MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jhide | 2025-07-05 02:37:50+00:00
You’re just stating a trait of animal predation. Predation often eliminates the weakest animals in a population. The point is that invasive species by definition of invasive predate in a way that their prey has not had adequate evolutionary space to adapt to because they are introduced. All the words in that sentence have precise definitions in ecology and I don’t think we share the same framework or definitions
by numpad0 | 2025-07-05 02:38:26+00:00
"RL is not AI" "Disney bots were remote controlled" are major AI hypebro delulu moment lol

Your understanding of AI and robotics are more cucumber than pear shaped. You're making very little technical sense here. Challenges and progress in robotics aren't where you think they are. It's all propagandish contents you're basing your understandings on.

If you're getting information from TikTok or YouTube Shorts style content, especially around Tesla bros - get the hell out of it at Ludicrous Speed. Or consume way more of it so thoroughly that you cannot be deceived anymore despite blatant lies everywhere. Then come back. They're all plain wrong and it's not good for you.
by skissane | 2025-07-05 02:38:28+00:00
Given the context is an OS kernel, even if I hadn't heard of "bcachefs" before (which I have), parsing it as "bcache-fs" seems obvious.

By contrast, I don't know what "BCA Chefs" is supposed to be. "BCA" could be many things: "Barbados Cricket Association", "Billiard Congress of America", "British Caving Association", "Business Council of Australia", among others. But what would any of them have to do with "Chefs"?
by Jeff9James | 2025-07-05 02:39:20+00:00
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But here's my problem: Not able to monetize Klutz. Because puter Auth doesn't let you track the email ID of users. So, they can just delete their puter account from puter.com and create a new one with the same email, to use the free trial again. This will make the pricing pointlessand abuse the system!

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by ryao | 2025-07-05 02:39:34+00:00
Has anyone made 12VHPWR cables that replace the 12 little wires with 2 large gauge wires yet? That would prevent the wires from becoming unbalanced, which should preempt the melting connector problem.

As a bonus, if the gauge is large enough, the cable would actually cool the connectors, although that should not be necessary since the failure appears to be caused by overloaded wires dumping heat into the connector as they overheat.
by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-07-05 02:41:02+00:00
Streaming (e.g., Plex or Jellyfin or some UPnP server) helps you send the data to the TV client over the network from a remote server.

As you want to bring the data server right to the TV, and you'll output the video via HDMI, just use any PC. There are plenty of them designed for this (usually they're fanless for reducing noise)... search "home theater PC."

You can install Kodi as the interface/organizer for playing your media files. It handles the all the formats... the TV is just the ouput.

A USB CEC adapter will also allow you to use your TV remote with Kodi.
by mhh__ | 2025-07-05 02:41:12+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjqrddnldgo The state is no longer capable of keeping a cat as a mouser!

"The estate had too much construction activity on site to provide a safe living environment for a free-roaming cat.

"The risk of self-closing doors leaving a cat trapped without sustenance for significant periods of time.

"The absence of assured daily arrangements for cat care."

He added: "We continue to work with our pest control contractor to implement targeted and effective regimes across the Palace."

it's a cat! people like cats. they will go out of their way to find and retrieve the cat.

i'm sure there's some boring reason why yes really they couldn't just have a cat but i think it really does speak to a difference between whatever we are now and the victorians (and so on) that we end up with some HR nonsense on this matter.
by marinmania | 2025-07-05 02:41:23+00:00
>I would guess that for every 1 software engineer there are 100 people doing this kind of 'manual data pipelining'.

For what time of company is this true? I really would like someone to just do a census of 500 white collar jobs and categorize them all. Anything that is truly automatic has already been automated away.

I do think AI will cause a lot of disruption, but very skeptical of the view that most people with white collar jobs are just "email jobs" or data entry. That doesn't fit my experience at all, and I've worked at some large bureaucratic companies that people here would claim are stuck in the past.
by adityavinodh | 2025-07-05 02:41:46+00:00
I’m sure that’s easy. There’s a bunch of services that use webhooks, email, slack etc. Unfortunately for an extremely simple dashboard to view responses and provides push notifications on mobile, I haven’t found any services. That’s I built a clean mobile app that provides push notifications. That way your email doesn’t get cluttered, you get notified, and you have a simple way to view responses without any setup.

