MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teitoklien | 2025-06-08 01:18:25+00:00
Back during the communist vs capitalism and free market era

Politicians were patriotic like you hope them now to be, they were worried about the rise of communism and were extremely attentive and focused and unified to making sure capitalism and free market works for the masses, that everyday westerners are enriched and have better social and health outcomes than their communist counterparts.

It did succeed to the point that Boris Yeltsin after dissolution of USSR was dumbfounded by just looking at american grocery stores that are affordable for public in comparison to the Empty shelves back at home [0]

However after the end of cold war they gave up on bipartisan, or helping society as “one nation” in almost every major western democracy. They filed every major new infrastructure build with red tape, red tape, bureaucratic nightmare. They made the economy as a pingpong ball to intentionally sabotage it for the incoming rival presidency/prime ministers, while benefiting themselves with unsustainable debt. They gave up all public infrastructure like highspeed rail, cheap transportation like Greyhound Buses across american cities, cheap housing, good housing.They gutted our manufacturing and industries, outsourced all our jobs with no better ones for those without jobs to replace them.

Now everything’s going to shit, and they wonder why people are starting to vote in populists and authoritarians, they were sold a great and good ideal of men and women, parliamentarians working together united to deliver the public with better outcomes for everyone in a democracy. Yet now they see them busy with personal enrichment, ideological wars, petty infighting, inaction on key issues.

And then they wonder why people are voting in and then tolerating objectively authoritarian dictators sometimes evil sometimes good who promise to steamroll changes as a monarch/dictator, just in hopes that they just ignore the democratic chaos and finally deliver the public something (even though often they also just personally enrich themselves or make the problems worse) we lost our prosperity, authoritarians promised us prosperity if we give away our freedoms now most of us are going to lose both at current trajectory. All because of petty infighting and laziness and lack of patriotism among politicians.

European and American society will need another cold war of ideologies with them on one side to actually defend and work for common citizens again, they wont do it until then, they’ll only do the bareminimum while continuing their petty fights and lectures as “leaders”.

[0](https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/13/how-a-russians-grocery-...)
by pyman | 2025-06-08 01:21:34+00:00
I'm not sure what you're referring to. I don't think you understand the difference between automation, traditional AI, and generative AI.

Back in 2019, when someone said part of an app was built "autonomously", it usually meant they reused components and generated the glue logic, configurations, or some custom code around it. In BuilderAI's case, they said they were using AI/ML to create dependency graphs. Just read their blog, it's all there!

The Transformer paper came out in 2017, and the first time I heard of GPT was in 2019. At that point, only a few companies like Google and OpenAI were working on LLMs. If you're expecting BuilderAi, a small startup from India with limited funding, to compete with multibillion dollar companies in 2019, then you're being delusional.

I don’t think I can be of any further help. Apologies.
by zdw | 2025-06-08 01:22:12+00:00
How can running a single binary under systemd need more memory/disk space than having that identical binary with supporting docker container layers under it on the same system, plus the overhead of all of docker?

Conflicting versions, I'll give you that, but how frequently does that happen, especially if you mostly source from upstream OS vendor repos?

The most frequent conflict is if everything wants port 80/443, and for most self-hosted services you can have them listen on internal ports and be fronted by a single instance of a webserver (take your pick of apache/nginx/caddy).
by brookst | 2025-06-08 01:22:14+00:00
This is a good observation, but I think causality is reversed: narcissists by nature develop whatever skills will attract the most adoration.

Trump plays the strongman / oppressed white man card. If the populace valued different things he would happily parade around in negligé. He’s just playing to the audience, and it’s not narcissism so much as bullshit archetypes that they want.
by bernawil | 2025-06-08 01:23:57+00:00
I know pressure drops. The problem is knowing which filter is the one causing it in particular. Also, filters that are spent at different rates are a PITA. What I mean is if you are going to feed it nominally clean tap water, there's no reason to protect a catridge with equally or more expensive cartridges. Just use the RO filter and be done with it.
by danpalmer | 2025-06-08 01:24:04+00:00
You’re talking about trains, but this is about trams. The design constraints of building into an existing and very dense road network are complex.

I agree with much of your sentiment, and hope that the Coventry council is being challenged in these sorts of ways, but at the same time I recognise that each city is going to have quite different requirements for trams driving down the roads in its centre.

Perhaps a better push back is: why isn’t this just a better bus network?
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-08 01:24:50+00:00
Microsoft doesn’t exist in the hive mind of Silicon Valley. That’s the only reason.

“We’d rather spend 3x the effort to bash things with open source rocks than ever use a proprietary hammer!”

“.NET is open source. It also comes with a steam roller.”

“We’ve made up our minds!”

