MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codeguro | 2025-06-29 06:09:55+00:00
Becoming a doctor, lawyer, scientist, or engineer is a personal choice, and a personal investment. You don’t get to socialize the costs and privatize the gains for your personal benefit in the name of “society”. If you need to take out a loan, borrow against your future, not everyone else’s. You’ll be making more money later so it’s not like you can’t afford it anyways.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-06-29 06:10:40+00:00
AI can be "fed" anything. Either via recorded media or you can attach a camera to a computer, a microphone and other sensors. Waymo's cars are making 250.000 rides per week, experiencing a lot of stuff. Or even just use text. ChatGPT constantly experiences interactions with its users.

What is it that you are looking for in a book that is an "expression of a lived experience"? Do you get entertained? A good feeling? What if AI can write books that entertain you better and give you an even better feeling?

Or are you looking to learn something, broaden your horizon? What if AI can teach you more, make your horizon wider than any human can?
by whiddershins | 2025-06-29 06:10:41+00:00
all this was obvious the moment napster became popular. and for more than a decade anyone who explained what was happening was ridiculed, especially in tech circles.

spotify in particular cemented a payment structure that disadvantages any “serious” music versus endless repeat pop songs, while also being completely corrupted by conflict of interest from record labels with an ownership stake. now they manufacture their own muzak and steer your playlist to it, draining the last bits of revenue possibility away from these “middle class musicians.”

youtube streamed music for free for years, paying no artists, and it was one of its core growth engines. completely asymmetrical outcome.

the whole thing denigrated musicians, and music itself. hordes of early online young tech professionals making great money at their office jobs poo pooing the concerns of an entire industry which previously enabled some of the most sophisticated artistic endeavors our culture ever attempted.

just dumb. a complete victory of lowbrow values.

baffling someone is writing this article in 2025. at every fork in the road, the path was taken that would give less revenue to the musicians. and ~no one in tech felt it was a problem.

talking about it like there is a revelation or an emerging phenomenon here mystifies, while rubbing salt in the wound.
by Lerc | 2025-06-29 06:11:06+00:00
Well there are models that can sum two many-digit numbers. They certainly have not been trained on every pair of integers up to that level. That either makes the claim they can't do things that they haven't seen trivially false, or the criteria for counting something as being in the training data includes a degree of inference.

What happens when someone makes a claim that they have gotten a model to do something not in the training data and another person claims it must be encoded in the training data in some form. It seems like an impasse.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-29 06:12:22+00:00
Billionaires are the warlords of the 21st century. The only difference is that we've switched the map. We don't compete on the land, we compete on economic territory. But the results are the same - they fill the same role.

Expansionism, cult of followers, dispensing boons, and absolute control over their territory? check. The only reason we don't recognize them as warlords is because they don't wave scimitars and wear turbans. Neolibrral warlords wear Patagonia vests and beige slacks.

We're terrible at mistaking asthetics for function. Fortresses have been replaced by platforms; trade routes replaced by data sharing agreements. Armies have been ursurped by legal teams and lobbyists. We barely escaped feudalism and it's not clear we're out of the orbit of neo feudalism.

If we're able to be honest with ourselves, we need to learn that asthetics and function are different things. Just because they look different doesn't mean they don't fulfill the same function.
by EngineeringStuf | 2025-06-29 06:14:57+00:00
I've worked on a variety of large UK government systems for the past ten years.

This blog encapsulates the problem of writing government services/software, which often results in strange outcomes.

Writing software for government is essentially the codification of centuries worth of Acts of Parliament.

Now imagine building the HMPO passport system, and then some underlying Law/Act is changed or repealed etc.

Now someone has to find and change everything that the Law/Act affected in all systems.

Now consider that the government frequently outsources this work to expensive consultancies who are motivated to elongate contracts and extract maximum value from the client... And ideally become entrenched.

All whilst building systems of varying quality and inflexibility so that the next time that a Law/Act is changed then this whole process repeats.

There is no central decision making authority to wrangle this problem (there used to be Spend Controls), which is why Government services delivery is so expensive.
by neoden | 2025-06-29 06:16:29+00:00
Yes, I am using their Python SDK. But you can't just add MCP to your existing API server if it's not ready to async Python. Probably, you would need to deploy it as a separate server and make server-to-server to your API. Making authentication work with your corporate IAM provider is a path of trial and error — not all MCP hosts implement it the same way so you need to compare behaviours of multiple apps to decide if it's your setup that fails or bugs in VS Code or something like that. I haven't even started to think about the ability of a server to message back to the client to communicate with LLM, AFAIK modern clients don't support such a scenario yet, at least don't support it well.

