MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-27 20:40:31+00:00
Because this kind of thing almost certainly crops up in the "related work" section, which is a weird section of the paper that doesn't really involve any of the actual core research. It's essentially a tiny little bibliography intended for people who don't know the literature, so it doesn't get the same level of deep care as the original work. I suspect often people copy titles and fragments from their previous papers or from other papers, on the theory that they can only make the section less accurate by adding novelty.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-27 20:40:40+00:00
> Im uneducated here, honestly. I don't ask a lot of race-based questions to my LLMS I guess

You can't even ask it anything for genuine curiosity it starts to scold you and makes assumptions that you are trying to be racist. The conclusions I'm hearing are weird. It reminds me of that one Google engineer who quit or got fired after saying AI is racist or whatever back in like 2018 (edit: 2020).
by pantalaimon | 2025-08-27 20:40:59+00:00
> Giro is not instant, and almost no bank will offer an API that signals that a specific customer has transferred funds successfully.

And because of that we have leeches like Sofortüberweisung. They basically proxy the web interface of your bank and you'll give them full access to your account, so they do the transaction for you by scraping your banks web interface (and your transaction history) and report success to the vendor.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-27 20:41:23+00:00
The Seattle Times has, twice now, hilariously reported that the sea level at Seattle has risen 8 inches in the last century, caused by climate change.

It didn't question why this hasn't happened elsewhere in the world.

Further investigation showed that the land Seattle sits on has sunk 6 inches. (This may be due to the weight of the city buildings, or plate tectonics.)

There clearly is considerable difficulty in finding a reliable "zero reference point" from which to measure from.
by dang | 2025-08-27 20:41:31+00:00
Related:

Simple Dynamic Strings library for C, compatible with null-terminated strings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21692400 - Dec 2019 (83 comments)

Simple Dynamic Strings library for C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7190664 - Feb 2014 (127 comments)
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-08-27 20:41:35+00:00
Can't agree at all about a sight glass. The lowest point in nearly every brake system is the brake calipers themselves. Wheels going to make it difficult anyways on a car. Not to mention the risk of a rock striking and damaging rigid glass. Or the old interface that's sealing the glass to the calipers wearing out and causing a leak.

It's not worth the expense to manufacture and it's not worth the risk. Not when a litre of DOT4 is $20 and that only needs replacing every 3 years at an aggressive schedule for passenger cars.

Larger vehicles you can purchase a brake fluid tester, but most of the really large ones I know use air brakes anyways.
by jfengel | 2025-08-27 20:41:45+00:00
I went to Bolzano to see the Iceman. I was not expecting the Dolomites.

They look like a movie set. In fact, they look like a movie set that you'd go, "Man, mountains don't look like that."

I'm glad they got good pictures for this article. The Dolomites are often clouded in.
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-27 20:42:10+00:00
Clippy never sold my data. Clippy never forced me to update when I didn't have time. Clippy never advertised things to me. Clippy never lied to me. Clippy didn't take hundreds of watts of power to provide incorrect answers.

Clippy was an assistant, built to help me solve problems I didn't understand, and built to help computer illiterate people use their computers more effectively and was made out of genuine expressions of making their product better for more people.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-27 20:42:39+00:00
Why don’t they invest in other sectors though vs doubling down? Tobacco companies, famously unscrupulous, did just this, saw the writing on the wall and now make their money off zyn and vapes vs trying to swim upstream selling traditional tobacco products. Seems to me an oil company has enough resources where they can out invest most any green vc outright and dominate the marketshare if they were so inclined.

This is playing out like the hubris film companies had towards digital sensors. Seems they don’t teach history in MBA programs I guess.
by toss1 | 2025-08-27 20:43:22+00:00
A top expert in US Trust & Estate Tax law whom I know well tells me that although their firm is pushing use of LLMs, and they are useful for some things, there are serious limitations.

