MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by awesomeMilou | 2025-06-07 00:55:53+00:00
> Oh yeah the horror of not being able to go behind your boss's back in a company email.

The horror of finding out that my employer lies to me and invades my basic human right to privacy, because they know they can only get what they want from me by manipulating me.

> The tragedy of being ignored when bringing up office equipment in a discussion about saving costs in a tech platform.

The tragedy of pointing out, that apparently only some deverse clean water, while others don't, and having it fall on deaf ears.

> The inhumanity of having workers hired to make food and do dishes on a Friday.

The inhumanity of devaluing people based on their misfortune in life, that didn't enable them to jump into a well paying tech job.

> The absolute gall to be asked a question about the identity you are proud and obnoxiously open about.

The absolute gall of my employer to berate me about my pride, my _identity_ they find so obnoxious, only to take advantage of it once it serves their purpose.

The water purifier thing was CARTOONISHLY evil, like you took it from the fucking Fallout Universe!!!!
by ivape | 2025-06-07 00:55:58+00:00
I can give you a pretty wild explanation. Einstein was a freak of nature. Nature just gave him that "something" to figure out the laws of the universe. I'm avoiding the term God as to not tickle anyone incorrectly. Seriously, explain what schooling and environment gets you that guy. So, to varying degrees, all output is from the universe. It's hard for the ego to accept, surely we earned everything we ever produced ...

Spooky stuff.
by nsonha | 2025-06-07 00:56:46+00:00
No the person I replied to made the argument that tool calling or MCP is uneccessary because why not just make the LLM generate any code on the fly to do anything instead. They think there should be just one tool: eval.

Surprisingly many people say this. I essentially ask them if they have seen a non-toy product that works like that, because everything is tool calling afak.
by genewitch | 2025-06-07 00:57:47+00:00
I got the 70b qwen llama distill, I have 24GB of vram.

I opened aider and gave a small prompt, roughly:

Implement a JavaScript 2048 game that exists as flat file(s) and does not require a server, just the game HTML, CSS, and js. Make it compatible with firefox, at least.

That's it. Several hours later, it finished. The game ran. It was worth it because this was in the winter and it heated my house a bit, yay. I think the resulting 1-shot output is on my github.

I know it was in the training set, etc, but I wanted to see how big of a hassle it was, if it would 1-shot with such a small prompt, how long it would take.

Makes me want to try deepseek 671B, but I don't have any machines with >1TB of memory.

I do take donations of hardware.
by tombert | 2025-06-07 00:58:16+00:00
I fundamentally think that fatalism and cynicism are kind of lazy positions to have.

"Oh everything is terrible and it's only going to be terrible so I don't have to do anything to improve anything and actually it's a good thing that things are terrible". It's just a justification to do nothing and wrap it with some pseudo-intellectual clothing.

I've become a grumpy cynical (and sometimes fatalistic) man as I approach middle-age, but I think a lot of that is just trying to justify my laziness most of the time.

It requires effort to care about stuff even after bad shit has happened to you. It requires effort to look for the best in situations. It requires effort to think that maybe tomorrow could be better. It's easy to just say "fuck it, I don't care".

I find it funny, because so many people proclaim these edgy fatalistic takes, and I think that they think it makes them look cool, but fundamentally it has the absolute opposite effect for me. When I see an older person who still seems to actively care about things (even though I'm sure they've been fucked over by life like the rest of us) that is cool to me.
by fooker | 2025-06-07 00:59:32+00:00
> some countries simply dump their garbage in the ocean

And most other countries dump their garbage in these less fortunate countries for 'recycling'.

Can't really get mad at poor third world countries we have been using as dumpsters.

If you don't believe me or think this is hyperbole, no I'm being literal here. Almost everything you sort out into a recycling bin gets dumped in the the ocean somewhere far from you.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/31/waste-co...

