MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-28 08:50:33+00:00
> Let's discard it and create a better one!" Then the new one quickly falls into disarray just the same. Now you have to search two badly-organized, partially out of date knowledge bases.

I could blame the idea of moving to a new knowledge base here, or say it was a waste of time, but instead I'm going to blame a stark refusal to make a schedule for a simple job and then follow it. "Discard it and create a better one" is very easy to understand. If you still have two after a few weeks you failed at a fundamental level. The problem wasn't the idea.
by Thorrez | 2025-06-28 08:51:13+00:00
The article says this:

>June 26 (Reuters) - Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has not yet determined the timing of the release of its R2 model as CEO Liang Wenfeng is not satisfied with its performance,

>Over the past several months, DeepSeek's engineers have been working to refine R2 until Liang gives the green light for release, according to The Information.

But yes, it is strange how the majority of the article is about lack of GPUs.
by seec | 2025-06-28 08:52:45+00:00
Of course they are less precise. And in most cases, they need quite a few rounds to adjust their aim at the target, so his comparaison was already stupid unfair.

He takes into account all the drones that don't work and then goes on and pretends artillery is 100% accurate and has an absurdly low cost (at the price he is quoting, they are basically sending grenades).

Let's not even discuss moving target or penetrating inside fortified targets which mortar will never be able to do.
by dirkc | 2025-06-28 08:52:48+00:00
I'd like a digital reset - like starting a new play-through in a game.

I don't know how exactly? Buy a new PC, maybe I should jump platforms, a new email address, no past bookmarks, some deliberate avoidance of things I know by memory.

The old stuff will always be there, but I feel like a fresh opportunity to explore the digital world could be nice. Or maybe not?
by ktallett | 2025-06-28 08:59:02+00:00
I mean this much is clear within the physics community that we haven't found a complete understanding of quantum physics. We can explain what we can test and view but that is it. Wrong is such a strong term but I am sure some aspects will be revised with new information. We won't be spot on with everything.

I would recommend reading Chiara Marletto's book on Constructor Theory which is an attempt at breaking physics into fundamental can and can nots, which is a start for the next step of determining the missing physical rules.
by cb321 | 2025-06-28 08:59:15+00:00
My idea is not to submit the generated C any more than you submit C-compiler generated assembly, but to write directly in Nim. The niceness would mostly just be if you wanted to write some complex thing like a filesystem or driver in Nim with its templates & macros & user-defined operators and DSL building and all that goodness.

Being a module means it can be separately distributed - kernel maintainers don't need to admit them or even be aware of them. ZFS is not distributed in mainline Linux out of Oracle fears (though that module is popular enough some distros help out). This is more or less the key to any extensible system. The C backend is helpful here in that internal kernel APIs can rely heavily on things like the C preprocessor, not just object file outputs.

I think the main challenges would be "bindings for all the internal kernel APIs" and the ultimately limited ability &| extra work to make them Nimonic and adapting the "all set up for your C module" build process to ease a Nim build (as well as the generic in-kernel no-stdlib hassles). So, I imagine a 2- or 3-level/stage approach would be best - the background to make the Nim modules easy and then actual modules. { Linux itself, while the most popular free Unix, is also kind of a faster moving target. So, it would probably present an additional challenge of "tracking big shifts in internal APIs". }
by ggm | 2025-06-28 08:59:46+00:00
I really REALLY don't like "now imagine magical paper"

But if we substitute "an etch-a-sketch" which shakes before you write on it...

I am a bit worried how "state" becomes the second thing when pure functions are in one thing. State mutes. As does the return variable.

Pragmatically, it's all quasi-religous flimflam.

Is an endo function like endo scopy?
by kelnos | 2025-06-28 09:00:01+00:00
Stories like this often get flagged because they devolve into political/religious flamewars. I think many people might have a knee-jerk reaction to posts about the Israel/Gaza war and flag them, because support for Israel vs. support for Palestine can be quite polarizing and emotional.

