MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-07-24 07:09:31+00:00
I think you are conflating the concept of "education" and the US DoE. The U.S. spends more per pupil than any other nation. In fact, schools such as Baltimore public schools receive more funding than any other and have atrocious outcomes. This would be like saying someone being against a "Ministry of Truth" is someone that wants propaganda because "truth" is in the name.
by jnpnj | 2025-07-24 07:09:46+00:00
I heard about that long ago but couldn't find more, so IIUC chemically it's easier and more efficient to have a "one mode" combustion engine and let the electric engine deal with the variations, to the point that the reaction produces near no toxic byproducts, is that right ? I was wondering if there was research to keep improving that part. Even though it would help sustain the fossil fuel industry..
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-07-24 07:09:50+00:00
It is class-compliant - but to this day, I've never figured out, how to use the multitrack out with Pulse. The widget shows all the outputs and testing individual outs works, but Reaper duplicates the sends, so the outputs overlap. Works with JACK though, but JACK is just strange. Also no control software (aside from one open-source thingy that looks awful), so any change requires reboot to Windows or VM passthrough.
by isoprophlex | 2025-07-24 07:09:53+00:00
Exactly, if your clutch suffers abuse when you are shifting gears (unless you're trying to aggressively accelerate of course) you need to rethink what you're doing.

Not saying it's smart but when predictably decelerating on the highway I sometimes shift gears by rev matching and changing without even touching the clutch, for the fun of it.
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-24 07:09:58+00:00
I know you've got a subthread about this exact idea, but I do think there is some value in manually performing the debugging process if (and perhaps only if) your goal is to improve your overall programming ability.

I guess the chess analogy would be that it makes a lot of sense to analyse positions yourself, even though Leela and Stockfish can do a far more thorough job in much less time. Of course, if you just need to know the best move right now, you would use the AI, and professionals do that all the time.

But as a decently strong chess player I cannot imagine improving without doing this kind of manual practice (at least beyond a basic level of skill like knowing how pieces move). Grandmasters routinely drill tactics exercises, for instance, even though they are "mundane" at that level of ability.

I guess the crux of it - do you think AI+person learns faster than just person for this kind of thing? And why? It's not obvious to me either way (and another question is whether the skill is even relevant any more... I think so, but I know people who don't).
by dustedcodes | 2025-07-24 07:10:01+00:00
Until you come here and realise that your 300k US job only pays 60k here, of which you get taxed more than a third of it and then your taxes only buy you a 2 year NHS waiting list where by the time you get to see a doctor your tumour has grown to the size of a tennis ball and you’re going to die because you couldn’t get healthcare fast enough.
by WD-42 | 2025-07-24 07:10:13+00:00
I’m not sure why the copy and paste actions couldn’t be placed in a right click context menu instead of taking up 2-3 lines of actual terminal output for every user of the software all the time… it’s just a waste of space. It’s not just Konsole either, kde apps seem to love random buttons and absurd amounts of chrome on everything when most of it is rarely used and just steals screen real estate from what you are actually trying to work on.
by t_mahmood | 2025-07-24 07:10:33+00:00
You have to trust VS Code plugins too, along with trusting MS not using your code to improve their AI suggestions, or doing a sudden rug pull. All three happened if I remember correctly.

You can easily enable/disable plugins in LazyVim, and they are simple Lua Script/VIM scripts easy to review. I don't think VSCode would be that easy.

And even with more plugins, nvim/vim will be much more performant then VSCode.
by zmgsabst | 2025-07-24 07:11:55+00:00
I’m still having trouble finding the gap between fascism and socialism, when reading their manifesto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto

> That doesn't mean that anti-Marxists are all Nazis, or vice versa. But the claim that they're totally unrelated is not correct at all.

This is a heavily propagandized topic — and the conflating of, eg, American liberal capitalist opposition to Marxism as “Nazi” is both a result of that and modern dishonest rhetoric.

