MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-07 14:58:38+00:00
It's wild that a president can say, "I don't like Elon anymore, so out of retaliation, I'm canceling all his government contracts," and ~40% of the country doesn't see that as corruption in any way, shape, or form.

Government contracts should not be based on whether or not the president likes the CEO, and the CEO says enough good things about the president.

If you can cancel contacts not based on merit, then it should extend you're likely willing to grant contracts not based on merit and based on nepotism instead.

This is literally the path that led the USSR to ruin. If anyone says anything you don't like, their funding is gone, even if it shoots the country in the foot. If people kiss your ass enough, they get contracts, even if it's clear they're just spending the money on hookers and coke and yachts and not delivering on promises, and it shoots the country in the head.
by laweijfmvo | 2025-06-07 14:59:30+00:00
I interviewed an individual with similar sounding experience/background. Said my first question was silly and insulting. I apologized but said our interview process is standardized, and please just entertain me. They proceeded to spend the rest of the interview giving the absolute worst answer I’d ever heard in any interview to any question. Did not make it past the initial interview.

Jerks come in all sizes.
by gambiting | 2025-06-07 15:00:10+00:00
I was going to say, I still have a 5 pack of Lightscribe DVDs unopened in a box specifically to save something "special" but obviously nothing has ever been special enough to warrant using them. And now that they aren't made anymore it would feel downright sacrilegious to use them, not to mention 4.7GB of capacity is just not enough for anything nowadays really.
by ksynwa | 2025-06-07 15:01:25+00:00
Yes. IMO Starfield's biggest failure is in the creative department. It is not interesting at all (for me) in terms of things like writing and voice acting etc. It is not a technical problem that can solved by innovative game mechanics like a roided up version of radiant AI (whatever that is).

Games like RDR2 and Witcher 3 left such a mark on me becauss they had bold personalities. Starfield in comparison feels like corporate memphis despite a nice Nasapunk foundation.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-07 15:01:34+00:00
There is so much theater and reality TV in the Trump administration that it's hard to conclude anything. Most of the theater is there to play to his MAGA base.

First there was the (staged?) row with Zelensky. A couple of months later nothing has really changed.

Now Musk left as planned (he couldn't stay longer than 130 days in that position). Time for another public row to show that Trump is tough on subsidies for electric vehicles.

SpaceX will of course continue to get funded. A large number of LEO satellites are needed for Trump's Golden Dome and Starlink is needed in crisis regions.
by the_af | 2025-06-07 15:01:55+00:00
Agreed.

It's also wild that someone who was a major contributor to the election campaign and a major advisor to the president now declares "well, the president is a pedophile" and nobody bats an eye either. I mean, Musk supporters now have to believe Musk knowingly supported a pedophile but only turned against him after he had a falling out for unrelated reasons? In the eyes of his supporters, what does this say about Musk?

(Note: whether the accusation is true or not is irrelevant; what matters is that Musk supported someone whom he claims to know is a pedophile).
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-07 15:01:58+00:00
Perhaps the best thing about the text-only browser I use is that I, the www user, can edit and compile it quickly and easily.

Whereas with the so-called "modern" browser, designed by committee,, all control over changes to fix issues rests with so-called "tech" companies that cater and are beholden to onlline advertising, namely, the commercial exploitatioon of the www user as an ad target.

Generally,^1 with so-called "modern" browsers, the "right to repair" is meaningless. Only a handful of companies make "repairs".

1. Exceptions usuallly try to match the complexity of the so-called "modern" browser, not reduce it. Generally, "features" are copied, not removed. The www user is not expected to compille the source code nor edit it to their liking.
by jackdoe | 2025-06-07 15:02:11+00:00
For studying? Mainly watching and re-watching Karpathy's 'Zero To Hero'[1] and Stanford's 'Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition'[2], also a lot of transformers from scratch videos like Umar Jamali's videos[3], and I also study backwards to McCulloch and Pitts. Reading the 30 papers https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html and so on.

And of course Yannic Kilcher[4], and also listening in on the paper discussions they do on discord.

