MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bingohbangoh | 2025-08-04 18:11:00+00:00
I'm broadly in favor of RFCs but they need to be dictated from top-down. That's easier said than done.

Most RFC committee debates ime devolve into firing squads in which the presenter needs to answer every question with pin-point accuracy and perfect context from the asker. Otherwise, they look unprepared and the RFC is negated.

This is allowed to happen because everybody is a theoretical co-equal in the process. Thus, everybody wants to have their say. You'd hope people would read ahead of time but there's always somebody who doesn't yet feels entitled to ask pre-emptive questions. It makes for very combative discussions.

The exception is when a double-skip manager stops that from happening and lets the presenter "make their case" and walk through the whole RFC.
by brauliopf_ | 2025-08-04 18:11:04+00:00
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by thewebguyd | 2025-08-04 18:11:11+00:00
I would think so, given how important (whether we at HN like it or not) their stack has become, it's basically critical infrastructure at this point for a lot of industries.

I think I could see that happening to several companies, not just MS as well - once something gets so huge that it would be detrimental to the survival of a nation if it failed, it gets nationalized.

> - Maybe they can keep running Azure, since it's unpopular

That I'm not sure about though. Azure is unpopular with SaaS, but it's increasingly popular with non-tech enterprises, as well as basically anyone that remotely competes with Amazon. Good chance that if a company's core product isn't SaaS, they are on Azure.
by gamblor956 | 2025-08-04 18:11:15+00:00
Tesla's not being treated unfairly. It advertised Autopilot as having more capabilities than it actually did. Tesla used to sell Autopilot as fully autonomous. ("The driver is only there for legal reasons.")

And it didn't warn users about this lack of capabilities until it was forced to do so. Those warnings you're talking about were added after this accident occurred as part of a mandated recall during the Biden administration.
by scubbo | 2025-08-04 18:11:28+00:00
Nope, it's not! It's more than the bare minimum I need, and also larger than an appropriate moderate size (let's not shift the goalposts here) because - unlike a vehicle - operating a larger-than-appropriate home is _barely_ more polluting, and no less dangerous, so my indulgence has negligible negative externalities.

Thanks for playing! Wanna try again?

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For anyone else reading this, the issue that monkeyelite's comment had was the false equation of "it is good to prosocially take others' safety and comfort into account when making choices about personal behaviour and consumption" with "one can never use or consume any more than the bare minimum". This is a classic approach that the American right uses when criticizing any prosocial policy - the immature that the only choices are selfish indulgence and bare austerity. It's possible to be comfortable and even lavish while being a considerate member of society. Using/consuming/polluting less is always good _in isolation_, but can and should be measured against the benefit that it accrues to you _and_ the externalities imposed on society.

The obvious counter-argument there is "I don't care about other people, I want my big truck, and I don't care (or, I actively like) that it endangers other people". Which, well - if that's your viewpoint, you're welcome to hold it, and others are welcome to judge you for it.
by Semaphor | 2025-08-04 18:11:30+00:00
> DDR5 has some nasty training times

I was having a hard time figuring out what’s wrong with my new system, until I read an offhand comment about DDR5 having long training times on AMD, and I should just leave the system running for 5-10 minutes… sounded like an urban legend, but turned out to be reality.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-08-04 18:11:37+00:00
I don't necessarily disagree, but I personally find these "but you theoretically could have done even more to prevent this"-type arguments to be a little dubious in cases where the harm was caused primarily by operator negligence.

I do like the idea of incentivizing companies to take all reasonable steps to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot, but what counts as "reasonable" is also pretty subjective, and liability for having a different opinion about what's "reasonable" seems to me to be a little capricious.

For example, the system did have a mechanism for reacting to potential collisions. The vehicle operator overrode it by pushing the gas pedal. But the jury still thinks Tesla is still to blame because they didn't also program an obnoxious alarm to go off in that situation? I suppose that might have been helpful in this particular situation. But exactly how far should they legally have to go in order to not be liable for someone else's stupidity?
by layer8 | 2025-08-04 18:11:49+00:00
Perplexity makes requests on behalf of its users. I would argue that’s only illegitimate if the combined volume of the requests exceeds what the users would do by an order of magnitude or two. Maybe that’s what’s happening.

But “for multiple people” isn’t an argument IMO, since each of those people could run a separate service doing the same. Using the same service, on the contrary, provides an opportunity to reduce the request volume by caching.
by rconti | 2025-08-04 18:11:53+00:00
| His cluster was flashing constantly, warning him of imminent doom. And it was warning him correctly, because he was accustomed to driving incorrectly.

In the cars I've driven, the cluster flashes all happen regardless of how you drive. The speed limit changes and crosswalk indications and so on, will always trigger. (Unless you disable them -- however, in a foreign country, where I don't understand the customs quite as well, I was willing to tolerate the annoyance to reduce my odds of running afoul of the local constabulary).

