MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-12 19:37:52+00:00
As noted before, it’s less about the ability itself and more about the things it enables further down the line. The cultural and scientific output by a far-future version of humanity that spans the solar system and beyond will absolutely dwarf that of a future where we’ve allowed ourselves to become root-bound on earth, and accordingly it’s much more likely to unlock the mysteries of the universe and figure out better ways to live. When I think of that, precluding any of it as a possibility feels borderline malicious and negligent.

I accept that this is something that depends on an individual’s values, though. Many don’t care about anything that won’t impact them personally while they’re still alive, and in some ways that’s valid, if frustrating.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-12 19:38:43+00:00
Capex and opex create value the same way an individual buying a house (capex) or a happy meal (opex) creates value.

>And just to check, you really want most of journalism to go out of business?

This is bullshit concern trolling.

But if you demand an answer: yes. "JoUrNaLiSm" probably bears half of the fault for getting us to where we are today.

The vast majority of "JoUrNaLiSm" nowadays is just copying and pasting tweets, putting "slams" in the title, and adding commentary anyways.

Low value. Sad. Many such cases.
by teitoklien | 2025-06-12 19:38:53+00:00
He raised concerns on many issues including the fuselage issue

>Salehpour, who has worked at Boeing for more than a decade, says he faced retaliation, including threats and exclusion from meetings, after raising concerns over issues including a gap between parts of the fuselage of the 787.

That particular issue you quote, was only given as a single example
by Alupis | 2025-06-12 19:39:10+00:00
It's extremely unlikely any of your tax dollars were allocated to projects like what is being discussed here. It's much more likely (given the Federal Government's total budget and allocations) that this money was being borrowed and/or printed.

So, put another way, is it better for the government to continue going into debt to operate projects like this with potentially dubious returns - or better to allow the private industry to find a way to operate it instead?
by echelon | 2025-06-12 19:40:14+00:00
> Where do you think these models will get the source data for these amazing generations?

Doesn't matter one bit, just like mp3 and torrents didn't stop digital music.

If you care, there are already "ethical models", there are synthetic datasets, and soon rights holders will be licensing training data.

But it literally doesn't matter. The entire world will be on board soon. IP holders included.

> Your slop-generating machine

I'm in the industry. We're not talking about LLMs powering this, but writers and directors and VFX artists.

Hollywood is switching to AI rapidly. The problem for the studios is we don't need them anymore. They only existed because distribution and capital were hard. That isn't the case anymore. A skilled team of five can make content on their own.
by jaderobbins1 | 2025-06-12 19:40:42+00:00
Yeah, girdling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girdling

I hadn't heard it used to get dry wood for harvesting but I recall it being useful because it actually kills the tree, so if you cut the tree down (after it's fully dead) the stump will decompose instead of trying to continue to grow.
by AngryData | 2025-06-12 19:40:54+00:00
To further expand this out since someone wanted to throw AI trash math at this, a REALLY good year for a farmer is a 10% return on input from fertilizer, seed, and equipment maintenance, usually it isn't that high and many farms average only a 2-3% margin over time but ill stick with 10%. Current average wheat prices are 9.3 cents per pound, while the cheapest flour you can get from walmart is 48 cents per pound, so 1/5th of that.

So provided the farm makes no investments on equipment or expansion, has a great year to get near maximum possible returns and all of that ends up as payment for labor, there is zero spoilage or waste, and you buy the cheapest possible flour, 10% x 1/5th = 2% is the highest possible amount of money you can expect from your flour purchase to go towards farmer's labor. If we use more realistic averages of farm profits it drops down to 1% or less, and if you include the costs of buying and upgrading farm equipment like any successful farm has had to do to stay alive throughout the last 40 years it drops even lower.

