MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gameman144 | 2025-08-05 18:24:47+00:00
I think there's a justifiable fear/dread when things that used to demonstrate virtues no longer do so.

For instance, being in shape used to (usually) demonstrate discipline. Art or music used to demonstrate attention to craft and practice. Knowledge demonstrated time devoted to study.

This isn't to say that the world is worse with these advances (I'd be hopeless without search engines, and I am grateful that people get to live longer and healthier with semaglutide), but I think a little bit of mourning is understandable: what used to be the fruits of hard work are now a dime-a-dozen commodity.
by lucumo | 2025-08-05 18:24:49+00:00
> Anyway, I still see hallucinations in all languages, even javascript, attempting to use libraries or APIs that do not exist. Could you elaborate on how you have solved this problem?

Gemini CLI (it's free and I'm cheap) will run the build process after making changes. If an error occurs, it will interpret it and fix it. That will take care of it using functions that don't exist.

I can get stuck in a loop, but in general it'll get somewhere.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-08-05 18:24:50+00:00
I don't know... There are plenty of otherwise capable adults who just get home from work and watch TV. They either never, or extremely rarely, indulge in hobbies, go see a concert, or even go out to meet others. Not that TV can't be art and challenge us but lets be honest, 99% of it is not that.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-05 18:24:59+00:00
Kdenlive Related:

Kdenlive 24.02 open source video editor released (288 points, 2024, 56 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671218

Kdenlive: an open-source video editor (433 points, 2020, 189 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337689
by greyface- | 2025-08-05 18:25:18+00:00
I tried to open source a weekend personal project while at $BIGCO via their "Invention Assignment Review Committee". It turned into a minor bureaucratic nightmare and I was ultimately never given the OK to release it, or any clarity over whether my employer was choosing to assert an IP ownership interest in it. In retrospect, I wish I had never notified them of its existence, and released it under a pseudonym instead.
by gkoberger | 2025-08-05 18:25:22+00:00
I used to work at Mozilla.

Safari isn't Chromium (it's the opposite, Google forked WebKit and they've diverged). But that's not really your point.

There's a lot of reason to use Chrome: deep integration with Google (privacy issues aside, it's really useful), better add-on dev ecosystem which leads to better add-ons, WebKit was far ahead of Gecko for a while, I personally prefer the devtools in Chrome, developers tend to verify their website works more in Chrome so fewer bugs, iOS is webkit-only, etc.

Firefox is a great browser, especially now. But so is Chrome.
by arp242 | 2025-08-05 18:25:27+00:00
The numbers seem small enough that it will rarely matter, but I suppose there might be a use case somewhere?

But lets be real here: this is basically just a new image format. With more code to maintain, fresh new exciting zero-days, and all of that. You need a strong use case to justify that, and "already fast encode is now faster" is probably not it.
by calebh | 2025-08-05 18:25:34+00:00
I think the most likely path forward for commercialization/widespread use is to use AI as a post-processing filter for low poly games. Imagine if you could take low quality/low poly assets, run it through a game engine to add some basic lighting, then pass this through AI to get a photo-realistic image. This solves the most egregious cases of world inconsistency and still allows for creative human fine-tuning. The trick will be getting the post-processor to run at a reasonable frame rate.
by K0balt | 2025-08-05 18:25:40+00:00
This is a bigger issue than most people appreciate, and a huge problem for the USA.

There is a specialised trade known as tool and die maker, or just die maker (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_and_die_maker) that is fundamental to a country’s ability to create industrial capacity. So far, no automation tool has been able to replace their expertise.

Without die makers, you can’t build tools that make things, you can’t build factories, and mass production in general is dependent on their skillset.

Right now, the USA only has 50k die makers, and the average age of a die maker, including apprentices, is 54. The average age of a master die maker is 73, and the average age of a journeyman is 62. A master die maker can teach about 5 apprentices to the journey man level in a work environment, after 2+ years of basic engineering school, in about 5-7 years. A journeyman may generally considered a master after 10-20 years of experience, depending on the nature of their experience.

