MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amai | 2025-08-29 16:31:55+00:00
Did Hongkong economy improve since it belongs to China? Not at all:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2024/1/26/in-hong-kong...

I think especially Hongkong shows how Chinas dictatorship is actually holding it's economy back. If China would be a free country they would rule the world since a long time ago. But thanks to the iron grip of the communist party China will never be able to reach its full potential.
by krapp | 2025-08-29 16:31:56+00:00
I'm not certain Jevon's Paradox really applies here. We're not talking about mining coal or cutting down trees to meet increased demand - we're talking about a future in which software is mostly written by other software, and AI's capabilities will be improving faster than human developers can be educated. The scale of software demand may increase but more of that demand will be met by AI than by human beings.

So if the demand for developers increases at all, that increase will be minimal. And bear in mind that every aspect of every software process will be optimized as much as possible for AI automation, including languages used, so the set of work that "cannot be done by AI" will also be minimized.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-08-29 16:32:03+00:00
SQLite is pretty much the only remaining native dependency in my C# codebases, and as much as I love the engine, I wish that could go away.

Replacing System.Data.SQLite with Microsoft.Data.Sqlite already helped with Apple ARM builds (despite all the small differences that only showed up in actual use), but pretty much the only native debugging I do these days is related to the "batteries" -- the linked article outlines the general strategy pretty well.

On the one hand, I feel bad about turning into a "pure-Java only" kind of developer (I mean, limiting yourself to H2, the horror...), but on the other hand, I'm increasingly starting to see their point. Oh, well, if AI actually works, I'm sure Microsoft.Native.Data.Sqlite is just around the corner (and, later edit, to prevent confusion: the abuse of 'Native' here is mostly making fun of Microsoft naming conventions -- they'd call it 'Interop' if it were like truly native).
by jon-wood | 2025-08-29 16:32:09+00:00
Is it just me or this a non-story? Police Scotland (rightly, and apparently thoroughly) did due diligence on whether O365 is suitable for their use case, and Microsoft (rightly) told them no it’s not. And yet somehow there’s a Lib Dem peer saying we need “UK Cloud capability” as if it’s some sort of nuclear arsenal rather than software running in data centres.
by bgwalter | 2025-08-29 16:32:10+00:00
I doubt that the WSJ is influenced by a couple of thousands of bot accounts that are overtly spammy (there is also #Solana spam in the comments):

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-ai-deepseek-chatbot-6ac4ad...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-deepseek-ai-nvidia-openai-...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/deepseek-ai-how-it-works-725cb46...

The Western "AI" influencers and shills are much more sophisticated than that.
by lopsotronic | 2025-08-29 16:32:28+00:00
I'm sorry to bug you, but can you link up the docs / news / cite for that? Will they need to replace their XSL with some JS/TS/Whatever, or can you just stick a converter so the XSL gets interpreted as something legal? What do they need serverside?

I foresee a LOT of this "Panic Replace XSL" work landing right in my lap and if someone's already done the work I want to know about it.
by odie5533 | 2025-08-29 16:32:40+00:00
It depends how hard it is. I installed OpenMediaVault on my Pi and it's worked great ever since. I don't think any other option would have resulted in less work for me.

As far as solar goes, where I live it's not worth getting, so I can't comment there. Raspberry Pi costs $5 a year to run. A 60 Watt computer costs $79 a year to run. I agree that if it's very difficult to setup a Pi it might be worth the extra cost for the computer, but the energy savings are pretty incredible.
by kianN | 2025-08-29 16:32:56+00:00
These issues are often attributed to a bad implementation of AI, but I think the problem is a little more fundamental.

The potential of AI that causes VCs and investors to swap their eyes for dollar signs is the ability to take unstructured, unpredictable inputs and convert them into structured actions or data: in this case a drive through conversation into a specific order. However, the ability to generalize to unseen inputs (what we call common sense) is neural networks glaring weakness. LLMs can look amazingly capable through internal testing, but there is a long and ever increasing tail of unseen interactions when it comes to human conversation.

I’ve seen this play out repeatedly over the last decade in the contact center industry with neural networks as a data scientist in this field.
by justanotherjoe | 2025-08-29 16:33:14+00:00
It has a lot of good ideas that are probably true, although some are rediscovering things psychology had found out long ago.

Actually you know what can cause big personality change? A good plastic surgery/facial correction. I heard it's actually one of the few things that can do that. And a positive one, too; towards more confidence and extrovertedness (if you think it's 'positive'), a trait most psychologists considered fixed in any other cases. But I can't find the source right now, or if I even heard it. But it makes perfect sense to me. Like a good jaw realignment that fixed your whole face, blaw, suddenly you're this other person.
by skydhash | 2025-08-29 16:33:27+00:00
He said something like “you say > it this way when you really know the person and you’re saying that the other way when it’s more formal“, but I think really it was just a slangy way to mis-stress something and it didn’t have to do with familiar/formal or not.

There’s such a thing in Spanish and in French. Formal and informal settings is reflected in the language. French even distinguishes between three different level of vocabulary (one for very informal settings (close friends), one for business and daily interactions, and one for very formal settings. It’s all cultural.
by hitekker | 2025-08-29 16:34:13+00:00
This offhand remark would likely have disappeared unnoticed if not for a doctoral student who had taken it upon himself to patrol the internet. The student filled out a criminal complaint form on Göring-Eckardt’s behalf and sent it to her. She signed and forwarded it to the police, setting off the first of several investigations into Vierhaus’s social media activity. The student had already filed complaints against Vierhaus for allegedly insulting several politicians, including Ricarda Lang, Janine Wissler, and Otto Köhler.

I'd imagine plenty of folks on X or Bluesky would rejoice in this power: avenging imagined wrongs on behalf of their political masters. Lots of illusion and little accountability, perfect for the online mob.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-29 16:34:35+00:00
Qobuz? Pros: they give more money to artists, they have real playlists, and seem to curate better. Cons: No "dynamic" playlist like "monday new stuff" or "friday fuck the system," and you have to browse the playlists yourself.

They do have a personal weekly playlist, and I know that they are trying to do more in the beta version, but it's pretty limited. You have to look in the different categories yourself. Also you have to turn off you VPN to subscribe (for taxes purpose I guess) but you can turn it back on after that.

I've tried them all, and besides the lack of personal recommendations, I like it so far.
by rayiner | 2025-08-29 16:34:40+00:00
> That's because you seem to be carrying water for the regime in your increasingly narrow interpretations of legal issues to defend that which is clearly indefensible.

Hey now, my interpretation of legal issues has been narrow since I was a law student. My second-year administrative law class used Gary Lawson's textbook (https://fedsoc.org/contributors/gary-lawson). The seminal cases all had notes after them along the lines of "isn't this clearly unconstitutional?" I remember nodding along and getting angry that the mid-20th century Supreme Court had fucked up the Constitution so badly.

So, no, I don't care that Trump is dismantling an administrative state that shouldn't exist in the first place. Despotism is not when the President fires Department of Education bureaucrats. It's when the President tells you what you can and cannot build on your own land. So far, Trump hasn't been doing that.

Putting all that aside, I'm perfectly fine for you to attack me as a constitutional Taliban. But why bring my skin color into it?
by Snakes3727 | 2025-08-29 16:35:06+00:00
My father is currently in a long term care facility. He was in that same one for almost 5 years and never had a problem. Last year it was acquired indirectly via a larger group owned by a private equity firm.

This was not a low end place back in 2023. By the end of the last year not only had the cost increased by 30%. Internally there was a number of layoffs and quality shot down. Originally it was supposed to be 1 registered nurse per 4 people. By the end it was 1 "medical professional" per 20 who constantly rotated. Who would not answer if they had formal medical training.

Before at night people could go for walks on the premises, or if they were hungry they could go get hot food prepared by staff. New management locked everyone in at 8pm. If you missed any meal time you were told cope. Food was not allowed in the "suites" anymore. My dad and his friends there would go get together and spend time at night or socialize. Not allowed anymore after 8pm you were locked in your room.

I pulled my father out of there when he told me the above. Now his new retirement home is now also changing ownership.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-29 16:35:25+00:00
> Do you think anyone makes the same error when they see a "self cleaning" oven?

How many juries and courts have ruled adversely against self-cleaning oven makers?

Tesla has absolutely lied about its software's capabilities. From the lawsuit that went to trial:

“In 2016, the company posted a video of what appears to be a car equipped with Autopilot driving on its own.

‘The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons,’ reads a caption that flashes at the beginning of the video. ‘He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.’ (Six years later, a senior Tesla engineer conceded as part of a separate lawsuit that the video was staged and did not represent the true capabilities of the car.) [1]”

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5462851/tesla-lawsuit-a...
by mikewarot | 2025-08-29 16:36:35+00:00
Recently my much older friend said "nobody knows how to properly adjust a Vibroplex[1] any more"

I've not willingly sent CW in about 40 years, but I think I'm going to ask him to show me how to adjust one, just to know.

I've learned more about repairing vacuum tube equipment than I'll ever need to know, I'm actually thinking I could do it. It's the 1000+ volts in amplifiers that scares the sh*t out of me, and why I'll not be doing that myself, thank you very much.

[1] https://www.vibroplex.com/contents/en-us/d12_SEMI-AUTOMATIC_...
by RaftPeople | 2025-08-29 16:36:51+00:00
> Because the databases you have worked in are bad

You understand my point about 5th normal form, right? 99.99999999% of all databases are in approx (averaged across all tables) somewhere between 2.5 and 3rd normal form.

This means there are many examples in most databases of data that is implied by some other combination of data elements.

Do you store the calculated discounts and net selling price for line items after running the order through the promotion engine? Most system do store things like that because people need to consume that data and it's either impractical or not possible for each consumer to run the data through the promotion engine every time they need to use that data.

Same thing goes for the total invoice qty, amount, taxes, etc.

This is one small example of the type of data dependencies that exist throughout most complex systems.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-08-29 16:36:55+00:00
When you go to an electrical drive train you quickly realize you need computers for things like battery conditioning, efficiency, forward/reverse, charging, route planning, stop/start, and on and on and on. It's not as simple as engine on, engine off. Tesla (rightly, IMO) chose to lean into this. It will be interesting to see what a company like Slate chooses to do.
by brailsafe | 2025-08-29 16:36:56+00:00
> That is quite the defeatist attitude. Society becoming shittier isn’t inevitable, though inaction and giving up certainly helps that along.

If the structures and systems that are in-place only facilitate life getting more difficult in some way, then it probably will, unless it doesn't.

Housing getting nearly unownable is a symptom of that. Climate change is another.
by Balinares | 2025-08-29 16:38:00+00:00
The societal value of liquidity and a narrower bid/ask spread, while non-zero, is not even remotely commensurate with the bucketloads of cash that the top firms bring in.

It's mercenary work, plain and simple. Advanced, interesting, full of juicy maths, highly competitive, rewarding, but mercenary. No one's doing this job for the good of the world, come on.

Give some of your earnings to trans defense NGOs, now that makes a difference and I'll be personally grateful.
by gwwolf | 2025-08-29 16:38:02+00:00
Great question.

It depends. This is something the program office would consider as part of its acquisition strategy, and then this would be part of the competitive bid process and contract negotiations.

There is such a thing as Government Purpose Rights (GPR) that might, for example, allow the government to subcontract with third parties for replacement parts which would enable competition to keep costs down. This is really important because most of the costs in an acquisition come from the long tail of sustainment, not the initial purchase.

For something like the M17/M18, the Army wouldn’t necessarily want or need to buy the complete intellectual property behind the weapon. What they care about is having enough rights to ensure lifecycle support, competition for parts or sustainment contracts, etc. Your example of a company going out of business is a perfect example of where GPR would be relevant.
by UncleEntity | 2025-08-29 16:38:23+00:00
> These kinds of complex tasks can be difficult for AI development tools to navigate, resulting in hallucinations about where the bug is or its root cause, as well as irrelevant suggestions or code fixes with subtle problems.

How is this any different than the way I program?

I've contributed genuinely useful features to FLOSS projects "as well as irrelevant suggestions or code fixes with subtle problems", mostly the latter as there was always a few stages of improvement and/or finishing by the core devs of the program I used to haunt. Honestly, I was less than half as useful as the current crop of robots and they still tolerated (in fact, encouraged) my involvement.
by 4MOAisgoodenuf | 2025-08-29 16:38:45+00:00
OEM trigger pull weight on most all Glocks is about 5.5lbs (the G34 has a different connector and gets down to about 4.5lbs)

That is fairly average across the market for other handguns.

Unless you were shooting a Glock with one of the infamous NYPD 12lb triggers…
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-29 16:38:50+00:00
>This is nothing new - Germany has always had pretty "strict" libel laws.

If the police are involved, then this isn't even libel in the way that people from the United States tend to think of it. In the US, libel is strictly a tort, and while you might get zinged for some large sum, only lawyers are involved and not the cops. Hell, the standard's pretty high too, has to be both damaging and a statement of fact that the libeler knew to be untrue.
by manoDev | 2025-08-29 16:38:51+00:00
I'm tired of the anthropomorphization marketing behind AI driving this kind of discussion. In a few years, all this talk will sound as dumb as stating "MS Word spell checker will replace writers" or "Photoshop will replace designers".

We'll reap the productivity benefits from this new tool, create more work for ourselves, output will stabilize at a new level and salaries will stagnate again, as it always happens.
by sdesol | 2025-08-29 16:38:52+00:00
> An interesting alternative I've been meaning to try out is inverting this flow.

This is what I am doing with my AI Search Assistant feature, which I discuss in more detail via the link below:

https://github.com/gitsense/chat/blob/main/packages/chat/wid...

By default, I provide what I call a "Tiny Overview Analyzer". You can read the prompt for the Analyzer with the link below:

https://github.com/gitsense/chat/blob/main/packages/chat/wid...

In a nutshell, it generates a very short summary of every document along with keywords. The basic idea is to use BM25 ranking to identify the most relevant documents for the AI to review. For example, my use case is to understand how Aider, Claude Code, etc., store their conversations so that I can make them readable in my chat app. To answer this, I would ask 'How does Aider store conversations?' and the LLM would construct a deterministic keyword search using terms that would most likely identify how conversations are stored.

Once I have the list of files, the LLM is asked again to review the summaries of all matches and suggest which documents should be loaded in full for further review. I've found this approach to be inconsistent, however. What I've found to work much better is just loading the "Tiny Overview" summaries into context and chatting with the LLM. For example, I would ask the same question: "Which files do you think can tell me how Aider stores conversations? Identify up to 20 files and create a context bundle for them so I can load them into context." For a thousand files, you can easily fit three-sentence summaries for each of them without overwhelming the LLM. Once I have my answer, I just need a few clicks to load the files into context, and then the LLM will have full access to the file content and can better answer my question.
by ASMVal | 2025-08-29 16:39:09+00:00
Eh, AMD did the same thing literally last gen. Telling us that moob manufacturers didn't follow spec while they did, it's just that the spec wasn't clear and amd changed it intel style right after it came out.

But it has to be said, that it in this specific instance it seems that only asorck is affected (and has been for months at this point thanks to GN investigation) so my bet is to just wait and see what happens.
by tliltocatl | 2025-08-29 16:39:41+00:00
> I feel qualified to say this LLM is not capable of it.

This LLM have been demonstrated to be not capable, but there are no known reason why a LLM cannot dismiss such an order as nonsense - and you were claiming in the original comment that "LLMs do not possess any sort of understanding" and "These. Are not. Intelligent. Machines." A LLM fine-tuned to reject nonsensical requests would certainly be able to do so (another question is how well that would generalize - but then human aren't perfect in that regard either).

