MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Daniel_Van_Zant | 2025-06-10 14:15:29+00:00
I have dealt with this issue as well before. If folks need something more in depth I will use a LLM + some massaging of my own to create a supporting document. Here is an example of a very disorganized conversation and the supporting document I made with it: https://www.danielvanzant.com/p/what-does-the-structure-of-l... It has clear definitions of the key terms. Timestamps for the important moments, and links to external resources to learn more about any of the topics.
by paganel | 2025-06-10 14:16:03+00:00
> So you want to reverse the development in Romania over the last 3 decades [1]

Not sure that "reverse" is the best word for it, but, yes, I want the huge societal inequalities that have been created during the last three decades to be "levelled" again. I know that this will probably suck (to use light language) for the winners of those last 3 decades, but that is life.
by rurban | 2025-06-10 14:16:31+00:00
Not just Plato, Aristoteles even more. He kept Mechanics for 2000 in the dark ages, by assuming that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects in proportion to their weight. He argued that a 10-pound stone would fall 10 times faster than a 1-pound stone. Continuous force is needed for continuous motion - without a force pushing it, a moving object would immediately stop.

In fact continuous force leads to continuous acceleration. A bit of mathematics would have helped.
by fzwang | 2025-06-10 14:16:41+00:00
I agree in part with what you're saying. I do think LLMs are here to stay and will be part of most programmer's toolkit. What my team and I are trying to figure out is where is it helpful, where does it break, and what are the long-term consequences. From an accountability perspective, we do allow senior folks to pick the tools they use, including LLMs. But they also need to be responsible for the outcomes. The consensus so far is that the fuzziness of understanding that LLM tools introduce causes harm in the long-run, in ways that are hard to trace back. It's like radiation and cancer. So if someone is using it, they better have a good rationale.

Your analogy with book reading is very interesting, although I interpret it differently. It seems like you enjoyed reading longform books, but the environment you moved to (US) is not reading-heavy (much more visual, like TV/phones). The skills you developed was not as valued in this new environment. The issue is the skillset-environment mismatch. If you had moved to a reading-rich culture/community, you'd have appreciated your past reading experiences.

In software engineering, I think the skillset is more like longform writing, where you have to build the mental model of the story and also be able to dig down to individual words. The more experience you have building these models from scratch and learning from other good builders, the better off you will be. People can certainly get by and "coast" on just using outputs from LLMs, the same way that there will be many LLM storywriters. But I'm concerned it'll put a ceiling on what they can accomplish. They are not developing the skillset needed at a higher level. They're stuck in-distribution, and never venture out. They may not even know what "out" is.

I guess some programmers are OK with that. And some orgs may be perfectly fine with LLM-based engineering (ie. Think of how many dysfunctional engineering teams there are. is adding LLMs that much worse?). They are willing to risk the tradeoffs. But they may later discover that it's a shrinking pool with a lot of newcomers, and to advance their craft and profession, they may have to write some code from scratch and read Kernighan and Ritchie.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-10 14:16:45+00:00
.. better long code, than no code. For some its a skip, for some its a win. One of the best brains I know resist to use frameworks for full stack development. No fancy databases or libs*.

.. empowering those who vibe will bring fresh ideas, and, a sparkling source of work for those, who don't vibe, later... May be the best chance to survive AI takeing one's job unaffected.

(* 24/7/40y programmer does just code his own in 2h)
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-06-10 14:17:32+00:00
I've read comments like this on hacker news more and more recently. What narrative is behind it, and what is the evidence for this narrative?

Is it "Enemies of the USA are deploying social media based psyops that destabilize the country by astroturfing propaganda?"

That's an interesting idea, probably true, but also sounds like a conspiracy theory. Even if it is true, how would we know to what extent it affects public opinion?

Or maybe you're referring to something else.
by sbarre | 2025-06-10 14:17:35+00:00
I made a "long bet" with a friend about a decade ago that by 2030 'Microsoft Windows' would just be a proprietary window manager running on Linux (similar - in broad strokes - to the MacOS model that has Darwin under the hood).

I don't think I'll make my 2030 date at this point but there might be some version of Windows like this at some point.

I also recognize that Windows' need to remain backwards compatible might prevent this, unless there's a Rosetta-style emulation layer to handle all the Win32 APIs etc..
by _wire_ | 2025-06-10 14:17:40+00:00
You've rented a device that connects to a worldwide communications network built on a principle of numerically exact message routing between every device and use it to run numerically exact programs from service providers to access services that host and consolidate the particulars of your identity within their servers rather than your device, and you are amazed that the device can persistently track everything you do with the device?

What's the point of being Google or Apple except for precisely control of such central services?...

♪ Central Services, we do the work, you do the pleasure... ♪

"Have you considered your ducts?"

