MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TurkTurkleton | 2025-07-22 13:50:24+00:00
Can confirm as well, although to my recollection it just shows up as if it's a word the transcription model heard, not "[foreign]" in brackets like with "[Music]" or "[Applause]". It's especially weird to me because I recall the auto-transcriptions being reasonably serviceable when they first rolled them out, only to degrade over time to the point where it was hallucinating the word "foreign" and dropping letters from words or using weird abbreviations (like "koby" for "kilobyte", "TBTE" for "terabyte", or, most memorably weirdly, transcribing the phrase "nanosecond-by-nanosecond" as "nond by nanc") if it didn't decide it heard another one entirely.

I also noticed a couple of months ago that YouTube seems to have quietly rolled out a new auto-transcription model that can make reasonable guesses at where capitalization, punctuation, and sentence boundaries should go. It seems to have degraded even more rapidly than the old one, falling victim to the same kinds of transcription errors. Although the new one has a different hallucination in silence and noise that it wasn't able to classify (which, incidentally, its ability to recognize things like music and applause seems worse than the old one's): where the old model would have hallucinated the word "foreign", the new one thinks it's hearing the word "heat", often repeated ("Heat. Heat.").
by alephnerd | 2025-07-22 13:50:57+00:00
> Repeating the same talking points

Because I want it answered. If you cannot answer that question, then any discussion is moot.

> The US is a criminal state that should have zero presence in Europe from that reason alone

We can leave Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Germany, and Poland and deploy our forces in the Pacific where we face a problem that actually matters.

Then deal with Ukraine on your own. Why even buy American weapons to give to the Ukrainians?

You can't deal with the Chinese - their foreign minister has himself told EU leadership that they need a Russian victory in Ukraine. If you want to replace us with the Chinese, then you need to sacrifice Ukraine and much of Eastern Europe to Russian orbit.

We can also leave the Red Sea, leaving it to you guys to solve the Houthi crisis - it's not our problem.

We can leave Armenia, letting it return to Russian orbit.

We can leave Turkiye, thus removing the only barrier holding Turkiye back from a hot conflict in Cyprus and the Greek Islands.

> presenting US imperial practice as obviously a good thing isn't going to change that

Then present an actual solution. All the "solutions" I see are basically France or Germany trying to increase their own relative position, but then trying to undermine the other.

There is no unified Europe from a strategy perspective.
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-22 13:51:57+00:00
> SomeCalculatedValue in the second line still has the same value as in the first. This makes sense, as what happens when we use the with expression, is that the record is cloned and then the properties provided within the brackets are overwritten.

Shouldn't SomeCalculatedValue be "This is another some value *calculated*" when using with ?

Edit: Actually that is the problem, that it isn't "recalculating" due to the way that the initialization of read-only properties works in a C# record.
by FranzFerdiNaN | 2025-07-22 13:52:16+00:00
> It took many many years until people figured out how to use the internet for more than just copying corporate brochures into HTML.

It was immediately clear for many people how it could be used to express themselves. It took a lot of years to figure out how to kill most of those parts and turn the remainder into a corporate hellscape thats barely more than corporate brochures.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-22 13:52:22+00:00
If you did a survey worldwide of democracies, I’d be very surprised to find any that didn’t have norm tipping points, where technically things could be pushed if any adherence to previous norms were abandoned.

The irony is that this behavior isn’t exceptional for the US, historically. We’ve just lived through a long recent period (1974-2024) where norms were more respected.

Historically (pre-1900) there were some colossal political anything-goes knife fights within and between the branches of American government.

One consequence of that was the explicit stripping of powers from the executive and substitution of independent boards to check its power. Those were eventually removed in the 80s in a drive to increase efficiency. See history before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_Reform_Act_of_...

I expect that post-Trump, when Democrats regain legislative power, there are going to be a lot of efforts to buttress and expand the role of executive-independent bodies.
by dspillett | 2025-07-22 13:52:29+00:00
> Why else would US citizen Hispanics have voted in record numbers for the current President?