In the world of T&E law, there are a lot of mediocre (to be kind) attorneys who claim expertise but are very bad at it (causing a lot of work for the more serious firms and a lot of costs & losses for the intended heirs). They often write papers for marketing themselves as experts, so the internet is flooded with many papers giving advice that is exactly wrong and much more that is wrong in more subtle ways that will blow up decades later.

If an LLM could reason, it would be able to sort out the wrong nonsense from the real expertise by applying reason, e.g., comparing the advice to the actual legal code and precedent-setting rulings, and by comparing it to results, and be able to identify the real experts, and generate output based on the writings of the real experts only.

However, LLMs show zero sign of any similar reasoning. They simply output something resembling the average of all the dreck of the mediocre-minus attorneys posting blogs.

I'm not saying this could not be fixed by Altman et. al. applying a large amount of computer power to exactly the loops I described above (check legal advice against the actual code and judges' rulings, check against actual results, select only the credible sources and retrain), but it is obviously no where near that yet.

The big problem, is that this is only obvious to a top expert in the field who deeply knows from training and experience the difference between the top experts and the dreck.

To the rest of us who actually need the advice, the LLMs sound great.

Very smart parrot, but still dumbly averaging and stochastic.
by xg15 | 2025-08-27 20:44:13+00:00
True, but there is also its own brand of politicization of wind power going on, driven mostly by conservatives and the Bavarian CSU.

Not many whales around here unfortunately, but I'm amazed what kind of extinction-level dangers they apparently pose for birds, forests and generally wildlife.

And then there is the lasting psychological damage caused by the sounds and moving shadows of the rotor blades...
by nerevarthelame | 2025-08-27 20:44:22+00:00
> Didn't google just prove there is little to no environmental harm, INCLUDING if you account for training?

I don't think they, have, no. Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but their most recent technical paper [0], published less than a week ago, states, "This study specifically considers the inference and serving energy consumption of an AI prompt. We leave the measurement of AI model training to future work."

[0]: https://arxiv.org/html/2508.15734v1
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-08-27 20:44:24+00:00
Agreed, tools do not dictate what art is and isn't - but using those tools for art doesn't relieve them from being ethically justified.

If generating the piece costs half a rain forest or requires tons of soul crushing badly paid work by others, it might be well worth considering what is the general framework the artist operates in.

Using more resources to achieve subpar outcomes is not generally something considered artful. Doing a lot with little is.
by codyb | 2025-08-27 20:44:28+00:00
I suspect we're in a bubble... and when it pops, the useful, profitable work will stay around. A bunch of things will also disappear.

And then we'll wait till the next bubble.

Gains seem to have leveled off tremendously. As far as I can tell folk were saying "Wow, look at this, I can get it to generate code... it does really well at tests, and small well defined tasks"

And a year or a year and a half later we're at like... that + "it's slightly better than it was before!" lol.

So, yea, I dunno, I suspect we'll see a fair amount fall away and some useful things to continue to be used.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-08-27 20:44:31+00:00
> Because in my experience when I pass a value (not a reference), then I must borrow the value and cannot use it later in the calling procedure.

Ah, you are confused on terminology. Borrowing is a thing that only happens when you make references. What you are doing when you pass a non-copy value is moving it.

Generally, anything that is not copy you pass to a function should be a (non-mut) reference unless it's specifically needed to be something else. This allows you to borrow it in the callee, which means the caller gets it back after the call. That's the workflow that the type system works best with, thanks to autoref having all your functions use borrowed values is the most convenient way to write code.

Note that when you pass a value type to a function, in Rust that is always a copy. For non-copy types, that just means move semantics meaning you also must stop using it at the call site. You should not deal with this in general by calling clone on everything, but instead should derive copy on the types for which it makes sense (small, value semantics), and use borrowed references for the rest.
by fogzen | 2025-08-27 20:44:36+00:00
Almost. It’s a process problem. But the process is a step above the organization. It’s a socio-economic process that incentivizes these problems. It’s capitalism that’s the process problem. That’s the process that introduces the problem into the organization. Without the government regulators making them test nothing would have even been done at all. Because the problem is the organization exists within a framework that pits it against safety. Safety is at odds with what the organization is tasked to do within the process that it exists in.
by firefax | 2025-08-27 20:44:46+00:00
>I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.

