MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-01 22:18:32+00:00
These days one can register a domain for ten years, and have it auto-renew with prefunded payments that are already sitting in the account. This is what I did for the URL shortener I am developing.

The same would have to be done for the node running the service, and it too has been prefunded with a sitting balance.

Granted, there still exist failure modes, and so the bus factor needs to be more than one, but the above setup can in all probability easily ride out a few decades with the original person forgetting about it. In principle, a prefunded LLM with access to appropriate tooling and a headless browser can even be put in charge to address common administrative concerns.
by dmoneyballer | 2025-08-01 22:18:50+00:00
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by swed420 | 2025-08-01 22:19:13+00:00
> The beautiful thing about public media is that it can broadcast things that don't have a profit-motive for being broadcast.

True, so one would expect to have heard much more about Bernie Sanders when he was making runs for president. Unfortunately the only coverage he usually got on likes of NPR was when it was something negative about him.

So much for straying from profit motive.
by ignoramous | 2025-08-01 22:19:16+00:00
Sent this email to Patrick 2y ago:

Hi,

re: fast: https://patrickcollison.com/fast

One day in mid-November, workers at OpenAI got an unexpected assignment: Release a chatbot, fast. The chatbot, an executive announced, would be known as "Chat with GPT-3.5," and it would be made available free to the public. In two weeks. The announcement confused some OpenAI employees. ... OpenAI's top executives had changed their minds. Some were worried that rival companies might upstage them by releasing their own A.I. chatbots before GPT-4, according to the people with knowledge of OpenAI. And putting something out quickly using an old model, they reasoned, could help them collect feedback to improve the new one. So they decided to dust off and update an unreleased chatbot that used a souped-up version of GPT-3, the company’s previous language model, which came out in 2020.

Ref: https://archive.is/d6dI2 / https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai...
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by so-cal-schemer | 2025-08-01 22:20:15+00:00
MIT Professor Harold Abelson (and co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs w/ Gerald Jay Sussman) talks about his personal history growing up on a NJ farm, struggles with math, attending Princeton, culture at Vietnam war era MIT compared to ~today, his chance meeting with Seymour Papert and how it guided his career at MIT including writing and teaching 6.001/SICP (and why they stopped teaching the course), and his involvement in the Logo language, OpenCourseWare, and Creative Commons.
by deathanatos | 2025-08-01 22:21:21+00:00
> I don't love the idea that a change in housing policy could make people feel trapped in their current home, unable to move.

The needs of the many (would-be homebuyers locked out of the market, renters suffering higher rents) outweigh the needs of the few (homebuyers who did buy recently, and would be underwater, and would have an event to trigger that mattering at all, and whose finances are not orderly enough to survive that).
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-01 22:21:35+00:00
It's probably not the law (it would be shitty when working at a 7/11 on the weekends to have tolegally disclose all your other income resources)

But basic employee contracts cover these aspects, including working in the interest of the company and IP assignments, and usually exclusivity if you're full time.

These issues are old as time.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-01 22:22:21+00:00
Off the thousands of responses I have read from the top LLMs in the last couple of years: never seen one that was creative. Throwing writing, coding, problem solving, mathematical questions and what not.

It's somewhat easier to perceive the creativeless aspect with stable diffusion. I'm not talking about the missing limb or extra finger glitches. With a bit of experience looking through generated images our brain eventually perceives the absolute lack of creativity, an artist probably spot it without prior experience with generative AI pieces. With LLMs it takes a bit longer.

Anecdotal, baseless I guess. Papers were published, some researchers in the fields of science couldn't get the best LLMs to solve any unsolved problem. I recently came across a paper stating bluntly that all LLMs tested were unable to conceptualize, nor derive laws that generalize whatsoever. E.g formulas.

We are being duped, it doesn't help selling $200 monthly subscriptions - soon for even more - if marketers admitted there is absolutely zero reasoning going on with these stochastic machines on steroids.

I deeply wish the circus ends soon, so that we can start focusing on what LLMs are excellent, well fitted to do better, faster than humans.

Creative it is not.
by kiitos | 2025-08-01 22:22:25+00:00
> if an interface has enough consumers, they will collectively depend on every aspect of the implementation ...

Yep!

> [and that] constrains changes to the implementation, which must now conform to both the explicitly documented interface, as well as the implicit interface captured by usage

Nope!