Perhaps because they mistakenly thought he wouldn't do exactly what he said he would do, or that there would be checks & balances to make sure it wasn't too heavy-handed so they personally were not in danger. Now he is doing what he said he would do in that regard (even when accidentally saying the quiet bits out loud) many are somewhat surprised and concerned.

Oddly while not beleiving he would go all-in on the purge many did believe he would do what he said with respect to what they saw as good things (lowering prices, and taxes (for them), ending the Ukraine conflict, keeping America out of other conflicts particularly in the middle-east, releasing any and all Epstein information, …), and are aghast at those things not being carried through as promised on the campaign trail.
by 0xpgm | 2025-07-22 13:52:49+00:00
> The Firefox Multi-Account Containers feature, in my opinion, is what puts this browser at the top.

For a long time this was the reason I didn't move to Brave, but eventually I realized I don't need it so much because Brave already sandboxes cookies for each site so some social media or ad network won't be able to track me across different sites.

The remaining use for multi-account containers now is staying logged in with different accounts to the same site, which for my usecase I can do with Brave profiles.

Now Brave is my major browser and once in a while I'll bring up Librefox. Firefox lost me when they went all in with their strategy to feed user data into AI presumably for ad purposes.
by seec | 2025-07-22 13:53:19+00:00
The sad truth is that the majority of common products are like this and the markup is for covering the insane amount of bullshit job to run the bureaucracy enabling this.

Which is exactly why they are trying to close the "loophole", if the poor people can go directly to the source, big government can't put its hand in every single process to tax it in order to pay for all the bullshit. The industry is complicit because they get to make more profit this way, the whole system is corrupted anyway.

As for the things that are made in the EU, they are barely affordable for the middle class already, precisely because there is very little value creation and it's get taxed to the ground. The ones suffering the most are the poor, who are often the ones actually working to create said value, preventing access to those cheap goods is just another way to force them to stay poor.
by benterix | 2025-07-22 13:53:34+00:00
The prices are falling down. I do a lot of Machine Learning and sometimes work with large datasets. The ability to (1) put all data in VRAM and (2) have the results in hours/days instead of weeks is amazing - and in the past it wouldn't be easy for a normal researcher like me. Now I can have access to these beefy machines, do my research and publish the results without taking a loan from my bank.
by hotpotat | 2025-07-22 13:53:50+00:00
Lots of in-depth analysis, but I think the author is very clearly emotionally invested to the point that they are only drawing conclusions that justify and support their emotions. I agree that we’re in a bubble in the sense that a lot of these companies will go bankrupt, but it won’t be Google or Anthropic (unless Google makes a model that’s an order of magnitude better or order of magnitude cheaper with capability parity). Claude is simply too good at coding in well-represented languages like Python and Typescript to not pay hundreds of dollars a month for (if not thousands, subsidized by employers). These companies are racing to have the most effective agents and models right now. Once the bottleneck is clearly humans’ ability the specify the requirements and context, reducing the cost of the models will be the main competitive edge, and we’re not there yet (although even now the better you are at providing requirements and context, the more effective you are with the models). I think that once cost reduction is the target, Google will win because they have the hardware capabilities to do so.
by LeroyRaz | 2025-07-22 13:53:51+00:00
There are two ways to interpret the sentence we are discussing:

A: a grammatically incorrect statement, saying that "the AI used theory", when they mean that "the AI's design can be understood using theory" (or more sloppy "that the design uses the theory").

B: a grammatically valid if contentious-to-you statement about an LLM or knowledge graph based system (e.g., something like the AI Scientist paper) parsing theory and that parsing being used to create the experiment design.

As I have explained, B is a perfectly valid interpretation, given the current state of the art. It is also valid historically, as knowledge graph based systems have been around for a long time. It is also the likely interpretation of a lay person, who is mainly exposed to hype and AI systems like chatGPT.

