MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krageon | 2025-07-05 12:00:20+00:00
Every generation that had that big new thing had an enormous group claiming it was terrible and would destroy everything. Smartphones are worse because corporations are allowed to be more evil while receiving more praise (and in that axis everything is worse). Don't scapegoat the platform here. If all we had was newspapers today they'd fuck you in very similar ways. Some executive would make sure of it.
by 9dev | 2025-07-05 12:02:00+00:00
For me it helps to reflect on my desire to finish, which is mostly just a fragment of my day job. On my side projects, I can go as deep into the rabbit hole as I want, and enjoy the journey. Of course it feels great to publish something eventually, but the zen garden effect of just bike shedding to your hearts content is really something you shouldn’t dismiss immediately.
by heldrida | 2025-07-05 12:02:38+00:00
Do these teams know about version control? It’s quite simple to see who’s doing actual work and contributing…

Some claims he was brilliant, doing exactly what? Copying and pasting LLM output?

Did he participate in any hourly, daily technical conversations? Did he replied to others quick enough? Do these teams even know how to use slack, discord, etc? Are they having video meetings all the time and only person speaking like a podcast maybe?
by korkoros | 2025-07-05 12:03:25+00:00
What are the masculine-coded virtues?

Strength. A man's vehicle should both demonstrate and develop his physical prowess.

Protection. A man's vehicle should make others safer, even if it puts himself at greater risk.

Providing. A man should buy the cheapest vehicle that serves his needs, the better to provide for his family.

A cargo bike is the manliest vehicle you can use.
by FabHK | 2025-07-05 12:04:37+00:00
> Money only works if you believe it will still work tomorrow.

Yeah. When crypto goes down, it'll be epic.

> If govs are good, then crypto degenerates to just a slower system for transactions.

That's how I see crypto: an inefficient and ill-regulated substitute for money, though suitable for crime. If governments turn bad, stable money is just one tiny part of the problem.
by mr_mitm | 2025-07-05 12:05:00+00:00
It's not just that. Microsoft benefits massively from network effects.

So you decide to run your infrastructure on something else. Good luck trying to find a contractor who does anything but Active Directory, MS Office and Exchange. Or try to find admins who have experience setting up keycloak as an alternative identity provider or using ansible to manage the endpoints. They exist, sure, but are much rarer.

If you are a somewhat larger corporation and decide to buy up a shop, they most likely run AD, O365, etc already and merging the IT landscapes will be much easier if you do too.

If you're a small operation of a few dozen people or so, it is soo much easier and probably cheaper to simply sign up to O365 and get the entire suite of email, office, calendar, IM, file sharing, etc, than finding a contractor that manages your IT using all open source software.

Every time this discussion comes up, most people focus on the office suite and perhaps the OS of the workstations, but the business world is much more entrenched with Microsoft products than that.

For the record, I think it's vital to avoid vendor lock-in, and I hope us Europeans manage to do it sooner rather than later, but I'm also afraid many people severely underestimate how hard this is going to be.
by pvisilias | 2025-07-05 12:05:02+00:00
Launched on June 7th: 0 users (accidentally launched on Product Hunt without an audience)

Today:

<-- 280+ users <-- $118 in revenue (3 Lifetime plans sold) <-- 2.1k+ total visitors

All organic. No ads.

Just by showing up daily on X and Threads

And sharing everything about it there.

And yes, it’s a ChatGPT wrapper for the negative ones :D
by K0balt | 2025-07-05 12:05:53+00:00
So, this is the evolution of Ukraine into the west / China proxy war that I was worried that it would become back in 2014.

Interesting object lesson in how slow motion disasters unfold.

People in the west in general fail to understand the fundamental cultural underpinnings that guide Chinese (and largely Russian as well) behaviour on the global stage, causing them to badly miscalculate their steps. (I am not claiming to have special insight myself, only to observe the obvious misalignment of perceptions and incentives)

China, in particular, seems to me to be tightly wedged between several acute pressures in this situation.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-05 12:06:04+00:00
I do not see the connection between shrinking and migrations.

