MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sailingparrot | 2025-07-12 11:21:34+00:00
> sometimes act unreasonably. Intent cannot be determined without clear evidence or statements because that's now how thoughts locked away in people's minds work.

By this logic it would be impossible to ever find anyone guilty of murder (or any other nefarious action) with intent unless they explicitly state that it was in fact their intent. Obviously this is not how justice works anywhere, because at some point you have to assume that the overwhelmingly most likely reason for doing an action was the true reason.

If someone pulls out a gun, cock it, aim it at someone and pull the trigger, killing the other person, should we hold off any judgement because they might have done it purely mechanically while in their head thinking about the lasagna they are going to cook tonight and not realizing what they were doing ?

The fuel cut off switches have a unique design, texture and sequence of action that need to be taken to actuate them, they don’t behave like any other switch. Pilot are also absolutely not trained to engage with those particular switches until it’s instinctual.
by tempodox | 2025-07-12 11:21:35+00:00
The term “AI” has by now been thoroughly bastardized by every grifter on the planet. It means nothing any more, except that you're being duped. Which is all you need to know if you have a single brain cell's worth of critical thinking left.

LLMs can be entertaining if their output doesn't have to make sense or contain only truth. Otherwise, their fitness for any purpose is just a huge gamble at best.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-07-12 11:22:01+00:00
At first I thought this was funny, but truthfully I don't love my browser. Brave and Firefox are both mildly annoying in different ways.

I'll probably give it a spin when they release it. It's just a Chromium fork and they can afford to make it good, if the AI integration is subtle and actually useful and there are robust controls on how my data is used (and it supports high quality adblock), I could see myself using it regularly.
by wiseowise | 2025-07-12 11:22:33+00:00
> but underestimate the costs of doing that

Do they? I’ve been fighting against the tide for years until I understood that all of quality this and quality that doesn’t matter. Sure, it sucks to be on the receiving end of buggy software, but this where you vote with your money. At work? Finish the task with least amount of resources and move on.
by agentcoops | 2025-07-12 11:23:30+00:00
Indeed — however it’s interesting that unlike the internet, computers or smartphones the older generation, like the younger, immediately found the use of GPT. This is reflected in the latest Mary Meeker report where it’s apparent that the /organic/ growth of AI use is unparalleled in the history of technology [1]. In my experience with my own parents’ use, GPT is the first time the older generation has found an intuitive interface to digital computers.

I’m still stunned to wander into threads like this where all the same talking points of AI being “pushed” on people are parroted. Marcus et al can keep screaming into their echo chamber and it won’t change a thing.

[1] https://www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/Trends_Artificial_Intelli...
by JohnFen | 2025-07-12 11:23:55+00:00
The internet itself supports many different modes of communication with many different identifiers. Different modes of communication serve different needs.

I have many email addresses and a few phone numbers. Using an email address instead of a phone number would add friction for people typing my "phone number" into their phone, and using a phone number instead of an email address would be a loss of clarity for no gain. I see unifying the two identifiers as being the inelegant thing.

The question is: what would be the benefit of restricting the utility of phone service in the way you propose? It looks to me like there's nothing to be gained by doing that.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-12 11:24:48+00:00
Apple Mail. It covers the bases, doesn’t try to cram too much into a single app, and doesn’t lean into badly aging UI trends.

I’ve tried Thunderbird a few times over the years (including post-redesign) and it’s always felt clunky and kinda awkward. Firefox somewhat outgrew that but Thunderbird never did.

If I were to use something else, it’d probably be MailMate which is a lot like Apple Mail but with even fewer frills and more optimization.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-12 11:25:04+00:00
For those who don't remember what it was like when LSD was still legal, this is an accurate synopsis of what could be observed as it quickly was prohibited to the max degree and categorized along with truly more toxic dangerous drugs like opiates. When things like opiates had been recognized for their potentially devastating effects for thousands of years, while psychedelics were still experimental substances.

Realistically an entire new agency (DEA) was chartered to enforce the new regulations, and the greatest threats were those thought to disrupt an "ordained" vision of reality that was not to include the kind of experimentation which made clinical evaluation possible.

Rapidly, before the most thorough experiments could be conducted which would have more accurately informed the established pharma regulation process.

Rather it was superstition that was included in the new regulations, and the enforcement agency was mustered to fight to preserve more superstition than should ever be allowed.

This really really stands the test of time, and if kelsey did not personally observe this phenomenon, it's even more amazing than it appears on the surface.
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by throwaway328 | 2025-07-12 11:27:06+00:00
> I’m actually a huge fan of Brett Victor and I felt like he’s kinda missing the dynamic, adaptable nature of AI that allows non-technical people like me to finally access the system layer of computation for our creative ends.

To "grok" something is to understand it on a deep, fundamental level. Following a checklist from an LLM and the thing you're doing eventually working isn't grokking.

