MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arainach | 2025-07-07 04:04:37+00:00
They are absolutely not, and at this point anyone claiming as much is being malicious.

Yes, Biden could have done better on railroads, but his administration:

* Made millions more workers eligible for overtime pay

* Installed union leaders on the NLRB (contrast to Republicans who fired members, defunded efforts, and gave access to NRLB data to Musk/Palantir/etc.)

* Those new NLRB members issued the Cemex decision making it harder for companies to suppress union voting

* Issued any number of rules in favor of workers i.e. https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/olms/olms20230727

* Raised the contractor minimum wage

* Increased funding for the NLRB

* Ensured that companies couldn't avoid penalties by forming smaller companies - a process the Trump NLRB created to make it harder to penalize companies unionbusting

This is only a few things. There is a world of difference.
by Aeglaecia | 2025-07-07 04:05:48+00:00
psychiatry is at best informed guesswork , mental conditions are merely labelled groupings of symptoms , the negative effects of psych drugs outweigh positives in a significant proportion of cases , people existed for thousands of years with functional coping mechanisms that were thrown in the bin to make someone else rich and the populace was brainwashed to think it was their fault
by hyperbovine | 2025-07-07 04:05:52+00:00
> There is no define or agreed upon consensus of what AGI even means or implies.

Agreed, however defining ¬AGI seems much more straightforward to me. The current crop of LLMs, impressive though they may be, are just not human level intelligent. You recognize this as soon as you spend a significant amount of time using one.

It may also be that they are converging on a type of intelligence that is fundamentally not the same as human intelligence. I’m open to that.
by orionsbelt | 2025-07-07 04:06:29+00:00
While I am wary of AI being used to pump out crappy papers with bad science, I will say that many academics can be good in their fields while being quite bad at communicating clearly. I don't think it's a bad thing for a good scientist to use AI be used to take a genuine and scientifically interesting draft paper and use it to improve the writing so that it's clearer to the reader.
by alganet | 2025-07-07 04:06:34+00:00
I think surveillance is very, very advanced. But the active meddling thing is old tricks.

One should consider this combination. You can't lie to some systems, the better strategy is to be honest. You can lie to some systems, but these won't be load bearing, so why do it?

I will also observe back. The active meddling thing, when observed in action, is a source of information. It could be lying to me too, predicting that observability is inevitable and camouflaging it. Of course, I could be predicting that as well (and so on).

Notice how many interesting scenarios exist even if honesty is considered as a viable strategy in a total surveillance hypothetical situation?
by esperent | 2025-07-07 04:07:03+00:00
> 20 years ago (in 2005), did anyone voluntarily, happily label themselves autistic

The labels people use follow trends. Labelling (self or others) as autistic or on the spectrum is relatively new, but there have been trends for other disorders in the past. Neurotic, depressed, anal retentive, even phrenology - people worrying that the shape of their cheekbones mean they must be genetically stupid, or applying that to others. We have evidence of such trends going back 100 years at least, and probably more.

For sure, social media has amplified and homogenized things, as it does. But it's not a new phenomenon.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-07-07 04:08:02+00:00
> you also have to support them in equal measure

On aggregate over the course of your life, yes, but that's not a useful thing to state is it. It is certainly not true for an individual day/week, you get a lot of extra help when you're raising kids. It becomes more true once the kids reach a certain age where they are amenable to listening to anyone in the house, freeing up the parents for what you mentioned.

The difference is simply night and day, having seen both first hand.
by jongjong | 2025-07-07 04:09:22+00:00
If the candidates are legally bound to follow through on policy then it's slightly better yes but there's still a lot of wiggle-room in terms of implementation. Lobbyists often find ways to sneak in convenient loopholes inside regulations. Policy-based voting won't solve that because the voter isn't going to have time to read the full law; it might be many pages. What will happen is people who don't work and have more time on their hands will be more active politically and will get better representation. I mean, it'd definitely be an improvement though.
by d--b | 2025-07-07 04:09:53+00:00
The overdiagnosis and therapy talk is real, and is causing way too many people (most of them children) to take brain-altering pills on a daily basis.

