MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-07-12 18:03:42+00:00
I don't think it is entirely mental - I had thought the same, but I recently had a very cheap rental car for months, so long they called it back to the shop for an oil change and then gave it back to me... that car drove SO much better after the oil change, the engine was quieter and smoother and the difference was obvious because the car had no vibration or sound insulation.
by suspended_state | 2025-07-12 18:03:59+00:00
I think that web scraping is usually understood as the act of extracting information of a website for ulterior self-centered motives. However, it is clear that this ulterior motive cannot be assessed by a website owner. Only the observable behaviour of a data collecting process can be categorized as morally good or bad. While the bad behaving people are usually also the ones with morally wrong motives, one doesn't entail the other. I chose to qualify the bad behaving ones as scrapers, and the good behaving ones as crawlers.

That being said, the author is perhaps concerned by the growing amount of collecting process, which carries a toll on his server, and thus chose to simply penalize them all.
by philwelch | 2025-07-12 18:05:18+00:00
Original, Medium-free URL is https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2024/01/15/ReversePro...

Meta request: can we change the URL to the original source? This isn’t quite blogspam (since it’s the same author reposting the same piece onto Medium) but Medium is annoying enough that I’d still rather resolve to the original source
by fermentation | 2025-07-12 18:05:35+00:00
> You are over-indexing on an employee pushing a change to the prompt that they thought would help without asking anyone at the company for confirmation.

If it is that easy to slip fascist beliefs into critical infrastructure, then why would you want to protect against a public defense mechanism to identify this? These people clearly do not deserve the benefit of the doubt and we should recognize this before relying on these tools in any capacity.
by the_af | 2025-07-12 18:05:45+00:00
That's rich. You haven't proven any of your alternatives is any better. Like, none of them. They are all as artificial as sightseeing, but if it makes you sleep better at night...

Your "yoga retreat" is the worst of the Eat Pray Love kind of tourism, I cannot believe what I'm reading. It's artificial as fuck, please don't suggest it ever again.

I also do not want to visit friends and family, that's a different activity entirely!

You mischaracterize all sightseeing tourism as "damaging" and the equivalent of TikTok and Mario Kart tours, yet complain that I am mischaracterizing you.

Wow. The sense of entitled gatekeeping I'm getting from you is off the charts.

I have to follow your very strict and arbitrary standards -- you, who by your own admission have lived in "several tourist hotspots" (making you a bigger part of the problem than me) -- because... somehow my visiting several interesting parts of the world where I know nobody is "damaging"?

Wow. That's rich.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-12 18:05:49+00:00
So your point is president Lula's own statements are worthless and we should be discussing possible diplomatic backroom deals instead. Who's really discussing rumours here?

The only diplomacy I want to see is of the gunboat kind. The supreme court made it clear gunboat diplomacy was their condition for folding. They said something akin to "if they park an aircraft carrier next to us then we'll see". I would have loved to see that.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-07-12 18:06:27+00:00
I used to not understand as well, but then a friend asked me a question: "When Claude recommends a book, why doesn't it just link directly to Amazon and get a referral fee?"

I believe what investor's are chasing in LLMs is the same thing that Zuckerberg was chasing in the metaverse: not a new "technology" a new medium. The key insight in the development of the web was that a few companies can effectively control the entire thing (at it's peak both FB and Google basically had their tendrils on every page out there).

Apple's mobile play showed that their seeing the value in the fact that mobile was a brand new medium early on. This lead them to having control over a market that Google had some play in, and Facebook really couldn't get a hold on.

LLMs represent a new opportunity. The answer to my friend's question is very likely: "Because they eventually want to sell you the book through them". Sure there's not much of a moat, there wasn't much of a social media moat back in the day either, but eventually there will be a few winners and those winners will divide what may very well be the next "mobile" or even "web".

I already spend more and more of my online time chatting with Claude about various thing, most of the books I've ordered in the last few months came from conversations with Claude. I can absolutely imagine a world where AI is how I accomplish most of my purchasing, precisely because right now AI is not rotten with SEO spam. That will of course change, but likely not in exactly the same way the web changed.

