MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by resource_waste | 2025-08-03 19:26:17+00:00
My two strikes against the UN:

>In international relations, no one really takes institutionalism seriously. Bilateral agreements and power are so monumentally more important that it overshadows posturing.

>I once read the WHO recommendation on children watching TV. It said 1 minute of TV watching before the age of 1 was detrimental. There was no science, it was just a panel of experts.

Anti-science + idealistic organization... what do I benefit from caring about the UN?
by leshokunin | 2025-08-03 19:26:51+00:00
Apple is the embodiment of Gunpei Yokoi (creator of the Game Boy and Game & Watch)’s philosophy.

“Withered technology, with lateral thinking”. Sure, they find ways to have bleeding edge tech, especially in terms of hardware design. But at the core, their products do not differentiate with bleeding edge software. They aim to surprise and delight by delivering things that are well understood, in a convenient and focused manner.

This mode of thinking is incompatible with shipping the latest trend instantly.
by arp242 | 2025-08-03 19:26:58+00:00
It's not my impression that an extremely aggressive attitude helps safety, no. There is a reason for "they will attack us everywhere" and quite some part of that is the "wrath of America" coming down on them some time in the recent past (either directly or via proxy, like Israel).

Obviously having a military is a necessity and there is some truth to what he is saying, but it's also superficial and short-sighted. It's a strategy that works great right up the moment your back is turned or you're not paying attention for a minute. There's always going to be nutjobs out there doing nutjob things, but at times the US has almost gone out of their way to create enemies.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-03 19:27:33+00:00
And notice who gets hired…

That means if there are 10 developer - 7 working on the product and 3 working on the fundamental AI problem, those 7 aren’t going to be left (the company didn’t want the product anyway) and the 3 researchers are going to be hired.

Something similar happened with Google and Windsurf. So who benefited from the anti acquisition mood of the previous FTC? Not most of the employees who could have made more just working for a public company in the first place and not even the investors.

Google accomplished the same thing with less red tape and didn’t have to hire the people they didn’t want.
by wincy | 2025-08-03 19:28:01+00:00
I just asked ChatGPT 4o if it knew my mother’s maiden name and it said “I don’t know”. Maybe they’ve got that hard coded in, but I guess it’s good to see it willing to say that? Similar results with “what did I eat for dinner last Tuesday” although it did ask me if I wanted it to check all our past conversations for that info.
by oxguy3 | 2025-08-03 19:28:33+00:00
"Discoverable", I agree with you on; that should have been "public". And there probably should have been an "are you sure?" pop-up the first time you do this, explaining in a little bit more depth.

But "web searches" seems like a pretty straightforward term. Even if you think it means ChatGPT's built-in search, that would still imply that other ChatGPT users could find it. "Allow", I feel, is a pretty strong word that implies someone else is getting access (because why would I need to give myself permission for something?).
by knolan | 2025-08-03 19:28:58+00:00
Where I grew up in rural Ireland there was a haulage company based down a narrow single track road. You’d take your life in your hands going down that road at the best of times, never mind meeting a speeding articulated lorry. Eventually the county council made them build their own access to the main road.

The problem isn’t usually the narrow roads however, it’s the drivers everywhere who know there are no consequences for their behaviour.
by smokey_the_bear | 2025-08-03 19:30:28+00:00
In the US, I usually show up about an hour before. A little less if I'm traveling alone, but holiday are a disaster at American airports.

Once, I showed up two hours before a flight a few days after Christmas. I had a lapchild, so we needed to check in with a person and not use the kiosks.

We stood in line for 90 minutes, then stood in the security line for 30 minutes and missed our flight. They couldn't rebook my family for a week. We rented a minivan and drove 1800 miles, without our luggage.
by simonw | 2025-08-03 19:31:08+00:00
The other factor to consider here is that users may have been trained to click any checkbox that appears when they are trying to achieve a goal.