PS: I just had to work on a Node.js app for the first time in my career. After dotnet core it feels like working with children’s wood blocks.
by brookst | 2025-06-08 01:26:08+00:00
This wouldn’t be possible as the world’s reserve currency and provider of political stability. At incredibly low interest rates, most investments are positive ROI.

But by destroying the US’ position as reserve currency and establishing the country as too untrustworthy to do business with, Trump has made your statement true.

We can’t afford what we spend without those special economic benefits. And we just threw them away for no reason.
by titanomachy | 2025-06-08 01:26:26+00:00
I went to the ER in Canada (BC) a couple years ago, and they charged $950 to my credit card just to walk in the door. Everything else was extra, and charged at rates not wildly different from what I’ve seen in the US. And I’m a Canadian citizen! (I had temporarily lost my free healthcare eligibility because I lived outside the country for a few years.)

Can’t comment on all the other countries you listed, although I can add that urgent care in Germany was pretty reasonably priced.
by pabs3 | 2025-06-08 01:27:07+00:00
There are lots of small OSS businesses that are contractors to the big companies you mention. My go-to example is Igalia, who work on web browser and other core OSS tech, but there lots of others, some mentioned on the FOSSjobs wiki.

https://www.igalia.com/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
by mrbungie | 2025-06-08 01:27:27+00:00
Towers of Hanoi IS an algorithmic problem. It is a high-school/college level problem when designing algorithms, probably kid level when trying to solve intuitively, heuristically or via brute force for few disks (i.e. like when playing Mass Effect 1 or similar games that embed it as a minigame*).

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vTBVyhX7n4
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-06-08 01:29:35+00:00
Everyone knows what? There have been no shortage of journalists trying to destroy him, where is the evidence. He was quite involved in assisting prosecutors against Epstein, as a civilian. As others have pointed, Musk does have a penchant for making this exact allegation, unfounded, against people he disagrees with, even over the most bizarre of things. If we all just say we know allegations against people we disagree will true, without basis in fact, then we are no better than parliamentary monarchy for which we fought a revolution against, let alone kangaroo courts around the world.
by bardak | 2025-06-08 01:29:46+00:00
Unfortunately the Coventry VLRT is all about aesthetics over actually transit benefits. If the they were concerned about being useful transit the vehicle would have capacity higher than an articulated bus. Instead the main benefit of Trams/LRT over buses, capacity, is sacrificed leaving no real benefits. You can see the same thing with the Obama ere streetcars in the USA where most of them proved no real benefits over the buses the run alongside them but at least they retained the capacity even if it was never needed.
by diwank | 2025-06-08 01:30:04+00:00
I’d say around ~40% me, the ideating, editing, citations, and images are all mine; rest Opus 4 :)

I typically try to also include the original Claude chat’s link in the post but it seems like Claude doesn’t allow sharing chats with deep research used in them.

See this series of posts for example, I have included the link right at the beginning: https://diwank.space/juleps-vision-levels-of-intelligence-pt...

I completely get the critique and I already talked about it earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44213823

Update: here’s an older chatgpt conversation while preparing this: https://chatgpt.com/share/6844eaae-07d0-8001-a7f7-e532d63bf8...
by lowsong | 2025-06-08 01:30:08+00:00
I'm the first to admit that I'm an AI skeptic, but this goes way beyond my views about AI and is a fundamentally unsound idea.

Let's assume that a hypothetical future AI is perfect. It will produce correct output 100% of the time, with no bugs, errors, omissions, security flaws, or other failings. It will also generate output instantly and cost nothing to run.

Even with such perfection this idea is doomed to failure because it can only write code based on information in the prompt, which is written by a human. Any ambiguity, unstated assumption, or omission would result in a program that didn't work quite right. Even a perfect AI is not telepathic. So you'd need to explain and describe your intended solution extremely precisely without ambiguity. Especially considering in this "offline generation" case there is no opportunity for our presumed perfect AI to ask clarifying questions.

But, by definition, any language which is precise and clear enough to not produce ambiguity is effectively a programming language, so you've not gained anything over just writing code.
by wat10000 | 2025-06-08 01:31:53+00:00
They’re different orders of magnitude. Biden was elected legitimately. Parties can nominate whoever they want, so shenanigans with primaries, while distasteful, are completely legitimate. Likewise, keeping Biden’s mental state from the public is ugly but legitimate. Voters can, and did, punish these actions.

Trump tried to cheat his way to keeping power. Even if you don’t blame him for the violent attempt, it’s well established that he made major efforts before that to change the outcome by more peaceful means that were just as illegitimate.

Playing stupid games within the system means you lose elections and either reform or get replaced. Playing stupid games subverting the system means you don’t have to worry about elections anymore if you succeed. I’m about a million times more concerned about the latter.
by roughly | 2025-06-08 01:37:05+00:00
> I admit it is exciting to make something you truly believe is good and helpful.