So yes, adding a tool is trivial, adding an MCP server to your existing application might require some non-trivial work of probably unnecessary complexity.
by wordofx | 2025-06-29 06:19:42+00:00
Palestine has had many opportunities for statehood. Current President of Israel is not completely opposed to statehood, citing security concerns which are clearly valid considering Palestine has repeatedly broken cease fire agreements and Hamas entire goal is to eradicate Israel. They are not being treated as sub-human. Remember Israel warns Palestine of air strikes. There have been many reports of Hamas refusing to allow people to leave sites that are targeted for the sole purpose of of martyrdom. The only people being exterminated is the terrorist Organization Hamas.

All 4 bullet points are either completely false or misleading.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-29 06:20:43+00:00
In a world where some large fraction of the working-age population is employed in factories (most of those in automotive), maybe not so many should be musicians. In a world where we've shipped all those other blue collar jobs to Asia, every industry sub-sector that becomes unviable is a disaster. So asking "how many x should there be" sort of marks you as clueless or even callous. The answer is as many as there can possibly be, plus a few extra.
by safercplusplus | 2025-06-29 06:25:24+00:00
Preach it brother! :)

Hmm, I take it that the situation is that there are a number of vendors/providers/distros/repos who could be distributing your memory-safe builds, but are currently still distributing unsafe builds?

I wonder if an organization like the Tor project [1] would be more motivated to "officially" distribute a Fil-C build, being that security is the whole point of their product. (I'm talking just their "onion router" [2], not (necessarily) the whole browser.)

I could imagine that once some organizations start officially shipping Fil-C builds, adoption might accelerate.

Also, have you talked to the Ladybird browser people? They seemed to be taking an interested in Fil-C.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/

[2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor
by Animats | 2025-06-29 06:25:46+00:00
That LLMs are a black box and that LLMs lack an underlying model are both true, but orthogonal. It's possible to have a black box system which has an underlying model. That's true of many statistical prediction methods. Early attempts at machine learning were a white box with no underlying model. This is true of most curve-fitting. The AI version was where you're trying to divide a high-dimensional space with a cutting plane to create a classifier. You can tell where the separating plane is, but not why.

The lack of a world model is a very real limitation in some problem spaces, starting with arithmetic. But this argument is unconvincing.
by ForOldHack | 2025-06-29 06:25:48+00:00
That lasted a few months for me, until I found a box of the front panel connectors, and I taped together a power/reset and speaker connector. ( I made two, one to use, and one as a spare... ) after not being used for 6 months, It got tossed... of course, only to be needed a few years later for fixing a intermittent motherboard.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-06-29 06:27:27+00:00
I like stories like these, but I think you just never hit a breaking point with the infra and approaches you got. You've never exceeded your ext4 volume size, so no need for object storage. You've never had a server die, so one dedi box is fine. You've never had a paying customer call you with an issue, so oncall support is not needed.

So I totally agree with your approach.
by CalChris | 2025-06-29 06:28:20+00:00
The Nvidia technical brief says 208 billion transistors.

https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-blackwell-architecture

Blackwell uses the TSMC 4NP process. It has two layers. A very back of the envelope estimate:

750mm^2 / (208/2) * 10^9 = 7211 nm^2 85 nm x 85 nm

NB: process feature size does not equal transistor size. Process feature size doesn't even equal process feature size.
by happytoexplain | 2025-06-29 06:29:16+00:00
The rebuking is largely focused on using AI-written code (and other content) in ignorant ways, not on using AI to learn or to get example code upon which to base your own, or for simple objective code you can confidently audit, which are in fact more reliably good and less depressing/degrading/market-damaging use cases.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-06-29 06:29:40+00:00
Yes, I hold the "America is not a nation-state" perspective. I generally like the analysis by Bret Devereaux on this topic (https://acoup.blog/2021/07/02/collections-my-country-isnt-a-...), but if that's not convincing I don't have anything to argue this point on beyond my own experiences that "American" is a "civic group" but not a "national group". So, we'll just have to agree to disagree there.

It doesn't really take away from my main point. Yes, Western Europe and pretty much all New World countries are "civic" oriented. No Western state, Israel included I am pretty sure, has in their constitution or equivalent that a subset of citizens has legal rights other citizens do not. The closest I can think of to what you asked for is actually the Baltics - not a citizen-subgroup distinction, but where there is a complex situation due to not having granted most non-ethnic residents at the time of independence automatic citizenship. Otherwise, we are primarily talking about symbolism in the legal documents and cultural norms in the population. Japan is pretty clearly an ethnic nation-state. Eastern European states were generally ethnic nation-states at the time of independence, but some are moving closer to civic nation-states now.
by jose_zap | 2025-06-29 06:30:26+00:00
That was definitely true many years ago. Nowadays Haskell has some really good tooling.

