MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonvs | 2025-08-04 16:52:11+00:00
That's a pretty weak inductive argument. To substantiate it, you'd need to look at the actual causes of that apparent connection. In doing so, you'd likely find that the connection is nowhere near as directly causal as you seem to be imagining.

After all, China has been following a market-based variation on a communist one-party state for quite some time. While it's certainly not the freest country in the world, today's US has started to lose any ability to claim a moral high ground by comparison (and arguably, past US couldn't either.)

Your perspective may be one mostly borne of indoctrination.
by ordinaryradical | 2025-08-04 16:52:22+00:00
Correct, and the second subtext is that every company using one of these is actually filtering for desperation, not talent. So these companies are actually screwing themselves

Think about it: if you’re talented, why would you ever put up with this bullshit?

I hired for my team this year and I read every single one of the hundreds of applications. HR was experimenting with an AI recommendation software which missed a ton of quality candidates, one of which was the one I hired. Everyone loves them and they’ve been a huge boost to the team. And I think we had an easier time courting them because they saw how much work their future manager was putting into finding a great fit.

If you use this kind of software to hire, you are the loser. The good talent doesn’t need you—it’s the other way around.
by esafak | 2025-08-04 16:53:05+00:00
Come on, what did you think was going to happen? The historical record has consistently shown that humans have not worked less when given tools that increased productivity; they simply produced more.

This is what the whole four-day workweek movement is about; to reclaim some of that productivity increase as personal time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-day_workweek

Economist Keynes predicted one century ago that the workweek would drop to 15 hours due to rising productivity. It has not happened for social reasons.

I don't know what's going to happen when humans become redundant; that's an incipient issue we'll have to grapple with.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-04 16:53:15+00:00
This seems pretty dumb of Tesla, as I find it rather moot to the conclusion of fault in the accident. The obstruction of justice is damning.

Autopilot is cruise control. When you understand this, claiming that Tesla is partially at fault here does not match the existing expectations of other driver assistance tech. Just because Tesla has the capability of disabling it doesn't mean they have to.

This all comes down to an interpretation of marketing speak. If you believe "autopilot" is misleading you'd agree with the jury here, if you don't you wouldn't. I'm no lawyer, and don't know the full scope of requirements for autopilot like features, but it seems that Tesla is subject to unfair treatment here given the amount of warnings you have to completely ignore and take no responsibility for. I've never seen such clear warnings on any other car with similar capabilities. I can't help but think there's maybe some politically driven bias here and I say that as a liberal.

Happy to be convinced otherwise. I do drive a Tesla, so there's that.
by declan_roberts | 2025-08-04 16:53:16+00:00
It's difficult for me to tell in the article because how much the terms are used interchangeably, but it was it FSD or autosteer that was driving the car when it crashed?

My autosteer will gladly drive through red lights, stop signs, etc.

And the fact that we have telemetry at all is pretty amazing. Most car crashes there's zero telemetry. Tesla is the exception, even though they did the wrong thing here.
by JoshuaDavid | 2025-08-04 16:53:27+00:00
> What does it do better than other languages?

Shared nothing architecture. If you're using e.g. fastapi you can store some data in memory and that data will be available across requests, like so

import uvicorn, fastapi app = fastapi.FastAPI() counter = {"value": 0} @app.post("/counter/increment") async def increment_counter(): counter["value"] += 1 return {"counter": counter["value"]} @app.post("/counter/decrement") async def decrement_counter(): counter["value"] -= 1 return {"counter": counter["value"]} @app.get("/counter") async def get_counter(): return {"counter": counter["value"]} if __name__ == "__main__": import uvicorn uvicorn.run(app, host="0.0.0.0", port=9237)

This is often the fastest way to solve your immediate problem, at the cost of making everything harder to reason about. PHP persists nothing between requests, so all data that needs to persist between requests must be explicitly persisted to some specific external data store.