I want to double down on this - I’m lucky enough to have worked places where I truly believed the world would be a better place if we “won,” and not on the margins, and it really, really makes a difference in quality of life. I’ve worked at other places, too, and the cognitive drag of knowing that your skills and efforts - your ability to change the world - is at best being wasted is something you don’t truly feel until it’s gone.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-08 01:37:33+00:00
I recognize all of that as true to some extent, but still I have 230 hours in Starfield, and I haven’t even finished all the quests.

Does that truly constitute a failed game?

As far as I’m concerned their biggest mistake was not having something to travel around in the planets on the start. Walking around to the interesting locations was annoying.

Then there’s a bunch of pointless systems like the colony system, and the whole space magic thing, but the rest is still a bog standard Bethesda game with 10000 different handcrafted unique locations for me to explore following a bunch of sort of interesting questlines.
by duxup | 2025-06-08 01:37:34+00:00
Afghanistan's history is so sad, they've hardly ever been united, just a lot of warlords and wars with outsiders, wars with insiders.

I recall after the Taliban took over they put their folks in government office as you would expect. Some Taliban officials talked about explaining to others that running a hospital or public service by yelling at everyone doesn't produce results like on the battlefield.
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by michael_lambryl | 2025-06-08 01:40:59+00:00
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I'm still very early, and there's a long road ahead. If you're curious about AI workflows, autonomous agents, or building smarter tools, I'd love your feedback, thoughts, or even just encouragement.

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by nickthegreek | 2025-06-08 01:41:19+00:00
They absolutely destroyed Sol. I’m not sure what it is now. the disinterest, the umms, the inability to speak directly to question, a new inflection but I am pretty mad. I am an avid voice user. I love to use the advanced voice while I’m doing tasks to explore new projects I want to work on and to get a basics understanding of home renovation tasks, etc. I had to finally change the voice to Maple but ran out of time to see if I could stand it. So disappointing.

At least know I know i’m not crazy and there were in-fact changes rolled out.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-08 01:43:36+00:00
I propose a slightly different boundary: not ”to self-host” but ”ability to self-host”. It simply means that you can if you want to, but you can let someone else host it. This is a lot more inclusive, both to those who are less technical and those who are willing to pay for it.

People who don’t care, ”I’ll just pay”, are especially affected, and the ones who should care the most. Why? Because today, businesses are more predatory, preying on future technical dependence of their victims. Even if you don’t care about FOSS, it’s incredibly important to be able to migrate providers. If you are locked in they will exploit that. Some do it so systematically they are not interested in any other kind of business.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-08 01:44:14+00:00
Come on. It's blindingly obvious to anyone not used to these things why it's inherently bad. To people who live in a police state you eventually get used to such things.

For example i really believe that traffic enforcement cameras are state oppression. They create more human suffering then they prevent. it's just that people are used to it so they don't protest.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-08 01:45:16+00:00
> I think they must have convinced themselves that they didn’t really need to care too much about the game itself, because those chumps - sorry, players - would add all the content for them on their own

Were they wrong? Skyrim sits at 70k mods after who knows how many years. Starfield has 10k already. I’ll admit it might not go as far as Skyrim, but still.

I feel the fact they did procgen is not as bad as the fact that what was not was just slightly less compelling than usual.
Ask HN: Resources to Learn AI/ML Fundamentals
by anonymzz | 2025-06-08 01:45:21+00:00
I'm interested in learning the fundamentals of AI and machine learning—especially the core concepts like vectors, linear algebra, and foundational intuition behind how things work.

Can anyone recommend a solid books, article series, or lecture series that covers these topics well? Ideally something beginner-friendly but rigorous.
by bitwize | 2025-06-08 01:46:34+00:00
Entering Japan there's a nice friendly line marked "Japanese" where everyone just passes in smoothly, and a grim dystopian line marked "Foreigner" at which your fingerprints and photo are taken before you're allowed entry. It's like humans vs. fookin' prawns in District 9. And this is Japan, one of the more liberal East Asian states.

Japanese businesses often refuse foreigners outright, or, like famed cheap-goods retailer Don Quijote, have notices posted indicating they can demand you cough up your passport at any time, so have it ready before entering.

At least the customs agents were friendly, in that Japanese way, even as they asked me probing questions like why I flew in from Helsinki on Finnair instead of over the Pacific on an American airline. Though they seemed content with my answer ("because it was cheaper").
by duxup | 2025-06-08 01:47:12+00:00
What a wonderful read.

I find myself pining for a lot of the "old days" when anything seemed possible and it was open and exciting. You could DO surprisingly, not a lot, but everything still felt possible.

Now everything seems trapped in advertising dominated closed box. Login and live in this limited little space...

