MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cool_dude85 | 2025-07-18 16:07:48+00:00
>The issue seems to be that the US voting public is overwhelmed by the complexity of understanding what a good idea looks like or what is in their own interests.

I can't agree. The highest profile elections we are offered have, in the recent past, been choices between absolutely terrible options. In 2016 we could choose between a largely reviled Iraq War supporter and Trump, in 2020 the senile Biden and Trump, and in 2024 a continuation of Biden's term, represented by a poor politician hand-picked by the party and Trump, the one-term loser.

In my adult life, the best candidate I have been able to vote for is a guy whose signature achievement in office was passing a heritage foundation Healthcare bill centered around fining me for not bolstering Blue Cross' bottom line. How am I supposed to vote in my interests?
by toss1 | 2025-07-18 16:08:05+00:00
NO.

This is a specific example of prices NOT working in both directions — the airline using AI and massive data sets about the individual buyers is EXPLOITING INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES to extract the maximum payment available from each individual buyer — in exactly the situation where the buyers have no such leverage.

It would be working in both directions if all customers had equal opportunities to buy at openly known prices. The above is not an open and free market where buyers are knowingly bidding up or down prices of seats.

Maximizing exploitation of each individual customer is NOT price discovery; it is only discovery of how well they can screw each individual customer by exploiting info asymmetries and presenting skewed options.
by spacemadness | 2025-07-18 16:08:11+00:00
Instead of taking time to understand how it may be effective, a lot of leadership decided immediately that people could take on double the work they were doing or more right out the gate as long as they use AI. I’ve seen people driven to tears in this environment right now from stress due to overwork. Everyone in my org was either burnt out or soon to be. And that overwork is from managers demanding more and more without any data to back up exactly how much more is reasonable. Then you get these types on HN calling people luddites for having strong opinions and anxieties as if it’s only ever about the technology itself and not the effect it has on actual people in a cutthroat capitalist system. That’s exactly the sort of thing that brought the term “tech bro” into the limelight.
by ck2 | 2025-07-18 16:08:24+00:00
Imagine 7000 people per day being "disappeared" for the next 1200 days

(peak covid was 3000 deaths per day)

This country is going to get really horrific, really really fast

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gop-gives-ice-massive-budg...

> Tom Homan, as well as Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller have made very clear that they intend on spending the billions in this bill. Tom Homan said this week that they want to arrest 7,000 people every day for the remainder of the administration
by rayiner | 2025-07-18 16:09:02+00:00
In practice, H1B is a pipeline to citizenship, not just for the worker but their immediate family and extended family (due to family sponsorship). One H1 visa to my dad resulted in seven additional Bangladeshis in the U.S. And my dad did not sponsor a fraction of the family members he could have.

Moreover, foreign mindsets are durable over generations: https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran... ("In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands—toward saving, toward trust, and toward the role of government—that persist for decades, and likely for centuries, in their new national homes. Full assimilation in a generation or two, Jones reports, is a myth.").
by conartist6 | 2025-07-18 16:09:09+00:00
To be more clear: my strategy is to eliminate the room that could be used to undercut me with more virulent technological or techno-social solutions.

GPL would not be eliminating the room to undercut me with a slightly more viral clone of my product, but rather creating more room to undercut me. This is a real problem for a piece of software the value of which is in simplicity not complexity!
by yalok | 2025-07-18 16:09:39+00:00
Just anecdotally, but this aligns with my observations on the trend/growth of successful useful open source projects that go with permissive BSD-like license. ~20 years ago there were way less of those than now.

And as a SW developer doing client side/apps as well, using GPL/LGPL is a total pain and basically cost prohibitive, unless I work on my personal small project where I don’t care about having to/risking to open source the rest of the code and getting sued/cloned…

Real life example from ~2010 - we ended up including an LGPL library in our mobile app code, and published/upstreamed all the modifications we did to that code (mostly ARM optimizations). Once the app became popular, our competitors came to us demanding the source code of our app - just because iOS didn’t support dynamic libraries (so we had to statically link it), and giving them the object code to relink it wasn’t enough for them (which would satisfy the spirit of LGPL), because they really wanted to see how we hacked around iOS camera input APIs…
by speff | 2025-07-18 16:09:50+00:00
I'm pretty sure everyone would take that position so I'm confused why you're implying I wouldn't.

"authorities currently favor one explanation for the pollution"

Tells me that they don't have proof this is the source of the PFAS pollution. If they did, they wouldn't "favor" the explanation, they would just say that's the explanation. I don't support making wide changes based on hunches. Sure - replace the fertilizer with something else for a while and see if that changes the PFAS levels. If it does, sure ban the paper products from being used as fertilizer. But there is a cost associated w/ doing that and that cost has higher-order effects.
by rockorager | 2025-07-18 16:10:18+00:00
I didn't include `busybox` in my initial table, so it isn't on the blog post but the repo has the data...but I am 99% sure busybox does not have locale support, so I think GNU ls without locale support would probably be closer to busybox.