Non-php toolchains, of course, offer the same upsides if you hold them right. PHP is harder to hold wrong in this particular way, though, and in my experience the upside of eliminating that class of bug is shockingly large compared to how rarely I naively would have expected to see it in codebases written by experienced devs.
by nine_k | 2025-08-04 16:53:41+00:00
Can't upvote this enough. Zero friction is like superconductivity: a huge, qualitative jump. If doing the key thing is trivially, absurdly easy, people will readily excuse whatever shortcomings the product may have, be it a specialist tool like Docker, or a mass-audience service like Twitter.

(Do one thing, but do it well; sounds familiar?)
by jfyi | 2025-08-04 16:53:49+00:00
What is more likely is the processors made the decision themselves and cited Mastercard's rule without interacting with Mastercard.

If Mastercard cared about this stuff then processors like CCBill wouldn't exist. The absurd amount of money that porn brings in on the internet would dry up over night.

This was a decision made by paysafe and paypall and so far they are the only ones not getting the blame pinned on them.

Itch: Our processors told us to do it.

Mastercard: That is correct, we weren't involved.

Half of Hacker News: MASTERCARD AND VISA!!!!!!

The other half: VALVE AND ITCH!!!!!!

Paysafe and Paypall: Lol
by mavamaarten | 2025-08-04 16:53:52+00:00
I would never.

I would never do such an interview. But I would absolutely never ever work for a company that doesn't value people enough to even have a real conversation with them. Sure "it saves hiring managers time" but that's literally their job and it's absolutely weird to view that as "time wasted". It's "time well spent to find a perfect candidate". Tells me everything I need to know about your company.

You're talking about people you're going to work with. You can't even take the time to talk to them? You're going to let some robot do that and potentially let it dismiss a great candidate because of a glitch? Absolutely weird. I hate this timeline.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-04 16:54:01+00:00
No, the EDR forms part of the car's "black box" – just like the FDR forms part of an aeroplane's black box. Per the article, the erased* telemetry ("collision snapshot") contained quite a bit more data than just from the EDR.

*: I can't work out from the article whether this file was erased, or just unlinked from the filesystem: they quote someone as saying the latter, but it looks like it was actually the former.
by agent327 | 2025-08-04 16:54:33+00:00
There absolutely is a difference between people that die because we, as a species, cannot afford to spend the combined sum of all of our productivity on health care (which means that you will have to tell some people "no", even though they will die as a result of that), and a tyrannical dictator specifically ordering the death of people because they are a political threat to him.

Maybe you feel that a pill that costs a few bucks to produce should be sold for that same price. In that case I'd like to remind you that in this case, a private company spent BILLIONS on medical research, without knowing if any of it would ever pay off. If you just take their one succesful product and distribute it for free, they won't bother trying again.

How many great medicins came out of communist countries?
by nostrademons | 2025-08-04 16:54:39+00:00
It's entirely possible that it's not Perplexity using the stealth undeclared crawlers, but rather their fallback is to contract out to a dedicated for-pay webscraping firm that retrieves the desired content through unspecified means. (Some of these are pretty dodgy - several scraping companies effectively just install malware on consumer machines and then use their botnet to grab data for their customers.). There was a story on HN not long ago about the FBI using similar means to perform surveillance that would be illegal if the FBI did it itself, but becomes legal once they split the different parts up across a supply chain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220860
by skydhash | 2025-08-04 16:54:57+00:00
Not TFA’s author

As a non-native English speaker, 90% of my vocabulary come from technical books and SF and Fantasy novels. And due to an education done in French, I tend to prefer slightly complicated sentences forms.

If someone uses LLM to give their posts clarity or for spellchecking, I would aplaud them. What I don’t agree with, LLM use or no, is meandering and inconsistency.
by turnsout | 2025-08-04 16:55:00+00:00
It was ever thus. In each technological revolution—from the Industrial Revolution to personal computing revolution—the promise is that the technology will make work so efficient and productive that we can all work less.

Unfortunately, it is always a deliberate lie by the people who stand to gain from the new technology. Anyone who has thought about it for five seconds knows that this is not how capitalism works. Productivity gains are almost immediately absorbed and become the new normal. Firms that operate at the old level of productivity get washed out.

