MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-17 23:29:11+00:00
> So which is it? Are artist not understanding the potential of the technology, or are they so flabbergasted they are redefining the nature of art? It can’t be both.

Different people have different relationships with generative technologies and have different experiences. It can be the same at both times, because there are a lot of people out there, and there are many artists with both technical and artistic interests.

> What I’m criticising is the generic low-effort response of assuming that being able to pick low-hanging fruit now indicates with certainty that the high-hanging fruit will be picked soon.

I mean if we can have both more compute and more efficient compute due to those low-hanging fruits and Moore's law, it's reasonable to assume that things can get much better to the point of being economical, useful or even essential for a new generation of people, even if we don't see any massive shifts in the current paradigm.

> I don’t recall science fiction or magical stories—not any that weren’t written as cautionary tales or about revolution, anyway—which had talking robots which were wrong most of the time yet spoke authoritatively

Because people had an understandably naive understanding of what AI progress might look like, or the timescales involved.

> Not every science fiction is good. In fact, plenty of it is very very bad

I'm not sure what this has to do with anything. In general, I don't understand or appreciate your hostile tone and would like for this conversation to take a more positive tone or for us to just drop it.
by mcabbott | 2025-08-17 23:31:09+00:00
This doesn't really help with programming, but in physics it's traditional to use up- and down-stairs indices, which makes the distinction you want very clear.

If input x has components xⁿ, and output f(x) components fᵐ, then the Jacobian is ∂ₙfᵐ which has one index upstairs and one downstairs. The derivative has a downstairs index... because x is in the denominator of d/dx, roughly? If x had units seconds, then d/dx has units per second.

Whereas if g(x) is a number, the gradient is ∂ₙg, and the Hessian is ∂ₙ∂ₙ₂g with two downstairs indices. You might call this a (0,2) tensor, while the Jaconian is (1,1). Most of the matrices in ordinary linear algebra are (1,1) tensors.
by SamInTheShell | 2025-08-17 23:31:27+00:00
Seems like a non issue to me, time is just relative. Analysis on receipt is still possible, because you can calculate latency.

I'd recommend checking out Leslie Lamport's work, you can probably derive some ideas. I'm not be prescriptive here because this isn't a space I plan to work in to solve problems since it's just games. Entertainment isn't really my thing, I tend to lean heavily into systems and security knowledge which has served me well broadly.
by jcims | 2025-08-17 23:32:07+00:00
I've only really worked for $ENTERPRISE and for just a single reference point the last two places I worked spent >$10M/month on their AWS bills. Most of the points in the article ring true to my experience. I will say that reading comments on HN/X/Reddit/etc it sometimes feels a bit lonely in that even though I know I work with tens of thousands of technologists, I rarely see the unique challenges in getting things done represented in even the slightest way.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-17 23:33:39+00:00
Confusingly they have a Community License <https://docs.vertica.com/24.4.x/en/getting-started/community...> but their actual things in GH carry an Apache 2 license <https://github.com/vertica/vertica-containers/blob/main/one-...> so I guess you're free to contribute to their getting-started files, but it's a binary license for the product
by HocusLocus | 2025-08-17 23:34:03+00:00
By 1990 Omnipage 3 and its successors were 'good enough' and with their compact dictionaries and letter form recognition were miracles of their time at ~300MB installed.

In 2025 LLMs can 'fake it' using Trilobites of memory and Petaflops. It's funny actually, like a supercomputer being emulated in real time on a really fast Jacquard loom. By 2027 even simple hand held calculator addition will be billed in kilowatt-hours.
by tzs | 2025-08-17 23:34:20+00:00
Are we sure about this? In the US the pedestrian death rate from cars in 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 was 3.6, 2.6, 1.7, 1.4, and 2.0 per 100k.

Some cursory research turns up some interesting characteristics of the increase from 2010 to 2020.

• It was almost entirely in urban areas.

• Over 2/3 was on non-freeway arterials. Only about 1.4% was at intersections. (The percent of pedestrian deaths at intersections is around 16%)

• 90% was in darkness.

