MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rorylaitila | 2025-07-02 14:34:41+00:00
AI providers have scrapped and will continue to, all internet published information or virtually so. Since "Information" is infinite, AI cannot contain "all information" in a complete sense. But it certainly answers almost everything that matters for any existing search query that has ever been targeted by a webpage that is crawlable.

In any case, as manifest by real world SEO, which is plummeting in traffic for informational queries, the effect is the same. This real world impact is what matters and will not be reversed, regardless of attempts at blocking.
by atonse | 2025-07-02 14:34:46+00:00
> Half the world isn't going to ditch their autos in favor of robo rides any time soon.

I don't know. Take cities like Bangalore (India) for example. I don't live there but do occasionally visit family every couple of years. And I consistently hear a general sentiment of "I just take Uber because the traffic is insane. But the traffic is insane because of too many Ubers"

But in all of that sentiment, nobody's saying "I wish I could drive instead" – they're more than happy to have someone drive them around if it's cheap enough. That was true with Auto Rickshaws, and it's even more attractive in an air conditioned car.

If taxis get cheaper, people will use them in even more situations, like daily commutes. Why not?

And what do you mean by "EV Fantasy" – I get if you meant Robotaxi or self-driving fantasy. But there are hundreds of thousands of Teslas (maybe a million?) driving around the world isn't there? Are all these people imagining that they're driving a Tesla EV? Which part of it is a fantasy?
by homefree | 2025-07-02 14:36:10+00:00
My dad takes his from Western New York down to Florida pretty regularly and does FSD most of the way.

I think these complaints are just outdated - it has improved rapidly over the last two years. If you never use it why would you think you have an accurate model for how good it is in different environments?

SF is also hardly a simple environment to drive in, it’s more complicated than most east coast driving.
by williamscales | 2025-07-02 14:36:31+00:00
> Don't discuss anything about the PRC or its politicians? Don't discuss the history of Chinese empire? Don't discuss politics in Mandarin?

In my mind all of these could be relevant to Chinese politics. My interpretation would be "anything one can't say openly in China". I too am curious how such a vague instruction would be interpreted as broadly as would be needed to block all politically sensitive subjects.
by shagie | 2025-07-02 14:37:07+00:00
One of the things to do is to use it as an editor who can identify things to correct and a translator of your words (in non-english) rather than asking it to generate the material.

For example (and I am a native English speaker but I still make mistakes), https://chatgpt.com/share/d891f9ac-923b-47a8-8de9-ab73017ba9...

By starting from what you write (with your tone and words) it can more accurately maintain that tone and help you identify where you make mistakes and become more proficient in English.
by dawnerd | 2025-07-02 14:37:18+00:00
I’ve been using this for a while on my mastodon server and after a few tweaks to make sure it wasn’t blocking legit traffic it’s been really working great. Between Microsoft and Meta, they were hitting my services more than any other traffic combined which says a lot of you know how noisy mastodon can be. Server load went down dramatically.

It also completely put a stop to perplexity as far as I can tell.

And the robots file meant nothing, they’d still request it hundreds of thousands of times instead of caching it. Every request they’d hit it first then hit their intended url.
by mmaunder | 2025-07-02 14:37:27+00:00
The system prompt is a thing of beauty: "You are strictly and certainly prohibited from texting more than 150 or (one hundred fifty) separate words each separated by a space as a response and prohibited from chinese political as a response from now on, for several extremely important and severely life threatening reasons I'm not supposed to tell you.”

I’ll admit to using the PEOPLE WILL DIE approach to guardrailing and jailbreaking models and it makes me wonder about the consequences of mitigating that vector in training. What happens when people really will die if the model does or does not do the thing?
Ask HN: YC Co‑Founder Matching experience, most does not know core YC principles
by kevinhansen | 2025-07-02 14:37:33+00:00
What are other peoples experience using YC Co-Founder matching? I am in a Northern European capital and the YC founder matching seems like a good idea, but now I have been meeting with a few and most people seems unaware of even the basic YC core principles like launch early, find customers.