It’s not for everyone, if you want to roll your own setup that’s great. But I intentionally built this for developers to give them full flexibility while still saving them time so they can focus on more important work.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-05 02:41:49+00:00
I don't know. There's nothing high status about being the only person on the dance floor for 3 songs in a row.

> High status people don't really suffer from looking silly, they define what looking silly is by being what they don't do.

I also don't know about this. Certain high status people are obsessively concerned with whether they look silly. They used to routinely fight to the death over it.

I've been reading the Book of the Courtier this week, and it's clear that even back in the 16th century high status people were very concerned about whether they looked silly, or even whether their dances looked silly.
by golergka | 2025-07-05 02:42:04+00:00
> This is where I’ve found usefulness falling off. Code is much more succinct and exact than English.

Depends on how you use English. If you describe all the details down to the last line of requirements — then, yeah. But actually, a lot of requirements are typical and can be compressed to things like "make a configuration page following this config type" and LLM will figure it out and put checkboxes for booleans, drop-downs for enums, and all the boilerplate that goes with them. Sometimes you have to correct this output, but it's still much faster than describing the whole thing.
by munificent | 2025-07-05 02:42:52+00:00
> there is an interesting story around chronic pain actually being psychological

I think this is an incorrect oversimplification.

I had a pretty bad accident a year ago and am still dealing with physical therapy and recovery from it. I have spent a lot of last year traveling the land of pain.

It's not that pain (chronic or not) is psychological. It's more that our pyschological state modulates how we experience pain.

If you hit your thumb with a hammer, the pain you feel is absolutely not psychosomatic and entirely in your head. There are real nerves in your hand sending your brain real pain signals.

But if you happen to do that on a day that you're really stressed out, it will hurt worse. And if days after the accident you are still hurting and you find your inner monologue saying things like "See, you hit your thumb because you're such a stupid clutz." then you will experience that pain with greater intensity and for longer than if you had a more positive narrative around the injury.
by vasilzhigilei | 2025-07-05 02:43:45+00:00
Related: During solo travelling whenever a thought crosses my mind to do something and my instinctual internal response is discomfort, I try to make myself do it - even if I feel awkward inserting myself or going back.

I've had so many awesome conversations with random interesting people every day during my trips thanks to this. I've gone places I'd otherwise not experience, all for the sake of exciting adventure and pushing my own bounds. The confidence that comes from this is significant.

Also, as a former remote software engineer of 3 years, it has been so energizing to socialize with people again. Best upper that there is.
by armchairhacker | 2025-07-05 02:43:47+00:00
Politicians are out-of-touch. Altman is also out-of-touch but in a different way. (I'm probably also out-of-touch in yet another way. The average NYCer can't really understand the life of the average rural Texan and vice versa.)

More parties in the US would be great, but right now it doesn't look feasible. Maybe we can convince enough people to support a new party, or shrink government, if the alternative gets us too close to Civil War or governance is too unpredictable, which mutually hurts all Americans (and benefits China).
by Brybry | 2025-07-05 02:44:26+00:00
The House's[1] SEC. 112104. EXCISE TAX ON REMITTANCE TRANSFERS. 3.5% tax became 1% in the Senate's[2] SEC. 70604. EXCISE TAX ON CERTAIN REMITTANCE TRANSFERS and a lot of the language changed.

The Senate made a lot of changes (Byrd rule also nuked a lot of stuff) so old articles are of limited use to the final bill.

I don't even know if [2] is the actual final text as there is neither an enrolled or public law version on congress.gov yet.

It's super annoying how often we can't read the final text of a bill before Congress votes on it.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...
by lukeschlather | 2025-07-05 02:45:44+00:00
IDK, sounds like it's a bunch of stupid misc. fees. So instead of just raising the minimum wage for H1Bs and indexing it to inflation, they raise taxes (and these taxes on H1Bs don't seem like a consequential funding source. They might even bring in less tax revenue than raising the H1B minimum wage to where it should be if it had originally been indexed to inflation.)
by scuol | 2025-07-05 02:46:48+00:00
If this sounds like you, I highly recommend reading "The Problem of the Puer Aeternus".