• It was adults. The rates for children continued to go down. For the years given above they were 2.7, 1.6, 0.8, 0.4, and 0.3 per 100k.

Cars did get heavier from 2010 to 2020 by about 4%. That would mean 4% more momentum at a given speed and 8% more kinetic energy but when dealing with getting hit by things that weigh a lot more than you do velocity is more important than momentum or kinetic energy [1], so I doubt that this was a significant factor.

Cars with shapes that are less safe did get more common, so that could be a part of it, but from where and when most of the increases were it seems there is a good chance that it is not so much that cars themselves but the behavior of drivers (and to a lesser extent) pedestrians that is mostly responsible.

Distracted driving due to phones, speeding, and reckless driving are all way up.

[1] Would you rather be hit by a Fiat 500x at 60 km/hr or the largest freight train ever constructed at 0.2 km/hr (since we usually don't talk about speeds that low to help visualize it at that speed it takes 18 seconds to go 1 meter)? The train would have 500 times the Fiat's momentum and 1.7 times the kinetic energy, but I'll definitely choose to be hit by the train. I'd even pick the train at 1 km/hr, where it has 2500 times the momentum and 42 times the kinetic energy. (Going the other way, a typical 9 mm bullet has 1/1500000th the momentum of that 0.2 km/hr train, and 1/87th the kinetic energy, but I'll the the train over the bullet).
by wiredpancake | 2025-08-17 23:35:23+00:00
Sometimes to preserve history, you just have to go do what you gotta do.

After all, these are just short links. They link to other things on the Internet. Which is inherently public anyways.

You cannot expect privacy via a simple URL. These short URLs are short, hence programmatically scraping all the URLs.

The GPT Links situation is nothing like this imo. Both however do come down to the stupid human aspect.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-17 23:35:40+00:00
At least outside of countries that already limit their citizens access to the internet, censorship regulations tend to apply only to providers, not end users, so it would be extremely difficult to go after an extraterritorial VPN provider. In the US, extraterritorial jurisdiction includes not just providers outside of the country, but providers outside of the state. For example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette_National_Bank_of_Min....
by postalcoder | 2025-08-17 23:35:44+00:00
Try https://hcker.news (I made it), the front page interface is made for hn. It captures pretty much all you could do with the algolia site as a FP and then some.

Unlike most hn frontends out there i don’t rely on algolia’s api for any of its functionality, so it’s resilient to their outages.
by extraisland | 2025-08-17 23:36:25+00:00
> If most people can reason about the current historical moment as it relates to policy decisions, well I guess that's an equally dangerous sort of problem.

Firstly I am not sure what "current historical moment" means.

Generally most people don't have the will, knowledge or knowhow to understand political policy. Political policy seems to be constantly at odds with reality (if you listen to Dominic Cummings Q/A and/or Interviews he spells out how dysfunctional it is).

Even if that is the case more often than not now the power structures in the Western World are setup in a particular way where it is opaque, protects itself and does not serve the people that it is suppose to govern.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-17 23:36:44+00:00
> Everyone else still knows what art is.

What is art?

> Artists think of themselves as the gatekeepers of art > The "What is art?" conversation isn't about art, it's about gatekeeping

Can you answer that question without yourself being a gatekeeper? Your post definitely comes off as judgemental and gatekeeping about what art is. But what if you're wrong? The people pondering what it may be certainly seem to have a more open mind, being more considerate of all the ways that expression and significance can be found.
by moritonal | 2025-08-17 23:37:39+00:00
To add a bit more, I didn't really read until later, around 8, but then read at a fairly quick and passionate amount for my age. People thought I'd dodged my family curse but later around 10 it was shown I was quite behind at school. My dyslexia was described as "a defect in one aspect of intelligence", which for most kids is reading comprehension, but for me it showed in a lack of decent short term memory. As you say, learning disabilities are interesting issues to deal with, but I'm sure your son will do great with support like you around him.
by xenotux | 2025-08-17 23:38:40+00:00
Yes, although it's not very likely.