Not saying it's right or wrong, or that this sort of article is or isn't interesting to HN readers. But a reasonable reason for flagging an article is a belief that the topic at hand doesn't lend itself to thoughtful, interesting discussion.
by hulitu | 2025-06-28 09:01:31+00:00
> 1. just downloading is probably fine because it could be for purposes of fair use, and fair use concerns generally trump even good faith and fair dealing

Hello MPAA, RIAA ? Where are you now ? Twenty years ago they were screaming bloody murder for such things. But i guess, being a "pirate", is one thing, being a business man, is another.
by seec | 2025-06-28 09:01:33+00:00
At the extreme of 10KM range we are taking about 2.4kg of glass maximum. Spread of over 10km. It is largely insignificant.

Even if you had 100 drones starting from the same exact place and going to the exact same place you would find 24g of glass per meter. A single leftover beer bottle would be at least 6 times that amount.

When you worry about stuff it is useful to do the work.
Ask HN: Has Data Scientist Role Split into Decision Scientist and AI Engineer?
by arizen | 2025-06-28 09:02:22+00:00
I've been in the data science space for over a decade, and it feels like the "full-stack unicorn" role from the 2010s is gone. The core tasks seem to have split into two distinct paths:

The Analyst/Strategist (Decision Scientist): Focused on causal inference, experimentation, and business strategy, who uses AI as a powerful analysis tool.

The Builder (AI/Data Systems Engineer): Focused on the production architecture of it all—building the data pipelines (Kafka, Flink), MLOps infrastructure (Kubernetes), and now the agentic workflows (LangChain, RAG).

It seems the middle ground—the generalist who could do a bit of everything but wasn't a deep expert in production engineering or causal stats—is becoming obsolete. The "science" is now either in the rigor of experimentation or the engineering of complex, non-deterministic systems.

For those of you who have been in the field for a while, does this model resonate with what you're seeing?

Are you experiencing this bifurcation in your own companies or careers?
by seanhunter | 2025-06-28 09:03:19+00:00
You’re never going to break into popular science reporting with that sort of attitude. If you are going to do the scale of a small thing, you have to compare it to the size of a banana or the width of a hair if it’s very small. For larger things, “football pitches” are the standard, although “blue whales” and “double-decker busses” are also acceptable units in some circumstances.

So, for scale, Voyager 1 is about 2.5 x 10^11 regulation football pitches away although they vary in size so it could be anywhere between 2.08 x 10^11 and 2.8 x 10^11. Now, see how much more relatable that is for a common person?
by M0r13n | 2025-06-28 09:04:00+00:00
I can absolutely relate to this. I had similar feelings for the last year or so - although I couldn't express these thoughts as well as the author did.

I've developed this weird addiction to making notes in Obsidian. It wasn't really about learning or understanding anything. I bought into the illusion that having notes in my PKM meant I had actual knowledge. Bigger graph = smarter me, or so I thought. I even started reading books just to feed the system: Look at me with my 3,587 notes this year - aren't I clever!"

Currently, I am just taking notes where it really matters: Readme, documentation and some loosely organised markdown files
by shash | 2025-06-28 09:04:47+00:00
You need to do those coffee dates and relationship building to figure out what (other) people want, so it's not even far removed from the philosophy you quote. Yeah, it's _ideal_ if you're your own customer and you have this intuitive knowledge of the product, but that's actually less common (and needn't be common either). As a tech person, I don't find it slimy (at least, anymore). On the pure tech front, it's a process of finding requirements, which flows into the this whole business conversation side of things.

For example, if you view building a business that people want as a challenge, those requirements will vary from place to place and time to time, so finding that out is super important!

Interestingly, I've always viewed the Indian business environment as one that requires a lot more relationship building than (say) a place like the valley, but this article seems to imply that the UAE probably views us the same way I view the US ecosystem...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-28 09:05:31+00:00
It's a hundred times easier to search a digital hoard and you can fit a very big one inside a single hard drive.

