MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-06-19 21:19:57+00:00
> es, I do think that these hedging statements make them immune from the specific criticism that I quoted.

That's my point: Their rhetorical style is interpreted by the in-group as a sort of weird infallibility. Like they've covered both sides and therefore the work is technically correct in all cases. Once they go through the hedging dance, they can put forth the opinion-based point they're trying to make in a very persuasive way, falling back to the hedging in the future if it turns out to be completely wrong.

The writing style looks different depending on where you stand: Reading it in the forward direction makes it feel like the main point is very likely. Reading it in the backward direction you notice the hedging and decide they were also correct. Yet at the time, the rationalist community attaches themselves to the position being pushed.

> But to simultaneously be attacking the same community for not ever showing a sense of maybe being wrong or uncertain, and also for expressing it so often it's become an in-group signal, is just too much cognitive dissonance.

That's a strawman argument. At no point did I "attack the community for not ever showing a sense of maybe being wrong or uncertain".
by logifail | 2025-06-19 21:20:38+00:00
> Part of it is that it absolutely invokes AAVE. It forces people to consider and be reminded of Black American culture

If you don't already know what "Juneteenth" means, the word itself gives you nothing to help you understand. Literally zilch. It involkes nothing.

"Emancipation Day" does give the outsider a clue.

Names matter.
by palata | 2025-06-19 21:20:52+00:00
> but we can in a few years if that is made a goal.

But that is very far from being a goal! Every year we emit more CO2, even though we already start seeing the effects of climate change (it's only beginning), but we keep accelerating in the wrong direction.

> Europe is still using a lot of oil in 2025!

That's not what I said. First, Europe imports pretty much the totality of their fossil fuels. And second, the European economy has been slowing down since 2007. The US likes to say "we have a better economy because we work more and better", but actually it seems pretty reasonable to think that it may be related to access to fossil fuels.
by subjectsigma | 2025-06-19 21:21:21+00:00
No matter what I say someone will respond with “Oh but that got fixed in X” / “You’re doing it wrong” / “You have the wrong hardware” / “Your opinions suck” / “Works on my machine” / “Get better at Linux” / etc. I’m just going to stick with Windows for pleasure, macOS for work, and Linux for servers. That’s what I like and that’s what has been working for me.
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-06-19 21:21:29+00:00
To the contrary, here's a series of essays on the subject of evolutionary game theory, the incentives created by competition, and its consequences for human wellbeing:

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/kNANcHLNtJt5qeuSS

"Moloch hasn't won" is a lengthy critique of the argument you are making here.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-19 21:21:31+00:00
It was mentioned pretty deep in another thread, but this is just straight up user hostile

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by tejasjain_og | 2025-06-19 21:21:36+00:00
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Show HN: Would You Rent a Robot for Your Home?
by MASNeo | 2025-06-19 21:21:45+00:00
I like robots. Building one is tough in my time, so I looked at buying, but with current uncertainty about capabilities I would not buy one outright. I would like to try one, for some time (maybe hack that?!). I would rent, but I can’t. So I thought maybe if I am not alone that could be useful to some.

To try: https://roborentals.ch/

This is an experiment (including what loveable.dev is capable of in a single afternoon, not affiliated) to find out if there are others that love - pun intended - to rent and to collect feedback on the idea of modeling a robot rental service on a car rental business and pricing model.

What would you like a service like that to cover, which features are you missing and what’s a turn-off, which assurances would you want, what would turn you away or do you think this is just not reasonable in any way?

In short: what do you think?

P.S.: sudo sorryforearliermispost --force
by gjm11 | 2025-06-19 21:22:00+00:00
I don't think "rationality" is a good name for the movement, for the same reason as I wish "effective altruism" had picked a different name: it conflates the goal with the achievement of the goal. A rationalist (in the Yudkowsky sense) is someone who is trying to be rational, in a particular way. But "rationality" means actually being rational.

I don't think it's actually true that rationalists-in-this-sense commonly use "rationality" to refer to the movement, though they do often use it to refer to what the movement is trying to do.
by eikenberry | 2025-06-19 21:22:01+00:00
One thing this quote doesn't touch is that speed of fixing the bug isn't the only variable. The learning along the way is at least as important, if not more so. Reading and understanding the code serves the developer better long term if they are regularly working on it. On the other hand debuggers really shine when jumping into a project to help out and don't have or need a good understanding of the code base.
by mike_d | 2025-06-19 21:22:06+00:00
> It is important. This is unfortunate rhetoric that is harming the safety of the internet.

DNSSEC was built for exactly one use case: we have to put root/TLD authoritative servers in non-Western countries. It is simply a method for attesting that a mirror of a DNS server is serving what the zone author intended.

