MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simondotau | 2025-07-15 04:18:40+00:00
Sometimes, something that seems like an "obviously terrible decision" to subject matter experts turns out to be inconsequential, or perhaps even good. Ask a corporate identity expert in 1998 if you should name your big important company "Google" and they'd vomit in your face. Of course it looks very different in hindsight.

In much the same way, I'd argue that the Verdana typeface was a bolder and significantly more distinctive choice compared to something safe and well-trodden like Futura. Despite Verdana's widespread use on the web, approximately nobody had ever dared to use it in the way IKEA did, making it utterly distinctive.

Personally I think IKEA's shift to Noto was disappointing. At their scale they could have easily paid a type designer to make an IKEA Sans, inspired by Verdana, perhaps taking some cues from the likes of Raleway or Suisse Screen.

Heck, even Sweden did it.[0]

[0] https://sharingsweden.se/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-ident...
by skinnymuch | 2025-07-15 04:18:42+00:00
Sorry this got a bit long

I was doing hypotheticals. Not specifically talking about your ex.

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You’re right about my definition. The other addition is being against unjustifiable hierarchies (yes some will say Cuban regime is unjustifiable but I disagree and it’s not the same as capitalists) and being critical of capitalism.

That aligns with the French Revolution and left wing being progressive tho obviously that was a different stage of societal development and times.

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“She happens to find the left of the Overton Window to be too right wing.”

Yes that’s what a lot of people say. Ultras, left coms, anarchists etc.

I feel similar to all of you except for me I find all these people to primarily be chauvinists masking that behind pretending to be too left for the left.

I have my own personal criteria for “true” left-wing which is how you are thinking of people not in your in-group. European fascists historically want to help the workers of the in-group people they care about.

It’s why I despise Europe. Always going on about social democracy being so left-wing and how Europe is so left wing compared to America as if European fascism doesn’t want to help their own too.

I will never put worth into someone helping their own in-group. To me it matters if you care about the global south if you’re a westerner or European. And most western leftists and European leftists don’t really care.
by fendy3002 | 2025-07-15 04:18:55+00:00
you'd be surprised on how deranged some people are, no matter the sexes. Having a Prince Charming / Manic Pixie Dream Girl that always agree with you will be the utopia for them, and amplifying their mental issues. Soon they'll have their world view warped and that not even considering bad actors. If politically, criminally or economically motive is poisoning the model, they'll be very vulnerable.

It can stay for long term even permanently.

It's very very bad.
by wnevets | 2025-07-15 04:21:10+00:00
I'm convinced it has to do with the increased importance of the overseas markets, these movies now must make it past Chinese censors and make sense for people that don't natively speak English or understands its nuances. Showing a flashback scene and swapping in the government approved voice over is a better business decision than not releasing the movie in insert country here.

Unrelated movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRqxyqjpOHs
by Gravityloss | 2025-07-15 04:21:14+00:00
There's a large amount of people and capital employed on deploying low emissions energy technology. We are sort of in a halfway pathway.

North America has large stable energy amount per capita that is cleaning up.

Asia has large population, small energy amount per capita and is increasing that rapidly by all methods, including fossils but also low emissions ones.

So overall Asia has very large emissions but smaller per capita than North America. And almost everybody is deploying low emissions energy sources.

This is finally happening at scale.

Even Poland generated more energy from solar power than coal in June.
by brailsafe | 2025-07-15 04:21:17+00:00
> for bigger edits I think trying to learn everything the AI says is not really scalable or at least it takes me much longer.

Seems like this is the inherent difficulty in being a skillful developer. Atleast in the context of non-trivial collaborative projects, big edits that the person commiting doesn't understand might as well be a diceroll, and imo those big edits should really only be applied if the intent was to save the time in writing it.
by muglug | 2025-07-15 04:21:39+00:00
Calling the literalism "new" implies it wasn't present in older pics. You can go back to 1997 when Good Will Hunting won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Pretty much everything was telegraphed, and that’s ok — the story resonated with millions of moviegoers and made a lot of money.

