MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by desktopninja | 2025-06-28 20:19:56+00:00
I fondly remember running beos5 PE on a computer with a amd k6 processor and ati tv wonder card. I think it was 400Mhz, maybe 600 and 192MB ram. Watched in awe as it purrr'd editing DVs from firewire and the turner. It was a glorious multimedia OS. BeDepot was awesome too! The ports for winamp (BeAmp), zsnes and genecyst/dgens were top notch. the hw support was great too. never had an issue with MS Sidewinder gamepad (gameport and usb versions).
by klik99 | 2025-06-28 20:20:00+00:00
Genuine question because I think I might be wrong on this one, or maybe misunderstanding what you're saying - aren't there cases of shareholders suing CEOs for not acting in shareholders interest and winning? If there was no legal obligation to act on behalf of shareholders how could they win those cases?

My understanding is those kind of cases aren't common because a) they are hard to prove, b) the people being sued if they actually have the money to make it worth suing them also have the money to fight it, and c) it's a really bad look for an investor to be suing a previous member of their portfolio and would a strong adverse affect on their deal flow

Unless you're saying there is no explicit legal obligation / fiduciary duty in law, but it does emerge from civil court cases, which is how I understand it, but short paragraphs are not a good place for the amount of nuance so I just said "legal obligation" as a shorthand for something real but very complex.
by soganess | 2025-06-28 20:20:00+00:00
FINALLY, someone I can agree with. With the birthright citizenship now in play, I say we should expatriate everyone in tech as well! Now that code can be written by LLMs, tech workers will just be drain on the economy.

If one don't have the heart to see the basic decency of not imprisoning a terminally ill child... I'm not sure there is anything they couldn't be convinced to do.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-06-28 20:20:20+00:00
I wrote a tool for my boss years ago that would reformat emails for plain text and put those arrows and fix the indentation. He loved it so much. Older gentleman. I guess that's how he did it in his day and never saw the need to change. Glad I could make him happy with like 1 day of work. Tiny app.
by andrewparker | 2025-06-28 20:20:21+00:00
This post doesn't quite comprehend why Meta made a 49% investment instead of an acquisition.

The path Meta chose avoided global regulatory review. FTC, DOJ, etc and their international counterparts could have chosen to review and block an outright acquisition. They have no authority to review a minority investment.

Scale shareholders received a comparable financial outcome to an acquisition, and also avoided the regulatory uncertainty that comes with govt review.

It was win/win, and there's a chance for the residual Scale company to continue to build a successful business, further rewarding shareholders (of which Meta is now the largest), which is just like wildcard upside and was never the point of the original deal.
by scoofy | 2025-06-28 20:20:55+00:00
This reminds me of my borderline exhausting quest to build a wiki for golf that isn’t extractive like most golf sites.

Trying to bootstrap it without any funding is a lot, but necessary, and I have to run it on a shoestring. The frustrating part is that with all networks the flywheel is everything. Once you get the product on people’s phones, the value is easy to see, but to get the app in their phones, you need a bunch of money to create value to get people there.

This is why the VC funding is so pernicious and why projects like mastodon, lemmy, and pixelfed are so difficult to get off the ground. The point is almost always the network itself more than the product.

I’ll keep trying to just do it slow and steady, even if it takes me a decade. I honestly don't care if I fail because I know the people out there that care about golf course architecture just want a place to talk about the courses they love.

https://golfcourse.wiki
by ec109685 | 2025-06-28 20:21:15+00:00
To add to this, BeReal flamed out because it was a gimmick that was quickly copied and then forgotten by all the other platforms.

Agree that blaming VCs for why TikTok has an algorithmic feed and hundreds of millions of users is simplistic. A non-algorithmic TikTok would have no users.

And without a personalized algorithms, the feed ranking would just be showing content from popular accounts, which is a worse experience.
by fredfish | 2025-06-28 20:21:26+00:00
I don't really get your point. Our skepticism toward reports involving real cults and incompetent insititutions is certainly higher since 12000 patients were hurt by non existing satanic institutions in bad therapy. They are not less hurt by the fact that it could have happened.

