MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MostlyStable | 2025-06-15 18:02:49+00:00
I never claimed that workers get 100% of the increase in productivity. I said that increased productivity leads to increased wages. Increased productivity is in fact a _requirement_ for wages to go up (note that I am _not_ claiming that in increase in productivity _must_ result in increase wages. It is necessary, but not always sufficient), or else there is no where for those increases to come from. So when you claim that productivity increases _only_ result in worker wages increasing in the co-occurence of a worker uprising, that is the same thing as claiming that worker uprisings are a requirement.

So I showed you an increase in worker wages. If there is not corresponding worker uprising, your original claim is false.

And,again, you keep ignoring that the plot I showed is already inflation adjusted. It is a real increase, not a nominal increase.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-15 18:02:51+00:00
The thoughts on this really don't matter, its wasted effort.

There is one Organic molecular machines with consciousness that we can already build and they are called babies.

There is a simple way for most of us to do that, and anything else is just a perversion, whether the people seeking this know it or not (being blind in hubris).

There is no point in creating another thinking creature that doesn't benefit yourself, except as a replacement for children.

The only benefit of creating an automata different from children is if you wanted a slave, or to discriminate. There's really no other benefit, and it uses resources that children would normally use, the opportunity cost being children; leading to extinction.

Its important to put resources into making the world a better place, not produce more paths to destroy it.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-06-15 18:02:59+00:00
Reductio ad absurdum: corporal punishment for people who say things the government dislikes doesn't violate their freedom of speech. Sure, they might get beaten for it, but they can still express their opinion and they can still protest!

Yes, my opinion is that there should be no legal consequences for speech. And again, that is the US Secretary of State's opinion too — just only for US nationals traveling to foreign countries, not vice versa.
by Tarsul | 2025-06-15 18:03:03+00:00
I know from personal experience that eating sugar does induce more anxiety in me. This might sound weird but I can "physically feel" in my head a certain anxiety when e.g. I think about something awkward. This "physical feel" stopped being there when I stopped eating sweets for a few weeks. One reason why I try to keep my sugar intake down (the other being in danger of getting diabetes...).

Thus, I wholly believe this study.
by knutwannheden | 2025-06-15 18:03:09+00:00
I reckon that while my programming has become more productive with LLMs, it has at the same time gotten a bit more frustrating and boring.

I think it is difficult to know in advance when the LLM will do a reasonable or good job and when it won't. But I am slowly learning when and how to use the tools while still enjoying using them.
by guywithahat | 2025-06-15 18:03:10+00:00
As someone who has used elixir for startups and loves it, the benefit of Rails for a startup is that it's easier to pick up. html/live projects can create more confusing layouts, which can make it harder to learn if you're trying to get something running. Rails is a great framework to use if you're primary product is not a website, but you need a website.
by AaronAPU | 2025-06-15 18:03:37+00:00
yeah I had serious gut problems for years and no probiotic ever did the slightest thing. Anecdotally I can’t differentiate them from snake oil.

But Metamucil changed my life dramatically over a span of a few weeks. Never had the type of symptoms it’s indicated for, which everyone I mention it to just assumes. But it fixed me somehow.
by hexhowells | 2025-06-15 18:05:20+00:00
OP here, I whipped this up in like 10 minutes after modelling the problem from a new perspective (I want to be less of a perfectionist with my blogs) so there are definitely grey areas I didn't consider/cover.

I do think LLMs can be good for certain boilerplate code whilst still allowing you to enjoy the problems you care about, and as far as my binary definitions this is more of a grey area.

I guess for me, this has introduced a slippery slope where if the LLM can also code the "fun" stuff, I'll be more inclined to use it, which defeats the whole purpose for me. Perhaps being able to identify which type of project I am working on, it can help me avoid using LLMs to enjoy programming more again!
by moritzwarhier | 2025-06-15 18:05:25+00:00
Why not store metadata, along with a checksum of the png, in myPublicPhoto.png.meow?

