MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 | 2025-07-12 09:31:11+00:00
And between that and the rap group there’s this important movie:

Shaolin and Wu Tang (1983)

> The film is about the rivalry between the Shaolin (East Asian Mahayana) and Wu-Tang (Taoist Religion) martial arts schools. […]

> East Coast hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan has cited the film as an early inspiration. The film is one of Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA's favorite films of all time. Founders RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard first saw the film in 1992 in a grindhouse cinema on Manhattan's 42nd Street and would found the group shortly after with GZA. The group would release its debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), featuring samples from the film's English dub; the album's namesake is an amalgamation of Enter the Dragon (1973), Shaolin and Wu Tang, and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_and_Wu_Tang
by 9rx | 2025-07-12 09:31:19+00:00
Why stop at higher ups? Even the bottom run worker has autonomy. They, while perhaps not to the same degree, take the lead and make important decisions too.

And how high up do you go? The common narrative is that the owners/board are the highest up, but in reality they're working for the customer. The customer is the true leader. It is they who make the decisions and who the owners/board have to answer to.

Or are they really the true leader? The customer will have customers of their own. Everyone works for someone. In reality, there isn't a hierarchy at all. It is approximately cyclical.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-12 09:31:25+00:00
> They were pretty explicit that this was only the cost in GPU hours to USD for the final run.

The researchers? Yes.

What followed afterwards, I'm not so sure. There was clearly some "cheap headlines" in the media, but there were also some weird coverage being pushed everywhere, from weird tlds, and they were all pushing nvda dead, cheap deepseek, you can run it on raspberries, etc. That might have been a campaign designed to help short the stocks.
by hamilyon2 | 2025-07-12 09:31:58+00:00
I am questioning, how is this news? What about the other terabyte of text influenced by bias and opinion and human nature and clearly wrong, contradicts itself or in some other way very arguable.

Framing publishing falsehoods on internet as attempts to influence LLMs is true in same sense that inserts in a database attempts influence files on disk.

The real question is who authorized database access and how we believe the contents of table.
by anal_reactor | 2025-07-12 09:32:51+00:00
This whole attitude against AI reminds me of my parents being upset that the internet changed the way they live. They refused to take part in the internet revolution, and now they're surprised that they don't know how to navigate the web. I think that a part of them is still waiting for computers in general to magically disappear, and everything return to the times of their youth.
by tux3 | 2025-07-12 09:33:31+00:00
I will be surprised if the EU CRA results in more F500 companies entering suppport contracts with their major OSS dependencies, but that would definitely be the ideal outcome.

There's some good pro-consumer intent in this law, but as is often the case the regulators barely understand the ecosystem they're regulating. It was not designed with the massive importance of open-source in mind from the start.
by ilovethe80s | 2025-07-12 09:36:49+00:00
Every time that I’ve tried to react to fear and general perception of where the market was headed, it’s been a bad idea.

Can Reddit users affect a single stock? Yes. (GameStop)

Could they affect the market as a whole? I’m sure.

What’s most likely to happen historically speaking is that a bunch of investors pull out, and others come in and buy that up.

Taking your money out has never been a good idea unless you have enough, you’re old, you’re not risk tolerant, and you know inflation won’t hit hard.

Warren took his money out which scared me, but he fell into that category: had enough, old, not risk tolerant, and I’m assuming he either believes the dollar won’t get devalued significantly enough to make a difference.
by JoeyJoJoJr | 2025-07-12 09:37:03+00:00
I don’t really remember my dreams anymore, but if I go to bed having consumed weed (or one time, a light dose of mushrooms) I end up having a psychedelic version of fever dreams - extremely intense visualisations of thought structures that just keep folding out of themselves, that appear otherwise unfathomly huge and intricate. It’s quite uncomfortable wanting to sleep and rest from your thoughts but the substance won’t let you.
by anal_reactor | 2025-07-12 09:38:07+00:00
The real problem is that most people just want answers, they're unwilling to follow the logical chain of thought. When I talk to LLMs I keep asking "but why are you telling me this" until I have a cohesive, logical picture in my mind. Quite often the picture fundamentally disagrees with the LLM. But most people don't want that, they just ask "tell me what to do".

This is a reflection of how social dynamics often work. People tend to follow the leader and social norms without questioning them, so why not apply the same attitude to LLMs. BTW, the phenomenon isn't new, I think one of the first moments when we realized that people are stupid and just do whatever the computer tells them to do was the wave of people crashing their cars because the GPS system lied to them.
by russdill | 2025-07-12 09:38:59+00:00
If you read through the boeing procedures, if an engine fails just after take off you delay cutting throttle or hitting the cutoff until you have positive climb and pass a certain altitude. Specifically because a mistake here would be so incredibly catastrophic. The following number of steps and verbal cross checks for then shutting down the engine are quite daunting. Not something applicable here, but still interesting to learn about
by autoexec | 2025-07-12 09:40:13+00:00
> It might take years until the general consensus is negative about the effects of these tools.