I find the article to lack nuance, but it is time that this hazardous trend stops, and if it needs to go through social media shaming for some people to realize this sucks, then I am all for it.

My 6-year-old is a pain in the ass (got thrown out of 2 schools already). His psychologist says he has a hard time controlling his emotions. You wouldn’t believe the number of people who suggested he has some form of mental illness (OD, ADHD, ASD, we’ve heard it all). Thankfully, here in France, both his psychologist and his teacher are really wary of the trend, and are very careful not to put a mental health label on a kid who doesn’t have any other problem than being a pain to adults.

See the main problem is the question of suffering. People would say: but your kid suffers from being a pain to adults. Wouldn’t you want to help your kid not suffer?

Well yes sure, but the suffering is society-induced. It’s not that his personality is a medical problem, it’s that he doesn’t fit within the expectations. If he’d been born the son of a monarch, it would be accepted that he talked back to adults and throw tantrums, and he wouldn’t feel like shit. And I am not trying to say my kid should be allowed to yell at his teacher, but all of that setting isn’t natural - as in primates don’t go to kindergarten - so who’s to say what’s normal?

It is the same for what the person describes in the article. We live in a society where people do suffer from not meeting society’s expectations. The suffering is real, and so the diagnostic is often oozing.

But when 10% of children are diagnosed with ADHD and given amphetamines so that they can get through the day, we should probably ask whether it’s not the society that’s sick.
by kalleboo | 2025-07-07 04:10:18+00:00
I've been hosting my side projects on a Synology NAS I bought back in 2018. I would have the NAS anyway to backup my laptop etc, so the hardware is effectively free for hosting.

Power draw is low so it's on a basic consumer UPS which has worked fine for the short power outages we've had (minutes).

RAID means that a drive dying doesn't impact service, although I've yet to have a drive outright die, I've just had them start developing bad sectors and preemptively replaced them (btrfs checksumming keeps the data safe)

I have backups going to a cloud storage service, so if the crap hits the bucket when I'm traveling, I can just spin up a VPS and restore to there (which is what I would have to do if a cloud server died anyway)
by mhh__ | 2025-07-07 04:10:46+00:00
I could vaguely believe that you could hide some of the details by virtue of coming from a prop shop and saying it's some new angle for mlp.

Maybe they do have teams running prop style strategies but I would guess that if you snapped the book at a given second you'd probably miss the alleged secret sauce.

Crazy eh

Need to ask my mlp friends lol
by nlawalker | 2025-07-07 04:12:08+00:00
The intersection of this with employment, specifically, seems hairy to me.

Is time blindness a disability that requires accommodation? To what extent, and who decides? If not, what makes it different from other disabilities that do get accommodation or some kind of protected status?

(These are meant to be rhetorical questions, but I’m sure someone has a direct answer, so I’d be interested in that too, because I really don’t know)
by geodel | 2025-07-07 04:12:18+00:00
> For decades, Microsoft operated under an unspoken agreement with its employees—what I call “the pact.” The deal was simple: We’ll pay you 20-50% below market rate, but in exchange, you get stability, reasonable work-life balance, and most importantly, no layoffs.

This seems more of employee's made up rule rather than Microsoft's. I worked in a company in early 2000s' and old timer's told me similar rule "that here pay is less but little work and lifetime job guarantee". It was of course bullshit made up rule. As economy changed not only did they tighten the screws but also had many layoffs since then.
by agcat | 2025-07-07 04:12:47+00:00
Two things that have helped me: 1. If you are using LinkedIn for reachouts, try to build a more credible and engaging profile. For example - write more thoughtful and helpful posts as people checkout before replying and accepting your requests, engage even more with comments to your prospects and try to use as less AI as possible for these two tasks now when you’ll reach you’ll get better response and meeting rates. To check this. See the number of people viewing your profile but still not accepting requests or replying back
by since7 | 2025-07-07 04:14:28+00:00
The article brings some valid points. There's a lot to talk about in Web3 UX (as well as AI UX) and this is where the hatchet is buried.