Other movies of the era (e.g. Being John Malkovich) didn’t telegraph stuff. That movie didn't win any Oscars and sold roughly 10x fewer tickets.
by Swizec | 2025-07-15 04:22:30+00:00
> The idea of sitting down and watching a two hour movie is really quite daunting when you’re used to videos that are at most 30 min and often less than one.

Whenever I watch a modern Netflix/Hulu/etc show: I'm on my phone 2 minutes into the show. Half paying attention to both.

Whenever I watch a modern BBC-ish (anything British really) show: I literally can't look away for more than 10 seconds because I will miss something crucial. If someone distracts me, I rewind the show and rewatch the last few minutes.

What's different? The Brits (at least the stuff that makes it into syndication) focus on content you're going to watch. The Americans focus on filling air between commercials.

Product placement counts as commercials for the purpose of this comparison.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-15 04:23:05+00:00
Fun fact: movie sales, in terms of tickets sold, peaked in 2002. [1] All the 'box office records' since then are the result of charging way more to a continually plummeting audience size.

And this is highly relevant for things like this. People often argue that if movies were so bad then people would stop watching them, unaware that people actually have stopped watching them!

Even for individual movies. For all the men-in-spandex movies, the best selling movie (by tickets sold) in modern times is Titanic, 27 years ago.

[1] - https://www.the-numbers.com/market/
by yuntian | 2025-07-15 04:23:12+00:00
In response to complaints about the laggy demo experience (due to limited GPU resources), I've now set up a huggingface space version for developers: https://huggingface.co/spaces/yuntian-group/neural-os

Note: The Space is intended as a template, so please duplicate it and run with your own GPU for a better experience. (The default Space has only one worker.)

Recommended GPU: At least an L40, ideally an A100-large. (The original demo at neural-os.com used H100s.)

All code and models are self-contained in the huggingface space.
by vannevar | 2025-07-15 04:25:01+00:00
This short is an amazing achievement, and (at least to me) a very skillful and clever use of AI. But I don't think it's a good film. And that has nothing to do with AI blemishes. If it had been made shot-for-shot without AI, I probably wouldn't have watched til the end. If I had to put my finger on it, I'd say we spend way too long with a character (the only character) we don't ever really know. The sort-of movie reel concept that keeps her at a distance could work, but I think it would need to be cut way down, maybe half the time. Cutting the clone comeback (which doesn't really advance the plot) would save 4 or 5 minutes.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-15 04:25:29+00:00
>> So you advocate a costly post-harm remediation instead of a preemptive solution provided by governmental regulations

> Absolutely. Such solutions tend to be much cheaper and more effective.

This is not supported by any credible analysis I am aware of, as the cost of rectifying a problem post hoc has historically been far greater than preventing it in the first place.

> If we sold oxycontin over the counter we would have much less of an overdose problem than we do.

This assertion is demonstrably wrong and could easily be categorized as insulting to people struggling with OxyContin addiction.
by oDot | 2025-07-15 04:25:34+00:00
There's a disconnect somewhere in the industry, because as I writer I can guarantee you one of the things readers get most annoyed with is on the nose dialogue.

My screenplays are heavily influenced by Japanese Anime (which I have researched to a great degree[0]). Some animes have _a lot_ of that kind of dialogue. Sometimes it's just bad writing, but other times it is actually extremely useful.

The times where it is useful are crucial to make a film or show, especially live-action, feel like anime. Thought processes like those presented in the article make it seem like all on-the-nose dialogue is bad and in turn, make my job much harder.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igz7TmsE1Mk
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-15 04:27:26+00:00
> Every schoolchild knows the story of the Titanic, the luxury ocean liner that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. So why did the Empress tragedy, which claimed even more passenger lives a little over two years later, fail to embed itself in our collective national consciousness?

