MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kanzure | 2025-08-12 21:44:27+00:00
Here are some other anti-lesswrong materials to consider:

https://aiascendant.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-1-the-w...

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/02/06/ineffective-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-07/effective...

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23458282/effective-altrui...

https://qchu.substack.com/p/eliezer

https://x.com/kanzure/status/1726251316513841539
by godelski | 2025-08-12 21:44:28+00:00
> Everything is nice on paper

I think the reason this is true is mostly because how people do things "on paper". We can get much more accurate with "on paper" modeling, but the amount of work increases very fast. So it tends to be much easier to just calculate things as if they are spherical chickens in a vacuum and account for error than it is to calculate including things like geometry, drag, resistance, and all that other fun jazz (which you still will also need to account for error/uncertainty though this now can be smaller).

Which I think at the end of the day the important lesson is more how simple explanations can be good approximations that get us most of the way there but the details and nuances shouldn't be so easily dismissed. With this framing we can choose how we pick our battles. Is it cheaper/easier/faster to run a very accurate sim or cheaper/easier/faster to iterate in physical space?
by 827a | 2025-08-12 21:44:39+00:00
I'm also curious about an attack vector whereby if a coin has a single reasonably well-installed mining software stack, this effectively gives the developers of that stack control over any miner, which could easily add up to 51% if there's only a few mining software options. Sneaking in a backdoor is well within the capabilities of any developer; do the mining companies compile from source?
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-12 21:44:48+00:00
A model married to a billionaire with links to the Trump government pushing nuclear on Tik Tok? How very 2025.

From the Times writeup that apparently is part of this PR push:

> And last fall, Ms. Boemeke donated $5 million, and pledged an additional $5 million, to nuclear causes with her husband, Joe Gebbia, one of the most prominent members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency and the billionaire co-founder of Airbnb. A friend and confidant of Elon Musk’s, Mr. Gebbia now sits on the board of Tesla.
by 0xCMP | 2025-08-12 21:45:03+00:00
I want this to exist, but so few would adopt it that would make it mainstream/normal to use because a lot of those places rely on getting your email to tell you about other things.

This would be fairly limited to blogs which have no intention of writing a newsletter or consistently enough to merit subscribing via RSS.

Although I'd love for everything I just said to turn out to be false.
by meander_water | 2025-08-12 21:45:21+00:00
I like to spend a lot of time in "Ask" mode in Cursor. I guess the equivalent in Claude code is "plan" mode.

Where I have minimal knowledge about the framework or language, I ask a lot of questions about how the implementation would work, what the tradeoffs are etc. This is to minimize any misunderstanding between me and the tool. Then I ask it to write the implementation plan, and execute it one by one.

Cursor lets you have multiple tabs open so I'll have a Ask mode and Agent mode running in parallel.

This is a lot slower, and if it was a language/framework I'm familiar with I'm more likely to execute the plan myself.
by jeremy_k | 2025-08-12 21:45:41+00:00
Well in this case, I am reading through everything that is generated for Rails because I want things to be done my way. For user input, I tend to validate everything with Zod before sending it off the backend which then flows through ActiveRecord.

I get what you're saying that AI could write something that executes user input but with the way I'm using the tools that shouldn't happen.
by mnky9800n | 2025-08-12 21:45:48+00:00
I find that sometimes this works great and sometimes it happily tells you everything works and your code fails successfully and if you aren’t reading all the code you would never know. It’s kind of strange actually. I don’t have a good feeling when it will get everything correct and when it will fail and that’s what is disconcerting. I would be happy to be given advice on what to do to untangle when it’s good and when it’s not. I love chatting with Claude code about code. It’s annoying that it doesn’t always get it right and also doesn’t really interact with failure like a human would. At Least in my experience anyways.
by pengaru | 2025-08-12 21:45:52+00:00
> It eliminates a huge swath of potential long-term contributors who know C well and don't want to change

I don't think that swath is as huge as you think it is in 2025.

We were saying the same stuff during the Golang heydays ~8-9 years ago, and the C experts were already pretty fucking MIA.