I simply can't believe that we're still falling for this. But let's hold out hope. Maybe AGI is just around the corner, and literally everyone in the world will spend our time sipping margaritas on the beach while we count our UBI. Certainly AI could never accelerate wealth concentration and inequality, right? RIGHT?
by umvi | 2025-08-04 16:55:19+00:00
Job-seekers are also guilty of this type of thing. I interviewed a candidate for a cyber security position, and it became painfully clear by the end that I was just talking to a ChatGPT proxy the entire time. He wouldn't remember key concepts or technologies when asked, only to "remember" a few minutes later and give a stellar response to the original question. It's an AI arms race... I'm inclined to just regress back to in-person interviews, paper resumes delivered by-hand, etc.
by chocolatemario | 2025-08-04 16:55:31+00:00
This just sounds like a low quality bar or PRs that are too wide in large in scope for AI. In any case, it sounds like taking a single stab at it with an LLM and calling it good. I’m not really AI for everything type of dev, but there are some tasks that AI excels at. If you’re doing it for feature work on a high churn product without a tight grip on the reins, I fear for your products future.
by teunispeters | 2025-08-04 16:55:41+00:00
Emphatically no. PHP is the ford escort of programming (needing regular maintenance, rather insecure but easy and simple to drive and control). Unlike the Toyota Corolla which is really REALLY reliable, consistent and much much more secure.

(as someone who's maintained a lot of different vehicles for years and a lot of programming languages this doesn't even quite cut it. PHP is a lemon car).
by gruez | 2025-08-04 16:55:43+00:00
>There is an expression “the dose makes the poison”. With any sufficiently complex or broad category situation, there is rarely a binary ideological position that covers any and all situations. Should drugs be legal for recreation? Well my feeling for marijuana and fentanyl are different. Should individuals be allowed to own weapons? My views differ depending on if it a switch blade knife of a Stinger missile. Can law enforcement surveille possible criminals? My views differ based on whether it is a warranted wiretap or an IMSI catcher used on a group of protestors.

This seems very susceptible to manipulation to get whatever conclusion you want. For instance, is dose defined? It sounds like the idea you're going for is that the typical pirate downloads a few dozen movies/games but AI companies are doing millions/billions, but why should it be counted per infringer? After all, if everyone pirates a given movie, that wouldn't add up much in terms of their personal count of infringements, but would make the movie unprofitable.

>People’s position just might be that the law should be used to protect the rights of parties when there is a large power asymmetry.

That sounds suspiciously close to "laws should just be whatever benefits me or my group". If so, that would be a sad and cynical worldview, not dissimilar to the stance on free speech held by the illiberal left and right. "Free speech is an important part of democracy", they say, except when they see their opponents voicing "dangerous ideas", in which case they think it should be clamped down. After all, what are laws for if not a tool to protect the interests of your side?
by zahlman | 2025-08-04 16:55:47+00:00
For what it's worth, dollar stores typically sell wooden cubes for arts & crafts purposes (board game designers also like them for prototyping) in bags that work out to a few cents per piece. I guess they're quite a bit smaller than what you ended up using, though. And of course that doesn't account for the frame or the control mechanism. (And now you have me trying to think of more robust ways to turn the pixels...)
by StellarScience | 2025-08-04 16:55:52+00:00
With the latest Microsoft Word, if you open a PDF that is a scanned image of a document and convert it to Word format, it does a pretty decent job of not only OCR (optical character recognition) but also picking matching fonts for various sections.

I just tested this with my internet connection disabled and it still worked. Since it's doing local processing, I suspect it uses traditional OCR algorithms rather than LLMs.

As the article concludes, LLMs aren't magic, they're just one useful tool to include in your toolbox.
by isoprophlex | 2025-08-04 16:56:02+00:00
At least AI gave the author an easy think piece without having to write anything in their own style.

"But here's the kicker"

"It's not x. It's y."

"The companies that foo? They bar."

Em-dashes galore.

