MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teekert | 2025-08-27 06:39:41+00:00
Because of hardware standardization Linux has become a pre-competitive layer, a commodity we have decided not to compete on. And it turns out that such a commodity by definition is private, because we don't want any one party to reap all the benefits of a commodity project (we'd rip it out before using it anyway), in the same sense that we don't want want 1 company sitting on all our water consumption data for example.

So, how do we get to a commodity layer for Mobile devices? It looked like it was going to be Linux (Android), and that was Google's intention. But now they are just using their significant resources to corrupt that original idea, using their trojan horse called "play services".

The public at large only cares about convenience, not about privacy. Why don't we? How much enshitification is enough to draw that line in the sand?
by beefnugs | 2025-08-27 06:39:45+00:00
Create a bullshit system, deserve bullshit results. Everyone should be making random guesses at the content percentages and wait and see if they even spend time opening a single package let alone melting it down into constituent parts or doing spectral analysis vs a $100 item

In fact this should be a sales tactic for fedex or whomever "we bullshit the numbers for ya!"
by gblargg | 2025-08-27 06:40:13+00:00
We can't child-proof everything. There are endless pits adults can get themselves into. If we really think that people with mental issues can't make sane choices, we need to lock them up. You can't have both at the same time: they are fully functioning adults, and we need to pad the world so they don't hurt themselves. The people around him failed, but they want to blame a big corporation because he used their fantasy tool.

And I see he was 16. Why were his parents letting him operate so unsupervised given his state of mind? They failed to be involved enough in his life.
by latexr | 2025-08-27 06:40:31+00:00
> I think the mom's reaction of "ChatGPT killed my son" is ridiculous: no, your son killed himself. ChatGPT facilitated it (…)

That whole paragraph is quite something. I wonder what you’d do if you were given the opportunity to repeat those words in front of the parents. I suspect (and hope) some empathy might kick in and you’d realise the pedantry and shilling for the billion dollar company selling a statistical word generator as if it were a god isn’t the response society needs.

Your post read like the real-life version of that dark humour joke:

> Actually, the past tense is “hanged”, as in “he hanged himself”. Sorry about your Dad, though.
by artogahr | 2025-08-27 06:40:56+00:00
Disclaimer: I'm not a researcher in this topic and I have no idea what I'm talking about, just putting my thoughts here

I think that depends on how you define stress? The brain is all electrical signals, so from this simplistic point of view there shouldn't be such thing as "stress", but from my understanding the connections, even though electrical, produce chemical by-products which have to be "flushed away" by the gray matter. This and just human experience suggests brain can get "tired".

However, I don't think the societal problems throughout history had much relevance to the individual stress brains my experience, but more caused by cognitive dissonance when you try to put two conscious beings together, as every brain is different so produces different outputs to same input. Additionally, we still are very much driven by our animal instincts, even though we like to pretend we've "ascended" and have free will.

Now the question is, where can we evolve from here? What evolutionary pressure is there to evolve? We've pretty much peaked as lifeforms, we can dominate any and every environment we want to the point of being detrimental to the Earth itself.

Also this highly scientific documentary I re-watched recently called "Idiocracy (2006)" suggests that higher brain function doesn't necessarily increase the chance of passing genes along, and I tend to agree.
by bjackman | 2025-08-27 06:41:12+00:00
Well, that goes to the heart of my point. I take pictures because I value how literal they are. I enjoy the fact that they directly capture the arrangement of light in the moment I took them. That

So yeah, if I'm gonna then upscale them or "repair" them using generative AI, then it's a bit pointless to take them in the first place.
by brabel | 2025-08-27 06:41:58+00:00
That’s absolutely not how it works. Every license has a clause explicitly saying that the user is responsible for what they do with the tool. That’s just common sense. If it was the way you suggested no one would create tools for others anymore. If you buy the screw driver I sold and kill someone with it, I sure as hell have my conscience clean. In the ChatGPT case it’s different because the “tool” has the capacity to interact and potentially manipulate people psychologically, which is the only reason it’s not a clear cut case.
by sofixa | 2025-08-27 06:42:08+00:00
> It's slightly weird to me how foreigners seem to look on the Trump era as personifying the US to a greater degree than e.g. the Biden or Obama eras.

That's easy to explain. Trump is so much out there in being aggressively obnoxious, criminal, racist and senile. His platform was a list of nonsense combined blatant diminishing of rights and social progress. The fact that a majority of voting Americans chose him is irredeemable.

Biden, Bush, Obama were normal candidates with pros and cons, where depending on your views, you could pick one or the other, and you could understand others who voted otherwise.

