since some of its biggest proponents are incredibly corporate and, well, lame as fuck.

I also think that it’s a technology that didn't develop with some counterculture chops like many earlier technology innovations.

E.g., we could think about something like crypto that had an uphill battle against the establishment and was created with some level of ideological independence.

There are even some more corporate disruptions that plain and simple had better marketing behind them, like how Airbnb and Uber had widely disliked incumbents to “beat” in the market. Early Uber or Airbnb users were basically “beating the system.” At least, that’s how a lot of people perceived them, even if that didn’t turn out to be the reality.

In contrast, AI has felt much more like a corporate circlejerk among the wealthiest super-billionaires. There hasn’t even been the slightest facade of genuine do-goodery in this technology. Some wildly well-funded companies led by sociopathic robot-human CEOs made a plagiarism machine that my boss now insists I use for all my work.

I think that usually the people in the middle of the two extremes have the right thought process going on. It’s clear to me that AI is a great tool that isn’t going away, but perhaps its most passionate champions and detractors both need to settle down.
by bumby | 2025-05-05 01:29:23+00:00
>The other aspect of college you ignore is, it is a way to build a network prior to entering the workforce.

I don’t know how generalizable this is. I remember reading a few studies trying to assess if Ivy League education was really more valuable that a state school. The result (IIRC) was that it only matters for students who came from the lowest economic strata; the authors presumed it was due to the network effect. But that also means the network effect was negligible for the majority of students.
by Lammy | 2025-05-05 01:30:03+00:00
Layers were unique to Netscape 4.x (a.k.a “Communicator” vs. the older “Navigator” branding), so the Netscape ONE docs would probably be the best place to start if you can tolerate the fact that it's their tech so they're patting themselves on the back for it the entire time: https://web.archive.org/web/19990219125559fw_/http://develop...

Check out Chapter 2 “Dividing Content into Sections” in particular for examples: https://web.archive.org/web/20001207134400fw_/http://develop...

That chapter has a tantalizingly-broken link near the bottom: “For a comparison of CSS Positioning and positioning with the <LAYER> tag, see Danny Goodman's View Source article ‘CSS-Positioning — The Dynamic HTML Neutral Zone’”. I was able to fix the link (looks like it was MCom-intranet-formatted) and you can read it here: https://web.archive.org/web/19990129034353fw_/http://develop...

“Over and above this common [W3C CSS-Positioning (CSS-P)] standard, Netscape and Microsoft have applied these concepts to their own document object models and have developed different ways of conceptualizing these positionable entities. Netscape calls these items layers, and has even created a <LAYER> tag to facilitate adding such items into a document. Microsoft, on the other hand, refers to such items as styles. The challenge we scripters face is controlling Netscape's layers and Microsoft's styles to accomplish the same job.”

“Over and above this common standard” is particularly funny wording to me considering Microsoft are the ones with the reputation for embracing-and-extending but here Netscape are doing the same damn thing. It was already in their blood anyway considering we got the <IMG> tag from a similarly non-standard extension by Marc Andreessen when he was working on MCSA Mosaic, before MCom/Netscape: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

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For many years it was customary to have separate NS4 vs IE4 code paths by detecting the top-level objects that were unique to each browser, something like:

if (document.layers) { // Netscape Communicator code } else if (document.all) { // IE code } else { // All other browser code }

Though my recollection is that `if NS4 else all-others-including-IE` was the most common pattern.
by rnd0 | 2025-05-05 01:30:20+00:00
The mention of lovebombing is disconcerting, and I'd love to know the specifics around it. Is it related to the sycophant personality changes they had to walk back, or is it something more intense?

I've used AI (not chatgpt) for roleplay and I've noticed that the models will often fixate on one idea or concept and repeat it and build on it. So this makes me wonder if the model the person being lovebombed experienced something like that? The model decided that they liked that content so they just kept building up on it?
by ChadNauseam | 2025-05-05 01:30:35+00:00
If students went to college only to learn, colleges wouldn't bother giving diplomas.

Compare: My piano teacher doesn't give diplomas because none of her students would care, her students actually want to learn. When my piano teacher cancels class, I am disappointed because I wanted to learn. My piano teacher doesn't need to threaten me with bad grades to get me to practice outside of class (analogous to homework), because I actually want to learn.