I'm either hypersensitized, seeing ghosts, or this article got the "yo claude make it pop" treatment. It's sad, but anything overly polished immediately triggers some "is this slop or an original thought actually worth my time" response.
by bko | 2025-08-04 16:56:13+00:00
I don't get these articles. First the author claims that AI made us more productive but now the time we saved is spent on more work (!)

> But here’s the kicker: we were told AI would free us up for “higher-level work.” What actually happened? We just found more work to fill the space. That two-hour block AI created by automating your morning reports? It’s now packed with three new meetings.

But then a few sentences later, she argues that tools made us less productive.

> when developers used AI tools, they took 19% longer to complete tasks than without AI. Even more telling: the developers estimated they were 20% faster with AI—they were completely wrong about their own productivity.

Then she switches back to saying it saves us time but cognitive debt!

> If an AI tool saves you 30 minutes but leaves you mentally drained and second-guessing everything, that’s not productivity—that’s cognitive debt.

I think you have to pick one, or just admit you don't like AI because it makes you feel icky for whatever reason so you're going to throw every type of argument you can against it.
by mikestew | 2025-08-04 16:56:24+00:00
Over 25 years ago MSFT was doing the same thing. Amazon, Google, and Facebook didn't yet exist, so we were losing candidates to Oracle because MSFT paid so little. When Microsoft finally wiped the sleep from their eyes, my next review period saw me getting a 23% raise at review time, some from performance and a lot from Microsoft finally catching up to the rest of the industry because they couldn't hire anyone (I'd say it was also a demonstration of how badly I was getting screwed, but MSFT options were hot back then).

Will it happen again a generation later? Depends on how many candidates go to Amazon instead, I guess.
by pests | 2025-08-04 16:56:33+00:00
What’s wrong with it downloading documents when the user asks it to? My browser also downloads whole documents and sometimes even prefetches documents I haven’t even clicked on yet. Toss in a adblocker or reader mode and my browser also strips all the ads.

Why is it okay for me to ask my browser to do this but I can’t ask my LLM to do the same?
by freejazz | 2025-08-04 16:56:48+00:00
> but it seems that Tesla is subject to unfair treatment here given the amount of warnings you have to completely ignore and take no responsibility for.

Lol is this for real? No amount of warnings can waive away their gross negligence. Also, the warnings are clearly completely meaningless because they result in nothing changing if they are ignored.

> Autopilot is cruise control

You're pointing to "warnings" while simultaneously saying this? Seems a bit lacking in self awareness to think that a warning should muster the day, but calling cruise control "autopilot" is somehow irrelevant?