So the idea that most of it is worthless is far far less justification to toss the entire pile. The cost to benefit ratio is shifted by more than 1000x.

And even then, while cleaning out a physical hoard you'll take time to look through things.
by qwertox | 2025-06-28 09:07:10+00:00
Let alone the fact that he could have fed an assistant with that information in 3 or 5 years, and would never have had to bother with that information again, but would be able to talk about it and ask in huge detail about things that were once relevant. The AI would have enough information on how he wants the data to be structured, it could have kept doing it for him.
by chrisjj | 2025-06-28 09:11:54+00:00
Quote:

“The training claim has likely been dropped due to Getty failing to establish a sufficient connection between the infringing acts and the UK jurisdiction for copyright law to bite,” Ben Maling, a partner at law firm EIP, told TechCrunch in an email. “Meanwhile, the output claim has likely been dropped due to Getty failing to establish that what the models reproduced reflects a substantial part of what was created in the images (e.g. by a photographer).”
by TheAlchemist | 2025-06-28 09:13:31+00:00
I will just leave it here, for those who don't know about Tesla:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-faked-video-in-2016-pr...

Note: Funnily enough, it's the same guy who, Ashok Elluswamy, who is still the head of the FSD program.
by fzeroracer | 2025-06-28 09:14:55+00:00
I wouldn't say it's thoroughly off-topic because not only do a lot of tech companies directly enable or produce the stuff that's enabling Israel but a fair number of major figures have also directly involved themselves politically with Israel.

That said it's the kind of topic I don't expect HN to be able to particularly handle in an interesting or insightful way. It's mostly just going to be a mix of horrified people and then users trying to gaslight others into how this is a good thing.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-28 09:14:59+00:00
> Calling someone neurotic and insinuating they are doing this for symbolism instead of having a real, tangible effect on their life is rather narcissistic, don't you think?

No? Even if you think it's wrong I don't see what's self-important about that claim. Maybe there's lack of empathy but that's only a small part of narcissism. And saying something is done for emotional relief doesn't sound like lack of empathy to me.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-06-28 09:16:56+00:00
> Could you clarify why there shouldn't be an OS difference?

Ignoring mmap. But why on a 16gb system why would performance degrade at 1Gb? You shouldn’t be hitting the swap. So any differences should be hardware architecture related. M1 unified vs Ryzen. And I wouldn’t expect 1Gb to be a magic threshold.

I would definitely expect a threshold beyond 16gb. And I’d expect the swap to come into play at maybe 12gb. I wouldn’t expect a huge difference between 500mb and 8gb. Ok there’s probability difference of hitting the L3 cache. But most of those random accesses will be hitting system RAM so it should be the same.

Could be wrong! But that’s what I’d expect.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-28 09:20:04+00:00
At this point the only models I use are o3/o3-pro and R1-0528. The OpenAI model is better at handling data and drawing inferences, whereas the DeepSeek model is better at handling text as a thing in itself -- i.e. for all writing and editing tasks.

With this combo, I have no reason to use Claude/Gemini for anything.

People don't realize how good the new Deepseek model is.
by Ancapistani | 2025-06-28 09:20:39+00:00
> which is ironic given your comment

With all due respect, what about my comment makes that ironic? I’m generally quite careful not to post if the only thing I have to offer is an opinion, and try to keep opinion out of it entirely.

> What you're describing is like saying a president can re-interpret the meaning of 'militia' in the 2nd amendment and start confiscating everyone's firearms because they're not members of a militia. Even despite rulings like Heller.

That’s basically what was done prior to Heller. Not for “everyone”, but functionally for several minority groups. Since Heller those efforts have primarily been at the state level (which is somewhat different, even with incorporation).

> This is exactly the argument that the dissent in this case makes.

Prior to today, I wasn’t super familiar with the case law here. It does look like SCOTUS has ruled in the past: US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898).