Do you also steal from the library? Mozilla isn't some big bad corporation.

Personally, I'd be a little wary of pissing off the hackers who are fans of that browser using my meatspace name, but hey, you do you. Maybe when you're done you can stroll on down to the local motorcycle bar and kick over some Harleys and see how far that takes you in life.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-27 20:44:52+00:00
I think (unless I missed it) it could be mentioned that typically you are supposed to have as small words as possible, with least amount of stack shuffling, and comment code as much as possible (stack effects). That said, I have not had to maintain large Forth projects so I have no clue how well I would fare ^^.

BTW, have you heard of https://factorcode.org? You might like it!
by znpy | 2025-08-27 20:45:18+00:00
> Clean-slate rewrites are some of my favorite best projects, and I hate dealing with legacy junk - but there's just not budget to keep everything brand new all the time.

Hey, I get it.

The thing is, budget is largely artificial. Unless a company is on the brink of bankruptcy, there can be budget (but the company has to eat that from profits).

The thing is, eating budget for maintenance and system upgrades is a known playbook companies use. That doesn't make it right though.

That is why i wrote that the issue is organizational, not technical...
by bratwurst3000 | 2025-08-27 20:45:37+00:00
? IBAN transactions are instant and free.

All three of my banking apps offer adresse books.

why couldnt i sent money back? I see the sender and the IBAN

I can even in some cases cancell payments

where are you at?

me france germany italy and switzerland.

Are you from the states or canada? The parent talked about europe.
by korhojoa | 2025-08-27 20:45:43+00:00
I'm trying to think of any bank that I've used that would not have "address book"-like functionality, and I can't think of one. All of them have this, and have had the feature for as long as I've used their online banking. Perhaps the banks you're used to aren't very modern?

SEPA transfers are (at least mine have been) max. 1h until the transfer is complete (some limit this to "banking hours"). Instantaneous transfer is common.

It seems to me like there is great variety depending on what bank you use.

API's are common, and even the same between banks now with PSD2.

Tbh, a banking barcode (or EPC QR if you prefer) displayed on the seller's webpage with unique reference + reading it with your phone and making the payment is that internet payment method via giro. The webshop uses PSD2 open banking to get notified of new transactions and knows when it is transferred.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-08-27 20:45:45+00:00
I read what you wrote, and it seems to me you think these two things are equal:

A human using their creativity to create a painting showcasing a statement about war.

A human asking AI to create a painting showcasing a statement about war.

I do not wish to use strawmen tactics. So I'll ask if you think the above is equal and true.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-27 20:45:56+00:00
Yes, mainly because such repositories don't have to follow debian's policies, and so it's a lot easier to package a version that vendors in dependencies in a version/configuration you're willing to support (and it's better to point users there than at an official debian version because if debian breaks something you'll be getting the bug reports no matter how much people try to tell users to report to the distribution first)
by cyberax | 2025-08-27 20:45:58+00:00
> What exactly is a science-based climate goal? And why would wind energy be essential for it?

Land-based wind power is OK-ish. It's susceptible to renewable droughts, but it's fine as long as it's just a part of the mix.

But the offshore wind power is pretty much the _only_ reliable renewable, outside of classic hydro and exotics like tidal power or geothermal. Offshore wind generators are pretty much guaranteed to always produce at least _some_ power due to diurnal wind patterns.
by Proofread0592 | 2025-08-27 20:46:27+00:00
> Meanwhile, all the wealthy business owners are fascinated with it cause they can get things done without having to hire.

