MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ModernMech | 2025-07-15 15:00:53+00:00
The conversation was about essence, and yes I think a torture camp has the same essence as a death camp.

Between Gitmo and Auschwitz, there's an obvious difference in magnitude, but there's no difference in direction; Gitmo evolves into Auschwitz. If you want to stop the next Auschwitz from happening, you have to stop the current Gitmo. The path to Auschwitz runs through normalizing Gitmo as "not that bad because it's just a torture prison. At least it's not a death camp".
by drdaeman | 2025-07-15 15:01:12+00:00
I’m curious, had any legislatures tried blinded trials, where judges and/or juries don’t see the litigants, don’t know their names or location details, and otherwise only have access to the information on a need-to-know basis?

Sort of like how removing names, ages and photos from resumes removes demographic biases and makes one focus on the actual skillset.

(I’m not sure if this is a good idea, merely wondering if it was tried.)
by NilMostChill | 2025-07-15 15:01:24+00:00
> LLMs in their current state have integrated into the workflows for many, many IT roles. They'll never be niche, unless governing bodies come together to kill them.

That is an exaggeration, it is integrated into some workflows, usually in a provisional manner while the full implications of such integrations are assessed for viability in the mid to long term.

At least in the fields of which i have first hand knowledge.

> Straw man argument - this is in no way a metric for validating the power of LLMs as a tool for IT roles. Can you not find open source code bases that leverage LLMS because you haven't looked, or because you can't tell the difference between human and LLM code?

Straw man rebuttal, presenting an imaginary position in which this statement is doesn't apply doesn't invalidate the statement as a whole.

> As I said, you haven't been paying attention.

Or alternatively you've been paying attention to a selective subset of your specific industry and have made wide extrapolations based on that.

> Denialism - the practice of denying the existence, truth, or validity of something despite proof or strong evidence that it is real, true, or valid

What's the one where you claim strong proof or evidence while only providing anecdotal "trust me bro" ?
by cdelsolar | 2025-07-15 15:01:35+00:00
What are you talking about? I have multiple open-source projects where I've generated multiple PRs with 90+% AI tools. I don't care that the code isn't as good, because I have people using these features and the features work.

1) https://github.com/domino14/Webolith/pull/523/files (Yes, the CSS file sucks. I tried multiple times to add dark mode to this legacy app and I wasn't able to. This works, and is fine, and people are using it, and I'm not going to touch it again for a while)

2) https://github.com/domino14/macondo/pull/399 - A neural net for playing Scrabble. Has not been done before, in at least an open-source way, and this is a full-fledged CNN built using techniques from Alpha Zero, and almost entirely generated by ChatGPT o3. I have no idea how to do it myself. I've gotten the net to win 52.6% of its games against a purely static bot, which is a big edge (trust me) and it will continue to increase as I train it on better data. And that is before I use it as an actual evaluator for a Monte Carlo bot.

I would _never_ have been able to put this together in 1-2 weeks when I am still working during the day. I would have had to take NN classes / read books / try many different network topologies and probably fail and give up. Would have taken months of full-time work.

3) https://github.com/woogles-io/liwords/pull/1498/files - simple, but one of many bug fixes that was diagnosed and fixed largely by an AI model.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-15 15:01:58+00:00
> The IT industry is also full of salesmen and con men, both enjoy unrealistic exaggeration. Your statements would not be out of place 20 years ago when the iPhone dropped. Your statements would not be out of place 3 years ago before every NFT went to 0. LLMs could hit an unsolvably hard wall next year and settle into a niche of utility.

Not only is that a could, I'd argue they already are. The huge new "premier" models are barely any better than the big ticket ones that really kicked the hype into overdrive.

* Using them as a rubber duck that provides suggestions back for IT problems and coding is huge, I will fully cosign that, but it is not even remotely worth what OpenAI is valued at or would need to charge for it to make it profitable, let alone pay off it's catastrophic debt. Meanwhile every other application is a hard meh.

* The AI generated video ads just look like shit and I'm sorry, call me a luddite if you will, but I just think objectively less of companies that leverage AI video/voices/writing in their advertisements. It looks cheap, in the same way dollar store products have generic, crappy packaging, and makes me less willing to open my wallet. That said I won't be shocked at all if that sticks around and bolsters valuations, because tons of companies worldwide have been racing to the bottom for decades now.

* My employer has had a hard NO AI policy for both vetting candidates and communicating with them for our human resources contracting and we've fired one who wouldn't comply. It just doesn't work, we can tell when they're using bots to review resumes because applicants get notably, measurably worse.