Here you have users trying to share something. A blank checkbox shows up, maybe that's something you have to check for the feature to work?

People generally don't read the labels on form elements, even if they're just a dozen words long.
by dogmatism | 2025-08-03 19:31:28+00:00
you must print out old notes and test then and carry them into the room like you're pretending it's still in the paper chart days

which is fine until something comes up that you didn't anticipate and print out. Then you can a) fake it, end the visit and follow up with pt later after you've looked it up or b) log in and get the info

How do you have the pt's current med list? Does staff print it out after they've roomed the pt?

Also, how are you ordering test/procedure? Writing it down for staff to do later? Violates most org's "CPOE" policies. Otherwise pt leaves and your staff has to call to schedule later, including labs that maybe they could do before they leave.

You must have re-created a paper chart workflow in an EHR era which is only possible if your staff/org enables this for you

Most of us are just employed widgets in the health care factory, and don't have the pull to get staff to work with this kind of workflow
by unsupp0rted | 2025-08-03 19:32:27+00:00
That's not a good measure. You have to live in a place for a while as a normal person (not a touring musician, even if a hippie) and be forced to do mundane things there before you can really gauge what you're up against.

Get a bank account, get yelled at by the garbage man, walk through the same park every Tuesday, etc

Usually it takes a minimum of 3 months or so. Sometimes 5 minutes is enough, sometimes it takes a couple years.
by lubujackson | 2025-08-03 19:32:50+00:00
If history is any indication, Microsoft will slowly improve until things become sort of decent, then Apple will release a neutered but polished version that is lauded as "Apple Invents AI" and immediately dominate the market.

But their version will lack one critical feature that everyone expects, such as a power button, or copy/paste, or pinch to zoom. For AI, maybe something like "remember context".

Then 3 years later they will invent "remember context," and everyone will lose their shit again.
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 19:33:38+00:00
Yes. For example, Apple has complete control over their App Store. It's essentially a small economy in which they are the government, and it's a market they regulate with an iron fist. Because OUR regulators won't.

But they're dictators. There's no democracy, there's no voting, and Apple does whatever it feels is best for them. Just like a dictator would run their country.

There's plenty of mutually beneficial arrangements that Apple unilaterally struck down because they want to maintain their stranglehold on the market.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-03 19:33:40+00:00
yes. I feel like European cities makes greater distinction between "large road" and "small road". A road this wide and open would have barriers, trenches, and road-exit lanes rather a red light.

I took a jump around with google maps for an example; https://maps.app.goo.gl/1qgPoM35RCjxLR2d9. This is the E12 road through Helsinki. It would be considered a major road that connects Helsinki to the rest of the country. Barriers, trenches, an underpass for pedestrians to cross to the other side, overpasses and merge lanes to leave the road or turn around. This road is capped to 80km/h since its near to the city, but would likely rise to 100-120km/h when there are less mergers.

Leaving this "major road" quickly gets you into more normal larger city roads like this; https://maps.app.goo.gl/dP5FiMAPcXn3xMiH7. Driving 50km/h on this kind of road can be suicidal in sections (seems like 40km/h is the speed limit on the google maps images), and most your time is spent navigating a-lot of other cars, red-lights and turns.

1 more turn, and you're in the 80% of city roads; https://maps.app.goo.gl/HELXkV9xjmLyf5Q77. Drive 50 at your own peril (that's 2 way road with parked cars, and very typical)

When the article discusses "30km/h for city roads", this is closer to what you should visualize compared to the Vancouver road. The style of road you show would be a weird limbo between too large to be safe for pedestrians, but still used as a minor road for some reason.
by ForOldHack | 2025-08-03 19:33:43+00:00
At the beginning of the semester, we had a question about struct... Armed with the error code,she showed it to Barry. He looked at it, sat down at her machine, and typed a few lines. Compiled it, put the disks for the compiler back in the folder, put the folder and the manual in the box and threw it against the wall above the garbage can, and it landed for a two-pointer. "We will have a new compiler on Monday."