Practicing a lot with just doing backpropagation by hand and making toy models by hand to get intuition for the signal flow, and building all kinds of smallish systems, e.g. how far can you push whisper, small qwen3, and kokoro to control your computer with voice?

People think that deepseek/mistral/meta etc are democratizing AI, but its actually Karpathy who teaches us :) so we can understand them and make our own.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0&list=PLAqhIrjkxb...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT1JzLTH4G4&list=PL3FW7Lu3i5...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@umarjamilai

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@YannicKilcher
by krick | 2025-06-07 15:02:49+00:00
That's what I usually think too. Even if just to be cautious: people alluding to "Hanlon's razor" (as if it's a real thing) are basically declaring themselves the smartest in the room, so by another well-known eponymous effect they are usually the dumbest in the room. Usually the worst suspicions are confirmed later.

This time, though, I'm running with the crowd. I think this is just too much. I mean, come on, screaming on Twitter that Trump didn't release Epstein files, because he is in them? Sure, it doesn't hurt him, it's no news nor a real accusation, but I'm pretty sure Trump didn't want that to be posted. The whole thing doesn't look nice for anybody, it doesn't help anybody. No, I really think Musk has become totally insane this time, or/and is drugged out. The left hand still may be doing something, but that's taking the opportunity, not making this all up for the sake of distraction.
by abxyz | 2025-06-07 15:02:51+00:00
Musk is popular amongst republicans because Trump has championed him. The pro-Musk Republicans are also pro-Trump republicans and their loyalty to Trump will beat out whatever respect they have for Musk. Musk is not a threat to Trump, because Trump’s entire platform is built on Trump-or-bust. Musk was a useful idiot to Trump. Musk thinking that Trump’s Epstein connection was somehow going to hurt Trump shows just how impotent Musk is. Trump fans couldn’t care one iota about that.
by netcan | 2025-06-07 15:02:53+00:00
> For unprofitable startups it could cause issues during a phase of very high revenue growth.

So I guess my most question is "how this work irl?"

Say a new startup raises money and hires 20 people. Pays $5m in salaries, office space and such. All 20 people are developing a software product. Are 100% of this startups expenses amorotized?

Then they sell the product. They receive $2m in revenue. What does the P&L look like.
by maxemitchell | 2025-06-07 15:03:14+00:00
Author here :). Right now, I think the pragmatic thing to do is to include all prompts used in either the PR description and/or in the commit description. This wouldn't make my longshot idea of "regenerating a repo from the ground up" possible, but it still adds very helpful context to code reviewers and can help others on your team learn prompting techniques.
by someothherguyy | 2025-06-07 15:05:04+00:00
> an absolutely insane thing to do

Is it?

The statement itself doesn't seem to imply anything other than Musk seems to think he is in those files.

Trump is in some of the JE "files" that were already released (flight logs).

I think the cultural obsession with the unknown surrounding Jeffery Epstein informs what people infer from statements like that.

There are many less-than-flattering ways that Trump could be associated with JE that do not include pedophilia.
by strcat | 2025-06-07 15:05:16+00:00
You wouldn't have this problem with a stock OS Android device either.

It's worth noting that you're using an insecure end-of-life device and are missing a large number of High and Critical severity privacy/security patches including ones being exploited in the wild. Due to the device being end-of-life, you don't have firmware/driver patches, which are not being provided by your OS despite it continuing to support it. You're also missing important non-device-related OS patches due to /e/OS lagging behind and not shipping them properly.

You should really replace the device if you care at all about privacy and security. The 3 years of support for the Pixel 5 was not adequate for a significant portion of users. The past 2 generations of Pixels have 7 years of support from launch, which should be enough for most people.

/e/OS also doesn't ship proper signed production releases and doesn't keep the standard privacy/security model or features intact. It greatly reduces privacy and security compared to LineageOS which reduces them compared to the Android Open Source Project.