But keep in mind that final assembly and packaging is typically happening in large, air-conditioned halls with vinyl floors, conveyor belts, plastic office chairs, disposable coveralls, etc. There's more static zaps in places like that than in a home with wooden floors, reasonable humidity, and casual clothing.

And then, as Ken notes, there's the question of scale. If you statistically kill one chip in 200, you might not even notice that in a home lab. But for a manufacturer, that's more faulty devices shipping to customers than they want.
by noduerme | 2025-08-17 23:40:22+00:00
Believe it or not, I think some of this excessive flatulence can also be blamed on the airlines trying to save cost. And I don't just mean on the "short rib and pasta salad."

I'm old enough to remember when passengers lit up once the No Smoking sign went off.[0] Whatever you may think about whether that's as rude as passing gas, it was much more socially acceptable (and probably masked a lot of farts).

So, a friend's father who was a career mechanic for American Airlines once told me that when smoking was banned on planes, the airline found they could drastically reduce the amount of bleed air they introduced to the cabin, thus reducing aerodynamic drag and increasing fuel efficiency. I don't remember by how much he said the fresh air was reduced, but it was something like an order of magnitude. Whereas in the smoking days, the cabin air was completely refreshed every 30 seconds or something, now it's like every five minutes.

The result being more germs and viruses floating around the cabin and, presumably, more recycled farts.

Maybe one of the airline folks on HN can confirm this, and also whether it's changed at all since Covid.

[0] Side note: On a recent flight, I had a bet with my companion about the No Smoking sign. She believed that it could not be turned off. I countered that there would be no reason to have an illuminated sign at all if it couldn't be turned off. Why waste the light bulbs? Just put a sticker there. Clearly they had a lit sign because some charter airline somewhere, or maybe a privately owned 737, might still allow people to smoke.[1] Anyway, we were sitting in the first row by the bulkhead, and a little while later the pilot came out for a coffee break. So I asked him to settle our bet. He said, "Watch the sign," and went into the cockpit. We watched it. Nothing happened. He came back out and asked, "Did it go off?" We said, "No." He grinned and said, "The switch is still there, but it's disconnected."

[1] I know the thing about the ashtrays in the lavatories being a safety measure, so that in case someone decides to smoke in violation of all common sense, at least they might not throw it in the toilet.
by ForceBru | 2025-08-17 23:40:46+00:00
I thought it should be extremely portable ("everything just works, it's native"), but it doesn't work on iOS 9.3.6. It doesn't even let me input text into the textarea...

A natural extension seems to be a source code editor with syntax highlighting, like those used in https://marimo.io/, Jupyter, https://plutojl.org/ and other notebook-like Web editors.
by Spivak | 2025-08-17 23:41:16+00:00
You don't have to sell it like that. The bill that needs to be passed is default presumption that all websites on the internet not explicitly marked as such and who voluntarily accept a higher legal burden and standard of moderation may contain content not suitable for children. And that is up to parents to control their child's internet access to limit their usage to only these sites.

Because I don't actually care about pornography, if it magically disappeared I wouldn't really care, it's all the other "not suitable for kids" content I care about that will get caught up in these laws. I don't want to give gross concern troll political groups moralizing about their precious hypothetical children the legal tools to ban what they don't like.
by ryao | 2025-08-17 23:41:44+00:00
I do not think mental illness is the cause of people posting wrong remarks, but when they post remarks that strike me as particularly bizarre, as yours have here, I think consideration of mental illness itself is worthwhile, productive and interesting. I have been very kind from the start, when I informed you that you were making yourself look bad. Being curious about what causes you to persist in such behavior is also a form of kindness, especially when such curiosity leads to a recommendation of professional help, although those who need help are not always willing to get it.