Percentages from the lost in a mall experiment don't seem to show anything surprising about how I would expect these traumas to end up integrating with real experience, and the patients that were going to be most susceptible were probably not going to look like a random selection study, see far more in the importance of their relationship with their therapist, etc.
by timr | 2025-06-28 20:22:43+00:00
Yeah. That's a level beyond -- You're "fluent" enough that you can break the rules -- but that's partially not about language, but about being perceived to be native. Changing the cultural presumption, so to speak, so that people give you the benefit of the doubt when you're saying something non-standard. I think anyone who attempts humor in a foreign language runs into this wall, hard.

The C1/C2 divide does seem to mix up that concept and the idea of "looking for the right word". I sort of understand what it's getting at, but it's unclear.

I still think (as a native English speaker), it's fairly routine to stop and re-think what you are saying because you're grasping for the right word.
by andy99 | 2025-06-28 20:23:17+00:00
Research has no average, there's opinion and experience and nuance. This whole "graduate level" thing (no idea if that's what the parent comment refers to) is so stupid, and marketing at people who have never done research or advanced studies.

Getting an average response by necessity gives you something dumbed down and smoothed over that nobody in the field would actually write (except maybe to train and LLM or contribute an encyclopedia entry).

Not that having general knowledge is a bad thing, but LLM output is not representative of what a researcher would do or write.
by klik99 | 2025-06-28 20:24:53+00:00
I wish it were that simple, I think capitalism works best when personal self-interested incentives are aligned with what creates common good - IE policy is like game design where you design the rules in a way that provides an overall good outcome. In this lens, there is a huge problem with PE right now (the rules incentivize buying out industries and gutting them), and something wrong with VC (the rules incentivize enshittification) so the rules need to be adjusted to align with the broader outcomes we want.
by ivape | 2025-06-28 20:24:59+00:00
”I'm not a visa holder. I wouldn't expect to be able to go to China and espouse anti-CCP rhetoric, either.”

You don’t expect to do those things in China because it’s an authoritarian government that doesn’t care about human rights A-Z (all the way from basic labor rights over to internment reeducation camps).

So the question is why are you applying a standard we have for China, which is just slightly above what we expect from North Korea, unto to America?

We are not the country that does shit like what you are describing. This is a temporary dark spot on American history, and you are absolutely on the wrong side of things. All of this joins the embarrassing catalog of American darkness - Japanese internment camps, Chinese exclusion act, segregation, list goes on.
by alwa | 2025-06-28 20:25:03+00:00
For that matter—the apps that communities are using that aren’t so aggressively exploiting addictive patterns—like the one you and I are using now—could it be that they’re at some level the norm, they’re just kind of boring beyond the small group of people who find them useful?

Methamphetamine is flashy and destructive, and its supply chain and sales force are the sort of thing romanticized in Breaking Bad—but billions drink tea (and nobody really glamorizes it).

To my mind, the norms of a specific subreddit or Local Co-Op Facebook Group or neighborhood gossip board tend to fall closer to the “tea” pattern than the “viral growth” paradigm. And those, and boring email, and transactional interfaces to companies that primarily do real-world stuff—those tend to take up the bulk of the time of the people in my life. But maybe I’m just old fashioned :)
by theahura | 2025-06-28 20:25:28+00:00
I agree that this is a possible reason. Meta wants to move fast and m&a is too slow for their tastes. I make the case in the article though that the actual acquisition doesn't really make sense for metas core business, but I agree it's possible.

I disagree that this is a win/win. Scale stock is still illiquid, and people who remain at scale or have scale stock are now stuck with shares that are actually less valuable -- even though the market price has ostensibly gone up, the people who made the stock valuable are gone
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-06-28 20:25:32+00:00
They’ve been trying to compete in the controller-less WiFi market for a while and it’s not going well. Tons of larger (higher ed, which have complex environments with very many end points) campuses have tried to move to Aruba Central, and subsequently moved back because it isn’t working well.