And if you look at the amount of land that a farmer needs to own (or god forbid rent) it looks like an even shittier deal for the farmer. At the US average of 40 bushels of wheat produced per acre planted, with a price of $5.55 per bushel, you get $222 per acre. With 90% of that going towards material input costs (its actually negative return on investment at that price but lets just assume 10% margin for the farmer's sake), that is only $22.2 per acre for the farmer, so in order for a farmer to earn $60,000 per year at that rate, they would need to farm about 2,700 acres of wheat, thats over 4 square miles. If we drop to only 5% margins, which is still better than most farms would ever expect, thats about 9 square miles of wheat they have to work. And you can double that again if you go for the more realistic expected margins of 2-3 percent. So unless you have a full 4 mile x 4 mile block of arable land, plus all the equipment needed to farm it, you couldn't really survive off anything less than a 4 mile sided square of wheat planting.
by jfengel | 2025-06-12 19:40:57+00:00
That seems unlikely to me. Much of Trump's platform was about disliking everything Democrats do. It's hard for me to imagine that any single policy change by the Democrats would attract a significant fraction of Trump voters.

Further, "states' rights" always seems to be a code for "things that I cannot control at a national level but at least want to manage at a level I can control". For example, a Democrat running on a strict states-rights level might say "New York and California should be allowed to require firearms registration", and I don't see that attracting a single Republican voter, but that's one consequence of truly devolving control to the states. (It is a perfectly valid reading of the second amendment to require registration, just as very few people have trouble reading the second amendment to restrict felons from gun ownership.)

So I see "states' rights" as a talking point rather than a serious policy proposal. Most of those who claim to support it seem perfectly willing to federally regulate matters that are important to them.
by SecretDreams | 2025-06-12 19:41:02+00:00
I promise you this is only a short term solution that will eventually ruin the small towns and their youth as well.

Canada is seeing that right now where so many people from big cities flooded small towns. All that has happened is something to the tune of 200% appreciation in small housing prices over the last decade with almost no appreciation in wages. It's crushed housing for the smaller towns and the individuals that lived there. It's truly just a kick the can down the road approach.
by xp84 | 2025-06-12 19:41:36+00:00
The "tasks on slips" remind me of the Cast Deployment System that was used at Walt Disney World 20 years ago (not sure when it started or how it evolved, but it was in use then).

All cast members in every park and other location were dispatched by PCs with receipt printers. To begin a shift or return from a break, you typed in your number to a CDS PC (located basically behind any convenient backstage door). The PC would just print a slip of paper and log your out. The slip would be one of:

1. Relieve John Doe at <Position> in <Location>. John Doe: return to PC (I think it also had a multi-stage bump possibility, where you replace John and John is sent directly to bump Bob.)

1b. Relieve John Doe. John's break time Start: 9:05 End 9:35

2. Do <TASK> until 9:08 (e.g. Straighten plush in <STORE NAME> or Stock candy in <STORE NAME>)

3. You're released to go home

It was a wildly efficient system, which basically allowed their operations software, which presumably knew about attendance, ride wait times, store sales, etc. to put each person to the most useful position at any moment, and also to give people specific useful things to do during slow periods (or indeed to release them early if they didn't have anything actually important for them to do).
by margalabargala | 2025-06-12 19:41:49+00:00
If you want to define "AOSP is not dead" as "there exists a source-available AOSP repo that is not ground-up buildable for any real world device without losing major features like SecureBoot", that's fine, but that's not the definition being discussed.

Absent device trees, AOSP as of the Android 16 release is a subset of the utility of Android 15. If one sees the use of AOSP as mainly relying on the now absent functionality, then declaring "AOSP is dead" is not unreasonable.

If the Linux Foundation sold itself to Microsoft, ceased publishing kernel sources or binaries, and declared henceforth Linux would exist as WSL and nowhere else, it would be reasonable to say "Linux is dead" even if something with a subset of that functionality, named "Linux", still existed.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-06-12 19:42:09+00:00
Uh, session cookies being one of the most fundamental pieces of authentication tech, there's nothing wrong with them. This is like saying, "example.com actually uses HTTPS. It's infuriating."

Do you mean that you have to reauth across domains? Those still use session cookies.

Edit: I'm dating myself here, but as far as I can tell apparently sometime between 2010 and 2011, developers started referring to session cookies as cookies with the lifetime of a browser session and not to cookies which contain session data.

If anyone can correct me on that timeline, I'd appreciate it. Sorry for the confusion in my comment.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-12 19:42:12+00:00
Really, most people's adult lives are just a constant stream of boring/difficult tasks they need to grind in order to get through: School, work, paying bills, managing money, doing taxes, cleaning the house, cooking food, doing dishes, fixing this, maintaining that... If you don't have a way to trick your brain into grinding these things over and over, you're not going to get very far.
by skrtskrt | 2025-06-12 19:42:37+00:00
For me the hangup is that async is Still Hard. Just a ridiculous amount of internal implementation details exposed in order to just write, like, an http middleware.

We looked at proposing Rust as the second blessed language in addition to Go where I work, and the conclusion was basically... why?

We have skilled Go engineers that can drop down to manual memory management and squeeze lots of extra performance out of it. And it's still dead simple when you don't need to do that or the task is suitable for a junior engineer. And channels are simply one of the best concurrency primitives out there, and baked into the language unlike Rust where everything is library making independent decisions. (to be fair I haven't tried Elixir/Erlang message passing, I understand people like that too).
by ModernMech | 2025-06-12 19:42:44+00:00
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/28/millennia...

Take the derivative of this chart, you see the boomer decline is accelerating to a crescendo. They're about to experience a lot of loss in their lives. They already are. I think their impending doom has a lot to do with what's going on now, given their generation is and has been in charge for the past many decades. If you know you're not going to live to see the next decade, and you're in charge of the whole world, what would you do? What wouldn't you do?

The future is going to be interesting. We have a whole generation of millennials and genx who have had to live in the shadow of boomers for decades, and now that it's fading we're not ready for the spotlight. The boomer generation has been in charge since 1993. And yeah, I had to look it up but Obama is a boomer as well, albeit on the younger side. But we're expect to take over this whole ship pretty quickly, within the next decade or so. Personally I don't feel ready at 40 years old.
by talhahmad5 | 2025-06-12 19:43:17+00:00
The Token Metrics API is a game-changer for crypto builders. In one integration, we got access to AI-driven trading signals, investor-grade token insights, and real-time sector data. It saved us months of dev time and gave our product a serious edge. The fact that 75% of their signals beat passive holding speaks for itself. Whether you're building bots, dashboards, or portfolio tools — this is the crypto API you want powering your backend.
by talhahmad55 | 2025-06-12 19:43:24+00:00
The Token Metrics API is a game-changer for crypto builders. In one integration, we got access to AI-driven trading signals, investor-grade token insights, and real-time sector data. It saved us months of dev time and gave our product a serious edge. The fact that 75% of their signals beat passive holding speaks for itself. Whether you're building bots, dashboards, or portfolio tools — this is the crypto API you want powering your backend.
by blixt | 2025-06-12 19:43:52+00:00
I think OpenAI is the first 100% AI-focused company to throw this many engineers (over 1,000 at this point?) at every part of the agentic workflow. I think it's a tremendous amount of discovery work. My theory would be that once we see what really works, other companies can catch up rather quickly, using far fewer resources to do so.

Google seem to be making a lot of progress on agentic too, not only with Mariner, but with Project Astra, Call For Me, and their Agent2Agent protocol. There's probably much more to come here.

Oh and OpenAI is clearly willing to spend a lot of money to push this technology a bit further. If you look at the logs of Codex, it appears to be using a very strong (read: expensive) reasoning model to basically brute force the use of a VM. If you have a follow-up question in a Codex task, they just casually throw away the old VM and spin up a new one, running all setup again. If you compare this to e.g., Cursor, I'd wager Codex costs 5-10x more to perform a similarly sized task, though it's hard to tell for sure.
by sinameraji | 2025-06-12 19:44:06+00:00
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Integral is AI-native Slack/Discord alternative. A communication app built for scale, since first gen communication apps get too noisy after 20 users start chatting. Pre-seed funded, closing seed round imminently. Currently a 1-person company. solo founder, Sina, built the first version (desktop & mobile) and launched and ranked #1 product of the day on Product Hunt and got early power users and has a 4k+ waitlist.

the ideal candidate is a product-minded engineer who has worked at early stage startups ideally as a CTO or founding engineer. experience with compliance is nice to have. being based in SF bay area is a must.

https://integralhq.com | sina[at]integralhq.com
by standardUser | 2025-06-12 19:44:07+00:00
Maybe someone can relate to me on this...

> With this new system, I haven't missed tracking my habits even once.

When I'm in a productive era like that it mostly feels amazing. But it also comes with this looming threat that it can't go on like that forever. The feeling that maintaining such a high standard will only lead to a big fall once something inevitably disrupts the system. It also creates a sense of burden because by being so 'active' in the world, people come to expect you to remain active. And many of the tasks you've completed lead to more tasks that wouldn't exist if you had just stayed lazy.

This, combined with the realization that I can get away with doing almost nothing productive as long as I have a job, has made it hard for me to even want to be productive.
by keybored | 2025-06-12 19:45:27+00:00
> There's also nothing inherently wrong with selling intelligence tools to a western government, Italy is not Iran or Zambia.

Yes, because Western ones are the good governments (looking at Meloni).

> And fighting terror or crime using software is valid. The only thing that surprises me is that a western government might attack journalists, and what I'd like to know from this article was what was their motivation

Huh, it’s surprising that Western governments would spy on journalists. But they are the good guys? What was their motivation.
by artyom | 2025-06-12 19:45:29+00:00
I was at Amazon but wasn't part of Alexa. I remember taking a look at their code. It was an endless spaghetti of if statements. The top one started like this

if(tenant == "spotify") { ...

and everything else was downhill from there.

The rest of the description on how Amazon operates is quite accurate. Impossible for anyone to do anything meaningful anymore.
by knowitnone | 2025-06-12 19:45:51+00:00
No.

What else is there for NASA to accomplish scientifically speaking? land on the next planet but for what purpose?

They've got the James Webb out there but what has that revealed for us except better quality images. Do you care if you find out certain planet has O2, C, H20? I certainly don't.

You can argue that NASA has developed some tech that is used in our everyday live but I argue we could have developed that same tech without going to space.
by d4mi3n | 2025-06-12 19:46:13+00:00
Frequent reauth doesn't meaningfully improve your security posture (unless you have a very, very long expiry), but any auth system worth it's salt should have the capability to revoke a session, either via expiry or by user/device.

In practice, I find that the latency between when you want to revoke a session to when that session no longer has access to anything is more important than how often you force reauthentication. This gets particularly thorny depending on your auth scheme and how many moving parts you have in your architecture.
by NewJazz | 2025-06-12 19:46:30+00:00
There was a study in Korea that showed it transfers into the body for folks like cashiers who handle them all day (gloves help prevent transfer). Besides lowering testosterone in men, these endocrine disruptors can have lots of other negative side effects.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/society/20180524/the...

There are receipt paper options that don't have these compounds, but they are uncommon.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-06-12 19:46:38+00:00
> That job turned out to be shoddy, ancient, flaky tech all the way down, with comfortable, long-tenured staff who didn’t know (and did NOT want to hear) how out of date their tech had become.

Yeah, yet their job listed a bunch of shiny "modern" cloud stuff they were doing, but they actually have three busted serverless functions and some dusty Java IBM Websphere things floating around running the whole business, while the job description listed 432 different things they were "looking for".
by myth_drannon | 2025-06-12 19:46:44+00:00
Nazi ideology is popular in Gaza and they learned many lessons from its chief propagandist Goebbels. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden

"a new leaflet with photographs of two burned children was released under the title "Dresden—Massacre of Refugees", stating that 200,000 had died."

"doctored with an extra zero to increase [the total dead from the raid] to 202,040"."