Purism's Librem 5 is definitely not the answer. It had dramatically worse hardware, firmware and software security than Pixels or iPhones from day one along with not providing high importance firmware updates to users. Presenting it as the answer to minor app compatibility issues also makes little sense since throwing out compatibility with most open source mobile apps and nearly all mainstream apps hardly resolves a subset of banking/financial apps and a tiny number of other apps banning using a non-stock OS.
by mft_ | 2025-06-07 15:06:13+00:00
It’s that:

a) NASA didn’t/doesn’t have the capacity

b) The Russians did have the capacity but it was expensive and also painful to American egos to utilise this repeatedly, not to mention a risk due to geopolitical uncertainty.

c) NASA therefore funded Boeing and SpaceX to develop ‘home grown’ capability. (Note: SpaceX received less than Boeing for this development.)

d) Boeing’s space division lost up a big lead (over SpaceX) through poor development and execution, echoes of which continue to this day with the issues seen with Starliner leading to the two astronauts being effectively ‘stranded’ for a period of

e) SpaceX did a good job of developing Dragon and getting Falcon 9 rated for human flight. Since then, their reliability, low cost, and high launch cadence, coupled with Boeing’s missteps, has led to multiple contracts and successful launches.

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It’s also worth mentioning that SoaceX was started when Musk wasn’t so crazy (remember, once upon a time, he was the woke darling of the progressive center-left) and also that a lot of its success and stability may be thanks to its COO, Gwynne Shotwell. Calling it Musk’s “toy company” ignores the huge advances it has made, thanks to the fantastic people that work there, and also (gulp) Musk himself.
by jampekka | 2025-06-07 15:06:16+00:00
I think almost everybody has procrastination problems of some degree from time to time. Especially in occupations that need concentration on complicated things.

But procrastination problems don't mean infinite procrastination. It's just that work keeps piling up and then it has to be done in a burst when it has to really be done. I find this doesn't necessarily mean my output is less (in the short term), it's just that it's exhausting.

Also productivity requirements at work, no matter how fancy workolace, are typically way less than you may think. Just showing up and not actively cause grief goes a long way.

What you tend to see publicly is people in their productive phases, or quite exceptional outliers, or just messaging.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-07 15:06:33+00:00
I have a rather specialized interest in and obscure subject but one which has a physical aspect pretty much any person can relate to/reason about, and pretty much every time I try to "discuss" the specifics of it w/ an LLM, it tells me things which are blatantly false, or otherwise attempts to carry on a conversation in a way which no sane human being would.
by ajmurmann | 2025-06-07 15:06:34+00:00
That's very disappointing. As an interviewer the ideal situation I want in an interview is one where we are discussing tradeoffs. It allows the interviewee to show a deep understanding of the solutions we are discussing and, depending on the problem, even share insights around business impact.

I wonder if the pushback is more of a common reaction from more junior interviewers or once that aren't very empowered and just need to go down a script and worry about getting in trouble if they deviate.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-06-07 15:07:13+00:00
Yes it does change something.

A GPU needs to run $GAME from $CURRENT_YEAR at 60 fps despite the ten million SLoC of shit code and legacy cruft in $GAME. That's where the huge expense for the GPU manufacturer lies.

Matrix multiplication is a solved probelm and we need to implement it just once in hardware. At some point matrix multiplication will be ubiquitous like floating-point is now.
by strcat | 2025-06-07 15:07:22+00:00
Apps have to choose to block using a non-stock OS and only a tiny minority of them do it. GrapheneOS bypasses it for many of them and we intend to get it fully resolved. Regulatory action is in progress for this in Europe already and it will be solved. GrapheneOS users can currently use nearly all Android apps with the exception of a subset of banking/financial apps and a tiny number of other apps. Google trying to crack down further will greatly increase the already incoming consequences in multiple countries for the existing Play Integrity API.
by gnabgib | 2025-06-07 15:07:27+00:00
Discussion at the time (329 points, 3 months ago, 1178 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909

.. this is a 3 month old story and Firefox reverted the change (596 points, 369 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213612
by jrrrp | 2025-06-07 15:08:12+00:00
It's good to read this while being in one of those nothing-months myself. I have extended the deadlines and my goals are not clear.

