MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bostonian | 2025-07-30 13:42:18+00:00
https://archive.is/70RnR

"Seventy years ago, at the dawn of the nuclear age, atomic energy was viewed as the next great hope of modern civilization. Lewis Strauss, then the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, infamously said it could be the key to making energy “too cheap to meter” and a catalyst for an age of enduring peace. Today, a similar optimism animates the pursuit of nuclear energy. This time, however, the framing is that the peaceful atom is too important to ignore because of its potential to free us of fossil fuels.

In “Going Nuclear: How Atomic Energy Will Save the World,” Tim Gregory sees nuclear energy as the “only hope” for “mitigating” climate change because it eliminates “emissions released as a by-product of burning fossil fuels.” Similarly, in “Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy,” Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow believes “nuclear advocacy and climate alarm … go hand in hand.” These books join dozens of other pro-nuke books published in the past few years."
by reaperducer | 2025-07-30 13:42:36+00:00
more time creating

Considering that the most common use for "AI" is to take jobs away from creators like artists, musicians, illustrators, writers, and such, I find this statement hard to believe.

So far, all I've seen is AI taking money away from the least-paid workers (artists, et.al.) and giving it to tech billionaires.
by HEmanZ | 2025-07-30 13:42:48+00:00
In my neck of the woods, you’d be called a capitalist bootlicker for this point of view by many lefties. I get called that for basically any suggestion besides complete communist revolution.

I can always tell who on the left is ideologically poisoned by how vehemently they hate anything related to the idea that current government processes and regulations could improve or that government regulations can go (sometimes very) wrong. As if somehow that admission is the same as wanting anarcho-libertarianism.
by dcminter | 2025-07-30 13:43:09+00:00
Ha, I wrote this the other day:

> I think it’s part of the procrastination cycle; buying a domain name feels like progress towards the goal, but is incredibly low effort, and thus feeling like I’m making progress I wander off and get attracted to the next shiny thing.

So, yup, except that it sounds like you typically make more progress than me!

Edit: Context is https://paperstack.com/hntags/
by tropicalfruit | 2025-07-30 13:44:03+00:00
> “Personal superintelligence”

just running on metas servers with metas software and metas tracking and algorithms.

> "This is distinct from others in the industry who believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work, and then humanity will live on a dole"

says the guy who spend most of the last 3 years laying people off.

theres just too much sliminess to dissect. i leave it at that.

one thing for sure, these evil megacorps will use this tech in a dystopian and extractive way. nothing ever changes.
by simonw | 2025-07-30 13:44:14+00:00
The problem is cost. A machine that can run a decent local model costs thousands of dollars to buy and won't produce results as good as a model that runs on $30,000+ dedicated servers. Meanwhile you can rent access to LLMs running on those expensive machines for fractions of a cent (because you are sharing them with thousands of other users).

I don't think cost will be a reason to use local models for a very long time, if ever.
by pif | 2025-07-30 13:44:22+00:00
> She said that she is afraid of the world where a state can decide [...] and nobody is willing to do anything about that.

You may explain her that this is a different face of the same world where a state has been targeted by hatred and terrorism for 80 years, and everybody insisted on them being patient and just live with it.

What's happening is sad, but it is not sadder than what preceded it.
by herdethics | 2025-07-30 13:44:29+00:00
Thanks again for the comment, I genuinely appreciate the engagement. To my understanding, Gothic Flatlines reflects a more dystopian view of future agency, one rooted in pessimism and loss of subjectivity. In contrast, MAT is intentionally optimistic. It's not a critique but a structural tool designed to preserve and clarify agency, offering a practical way to understand and navigate the spectrum of agents that already surround us. Really - thanks for the comment!
by subpixel | 2025-07-30 13:44:56+00:00
"more meaningful impact on our lives will likely come from everyone having a personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world, experience any adventure, be a better friend to those you care about, and grow to become the person you aspire to be."

Meanwhile I can't properly find items that are listed on FB marketplace.
by cosmic_quanta | 2025-07-30 13:45:08+00:00
I love the idea. RFD 1 mentions taking inspiration from Golang and Rust proposal processes. The Haskell Foundation also uses the same proposal process, and I love it.

I'm a big proponent of the "writing is thinking" mantra. Unfortunately, in my experience, not all technical leaders value grassroots proposal processes like the Oxide RFDs
by bcantrill | 2025-07-30 13:45:11+00:00
Just because it's hopelessly on-brand for us to offer up a podcast episode for everything, you may also be interested in our Oxide and Friends episode on RFDs with our colleagues Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo.[0]

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/rfds-the-ba...
by anis-mer | 2025-07-30 13:45:52+00:00
I built DeployFast because I was tired of the cold starts and hidden fees with platforms like Vercel. It’s a one command setup that deploys your Next.js app to AWS with autoscaling, CI/CD, HTTPS, DNS, and secrets management.

