MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esafak | 2025-06-21 21:11:52+00:00
It's possible for the locking up of knowledge to be bad, and for the preservation of the integrity of knowledge to be good at the same time.

The mistake the article makes is of modeling the flow as bidirectional. And since she doesn't want integrity to suffer, she says siloing is good. You want information to get out without getting diluting. It is never good for the left hand not to know the right hand. Information should flow freely, subject to ingress monitoring; don't admit bad information, but don't close the border.

The question is whether you have the ability to police your side of the border.
by ghaff | 2025-06-21 21:12:17+00:00
On the other hand, moving between (and founding) minicomputer companies was a thing for a long time in spite of Massachusetts being fairly non-compete clause friendly until very recently. And arguably, current laws enacted against some fairly strenuous tech company opposition force companies to put some skin in the game but are still a pretty raw deal for employees who can't afford to sit on the bench for 50% of their former base. (Which is what I think relatively recent legislation calls for.)

I'm against non-competes except in narrow cases. But a lot of people probably give the general inability to enforce non-competes in California too much credit for CA tech success in spite of one story in particular.
by brokencode | 2025-06-21 21:13:05+00:00
This ARIA program’s budget is apparently only about 800 million pounds, which is a tiny fraction of UK’s overall budget of over a trillion pounds.

These types of highly speculative projects are inherently risky, making them unappealing for profit-driven investors. That’s why it’s important for non-profit organizations and governments to fund them.

Scientific breakthroughs don’t happen in a vacuum. They are the product of dedicated research requiring years of consistent funding.
by freeopinion | 2025-06-21 21:13:16+00:00
I callout the naivety of believing the the U.S. President personally decides the "American interest" of every action taken. It is a reality today that a nameless, faceless, unelected somebody on the third floor of a building in Arkansas or Arizona can decide on the spur of the moment whether a person in Yemen or Canada should die and press the button to make it happen at the hands of the U.S. government. No elected official needs to be consulted.
by scelerat | 2025-06-21 21:14:32+00:00
cmd-K for Cut? I don't ever remember that on the Mac.

I remember the lower left row on the US keyboard was always the first four operations from the nearly-ubiquitous Edit menu since day one.

Z - Undo X - Cut C - Copy V - Paste

Certainly not the flagship apps from Apple. Can you remember an app that did this specifically? I seem to remember even early apps from Microsoft were fairly respectful of the early Mac HIG

Early apps frequently also had "Clear" in the Edit menu, which was like Cut except the cleared item didn't go into the system Clipboard
by nemothekid | 2025-06-21 21:15:31+00:00
I'm not denying LLMs are useful. I believe the trend was going to happen whether regardless of how useful LLMs are.

AI ended up being a convenient excuse for big tech to justify their layoffs, but Twitter already painted a story about how bloated some organizations were. Now that there is no longer any status in having 9,001 reports the pendulum has swing the other way - it's now sexy to brag about how little people you employ.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-06-21 21:15:58+00:00
> but you still need to have a good understanding of the code

I've personally found this is where AI helps the most. I'm often building pretty sophisticated models that also need to scale, and nearly all SO/Google-able resources tend to be stuck at the level of "fit/predict" thinking that so many DS people remain limited to.

Being able to ask questions about non-trivial models as you build them, really diving into the details of exactly how certain performance improvements work and what trade offs there are, and even just getting feed back on your approach is a huge improvement in my ability to really land a solid understanding of the problem and my solution before writing a line of code.

Additionally, it's incredibly easy to make a simple mistake when modeling a complex problem and getting that immediate feedback is a kind of debugging you can otherwise only get on teams with multiple highly-skill people on them (which at a certain level is a luxury reserved only for people working a large companies).