I think you need to add the word potentially in front of "get things done". The venn diagram of what current LLMs can do, and what wealthy business owners think LLMs can do, has the smallest of overlaps.
by 3s | 2025-08-27 20:46:55+00:00
I was once hiking in the dark in the south of Japan. I crossed a few streams but didn't think much of it. A while later, I felt like my socks were sticking to my shoes and unusually warm. I looked down to see my ankles and shoes covered in blood. Totally drenched in dark red blood with 10 leeches attached. This was truly the most confused and terrified I ever felt in my life - seeing that much blood without feeling any pain was utterly disorienting.
by visarga | 2025-08-27 20:46:57+00:00
Our society would break down without language. Without math there would be much fewer people because we would not be able to have large cities and commerce. Without technology we can't manage anymore.

The moral? It's always been an unbalanced society tumbling into the future. Even if AI has both downsides and upsides we will still make it a part of us. Consider the scale - 1B people chatting for the likes of 1T tokens/day. That amount of AI-language has got to influence human language and abilities as well.

Point by point rebuttals:

- environmental harms - so does any use of electricity, fuel or construction

- reinforcement of bias - all ours, reflected back, and it depends on prompting as well

- generation of racist output - depends on who's prompting what

- cognitive harms and AI supported suicides - we are the consequence sink for all things AI, good and bad

- problems with consent and copyright - only if you think abstractions should be owned

- enables fraud and disinformation and harassment and surveillance - all existed before 2020

- exploitation of workers, excuse to fire workers and de-skill work - that is AI being used as excuse, can't be AI's fault

- they don’t actually reason and probability and association are inadequate to the goal of intelligence - apparently you don't need reasoning to win gold at IMO

- people think it makes them faster when it makes them slower - and advanced LLMs are just 2.5 years old, give people time to learn to use it

- it is inherently mediocre - all of us have been at some point

- it is at its core a fascist technology rooted in the ideology of supremacy - LOL, generalizing Grok to all LLMs?

The author mixes hate of AI with hate of people behind AI and hate of how other people excuse their actions blaming AI.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-27 20:47:02+00:00
I don't work for wikipedia and haven't seen their budget in depth, but the link is mostly fluff. Reading it I have no idea if "support for volunteers" means supporting wikipedia editors, corporate, donations, etc. All we really know is that hosting costs are about 3.1 million a year.

Usually non-profit organizations like this get significant corporate funding because they do work for companies and political organizations, which is where the corruption comes from. I don't think there's any doubt Wikipedia is a politically biased organization, all you have to do is look at their URL blacklists to figure that out. The NYT is regarded as a high quality link, meanwhile you're not even allowed to link the epoch times as a reference despite it being the most comparable right-wing competitor to the NYT. Basically every major right-wing paper is banned, while every major left-wing paper is allowed
by nayajunimesh | 2025-08-27 20:47:33+00:00
Hey, thanks for the link! I was able to add the library to the benchmark quite easily. Here's the fork if you're interested:

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/valibot-benchmarks

I have included the results I obtained from running the benchmark in the README.md. I'd love for you to also take a look at the changed code to see if I may have missed something with the integration. Curious to hear your feedback too!
by codyb | 2025-08-27 20:48:07+00:00
I created a ViM Message of the Day script that I added to my shell to give me a prompt every time I opened a new shell (Which I do constantly in ViM and Tmux since I've created leader key shortcuts in both)

https://github.com/cboppert/motd

You might have to futz with it a bit, and I think I've added some other stuff in there since then (love the toggle-light-mode script which toggles several things either to Dark or Light mode at once so I can switch environments easily, however have never gotten it to fully automate, so I have to manually type goDark or goLight depending. Humbug!)

Anyways, it's great cause it gives you one tip or command at a time, and so you can sort of slowly grow without really having to dedicate much time to it.
by Teever | 2025-08-27 20:48:13+00:00
Its because they're in a death cult purity spiral.[0] They suffer from cognitive dissonance so a part of them understands this stuff but another part of them identifies so strongly with their peer group and profession that this second part wins out.

