MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-27 14:33:00+00:00
Antique furniture is nice because it looks pretty and uses sturdy materials. I don't buy it for the pleasure of knowing how many hours, days or weeks a person slaved over it in order to pay rent.

Good art is good art. Focusing on the time spent making it is a poor substitution for the ability to critique the art itself.

Anyway, people made this same argument when image editors came into their own. There is a long, tiresome generational tradition of artists thinking the new crowd has it too easy and doesn't appreciate the grit that goes into making art in earlier mediums. We can do better.
by pulkitsh1234 | 2025-08-27 14:33:04+00:00
> In spring 2024, Altman learned Google would unveil its new Gemini model on May 14. Though OpenAI had planned to release GPT-4o later that year, Altman moved up the launch to May 13—one day before Google’s event.

> The rushed deadline made proper safety testing impossible. GPT-4o was a multimodal model capable of processing text, images, and audio. It required extensive testing to identify safety gaps and vulnerabilities. To meet the new launch date, OpenAI compressed months of planned safety evaluation into just one week, according to reports.

> When safety personnel demanded additional time for “red teaming”—testing designed to uncover ways that the system could be misused or cause harm—Altman personally overruled them.

> The rushed GPT-4o launch triggered an immediate exodus of OpenAI’s top safety researchers. Dr. Ilya Sutskever, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, resigned the day after GPT-4o launched.
by inbx0 | 2025-08-27 14:33:11+00:00
Periodic reminder to disable npm install scripts.

npm config set ignore-scripts true [--global]

It's easy to do both at project level and globally, and these days there are quite few legit packages that don't work without them. For those that don't, you can create a separate installation script to your project that cds into that folder and runs their install-script.

I know this isn't a silver bullet solution to supply chain attakcs, but, so far it has been effective against many attacks through npm.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-config
by buellerbueller | 2025-08-27 14:33:23+00:00
DeSantis says a lot about Florida, less so the USA. Pritzker says a lot about Illinois, less so the USA. Abbott says a lot about Texas, less so the USA. Newsom says a lot about California, less so the USA.

Understand why your argument is a very poor one? If not, I have 46 more of these examples.
by acureau | 2025-08-27 14:34:23+00:00
> AKA the other taxpayers are footing the bill

Curious as to how you reached this conclusion. No taxpayer funds are going towards construction or operation of the data center. The lack of tax revenue from Meta is nothing spent, and they're still going to be paying into the local economy. The energy infrastructure is going to be built by Entergy, who've projected it to cost customers ~$1 more or less per month.

As someone who lives here, this is one of the few times I agree with our government. We're one of the least competitive states in the country, our tech sector is almost non-existent. It's reasonable to offer what you can to attract business. I think Landry's LED efforts so far have been a respectable attempt at improving the state of things.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-27 14:34:23+00:00
This is something I am finding myself wrestling with a lot right now.

On the one hand I am a major space nerd and I see the value of what SpaceX is doing. Especially with it really seeming like no one is anywhere near their level. What kind of scientific advancements will be possible once this thing can be used normally and launches like this become commonplace.

But at the same time it is impossible to ignore the Elon situation. And that also directly relates to Trump as well. We are in this bonkers situation where he helped get a largely anti-science administration in power and yet also runs one of the companies that will help science.

It does raise serious questions about whether or not there will be limitations on what types of science can be done. Will they have some line in the sand and say they won't launch satellites that do "X", like maybe monitor climate change.

I think maybe rooting for them to fail is a bit much, but I am sure as hell hoping that someone else can catch up. But in the mean time I will celebrate these achievements cautiously. Recognizing the amazing work that the engineers at SpaceX have put into this, because they do deserve a lot of credit for that.
by zahlman | 2025-08-27 14:34:41+00:00
(I've never seen "FCOL" before and had to look it up. For onlookers: "for crying out loud", apparently.)

We aren't stuck with the terminal and CLIs. We stick with them, because they actually do have value.

80 columns is a reasonable compromise length, once you've accepted monospace text, that works with human perception, visual scanning of text etc. But many programmers nowadays don't feel beholden to this; they use any number of different IDEs, and they have their linters set varying maximum line lengths according to their taste, and make code windows whatever number of pixels wide makes sense for their monitor (or other configuration details), and set whatever comfortable font size with the corresponding implication for width in columns. (If anything, I'd guess programmers who actually get a significant amount of things done in terminal windows — like myself — are below average on AI-assisted-programming adoption.) Meanwhile, the IDE could trivially display the code in any font installed on the system, but programmers choose monospace fonts given the option.