Labeling and metadata a separate concerns. "Edge detection maps" etc are implementation details of whatever you are doing with image data, and quite likely to be non-portable.

And non-removability / steganography of additional metadata is not a selling point at all?

So my thoughts are, this violates separation of concerns and seems badly thought-out.

It also mangles labeling, metadata and technicalities, and attempts to predict future requirements.

I don't understand potential utility.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-15 18:05:29+00:00
> I don't think you get to decide as much as you think you do

Art is subjective, and I will say one last time: No one should be so arrogant as to assume that they have any business dictating the relationship between an artist and their patrons.

> I'm judging because I think the primary legacy of slop machines is are sucking life out of people who put in blood and sweat

So you admit that you are operating from a position of bias. At least you can recognize that, but it means that there is very little use in attempting to have an earnest, healthy conversation with you on this topic.

> who put their soul and themselves into their art because it is how they define themselves

I also define myself as an artist, and I put my soul into it, but apparently I have to get conartist6's permission before publicly calling myself an artist if I happen to use generative techniques. How tiring.

> I have the freedom to judge you

Yes, you do. Judge away. Meanwhile, I have art to make and share with others who appreciate my creative expression.

The most salient irony of this conversation is that you think you are protecting and appreciating some kind of sacred art, when from my perspective you are simply gatekeeping and seem to have an incomplete, narrow appreciation of what art is.

I appreciate art and expression of all forms, both familiar and strange. I don't base my appreciation of art on how hard the artist worked on a particular piece. I have intricate, original pieces hanging on my walls that I bought for several thousand dollars, right next to two-minute doodles that I bought for five dollars. If you truly appreciate art and human expression, you will reconsider why your argument comes off as judgemental and hateful.
by mindslight | 2025-06-15 18:06:06+00:00
"Leftist", "Rightist", and much "news" in general rots your brain by promulgating broken paradigms. This applies regardless of whether you think of yourself as supporting or opposing any given narrative.

You're twisting your thinking in knots acting like the authority claimed by some news, then contradicting itself, creates authority to the contrary. Really you're just helping spread brain rot.
by HocusLocus | 2025-06-15 18:06:34+00:00
https://archive.org/download/20180227-david-l.-goldfein-lett...

S.L.A.T.E.W.I.P.E.R.

(Sudden Large Accretion To Earth Which Ilaudable Parents Enormously Regret)

No time and excess for Earth gravity wells or exotic weapons, any single or few point of failures. 'It' will likely be spotted on an orbit off the plane of the ecliptic. 'It' might not leave us much time.

A lunar base, many rockets to launch an armada in light gravity and receive a mission en route. Each carrying a heavy mass-payload of Lunar regolith that has been loaded on the Moon, for overwhelming kinetic impact.

No Mars... a space colony too distant to benefit Earth, its residents to die slowly on television? The saddest reality TV show in TWO worlds.

Minimal Earth Science... putting more things in orbit to gaze lovingly at Earth and witness its destruction. It's simply not as important.

Since the mid 80s we have known what ended the dinosaurs.

All nations must build this. It's part of 'growing up'. Until Earth is ready to defend itself on a moment's notice there is little time for 'great science missions' or expensive colonization dreams. Colonize the Moon first.

BONUS: It would save the whole environment!
by GrantMoyer | 2025-06-15 18:07:06+00:00
It depends on how styleable the <permission> element ends up. I don't imagine any website will use it if it's limited to being an ugly default button with non-configurable text. But if the button is configurable enough, there's nothing to stop websites from abusing it for permission spam, just like the current model is.

Basically, I expect users wil stil need a way to defend against permission spam.
by h2zizzle | 2025-06-15 18:07:39+00:00
Could also be like climate change, where it correctly describes a broad phenomenon, but cannot be used to identify or classify any individual event. E.g., Wildfires are probably getting worse because of climate change, but it's difficult to say if the Pacific Palisades fire would not have happened in a cooler global climate.