To be clear, I'm very glad that you and others can throw together new projects. Your excitement seems genuine, and more excitement in the world is good. And perhaps you'll be one of the miniscule minority who will use LLMs to really get to a deeper level of understanding with new things.

But I wonder if your excitement may be misleading you here and making it harder for you to grok Bret Victor's post - on any level. I don't think Victor is interested in computing in the way you think he is. There's a world of difference between being able to cobble a web project together, and the kinds of philosophical shifts a project like dynamicland is proposing and enacting.

In the interest of people expressing themselves freely, I'd go so far as to say it's particularly surprising to read all this from "an artist". There was a time when being an artist implied the person had reflected and read and thought about larger perspectives across a range of subjects - philosophy, science, religion, etc.

Here, in this instance, I can't help feeling there's some crunchy irony in the fact that a deeply radical (scientifically, artistically, technologically, socially) project like dynamicland is met by an artist excited to be able to plug web services into each other, strongly claiming from the very heart of the cultural slop wars, that the dynamicland people might be confused and maybe LLMs is the real answer.

Respectfully, consider that maybe the perspective from which they're viewing the problem is simply much deeper than what you've been able to grasp so far. I don't mean it disparagingly or cynically, in fact it's great news, you've vistas to explore here!

I suggest reading more from dynamicland directly, and bret's website too, a few of bret's talks, alan kay is very good, there's tons of stuff if you get into it. Don't neglect the history of computing, it's full of amazing ideas.
by geokon | 2025-07-12 11:27:23+00:00
I've been writing it for >5 years and I still reach for vectors haha. I think it's my C++ background which makes me a bit allergic to lists. The reality is that if I moved more transducer based solutions this would be a non-factor most of the time. (unfortunately this example doesn't suit transducers very well)

I gotta use transducers, lists and benchmarking more..

Thanks for sharing how you approach these problems
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-12 11:27:57+00:00
A somewhat different approach was recently proposed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44319427 but it seems to have non-trivial overhead. (Still very much worthwhile, given the potential advantages of deterministic cycle collection.) The paper you reference is quite a bit older so it would of course be interesting to do a proper comparison.
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by notpushkin | 2025-07-12 11:28:22+00:00
> If non-square screens on Macbook Pros make your blood boil with rage

> If you are blind (and don't want to carry a screen around)

> If you want to use AR instead of a screen and therefore prefer to be untethered

You can just remove the screen! My M1 Air works just fine at least. (I’ve broken the screen, but if you just don’t need screen at all, you can sell the top half assembly and save some money.)
by lucyjojo | 2025-07-12 11:28:28+00:00
there's no such thing as generic "jvm builds" as far as i understand though. jvm is the target, it's like saying x64 builds are complex. maybe you re thinking of ant or maven or gradle? there are plenty others.

you can build basic java with "javac myfile.java". done.

each jvm language has its own build tools and some build tools cover jvm languages in between others.
by vouwfietsman | 2025-07-12 11:29:36+00:00
This is a bit of a simplification of the ideas of Blow, Muratori et al, a much better source for the ideas can be found in "Preventing the collapse of civilization" [0].

The argument made there is that "software quality" in the uncle bob sense, or in your domain version, is not necessarily wrong but at the very least subjective, and should not be used to guide software development.

Instead, we can state that the software we build today does the same job it did decades ago while requiring much vaster resources, which is objectively problematic. This is a factual statement about the current state of software engineering.

The theory that follows from this is that there is a decadence in how we approach software engineering, a laziness or carelessness. This is absolutely judgemental, but its also clearly defended and not based on gut feel but rather on these observations around team sizes/hardware usage vs actual product features.

Their background in videogames makes them an obvious advocate for the opposite, as the gaming industry has always taken performance very seriously as it is core to the user experience and marketability of games.

In short, it is not about "oh it takes 2 seconds to startup word ergo most programmers suck and should pray to stand in the shadow of john carmack", it is about a perceived explosion in complexity both in terms of number of developers & in terms of allocated hardware, without an accompanying explosion in actual end user software complexity.

The more I think about this, the more I have come to agree with this sentiment. Even though the bravado around the arguments can sometimes feel judgemental, at its core we all understand that nobody needs 600mb of npm packages to build a webapp.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
by gavinray | 2025-07-12 11:29:41+00:00
Well, to be pendantic, you can't "regularly" (depending on your definition) consume LSD or any psychedelic.

The 5HT2A tolerance is acute such that you need exponential dosing on consecutive days to achieve equivalent effects.

Some psychedelics like NBOMe are such strong agonists the tolerance duration is 1-2 weeks.

For "standard" psychedelics it's closer to 3-4 days.

