MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-07 17:52:45+00:00
People forget that while technology grows, society also grows to support that.

I already strongly suspect that LLMs are just going to magnify the dominance of python as LLMs can remove the most friction from its use. Then will come the second order effects where libraries are explicitly written to be LLM friendly, further removing friction.

LLMs write code best in python -> python gets used more -> python gets optimized for LLMs -> LLMs write code best in python
by datadecenter | 2025-07-07 17:52:54+00:00
Decentralized AI vSoC + SoC is all that it takes to turn away from private/public cloud & datacenters with server, switches & storage.

No need for #VMware/#OpenStack/#Microsoft/#Cisco & SAN/NAS/File/Block Storage.

#Security like never before.

Don't have to build Datacenters.

vSoC Software Installs in Seconds & Scales to Millions.

The New Genre of Decentralized Datacenters on Earth and in Space

SynchroKnot Incorporated

Sacramento, California

https://synchroknot.com
by reify | 2025-07-07 17:53:01+00:00
I block everything on HN that links to a paywalled sites.

ItS about friends leaving friends links to read and in the process doing some ego stroking. Wankers

its not for us kind and gentle folk

wack this in ublock

news.ycombinator.##.g:has(a[href="fortune.com"])

news.ycombinator.##a[href="fortune.com"]:upward(1)
by cogman10 | 2025-07-07 17:53:05+00:00
Unification.

The authors of the Torah are laying down what correct worship is supposed to look like. I believe (and I'm not a biblical scholar, just like learning) the theory is that the priests at the time were dealing with a mixed culture and differing beliefs. One way to handle that is "Look at these evil/dumb heathens worshiping their weak gods". Painting the gods which likely some of the population still believes in dumb is a way to undermine and discourage belief. Sort of a "We are no longer team Bears, we are team bulls. The bears are actually inferior and dumb".

Part of forming the new religion was merging concepts and powers from commonly believed in gods. A little like the early christians rebranding pagan holidays while actively purging pagans.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-07 17:53:11+00:00
There's a lot of conflation of "should/shouldn't" and "is/isn't". The comments by tech folk you're alluding to mostly think that it "shouldn't" be fair use, out of concern about the societal consequences, whereas judges are looking at it and saying that it "is" fair use, based on the existing law.

Any reasonable reading of the current state of fair use doctrine makes it obvious that the process between Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and "A computer program that outputs responses to user prompts about a variety of topics" is wildly transformative, and thus the usage of the copyrighted material is probably covered by fair use.
by xdennis | 2025-07-07 17:53:47+00:00
> It's abusive and wrong to try and prevent AI companies from using your works at all.

People don't view moral issues in the abstract.

A better perspective on this is the fact that human individuals have created works which megacorps are training on for free or for the price of a single book and creating models which replace individuals.

The megacorps are only partially replacing individuals now, but when the models get good enough they could replace humans entirely.

When such a future happens will you still be siding with them or with individual creators?
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-07 17:54:07+00:00
> Well they don't literally control the votes

Nor do they control whether someone does or does not file for election as a primary candidate against you, nor do they control whether a primary challenger is able to mobilize the parties usual voters.

> but folks by and large vote for who the party supports.

If by "who the party supports" you mean "either the incumbent, if there is one, in the primary or whoever wins the primary in the general", you are correct, but that...doesn't address the issue.

If you mean, "who the party leadership supports, irrespective of incumbency and other factors, in the primary", that's not really strongly the case in normal party primaries. (It's kind of true in Republican primaries in the era of Trump, but that's a result of a powerful outside-of-leadership activist movement taking over the party leadership that was strong enough to defeat the leadership's candidates in primaries taking over the party leadership, but that's...not an easily replicable condition, and the only reason it could happen is because party leadership doesn't control who gets primaried, at all or who successfully.)
by simonw | 2025-07-07 17:54:22+00:00
Have you tried any of the ludicrously fast LLM demos yet?

https://inference.cerebras.ai/ and https://groq.com/ and https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-diffusion/ (waitlisted) are all 10 to 100x faster than regular models, which really does have a meaningful impact on how I interact with them because I don't have to disengage for 15+ seconds while I wait for a response.