Incidentally, I have a supervisor who felt the exact same way when he was doing his PhD and fled to industry. Evidently he found that there was something to be enjoyed in the freedoms of research and returned.
by BurningFrog | 2025-06-07 15:08:19+00:00
I think they overwhelmingly end up in landfills, where they have no material effect on any ecosystem.

I'm no chemist, but they don't really react chemically with anything in nature, as I understand it.

I know it feels dirty and unnatural that they just lie there, but in practical terms I don't think they do any substantial harm.
by strcat | 2025-06-07 15:08:51+00:00
GrapheneOS is sold preinstalled on devices. People do not have to install it themselves. It's also far easier to install than a desktop OS via https://grapheneos.org/install/web.

The post from Purism is highly inaccurate and is inventing issues which are not real issues along with presenting a product which massive reduces security and app compatibility as somehow solving those things. Dropping mainstream app compatibility and support for the main open source app ecosystem entirely hardly solves a tiny number of apps enforcing using the stock OS.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-07 15:10:13+00:00
Despite all bashes that I do at C, I would be happy if during the last 40 years we had gotten at least fat pointers, official string and array vocabulary types (instead of everyone getting their own like SDS and glib), namespaces instead of mylib_something, proper enums (like enum class in C++, enums in C# and so forth), fixing the pointer decay from array to &array[0], less UB.

While Zig fixes some of these issues, the amount of @ feels like being back in Objective-C land and yeah too many uses of dot and starts.

Then again, I am one of those that actually enjoys using C++, despite all its warts and the ways of WG21 nowadays.

I also dislike the approach with source code only libraries and how importing them feels like being back in JavaScript CommonJS land.

Odin and C3 look interesting, the issue is always what is going to be the killer project, that makes reaching for those alternatives unavoidable.

I might not be a language XYZ cheerleeder, but occasionally do have to just get my hands dirty and do the needfull for an happy customer, regardlees of my point of view on XYZ.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-06-07 15:10:18+00:00
> Why would autonomous vehicles be treated any differently then human operated vehicles?

- Do autonomous vehicles go through licensing requirements and need to get a government ID which requires the sharing of a tremendous amount of information with the government?

- Can autonomous vehicles be taken to court and be saddled with punishments that can end what’s most valuable to them, their freedom?

Autonomous vehicles can and should be treated differently because our current system of incentives, punishments, licensing, information gathering, etc are all designed with humans and human preferences and tendencies in mind.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-07 15:10:48+00:00
> You seem to have this fundamental belief that the code that's produced by your LLM is valid and doesn't need to be evaluated, line-by-line, by a human, before it can be committed??

This is a mistaken understanding. The person you responded to has written on these thoughts already and they used memorable words in response to this proposal:

> Are you a vibe coding Youtuber? Can you not read code? If so: astute point. Otherwise: what the fuck is wrong with you?

It should be obvious that one would read and verify the code before they commit it. Especially if one works on a team.

https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
by steveBK123 | 2025-06-07 15:11:06+00:00
I think it's also a mark of the self delusion some of these "Great Men" tend to have, before you even get into the surrounding yes-men & ketamine.

Probably some sort of "well I am worth $400M, but if I can get that to $2M, I can do my Mars space colony with enough room for my harem, for sure".

vs "Gee I have more money than one can ever spend and remain mortal.. I could go enjoy my life like Bezos before it all evaporates..."
by Night_Thastus | 2025-06-07 15:11:22+00:00
To me, Starfield is a massive admission that either the developers don't understand what made their previous games work - or that no one will step in at a top level and prevent them breaking that core.

The modern TES games have been all about environmental storytelling, exploration, combat and crafting. All else is secondary.

Whether you like that focus or not is up to you, but that's the draw of games like Skyrim and FO4.

But Starfield completely broke it. They wanted hundreds of planets to explore, but the only practical way to do that is procedural generation. No one wants to explore procedural spaces. There's never anything interesting in them. You can't do environmental storytelling because that requires a human hand.

Due to engine limitations, making all the travel seamless was also completely impractical.