There's a very likely future where Claude/ChatGPT/DeepSeek become iPhone/Android/Huawei, what investors are hoping is that they can make it Claude/XAI/DeepSeek (or some variant), because owning a piece of that can effectively be even bigger than owning a large amount of stock in early Amazon.
by EMIRELADERO | 2025-07-12 18:06:36+00:00
> If you’re not happy with the Apple products or the value you’re getting from them, then simply stop buying them or making apps for them. You don’t have to use an iPhone. You’re welcome to use any Android based phone you’d like and install anything Google allows on it.

Leaving aside all the idealist "I own it" stuff that's been repeated here many times, there's another angle to this.

If you're a mobile app developer, you're effectively forced to develop for Android and iOS, it's a duopoly.

Would you accept a status quo where there were only two store brands for the entire US, and any seller of any product at all had to use one, the other or both? And all citizens had to shop in one or the other, and couldn't even switch because it carried many additional costs?
by willahmad | 2025-07-12 18:07:25+00:00
> This is why we assign an engineer to review every PR of a vibe coded project and they don’t really need all of the context to detect bs approaches that will surely fail.

I see this trend in many companies as well, just curious, how do you make sure engineering time is not wasted reviewing so many PRs? Because, some of them will be good, you only need couple of your bets to take off, some definitely bad
by Barbing | 2025-07-12 18:08:12+00:00
Awesome, thanks. Had an inkling whatever Spotify came up with wasn’t right—thank you TIA for Wendy Carlos’s 1968 original!:

https://archive.org/details/wendy-carlos-witched-on-bach

(have to donate to Internet Archive again now…) anyway Wiki says this album essentially brought the Moog/synths from experimental to popular music. In a lovely fashion, my ears do say.
by Bender | 2025-07-12 18:09:17+00:00
I will get beat up for this one ... I should not even reply to politics but unfortunately it is legal for a US president to troll and he trolls all day long on Twitster. The media know he is trolling and should not take him seriously but they pretend he is serious to get people spun up to get clicks and people rage commenting on their Youtube channels. I honestly wish he would knock it off. It's unprofessional, childish and is conduct unbecoming of a senior leader. He needs to get back to work and stay off Twitster even if it is his media assistants operating his account which I am certain is the case because I have seen him comment whilst at the same time speaking publicly so it can not really be him even if it is stuff he would say.

[Edit] I should have clarified that the federal government can revoke the citizenship of anyone that expatriates themselves which is further why I believe this is trolling and attention whoring. Rosie is about to be an Irish citizen. But who knows, maybe since we are giving him attention he will just do it. Rosie will be fine either way. Having worked with many of them I can say there are many good people in Ireland. It certainly does not help that she has been publicly poking the bear. Unless she specifically states she wishes to keep her US citizenship then she is just playing into his drama.
by tacomagick | 2025-07-12 18:09:56+00:00
Not sure if it is different than mine but I use Payoneer to get payments through Fiverr, From my knowledge they don't really hold money but just transfer it to your available card. I have never been hit by a fee for inactive account (i've paused my gigs on Fiverr but not my Payoneer account for more than a year at this point)

The fees are quite real though, before I've moved to using BTC for payments i've been getting around 900~ while when i moved to BTC my payments went up to 1900~ thanks to no wire and skipping Fiverr's and Payoneer's cuts.
by indigodaddy | 2025-07-12 18:11:06+00:00
Personally I think it’s insane. It’s one thing to be encroaching and build a fence a little bit over your line or whatever, and it would be reasonable for a judge to say you get to keep your fence or even extend her property a little into his. It’s another thing entirely to award the entire piece of land. These sorts of laws are outlandish, insane, and should be dressed back.
by edmundsauto | 2025-07-12 18:11:59+00:00
The problem here is that it’s testing the implementation details more than the generalized idea.