Regardless, they a) introduce needless ambiguity that is likely to mislead a large proportion of readers. And b) if they are not actively misleading then they have written something grammatically incorrect.

Both findings mean that the article is a sloppy and bad piece of writing.

This particular sentence is also only a particular example of how the article is likely to mislead.
by Oras | 2025-07-22 13:53:53+00:00
> However the history of results with these things shows otherwise

Do you remember Will Smith's first video generated by AI compared to what Sora, Veo3, and Kling are doing now?

Do you remember first generated text by GPT-3 compared to new models? 2 years ago, there was no AI coding due to models' limitations, and now we have substantially better products that Cursor and others cannot cope with the demand.

If you can't see the progress, that's a personal thing; it doesn't mean others are not finding benefit.
by lumost | 2025-07-22 13:54:03+00:00
If you are trying to treat the agent as equivalent to a full time senior engineer that works 10x as fast… then you will be sorely disappointed.

Right now the agents are roughly equivalent to a technically proficient intern that writes code at 1000 wpm, loves to rewrite your entire code base, and is familiar with every library and algorithm written 2 years ago.

I personally find that I can do a lot with 5 concurrent interns matching the above description.
by globular-toast | 2025-07-22 13:54:15+00:00
Same, no problems here, in the almost 20 years I've been using it.

Whenever I've used Chrome I find it weird and annoying. Which just goes to show it's all down to what you're used to.

If people would just try switching they'd find it normal in just a week or so. Are you really going to let Google control your computing just because you can't stand the very mild discomfort associated with change?
by rayiner | 2025-07-22 13:54:36+00:00
> True enough but probably not relevant to anything. Every society is already a patchwork of families with different beliefs that date back centuries.

In most existing societies, that patchwork follows normal distributions centered around recognizable points. This is obvious even in the U.S. Sure, you’ll meet chatty people in rural Oregon and curt people in rural Georgia. But if you’re culturally calibrated to make small talk like in Georgia then you’ll piss off most cashiers in Oregon.

Once you acknowledge that these differences exist, you also have to acknowledge that these differences aren’t merely superficial. It’s not just food and dress, but also attitudes about honor, conflict resolution, trust, saving, debt, justice, and government. Look at Minnesota (historically) as compared to Scandinavia (from where a lot of Minnesotans immigrated). You can easily see the through lines connecting the governance of those places. You can easily see the differences in governance between Iowa and Alabama.
by sReinwald | 2025-07-22 13:54:40+00:00
I think we're mostly in agreement here. You're absolutely right about the intern analogy - that's exactly my point. The LLM is the intern, and giving either one production database access without proper guardrails is the real failure.

Your point about AI industry overselling is fair and probably contributes to incidents like this. The whole industry has been pretty reckless about setting realistic expectations around what these tools can and can't do safely.

Though I'd argue that a venture capitalist who invests in software startups should have enough domain knowledge to see through the marketing hype and understand that "AI coding assistant" doesn't mean "production-ready autonomous developer."
Show HN: Reduce AI's Black Box Problem with Living Diagrams (Interactive Demo)
by danfunk | 2025-07-22 13:54:47+00:00
*The Problem:* AI decisions are opaque to business users

*The Solution:* AI agents are defined as flow-chart diagrams that are easier to understand and control. The diagram and agent are one and the same: The diagram defines the actions of the agent.

*Why It Matters:* Understanding, explaining, and controlling an AI app’s decisions is extremely important to many organizations. In McKinsey's 2024 survey of the state of AI, 40% of respondents identified "explainability" as a major risk of adopting AI, but only 17% were actively working to mitigate the problem.

*Try It:* https://spiff.works/agent-demo - Try modifying the workflow diagram and settings to see how the AI behavior changes. You can change everything.

*Technical Details:* A complete technical review of our thought process in building this demo: https://medium.com/spiffworkflow/how-bpmn-helps-solve-ais-tr...

