MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bionhoward | 2025-07-01 00:48:38+00:00
Given the Anthropic legal terms forbid competing with them, what are we actually allowed to do with this? Seems confusing what is allowed.

No machine learning work? That would compete.

No writing stuff I would train AI on. Except I own the stuff it writes, but I can’t use it.

Can we build websites with it? What websites don’t compete with Anthropic?

Terminal games? No, Claude code is a terminal game, if you make a terminal game it competes with Claude?

Can their “trust and safety team” humans read everyone’s stuff just to check if we’re competing with LLMs (funny joke) and steal business ideas and use them at Anthropic?

Feels like the dirty secret of AI services is, every possible use case violates the terms, and we just have to accept we’re using something their legal team told us not to use? How is that logically consistent? Any safety concerns? This doesn’t seem like a law Asimov would appreciate.

It would be cool if the set of allowed use cases wasn’t empty. That might make Anthropic seem more intelligent
by boroboro4 | 2025-07-01 00:49:00+00:00
To be honest I think this one is worse in a way because it permits laws impartiality in hands of bad faith executive (and we do have one).

In this very example people in the US split into two parts: living in states choosing to go against this very illegal executive order or not. Unless you have money to sue government yourself and didn’t end up in a state going against EO your child is gonna be denied the exact humanity you’re talking about. In fact they can be deported soon after being born as assumingly non citizens.

And yes, in this particular case probably it will turn ok, because class certification seem possible. However class certification is very limited at the moment, and, again, in hands of bad faith executive we’ll end up with executive orders built around it. For example we can end up with 10% religious tax (but only if you Muslim). When the case finally reaches the merits just cancel it and change to 12%. This might be non class certifiable, and will create both chaos and inequitable application of the law.

If judges really wanted to solve initial issue of conflicting decisions (not fragmented, since universal injunctions were making decision universal) they should’ve fixed class actions first.

I’m pretty sure we’ll see this all to play out really soon.
by const_cast | 2025-07-01 00:50:27+00:00
> If we survived and evolved without the use of something in the last few million years, then why is that thing needed?

Because we didn't. A lot of people died, actually. From germs. Before we knew about Germ Theory.

I see this same type of stuff when people talk about inductions or cesarean sections. "Well humans didn't need that before, so why do we need it now?" No actually... humans did need that before. Half of all infants died. Humans are unbelievably shit at giving birth.

Turns out, humans are bad at a lot of things. We die A LOT less now. Like... so much less that we can't even conceptualize how much less we're dying so then we start questioning if we need soap.

And, as a fun aside, the reason humans are so shit at giving birth is because of evolution. You ever wonder why seemingly ever other mammal is able to give birth and it's super chill but we just roll over and die in shocking numbers? Yeah, turns out evolving to be one two legs has disastrous consequences.
by thenaturalist | 2025-07-01 00:52:17+00:00
Cannabis is not to be trifled with.

While other stimulant substances when used might also lead to psychosis, it is cannabis which stands out with the highest risk of a psychosis becoming chronic and developing on into schizophrenia.

Sources:

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

[1]: https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/substance-induced-psychoses...
by lmm | 2025-07-01 00:52:44+00:00
No, because the value of permission to build a house on the lot can be a lot more than the cost of renovating it (even when that renovation cost is higher than the cost of building a new house on that lot). If you don't have another way to get that kind of permission (e.g. maybe it's illegal for you to contribute to the unaffiliated PAC supporting the mayor's reelection campaign because you're a noncitizen) it can be virtually priceless.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-01 00:53:48+00:00
> the bit where he complains about the two useEffects, that's indeed disgusting but that's because whoever wrote it is an idiot, that should be useMemo, and then it would be obvious to read etc.