In migrations you normally copy the file system elsewhere, to the cloud or to different computers, you do not shrink it in place, which is what XFS cannot do. Unlike with Windows, copying Linux file systems, including XFS, during migrations to different hardware is trivial and fast. The same is true for multiplicating a file system to a big set of computers.

Shrinking in place is normally needed only when you share a physical device between 2 different operating systems, which use incompatible file systems, e.g. Windows and Linux, and you discover that you did not partition well the physical device and you want to shrink the partition allocated for one of the operating systems, in order to be able to expand the partition allocated for the other operating system.

Sharing physical devices between Windows and any other operating systems comes with a lot of risks and disadvantages, so I strongly recommend against it. I have stopped sharing Windows disks decades ago. Now, if I want to use the same computer in Windows and in another operating system, e.g. Linux or FreeBSD, I install Windows on the internal SSD, and, when desired, I boot Linux or FreeBSD from an external SSD. Thus the problem of reallocating a shared SSD/HDD by shrinking a partition never arises.
by tenthirtyam | 2025-07-05 12:06:54+00:00
You'd need to define "comprehension" - it's a bit like the Chinese room / Turing test.

If an AI or AGI can look at a picture and see an apple, or (say) with an artificial nose smell an apple, or likewise feel or taste or hear* an apple, and at the same identify that it is an apple and maybe even suggest baking an apple pie, then what else is there to be comprehended?

Maybe humans are just the same - far far ahead of the state of the tech, but still just the same really.

*when someone bites into it :-)

For me, what AI is missing is genuine out-of-the-box revolutionary thinking. They're trained on existing material, so perhaps it's fundamentally impossible for AIs to think up a breakthrough in any field - barring circumstances where all the component parts of a breakthrough already exist and the AI is the first to connect the dots ("standing on the shoulders of giants" etc).
by eqvinox | 2025-07-05 12:07:10+00:00
A highly skilled but socially inept engineer is not a top performer. Interacting with others is part of their performance. Ultimately you need to look at the sum total of time, money, and outcome for the entire team; if firing a single "rockstar but asshole" developer allows the rest of your team to achieve the same productivity, you're still better off because you're saving both money and time on that person. Conversely if a single such developer can replace your entire team… sure, go for it.

In the extreme, if bcachefs gets removed from the kernel, the productivity outcome (depending on your measure) is actually zero.

[Ed.: also, honestly, if you need to hire a "babysitter" for such a highly skilled engineer, that is also a viable option & there shouldn't be a social stigma for that either. I wouldn't say it's the manager's job though, not to that degree at least.]
by joshuanapoli | 2025-07-05 12:07:41+00:00
There is obviously some distribution of productivity in software developers. In young startups, a highly productive developer has an outsized impact. A delay in product development can mean the company is entirely blocked from advancing its growth. The cost of a “slow” developer can become the entire burn rate of the company, as everyone waits for X to be finished. A more productive developer has a better chance of staying ahead of the critical path.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-07-05 12:08:41+00:00
Im reading the "AI"-industry as a totally different bet- not so much, as a "AGI" is coming bet of many companies, but a "climate change collapse" is coming and we want to continue to be in business, even if our workers stay at home/flee or die, the infrastructure partially collapses and our central office burns to the ground-bet. In that regard, even the "AI" we have today, makes total sense as a insurance policy.
by karussell | 2025-07-05 12:08:50+00:00
> .. the issue of door handles. On Teslas, they retract into the doors while the cars are being driven. The system depends on battery power.