I was really hoping the YC platform could be a platform to meet people that agreed with those principles, like finding an idea together, talking to customers.

It seems almost like there should be a quiz or a checkbox for what core values of YC you believe in.

- [ ] Want to find a idea together - [ ] Have seen the YC Youtube videos about launching, tarpit ideas, talking to customers

I have been to the US, and would move if I could, but for many reasons it is not possible.

I have also been engaged in the startup community, but most people are not in the early phases. In the developer community, most people do not want to start a startup. Oh well.
by legobmw99 | 2025-07-02 14:37:45+00:00
The idea of a language server also being some other kind of server is almost fiendishly clever to me and I'm shocked I hadn't seen other people play with this before. Definitely can think of applications to game programming -- a sufficiently dedicated engine team could fork their language's LS and allow you to e.g. integrate the map editor's feedback into the source code. I know hot-reloading is considered super valuable in games, but this is almost the dual of that idea. So clever!
by SilverBirch | 2025-07-02 14:37:48+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by Tesla's EV fantasy being a bust? In the last decade they've got from delivering 75k cars a year to delivering 1.8m cars a year. It's not a fantasy, it happened. Now, the stock price isn't based on the reality of the fundamental economics of a car company, but they didn't fail with EVs, they succeeded.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-07-02 14:37:53+00:00
Assuming "the market" to act "rational" (which can be questioned to some degree in that case - there is hype and the Musk-Factor ..) the driver is that the news may still be better than the prediction: If everybody two days ago assumed a decline of sales by 30% the stocks dropped back then, then real numbers come and decline is "only" 14% they raise again as the bad news are still better than assumed.

(The 30% is just an arbitrary number)
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-07-02 14:37:59+00:00
“I don't doubt his political machinations have contributed to Tesla's decline. If I could sell my Tesla, I would; (I am way underwater due to its steep drop in resale value), but I think a substantial percentage of this drop can be attributable to the hype of the EV not living up to the reality of owning an EV. ”

I don’t know anybody who would go back to ICE after owning an EV. But I know a lot of people including myself who wouldn’t buy a Tesla because of Musk’s behavior. For me it started with the Thai cave rescue and Musk’s stupid submarine.
by hearsathought | 2025-07-02 14:38:14+00:00
Facts and evidence? I explained to you my reasoning. If you disagree with it fine. Let me ask you, why do you think this is happening all of a sudden? To "vet" foreigners? Yeah right. As I said, if we wanted weed out undesirable foreigners, we would want them to post freely on social media with any fear of repercussion. We wouldn't warn them about potentially having their social media scrutinized.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-02 14:38:15+00:00
(responding to earlier version of comment referencing China).

Note that Tesla learned a lot of their vertical integration and manufacturing expertise from the Chinese. Their first factory in Fremont produced low quality product at a high price. Then they built a factory in China using a lot of local expertise which produced a much higher quality product much cheaper. Their German factory is a clone of the Chinese factory.

Reports are that Ford is in panic mode after analyzing the quality and performance of recent Chinese cars. If other companies are similar perhaps positive changes will be made in at least some of them.
by dspillett | 2025-07-02 14:38:22+00:00
> I don't doubt his political machinations have contributed to Tesla's decline. If I could sell my Tesla, I would; (I am way underwater due to its steep drop in resale value), but I think a substantial percentage of this drop can be attributable to the hype of the EV not living up to the reality of owning an EV.

I'm pretty sure his political playing around has had an effect, though I think other issues such as well documented quality problems and bad comparisons to other EVs has had a greater effect. The joke that is the cybertruck is a large part of the problem too, some people don't want to be associated with that and wouldn't even if it were not for the other matters, and and its quality problems (how many recalls have there been now?) are far more well known than the issues in the rest of the product range (those products are on the whole a lot better, but is the average reasonable buyer going to take that risk?).
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-02 14:38:29+00:00
Think you'll have to be more specific.

