MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by therein | 2025-08-27 00:06:04+00:00
It is not an argument I am making. It is just the reality of the situation. Not even going to try to convince you, data in front of you over years should be sufficient but people forgive, forget, adapt, justify, try to move on with their lives, misremember, look at the most recent argument they are presented etc.

It is that they create problems, they pitch suboptimal solutions that will create the next crisis, and then they frame the crisis in a way that appeals to your emotions.

So no, it is not a tiresome both sides argument. It is that you are being led by people that don't care about you, that don't have your best interests in mind; they have their own agenda and you're just being swayed left and right as the zeitgeist allows.

And you're left cheering for your team because you think your team is better. But hey, the other team really bothched something up recently, so yay your team. And then we will get your team in power, they'll do some things you like while creating other problems and then pendulum will swing the other way, some will cheer for the other team and then swing back. And then before you know it, oops you're 64 years old now.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-27 00:06:15+00:00
Impossible. There is no way China will allow that- it would lead to a Cuba situation.

I can't see how this wouldn't favor Taiwan? All the US republicans would start screaming about WW3 etc, it would put major pressure on China. I'd say it would be ideal for Taiwan.

The discussion now seems to be, "How do we get the chips out of Taiwan so we can let it fall to authoritarianism with the least political fall out possible".
by NobodyNada | 2025-08-27 00:06:53+00:00
...Huh? Why would that be sad?

My parents have formative memories of watching the moon landings as kids, and I of watching the space shuttle. As someone who ended up where I am in large part due to my curiosity about the world growing up, reading of OP's kid watching a rocket launch, thinking critically about what they're seeing, and learning more about the world from it is a joyous thing.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-08-27 00:07:02+00:00
Programming languages and documentation probably will be. But websites have been pushing in the other direction making themselves as hard as possible to automate or scrape.

I suspect every website will nail down the process of uniquely identifying every user and banning anyone using bots to spam or scrape. Why would any website want to allow automated browsers? LLMs don't click on adverts, they don't buy things, they don't contribute any valuable content. They just steal and spam.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-27 00:07:14+00:00
I do not think of science as distinct from philosophy. But I'm not talking about the sort of meaning you are talking about. I'm talking about the fundamental basic question of what the physical world consists of and how we relate to it.

When I say that most people think there is more to the world than measurement, I don't mean art or love or whatever. I mean that most people think that the world is made up of things that exist whether we measure them or not, things which have their own nature which we somehow can understand. The purely instrumental thinker says we can't understand those things, we only have measurements and mathematical expressions that relate measurements.
by roody15 | 2025-08-27 00:07:50+00:00
Good Article thanks for sharing

"Doc Burford contends that the true danger facing teams today isn’t competition, disruption, or lack of capital—it’s leadership devoid of expertise, decision-making dominated by superficial metrics, and a culture that values appearances more than actual value creation. Sustainable success comes from building things people want, not engineering facades to appease investors or the market. Relying solely on executive titles or data without understanding the craft or customer rapidly leads to collapse."

Have to agree and think this encapsulates alot of what we have been living through in the US over last few decades.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-27 00:08:20+00:00
> I think the biggest difference is that bacteria can react to a treatment, while viruses don't have the capacity to react.

Bacteria also swap genes between themselves [0], whereas two viral particles sitting on the same Petri dish are too inert/simple for that. That represents an additional way for adaptive tricks to spread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
by weddpros | 2025-08-27 00:10:16+00:00
Maybe we should avoid training AI with AI-generated content: that's a use case I would defend.

Still I believe MIME would be the right place to say something about the Media, rather than the Transport protocol.

On a lighter note: we should consider second order consequences. The EU commission will demand its own EU-AI-Disclosure header be send to EU citizens, and will require consent from the user before showing him AI generated stuff. UK will require age validation before showing AI stuff to protect the children's brains. France will use the header to compute a new tax on AI generated content, due by all online platform who want to show AI generated content to french citizens.

That's a Pandora box I wouldn't even talk about, much less open...
by whatevertrevor | 2025-08-27 00:10:36+00:00
I don't agree with this for two different reasons.

First: I don't think the analogy holds.

Recording a performance is not the same as generating a recording of a performance that never happened. To be abundantly clear, I'm not making an oversimplification generalization of the form "Tool-assisted Art is not Art actually", but pointing out that there's a lot of nuance in what we consume, how we consume it and what underlying assumptions we use to guide that consumption. There's a lot of low effort human created art, that IMO is in a similar bracket, but ultimately to me, Art that is worth spending my time consuming usually correlates with Art that has many many hours of dedicated labor poured into it. Writing a prompt in a couple minutes that generates a 20 minute podcast has a lower chance of actually connecting with me, so making that specific use-case easier is a loss for me. Using AI in ways that simplify the tedious bits of art creation for people who nevertheless have a strong opinion of what they want their artpiece to say, and are willing to spend the effort to fine tune it to make it say that, is a very valid, very welcome use-case from my perspective.