For my kind of work, vibe-coding is laughably awful, primarily because there aren't tons of examples of large ML systems for the relatively unique problem you are often tasked with. But avoiding mistakes in the initial modeling process feels like a super power. On top of that, quickly being able to refactor early prototype code into real pipelines speeds up many of the most tedious parts of the process.
by trollbridge | 2025-06-21 21:16:04+00:00
Mangos? Wrapped in plastic. Other fruits? Often packaged in styrofoam. Meats? Styrofoam package or vacuum sealed plastic.

I sort my rubbish for what can be composted, is metal, what can be burned ecologically, and what must be thrown away. A normal household level of buying ingredients results in a mountain of plastic trash with no ecological way to dispose of it (other than landfills assuming the landfill is run properly, which they are where I live… but no way to guarantee it will stay that way for the next several hundred years).

I won’t even get into the nightmare of plastic toys, one of which I found had dangerous levels of lead despite being a newish toy from a responsible source (Melissa & Doug), and I was unable to get any government agency interested in investigating further.
by margalabargala | 2025-06-21 21:17:02+00:00
> However, this does not indicate that multiple behaviors were physically possible

Okay, fine, but what indicates that multiple behaviors were not physically possible?

Our consciousnesses are emergent properties of networks of microscopic cells, and of chemicals moving around those cells at a molecular level. It seems perfectly reasonable that our consciousness itself could be subject to quantum effects that belie determinism, because it operates at a scale where those effects are noticable.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-06-21 21:17:24+00:00
Yeah honestly unless the developer can demonstrate that they don't allow ads through from who pay them to be allowed, pretty much no adblocker is going to be fully trustworthy. There will always be an incentive, if the adblocker is popular enough, for the dev to take money from an advertiser to bypass the block.

If I did have to trust any adblocker though, it would be gorhill's.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 21:18:11+00:00
Returning to the OP for a second, we're talking about the ICC issuing a warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes he has clearly overseen in Gaza. I appreciate that you've slippery sloped this into a "they're coming for us next" and I cannot prove or disprove such a notion. But putting that aside for a second; how is not acceptable for the ICC to have an opinion on the events that have unfolded in the Gaza strip and accordingly issue a warrant?

Surely given Israel is a sovereign nation, that is separate from the US and the EU, isn't that entirely acceptable? I feel like your position continues to double-dip. The US can do whatever it wants at home and abroad and the EU is not afforded the same agency, because if it does have strong opinions then that's evidence that it will ultimately interfere with US internal policy.
by Jtsummers | 2025-06-21 21:18:15+00:00
Quoting Xah Lee:

> The other fundamental problem in the language is its cons cells as its list construction primitive.

> Lisp at core is based on functional programing on lists.

I found the LISP I manual while thinking about this post and how to respond to some of the comments. An interesting paragraph from it, I think, is important to understand cons in the context of Lisp languages versus whatever Xah Lee is thinking of. From page 14:

> Compositions of car and cdr give the subexpressions of a given expression in a given position. Compositions of cons form expressions of a given structure out of parts. [emphasis in original as underscored text]

Note what is missing from this: Any mention of the word "list". cons, car, and cdr are primitives for the creation and manipulation (or navigation) of S-expressions. Some S-expressions are lists (in the "proper list" sense), but not all. This has been part of the language since the beginning and it makes sense for it to remain part of the language.

In Common Lisp, if you want list specific functions, they do exist. first and rest are synonyms to car and cdr. You can skip cons entirely and use list and append and a few other functions in its place. There are also functions which are generalized to operate on sequences (which includes strings and vectors along with lists).

https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mi...
by voodoo_child | 2025-06-21 21:19:12+00:00
Same. They’ve recently brought CRV charges into Ireland and almost every supermarket has a machine you can get your refund, so much more convenient. I’ve only noticed one of these near me in the Bay Area, and it’s almost always out of order or has queues of people waiting.

