MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by superkuh | 2025-06-28 20:50:02+00:00
Nope. There's no addiction involved here. Engineers should know better than to mis-use terminology outside of it's context.

> We don’t all have ADHD. We have an addiction. Growing up, I barely knew a world without social media, and neither did my friends. We were the guinea pigs for Silicon Valley's great dopamine experiment, and now we’re waking up with the side effects.

Saying it's a "dopamine experiment" is just as bad an incorrect as calling your monitor "the cpu" or saying "I'm so adhd" to describe a common behavior.

Using the concept of addiction and completely unrelated neurochemistry in this context drags in all the terribly dangerous ideas of drug addiction. Drugs are entirely different things that truly do subvert incentive salience at the neurochemical level. While screens and speakers most certainly do not. And even if they did it's be "glutamergic experiment" not "dopamine". These ideas imply that in normal situations and stimuli humans do not have volition and so need state force to protect them from their own choices. This premise is far more damaging to society than screens and sounds could ever be.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-28 20:50:08+00:00
I forgot who said it but they had the theory that the way to stay sharp is to take on new mental tasks that create new though patterns.

You know when you are learning something and you get to that point where it is kind of a strain. That feeling that is kind of tense, exhausting but intriguing, all because you are about to get that thing. It is the transition from something being purely cognitive and moving into behavior intuition, like playing an instrument.

That is the thing that, in part, is keeping you sharp.

I say in part because don't forget your physical health, diet and social health. They all contribute.
by maxk42 | 2025-06-28 20:50:18+00:00
Oracle, to my knowledge, does not profit at all off of the JavaScript name or brand. I don't see the purpose of defending this lawsuit. They have an opportunity to create some goodwill here, hold a press release, and say "We're gifting the JavaScript trademark to the developer community!" But instead they're defending something that they literally do not profit off of. It's absurd.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-06-28 20:50:33+00:00
I'm not sure if I can contribute anything more here.

Tagged template literals, aka "template string literals" are yet another technology adjacent to JS and HTML using the word "template". But it doesn't have much to do with the submission.

It's just a fancy name for advanced string interpolation in JS, and has no inherent connection to DOM elements or fragments.

But it is used by some technologies such as styled-components and Lit (the web component library).

styled-components is probably also where the obfuscated CSS-in-JS class names in the bluesky markup originate.

There is also a `<template>` element that is used by ShadowDOM and web components.

But nothing of that is the essence of the post, these are just things that coincidentally use the word "template" (and, less coincidentally, the concept).

As far as I see, it is about the wish to standardize declarative data-binding to DOM trees.

Basically, a React-like API built into the browser, but less detached from native rendering algorithms.
by layer8 | 2025-06-28 20:50:58+00:00
Presumably because XML tags give better context. You have closing tags, and each array element has its own tags. The tag syntax is different from the value syntax, whereas in JSON both labels and string values use the same syntax. JSON strings are delimited by the same character ("), whereas XML uses two different characters (>…<). Non-string values in JSON have more variations in their delimitation than values in XML.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-28 20:51:33+00:00
Most of the worlds 3 billion+ adults don’t have a “passion” for their jobs and do have an addiction to food and shelter. There is nothing wrong with working only to exchange labor for money.

The last thing I want to do when getting off of work is spend time coding and I haven’t written a single line of code that someone hasn’t paid me for in 30 years.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-28 20:52:30+00:00
What is the average level of knowledge around the history of imperial Japan. Is that period covered thoroughly in school?

I was under the impression that Japanese people don't so much deny war crimes, as they just don't talk/learn about the uglier parts of what happened during the first half of the 20th century. Is the Rape of Nanking a well known event in Japan? Are the significant battles and general tactics of the war(s) talked about? Do they talk about the Japanese Army's general treatment of foreign civilians?

I guess, what I'm wondering is if I asked the average person on the street these questions, would they know at all what I'm talking about? Would they have the knowledge to talk about it in more detail?

Is this like in the US where most people have no idea about American intervention in Cuba, and the rest of the meddling that the US was involved in in Latin America?
by jay_kyburz | 2025-06-28 20:52:45+00:00
And whats more, there is only one law you need to change. You simply need to remove common carrier exemptions from hosts so that if false or misleading information is delivered to a user from a platform, that platform can be sued for damages.

Its the rule that newspapers and TV need to live by, social media should play by the same rules.

The platforms then simply need to protect themselves my making sure they accurately identify users posting on their networks, so they can pass the cost of any lost lawsuit onto the original poster.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-28 20:52:59+00:00
Just a question. I mean, everything costs money. Hardware. Software. Every-ware and -lectricity.