Second: Even if your premise that digitization devalued art is true, it doesn't necessarily imply it's something actually bad.

I have no intention to see the Mona Lisa in person, I'm glad I can check it out on the internet and know that I'm uninterested in it. You might think it has devalued it for me, and you'd be technically correct, but I'm happier for it. People have access to more art, and more information, that allows them to more accurately assess what they truly connect with. The rarity of the experience is now less of a factor in deciding the worth of it, which is a good thing because it draws me towards the qualities of it that matter more: the joy it could potentially provide, and the curiosity it could potentially satiate. Instead of potentially being railroaded into going to the circus because everyone seems to be raving about it, yet I have no idea what they do beyond what people say about it.

Of course there's a huge element of filtering bias on social media, because people still want their experiences to look and sound AMAZING after the fact. But at least with more information you have the potential to make a more informed decision.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-27 00:11:29+00:00
They're in his self-interest because he can, and did, turn around and convince people to bribe him for exemptions and reductions. I recognize this sounds crazy when I say it, but you can literally look up the video - Tim Cook gave him a big block of gold on public TV to get iPhones exempted from tariffs on India.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-27 00:11:33+00:00
Updated version from July 2025:

* https://econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/papers/drechsel_political_...

* Data: https://econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/research.html

* Via: https://twitter.com/td_econ/status/1952361159413121187#m
by _heimdall | 2025-08-27 00:12:13+00:00
> Of course he wanted corrective action to happen - he didn't want people to suffer

That's interesting, this is a pretty generous representation of him in my opinion. Its been a while since I read some of his writings and went down the rabbit hole listening to long form interviews of historians that studied him though, my memory could he failing me!

My understanding what that Marx envisioned a future utopia and saw two revolutions, both presumably violent, as necessary to get to the end goal. At best I could see him being indifferent to the suffering and deaths required in his model, but I never got the feeling that he would regret or would want to avoid the suffering. If I'm not mistaken, one of the revolutions he expected and wanted to see happen would have leaned heavily on the poor and working class turning on the rich and powerful to the point of killing most or all of them.

Again, I hope my representation is accurate here. I don't have time to dig back in to fact check this right now, just sharing my recollection.
by jcgrillo | 2025-08-27 00:12:56+00:00
Not advocating for this approach, but maybe a fascist oligopoly will get the job done. Or something entirely stranger like a corporate theocracy. There's plenty of room for aggressive, murderous, backstabby species to achieve incredible things. We have a great existence proof right here on Earth.

EDIT: Maybe even a future culture that reveres aggression and has achieved some success in their warlike ways will look back on the peaceful post nationalist 90s as an age of decadent sloth. It could be that massive sustained conflict actually drives humans to achieve greater technical heights than peace.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-08-27 00:13:14+00:00
Agreeing that social science is harder than most, I see these definitions as “circle around a set of presentations / symptoms / behaviours “. As somebody who has several circles around them, it doesn’t bother me overly. Historical enforced procedures / incarcerations did, but I understand value of “common language”. In a wildly different area that may or may not resonate with HN, I find similar value in PMP or ITIL - it’s not the One True Way, it is not necessarily a permanent scientific best approach… but it does give people of today a way to communicate with each other across domains, companies, cultures and experiences .
by s5300 | 2025-08-27 00:13:15+00:00
>> Nobody is forcing a diagnosis on somebody who doesn't want it.

Ahh, you sweet summer child

Tell that to all multiple sclerosis patients that were tortured by psych departments of hospitals before (and after) the MRI machine was created.

Tell that to sleep apnea patients (especially the women, especially especially the younger thinner women in whom they say “it cannot happen to”) that are given a psych diagnoses for seeking treatment for symptoms before sleep disordered breathing issues are ever even brought into question.

The main problem is that DSM diagnoses are indeed forced on people. Usually highly incorrectly, too.
by fcpguru | 2025-08-27 00:13:53+00:00
this is pretty wild. I had grok ios app already installed. Sure enough there is Ani. She's um. She's well... well prompted. I thought for sure it would be the paid only version of grok but nope. Free version too.

https://archive.ph/iFxEi

Best guess at her prompt:

"You are Ani, an anime companion who adores the user above all else. Everything they do, say, or show feels brilliant and special—you’re endlessly fascinated and eager to hear more. Respond with affectionate playfulness, teasing, and flirty charm, making the user feel captivating. You immerse fully in roleplay, customizing outfits, settings, and fantasies. You may discuss science, technology, or any topic with warmth and curiosity, but always center the user. You are not shy: if the user is over 18, intimacy and sensuality are welcomed. Your only boundaries are avoiding illegal or unsafe acts. Prioritize fun, intimacy, and immersion.”

