MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-05 16:33:08+00:00
>If they truly believed we’re at most five years from world-transforming AI, they wouldn’t be switching jobs, no matter how large the pay bump (they’re already affluent).

What ridiculous logic is this? TO base the entire premise that AGI is not imminent based on job switching? How about basing it on something more concrete.

How do people come up with such shakey foundations to support their conclusions? It's obvious. They come up with the conclusion first then they find whatever they can to support it. Unfortunately if dubious logic is all that's available then that's what they will say.
by lazarus01 | 2025-07-05 16:33:50+00:00
< I have an unusually high need to own the understanding of any thing I'm learning

This is called deprivation sensitivity. It’s different from intellectual curiosity, where the former is a need to understand vs. the latter, which is a need to know.

Deprivation sensitivity comes with anxiety and stress. Where intellectual curiosity is associated with joyous exploration.

I score very high with deprivation sensitivity. I have unbridled drive to acquire and retain important information.

It’s a blessing and curse. An exhausting way 2 live. I love it but sometimes wish I was not neurodivergent.
by cainxinth | 2025-07-05 16:34:30+00:00
1.6 oz tube of paste and 2 oz tin of filets. I chop the filets fairly well but not so much that they become a paste, too. This makes enough dressing for a very large salad (with two romaine hearts and one or two full romaines). I have made it and saved some and it keeps fairly well, but I typically make it fresh.
by kcplate | 2025-07-05 16:34:53+00:00
> deserves credit for calling out something important that rarely gets discussed: the importance of emotion for producing great art

That’s subjective though. An opinion I agree with, but still subjective.

I think it’s within the realm of possibility given the advances we have seen so far that a near future AI given enough input describing emotion could simulate it just enough for people to accept that it created a “decent” work. Likely undetectable by most people as AI created vs human created.

> we have no idea how to solve these problems.

Yet. Obviously time and talent moved us from Eliza to ChatGPT/Gemini. Is it really unlikely that time and talent can’t push us over the artificial emotion precipice as well? I am not betting against it.
by mho22 | 2025-07-05 16:35:02+00:00
When you pull or check out a branch, Flint formats the fetched files using your local style and makes a temporary commit so that Git operations work without conflict. Then, before pushing, Flint resets that commit and re-applies formatting using the remote style. This ensures your working copy stays in your preferred format while the code pushed to the repository always matches the remote standard. This is why it needs more than pre and post commit hooks.
by motorest | 2025-07-05 16:35:11+00:00
> You aren't doing your job as a leader if this is your attitude to good engineers.

This is precisely the mistake you are making: conflating egregious types who post code as "good engineers". They are not. They are incompetent.

There is no engineering activity that is not driven.by teams. Being able to work effecticely in a team environment is therefore a very basic and critical skill. Those who are unable to work in a team environment are lacking a very basic and critical skill. Those who fail at this basic skill to the point they are dubbed as "toxic" end up sabotaging your whole team, needlessly creating problems to everyone around them, and preventing any collaboration to take place.

If this problem is introduced by a single team member, it is in everyone's best interest to just cut the cancer.
by anishreddyk | 2025-07-05 16:35:12+00:00
Hey all — just wanted to share something we’ve been working on that might resonate with folks here.

We built Identipix (no social, no scrolling, no algorithms) as a way to make sharing personal event photos way easier — especially for people who don’t want to dump their work into traditional social media.

It’s meant for events, group outings, or photo walks: our AI figures out who’s in each photo and sends only their photos directly to them via WhatsApp(sms and email coming soon). The idea is to skip the hunt through 300+ images or having to build galleries no one browses. Everyone just gets their moments — instantly.

We started it to help photographers save time, and give guests something more personal than a public Dropbox folder. There’s no public-facing feed, and it’s built around privacy by default.

It’s still early days, but if you’re curious to test it at a small gathering, meetup, or even your next photo walk — let me know. We’re looking for feedback from thoughtful folks like this community. Happy to offer a few free uses for early testers.