As for "plain ASCII", there just isn't a use for other characters in the code most of the time. English is dominant in the programming world for a variety of historical reasons, both internal and external. Really, all of the choices you're talking about flow naturally from the choice to describe computer programs in plain text. And we haven't even confined ourselves to that; it just turns out that trying to do it in other ways is less efficient for people who already understand how to program.
by stetrain | 2025-08-27 14:34:59+00:00
I think that understanding of the consensus is incorrect. The mission plan for Artemis 3 is that a specialized Starship upper stage will be refueled in LEO and then transfer to lunar orbit where it will wait for astronauts arriving on SLS/Orion.

Yes the mission profile is more complex, but that complexity can mostly be settled before the astronauts launch on their mission.

NASA seems to think it is a viable plan which is why they selected SpaceX to execute that part of the mission.
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-27 14:35:00+00:00
I don't have that experience. But perhaps I am far less forgiving of the christofacist community on twitter that seeps through EVEN though I follow not one of them and none follow me. It's easier to read past the artsy crowd for me at least even if I don't agree. But AI hostile? Guess it depends if you don't post AI 'artwork' all day but just interesting things you are doing then I have not seen anyone complain.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-27 14:35:08+00:00
I think we kind of agree. Obviously no one has enough time to personally vet every single claimant to expertise, so we use credentials to help. But I think in this particular context Deacon's specific credentials aren't really that relevant, at least to the extent that I'm vouching for him and that might (but I guess who am I, right) obviate the need to rely on his specific credentials.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-27 14:35:27+00:00
The EU already told Apple in April 25 that the preliminary findings regarding the conditions they impose on alt stores and developers distributing through alt stores are in violation of the DMA.

Apple fully knows they are looking forward to a huge fine. I guess they are banning a torrent app here to be able to tell: look the EU is sponsoring piracy. They are also trying to get Trump to intervene on their behalf obviously. Given how spineless the current European Commission is, that might even work.

To my fellow European, my advice remains the same: boycott American companies, stop voting for parties affiliated with the EPP.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-27 14:35:43+00:00
The primary goal in deciding upon a tech stack is how easily the organization can hire/fire the people who write the code. The larger an organization becomes the more true this becomes. There are more developers writing React than Rails.

Don't listen to the opinions of the developers writing this code. Listen to the opinions of the people making these tech stack decisions.

Everything else is a distant second, which is why you get shitty performance, developers who cannot measure things. It also explains why when you ask the developers about any of this you get bizarre cognitive complexity for answers. The developers, in most cases, know what they need to do to be hired and cannot work outside those lanes and yet simultaneously have an awareness of various limitations of what they release. They know the result is slow, likely has accessibility problems, and scales poorly, and so on but their primary concern is retaining employment.
by adithyassekhar | 2025-08-27 14:36:02+00:00
Future generations will look us in disbelief. Google made incredibly good products, search, gmail, maps, youtube, a mobile os platform. I won't fault them one bit.

It's we the people who took a private company's product as public infrastructure, integrated into our lives, replaced any processes we can with a Google one. Entire economies, businesses, governments depend on gmail and google sheets.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-27 14:36:05+00:00
It's the fossil lobby directly.

You never hear someone complain about Germany's nuclear exit and then pivot into "but at least they're doing well with renewables and they should do better and go faster on EVs and electrification of heat" which would make sense for someone who had a strange affection for nuclear tech, particularly those last two which work great with nuclear.

What you do see is people absolutely seething about leftists and environmentalists and renewables who only have one just barely socially acceptable outlet to attack Germany on.

But they attack them not because their decarbonisation is slow but because they were clear leaders in the tech that threatens fossil fuels around the globe.

Making it seem like a failure is a good way to slow down that transition in other countries too.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-27 14:36:06+00:00
Vern publicly insulted Musk on TV first, and so I have no sympathy for him when Musk insulted him back.

> Unsworth had mocked Musk’s submarine in an interview with CNN, deeming it a “PR stunt” and saying Musk should “stick his submarine where it hurts”.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/05/elon-musk...
by silvestrov | 2025-08-27 14:36:10+00:00
In the old days we had the saying: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

Todays version is: "You will get fired unless you use React".

So every site now uses React no matter if the end result is a dog slow Github.

Bad developers looks at "what are everybody else using?".

Good developers looks at "what is the best and simplest (KISS) tool for this?"
by aray07 | 2025-08-27 14:36:20+00:00
At my previous startup, CSV import was make-or-break for customer onboarding. We built the first version in three days.

Then reality hit: Windows-1252 encoding, European date formats, embedded newlines, phone numbers in five different formats.

We rebuilt that importer multiples over the next six months. Our onboarding completion rate dropped 40% at the import step because users couldn't fix errors without starting over.

The real problem isn't parsing (PapaParse is excellent). It's everything after: mapping "Customer Email" to your "email" field, validating business rules, and letting users fix errors inline.

Flatfile and OneSchema solve this but won't show pricing publicly. Most open source tools only handle pieces of the workflow.