I have video demos of a few of those: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/llm-cerebras/ and https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/31/cerebras-coder/ and https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-07 17:54:47+00:00
> Code is merely the leanest human-readable representation for loss-less specification of requirements.

Hum... That's assuming you have a perfect development stack that hides all non-essential complexity.

And well, I have news for you, that's a low-code platform. A generic stack that hides every problem but solves every requirement just can't exist.
by bboygravity | 2025-07-07 17:55:31+00:00
As an EE I feel this was either extreme incompetence (unlikely) or deliberate planned obsolescence.

Battery packs can be expensive and have huge margin if you make them (mechanically) fit only 1 year of 1 model of 1 brand. Which is exactly what Dyson seems to be doing.

Designing BMS'es so that the batteries (safely) fail as quickly as possible is not hard.
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-07 17:55:35+00:00
Wow bro, this is just great, your project really deserves a star and I gave it, I also really liked that the utility is available locally.

By the way, I'm also a programmer and I create interesting things (my project is not ready yet) but I wanted to tell you about my PIT project.

This is a project for viewing photos directly in the terminal, it's very cool (I repeat, it's not ready yet), but could you please take a look at my repository, and if you want to award it a star just for assistance.

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...
by rafaelmn | 2025-07-07 17:55:53+00:00
Is it a startup or small business ? In my book a startup expects to scale and hosting bare metal HW in an office with 5 people means you have to figure everything out again when you get 20/50/100 people - IMO not worth the effort and hosting hardware has zero transferable skills to your product.

Running on managed bare metal servers is theoretically the same as running any other infra provider except you are on the hook for a bit more maintenance, you scale to 20 people you just rent a few more machines. I really do not see many downsides for the build server/test runner scenario.
by robotguy | 2025-07-07 17:55:55+00:00
I'm from Sac also. In ~2012 (just a bit before Hacker Lab) I remember some of the people from Parallax Inc in Rocklin getting together to start a hacker space (Dweeb Den[1]). I went to 4 or 5 meetings with attendance of around 20-40 people and I was really impressed with the community-oriented spirit that was forming. We had plans to get a booth at the state fair, distribute puzzles and cards[2] to attract attention, and were working on getting a 501c3. Just about that time, we heard about Hacker Lab getting started, and it was better funded and further along, so we pivoted to supporting Hacker Lab. It turns out Hacker Lab was SIGNIFICANTLY more entrepreneur-focused (which is fine, just not what I was looking for). I ended up disappointed that Dweeb Den got dropped and we lost that nerd/maker/artist community feel. I'd love to see something like that come back around. Unfortunately, my Charisma score is low enough that I'd have to be behind-the-scenes assistance in starting anything of the sort.

[1]Dweeb Den entry on Hackerspaces.org: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/DweebDen

[2]Here's a png of the card I found: https://imgur.com/a/dweeb-den-card-S027r5I
by js8 | 2025-07-07 17:55:59+00:00
> The problem with this thinking is that hundreds of thousands of teachers who spent years writing great, useful books and sharing knowledge and wisdom probably won't sue a billion dollar company for stealing their work. What they'll likely do is stop writing altogether.

I think this is a fantasy. My father cowrote a Springer book about physics. For the effort, he got like $400 and 6 author copies.

Now, you might say he got a bad deal (or the book was bad), but I don't think hundreds of thousands of authors do significantly better. The reality is, people overwhelmingly write because they want to, not because of money.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-07 17:56:06+00:00
The city has no real "center" if you will.

Back in Chicago when I switched jobs I basically just rode the metro for an extra 5 minutes.

If I really wanted to I could of gotten off at the same train station, went to the cafe I liked, and walked 10 minutes to my new office.