What people actually want and need is transport security. DNSCrypt solved this problem, but people were bamboozled by DNSSEC. Later people realized what they wanted was transport security and DoH and friends came into fashion.
by TremendousJudge | 2025-06-19 21:23:40+00:00
>(And that's not even discussing penal slavery allowed under the 13th Amendment.)

To expand on this, knowingbetter did an in-depth video on this topic[0]. The salient bit is that penal slavery was ended in 1941-1942 by Roosevelt, so that the Japanese couldn't use it as war propaganda against the US.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kI2h3iotA
by cycomanic | 2025-06-19 21:24:04+00:00
How did you survive office buildings, airports, department stores etc. prior to leds? I am by no means sensitive to flicker, but fluorescent tubes which were used in pretty much every office building/large department store, before leds became common, used to flicker like crazy in comparison. And there was always at least one which was broken and flickered on and off very slowly (including the characteristic sound).
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-19 21:26:35+00:00
I would bet good money that many of the functions they chose not to drill down into (such as settings -> volume) do nothing at all or cause an error.

It's a fronted generator. It's fast. That's cool. But is being pitched as a functioning OS generator and I can't help but think it isn't given the failure rates for those sorts of tasks. Further, the success rates for HTML generation probably _are_ good enough for a Holmes-esque (perhaps too harsh) rugpull (again, too harsh) demo.

A cool glimpse into what the future might look like in any case.
by JadeNB | 2025-06-19 21:26:42+00:00
> Most audio players these days have an option to listen to the media at higher speeds. Through some FFT magic, I think, the tone doesn't go up either; it's just faster. I watch most of my YT vids at ~2x now and most podcasts are at ~1.8x. It can be a bit jarring at first, but you get used to it really fast.

I may be protesting too much, since, as I say, I've never tried it. But this seems like a solution to the problem where the narrator's reading speed is a fixed percentage of your reading speed, whereas I have in mind the way that I read, which is that I might go very quickly through some sections that don't need or to which I don't want to pay detailed attention, and then slow way down in the more difficult sections. I think it is fairly rare for audiobook narrators to approach the book this way (but maybe they do it so seamlessly I don't notice?).
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-19 21:26:59+00:00
Yes, _but_ (and that is a huge but), I remember some summers ago Erdogan was giving a speech in a village and instead of saying "we have faith in the markets" he said "we have faith in Allah" (not judging, just observing)(it was a time that Turkish Lira was doing very bad, inflation was ruining the country, Erdogan hired his son-in-law to be central banker (or something like that) and that very day Euro took a big dive because of the exposure of Turkish debt, etc etc. Trump (again, not judging, just observing) said "tariffs all around" and markets and currencies crashed a couple of months ago, then recovered, then dropped again, etc.

So, "big bets", especially wig margin, require small movements (or small bets with big movements). And getting in debt is never a good idea, because a tweet by Jerom, Kristine, Vladimir, Xi, Putin, Macron, can send you packing and with an extra $200k debt at 20% interest rate, from which th average person will never recover.
by alganet | 2025-06-19 21:27:11+00:00
I stand by it.

You can definitely take a base LLM model then train it on existing, prepared root case analysis data. But that's very hard, expensive, and might not work, leaving the model brittle. Also, that's not what an "AI Agent" is.

You could also make a workflow that prepares the data, feeds it into a regular model, then asks prepared questions about that data. That's inference, not pattern matching. There's no way an LLM will be able to identify the root cause reliably. You'll probably need a human to evaluate the output at some point.

What you mentioned doesn't look like either one of these.
by PatchworkCasino | 2025-06-19 21:27:16+00:00
It sounds like these sites might be making headlines on a technicality:

"Researchers claim that most of the data in the leaked datasets is a mix of details from stealer malware, credential stuffing sets, and repackaged leaks.

There was no way to effectively compare the data between different datasets, but it’s safe to say overlapping records are definitely present. In other words, it’s impossible to tell how many people or accounts were actually exposed."

So what they're actually saying is that in the last 6 months they've found 30 exposed databases which are not exact copies of any pre-existing leak, totaling 16 billion records before deduplication and removal of already-leaked records.
by daneel_w | 2025-06-19 21:27:47+00:00
>It’s full of rhetoric and bluster, appeals to authority and dismissal of arguments not from what he considers an authority, and when he runs out of arguments entirely, he stops responding.