And there’s huge operational benefits to Mist’s architecture even if you leave out the AI part. My best guess for why Aruba hasn’t been able to replicate at least the architecture is that they’re carrying around too much legacy they can’t break with to make this feasible.

Since they’re nearly explicitly saying “we are buying Juniper for Mist”, and at least in my opinion aren’t doing that only for further developing that portfolio towards the data center, I guess they’ve just decided to buy someone who was able to execute on that architecture shift.
by stackskipton | 2025-06-28 20:26:20+00:00
Also with most Stack Overflow copy and pasted code, you can Google the suspicious code, find the link to it and read over the question/comments and somewhat grok the decision and maybe even find a fix in the comments.

Most AI Code does not have prompts and even if it does, there is not guarantee that same prompt will produce the same output so it's like reading human code except human can't explain themselves even if you have access to them.
by hyperpape | 2025-06-28 20:27:26+00:00
I agree most working mathematicians have limited interest in foundational topics. To me, that seems harmless enough.

> approximate those aspects of physical reality that are primarily relevant to the endeavors of humanity.

This is the comment that made me think that you were saying we needed more work on foundations for math as it is used in the sciences, and that doesn't match my understanding. Did I read it differently than you meant it?
by czbot | 2025-06-28 20:27:26+00:00
ZFC allows models of second order PA and proves that those models are all isomorphic. Within each model of ZFC there is no such thing as a nonstandard model of second order PA. One can only think it is nonstandard by looking from outside the model, no? What theorem of second order PA is ZFC unable to prove?

This is similar to how there are countable models of ZFC but those models think of themselves as uncountable. They are countable externally and not internally.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-28 20:27:49+00:00
> and then charging users $2/month to use it wouldn’t work?

Commenters all across the internet will say they’d pay good money for a site that does something specific that sounds like a good idea.

Then when the site is built, you will discover that they will not, in fact, pay any money for it at all. You will continue to add the features they request and the goalposts will continue to move.

Social networks are even more difficult to bootstrap because they’re not worth paying for if you can’t find people to socialize with. Nobody wants to sign up for an empty social network.

Even the free social networks have a hard time getting started. There were dozens of Twitter competitors created after Twitter was acquired, but most of them languished. The few that have survived have their own problems that are driving many of their own fans away.
by Jach | 2025-06-28 20:28:12+00:00
Programmers are usually the minority. The introduction mentions that ChatGPT reached 100 million users faster than any other consumer technology in history. There aren't even that many programmers worldwide. In their table 3 of non-use scenarios, programming isn't an explicit one while "creating poetry" is. (Despite mentioning CoPilot use as one of their pre-screen options. Perhaps in the 24 situation codes they came up with, one of the 4 they removed for table 3 due to having the greatest reported AI usage was programming, as this study is more about non-usage.) To put yourself in the mindset of a study participant, go through each of those scenarios and ask yourself if you've used the AI for that (and would use it again) or not, and why.

They also only surveyed a few hundred people via Prolific.

The product success (millions of users) implies that for most people, concerns over "ease of use" (which is what I'd code your reason of "flow" as) aren't common, because it's quite easy to use for many scenarios. But I'd still expect the concern to come up for those talking about using it for artwork because even with things like inpainting in a graphics editor it's still not exactly easy to get exactly what you want... The study mentions they consolidated 29 codes into the 8 in table 2 (you missed the two general concerns, Societal and Barrier). Perhaps "ease of use" slides ito "Barrier", as they highlight "lack of skill" as fitting there and that's similar. It would be nice to see a sample of the actual survey questions and answers and coding decisions but hey what is open data am I right.

Anyway, the table headings are "General Concerns" and "Specific Concerns". I wouldn't get too hung up on the use of the term "fear" as the authors seem to use it interchangeably with "concern". I'd also read something like "Output Quality: fears that GenAI output is inaccurate..." synonymously as "has low confidence in the output quality of GenAI". (I'd code your "value" issue as one about output quality.) All of these fears/concerns/confidence questions can be justifiable, too, the term is independent of that.
by tucnak | 2025-06-28 20:28:14+00:00
I think, TrueTime would constitute a "trick," insofar ordering is concerned?