Given that of the three dependency items between the two useEffects, only one is actually used in the useEffect where it is listed as a dependency, there are deeper problems than using useEffect where they should probably be using useMemo there, but, yeah, it definitely looks like code written by someone clueless about React basics.
by ludicity | 2025-07-01 00:54:05+00:00
I've been reading Crawford for quite a few years now, and got into DS9 at his recommendation. I had to skip the last paragraph because I haven't finished his latest game, but I've quietly admired his weirdness and dedication to the craft. Some of his criticisms of storytelling in games have also been frequently opaque to me, but I still believe there's something behind even the statements I didn't understand.

Some of his reflections on growing old, remembering his first crush, and even just noodling about home improvement are incredibly beautiful too.

Those are all asides, but what I mean to say is that his other posts are worth reading.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-01 00:55:05+00:00
It doesn't serve every culinary purpose and most California grocery shoppers are not Japanese. You wouldn't make Moros y Cristianos with it. You wouldn't make Hoppin' John with it. It's no good for your Indian menu. It isn't really what you'd serve beside fried chicken.

There is no "best rice" any more than there is "best pants".
by JayGuerette | 2025-07-01 00:56:52+00:00
About 8y ago we were looking at a used Mini Cooper. Car Fax reported no major problems. I went to the bank to get a loan. They reported 2 minor and 1 major accident that the car had been in that were NOT reported by Car Fax. Once we knew where to look we were able to see evidence of the damage & repairs to the car.

I think that if lending institutions don't trust Car Fax then we probably shouldn't either.
by seriocomic | 2025-07-01 00:58:09+00:00
There's a bunch, but most of it comes to the following: 1. Mis-matching declarations - e.g. a meta robots tag that conflicts with a HTTP Header x-robots-tag for example 2. Missing declarations - missing title tags, canonical tags, etc - not often critical - but not ideal either 3. Missing redirections from no-www/http - often overlooked 4. Open-graph images that 404 5. XML sitemaps that 404 or reference 404 resources 6. Mis-configured SSL/TLS headers and more...
by spiralcoaster | 2025-07-01 00:58:53+00:00
If I were drinking coffee at the time, this line would have made me spit it out in a fit of unbelievable laughter:

"- In our opinion, no coffee tool really captures the flavor, emotion, and aesthetic of great coffee—from a design perspective."

What does it mean to capture emotion in a coffee tool from a design perspective? You can't make this stuff up! Actually, I guess you can.

But anyway, I'm sure this comment section will be full of exclamation points (!) about how exciting this is and good luck and can't wait and this is amazing and wow thank you's and so on. Carry on.
by bumby | 2025-07-01 01:00:05+00:00
>it also applies to regulations that don't involve risk.

Which are those? Because so far, this conversation has been about TPMS and ABS regulation. I’m beginning to think the discussion is more about dogmatic feelings about regulation than the topic at hand.

Again, your argument is based on following regulations for the sake of regulation and I don’t agree that’s why regulations exist. I believe they exist to mitigate risk. Sometimes they can be poorly executed, and sometimes they can be for a risk you aren’t acutely aware of or one you don’t care about, but that doesn’t mean the risk is non-existent.
by timr | 2025-07-01 01:00:15+00:00
So great. We have not one, but two different ways of saying "use text search to find tools".

This field, I swear...it's the PPAP [1] of engineering.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfuiB52K7X8