We don’t have enough die makers to rebuild the industrial capacity of the USA, and we can’t teach the amount we need in less than 5-7decades without some kind of major change in the process of doing so. And since more than half of the master die makers are months from retirement or death, we are in an extremely precarious position as a viable industrial power.

This is why it is extremely difficult to build anything physical in the USA using only USA sourced parts and materials. It’s almost impossible to even get a decent variety of screws and fasteners made here in the USA, and we can’t easy build the machines to make screws because of the critical shortage of master die makers.

If we are to maintain the ability to build and maintain our machines, weapons, and critical infrastructure without being completely dependent on imported tools, supplies, and knowledge, we will have to reinvent the industrial process using automation or something similar to compensate for our foolish exportation and devaluation of strategic skills and capabilities.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-05 18:26:07+00:00
I'm not sure if that's true of not. As the article indicates, training for AI is naturally demand responsive. Training can move on the clock, and it can move around the world to minimize carbon footprint. See the PDF I just love to share: "Revamped Happy CO2e Paper" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.05149
by Wilder7977 | 2025-08-05 18:26:24+00:00
> like web browsers, acting on user instruction.

No, they are not like browsers. The browser access my content in a transparent way. An LLM reuses the information and acts as an opaque intermediary which - maybe - will at most add a reference to my content.

> I never said that an LLM does anything of its own volition

It doesn't matter why it does what it does, it matters what it does. Your previous comment stressed the idea that it's possible to regulate _what can be done_ with my intellectual property (licensing), but not who can access it, once made it public. What I am saying is that this is exactly the case for LLMs, who _use_ my intellectual property, they are not a tool to _access_ it (like a browser).

> Do you think it is alright to geoblock people, for arbitrary reasons?

Yes. Why wouldn't it be? And if you believe it's not, where do you draw the line? Once you share a picture with your partner, everyone has the right to see it? Or if you share it with your group of friends? Or if you share it on a private social media profile (where you have acquaintances)? When does the audience turn from "a restricted group" to "everyone"? Or why would it be different with my blog? If I want my blog accessible only from my country, I can absolutely do that and there is nothing wrong with it at all. Nobody is entitled to my intellectual property. Obviously I am playing devil's advocate, but this was to say that the fact that something is public, doesn't mean it's unrestricted. And don't get me started on "the spirit of the internet". I can't imagine something breaking that spirit more than LLMs acting as interface between people and the other people on the internet. That spirit is gone, and belongs to a time when the internet was tiny. When OpenAI and company will respect the "spirit of the internet", maybe I will think about doing the same.

> As far as you, the service owner, are concerned, they are simply fetching the content for the user. It is none of your business what the user and the AI company go on to do with "your content".

No, as far as I am concerned the program can take my information, summarize, change, distort, misinterpret it and then present it back to its user. This can happen with or without the user ever knowing that the information can from me. Considering this equal to the user accessing the information is something I simply will not concede and is a fundamental disagreement between us, from which many other disagreements stems.
by stillpointlab | 2025-08-05 18:26:27+00:00
> I don't buy argument from people who are saying they are excited to live in this age

What argument is required for excitement? Excitement is a feeling not a rational act. It comes from optimism and imagination. There is no argument for optimism. There is often little reason in imagination.

> How to even find the value in living given all of that?

You might have heard of the Bhagavad Gita, a 2000+ year old spiritual text. It details a conversation between a warrior prince and a manifestation of God. The warrior prince is facing a very difficult battle and he is having doubts justifying any action in the face of the decisions he has to make. He is begging this manifestation of God to give him good reasons to act, good reasons not just to throw his weapons down, give away all his possessions and sit in a cave somewhere.

There are no definite answers in the text, just meditations on the question. Why should we act when the result is ultimately pointless, we will all die, people will forget you, situations will be resolved with or without you, etc.