In LA you can easily have one job in Santa Monica or Venice and end up needing to switch to a job in the valley. Your commute can go from 20 minutes to 60 or 70 each way.

As is car ownership is a horrible burden( particularly in high traffic areas, living in a suburb/ slightly rural area and coasting to work could be nice). Driving is really dangerous and stressful too. I'd rather read comics on a nice train ride into the office.
by sramsay | 2025-07-07 17:56:51+00:00
> I'm not a scholar, just an amateur, but two sentences were strikingly ridiculous.

Well, I am a scholar, and if you mean "Noah clearly did not hide these texts," then yes. Of course, that is ridiculous.

But it's actually a crucial bit of information if you're a humanist scholar. The article doesn't say anything about it, but the question would be: Which tradition recorded this legend about these texts? Almost any answer is important, because one culture trying to legitimate its own literary traditions or those of another through its own myths or those of another is absolute gold. It helps us to understand the way literary and religious syncretism unfolded (or failed to unfold) in the ancient near east and in later epochs . . .
by kragen | 2025-07-07 17:57:04+00:00
Sometimes the missing info is obvious, irrelevant, or intentionally not disclosed, so "The proposal was approved" can be better. Informally we often say, "They approved the proposal," in such cases, or "You approve the proposal" when we're talking about a future or otherwise temporally indefinite possibility, but that's not acceptable in formal registers.

Unfortunately, the resulting correlation between the passive voice and formality does sometimes lead poor writers to use the passive in order to seem more formal, even when it's not the best choice.
by whycome | 2025-07-07 17:57:19+00:00
But the AI used the content to learn how to copy and recreate it. Is ‘re-creation’ a better concept for us?

People already use pirated software for product creation.

Hypothetical:

I know a guy who learned photoshop on a pirated copy of Photoshop. He went on to be a graphic designer. All his earnings are ‘proceeds from crime’

He never used the pirated software to produce content.
by trealira | 2025-07-07 17:57:57+00:00
Grammatical gender can serve as disambiguation. I just heard this sentence recently while watching something in Spanish:

"No me compares con alguien como tú, que llegaste aquí de una isla oriental sólo porque te impresionó un espectáculo de magia barato."

In the phrase "un espectáculo de magia barato," which means "cheap magic show" here, you can tell from the genders of the nouns and adjectives that it's that "barato" modifies "espectáculo," meaning that the show is cheap and it's not that the magic is cheap.

It's not that useful here, because it's not hard to figure out the correct meaning from the context anyway, but it's a tool that helps clarity regardless. And when you learn a language well enough, it's not like you're thinking about this super consciously, you just know the word and gendering it and its adjectives flows right off your tongue. I think this is probably easier for a non-native to learn than all the irregular spellings of English, but I wouldn't know, being a native English speaker.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-07 17:58:08+00:00
I wonder if there's also something to do with how the window scheduler (or allocator, or driver interaction, or some system component—I just guessed the scheduler because it seems like the most likely thing to be different enough to drive this sort of phenomenon) approaches the task. I notice remarkably smoother gameplay with the same games under wine—even, confusingly, games developed in house at Microsoft like Flight Simulator—with the same hardware.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-07 17:58:15+00:00
But is it the medication, or reduction in oxidative stress and glycation?

Medications almost always come with some form of negative side effects for a portion of those prescribed to. I think part of it needs to come from awareness of what we're putting into our bodies in the first place. I think a large part of it all comes from what we're taking in that wouldn't be considered food by most reasonable people knowing what goes into processed "food".

"Food is medicine," also means food is poison. Not all are created equal. This isn't to completely decry all advancements in food production, or even all processed foods... but there's definitely more that needs to be looked into.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-07 17:58:21+00:00
"phonetics" is about speech, but the noun "phonetics" is not the adjective "phonetic" as applied to a language. "phonetic" is not a modifier that applies to spoken language (with the hypothetical caveat I gave upthread), and even if it was, it would have a different definition than the one that applies to non-spoken language and is about the relation such a language has to a spoken language, so trying to redirect to it in a discussion of that use of the adjective "phonetic" would be equivocation, argumentative conflation of different definitions of the same word.
by hwillis | 2025-07-07 17:59:05+00:00
That's just not true, unless you mean resource reserves. Taiwan has the largest NG strategic reserve I know of (11 days) and the US has the largest petroleum reserve in the world at 19 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...