I have a toool...I have a seeeeearch...unh! Now I have a Tool Loadout!" *dances around in leopard print pyjamas*
by ramoz | 2025-07-01 01:00:42+00:00
An abstraction via a script should work, right? They document that it pipes the JSON data to your command's stdin,

```lint-monorepo.sh # read that data json_input=$(cat) # do some parsing here with jq, get the file path (file_path) if [$file_path" == "$dir1"*] run lint_for_dir1 ```
by nopenopenope88 | 2025-07-01 01:00:45+00:00
Myself and my buddies worked on it. This might sound ripe with "conspiracy". I know how it's going to sound. Take it for what you will. Initially wanting to know things like, whose in what room, how many people, and what your actively doing, who you socialize with most etc. Been working on this since they bought Skydog/Powercloud. Purposely "helped" design the spec for wifi since Wifi 5 or earlier. How do we get more sensor devices into the home? Build an IoT line of business and make wifi "better". Imagine seeing the the entire USA on a map (comcast "national watchtower" tool), and then seeing what each router can "see", including those xfinity hotspots. One, giant, signal map of devices with tagged metadata such as a percentage associated to "who" owns the device, what the device is, and what apps you have installed, which you are using at this current moment, any health and biometric data in case grandma fell over and can't get up. There is always a hidden SSID transmitting. p0f is nicely preinstalled on the wifi router cpe. Now create the standard firmware RDK for worldwide use purchasing cable/tv networks in other countries. (Sky, IoT companies in Italy). Now give them more ability, like to unlock your home "MyQ" (comcast ventures "investment"), why stop there, get into businesses such as taco bell with LoRaWAN. Add xfinity mobile for that extra juice of seeing all the little SIMS (game) characters on the (very real) map so you can recommend to them how to better schedule their life. It's all there. Now take that same map, and make it global. Attend the next SCTE conference and see it all for yourself. They're proud of it. I thought, I was too.
by ahaucnx | 2025-07-01 01:01:19+00:00
Nicely produced video but two things I think make it less great.

1) The sponsorship / advertisement is artificially linked to the content of the video and makes it more like an ad for the computer. It appears like the video is optimized for ad profitability but not necessarily for bringing most value to the DIY project. Sponsorship is fine, but I would prefer it to be separate from the video content.

2) There are some elementary electronic checks missing, eg the impedance of the speakers. If the ohms not match, the amplifier might actually get damaged.
by godelski | 2025-07-01 01:01:45+00:00
His boss is essentially making the same argument as Knuth: Spend your time optimizing what benefits the most from optimization. Or in other words, prioritize, don't optimize blindly.

It's a single line phrase, I wouldn't interpret it too literally. Usually you got to be pretty liberal when interpreting those easy to remember lines. It's a lot harder to remember the literally multiple books we could fill when bringing up exceptions.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-01 01:02:25+00:00
It does not seem to be so useful and practical to use strange shapes for dice; the common shapes, with numbers (or other symbols that are applicable for the game you are playing) on each side, will probably be more useful, anyways. However, it might be interesting.

Another reason to use dice for tabletop games is so that the game can be played without the use of a computer.

When I play GURPS, I generally use different dice with each dice roll in order to try to mitigate some of the bias. (I don't know quite how much effective this really is, though.)
by brudgers | 2025-07-01 01:02:32+00:00
My parenting advice is that your attention is on optimizing a non-optimizeable challenge.

The advice is based on experience. Imagine asking this question in 2002. That’s before social media, before ubiquitous data, before smartphones, before streaming.

Your job is to grow as much as your child so you can support them when they start having adultish problems; can just stop following your agenda; and the only tool on your toolbelt is being the kind of person they want to be around.

Screen time is rounding error on the quality of parenting. Stop arguing on the internet. It is pretend work.
by aboodman | 2025-07-01 01:04:44+00:00
I was aware of this kind of structure when I coined 'prolly tree'. It's the same thing bup was doing, which I referenced in our design docs:

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md#...

The reason I thought a new name was warranted is that a prolly tree stores structured data (a sorted set of k/v pairs, like a b-tree), not blob data. And it has the same interface and utility as a b-tree.

Is it a huge difference? No. A pretty minor adaptation of an existing idea. But still different enough to warrant a different name IMO.