You can definitely skip a lot of the tedious bits where the author essential copy-pastes other books for analysis, but this is a very common pattern where people tend to hold themselves back because doing the unambitious, rather pedestrian next step forward requires one to face these preconceived notions about oneself, e.g. "I should've done this long ago", etc.
by Jeff9James | 2025-07-05 02:48:47+00:00
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by andrei_says_ | 2025-07-05 02:49:40+00:00
I have the same recommendation.

Learn the strengths and weaknesses of the new technology and add it to your resume.

Become the AI advisor who can help an organization adopt the tech where appropriate and avoid the traps associated with top-down hype- and fomo-driven adoption.

Also who knows where the AI cycle will be in 2-3 years. My sense is by then we will see the cost of tech debt caused by LLM generated code, the cost of the ignorance and naïveté of vibe coding and the cost of VC money wanting its ROI on a subsidized tech.
by logsr | 2025-07-05 02:49:41+00:00
computer programming and law are very similar. computer code is called code because it is the law that dictates the behavior of the computer. law is a bit different because it is a program that runs on people, who aren't as deterministic as machines, but in theory law and the interpretation of law are also supposed to be completely logical, and you can translate back and forth directly from the logic of law to a logical expression in a computer program.

i specialize in programming, and LLMs are very good right now, if you set them up with the right tooling, feedback based learning methods, and efficient ways of capturing human input (review/approve/suggest/correct/etc).

with programming you have compilers and other static analysis tools that you can use to verify output. for law you need similar static analysis tooling, to verify things like citations, procedural scheduling, electronic filing, etc, but if you loop that tooling in with an llm, the llm will be able to correct errors automatically, and you will get to an agent that can take a statement of fact, find a cause of action, and file a pro se lawsuit for someone.

courts are going to be flooded with lawsuits, on a scale of 10-100X current case loads.

criminal defendants will be able to use a smart phone app to represent themselves, with an AI handling all of the filings and motions, monitoring the trial in real time, giving advice to the defendant on when to make motions and what to say, maximizing delay and cost for the state with maximum efficiency.

with 98% of convictions coming from guilty pleas (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...) which are largely driven by not being able to afford the cost of legal services the number of criminal defendants electing to go to full jury trial could easily explode 10-20X or more very quickly.

fun times!
by emmap21 | 2025-07-05 02:49:41+00:00
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by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-05 02:49:43+00:00
>It's interesting seeing people argue about AI, because they're plainly not speaking about the same issue and simply talking past each other.

There's actually some ground truth facts about AI many people are not knowledgeable about.

Many people believe we understand in totality how LLMs work. The absolute truth of this is that we overall we do NOT understand how LLMs work AT all.

The mistaken belief that we understand LLMs is the driver behind most of the arguments. People think we understand LLMs and that we Understand that the output of LLMs is just stochastic parroting, when the truth is We Do Not understand Why or How an LLM produced a specific response for a specific prompt.

Whether the process of an LLM producing a response resembles anything close to sentience or consciousness, we actually do not know because we aren't even sure about the definitions of those words, Nor do we understand how an LLM works.

This erroneous belief is so pervasive amongst people that I'm positive I'll get extremely confident responses declaring me wrong.

These debates are not the result of people talking past each other. It's because a large segment of people on HN literally are Misinformed about LLMs.
by Gigachad | 2025-07-05 02:50:37+00:00
I don’t think that’s much of an issue for usage. Since a bitcoin can be divided in to 100,000,000 satoshis. There would only need to be a handful of coins left accessible for the system to be usable.

Being deflationary I agree is a problem, but not the idea that there aren’t enough usable coins left.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-05 02:50:38+00:00
Overall I like this framing. But I wanted to comment on this

> In poker, it’s possible to improve via theoretical learning.... But you really can’t become a successful player without playing a lot of hands with and in front of other players, many of whom will be better than you.

This is an interesting example because poker is a game that has existed for many years, and for most of those years everyone learned by doing and was terrible at it.

People who excel at things have typically done more theoretical learning than the average person. Doing is necessary, but it's rarely the main way you learn something.

Either you have a mentor who has already absorbed theory and transmits it to you in digested form, or you have to learn the theory yourself.

But most people get the balance between theory and doing wrong, and most people err on the side of doing because theory is harder and less instantly rewarding.
by lukeschlather | 2025-07-05 02:50:59+00:00
Also, like, I kind of want to play with these things, but also I'm not sure I want a computer that uses 500W+ in my house, let alone just a GPU.