Trump? I cannot understand anyone who voted for him. They were either extremely narrowly self-centred and thought they could make a buck at everyone else's expense, extremely misinformed and/or dumb, or just hate specific groups of people they know will get hurt. There's nothing redeemable in any of those. He and his voters are the personification of the "fuck you, I've got mine mindset".
by charcircuit | 2025-08-27 06:43:17+00:00
Most of AOSP is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and GPLv2 for the Linux kernel. These are FOSS licenses recognized by the FSF.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLv2
by gf000 | 2025-08-27 06:43:27+00:00
I just tried to come up with a feasible example - maybe gas pipe installation would have been a better one?

But even for cars, it's quite clear that a modify-test cycle there is on the order of months/years (also, has a money burden that probably the owner has to pay). But this would 100% fail to scale to IT - like should I go to the government on each commit? Do I get a signature from them for releases?
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-27 06:44:04+00:00
> finally be put to use…for product placement.

Did you think that Google would just casually allow their business to be disrupted without using the technology to improve the business and also protecting their revenue?

Both Meta and Google have indicated that they see Generative AI as a way to vertically integrate within the ad space, disrupting marketing teams, copyrighters, and other jobs who monitor or improve ad performance.

Also FWIW, I would suspect that the majority of Google engineers don't work on an ad system, and probably don't even work on a profitable product line.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-27 06:44:38+00:00
IANAL, but:

One first amendment test for many decades has been "Imminent lawless action."

Suicide (or attempted suicide) is a crime in some, but not all states, so it would seem that in any state in which that is a crime, directly inciting someone to do it would not be protected speech.

For the states in which suicide is legal it seems like a much tougher case; making encouraging someone to take a non-criminal action itself a crime would raise a lot of disturbing issues w.r.t. liberty.

This is distinct from e.g. espousing the opinion that "suicide is good, we should have more of that." Which is almost certainly protected speech (just as any odious white-nationalist propaganda is protected).

Depending on the context, suggesting that a specific person is terrible and should kill themselves might be unprotected "fighting words" if you are doing it as an insult rather than a serious suggestion (though the bar for that is rather high; the Westboro Baptist Church was never found to have violated that).
by Ar__Aj | 2025-08-27 06:44:44+00:00
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by BrandoElFollito | 2025-08-27 06:44:48+00:00
> One cannot measure calories out (other than deducing it from calories in and weight change), which is a complex function of diet, metabolism, and a host of other factors.

Sure, but when you eat sugar in several forms and overeat generally, you statistically get fatter. This works the other way round too. There are myriads of specific cases on the sides of the bell curve but the solution for the everyday Joe is to eat less, more healthily. Practicing sports helps too, but not so much (it is important for other health reasons)

> As for the rest--your other posts implicitly assume that everyone else shares your choices and priorities--and if not then they aren't relevant.

Wow, where do you get that from? The main point of asking questions here is not to be a troll and wait for internet fights but to get interesting insights from others. You may want to slow down with the pitchforks and such statements.

> (BTW, there is strong evidence showing neither you nor anyone else knows what they would do after receiving such diagnoses.)

Or not. You also have people who prepare for that in advance, with a clear decision path. I have, and have no doubts taht I will go for that having evidenced suffering in other people. Not everyone contacts a company such as Dignitas to make sure things are organized. Not everyone discusses with the funeral house details about their death at 45, not everyone has a "what to do when I die" booklet with key information (financial and how to de-smart the house :)). Not everyone gave a deeper thought about designing a kill-switch device that would poison them in case they are incapacitated.

Not everyone is like you so I would not be that fast in making such radical statements.
by jajko | 2025-08-27 06:44:49+00:00
Sure we do, not everybody got married and got kids at 20.

And I mean proper life, backpacking for months around south east asia, himalaya, diving in remote tropical islands, doing extreme mountain sports to the fullest capacity. You know, stuff that adds easily many decades of life actually experienced.

It doesnt compare, it cant.

But there is a catch - to have a chance for actually being a good long term stable parent (and also having and raising kids in a similar way), 2 balanced individuals need to meet and be close to each other on many levels, and then keep working on it. Something I dont see often around me unfortunately in these me-me-me times, with corresponding consequences. Better having no kids than be a miserable parent, raising another miserable generation of permanent cripples.

