MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2025-08-19 07:04:06+00:00
Again, my concern is about the legal implications of declaring sentience when there is no way to verify it, but there is every guarantee of it being misused and abused by the super privileged to strip mine the planet and the society. In the future when the AI is assumed to have achieved sentience, will it be able to demand that it should not be used as a tool to exploit the rest of the humanity? If so, go ahead and give it rights. But somehow, that's not how I expect it to end. Late stage capitalism has the dubious record of perverting every technology it can get its hands on.

Even now, AI is hardly the panacea that is saving humanity from an impending crisis. Far from it, it's currently the vessel for copyright-washing (and gpl-washing) creative work, wrecking the job market based on the rhetoric of abilities that are well beyond the reality, the machine to do things that we were already doing (like web searches) at 10x the energy costs, and run massive data centers that produce noises well above the hazard levels and CO2 emissions equivalent to that of small nations.

I understand that AI technology is capable of novel applications and in fields that need imminent attention (like climate research). But that's not what drives it today - it's profit seeking bordering on insanity. They're getting people addicted to uses that are hardly novel and comes at a steep energy cost. Why else are these companies so worried about AI rights when they have scant regards for human rights? I'm not concerned about what AI can do. I'm concerned about what AI will do.
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-19 07:04:10+00:00
There's a difference between being toxic within a community. The community can self correct, it can ban people.

And if you don't like a community, you can leave at any time.

Compared to being toxic anonymously. Unless you get banned by an algorithm, your free to just suck.

However, I was in one CS clan where a girl gave out her real number to a random guy. Within minutes she was getting spam calls and other not great stuff.

I miss my CS clan though. There was some tension and arguments, but that's inherent to any structure with people.

Funny enough one of my mates couldn't believe I wasn't white over voice chat. It was like being in this magic world where race didn't matter.

Good times.

Edit: If someone wants to start an open source realistic-ish multiplayer FPS I'm so down.

Invite only community servers. If you suck and cheat we will figure it out and ban you. None of this kernel level anti cheat junk.
by ayaros | 2025-08-19 07:04:39+00:00
I mean, I'm a bit biased towards Denis Villeneuve. The man is literally the modern embodiment of Stanley Kubrick and everything he stood for. His films contain everything that's lacking in modern cinema - decent plots, good writing, slower pacing, artful framing and composition of shots, a dedication to hard sci-fi, respect for source material, very careful attention to lighting and sound design, miniatures so thoughtfully combined with CGI you don't even notice them because it all blends together so seamlessly, as special effects should... I could go on forever. I worship the ground he walks on.

With that said, trying to compare the two would be like trying to compare apples and oranges. Films and prose are two separate mediums. Some things which work well in one don't work in the other. It's like the difference between 2001 the film vs. 2001 the book - perhaps my favorite example since they were simultaneously written and directed as counterparts to each other (as opposed to one being based on the other, as is usually the case).
by gforce_de | 2025-08-19 07:04:50+00:00
I'am also a bit shocked by this SDK approach, why not a simple API where you upload a file, get an ID and wait till it's done? Beside that, sometimes it works, sometimes not:

{ "request_id": "9622a21f-37bf-4404-ac84-8728977a5272", "status": "ANALYZING", "score": null, "models": [ { "name": "rd-context-img", "status": "ANALYZING", "score": null }, { "name": "rd-pine-img", "status": "ANALYZING", "score": null }, { "name": "rd-oak-img", "status": "ANALYZING", "score": null }, { "name": "rd-elm-img", "status": "ANALYZING", "score": null }, { "name": "rd-img-ensemble", "status": "ANALYZING", "score": null }, { "name": "rd-cedar-img", "status": "ANALYZING", "score": null } ] }
by shawabawa3 | 2025-08-19 07:06:59+00:00
As a counter point

I absolutely hated server browsers. Spending ages waiting for slots to free up on decent servers. Trying a new server only to find it had 100 shitty mods installed. Servers where the admins randomly kicked or banned people, or blatantly cheated

Even just joining mid game was annoying

Give me matchmaking any day
by gxs | 2025-08-19 07:07:20+00:00
The problem is with monetization

Whenever/wherever a crowd of a certain size assembles consistently, you’ll soon have a giant corporation frothing at the mouth to monetize it

Why let these people organize communities for themselves? How on earth would we capture metrics and sell them shit?