This was a pain point I personally faced and I wanted to learn how AWS services actually connect under the hood, so I stitched it all together into something easy to use.

If you’ve been meaning to explore AWS or want to part ways with Vercel, maybe this helps.

Would love your thoughts or feedback.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-30 13:46:16+00:00
> How can I be free to do my gardening whenever I want when the landlord is asking for $11K rent in my SF flat?

This is the fatal flaw. It's been recognized explicitly for at least 140 years that the price of land rent rises in lockstep with productivity increases, guaranteeing there is no "escape velocity" for the labor class regardless of how good technology gets.
by derbOac | 2025-07-30 13:46:20+00:00
I have to admit this essay struck me as sort of strange. On the one hand, the EV charging station seems like something fairly straightforward, that should be approved and built fairly quickly. On the other hand, it's just an EV charging station, and without knowing anything more about it, I am just as inclined to believe that this is some small pet project of interest to the author, who no one else really cares about, and he's invoking some grand criticism of government writ large as a way of bringing urgency and grandeur his idiosyncratic interest that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

EV sales are in the middle of a nationwide decline, especially for one of the major manufacturers. I doubt it has anything to do with the 8-space parking lot in Seattle in particular. Add to this stories about charging station compatibility, and I'm not surprised there isn't a greater sense of urgency from the city.

I have my pet projects I'd like to see finished as well, but I don't blame my municipality for not prioritizing them. They have a lot on their plate. It has nothing to do with capture or overregulation, but priorities with constrained staff, budget, and time. People change their minds and city priorities change with popular sentiment.

In some ways, this is a good example of why some prudence is warranted, and maybe you should get the other side of the story. The essay neglects to mention that four of the eight charging stations would be owned by Tesla for example — something that if you're not opposed to, you might at least admit is reasonable for the city to reevaluate — and there is apparently contaminated soil at least nearby the site.

I'm generally in favor of reregulation or deregulation, but I generally feel like land use, environmental, and public space or resources are something where there should be a lot of scrutiny and layers of approval. Once it's gone, it's hard to reclaim and expensive to clean up. I also feel like many examples of complaints in this area and mention of things like Abundance are just like this — someone complains their personal project of interest isn't done fast enough, criticizing the government for being cumbersome and overwrought, while neglecting to mention all the reasons why people might not prioritize their pet project, or why their pet project might reasonably be seen as requiring safeguards or approval processes. The reason why the government is slow with your pet project is because not everyone agrees with you, and there is a commons issue involved.

Meanwhile, discussion about deregulation of things that actually involve personal choice, with little or no public commons issues involved, like medical care, go by the wayside and are never mentioned, or are even hyperregulated.
by reaperducer | 2025-07-30 13:46:47+00:00
Does the average American worker today spend a ton of time in productivity software?

"Average?" No. But many millions of people, yes.

The majority of people in my company spend their day tied to Microsoft Office.

Which bring its own problems when managers don't understand that building a computer program isn't the same speed, complexity, and skill level as making a PowerPoint presentation.
by pkilgore | 2025-07-30 13:47:33+00:00
Personally I play a lot of 2020 not because I even care much about perfect flying physics, which I can get over and will never feel like actually flying which happens a lot by feel particularly in vfr. But rather, as extremely cheap avionics and prodecures practice, which 2020 does a mostly good job of if you pretend to be your own controller or use vatsim.

I also have a mod that gets my plane's power curve mostly right which is good enough for most IFR practice.
by bboygravity | 2025-07-30 13:47:51+00:00
> I have a feeling the last time you looked at it was 2013.

I literally looked at it last week. Spent multiple days on it. Tried Mint and Zorin (full install, not just live).

This is on a brand new Lenovo p16s Gen 4 with AMD (no nvidia). That laptop didn't even exist before this year.

List of problems I encountered:

-- Multi touch not working (fixed by switching from Mint to Zorin, upgrading mainline kernel in Mint did not help).

-- External monitor not working (had to install display link drivers by going into terminal and running scripts and all of that other classic Linux usability) .

-- Hardware video acceleration not working (scrolling super slow, maps super slow, entire system super slow). Had to install AMD display drivers for that separately. Upgrading mainline kernel worked for Mint, but not for Zorin. Installing AMD drivers in Zorin involved downloading the drivers, !editting an install script that is part of the drivers! and then having an LLM guide me through the rest of the extremely elaborate process of installing the driver.