The only thing I'm seeing offline are people who already think AI is trash, untrustworthy, and harmful, while also occasionally being convenient when the stakes are extremely low (random search results mostly) or as a fun toy ("Look I'm a ghibli character!")

I don't think it'll take long for the masses to sour to AI and the more aggressively it's pushed on them by companies, or the more it negatively impacts their life when someone they depend on and should know better uses it and it screws up the quicker that'll happen.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-12 09:40:15+00:00
> including systems that can evaluate news sources, understand satire, and so forth.

Lets take something that has been in the news recently: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/investors-snap-gro...

"Nearly 27% of all homes sold in the first three months of the year were bought by investors -- the highest share in at least five years, according to a report by real estate data provider BatchData."

That sounds like a lot... and people are rage baited into yelling about housing and how it's unaffordable. They point their fingers at corporations.

If you go look at the real report it paints a different picture: https://investorpulse1h25.batchdata.io/?mf_ct_campaign=grayt... -- and one that is woefully incomplete because of how the data is aggregated.

Ultimately all that information is pointless because the real underlying trend has been unmovable for 40 something years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S

> every time they unthinkingly repeat propaganda

How do you separate propaganda from perspective, facts from feelings? People are already bad at this, the machines were already well soiled by the data from humans. Truth, in an objective form, is rare and often even it can change.
by jalapenos | 2025-07-12 09:40:34+00:00
Always amusing that lowering the percentage of natives in a culture is an improvement, "enrichment", "vibrancy", and so on, but only in one particular kind of direction...

And interestingly, the people who utter this ideology are usually from the natives - because fundamentally it's a type of narcissism - a kind of "I'll show you" or "I like you being hurt" that feels pleasurable or gives a sense of superiority.

Can't imagine this ever being tolerated within China and Russia though, perhaps that's why they're the current bogeymen.
by metalman | 2025-07-12 09:41:31+00:00
Chine built in a legislative and regulatory allowance for coal, before wind, hydro and solar took off, they have also connected to the russian natural gas pipe line network, with a second major line in the works. The final piece to there grid is a large cappacity ultra high voltage trasmission grid running east west that shipps excess solar ,wind+other, electricity accross multiple time zones, and therefore peak demand is met as one long continious wave, rather than spikes. China is putting in coal plants where there is a local demand that is somehow islanded from the main grid....big country, challenging geographical/topographical conditions, and pragmatic development, so coal(there own and others), American LNG, Irainian Oil, russian nat gas,etc, etc, etc.....but the hidden story is that just 10 years ago they were burning ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING for power, and met there develoment goals at the cost of the worlds worst air quality, which they have now been able to dramaticaly change.....all of the above is to suggest that China has not fluked out with "emissions"*

* "emissions" is a catch all word/concept that includes efficiency,all cost's, sustainability, scalability, local air polution, and CO², CO, etc, while serving a political purpose that has been embraced by every single person in China
by Metalnem | 2025-07-12 09:42:21+00:00
I recently re-read this article and can confirm that it's excellent—not just this specific page, but all the other sections under "Garbage Collection" as well.

If you want to dive deeper into memory performance analysis in .NET, this is another must-read: https://github.com/Maoni0/mem-doc/blob/master/doc/.NETMemory...

It was written by Maoni Stephens, the architect of .NET's garbage collection.
by rachofsunshine | 2025-07-12 09:42:34+00:00
It doesn't happen because building the best software is not the goal of a software engineering job.

If you want to do that on your own time, that's fine - but the purpose of a job is economic. Of course you should write software of some reasonable quality, but optimizations have diminishing economic returns. Eventually, the returns are lower than the cost (in time, money, etc) of further optimizing, and this break-even point is usually at a lower level of quality than engineers would like it to be. Leadership and engineering managers know this and behave accordingly.
by reconnecting | 2025-07-12 09:42:51+00:00
Then we should probably mention

http://macpaint.org

(From page HTML source) <!-- ******** HELLO OLD COMPUTER USERS ******** --> <!-- This site is designed to be viewable at 640x480 resolution or higher in any color mode in Netscape/IE 3 or any better browser, so if you're using an LC III or something, you're welcome. In fact, I really hope you are using such a machine, because limiting the site to this level of simplicity wouldn't be worth it unless someone is. Please let me know if you are using an old computer to visit the site so I know it is worth it to someone to maintain this compatibility. I do apologize for the one javascript error that you may get on each page load, but I don't expect it to cause any crashes. The major exception to all of this is Netscape 4. That thing sucks. -->

Does anyone even remember why Netscape 4 was bad?
by Nursie | 2025-07-12 09:43:15+00:00
It’s very US-centric for a start.