Or his broken record commentary on how Signal absolutely needs to ask people for their mobile phone numbers in order to at all be able to provide a functional service, and how doing so does not at all provide Signal with a highly valuable social network map. Exact same story as soon as the arguments are dismantled.
by aranw | 2025-06-19 21:27:58+00:00
YAML and Helm are my two biggest pain points with k8s and I would love to see them replaced with something else. CUE for YAML would be really nice. As for replacing Helm, I'm not too sure really. Perhaps with YAML being replaced by CUE maybe something more powerful and easy to understand could evolve from using CUE?
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-06-19 21:28:15+00:00
I get enjoyment from two things: 1) solving interesting problems in interesting ways and 2) producing things of value that satisfy some persons needs. The second one is what I get paid for with the first one being only occasionally required. So I do the first one for side projects. Bonus I get to decide what my side projects are. The second one is vastly more productive with AI, and so I like AI.
by neuronic | 2025-06-19 21:28:24+00:00
I am from Munich but live in Hamburg. I have read all comments here and experienced people visiting and heckling Munich for decades now. People can talk a lot of shit about Munich, many things rightfully so.

But dirty? I have literally never heard anyone say that. If you think Munich is dirty you must be from Singapore or Japan and never visited any other city on the planet.
by gerardosuarez | 2025-06-19 21:28:42+00:00
For the short term, newrev is designed for developers who want to try out these powerful AI CLI agents but prefer not to live in the terminal. This means they can start using them right away.

Our mid-term goal is to offer a fully managed cloud service, primarily still for developers. However, we're seeing more agents run highly autonomously, which means newrev could eventually empower non-developers too. Think of how many 'no-coders' are already using tools like Cursor or Winsurf for their projects today.
by cma | 2025-06-19 21:29:51+00:00
DearMoon was supposed to launch 2022, passenger space service between LA and Ridhya by 2028 (announced in 2018 and they said it was on track for 2028 still several years later). They said it would be around the price of business class air travel and be in full commercial operation by then. That might have been after they started adding "aspirationally" to most Musk company statements following some lawsuits.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-19 21:29:54+00:00
You've hit the nail on the head. The CPU launch cost of a pre-compiled CUDA graph is tiny.

CUDA Graphs are a huge step up from manually launching kernels, but they still treat kernels as monolithic, black-box operations. A megakernel erases the boundaries between those operations.

With CUDA Graphs, as in the example in the article, if you have Matmul -> AllReduce, the AllReduce kernel cannot start until the entire Matmul kernel has finished. The dependency is at the kernel level. With a megakernel, they break these ops into fine-grained "tasks" scheduled across SMs. An AllReduce task that needs data from the first slice of the Matmul can begin as soon as that slice is computed by a few SMs, while other SMs are still working on the rest of the Matmul. This fine-grained software pipelining and compute/communication overlap is simply not possible when the dependency unit is the entire kernel.
by marcellus23 | 2025-06-19 21:30:00+00:00
Does this suggest at all that these changes could also be differences in the way (cis) men and women perceive the world? In other words, do cis women experience sweet food tasting sweeter, colors being more vibrant, etc, compared to cis men?

Edit: I’m aware there’s evidence for differences in color discrimination and taste preferences between the sexes. But seeing the differences described from a first person perspective of someone used to being a male is fascinating. It’s a common cliche that women laugh much more than men, for example — and here’s someone saying that being on estrogen made funny things seem much funnier. I wonder what the experience is like for FtM who take testosterone?
by Aurornis | 2025-06-19 21:30:52+00:00
> But there also is an arrogance that "we are the ones thinking about this rationally, and we will figure this out". As if people hadn't been thinking and discussing and (verbally and literally) fighting over all sorts of adjacent and similar topics in philosophy and sociology and anthropology and ... clubs and seminars forever

This is a feature, not a bug, for writers who hold an opinion on something and want to rationalize it.

So many of the rationalist posts I've read through the years come from someone who has an opinion or gut feeling about something, but they want it to be seen as something more rigorous. The "first principles" writing style is a license to throw out the existing research on the topic, including contradictory evidence, and construct an all new scaffold around their opinion that makes it look more valid.

I use the "SlimeTimeMoldTime - A Chemical Hunger" blog series as an example because it was so widely shared and endorsed in the rationalist community: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p... It even received a financial grant from Scott Alexander of Astral Codex Ten

Actual experts were discrediting the series from the first blog post and explaining all of the author's errors, but the community soldiered on with it anyway, eventually making the belief that lithium in the water supply was causing the obesity epidemic into a meme within the rationalist community. There's no evidence supporting this and countless take-downs of how the author misinterpreted or cherry-picked data, but because it was written with the rationalist style and given the implicit blessing of a rationalist figurehead it was adopted as ground truth by many for years. People have been waking up to issues with the series for a while now, but at the time it was remarkable how quickly the idea spread as if it was a true, novel discovery.
by jrm4 | 2025-06-19 21:31:02+00:00
And hopefully this puts to rest all the painfully bad, often anthropomorphizing, takes about how what the LLMs do isn't copyright infringement.

It's simple. If you put the works into the LLM, it can later make immediately identifiable, if imperfect, copies of the work. If you didn't put the work in, it wouldn't be able to do that.