Even at the height of my psychedelic-head phase I was using twice a week, and not by choice.
by JdeBP | 2025-07-12 11:30:32+00:00
A quick test of Vivaldi with some of those shows it nowhere near as strict as your Firefox is. Amusingly

new Date("2025-07-12 12:30:45 BST")

is an invalid date, whereas all three of

new Date("2025-07-12 12:30:45 GMT") new Date("2025-07-12 12:30:45 UTC") new Date("2025-07-12 12:30:45 Z")

are valid but in British Summer Time.
by tempodox | 2025-07-12 11:32:09+00:00
> AI is the new crypto.

But it's also way worse than cryptocurrencies, because all the big actors are pushing it relentlessly, with every marketing trick they know. They have to, because they invested insane amounts of money into snake oil and now they have to sell it in order to recover at least a fraction of their investments. And the amounts of energy wasted on this ultimately pointless performance are beyond staggering.
by blks | 2025-07-12 11:33:08+00:00
That’s traditional outlook, but it doesn’t hold ground anymore. A lot of people considered immigrants are staying somewhere temporarily, for a few years. Most of all in comes down to people not wanting to label themselves as immigrants, because they have some prejudices against this terminology. Quite common it comes down to a person with European background labelling himself as an “expat” or “relocant”, and people from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East (except Israel) as “immigrants”. In the end, from point of view of host country, they are all the same immigrants that live in the country based on the same documents, e.g. resident permits, but people labelling themselves as “expats” may often support local anti-immigrant policies, not realising it will hurt them as well.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-12 11:33:16+00:00
Social media refers to the mode as well as the medium of interaction, but central to the idea of social media interactions are that they are mediated by a third party. Usenet is a protocol, and is decentralized. I think a better analogue for social media in the Usenet context would be something closer to BBSes, though I don't see why using certain newsgroups which have specific socializing focus couldn't be considered engaging with/using social media conceptually, but this would not capture the word social media as it is used, which implies social media properties, and social media nearly implies websites, as that is where the social aspects come from: not just being able to post, but to comment and react, but perhaps most importantly to my mind, social media must be able to be shared, and that usually means URLs, but not always. Conceptually, I think Usenet fits into certain social media shaped holes, but at the same time, it doesn't fit into others. Timelines and feeds are another aspect that I haven't touched on, but Usenet lets you do whatever your client lets you, but for that same reason it doesn't fit quite right in the concept space, for the same reason you wouldn't call IRC social media.
by leptons | 2025-07-12 11:34:21+00:00
>less time spent fighting with and cleaning up after the AI.

I've yet to use anything but copilot in vscode, which is 1/2 the time helpful, and 1/2 wasting my time. For me it's almost break-even, if I don't count the frustration it causes.

I've been reading all these AI-related comment sections and none of it is convincing me there is really anything better out there. AI seems like break-even at best, but usually it's just "fighting with and cleaning up after the AI", and I'm really not interested in doing any of that. I was a lot happier when I wasn't constantly being shown bad code that I need to read and decide about, when I'm perfectly capable of writing the code myself without the hasle of AI getting in my way.

AI burnout is probably already a thing, and I'm close to that point already. I do not have hope that it will get much better than it is, as the core of the tech is essentially just a guessing game.
by gavinray | 2025-07-12 11:34:56+00:00
You want to find psychedelic users?

Go hang out on TripSit IRC. Go to music shows that draw that sort of crowd, like Phish and Co or EDM shows.

Check out any of the psychedelics subreddits.

Some cities have public psychedelics meetups. This was huge in the Denver/Boulder area of Colorado.

There are lots of places if you try looking a little.
by agentcoops | 2025-07-12 11:36:35+00:00
At this point, it seems to be more engineering throughput that will decide short to medium term outcomes. I’ve yet to see a case where an IC who took a position only because of X in fact outrageous compensation package (especially if not directly tied to longterm company performance through equity) was ever productive again. Meta certainly doesn’t strike me as a company that attracts talent for their “mission.”

TLDR Zuck’s recent actions definitely smell like a predictable failure driven by desperation to me.
by fresh_broccoli | 2025-07-12 11:37:10+00:00
This article isn't about that newspaper. It's about the "Pravda network", a group of fake news websites, that according to the report linked in the article[1] produced "20,273 articles per 48 hours, or more than 3.6 million articles per year".

Clearly there's no need for "PhD in mental gymnastics".

[1] - https://www.americansunlight.org/updates/new-report-russian-...
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-12 11:38:08+00:00
>Ultimately the process of taking an input and making it more valuable is an application of energy.

most of the increase in value comes out of getting more output out of the same input, which is what the application of intelligence is supposed to do. In qualitative terms this means dematerialisation. Your pocket supercomputer is more valuable than something that used to fill a stadium not because it applies more energy, but the opposite.

You used to drive your steel car with dinosaur fuel to the video rental store where you picked up plastic boxes to put into your single purpose device, now you send information through a fiber-optic cable, calculate the energy differential for that. Real civilizational progress is doing what you used to do with matter with light instead.