The one exception is the speed limit indicator continues to flash if you dare exceed the posted (or, sometimes imagined) limit.
by ilikehurdles | 2025-08-04 18:12:04+00:00
Here’s a more contextual excerpt of the transcript which features the 5 questions prior to this and his answer. When I listened to it, to me it seemed like he was thinking about how to weave answers to those into his response, which he does after the exerpt. It’s an entertaining memed clip but we owe it to intellectualism to understand the full context and not simply consume YouTube shorts as the be-all, end-all.

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Douthat: … It seems very clear to me that a number of people deeply involved in artificial intelligence see it as a mechanism for transhumanism — for transcendence of our mortal flesh — and either some kind of creation of a successor species or some kind of merger of mind and machine.

Do you think that’s all irrelevant fantasy? Or do you think it’s just hype? Do you think people are raising money by pretending that we’re going to build a machine god? Is it hype? Is it delusion? Is it something you worry about?

Thiel: Um, yeah.

Douthat: I think you would prefer the human race to endure, right?

Thiel: Uh ——

Douthat: You’re hesitating.

Thiel: Well, I don’t know. I would — I would ——

Douthat: This is a long hesitation!

Thiel: There’s so many questions implicit in this.

Douthat: Should the human race survive?

Thiel: Yes.

Douthat: OK.
by good_stuffs | 2025-08-04 18:12:27+00:00
>B650 can even do 5.0

No AM5 chipset can do 5.0 speeds, they are all linked via x4 PCIe 4.0 lanes. What you're thinking about is PCIe 5.0 speeds from CPU to SSDs/GPU. There's no chipset that does PCIe 5.0 speeds, they are all on 4.0.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-04 18:12:32+00:00
As I said, partial scrapes of small subsets over long time provide no real value for AI scrapers.

Just an example: Brightdata linkedin database has 19 million entries. Linkedin has over 1 billion members.

As I said, partial scrapes of small subsets over long time provide no real value for AI scrapers (repeating the main argument).
by robinroy03 | 2025-08-04 18:12:32+00:00
our goal is to make a solid web video editor first and foremost. Then we'll try to make it super accessible.

I'm thinking of including AI features like captions, auto color grading etc. I get your point of forcing AI, we won't do that.

No AI for AI, but AI for making it more accessible and helping novice users to also make cinematic videos.
by AshleyGrant | 2025-08-04 18:13:10+00:00
I'm not sure why you seem to completely ignore what I'm saying.

Let me state again, and plainly: What a person thinks is in their best interests, and what is actually in their best interests are two completely different things.

But you did a great job of boiling down the typical Trump/Republican voter's ethos: "Is it cutting off your nose to spite your face? Probably, but after years of someone looking down that nose at me I might be tempted to cut it off as well and damn the consequences."

This is what we are dealing with in the United States at this point: Stupid people that are pissed off that they're not allowed to be stupid and through their own stupidity endanger the lives of the responsible adults in society.

"That's the patrician attitude, the idea that the vast majority of the population is too stupid to make decisions for themselves with the ipso facto evidence being that they don't want the same things that the patrician does."

Well, when an ever-growing portion of the population is proving that out, maybe the stupid people are the problem. Case in point: anti-vax attitudes, we're having measles outbreaks because stupid people refuse to vaccinate themselves and their children.

Your entire argument in this post seems to be that "Democrats did a bad job of keeping their promises, so I'm going to vote for stupidity, even if it hurts me."
by michael1999 | 2025-08-04 18:13:17+00:00
The article explains that the crash snapshot shows: - hands off wheel - autosteer had the steering wheel despite a geofence flag - no take-over warnings, despite approaching a T intersection at speed

Letting people use autopilot in unsafe conditions is contributory negligence. Given their marketing, that's more than worth 33% of the fault.

That they hid this data tells me everything I need to know about their approach to safety. Although nothing really new considering how publicly deceitful Musk is about his fancy cruise-control.
by hnroo99 | 2025-08-04 18:13:55+00:00
For forking and changing a few things here and there, I could see how there might be less of a need for LLMs, especially if you know what you're doing. But in my case I didn't actually fork `ts-rest`, I built a much smaller custom abstraction from the ground-up and I don't consider myself to be a top-tier dev. In this case it felt like LLMs provided a lot more value, not necessarily because the problem was overly difficult but moreso because of the time saved. Had LLMs not existed, I probably would have never considered doing this as the opportunity cost would have felt too high (i.e. DX work vs critical user-facing work). I estimate it would have taken me ~2 weeks or more to finish the task without LLMs, whereas with LLMs it only took a few days.