The fact that you can't "see the copy" inside is wildly irrelevant.
by zkmon | 2025-06-19 21:31:24+00:00
At my company, I always prefer hiring average engineers with great attitude. Too many high-credential people with bad attitude were placed on high pedestals due to their perception-creating skills, and became immune to questioning. Once they bag that sweet perception from the boss, they also start bully around. Bosses would usually dismiss any data that goes against their perceptions. Mostly because going by perception is lot easier than looking into the data.
by tptacek | 2025-06-19 21:31:45+00:00
What parts do you agree about? Someone making an argument that we should return to the drawing board and come up with a new protocol, one that doesn't make the "offline signers and authenticated denial" tradeoffs DNSSEC makes, would probably be saying something everybody here agrees with --- though I still don't think it would be one of the 5 most important security things to work on.

But the person you're replying to believes we should hasten deployment of DNSSEC, the protocol we have now.
by charcircuit | 2025-06-19 21:32:44+00:00
>Kwin, gnome and xwayland did end up supporting eglstream, it was shit

Something is better than nothing.

>nvidia did go gdm in the end and the eglstream backends which were a waste of time were dropped.

If the wayland project was run better and there was proper collaboration this waste could have been avoided.

>Nvidia explicitly prevented them to do so by not providing the ability to load any firmware...

How would the GPU know? They should be able to do exactly what the real driver does to load the firmware.

>It absolutely was and their driver is using GBM now as a proof.

Only years later after due to Nvidia contributing code to allow for it to dynamically load backends. This wasn't a case of Nvidia ignoring an existing way for them to have a backend.

>Why so? Most manufacturer do so.

Because it's a trade secret and potentially can not be legally be open sourced. It also is a competitive advantage for nvidia not to. Plenty of companies also develop closed source drivers. Nvidia is not unique.

>GBM is specific to mesa maybe but far from proprietary

Recheck the definition of "proprietary." Compare how many GPUs and operating systems support OpenGL vs supporting GBM. GBM being exclusive to Mesa makes it proprietary.
by sheepscreek | 2025-06-19 21:33:30+00:00
Yeah, I think all arbitrage setups of any kind are already being exploited by those with a hard to replicate edge (nano second execution/latency, very very deep pockets - typically your large market makers like Citadel). Just think about it: Jim Simons (RIP) had been doing it for longer than most of us have been alive.

Pretty soon AI won’t be optional, it’ll be the only way to run a profitable quant shop.
by jrm4 | 2025-06-19 21:34:19+00:00
Again. GOOD GOOD GOOD.

What you have just told me is a FEATURE. Not a BUG.

I'm very GOOD with people "not immediately knowing." I like that. It forces them to learn about my people and culture.

"Juneteenth" makes you step in and perhaps get a little uncomfortable, like, hmm weird little Black-sounding phrase?

"Emancipation Day" frees (lol) you from engaging, you can just sort of take on the same ol same ol story, which, I imagine for many people starts with Abraham Lincoln and not Black people.
by libraryatnight | 2025-06-19 21:35:05+00:00
I don't know what your point is. You know Frappaccino? So his point stands? Regardless of his examples, we deal with no end of made up nonsense words, rarely anybody bats an eye until it sounds black and has to do with black people.And yes, this is a thing, this thread is the umpteenth one I've encountered today with people undermining and questioning the name for what amounts to it sounding black.

So your anecdote isn't useful. Kind of the opposite.
by neuronic | 2025-06-19 21:36:04+00:00
I grew up in Munich and live in Hamburg now. I would object that Hamburg isnt even close to the "Lokalpatriotismus" (patriotism about your city?) which is highly rampant in Munich. Aristocratic behavior is a thing in Hamburg but Munich? It's my hometown so let me slander...

People from Munich REALLY celebrate that they are from Munich and from kindergarten onwards a sense of snobility is distilled into your soul.

"Helles" 0.5l+ is the only allowed beer and you have to meet a "Trachten" quota (traditional clothing). The Lederhosn has to come out at least 5x per year and dear god if it is a cheap model below 300€ which is already considered trash.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-06-19 21:36:56+00:00
Cars are definitely the major mode. Lots of quick flights, too.

They’ve made a lot of investments since the 1990s. It’s much improved, though perhaps not as nice as during the golden years when it was a big part of the New York Central system (from the 1890s to the 1960s they had daily trains that went Boston/NYC/Buffalo/Detroit/Chicago through Canada from Niagara Falls to Windsor).

During the first Trump administration, Amtrak announced a route that would go Chicago/Detroit/Toronto/Montreal/Quebec City using that same rail tunnel underneath the Detroit River. It was supposed to start by 2030. We’ll see if it happens.