This is why everything is awesome until corporations show up - social media is the perfect example

I don’t mean to come across as some anti corporate lunatic, it’s just the reality of the situation
by jve | 2025-08-19 07:07:45+00:00
Actually great intro for step-by-step powershell scripting.

I thought I didn't know about "Throw-And-Exit" command, but no, my powershell doesn't have that and google also doesn't know a thing, so wonder what's up with that.

And instead of manual confirmations, one can write script with ShouldProcess support to have support for builtin -Confirm/-WhatIf/-Force parameters. And it would actually be a great use case for that scheduled task to run with -Force parameter instead of changing code to strip out confirmations. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn...
by godelski | 2025-08-19 07:08:13+00:00
I mean we're talking about a fucking text editor here. A second to load is a long time even if it was on an intel i3 from 10 years ago. Because... it is a text editor... Plugins and all the fancy stuff is nice, but those can be loaded asynchronously and do not need to prevent you from jumping into a blank document.

But the god damn program is over 2GB in size... like what the fuck... There's no reason for an app I open a few times a year and have zero plugins and ONLY does text editing should even be a gig.

Seriously, get some context before you act high and mighty.

I don't know how anyone can look at Word and think it is anything but the accumulation of bloat and tech debt piling up. With decades of "it's good enough" compounding and shifting the bar lower as time goes on.
by burntoutgray | 2025-08-19 07:08:18+00:00
I've been in this industry for decades. In summary these are my criteria:

* If the solution is software only, then there's probably a 100+ comparable solutions out there. See the point below about competition. I prefer problems that involve real people, real money and tangible solutions. YMMV

* First and foremost: Talk to real people who might have the problem you are solving. Emails, forums, etc are a waste of time. If you can't in person contact with 10 people who have the problem you are solving, then how are you going to scale to thousands of millions?

* How big is the pain you are solving? Getting people to part with money causes them existential pain. So your solution needs to transcend that.

* Check out the competition. If there is none, there probably isn't a market either. If you have competitors seek out how you can deliver 10x value compared to them. If you can't, then move on.

* Can you deliver a demonstrable, working MVP within 6 months. If not, then others will probably beat you in that race.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-08-19 07:09:22+00:00
I don’t think people eating butter instead of canola oil is what upsets people.

It’s people ignoring the mountain of evidence that such a switch would be a backwards step for health outcomes and claiming the opposite because they read a book by the usual rogues’ gallery of science misinterpreters (Taubes, Teicholz, Shanahan).
by rafaelmn | 2025-08-19 07:10:13+00:00
As a Croatian citizen working remotely - this would have been a much better deal pre-covid. Ever since we entered the eurozone and the EU funds started pouring in the prices skyrocketed (even compared to the rest of Europe, not just global inflation). Still worth looking into, but not a nobrainer like it was. Quality of life you used to be able to get for the mentioned 3.5k eur/month income was hard to get elsewhere in EU, but nowadays prices rose faster then the rest of Europe and quality of life stayed the same, a lot of other places in EU are competitive.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-19 07:10:58+00:00
My point was more that "electric systems" are a well entrenched technology / solved problem. As in, it's not a new method of power delivery. Though, admittedly, I'm not sure how much of that transfers directly into the context of powering a car.

As more time passes I guess we'll know which parts are more likely to fail and they'll be designed around the ability to replace them or design them for robustly, or both.

> I can't say with high confidence that my EV will make it to the 20 year mark with the equal probability a well-made ICE car would.

Fair enough.

I think it's quite positive that this comparison can start to be made, however. Given the relative immaturity of EVs.
by sublinear | 2025-08-19 07:11:27+00:00
Once the org chart is deep enough, the leadership won't understand the business anymore and everything starts falling apart.

There are plenty of rotten bastards in the middle who don't belong there and know they don't belong there.

In my experience the heads down workers towards the bottom of the org chart are far more likely to see the 10k ft view clearly just by being there long enough compared to existing middle management who may have been there for too long.
by overfeed | 2025-08-19 07:12:01+00:00
> I was hoping that there would be a "solution" of sorts to tackle / handle this issue of when EVERYBODY seems to use this strategy, but perhaps there isn't one...?