I will point out that you were not interested in debating in good faith, as your sole purpose is to make the point that people should treat buffer bloat as a theoretical issue that does not actually affect people, with the explanation for every incident of buffer bloat always being something else. Everything you wrote has been consistent with that. You even applied a pattern of overanalysis to the discussion that can be used to claim the contrary to anything. Your apparent need to deny the existence of a well known issue is bizarre. You would be much happier right now if you had dropped the subject.

By the way, peering links between the greater China area and the rest of the world are notoriously bad due to limited capacity. China in particular has three tier 1 networks that all refuse to upgrade peering links between each other in a timely manner, and the peering links between them and the rest of the world are often just as bad as the peering links inside of China. In order to get a decent connection there in 2016, I had to forcibly do my own routing through VMs in data centers in Shanghai, Tokyo and others to control the links used, after much trial and error, yet there were still periods where the links were horrendous and surprisingly, the issue was not always exclusive to China according to my testing between VMs on various data centers. I was visiting family for a month, yet needed a decent connection to work remotely, so I spent an entire week non-stop studying the connectivity and experimenting with ways of improving my VPN connectivity. I also had proof that the GFW was not where problems occurred, since my tcpdump pcap files taken at VMs in Shanghai and Tokyo showed the packets traversing the GFW. I also had reproduced similar performance issues using VMs in other countries, such as Japan and Singapore, where there is no GFW, as part of attempts to identify paths over which I could forcibly route my traffic via iptables rules. It is obvious to me that you will continue to deny bufferbloat was a problem and instead blame something else, yet as others have already explained to you, bufferbloat makes problems worse. After a delay of a few hundred ms, my VoIP session did not care if the packets were delivered or not, since at that point, the packets were useless, yet enormous buffers would delay them and other traffic well past a sane expiry instead of dropping it, to the detriment of all trying to use the peering links.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-08-17 23:43:00+00:00
Getting therapy is part of the job. Not sure about 'psychology as a discipline' but the therapists I know definitely get therapy and LLM exposure as well.

As I was told by one: the fact that you're able to tell your LLM to be more critical or less critical when you're seeking advice, that in itself means you're psychologically an adult and self-aware. I.e. mostly healthy.

She basically told me I don't look like a dork with my new DIY haircut. (Though I *did" complete CBT so I kinda knew how to use the scissors)

But they work with sick people. And that can mean a range of things depending on that clinical context. Usually sick things.
by laughing_man | 2025-08-17 23:43:25+00:00
1987, literally the peak cold war military spending, is an interesting year for comparison. Much of that high tech manufacturing (and employment) was underwritten by the taxpayers through the Pentagon, and that military tech eventually made its way into the civilian market.

Very soon after the US took a decade-long "procurement holiday", and we lost an enormous amount of manufacturing expertise.

Can we bring those jobs back? Sure, with a lot of tax money. Do we want to? I do - the value of "service economy" jobs is in free fall as companies replace white collar employees with LLMs.
by d_sem | 2025-08-17 23:43:32+00:00
When I see data like this i'm reminded of the history of automotive manufacturing in the 20th century and the several waves of technological changes that re-wrote the role local labor played in building cars.

The question isn't, what are the absolute number of jobs in a given sector. The question is, what are the overall trends in productivity, robustness of supply chain, and relative competitiveness in the market.
by Arainach | 2025-08-17 23:44:37+00:00
Saying someone has "severe brain trauma" is never tame. Particularly for someone who never said "there were was a successful coup in America". The person you responded to said that "the coup leaders won" and they absolutely did. Republicans blocked any meaningful investigation of the attack or significant punishments, and what meager punishments were handed out to a handful of participants were all pardoned, with one of the most egregious participants being placed to a senior position in the Department of Justice while qualified DoJ staff who merely were assigned to investigate were fired. The coup leaders ABSOLUTELY won.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-08-17 23:45:53+00:00
The standards get more strict all the time. The reason everything has an Energy Star label is because consumers are going to prefer the appliance that meets it.