In other countries we went from “that looks bad in China” to “shit, it spread to Italy now, we really need to worry”

And with masks we went from “we don’t think they’re necessary, handwashing seems more important” to “Ok shit it is airborne, mask up”. Public messaging adapted as more was known.

But the US seems to have to turn everything into a partisan fight, and we could watch, sadly, in real time as people picked matters of public health and scientific knowledge to get behind or to hate. God forbid anyone change their advice as they become better informed over time.

Seeing everything through this partisan, pugnacious prism seems to be a sickness US society is suffering from, and one it is trying (with some success) to spread.
by esperent | 2025-07-12 09:44:17+00:00
> Bitcoin is higher than ever

That's just speculation though. I saw a cynical comment on reddit yesterday that unfortunately made a lot of sense. Many people now are just so certain that the future of work is not going to include many humans, so they're throwing everything into stocks and crypto, which is why they remain so high even in the face of so much political uncertainty. It's not that people are investing because they have hope. People are just betting everything as a last ditch survival attempt before the robots take over.

Of course this is hyperbolic - market forces are never that simple. But I think there might be some truth to it.
by int_19h | 2025-07-12 09:45:17+00:00
We're using self-balancing trees for std::map because the specification for std::map effectively demands that given all the requirements (ordering, iterator and pointer stability, algorithmic complexity of various operations, and the basic fact that std::map has to implement everything in terms of std::less - it's emphatically not a hash map). It has nothing to do with ABI.

Are you rather thinking of std::unordered_map? That's the hash map of standard C++, and it's the one where people (rightfully) complain that it's woefully out of date compared to SOTA hashmap implementations. But even there an ABI break wouldn't be enough, because, again, the API guarantees in the Standard (specifically, pointer stability) prevent a truly efficient implementation.
by spwa4 | 2025-07-12 09:45:44+00:00
> I don’t know what happened but we’ve started treating children like they are made out of glass and it doesn’t feel really like the threat landscape is any different.

These reactions make perfect sense when you consider youth services is looking out for ... themselves. That means grabbing easy, well raised children, catching cooperative parents in a technicality, who will support their children even when youth services in involved (which means costs can be diverted to those parents). Maximum money, minimum problems. This actually damages those children rather than help them, but it really helps youth services as an institution. It's also what foster parents want.

By contrast, if they want to maximize the good they do, they need to work to get children in real problems. In many cases they'd literally have everyone, parents, children, ... fight back (which will result in damage, of course. Fighting back may not even be intentional), and spend big on those children instead of themselves (because the problems are medical costs, insufficient housing, ...) and be unable to let those children go (because the parents don't take care of them). Obviously, any foster parents that see such children will quit basically immediately. The only parts of the system that actually sometimes do this are the judicial parts.

(did you know that as a child the "civil" parts of the youth services have the right to deny education to a child, and for example foster parents often do that, but the criminal parts, often called "juvie", do not? To give one very famous example, John Carmack learned advanced math, or at least the most advanced math he learned at school before developing doom, at his original school, while locked up in juvie?)
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-12 09:45:50+00:00
> Now, why are you spending misinformation?

Are you going to claim that US politicians don't do the exact same thing? This is my favorite example of it, where one literally tells you what the play is while it's getting made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhJWusyj4I

Feelings not facts.
by dubcanada | 2025-07-12 09:47:10+00:00
No neither black box stores video. One stores audio on flash memory and the other stores flight details, sensors etc.

I don’t think video is a bad idea. I assume there is a reason why it wasn’t done. Data wise black boxes actually store very little data (maybe a 100mbs), I don’t know if that is due to how old they are, or the requirements of withstanding extremes.
by suprtx | 2025-07-12 09:48:45+00:00
HN is a censorship haven and all, but I'd like to point out just one thing:

>Compare this with languages like Zig, Rust, and Python that have 1 compiler and doesn't have any of the problems of C++ in terms of interop and not having dialects.

For Python, this is straight up just wrong.

Major implementations: CPython, PyPy, Stackless Python, MicroPython, CircuitPython, IronPython, Jython.
by yorwba | 2025-07-12 09:50:01+00:00
Yes, it's difficult to detect whether something is enemy propaganda if you only look at the content. During WWII, sometimes propagandists would take an official statement (e.g. the government claiming that food production was sufficient and there were no shortages) and redirect it unchanged to a different audience (e.g. soldiers on a part of the front with strained logistics). Then the official statement and enemy propaganda would be exactly the same! The propaganda effect coming from the selection of content, not its truth or falsity.

But it's very easy to detect whether something is enemy propaganda without looking at the content: if it comes from an enemy source, it's enemy propaganda. If it also comes from a friendly source, at least the enemy isn't lying, though.