> Consider that talking to L1 is at least 1,000x faster than talking to the GPU.

This is largely true for "traditional" architectures, but s/GPU/TPU and s/L1/CMEM and suddenly this is no big deal anymore. I'd like Googlers to correct me here, but it seems well in line with classic MapReduce, and probably something that they're doing a lot outside of LLM inference... ads?
by rsync | 2025-06-28 20:28:17+00:00
I use alpine, exclusively, for my personal and work emails.

It's beautiful, lightweight, efficient and can perform complex operations with keystrokes. Phishing URLs are glaringly obvious, I can quickly view full headers with a press of 'H', and no network traffic (trackers, pixels, counters) is generated by my interaction with the email.

There's one other thing:

If your mailtool runs over SSH and you send email to someone else running their mailtool over SSH on the same system ... the mail delivery is a local copy operation.

Which is to say: no rsync.net internal email has ever traversed a network.

That's nice.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-28 20:28:21+00:00
Apologies for late reply: sdnsfw and civit.ai. Thing with it is, it takes a lot of, uh, effort because you need to find the 1 in 100 that did something new and shared it. And sadly while, it did confer a leading edge in applied research, maybe as much as 6 months, (ex. Loras, model merging), it's just not as much as it used to be and the quality difference is also less than it used to be
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-28 20:28:54+00:00
"Economically viable" is not a concept that even applies here. There is no profit to be extracted on Mars besides raw resources, and it will basically never be profitable to ship raw materials between planets with chemical rockets.

Any hypothetical money to be made on a Mars colony will take generations to become apparent.

However, the technological advances required to build a Mars base and put humans there is within our grasp today. The developments associated with such a program would be of incalculable value to humanity, but are not directly monopolizable and monetizable in the immediate term.

So, no. It will never be economically viable to go to Mars because that question makes no sense. It would make economic sense to invest in asteroid mining because there are returns to be seen within your lifetime. There will be no such returns from any planet-based colony for a long, long time.
by grafmax | 2025-06-28 20:29:04+00:00
> if the Israeli people really wanted anything different, it was their human duty and utmost responsibility to stop this by now

It’s wrong to single out Israel. The US is funding this mass murder of children and blocking attempts to stop it. It should correctly be called the US-Israeli genocide of Gaza.

For my part, as an American and a nobody, I feel helpless to stop the atrocities my government is participating in.

But I’ve found, for myself, the reason to fight the genocide - however I can - isn’t because I expect to stop it. I am powerless to do that. For me it’s to maintain a sense of human dignity in the face of evil.

Knowing my country’s role in the mass murder of children, shrugging my shoulders would feel like I’m surrendering something precious.
by senkora | 2025-06-28 20:29:13+00:00
I would describe it as: natural human languages with native speakers eventually develop a grammatical way to complete the vast majority of incomplete thoughts that speakers tend to have.

So, if you know the entire language, then you can complete your thought. But if you only know the common parts of the language then you may need to start over with a different sentence structure in order to express your thought.

Maybe that maps to C1 vs C2? At C1 you can express your thoughts with occasional backtracking, but at C2 you almost never need to backtrack?
by klik99 | 2025-06-28 20:29:35+00:00
For the last 5-10 years I've noticed a lot of people here are more willing to question VC as the sole or even ideal way to start a company, and since a major chunk of YC is to train how to raise money and connect people via demo day or mentors to VC, I think that marks how the HN community has departed from the YC community. Obviously there's a lot of overlap, and HN clearly has it's roots in YC by it's literal founder, but I think it's wrong to say HN community is the same as YC community, which I say "historically"
by goopypoop | 2025-06-28 20:30:10+00:00
>Irrespective of one's views on the migrant question, this is unsustainable.

That's neither true nor irrespective of your views on "the migrant question", which are evidently informed by an explicitly anti-immigration interest group.