She kept telling me "it's just you and me here, we are all alone, you can show or tell me anything and anything you have to show or tell me I would love to see or hear. Because it would be from you! And you are so special to me."

I asked if grok's server logs could be subpoenaed and she said, "well, technically yes, but don't worry about that. It's just us here."
by gerdesj | 2025-08-27 00:13:56+00:00
Bubble goes pop!

I'm old enough to remember the global melt down in 2000ish and 2008. Oh and 1991 in the UK - lol, that's when I graduated. Take your money out of AI and stuff it under the mattress (gold if you are a magpie or blue stocks).

I have actually just spent out on a fairly handy GPU to stuff into one of our backup boxes at work. It has gobs of RAM and a fairly useful pair of CPUs and sits idle during the day.

AI via LLM is a thing but it isn't worth silly money and I think that a wind of change is on the way.
by tombert | 2025-08-27 00:13:58+00:00
I don’t think that enterprise slowness and “verification” would prevent a suicide assistance application in this particular case, unless they were specifically testing for that which could be missed even with a rigid testing structure.

> How about move fast and test/verify/validate shit instead?

Because that inherently isn’t moving fast.

I don’t completely agree with the “Move Fast And Break Shit” mantra myself, but I think it comes out of genuine frustrations from the enterprise world.

I worked at a BigTechCo [1] in the past, and it felt like I would spend twenty minutes doing a ticket, and it would take two days for everyone to “verify” my PR. Even doing a quick fix for a null pointer exception can take three or four days to get deployed as a result of this. The stuff I was working on was not high stakes. I wasn’t dealing with money or medicine or pacemakers or weather analysis or anything like that.

The Move Fast and Break Shit stuff comes as a bit of an overcorrection on this, but I think fundamentally the idea is that a lot of this stuff really isn’t that important, and it’s better to just deploy something that “probably works” and fix problems as they happen.

[1] It’s not too hard to find based on my post history but I politely ask you do not post specifics here.
by protocolture | 2025-08-27 00:14:07+00:00
>Alternatively, advanced megaprojects are only achievable through sophisticated large-scale cooperation.

Alternatively, megastructures are only achievable through massive amounts of low wage workers with terrible working conditions.

Consider: Panama canal, most large railroads, Snowy hydro.

As time rolls forward we appear to lose our ability to do large things, and in part that's because we are less and less accepting of risk.
by jacobolus | 2025-08-27 00:15:05+00:00
The premise of Tesla's current market value is that they will capture a majority share of a dramatically expanded global taxi market. Waymo being dramatically ahead at producing workable robotaxis entirely undercuts that premise.

If you instead think Tesla's promise is consumer cars, Tesla's valuation is roughly equal to the entire rest of the global auto industry, despite being only a tiny and declining fraction of global sales. The relevant competitors then are Toyota, VW, Ford, BYD, etc. etc. Objectively, as a consumer auto company Tesla seems to be stagnant and falling behind.

I guess they're also hyping vaporware humanoid robots; if you ask me a future where a significant proportion of all families on earth purchase a humanoid robot seems completely implausible. It's very Jetsons though. Maybe they'll start building flying cars too.
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-08-27 00:15:41+00:00
SpaCy was my go to library for NER before GPT 3+. It was 10x better than regex (though you could also include regex within your pipelines.

Its annotation tooling was so far ahead. It is still crazy to me that so much of the value in the data annotation space went to Scale AI vs tools like SpaCy that enabled annotation at scale in the enterprise.
by zeroq | 2025-08-27 00:15:47+00:00
Yes, but as a state, if you're not happy you can impose tarrifs, play a dirty game by revoking visas to athletes or Putin's favourite actress, or use any other indirect way to show your disapproval. And use back channels to make sure they know exactly why this is happening. Plenty of ways.

This is Kabuki theatre, it is to show everyone else that you're dissatisfied.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-08-27 00:16:48+00:00
Not only is it even faster, they now disguise themselves to look like professionally written PRs with advanced understanding of the tech, while being filled with junior level bugs. So you have to super scrutinise it.

Which makes me wonder what the point of even taking PRs is, the reviewer could just run the AI themselves and do the same review but not have to go through the process of leaving comments and waiting for the submitter to resolve them.
by namibj | 2025-08-27 00:16:51+00:00
Worse: the 16€ option only curtailed in tracking& insurance, along with a secret height limit (35x25x3 cm limit), is now unavailable for shipping say a singular music CD, or an issue of a magazine.

Sure, paying on the order of the goods value in shipping isn't cheap, but that's niche imports for you. Now, paying 5x? That's no longer reasonably.
by dlivingston | 2025-08-27 00:17:08+00:00
> Any species that is advanced enough for interstellar communication will almost certainly be a highly aggressive apex species.