Having said that, to me this article seems written with the help of ChatGPT. That is not bad per se but I feel it should be mentioned (eg. Venkatesh Rao's Sloptraptions)
by prisenco | 2025-07-07 04:14:47+00:00
I have relatives in Bari so I've been fascinated by Barese. My Italian is not good but I can passively pick it up when listening or watching television, but Barese sounds 100% like a completely different language to me. French and Spanish are more intelligible.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gEKxf8RD-OM
by f33d5173 | 2025-07-07 04:18:18+00:00
The stock market has a number of essential components without which it could not exist, all of which support it's role in allocating capital. If there was no secondary market to sell their stock to, someome might not invest in the first place. If there were or were not market manipulators cheating others out of money, that would make no difference as to whether someone invested in a company.
Show HN: Simulate "Synthetic" Focus Groups with LLMs
by NaNXVibeCoder | 2025-07-07 04:18:19+00:00
I built (mix of vibecoding and vibe-rage-debugging) an app for simulating focus groups using LLMs. A focus group is a small group of ppl hired to evaluate some product/concept/etc. The premise is that LLMs are, with the right prompting, good enough at imitating the probability distribution of opinions of common demographics if prompted to imitate them. Of course this depends a lot on the prompting -- if you prompt superficially the next-token predictor will return an equally generic answer.

You can feed in a website, define a study group and questions, and receive feedback. Currently in early beta.

Behind the scenes it uses a series of prompts to first figure out what your submitted content is about to prefill a suggested focus group and questions. If ticked, it will try creating "variations" of your content using an image model to be compared. Then the original and variations are shown to loads of instances of the openAI LLM with various prompts such as "You're a <demographic> study group participant evaluating <thing> so answer question <q>". Let me know if you have any suggestions for features etc and whether you find the concept interesting or would do something differently tech-wise. Thx!
by kentich | 2025-07-07 04:18:27+00:00
> It used to be totally non-controversial and completely validated by direct personal experience that only a minority of the population is built to work remotely.

I disagree with this. I beleive we just need better tools to support comfortable remote work. Big corporations are not interested in researching and developing such tools. And new innovative remote work tools like Virtual Frosted Glass (https://meetingglass.com/) have not yet gained widespread adoption.
by chubot | 2025-07-07 04:19:35+00:00
I'll keep an eye out for the blog post!

We're still working (intermittently) on a better shell <-> terminal interface. We actually did the first demo back in 2021, before we became aware of Warp. And here is an update from a month ago, which mentions Warp / IntelliJ / VSCode:

https://lobste.rs/s/viwe6p/open_source_can_t_coordinate#c_px...

That is, we did some demos with a nushell contributor, to see if there is a protocol that Oils and nushell can agree on. The big constraints seems to be bash and zsh. (I still believe in graceful evolution, not building a "inner platform")

I think these 2025 demos went pretty well, but it's still in the demo/research phase.

After working in this area for many years, I think the bottleneck is coordination, mentioned here - https://lobste.rs/s/ejcoud/dreaming_smel_shell

i.e. there are many separate projects doing similar things, and most of them get to 80% or so. I like that you mention a lot of prior art!

More links: https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Headless-Shell-Pr...

Feel free to join any of the Zulip discussions ... there are a bunch of prototypes floating around, but nothing set in stone!
by vivzkestrel | 2025-07-07 04:19:53+00:00
i have an even better one. 21 soldiers held 24000 invaders. not even making this up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saragarhi This movie actually shows it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264938/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_7... watch with subs if you can
by k310 | 2025-07-07 04:20:04+00:00
Please note that moving HQ is not moving the entire company. BofA HQ moved from SF to Charlotte. Musk and Ellison are shopping HQ tax breaks, cheaper labor, and apparently, access to a health care labor and business boomtown (Nashville) after buying Cerner. [0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/oracle-is-moving-its-world-h...
by oersted | 2025-07-07 04:20:36+00:00
Aren’t stablecoins also backed by a central authority that guarantees it will always exchange the coins for a fixed amount of cash? That’s what makes them stable right? At least the major ones like Tether.