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/rich-countri...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-pla...

https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/industrialised-countries-are...
by nunez | 2025-06-07 01:00:26+00:00
> Now, I believe the body positivity movement is a great step forward. Body positivity is about accepting others’ bodies, as well as your own, without regard to size, shape and gender. For those inside the fat trap, this brings tremendous relief. Being judged for being fat, or for being obsessed about fat, is almost always extremely counterproductive. It is harmful. If you are a non-fat person that goes around judging fat people, it might astonish you to find out that most fat people are painfully and constantly aware that they are fat, as well as the fact that that’s bad for them and they should make a change. There is nothing to be gained and everything to lose by judging someone for being fat.

LOUDER for people in the back.

Some people are hungrier than others. Some are more predisposed to weight gain than other.

All bodies are good.

Also, stock inventory for bigger people in clothing stores, for fuck's sake.
by raddan | 2025-06-07 01:00:31+00:00
> Specific instances have included classical liberals supporting free markets and the rule of law, communists aiming for a violent revolution, and progressives focused on identity politics.

I’m not sure I understand how equality factors in. It is certainly a cornerstone of classic liberalism that all people should be equal under the law. But that does not mean that all people are equal, really, and you’d have to be blind to some really obvious circumstances to think that. I’ve always seen “the left” as being more defined by the idea that society should be governed less by tradition and more by a conscientious choice about what rules produce the best outcomes wrt happiness and prosperity. “Freedom” (until the word was co-opted by neocons) was a major feature of this kind of leftist system. This makes the opposition to the right clearer, because they want the converse.

Many progressives talk a lot about equity, but I think it’s fair to say that there are a lot of differing opinions on that particular topic.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-07 01:02:28+00:00
There's no such thing, short of forking it yourself. You can set the username and password to admin:admin if you want, but Bitcoin Core's JSON-RPC server requires an Authorization header on every request [0], and you can't put an Authorization header on a cross-origin request without a preflight.

[0] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v29.0/src/httprpc.cp...
by simoncion | 2025-06-07 01:03:54+00:00
> I don't accept the premise that "training on" and "copying" are the same thing...

Nor do I. Training and copying are clearly different things... and if these tools had never emitted -verbatim- nontrivial chunks of the code they'd ingested, [0] I'd be much less concerned about them. But as it stands now, some-to-many of the companies that build and deploy these machines clearly didn't care to ensure that their machines simply wouldn't plagiarize.

I've a bit more commentary that's related to whether or not what these companies are doing should be permitted here. [1]

[0] Based on what I've seen, when it happens, it is often with either incorrect copyright and/or license notifications, or none of the verbiage the license of the copied code requires in non-trivial reproductions of that code.

[1] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166983>
by BoingBoomTschak | 2025-06-07 01:04:09+00:00
>God, Lisp...the core language isn't exactly that interesting in this day-and-age. Dynamic typing, garbage collection, anonymous functions, this has been the bread-and-butter of Python, JS, Ruby, etc.

CL still got symbols, the reader (and its macros), gradual typing and user available runtime compilation (compile and compile-file).

I find the core language itself near perfect (mostly the historic stuff like threads/atomics/unicode missing, the whole divide between normal CL and CLOS and lack of recursive and parametric typing") but the standard library quite baroque and lacking; still infinitely more serviceable than C's, though.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-07 01:04:18+00:00
That silly little phrase gets smugly mentioned on this site so often that it should be labeled a parody of itself. As a European myself, I can't generalize shit about people from my enormous multi-ethnic continent of several hundred million inhabitants and dozens of states, mini states and assorted autonomous regions. It's full of contradictions, problems, social disasters, bureaucratic fuckeries, authoritarian nonsense, simmering brands of racism/xenophobia and other assorted crap that varies widely from one little part of its landscape to another, sometimes drastically.

Many other Europeans on this site should consider climbing down from their imaginary pedestals of moral superiority. Very little about either past or present day Europe (insofar as you can generalize about it at all) merits such a sense of superiority, at all. It all comes with trade-offs.