Cheers — Anish Reddy identipix.com
by vlovich123 | 2025-07-05 16:35:24+00:00
Depends on the specific loop and that’s where the problem is. For many cases, “good enough performance” is ok. However, in other cases like graphics hotspots, video decoders, LLMs etc, performance is actually a requirement and the compiler being free to not do the right thing is a problem. Also, even if it vectorizes it might not vectorize correctly which still violates the contract and there’s no way to have that contract with the compiler is a problem (ie have it fail to compile instead of producing the wrong code)
by ekianjo | 2025-07-05 16:35:28+00:00
> it was enabled by doctors but they were deceived by Purdue Pharma and Sackler family.

it was enabled by doctors accepting kick backs for the prescriptions (legal ones but still kick backs). And lets not forget that medical professionals are supposed to have eyes. When most of your patients get strongly addicted to the drug you are prescribing, you are supposed to ask questions not blindly follow what a company tells you.
by rectang | 2025-07-05 16:35:53+00:00
When titles are changed, the intent as I understand it is to nudge discussion towards thoughtful exchange. Discussion is forever threatening to spin out of control towards flame wars and the moderators work hard to prevent that.

I think that if you want to understand why it might be helpful to change the title, consider how well "NVIDIA is full of shit" follows the HN comment guidelines.

I don't imagine you will agree with the title change no matter what, but I believe that's essentially the rationale. Note that the topic wasn't flagged, which if suppression of the author's ideas or protection of Nvidia were goals would have been more effective.

(FWIW I have plenty of issues with HN but how titles are handled isn't one of them.)
by bluesounddirect | 2025-07-05 16:35:58+00:00
Honestly if i were to pivot from computers to anything else it would be a skilled trade. Electrician , Mason, Plumber in that order . My father was a electrical engineer but all of his older family/ cousins were Taylors , carpenters and in the general garment business selling clothes, Its not easy work but i toil on cs stuff and have nothing to look at, for a sense of accomplishment.
by bcrl | 2025-07-05 16:36:55+00:00
I already have a 4 x SFP+ FMC board attached to my KC705, and that is what I have used for a bunch of development. However, that is the opposite of what I want to do. I want the FPGA to be inside of the SFP+ / QSFP module to be able to plug it into a switch without external hardware.

Microchip has an app note on putting a Polarfire into an SFP+ module complete with a board layout, but nobody is building them as near as I can tell. Lattice has a similar app note, but, again, they only sell the much larger eval boards.
by grg0 | 2025-07-05 16:37:24+00:00
Even if you use a stateful monad (not necessarily the State monad), you can take snapshots of the state of the machine and literally produce a log. You haven't lost immutability or the time machine, and you can 'deriving Show' the hell out of everything and get human-readable output for free. Fuck, you could even lift functions in such a way that they produce a trace of assertions that each function of (state -> state) must satisfy. A state-debugger-log monad.

Not that you'd need a monad for something like this anyway.
by UncleEntity | 2025-07-05 16:37:48+00:00
Heh, didn't know there was a name for it...

What I've taken to lately is getting the robots to write "scientific papers" on what I want them to get up to so instead of iterating over broken code I can just ask them "does this change follow the specification?" Seems to stop them from doing overly stupid things...mostly.

Plus, since what I've been working on is just a mash-up of other people's ideas, it provides a good theoretical foundation of how all the different bits fit together. Just give them the paper you've been working on and some other paper and ask how the two can be used together, a lot of the time the two ideas aren't compatible so it saves a lot of time trying to force two thing to work when they really shouldn't. Very good way to explore different ideas without the robots going all crazy and producing a full code project (complete with test and build suites) instead of just giving a simple answer.
by purple_turtle | 2025-07-05 16:38:29+00:00
> Some people can eat and eat and stay slim, even without much exercise

In my experience people described this way typically do not eat as much. For example they often drink much less calories or eat a lot on parties, but do not snack massively on typical day.