So instead of seeing a location and going "Oh man, I want to go there!", then just walking there encountering distractions on the way...it's Loading screen -> Loading Screen -> Loading screen -> Generic planet with nothing interesting to see.

How no one at a top level said "this can't work, the game's concept is bad, start over" is baffling. No one had a vision at the top level for how the game was supposed to work - or that vision was just wrong.

If Bethesda can't understand the fundamentals of their own best-selling game, I don't see how they can make a sequel.
by ajmurmann | 2025-06-07 15:11:51+00:00
I feel similarly. However, not because I'd be worried about speaking truth to power but how they might treat peers and people more junior/with less power than them. Maybe they in fact treat less powerful people better and mostly punch up but while that exists it seems unlikely. Brilliant jerks can be incredibly effective but they can also destroy your entire team and now when they leave you are screwed.
by BurningFrog | 2025-06-07 15:12:00+00:00
For CO2 purposes it's no different than burning oil. You can burn trash to generate electricity too.

At 5 grams per bag it's also hard to get any real volume of the emissions.

One of my pet theories is that we vastly overestimate the environmentally impact of things we personally touch. People lose sleep over their single use Starbucks cups, while things many orders of magnitude worse happen out of sight.
by the_af | 2025-06-07 15:12:03+00:00
But Musk is not implying any of those less-than-flattering things. Nobody knows what Musk actually thinks, but what he implied is pretty clear. He calls it "a bomb", and we all know what that means.

And this matters, because Musk was a major campaign contributor and advisor to someone he has now implied to be a pedophile. What does this say about Musk?
by hollerith | 2025-06-07 15:12:06+00:00
Most plastic breaks down into microscopic pieces, which get everywhere including in the human brain in alarming amounts. They get into the human body through food and water.

You haven't seen any reports about this? "Microplastics" does not ring any bells?

>[plastic bags] don't really react chemically with anything in nature

Almost no one denies that "forever chemicals" are toxic to humans even in tiny concentrations even though they are very much chemically inert. By "forever chemicals" I refer to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) (used in the production of Teflon, Gore-Tex, etc) or more precisely the chemically-stable compounds into which they break down. Just like forever chemicals, microplastics bioaccumulate.
by davidclark | 2025-06-07 15:12:11+00:00
From a recent blog shared on HN, among a list of reasons they can’t or won’t use LLMs:

>The training data for LLMs is stolen. I don’t mean like “pirated” in the sense where someone illicitly shares a copy they obtained legitimately; I mean their scrapers are ignoring both norms and laws to obtain copies under false pretenses, destroying other people’s infrastructure. [footnotes omitted]

“I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44193018
by mjr00 | 2025-06-07 15:12:25+00:00
You're falling for marketing pieces, there's been multiple discussions on HN from people working at these companies calling out that all of this as bullshit. Nobody's been replaced by AI.

I appreciate you citing sources, but all of those quotes are from CEOs pumping their stock prices with lies--which, at the moment, is the best known use of AI.
by jkestner | 2025-06-07 15:12:29+00:00
We like plastic because it is lightweight and not biodegradable.

Sometimes. Its plasticity of use means that we use it for for a lot of single-use products. The Clive Thompson Wired article I’m reading right now starts with “a plastic bag might be the most overengineered object in history.” Of course, the problem is that it’s optimized for cost sans externalities.
by sbuttgereit | 2025-06-07 15:12:37+00:00
One thing that you, and many others commenting on may be missing, is that we're getting an uncorroborated, retelling of a story that may well be simply reflecting the teller's own attitudes and reflections rather than a blow-by-blow account of what actually happened.

For example, say I was the interviewee and actually said of the SQL question: "Well, to be frank, that question isn't so good for understanding my SQL abilities." I don't think that would be rude or evidence of "being an asshole". A retelling of that story may simply be condensing it down to how that statement was interpreted: as a nice way to say, "that's a stupid question".

We shouldn't get too far into parsing what's in the story as a verbatim telling of what happened. We have the author's impressions of those events and their interpretations of the outcomes to drive home a larger point the author wants to make. That's it.