That rhetoric confuses LLMs.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-24 07:12:00+00:00
I prefer the "Sync your inventory everywhere" as the tagline. "Share your books with the world" is a bit trite for 2025 (might he OK for 2001). But "Sync your inventory everywhere" is more exciting as it implies more sales as well as how that is possible and that its supposedly easy. You could work on that tagline a bit more as well as I'm sure it can be improved.
by kimi | 2025-07-24 07:13:15+00:00
I do the same thing - Instead of going first to an unknown site that might (will?) be ad-infested and possibly AI generated, so that a phrase becomes a 1000-word article, I read the comments on HN, decide if it's interesting enough to take the risk, and then click. If it's Medium or similar, I won't click.

Hey, coming out feels good - I thought I was the only one.
by cess11 | 2025-07-24 07:13:54+00:00
OK, didn't notice that functionality when I've spent time with those, and to me they feel like more serious commitments, you know? There's more work involved and more maintenance and so on.

Especially ElasticSearch is rather fiddly and demanding, and I've seen exactly one production ES-system that impressed me, the rest were log-stores that could have used just about any database engine.

With Manticore I just apt it in and start pouring data into it immediately. Similar to how MySQL/MariaDB is almost frictionless when you run it locally with a root account, and neither ever starts to be annoying in resource consumption unless I actively mess up. I typically chose either (or DuckDB) when I have an idea or some ETL task I'd like to implement, over Postgres and ElasticSearch.
by zmgsabst | 2025-07-24 07:14:34+00:00
No, eg, liberal capitalist Americans oppose Marxism — and the adoption of neo-Marxist ideas has collapsed movie and game sales because their ideology is widely unpopular.

That’s a trope by Marxists to attempt to normalize alt-left ideology by accusing anyone who objects of being Nazis; a trope that’s become tired in the US and minimizes the true radical nature of the Nazi regime.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-24 07:15:21+00:00
I have never done anything serious with it, because I don't have any use case, it is not a programming language that either our IT, nor customers want running on their servers.

Only thing that always gets overseen in language discussions about which one is best, is that most companies pick languages based on ecosystems and products they buy/adopt, not pick a programming language from a catalog and then go looking for problems to solve with that language.

Unless of course they are a startup trying to get hold of a new domain, many times creating the need for others to adopt a specific programming language, when their product gains enough market share, thus we are back into how (the other) companies pick programming languages.

That is how we end with languages that maybe should never have been mainstream, a lucky product, killer application, market adoption happens, people want to learn the language to get employed, and the adoption circle goes on, thus whatever misconceptions there are matter very little for most programming languages, once they pass the adoption threshold.
by stereolambda | 2025-07-24 07:17:23+00:00
Honestly the SEO talk sounds like reflexive coping in this discourse. I get that WWW has cheapened quality, but we now have the tech that could defeat most of the SEO and other trash tactics on the search engine side. Text analysis as a task is cracked open. Google and such could detect dark patterns with LLMs, or even just deep learning. This would probably be more reliable than answering factual queries.

The problem is there is no money and fame in using it that way, or at least so people think in the current moment. But we could return to enforcing some sort of clear, pro-reader writing and bury the 2010s-2020s SEO garbage on page 30.

Not the mention that the LLMs randomly lie to you with less secondary hints at trustworthiness (author, website, other articles, design etc.) than you get in any other medium. And the sustainability side of incentivizing people to publish anything. I really see the devil of convenience as the only argument for the LLM summaries here.
by satisfice | 2025-07-24 07:18:04+00:00
This article is itself an example of oversimplifying a complex process.

Five whys and the notion of a single root cause are both weak heuristics— but also almost no one sees them otherwise. People are generally smart, not stupid, and already understand that systems are complex.

Still, it is useful to ask “how did this problem come to be?” and “what can we do to improve our system?” Neither of which require or even encourage oversimplification.
by verzali | 2025-07-24 07:18:12+00:00
My site never got much traffic from Google and I never wasted time on SEO. So I find it hard to care about losing clicks I didn't have.