Locales also bring in a lot more complicated sorting - so that could be a factor also.
by clmckinley | 2025-07-18 16:10:36+00:00
This was my first thought when i read the headline. Many people were told to get CS degrees because they will get a job, not because they love it. The cost of quitting a degree or not using a "valuable" degree is relatively high, especially for people who are inclined to coast. Most people who start college also graduate, even if they aren't prepared or love their program, so we have lots of bad cs graduates.

On the other hand, most people I know have at least dabbled in learning to code. In this case the cost of quitting is very low and the cost of getting good is reasonably high, so it self-selects for people who excel at it and love it.

That said, if you only compare people with similar aptitudes, my experience is that people with formal training are better.

tl;dr: The most important thing to me is comparing past work, interview and personality. If you have a CS degree with no personal projects, you won't get a job offer. If you don't have a degree but have active projects with good code then I don't care if you have a degree. That said, I have been getting hundreds of applications for every entry level job I post so I can normally find someone who has both.
by MarkusQ | 2025-07-18 16:10:45+00:00
Yeah. And that's really important; If someone makes a correct claim by accident, say they misread a paper that incorrectly claims X as correctly claiming not-X, we shouldn't consider it evidence that they are trustworthy or honest, just lucky.

But then you have cases where someone correctly cites a source that they know to be incorrect (or at least plausibly should know). This is commonly done when flawed studies are funded specifically so they can be cited. This is arguably even more egregious lying, yet would pass a consistency based "fact check".

Likewise, the factual claim ("eight out of ten doctors surveyed recommend smoking brand-x") can be true while the implication is false.

In short, I'm not claiming such checks can't catch liars (they can), just that passing such checks doesn't mean they were telling the truth or what they said or implied was correct.
by 112233 | 2025-07-18 16:10:48+00:00
This thing is made out of corner cases: https://www.invisible-island.net/vttest/

I am sure capturing it's output will provide endless source of amusement and despair.

There are sequences from real terminal (e.g. stuff documented at vt100.net), sequences from ECMA 48 and friends (most of it likely never implemented), and de-facto behaviour of different software. Infamous examples being original windows terminal, rxvt (ugh), linux co nsole, emacs terminal.

Most vexing behaviour is background fill on newline, incorrect characters in terminal reports, broken scroll region, inability to write in bottom-right position etc.

This project looks fun! But it leads to endless narrow abandoned places. Hopefully you will enjoy the experience!
by k4rli | 2025-07-18 16:10:51+00:00
Can confirm. Recently purchased ugreen nexode gan 100w has the same issue. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/aw/d/B0CYT1VVMV

Other than that it seems to work fine. Even though it's only 100W I haven't had to use the Dell 130W charger in a while.
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-07-18 16:11:06+00:00
I'd also like to comment on how everything used to be a PCIE expansion card.

Your GPU was, and we also used to have dedicated math coprocessor accelerators. Now most of the expansion card tech is all done by general purpose hardware, which while cheaper will never be as good as a custom dedicated silicon chip that's only focused on 1 task.

Its why I advocate for a separate ML/AI card instead of using GPU's. Sure their is hardware architecture overlap but your sacrificing so much because your AI cards are founded on GPU hardware.

I'd argue the only AI accelerators are something like what goes into modern SXM (sockets). This ditches the power issues and opens up more bandwidth. However only servers have the sxm sockets....and those are not cheap.
by jsnell | 2025-07-18 16:11:09+00:00
> Can OpenAI stop spending on research to get their costs down?

They do not need to. Their costs are already really low given the size and nature of their user base.

> “Can OpenAI do this simple thing” is the whole question!

There was a claim by someone else about OpenAI's unit costs being unsustainably high: I gave the data that shows they aren't. They are in fact quite low compared to those of bigtechs running comparable consumer services.

Then you said that the real problem was OpenAI's R&D costs being so high. I gave the data showing that is not the case. Their R&D costs are very low compared to those of bigtechs running comparable consumer services.

So I take it that you now agree that their unit and R&D costs are indeed low compared to the size of their user base? And the main claim is that they can't actually monetize without losing their users?

It seems hard to be totally confident about that claim either way, we'll only know once they start monetizing. But it is the case that the monetization they'd need to be profitable is going to be comparatively light. It just follows directly out of their cost structure (which is why the cost structure is interesting). They don't need to extract Facebook levels of money out of each user to be profitable. They can keep the ad volumes low and the ad formats inconspicuous to start with, and then boil the frog over a decade.