We're overdue for a major war, which will be reset on how we treat other humans by the end of it. Humans killing humans on an industrial scale between near-peers is followed by periods where people realize that maybe being dicks to each other isn't the ideal state. More cantankerous politicians being elected only increases the odds of war breaking out due to diplomatic failures.
by defrost | 2025-08-19 07:12:02+00:00
There were some to be sure .. I wouldn't imply otherwise, none the less many existed that were not hired and most STEM heavy companies and institutions were very male biased.

(With the few and obvious exceptions such as Dame Vera Stephanie "Steve" Shirley's ventures)

FWiW I learnt a wee bit from Cheryl Praeger, Cathleen Morawetz, Robyn Owens, et al.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-08-19 07:12:25+00:00
Well, this just means PCs are all over the place and it's hard to know what you get beforehand.

My experience is the exact opposite. When I let my laptop running windows sleep overnight, in the morning it's warm. Under Linux, it's room-temperature. I rarely run Windows on it, so there's no checking for mail or whatever in the background, I only have 2-3 games, Prime Video and Lightroom installed. It's also kept up to date, so no updates to install.

But, at least it now wakes back up. Up until a few months ago, it would randomly freeze up or die and reboot and get stuck at the Linux ZFS decryption prompt (I dual boot, and Linux is first). This is a 2020 model laptop, which didn't work under a fresh Windows install out of the box. The webcam wasn't working for a good 3 years (apparently some USB chip wasn't detected). The only issue I have under Linux is that the mic mute LED sometimes turns off even though the mic is muted. It's a standard-fare HP Enterprise, no dual GPU or anything fancy.
by teo_zero | 2025-08-19 07:13:29+00:00
And we don't need navigation systems on our cars because we should know where we're going, right? ;)

Jokes apart, I think you're being too drastic. A good auto-complete is a nice feature, just like auto-indent, tab-complete, etc. Can it be abused? Sure. So what? Should we stop making it better for fear of abuse?

The reference to AI is far-fetched, too. We're talking about tools to help you with the syntax, not the semantic. I may forget if the function is called read, fread, or file_read, but I know what its effect is.

And finally, consider that if something is easier to parse for an editor, it most probably is for a human too. Not a rule, not working in 100% of cases, but usually exposing the user to the local context before the concept itself helps understanding.
by mattigames | 2025-08-19 07:13:40+00:00
A fantasy of mine is to develop a fork of Unity but with an editor interface exactly like Flash, that transpiles Actionscript code to Unity's C#, or maybe a subset of typescript would be a better compromise given it's popularity (either by transpiling or by using node/deno bindings to Unity's Api), to truly make unity games as easy to make as flash games used to be, and with the option to export the project to real Unity in case you need to do something more advanced.
by bux93 | 2025-08-19 07:13:59+00:00
And that report has this to say: "Our analysis reveals that GenAI-driven workforce reductions concentrate in functions historically treated as non-core business activities: customer support operations, administrative processing, and standardized development tasks. These roles exhibited vulnerability prior to AI implementation due to their outsourced status and process standardization. Executives were hesitant to reveal the scope of layoffs due to AI but it was between 5-20% of customer support operations and administrative processing work in these companies."

They interviewed 52 people, and some of them said yes to "Have you reduced headcount due to GenAI?" - which may indicate that those people believe this to be true.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-19 07:14:04+00:00
So why are you using a Linux that forces that on you?

Sane people use Debian, Debian packages are compatible with the Debian release they are from. I do not have to worry about accidentally installing an incompatible deb; even if I try to, apt won't allow me to install a package whose deps cannot be satisfied because they're too new (and thus, not in my release's package repo).