So, is microbiome-mediated social anxiety selected for as an advantageous trait for societies subject to communicable diseases and the travails of nomadism? Maybe. Did YOUR microbiome-mediated social anxiety arise because it was advantageous for your community? Probably impossible to say.

Also, a hole in GP's logic: you would expect protective social anxiety to arise in people whose situation hasn't much changed except that they've encountered people whose has (as with sedentary villagers encountering nomads who may or may not be about to ransack their settlement).
by asdff | 2025-06-15 18:07:47+00:00
It goes full circle: where does the carbon in the biofuel come from? The plant. Where does the carbon in the plant come from? The air. This is why biofuels are carbon neutral in theory at least. There is of course loss in process like in most things.

In terms of a use of money it is a good way to subsidize the american corn farmer. Whether you believe that is worthwhile depends on your views of WWIII.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-15 18:08:21+00:00
I have been (and still am) a "journey programmer," but it's not "pure."

I always write "ship code," even for "farting around" projects. I feel that it helps me to be a better programmer, all around, and keeps me firmly focused on practicum. I like people to use my stuff, and I don't want them using shite.

I have found LLMs have actually increased my "journey." When I want to learn a new concept, the "proper" way to write "idiomatic" code, or solve a vexing problem, I fire up Perplexity or ChatGPT, and ask them questions that would have most folks around here, rolling in the aisles, streaming tears of mirth.

> The only stupid question is the one you don't ask.

That was on a former teacher's wall. Not sure if it was my art teacher, or a martial arts instructor.
by lurking_swe | 2025-06-15 18:08:22+00:00
I think simple solutions exist. For example the waymo could just ask the rider at the beginning of the ride “Is your car smelly? Any trash in the car?”

If they reply YES to any of those questions, then google keeps the recording of the previous ride for later review. Simple, no?

If the car actually was dirty, give the person that said “car was dirty” a refund of 20% on their ride. Then charge the party that made the car dirty a few. If a person is found to consistently say cars are dirty when they are not, give them a warning and consider kicking them off the platform (abuse).

Alternatively google can switch from recording the first minute of the ride to the last minute of the ride. In other words, only look at the “delta” to compare the car state. That would require a lot less video storage and less effort to review.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-15 18:08:23+00:00
I sense similar things to the OP. This feeling of not really thinking through some of the things I would have thought through before

At the same time, at least at the moment, this feels like just another tool. I'm old, started programming in the early 80s. Basic->Asm->C->C++ (perl-python-js-ts-go). Throughout my life things have gotten easier. Drawing an image on my Atari 800 or Apple II was way harder than it is on any PC today in JavaScript with the Canvas API or some library like three.js. Reading files, serialization, data strcutures, I used to have to write all that code by hand. I learned how to parse files, how to deal with endian issues, alignment issues, write portable code, etc but today I can play a video in 3 lines of JavaScript. I'm much happier just writing those 3 lines than writing video encoders/decoders by hand (did that in the 90s) and I'm much happier writing those 3 lines than integrating ffmpeg or some other video library into C++ or Rust or whatever. Similarly in 3D, I'm much happier using three.js or Unreal or Unity than writing yet another engine and 100+ tools.

ATM LLMs feel like just another step. If I'm making a game, I don't want the AI to design the game, but I do want the AI to deal with all the more tedious parts. The problem has been solved before, I don't need to solve it again. I just want to use the existing solution and get to the unique parts that make whatever I'm making special.
by simonw | 2025-06-15 18:08:25+00:00
I'd test them the same way I test other database stuff: run automated tests which spin up a database server for the duration, then run migrations to install the schema and stored procedures, then execute tests using your programming language of choice.

I still mostly use Django for PostgreSQL projects and the Django default test framework is great at running a temporary PostgreSQL (or MySQL or SQLite).
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2025-06-15 18:08:30+00:00
> Sometimes you need to flip a switch

If anyone needs to flip a global switch, and can't convince their leadership to allocate the resources to do it safely, engineering culture is dead, at least locally to that system.