But I do find it concerning that Google is effectively stealing the time I spend on research and not offering proper credit. I'm always careful to credit people and provide extensive links to the work of others on my site. But here Google and others are simply stealing that work, getting it wrong, and then claiming they did all the effort.
by teddyh | 2025-07-24 07:19:36+00:00
Why? It would be to the benefit of relatively few and be an enormous technical problem for decades for everyone. If we did this, the IPv4 addresses would run out again after a few months at most, leaving us all in the same position we are in today, but also with a huge technical problem of fixing all the old devices which had these now-repurposed networks hardcoded.

If you are fine with doing the work of obsoleting old equipment, then just start using IPv6.
by grimblee | 2025-07-24 07:19:52+00:00
It's funny how fascistic people want to destabilize and exploit other countries but not bear the consequence of having the now poor and desperate population migrating to the country they see as responsible for their misery.

We have the same in Europe with african immigration, we exploited these people for hundreds years, become rich on their backs and now some people want everyone out ? That's hypocrisy if I've ever seen any.
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-24 07:20:04+00:00
Main reason:

Google seach ranking already became so bad that finding the right query to produce a decent result became a craft in and of itself.

HN readers might not realize this, but I used to constantly have to search things for friends and family as they just couldn't find it with Google.

The AI result is a godsend fir them. I saw a massive drop in their requests to me.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-24 07:21:09+00:00
The problem is, Steam, Itch, Pornhub - they all had ample warnings and complaints about the kind of content they're hosting, but chose to forego introducing moderation in favor of continuing to make profit. Complaints about Pornhub went ignored for years, for example, until enough pressure built up.

And it's a similar same case for Facebook. The EU complained for years about anything from hate speech spread by the general public to outright propaganda campaigns, Facebook did nothing - but complained when the EU finally had enough and introduced the DSA.
by wredcoll | 2025-07-24 07:22:33+00:00
> Neo.mjs is built on the language of AI. It uses declarative JSON blueprints to define UI. An AI generating a JSON blueprint is an order of magnitude simpler, faster, and more reliable than an AI generating JSX. The framework’s DomApiRenderer then takes this simple blueprint and translates it into hyper-performant, secure DOM operations. The AI doesn't need to know how to build the UI; it just needs to describe what the UI is.

Well, that's one way to do it I guess...
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-24 07:23:42+00:00
> just the key principles that underpinned other judgements.

The issue I take with such an analysis is the numbers game, the lack of intent that brings with it, and the lack of damages for very minor violations deep in an archive. It doesn't apply to the author of the linked article but at least in the US large archives of content generated by third parties would presumably fall under the DMCA takedown provisions.

> it’s worth noting in your example that folks are investing heavily in avoiding incidental copyright infringement

I think that's what you might call "reasonable precautions". If the technology is widely known about and cheaply available and yet you choose not to use it you risk taking on the appearance of any infringement being intentional.

> see for example dashcam footage on YouTube where songs on the radio are being either cut or pitched up/down or monetised to the rights holder rather than the publisher

I think that's a natural consequence of automated draconian enforcement of corporate policies that are arguably quite user hostile. Certainly the system is actively abused by trolls of various sorts. Even things that are clearly fair use can potentially get your channel demonetized or even banned. Granted, the platform is also rife with users who blatantly and repeatedly violate copyright. The entire place is a cesspool in that regard.

Which is to say that I don't think it's an example of the current legal situation as much as a status quo imposed by corporate policy. (Granted at the behest of various lawyers.)
by samrus | 2025-07-24 07:24:33+00:00
> Many teachers cannot do that either.

Of course there are bad teachers out there. The question wasnt "are there human yeachers as bad as an LLM" it was whether an LLM is as good as a good human teacher

> We just need the Wille—the will—to ask it.