This project demonstrates one possible way to create greater transparency in an AI agent. While the code embedded in the diagram is moderately technical (short Python scripts) and relies on a rigorous notation (BPMN), we have repeatedly demonstrated that it is possible to show these diagrams to an average business user and reach a high level of understanding about the AI’s role within a larger process. We believe that understanding is critical to the safe and effective application of AI into the organizations and governments we depend on.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-22 13:54:58+00:00
But does Jujutso solve those workflows, or does it add a layer on top that you need to figure out on top of what you already know about Git?

I don't run into any issues with Git during my day to day. Some things could be a bit more ergonomic but that's because I'm too stubborn to learn or set up some aliases or look up how to do it.

Following this tutorial, I can't say jujutsu feels like an improvement. More complicated log output (I use a shorthand (think "git log --oneline --graph" but with a custom output format to also show absolute and relative commit time and author)), automatic staging (that can be turned off but why should I when it's already off if I don't use jj?) while I use "git add -p" through an alias, and the rest is just push / pull / checkout / reset.
by eitland | 2025-07-22 13:55:19+00:00
Not GP and I rarely get into the thousands anymore but I am clearly of the opinion that computers can remember much better than me.

So many of the things I start looking into starts with a search in a single tab and then every link I ctrl-click during the process ends up in a tree underneath it (yes, I use Tree Style Tabs).

This has a few benefits:

- I can easily see things in context

- when I end up on a particularly useful (or useless) page I can easily see what page linked me there

- I can read the root pages and follow links from every one of them without losing track (the root page is usually a kagi search)

- when I am finished I can either export the whole tree as a nested markdown list (yes, there is a nice TST extension that allows me that, and yes, you read that correctly, it is an extension to an extension) or just close it.
by roenxi | 2025-07-22 13:55:24+00:00
The counterargument is pretty simple - it was directly funding propaganda. One of the truly fascinating aspects of the USAID budget cuts was a lot of journalists suddenly looking for new funding including an astonishing 9/10 Ukrainian outlets who were drawing funding from foreign sources like USAID [0].

As a matter of principle it just isn't possible to run a democracy where the government, in its official capacity, is working to shape the narrative. I can't deny that is what has been happening for decades, but the result is a toxic soup of lies and would explain a lot about why the journalist community seems to have been slowly unmooring from reality - they're attached to the money printing pipe. People shouldn't be paying for political propaganda with their taxes; particularly not in the US where it is probably leaking into domestic politics. Those NGO networks USAID was pushing money towards appear to be hostile in the main to the Trump voter base and their political objectives.

[0] https://rsf.org/en/usa-trump-s-foreign-aid-freeze-throws-jou... - I note they put in an erratum, although given that the US is almost certainly trying to obscure where its propaganda funding there are still a lot of questions. Their source in imi.org.ua was quoting some eyebrow-raising numbers.
by mg | 2025-07-22 13:55:48+00:00
There is one showstopper, why I can't recommend Firefox to friends:

Mozilla's refusal to support the File System Access API.

With the File System Access API, we can finally build local first web applications.

I already wrote my own todo-list app and text editor and some other more specialized apps that work nicely in Chrome (On desktop and mobile). And I am in the process of writing a photo gallery too.

One can build workarounds for Firefox with old-fashioned download and upload buttons, but the user experience is miserable. Directory based tools like a photo gallery (for local photos) are not possible at all.

With the File System Access API, web apps feel just like local productivity apps.
by thomas_witt | 2025-07-22 13:55:49+00:00
One thing which is great are the built-in VPN containers. I always have SSH tunnels with SOCKS proxies running and so I can use for certain sites always a VPN. Or just open a new tab which tunnels everything in THIS tab through the VPN. Great feature!

I switched (back) to firefox a while ago after Chrome was simply super sluggish and slow on a MacStudio (!). Not having UBlock Origin is the final killer. Firefox was always super snappy to me and just does everything I want, in a very data-protective way.

