MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wahern | 2025-07-30 16:47:22+00:00
Being motivated by money isn't greed. Per Merriam-Webster, greed is an "excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed". The key qualifiers there are excessive and more than is needed. How do we determine what excessive employment is?

I'm not even sure how companies can be greedy. Many animals will gorge themselves on food far beyond what they "need" in the moment. There's nothing guaranteeing their next meal, so it's an adaptive strategy. In a competitive free market, growth is a survival strategy. Companies can and do die when their old sources of revenue decline and they failed to discover and grow new sources. Not only do they lose out on profits, but they have to fire employees. Avoiding or minimizing layoffs and the toll they take on lives is absolutely something many executives and managers have in mind, even at large corporations, when running a business.

We don't normally ascribe greed to animals, and it doesn't make much sense to do so for corporations, particularly commercial corporations. But to the extent we can equivocate the entity and the people who manage it, underlying motivations are mixed, complicated, and varied.

And I'd argue that not all corporations, even multinationals, are similarly aggressive and "ruthless", so clearly there are complex social dynamics beyond profit maximization. Corporations aren't moral agents in the same way we consider people, yet they're not pure profit maximizing automatons, either.
by lightaime | 2025-07-30 16:47:26+00:00
Compared to Manus, Eigent is a local-first multi-agent systems. It can do things like operating local files or OS that Manus cannot. It can also execute tasks in parallel. Manus can only do tasks linearly as far as I know. As for crewai, crewai is a framework but we use camel framework instead.
by js8 | 2025-07-30 16:47:26+00:00
They already are in a civil war, if you stop (wrongly) looking at Israel/Palestine as two different states.

Look at my proposal above. War didn't happen in postapartheid JAR, despite everybody saying it would. What would people fight for, after all? They are all citizens of the same (biethnic) country, that's the perspective the world "leaders" should bring to the table.

You need to bring some argument.
by tombert | 2025-07-30 16:47:40+00:00
It's a different experience, but it's also an overpriced experience if your goal is to "simply learn". If you genuinely think people should pay 100 grand just for the joy of learning from a professor in person and being surrounded by a bunch of other people without expecting a financial return, then yes I think that's completely intellectually dishonest. It might sound insulting, and it kind of is, but I don't think I'm wrong.

This is coming from someone who has been a university lecturer, and has been part of a PhD program. It's not like I'm completely speaking out of my ass here.

ETA:

To be clear, I am not saying there are no positives to in-person university and I'm not saying university has no value over self-learning. I'm saying it's expensive and I take issue with your statement of "If you feel that the purpose of higher education is just to get a job, you are already off-track."

It's a potentially six-figure investment. It's not weird or wrong for people to do it to get a better job.
by rkomorn | 2025-07-30 16:47:46+00:00
I don't understand how your alternative solutions are any different to taking a dog to a daycare location.

Are you conflating dog walkers and dog daycare?

And how is taking more care of your dog than used to be the norm indicative of now prizing immaturity and low compromise?

People are investing more time, effort, and money into their pets than ever before. That is the antithesis of immaturity and low compromise.
by osti | 2025-07-30 16:47:57+00:00
Looks like no more open source :(

We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source. Still, we believe that building a free society requires that we aim to empower people as much as possible.
by subarctic | 2025-07-30 16:47:58+00:00
They make giant rack scale computers for data centers, i think that's the best way to explain it quickly to someone with my background who's never been in a data center but has an imaginary idea of what they look like.

And then as a follow up you have to explain that

- they sell an entire rack full of servers

- they're the only ones that do this. Normally you have to buy all the pieces and put it together yourself, or pay someone to put it together for you but all the parts are kind of designed on their own by different companies so it's kind of a mess. Oxide makes one big rack with like 16-32 servers and it's all designed by them and just works, so you just plug it in and you have servers you can put a bunch of vms on. Oh and they're huge, each one literally costs like a million dollars
by sabdelrahman | 2025-07-30 16:48:01+00:00
Author here. This article explores something uncomfortable: when folks who who say "hiring software testers causes more harm than good" are actually onto something.

I’ve seen what happens when teams hire software testers without knowing what they actually need. They chase automation fixes for deeper org problems. Or they expect quick wins without giving software testers any real influence. And when things don’t improve, they decide hiring software testers “doesn’t work.”