-- And to top it off, my classic pet peeve: there's no way to configure something as basic as scroll-lines (mouse scrollwheel speed) through a GUI in ANY of the distros. It involves installing imwheel, !writing a script!, setting the script to run on boot and then rebooting (and/or restarting the script).

So no. There's definitely no "it just works". Not even on a laptop that is supposed to have official HW vendor support for Ubuntu.

Also, I only ran it for like a day. I'm sure that I'll run into tons of other issues if I use it a bit longer.

Good for you and lucky you that you got it to work. But for most of us Linux is "nice try, but it's not finished yet" .
by hammyhavoc | 2025-07-30 13:48:16+00:00
I'd be content with even a browser extension in LibreWolf to style specific email threads, and past and future emails from specific senders as chat bubbles. Would need to strip the signatures of course. I find email threads really laborious to parse with lots of short messages from family members in group threads versus skimming through chat bubbles. Each sender would need a user-configurable chat bubble colour too.

I'm sure someone could probably vibe code a FOSS repo for this in an afternoon if it's as capable as the average comment here seems to claim (hasn't been my experience, but would love to solve a problem and be proven wrong).
by praestigiare | 2025-07-30 13:48:19+00:00
I think that framing this as hopeless, and perpetuating the idea the government cannot operate efficiently, is a part of the problem. If a system is created to provide a service, it makes sense that said system would consider its existence instrumental to meeting that goal. This could be a positive motivator to provide the service efficiently and effectively. There are many reasons that it often does not work out that way, but one is public perception that government is supposed to be slow and inefficient.
by wonderwonder | 2025-07-30 13:48:43+00:00
The post I replied to was referencing genocide in Gaza. [Its been flagged, I can't post the text] If a terrorist group raped and murdered your wife and took your children is there a line in the sand that you would not want your government to cross to get them back? Would you be willing for your government to kill 2 innocents to get back your 3 kids? What about 10 innocents? What about 100? 1000? Is there a number where you would say "my kids lives just aren't worth it, let them die alone and abandoned by me in the tunnels"?

For me there is not, if a million had to die to get my children back then so be it. That is the view point I look at this war from. Hamas murdered, raped, tortured and kidnapped a thousand people. They did it on camera and laughed and celebrated the entire time. The people in Gaza welcomed them back as heroes. The government should do whatever is required to ensure it never happens again and that those still held are returned. Its what I would want my government to do.
by phailhaus | 2025-07-30 13:48:51+00:00
> That's because the LLM assumes you mean for the host to open the door.

LLM's cannot "assume". There is no thinking involved. It sees that the prompt looks like the monty hall problem and it just goes full steam ahead.

>If you explicitly tell it you didn't forget to have the host open the door it gives you the right answer:

That should not be necessary. I asked it a very clear question. I did not mention Monty Hall. This is the problem with LLM's: it did not analyze the problem I gave it, it produced content that is the likely response to my prompt. My prompt was Monty Hall-shaped, so it gave me the Monty Hall answer.

You are saying "ah but then if you prepare for the LLM to get it wrong, then it gets it right!" as if that is supposed to be convincing! Consider the millions of other unique questions you can ask, each with their own nuances, that you don't know the answer to. How can you prevent the LLM from making these mistakes if you don't already know the mistakes it's going to make?
by prmoustache | 2025-07-30 13:49:01+00:00
Ironically I have a few framed photos, from mobile (because that is what I had in the pocket), digital and film cameras but most photos that I have framed are Polaroid and Instax ones. An instant camera is a major PITA to carry, the film are expensive, a lot of pictures end up bad because of limitations of the media, the colors are often not very neutral but you are 100% sure that you end up with physical photos after every take, and thus some good memories. While smartphone pictures are more likely to end up in a family whatsapp group, I have tons of mobile and digital pictures I don't even remember I have taken and they mostly just take up space in my NAS and backup storage. Nowadays I never travel without either my Polaroid, Instax Wide or Lomo Instant Square Glass. It is also a great way to make gifts. I tried portable printers. It is nice to make gifts but it was just a hassle to even connect and launch the print most of the time.
by dijit | 2025-07-30 13:49:18+00:00
Same.

I think it brings an interesting point actually.

"Who will buy these", the obvious answer is anyone with a need, but the "standard pizzabox" server is ubiquitous for the same reason that x86 and miniPC's outcompeted mainframes.

((controversial take warning))

Mainframes are objectively better at high uptime and high throughput than rube-golderging a bunch of semi-reliable x86 boxes together, yet, the ubiquity of cheap x86 hardware meant that the lions share of development happened on them.

People could throw a pentium 2 PC in a corner and have it serving web traffic, and when things started growing too much you could add more P2 machines or even grab a Xeon 4socket machine later down the line.