by maga_2020 | 2025-07-01 01:05:24+00:00
original poster here.

I read this site as a 'permabear' for financial news. A contrarian. Meaning that they help to filter out what's bushtit in a bullish sentiment. But I would not use them to guide me for what to invest into -- as according to them, anything but gold or silver, is a 'so so'.

I think they apply this 'permabear' lens onto the main-stream anything, especially mainstream advisory.

So that's the context.

With regards to the specific article, I would say it fits my 'Confirmation bias'. That is through my career I had not seen an effective link between the quality of academic credentials and ability to predict future.

An economics PhD or CS PhD (or masters) did not particularly make a person being able to analyze current conditions to predict future outcomes any more than a lay man with a lesser university degree.

Just thinking outload here the, diminishing reliance of a average layman on credentialed expertise, seems to be real.

This indicates a combination of 'experts' being intentionally used to promote some money making or policy making idea. Resulting in these experts being viewed as false prophets or health advisors, or military/foreign policy advisors. Essentially resulting in general public loosing trust in 'expert opinions'. That's what the article is reflecting, providing some current examples.

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Not mentioned in the article, in the field of computer programming, this may indicate that an advanced degree in computer science may not result in significantly differentiating 'practical' expertise in typical programming jobs with AI or without AI help. This is my particular experience too.

One could only project that view into many fields where evaluating critical impact of a particular decision or a prediction is not practically possible. So subsequent grading of an 'expert opinion' becomes an exercise in one side arguing for an 'F' and other side for a 'B+'
by Gigachad | 2025-07-01 01:07:25+00:00
Most old houses in Aus are just assumed to be complete shit so why waste money on an inspection to tell you what you already know. All the value is in the land.

If the house collapses that's a good thing because then the heritage protections are gone and you can build something better. The property value probably goes up if the old workers hut falls over.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-01 01:07:25+00:00
One of the same things I was working on in 2015 as well as 2005.

An HP Deskjet 5850. Typical small home/office printer.

Thanks to a brilliant owner years ago who figured out you can use the drivers from the model 9800. A larger-format printer whose drivers seem to cover a lot of ground for printers of certain vintages, easily including ones like this one having more limited paper size options. The printer works quite well on the latest Windows 11 now, it's just not a one-click affair to install like it was with Windows XP.

By this late date, the driver download has been slightly hosed. Files are basically from Windows Vista x64 but are not prepared to install like you would want them to, there is actual uncorrected damage to the structure. Once you unzip the drivers into a C:\drivers\ folder for instance, then after you manually install the .INF file found in C:\drivers\ it's supposed to allow you to later manually select a driver from among a number of similar vintage HP Deskjets. All the driver files for that variety of different printers are right there in the C:\drivers\ folder, right next to that one INF that covers them all. But the install routine can't find any of them because it looks for them in a "hard-coded" C:\drivers\amd64\ subfolder which somebody forgot to spawn.

Then if you manually make a new C:\drivers\amd64\ folder, place an extra copy of the unzipped fileset into C:\drivers\amd64, then install the INF from there, it proceeds to search for the drivers in C:\drivers\amd64\amd64\ and fails to find them again :\

Try it again, pointing at the INF in C:\drivers\, and with the extra copy of the fileset (less the INF) already present in C:\drivers\amd64, then it works.

And that was before "Print Nightmare" a few years ago.

Since then the "normal" steps that follow have gotten worse every year, maybe more often, additional hurdles and barricades keep popping up.

Plus you can only imagine the fun, sharing the printer with Windows XP like nobody knows the difference.

It's almost like Windows is a challenging videogame which keeps coming out with new versions where it gets more difficult to make it through all the levels, and when you do, you reach pretty much the same final goal you had before you got the new version :\
by pevansgreenwood | 2025-07-01 01:07:54+00:00
That's putting the cart before the horse. Thermodynamics came after the steam engine was made practical. Flight came before aerodynamics. Metallurgy before materials science. Radio before electromagnetic theory took hold. Even LLMs are the result of a lot of tinkering rather than scientific insight. It’s the successful tinkering that creates the puzzle science later formalises.