It’s after 4am here, and Wong Kim Ark is a long ruling. I simply don’t have the attention remaining to read the whole thing right now, but I skimmed it and ran it through my a couple of LLMs. In skimming it, it appears to be applicable here both broadly and specifically. All the LLMs I’ve tried agree with that statement, including when phrased in the negative.

In short: I was wrong, I believe you’re correct, and this EO should be overturned citing this precedent.

——

As we’ve spoken of opinion, I’ll break with my normal course and state plainly: I believe birthright citizenship should be ended. However, given what I know now, the only acceptable way to do so would be a Constitutional amendment.

I’m opposed to anything that oversteps governmental authority, regardless of whether or not it happens to serve my own political interests at the time.
by lrvick | 2025-06-28 09:22:01+00:00
Signal is a non starter. Never had an account and barring major architecture changes, I never will. Weakly secured centralized control of metadata with no option to self host your way out of it, and a requirement of a phone number which makes it a non starter for friends in countries that have good reason to be anonymous.

Zulip is at least self hostable but all private conversations in plain text on the server and lock-in to only being able to access chats on the one server are also both non starters. It is not a matter of trusting the admin, it is trusting that the Linux server was deployed with no exploitable flaws, and the admin never gets a court order. Too much trust for me.

Zulip is maybe a nicer UX alternative to IRC, but it is not comparable to Matrix.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-28 09:23:31+00:00
As a Dane I can confirm this is mostly true regarding the behavior of Danes in regards to untied shoes, allowing for literary exaggeration, there is something in the Danish spirit that hates an untied shoe and rushes to correct the behavior.

As for the rest it seems absolutely certain, given the fantastical element of a giant crow, that it is made up, and surely nobody in their right mind would ever believe it to be otherwise.
by yapyap | 2025-06-28 09:23:32+00:00
I feel that your optimism is great but that the example you provided is not the same.

Everyone had the ability to write before chatgpt, they had the ability to get their thoughts across if they so wished, whereas with photography it lessened the burden of having to buy an entirely seperate device.

if I move myself into the shoes of a photographer or someone with an affinity towards photographing I kind of get that when taking pictures is a big part of your life the camera starts to get ingrained with that but for others it wasnt just a step from camera to more frictionless camera it was a step from nothing to camera.

Whereas everyone has a brain to think things and to try to communicate what they are thinking and feeling, large language models did not enable that, they did however enable lazy people to swap out the work with a robots response or malicious people to spam the internet
by throwaway77385 | 2025-06-28 09:26:07+00:00
Interesting. First time I've heard of this outside the UK. In my local area, there's a near total moratorium on new-builds. The reasons are complex, but it's a mixture of agriculture having poisoned all the rivers, housing which is not connected to mains waste water (and people just not maintaining their private waste water systems, which are often just tanks of excrement mixed with chemicals, overflowing into nature) and, even if houses connected to mains, those constantly overflow into storm drains and make the rivers and coasts dangerous to swim in. All of that while it's completely clear that if we need one thing, it's more housing. Quite a predicament we find ourselves in.
by lenkite | 2025-06-28 09:26:21+00:00
Isn't `rg --vimgrep restore_tool | vim -q -` better though ?

-q [errorfile] QuickFix mode. The file with the name [errorfile] is read and the first error is displayed. See |quickfix|. If [errorfile] is not given, the 'errorfile' option is used for the file name. See 'errorfile' for the default value.

If you wish to automatically also open the quickfix list

rg --vimgrep restore_tool | vim -q - -c 'copen'
by mjburgess | 2025-06-28 09:27:05+00:00
There's two types of person I could be arguing with: one who has just misunderstood the ruling by being credulous of the discourse around it; and one who has misunderstood it by having a partial understanding of the legal context. My goal was the address the former by explaining the judgement. A person of the latter kind would take much more of my time than I can give. I'm not trying to win an argument, I'm trying to be helpful by adding explanatory context.