In the article I dig into the failure patterns I’ve seen most often and what teams that do get real value from software testers do differently.
by tbalsam | 2025-07-30 16:48:04+00:00
They unfortunately recently (last few years) sold out to private equity (which tends to glaze over fundamentals and tries to pump out massive content using previous brand quality to give it credence), so beware of quality in more recent vids:

https://youtu.be/hJ-rRXWhElI?si=Zdsj9i_raNLnajzi
by llamasushi | 2025-07-30 16:48:17+00:00
Piggybacking off this, for a more general reason for sleep: "My definition would be as follows: sleep evolved as a species-specific response to a 24-hour world. During sleep – a period of physical inactivity – individuals avoid movement within an environment to which they are poorly adapted, but then use this time to undertake essential housekeeping functions demanded by their physiology."

From Life Time by Russell Foster. Still one of the most lucid and well-written books on sleep I've ever read.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-07-30 16:48:50+00:00
>big boy unit

Yeah, it was way above my paygrade. But I'd speculate the video's p'n'p was in the low-$xx,xxx range.

I remember when a different startup (that began inside a barn) moved from its first few h.sqft location into a proper industrial-zoned k.sqft facility. I remember when that place got its first short-schoolbus-sized Haas CnC... then got its second!

Now its had hundreds of employees (I was employee #2, non-co-founder, in this memory). I have wired in several p'n'place machines there and even the current model isn't as nice as in the video's =D
by klik99 | 2025-07-30 16:48:58+00:00
Open source really flourished due to lots of sponsoring of projects, I could see an argument that money caused a golden age in 2010s, but money also attracted the type of person who could, without irony, say "It's only been a golden age because of high salaries for relatively low effort."

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
by boricj | 2025-07-30 16:49:00+00:00
> At the (very) low end it's pretty easy to build your own "cloud" with a NAS, containers, and reverse proxies and tunnels to the outside world. And this will get you suprisingly far.

Anyone can throw together a bunch of parts and software to run Internet-facing services from a closet. That doesn't mean that you're safe from issues that Oxide aims to solve, especially at that small scale.

My homelab (which hosts my blog and a couple of other things) runs off a Topton N17 micro-ATX motherboard ordered on AliExpress, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS. Yes, that's a mobile CPU shoehorned onto a desktop platform with a funky mounting bracket to take AM4/AM5 coolers.

Anyways, I wanted to run SmartOS on it, but this system is so janky that the Illumos kernel couldn't find any PCIe devices at all. After spending an afternoon reconfiguring PCIe bridges by hand with the kernel debugger in an attempt to troubleshoot PCIe initialization, I gave up and installed Proxmox.

Admittedly, as far as janky hardware this takes the cake, but the point stands. To paraphrase Bryan, buggy firmware is the sysadmin's worst enemy.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-30 16:49:23+00:00
> If I was interested in getting started with Oxide, could I even do so?

https://oxide.computer/remote-access

> It seems like this is only tailored to large enterprise sales.

Since we sell half or full racks at a time, it's true that we're geared towards larger companies, as small shops just don't need that much computer.

> The only other option is just using them as your AWS replacement.

That's the use case, yep!
by macgillicu | 2025-07-30 16:49:41+00:00
> 1. Read a 10 page description of what the car is

> 2. Click on a link buried on page 12 that lets you buy the thing

But the link to the playground is on page 1, the home page, and not page 12? So your whole argument is moot, since it seems the Pony people obeyed at least this part of your interface design dogma.

Or, in other words, "you could not be more wrong if you tried :)".

The issue here was that page 2 was linked in the title, so everyone was getting to page 2, and not clicking back to page 1, where the playground was, and instead clicking forward and getting lost.

And all that aside, as another commenter said, even if the playground was hidden behind the most fiendish of mazes -- perhaps not every programming language is interested in attracting the kind of people who think every corner of the universe must mirror Amazon's approach to "sales".
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-30 16:49:47+00:00
> I only know of two languages, Pascal and Haskell, that are sufficiently flexible.

Julia, Fortran, some BASICs allow custom integer ranges.

Ada allows you to use any discrete range (integer, character, enums).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang... - A more comprehensive list

The two columns of interest are "Specifiable index type" and "Specifiable base index".
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-30 16:49:48+00:00
It's not a reward for past performance. They're putting who they think will do best in the role in the role and past performance is one very large, but not the only axis on which that is judged.

And, that being said, in larger and richer organizations (infinite monopoly bucks fueled FAANG workplaces perhaps being the penultimate example) the incentives to simply promote the most fit can get more easily polluted by irrelevant criteria than in smaller, leaner organizations that have less runway to continue existing and less opportunity for individuals to dip out without consequence if decisions are not made in a rigorous manner and the results are bad.
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by cestith | 2025-07-30 16:50:07+00:00
Do hardware integrators usually build their own BMC, their own power supply, their own backplane, their own firmware, their own motherboards, their own switches, their own SDN, their own hypervisor, their own OS, their own rack design, their own blade / sled design, their own management API, and build it all in coordination with each other to produce a comprehensively new computing platform?