Because the Titanic was the biggest ship ever, it sunk on its maiden voyage, although it was said to be unsinkable. It's probably one of few stories from our time which will be remembered in a thousand years.
by yuntian | 2025-07-15 04:28:11+00:00
When we say "powered by a neural network," we mean something fundamentally different from a traditional OS (or even gemini os). NeuralOS is essentially a video generation model that "hallucinates" every pixel on the screen in response to user inputs (mouse movements, clicks, keyboard inputs).

There is no underlying kernel, no function calls, no program execution, and no networking. Everything is purely visual and imagined by the neural model. You can think of it as a safe, isolated container where nothing can actually run or cause harm, since no real code executes. It's essentially an interactive video simulation, conditioned entirely on user inputs.
by bawolff | 2025-07-15 04:28:58+00:00
Or, people who want complex plots dont watch blockbuster films; they watch indie movies.

The same way that if you want a literary novel, you aren't reading the latest YA best seller.

The super mainstream stuff is always going to go for broad appeal. There is nothing wrong with that, but the people who want something different are going to have to step outside the bestseller box the way they always had to.
by delichon | 2025-07-15 04:29:35+00:00
"Undemocratic by design" applies to the whole Constitution, since everything in it requires supermajorities to change. A legislature is undemocratic in that it restricts voting to representatives. Due process is another constraint on democracy. This is to say that "undemocratic" is not necessarily a bug, since pure democracy is rule by the whim of the mob.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-07-15 04:31:57+00:00
Windows has been the choice for gaming, not because windows is great but because game devs supported it primarily. It was no property of windows itself but its market dominance that caused that.

For decades, most gamers preferred consoles, which have a purpose built OS like SteamOS. Windows still supports features that have been around for 3 decades despite their drawbacks and performance issues.
by deeznuttynutz | 2025-07-15 04:32:15+00:00
Well, there is an app called Tolan (alien AI friend) that has been very successful and the devs have said that 80% of the users are young women.

I myself have released an app in this realm a few days ago, it's very much a work in progress, but my goal was to let the AI feel more like a computer and less like a companion/boyfriend. I think the relationships these companies are pushing will be harmful in the long term.

My app if you are curious: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lonely-bots-3d-ai-friends/id67...
by Duanemclemore | 2025-07-15 04:32:58+00:00
I don't know if calling it a "New Literalism" is helpful. I just don't know that a penchant for literalism ever went away.

Now, what IS relatively new is the "ruined punchline" phenomena that they identify (without naming) on the movie recap podcast Kill James Bond, which is that contemporary movies always ruin jokes by telling one, say... "x" and then having another character chime in with "Did you just say 'x' !?"

I think there's a fear of losing attention because you're asking people to think about something other than the eyewash happening right in front of them by inviting them to have to -think- about a movie.

Anyway, to close: "No one in this world ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people..."

- HL Mencken
by icecreamscoop | 2025-07-15 04:33:16+00:00
I read the first three paragraphs and thought it was an homage to McSweeny's Internet Tendency. But apparently those are real scenes. While writing this reply I kept coming up with examples from decades past, but realized I was confusing obvious subtext with literalism. Hard to avoid. I'm willing to embrace this as a new art form challenge: how LITTLE metaphor can a writer use until the final composition it inverts itself and becomes something completely new? Like Dogme95 but for the text: no tense, no adjectives, no indirect objetcts. I mean, the writing is the equivalent of first-grade reading texts (See Jane Run), but can that many artists really avoid generating something meaningful behind the text? I'm drunkenly optimistic this evening.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-15 04:35:29+00:00
I think there's a combination of causes for this: People looking at their phones and only half-watching most of the movie, "streamlining" the English in movies to make translator's lives easier, a big smile from Mr. 10tril AUM for making it accessible, and of course good-old "enshittification" (if everyone becomes accustomed to lazy plots, they won't notice as they get even lazier)
by Mukesh_dhal17 | 2025-07-15 04:35:49+00:00
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by SkiFire13 | 2025-07-15 04:36:29+00:00
> Once you're at the team selection screen and choosing your lineup, there are only 15 possible combinations to choose from.