...And it just so happens that all the news you see is from the device and subject to this surveillance used to colonize your mind... Sounds democratic!

The old Politburo could only dream of such tools for maintenance of a compliant, obedient proletariat.

And with Central Services new "AI" you can get a brain implant to ensure your perfect conformity and access to the best paying jobs in the world, yours and your family's future will be secure. Be sure to invest in these securities, shop here, entertain and vacation there— leave the driving to us! Do it your way.

"A new life awaits you in the Offworld Colonies. A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. So c'mon America..."

"...Every leap of civilization was built off the back of a disposable work force..."
by rcleveng | 2025-06-10 14:17:57+00:00
Apple's already got the Virtualization framework and hypervisor already (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization), so adding the rest of the container ecosystem seems like a natural next step.

It puts them on par with Windows that has container support with a free option, plus I imagine it's a good way to pressure test swift as a language to make sure it really can be the systems programming language they are betting that it can and will be.

OrbStack has a great UX and experience, so I imagine this will eat into Docker Desktop on Mac more than OrbStack.
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-10 14:18:22+00:00
> Kind of like using the Insurrection Act to suspend habeas corpus and then threatening judges if they dare to question its legality?

The President does not have a legal right to suspend habeas corpus. Only Congress.

> Or, one might argue, "petition the Government for a redress of grievances".

No, a petition is a piece of paper or in verb form, lobbying politicians. Burning down cities and attacking officers does not fall under the definition.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-10 14:18:34+00:00
> Doctors make mistakes, often. You can and should challenge them.

The problem with challenging doctors is that the body is incredibly complex, and is not really under any obligation to "make common sense" / be bro-science-y.

The vast majority of the time you're going to be wrong and annoying, even if you're consulting LLMs first.

If a doctor is making a mistake, and you're a lay-person, you're not likely to spot it. But you are likely to challenge a bunch of things that the doctor is right and just be an annoying back-seat driver.

You're better off trying to get a doctor you can trust than treating your doctor like someone who isn't good at their job.

There are bad and shady doctors to be sure, but they are extreme outliers.

Doctors, unlike lawyers, typically care about your care - whereas lawyers are mostly interested in extracting as much of your money into their pocket as possible.

Unless you're going to some elective surgeon, most doctors are so busy, they don't need to make up pretend bs to have you come back and get work.

Lawyers on the other hand...
by UncleMeat | 2025-06-10 14:18:49+00:00
Public officials made a bunch of errors and could have communicated better.

But if the bar is that public officials must communicate flawlessly during an emergency situation and have it so all of their recommendations end up being the correct ones once we have complete information then there's no possible hope. People point at the changing guidance as evidence of a conspiracy when public health officials were learning new things every day.
by giardini | 2025-06-10 14:18:51+00:00
consumer451 quotes Asimov: >"* nurtured by the false notion that democracy means ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’*"<

But in a one-man-one-vote elective system what Asimov terms a "false notion" is true! Asimov rhetorically chose to label one side of an issue as "ignorant" and the other side as having "knowledge". But an honest statement of the notion would have been

"My vote is as good as yours."

This doesn't mean that ideas of right and wrong do not apply but it does mean that voting may not be the best way to choose.
by jfengel | 2025-06-10 14:19:17+00:00
Good luck with that. I really do wish it works out for them, but it seems wildly unlikely.

I'm not a law-talking guy, but I wonder... is it possible that this could permit the estate to learn some useful things in discovery? I can't imagine you'd win even if you found phone calls of executives saying, "Ha ha, those stupid SOBs, we're gonna kill 'em all with climate change but I'll be nice and rich in my pool". And we've already got plenty of evidence that they knew and hid the effects of their products.

Still... you saw how effective "Climategate" was, despite it not being anything like the smoking gun they pretended it was. Perhaps they'd find something that could move some sort of needle a tiny bit?
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-10 14:19:31+00:00
Incorrect.

There are multiple definitions of language, not one. As another commenter pointed out, if you make the definition broad enough it loses usefulness.

> it’s anything that can have a grammar,

"Can" have a grammar is not restricting. "Does" is the correct verb, and that hasn't been proved.

> All you need is something that can form a sentence and something that can parse it and the thing going on between them is language.

OK, you've actually drawn out an important point. CAN the fungi form a sentence?

I can encode the 2nd sentence in "War and Peace" into polypeptides, but the polypeptides are still just an encoding of the language I picked (English? Russian?), and it doesn't make exchange of polypeptides by any other organism (even grad students!) a linguistic exercise.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-10 14:20:11+00:00
Wait, you can't be saying that TypeScript doesn't have a much more powerful type system than Go.

AGDTs, mapped types, conditional types, template literal types, partial higher-kinded types, and real inference on top of all that.