In my mind they’re much more like an SGI, Sun, IBM, DEC, or Apple type of play than merely an integrator.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-07-30 16:50:40+00:00
Kinda surprised that "No need for an interpretation" was so low. I bet most respondents just picked "Copenhagen" and went on with their day (apparently around half of experimentalists, ever practical, picked Copenhagen.)

Full disclosure: I think Copenhagen is as good as any of the others, but find many-worlds more intuitive. Spontaneous collapse is another nice way to get around the measurement problem. The math is the same no matter which.

It's fun to think about, but until one of the differing interpretations leads to a testable prediction, not much progress will be made.
by OutOfHere | 2025-07-30 16:50:41+00:00
Isn't DXM a disassociative at high doses? Moreover, don't people risk getting quite addicted to it, escalating their dose beyond even what you take? Perhaps your dose is stable, but even optimistically, it is management, not a cure. A cure is more possible with lower doses of DXM before it becomes a hard dependence.
by freedomben | 2025-07-30 16:51:03+00:00
> The "article" is just a blog post - an extended comment, if you will.

If you posted a comment on HN making huge claims with no evidence, it would be pushed back on. That happens constantly. You can say, "well, that's just like, my opinion, man" and that's fine, but I could easily say, "I think there's a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbiting the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars" and offer no evidence, and reply identically. Does that magically put my comment above criticism?

> It's no different than if you barged in here and told someone their comment was "terrible, but I'm sure the rest will be better". That would get you flagged, but how is that measurably different than what you said?

I agree my language was a little harsh and I could have been nicer. However, there are mountains of comments like "this is a terrible take" on HN comments all the time and they don't get flagged as long as they offer some justification (and otherwise follow the guidelines). If that was all I said, then that's a terrible comment and should be flagged, but I did offer some justification.

> Who are you to critique the author? You're not smarter than everyone else, I assure you.

Great point. So should I stop trying to think critically and just accept any opinion without questioning? Or is it just the discussion around it that offends you? What is the bar for critical thinking? 95th percentile in intelligence? 99th? Below that we should shut our brains off and accept whatever we see on the internet?
by osti | 2025-07-30 16:51:11+00:00
Looks like no more open source models :(

"We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source. Still, we believe that building a free society requires that we aim to empower people as much as possible."
by ralferoo | 2025-07-30 16:51:20+00:00
> I like the spirit but wouldn't this run afoul of one or two laws? Identity fraud or some such?

I would say not, but then again I'm no lawyer.

There's plausible deniability in that there's a big "this is satire" watermark on top of the licence. The DOB in part 3 is wrong, and the driver number in part 5 is modified to include the 5 letters of the surname, but is otherwise incorrect. The DOB encoded in the licence number doesn't even match the wrong DOB in part 3 either.

If anything accepts this as valid ID, then it just shows how farcical the system is.
by zamalek | 2025-07-30 16:51:37+00:00
> the current US president, who has literally said things like, "they're not humans, they're animals,"

Oh... wow. I didn't realize it had gone that far. A very poor example in that case. Here's a more crisp example:

The "white man" was, by original (and modern) definition, racist in regards to Africa, we categorically believed that "whites" were better than "blacks" - and that's not only the export of slaves to America. Things were pretty dire even within current human memory, and pockets of racists continue to thrive today (it seemed largely based on age in my experience, all of my friends weren't but many 50+ were).

Contrast that with Malema's "kill the boer" song that I'm sure many international folks have heard[1]. The underlying cause for this is hatred stems from the aforementioned historical and current racism - there is no belief that "we are better" (there is certainly a belief that "we are more deserving of our ancestral land"). Malema couldn't be a racist using the original definition of racism, but definitely is using the modern definition.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubul%27_ibhunu
by immibis | 2025-07-30 16:52:41+00:00
It was the way it hadn't been financially optimized to hell yet.

Basically, the web, today, is roughly 99.999% spam. This wasn't the case in 1995. In 1995 it was mostly ham.

Spam is any media that is created with a higher importance placed on making money than on making the media enjoyable.
by AbhinavX | 2025-07-30 16:53:13+00:00
Langfuse and Helicone work well for traditional LLM operations, but AI agents are different. We discovered that AI agents require fundamentally different tooling, here are some examples.