But I'm not convinced lack of headcount was the problem here, the incident report makes it sound like there's an established pattern for feature flagging even for global changes like this.

Putting aside the fact that this team seems unperturbed by global deployments and all the other scary things, high impact changes should use every mechanism available to shrink fault containers. It would be inexcusable to roll this change out without tha feature flag mechanism if this were a regional roll out.

Skipping the feature flag when this is global is simply incomprehensible. It goes beyond headcount, it should never have been considered in the first place.
by furyofantares | 2025-06-15 18:08:55+00:00
> LLMs offered a much needed contrast that allowed me to understand the true value of what I do. Before LLMs I took it for granted

I've found this to be true of all generative AI to date. I have a clearer sense of where most of the value lies in most writing, imagery, code, and music.

I have a better sense of what having good taste (or any taste at all) means, and what the value of even seemingly trivial human decision-making is.
by apophis-ren | 2025-06-15 18:09:26+00:00
It's mentioned in the article. But for really, really long-horizon tasks, it might be reasonable that you don't want to have a small discount factor.

For example, if you have really sparse rewards in a long-horizon task (say, a reward appears 1000 timesteps after the action), then a discount factor of even 0.99 won't help to capture that: 0.99 ^ 1000 ≈ 4e^-5.

Essentially, if your discount factor is too small for an environment, it will be near impossible to learn certain credit assignments.
by kreetx | 2025-06-15 18:09:29+00:00
Yes, but you are currently arguing because the person on your side of the argument. For me, the question is more of whether you should allow people enter the country who cause civil unrest. It doesn't sound reasonable to allow a free-for-all entry to anyone, both to me subjectively, but I would also assume to all people for whom the US is their home country.
by ottod | 2025-06-15 18:09:51+00:00
First Linux I bought was Walnut Creek Linux CD-ROM. Second was Redhat. I would still be on Redhat if it were not for IBM and their bad faith source-available interpretation of the GPL. Then I bought Mandrake and used it as long as it was Mandrake and not the thing that became Conectiva. Then I heard about Ubuntu which would mail free CDs anywhere in the world. I was in education back then and my students would ask Ubuntu for CDs for a class I was teaching, and Canonical sent them a cardboard display, flyers, stickers, and about 50 CDs. They watched in class Revolution OS and contacted many of the people on it, which were kind enough to answer them. Those were the times; I'm old, yet still looking for a job because I love the industry.
by JadoJodo | 2025-06-15 18:10:02+00:00
A concern in putting this crosswalk in is that it gives pedestrians false confidence that’s not backed up by the additional infrastructure commonly seen with actual crosswalks: flashing lights, reflective signs, audible walk signals for the blind, warning signs for oncoming traffic, etc. Doing this without those additional pieces is simply more dangerous than not having one at all.

I do feel for the guy, though. It is so frustrating that the city isn’t communicating more clearly as to _why_ they won’t put in a proper crosswalk.
by pyman | 2025-06-15 18:10:04+00:00
This problem has been around since calculators were invented. But I do agree with you that it's a real issue: students not using their own brain, just relying on the artificial one.

That's why teaching methods need to evolve. They should be asked to show the prompts they used to understand the problem, and document the process. That's how you teach reasoning and how to use the tool properly.

For ex: I'm learning how to cook using ChatGPT, and with every prompt I learn something new and I understand more each time. But I still have to go to the kitchen and actually cook for my girlfriend. Same with students. They can use AI to learn, but they still need to step up to the board and solve a problem if they want to pass the exam.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-15 18:10:55+00:00
Snowden showed that the tools were available to intelligence agencies operating under questionable rules. Now the coordination of those agencies is led by a Russian agent, and poorly trained keystone cops have access, courtesy of Palantir.