This isn't some new question that LLMs are forcing us to confront. LLMs are just providing us a new reason to ask the same age-old questions we have been facing for as long as writing has existed.
by mrbungie | 2025-08-05 18:27:11+00:00
EDIT (can't reply): Have you never run a business before?

Hmm, yes?, and I've seen perverse incentives ruin things even when business-client alignment should be clear. Agency problems and stupid execs/investors are a thing.

And honestly, we're leaning into implied ad hominems here ("have you never run a business?"), so I'm not engaging with you anymore.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-05 18:27:17+00:00
On the subject of who has a moat and who doesn't, it's interesting to look the role of patents in the early development of wireless technology. There was WWI, and there was WWII, but the players in the nascent radio industry had serious beef with each other.

I imagine the same conflicts will ramp up over the next few years, especially once the silly money starts to dry up.
by Arrowmaster | 2025-08-05 18:27:44+00:00
One key difference is that it's not anything like a password.

With a password, you send your password to the server and hope it's not intercepted or stored in plain text.

Passkeys are more equivalent to the server sending you some random data and asking you to sign that data plus the server url with your private key. Then the server can check it against the public key it has to verify you possess the correct private key. It's both phishing and replay resistant.
by zevon | 2025-08-05 18:27:47+00:00
The original comment was about Apple's App Store. I assume there are financial ways to get your App "featured" there or something like that but as far as I know, you can't financially take direct influence on whatever logic Apple uses to sort search results there. Yet, it can still be spectacularly difficult to find an App - even if you type in its exact name, as indicated by OP (can confirm from my experience).

If you have a theory about what Apple's motivation to actively serve such bad results could be, I'd be interested to hear it. I've always sort of assumed that the root cause for this is some combination of neglect on Apple's part and attempts at gaming the system by developers (I don't know much about developing for the App Store, but I presume there are forms of SEO-like activities that can be done in attempts to bump up your app).
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-05 18:27:55+00:00
> The FTC caused this issue with over regulation and by creating an environment of fear that every acquisition is going to be scrutinized.

Ridiculous. They intervene so rarely, even at the peak.

> Which part should have been illegal?

Not my problem to solve. Ever heard of "structuring" though? It's not unsolvable.

> There is no law that you can come up with that doesn’t make it worse for both the employees and Windsurf.

If doing an actual acquisition would have been allowed, that would have been better for them.

If it wouldn't have been allowed, then yes the hypothetical law is worse for them but it's an acceptable loss. Sorry you can't use a workaround to get the benefit of an illegal deal.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-05 18:28:02+00:00
>seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain

I mean, that's because that's literally what they need to believe. A majority of people has been brought up on an incredibly moralized account of human behavior, and if it turns out you can just pour some GLP-1 drugs into the drinking water and basically fix a whole bunch of issues it will become obvious that a therapeutic framing is the appropriate way to look at these things.

For people who live in a world of vices and sinners who have to swear off the devil, this throws a pretty big wrench into the whole story, it's much more than just a drug.
by mountainb | 2025-08-05 18:28:13+00:00
There's a more transparent and straightforward pathway to a lifetime appointment as a federal judge (which actually pays OK and has many social perks) than there is to a tenured professorship in most fields. Judges have Solomon-like-life-and-death power, and the lawyers who argue before them (often successful, high-status people in their own right) are professionally obligated to suck up.

By comparison almost all professorships are like becoming the most important hobo on a given street corner.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-05 18:28:50+00:00
First coding test: Just going copy and paste out of chat. It aced my first coding test in 5 seconds... this is amazing. It's really good at coding.

Trying to use it for agentic coding...

lots of fail. This harmony formatting? Anyone have a working agentic tool?

openhands and void ide are failing due to the new tags.

Aider worked, but the file it was supposed to edit was untouched and it created

Create new file? (Y)es/(N)o [Yes]:

Applied edit to 

assistant
final
main.py

so the file name is '

assistant
final
main.py' lol. quick rename and it was fantastic.