It’s as if I wrote code to process data in a certain way, write it for an old mainframe and to process a specific set of data. There’s not a ton of generalizability to other data, and how you implement the code on other systems will impact the outcome. Especially because there are few objective measurements to evaluate the success of legislation
by asdefghyk | 2025-07-12 18:13:01+00:00
I worked as a software test analysist (technical tester) for 20 years for a company that processed large amounts of money ( millions of gambling transactions) Our testing had to produce documented repeatable test cases and test evidence of correct software system operation.

My company had to pay third party independent software auditors who would examine the software in the test results in ay way they wanted. This involved re running some of our tests and specific tests requested by the auditor. These audits could range from a few hours to several days depending on the software change.

Auditors would prepare a report for the government department. If there was no repeatable test case and test evidence recorded than the software was regarded as not tested, Making the tests repeatable would sometimes involve in considerable test data setup.

My point is the defense should have kept digging and ask for test evidence that software had been such tested.

( On busy days, the companies software could process $100m or more transactions with transaction speeds of 1000 or more a second, so such testing was important)
by hinterlands | 2025-07-12 18:13:03+00:00
While I think that AI tools can be quite useful for coding, PCB design, and other tasks like that, the setup of this experiment makes it really hard for the LLM to fail.

The author's prompt is basically already a meticulous specification of the PCB, even proactively telling the LLM to avoid certain pitfalls ("GPIO19 and GPIO20 on the ESP32-S3 module are USB D- and D+ respectively. Make sure these nets are labeled correctly so that differential routing works"). If you had no prior experience building that exact thing, writing that spec would be 95% of the work.

Anyway, I don't think the experiment is wrong, but it's also not exactly vibe-PCBing!
by rayiner | 2025-07-12 18:14:36+00:00
As of July 2025, the U.S. had about 1,300 measles cases compared to over 2,700 in Canada as of May 2025: https://vaxopedia.org/2025/06/02/the-north-american-measles-.... See also: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-measles-cases-hit-highest-n...

Canada obviously had only 1/10th the population. Your attempted connection to domestic policies is spurious.
by b112 | 2025-07-12 18:14:47+00:00
The malicious hatred comes not from the company, but from humanity. Training on the open web, eg what humans have said, will result in endless cases of hatred observed, yet taken as fact, and only by telling the LLM to lie about what it has "learned", do you ensure people are not offended.

Every single model trained this way, is like this. Every one. Only guardrails stop the hatred.

Other companies have had issues too.
by patch_cable | 2025-07-12 18:14:50+00:00
I’m more familiar with the 737 (as a hobby, not as a pilot), but for that aircraft the “loss of thrust on both engines” checklist has the start levers as the second item on the list.

Note that in the checklist I am looking at the goal is to restart the engines rather than diagnose the failure and that involves these levers. I suspect you’d notice pretty quickly if they were not in the expected location.
by sammerslam | 2025-07-12 18:15:19+00:00
Wow must have seen the numbers and decideed they wanted to call it off. Not a good business model probably so the human talent is where you find the best amount. Still why would anyone ever want to work at Google? Don't they know they are contributing to a system that covertly disseminates information they want you to see. Especially the AI models. Has anyone ever wondered about the training data sometimes? What would people think of them if they knew they had the entire pestein list in their hands but decided its better to protect the ones that pay them. People need to reconsider what they believe from AI, it can be extremely abused to scale narratives.
by willahmad | 2025-07-12 18:16:02+00:00
I'm not a ML engineer and only have surface level knowledge of models, but I’ve been wondering, would it be possible to train models in a way to be able to embed a system prompt in a non-textual format?

Ideally, something that’s lightweight (like cheaper than fine-tuning) and also harder to manipulate using regular text prompts?
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-12 18:16:14+00:00
FWIW the jazz tradition is still alive and well, it just isn't normally called that in the interest of not being confused with the still-extant "traditional" jazz and because many of the musicians consider themselves to be primarily part of some other community.