I might actually be happy to buy one of these things, at the inflated price, and run it at half voltage or something... but I can't tell if that is going to fix these concerns or they're just bad cards.
by danaris | 2025-07-05 02:51:04+00:00
That only works if the person is already seen as high status—ie, if the other people at the dance are already primed to look at them going out on the dance floor and say "oh, they're dancing; that means it's time to dance."

If the person going out on the dance floor is an unknown, then going out there is a status risk. If it pays off, they can become seen as high status: a trailblazer, a trendsetter. If it doesn't, they become (at least for the time being) low status: pathetic, cringe.

Having visible confidence and charisma can help make the gamble more likely to pay off, but it's not a guarantee.
by jhancock | 2025-07-05 02:51:26+00:00
thanks! I've tried Plex, Jellyfin etc on my Mac. I've tried three different Apple TV apps as streaming client (Infuse, etc). They are all glitchy. Another key problem is if I want to bypass the streaming server on my Mac and have Infuse on the Apple TV just read files from the Mac the option is Windows NFS protocol...which gives way too much sharing by providing the Infuse app with a Mac id/password.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-05 02:52:28+00:00
They're soaked eyebrows deep in Tiktok style hype juice, believing that latest breakthrough in robotics is that AGIs just casually started walking and talking on their own and therefore anything code controlled by now is considered proof of ineptitude and fake.

It's complete cult crazy talk. Not even cargocult, it's proper cultism.
by orbital-decay | 2025-07-05 02:55:24+00:00
The point about non-determinism is moot if you understand how it works. An accurate LLM always gives the same result where the same result is needed, no matter how many times you ask it. Try asking any LLM what is 2x2 on a temperature it's designed for, what are the chances to get 5 in a reply?

In reality, modern LLMs trained with RL have terrible variance and mainly learn 1:1 mapping of ideas to ideas, which is a big issue for creative writing and parallel inference/majority voting techniques, so there's even less meaningful "non-determinism" available than you might think. It's usually either able or not able to give the correct answer, rerolling it doesn't work well. I think even a human has more non-determinism than a modern LLM (it's impossible to measure though).
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by AdamJacobMuller | 2025-07-05 02:59:25+00:00
Perhaps plausible until you mention that they hired a team to build it.

There's no way, even if it was a single-digit number of people team that they would remain silent. If it was just Elon/Thiel I could perhaps believe it.

Also keep in mind that there were some very desperate years for Elon where his companies were extremely close to bankruptcy, wouldn't he have tapped into that bitcoin if he had access to it?
by mindslight | 2025-07-05 03:00:17+00:00
Yes, salaries spent to build a capital asset. Half the cost of a new roof is paying salaries, right? And yet, you still depreciate the whole value of the completed thing, not just the cost of the input materials. If you hire the roofers yourself as employees, you're still supposed to be accounting this way - although obviously there are many ways to fudge it.

The point is that building a piece of software that is going to be in use for several+ years is creating an asset. It just goes against our intuition since this industry is so driven by fast fashion, and the bookkeeping of specific components, their depreciation schedules, early end of life, (etc) seems like needless complexity.
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by mindcandy | 2025-07-05 03:02:50+00:00
> I find it a dumb idea what whether or not people can get credit to start/expand businesses would be dependent of solving math problems.

That’s quite a mischaracterization. We can at least agree that Bitcoin’s supply is set up to increase at a pre-set rate over time. The math problems are the means to enforce that rate. Not the controlling factor.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-07-05 03:04:16+00:00
Tangentially, I've been applying something similar, but actually thinking of it as the privilege of high status.

As a very senior member of my team, which has a lot of new college grads, I've been asking the "dumb" questions, the "irritating" questions, intentionally speaking up what I believe others may be thingking, specifically because I figure I can afford the social (career) hit.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-07-05 03:04:23+00:00
The "goblin butt" looks more like a WoW screenshot - can anyone confirm?

There WERE goblin butts in EQ; I think the models that frequented the "other side of the wall" in the Halfling starting zone, at least.

But that one looks like WoW.

EQ's were like this: https://zam.zamimg.com/images/i/d/id6571.png