LLMs are powerful tools that have a place, but there is no fucking UNIVERSE where they are the next iPhone that silicon valley is utterly desperate for. They just aren't.
by watwut | 2025-07-15 15:02:02+00:00
> Not sure that pointing out the success of sci fi franchises is proof audiences want diversity.

The thing is, when AAA games or movie studios start to focus on that one thing that "sells best at one moment" everyone else checks out.

I did checked out of games when I realized they are just not made for me anymore, that stuff I liked is looked down at in the industry and they focus on stuff I do not care about. It was similar process with major movies, at some point too little appealed to me, so I stopped caring entirely.

> The VAST majority of movies that have been made in the past (when the real indicator, % of population going to movies, peaked) deal with ordinary, realistic human stories.

Sure. I like to watch those and I do, on Netflix or whatever. I just do not expect realistic human story or something new from a major Hollywood movie. They are not about any of that.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-07-15 15:02:52+00:00
About a decade ago, there were proposals for a "driver's license for the internet."

Nowadays... I actually think it might be a lesser evil. Picture such an ID, if there were a standard for it, enrolled into your computer.

If it were properly built, your computer could provide proof of age, identity, or other verified attributes on approval. The ID could also have micro-transaction support, for allowing convenient pay-as-you-go 10 cents per article instead of paywalls, advertising, and subscriptions everywhere. Websites could just block all non-human traffic; awfully convenient in this era of growing spam, malware, AI slop, revenge porn, etc. Website operators, such as those of small forums, would have far less moderation and abuse prevention overhead.

Theoretically, it would also massively improve cybersecurity, if websites didn't actually need your credit card number and unique identity anymore. Theoretically, if it was tied to your ID, it's like Privacy.com but for every website; much lower transaction friction but much higher security.

I think that's the future at this rate. The only question is who decides how it is implemented.
by pacmansyyu | 2025-07-15 15:03:15+00:00
Well, technically SOPS/age are both encryption tools first. Both of them are excellent, mind you. But they lack the user experience, specifically SOPS, with handling keys in a multi-user environment, and subsequently with the overall developer workflow. They do offer a lot more than just accessing environment variables securely though, something that kiln is trying to solve.

At first, I did consider using them instead of building my own tool on top of age. But our requirements were far beyond just encrypting and decrypting files in a single environment.

What kiln adds here is the role-based access control, so you can define multiple files, and users/groups who should be able to access them. It also adds to the developer workflow where you can directly run commands through kiln with the variables injected in the command's shell environment. You can also render templates for all the kiln-encrypted files you have access to.

You can say it's a wrapper over age, but adds functionality that allows seamless sharing of developer workflows, and environments, all from a single place. It's git-friendly, and primarily aims for your secrets to travel along with the code so all deployments can be done offline (as an alternative to something like Infiscal, or Vault). I've tried to make it as simple as possible to adopt for anyone in the team.

The only other best way for me to put it is that you should try it out, and I'm sure it'll be helpful in a lot of ways. If you have any more questions, I'm happy to answer them!
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-07-15 15:03:50+00:00
> The IT industry is also full of salesmen and con men, both enjoy unrealistic exaggeration. Your statements would not be out of place 20 years ago when the iPhone dropped. Your statements would not be out of place 3 years ago before every NFT went to 0. LLMs could hit an unsolvably hard wall next year and settle into a niche of utility.

The iPhone and subsequent growth of mobile (and the associated growth of social media which is really only possible in is current form with ubiquitous mobile computing) are evidence it did change everything. Society has been reshaped by mobile/iPhone and its consequences.

NFTs were never anything, and there was never an argument they were. The were a financial speculative item, and it was clear all the hype was due to greater fools and FOMO. To equate those two is silly. That's like arguingsome movie blockbuster like Avengers Endgame was going to "change everything" because it was talked about and advertised. It was always just a single piece of entertainment.

Finally for LLMs, a better comparison for them would have been the 80's AI winter. The question should be "why will this time not be like then?" And the answer is simple: If LLMs and generative AI models never improve an ounce - If they never solve another problem, nor get more efficient, nor get cheaper - they will still drastically change society because they are already good enough today. They are doing so now.

Advertising, software engineering, video making. The tech is already for enough that it is changing all of these fields. The only thing happening now is the time it takes for idea diffusion. People learning new things and applying it are the slow part of the loop.