Resource reserves are unextracted and not replenished. They are not the same as storage.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-07 17:59:19+00:00
In this thread:

~100% of the posters use "loopholes" to refer to tax exemptions they feel are bad, and should be eliminated.

and

~100% of the posters believe some tax exemptions are good. These are not "loopholes".

Not in this thread: any objective rule by which these two ideas may be differentiated.
by djoldman | 2025-07-07 17:59:23+00:00
Technology is not the roadblock here.

People don't want automated ticketing, so governments don't implement it.

In addition, there are many laws that aren't enforced and would generate instant outcry if they were. For example: it's illegal for someone of any age to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk, as opposed to the roadway, in many cities (in some cities it's the opposite).
by bigyabai | 2025-07-07 17:59:36+00:00
We're also considering that you've submit this product to HN several times without much serious traction.

It's very possible that you are focusing on the wrong features, which enables solo devs to out-compete your product with simple changes. Unless your offering is unique or superior, it will almost certainly lose out to the rest of the market. This kind of market dilution will stop you from attaining $10,000 MRR, let alone a $100m valuation.
by umeshunni | 2025-07-07 17:59:48+00:00
Some other articles explicitly call out that the image is AI generated:

e.g. it's labeled with An AI generated impression of activities at the “Fat Factory” site. The image was generated with the assistance of OpenAI's ChatGPT (version 4o, 2025), and subsequent modification and retouching by a graphic designer | Quelle: F. Scherjon | Copyright: F. Scherjon, LEIZA-Monrepos

at

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/07/02/neanderthals-ra...
by alwa | 2025-07-07 18:00:10+00:00
Does this extend to the heuristic TFA refers to? Where they end up (voluntarily or not) referring to what LLMs hallucinate as a kind of “normative expectation,” then use that to guide their own original work and to minimize the degree to which they’re unintentionally surprising their audience? In this case it feels a little icky and demanding because the ASCII tablature feature feels itself like an artifact of ChatGPT’s limitations. But like some of the commenters upthread, I like the idea of using it for “if you came into my project cold, how would you expect it to work?”

Having wrangled some open-source work that’s the kind of genius that only its mother could love… there’s a place for idiosyncratic interface design (UI-wise and API-wise), but there’s also a whole group of people who are great at that design sensibility. That category of people doesn’t always overlap with people who are great at the underlying engineering. Similarly, as academic writing tends to demonstrate, people with interesting and important ideas aren’t always people with a tremendous facility for writing to be read.

(And then there are people like me who have neither—I agree that you should roll your eyes at anything I ask an LLM to squirt out! :)

But GP’s technique, like TFA’s, sounds to me like something closer to that of a person with something meaningful to say, who now has a patient close-reader alongside them while they hone drafts. It’s not like you’d take half of your test reader’s suggestions, but some of them might be good in a way that didn’t occur to you in the moment, right?
by mdnahas | 2025-07-07 18:00:16+00:00
I was a quantitative trader for an options trading firm in the early 2010s. We were a very technical firms and hedges options trades within minutes. So, a trade with us would shift the stock price quickly. Even with that, we got scammed by traders doing this kind of thing on single stocks. My boss said that he complained to the broker and SEC, but nothing happened. We wrote code to limit our losses from this kind of scam.