So how such services are even capable to offer something computehungry _free for everyone_? I mean, ok. One has money. One can do for fun if such a need. But not in such scales of $$$ that assumably are needed. Robin Hood and Pater Pedro giving his last pants as operators - or - where is the catch?
by kevincox | 2025-06-28 20:53:02+00:00
Yeah, the occasional bold word, inline link, heading or even the occasional image can make a message much more readable. If you don't like bold words your client can ignore that tag.

I think this is partly an over-reaction to some senders that go way overboard with bright colours a hundred images and complex layout that doesn't render right on your screen size. But just because a capability can be used poorly doesn't mean that it can't be used well.

I can also understand that some people choose to prefer the text version of messages because it is so common to "abuse" HTML. And for those people I even include a text fallback in case their client doesn't have the ability to do that.
by a10r | 2025-06-28 20:53:26+00:00
Love the idea!

The two biggest hurdles for a security tool like this are LLM non-determinism and the major privacy risk of sending code to a third-party API.

This is exactly why vet relies on ShellCheck—it's deterministic, rules-based, and runs completely offline. It will always give the same, trustworthy output for the same input.

But your vision of smarter analysis is absolutely the right direction to be thinking. I'm excited for a future where fast, local AI models can make that a reality for vet. Great food for thought!
by SlowTao | 2025-06-28 20:53:48+00:00
* puts on cynical hat * I suspect it is most just marketing. Privacy can help you sell even if it is no better than what a lot of people are doing.

Using open boot and a neutered Intel ME is a good start but nothing too unique nowadays.

Also at this point hardware privacy is all well and good but if you are going to dump stock Windows 11 on it, well it is called Windows for a reason, lets all your data out of one.
by Jach | 2025-06-28 20:54:15+00:00
One thing the "graduate level" concept reminds me of is Terence Tao's semi endorsement almost a year ago: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132502735585408 People quote the "The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, (static simulation of a) graduate student." part but ignore all the rest of the nuance in the thread like "It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "(static simulation of a) competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks." or "I inadvertently gave the incorrect (and potentially harmful) impression that human graduate students could be reductively classified according to a static, one dimensional level of “competence”."
by digianarchist | 2025-06-28 20:54:15+00:00
Bernie’s right on somethings here and wrong on others.

There’s already a “best and brightest” visa and it’s not H1B. It’s O1.

That said H1B is essentially the only reasonable way for people to immigrate to the United States through employment. Most employers are not going to stick out the convoluted process to obtain an EB2/3 immigrant visa for a worker they haven’t any experience with especially since they can enter the country and immediately work for someone else.
by 0xCMP | 2025-06-28 20:54:33+00:00
Honestly, I was using Orion as a daily driver for a few months now and it's crazy unreliable in my experience. It also somehow uses more RAM than Chrome/Brave doing the same things, but with lots of tiny incompatibilities.

I actually just switched my self back to chrome/brave for what I was using Orion for.
by afiodorov | 2025-06-28 20:55:59+00:00
European Portuguese sounds very Slavic; I'm sure Russians have a blast with it. English is a phonetically isolated language, largely due to the Great Vowel Shift. Unlike English, most languages have a closer linguistic relative. This makes English challenging for most people to learn, and it also makes it difficult for native English speakers to learn a foreign language without a heavy accent.
by martin-t | 2025-06-28 20:56:12+00:00
Ever since I learned that my open source work was stolen and is being resold to me (laundered through statistical algorithms) without any credit or compensation, I stopped writing open source.

Any copy-left code is basically free to be used in closed source software, as long as it's not a verbatim copy? Count me out.

LLMs are used to subvert the spirit of GPL, if not the letter.
by tveita | 2025-06-28 20:56:23+00:00
There is a long tail of applications that are not currently scriptable or have a public API. The kind that every so often make you think "if only I could automate this instead of clicking through this exact same dialog 25 times"

Before, "add a public API to this comic reader/music player/home accounting software/CD archive manager/etc." would be a niche feature to benefit 1% of users. Now more people will expect to hook up their AI assistant of choice, so the feature can be prioritized.

The early MCP implementations will be for things that already have an API, which by itself is underwhelming.

You would think Apple would have a leg up here with AppleScript already being a sanctioned way to add scriptable actions across the whole of macOS, but as far as I can tell they don't hook it up to Siri or Apple Intelligence in any way.
by swat535 | 2025-06-28 20:56:31+00:00
I'm not sure about that. I speak 3 language fluently, I think its important to nurture your native language. Perhaps because we partially identify our personalities and cultures based on our mother tongue, but I would feel like a part of me would be lost if I drop it.

I agree with your point regarding English however, I think everyone should learn it regardless and I can't help but feel like it's a lighthearted language.

I wonder if others are the same, but I feel like a different person based on the language I speak.. somehow I'm "kinder" (is that the right word?) when I speak English for example..
by seszett | 2025-06-28 20:57:37+00:00
> When you speak a foreign language than English, you accent is bound to be messed up. Look at Indian Americans or Pakistani Americans or other people who speak dual langauge.