Reading some HN comments from "As a European" types, you'd think they were already living in a wonderfully socialist version of the singularity, and it got built right next to the Pearly Gates, where it daily receives the airy blessings of winged angels.
by mrandish | 2025-06-07 01:04:54+00:00
This has always been true of physical casinos as well. If you win over time, you'll be 'uninvited' - as demonstrated by how quickly casinos will ban anyone they think is card counting in blackjack (which isn't illegal or against to rules).

I guess I'm surprised anyone is surprised that casinos do this and always have. There has never been anything "fair" about a casino's relationship with players. Your only role in the relationship is to, on average over the long run, lose money. Their role is to take your money. A "sharp" player is anyone who consistently plays in a way that, on average over the long run, makes money, breaks even or minimizes your losses below the expected rate of return in the casino's financial model.

Any player who is not a sharp, is a 'valued customer' (aka 'playing like a consistently predictable loser'). Casinos have always been adept at spotting any players who behave in ways more like a sharp than a valued customer.
by georgemcbay | 2025-06-07 01:04:54+00:00
> What? Where? If you mean expropriation, no, that has never been popular here, it’s part of why we have a massive economy.

Right here where I live, in the United States.

I never suggested expropriation in general would be widely supported, but when you have the richest man in the world (who has spent the last year making enemies of virtually everyone other than a small cadre of twitter shitposters) manically making decisions while reportedly on a downward spiral drug bender and he suggests taking action that would lead to endangering the lives of astronauts and an overall weakening of America's national security, yeah the government would have had massive popular support for seizing SpaceX.

If you don't think so I think you might be living in a libertarian bubble.
by roenxi | 2025-06-07 01:08:01+00:00
What do you think has changed? The situation is still about as promising for AGI in a few years - if not more so. Papers like this are the academics mapping out where the engineering efforts need to be directed to get there and it seems to be a relatively small number of challenges that are easier as the ones already overcome - we know machine learning can solve Towers of Hanoi, for example. It isn't fundamentally complicated like Baduk is. The next wall to overcome is more of a low fence.

Besides, AI already passes the Turing test (or at least, is most likely to fail because it is too articulate and reasonable). There is a pretty good argument we've already achieved AGI and now we're working on achieving human- and superhuman-level intelligence in AGI.
by nunez | 2025-06-07 01:08:30+00:00
Boeing has been working on a new VC25B based on, I believe, the 747-8 for YEARS. So in this scenario, not only are we wasting extreme taxpayer dollars on converting this into one of the most fortified airplanes in the world, but we would have ALSO wasted mega taxpayer dollars on a previous example that will more than likely need to be scrapped or heavily repurposed.
by RajT88 | 2025-06-07 01:08:44+00:00
You would be shocked how Blase people are about it.

The credit card companies block a transaction and issue a card replacement and everyone feels OK again.

I have had a couple of PayPal alternatives accounts opened using my email address. Still feel on edge about it. Holy shit. The only thing which gives me a modicum of peace is I get free credit monitoring from the Equifax boondoggle.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-07 01:08:48+00:00
gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 from November 2023 was 1170, 1206 is for the March variant.

Change that and you get ~84%, flip the order (i.e. the win rate of GPT-3.5 is ~16%). I.e. the point is a two year old model still wins far too often to be excited about each new top model for the last two years, not that the two year old model is better.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-07 01:09:16+00:00
I think you need to wake up and smell the coffee - the US is not the same place it was a decade ago.

And this isn't just a random expropriation. While I may have to cry myself to sleep at the thought of our once great nation having devolved into a bitchy slap fest by a couple of narcissistic man babies, the fact is that SpaceX probably wouldn't exist today without the US government, so with Musk having a temper tantrum and saying "I'm taking my toys and going home", the US government would have at least somewhat valid national security reasons to take over SpaceX.