It has a feature-rich LSP, code formatter, package manager, dead-code checker, configurable linter, thread debugger, memory debugger, vulnerabilities checker, and much more.

That’s just what is provided by external tooling. Then, it also has everything the compiler has to offer, which is bit more than what most languages do. For example, you can now compile to JavaScript or WASM.
by bettercallsalad | 2025-06-29 06:32:52+00:00
Thank you for sharing your journey! Most difficult part of this relationship has been to have her not worry about me leaving her because of her symptoms. Communication is the key. The only thing that can get tiring is when sleep schedules are so messy, and I have to go to work in the morning.

If you don’t mind sharing, what was your progression towards being cured? Did you do anything different lifestyle wise? I have consulted many psychiatrists but the general consensus seems to be that the management is the only option.

I am also somewhat concerned about the genetic component of it. The general feedback I received from pedestrians is most meds are not safe during pregnancy and postpartum episodes are very likely. And the risk of passing down is also about 10-20%. Her dad’s sister also seemingly had it.
by drysine | 2025-06-29 06:33:52+00:00
>it was their human duty and utmost responsibility to stop this

Do you apply the same standard to Palestinians for not overthrowing Hamas, to Americans for the US being the key enabler of Israel's military operations, to the citizens of any Western country for not adding Israel next to Russia in all their sanction laws? If not, why?

Or maybe we should be careful with assigning collective guilt and not throw stones in glass house?
by throwaway81523 | 2025-06-29 06:34:19+00:00
> It boggles my mind that we ever thought a small amount of text that fits comfortably on a napkin (the axioms of ZFC) would ever be “good enough” to capture the arithmetic truths or approximate those aspects of physical reality that are primarily relevant to the endeavors of humanity.

ZFC is way overpowered for that. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/39452/status-of-harvey-fr...
by nialse | 2025-06-29 06:35:16+00:00
Technological resistance is futile. There are Luddites in every shift that seek to stop the world from changing. The groups affected often react with surprise, having previously learned that what they do is exceptional, highly regarded and valued, or uniquely human. Writers are in for the same ride as programmers, administrative assistants, customer service people, translators and creators of anything generative AI does well enough.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-29 06:37:32+00:00
I was just responding to this point:

> The stuff you're describing doesn't really seem much different that any popular internet spaces in the 2000s

I think there is a big difference to some of the examples they gave, because of the uniquely young age demographics on Roblox. The only example that seems comparable was Club Penguin.

Now, I agree that there is interest in teasing out whether there are problems with Roblox specifically, or if it is just a problem with having an online space with such a high concentration of kids in general. But that high concentration of kids does make it much more of a concern either way.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-06-29 06:38:09+00:00
>But the point for businesses to exist at all is to produce positive externalities and they need to produce those externalities for more than just their owners.

I see little evidence that this is true. If anything, modern VC companies are "externality parasites". They produce positive externalities for some (ie. shareholders), by putting a lot of negative externalities on society as a whole (see for example the cost to democracy, societal cohesion, etc. that comes for Facebook and the like).
by geodel | 2025-06-29 06:38:27+00:00
And how these shareholders materialize. I don't think show up at guileless founder's workplace with guns and make them offer they can't refuse?

> but there’s a pretty huge throughline of outside investment and addiction engineering..

Personally I don't doubt that. But if people are taking outside money while being aware of its effects I don't know what kind of sympathy they deserve.
by BrenBarn | 2025-06-29 06:43:07+00:00
> I heard one answer more than any other: the government should introduce universal basic income. This would indeed afford artists the security to create art, but it’s also extremely fanciful.

Until we start viewing "fanciful" ideas as realistic, our problems will persist. This article is another in the long series of observations of seemingly distinct problems which are actually facets of a larger problem, namely that overall economic inequality is way too high. It's not just that musicians, or actors, or grocery store baggers, or taxi drivers, or whatever, can't make a living, it's that the set of things you can do to make a living is narrowing more and more. Broad-based solutions like basic income, wealth taxes, breaking up large market players, etc., will do far more for us than attempting piecemeal tweaks to this or that industry.
by lerp-io | 2025-06-29 06:43:48+00:00
it’s so good to see you showing the ability to take life back into your hands with augmented intelligence. we now have more and more ability than ever to be able to solve problems. that which was once expensive - medical knowledge of a doctor, for example, is now much more accesible and at our fingertips and we can research and learn medical literature so much faster now with AI.
by Terr_ | 2025-06-29 06:46:25+00:00
> the only insect that most people don't find disgusting

That reminds me of a bit of fiction where a bioengineered commercial species is being critiqued:

> Miles leaned forward again, to peer in revolted fascination. "It looks like a cross between a cockroach, a termite, and a... and a... and a pustule. [...] Nobody will want to eat food that comes out of something that looks like that. Hell, they won't want to eat anything it touches."