That's not true, in this case it is simply the accent they learn because everyone around them has this accent.

But learning different languages when young doesn't mean one develops a foreign accent. I know Flemish people of Vietnamese origins who speak correct Vietnamese as well as Flemish with a perfectly good farmer accent from West Flanders. And their kids speak native French with a neutral (French) accent in addition to native Flemish, because the French speakers in their family are French and not Belgian.

When learning languages young, accents don't creep from one language to the other, that happens when one learns a language later on.
by anonymousiam | 2025-06-28 20:57:52+00:00
Different people find "fun" in different things. Field Day is fun for the planning, deployment, and operation of ham stations in the field. Some community outreach, some teamwork, some emergency preparedness, and some good practice.

I agree that actually operating during field day is less fun than at any other time of the year, unless you're in "competitive mode" and are trying to win the most contacts in your class. During these three days, the conversations are very short and mostly all the same, so there's not much "rag chewing" going on.

Field Day can also be fun in the sense that you may get permission to do things that you ordinarily could not do, such as operate a station in a public park, and camp there with it for two nights. Another "fun" element is improvising with what you have, such as setting up a station on the top floor of a parking structure in a metropolitan area.
by hintymad | 2025-06-28 20:58:08+00:00
> To this day, I still find Spanish a bit more challenging than my native language or even English

I feel the same, albeit on a much lower level. Somehow Spanish just feels strange to me. For instance, a subject in Spanish often gets placed after the verb in a sentence, so I constantly have to figure out where the subject is: is it before the verb? after the verb? Or there's no subject and the conjugation of the verb implies the subject? I guess it's just a matter of time to get familiar with the verbs and it takes time. Also, listening comprehension is a huge problem for me. Even discerning words from conversations is very challenging. When I was learning English as a second language, I could understand most of what was said in an action movie or a simple sitcom like Friends after I could read simple novels like Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes. However, I can read simple novels like El Alquimista now, yet I could only understand what was said in Extra at best with a super focus. In contrast, listening to Japanese is much easier for some reason, even though my level of Japanese is way below N5 (equivalent to Spanish's A1).
by BuckRogers | 2025-06-28 20:58:29+00:00
You should be complementing people trying to be cosmopolitan and learning another language. There’s nothing wrong with that. And as people have commented here, it’s good for their mind.

It seems that Americans can never win. Either the most racist xenophobic people in the world that deserve to have foreigners take their country over. Or, they’re fake cosmopolitans larping. Of course the real answer is that people are just envious of Americans. But we won’t go into that.

It’s true that AI is making nearly any intellectual endeavor pointless from a necessity standpoint. But that’s OK, we’re going to be able to intellectually dive into things that we actually want to do for enjoyment in the future. People will still learn languages and study whatever they want.

I find foreign language is interesting and fun. I don’t know if it’s the brain stimulation or just the sheer joy of having a secret language that many people around me don’t understand.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-28 20:58:58+00:00
> Hamas won the elections in Gaza with 45% of the votes

That was a generation ago.

> as we saw immediately after 7/11, most of them was cheering for the slaughterings and the rapes

One, it’s unclear how widespread this was. But also two, you see similar dehumanisation of Palestinians by Israelis today. That’s just how human psychology works in a war footing—I think we and chimpanzees are the only species that will go out of our way to exterminate a threat.

> Palestinians have an huge responsibility on the actual situation

Oh sure. And I think whether a future Palestinian state could exist peacefully bordering Israel is a real question. But I would push back on the notion that a plebiscite today requiring recognition of Israel as a sovereign state within its current borders in exchange for a Palestinian state (with West Bank settlements transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction) wouldn’t pass.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-06-28 20:59:14+00:00
Sometimes I really pity the monolinguals who can’t witness the beauty of the varied linguistic cultures of the world.

It’s not a brag but here’s a sample of how my polylingustic life looks like: In the past week I had discussions about Clausewitz’s “Vom Krige” and “Rét Samadhi” by Gitanjali Shree, discussed Marathi poetry with my daughter, listened to mellifluous Tamil songs like “Nenjukkul Peidhidum”, appreciated my wife’s Uttara Kannada accent, all the while consuming English media in copious amounts.

Languages and accents are a unique part of being human and I firmly believe that we’re meant to be multilingual.
by moralestapia | 2025-06-28 21:00:18+00:00
But it is an Oracle trademark, [1].

And here's one (trivial, but valid) use of it [2].

I'm sure Ellison lawyer's can come up with thousands of examples of JavaScript being used within the context of Oracle's business activities.

The way to go is fight for genericization (or start calling it ECMAScript, lmao).

1: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseSearchType=U...

2: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2...
by a10r | 2025-06-28 21:00:36+00:00
You're absolutely right—vet's scope is focused on securing the installer script itself, not the binary it downloads.