It's really unfortunate that such glaring cognitive defects appear to have doomed the human race smothering itself to death on this planet instead of reaching out to the stars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_spiral
by zikduruqe | 2025-08-27 20:48:36+00:00
You mean the Zone Of Death?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)

"The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile (130 km2) area in the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of the Vicinage Clause in the Constitution of the United States, a person may be able to theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder"
by travisgriggs | 2025-08-27 20:48:47+00:00
I don't share your assessment. Is it because I did iOS apps before web apps? Curious how many others feel the same?

Seems like a reasonable poll question: Which is harder: web app development or native app development?

I was telling a younger colleague the other day how back in the day, I was "competing" with a peer at a company doing nuclear design software (Siemens Power Corp at the time). I was doing it in VisualWorks Smalltalk, he was doing his in straight C and X Windows. Competition aside, both of us built multi window complex graphical design tools that front ended heavy duty simulators, managed various batch jobs, tons of IO, parsing, and lots of color graphic drawing (mine was for fuel assembly (pin and axial enrichments) design, and his was for core layout (where the assemblies go during each reload)). The graphics were simpler (no antialiasing, any alpha we did with clever dithering tricks, not much in the way of animations, though we did each roll some). Both even stored /retrieved into a sort of database (a homegrown data versioning system). But... it was just one of each us for each "app".

Sadly, all Ux development seems orders of more magnitude complicated and beuqacratic now days. Some things are easier and vastly simpler than they used to be, and yet, the sum result is more difficult. I'm not exactly sure why.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-27 20:48:47+00:00
He's a "student" and friend of late Gordon Mah Ung. He's carrying his torch forward.

This was Gordon's style, and Steve is continuing it. He has the courage to hit Bloomberg offices with a cameraman, so I don't think his words ring hollow.

We need that kind of in your face, no punches held back type of reporting when compared to "measured professionals".
by quesera | 2025-08-27 20:48:58+00:00
I'm here for the pedantry! :)

But I don't think the software of a SaaS is leased, sold, or licensed. It's just a service that is available and perhaps promised to stay available for a term. And of course Monodraw is not a SaaS anyway.

Also not a lawyer. I have read more contracts than most healthy adults, but that is just as likely to be distorting as clarifying.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-27 20:49:03+00:00
>As a developer, you just need to provide the code and the list of requirements. And maybe some guide about how to build and run tests. You do not want to care about where I find those dependencies (Maybe I'm running you code as PID 1).

That's provided by any competent build system. If you want to build it differently, with a different set of requirements, that's up to you to figure out (and fix when it breaks).
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-08-27 20:49:16+00:00
There isn't a low pressure braking region in the brakes.

But brakes can get really hot. Passenger brakes can easily get over the boiling point of water. Keep braking long enough and adding enough heat, and they'll get over the boiling point of brake fluid under pressure.

Thing is, brake fluid is incompressible. Brake fluid vapor however is very much so a compressible gas. Even more so: the water in the brake fluid has an even lower boiling point then that.

So stomping on the braking quickly isn't going to cause much of a problem. But if your riding the brakes down hill for a long distance with 12 year old brake fluid in hot Florida summer on very heavily loaded car? That... might get you into a spot of trouble.
by trhway | 2025-08-27 20:49:20+00:00
it is just a new better Internet era - everybody to use VPN. Thanks to the conservatives for facilitating such a progress.

For example, these days in Russia awareness and usage of VPN is well beyond any normal country. With Facebook and IG for example blocked for Meta being officially branded an "extremist organization" (by the way Taliban was taken off that list recently, so what do you guys in Menlo Park are cooking what is worse than Taliban? May be some freedom of speech? :) people in Russia of all strata is still using it, now through VPN, many from mobile devices. The thing of note from USSR/Russia here is that habitual violation of unreasonable laws breeds wide disrespect for the system of law as a whole, and it i very hard to reverse the flow.