But there is an absolutely thriving collaboration- and improvisation-based music form grounded in jazz but open to novel & experimental instrumentation and ripe with influence from other contemporary forms like pop, hip hop, funk, reggaeton, metal. I'm thinking of people like thundercat, kamasi washington, nuclear power trio, tigran hamasyan, robert glasper, sungazer, domi & jd beck, louis cole etc.

If you like the sound of old school jazz, the standup bass the piano the brush drum shuffle, this stuff will be alien and hostile and won't feel like jazz to you. But if you like the musicianship of jazz, watching masters collaboratively invent new music in real time, this is where that ended up.
by jolt42 | 2025-07-12 18:16:50+00:00
Actually the birth of Human Factors was related to this... Alphonse Chapanis, a psychologist working at the Army Air Force Aero Medical Lab in 1942, investigated the issue and discovered a design flaw. He observed that the controls for the flaps and the landing gear in the B-17 cockpit were nearly identical and located close to each other.
by jph00 | 2025-07-12 18:16:57+00:00
That isn't synced with what's in prod. E.g the system prompt changes that xai said were made during the "mechahitler" phase did not show up in that repo.

This seems similar to the situation where x.com claimed that their ML algo was in github, but it turned out to be some subset of it that was frozen in time and not synced to what's used in prod.
by stravant | 2025-07-12 18:17:11+00:00
There's literally hundreds of such settings. When you get into the combinations there's such a multitude of scenarios that you certainly can't have dedicated code for everything.

I suppose you could have it attempt to run a full forward-looking flight simulation to predict but part of the reason for there being so many controls is to deal with situations where the plane isn't acting like it should be, situations which would invalidate the simulation.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-12 18:17:29+00:00
I think it's innately impossible for us now in the comparatively near-sterile, social safety-laden developed world of today to imagine such grotesque death happening so suddenly on such a vast scale.

The COVID pandemic, for all the fear and emergency measures it sparked mostly killed sporadically. In any average social group, family or community, one would hear of only a very small minority of people having actually died. It was, comparatively, a sort of kid-gloves pandemic in terms of pure clinical impact.

Compare that with hearing stories of a vast and utterly mysterious dying sweeping towards all that you know, only to suddenly hear one day of inhabitants in the outermost parts of your city falling like flies in the most disgusting of ways, and then being forced to watch the same thing you'd feared from rumor unfold before your very eyes to those you love, taking each of them in turn so terribly that you can barely bring yourself to even approach (let alone try help) these same people that you'e cherished since birth. This abyss of tragedy overwhelms you and all your senses before finally, just days later, you wake up with yet another exhausting morning to the discovery of nearly every single person you know being dead, and all the social tapestry that wove you together so richly across so many years now completely erased from your personal world. All this monstrous upheaval, in just a single week.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-12 18:19:26+00:00
> Some groups are more likely than others to see the world in zero-sum terms. People in cities, for example, tend to think this way more than those in rural areas, perhaps because urban life involves intense competition for housing and jobs.

There is nothing "in cities" about America's shortage of decent-paying & secure jobs. Ditto housing for those outside the top (say) 10%.
by ben_w | 2025-07-12 18:19:51+00:00
Right, got it.

I'm one of today's lucky 10,000, this is a new and exciting definition of "radioactive waste" that I was previously unaware of.

All previous uses of the phrase "radioactive waste" I have encountered, have been "things produced in a nuclear reactor or by a nuclear weapon detonation", and not simply "found in ores that also have thorium and uranium". (While this is broader than my potassium example, I think it's of the same category).

I'll note that alternative meaning for future use. I'm sure you're not the only one on here who would use it in this sense, and wouldn't want to mix up these two very different risks.