Just wait till you hit 60s and the pool of nice things you can do keeps shrinking dramatically, I've heard such phrases before and then heard regrets some time later.
by hackit2 | 2025-08-27 06:45:20+00:00
In high social cohesion there is social pressure to adhere to reciprocation, how-ever this start breaking down above a certain human group size. Empathy like all emotions require effort and cognitive load, and without things being mutual you will eventually slowly become drained, bitter and resentful because of empathy fatigue. To prevent emotional exhaustion and conserve energy, a person's empathy is like a sliding scale that is constantly adjusted based on the closeness of their relationship with others.
by energy123 | 2025-08-27 06:45:40+00:00
I'm slowed down (but perhaps sped up overall due to lower rewrites/maintenance costs) on important bits because the space of possibilities/capabilities is expanded, and I'm choosing to make use of that for some load bearing pieces that need to be durable and high quality (along the metrics that I care about). It takes extra time to search that space properly rather than accept the first thing that compiles and passes tests. So arguably equal or even lower velocity, but definitely improved results compared to what I used to be capable of, and I'm making that trade-off consciously for certain bits. However that's the current state of affairs, who knows what it'll look like in 1-2 years.
by john01dav | 2025-08-27 06:46:14+00:00
Most users don't understand the higher order effects of lack of ownership, if they care at all when it doesn't impact convenience in an obvious way. This information already exists before purchase, but it doesn't move sales among the masses where the money is made. The result is zero viable ownership respecting products for those of us who care: all modern CPUs have IME or equivalent, all modern cars are infested with proprietary spyware, all phones at reasonable prices¹ don't fully embrace user ownership in various ways. This also has higher order effects that affect everyone, such as car insurance having an involuntary data mine on anyone who drives a modern car.

1: the exception that I'm thinking of here is fair phone, and it isn't much of an exception.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-08-27 06:47:02+00:00
I wonder if one way to mitigate the risk would be that by default the LLM cant send requests using your cookies etc. You would actively have to grant it access (maybe per request) for each request it makes with your credentials. That way by default it can't fuck up (that bad) and you can choose where it is accetable to risk it (your HN account might be OK to risk but not your back account)
by latexr | 2025-08-27 06:47:38+00:00
> You cannot be empathetic to complete strangers.

Of course you can, and it’s genuinely worrying you so vehemently believe you can’t. That’s what support groups are—strangers in similar circumstances being empathetic to each other to get through a hurtful situation.

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Gustave Gilbert, author of “Nuremberg Diary”, an account of interviews conducted during the Nuremberg trials of high-ranking Nazi leaders.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-27 06:47:53+00:00
>yucca mountain and he seemed to know his stuff.

If I recall it was found to be perforated with deep defects that already leak water. And deserts do have ground water, but may only see periodic annual precipitation. Paleowater is also quite common in some areas.

>Solar will probably remain cheap

It gets cheaper every year, but $/kWh is not as cheap as the upfront naive costs of fission yet. Hence the loss-leader pejorative is accurate.

>regulated by 10 CFR

It was a real accident not hyperbole. The carbon matter based kitty litter actually did start a real radioactive fire in the disposal facility.

The proximity to hot waste causes material degradation and contamination. Stable isotopes in child eye lenses have already shown it rarely stays localized (baby boomers didn't show this phenomena).

The gas company shenanigans are well known, and they often do end-runs with 10 year below market cost contracts to maintain monopolies with large firms. They often wait to pull this stunt just before a project breaks ground to maximize losses.

Centralized infrastructure may simply be too expensive to reliably maintain under unstable conditions. =3
by dfabulich | 2025-08-27 06:47:53+00:00
If you read the fine article, you'll see that the approach includes a non-LLM controller managing structured communication between the Privileged LLM (allowed to perform actions) and the Quarantined LLM (only allowed to produce structured data, which is assumed to be tainted).

See also CaMeL https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/ which incorporates a type system to track tainted data from the Quarantined LLM, ensuring that the Privileged LLM can't even see tainted _data_ until it's been reviewed by a human user. (But this can induce user fatigue as the user is forced to manually approve all the data that the Privileged LLM can access.)
by sofixa | 2025-08-27 06:48:07+00:00
> but Orban's fifteen-year drive into corrupt, racist autocracy, endorsed by the voters at every turn, is just some sort of very temporary oopsie that says nothing at all about Europe

Yes, Orban says nothing about Europe. It says plenty about Hungary though. Europe not being a country, and the EU being very heavily decentralised, that makes sense.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-27 06:48:35+00:00
That's why you have this:

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If it would be fit for a purpose, then it's on the producer for ensuring it actually does. We have laws to prevent anyone from declaring their goods aren't fit for a particular purpose.
by thecopy | 2025-08-27 06:49:04+00:00
Totally, its also the realisation have gotten too. Im working now to expand the offering to be able to run agents/sub-agents with Agent2Agent which all get access to the MCP:s.