From the Energy Star website, savings since 2020:

- Electricity: 520 billion kilowatt-hours - Energy costs: $42 billion - GHG emissions: 400 million metric tons

But, I guess you-know. What a lousy government intervention. Centralizing a bit of extra up front engineering work to save $billions in wasted energy. Give me back all of those energy vampires that used to be so prevalent. Like standby modes that only turned off the power LED.

https://www.energystar.gov/about/impacts
by ChiMan | 2025-08-17 23:46:18+00:00
Half the value of a todo app lies in the act of writing tasks down in the first place, and the other half lies in reading, revisiting, and revising them. In this, a .txt file works as well as anything, and is much cheaper. For me, a proud skinflint, the low cost has of a .txt file a side effect: I’m tickled to use it, reinforcing the memory that any todo app is meant to create.
by vhcr | 2025-08-17 23:46:19+00:00
In the late 1970s children younger than 15 represented 18% of all pedestrian fatality victims. By 2021 they represented just 2.4% of all pedestrian fatalities (NCSA, 2023c; Schneider, 2020). These decreases correspond with declining rates of walking by children as measured by national surveys of household travel (Buehler et al., 2020; Kontou et al., 2020).

https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/pedestr...
by lettergram | 2025-08-17 23:46:22+00:00
Yes. Strategically, it makes sense for the US, much like Russia and China to be independent.

Sanctions weren’t effective on Russia because they had most of what they needed domestically and partner markets to sell those goods to.

When the US tried to impose sanctions on China, China called the bluff and blocked strategic materials. The US “trade deal” wasn’t much different than how it started.

In terms of willing to pay for it; what’s having a country worth? Because if a competing country can withhold resources you need, you’re effectively a junior partner.

Ultimately, reduce over seas benefits, tariff and offer tax write offs to build on shore. Then you’ll have better higher paying jobs and onshore manufacturing. More real GDP from goods will not have a negative impact or cost, it’s part of why Germany and Japan grew rapidly (they had tight import controls, to build a domestic industry).

Also, the majority of the country voted for Trump and this was his #1 issue. Like him or hate him, the desire for domestic protection is what elected him.
by newyankee | 2025-08-17 23:47:00+00:00
The only way this might end is few rebellious folks with large enough properties will start going totally off grid. It does not look unrealistic tbh but a lot depends on how tariffs and Solar installation costs in US evolve (expectation is for them to be a lot lower but not happening due to installation red tape and other reasons).

If I was in such a situation where I lived in a Sunny enough place and had my property of such a size I would rather trade 95% uptime for being totally off grid and have some sort of emergency system for the 5% when it may not work.

I am actually surprised that the ultra libertarian and independent folks of Southern USA have not yet realised that they can get truly independent by making their own energy and powering their own vehicle
by ryantanaka | 2025-08-17 23:47:03+00:00
We built PDD (Prompt-Driven Development) to shift the source of truth from code to prompts.

What it is - CLI that treats prompts as first-class artifacts. You write a prompt; PDD generates the code, a minimal usage example, and tests. It can run a verify step that compares program output against the prompt and iterates until it passes.

What’s different - Prompts stay in sync with code. If you edit code by hand, `update` back-propagates changes into the prompt so the prompt remains authoritative. - End-to-end “sync” flow: auto-deps → generate → example → crash/verify → test → fix, with cost/attempt budgets. - Traceability: map a code line back to the prompt section that produced it.

Try it (no signup) # quickstart uv tool install pdd-cli # or: pip install pdd-cli pdd sync hello_world

Who it’s for - Engineers who want reproducible codegen with tests and examples, not a one-off LLM paste. - Teams that want prompts under version control and review.

What we’d love feedback on - Does the “sync” loop feel reliable on your repo? - Are the generated tests helpful? - Where does the trace/back-prop flow break or surprise you?

Caveats - Local mode uses your own API keys; cloud mode adds stronger models. We’re still improving coverage for large mono-repos.

Links - Repo: [https://github.com/promptdriven/pdd] - Whitepaper: [https://www.notion.so/Whitepaper-The-Case-for-Prompt-Driven-...]