It had one of the most fully loaded type systems out there while the Go team was asking for community examples of where generics might be useful because they're not sure it might be worth it.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-10 14:20:41+00:00
Yes, it tends to.

However: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174

any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure [and be capitalized and amortized over five years even if it is disposed of, retired, or abandoned]
by hdevalence | 2025-06-10 14:21:11+00:00
It’s odd that the article identifies Apple’s hardware as a limitation for AI. I don’t think this is the case. If anything it’s the opposite, and makes Apple’s lack of execution more mysterious.

I was running Stable Diffusion on my iPhone two years ago. You can get quite good open weights models running on-device today. What’s going on over there?
by beyondHelp | 2025-06-10 14:21:17+00:00
Also, the downvoting provides very deep insight of thinking that has taken over. These people have no critical thinking - not to mention self-criticism, as that has been carefully rooted out - apparently knowledge is not important, but education. The paid actors in streets are not the main problem of USA, but whole generation of imbeciles, that can't take responsibility of their own - not to mention for whole country.

Count how many gray posts are here and think what will happen when they will all leave. Not to mention that this site is Reddit v2.0 and have the same result and that is not coincidence.
by redczar | 2025-06-10 14:21:17+00:00
It is quite obvious that you have not taught mathematics at a non specialized high school. You think the experience you and 3 other people each of whom got a Ph.D. at a good university in science and/or philosophy is somehow normative. You think this book could be taught to 15 year olds to anything more than a very small number of people is insane. Please go spend time in a classroom as a mathematics teacher before asserting such things. You might be right but your evidence is lacking. You clearly have no idea about the state of things in the average high school.

EDIT: My wife is a physician who dropped out of high school. There are people who think that because she did it this proves that more than an extremely small number of such people could become physicians. They are wrong. She got lucky and the vast majority of high school dropouts can’t become physicians.

People think that their experience going through high is indicative of what it is like on average and they advocate for positions based on their experience. It’s the “I did it therefore you can too” fallacy.

You found 12 people who could learn this book in high school. You found them in university. They didn’t all go to the same high school. Each high school has very, very few students who could understand this book. High schools don’t have the resources to teach a class for just 2 or 3 students.
by tuesdaynight | 2025-06-10 14:21:30+00:00
It's funny how some men don't see that. And it's funny how that idea changes when they have kids. How many dads are protesting for more paternity leave if it's so easier to spend time raising a child than working? How common is to find a solo father? If it's a "luxury", why women have to take the burden most of the time? If given the option, 99% of men would prefer working outside than being the parent that stays home raising the kids and taking care of the house. It's not a luxury or easier, it's just another type of work. They know it's hard work, they just don't care enough to really think about the topic.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-06-10 14:21:34+00:00
The irony is that, if they hadn't fortified (to use Time's winking term) the election in 2020 and let Trump stay in office, his second term would have been much like the first, bogged down by Pence and the rest of the establishment drones around him, including his own kids. In that timeline he doesn't spend four years defending himself against lawfare in kangaroo courts and ducking bullets, and decide to get serious in his second term. He would have gotten the full blame for Operation Warpspeed and the Covid mandates, instead of sharing it with Biden. Also, Elon doesn't buy Twitter and join forces with him, so Twitter remains a safe space for the left.

Things could have been much different.
by danielhanchen | 2025-06-10 14:21:51+00:00
I made some GGUFs for those interested in running them at https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

or

./llama.cpp/llama-cli -hf unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL --jinja --temp 0.7 --top-k -1 --top-p 0.95 -ngl 99

Please use --jinja for llama.cpp and use temperature = 0.7, top-p 0.95!

Also best to increase Ollama's context length to say 8K at least: OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 ollama serve &. Some other details in https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/magistral
by ChicagoDave | 2025-06-10 14:22:08+00:00
This is the lie. At every step, immigration agents and police have instigated the violence. There are no riots. People are protesting and blocking access to vulnerable people. LA is not on fire. These incidents are in very small geographic areas even though media would suggest it’s widespread.

People are pushing back when rubber bullets and tear gas are being used, illegally.

U.S. citizens have a right to protest. This is baked into our constitution.
by more_corn | 2025-06-10 14:22:51+00:00
The key point here is that in China the sales dip is NOT because of the antics of their CEO (which is probably the case for the sales drop in Europe). The sales drop in China is due to robust competition from Chinese rivals. To be clear Chinese consumers find the Chinese cars a better car for the money. Which means the rest of the world is next. (Excepting any country that institutes protectionist tariffs to distort the economics)
by pseudocomposer | 2025-06-10 14:23:43+00:00
I’ve said the same things elsewhere (see my profile), but we need to differentiate between centralized publicly-funded and decentralized publicly-funded approaches.

A lot of libertarian types’ arguments against publicly-funded infrastructure is mostly against that public funding being centralized.