Like, somebody in the comments for this post said that ChatGPT has recently started showing affiliate links (clearly separated from the answer) for queries about buying products. I hadn't heard about it before now, but that is obvious place to start from: high commissions, high click through rates, and it's the use case where the largest proportion of users will like having the ads rather than annoyed by them.

So it seems that we'll find out sooner rather than later. But I'd be willing to bet money that there won't be any exodus of users from OpenAI due to ads.

Instead you'll see a slow ratchet effect: as OpenAI increases their level of ad-based monetization for ChatGPT, the less popular chatbots will follow a step or two behind. Basically let OpenAI establish the norms for frequency and norms and take the minimal heat from it, but not try to become some kind of anti-ad champions promising free service with no ads in perpetuity.

The reason I expect this is that we haven't seen it happen in other similar businesses. Nobody tried to for example make a search engine with no monetization. They might have tried e.g. making search engines that promised no personalized ad targeting, but nobody tried just completely disowning the entire business model.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-18 16:11:28+00:00
There is also the madness that is armoured MMA or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Medieval_Combat_... . They don't seem to sacrifice much, apart from points and sharp edges. But they seem to have a fair few concussions and broken bones, as a result. If you have never seen it, have a look on YouTube. It's pretty mad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4vADoT9pQ
by cosmicgadget | 2025-07-18 16:11:33+00:00
> The majority in SCOTUS does not seem to care

Well plain 'rules' are going to be firmly within the executive's discretion to change. So what you need is statutes.

Statutes might not help much though, due to the immunity/pardon hack. And we may even be seeing SCOTUS reexamine if the president is bound by statute.

This is fine.
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 16:12:26+00:00
From a developer/business point of view, there's no reason to use a more restrictive GPL dependency if it's not clearly "superior" to a permissively-licensed one.

The article makes a case that this will eventually push GPL out of the mainstream. No one will use GPL because they "have to" (which is the whole premise of copyleft!). It will only be used by enthusiasts
by 542354234235 | 2025-07-18 16:12:37+00:00
I think it might be an error in the article, specifically

>A minute later, the detective sent the fire marshal Ahmed’s name, date of birth and driver’s license number. Within five minutes, the fire marshal replied, “Bingo.”

I believe that is supposed to say that the fire marshal sent the detective the license information. The Fire Marshal was clearly able to find identifiable information online, in the form of multiple high school photos, but was unsuccessful getting a match to any social media accounts. So the facial recognition worked and found matches in Clearview AI’s database of scraped school photos, but not their database of scraped social media photos.

Then the Fire Marshal offered to get a driver’s license photo, and says he has access [presumably to the DMV database]. The fact the about a minute later, license information was passed, sounds like a search was run by the Fire Marshal, a match popped up, and he sent it to the detective. But it could be that the detective used high school photos (being higher quality and full front facing) to run a search against the DMV records (which the police have access to with “permission from supervisors”) but according to other articles about the NYPD in general, it doesn't seem like that are able to run facial recognition on DMV records.

Either way, I think the ID came directly from the information the Fire Marshal passed and the Judge said as much.

>The NYPD would not have identified Ahmed but for the FDNY’s Clearview AI search and accessing the DMV photo, the judge indicated in her ruling
by ak217 | 2025-07-18 16:13:06+00:00
The key to productivity with these tools (as with most things) is a tight feedback loop.

Cursor has an amazing tab completion model. It uses a bunch of heuristics to try to understand what you're doing and accelerate it. It's a bit like a very advanced macro engine, except I don't have to twist my brain into a pretzel trying to program my editor - it just works, and when it doesn't I press Esc, which takes about half a second. Or I reach for the agentic mode, where the iteration cycle is more like 30 seconds to a minute.

With the fully agentic editors, it takes more like 15 to 30 minutes, and now it's a full on interruption in my flow. Reviewing the agent's output is a chore. It takes so much more mental bandwidth than the quick accept/reject cycle in the editor. And I have to choose between giving it network access (huge security hazard) or keeping it offline (crippling it in most codebases).

I find that for throwaway codebases where I don't care about maintenance/security/reliability, I can put up with this. It's also incredibly useful when working with a language or framework that I don't fully understand (but the model understands better). But for most of my work it produces poor results and ends up being a net negative for productivity - for now.

I'm sure this will improve, but for now I consistently get better results in Cursor.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-07-18 16:13:13+00:00
>I'll personally always defend the idea of free speech, no matter the side.

You attacked the idea of free speech for the other side in the same comment where you said this. I would assume based on reference to government infringements that you're referring to the first amendment as "free speech" if you hadn't specifically emphasized "idea"; conservatives have no real first amendment case, but they do get censored and suppressed by people with power. The idea of free speech is very much still in play when university admin cancels a guest speaker or a forum moderator only allows left-wing or non-political posts. What am I missing here?
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-18 16:13:26+00:00
Many people with psychiatric challenges (both acute or chronic disorders) will often seek self-medication options. Marijuana is indeed a mild hallucinogen, but you are correct in that many hard drugs can trigger a psychotic episode. Often illegal dealers lace the stuff with addictive compounds that cause severe problems during withdrawal.