Nit: there are 15 possible lineups (i.e. combinations of 2 pokemons to start the battle with) but there are 90 possible teams if you also factor in the other 2 pokemons in the back.
by grogenaut | 2025-07-15 04:39:46+00:00
I work at an Amazon subsidiary so I kinda have unlimited gpu budgets. I agree with siblings, I'm working on 5 side projects I have wanted to do as a framework lead for 7 years. I do them in my meetings. None of them are taking production traffic from customers, they're all nice to haves for developers. These tools have dropped the costs of building these tools massively. It's yet to be seen if they'll also make maintaining them the same, or spinning back up on them. But given AI built several of them in a few hours I'm less worried about that cost than I was a year ago (and not building them).
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-15 04:39:46+00:00
Somewhat related, there have been cases where Netflix executives chastised their movie and show writers for "not being second screen enough [0]; that is, since many people put on a show as essentially white noise in the background while they scroll on their phones, the content cannot be too cerebral and require dedicated attention.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/17/not-sec...
by ludicity | 2025-07-15 04:42:01+00:00
I always have a lot of fun looking up the executives saying this stuff: https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/our-people-and-leaders...

CIO at Goldman Sachs, multiple "AWS businesses" started spanning "mobile, serverless computing, Internet of Things, and augmented and virtual reality". AWS businesses? What does that even mean? And the spread of sectors looks like it was precisely calibrated to be a Thought Leader.

Or consider this piece: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/fortune-we-mu...

Everyone grifter I know in Australia is publishing pieces like this. It's simultaneously all-in on AI hype while trying to have it both ways by insisting the human will always be central. No matter what you believe about AI, the set of assumptions you have to accept to confidently state that humans will absolutely remain central is so specific that you would only say this if you were a smiling conman.

If someone wants to believe it'll remove all jobs, fine, whatever. If someone wants to believe it'll do nothing, sure, okay. If you want to believe that it's the most revolutionary technology in human history and no one's going to lose their jobs, you're just transparently pretending to be trendy while simultaneously pretending to be human-oriented.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-15 04:42:50+00:00
> Other movies of the era (e.g. Being John Malkovich) didn’t telegraph stuff. That movie didn't win any Oscars and sold roughly 10x fewer tickets.

1999 was a bumper year for film in general. There were too many good picks that many had to be passed over. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind came out in 2004 to acclaim, and covered similar themes, so it can be done. The casting of Being John Malkovich also made it a long shot for awards, as all of the actors in it are fantastic, but there aren’t any standout roles because everyone in it is so good already, and none of the characters are redeeming in any way, so it’s a hard watch for most folks.

Spike Jonze did get an Oscar nomination for Being John Malkovich, and it was his feature film directing debut. The writer, also in his respective feature film debut (for writing), Charlie Kaufman, also wrote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Ticket sales are the wrong metric for artsy stuff like that, imo.

Ebert said it best:

> Roger Ebert awarded the film a full four stars, writing: "What an endlessly inventive movie this is! Charlie Kaufman, the writer of Being John Malkovich, supplies a dazzling stream of inventions, twists, and wicked paradoxes. And the director, Spike Jonze, doesn't pounce on each one like fresh prey, but unveils it slyly, as if there's more where that came from... The movie has ideas enough for half a dozen films, but Jonze and his cast handle them so surely that we never feel hard-pressed; we're enchanted by one development after the next". He concluded: "Every once in a long, long while a movie comes along that is unlike any other. A movie that creates a new world for us and uses it to produce wonderful things. Forrest Gump was a movie like that, and so in different ways were M*A*S*H, This Is Spinal Tap, After Hours, Babe and There's Something About Mary. What do such films have in common? Nothing. That's the point. Each one stakes out a completely new place and colonizes it with limitless imagination. Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich
by deaddodo | 2025-07-15 04:47:26+00:00
It’s similar on the hobbyist interest side, sure. But generally gathers more from the hardware hobbyists than software. This is because the Broadcom SoC is somewhat awful to do bare metal on (mostly due to anything beyond a framebuffer being mostly locked off), so you’re limited to using Linux for full capabilities.