I do feel we're heading in a direction where building in-house will become more common than defaulting to 3rd party dependencies—strictly because the opportunity costs have decreased so much. I also wonder how code sharing and open source libraries will change in the future. I can see a world where instead of uploading packages for others to plug into their projects, maintainers will instead upload detailed guides on how to build and customize the library yourself. This approach feels very LLM friendly to me. I think a great example of this is with `lucia-auth`[0] where the maintainer deprecated their library in favour of creating a guide. Their decision didn't have anything to do with LLMs, but I would personally much rather use a guide like this alongside AI (and I have!) rather than relying on a 3rd party dependency whose future is uncertain.

[0] https://lucia-auth.com/
by munificent | 2025-08-04 18:14:33+00:00
A group of people who all agree that life is not a zero-sum game and cooperate effectively based on that premise will be very efficient, productive, and outcompete other groups.

They are also a honeypot begging to be exploited by bad actors for whom life is a zero-sum game. Once a critical mass of those asshats show up, all of the trust that led to the greater efficiency and productivity breaks down.

Greater trust between good actors is efficient but opens the door to free riders. Lower trust is inefficient but handles bad actors. I think basically all of human history is a meandering line around this unstable equilibrium of trust.
by Karawebnetwork | 2025-08-04 18:14:38+00:00
The best example I've seen so far is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rMzlG29Q

Personally, I'm not particularly impressed. Yes, I'm impressed by the technology and the fact that we've reached a point where something like this is even possible, but in my opinion, it's soulless and suffers from the same problems as other AI videos. More emphasis was placed on length than quality, and I've seen shorter, traditionally produced videos that had more heart. That's probably because these videos were created by amateurs who thought the AI would fill in all the gaps, but that only underscores the need for human artists with a keen eye.
by gamblor956 | 2025-08-04 18:14:48+00:00
Would Boeing or John Deere be responsible for marketing language or just the instruction manual. We know the latter is true

Actually, the former is true. Courts and juries have repeatedly held that companies can be held responsible for marketing language. They are also responsible for the contents of their instruction manual. If there are inconsistencies with the marketing language it will be held against the company because users aren't expected to be able to reconcile the inconsistencies; that's the company's job. Thus, it's irrelevant that the small print in the instruction manual says something completely different from what all the marketing (and the CEO himself) says.

The "autopilot is limited" argument would have worked 20 years ago. It doesn't today. Modern autopilots are capable of maintaining speed, heading, takeoff, and landing so they're not just pilot assistance. They're literally fully capable of handling the flight from start to finish. Thus, the constant refrain that "autopilot in cars is just like autopilot in planes" actually supports the case against Tesla.
by daotoad | 2025-08-04 18:15:33+00:00
If you wanted to take this a little further, you could cover the "display" with heat erasable ink like is used in a Pilot Frixion pens.

This ink is interesting in that it fades when heated (60 C), but darkens when cooled (-10 C). In between those temperatures it is stable.

Thus you could have one loop that is continuously reused. Not sure how many cycles you can get before the ink degrades.
by homebrewer | 2025-08-04 18:15:38+00:00
TBH, I'm not sure how much good these anecdotes do. I had bad experiences with all major brands; a high quality & expensive ASUS motherboard was the worst, even though top ASUS is considered the safest choice in circles I tend to spend time in — if you have the money (it caught fire in the middle of light code editing for no reason I could establish after five years of excellent work).

Anyway, I now stick with ASRock. This will now attract anecdotes from users who have run into problems with them, and will describe at length how crappy their products are. Works with literally any brand, so I try not to mention any unless prodded.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-04 18:15:50+00:00
> There's never any follow up like "where in the country does this occur?"

Are you serious?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/

Table 3. Their methodology is addressed in the technical notes.

> You're also ignoring _how_ it came to be. . .

No. You asked a specific question and I was bored enough to help you look up a result. I’m not here to engage with whatever ideological problems you have going on in the subtext.
by gwern | 2025-08-04 18:15:52+00:00
> But it felt like a lot of the wording is speculative or hyperbolic in nature and aggressively tries to paint Volvo in a bad light. For example:

Part of it is that he clearly used ChatGPT or Claude to write the prose. (I really should not have to explain how, despite not reading the OP at all, your example quote alone establishes that. You see this kind of hyperbolic unordered list/checklist all the time now. This seems like more of a Claude tic, but could also be ChatGPT due to sheer base rates.)

Being sycophantic and ordered to write polemic, a LLM'll go overboard.
by burkaman | 2025-08-04 18:16:05+00:00
Do you think Tesla spends more time and money on making their warnings convincing, or making their marketing convincing? If a person is hearing two conflicting messages from the same group of people, they'll have to pick one, and it shouldn't be surprising if they choose to believe the one that they heard first and that was designed by professionals to be persuasive.

In other words, if you bought the car because you kept hearing the company say "this thing drives itself", you're probably going to believe that over the same company putting a "keep your eyes on the road" popup on the screen.