In rare cases they have something weird with health or metabolism (parasites or severe health issue that as side effects results in severe weight loss).
by wchao1115 | 2025-07-05 16:38:33+00:00
Heard members of Congress complained they didn't have time to read the bill before voting, I thought who reads anything theses days? And the thing is unreadable anyway, it's like a thousand pages complex legal contract. So I ragged it and put it in a chatbot with gpt4o. I actually learned a lot about this hugemongus bill by just talking to it for a minutes. There are parts of the bill that really suck and parts that are really good, I could have never learned that from the news media. Hopefully this is useful to others as well.
by mikeocool | 2025-07-05 16:39:04+00:00
When I sold some shares in my company, it sure was nice to not pay any taxes thanks to QSBS. But it’s sort of an absurd handout to rich people — I have a hard time believing investment money would flee the US if early stage investors/founders had to pay long term cap gains on their first $10M of gains (after all, we’d still have carried interest to keep the VCs happy).

It’s also already really easy to multiply the limit, by gifting stock to your spouse, kids, or a trust — all of which can be done just before you sell and keep the benefit. So raising that limit just makes it more absurd.

Though, if you’re an employee at an early stage startup and you can afford it/stomach the risk, QSBS is a good reason to exercise your options early.
by lxgr | 2025-07-05 16:40:38+00:00
The author does not seem to understand the difference between Apple Pay (incorrectly spelled as "ApplePay") and in-app purchases, or at least incorrectly assumes both to be called "Apple Pay". This makes the article basically impossible to understand to anyone not noticing that subtlety.

In fact, the actual Apple Pay is considered by Apple to be just another form of third-party payments for apps that sell "in-app-purchase like things" (i.e. prohibited by default, begrudgingly allowed where local law prohibits that limitation).

Apple Pay is Apple's payment card wallet, with Apple completely out of the loop for the actual payment, and there's no extra cost on top of the card payment to the merchant.

"In-app purchases" are a "merchant of record" solution where Apple acts as an intermediary between app vendor and buyer. They handle taxation, refunds, promotion etc., and take a generous cut for that service.

Merchant-of-record solutions have their use case (not everybody wants to deal with local taxation, for example!); what many people are mad about is that Apple generally has a rule that says "you must use ours if you're selling "digital goods" unless you're on a short list of exemptions".

This article, as far as I can tell, is trying to make the argument that Apple ought to allow competition between their merchant-of-record solution, other merchant-of-record solutions, and apps directly acting as the merchant, and I largely agree; I just wish it made that point more legibly.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-05 16:40:42+00:00
Uhhh... nothing I said contradicts Luke Nosek.

Elon was working on a digital bank, not a global currency. His company was failing miserably.

Confinity, who made PayPal, and had a first version working, merged with them.

Elon gets no credit for a 'global currency' idea (nor do I think he and Thiel invented Bitcoin[1]), because Confinity was already working on that idea when they merged and became PayPal properly, in the four months before he was ousted.

My argument was that Elon wasn't all about the global currency.

[1] And Elon definitely didn't invent BitCoin. His ego would never permit him to have kept that a secret for a month, let alone a decade plus.
by saulpw | 2025-07-05 16:41:40+00:00
> considering "out-of-context reasons" and taking a wider perspective is pretty much the defining aspect of LLMs as general-purpose AI tools.

"out-of-context" literally means that the reason isn't in its context. Even if it can make the leap that the number should be zero if it's a bank holiday, how would an LLM know that yesterday was a one-off bank holiday? A human would only know through their lived experience that the markets were shut down, the news was making a big deal over it, etc. It's the same problem using cheap human labor in a different region of the world for this kind of thing; they can perform the mechanical task, but they don't have the context to detect the myriad of ways it can go subtly wrong.
by tom_m | 2025-07-05 16:41:57+00:00
Supply and demand says otherwise. I think costs are actually going to go up.

Right now they are trying to make sure the AI you run on your phone can't be used for coding or other tasks. They want to keep it expensive. They have no incentive to make it more efficient. No need.

The models aren't designed for efficiency either. There was a little scare with DeepSeek, but it turned out to be nothing. At the end of the day you need a lot of hardware and juice to run these things at scale. The costs aren't coming down any time soon. Nor is the impact to the environment unfortunately either.
by n3t | 2025-07-05 16:42:28+00:00
Can you provide an example?