Couple that with the fact that Musk is hated, extremely, by many folks out both sides of the political aisle, means that the rule of law concerns about a SpaceX expropriation would largely be ignored.
by rights_reminder | 2025-06-07 01:09:27+00:00
If anyone cares about combatting government propaganda in the US, do this:

Query any search engine for "are US income taxes direct or indirect taxes"

Every one will tell you that they are direct taxes. This is false. The supreme court has exclusively held that income taxes have always been indirect taxes (excises specifically, read about what an excise is in any authoritative source on tax law) in a constitutional sense. (See Brushaber v Union Pacific RR Co. 1916, Moore v U.S. 2024)

The sixteenth amendment did not give congress the power to directly tax citizens (or domestic corporations) and the complexity of the tax code is an attempt to obfuscate this fact, but the code is not inscrutable, it has rules.

Unsure of why this matters? Look up the difference between direct and indirect taxes in US law. None of these deductions matter unless you are a foreign corporation. I have tried commenting about this in other income tax related threads (this is my alt account), but people here don't like the idea that there is government propaganda in the US, or that most people are wrong and blindly accept the socialization about taxation without verifying what the law says.

I realize this is a disturbing truth to accept, not least because it involves accepting that most people who have been prosecuted for income tax crimes are only guilty of ignorance of the true legal purpose of the forms they signed. You can easily verify that most accountants and tax attorneys do not know what they are talking about by asking them this simple question about direct vs indirect taxation.

This is not legal advice, it is a wakeup call.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-07 01:09:29+00:00
> It is so robust it outlasted the centralized government of Somalia and democracy, and even outperformed it.

This is a pretty rose-colored way of putting it. Put another way: Somali society has a long and deep history of decentralized clan-based organization which, for better or worse, was deep-rooted enough that replacement with a centralized democratic government failed.

The system you describe didn't merely survive the failure of centralization, it was one of the existing Somali institutions that resisted centralization and won out in the end. Which depending on one's perspective on Somalia's current state could make it deeply problematic as a local maximum that makes the current status quo unassailable.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-07 01:10:27+00:00
There are reasons to fear dissociatives. I went through a phase of drinking Robitussin in my youth without obvious harm but people were taking much more powerful doses of powdered DXM circa 2000 -- a friend of mine took a massive dose and was in a dazed state for about a month and when he came back he was a sex addict, like if his girlfriend was spending the weekend in jail he would cheat on her.
by simoncion | 2025-06-07 01:10:59+00:00
Ah good. If one of your family were to bring a plagiarism suit against another musician (or company (regardless of whether that company's music was produced by humans or robots)) that'd clearly ripped off their work, would you decry them as a hypocrite?

If not, why not?

If so, (seriously, earnestly) kudos for being consistent in your thoughts on the matter.
by slyall | 2025-06-07 01:11:11+00:00
Thats not how it works normally. The train doesn't get in till around 7-8am. Often sleeper trains will park of a few hours overnight. So you'll be able to sleep for around 8 hours.

The idea is you get in around 8am (hopefully in station near the middle of the city) and then you can get on with you days activities immediately.
by karmakaze | 2025-06-07 01:13:20+00:00
I'm disappointed by more limited use by product developers:

Synchronous coding for core features

> For more critical features touching the application's business logic, the team works synchronously with Claude Code, giving detailed prompts with specific implementation instructions. They monitor the process in real-time to ensure code quality, style guide compliance, and proper architecture while letting Claude handle the repetitive coding work.

I question the 'synchronous' aspect. Whenever I try to use it, it feels very batch oriented with the delays interrupting my thoughts and workflow, often starting to do something else.
by LtWorf | 2025-06-07 01:14:37+00:00
I wrote a funny algorithm to group together words that end the same way to write them once in my binary wordlist file, since there is an array that points to the start character and a \0 to end the word. My initial solution was O(n²) but it was too slow on a real wordlist so I had to come up with something better. In the end I just sort the list with quicksort, but revert the order of the words and then the groupable ones end up nearby each other.
by vlovich123 | 2025-06-07 01:16:41+00:00
I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to say. It’s not really questionable that science and math are the only things to come out of philosophy or any other academic pursuit that have actually shown us how to objectively understand reality.