Of course other companies have warnings that people ignore, but they don't have extremely successful marketing campaigns that encourage people to ignore those warnings. That's the difference here.
by chimeracoder | 2025-08-04 18:16:30+00:00
> They may not be in the zeitgeist anymore but they would still love to ruin your life & career for not doing a land acknowledgement before you step into every public space.

Complaining about land acknowledgements as an example of the "far left" tells me that you don't actually have a handle on what the left actually looks like, as opposed to how it's portrayed through right-wing outlets.

First, there is literally nobody who would "ruin your life" for not doing a land acknowledgement, but also, the people doing land acknowledgements in 2025 are not the "far left". They're not even the left. Most leftist organizations don't do land acknowledgements at all!

EDIT: Since you updated your comment to include another favorite whipping boy:

> they would still love to ruin your life & career for not doing a land acknowledgement and pronoun announcement before stepping into public spaces

Again, "the left" is not ruining your life for not doing a "pronoun announcement", because they don't want pronoun announcements to be required in the first place, and in fact voice serious complaints whenever they are.

Both of the things you mention as examples of the "far left" - mandatory land acknowledgements and pronoun announcements - are things which you will find in very few actual leftist spaces. Where you will find them, however, is in mainstream spaces run by centrist or small-c "conservative" people, like corporate HR meetings. You will also, incidentally, see them on far-right media, which happens to be extremely obsessed with the concept of these things representing the left, despite the fact that actual leftists rejected them years ago.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-04 18:16:34+00:00
Some important information missing from the headline: B650 motherboards never officially supported PCIe 5.0 on the GPU slot. You always had to get a B650E motherboard for that.

You have to pay close attention to the difference between the M.2 slot (which can be PCIe 5.0 on B650) and the expansion slots (which were never advertised as PCI 5.0)

Leaving PCIe 5.0 enabled on the GPU slot could have caused problems if the designs and boards were qualified with the expectation they'd only run PCIe 4.0 speeds. If a board physically can't handle PCIe 5.0 but it gets enabled, it could lead to random crashes and instability, which turns into a higher return rate and angry customers.
by hinkley | 2025-08-04 18:16:59+00:00
Diverging values I think is why it’s not a bad thing that marriage is being postponed closer to 30 now. Promising to be with someone forever when you don’t even know who you or they are yet is wishful thinking at best and lying at worst.

If we ever find a way to delay puberty without delaying formation of the prefrontal cortex, I think humanity will be in for a better time. You’ll get a few more years of being able to have kids after you know who you are.
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-04 18:17:15+00:00
Some C++ related 'best practices' off the top of my head:

- put each class into its own header/source file pair (a great way to explode your build times!)

- generally replace all raw pointers with shared_ptr or unique_ptr

- general software patterns like model-view-controller, a great way to turn a handful lines of code into dozens of files with hundreds of lines each

- use exceptions for error handling (although these days this is widely considered a bad idea, but it wasn't always)

- always prefer the C++ stdlib over self-rolled solutions

- etc etc etc...

It's been a while since I closely followed modern C++ development, so I'm sure there are a couple of new ones, and some which have fallen out of fashion.
by dspillett | 2025-08-04 18:17:23+00:00
“Free” could have a number of meanings here. Free to the viewer, free to the hoster, free to the creator, etc…

That content can't be served entirely for free doesn't mean that all content will require payment, and so is subject to issues with payment processors, just that some things may gravitate back to a model where it costs a small amount to host something (i.e. pay for home internet and host bits off that, or you might have VPS out there that runs tools and costs a few $ /yr or /month). I pay for resources to host my bits & bobs instead of relying on services provided in exchange for stalking the people looking at them, this is free for the viewer as they aren't even paying indirectly.

Most things are paid for anyway, even if the person hosting it nor my looking at it are paying directly: adtech arseholes give services to people hosting content in exchange for the ability to stalk us and attempt to divert our attention. Very few sites/apps, other than play/hobby ones like mine or those from more actively privacy focused types, are free of that.
by dskhatri | 2025-08-04 18:17:42+00:00
Nice work. I like the simple, unobtrusive and ad-free interface. I have kids who could use this although you face lots of competition for their very limited allotted active screen time [1]. The 6 yo gets 45 mins a week on the computer, usually opting for PBSkids, Kodable or Scratch. The 3 yo gets 15 mins usually opting for guided digital canvas painting as she learns to use a mouse.

There are a few good no-screen puzzle books for kids (lookup the ones by Usborne).

As a recent publisher of an interactive children's book [2], I am seeing more sales of the physical books than the digital/web editions despite the latter having more features including an element of teaching math.

Curious if you considered publishing a physical book with these concepts/math puzzles?

[1] This app inspires me to upgrade some of their passive screen time (TV) to more of your and similar apps

[2] https://tendollaradventure.com