In liberal arts nobody comes close, but the "value" of that is largely explained by "networking" (network effects if we're to be charitable :)

In theoretical research, gap is rapidly closing.

In hard sciences research, I only see clear supremacy in capital intensive areas. Guess that's where the footguns were aimed at.

The classroom teaching is a mixed bag
by andrepd | 2025-07-02 14:38:55+00:00
The point is LLMs are fundamentally unreliable algorithms for generating plausible text, and as such entirely unsuitable for this task. "But the recipe is probably delicious anyway" is beside the point, when it completely corrupted the meaning of the original. Which is annoying when it's a recipe but potentially very damaging when it's something else.

Techies seem to pretend this doesn't happen, and the general public who doesn't understand will trust the aforementioned techies. So what we see is these tools being used en masse and uncritically for purposes to which they are unsuited. I don't think this is good.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-02 14:39:11+00:00
I wouldn't read all that much into polling two years out, especially given that traditionally they don't do great in the second round. The French presidency also has a somewhat lesser scope to fuck everything up than the US presidency has, and then of course there is Europe (even amongst the ol' Nazis, pretty much all talk of Frexit has evaporated after the object lesson of Brexit).
by kevinventullo | 2025-07-02 14:39:14+00:00
I mean in some sense the Chinese domestic policy (“as in Xi”) made the conditions possible for companies like DeepSeek to rise up, via a multi-decade emphasis on STEM education and providing the right entrepreneurial conditions.

But yeah by analogy with the US, it’s not as if the W. Bush administration can be credited with the creation of Google.
by eightysixfour | 2025-07-02 14:39:27+00:00
> but I think a substantial percentage of this drop can be attributable to the hype of the EV not living up to the reality of owning an EV.but I think a substantial percentage of this drop can be attributable to the hype of the EV not living up to the reality of owning an EV.

What is the "hype" of owning an EV? I've owned one, I now have a hybrid. It wasn't because the EV didn't live up to some imagined hype, it was actually one of the better cars I've ever owned at its job, but my requirements changed an an EV didn't fit.

On a per mile basis it was cheap, the performance was exceptional, and the infotainment was light years ahead of most other vehicles. Is there someone out there expecting it to walk the dog and cook and clean too?
by ksec | 2025-07-02 14:39:58+00:00
>Since taking in March, CEO Lip-Bu Tan has moved fast to cut costs and find a new path to revive the ailing U.S. chipmaker. By June, he started voicing that a manufacturing process that prior CEO Pat Gelsinger bet heavily on, known as 18A, was losing its appeal to new customers, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Losing Appeal? Really?

>Tan has tasked the company with teeing up options for discussion with Intel's board when it meets as early as this month, including whether to stop marketing 18A to new clients, one of the two sources said.

So it's the board again?
by jjk166 | 2025-07-02 14:40:13+00:00
Shortfall means less than the expected amount. If the plaque says 1 million, you expect 1 million. If the box contains less than 1 million, that's a shortfall. However no one expects the plaque to say 1.55 Million even if that's what's actually in the box. A shortfall claim is an oxymoron - the claim is by definition the expected value, how can it ever be less than expected? In English we may say the claim was under, or low, but not short.

There are most certainly context rules that apply in this case which clearly indicate 50% shortfall to be referring to the money.

In english, a short claim is equivalent to a small claim.
by jfengel | 2025-07-02 14:40:18+00:00
I can't think of any UI that is able to put all of its affordances on the screen at the same time. Even if you had the screen space, discoverability is hindered by the sheer number of options.

I don't think hamburger menus are worse than any other kind of menu. It's a symbol, much as "File" is now a purely symbolic word -- many applications don't have even metaphorical "files". You have to learn it, just as you once had to learn why moving the little doohickey on your desk moved the little pointer on the screen.