If a person has read the ruling and insists that it places the person of the president, privately, above the law -- then I'd need several hours to explain all the relevant issues. A comment thread isn't a viable place to conduct a seminar on constitutional law, nor exegesis of a SC legal opinion to that depth.

I had hoped I could just explain that the congress and the courts have immunities, and this is just confirming that the office of the president has exactly the same kind of immunity. And that this immunity does not transfer privately to the holder of that office, just as a senator cannot murder someone.

There are deep technical issues surrounding the status of the attorney general which muddies the waters, because this is not a constitutional position, and the constitution does not foresee any one but congress holding the president (as president) to legal account. In that sense, it places the president (as president, not as a private person) outside congress' modern established processes for federal law -- but that's what the constitution actually says. But this process has never worked anyway: the AG is an executive position the president already controls, so it has never made sense to imagine they are answerable to the AG.

The SC confirms the plain text of the constitution which is the office of the president is one of the three branches of government which is held to legal account only by impeachment by congress. The office holder, eg., trump, can still be prosecuted as a private citizen for crimes, in his own private interest, taken during office, when he isnt the president.
by tasuki | 2025-06-28 09:27:25+00:00
> The problem wasn't the idea.

I'll double down: yes, the initial idea is the problem. In a large organization, you can never discard the old knowledge base because you do not understand it well enough. No one does. No one knows which pieces of the old knowledge base are useful to whom. So it sticks around indefinitely.

The best you can do as an individual is to gradually improve your corner of the knowledge base. The idea that "we'll create a new one and it'll be up-to-date forever" is unrealistic, it's wishful thinking. If we weren't able to do it with the old one, why think we'll be able to do it with the new one?
Request for help : Anxiety about my career since more than a year
by theusus | 2025-06-28 09:27:58+00:00
I got laid off from my last company, and now I am in a mediocre company. My manager used to whatever they wanted and when I gave them feedback they got offended. After months of frustration, I reported it to the skip manager. And what they did was even worse. They collected feedback from everyone and put all negatives on me. Furthermore, provided that feedback to my manager.

I fear getting fired every day. Have been searching for a job for 3 months and yet to receive an offer. I am really hopeless and full of anxiety.

Any solid advice would be appreciated.

I have tried many therapies and am currently on heavy meds. Nothing helps anymore.

Country: India
by dang | 2025-06-28 09:29:05+00:00
No racial flamewar on HN, please. I realize this topic is fraught with it but that's no reason to jump straight in—it's a reason to do the opposite:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: yikes—quite apart from the current topic, you've been breaking the site guidelines a lot with flamewar posts and personal attacks. We ban accounts that post like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604429 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604394 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596070 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596065 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593235 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593219 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322414 (March 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251495 (March 2025)

I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted good things, but if you want to keep participating in this community, it would be good to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.

Edit: I did end up banning you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403629. We simply can't have people posting like that to HN.
by barrnell3 | 2025-06-28 09:29:06+00:00
Word of advice: don't do what the author has done. He has gone from one extreme (categorizing all notes obsessively) to the other extreme (wiping all notes, to start fresh).

The answer, as usual, is in the middle: keep all notes, archived. Feel free to restart old projects/ideas by archiving old projects to old/2024/legacy, and starting with a fresh page/folder, occasionally looking back at archived notes, if needed.
by andrepd | 2025-06-28 09:30:06+00:00
Netanyahu has privately expressed preference for terrorist Hamas over political Fatah, and Israel has propped up those terrorist groups in the past (this is well documented not a conspiracy theory).

Why? Because Netanyahu and a good chunk of the Israeli population want the Palestinians to cease to exist and its territory to be part of Israel. An opponent that wants to achieve its goals through political action and appeals to the international community meant that there was a risk of Israel being dragged into a two-state commitment. A terrorist group attacking civilians gives those hardliners a perpetual excuse to go to war.

In short: the answer is yes, that appears to be precisely the point: to prevent any possibility of peaceful reconciliation and drive the Palestinians to eventual expulsion or eradication.