And by now we have seen many cases of stablecoins predictably crashing when trust in that backing authority dissolves. Most famously UST/Luna but it’s a long list.

I suppose they are useful for covert transfers, and the actual transfer mechanism is decentralized. But they are strictly worse than normal currencies for storing wealth, since the backing authority is a private company with virtually no oversight. And the utility for transactions would vanish if you were not confident that you can exchange it back and forth with cash immediately before and after the transfer.
by ajkjk | 2025-07-07 04:21:36+00:00
It sounded like they didn't have to scrap it, but did anyway? Or at least did not feel like it had to actually be justified to him.

> I remember him explaining how many CDs would have to be destroyed (had they already been created?) and the cost of those. I think I weakly explained that I had assumed that there were no copyright conflicts but he wasn’t hearing it. After that half-hearted defense I let him berate me and more or less accepted whatever fate was coming my way.
by dongobread | 2025-07-07 04:24:04+00:00
This is a little misleading. The data they quote is based on their previous article[1], which just uses this analysis[2] provided by a VC company. Funnily enough the same VC company put a seperate clickbaitish article just a year before that one, claiming the exact opposite findings (about startups ditching SV).

I would guess a lot of these annual trends are just random fluctuations in their dataset, though to be honest I wonder how they're even trying to estimate this kind of information.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/austins-reign-as-a-tech-hub-mig...

[2] https://www.signalfire.com/blog/signalfire-state-of-talent-r...

[3] https://www.signalfire.com/blog/state-of-talent-tech-trends
by visarga | 2025-07-07 04:24:39+00:00
> Managers and execs are workers, too--so if the AI really is so good, surely they should recuse themselves and go live a peaceful life

One thing that doesn't get mentioned is AI capability for being held accountable. AI is fundamentally unaccountable. Like the genie from the lamp, it will grant you the 3 wishes but you bear the consequences.

So what can we do when the tasks are critically important, like deciding on an investment or spending much time and resources on a pursuit? We still need the managers. We need humans for all tasks of consequence where risks are taken. Not because humans are smarter, but because we have skin.

Even on the other side, that of goals, desires, choosing problems to be solved - AI has nothing to say. It has no desires of its own. It needs humans to expose the problem space inside which AI could generate value. It generates no value of its own.

This second observation means AI value will not concentrate in the hands of a few, but instead will be widespread. It's no different than Linux, yes, it has a high initial development cost, but then it generates value in the application layer which is as distributed as it gets. Each human using Linux exposes their own problems to the software to get help, and value is distributed across all problem contexts.

I have come to think that generating the opportunity for AI to provide value, and then incurring the outcomes, good or bad, of that work, are fundamentally human and distributed across society.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-07 04:25:02+00:00
I'd rephrase slightly:

Bitcoin's problem is that, since it's controlled by the miners, they're unlikely to change the issuance rules. Adequate security can be had at a far lower cost, but that's a change that would damage their investment in mining hardware, so the miners will never do it.

I hope one day we start valuing abstractions based on the desirability of their externalities. After such a shift, bitcoin will look pretty silly--who would want use waste-electricity-coin when they could instead use capture-carbon-coin or go-to-mars-coin? But it would seem that we're not there yet.
by Walf | 2025-07-07 04:26:56+00:00
You've really missed the point there, what I said was that these people who are using the term "time blindness" are not using official terms, and that ignorance does not detract from their life experience. Psychologists refer to this as executive dysfunction, which that article specifically mentioned.

I'm not sure why you're attempting to discredit it, was the Masters in Science of the author, and the review by a doctor not sufficient for you?