> "People eat honey," argued Mark. "And that comes out of bugs."

> "Honeybees are... sort of cute. They're furry, and they have those classy striped uniforms. And they're armed with their stings, just like little swords, which makes people respect them." [...]

> Enrique said, in a bewildered tone, "So do you think if I put stings on my butter bugs, Barrayarans would like them better?"

> "No!" said Miles and Mark together.

> Enrique sat back, looking rather hurt.

--A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold Enrique sat back, looking rather hurt.
by yard2010 | 2025-06-29 06:48:34+00:00
You are just wrong. Look at the last few years and see how computer technology is being worshiped in the most destructive way. Instagram is literally bringing diseases to children.

This comes from a person for which the internet and computers are the love of life and everything. I'm excited about these times and the future. But every day that goes by I feel like this technology thing is going backwards, thanks to irresponsible, rich and careless people, and should be stopped right now. It will not stop, this is only the beginning.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-29 06:50:34+00:00
> Then I start replying to you...but then I throw away the comment, because I'm inviting drive-by downvotes. I.e. the minefield describe up top, and if you look like you're being mean, you'll eat downvotes, especially on a weekend.

Don't self-censor for this reason -- "downvotes aren't real" in that they don't actually matter. Being afraid of getting downvoted is a silly way to live, and I also fall into the trap but try to avoid it.

If you're worries as coming off as mean, probably worth rephrasing!
by ksec | 2025-06-29 06:51:15+00:00
>Multi-Purpose Tap use cases where a single tap unlocks multiple functions (e.g., payment, loyalty rewards, access, or product data). These applications demand higher reliability and a broader operating range to succeed.

This really is a long time coming. An ask for 10 years? 5 years in the making? And probably another 5 years before it is rolled out. (Sigh)

Finally we could get rid of scanning a QR code for loyalty rewards, another code for Shopping Mall points, one code for discount, and then the Apple Pay Payment. How well it will all work together remains to be seen though. Not to mention the whole General NFC response time is still very slow. Felica ( Partly implemented as NFC-F ) despite now being close to 30 years old technology is still so many times better.

It still doesn't solve the paper rescript. Something like "IKEA website shows a verbatim copy of the physical printed receipt in HTML" [1]. If we could just do all the points and payment and receipt within 0.3sec would be great.

Apple used to be very good at pushing standards forward and working at much faster pace. Now they sit at the dominant position and wait until things move forward.

[1] https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1914913818536497187
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-29 06:52:37+00:00
It can end up being a more circuitous path than you might expect.

For instance, I took investment in my business, about five years in, from a very ethically and strategically aligned individual, as we mutually saw an opportunity to do something good together.

His life took a left turn. Two kids and wife in a horrendous car crash, all left extremely disabled, enormous medical and emotional costs. After a year or so he had little option but to sell his holding in our business, and we allowed it, knowing that his situation had become dire. He sold to a small PE consortium, who again, looked pretty well aligned with what we were doing.

The consortium all then had a falling out, as one member had brokered a deal with a large PE group to be bought out. This ground on for another year or so, us on the sidelines, until eventually the large PE group managed a hostile takeover.

And that’s how we found ourselves with blackstone as our corporate overlords.

It all went to shit over the following years as we were forced to squeeze margins, cut R&D investment, and depart from our original mission to instead gouge our customers.

I ended up leaving, as going to bat for the dark side every morning was beyond corrosive for me, and while it was a pretty terrible financial decision, it saved my life.

The company grinds on, a thing utterly different to what I founded. I don’t ask for sympathy, just… perhaps awareness that taking any investment, no matter how benign, can take you places you’d never wish to go.

It can happen even without investment. I’ve seen businesses where cofounders have had to sell out due to poor health or similar, and the outcomes have ended up pretty much the same.
by mrtx01 | 2025-06-29 06:54:09+00:00
I am a German native speaker fluent in English and living in Spain for a few years with not much opportunity of learning the language.

I just finished A2 in community college. Many of my classmates were native English speakers or Russians.

Most of them are elderly and Spanish is their first foreign language. My Spanish is not good enough yet to judge pronunciation, but my impression is, that the russian accent is much more pronounced when beginners speak German or English than in Spanish.

The older Brits and Irish that learned no other foreign language before have a very hard time even realising their English accent.