I never will understand this horrible decision. It isn't good design if it kills people. I wonder why this isn't regulated. They could at least implement a "push to pop up" functionality that works without battery power or have a narrow slot under the handle.
by jl6 | 2025-07-05 12:08:57+00:00
In the given scenario, it’s not the 9s you need to worry about, it’s the monthly bill. Unless you’ve trained your kids to be sysadmins and they have credentials and a handover plan in place, their dad’s S3 account is going to be the last thing on their mind when dealing with bereavement and estate windup. It would be very easy for the credit card to be frozen, nonpayment alert emails to go unread, and then to miss the 90 day window before AWS deletes everything.
by the__alchemist | 2025-07-05 12:09:34+00:00
That was disappointing to see. I thought it was a great game, with some mechanics improved over 2, and missing some of the glitchy behavior that became cannon (e.g. foot archer kiting) The community (nor my friends) didn't seem to go for it, primarily for the reason that it's not AoE2. Exquisite sound design too.
by thisdougb | 2025-07-05 12:10:29+00:00
Yeah, that's a lot of work. And developers would probably expect it for free give most things like that are also free(1) :)

There's a VSCode extension for Hashi Vault: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=owenfarr... for secrets management, but it's complicated because Vault is complicated.

A secrets extensions for my backend app would be quite easy though, I think. It's just re-implementing the cli tool.

From the IDE command palatte you could:

- Settings.backend_host = private Doocot backend || public backend

- Settings.username = (automatic)

- Settings.identity = (automatic) something like ssh key data

- Share.Individual = "select from list of identities on backend"

- Share.Group = "select from list of groups I am in"

- Share.Link = "store secret and return a valid one-time url for a non-dev"

- Read.SharedSecrets = "list secrets shared to me or my groups"

Then it'd just be some thought into the simplest way to setup and maintain groups.

You've piqued my interest in it again though, as it doesn't seem much extra work to do the above. Given the backend more or less does most of it already.

Although it's not the full environment integrated solution you're looking for, I think one step forward in terms of how we share secrets is still useful.

Thanks

(1) someone always pays
by rkrisztian | 2025-07-05 12:11:33+00:00
Continuing my previous comment, to address that:

> There is data that reaches back to a pre-human time where the world was indeed very different, and if you go far enough into the past CO2 levels were extremely high. However, the planets environment also looked very different in that period.

Yes it is true that in the history of the Earth, CO2 levels were the highest during the first few hundred million years (5000 to 7000 ppm), see this image:

https://youtu.be/chDcDyG4uLQ?t=352

But this image also shows in large scale what really matters: dinosaurs could live when the CO2 concentration was 2500 ppm! What we are experiencing now is what happened 300 million years ago: the CO2 levels were naturally increasing even before the era of dinosaurs. We are currently in an ice age based on the graph. So why is it warming today then? We’re coming out of a mini ice age on a smaller scale, see this pic:

https://youtu.be/chDcDyG4uLQ?t=692

The Earth naturally experiences warmer and colder times. And the effects of it are what you just described. Like it or not, the causes are natural and we can’t do much about it. Except one thing: restoring more forests, to retain water, and absorb more sunlight. But you can’t prevent the arctic ice from melting. You can just get used to it:

https://youtu.be/chDcDyG4uLQ?t=3693

The politicians are trying to defend against 1 or 2 Celsius degrees of change, when Central Europe is heading towards a mediterranean climate just because of Earth’s ever-changing tilt and orbit. Eventually we might see +50 degrees just because of that. So rather, the goal should be adaptation.
by AmjdAlhashede | 2025-07-05 12:12:02+00:00
Thanks for your thoughtful comment!

To clarify: this library is focused on managing *system ringtones* only — like the default notification tone, alarm tone, call ringtone, and assigning tones to contacts.

Unfortunately, changing the notification sounds of *individual apps or their notification channels* is not possible from outside those apps. Android does not allow third-party apps or libraries to modify another app’s notification settings, due to strict sandboxing and security restrictions.

Your idea is great — I agree it would be really helpful to have a solution that backs up and restores those customizations across devices. But that would require deep system access or cooperation from each individual app, which is out of scope for this library.

Still, your feedback is appreciated! It might inspire companion tools in the future
by simsla | 2025-07-05 12:12:12+00:00
It's these extreme implications why I, as a gamer and software dev, haven't signed the initiative. A lot of these things are just not feasible. And it'll be so much harder on the indie devs than on the Bungie/Blizzards.