A company that doesn't wish to pick a side can still sidestep the issue of one source publishing a completely made-up story by filtering for information covered by a wide spectrum of sources at least one of which most of their users trust. That wouldn't completely eliminate falsehoods, but make deliberate manipulation more difficult. It might be playing the game, but better than letting the game play you.

Of course such a process would in practice be a bit more involved to implement than just feeding the top search results into an LLM and having it generate a summary.
by jalapenos | 2025-07-12 09:50:29+00:00
Hopefully Tokyo actually rejects this western culture and mentality as fundamentally self-effacing instead, and rejects your kind's weird notions and narcissistic pronouncements of cultural superiority (so weird they'd want to be them - all Asian and Japanese like - omg gross, enrich them right away!) instead.

Eventually they may even come to view the westerner, evidenced by their minds in such a shocking condition, as a fundamentally grotesque thing, and go full closed-country again - especially after their power wanes. Certainly one case would be more beautiful than the other!
by sgt101 | 2025-07-12 09:51:35+00:00
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

The fact that the pilots denied that they had shut the switch (one asking the other why they had done so and the other denying it), and that they restarted the engines should be taken into account. Ok, murder suicide is definitely on the table but I would want to see some other reasons for believing that this is so.
by cwillu | 2025-07-12 09:51:59+00:00
You're projecting your views on the comment. You may even be correct, but it's still a projection: that view is not explicit in the text; combined with the specific wording, I feel down-voting rather than engaging was precisely the correct response.

This whole interaction is a classic motte-and-bailey: someone says something vague that can be interpreted several ways (and reading their comment history makes it clear what their intended emotional valence was); people respond to the subtext, and then someone jumps “woah woah, they never actually said that”.

Either way, nothing of value was lost, as the same point you say he was trying to make was made in several other comments which were not downvoted.
by jcgrillo | 2025-07-12 09:53:26+00:00
While I agree with everything you've said, I think you might be making an assumption that quality costs time. In my experience this isn't the case, unless you're starting from a low quality codebase or working with low quality people. A high quality team can produce high quality software in less time than it takes a low quality team to produce low quality software meeting the same functional requirements.

The whole ballgame is making sure you have no low quality people on your team.
by oliwarner | 2025-07-12 09:53:53+00:00
If a major consumer of a product decides it doesn't care to inspect and regulate an import, the global supply for it gets tainted. You're so busy cutting red tape, you lower the standards everywhere.

I do absolutely agree, it's not your fault that cheaper, dirtier, methods of production are being used, but your lack of standards is a major contributing factor.

This is the reason the EU and UK exclude so much US produce. To allow it would lower local standards too.
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-12 09:55:11+00:00
I really should have included Bob Chassell, of "Intro to Emacs Lisp" fame, what a personable and gentle introduction for beginners! Very beginner-focused, but if you read it as a beginner, it's like your slightly chatty Uncle introducing you to the family business. Which just so happens to be - writing a lisp language to learn to extend a lisp software platform which includes a text editor. I loved it.
by thrance | 2025-07-12 09:55:43+00:00
It's been called the Gulf of Mexico everywhere for centuries. The president is free to attempt to rename it but that will only be successful if usage follows. Which it does not, as of today. This is a terrible example of subjectivity.

Russia doesn't care what you call that sea, they're interested in actual falsehoods. Like redefining who started the Ukraine war, making the US president antagonize Europe to weaken the West, helping far right parties accross the West since they are all subordinated to Russia...
by Stratoscope | 2025-07-12 09:55:55+00:00
Oh my gosh, Don, you are giving me nightmares.

But what do you mean about the whale? I know they hypnotized the kids with some Magic, but the whale really did Leap out of the gym floor. That's where they got the company name! I saw it with my own eyes, in that YouTube video.

And don't expect me to believe that Rony Abovitz is not a real astronaut, and those were not real apes, and that was not a real space fudge monolith. I can taste right now, in my virtual mind!

About the shower glass guy... I knew him when he was a camera salesman at LZ Premiums in San Jose. I used to go there when I lived nearby, just to eye the merchandise and compare prices.

Eventually I bought something there - a huge Manfrotto tripod with a fluid head. I can still see the smile on Robert's face when he brought it out: "this guy finally bought something!"
by LAC-Tech | 2025-07-12 09:56:01+00:00
Whatever capabilities Russia has to groom LLMs and and spread disinformation is completely dwarfed by the capabilities of Israel/America. Meaning, yes, you probably do hear Kremlin propaganda, but you have been awash with Israeli/American propaganda since you were born - so much so you probably can't even see it and have internalised much of it.
by rafaelmn | 2025-07-12 09:56:08+00:00
GitHub copilot now has agents in jetbrain (not sure about stable - my nightly does).

Jetbrains Junie is supposedly the same thing but no Rider and that's my current project so didn't get into that yet.

Windsurf was just disappointingly bad in intellij (like any other plugin I've tried so far)