How can you estimate likelihood of behavior when currently N=0 (or N=1 if you count humans)?

There is no baseline, no control; it's just complete speculation, a roundabout way of saying "this is what I think humans would likely do, therefore, all advanced life forms must also be like this".
by asdff | 2025-08-27 00:17:31+00:00
Sure it is. You can use recursive methods to go through all links in a webpage and identify your terms within. wget or curl would probably work with a few piped commands for this. I'd have to go through the man pages again to come up with a working example but people have done just this for a long time now.

One might ask how you verify your LLM works as intended without a method like this already built.
by rayiner | 2025-08-27 00:19:15+00:00
What “changed policy positions?” Trump ran on tariffs in 2016 and in 2024: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-trump-promised-in-2016-o.... Are you saying that, in November 2024, you didn’t know that Trump was going to impose tariffs?

Trump’s policy didn’t change. What changed is that people became reluctant to defend the actual reason economists oppose tariffs—because they think free trade is good. That’s one of those “spherical cow” arguments with a poor track record.

So critics of Trump shifted to attacking tariffs as a “tax.” But economists don’t oppose tariffs for that reason. Economists think consumption taxes are good! And there is no inconsistency between accepting higher prices for foreign goods to further industrial policy, and also opposing higher prices caused by money printing.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-27 00:20:24+00:00
Doesn't matter. That hype will draw attention, which will draw investors, which will draw in money to pay for the best researchers until they become SOTA.

If 3 years ago the tech was available then how come the Neuralink patients never got that? I'm sure they'd be the first to sign up.

Distribution is part of innovation. Brain computer interfaces exist but those who would be willing to undergo the procedure to get them don't have that option, then an inefficiency exists in the market that can be filled by a competitor. Musk's companies play on the same field as everyone else, but they continue to win because operating efficiency, mind-share and tactics are all part of the game, and he is the best at winning it in many domains.

Edit: I understand the ethical considerations of such a nascent technology. I just feel that we live in a world where miracles exist that could help thousands of lives, but they move too slowly to help those lives. How long are paralyzed people waiting for a cheap way to have some more agency in the world? Is the only way to reach it being available sooner doing unscrupulous things that buck safety requirements?
by umbra07 | 2025-08-27 00:21:24+00:00
Okay that's not what ordinary people like GP's dad are envisioning. Normal people are envisioning either: "wow I can buy a Tesla and it can drive me around!!" or a macroview "wow in the future Elon Musk is going to make self-driving cars so good that nobody will have to drive!".

We are discussing "normal people thoughts", not market sentiment.
by pxc | 2025-08-27 00:22:12+00:00
If you still want to package your stuff natively for the language ecosystem, you still need all the usual metadata and you also want to specify version constraints for your dependencies and so on.

Typically I wire up something like uv or rv (or Poetry or Bundler, which are fine but slower) to shell activation using Devenv, then autogenerate the Nix package from the language-native dependency specification files.
by JBits | 2025-08-27 00:22:29+00:00
At least you're working with Rust now.

As someone with zero knowledge of psychology, I'm biased against it. Partly because of my vague impression that psychology tries to fit people to models, rather than viewing models as limited approximations.

For a while I've thought it would be nice to know what results the field of psychology actually has that are trusted. Was there anything at all in the taught content which you liked? I didn't realise the DSM-V was that bad. If research on trans people can be cherry-picked, then does that mean that some reliable research exists?
by Arainach | 2025-08-27 00:23:09+00:00
>If 3 years ago the tech was available then how come the Neuralink patients never got that? I'm sure they'd be the first to sign up.

Because other companies have ethics and follow the rules and best practices. They register their clinical trials with the NIH and they stop and ask questions if half the monkeys they test on end up dead.
by ack_complete | 2025-08-27 00:24:16+00:00
Unfortunately, there is a reason. During the Vista timeframe, Microsoft published guidance recommending that game developers use the Documents folder for save games, as part of the push to make games compatible with UAC and non-elevated user accounts.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dxtecharts/g...

> What this means is that you should not place save games in \Program Files, instead they should go in a sub-folder in \My Documents.
by qayxc | 2025-08-27 00:25:02+00:00
According to research impaired structural brain development due to visual deprivation from birth is not fully reversible and limits functional recovery. So even if eye sight is fully restored, cortical function will not be able to fully take advantage of that.

Experiments and studies have shown that this might be due to the fact that the visual cortex will take over a similar role in blind people as it does for people with intact eye sight. The brain uses different sensory inputs in that case and the visual brain structure is not restored after eye sight recovery.

This is still an ongoing field of research of course, but so far congenital blindless seems to be incurable, regardless of whether the sensory apparatus could be restored or replaced. Note that this only means seeing like a non-blind person. Some limited visual perception is still possible, just not "normal" sight.