First, while LLMs simply respond to prompts, agents often get stuck in behavioral loops where they repeat the same actions; to address this, we built a graph visualization that automatically detects when an agent reaches the same state multiple times and groups these occurrences together, making loops immediately visible.

Second, our evaluations are much more tailored for AI Agents. LLM ops evaluations usually occur at a per prompt level (i.e hallucination, qa-correctness) which makes sense for those use cases, but agent evaluations are usually per session or run. What this means is that usually a single prompt in isolation didn’t cause an issue but some downstream memory issue or previous action caused this current tool to fail. So, we spent a lot of time creating a way for you to create a rubric. Then, to evaluate the rubric (so that there isn’t context overload) we created an agentic pipeline which has tools like viewing rubric examples, ability to zoom “in and out” of a session (to prevent context overload), referencing previous examples, etc.

Third, time traveling and clustering of similar responses. LLM debugging is straightforward because prompts are stateless and are independent from one another, but agents maintain complex state through tools, context, and memory management; we solved this by creating “time travel” functionality that captures the complete agent state at any point, allowing developers to modify variables like context or tool availability and replay from that exact moment and then simulate that 20-30 times and group together similar responses (with our clustering alg).

Fourth, agents exhibit far more non-deterministic behavior than LLMs because a single tool call can completely change their trajectory; to handle this complexity, we developed workflow trajectory clustering that groups similar execution paths together, helping developers identify patterns and edge cases that would be impossible to spot in traditional LLM systems.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-30 16:54:42+00:00
Major differences that I can think of between the two are (with regarding to warts and ease of use):

PHP 8 uses exceptions with a unified Error hierarchy, there are type errors, division by zero, certain parse errors and so on.

PHP 8 has strong support for static typing now, thank goodness.

PHP 8 introduces union types (int|float|null).

PHP 8.1 introduces intersection types (A&B).

PHP 8.1 added the "never" return type.

PHP 8 has less repetitive boilerplate.

PHP 8 has consistent function signatures now.

PHP 8 has consistent object/array syntax now (to be honest, some asymmetries remain).

PHP 8 has named arguments for clarity and flexibility.

PHP 8 has the nullsafe operator which simplifies deeply nested null checks.

PHP 8 has arrow functions which makes closures concise and easier to use.

PHP 8 has attributes, e.g. "#[Route("/users")]".

PHP 8 has "match" expressions which is a more predictable, type-safe, and expression-oriented alternative to "switch".

PHP 8 has many more tools for testing and debugging (incl. static analyzers).

PHP 8 has many new functions (incl. utility functions).

PHP 8.1 introduces native enums.

PHP 8.1 has "readonly" properties for enforcing immutability.

PHP 8.1 has cleaner syntax for referencing callables.

PHP 8.1 has "fibers" which enables cooperative multitasking and is a foundational building block for upcoming async/await features.

Global namespace pollution has been pretty much resolved (Composer autoloading[1]).

There are other ecosystem-level improvements such as PSR standards[1], better async story, etc.

This list is non-exhaustive. These are just the improvements that come to mind off the top of my head so I probably missed a lot of other major improvements. PHP 8+ is definitely much easier to use and they greatly reduced PHP's warts. There may be some inconsistencies left here and there, but they are not a deal-breaker IMO, if you even run into them.

[1] https://www.phptutorial.net/php-oop/php-composer-autoload/ (I do not use "dump-autoload"), https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepte..., https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/ (https://www.php-fig.org/psr/)

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I strongly recommend taking a fresh look at PHP 8+. It is very different from the PHP you have once known. It is "modern" now. There are lots of deprecations and removal of old warts. I did not like PHP as much ages ago, but it was a pleasure to use PHP 8+.

If you are looking to (re)learn PHP, the book “PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja” is a good starting point[1]. There are many other, high-quality books and resources as well.

[1] Available on libgen. The source code examples from the book are available on GitHub: https://github.com/spbooks/phpmysql7.

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If you have any specific warts or whatnot, or if you want more resources, please do feel free to let me know.

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I wrote this comment on my phone, so it is not as detailed and it is not structured as well, but I hope that it will still provide some insight into the differences between legacy PHP and modern PHP.

Happy to answer any questions!
by johnkizer | 2025-07-30 16:54:50+00:00
From what I can tell, HOA experiences - like politics - are highly dependent on the folks who would make good decision-makers actually being interested in, and attaining, the level of power in the association to make those decisions.

I've seen both - folks who are good stewards of the community's money and add to its energy, and folks who can't manage money and exhaust the community's energy on trivialities.