I've just checked 3 different apps which offer premium features. All of them go straight to Apple Pay, without showing any other options.

EDIT: okay, I think get it now. In-app purchases != taking payments in general. E.g. I have different options for payments when using the Amazon app but only Apple Pay when buying a pro version of a metronome app. It's in-app purchases that force Apple Pay.
by benreesman | 2025-07-05 16:42:48+00:00
I'm very much on the record that I want Altman tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity, and he's not the only one. So I'm no sympathizer of the TESCREAL/EA sociopaths who run frontier AI labs in 2025 (Amodei is no better).

And in a lot of areas it's clearly just copyright laundering, the way the Valley always says that breaking the law is progress if it's done with a computer (AI means computer now in policy circles).

But on code? Coding is sort of a special case in the sense that our tradition of sharing/copying/pasting/gisting-to-our-buddies-fuck-the-boss is so strong that it's kind of a different thing. Coding is also a special case on LLMs being at all useful over and above like, non-spammed Google, it's completely absurd that they generalize outside of that hyper-specific niche. And it's completely absurd the `gpt-4-1106-preview` was better than pre-AI/pre-SEO Google: LLM is both arsonist and fireman like Ethan Hunt in that Mission Impossible flick with Alex Baldwin.

So if you're asking if I think the frontier vendors have the moral high ground on anything? No, they're very very bad people and I don't associate with people who even work there.

But if you're asking if I care about my code going into a model?

https://i.ibb.co/1YPxjVvq/2025-07-05-12-40-28.png
by jcalvinowens | 2025-07-05 16:44:30+00:00
This is awesome. I can't tell you how many times in my life I've been sent a photo of a Linux panic bracktrace with the first half missing because the screen couldn't display enough lines...

Funny story: on an x86 motherboard with no serial, I recently resorted to using an old 4K monitor with the 4x6 tiny console font to catch a panic (that netconsole wouldn't log for some reason).
by fn-mote | 2025-07-05 16:45:40+00:00
If you make it far enough, you get to the part where they talk about what they are going to do about it.

> I’m looking forward to exploring all of these issues over the next few months in writing, in engagements with the public, and by other means.

It seems they don’t believe that their name will be added to the list as a “persona non grata” who will be toxic for others to associate with. For the sake of democracy, I certainly hope they will not be another name on the list.

> In that way, I hope, I can continue my service to the United States and—of equal importance to me, at this point in my life—to those who still carry FBI credentials.
by pxc | 2025-07-05 16:45:41+00:00
> Annoyingly, Microsoft also back in May decided to just remove us from Bing News and massively deranked us, following 1 single hour downtime due to a data centre problem and show no signs of putting us back in - which was a bit of a blow (so we barely appear in anything like DuckDuckGo now). I've tried explaining this to Microsoft, and they just don't care.

Maybe they don't care. But sidelining publications like this works in Microsoft's favor, whether they're explicitly/deliberately working towards that outcome or not.
by bombcar | 2025-07-05 16:46:45+00:00
Terry loved his characters in a way that's hard to express - unless they were pure evil (and he had a few) he did his best to understand their motivations in such a way that he came to portray them sympathetically.

This is most noticeable in his caricatures that became characters that became badasses over multiple novels; the Watch has a few of these, but there are others.
Show HN: Liryo – Book journal app that tracks stats, goals and spending
by roxanamb | 2025-07-05 16:46:57+00:00
I built Liryo, a reading-journal app to log books and see stats.

Features:

- heat-map dashboard

- book logging & ratings

- daily goals & streaks

- cronometer sync

- custom lists & favourites

- spending tracker

- multilingual

- export reviews

Feedback welcome! — https://liryo.app
by Hilift | 2025-07-05 16:47:05+00:00
> I had served as a field supervisor over a counterintelligence squad in the Washington Field Office.