I think qwen code is the best choice so far but unreliable. So far these new tags are coming through but it's working properly; sometimes.

1 of my tests so far has been able to get 20b not to succeed the first iteration; but a small followup and it was able to completely fix it right away.

Very impressive model for 20B.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-05 18:28:57+00:00
I agree sovereignty is important, but that also means that EU residents will be subject to the whims of EU politicians. And increasingly they have been pro censorship, pro surveillance, and anti actual democracy (for example intervening in elections). The concept of democratic sovereignty mentioned in here should include freedom of speech and free elections, but at present having tech sovereignty would risk those things further.
by inetknght | 2025-08-05 18:29:49+00:00
> We just don’t have any killer applications that need more than 20Mbps.

Sure we do, but large ISPs demand their cut.

Backups. File transfers. Large games. Live 4K video chat. Language models. CAD models. Cloud-based spyware, like smarthome/car/phone/whatever telemetry, or security cameras.

> 4K streaming on Netflix, to pick one salient example, only requires 16Mbps.

So only the living room gets 4K, but family members can't all watch their own 4K streams in their own rooms? Bobby talks during the show, Sally giggles at everything, and Timmy wants everything to be dark while mom & dad want the whole room bright and quiet. Thanks, ISP, for forcing the family together!
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-05 18:29:51+00:00
Okay, substitute Taliban for the Church of Scientology or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It's a marginally less absurd proposal.

My point stands.

Proposing extreme religious nepotism as a good counter-measure to deal with espionage 1) would be minimally effective (see the IDF infiltrating Hamas and Iran regularly), and 2) is ridiculous.
by plumbees | 2025-08-05 18:30:45+00:00
Never done open source but always wanted to. Developers of open source could always ask for a fee to add features, and easy prs are easy prs. But for those more complicated things that don't interest the main owners, could they offer a PR service where if you pay the developers or the project a fee, they'll take the time to review the PR and tell you what to do for it to be accepted, or keep a 5$ review fee and return the rest if it's just not a feature that jives with the project's overarching goals. I don't see why that cannot be a piece of the market. It would still be open source but it would add incentive to say a project is worth doing.

Albeit I'm sure that most would likely not be willing to pay to have their code reviewed and accepted in a project; but on another hand, if I wanted to contribute to GNUCash and I didn't want to read the manual, or I found the manual hard to understand, it would be like paying for training. So it can in certain cases be win-win.

And if it is a feature that is wanted, then there's no worry about it being reviewed. Or having to pay because the value will be obvious to the creators who will take it on.

In other words: Pay the developer/maintainer to care about the feature you want.

Has this ever been attempted and successful?
by KoftaBob | 2025-08-05 18:30:49+00:00
If you want to skip the middleman and integrate the national weather service APIs that many countries governments provide (and which most commercial APIs base their data on anyway), check out this library.

It unifies weather data from official national weather service APIs across the US, Canada, Mexico, and major European countries.

https://github.com/ghobs91/UniWeather.js
by dr_dshiv | 2025-08-05 18:30:59+00:00
Yesterday I gave a presentation on the role of harmony in AI — as a matter of philosophical interest. I’d previously written a large literature review on the concept of harmony (here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262...). If you are curious about the slides, here: Bit.ly/ozora2025

I assume they are using the concept of harmony to refer to the consistent response format? Or is it their intention for an open weights release?
by homebrewer | 2025-08-05 18:31:20+00:00
It's not always code. I sometimes review things like translations that are often done in bulk (thousands of strings in a single batch). There's not much structure to it, it's not like reviewing some weird multi threaded super complicated algorithm, you just need to skim it quickly and make sure that the structure is not broken, and there are no screaming text blocks or unnecessary profanities.