by hyperhello | 2025-07-01 01:08:15+00:00
You can make a perfectly effective UI in vanilla HTML5 and it will work forever, just like you can roll up for your date wearing practical clothes driving a 2002 Honda Civic, but you’re not guaranteed to look impressive enough to snare the targets. I think the point of all this JavaScript library evolution is not to be a good coder or a practical husband.
by lovich | 2025-07-01 01:08:29+00:00
Their rice imports have risen by 2 orders of magnitude from 126 tons a year to over 10k tons already[1]

I don’t know if that is a drop in the bucket compared to their total consumption but their does appear to be an increasing appetite for foreign rice at the price points Japan is currently experiencing

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Agriculture/Japan-s-May-ric...
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by godelski | 2025-07-01 01:09:45+00:00
This has been my experience as well. A real "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" situation. No one was intentionally acting malicious nor trying to make bad code, but the ultimate truth is that software "rots". We write for static environments, but the environment isn't static.

I'd expect even rather junior programmers to recognize that the more time you spend working on a project the more new and unexpected things you find. New features, better ways to implement things, whatever. And ultimately, we all look back at code we wrote a year ago and are going to say "what idiot wrote this garbage?" I mean, if you don't, it is probably a sign that you aren't improving. It's impossible to write perfect code, and even if it was, what would be "perfect" is a moving target. So either way, you should be writing better code today when compared to yesterday.

> without the expensive big rewrite.

While it isn't possible to completely put this off, I find there's a helpful tactic to reduce spaghetti-creep. "Maintenance is cheaper than repair." People say "don't fix what isn't broken" but I think that's wrong. You should "fix" things before they are broken. Because frankly, it is cheaper to replace your visibly degrading water pipe than it is to wait for it to burst. You not only have to pay for the new pipe, but all the damage it caused when it broke. Maintenance increases longevity and helps you monitor so you can replace things before they break. Doesn't matter if you're plumbing water pipes or plumbing spaghetti, the tactic is the same.
by chisleu | 2025-07-01 01:10:47+00:00
Yup, slowing down the AI is a really hard thing to do. I've mostly accomplished it, but I use extensive auto prompting and a large memory bank. All of it is designed explicitly to slow down the AI. I've taught it how to do what I call "Baby Steps", which is defined as: "The smallest possible change that still effectively moves the technology forward." Some of my prompting is explicit about human review and approval of every change including manual testing of the application in question BEFORE the model moves on to the next step.
by habinero | 2025-07-01 01:11:18+00:00
Not really, no. Both of those projects are tinkertoy greenfield projects, done by people who know exactly what they're doing.

And both of them heavily caveat that experience:

> This only works if you have the capacity to review what it produces, of course. (And by “of course”, I mean probably many people will ignore this, even though it’s essential to get meaningful, consistent, long-term value out of these systems.)

> To be clear: this isn't an endorsement of using models for serious Open Source libraries...Treat it as a curious side project which says more about what's possible today than what's necessarily advisable.

It does nobody any good to oversell this shit.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-01 01:11:37+00:00
Hardware isn't even close to being out of steam. There are some breathtakingly obvious premature optimizations that we can undo to get at least 99% power reduction for the same amount of compute.

For example, FPGAs use a lot of area and power routing signals across the chip. Those long lines have a large capacitance, and thus cause a large amount of dynamic power loss. So does moving parameters around to/from RAM instead of just loading up a vast array of LUTs with the values once.
by jbm | 2025-07-01 01:11:59+00:00
Building some software for the Trim UI Brick. It's such a neat little thing; being able to turn it into an offline-first device that can handle my data needs would sincerely fill me with joy.

Right now I'm making an Anki-style flashcard system in Rust (https://github.com/jmahmood/Cardbrick/). It's amazing that all of the annoying stoppers I've had with build systems were blown away by Gemini. It's also nice to actually build something that is not another web application.

(I say this knowing there is zero value in me posting this in a thread with 1134 comments already)