I'm afraid if this is pushed through, the studios will just switch all online experiences to be fully subscription based. No more purchasing the game, you just pay for a month of the experience.
by masklinn | 2025-07-05 12:12:18+00:00
At $dayjob we've actually used this property once or twice: if you need to merge two tables you can keep the positive ids for the first one, and use negative ids for the second one. It only works once, but damn if it's not effective when you need it, and it conveniently flags all the records with an id under some limit (positive and negative both) as "pre-transition" record when you're looking for patterns.
by lrvick | 2025-07-05 12:12:51+00:00
It is not entirely cyclical. We always have these one-step-back phases of the old guard clinging to power, then we make big steps forward again.

Black people are not slaves anymore, women can vote, gays can marry, weed is mostly legal, etc. It takes longer than anyone wants it to, but we always get upgrades that stick in the progress phases of the cycle.

This time the steps backwards are bigger than usual, so in 3 years there will be a lot more will to take even bigger steps forwards and progressives need to be ready to move fast when it is their turn again.

Mamdani is a preview.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-05 12:12:52+00:00
The economic analysis is not mine, and I though it was pretty well-known by now: Meta is not in the compute biz and doesn't want to be in it, so by releasing Llamas, it denies Google, Microsoft and Amazon the ability to build a moat around LLM inference. Commoditize your complement and all that. Meta wants to use LLMs, not sell access to them, so occasionally burning a billion dollars to train and give away an open-weight SOTA model is a good investment, because it directly and indirectly keeps inference cheap for everyone.
by assuagering | 2025-07-05 12:13:12+00:00
I have had SOTA models stray from factual content in documents I provided them with within 2-3 prompts.

They haven't solved anything. They are just fast and look good doing what we ask them to do. But they corrupt data with a passion and to that hype just responds: "just give us 10x as much money and compute".
by koverstreet | 2025-07-05 12:13:45+00:00
I agree about the benefit they'd offer, but the thing is - I already have a todo list that extents out to 2030, and FUSE is going to take a lot of work before it gets there: probably years, because it's going to be done incrementally on top of a big hodgepog instead of being done right by someone willing to invest the time to get it right.

We've had someone show up claiming "I'm going to do FUSE right!" and it never happened, so - the incremental approach is probably best here. But it's going to take awhile.
by satyrun | 2025-07-05 12:14:05+00:00
We haven't even come up with different methodology yet to leverage these tools that well.

At some point one would have to think the idea of coming up with one design will seem outdated if the model is producing a 1000 different versions at once and then testing to find the best design. Then working on improving and tightening the design 24/7 365.

Most of what I read on here seems like knocking the automobile while proclaiming the virtues of the horse. It only makes sense because we can't see all the paved roads, gas stations and highways yet that make the horse a complete relic for travel.

At some point, it will make as much sense to pay a human to write code as it does to take a horse on the interstate.
by ninjha | 2025-07-05 12:14:24+00:00
I think I remember one of the original ViT papers saying something about 2D embeddings on image patches not actually increasing performance on image recognition or segmentation, so it’s kind of interesting that it helps with text!

E: I found the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11929

> We use standard learnable 1D position embeddings, since we have not observed significant performance gains from using more advanced 2D-aware position embeddings (Appendix D.4).

Although it looks like that was just ImageNet so maybe this isn't that surprising.
by cheschire | 2025-07-05 12:15:11+00:00
You’re saying the same thing as GP. Let me attempt to clarify.

What GP is saying is not that Rick Rubin has no skill anywhere, but that he recognized he has 100/100 taste and instead of trying to become a hip hop artist, instead became a producer for other artists.

In the same way, you’ve described how Bill Belichick recognized his taste in what makes a player good is not enough to make him also a good player, so he positioned himself to take advantage of his 100/100 taste rather than whatever skill value he may have.
by impossiblefork | 2025-07-05 12:16:34+00:00
I suppose not.