This isn't possible with mainframes, and thus, people largely don't mess with them.

The annoying thing is that this kind of problem has some kind of stickiness effect. If you need a server, and then another, you buy them as you need them and if you're already 20 pizza boxes in; it's a pretty big ask to rip them all out and moving to a different vendor entirely than staging replacements one after another.

So I guess their target audience is the "we don't want to touch cloud" organisations that have a good IT spend that are willing to change vendors?

I don't think I've worked for any of those.

(FD: I'm actually a fan of the Oxide team, and the concept, and I would buy into the ecosystem except I have needs that are at most 3 servers at a time)
by hilbert42 | 2025-07-30 13:49:20+00:00
For those of us outside the UK that makes sense. The UK acts as if it's still master of its 19th C. Empire when for much of the world it's falling further into irrelevancy.

Only when its citizens realize this and ditch all the supercilious rules and nonsense that's gripped the country for decades will it recover and join the world again.

I say that as one who once owned a UK passport.
by threecheese | 2025-07-30 13:49:40+00:00
> you're wondering if the answer the AI gave you is correct or something it hallucinated

Worse, more insidious, and much more likely is the model is trained on or retrieves an answer that is incorrect, biased, or only conditionally correct for some seemingly relevant but different scenario.

A nontrivial amount of content online is marketing material, that is designed to appear authoritative and which may read like (a real example) “basswood is renowned for its tonal qualities in guitars”, from a company making cheap guitars.

If we were worried about a post-truth era before, at least we had human discernment. These new capabilities abstract away our discernment.
by Retr0id | 2025-07-30 13:49:55+00:00
A lot of people (myself included) are working on tools and protocols that interoperate via CBOR. Nobody is selling CBOR itself, but I for one have a vested interest in promoting CBOR adoption (which makes it sound nefarious but in reality I just think it's a neat format, when you add canonicalization).

CBOR isn't special here, similar incentives could apply to just about any format - but JSON for example is already so ubiquitous that nobody needs to promote it.
by jerf | 2025-07-30 13:50:23+00:00
See the standard library "slog" package: https://pkg.go.dev/log/slog

Which is a relatively recent addition to the Go standard library, based on the collective experience with logging over the years. Compare with the original log standard library: https://pkg.go.dev/log and you can see the changes in even just the time since Go was developed in logging best practices.

Slog, once you understand the interfaces involved in stuff, has performed most every trick I could desire, up to and including things like subloggers with their own priorities for outputs that override the global settings.

I'd like to see some slog integration in this package, though I say that without a design in mind. As it stands, this is exactly what it says on the tin; debugging-only output that you fully intend to just disappear out of the production binary.

The trick it uses is a fairly straightforward use of Go's tag-based compilation features, which I do not mean as a criticism, but to point out that any Go programmer who likes the looks of this but wants to adapt it to their own task will find it easy to simply take the technique directly and adapt it in not very many lines of code.
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by humast | 2025-07-30 13:50:29+00:00
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by freeourdays | 2025-07-30 13:50:34+00:00
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A platform tailored for parents can solve this by offering automated micro-saving tools to build emergency funds, a curated marketplace of flexible side hustles manageable in short bursts, and bite-sized financial literacy lessons. This provides a practical, step-by-step roadmap to financial independence without adding to their burden.
by wslh | 2025-07-30 13:50:42+00:00
Same question. I don't think there's a universal definition of superintelligence.

Just to add some food for thought: Is superintelligence simply a very high IQ, a higher than top humans one? If so, we'd need a way to measure that, since existing IQ tests are designed for human intelligence. Or is superintelligence about scale/order-of-magnitude: many high-IQ minds working together? That would imply a different kind of threshold. But perhaps the key idea is that superintelligence is inherently uncapped, that is once we reach a level we consider "superintelligent" we can still imagine something even more advanced that fits the same label.
by hnthrow90348765 | 2025-07-30 13:51:23+00:00
This stuff is naive. There's a bunch of people who want a large income (wealth) disparity, and they will fight to preserve it unless you give them an equivalent station in the 'new world'.

But you will still need to sustain ex-workers if they can't get normal jobs, and those same people at the top will not tolerate the taxes required to sustain a basic level of living for much wider population. They already can't tolerate the idea of a much smaller population using food assistance or healthcare from the government.

That leads me to think this is not really a visionary statement, but just a signal that Mark isn't intentionally trying to bring about a new dystopia, and here's his proof. And if a dystopia happens to come about, you can't blame him because he had pure intentions; clearly it was everyone else who just didn't agree with him and it's their fault.

Maybe make Meta a not-for-profit and there might be some credibility here.