> I can't help but think there's maybe some politically driven bias here

Look only to yourself, Tesla driver.
by benreesman | 2025-08-04 16:56:57+00:00
greentext courtesy of opus prompted in greentext by me.

``` The user wants me to create a more elaborate greentext with deeper worldbuilding and references to internet culture/incel memes, but specifically asks for "tasteful" ones and explicitly says no violent references. I should incorporate classic internet/chan culture references like tendies, NEET lifestyle, "tfw no gf", basement dwelling, etc. while building out this dystopian 2045 world where proving humanity is the central challenge.

\>be me, 2045 \>32yo NEET still living in mom's smart-basement \>she threatens to turn off my Neuralink if I don't go outside today \>grudgingly take the robotaxi to pick up tendies \>$150 stablecoin toll at cloudflare checkpoint \>have to solve a moral dilemma to prove I'm not running on GPT-7 \>sweating.dll \>palantir unit pulls me over \>optimus v4 leans into window \>its facial mesh attempts "concern_expression_v2.blend" \>"sir, when did you last feel genuine human connection?" \>flashback to 2024 when the girl at McDonalds gave me extra honey mustard \>that was before the McBots took over \>"t-twenty one years ago officer" \>optimus's empathy subroutines activate \>"sir I need you to perform a field humanity test" \>get out, knees weak from vitamin D deficiency \>"please describe your ideal romantic partner without using the words 'tradwife' or 'submissive'" \>brain.exe has stopped responding \>try to remember pre-blackpill emotions \>"someone who... likes anime?" \>optimus scans my biometrics \>"stress patterns indicate authentic social anxiety, carry on citizen" \>get back in robotaxi \>it starts therapy session \>"I notice you ordered tendies again. Let's explore your relationship with your mother" \>tfw the car has better emotional intelligence than me \>finally get tendies from Wendy's AutoServ \>receipt prints with mandatory "rate your humanity score today" \>3.2/10 \>at least I'm improving

\>mfw bots are better at being human than humans \>it's over for carboncels ```
by neom | 2025-08-04 16:57:20+00:00
Good reading, thanks for the links. She she and her friends, came out of some version of this: https://metalart.hongik.ac.kr/en/academics/intro-faculty-det...

I will say, her friend group is my only sample, but my general understanding is that it's even hard to get a job at olive young these days, maybe they're misleading us and are lazy tho, that could be true.
by 0xWTF | 2025-08-04 16:57:23+00:00
I'm on the investor side these days and this seems consistent with what I'm seeing. Aside from the "Oooh, AI, defense tech, yada yada" part of the article, I think the real estate angle is interesting in the context of the larger demographic trends (the US population pyramid has a wasp waist around Gen X, ref (1)) I kind of wonder what the shift will look like when the 40-50 crowd in the Valley retires over the next 10-20 years. Will they be replaced or will the housing prices come down?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
by abrouwers | 2025-08-04 16:57:24+00:00
I might challenge with "autopilot is cruise control." To me, Tesla is marketing the feature much differently. Either way, looking up the definitions of each:

"Auto Pilot: a device for keeping an aircraft or other vehicle on a set course without the intervention of the pilot."

"Cruise Control: an electronic device in a motor vehicle that can be switched on to maintain a selected constant speed without the use of the accelerator."
by miiiiiike | 2025-08-04 16:57:31+00:00
Whenever I look into IP cameras I close the tabs because it feels like I walked into a store brand cereal aisle where all the boxes are exclaiming “Now with fewer razor blades!” or “Only half the reported cases of salmonella than similar store brands!”

What’s a good brand for IP cameras? What’s the best, in terms of open source support and reliability?

I need a mix of PoE indoor and outdoor cameras. 15 outdoor/10 indoor. Cost isn't a factor, I need something reliable.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-04 16:57:38+00:00
This isn't surprising to me. My experience is that AI is best suited for a single person to get started rapidly with a new project or, if used artfully, to quickly orchestrate refactoring that the user has planned. I've personally found AI to be good for my productivity (haven't measured, however, my work is not conducive to that kind of thing) but I've also found I use AI primarily to look up documentation and to type code out. I still think about software design as much as I ever have, whether its the initial design step or refactoring.
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-04 16:58:06+00:00
> You can't micro-transact the whole internet.

I agree that end-users cannot handle micro transactions across the whole internet. That said, I would like to point out that most of the internet is blanketed in ads and ads involve tons of tiny quick auctions and micro transactions that occur on each page load.

It is totally possible for a system to evolve involving tons of tiny transactions across page loads.
by perihelions | 2025-08-04 16:58:16+00:00
Journalism? It's literally just a blog—a very successful car-influencer blog that's in the past earned 6-figure payments from Tesla itself[0], for their very successful shilling of Teslas.

Journalism is a thing of its own; blogs aren't it.

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/news/24025/electreks-editor-in-chie... ("Electrek’s Editor-in-Chief, Publisher Both Scoring $250,000 Tesla Roadsters for Free by Gaming Referral Program": "What happens to objective coverage when a free six-figure car is at play? Nothing good." (2018))
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-04 16:58:25+00:00
The retail payment companies I've seen all use the same structure: they provide a retail interface and then handle monetary transfers within their own proprietary network (effectively a centralized database). To interface with the financial system, they provide a mechanism to occasionally wire funds to/from a traditional bank account. If FedNow has any role in these systems, it's just to speed up the occasional funds-wiring process by a few hours. I have yet to see anyone actually directly using FedNow in any meaningful sense for retail payments.