With over $800m in unclaimed CRVs[1], I’d wonder what kind of motivation there is to actually improve the service over “pocketing” the money. [1] https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2024/06/20/californias...
by TaylorGood | 2025-06-21 21:20:25+00:00
It’s true, especially with the “vibe” movement happening in real-time on X… “you can just do things” — I am building ai app layers b2c/b2b and while I do have an ml technical co-founder, I am largely scaling this with AI from strategy, visuals to coding. For example, with Claude created a framework for my company to scale, then built an AI powered dashboard in cursor around it as the command center. At scale we don’t need a team of more than ~5 to reach 7 fig MRR.

Greg Isenberg has some of the best takes on this on X. He articulates the paradigm shift extremely well.. @gregisenberg — one example: https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/1936083456611561932?s=46)
by yencabulator | 2025-06-21 21:20:34+00:00
Imagine if kids were not taught 1+1=2, but given calculators and shown how to use one. Could anyone do mental math with that education?

Now apply that to LLM used to writing, research, reading comprehension, summarizing, debating, and so on, in the same school system

That's the point of learning arithmetic first without calculators.
by ivape | 2025-06-21 21:20:44+00:00
Everything you said sounds great, other than the fact the first half of it is generic surveillance dystopia. I had hoped we’d be a more unique dystopia, but it appears we’ll have to settle for run of the mill.

How it all started:

“Bookmarks and shit don’t cut it anymore”.

Tsk tsk.

I’ll just leave this here:

https://youtu.be/kGYwdVt3rhI
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-21 21:21:04+00:00
Yes, I have been fortunate to be in a position to pay it back (not forward). I'm nowhere near as well-off as a substantial portion of the folks here, but I have enough to live (humbly), and get the equipment I need to do my work.

But I also know that I am an outlier, and, quite frankly, an anachronism.

Just a little while ago, I made a new release of this app[0]. I talked to someone this morning, and realized that they had no idea that you could swipe the screen, to get to different times.

I added a small label to the bottom of the main screen, telling folks that they could swipe to see different times. I had to translate it to Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, which ChatGPT was ideal for (I don't think that I'd use it for bulk translations, but it was great for a "spot translation").

That kind of thing may seem silly, but it's also exactly the kind of thing that many, many apps don't do. It's quite easy to say that "any power user knows to swipe," but that often excludes a huge number of folks. Since I started hiding the main time selection control panel, swiping has become the main navigation technique.

[0] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/VirtualMeetingFinder
by bigyabai | 2025-06-21 21:21:18+00:00
The conclusion to this essay doesn't make a convincing case. How do we know that academics are doing things correct when "sparks of AGI" is two years old and we don't have serious agentic software? How can you assert that isolated knowledge improves AI cognition when LLM performance directly correlates with the volume of training data? How could anyone actually prove that "academic silos" are challenging old paradigms when we aren't allowed to see what's inside them? What heuristics are you using? Why can't we see them?
by Manuel_D | 2025-06-21 21:24:24+00:00
It's not the child picking the bus. The choice of whether a medical professional chooses to affirm a patient or take a neutral, observational stance is a choice made by the medical professional, not the patient.

And how does that choice seem to affect the outcome? When gender dysphoric children are met with a neutral model of care that primarily seeks to observe the child, about 4 in 5 desist by young adulthood. When they're affirmed, and especially if put on chemical treatment to suppress puberty, 98% or more persist with a trans identity. Even with a suppressed puberty, transgender people experience worse health outcomes than cis people across a variety of measure. To say that the former approach is a better healthcare outcome in aggregate is not a denigration of trans people but a recognition of the challenges they face. To justify affirmation, the improvement has to be demonstrated not only against an adult transition, but also against the population that desist and live life as cis people.

The studies presented above took a sample of the patients that visited a a clinic that voiced distress of their gender over the span of a period of time - the majority of them meeting the criteria for gender dysphoria in the DSM - and tracked which of them desisted or persisted in expressing a non-cis gender identity decades or more after the fact (average time from first visit to last follow up was 13 years). The lowest rate of desistance was 70%, 3 out of the 4 were above 80%.