The goal is to prevent the installer from being maliciously modified to, for example, skip its own checksum verification or download a binary from a different, malicious URL.

It's one strong link in the chain, but you're right that it's not the whole chain.
by martin-t | 2025-06-28 21:01:31+00:00
Current copyright is too strong in terms of length but too weak in terms of derived work. Well, pending some lawsuits, perhaps.

What copyright should do is protect individual creators, not corporations. And it should protect them even if their work is mixed through complex statistical algorithms such as LLMs.

LLMs wouldn't be possible without _trillions_ of hours of work by people writing books, code, music, etc. they are trained on. The _millions_ of hours of work spent on the training algorithm itself, the chat interface, the scraping scripts, etc. is barely a drop in the bucket.

There is 0 reason the people who spent mere millions of hours of work should get all the reward without giving anything to the rest of the world who put in trillions of hours.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-28 21:02:38+00:00
Jews in America are not the ones committing a genocide in Gaza. Quite a significant proportion of the American Jews are absolutely horrified.

Can I ask why you think that American Jews are any more responsible for the crimes of Israel in Gaza than non-Jews, or Jews elsewhere in the world? Do you think that Judaism is a monolith, or that American Jews are the same as all Jews?

I ask because blaming Jews elsewhere for the acts of Israel, and conflating all of Jewry with Israel is a common tactic of anti-Semitic movements. I can't tell if you are doing that intentionally, or if you have just made your point poorly.

Assuming you are acting in good faith, you should look at the history of Black/Jewish relations in the civil rights eras. There was a disproportionate amount of support from American Jews (compared to the population at large) towards the civil rights movement.

MLK himself was outspoken about the support from American Jews:

"How could there be anti-Semitism among Negroes when our Jewish friends have demonstrated their commitment to the principle of tolerance and brotherhood not only in the form of sizable contributions, but in many other tangible ways, and often at great personal sacrifice. Can we ever express our appreciation to the rabbis who chose to give moral witness with us in St. Augustine during our recent protest against segregation in that unhappy city? Need I remind anyone of the awful beating suffered by Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld of Cleveland when he joined the civil rights workers there in Hattiesburg, Mississippi? And who can ever forget the sacrifice of two Jewish lives, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, in the swamps of Mississippi? It would be impossible to record the contribution that the Jewish people have made toward the Negro's struggle for freedom—it has been so great."
by vagabund | 2025-06-28 21:03:08+00:00
I'd push back on a couple things here.

The notion that Scale AI's data is of secondary value to Wang seems wrong: data-labeling in the era of agentic RL is more sophisticated than the pejorative view of outsourcing mechanical turk work at slave wages to third world workers, it's about expert demonstrations and work flows, the shape of which are highly useful for deducing the sorts of RL environments frontier labs are using for post-training. This is likely the primary motivator.

> LLMs are pretty easy to make, lots of people know how to do it — you learn how in any CS program worth a damn.

This also doesn't cohere with my understanding. There's only a few hundred people in the world that can train competitive models at scale, and the process is laden with all sorts of technical tricks and trade secrets. It's what made the deepseek reports and results so surprising. I don't think the toy neural network one gets assigned to create in an undergrad course is a helpful comparison.

Relatedly, the idea that progress in ML is largely stochastic and so horizontal orgs are the only sensible structure seems like a weird conclusion to draw from the record. Saying Schmidhuber is a one hit wonder, or "The LLM paper was written basically entirely by folks for whom "Attention is All You Need" is their singular claim to fame" neglects a long history of foundational contributions in the case of the former, and misses the prolific contributions of Shazeer in the latter. Alec Radford is another notable omission as a consistent superstar researcher. To the point about organizational structure, OpenAI famously made concentrated bets contra the decentralized experimentation of Google and kicked off this whole race. Deepmind is significantly more hierarchical than Brain was and from comments by Pichai, that seemed like part of the motivation for the merger.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-06-28 21:03:54+00:00
If you want to launch a big viral marketing campaign, you also need someone who's willing to trade your predictions of future revenue for cash today, and VCs are by definition the people interested in making that trade. For something that depends on network effects, slowly trickling out one new ad every time you get 10 new signups isn't going to work.
by drmpeg | 2025-06-28 21:04:25+00:00
Back in the early 90's, I worked with some guys that were in the San Jose State radio club, W6YL. Although Field Day is not a contest, these guys really really wanted to finish in the top 10 for class 2A.

They found out that I had an Oscar 10/13 satellite station and begged me and my buddy to operate with them (there's bonus points for a satellite contact). So my buddy and I were "hired guns". We had never attended San Jose State and were not members of the club.

These guys were definitely serious. We operated from a huge ranch in the Sunol hills and they erected wire beams for 80 and 40 meters. They did finish in the top 10 the two years my buddy and I participated.