Having a family member with active untreated disorders can tilt the odds out of ones favor, but those with intellectual gifts also tend to be more resilient to such situations.

>The denialism and propaganda campaigns bother me

Understandable, after a few years people see the same excuses, exploitive scams, and rhetoric. The Sackler family ruined a lot of lives to capture that money, and I guess a few psychopaths saw a business opportunity.

Best of luck =3
by kappi | 2025-07-18 16:13:35+00:00
why is ycombinator promoting immigration thru H1B when so many US born CS grads are finding it hard to get job. In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science. That same year, our federal government handed out work permits to at least 110,098 foreign workers in computer occupations through just three major guest worker programs. That's equal to 82% of our graduating class who are guaranteed jobs even before any Americans walk across the stage for their diploma. https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-it...
by jorangreef | 2025-07-18 16:13:53+00:00
Vasco! In a past life I've implemented (and tuned) things like Cauchy by hand, but we don't use any of that in TigerBeetle. Nevertheless, the experiences and learnings around that were valuable for me personally, and I don't think I'd have been able to do TigerBeetle without putting in those hours. Wish you all the best, man!
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-18 16:13:55+00:00
People keep saying this like the American voting public is dumb. They (I am a US citizen) knew exactly what they were getting and wanted it. They would rather suffer as long as they “own the libs”, have a government that is hostile to non straight, non White people and Isreal is protected so Jesus will have some place to come back to (no exaggeration).

No I don’t have a personal opinion on Isreal either way. I don’t know enough and I’m sure there is more nuance than I’m aware of.
by mikece | 2025-07-18 16:14:27+00:00
Serious question: can the case really be made that American CS grads (and other entry-level tech folks) are clearly inferior to the potential pool of H-1B applicants?

If the answer is in the affirmative then we need to study and address why that is.

If not, then I'm curious how many qualified Americans are being pushed out of (ore prevented from entering) the high tech job market by H-1B applicants.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-18 16:14:34+00:00
Demand. When the first 5,000 units cost a mil a piece, few manufacturers are going to go all in, especially when a product improvement could make their systems obsolete before they're finished being built.

If you had a large country like china or the us or some other big baller walk in and say, "make 5,000 MRIs to these specs and we'll buy them" then by the end that manufacturer could quite possibly crank out another 5,000 for comparative pennies and flood the market, but until someone puts a few billion on the line it's not going to happen.
by elsjaako | 2025-07-18 16:15:07+00:00
I don't see why a company that refuses to add to a GPL project has a "decent change" of releasing their code under a more permissive license.

If you're going to talk about theoretical behavior from big companies, you can make stories any way you want.

Let's say a big company selling computers wants to include a PCB editing software by default. If KiCAD was Apache licensed they may be tempted to make a special version for their customers, as a unique selling point. But it's GPL, so they have to choose between rewriting completely (a huge process), or just publishing the changes and being happy to include a good program.

Or a company makes modifications to a GPL program for internal use, and decides they want to share it with partners/customers later.

I have no reason to think these stories are more or less likely than the story of a company completely rejecting the GPL option but still deciding to upstream their changes.
by thisislife2 | 2025-07-18 16:15:11+00:00
That's a separate issue. The US is an exception where evidence that is collected illegally (see 'fruit of the poisonous tree' - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree ) is not allowed in court. Thus, US law enforcements have come up with many creative means (like Parallel Construction - https://restorethe4th.com/our-new-brief-on-parallel-construc... ) to hide the fact that evidence was collected illegally. If you want justice to be done in the US, you want US law enforcement to comply with the law. Otherwise it could result in a miscarriage of justice - the guilty may escape because of police misconduct or innocents may be persecuted by the violation of their rights. This loophole used seems to be the grey area of the law. But loopholes too are slippery slopes in the law and shouldn't exist.
by rvz | 2025-07-18 16:15:32+00:00
> We identified a total of 1,862 MCP servers exposed to the internet. From this set, we manually verified a sample of 119. All 119 servers granted access to internal tool listings without authentication.

Here we go again.

Before we had seen (and there still) MongoDB databases exposed all over the internet with zero credentials protecting them. (you can just connect to them and you are in.)

Now we have exposed MCP servers waiting to be prompt injected and their data to be exfiltrated from say, a connected service or database if they are connected to any. [0]

So now you can just talk to anyone's exposed MCP server and ask for the secret passwords, environment variables and sensitive data.

And the AI will just hand it all over.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507024