Nothing wrong with that, but definitely a different environment than something like BASIC as your bootrom, or direct hardware poking you’d get from the old hobbyist machines.
by Hasnep | 2025-07-15 04:47:51+00:00
No, I'm saying that if everyone gets given $2000 each month and as a result everyone's wages are reduced by $2000 a month, most people will be unaffected. However, anyone who made less than $2000 a month before will get to quit their job and make more money than before UBI, so UBI wouldn't be useless in this scenario.
by atmerritt99 | 2025-07-15 04:49:16+00:00
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Email: atmerritt99@gmail.com

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Main Passion Project: Building an ML library from scratch in C#

Laid off February 2024, but looking to jump back in!
by metadat | 2025-07-15 04:49:16+00:00
This is the inevitable decline where we all eventually don't care about the source code instructions anymore, just like the transition from assembly to C. Sorry in advance, I'm a privacy holdout too, but this isn't the interesting part of what's happening. I tried Kiro and it is on par with Claude or Crystal, nothing special at all.

Within the next couple of years there's going to be a 4-for-1 discount on software engineers. Welcome to The Matrix. You'd best find Morpheus.

Check out the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857 and tell me what the alternative future is. Best wishes and good luck.
by delichon | 2025-07-15 04:49:45+00:00
If in 2009 you claimed that the dominance of the smartphone was inevitable, it would have been because you were using one and understood its power, not because you were reframing away our free choice for some agenda. In 2025 I don't think you can really be taking advantage of AI to do real work and still see its mass adaptation as evitable. It's coming faster and harder than any tech in history. As scary as that is we can't wish it away.
by Quarrel | 2025-07-15 04:50:06+00:00
The poor guy has obviously wound himself in knots over this for several months. He went through all this, obviously really bothered by the impersonal Corporation, "solved" his problem by moving to Azure, but then wrote up this massive rant.

Sounds like he needs a holiday at the least.

The mere idea that reddit has a special Amazon protection team that is the cause of his account suspension is ludicrous.

Hopefully this exposure will help him out.
by Nevermark | 2025-07-15 04:50:57+00:00
So their products are so much better, in customer demand terms that they don’t need to rush tech out the door?

Whatever story you want to create, if customers are happy year after year then Apple is serving them well.

Maybe not with same feature dimension balance you want, or other artificial/wishful balances you might make up for them.

(When Apple drops the ball it is usually painful, painfully obvious and most often a result of a deliberate and transparent priority tradeoff. No secret switcherooos or sneaky downgrading. See: Mac Pro for years…)
by gamblor956 | 2025-07-15 04:51:24+00:00
Readers actually enjoy "on the nose" dialogue...depending on the genre.

A drama? Biography? Subtlety is desired.

Action? Comedy? Streaming? On the nose dialog is not only enjoyed, but in many cases required. (For non-prestige shows and movies, Netflix strongly encourages the character dialog state the actions/emotions the actors are visually portraying on screen, with the understanding that much of their lower-tier content is watched in the background while people are doing something else.)
by deaddodo | 2025-07-15 04:51:35+00:00
If you’re trying to make yourself into a massive company off of it, sure the interest definitely doesn’t exist and you should forget it.

If you look at the amount of interest projects like the openpandora, the retro rereleases, etc get; there’s plenty enough for something to hack around on. You would just have to release it as a side/passion project with modest revenue projections.