MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taeric | 2025-08-07 16:50:36+00:00
The pretense here is that we actually know what leads to long term progress? As much as it pains people to admit it, short term results are often far more predictive of long term results than any other single data point.

Is it perfect? No. Of course not. But having a team that is just willing to show up and work towards a goal is such a leg up over any other thing that we know that it is painful to see it argued against.

Will there be some people that make progress in leaps? Absolutely. Most of that progress will be taken up and incorporated rather quickly in the places that also employ the teams that just show up.
by exmadscientist | 2025-08-07 16:51:05+00:00
It's mostly the kidneys that get damaged, not so much the liver. It also has a massive amount of benign or merely annoying side effects. Lithium might even be the drug with the largest overall amount of side effects. It's certainly a weird one.

High-dose lithium is extremely hard on your kidneys and may well lead to kidney failure in a decade or so. Medium-dose lithium is a lot more gentle but still requires monitoring. Many people can go down in dose after initial treatment, and good psych prescribers will attempt to do this after a while. (Or patients will request it, after the other side effects of lithium become noticable after the bipolar has settled down.) Low-dose lithium is much harder to study and may well be pretty safe. May.

It is not quite true that people have no idea how it cures bipolar disorder. It's definitely affecting the ion channels (sodium, potassium, etc), just like many other anticonvulsant drugs also used for treating bipolar. So the mechanism for action is not totally insane and unique. Now, why the ion channels are the place to go for certain people, that's an open question....
by throwaway1004 | 2025-08-07 16:51:06+00:00
I would frame this slightly differently: managers care about delivery above all else, not necessarily productivity or efficiency.

Their goal is to attach their name to as many features/initatives as possible, owning the successes and orphaning failures, to impress their bosses. Another related goal is to have as many reports as possible. Delivery is relative to the average velocity: often, it's preferable to have a slow, inefficient operation so you can sandbag your bosses AND increase your headcount.

When it comes to improving processes and tools, managers prefer low-risk, iterative improvements which they can (somewhat) grasp. They also enjoy one-off prototypes and half-baked hacker projects which use new and shiny technology. Both categories make great fodder for PowerPoint presentations in front of shirts.

When it comes to larger, fundamental shifts which they cannot grok nor plausibly attach their name to, many managers will actively impede such efforts, as this risks upsetting the status quo which is (probably) working for them. The exceptions are usually the smart middle-managers looking to create a rising tide.

I've worked at a company that had dozens upon dozens of teams working on precisely the same problems (standard build->deploy->test->release fare), using many of the same tools, each with their own half-baked and poorly maintained configuration, plugins, dependencies, and custom libraries (sometimes, they even wrote a few tests!).

You can probably guess the majority of the proposal I put together, it's foundational stuff. It was presented and discussed among our senior+ engineers, and with managers.

>"You know... maybe there's value in letting teams be innovative..."
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-07 16:51:33+00:00
Heh, that is kinda interesting and I've never heard of it before. What are some services that have this set up?

So, I guess you set up some "emergency users". And maybe if you lose access to your account, you get customer support to mark your account as lost which sends an email to the address that you have on file (in case it's an attack started by someone other than the user).

And I suppose if N days pass without any login, one of your emergency users can generate a credential that they can pass to you to recover your account?
by rs186 | 2025-08-07 16:51:40+00:00
It seems that you have a massive misunderstanding of how this works.

University research labs, usually with a team of no more than 10 people (at most 20), are good at producing early, proof-of-concept work, but not incredibly complex projects like creating an actual codec. They are not known for producing polished, mature commerical products that can be immediately used in the real world. They don't have the resources or the incentive to do so.
by FiatLuxDave | 2025-08-07 16:51:43+00:00
I once stayed at an honesty box motel near Hell's Backbone (a road through rough country in rural Utah). There was a basket of keys on the porch and a sign that said, "We're out. Please take a key and leave $20." The place hadn't been cleaned in a while, but I was very happy to stay there as there was nowhere else nearby and I had fallen ill.

There was a dog with heterochromia and a llama nearby, watching us as we left the money and chose a key. It was quite the memorable place. For years afterwards my wife referred to it as "the hotel run by a dog and a llama".
by mvieira38 | 2025-08-07 16:52:27+00:00
Getting the State involved is just a different, much worse threat actor than Google, though. From this discussion it should be evident how much more sovereignity passwords give you, if you want the State involved it should regulate websites' policies on passwords, such as: no service shall be hostile to password managers (special character bans, short limits on length, no pasting), no service shall require regular password resetting (proven to worsen security).

State involvement may be better used in policing, too. Public repositories of leaked passwords (without usernames, of course) would do wonders, for example
by m4rtink | 2025-08-07 16:52:45+00:00
This is definitely one way how to do it - but it should be possible to also get fast if you really want to[0][1] + likely also increase human lifespan/hibernate/immortal cyborgs. So there might be whole other class of interstellar ships - much more compact and with its own unique class of moral issues!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_rocket
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-07 16:52:50+00:00
Homeownership rates are not particularly out of band right now. They’ve kept within a couple of % points for the entire post ww2 era. They’ve kept within track almost exactly mortgage rates. They are higher they were 10 years ago for instance.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

But note that’s not the same thing as housing affordability. You probably can goose the homeownership rate by appropriating a bunch of homes and redistributing them to the marginal buyers who are currently not owners.

But it will not drop the price of housing, it will increase it because supply will still be constrained (think of the normal case of someone moving temporarily for work. If you disincentivize them being allowed to rent the unit out you now have 2 units off the market).

Carry cost is mostly about financing costs and regulations not the price of homes.
by rsanek | 2025-08-07 16:53:06+00:00
>assumption here is that, without AI, none of that capital would have been deployed anywhere. That intuitively doesn't sound realistic

For the longest time, capex at FAANG was quite low. These companies are clearly responding specifically to AI. I don't think it's realistic to expect that they would raise capex for no reason.

>a statement that's been broadly true since 2020, long before ChatGPT started the current boom

I guess it depends on your definition of "long before," but the ChatGPT release is about mid-way between now and 2020.

As for the startup vs. AI company point, have you read Stripe's whitepaper on this? They go into detail on how it seems like AI companies are indeed a different breed. https://stripe.com/en-br/lp/indexingai
by deanmoriarty | 2025-08-07 16:53:19+00:00
While I clearly cannot control who upvotes my comments (though what you suggest seems completely nuts IMHO), I can genuinely say this is coming from an ex startup employee who has seen, and been subject to, many startup equity shenanigans (my comment history very likely touched on those over the years), so I will always applaud companies that generously compensate employees and not only senior management/investors.

Startups I worked before, who lost talent due to FAANG poaching (myself included), did not even have the business acumen to fight that, which would have been trivially possible by offering some liquidity at their “inflated” valuation. Instead, they kept those liquidity opportunities gated to senior management and investors. So I am applauding the difference in behavior here.
by phkahler | 2025-08-07 16:53:33+00:00
>> Did people not realize they can save their 2fa token and just use that with a new authenticator?

What's 2fa token? Is that an AI thing? AI uses tokens. Or a crypto thing? Do you need one of them "nonfungible" tokens? And what's an authenticator? I have MS authenticator for work, but it uses 2 digit numbers, are those tokens?
by rkozik1989 | 2025-08-07 16:54:04+00:00
Honestly, why would anyone find this information useful? Creating a brand new greenfield project is a terrible test. Because literally anything it outputs as long as it looks good as long as it works following the happy path. Coding with LLMs falls apart in situations where complex reasoning is required. Situations such as having debugging issues in a service where there's either no framework in use or they've significantly modified a framework to make it better suit the authors needs.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-07 16:54:09+00:00
In your scenario, you're looking at a bottom up approach. Instead of going to Ford, you start at the bottom of the food chain. Used car dealerships, auto body shops, and other places that sell/install accessories for your car.

A great example is remote starters. Same idea. Great for the user, not so much for say Ford. The first places I saw these being installed? Stereo shops would use it as a cross selling feature whenever they were selling something else to a customer. I could be wrong, but it took a few years for the manufacturers to start including remote starters as an add-on. Before then, it was all kinds of other shops selling and installing them.

But its a trench warfare type of deal. You have to get into the hands of the people who can install them, then work your way up to approaching dealerships and larger clients.

I've done this with an anti-theft device. Start small, then build your client base and use that as a springboard to get interest from larger clients.
by aliljet | 2025-08-07 16:54:14+00:00
It's very unclear if OpenAI has been casually leaking things to create buzz, but a few days ago there was a pretty stunning pelican on a bike attempt: https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1mettre/gpt5_is_alr...

In practice, it's very clear to me that the most important value in writing software with an LLM isn't it's ability to one-shot hard problems, but rather it's ability to effectively manage complex context. There are no good evals for this kind of problem, but that's what I'm keenly interested in understanding. Show me GPT-5 can move through 10 steps in a list of tasks without completely losing the objective by the end.
by qualeed | 2025-08-07 16:54:16+00:00
>But we shouldn’t paint it like I was bailed out by some algorithmic PR radar and nothing else.

>[...] assumed to be manipulation

I think you're reading way more negativity into "PR" than I'm intending (which is no negativity).

It's very clear Tarus is a caring person who really did empathize with your situation and did their best to rectify the situation. It's not a bad thing that your issue may (most likely) have been brought to his attention because of "PR radar" or whatever.

The bad part, on Amazon and other similar companies, is how they typically respond when a potential PR hit isn't on the line. Which, as I'm sure you know because you experienced it prior to posting your blog, is often a brick wall.

The overwhelming issue is that you often require some sort of threat of damage to their PR to be assisted. That doesn't make the PR itself a bad thing. And that fact implies nothing about the individuals like Tarus who care. Often the lowly tier 1 support empathizes, they just aren't allowed to do anything or say anything.
by mikewarot | 2025-08-07 16:55:09+00:00
I know the actual output of the model is wider than a token.... but I can't find it (the actual width, or number of bytes) in the source. Perhaps it's my very casual familiarity with Python that's limiting me, but I don't see any actual declarations of array sizes anywhere in the code.

I'm just trying to calculate the actual bandwidth required for the full output of the model, not just a token to be handed off to the user.

I need this so I can compute just what bandwidth a fully FPGA (later ASIC) based implementation of the model would result in.

Edit/Append: I asked GPT-5, and it estimated:

Total bytes = 50,000 tokens × 4 bytes/token = 200,000 bytes

Which sounds about right to me. This yields a maximum of about 500 logits/second on Gigabit ethernet.

The actual compute of the model is peanuts compared to just shuffling the data around.
by olddustytrail | 2025-08-07 16:55:16+00:00
Not really. That would just be the way life is to those people. Showing them videos of how people lived on a planet would be like asking them to imagine how a caveman lived.

If they did rebel it would probably be more along the lines of reaching the target inhabitable planet and refusing to leave the ship. Just grab enough material to set a new course for the next one and keep going.

The next set of rebels would be the ones who actually fulfilled the mission.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-08-07 16:55:24+00:00
It’s blind safetyism when an article writes “don’t do this because no one has proven it is safe”. Most people will read that as “you can probably do this but in the off chance something bad happens, I wrote these words so you have a harder time suing me”.

It would be more useful and effective for the article to say “don’t do this to yourself because it can damage your guts, see these links, there’s tradeoffs here”

The former just fades into the modern world’s background noise of unchecked ass-covering.
by simoncion | 2025-08-07 16:55:25+00:00
I don't believe that they can, not unencoded. Check out the grammar in the relevant RFC[0], as well as the discussion about URL-unsafe characters in the RFC that's updated by 3986 [1], from which I'll quote below.

> Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons. ... The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the delimiters around URLs in free text

Also note the "APPENDIX" section on page 22 of RFC1738, which provides recommendations for embedding URLs in other contexts (like, suchas, in an essay, email, or internet forum post.)

Do you have standards documents that disagree with these IETF ones?

If you're using the observed behavior of your browser's address bar as your proof that ">" is valid in a URL, do note that the URL

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826199>hello there

might appear to contain a space and the ">" character, but it is actually represented as

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826199%3Ehello%20there

behind the scenes. Your web browser is pretty-printing it for you so it looks nicer and is easier to read.

[0] <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#appendix-A>

[1] <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1738#section-2.2>
by kccqzy | 2025-08-07 16:55:32+00:00
I use Schwab (bank and brokerage). Their money market funds yields 4.x% with just a few more clicks to move into and out of the MMF. The Bill Pay retrieves the amount on my BofA credit card just fine. And it supports TOTP via Symantec VIP Access (it doesn't seem like you can use a standard TOTP app).
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-07 16:55:32+00:00
Yep, just back and forth, make sure your eyes fully focus before switching. What I do is roughly 2 sec near, 2 sec far, etc, whole thing takes me maybe 30 seconds, but some people say to do it much more or wait as long as 10 sec before switching. Make sure to do it outside in the sunlight. Oh, and if you notice one eye focuses better than the other, then try it with just the bad eye.

There's all sorts of discussion online and it's a pretty heated topic, flamewars, paid courses, forums, some people say it can only prevent it, some say it can reverse it, some say it does nothing, some will ban you for talking about it, etc. Then there is the even more controversial theory that you can recover from serious myopia with the "reduced lens" method. The popular opinion is that that's impossible, but there are a good handful of datapoints to the contrary. Personally, my myopia was never that bad, so I never got too deep into that stuff and just did the basic near-far-near exercises outside in the sun and that was enough to reverse the small decline in my vision.
by csours | 2025-08-07 16:55:44+00:00
> 3. Buyers generally won't reject a car for having features they don't care about, but they'll frequently reject a car for lacking a feature they deem important. 4. Buyers have different preferences.

Yup. I don't care about the radio, and you don't care about manual windows, but you care about the radio, and I care about manual windows.
by CrimsonCape | 2025-08-07 16:56:55+00:00
You know talking about progress bars, it takes a lot of confidence to program a linear progress bar. You think you know when loading will be complete and think you know can break down the incremental progress made during loading.

Instead we get these spinning wheels that are like "maybe in the future this wheel will stop and we will have a return value." No confidence whatsoever.

I know this is true because Apple tries to implement progress bars in IOS like real chads. But their progress bars are just fake. They are a cheap animation all the way up to 90% and just stop moving until the progress is actually complete which could be 5 seconds of 90% and 40 seconds of the last 10%. So they think they are chad but lie.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-07 16:57:00+00:00
As I understand it (having it explained to me by Georgists and doing a fair amount of research myself), the value of the land is determined by "best and highest use".

That is such a nebulous term that can be manipulated in so many ways (e.g. the example I provided above or zoning changes) that it doesn't seem feasible to use as the basis for any government policy.

And to answer your questions, no this wouldn't apply under conventional property tax regimes because overimprovements have no impact on the value of neighboring lots or existing improvements, no this is not already happening in high tax states because the value of the land is (supposed to be) set by market rates and the land value and improvement values are decoupled in the assessment.

In practice, assessors do a poor job of this (see the article in question), which is why I have no interest in giving them even more control.
by varjag | 2025-08-07 16:57:18+00:00
They all existed within the greater (regional, national) social context. There still was freedom of movement even if at much greater cost. There were avenues for delinquents and outcasts to seek fortunes in the cities or even overseas. There was no overarching purpose imposed on their life other than the religion.

This is not to say that generation ship societies are doomed to fail but chances are decent.
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by cipherboy | 2025-08-07 16:57:32+00:00
Yes and https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-05-vault-cert-aut... was an earlier authN+authZ bypass in the same code block.

So maybe one step down in severity, though I do not know the details of what HCSEC-2024-05 was fixed with as that was after the fork point. OpenBao moved to full cert pinning (constant-time cert.Raw comparisons) when remediating that one, which meant we were not affected by this variant.
by m4rtink | 2025-08-07 16:57:52+00:00
Yeah, no way space projects this size are built from materials lifted from earths gravity well. Like, you could probably do it as an achievement with launch loops[0] or an space elevator[1]. But it makes no sense if you have material ready to use just flaoting in space (asteroids) or in a much more shallow gravity well (Lunar stuff can be easily launched to orbit via mass drivers).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-07 16:58:32+00:00
> "He didn't know this was happening" is kindergarten type excuse making.

Quite a strawman argument as no-one in this thread stated that. The case was closed, so it also doesn't make sense to speculate whether he was personally aware of this or not, e.g. the verdict also describes this:

According to Cadence’s admissions and court documents, employees of Cadence China did not disclose to and/or concealed from other Cadence personnel, including Cadence’s export compliance personnel, that exports to CSCC were in fact intended for delivery to NUDT and/or the PRC military.

Anyway, as said, the letter with questions to Intel is a reasonable reaction, the social media post of the president is not.

> And in any case, if true is evidence of incompetence meaning he should not be permitted to lead a company so critical to US technology and national security concerns given his incompetence could allow that type of thing to happen again.

Accidentally proving my point. If this is such a company "critical to US technology and national security concerns", ESPECIALLY then the president shouldn't make such public statements without a prior due process.
by MaKey | 2025-08-07 16:58:50+00:00
> Now ask yourself this: how often do people do this at all? Pretty much never. Most of us only do it when you have to, because you aren’t making enough money, because your application is slow, because you can barely meet budget, or because you are trying to land on the moon and failing costs too much.

I do it most of the time at work because I find joy in finding the best possible solution.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-08-07 16:58:59+00:00
Since the stream has been on some starting screen for several minutes, I went to check whether there are watch-along streams on Twitch for this - there are a few, and for some reason every one of them is in Spanish. I know Spanish-language streams are a big thing, but it's curious that there's three Spanish GPT-5 watchalong streams (two with 50-ish viewers and one with 2.5k) and none in English.

edit: YouTube has a few English "watch party" streams, although there too, the Spanish ones have many times more viewers.