Anyway, it did work properly, now it doesn't. The response shouldn't be "you're holding it wrong".
by normalaccess | 2025-08-05 18:31:35+00:00
Solar and wind are not "renewable" in the same way plastic recycling "works". The total LiveCycle of wind and solar arguably cause more pollution from the materials used. you can't recycle wind and solar when they are done. The generator itself is the waste produced from the process.

Not only that Solar changes the local climate because they absorbed and radiate heat as well as taking vast amounts of land that is stripped of life. Wind drives whales insane on the coast and kills massive amounts of birds.

If we can crack fusion then the only fuels used are helium and such. Much cleaner and they work at night and whin the air is still.
by jart | 2025-08-05 18:31:37+00:00
The more this kind of thing happens, the more it's going to blow back on you. The hacks, ideologues, and frauds have done a lot to destroy trust in science and the image of science. When the public backlash comes, muggles aren't going to be able to tell the difference between someone like you and the hucksters you've trained yourself to ignore. They are ruthless, and nothing of science will remain unless you are as ruthless, to the people who abuse your good name.
by tart-lemonade | 2025-08-05 18:31:39+00:00
He's absolutely right. Long-shot research with little to no immediate applicability has been the basis for innumerable breakthroughs over the years. If DOGE existed back in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, we wouldn't have mRNA vaccines[0], Google[1] (or the modern internet for that matter[2]), and many modern cancer treatments[3], to name but a few examples of research that would have been easy to brand as wasteful and not "important science".

[0]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9975718/

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016975529...

[2]: https://www.nsf.gov/impacts/internet

[3]: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/impact-nih-research/improving-...
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-05 18:31:46+00:00
Even people who are “rich” can’t really take risks. They have to sacrifice their health or family or career progress as a salary earner to take a shot at innovation (entrepreneurship I mean). The VC startup world often is just “who is willing to sacrifice other things and take the most risk”, and excludes those seeking to live a balanced and healthy life.

I agree having safety nets means more people can contribute to innovation. But it’ll still be hard to survive the brutality of startups. As a society we shouldn’t reward those who make unhealthy choices to “win”. That’s still exclusionary IMO. But I don’t know how you can defend against that.
by vincent-manis | 2025-08-05 18:32:15+00:00
Or Jean Sammet (author of a very comprehensive book on programming languages in the 1960s), or Lois Haibt (involved in development of original Fortran compiler) or Frances Allen (did key work at IBM on optimization in Fortran compilers), or Sister Mary Keller (involved in developing Dartmouth Basic), or Adele Goldberg (key developer of Smalltalk), or Barbara Liskov (CLU, and many other things)...those off the top of my head, though a web search would find many more, I'm sure.
by WASDAai | 2025-08-05 18:32:38+00:00
Faruk Alpay stumbled into influencing AI by posting his math-heavy papers on arXiv about “Alpay Algebra,” a framework blending fixed-point theory and category theory to give AIs stable knowledge, identities, and better human alignment. He realized these papers end up in AI training data, essentially letting him whisper ideas directly into future models’ “minds.” Now, he’s intentionally using this to promote ethical, explainable AI through open research, tying into trends like smaller models and safety concerns, and encourages others to join the conversation.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-05 18:32:46+00:00
Wait, are you claiming astrology is real and that the moon landings were faked?

No of course you're not, and I'm not claiming anything about a full human replica so please don't put words in my mouth that way.

We're not talking about a replica of a body. We're talking about LLMs. They don't have bodies and can't be moved, which is the definition of emotion.

And I'm not sure what you mean that my context window is a day. That's a strange thing to say. I'm deeply affected by childhood traumas several decades after they happened. They affect the tension patterns in my body every day. An LLM isn't affected even within its context window regardless of its length. They're only affected in the sense that a microwave is affected by setting it to defrost or a calculator is affected by setting it up use RPN.

If you built a perfect replica of a human then it would feel emotions just as a human. But that's not what we're talking about is it? There's a saying in my country: If your granny had balls she would be your granda. We can argue all day about "what if x" and "what if y" but we might be better served focusing on the reality we actually have.