Thus ended the use of Lattus-C, and Microsoft-C for a least 4 years. We went with Manx-C, and were able to complete all the assignments for that semester.

He saved the best for later. "Read 'on trusting trust'" which blew all out minds.

You can hide whole universes inside of a C compiler.
by farkin88 | 2025-08-03 19:33:51+00:00
I really like the tiny-lib approach. One thing that would make it even more useful in larger systems: OpenTelemetry hooks is if each call to formatMCPError() could optionally:

start/finish a span (or attach events to the caller’s span), propagate requestId as the span ID / traceparent, and export errorType, isRetryable, etc. as span attributes.

That way every tool failure would show up in our OTEL dashboards with perfect cross-service correlation. We could drill from an agent retry loop straight to the failing GitHub API call (or user-cancel event) in one click.

I think OTEL-JS adds a few kB (need to double check that) and can be opt-in via a withTracing: true flag, so the “tiny by default” goal stays intact. What do you think?
by spacedcowboy | 2025-08-03 19:34:54+00:00
20 years ago, as a senior engineer, I was given a MacBook with an Arm processor inside it, and asked to evaluate it for Aperture. I gave it a “meh” review, and that was the last I heard about Mac on Arm for a while.

Apple might not have been publicly pushing Arm, but they very much were not following Microsoft’s direction. It just wasn’t good enough.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-03 19:35:15+00:00
I am a mediocre software person (because I was some combination of unable and unwilling to commit the time needed to become good at it earlier in due to life circumstances), but love to solve problems. I love LLMs because of this; while I can appreciate beautiful and elegant code I couldn’t write myself, I just want to solve problems.

My personal projects are the outcomes (solving problems), not the code. The code is just a sometimes necessary means to an end. If the robot solves my problems, tremendous! It means I can solve more problems that tickle my brain faster. This is why I desire a continuously improving robot: we solve problems together, mostly for fun and rarely for profit.

Pick puzzles that are most fun for you. If the puzzles are not fun, look for novel puzzles to explore.
by aabhay | 2025-08-03 19:35:47+00:00
I’m skeptical of the method but excited for the direction. Giving models different personalities is adjacent to giving models different values / morals. Having a diversity of model personalities is a step in the right direction.

Unfortunately, this research seems to use a very coarse method (giving the model instructions to be evil and then measuring its activation changes against a “non evil” model). However, this is not a self supervised approach — it requires you input your own heavy handed concept of persona into the system. Obviously a more complex and complete personality is more than the sum of your yes/no answers to personality test questions.

However, it’s very possible with low rank methods to soon perhaps be able to give models long lived, user-specific personalities that emerge across thousands of conversations. That’s what I would happily call a persona vector.
by thenthenthen | 2025-08-03 19:36:22+00:00
I lived in a squat for a while and the shower was a makeshift… well hose tied to the ceiling. Thats not important. There was no light, so showers took place in the dark. There was a tiny hole in the buildings’ outer wall and it would project this magnificently ‘photographic’ image on the wall. It was just an amazing, super ‘poetic’ view of a parking lot. I swear I saw film grain in there somehow…it was prolly the structure of the wall
by simonw | 2025-08-03 19:36:29+00:00
Here's the full text from that dialog:

Public link created A public link to your chat has been created. Manage previously shared chats at any time via Settings. [ ] Make this chat discoverable Allows it to be shown in web searches https://chatgpt.com/share/ [ Copy link ]

The use of the word "public" here is completely separate from the checkbox about making it discoverable.

The whole point of this feature is to provide you with a URL you can share with someone to let you see the conversation.