Thats the thing. Its is a very good search resource. But thats not what a teacher is. A good teacher will help you get to the right questions, not just get you the right answers. And the student often wont know the right questions until they already know quite a bit. You need a sufficiently advanced, if incomplete, mental model of the sybject to know what you dont know. An LLM cant really model what your thinking, what your stuck on, and what questions you should be asking
by pasc1878 | 2025-07-24 07:25:01+00:00
Kagi sort of gets this correct.

Kagi search gives the pork board first as well. But note that site fails mtkd's requirements giving temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and not Celsius. The second hit does give a correct temperature but has a cookie banner (which at least can be rejected with one click)

The optional Kagi assistant quotes the pork board, usda which also is only in Fahrenheit, and third a blog on site for a thermometer that quoted the UK Food Standard Authority and gives its temperature

However there is a problem the UK FSA does not agree with USDA on the temperature it puts it higher at 70 degrees C rather than 63

So if you get the USDA figure you are taking a risk. The Kagi Assistant gives both temperatures but it is not clear which one is correct although both figures are correctly linked to the actual sites.
by visarga | 2025-07-24 07:25:14+00:00
> To me, blogs and other articles feel like sales pitches, whereas comments are full of raw emotion and seem more honest. I end up seeking out discussions over buttoned up long-form articles.

Me too. That is why sometimes I take the raw comment thread and paste it into a LLM, the result is a grounded article. It contains a diversity of positions and debunking, but the slop is removed. Social threads + LLMs are an amazing combo, getting the LLM polish + the human grounded perspective.

If I was in the place of reddit or HN I would try to generate lots of socially grounded articles. They would be better than any other publication because they don't have the same conflict of interests.
by m12k | 2025-07-24 07:25:30+00:00
From the article:

"Considering that the distillation requires access to the innards of the teacher model, it’s not possible for a third party to sneakily distill data from a closed-source model like OpenAI’s o1, as DeepSeek was thought to have done. That said, a student model could still learn quite a bit from a teacher model just through prompting the teacher with certain questions and using the answers to train its own models — an almost Socratic approach to distillation."
by SideQuark | 2025-07-24 07:26:35+00:00
Taking the top 1% would certainly lower the gap, which shows had misleading or dishonest this invalid comparison is.

Also note mean wage is also not total compensation by a long shot. The actual benefits are tracked by BLS total compensation, or better yet, BLS cost to employ, which has grown a lot of the past few decades. The biggest tax breaks (or as people like to call them when it suits them, tax giveaways or tax loopholes) give more to the poor and middle class than all the tax breaks enjoyed by all companies combined: mortgage deduction, 401k style deferred taxes, and employer healthcare deduction, all give massive breaks the majority of which accrues to the poor and middle, yet this also gets ignored in this discussion.

No matter how you want to slice it comparing the top 500 out of 250K to all is simply bad stats, as bas as claiming the top 500 wage employees to all CEOs would show every day earners have a gap over CEOs. And it's simply designed to create outrage - that CEO taking less pay is not going to suddenly accrue to the workers.

So no matter how you want to slice it, it's completely bad stats.
by omcnoe | 2025-07-24 07:26:52+00:00
Registering a company in Germany: you must visit a notary in person with your incorporation documents, and sit there while the notary reads aloud your incorporation to you. This is to "ensure that you fully understand the contract" even as a foreigner who doesn't speak corporate-legalese-German. Minimum capital deposit of €25,000.

Registering a company in US (Delaware) can be achieved in as little as 1 hour.

Getting married in Germany, particularly between a German and a foreigner, is anything from a 6 month to 2 year process, involving significant expenses, notarization/translation of documents. Some documents expire after 6 months, so if the government bureaucrats are too slow you need to get new copies, translated again, notarized again, and try to re-submit.

This isn't protecting human rights, it's supporting a class of bureaucrats/notaries/translators/clerks and making life more difficult for ordinary people. It's also a form of light racism that targets foreigners/migrants by imposing more difficult bureaucratic requirements and costs on them compared to by birth citizens.
by gadders | 2025-07-24 07:26:56+00:00
You appear to be factually wrong.