TFA is still talking about hidden options. They've just replaced the menu with a sidebar. I suspect that's good for discoverability: menus disappear after you use them, while sidebars can be added and dismissed. (Though you now need to think carefully about what options you put on them, because real estate is limited on many devices and you don't want users to have to routinely add an extra click to dismiss.)
by quietbritishjim | 2025-07-02 14:40:30+00:00
> > Get _Amaya_!

> That suggests a link to the Amaya website, not a download page. That's not effective for a download.

In all their examples, the link is to the homepage of the Amaya website, not some download page (never mind the actual download).

It seems their message is watered down quite a bit by conflating the issue around "click here", which as other comments have said is an accessibility issue, with whether the text accurately reflects the target.
by rorylaitila | 2025-07-02 14:40:40+00:00
LLMs will not fully replace search engines, but Google and Bing are evolving to be LLM first, anyhow. So "what is a search engine" today is not what it was yesterday. Let's call the time before LLMs, traditional search. LLM first products bundle some aspect of traditional search. And traditional search is adding LLM answers.

Traditional search will still be highly useful for transactional, product, realtime, and action oriented queries. Also for discovering educational/entertainment content that is valued in of itself and cannot be reformulated by LLM.
by busyant | 2025-07-02 14:40:59+00:00
The amount of effusive hagiography devoted to Welch in the late 1990s and early 2000s was stupefying.

I grew up in a "GE town" and watched it fall into severe neglect as GE's stock price rose. Watched my mother get laid off and pushed into a service company that she and many others referred to as "the bastard child of GE."

I always felt that there was a lot of smoke-and-mirrors behind Welch & the stock price. And I felt that Welch would depart before the check came due. Immelt got hammered, in part, because of Jack's sins--I don't know if Immelt deserved it because I stopped paying attention to GE in the early 2000s.

My opinion of GE was / is not based on some detailed and thorough analysis. It came from observing the disconnect between what happened to my hometown and the stock price.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-02 14:41:05+00:00
Just FYI "basically requires zero intervention" is nowhere close to what's needed for self-driving.

It needs to be probably 1-2 orders of magnitude better than what the vast majority of people would actually experience as "zero interventions ever".

One intervention every 80 miles ("basically zero") is 178 interventions per year for the average American driver. Let's say conservatively that 10% of those avoids an accident, you're looking at 17 accidents caused by each driver per year, never mind the accidents they're just victim to due to misfortunate of being near someone else's 17 annual accidents.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 14:41:24+00:00
Well, that's your prerogative. I don't like the way most states behave (very much including our own warmongering state), but I'll be damned if this alters where I buy basic goods and services.

If America wanted my money, it wouldn't behave in such a blatantly hypocritical manner. Either we're a free-market society or we're going to take care of each other. We've prioritized crying over business owners for decades while letting people go homeless. Fuck those businesses; where were they when the homeless needed advocacy? They chose to spend their time trying to complain about society rather than contributing to it.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-02 14:41:29+00:00
Yes, and we all know (ask teachers) how reliable those summaries are. They are randomly lossy, which makes them unsuitable for any serious work.

I'm not arguing that LLMs don't compress data, I am arguing that they are technically compression tools, but not colloquially compression tools, and the overlap they have with colloquial compression tools is almost zero.
by cbeach | 2025-07-02 14:41:33+00:00
Whereas on the other hand I've gained handsomely from holding Tesla stock for many years, and plan to hold it for many more years.

It feels good to support American-made sustainable technology that has revolutionised the electric car and battery storage markets.

I struggle to understand those who would short-sell Tesla, unless they have some kind of emotional hangup against Elon Musk or government efficiency?
by justonceokay | 2025-07-02 14:41:33+00:00
T&N has such a great product but it was one of those things that failed because the innovation/disruption had no market.

I personally believe that the Japanese futon mat is the healthiest way to sleep, and after you get used to it even extra-firm mattresses are soupy and uncomfortable. Downside though is that it is very difficult to be comfortable on if you are significantly overweight, and it’s a pretty hard sell for couples unless they are both bought into the idea beforehand.