The issue of whether or not that should be included in public search indexes is incredibly technically dense. You have to understand what a search engine is, and that content can be deliberately excluded from search. If you know what a robots.txt file is that's easy, but most people have zero understanding of how search engines actually work.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-03 19:36:32+00:00
A Nobel prize is about the best marketing you could ask for. You can raise money in an environment where everyone (quite reasonably) doubts you have goods, or you can raise money in an environment where you’ve earned a Nobel prize for actually inventing the thing you claim you have. If you actually have the thing (at the point where you’re ready to deliver power at scale by 2028) this should not be a huge lift.
by jeffvroom | 2025-08-03 19:36:35+00:00
I really appreciate your thoughtful response. I'm already improving the content based on this feedback so it's super helpful. I'm a computer programmer, not a scientist and admittedly am not good at getting my point across clearly. But I do know how to model complex systems. Scientists are saying there's no dark matter on earth right? None in atoms? But if was in both places, couldn't different pressure zones in that fluid, i.e. different gravity fields affect atomic clocks in the same way as predicted by Einstein? Same fluid dynamics equations right? Does warped space time make more sense to you? How do we measure the speed of light? Isn't it in the same fluid conditions? I must really suck if 6-8 dimensions of weirdness make more sense :) This is a really challenging situation for me but again, I'm grateful to see how it breaks down in how I'm presenting it.
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 19:37:37+00:00
> If I could find a way to live without working I absolutely would.

No, no you wouldn't. Yes I am telling you how you feel.

The propagandized image of a welfare queen is just that - a propaganda image. In reality, they live off of very little and have hard lives.

You would really prefer getting a few sheckles a month while you have no arm and legs and a family to feed? No, you wouldn't.

Listen, I hate work as much as the next guy, but me being able to work and earn a good salary is a privilege. I am privileged I am able-bodied. I am privileged a grew up somewhere with lots of education. I am privileged I have been given the opportunities I have.
by jama211 | 2025-08-03 19:37:54+00:00
I would honestly hate that so much. A meeting at the wrong time throws out half the day’s momentum and work is hard to get done. A _socially draining_ meeting? Forget it.

If you did this at my company, I would turn up with a smile every time, and then get hours less practical work done that day, because I would be drained and also because I know I would be shut down if I tried to say that these social meetings don’t work well for me, so you wouldn’t even know.

Just remember, just because nobody has complained doesn’t mean something doesn’t impact people.
by Arathorn | 2025-08-03 19:38:12+00:00
> The biggest example of this for me is that in all these reflections from Matthew I don't see any recognition that maybe what's needed is not more delivering but less promising.

The line you quote from Matrix Live then directly contradicts this, though:

"We have basically over-promised and then failed to deliver in a fast enough manner."

Similarly,

> But the attitude I always see is "well we're going to move on and get through this and excelsior and so on", and never "We are going to slow down and make sure everything is fully working before we start touting it as a big improvement".

The reason that threads & spaces are taking a while to ship in EX is literally because we have slowed down, and made sure everything is fully working before we ship it.

Meanwhile, we killed everything we were working on apart from Element Server Suite (Synapse), Element Web, Element X and Element Call - focusing on moving slowly and getting it right rather than shipping a tonne of experiments.

So yes, in the past this was definitely a massive failure mode. But it should be obvious that precisely the stepchange that you're asking for has already happened.
by legerdemain | 2025-08-03 19:38:13+00:00
Totally! The other day I was at the Web3 + AI soiree at the AWS GenAI Loft and met up with an awesome CTO prospect that I could pitch to a buddy's blockchain startup, we grabbed a few beers, amazing dude!...