The Linux and systemd projects are both suffering from a lack of new blood interested in writing plain old C, and the old guard is aging out. Linux is embracing Rust, which should help. I imagine systemd will do the same thing once a Rust toolchain is required to build the average distro kernel.
by pqs | 2025-08-12 21:46:13+00:00
I'm not a programmer, but I need to write python and bash programs to do my work. I also have a few websites and other personal projects. Claude Code helps me implement those little projects I've been wanting to do for a very long time, but I couldn't due to the lack of coding experience and time. Now I'm doing them. Also now I can improve my emacs environment, because I can create lisp functions with ease. For me, this is the perfect tool, because now I can do those little projects I couldn't do before, making my life easier.
by guerrilla | 2025-08-12 21:46:27+00:00
I'm someone who has read all of that and much more, including intense study of SEP and some contemporary papers and textbooks, and I would say that I am absolutely not qualified to produce philosophy of the quality output by analytic philosophy over the last century. I can understand a lot of it, and yes, this is better than being completely ignorant of the last 2500 years of philosophy as most rationalists seem to be, but doing only what I have done would not sufficiently prepare them to work on the projects that they want to work on. They (and I) do not have the proper training in logic or research methods, let alone the experience that comes from guided research in the field as it is today. What we all lack especially is the epistemological reinforcement that comes from being checked by a community of our peers. I'm not saying it can't be done alone, I'm just saying that what you're suggesting isn't enough and I can tell you because I'm quite beyond that and I know that I cannot produce the quality of work that you'll find in SEP today.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-12 21:47:56+00:00
When it comes to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

I went to something like ten conferences in a row in San Francisco and often mentioned to the organizer that the scene was unsafe. At least one conference moved to another venue and it’s been a long time since I went back. Part of the answer is that if cities don’t feel safe people will go to someplace which is safe. The Moscone center is still kept on life support by hometown heroes like Apple and Salesforce.com who might be too worried that their young employees would get in trouble with the hookers, booze and dice if they decamped to Vegas but if Apple moved WWDC to Vegas they probably serve triple the crowd.
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 21:48:47+00:00
> Fact is there are other "worthy" candidate cities to deploy NG to, to counter crime.

DC is unique among those cities because it is federal territory where the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction, according to the constitution. It's harder to deploy the National Guard to St. Louis, for example, because you also have to deal with the government of Missouri (and probably that of Illinois, too, since the metro area spans both states).

In fact, a senator famously called for troops to be deployed to those cities in the height of the unrest in 2020[0]. He was excoriated for it by his political opponents, and the editor in charge of the NYT opinion pages resigned over allowing that piece to be published. So there are people who would like to see dramatically stronger law enforcement everywhere, not just DC.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...
by pm90 | 2025-08-12 21:49:36+00:00
Its interesting how many of the comments here are criticizing the cost, the decision to commission a design firm, or that it just wouldn't work for them. In which case, great! You can choose however you want to do your home office. This person put in effort to both deliberately design their home office and to share it with everyone. That's pretty amazing! And even if I might not go the same way, there are def some very cool ideas from this that I will certainly look into : )
by vitaflo | 2025-08-12 21:49:51+00:00
But even on the same project with the same tools the general way a dev derives satisfaction from their work can play a big role. Some devs derive satisfaction from getting work done and care less about the code as long as it works. Others derive satisfaction from writing well architected and maintainable code. One can guess the reactions to how LLM's fit into their day to day lives for each.
by dlivingston | 2025-08-12 21:50:17+00:00
You're making some meta-point about "aloneness" where it's disqualified if they have some pre-existing threshold of wealth or connections. I disagree that's disqualifying, especially because you can play that game all the way to the bottom.

Q: was only a single person instrumental to the creation of (product/service)?

A: if yes, then yes; if not, then no. "Yes, but... [help from family / existing wealth / ...]". Irrelevant to me.
by elchananHaas | 2025-08-12 21:50:19+00:00
I see the heterogeneous architectures as mostly a plus. If you want the most throughput for a highly parallel workload given a power and silicon budget 100% E cores would be best. If you have some workloads that don't parallelize well then a few P cores are best. Heterogeneous gives possibilities to optimize for both cases. There is another knob to turn, and mistakes can be made, but this should be an overall positive.

My bigger concern with the newer Intel CPUs are the crashes and reliability issues that were reported.
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-08-12 21:50:28+00:00
I love this project! Kudos to the author.

Some day, whenever I have the money to skunkworks this properly, I've wanted to create something like a modern spiritual successor to the Atari ST with enhanced creature comforts.

Something with a CPU based on POWER architecture (like microwatt) with a simplified multicore design (no hyperthreading or weird BIG+little core design - just straightforward homogeneous cores), a simple expansion interface of some kind, and an OS baked into ROM. Then I'd consider it to be built around a long term support model, with one design that can last decades, complete with schematics, chip design reference guide, and an open specification so it can be easily cloned as desired.

Especially now that Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling has slowed down considerably, it could be a fun platform to target for education or the demoscene, instead of spec chasing.
by mr_moon | 2025-08-12 21:50:48+00:00
I feel exactly the same way. why skim and sift 15 different stackoverflow posts when an LLM can pick out exactly the info I need?