To call the results of a study "unrealistic" indicates that one already knows a "realistic" result would be. This is essentially admitting to bias approach to the data: if it doesn't conform to your predetermined "real" result, and your criticism is solely based on that and not any methods in the study. By comparison, the studies that show extremely low rates of desistance are either studies with kids on blockers, or they are not cohort studies. E.g. studies recruiting respondents from the internet is vastly more susceptible to reporting bias than taking the group of patients visiting a gender clinic over the course of a year.

If you want to actually post and discuss a study finding high rates of persistence under a neutral model of care, I'd be very interested in reading. But my approach towards deciding what a realistic result is leans more heavily towards published research than anecdotal claims.
by anigbrowl | 2025-06-21 21:24:40+00:00
You have a point but it's also kinda flawed. The marginal cost to pick up a thick plastic bag is the same as that of a thin one - perhaps even a bit less as it is less likely to tear and disintegrate, and more likely to either be reusable or return some of its stored energy if burnt.

So if there are only half as many bags to pick up, the cost of mitigation goes down proportionally.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-21 21:24:49+00:00
Surprised there wasn’t already something like this!

I just assumed every nation has a government funded cutting edge research institute. Crazy not to. Australia has the over 100 year old csiro for example. Paid for itself many times over (eg. viruses that kill rabbits, high tech breakthroughs like wifi, selective crop and livestock breeding).
by lurk2 | 2025-06-21 21:25:41+00:00
I’m not seeing how this causes human rights abuses like you originally claimed. Your post has also left me with two more questions:

> Any government is allowed to ask the ICC to not sue anyone for things either they did, or that happened on their soil. Sorry, any government EXCEPT the US and Israel are allowed to ask that.

Isn’t this because they are non-members?

> A relevant question would be "is the ICC allowed to change it's own statutes?" ... and of course the answer is no.

How does that work? Who sets the statutes if the ICC itself cannot modify them?
by hnlmorg | 2025-06-21 21:26:16+00:00
In DevOps (et al) the value of those logs doesn’t decay in the same way it does in pure dev.

Also, as I pointed out elsewhere, modern observability platforms enable a way to have those debug logs available as an archive that can be optionally ingested after an incident but without filling up your regular quota of indexed logs. Thus giving you the best of both worlds (all logging but without the expense and flooding your daily logs with debug messages)
by smokel | 2025-06-21 21:26:37+00:00
I don't think these problems are opposing; both are real.

I totally agree that user space is not as much of a useful concept on a single-user device. Originally, it helped to shield users of the same system from each other. Most of this was based on file system authorization. This hasn't been extended to internet access in a very useful way.

However, even on single-user devices, having root access makes it easier to hide malicious processes. Granted that in modern operating systems it is already totally unclear what most processes are doing, so one can simply hide in plain sight.

I'm still not convinced we can get by without a lot of trusted computing stuff to have secure payments.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 21:26:56+00:00
I also like the formula given all these games I keep playing and buying but I also think that its fundamentally broken too. The fact that each game takes hours of investment mean that its been unable to benefit from online play as much taking away the problems of AI because of how hard it is to get other people to commit to that. This means the game is less stress tested for "fair play", which results in it being less balanced along with Immortal/Deity being a hack (+1 free settler, +2 free settler, plus a bunch of flat +% to research/production).

I just think _somewhere_ there's a better receipe.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-21 21:27:05+00:00
Innovate UK has been around for years https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/

And lots of other grant services and loans.

Most with very little in the way of measures of success... As will be the case with Aria I imagine.

There were large COVID scandals with funding directed to government ministers mates, how many of these get awarded to their mates too.
by sargstuff | 2025-06-21 21:27:05+00:00
Demo of some 'higher order' uses of roons[0]

Combine with tromp binary calculus[1][5] to demo 'free variable' as marble loop hole / 'jiggle' factor / statistical variance. (vs. original Lord Kelvin tide predicting machine)

Suppose would be bit tricky to orient pacman, even if for 1d roon pacman[3]. Roon pong version of [4] including 'roon marble matrix video'? Although, robotic pic-n-place / mechanical assembler for roon circuit assembly might make things bit easier. aka hardware implimentation of lisp.