ImportCSV handles the complete flow: Upload → Parse → Map → Validate → Transform → Preview → Submit. Everything runs client-side by default. Your data never leaves the browser. This is critical for sensitive customer data - you can audit the code, self-host, and guarantee that PII stays on your infrastructure. The frontend is MIT licensed.

Technical approach

We use fuzzy matching + sample data analysis for column mapping. If a column contains @ symbols, it's probably email.

For validation errors, users can fix them inline in a spreadsheet interface - no need to edit the CSV and start over. Virtual scrolling (@tanstack/react-virtual) handles 100,000+ rows smoothly.

The interesting part: when AI is enabled, GPT-4.1 maps columns accurately and enables natural language transforms like "fix all phone numbers" or "split full names into first and last". LLMs are good at understanding messy, semi-structured data.

GitHub: https://github.com/importcsv/importcsv Playground: https://docs.importcsv.com/playground Demo (90 sec): https://youtube.com/shorts/Of4D85txm30

What's the worst CSV you've had to import?
by tonyarkles | 2025-08-27 14:36:20+00:00
Yeah, when I saw that it was related to WoW sensors I was reminded of a chat that I had with an experienced aviation engineer a few years ago when we were considering adding them to the UAS I'm working on. "Every system I've ever worked on that relied on WoW sensors has had some kind of unexpected adverse event due to the sensors either triggering when they weren't supposed to, or not triggering when they should have. If you can figure out a different way to do what you're trying to do, please do."
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-27 14:36:20+00:00
Some of this was the overall urgency of the 1960s space race, that people were motivated to cut through red tape and get it done, and I know it's also argued that modern safety standards and requirements around supply chain, real time monitoring, system redundancy, etc all complicate things and raise costs.

That said, it would be interesting to have someone really knowledgeable go over what it is that Artemis has and Saturn V didn't, and then break them down and assign each an approximate proportion of the cost delta.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-27 14:36:30+00:00
For basically the same reason that ELIZA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA ) couldn't count to a million. It's doesn't actually understand things, and it's not a general intelligence.

In human terms - think of ChatGPT as a very well-born person, sadly with profound brain issues, who you are meeting at a fancy cocktail hour. His family has spent years and $millions getting him to the point of looking & sounding pretty good, within that very limited social context. But he's never actually made a PB&J sandwich. Let alone gotten dressed and gone to the grocery store by himself.

Over cocktails, Mr. ChatGPT seems darned impressive. But that's because your "is this guy mentally fit?" instincts - developed and tuned in interactions with normal people - naturally jump to flawed conclusions.
by gcanyon | 2025-08-27 14:36:43+00:00
The explosion was unexpected and (as far as I know at the moment) unexplained, but they flew the mission at the edge of the envelope, and with a variety of different materials/missing bits on purpose, to better understand where the edge is. Everything that happened (maybe even including the explosion, we'll see in the final analysis) was, as far as we know, within the plan.

The biggest can't-miss milestone was the flawless engine restart. That gives them the go-ahead to hit orbit on the next flight.
by _the_inflator | 2025-08-27 14:36:47+00:00
You got a point here however I would just flip his argument. It is best to rely on LLMs that have a lot of training data exposure, and here is Python etc. dominating over Delphi.

I for example find LLMs not useful in regards to coding on 6510 or 68000 especially in assembler when developing code for a product of the demo scene.

x86 became pretty useful lately, but still, on certain machines with bit manipulation, you would better take your time to triple check your code and don't rely on LLM.

I would love to see a change here.
by tdrnl | 2025-08-27 14:37:18+00:00
A talk[0] about Tmux is where I learned about this pattern in C.

I wrote about this concept[1] for my own understanding as well -- just tracing the an instance of the pattern through the tmux code.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmux/tmux/1536b7e206e51488... [1] https://blog.drnll.com/tmux-obj-oriented-commands
by bdcravens | 2025-08-27 14:37:37+00:00
Conferences aren't always a great use of our time, but it allowed us a social escape valve, and it seems to me that just isn't the case anymore. 10 years ago, you'd go to a conference and there would be a massive group conversation about it on Twitter. Not just sessions, but people wanting to get together, eat, drink, and be merry. A simple hashtag search pretty much gave you a quick avenue to meet new people. Now that's pretty much dead, probably due to how people use Twitter and social media, but also the backlash toward it and its owner. Nothing has really replaced that, and most potential replacements either lack the network effects or are essentially restricted in access (requiring a signup or invite).
by eliben | 2025-08-27 14:37:50+00:00
Thanks for the note. Much of the blog post is dealing with this - how the approach I took for the Go implementation is not sufficient for the hacker level - because the code isn't stored anywhere but remains as text. This isn't a Go issue, it's a result of the specific design decision of how to implement it.