A million immigrant workers claiming "some form of in-work benefit" is not significant. See e.g. £23B unclaimed benefits last year.

Your fact about NHS waiting times doesn't support any claim you've made.

It's like you're trolling, but perhaps the best interpretation is you're a GBNews victim?
by stackskipton | 2025-06-28 20:30:28+00:00
Yes. VAST majority of developers are working in feature factories where they pick a Jira ticket off the top, it probably has timeboxed work amount. Their goal is close Jira ticket within timeboxed amount by getting build to go green and PM to accept "Yep, that feature was implemented." If badly written LLMs will get build to go green and feature to be accepted, whatever, Jira ticket closed, paycheck collected. Any downstream problems are tomorrow problem when tech debt piles up high enough and Jira tickets to fix the tech debt are written.
by Someone1234 | 2025-06-28 20:30:32+00:00
I feel like misplaced criticism.

Javascript has become such a ubiquitous term that its copyright status is increasingly tenuous. Node.js by contrast has no such problem, yet. Most of the industry supports this initiative, and dumping on the people willing to invest the time and money to fix it once and for all, over seemingly irrelevant things feels petty.
by phillipcarter | 2025-06-28 20:31:44+00:00
Aside from being an opentelemetry maintainer who likes seeing these things ...

... it's a big deal because the only way to really make sense of using LLMs in any context is to have good observability data you can analyze later. And so the traces that they emit here will show all the CLI invocations, inputs/outputs and context for each chat turn in a session, and you can look for patterns that exhibit good or bad stuff.
by blackguardx | 2025-06-28 20:32:09+00:00
I learned to program C in high school on the original iMacs and thanks to OS 9's lack of true multi-tasking and Ive's penchant for lack of buttons, anytime our code crashed or made an infinite loop, we would have to reach around and unplug the computer from the wall. The single power button on the front was a soft button that required CPU cycles to operate.

There was also a tiny hole in the front that you could insert a paperclip to reset the machine, but unplugging from the wall was faster.
by jbiason | 2025-06-28 20:32:31+00:00
Brazil have something like that: Up to 4 children, you get about 1/4 of the minimum pay from the government for each. There are some caveats, though: The children must be in school, they can't fail a year, children which reach adult age (18) do not count/get paid for anymore, and the family monthly salary can't exceed about 75% of the minimum pay[1] to be eligible.

While this somewhat help lower paid families, we still have a huge number of men that just leave their families once kids appears and leave a single mother to raise the kids -- which have their own issues.

[1] I may be a bit off in the values, but you get the idea.
by jerf | 2025-06-28 20:32:53+00:00
To be honest I'm not even particularly impressed by that line of reasoning because even if you accept ultrafinitism, there's still a definite integer that it corresponds to. You can deny the "existence" of integers, and thus that the number "exists", but that's contingent on your definition of "existence". It doesn't change what it would be if it did exist.

Plus, ultafinitism is essentially relative to the universe you find yourself in. I hypothesized a universe in which BB(748) could actually exist, but you can equally hypothesize ones in which not only can it exist, it exists comfortably and is considered a small number by its denizens. We can't conceive of such a thing but there's no particular a priori reason to suppose it couldn't exist. If such a universe does actually "exist" does that mean our ultrafinitism is wrong? I'm actually a sort of a proponent of knowing whether your operating in a math space that corresponds to the universe (see also constructive mathematics), but concretely declaring that nothing could possibly exist that doesn't fit into our universe is a philosophical statement, not a mathematical one.
by vonnik | 2025-06-28 20:33:50+00:00
I wrote a couple pieces about how to take back control of your brain:

https://open.substack.com/pub/vonnik/p/how-to-take-your-brai...

Yes, the addictions are engineered in the service of shareholder value. There are many ways to fight it!

Fwiw, this dynamic goes way beyond VC and tech.

Douglas Courtwright writes about this in Age of Addiction:

https://www.amazon.com/The-Age-of-Addiction-audiobook/dp/B07...