PBS:

"“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” Trump said in a July 27, 2016 news conference."

Wikipedia:

These emails were subsequently leaked by DCLeaks in June and July 2016[2] and by WikiLeaks on July 22, 2016, just before the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Commi...
by saubeidl | 2025-07-24 07:27:40+00:00
Zizek would have a field day with this.

> I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology. The material force of ideology - makes me not see what I'm effectively eating. It's not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament - when we are within ideology, is that - when we think that we escape it into our dreams - at that point we are within ideology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k
by stouset | 2025-07-24 07:27:53+00:00
Same on a motorcycle. My current bike has a quickshifter (for both up and down shifting) but even without one you can shift up and down without ever touching the clutch just by pushing on the shift pedal while blipping the throttle off-and-on (for an upshift) or on-and-off (for a downshift). That’s all the quickshifter is really doing anyway, it’s just quicker at it than you are.

I’d wager bordering on 100% of my clutch use is when coming to a complete stop.
by imtringued | 2025-07-24 07:28:03+00:00
> This betokens a future of borderless warfare in which probably most of your family members will be killed over the next few decades, by one or another type of semi-autonomous or fully autonomous weapon.

You're talking about a whole bunch of targeted and intentional attacks in a literal warzone, the most lawless kind of place on the planet and you're complaining that they are hitting their intended military targets?

Meanwhile Gaza is boring to you, because Israel uses conventional bombs with humans in the loop, even though the collateral damage matches your prediction today.
by madaxe_again | 2025-07-24 07:28:09+00:00
Mine lasted 11k km before I was seeing interleave.

Alignment is fine, had it checked when I had a new set of continentals fitted.

My problem is purely that I drive like an asshole, on very windy, empty roads. Every day is track day.

Decent tyres, too, continentals - soft compound, hard roads. Means it corners like a dream right up until the tyres are bald.
by omnicognate | 2025-07-24 07:28:18+00:00
I don't know why we're even having this debate, but this thread is in response to someone literally complaining they didn't say what games they play on it (as if they necessarily even do). They've given plenty of technical info about it - certainly more than they're obliged to, which is none - and anyone who would do something like this is going to do it their own way anyway.

I'm clearly in the target audience as I'm now considering doing something like this. The page gives me all the information I need or want.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-24 07:28:19+00:00
Thing is, Tesla is not making much on each car they sell now, given how many discounts they need to offer. They were making a lot of money on regulatory credits, but these are likely to be gone already (in theory the companies should continue to buy them, but the Bill signed by Trump removes any penalties for not doing so effective immediately).

So yeah, sales may jump in the US (and will continue to crater in EU and China), but that won't do much for their profits. It can only help 'move the metal' as they say.
by apelapan | 2025-07-24 07:28:34+00:00
Tesla is a quite common EV brand. They do not allow configuring regen braking, except for the behaviour at stand-still.

(They also don't do blending between friction brakes and regen, so the cars behaviour when letting of the accelerator is highly inconsistent depending on temperature and charge level).

One of the reasons I long for the lease on my Model Y to end so I can replace it with a less stupid vehicle.
by ranguna | 2025-07-24 07:29:50+00:00
Tbh I'd understand it if you used all three forms. Octopuses is also etymologically incorrect, but the general public found it ok to use and it got generally accepted because people liked it. I don't see any reason for this to happen again with octopi, although now it might be more difficult.

Personally I'll use octopuses, just because I once confused octopi as a word for another species of the family octopodes belong to. Now I know it's a common plural, but it didn't sound like a plural to me back then.

I'd prefer to use octopodes, but I feel like this can too be confused with another species, and I don't want to sound all smart in saying it's actually a plural. Octopuses bypasses all that confusion, and probably everyone will understand that it's the plural of octopus, albeit some might have doubts whether it's the correct form or not.