Israel-Palestine war will be notorious not for the mass casualties but for the massive, well preparared propaganda war. This will be studied for generations. Israel truly failed to counter this threat (among others) and is totally unprepared.
by xpe | 2025-06-12 19:47:35+00:00
> No, I'm just tired of constantly seeing a torrent of misinformation from people who don't know much about how these models actually work nor have done any significant work on their internals, yet try to write about them with authority.

I get that. So what can we do?

One option is when criticizing, write as clearly as possible. Err on the side of overexplaining. From my point of view, it took a back-and-forth for your criticism to become clear.

I'll give an example when more charity and synthesis is welcome:

>> Fine-tuning advanced LLMs isn’t knowledge injection — it’s destructive overwriting. [...] When you fine-tune, you risk erasing valuable existing patterns, leading to unexpected and problematic downstream effects. [...] Instead, use modular methods like [...] adapters.

> This is just incorrect.

"This" is rather unclear. There are many claims in the quote -- which are you saying are incorrect? Possibilities include:

1. "Fine-tuning advanced LLMs isn’t knowledge injection — it’s destructive overwriting."

Sometimes, yes. More often than not? Maybe. Categorically? I'm not sure. [1]

2. "When you fine-tune, you risk erasing valuable existing patterns, leading to unexpected and problematic downstream effects."

Yes, this can happen. Mitigations can reduce the chances.

3. "Instead, use modular methods like [...] adapters."

Your elision dropped some important context. Here's the full quote:

> Instead, use modular methods like retrieval-augmented generation, adapters, or prompt-engineering — these techniques inject new information without damaging the underlying model’s carefully built ecosystem.

This logic is sound, almost out of tautology: the original model is unchanged.

To get more specific: if one's bolted-on LoRA module destroyed some knowledge, one can take that into account and compensate. Perhaps use different LoRA modules for different subtasks then delegate with a mixture of experts? (I haven't experimented with this particular architecture, so maybe it isn't a great example -- but even if it falls flat, this example doesn't undermine the general shape of my argument.)

In summary, after going sentence by sentence, I see one sentence that is dubious, but I don't think it is the same one you would point to.

[1] I don't know if this is considered a "settled" matter. Even if was considered "settled" in ML research, that wouldn't meet my bar -- I have a relativity low opinion of ML research in general (the writing quality, the reproducibility, the experimental setups, the quality of the thinking!, the care put into understanding previous work)
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-12 19:47:38+00:00
What I thought was funny about Top Gun 2 that the site they attack is pretty much based on the uranium enrichment site at Natanz in Iran. But in real life this was not attacked by hotshot pilots but by a computer virus. Pretty telling how it lives in the past. But yeah it's a movie of course and top gun 1 wasn't intelligent either as you say.
by grafmax | 2025-06-12 19:48:02+00:00
If you look at the decline in poverty since 1980 most of that is due to China’s policies [1] which have combined social programs, central planning, with, yes, a portion of the economy running in market economics. And note that this occurred after private property was widely expropriated in a communist revolution. Free markets centralize wealth and power; the capitalist class always uses its wealth to control the political process as best it can. What we attribute to “common sense regulation” in the global north is actually the result of historical compromises made by the ruling class due to pressure from below. Left to itself the capitalist class will pursue profits at the expense of everything else. Failing to do so, capitalists will be outcompeted by those that do. (We see the effect of such structural incentives today with the climate crisis.)

Can markets be useful? Yes, as part of a broader policy that checks capitalist power either through labor or government. In the US I believe the government is captured by the capitalist class; thus it seems to me that organized labor is the only avenue for real progress in the US.

[1] https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...
by jjulius | 2025-06-12 19:48:11+00:00
>I can also accomplish incredible things with ellipsis

Are you insinuating that I was being disingenuous by using them? The ellipsis simply removed a part of the sentence that was irrelevant to the point, but doesn't actually change what you said. You said nothing is happening to their work, and then immediately pointed out work that's going away. Not that complicated.

/shrug