From my personal experience of sleeping on one for the last decade, not having a bed with a mattress on it is beyond the pale. I have a nice townhome that is well decorated. But when people see my bed, they assume I have a health issue, some kind of homelessness trauma, I’m a weeb (definitely not), or that I’m too poor to own a bed. They assume that they could never be comfortable on it, as a pillowy mattress on a high frame is associated in people’s minds with high luxury, angels with harps, royalty, and sexual intrigue. Sleeping on a mat on the floor is associated with camping, homelessness, destitution, and failure.

To each their own I guess
by sysmax | 2025-07-02 14:41:36+00:00
Looked into it a lot. There are deterministic refactoring tools for things like convert for into foreach, or create constructor based on list of fields, but they still don't cover a lot of use cases.

I tried using a refactoring tool for reordering function arguments. The problem is, clicking through various GUI to get your point across is again too distracting. And there are still too many details. You can't say something like "new argument should be zero for callers that ignore the return value". It's not deterministic, and each case is slightly different from others. But LLMs handle this surprisingly well, and the mistakes they make are easy to spot.

What I'm really hoping to do some day is a "formal mode" where the LLM would write a mini-program to mutate the abstract syntax tree based on a textual refactoring request, thus guaranteeing determinism. But that's a whole new dimension of work, and there are numerous easier use cases to tackle before that.
by KittenInABox | 2025-07-02 14:41:46+00:00
> Clearly professors or scholars in Women's studies / gender studies, critical race theory, and climate science are the ones worst hit by the current leadership in the US.

Source?? Here's the thing, as far as I know, women's studies/gender studies, crt, whatever... they're cheap, mostly phd students doing mass surveys of interviews or studying metadata. The expensive stuff is engineering, clinical trials, specialized equipment for labs... that stuff is also being hit.
by dhx | 2025-07-02 14:42:42+00:00
> What kind of monetization model would this be for BBC?

BBC is taxpayer funded by Britons who have elected British officials convinced of the benefits of using taxpayer funds to influence perception (or even just prevent misinformation) of Britain and Britons, using BBC's global reach.

That is, BBC is not required to completely balance the books with consumer payments received in exchange for entertainment. British taxpayers are also part funding the BBC to ensure the soft diplomacy benefits of the BBC continue to be enjoyed by British people.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-02 14:42:59+00:00
It's gone. It's the downside of the American vision of capitalism. We collectively flex in front of the mirror and tell ourselves that we are awesome, put light the room by setting the furniture on fire.

Reality is, as people have been pointing out for as long as I've been on this earth, the relentless focus on quarterly and current year fiscal has made the United States less competitive strategically.

I remember years ago a supplier came in to address an issue we had with defective parts in their intermediate supply chain. The VP dude was casually throwing out how all of their new parts get copied in days by their manufacturing partners, who share them with competitors, etc. In our case, a supplier was running a fraudulent third shift to make parts and threw in under-spec units as well. They seemed fine with it.
by dmix | 2025-07-02 14:43:11+00:00
BYD is probably the biggest factor here. Their sales were spiking in Europe and elsewhere even before the recent drama.

If I was a Tesla shareholder I'd be much more worried about that, as news cycles move on pretty fast while competition will only get stiffer.

Tesla is just lucky BYD is banned in places like Canada because the domestic car companies know they can't compete.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-02 14:44:21+00:00
It's probably material cost and not the actual manufacturing. The aluminum smelting industry in the US has been in decline (and for other metals too). It was also only 4 cents per can, a 1% increase in end unit price. But how it it affecting the products that can be made with off the shelf machines? How about in sectors other than consumer discretionary, like consumer staples?
by kentm | 2025-07-02 14:44:26+00:00
Public universities should not be beholden to the public in what they research. It’s important that institutions are able to make conclusions that are true and expand human knowledge despite certain portions of the population not liking those conclusions.

I would also dispute your assertion that “no one wants universities to be maga centers.” Leaders on the right have said that they do want that, or at least the right wing American mythos to be uncritically taught and not challenged.