There are many college students for whom none of these tests would pass. They would not attend if there was no diploma, they're relieved when their professors cancel class, and they need to be bullied into studying outside of class.

What made us think these students were ever interested in learning in the first place? Instead, it seems more likely that they just want a degree because they believe that a degree will give them an advantage in the job market. Many people will never use the information that they supposedly learn in college, and they're aware of this when they enroll.

Personally, the fact that they can now get a degree with even less wasted effort than before doesn't bother me one bit. People who want to learn still have every opportunity to.
by TuringNYC | 2025-05-05 01:31:29+00:00
In our case it was a builder who had done dozens of Brooklyn high-rise apartments. Seems they were facing similar complaints from multiple buildings on corners cut during initial construction (e.g., live wires dangling in apartments, loose tiles on balconies which could fall off the highrise, work which would not meet threshold for the city to issue a non-temporary Certificate of Occupancy.) The condo association had to retain a lawyer, spent high five figures on a lawsuit, settled, but got no help from the NY AG.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-05 01:31:39+00:00
> Somewhere around the 1980s this started to shift and the proportions are now inverted.

Yeah, that's when the great "push for education" came, as well as neoliberalism which preached continuous hustling and individuality. And in the 90s, the ADA and other anti discrimination laws hit, and requiring a college degree was and still is a very useful pre-screening filter for HR to continue discrimination.
by joshvm | 2025-05-05 01:31:43+00:00
My gut feeling is that 10s of kg per day should be injection molded. Or SLS/resin printed so you can take advantage of layer speed. That's what 10x printers running at full tilt constantly, at least?

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/7n0go2/my_first... for an anecdote.
by enthdegree | 2025-05-05 01:32:21+00:00
I like seeing pictures taken by my friends. I like discussing those pictures with them. Conversely I also like creating and curating my own pictures to share with like-minded friends. It is prosocial all around.

The article is appalling. To me it more effectively conveys his character than his ideas. Maybe for some people it really is hard to find a balance.
by Eisenstein | 2025-05-05 01:32:42+00:00
I see from your link that you mentioned a specific: that court takes a long time.

What do you think the optimal system would be in that specific case? If you could design it, how would it look? It doesn't have to be realistic, but like an ideal system of justice. Are there any precedents you think are ideal or is there something you have in mind that would make it work better?
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-05 01:34:31+00:00
> I would argue that if it costs $60,000, both your education system and the recruitment in those companies that require this degree are broken.

Meh, academic degrees don't come for free, someone has to pay for universities, staff and other expenses. In the US it's everyone for themselves by student loans that can't be discharged in bankruptcies, in Europe it's the tax payers.

The problem is, the ones profiting from the gatekeeping (aka employers) aren't the ones paying for it in either system. If employers had to pay, say, 10.000$ for each job listing that requires an academic degree without an actual valid reason, guess how fast that incentive would lead to employers not requiring academic degrees for paper-pusher bullshit jobs.
by k310 | 2025-05-05 01:34:36+00:00
Just wondering how much crypto and to which wallet payments must be made in order to cancel this latest threat.

He waves his magic twanger with each threat expecting concessions, submission, or tribute to cancel the threat.

There is no reasonable purpose in these tariffs, except for the game of Risk he’s playing to bolster his ego. Bigger than Zaphod Beeblebrox. And I typed that right the first time.
by chris12321 | 2025-05-05 01:34:51+00:00
It's been widely understood in the Ruby community for some time now that metaprogramming—like in the example above—should generally be limited to framework or library code, and avoided in regular application code.

Dynamically generated methods can provide amazing DX when used appropriately. A classic example from Rails is belongs_to, which dynamically defines methods based on the arguments provided:

class Post < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :user end

This generates methods like:

post.user - retrieves the associated user

post.user=(user) - sets the associated user

post.user_changed? - returns true if the user foreign key has changed.
by alganet | 2025-05-05 01:35:05+00:00
You are a conspiracy theorist and a liar! /s

The problem is inside people. I met lots of people who contributed to psychotic inducing behavior. Most of them were not in a cult. They were regular folk, who enjoy a beer, movies, music, and occasionally triggering others with mental tickles.

Very simple answer.

Is OpenAI also doing it? Well, it was trained on people.

People need to get better. Kinder. Less combative, less jokey, less provocative.

We're not gonna get there. Ever. This problem precedes AI by decades.

The article is an old recipe for dealing with this kind of realization.