Things I think will be hard for LLMs to do, which some humans can: you get handed 500 pages of Geheimschreiber encrypted telegraph traffic and infinite paper, and you have to figure out how the cryptosystem works and how to decrypt the traffic. I don't think that can happen. I think it requires a highly developed pattern recognition ability together with an ability to not get lost, which LLM-type things will probably continue to for a long time.

But if they could maths more fully, then pretty much all carefully defined tasks would be in reach if they weren't too long.

With regard to what Touche brings up in the other response to your comment, I think that it might be possible to get them to read up on things though-- go through something, invent problems, try to solve those. I think this is something that could be done today with today's models with no real special innovation, but which just hasn't been made into a service yet. But this of course doesn't address that criticism, since it assumes the availability of data.
by Bender | 2025-07-05 12:17:06+00:00
I would agree with this sentiment in cities however big trucks are absolutely required for getting work done. A small vehicle can not move 30,000 pounds of cargo from place to place which is absolutely required in rural areas. The same people here that have heavy duty vehicles also have fuel efficient vehicles for leisure use or shopping because they are not dumb. The same ranchers that used to joke about people driving a Prius now own one but they still require their big trucks for earning a living and feeding the nation or dealing with excessive snow and ice as we have 7 months of winter.

On the original topic I agree with them that visibility has devolved and something needs to be done to fix this. I believe solutions can be engineered to solve this problem and it probably comes down to cost and profits as to why this has not already occurred.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-07-05 12:17:24+00:00
Sorry- but do you honestly belief that coyotes will hunt rats? In a city? They will eat fastfood leftovers from the garbage cans with the rats. Creatures hunt out of desperation- hunting is energy-expensive, dangerous and often not successful unless it targets the small, old or parasite riddled. That coyote will get diabetes before it gets to even start hunting rats.
by abanana | 2025-07-05 12:18:07+00:00
Tracking website ads has become so normalised, it doesn't seem to even cross the minds of web-only marketing people to think: how has this always worked for advertising via TV, radio, billboards, newspapers/magazines, etc?

Website-based advertising is a special case - the only one that makes this tracking possible. Advertisers need to understand the huge advantage they've been given, rather than taking it as a given and thinking they have more of a right to the data, than the user has a right to not provide it.
by hitekker | 2025-07-05 12:18:37+00:00
When the "top performer" destroys trust and fails to rebuild it, they shouldn't be on the team*

Skimming over the context, Kent seems to be lying by omission in PRs and distorting the history behind the PRs. Plus fighting with what is basically his tech lead who represents the team's norms, culture, and health. I also think he's fighting in this comment section right now.

Speaking as a former "brilliant jerk", I wouldn't trust the memory or intentions of a brilliant jerk. I wouldn't want to be looking over my shoulder for back-stabbing on my own team. I also wouldn't want my manager to get stuck in "I can fix him" mode because they're afraid of doing their flipping job: firing an employee who refuses to learn from their mistakes.

* I'm sympathetic to contexts when the team itself is bad and the performer is actually doing better. In that case: forget their trust, the performer should either remake the team (become the manager) or leave to do better work.
by Game_Ender | 2025-07-05 12:19:00+00:00
I think the implicit take is that if your company hits AGI your equity package will do something like 10x-100x even if the company is already big. The only other way to do that is join a startup early enough to ride its growth wave.

Another way to say it is that people think it’s much more likely for each decent LLM startup grow really strongly first several years then plateau vs. then for their current established player to hit hyper growth because of AGI.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-05 12:19:24+00:00
>You didn't actually answer the question.

He never does. If you go through his comment history all he does is shill for Germany and EU how they're the best, and shit on Trump and the US how they're the worst and that's it. He never has any arguments beyond appeals to emotional manipulation of "look at the fascists" based on fake or one sided articles. Best treat him as a troll.
by kokada | 2025-07-05 12:20:47+00:00
That is even assuming that the TTY has the correct resolution for your monitor, that is not always the case. If not, it is highly likely that the most important information will be missing, it happened for me quite a few times.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the QR code could also not be cut off the screen, but since QR code is more dense in information (like the post says), I think this is more rare.