...is this really the openness to chance that anyone (other than LinkedIn influencers) has in mind? Friendship is super flipping far from making business connections. We want people who sympathize, care, make themselves available, so we can be the same to them.
by dabedee | 2025-08-03 19:38:28+00:00
You raise a valid point about ex ante uncertainty. We can't know future outcomes with certainty, and yes, Figma theoretically could have failed. But antitrust analysis isn't about predicting exact valuations. It's about market structure and competitive dynamics. The FTC had observable facts: Adobe's dominant market share, Figma's rapid growth trajectory, and a purchase price of 50x revenue (extraordinary even for software). These factors suggested Adobe saw Figma as a competitive threat worth eliminating, not just a financial investment. That's the key distinction from your dice game; this wasn't pure randomness but observable market dynamics. You're right that we can't prove the counterfactual. But antitrust law doesn't require certainty, just reasonable probability of competitive harm. The extreme premium Adobe offered was itself evidence they valued removing competition more than acquiring assets. The outcome validates the analysis, but even if Figma had struggled, preserving the possibility of competition has value beyond any single company's success.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-03 19:38:31+00:00
Not all of it -- the law says they can be required to pay some of the costs, though, yes -- since 2014.

It's definitely been used in complex fraud cases where the convicted person is a high earner.

At the low end in criminal cases heard in magistrates' costs, the convicted will pay a criminal court fee, which is fixed and not big, they can be asked to pay towards the prosecutor's costs, and there can be a victim surcharge (which funds victim support services and is not compensation for the victim), but those are means-tested.
by FredPret | 2025-08-03 19:38:51+00:00
He committed criminal fraud, went to prison for years, and then did a PhD in Philosophy and Critical Theory. Thesis: "Nudity and Disorder. Adventures in Posthumanist Freedom"

Not sure how he can be surprised his former colleagues are now distant:

- was he even a cultural fit for the finance world in the first place

- you can't go off the radar for years and then simply walk back

- now he has a criminal conviction for fraud, which is clearly going to be a problem for his former colleagues
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 19:39:18+00:00
Sure, maybe, but it's not productive for themselves - it's self-destruction.

It's the equivalent of cutting off your legs so you can't enter the race so you don't lose the race. Well... mission accomplished, you won't lose the race. But at what cost?

Bonus points if you can believe it's everyone else's fault and none your own. Now you can't lose AND it's not your fault. Great! But you're not even playing.
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by technoabsurdist | 2025-08-03 19:40:29+00:00
If you've ever tried to profile PyTorch or other Python code, you know that it can be painful to setup right. Nsight profiler is great, but it feels like using a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame when you're coming from a Python background.

We're building Chisel to solve this. Instead of wrestling with nvtx events and complex CUDA interfaces, you just add decorators to the functions you want to profile. As simple as:

app = ChiselApp("my-app", gpu=GPUType.A100_80GB_1)

@app.capture_trace(trace_name="gpu_task")

These 2 lines will get you the profiling trace for your code on an A100.

Run your code normally, then view results in a clean dashboard or locally.

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If you sign up this week, there's $50 in free credits to try it out (our profiling runs are billed by the second, so this is a ton of free profiling runs!)

We'd love feedback from anyone who gives it a shot. We're also currently developing a C++ SDK for teams that need to profile lower-level code. Let us know if this would be of interest to you. We want to learn what profiling pain points have you run into with ML codebases. Please reach out if you have any fun stories to tell :). We very much welcome contributions!

The github repo is: https://github.com/Herdora/chisel
by gibbitz | 2025-08-03 19:40:34+00:00
Interesting observation. There was a thread here recently about LLMs and Art where the OP wh likewise felt unmotivated due to LLMs was accused of creating Art for egotistical reasons. I generally think of my personal projects like I think about Art. Sure the motivation is not 100% this, but it is at least 50% about a sense of accomplishment and bragging rights. LLMs destroy this motivation by making it possible for about anyone to do something. For those just looking for the results one looks stupid for learning it and doing it on their own and a social pressure exists to not do it without using an LLM. The whole thing causes me to vascilate between wanting to not use and fight LLMs and the associated pressure or to just watch TV. It's easy to say that this is transformative financially but I'm finding the motivational impact of these tools to be way out sized personally. As a developer and Artist this feels like the larger society telling me that my passions are worthless and by proxy so am I. Pretty demotivating...
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