I don't need to spin up an entire feature in a few seconds. I need help understanding where something is broken; what are some opinions o best practice; or finding out what a poorly written snippet is doing.

context still v important for this though and I appreciate cranking that capacity. "read 15000 stackoverflow posts for me please"
by jecel | 2025-08-12 21:51:14+00:00
Thanks for the link. I meant to write 1280x720@60Hz for 16:9 HDMI TVs/monitors but have used 1024x768 quite a bit in the past for 4:3 VGA monitors and ended up mixing the two.

VIDEO_ID_CODE 4 (1280x720) works on all monitors I tested while 1 (640x480) only displays on half of them:

https://github.com/nand2mario/nestang/blob/master/src/hdmi2/...
by astrange | 2025-08-12 21:51:45+00:00
Because people are paying the model companies to give them factual answers, so they hire data labellers and invent verification techniques to attempt to provide them.

Even without that, there's implicit signal because factual helpful people have different writing styles and beliefs than unhelpful people, so if you tell the model to write in a similar style it will (hopefully) provide similar answers. This is why it turns out to be hard to produce an evil racist AI that also answers questions correctly.
by LinXitoW | 2025-08-12 21:52:08+00:00
Oh nuanced the comparison seems also depends on whether you live in Arkansas or in Amsterdam.

But I disagree that your counterexample has anything at all to do with AI coding. That very same developer was perfectly capable of committing untested crap without AI. Perfectly capable of copy pasting the first answer they found on Stack Overflow. Perfectly capable of recreating utility functions over and over because they were to lazy to check if they already exist.
by tzs | 2025-08-12 21:52:13+00:00
> As always with any LLM you should double-check its final, specific answers. It does occasionally hallucinate when information simply isn't available.

It also sometimes completely botches it when information is available. For example a while back someone cited Musk only scoring 730 on the math SAT as evidence that there is something from with the test.

I looked up Musk's age to figure out about when he would have taken the SAT then asked Perplexity what percentile a 760 would have been then. It gave me an answer that as far as I can tell was right (~90th).

I then wondered what my percentile was, so asked it what percentile 790 would have been when I took it. It told me it would have been 17.something, where that something had 5 digits.

That was obviously completely wrong because (1) there is no possible way it could have data that would justify giving an answer with 5 digits after the decimal point, and (2) the maximum possible score was 800 and scores were a multiple of 10, so for 790 to have been 17th percentile would mean that 83% of people who took the test scored a perfect 800.

I told it that this was clearly absurd.

It responded that I was completely right and said it was going to try again. On the retry it gave a reasonable answer that I knew from what I remembered was in the right ballpark and not given to ridiculous accuracy.
by alex-a-soto | 2025-08-12 21:52:48+00:00
Thank you for your thoughts and support. I agree, doing this in X11 is definitely doable. I’ve seen others achieve similar results by running a daemon that listens for damage regions. I hadn’t considered using a custom backend video driver; that’s something I’ll be looking into.

My focus has mostly been on Wayland, but possibly prototyping in X11 could be a starting point. Some people I've met are interested in using computer vision techniques at the hardware level, or making a camera rig.

What excites me most is getting this into people’s hands, seeing what they create with it, and working together to improve it and explore new use cases. One use case that I learned about recently:

E-Ink News: The mystery of cuttlefish disguise, scientists use E Ink technology to explore its secrets

https://www.ereaderpro.co.uk/en/blogs/news/e-ink-news-the-my...
by 0xCMP | 2025-08-12 21:52:58+00:00
Yea I don't see Nix doing much here particularly, but for me I typically would do something like this to make the system as consistent as possible over a long period of time without being actively maintained.

I guess this does ensure the key `journal` command works exactly the same because the dateutils binary will stay locked to the version in the `flake.lock`.

I would have assumed that nvim would also be locked because that's where I would expect more possible breaking changes with the existing special config.

With little tools/projects like these I could easily see months-years before it would get any active attention from me again (or simply I wouldn't be using it; so it doesn't matter).
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-12 21:53:17+00:00
It's good we've got Trump to be the arbiter of truth, history, technology, etc. Presidents of recent memory would have made dreadful, wrong decisions. Can you imagine if G.W. Bush, or Obama or Biden made decisions in these categories? It would have caused markets to tumble, we'd never hear the end of it in the media, and Congress would have to investigate. Now, Trump makes a decision, maybe one major paper notes it unemotionally as the right decision, and we go on with life, never a Benghazi hearing to be seen!
by saghm | 2025-08-12 21:53:32+00:00
From my experience, Bottles and Lutris are pretty similar in terms of the overall experience they try to provide. The main difference (at least at the last time I had used each of them) was that Lutris has a lot of flexibility in being able to have third-parties define and publish configs to be usable, whereas Bottles seemed to have more of a "batteries included" approach to having recipes mostly built-in but with the ability to swap out individual pieces manually (e.g. "use this exact distribution of wine, override this DLL with these flags", etc.). I don't recall Lutris having as good support for modifying configs without having to manually modify the JSON recipes, or Bottles having as much support for sharing recipes to be able to automate them rather than manually clicking around in the GUI to make the choices, but it's possible one or both of them has improved in those areas since I last tried them.