I don’t think Mozilla becoming publicly funded, with money taken in from the EU, US, Russia, India, and China, would end up being good for users.

However, I do think that each of these entities having their own branch of Firefox/Iceweasel/whatever, with their own teams focusing on their users’ needs, contributing upstream, with a small team to handle the “mainline” version, would be pretty ideal.

The same should probably also be happening for at least one Chrome/Webkit browser, too (though, the mega-corps do seem to have its support system much more reinforced).
by 9rx | 2025-06-10 14:23:57+00:00
> The existence of the ordinal method reveals nothing except that the ordinal exists.

It strongly suggests that implementation is a discriminated union, just like Rust. Again, it is tag-only in this case, where Rust allows also attaching payload, but that's still a type of discriminated union. That it is a set of integers – contrary to the claim made earlier – combined with you explaining how the compiler treats it like a discriminated union — as in that there are type checks against the union state, that does reveal that it couldn't be anything other than a discriminated union that is effectively identical to what we find in Rust, along with many other languages these days.

> It can be (and is) simply a field on each Day object, not an index into anything

So...? Enum is not staunch in exactly where the number comes from; it simply needs to number something. Indices are convenient, though, and I am not sure why you would use anything else? That doesn't necessarily mean the index will start where you think it should, of course.

For example,

enum Foo { A, B, C } enum Bar { X, Y, Z }

In some languages, the indices might "reset" for each enum [A=0, B=1, C=2, X=0, Y=1, Z=2], while in other languages it might "count from the top" [A=0, B=1, C=2, X=3, Y=4, Z=5]. But, meaningless differences aside, where else is the number going to come from? Using a random number generator would be silly.

But, humour us, how does Java produce its enums and why doesn't it use indices for that? Moreover, why did they choose to use the word `ordinal` for the method name when that literally expresses that it is the positional index?
by leetrout | 2025-06-10 14:24:14+00:00
Raph - I know enough to be very dangerous with GPUs so please forgive my ignorance. Two questions:

1. Do you have a favorite source for GPU terminology like draw calls? I optimized for them on an unreal engine project but never "grokked" what all the various GPU constructs are and how to understand their purpose, behavior and constraints. (For this reason I was behind the curve for most of your talk :D) Maybe this is just my lack of understanding of what a common / modern pipeline consists of?

2. I replayed the video segment twice but it is still lost on me how you know which side of the path in a tile is the filled side. Is that easy to understand from the code if I go spelunking for it? I am particularly interested in the details on how that is known and how the merge itself is performed.
by Eikon | 2025-06-10 14:24:36+00:00
Yes, temporal sharding would theoretically become unnecessary with this system. The current implementation should be capable of handling the entire historical CT dataset without requiring time-based partitioning.

On storage efficiency, CompactLog requires about 200-400GB per 100 million certificates and can be run even on slow hard drives (there's support for local caching, which usually would be NVMEs drives).
by tejohnso | 2025-06-10 14:24:52+00:00
Doesn't seem like a straw man to me. It's an extension of the unsupported claim that the cause for the action is racism. False equivalence perhaps. But I think the problem is that "The cause for the action is racism" doesn't actually contain an argument at all. It's just an unfounded opinion.

And then "Anything else is denial" shows a myopic, closed minded viewpoint, suggesting any further discussion would be pointless. As is most internet chatter on this type of matter.
by yogoism | 2025-06-10 14:24:57+00:00
Greetings from Japan.

Thank you for sharing such an insightful point. This really resonates, speaking from my experience as an annotator on crowdsourcing platforms. I also found that a genuine commitment to quality from fellow annotators can be quite rare.

This makes me curious about a few things:

1. What are some concrete examples of the "unintended consequences" you ran into?

2. When you initially considered outsourcing, what was the main benefit you were hoping for (e.g., speed, cost)?

3. On the flip side, what have been the biggest frustrations or challenges with the in-house approach?

Would love to hear your thoughts on any of these. Thanks!
by jdalton | 2025-06-10 14:25:25+00:00
I coined the term "agenticist" to describe this mindset shift. It's not about technical skills (I'm no ML expert), but about treating AI as a thinking partner rather than a productivity tool.

But I'm curious what HN thinks. Are we just rebranding existing practices? Or is there something fundamentally different about approaching problems with AI as a collaborator from the start?

Four things I've noticed agenticists do differently:

- They ask "what's the agentic approach?" before defaulting to traditional solutions - They focus on emergence over control (letting conversations evolve rather than scripting everything) - They treat AI failures as thinking opportunities, not bugs - They bring AI into strategy discussions, not just execution

The controversial part: I think this mindset matters more than knowing how to fine-tune models or write perfect prompts.

What do you think – is "agenticist" a useful distinction, or just consultant BS?

And if you work this way, what would you call it?