Now physics vs other scientific disciplines sure. Physicists love to claim dominion just like mathematicians do. It is generally true however that physics = math + reality and that we don’t actually have any evidence of anything in this world existing outside a physical description (eg a lot of physics combined = chemistry, a lot of chemistry = biology, a lot of biology = sociology etc). Thus it’s reasonable to assume that the chemistry in this world is 100% governed by the laws of physics and transitively this is true for sociology too (indeed - game theory is one way we quantifiably explain the physical reality of why people behave the way they due). We also see this in math where different disciplines have different “bridges” between them. Does that mean they’re actually separate disciplines or just that we’ve chosen to name features on the topology as such.
by brookst | 2025-06-07 01:17:46+00:00
But this is still such a bastardization of the term “rent seeking” that is is somewhere between disingenuous and flat out lying.

By this logic, my house cleaner is rent-seeking because I pay every week, but I could do the work myself. That’s not what rent-seeking is. That is a garden variety service.

All of the anti-subscription sentiment just sounds like “I want perpetual support and updates for a one-time price”, which is just silly. It’s actually bad for the customer because once the service provider has your one-time payment, they have zero incentive to keep you as a customer.

It leads to misaligned incentives as sellers seek to expand to new markets to reach new customers while neglecting existing customers who are nothing but expense.

Further, SaaS produces net lower costs because resources can be utilized more efficiently. Great, you can do an on-premise server, but you need to spec it to support the busiest second in the busiest day of your year. Most of the time it will be underutilized.

Sorry, this whole claim is such a massive misunderstanding of Smith and SaaS that it’s making be a bit crazy.
by redleader55 | 2025-06-07 01:18:09+00:00
A government agency will have less incentives to be corrupt, in theory. On the flip side, it will be incompetent and demotivated.

If you think about it, kosher and halal stamps on food products are something like this, and they existed for thousands of years. Those aren't given by the governments, but private entities.

I want to see 20 private international companies that earn money researching food safety and selling consultancy to food producers to align their processes with best practices.
by jerlam | 2025-06-07 01:18:35+00:00
A similar book of this category may be The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States which describes how a series of events, which have separately happened in the past, may lead to NK launching nukes. But it is not framed as the irrational actions of a mad dictator, but a series of coincidences that suggest NK was itself being attacked.

It was not fun seeing the saber-rattling on Twitter after reading, as Twitter does have a significant part in the story.
by shmoogy | 2025-06-07 01:19:02+00:00
Gemini flash or any free LLM on openrouter would be orders of magnitude faster and effectively free. Unless you are concerned about privacy of the conversation - it's really purely being able to say you did it locally.

I definitely do appreciate and believe in the value of open source / open weight LLMs - but inference is so cheap right now for non frontier models.
by patmcc | 2025-06-07 01:19:42+00:00
Employee salary cost isn't always 100% an expense.

Imagine you are BigCarCo, you make cars. The salary for your factory workers that build cars to be sold is an expense, incurred in that year, to be matched against the revenues earned by selling those cars. But the cost to build the factory needs to be amortized over the lifetime of the factory - and that's true whether you buy a factory from BigFactoryCo or hire a bunch of people to build it.

Now, I'd argue that a) most software dev work is closer to the factory worker than the factory builder and b) the lifetime for most software is less than 5 years, but the idea that some cost of developing software should be amortizable is pretty reasonable.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-06-07 01:20:12+00:00
My impression is that FreeBSD is Apple's shadow in FOSS, they hold a lot of soft power over it. I know the kernels are different and obviously only part of the userspace is the same, but is FreeBSD actually far enough away from Apple to say it's not bogged down by corporate interests? I don't imagine it's the same as Linux at all, but it exists in a non-trivial way, no?