Software authors define the rules for the software that they author. I understand it's a spectrum and the rules are different in different circumstances but at the end of the day my API is what I say it is and if you rely on something that I don't guarantee that's on you and not me. Hyrum's Law describes a common pathology, it doesn't define an expected rule or requirement.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-01 22:22:34+00:00
Wow. That left me baffled. You're filtering your philosophy according to what affects you, really?

I mean there are some interesting ideas in there, but no elaborate argument matters when it is circular and refusing the very base it stand on.

The claim is that circles are a property of the universe. That's not a knowledge claim, that's a claim about truth.

> exist outside our universe

I never said that. When you monomorph a C++-template, it exists in the final binary. It of course won't be a single thing, it's existing among multiple things. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

> Your ontological and epistemological beliefs are about to converge on anti-realism.

Based on Wikipedia about Anti-Realism: no. Something must be logical AND exist to true, otherwise it's merely logical imagination.

> It doesn't really matter if Pragmatism is 'Truth'.

That sounds like you bend your perception of reality to match your belief. And when it's inconvenient you say it doesn't matter.

I really think there is a fallacy here, can you please refute that?
by selivanovp | 2025-08-01 22:22:35+00:00
Yep. This is the type of a psycho, that start all the wars.

If history teaches us anything, as soon as some country gets a superior war tech, it immediately leads to them using it to destroy whoever they see as their enemies. And what really stops wars is when their main adversaries have the same power to destroy if being attacked.

Mutual deterrence is what was keeping us from WW3 for several decades. But the recent and growing idea of USA that they can break from this stalemate and crush anyone with overwhelming strength is what makes WW3 closer and closer by the day.
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by dang | 2025-08-01 22:23:34+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by wkoszek | 2025-08-01 22:23:34+00:00
From Claude -> Notable Programs They Fund: Public television shows like Sesame Street, NOVA, PBS NewsHour, and Masterpiece, as well as NPR programming like Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

I like all of those. NPR: $300m budget / 42m listeners = $7.14/yr. Sounds like if I donate $5/mo to KQED and $5/mo to KCSM, I'm supporting them to cover myself and couple other citizens?

I don't get what I can do to support PBS - when I press donate on PBS site, it sort of wants to direct me to KQED/KCSM donations again.

Anyone here with a little more time to understand/explain it?
by otterley | 2025-08-01 22:23:49+00:00
Juan Williams wasn't let go because he's conservative; it's because he's a bigot (unless you think being a bigot is a conservative qualification):

"Look, Bill [O'Reilly], I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

https://www.npr.org/2010/10/21/130712737/npr-ends-williams-c...

"NPR, like any mainstream news outlet, expects its journalists to be thoughtful and measured in everything they say. What Williams said was deeply offensive to Muslims and inflamed, rather than contributing positively, to an important debate about the role of Muslims in America."

https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2010/10/21/1307132...
by chandlerc1024 | 2025-08-01 22:24:09+00:00
In increasing order of volume of material:

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by AlienRobot | 2025-08-01 22:24:56+00:00
Then it's never going to happen.

Linux desktop is a huge mountain of "why this basic obvious stuff just doesn't work?"

I mean just stop to consider this. It's 2025. You are still not guaranteed to be able to close an application by moving the mouse all the way to the top right and clicking, because sometimes the X button has a margin at the top. This is insane to me. This is like such a basic thing that I have no idea how do you even manage to get it wrong.

If Linux can't even get the X button right, do you seriously expect anything else to ever get fixed?
by betamaxthetape | 2025-08-01 22:24:57+00:00
Note that there is another Comet (4B variant, so one of the later ones) preserved at the National Collections Center [1] near Swindon. However it is not available to view [2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Innovation_Park#Na...

[2] - "[Some items] - including large aircraft - ... are therefore not featured on the tour." https://www.scienceinnovationpark.org.uk/visit-us/public-gui... (at the bottom, "Note on Large Aircraft")
by cyanydeez | 2025-08-01 22:25:27+00:00
He explains it fairly well if you understand how you'd go from wifi accuracy to SLAM. THE WIFI was providing 3m accuracy and the SLAM down to 1M. how much it provides is those two numbers. I'm sure the algorithms are complex but he points out that SLAM is corrected by the actual maps made by the self service app. So it's fairly easy to understand: the map provides a probability space, the wifi puts you within 3m and the SLAM is use to fill in the blanks with help from the probability space.
by mathgeek | 2025-08-01 22:25:51+00:00
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by ewoodrich | 2025-08-01 22:26:14+00:00
How? I just tried each of the Share options for this thread in the desktop Share menu, and they all used the full URL. Including the QR code which I verified by saving as a PNG and scanning it outside of any Google app. I also haven't found any Share option in the iOS app either that doesn't use the full URL. But harder to test on mobile given the various permutations of sharing between random apps.
by tmh88j | 2025-08-01 22:27:16+00:00
> Like you said, the fundamental idea behind the book was that consciously naming, cataloging, and studying design patterns would improve communication among programmers.

> The younger programmers I work with who had no exposure to the GoF book.....and they communicate amongst themselves just as efficiently as my generation

> The generation that learned to program after design patterns had faded as an idea learned just as quickly and communicates just as well as the generation that studied them assiduously as junior programmers like I did.

I've never read GOF so I don't know if they emphasize communication, but I have read and studied many other programming pattern books and communication is low on the list of reasons to learn them in my opinion. Their only purpose for me is to organize code in a way that has been proven to "scale" along with a codebase so that you don't end up with a plate of spaghetti.
by chrisDONTblink | 2025-08-01 22:27:41+00:00
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by bkrausz | 2025-08-01 22:27:46+00:00
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by ggm | 2025-08-01 22:27:55+00:00
It could also just have benign economic upsides. Fuel is cheaper than technology, launch can be managed with different parameters than for electronics, refuelling is a useful skill. Not that it doesn't have the risk side military/strategic consequences, more that it has upside benefits to China independently of the perceived downside risk consequences for the USA.

Sometimes a cigar is .. just an cigar. Sometimes China's imperatives point inwards not outwards.

Maybe refuelling is part of their cis lunar strategy?
by somat | 2025-08-01 22:29:02+00:00
I always figured most of the real value of these url hashing services was as an marketing tracking metric. That is, sort of equivalent to the "share with" widgets provided that conveniently also dump tons of analytics to the services.

I will be honest I was never in an environment that would benefit from link shortening, so I don't really know if any end users actually wanted them (my guess twitter mainly) and always viewed these hashed links with extreme suspicion.
by TheWiggles | 2025-08-01 22:30:20+00:00
Here's some more generalized advice about avoiding burnout while job-seeking/interviewing.

I would say the best way to avoid burnout and get better results is to tailor your resume to each job posting.

Most people send out general resumes which causes a candidate to blend into the crowd. My sister used to be in HR and sometimes they only have a small amount of time to skim each resume. So in your cover letter and resume you want to show off your interest in the company and skills right off the bat.

Think of the job posting as bullet points, hit the major points they are looking for in the brief intro paragraph, they will have more incentive to give you an interview.

If you know a graphic designer, it may be worth in to get a custom resume design. Though templates work too, just make sure to not pick a commonly used template. Consider templates on Gumroad or similar sites if you are on a budget.

Another Interview Point.

If it takes them 7 interviews to decide on a candidate don't bother with that company. It shows you that they are

a.) Don't have their act together. A red flag for incompetence.

b.) Are looking for a unicorn candidate and are just stringing you along as a backup candidate.

c.) Already know who they want to hire but have to play "the hiring game" so they can justify why they hired their chosen candidate.

I worked with a company that had me do 5 interviews to get the job and it wasn't a great experience. I ended up quitting due to the management and lack of support.

My advice is a 3 interviews rule. If the company can't figure out if they want you after 3 interviews it is best to look elsewhere. You have to remember that your time has value.

Hope this helps.
by rhelz | 2025-08-01 22:30:26+00:00
Trump has certainly politicized this firing, but it is not a firing without cause. If Trump knew a quarter ago that his tariffs were taking employment, he could have done something about it.

Instead, the read he got seemed to indicate that he wasn't hurting employment at all.

We have to be careful not to overstate our case. If we just complain indiscriminately about everything Trump does, nobody will or should take us seriously.
by itkovian_ | 2025-08-01 22:30:40+00:00
I don’t think people understand the point sutton was making; he’s saying that general, simple systems that get better with scale tend to outperform hand engineered systems that don’t. It’s a kind of subtle point that’s implicitly saying hand engineering inhibits scale because it inhibits generality. He is not saying anything about the rate, doesn’t claim llms/gd are the best system, in fact I’d guess he thinks there’s likely an even more general approach that would be better. It’s comparing two classes of approaches not commenting on the merits of particular systems.