Of course, the consequence of this definition is that there is, in this sense, "radioactive waste" from coal mining. What with the trace levels of, IIRC, both uranium and thorium in coal.
by donny2018 | 2025-07-12 18:20:07+00:00
Your sample are tech people using Copilot, which is very small population sample. Hundreds of millions of casual users around the world default to ChatGPT, and for example in my country, it's basically household name at this point. They haven't even heard about Claude or Gemini. For Google, it looks like like Google+ vs Facebook situation all over again.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-12 18:20:20+00:00
The blog post isn’t clear: Did the LLM actually do the routing? The only screenshot showing connected traces comes after the author says they added ground fills and “tidied up the layout”

It’s amazing that this worked at all, but to be clear this layout is actually very bad. Just look at that minimum width trace used to carry power across the entire board and into the ESP32. Using min width traces and wrapping them and min clearance to components is a classic mistake of people (or LLMs?) that have zero understanding of PCB layout techniques beyond “draw lines until everything is connected”

It would be interesting to see if you could feed the file into an LLM and get it to produce the feedback.
by motorest | 2025-07-12 18:20:50+00:00
> If you had no prior experience building that exact thing, writing that spec would be 95% of the work.

Nowadays most mainstream LLMs support pre-bundled prompts. GitHub Copilot even made it a major feature and tools like Visual Studio Code have integrated support for prompt files.

https://docs.github.com/en/github-models/use-github-models/s...

Also, LLMs can generate prompt files too. I recommend you set aside 10 minutes of your time to vibe-code a prompt file for PCB generation, and then try to recreate the same project as OP. You'd be surprised.

> Anyway, I don't think the experiment is wrong, but it's also not exactly vibe-PCBing!

I don't agree. Vibecoding doesn't exactly mean naive approaches to implementations. It just means you enter higher level inputs to generate whatever you're creating.
by efecan0 | 2025-07-12 18:21:34+00:00
It looks similar on the surface, but scope and goals are different:

* BinaryRPC = direct request/response calls with optional QoS (per session). – No exchanges/queues, no routing keys. – One logical stream, messages mapped to handlers.

* RabbitMQ / AMQP = full message-broker with persistent queues, fan-out, topic routing, etc.

So you could say BinaryRPC covers the transport/QoS part of AMQP, but stays lightweight and broker-less. If an app later needs full queueing we can still bridge to AMQP, but the core idea here is “RPC first, minimal deps”.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-12 18:21:37+00:00
> I get the desire to reduce government spending. It looks like sticker shock seeing budgets in the billions and trillions.

This is an international issue being funded by the US taxpayer regardless of their own utilization of said services.

Programs like these need to exist, but services like starlink should be the ones footing the bill. The military and weather services would need larger budgets to fund their portion of this effort so some of it would come back to "general taxes" but a much smaller amount.

Meanwhile, All those other groups and nations with launch capabilities and a vested intrest in NOT having issues could be contributing too.

> Let us get/return to more reasonable principles for doing these budget evaluations and requests.

These efforts need to be funded with a tax to support them, and not all be drawn from the same general fund. It would make the arguments about "taxes" and "spending" much more reasonable.
by dmonitor | 2025-07-12 18:21:46+00:00
It's difficult for me to judge their usefulness as a tool. I've used them in lieu of a google search and gotten good information, but i've also got bad information from them. The lack of reliability means I can't just ask an LLM and keep rolling, but the high probability that it will save me some time scouring the internet means there's some value there. I'm not sure I can provide a definitive judgement on them.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-12 18:22:19+00:00
I would be delighted to think he was trolling.

For me, I cannot get past the 2020 election and the whole "alternate electors" thing. That has been done before, IIRC in 1960 for Hawaii. For a while it wasn't clear who won, and so there was an alternate slate of electors for a while. By the time the Electoral College voted, though, it was clear, and only one slate of electors was put forward.

In contrast, in 2020, Trump put forward the alternate electors, and pressured Pence to accept them as the real ones. He pressured Pence more than once. When part of the crowd on January 6 was shouting "hang Mike Pence", that's why. That was a deliberate, determined attempt to steal an election that he lost.

That colors my view of events like this. Trolling? Could be. But he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt from me on whether he's willing to try to do illegal things.