You could have made your argument pre-chatgpt, and possibly could have made that argument in the window of the following year or two, but at this point the tech at the level to change society exists, it just needs time to spread. All it need are two things: tech stays the same, prices roughly stay the same. (No improvements required)

Now there still is a perfectly valid argument to make against the more extreme claims we hear of: all work being replaced..., and that stuff. And I'm as poorly equipped to predict that future as you (or anyone else) so won't weigh in - but that's not the bar for huge societal change.

The tech is already bigger than the iPhone. I think it is equivalent to social media, (mainly because I think most people still really underestimate how enormous the long term impact of social media will be in society: Politics, mental health, extremism, addiction. All things they existed before but now are "frictionless" to obtain. But that's for some other post...).

The question in my mind is will it be as impactful as the internet? But it doesn't have to be. Anything between social media and internet level of impact is society changing. And the tech today is already there, it just needs time to diffuse into society.

You're looking at Facebook after introducing the algorithm for engagement. It doesn't matter that society wasn't different overnight, the groundwork had been laid.
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-15 15:04:42+00:00
And the DNI regularly repeats Russian propaganda meant for Russian internal media... If it seems odd to anyone that our president seemed genuinely surprised that Putin was "tapping him along" consider who advises him. And our two most recent presidents both liked keeping classified documents in insecure locations. The situation is ridiculous and everyone just seems to shrug. I don't know if our overlords got way worse at this or they just stopped caring. We can't even get a high quality supervillain to rule us anymore.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-07-15 15:05:19+00:00
$200 does not get you a decent programmer though. It needs constant prompting, babysitting, feedback, iteration. It's just a tool. It massively boosts productivity in many cases, yes. But it doesn't do your job for you. And I'm very bullish on LLM assisted coding when compared to most of HN.

High level languages also massively boosted productivity, but we didn't see salaries collapse from that.

> And they are not likely to remain competent if they are all doing 80% review, 15% prompting and 5% coding.

I've been doing 80% review and design for years, it's called not being a mid or junior level developer.

> OTOH, the pipeline for juniors now seems to be irrevocably broken

I constantly get junior developers handed to me from "strategic partners", they are just disguised as senior developers. I'm telling you brother, the LLMs aren't helping these guys do the job. I've let go 3 of them in July alone.
by nobody9999 | 2025-07-15 15:05:35+00:00
I don't know who said the above, but the following is from Isaac Asimov:

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'"[0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84250-anti-intellectualism-...
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-15 15:05:35+00:00
>but Megalopolis was a self-funded project which is completely out of left field

sure, but it was self-funded and it was completely panned by the audiences which I think was undeserved, from a lot of people because they found it "weird" or incomprehensible. Which it wasn't in the grand scheme of things.

I can't remember whose blog it was on but someone recently compared audience and critic ratings in the 70s/80s and today, and in the past there was a lot of overlap. Today completely divorced. And it's honestly because the audience, not the critics, just can't take anything unconventional. Creators that had mainstream appeal, Kubrick, Tarkovsky were out there by today's standard. You could not put the opening scene of 2001 in front of a modern audience without half of the people playing subway surfers on their phones. Or take Lynch, he wasn't just niche, people made an effort to understand that stuff.

I noticed this in other media too. I saw reviews for Kojima's Death Stranding 2 and every five seconds someone went it's so weird as if that's almost an offense, from the guy who made the Metal Gear universe. You make something like Evangelion today, the biggest mainstream anime franchise at the time, you'd probably have people on social media cancelling it for some of the more Freudian stuff in it, and complain because there's not enough plot in it.
by christophilus | 2025-07-15 15:05:47+00:00
Custom. I have a little script: “dev sh” which creates a new container for whatever folder I’m in. The container has full access to that folder, but nothing else. If there’s a .podman/env file, the script uses that to configure things like ports, etc.

From what I saw of devcontainers, they basically grant access to your entire system (.ssh, etc). May be wrong. That’s my recollection, though.
by tzs | 2025-07-15 15:05:56+00:00
One possibility would be to use juries to just decide facts, then a panel of judges applies the law to those facts.

If there are many factual disputes in a case maybe use multiple juries with each jury only deciding on a subset of the facts, chosen so that no jury sees the entire case. They are less likely to be biased if they don't see the entire case.
by bnchrch | 2025-07-15 15:06:15+00:00
No for three reasons.

One, lets be honest, hn wont do it, part of their secret sauce is that they don't change, and they know that.

Two, fragmenting the community would just reduce engagement and risk making both feel like a ghost town.

Three, LLMs are (one of) the forefronts of our industry. State of the art is advancing fast. It has properties that no one knows the best practises for. And it has implications that are wide ranging. To try and bury this because it has a lot of new developments goes against why most of us are on this site.