Although i believe too for development teams it might be valuable, all devs get automatically access to all services with 1-click install etc etc. But question is how unique/powerful is it.
by a1371 | 2025-08-27 06:49:41+00:00
I don't know if it's selection/survivor bias, but every time I watch a video about computers from the 60s and 70s, I am amazed how spot on they are with the trajectory of the technology.

Take this CAD demo from MIT back in 1963 showing features that I commonly use today: https://youtu.be/6orsmFndx_o

Then the 80s and 90s rolled in, the concept is computers that entered the mainstream. Imagination got too wild with movies like Electric Dreams (1984).

Videos like this make me think that our predictions of AI super intelligence are probably pretty accurate. But just like this machine, in actuality it may look different.
by byroot | 2025-08-27 06:49:56+00:00
Yes, this is due to the effort to extract stdlib code into gems https://stdgems.org/

In your case, StringIO use to just be stdlib code so bundler (or rubygems) uses it. Later on it became a gem, so by requiring it before reading the Gemfile, bundler run into this problem of already having loaded the wrong version.

Everytime this happens the bundler team has to modify bundler, and as a user the fix is to upgrade bundler.

You can see they had to vendor a lot of code from default gems to avoid this problem: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/tree/c230844f2eab31478f...
by bullen | 2025-08-27 06:50:34+00:00
I'm all in on 1030, the last passively coolable GPU.

But had to upgrade to 3050 because 2GB VRAM is to little for modern titles.

Fun fact: One 6600 core can saturate the 1030 for skinned mesh animations.

But only saturate the 3050 50% = perfect because the world takes much less CPU (you upload it to the GPU and then it's almost one drawcall; more like one drawcall per chunk but I digress) = OpenGL (ES) can render on it at lower motion-to-photon latency without waste = one core for rendering, one for gameplay, one for physics and one for the OS, audio and networking.

So 14nm 6600 + 8nm 3050 is actually the combination I would use for ever.

HL:A runs at 90 FPS with that combo too on the low res Vive 1.

Not that VR is going anywhere, but still peak demanding application.
by lynx97 | 2025-08-27 06:51:17+00:00
Well, Sun Accessibility Office already did great work from roughly 2003 to 2008. Then came 2008. And Sun AND IBM terminated their Accessibility work. From then on, Orca was basically kept alive by a single developer for roughly a decade. I am not 100% sure if she has given up by now, but I'd be surprised if she didn'.t

So, giving this job to Fortune500 companies is demonstratably not sustainable. A single higher up can terminate such projects with the wink of an eye.

I was more hopeful 20 years ago. Then I watched how all the good work on GNOME2 was basically trashed because of DBus transition, GTK3, and now Wayland. Fact is, hoping for the corporate world to do the work is no guarantee they will continue. And for "scratch your own itch"-philosophy to work, there are not enough disabled OSS devs. Maybe after WWIII there will be a surge in Open Source Accessibility.
by gorgoiler | 2025-08-27 06:52:02+00:00
I know this isn’t what you meant but it’s important to remember there is some hope. Thirty years ago I was required by my CTOs to use Windows, Borland, AIX, and Solaris. Linux, FreeBSD, and Free dev environments were viewed with deep suspicion.

In 2025 you’d be viewed just as much suspicion for not building your stack on Freedom. I still have hope that we’ll get there with phones, too, some day.
by greatgib | 2025-08-27 06:52:33+00:00
I think that you are wrong to extrapolate anything about the hardware capabilities based on your experience on a few tasks.

Difference are more software related in my opinion. And it might be just appearance as Apple is used to do tricks. Like for example it was shown in a good old time that people were thinking that the iphone was faster to load things because of using animation at load time despite taking the same time as other phones.

For example, for the many tabs in Chrome, the difference might be that macos is aggressively throttling things when your linux laptop will give you the maximum performance possible and so producing more heat. I often noted that with osx and especially when you don't have a lot of ram. The os will easily put to sleep and evict other programs, but also other windows and other tabs I guess as part of them are separated process. Then, when you need them, it reload the memory. Good in term of power efficiency but in my experience I was experiencing terrible latencies like going from one window to another. Let's say like 1s. Not obvious if you are not used to better.

In the same way that a lot of persons are used to electron based ide like vscode and feels perfectly ok, but for me the latency of typing code and it showing on the screen is awful compared to my native ide.

In the same way for macos, you can see how often the laptop will go to sleep, or lower the display light unexpectedly with default settings. Like these guys that suddenly quit Google meet meetings because the mac went to sleep despite the active call.