Would be interesting to see an 80's 8bit computer (c64/atari) implimented in roon logic with LLM[2] to see how AI gets the proverbial ball rolling to arrive at a solultion(s).

Marble wrist watch[6] or marble slide rule might be more interesting.[6] (with RTC implimented in roon logic[7])

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[0] : https://whomtech.com/show-hn/

[1] : Tromp's binary lambda calculus, which is what Justine is using, is based on de Bruijn indices. : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30494705

[2] : https://www.xda-developers.com/llm-running-commodore-64/

[3] : 1d pacman https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845510

[4] : Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31511719

[5] : misc. binary calculus notations : https://github.com/prathyvsh/lambda-calculus-visualizations

[6] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlvbLeI7l5w & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUYleBSVsbE

[7] : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4917880
by _wire_ | 2025-06-21 21:28:08+00:00
A trivial article with a woeful lack of insights and a low thought-to-word-count. The article espouses what is now customary reactionary dismissal of AI hype. It's not right or wrong because it doesn't think that far.

Anyone genuinely interested in the topic of if AI from a linguists point of view will be far better served by Chomsky's 1992 8-part Girona, Spain seminar on the Cognitive Revolution, available on youtube. 30+ years on its still more insightful than any other survey of contemporary cognitive science you are likely to find.
by colecut | 2025-06-21 21:28:08+00:00
I told it that I wanted a two player tic tac toe game.

it give me a selection of "styles" and I chose neon retro.. I probably could have been more creative and typed in my own suggestion.

Other than that, I said absolutely nothing about how I wanted the layout.

It came up with the idea of listing all active games on the homepage, with the number of players in each, all on its own.

I went from "I want a two player tic tac toe game" to having one, and then added multiple rooms, and deployed it all in under 45 minutes, with little input other than that..
by kragen | 2025-06-21 21:28:34+00:00
We're talking about negotiating a contract with a value on the order of a million dollars (say, US$200k total compensation per year for five years). Even if you don't have a lawyer normally, it may be worth the few hundred dollars it costs to hire one for this purpose, unless you have no savings.

I never did, though. I just crossed out the clauses I didn't want to accept and initialed them.
by augusto-moura | 2025-06-21 21:30:19+00:00
I vividly remember using edit on an Windows XP (or was it a 98?) when I was a kid. It was one of those hidden commands that I learned while watching my uncles and father do trickery in CMD

Edit: just read https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-... and it seems that all 32bit windows versions had edit. I was probably using Windows XP 32 the last time I remember using edit
by rdsubhas | 2025-06-21 21:31:15+00:00
They wanted to reduce congestion. Not eliminate traffic.

At that time. One can conclude the policy worked at it's time.

20 years later, today is a different day. One could say congestion is there today, but they can't say how much further congestion has been avoided.

Municipality can decide to reduce (not eliminate) it again today.

It is the laffer curve, in 3d (time).
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-21 21:32:52+00:00
I too am a Ramsey 'fan' and I appreciate his methods. And seen the title I wanted to write the very same, Yes!!!

I've also worked in many banks in my life and feel that giving 1% and taking 25% interest is insane. Pay every loan/credit card, then keep saving and investing, and you will never need another loan in your life.

A friend has been doing exactly that and bought a house (40yo dude, married, 2 kids) and paid cash for the house and the refurb. He never had a loan/credit card in his life.
by dctoedt | 2025-06-21 21:34:26+00:00
> TOS are not binding contracts

American courts have had no difficulty in holding that TOS are binding IF done correctly. It wouldn't be prudent to imagine that YouTube's lawyers don't know how to do that.

Santa Clara Law professor Eric Goldman knows approximately everything about this subject. He posts frequent updates on his blog.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/category/licensingcont...