Also note that the IRS and Social Security data is protected and access is a serious crime. So the responsible Feds are long fired or resigned.
by aseipp | 2025-06-15 18:11:02+00:00
The Top500 is an irrelevant comparison; of course AMD is going to give direct support to single institutions that give them hundreds of millions of dollars and help make their products work acceptably. They would be dead if they didn't. Nvidia also does the same thing to their major clients, and yet they still make their products actually work day 1 on consumer products, too.

Nvidia of course has a shitload more money, and they've been doing this for longer, but that's just life.

> smaller systems

El Capitan is estimated to cost around $700 million or something with like 50k deployed MI300 GPUs. xAI's Colossus cluster alone is estimated to be north of $2 billion with over 100k GPUs, and that's one of ~dozens of deployed clusters Nvidia has developed in the past 5 years. AI is a vastly bigger market in every dimension, from profits to deployments.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-15 18:11:07+00:00
By omitting the qualifying part of the grandparent's statement, which is this...

>> Theil is spearheading a campaign >> of untold suffering to minorities and poor people.

the quoted part in this...

> So where's the "untold suffering to minorities and poor people"?

...unhelpfully misstates the GP's assertion.

That assertion is that Theil is leadership within a campaign.

The assertion is the campaign is intended to harm the vulnerable.

Funding an election to gain access to the data needed to build new datasets that specifically target a vulnerable segment of the population - this is evidence of who the campaign is targeting.
by Den_VR | 2025-06-15 18:13:46+00:00
Google mismanages an enormous number of things. Users, Customers, Products, Teams, Talent. You can observe this in your interactions with Google/Alphabet and in ex-googler post-mortems.

They are amazingly valuable as a stock, as a business and as a collection of talent. That doesn’t entirely excuse failures of vision and leadership, let alone pricing.

Edit: That said, I am inclined to believe that Alphabet pricing likely better reflects reality. The others have some bad habits.
by natebc | 2025-06-15 18:14:41+00:00
Not sure about the person you're directly asking but I have a similar sentiment for Red Hat Linux of the era.

I've been a Linux sysadmin since 1999. Every dollar I've paid for food and shelter since has been a direct result of what I learned getting Linux up and running on a PC and dialed up (later connected via Ethernet/Cable Modem) to the internet.

I have no clue what I would have done otherwise. I'd probably be working in Public Health or recently unemployed from the EPA by the Trumps Doge Squad.
by hinkley | 2025-06-15 18:16:12+00:00
Primitive Technology on YouTube does this repeatedly.

You make a hole or find a piece of slate for processing, you mine clay from a stream bed, and then you make your first pot as a tool for moving water, the second pot for making food, and before or after the second pot you make clay bricks to build a kiln to high fire other things more efficiently - less fuel and more multitasking of other tasks.
by danaris | 2025-06-15 18:16:13+00:00
Sorry, this is implausible.

English is just too poorly-specified. Programs need to be able to know exactly what they're supposed to do next, what their output is supposed to be, etc. Even humans need to ask each other for clarification and such all the time.

If you want to use English to specify a program, by the time you've adjusted it to be clear and specific enough to actually be able to do that...it turns out you've made a programming language.
by asdff | 2025-06-15 18:16:45+00:00
What is farmed in this country is land compatible with american farming practices not fertile land. E.G. any mountainous farm region in the U.S. will see basically only farming on the valley bottoms. Whereas many civilizations in the past and present developed terrace farms to make use of the entire hilly region not just the convenient bottoms. It isn't really done in the U.S. due to the cost and the availability of vast quantities of flat farmable land well beyond market need.
by vlovich123 | 2025-06-15 18:17:24+00:00
> instead differentiate between code I consider trusted and code I consider risky.

You’re talking about trying to enforce privilege separation within a single process? For that you’d need capabilities ant the language level and even then I’m skeptical you can really lock things down successfully within a shared memory environment (yes JS in theory is a VM but there’s so many VM escapes possible that running untrusted code in process seems futile).