The second implementation - in C - does it the "right way", with both code and data living in the same memory, and thus allows all the usual Forth shenanigans. Again, this has all to do with the design approach and not the implementation language. Nothing precludes one from writing such an implementation in Go :-)
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-27 14:37:58+00:00
> * They don't care/agree with the policies of the guy running it.

I don't care, I care that even though I follow/get followed by CS / Math people and still see mostly far right / nazi / trump /crypto comments about everything. In even small threads about very technical stuff, always people come up with the most crazy shit. And these days the almost mandatory 'Grok, is this true/profound/worth anything/etc'. It's just annoying and maybe I shouldn't care. Don't have that experience on other platforms (mostly same following/followers as they are also there).
by klaussilveira | 2025-08-27 14:38:04+00:00
A lot of the id tech 8 global illumination techniques described in that presentation were already implemented by Robert Beckebans in his Doom 3 fork: https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG

It is one of the few engines out there that implement NVRHI properly. It is pretty exciting to see the evolution of the project.
by pear01 | 2025-08-27 14:38:14+00:00
Do you have any reason to attribute this to the fact they were F-35s? For comparison, how many jets were lost during "shock and awe"? Israel operates with impunity in Iran all the time, often on the ground. I'm not sure the fact they used F-35s is actually relevant here but if you have a source on that it would be interesting to read. Given the state of Iran it is hard to imagine the same could not be achieved with a last generation aircraft... it would not be surprising if by the time a peer power conflict starts manned aircraft like the F-35 will already be obsolete...
by mr_mitm | 2025-08-27 14:38:23+00:00
There are scenarios in which you allow it to run python or uv for the session (perhaps because you want it to run tests on its own), and then for whatever reason it could run `subprocess.run("rm -rf / --no-preserve-root".split())` or something like that.

I use it in a container, so at worst it can delete my repository.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-27 14:38:45+00:00
They're probably gonna keep wasting ships until they've got the exact limits of their capability established.

I know it seems counterintuitive to everyone who grew up in the era of the space shuttle, but the ship is the cheap part, the giant booster is the expensive part.

The ship has a way longer cycle time so starship unit costs are going to dominate fleet construction cost despite being the cheaper unit so knowing exactly how hard you can run them is very valuable information it's worth gleaning by wasting some units early on.
by simne | 2025-08-27 14:39:00+00:00
Unfortunately, auto industry is core industry of modern economy for a long time. - Semiconductors and computers become core industry much later.

But core industries are just head of iceberg, you may not hear, typically 90% of iceberg are deep under water surface, very much like core vs non-core.

Any way, if large entity from core industry goes under, this could lead to killing domino effect for many "underwater" entities.

That is really big problem, which president Trump tried to avoid, when bought share of Intel.

And no, I disagree about battleground for now. What really important, really good strategists know, wars win by economy, not by military, as military could not withstand if they have not enough money for weapons and equipment.

So, basically, now US is stronger than China, so Chinese tops decide to not begin war which will not be profitable, while US is strong.

When and if China will feel competitive to US economically, they will be much more confident to begin war, so now the best what could do US tops to avoid war - to make China weaker and US stronger ECONOMICALLY.
by sensanaty | 2025-08-27 14:39:01+00:00
(I've been diagnosed with pretty severe ADHD though I choose to be unmedicated)

Ideally, all of the above? Why are we pretending these next-text-predicting chatbots are at all capable of handling any of these serious topics correctly, when all they do is basically just kiss ass and agree with everything the user says? They can barely handle trivial unimportant tasks without going on insane tangents, and we're okay having people be deluded into suicide because... Why exactly? Why on earth do we want people talking to these Silicon Valley hellish creations about their most vulnerable secrets?
by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-27 14:39:15+00:00
Oil companies gave trump $450 million for the 2024 election after he asked them for a billion, it isn't a mystery why they would kill solar and wind.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-oil-donations-trump

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4961820-oil-bi...

https://climatepower.us/news/new-report-oil-and-gas-industry...

https://truthout.org/articles/big-oil-spent-445-million-to-i...
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-27 14:39:22+00:00
How many software installation instructions require "sudo"? It seems to me that it's many more than should be necessary. And then the installer can do anything.

As an administrator, I'm constantly being asked by developers for sudo permission so they can "install dependencies" and my first answer is "install it in your home directory" sure it's a bit more complexity to set up your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH but you're earning a six-figure salary, figure it out.
by nashashmi | 2025-08-27 14:39:34+00:00
I love onedrive and have been a long time user since it was called skydrive. I also love the sharepoint features in onedrive.

But I stopped auto saving by default. I find that simply navigating a document and making markups ends up saving the document when all i wanted to was view it and not save it

I use the modified date filter extensively to figure out what is most relevant and what is not. With autosave, the date modified keeps changing. And going online and restoring the file to an earlier version changes DM to now. Meaning that information is either permanently lost or I have to hack it and change it manually.