The internet is still there, I can still put up a site that isn't covered with ads. I wish I could surf just that internet and so on.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-08 01:47:58+00:00
This is a great example of the horseshoe theory of politics [0], which I believe in very strongly. I made a separate post if anyone cares to discuss it. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214040
by goosejuice | 2025-06-08 01:48:21+00:00
You said automated marketing. I mean I can get why you think I could be a shill for Cursor given my horrible sense of time. But for it to be automated is an interesting claim.

I definitely wouldn't be surprised if a small startup was engaging in their own posts, something I do find shameful. But that's quite a far shot from a wildly successful startup with 100M ARR engaging in some kind of scheme where accounts with active history are making automated comments. Just seems not only unnecessary but also unlikely given the risk and effort involved.

I think it's much more likely that out of the 300k users or whatever they have, a lot of them are on hackernews and have good things to say about the product and a 1.0 is a significant event.
by ksec | 2025-06-08 01:51:36+00:00
This actually set back my expectation of AI / LLM / LRM by at least 5 if not 10 years. But someone please correct me if I am wrong.

My idea was that up to a few years ago while AI / LLM is good at getting conversational or dishing out results that is in a language we understand. It still doesn't "understand" anything and in a lot of time conjured up that seems remotely correctly. Pattern matching over a very large data set that could be correct for 70% and increasingly to 80%+ of the time. However more accurate predictions would require order of magnitude more computing resources.

But pattern matching is still, pattern matching. There is no reasoning behind it. 1+1 will never equals to 11 but it may have skewed towards that results because of Javascript. When fundamental logic isn't behind any of these progress and process. The very bottom layer of any conversation / information / results are fragile.

So I have been skeptical of AI progress or LLM. That was until LRM or as the title said Reasoning LLMs. I thought we somehow manage to programme critical thinking into it, or some sort of reflection / fact checking / rationale / basic logic as fundamental principle. And while I can tell LRM isn't and wont be perfect, and possibly never quite reach AGI, the layer will improve over time until we find different ways to progress. And we will have something I called Assisted Intelligence. Which is what a lot of people uses as AI programming today.

Instead what this shows is that LRM isn't reasoning at all. It is LLM conjured up excuses to make it look like it is reasoning. It is another set of pattern matching specially made up for reasoning to look like it is reasoning. It is basically a kid making things up on why he got the results without thinking because he just want to get away from class or homework that looks very clever.

May be the title gave it away, and made be we got tricked. It was always a LLM specifically trained for showcasing "reasoning". The actual reasoning behind the scene is never done. Hence the title "The Illusion of Thinking".
by gosub100 | 2025-06-08 01:52:17+00:00
one common misconception is that "the downvote is not a disagree button". it absolutely is. I made that mistake before, in the early days of reddit they used to stress that mantra, and I made the false assumption it was true here. You are getting downvoted because people disagree or don't like what you have to say. simple as that.
by walterbell | 2025-06-08 01:53:01+00:00
> Anyone is a set of people that includes the contributor

Should every other member of that set, i.e. everyone minus contributor, also amortize their software development expenses because they have a hypothetical, non-exercised right to use some (i.e. all) open-source "R&D" software... somewhere? Or should the tax liability be invoked starting on the date of first use of any open-source code?

If some code is upstreamed to Linux kernel or userspace, should this obligate every Linux distro consumer to amortize their Linux software development expenses?

There must be _some_ legal boundary for dispersal of the tax obligation with respect to open-source code, since it self-evidently cannot be intended to apply to the entire universe of businesses and union of all OSS development. If necessary, a court case can establish this distinction.
by jdsnape | 2025-06-08 01:54:03+00:00
I asked because it wasn’t blindingly obvious, and I genuinely want to understand.

Taking the traffic enforcement then - we’re talking about a dangerous piece of machinery that you’re allowed to operate in a public place under certain conditions in order to reduce the risk to others. One of those conditions is speed. It seems blindingly obvious to me that if a society agrees those conditions it should also enforce them?
by jsnell | 2025-06-08 01:54:35+00:00
I didn't really mean that they needed higher capacity. If they had the passenger volume to justify such high intervals, they'd already have real trams.

But rather, this is giving up the benefit trams have over buses, without gaining any new edge to replace it. So why is it a good tradeoff? And why now, not 20 years ago?

The autonomous driving angle is the only idea I have.
by Veedrac | 2025-06-08 01:58:45+00:00
Trams don't actually scale higher than busses; the highest ridership BRTs have far more ridership than the highest ridership light rail. The key thing that makes it work is having a dedicated right of way. I expect busses get a bad rap as a scaled transit solution mostly because they have to share the roads so often. But it's indeed an advantage of light rail that it's a lot harder to make that mistake with it.