I believe in the meritocracy of the upvote button.
by jraph | 2025-07-15 15:06:20+00:00
> I have no emotional investment in software

Quite some emotions, also in the linked article about XLibre, from someone not emotionally invested in software.

> And the floating panel. Nonsense. If I want to slam my mouse cursor into screen corners, I ought to do that without any major finesse. A floating panel means you need to aim like an idiot and waste your time trying to hit a "floating" target.

It would have taken 2 secs to check that actually you don't have to do this. I just checked, you can aim the corners or the under the panel and clicking still works. The floating panel is just esthetics and the KDE devs made sure it doesn't have ergonomic difference. It also "reverts" to regular panel whenever a window is close enough, so no space is lost. I do think that the floating panel was not a necessary change, but you can just not care and I do find it looks good.

I can't take such an article seriously when it contains unchecked rants like this, and confuses bugs with design choices like this.
by 827a | 2025-07-15 15:06:31+00:00
There's a potentially interesting idea in the space of: The cryptobros went really deep into trying to describe everything Up To And Including The World in computer code, with things like Etherium contracts, tokenization of corporate voting power, etc. That's all dead now, but you have to have some respect for the very techno-utopian idea that we can extend the power and predictability of Computer Code into everything; and its interesting how LLMs were the next techno-trend, yet totally reversed it. Now, its: computer code doesn't matter, only natural language matters, describe everything in natural language including computer code.
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by overgard | 2025-07-15 15:07:11+00:00
So far what I've seen from LLMs writing code is insecure bug ridden slop. They are changing the industry in that now I have to code review messes from developers and non developers being careless. AI image and video generation isn't much better.

CEOs and investors love to talk about how "scary" AI is and publicly advocate for regulation (while privately shutting it down) because they NEED the money to keep flowing, because these things aren't profitable. Inevitabalism is a very accurate description of their PR campaign and it's sadly working, for the moment.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-15 15:07:57+00:00
From time to time, you find something AI/LLM related that is interesting. Like the people trying to save money by speeding up their audio before submitting for transcription. Not only did it save money, but improved accuracy. It's those kinds of finds that are interesting in the hacker sense. Increasing the number of tokens at a certain point has a negative affect. Okay, someone is taking that hacker ethos to see what happens when the knobs are twisted. Showing me yet another image manipulation tool or new chat bot? Yawn. Next.
by snozolli | 2025-07-15 15:08:01+00:00
There are a lot of things that bother me in recent movies. I feel like there's a "yay, we're making a movie!" attitude, where people are more concerned with proving that they're part of a culture rather than simply doing their job to the best of their ability.

The most egregious example is the amount of Wilhelm Screams I've heard, absolutely crammed into media. It's a proclamation of, "I'm a sound editor, and I'm in on the joke!" but all it does is pull me out of the story completely.

Another sound editor example is the amount of ice clinking in glasses and sloshing sounds of drinks, as if the protagonist's long-neck beer bottle is a half-empty jug being jerked around.

Impressive stunts are virtually non-existent now. Instead, they drive a custom-built, tubular-frame car, swerving wildly, while the camera jerks around on a crane. Everything is reskinned using CGI, and the end result is the desired car being driven by an apparent maniac who chooses a profoundly sub-optimal path through traffic.

Writers have to point out their cleverness in order to announce to the audience how clever they're being. It reminds me of eye-rollingly clever newspaper headlines.

Everything has been turned up to 11, but in the lamest way possible.
by codingdave | 2025-07-15 15:08:17+00:00
Keep in mind that this will be stats for the HN crowd, not the industry overall.

Also, I find it far more powerful for planning and solo brainstorming than for the coding. For every piece of code that it speeds up, it also means that much more code that is not baked into my head, so my debugging and conceptualization of the codebase is weaker. And that isn't even taking into account the need to check an AI's work.

But when I need to do something utterly unlike any of my previous work, instead of digging in for a day or two just to conceptualize a novel feature, I can get a plan of how to approach and architect the feature in a few minutes. And the quality doesn't really matter at that point - if it is good, I can run with it. If it is bad, it gives me a baseline to react to and make a better plan, which also speeds me up.
by tacomagick | 2025-07-15 15:08:29+00:00
I've asked the author if they considered Proart PX13 before, they told me they didn't see it fit due to five reasons including:

-Has an NVIDIA GPU

I'd probably suggest the M4 Macbooks, as there are not many AMD graphics based laptops out there at the moment, and the battery life of an ARM based platform does not seem to be compareable to an x86_64 yet assuming you won't need a x86 processor.