We were probably able to find it because we did hedge quickly. Hedging costs money (trading fees, 1/2 spread) so some firms did it less often. We heard that Bear-Sterns only did it 1 time per day (around 4pm when spreads were small and over-night movement risk was nigh). They wouldn’t have caught this scam.
by crabbone | 2025-07-07 18:00:24+00:00
Well, there's this story about how printing failed Arabic. Allegedly, in Italy, they tried to print a Koran, but because the printers didn't speak Arabic, and were trained on Latin scripts, they messed it up so much that the Arab world came to believe printing is not going to work for them. Even though most scientific books of the day were written in Arabic and the best schools spoke the language, it quickly fell out of favor, being replaced by Latin in Europe.

In turn, the Caliphate made a point of standardizing the script and creating libraries which fueled research science for a good few centuries.

----

Even before Internet, languages with diacritics (eg. Russian Ё) were deprecating their use. I believe something similar is happening in German (with ß). Also, languages with long history seen incremental thinning out of the alphabet to remove duplication and rare special cases. Sometimes, the opposite happened, but it was usually brought by reactionary politics, especially inspired by local nationalism which looked for validation in ancient history. So, for example, in the 90s Ukrainians brought back the letter Ґ that was used in only a handful of words, and was happily forgotten during the Soviet times.

So, convenience and suitability for new technology can be a meaningful factor in adoption.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-07 18:00:37+00:00
It's too bad, because Urgent Care is your only option if you're still waiting for your "new patient appointment" with a primary care doc. I was in the same boat as GP poster, where new patient appointments were 6 months in the future, so we just went to Urgent Care for everything in the meantime. Of course, after 6 months, we found out the doctor was retiring and not taking any more new patients, so we had to wait another 6 months for the next primary care doctor on the list. An entire year of waiting, just to get a primary care doctor, in the non-socialized-medicine USA.
by Animats | 2025-07-07 18:00:40+00:00
More references.

US dairy operators needing immigrant labor. (Associated Press) [1] (Dairy Herd Management) [2]

Meatpacking plant raids, effects. (Des Moines Register) [3]

More available via Google. This is a major issue and there's lots of info available.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-farmworkers-ver...

[2] https://www.dairyherd.com/news/business/impact-immigration-r...

[3] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2025/06/11/ice-...
by smithkl42 | 2025-07-07 18:00:56+00:00
"Baal" was less a name than a title. In modern Hebrew, it just means "lord" or "husband". It was also apparently a title that could, at some stages of Israel's history, even be applied to YHWH, much like "Adonay" ("My lord"). For instance, the individuals named "Mephibosheth" and "Ish-bosheth" (two of the sons of Saul, a clear if imperfect Yahwist) were originally named "Meribaal" and "Ish-baal". Whoever put together 1 and 2 Samuel changed their names from "May Baal Contend" and "Man of Baal" to various plays on "shame" (bosheth). Their original names are preserved, oddly enough, in 1 Chronicles.

If you could go back and ask, say, Samuel or David or Saul about how many gods existed and what their names were, I suspect all of them would have been clear that YHWH was the chief of the gods, and the only one that Israelites should worship, but beyond that you would have gotten some complicated and perhaps confused answers. Even some parts of the Bible take for granted that other gods besides YHWH exist - see, for instance, Psalm 82.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2082&vers...

Over time, "Baal" began to denote a specific agricultural deity, and it became less appropriate to use as a title for YHWH. That seems to have kicked off (or was kicked off by) the well-known conflict between Yahwism and Baal worship - see, ad infra, 1 Kings 18.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20kings%2018&...
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-07 18:00:57+00:00
Not just culture, but also the tech sector in general. All that domestic tech would have been strangled in the cradle if the western hyperscalers had any say leaving them in an awkward spot if the conviviality dial got turned down. As many Europeans are now finding out: what does Europe have instead of Office 365, say? LibreOffice? It's no WPS Office.
by seadan83 | 2025-07-07 18:01:45+00:00
Per the ruling, the problem is the books were not purchased, they were downloaded from black market websites. It's akin to shoplifting, what you do later with the goods is a different matter.

Reasonable minds could debate the ethics of how the material was used, this ruling judged the usage was legal and fair use. The only problem is the material was in effect stolen.