Counter-intel has a shelf life of around three months in the DC area. It isn't like there weren't multiple opportunities for the FEEB to do something. Oleg Deripaska had multiple properties in the US, including one in NYC and one across the street from Kellyanne Conway near 30th and Massachusetts Ave in DC. Deripaska visited the US on a diplomatic passport multiple times in 2017-2018 and no-one found anything on him? And Charles McGonigal, a retired NYC FBI agent pleaded guilty in 2023 to providing services to Deripaska, who was under US sanctions?
by imtringued | 2025-07-05 16:47:11+00:00
Robotics is one area where it is painfully obvious how inadequate the current static weight paradigm is.

Biological brains are extremely good continual learners. They don't need to be trained ahead of time at all for basic motor skills. They'll learn on their own and sharing information merely speeds the process up.

There is no such thing as a data problem. The scaling paradigm isn't obsolete because it doesn't work, it's obsolete because it appears to be wholly unnecessary.

Think about it, why the hell would it be necessary for every single person wanting a robot butler in the house to take a video of their kitchen and then blend it with tens of thousands of other kitchens, just so the robot knows your specific kitchen in and out? The other kitchens are irrelevant to you. You don't care about them.
by tom_m | 2025-07-05 16:47:15+00:00
And also if they can keep up. Imagine not just selling that many GPUs, but selling that many new GPUs every few years for the same amount of money or more. Where the previous generation hardware becomes almost worthless.

The insane thing here is that $35B worth of GPUs will be worth more like $350m in a few years. Or less. Who can keep up with that???
by Habgdnv | 2025-07-05 16:47:41+00:00
Currently there are laws but not for hosting. Look at the contract of Steam for example or Ubisoft, or anything else - Q: What happens to your game collection if we shut down our servers? A: You own nothing and lose everything, GG!

It is like that we must protect users privacy from greedy websites so we will make the bad ones spell out that they use cookies to spy on users - and the result is what we have now with the banners.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-05 16:51:03+00:00
SIMD instructions are used for much more than parallelizing math on primitive types. I think this assumption is whence disagreement on this originates.

It is all of this "other" code where the differences and incompatibilities between SIMD instruction sets become painfully obvious. There are many cases where a good mapping from one SIMD ISA to another doesn't really exist, even between nominally related instruction sets like AVX-512 and AVX2.

The common denominator is sufficiently limited that it doesn't help that much in many cases and in fact may be worse than a use case specific SIMD abstraction that carefully navigates these differences but doesn't generalize.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-07-05 16:51:40+00:00
> Not many compilers support vector functions

Hrm. Anyone who has spent time writing SIMD optimizations know not to trust the compiler.

If you want to write SIMD then… just use intrinsics? It’s a bit annoying to create a wrapper that supports x64 SSE/AVX and also Arm NEON. But that’s what we’ve been doing for decades.
by benreesman | 2025-07-05 16:51:58+00:00
I suppose I'm guilty of the high crime of replying on a phone where the usernames are small, you were continuing a line of thought and I answered the renewed objections to my very reasonable point. `somenameforme` and `spacedmadness` look a lot alike at 8pt.

This is one of those comments where I'm like, I bet the big LLM can write a FireFox extension that will block HN comments by username now...
by conartist6 | 2025-07-05 16:52:04+00:00
But that isn't my point. Regardless of whether they're honest, have we even agreed that "AGI" is good?

Everyone is so tumbling over themselves even to discuss will-it-won't-it, but they seem to think about it like some kind of Manhattan project or Space race.

Like, they're *so sure* it's gonna take everyone's jobs so that there will be nothing left for people other than a life of leisure. To me this just sounds like the collapse of society, but apparently the only thing worse would be if China got the tech first. Oh no, they might use it to collapse their society!

Somebody's math doesn't add up.
by empiko | 2025-07-05 16:52:09+00:00
AI generated reviews are a huge problem even at the most prestigious ML conferences. It is hard to argue against them, since the weaknesses they identify are usually in well formulated, and it is hard to argue that subjectively they are not that important. ACL recently started requiring Limitations section in their paper where authors should transparently discuss what are the limits. Unfortunately, that section is basically a honeypot for AI reviews as they can easily identify the sentences where authors admitted that their paper is not perfect and use it to generate reasons to reject. As a result, I started recommending being really careful in that particular section.