Only downside (not Firefox'es fault) is that it can't use Safari's private relay feature.
by gruez | 2025-07-22 13:56:08+00:00
>Let's not forget that some of real pirates (for example, corsairs) also were legal and performed legitimate pirate activities to ships of foreign countries.

In other words there are activities that are legal or not depending on whether you have authorization from the state. That describes many things. For instance you synthesize meth without a license from the DEA/FDA, you're a "drug cartel" or whatever. But if you do it with a license you're a "pharmaceutical company", and you're not making "meth", you're making "desoxyn".
by delfinom | 2025-07-22 13:56:21+00:00
Dyson makes great marketing and product concepts.

The actual quality is debatable and varies.

Do not get any of their fans. They are designed to fail.

They use a wimpy brushless motor mounted vertically and then shove a impeller on the top of it to move air. The problem is, they don't balance the impeller. And when I saw the motor is wimpy, I mean it's shaft is barely a 1/4". The motor shaft ends up destroying the bearings within a year or two due to the unbalanced impeller load. You will be annoyed to fuck by the high pitched noises it starts making from shot bearings.the bearings are integrated into the motor assembly so you can't just replace them. You have to replace the entire motor and do this basically every year or two because it's not a motor defect, it's a design defect.
by lucumo | 2025-07-22 13:56:47+00:00
> there's occasionally sites that have bugs because [...people build for Chrome...]

I hear that a lot, but when I tried Firefox for a couple of months I only found that in a single case[1]. It's really not something that happened to me at all. I did encounter issues with ad blockers breaking sites. Disabling uBO helps quite often on misbehaving sites, but it does so on Chrome as well.

> I am surprised how many people have so many problems with Firefox.

I'm not really. Nor am I surprised it works for you and others. It has been this way with Firefox for all of its 20+ years of existence. In its history it made one big leap in that, somewhat ironically given current affairs, when they removed XUL extensions.

But Firefox has always had weird, unexplainable and unreproducible failure scenarios. Some of that is because of its customizability, but also nobody really cares about it.[2] The standard advice of "throw away your profile and try again" is a huge fuck you to users. 1) People have spend time customizing their browser and throwing that away hurts. 2) It doesn't help anybody. If it's still broken you know nothing, and if it isn't you still don't know what caused it.

I guess that was okay in 2004. Lots of software had weird bugs. Nowadays the competition is much more stable.

For me, I dropped Firefox again after a couple of months fighting to get a stable sync working.[3] It just kept failing on Android. The only resolution was to log out and log back in again. Only for it to break in the next couple of hours. I did the "commit profile suicide and rebirth" thing without a solution.

Chrome's sync at least is very stable. Sometimes it falls an hour or so behind. Not good, but so much better than Firefox.

[1] And that was intentional. Typical Google assholery. Google Photos added (adds?) extra HTML to block right-click on photos when a Firefox User-Agent was used. Using a UA switcher extension "solved" it.

[2] Makers of software for power users so often forget to give power users the tools to investigate issues themselves. It's great you allow me to add so many extensions, how about a detailed log to see which is misbehaving?

[3] Firefox's sync also has fewer features. Bookmarks don't get synced, nor do extension settings.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-22 13:57:21+00:00
I am so, so glad you brought up what should be the obvious conclusion here. "B-but they spent all that money, how do they get it back!?" "That's the fun part, they don't."

Creative destruction is a woefully underappreciated force in capitalism. Shareholders can lose everything. Debt can be restructured or sold for pennies on the dollar. Debt can go unsold and unpaid, and the creditors can lose everything.

I think here it has to be mentioned that bankruptcy in the United States actually works very differently to bankruptcy in the European Union, where creditors have a lot more legal means at their disposal to haunt you if you try risky plays like taking on more debt to moonshot your way out of your current debt. In a funny way, a country's bankruptcy laws are their most important ones when it comes to wealth transfer.