I never missed your point, I made no comment on people failing to hold themselves accountable for their behaviour. You certainly seem unable to comprehend that not everyone experiences time as you do.
by nirui | 2025-07-07 04:29:12+00:00
Is the article a translation from Chinese? You have to have some deep knowledge on Chinese net slang and Huawei slang to correctly understand it.

And all that unnecessary emotional expressions. All of it made the article hard to read.

Here's takeaways I extracted:

1. The author claim to be "an employee of the Pangu Large Model Team and Huawei Noah's Ark Laboratory", a lower ranking "small worker". The first 4 bullet points supposed to prove that they have insider knowledge, which should authenticate the claims that followed. As of why Huawei named their teams in this oddly way is unexplained but do desire some psychiatric analysis.

2. "At the beginning, our (Huawei, editor's note) computing power was very limited..." (detail followed), "...At the same time, other domestic companies such as Alibaba (which published Qwen, editor's note) and Zhipu were training on GPUs and had already figured out the right method. The gap between Pangu and its competitors was getting bigger and bigger"

3. "In this situation, Wang Yunhe ('the current director of Noah', editor's note) and his small model laboratory took action. They claimed that they inherited and transformed from the old 135B parameters, and through training a short few hundred B of data, the average improvement of various indicators was about ten points. In fact, this was their first masterpiece of applying the shell to the large model. Huawei's laymen led the experts, which made the leaders completely unaware of this nonsense. They only thought that there must be some algorithm innovation. After internal analysis, they actually used Qwen (which is published by Alibaba, editor's note) 1.5 110B for continued training.", "By adding layers, expanding the ffn dimension, and adding some mechanisms from the Pangu pi paper, they gathered about 135B parameters. In fact, the old 135B has 107 layers, while this model has only 82 layers, and the various configurations are also different. After training, the distribution of many parameters of the new 135B of unknown origin is almost exactly the same as that of Qwen 110B. Even the class name of the model code was Qwen at the time, and they were too lazy to even change the name. The subsequent model is the so-called 135B V2. This model was also provided to many downstreams at the time, even including external customers."

And that's about it.

Also, yeah, the article was indeed a translation from Chinese. The [original post] was written in Chinese, and then got translated it to English by github.com/moonlightelite. That's why it felt odd to read.

[original post]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250706034203/https://github.co...

After reading the article, I feel this is less of a whistle blowing, more of an attack against Wang Yunhe. That's why there's so much emotional expressions, to (maybe) appeal to Huawei and/or the future employer of this individual. But that's just my personal feelings/hint.
by alexjplant | 2025-07-07 04:30:36+00:00
Blast from the past! A handful of sacred Power Macs in my elementary school computer lab had the shareware version of Glider installed ("Glider Trial", or "Trail" [sic] as my spelling-challenged classmates called it who were unfamiliar with trialware) and every one of us jockeyed for one of these machines as we filed into the room so that we could play it. Circa 1999 I somehow got my mom to ask a hapless Wal-Mart employee whether they made Glider from Casady and Greene written by John Calhoun for Windows. We got a weird look and a devastating "no". Sometime in the next year or two my best friend and I fixed up his Grandpa's old Mac Plus which happened to have an older full version of Glider on it which made me quite happy.

Hats off to you, Mr. Calhoun!
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-07 04:31:05+00:00
It's not that impressive, IMO. The 'optics' modules which go into SFP+ sockets on fibre cards can draw only 2.5W per module/socket/port. While easily doing 40/50/80/100Gbps, depending on the used fibre standard.

So that would be 5W for two ports.

That intel thing does up to 10Gbps per port, while not having to light up lasers. For two ports that may add up to maybe half a Watt.

Which would leave 600mW for the SOC driving that stuff and PCIe 4x4. IRL they'd saved some more somewhere else, on the PHYs, or something, giving maybe 1W for the SOC.

Nicely done, but not revolutionary.
by barbazoo | 2025-07-07 04:31:41+00:00
> This change in water composition suggests that the deep ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere — known as the SMOC — is not only being altered, but has reversed. That is, instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries.