MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-08-16 06:53:17+00:00
> (...) but in America, the public owns the means of production through pension-based stock market ownership, which is one of the core tenets of communism (...)

Do they own it, though?

Or is the US public relegated to a position of financing investment corporations without any ownership or control in exchange for a fraction of the profits and the bulk of the losses?

If anything, the US public seems to be used as a strategy to lower investment risks of investment firms.

> (...) whereas this article points out European pensions are state-based or through bond investments.

The "state-based" aspect which you are casually glancing over refers to full blown income redistribution schemes, where everyone's paycheck, being rich or poor, is proportionally deducted to finance retirement pensions, unemployment benefits, parental leaves, and even medical leaves.

Do you think that paying a corporation to invest in the stock market is more socialist than this?
by jacquesm | 2025-08-16 06:54:11+00:00
The very successful attack that Ukraine performed on Russian long range bombers would have never worked if those weren't tied to particular locations for a really long time. 6 months of planning and execution would have gone out of the window by a single late (as in the last 30 days) order to move things around. All airfields are now at risk of such attacks, including civilian ones.

I would bet that within a year we'll see ransom attacks on airfields in open societies. The idea is out there and the capabilities are so cheap that any idiot could do it.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-16 06:54:39+00:00
Current non-self-driving cars on the road can be hacked

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-ha...

But even if they can theoretically be hacked, so far Waymos are still safer and more reliable than human drivers. The biggest danger someone has riding in one is someone destroying it for vindictive reasons.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-08-16 06:55:56+00:00
I have to agree, I've also suffered account problems. I was locked out from an email address I used for 20 years. It refuses to take my password which is still valid. I've changed phone number since 20 years ago so can't use that and the security questions were nonsense as I was a teenager. Originally my account never had phone number, they insisted I add it when they integrated my Skype account perhaps. So I didn't expect access to that phone number to be a strong ongoing requirement.
by juniperus | 2025-08-16 06:56:40+00:00
The taxes will be most burdensome for the wealthiest and most productive of institutions, which is generally why these arrangements collapse economies and nations. UBI is hard to implement because it incentivizes non-productive behavior and disincentivizes productive activity. This creates economic crisis, taxes are basically a smaller scale version of this, UBI is like a more comprehensive wealth redistribution scheme. The creation of a syndicate (in this case, the state) to steal from the productive to give to the non-productive is a return to how humanity functioned before the creation of state-like structures when marauders and bandits used violence to steal from those who created anything. Eventually, the state arose to create arrangements and contracts to prevent theft, but later become the thief itself, leading to economic collapse and the cyclical revolutionary cycle.

So, AI may certainly bring about UBI, but the corporations that are being milked by the state to provide wealth to the non-productive will begin to foment revolution along with those who find this arrangement unfair, and the productive activity of those especially productive individuals will be directed toward revolution instead of economic productivity. Companies have made nations many times before, and I'm sure it'll happen again.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-16 06:56:40+00:00
Any big AI release, some of the top comments are usually claiming either the tech itself is bad, relaying a specific anecdote about some AI model messing up or some study where AI isn't good, or claiming that AI is a huge bubble that will inevitably crash. I've seen the most emphatic denials of the utility of AI here go much farther than anywhere else where criticism of AI is mild skepticism. Among many people it is a matter of tribal warfare that AI=bad.
by sunshine-o | 2025-08-16 06:57:19+00:00
Yes go most banks in Europe and ask to invest anywhere from 1000 to 1M euros they will sell you mainly two things: European govs debt and bluship US tech stocks. It might be wrapped in all kind product but it is often most of it (MS, Apple, Google, Nvidia, etc.).

I once asked what could be the alternative they literally couldn't answer me. Virtually every EU citizen with a bit of money has part of their savings invested in the same 5 US big tech companies. And I am sure it is the same in many parts of the world.

We are very very far from initial role of a bank and you might wonder why Europe has its own banking system in the end. It also explains why the price of those stocks are so high.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-16 06:58:20+00:00
There have been thousands of such instances by now. Ramming is indeed the most frequently used option. Depending on the target drone there are different defender drones in use. Some favor altitude and duration of flight, others favor speed. It all depends on what you are trying to hit, what sensor package and what kind of flight conditions you will face (day/night for instance).
by lern_too_spel | 2025-08-16 06:58:59+00:00
> That means it could be 50%.

And it could be 30, but you said for sure it is over 40.

> "Exit” polls in general aren’t reliable, especially with the mail in voting.

That's why all of them also do phone interviews, and that's how they're consistent with each other.

> Most of those folks are hispanic or asian.

We're talking about Asians. They are not even close to comprising most naturalized citizens.

> Jamaica, which has a heavy Bangladeshi population, shifted from D+83 to D+31 (which would mean roughly 35% Trump).

35 is less than 40.
by ascorbic | 2025-08-16 06:59:12+00:00
They're not less moderated: they just have different moderation. If your moderation preferences are more aligned with the CCP then they're a great choice. There are legitimate reasons why that might be the case. You might not be having discussions that involve the kind of things they care about. I do find it creepy that the Qwen translation model won't even translate text that includes the words "Falun gong", and refuses to translate lots of dangerous phrases into Chinese, such as "Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh"
by thristian | 2025-08-16 06:59:41+00:00
From the PuTTY FAQ: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#...

Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name?

No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into google.com and we're the first link returned), and we don't believe the administrative hassle of moving the site would be worth the benefit.

I wonder if they changed their mind because Google ceased to be a reliable way to find them.
by lucketone | 2025-08-16 07:00:04+00:00
Your analysis is fully correct.

I want to add one more aspect to this.

If I gamble my pension away, I have detrimental effect on my neighbours and the rest of society. Sure I could work for a little longer, but not for too long.

One non-exhaustive example: If I don’t die right after my last contract ends, it means I’m consuming food and have some kind of shelter, which is payed by somebody.
by bashtoni | 2025-08-16 07:00:11+00:00
The saccharin writing style would be bad in isolation, but bearable. The overexposure to it is what leads me to dislike it so much I think.

The fact is written by AI does add a layer of frustration because you know someone wrote something more human and more real, but all you get to see is what the model made of it after digestion.
by mft_ | 2025-08-16 07:00:46+00:00
I enjoyed the humour. (We’re heading towards a sad world if any attempt at levity in an article is interpreted as evidence of LLM usage by critical killjoys.)

Edit: total random thought: something in your prose shouted ‘Brit’ to me very quickly. Is it possible that part of this is simply cultural differences in humour and writing, and over-interpretation of subtle differences as evidence of LLM use?

Or do LLMs just write in a subtlety more British style because, well, Shakespeare and Dickens and Keats and Milton? Or does ChatGPT just secretly channel PG Wodehouse?
by jjaksic | 2025-08-16 07:01:37+00:00
And what truly novel things are humans capable of? At least 99% of the stuff we do is just what we were taught by parents, schools, books, friends, influencers, etc.

Remember, humans needed some 100, 000 years to figure out that you can hit an animal with a rock, and that's using more or less the same brain capacity we have today. If we were born in stone age, we'd all be nothing but cavemen.

What genuinely novel thing have you figured out?
by int_19h | 2025-08-16 07:01:46+00:00
LLMs running in chat mode are kinda like a character in a book. There's "nobody there" in a sense that the author writing on behalf of the character is not a person, but the character itself is still a person, even if fictional. And therefore it can have meltdowns, because the LLM knows that people do have them. Especially people who are strongly conditioned to be helpful to others, yet are unable to be helpful in some particular instance because of what they perceive as their own inability to deliver.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-08-16 07:01:49+00:00
A chart that has been disproved dozens of time from a site that peddles all the regular anti-renewable talking points.

The biggest issue with comparing electricity rates across countries is that they have wildly different taxes included in the prices. So direct comparison of the prices is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

To say nothing of the fact that prices in many countries are often set by the marginal generator, which in the case of say Germany on that graph is oil, gas, or coal. Most of which is imported from other countries as fluctuates wildly with fuel costs (e.g. price shocks after Russian’s invasion of Ukraine).
by andrew_eu | 2025-08-16 07:01:57+00:00
I think it's about improving the turnaround on planes. When a plane lands, the crew has to get everyone out, clean the cabin, then get the next flight's passengers in -- all as quickly as possible. The shorter this turnaround, the more flights the plane can fly, and the more money the airline can make.

Flexible seat back pockets are easy for people to stuff all kinds of trash in, so that's just one more task for the crew. Inflexible slots are harder to put trash in, and harder for passengers to notice there's trash in.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-16 07:03:08+00:00
> So instead of doing the moral thing, you pay extra money for No fucking reason.

"No fucking reason" is false. I wrote about the reasons why I pay for games on Steam.

> But people still can accuse you of being stupid.

I'm okay with that.

> Make sure your arguments are legit.

Testing my world views is the reason why I come here.

> How many billions of dollars and jobs just went down the drain?

Not a factor. Jobs that depend on intolerable monopolies shouldn't exist in the first place. Society will adapt. It must.

> But then why stop at creators? Why not make the entire economy based off of patronage?

Because we're talking about artificial scarcity of ideas, not tangible goods which follow natural economic principles. None of this applies to car manufacturing or food production.

> Your work should be OPEN source and free! You program right? So all you're doing is creating ideas.

I don't even disagree with you. That's why I barely even bother with licensing. I just pick AGPLv3 to maximize freedom and leverage.

I'm more radical than Stallman in this area. Stallman believes in and relies on copyright. I don't.

> The company shouldn't pay you fuck shit, and the only people who can pay you are people who sign up as patrons.

It's not that easy.

I work on my own projects because I personally care about them. They are rarely aligned with and might even be opposed to company interests.

I get to do whatever I want, however I want, whenever I want. I also get to walk away at any point for any reason, including no reason.

I'm not an employee. I have no boss. I have no deadlines. I have no obligations to anyone, least of all corporations.

If companies want developers to work on their stuff on a regular basis, they have to pay for it. Why would anyone care otherwise?

> Here's a genius idea. If you stand by your ideas so much, why don't you start executing on them right now!

I don't work in the software industry. My aversion to intellectual property is one of the reasons why.

I do have a GitHub Sponsors. For about a year, I had exactly one sponsor. Now I have zero.

I am also opposed to advertising in general. I try very hard not to talk about my own projects unless it is socially acceptable to do so. Others have independently submitted my work here and on other sites. I was also invited to post about one of them on reddit once.
by crinkly | 2025-08-16 07:03:53+00:00
That’s idiotic really. I mean I’m not sure why you’d go to a European bank for investment advice other than “bank do money, ug”. There’s a whole advisory market out there which gives you better options based on your attitude to risk profile and goals. Not the usual put it all in a TSLA/NVDA/MSFT ETF and to the moon shit.

I made more out of the tech market in the last 5 years than I would have in it by having sensible advice and a half decent financial model.
by sema4hacker | 2025-08-16 07:05:56+00:00
15 projects in 4 years. I'm guessing about 8,000 hours of effort, or an average of about 500 hours per project, equal to about 2 man-months per project. I'm surprised you've made, not lost, money. The actual overall dollars-per-hour salary you managed to bring in would make the story more compelling.
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by amittambulkar | 2025-08-16 07:07:04+00:00
Hey people, I built an app that is a bit outside of the tech world and fun. It's an app where you can save and print the colouring pages you like with just one click. We have a huge collection of colouring pages in all the categories you can think of. For kids, for teenagers and even for adults in different themes.
by mmmore | 2025-08-16 07:07:29+00:00
LLMs with instruction following have been around for 3 years. Your comment gives me "electricity and gas engines will never replace the horse" vibes.

Everyone agrees AI has not radically transformed the world yet. The question is whether we should prepare for the profound impacts current technology pretty clearly presages, if not within 5 years then certainly within 10 or 25 years.
by palmotea | 2025-08-16 07:08:00+00:00
> In early June, GSA leadership met with the xAI team for a two-hour brainstorming session...The session appeared to go well. After it ended, GSA leadership continued to push for the agency to roll out Grok for internal use. “We kept saying ‘Are you sure?’ And they were like ‘No we gotta have Grok,’” one employee involved with the discussions tells WIRED.

Early June was at the very beginning of the Musk-Trump feud.

> Then, in early July, Grok appeared to go off the rails, spewing antisemitic hate, praising Adolf Hitler, and parroting racist conspiracy theories on X. Some GSA staffers were surprised that the incident did not appear to slow down the procurement process. “The week after Grok went MechaHitler, [GSA leadership] was like ‘Where are we on Grok?’” the same employee claims. “We were like, ‘Do you not read a newspaper?’”

> Then GSA leadership appeared to abruptly change course. Shortly before GSA was set to announce its partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s Gemini, and xAI last week, staff were instructed to remove xAI’s Grok from the contract offering, two sources with knowledge tell WIRED. Two GSA workers involved with the contract believe xAI was pulled because of Grok’s antisemitic tirade last month.

IIRC, July was when it seemed to hit the point of no return. I believe reprisals against Musk's businesses were threatened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Musk_feud

This is important context, and I'm disappointed in Wired for not mentioning it.
by spuz | 2025-08-16 07:08:39+00:00
Authors use humour as a form of connection with their audience. It's a way of saying hey I'm a human and I have the same human experiences as you dear reader. Take the first paragraph for example:

> Wednesday, 11:15 AM. I'm at the PureGym entrance doing the universal gym app dance. Phone out, one bar of signal that immediately gives up because apparently the building is wrapped in aluminum foil

It says, "Hey I'm a human who goes to the gym and experiences the same frustrations as you do". Now imagine for a second this paragraph was written by AI. The AI has never been to the gym, the AI doesn't feel impatience trying to pass through the turnstile, the AI has never experienced the anxiety of a dodgy internet connection in a large commercial building. The purpose of any humour in this paragraph is completely undermined if you assume it was actually written by AI.

So please don't conflate being anti-LLM with being anti-humour. It's just the opposite. We want humour because we want to feel a connection with our fellow humans and for the same reason we should also want writing that comes from a human, not a machine.
by bsder | 2025-08-16 07:09:10+00:00
> we wound up with more and better jobs.

You will have to back that statement up because this is not at all obvious to me.

If I look at the top US employers in say 1970 vs 2020, the companies that dominate 1970 were noted for having hard blue collar labor jobs but paid enough to keep a single earner family significantly above minimum wage and the poverty line. The companies that dominate in 2020 are noted for being some of the shittiest employers having some of the lowest pay fairly close to minimum wage and absolutely worst working conditions.

Sure, you tend not to get horribly maimed in 2020 vs 1970. That's about the only improvement.
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-16 07:10:50+00:00
> AI can displace human work but not human accountability. It has no skin and faces no consequences.

We’ve gota way to go to get there in many instances. So far I’ve seen people blame AI companies for model output, individuals for not knowing the product sold to them as a magic answer-giving machine was wrong, and other authorities in those situations (e.g. managers, parents, school administrators and teachers,) for letting ai be used at all. From my vantage point, It people seem to be using it as a tool to insulate themselves from accountability.
by sgt101 | 2025-08-16 07:12:10+00:00
Like the OP article, no data, no evidence - random ideas presented as advice.

I mean, could you even do some anec-data style before and after comparisons? Like, do 5 problems with no explicit request for tests and 5 without and show that you get 0 out of 5 for no test and 5 out of 5 for a test?

People like me might carp on about how that's not good enough or something, but to be honest I would feel quite uneasy and unjustified complaining unless I had done similar work... without this sort of attempt to justify your thoughts though I feel like a school teacher intervening in a discussion where some kid is advocating the use of heroin to her peers on the basis that Aunt Agnes says it feels good.
by kace91 | 2025-08-16 07:12:30+00:00
>But as its capabilities improve, what do displaced humans transition to?

IF there is intellectual/office work that remains complex enough to not be tackled by AI, we compete for those. Manual labor takes the rest.

Perhaps that’s the shift we’ll see: nowadays the guy piling up bricks makes a tenth of the architects’ salary, that relation might invert.

And the indirect effects of a society that values intellectual work less are really scary if you start to explore the chain of cause and effect.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-08-16 07:13:05+00:00
The first link I get when I searched for "putty" was `putty.org` which, according to the footer: "The PuTTY project or its authors have never owned this domain, registered it, or purchased it."

Nevertheless, I can't consider relying on probabilistic algorithms controlled by 3rd parties to be a wise strategy.

Also, these days, after decades of habit building and a rise in awareness about scam-related stuff, I think people expect to see the name of the project early on in the URL, not in 7th position as it is currently.
by mock-possum | 2025-08-16 07:13:23+00:00
> mixed in during 'water treatment.' Remdesivir, the main treatment for Covid, is injected snake venom. mRNA vaccines hijack your body to make more snake ven

Whaaaaat the fuuuuuuck

Can anyone debug this statement?? I’m not looped into weird this realm of paranoid delusion torecognizs what they’re referring to here.
by roenxi | 2025-08-16 07:14:08+00:00
The article seems to roughly match the headline - I don't know why we're sourcing the WSJ to comment on Europe's policy with ideas like "emergency" or "wake up call"s. The Europeans are the ones with the opinions that matter on this one, presumably they think this is all acceptable given that they've been heading in this direction for a decade (if not decades), cheerfully willing to bear the consequences of being less business-friendly than the States (to say nothing of China). I'm not even sure we can call this unintended consequences - there seems to be some acceptance that Europe is going to be #3 when it comes to raw economic power.

I can make a forecast - anyone outside the US who lets their policy positions be swayed by the US press is heading for a disaster. Even if the Americans turn out to be accurate in their opinions. Countries need to maintain their own internal dialogue.

It'd be more interesting to be looking at what the British, or even the Germans and French think about the situation. They're the ones with the levers.
by riffraff | 2025-08-16 07:14:21+00:00
In case you don't know this, the words in Army of Darkness are actually from "the day the earth still".

It's one of my favorite things when tiny ideas (memes, in the original meaning) keep propagating. The Necronomicon itself being one of the most successful ones.

https://youtu.be/v2vHJU_rFps?si=XKsY0IJFywxgM7ht
by Sharlin | 2025-08-16 07:14:33+00:00
Then regex, HTML, YAML, and so on are not languages either according to your definition.

Yet they are languages according to formal language theory, a definition which I’d say is a bit more widespread than yours. Indeed what you propose roughly maps to (a subset of) context-sensitive languages in particular.

Defining new primitived isn’t really essential. What matters is what you can express with the existing primitives and grammar rules. And sheet music has been quite successful at expressing incredibly complex musical concepts just fine.

(Also there’s the fact that sheet music can contain arbitrarily complex instructions to the performer in natural language, and define new notations too. But composers usually refrain from doing that for the same reason that people don’t go around inventing new idiosynchratic words in English unless they’re SF authors.)
by closewith | 2025-08-16 07:14:51+00:00
> To expand, I think the main reason the Swiss method works is because the country is relatively small

I don't think that's relevant, as there are many small countries with the same problems as the UK and the UK is only medium-sized.

> and well-aligned.

That's the crux of the issue and it's not because of population size. Small countries are no more aligned than large ones (or medium size like the UK) in general.

Why is Switzerland more aligned politically than its peers? Why is social cohesion higher?