Nowadays, I tend to just run pretty much everything through Steam/Proton. I set `Proton-GE` as the default override for all my games, and then "install" things by adding them via the menu for third-party apps in the Steam UI. In the rare cases that I need to tweak something, I use `protontricks` to invoke `winetricks` on the prefix for the game, and things tend to just work after maybe installing 1-2 things at most.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-08-12 21:53:46+00:00
Not that these technologies don't have anything to bring, but any discussion that still presupposes that cars/trucks(/planes) (as we know them) still have a future is (mostly) a waste of time.

P.S.: The article mentions the "normal error-checking processes of society"... but what makes them so sure cults aren't part of them ?

It's not like society is particularly good about it either, immune from groupthink (see the issue above) - and who do you think is more likely to kick-start a strong enough alternative ?

(Or they are just sad about all the failures ? But it's questionable that the "process" can work (with all its vivacity) without the "failures"...)
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-12 21:54:19+00:00
That's just semantics. I worked as a car salesman, saved over $250k, and quit to become a self taught saas guy and my php jquery mess now supports me.

Did I do it alone? You'd argue that no, I had my old bosses help or something because he gave me the funds to learn and work on it?

If he got it from parents instead would that change anything? What about getting it from his own savings?
by im3w1l | 2025-08-12 21:54:21+00:00
Firstly, I think you underestimate how quickly good faith actors with slightly different configs would come to agree. A handful of blocks should be enough. Secondly, if reorgs start becoming a problem, exchanges and merchants could monitor for a situation with two competing chain and temporarily suspend processing. There is still the possibility that some one will suddenly reveal a long chain they had kept secret, but anyone doing such a thing is very suspicious.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-08-12 21:54:32+00:00
Philosophy is interesting in how it informs computer science and vice-versa.

Mereological nihilism and weak emergence is interesting and helps protect against many forms of kind of obsessive levels of type and functional cargo culting.

But then in some areas philosophy is woefully behind, and you have philosophers poo-pooing intuitionism when any software engineer working on sufficiently federated or real world sensor/control system borrows constructivism into their classical language to not kill people (agda is interesting of course). Intermediate logic is clearly empirically true.

It's interesting that people don't understand the non-physicality of the abstract and you have people serving the abstract instead of the abstract being used to serve people. People confusing the map for the terrain is such a deeply insidious issue.

I mean all the lightcone stuff, like, you can't predict ex ante what agents will be keystones in beneficial casual chains so its such waste of energy to spin your wheels on.
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by bazhand | 2025-08-12 21:56:03+00:00
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by butterisgood | 2025-08-12 21:56:08+00:00
Plan 9's file system interface makes it a great way to build a network "mux". I added a reverse http(s) capable proxy using rc-httpd and webfs to effectively tunnel Shoutcast/Icecast streams from a Mac behind a firewall, with 9front being the only exposed endpoint.

It took an afternoon to figure out how, and was basically "cat".
by bluGill | 2025-08-12 21:56:17+00:00
Most likely the person and the business are the same. It is possible (unlikely but work with me...) people might buy subscriptions to 'blugill's insights' but I am the brand you can buy the business from me but if I don't continue to write the content everyone will go elsewhere. As such the billion dollars is because that is my real (lifetime?) income from it. similear for my novel, you would probably worry if I let someone else finish it. (Though wheel of time proves it can work)

Now there are plenty of newsletters that are not about the auther and many of them do well-
by ImaCake | 2025-08-12 21:56:23+00:00
Most science runs on BS with a cursory amount of statistics slapped on top so everyone can feel better about it. Weirdly enough, science still works despite not being rational. Rationalists seem to think science is logical when in reality it works for largely the same reasons the free-market does; throw shit at the wall and maybe support some of the stuff that works.
by tomhow | 2025-08-12 21:56:41+00:00
The “problem” you keep referring to can be boiled down to: extremes exist. HN, like any large population sample, is a bell curve of opinion, which, by definition has tails of extreme opinion at each end. However the most extreme and toxic opinions rarely get seen because they are taken care of by community flags and moderator bans.

They are covered by the first two words of the “In Comments” section of the guidelines: “be kind”, which apply to all of us, including you, in the way you are engaging with others in this thread.

Please stop.
by butterisgood | 2025-08-12 21:57:36+00:00
I don't know why this got downvoted... Hurd was indeed investigating L4 as an alternative microkernel for some time.

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history/port_to_another_mi...

Neal Walfield was working on a new microkernel as well: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/viengoos.html