To be clear - I do not think LLMs are the universal solution to everything as they are being advertised. They do lack some unknown important component to intelligence. But using such anthropomorphic terms is really pointless - you are basically claiming "they will never be capable of doing something because they never will".
by jibe | 2025-08-29 16:39:50+00:00
I understand what it looks like, but we have the guns from those incidents, and no one has looked at them an pointed to a defect, or reproduced them firing without the trigger being actuated.

A gun in a holster can fire when it is moved and the holster is poorly fit, incorrectly configured, or there anything caught in it like tail of a shirt, drawstring. Also, many police have a flashlight on their pistol, which opens up space quite a bit making it easier for things to get caught inside.
by Beijinger | 2025-08-29 16:39:50+00:00
Well, Germany has no idea about free speech and freedom. They only know the moral high ground, and they see their citizen as property that must be controlled and can't be trusted.

In the US it is otherwise around. The founding fathers thought, that the government can't be trusted. The result is that the US Constitution is 250 years old and Germany has one failed state after another. Also, the current German state will fail. Likely within the next 10 years.
by maxglute | 2025-08-29 16:40:14+00:00
HK GDP grew by 7x since handover. It grew from 450B to 600B since HK crackdown. Reality is HK is portal to PRC wealth by PRC ascension, even pre handover. PRC decides how rich HK gets to be by deciding how much PRC economic activity HK gets to launder. Also TFW broken TW democracy is something to be emulated.
by ljosifov | 2025-08-29 16:40:19+00:00
In the past I have found obstacles to data sharing codified in the UK law frustrating. I'm reasonably sure some people will have died because of this, that would not have died otherwise. If they could communicate with the NHS, similarly (email, whatsapp) to how they communicate in their private and professional lives.

Within the UK NHS and UK private hospital care, these are my personal experiences.

1) Can't email my GP to pass information back-and-forth. GP withholds their email contact, I can't email them e.g. pictures of scans, or lab work reports. In theory they should have those already on their side. In practice they rarely do. The exchange of information goes sms->web link->web form->submit - for one single turn. There will be multiple turns. Most people just give up.

2) MRI scan private hospital made me jump 10 hops before sending me link, so I can download my MRI scans videos and pictures. Most people would have given up. There were several forks in the process where in retrospect could have delayed data DL even more.

3) Blood tests scheduling can't tell me back that scheduled blood test for a date failed. Apparently it's between too much to impossible for them to have my email address on record, and email me back that the test was scheduled, or the scheduling failed. And that I should re-run the process.

4) I would like to volunteer my data to benefit R&D in the NHS. I'm a user of medicinal services. I'm cognisant that all those are helping, but the process of establishing them relied on people unknown to me sharing very sensitive personal information. If it wasn't for those unknown to me people, I would be way worse off. I'd like to do the same, and be able to tell UK NHS "here are, my lab works reports, 100 GB of my DNA paid for by myself, my medical histories - take them all in, use them as you please."

In all cases vague mutterings of "data protection... GDPR..." have been relayed back as "reasons". I take it's mostly B/S. Yes there are obstacles, but the staff could work around if they wanted to. However there is a kernel of truth - it's easier for them to not try to share, it's less work and less risk, so the laws are used as a cover leaf. (in the worst case - an alibi for laziness.)
by ben_w | 2025-08-29 16:40:33+00:00
My degree is in "software engineering", I graduated in 2006 from a Welsh university, so that isn't an example of FAANG anything.

Nor title inflation IMO, original etymology is "one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.", and anyone who uses security components will be doing some of that given how cyberspace as a warfare domain doesn't seem to be particularly constrained these days.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-29 16:41:16+00:00
Not in the slightest! The only thing I'm against is hypocrisy.

LLM enthusiasts are staunch defenders of the argument that use of everyone's ideas and labour in LLM training isn't just fair use, but a moral imperative in order to advance science, art, and human progress as a whole.

It's beyond hypocritical for beneficiaries of this paradigm to then turn around and expect special treatment by demanding that "their" ideas, "their" knowledge, "their" labour be excluded from this process.