I know other distros have problems with release management, but this is why I've used Debian for the past 20 years and will continue to use Debian
by Klonoar | 2025-08-19 07:14:18+00:00
It's a neat trick, wording-wise, to try and make it out like I'm doing that. It's fairly clear that I'm not doing that.

e.g, Almond _milk_ has been a thing for centuries now. Everyone knows it's not from a cow, yet we call it milk because the end product is similar enough that people get what the point is. Humanity will likely do this until the heat death of the universe. You should probably just get over it.
by sema4hacker | 2025-08-19 07:15:35+00:00
It's kind of ironic that as I choose each component in the navigation sidebar to see what the component looks like, I end up having to scroll back up the page to see the results, especially when I get far down the sidebar. Keeping the displayed component centered in the main frame regardless of the selected sidebar category would be much more convenient. A number of components (usually color-related) also failed for me in Firefox (granted, not the most popular browser).
by c0balt | 2025-08-19 07:15:55+00:00
> I'd love a reference since at least for every systemd version I've used, you're wrong.

I must've had it confused with StateDirectory[0]. Thank you for pointing my mistake out. That does make the library a bit less useful.

[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst... Table 2
by vjk800 | 2025-08-19 07:16:41+00:00
Communities don't scale. This is the reason why nobody has done and why you couldn't get rich forming communities. Communities are handcrafted to accommodate the unique personalities of the people involved. Communities involve activities where a handful of people can socialize and bond. A service with a million users can never become a community because our social/grouping instincts don't work on that scale. A community should always be a few dozens of core people, with maybe a larger number of non-core people participating occasionally.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-19 07:17:03+00:00
>The Google team used Chisel instead of SystemVerilog.

Not sure blindly copying whatever Google is doing is always the right idea for small projects.

They have unlimited ad money and some quirky hiring practices, so they can afford to have development practices that go against HW industry norms, just for shits and giggles, without worrying about the costs.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-19 07:18:09+00:00
> Have we really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like,

WTF?

> that any and all discussion on things you don't already agree upon is a "reeducation campaign"?

It literally is. Why else would you want to proselytise a certain PoV to someone who doesn't share that view unless you wanted them to change their view?

When JWs[1] come to your door, from their PoV, they are "just disucssing things". From your PoV they are annoying you.

You need to make a convincing argument why you attempting to "just discuss things" is different to a JW attempting to "just discuss things".

From where the rest of us are, we see no difference. Show us that difference.

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[1] Jehova's Witnesses
by simpaticoder | 2025-08-19 07:18:36+00:00
TBH I'm glad you left it out! It's an uncomfortable aspect to his stories. His narration hovers above the action with such perfect grace... The satirical element, or its implication, somehow mars that perfection. It is probably better left unsaid by critics and admirers, and left to the individual reader. In truth I shouldn't have mentioned it.
by teekert | 2025-08-19 07:19:30+00:00
Idk, I went there a couple of times, I just love the people, the country. It’s a trip back in time. So it was my “random pick” for an exit node. And now I can read rt.com, sail the high seas, open any libgen or Anna's Archive. They're not part of the EU, seem far away from it (no euro, guarded borders, ditched their communist dictator who completely isolated the country ~40 years ago). Perhaps they are less easily coerced into censoring as practiced by countries primarily governed based on GDP and what the big corps want (although everybody seems to smoke everywhere so they could use some of that EU influence).
by bsdz | 2025-08-19 07:20:44+00:00
> at least 50% have no inner dialogue

I'm not sure I trust this. A quick search finds a Psychology Today article about it along with a single reference. I lazily suspect the result is based on some type of questionnaire.

The way "chain of thought" is used in LLMs to improve reasoning demonstrates, to me at least, the value of capturing intermediate steps in some rich compressed structure. Nothing beats that than words and sentences (see them or hear them). A lot of ideas can't be captured with just photos alone imho.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-19 07:21:17+00:00
If the junkies are providing a service, then they are Google in this analogy. Taking away drugs from junkies does cause material harm, but perhaps long-term good.

Certainly I acknowledge that Google provides useful and maybe even essential services to people. But just because we want those services doesn't mean we necessarily need to allow Google to continue providing them. A parallel in the drug world might be shady pharmacists who get people hooked on painkillers. Yes, maybe it's good to have Vicodin, but that doesn't mean we need to let this particular person control it. Similarly it might be good to have maps, but that doesn't mean it's good to have some megacorp controlling them --- even less so if they try to use that as leverage to prevent regulation of other harmful aspects of their business.
by adaml_623 | 2025-08-19 07:21:40+00:00
I think OP was incorrect in writing, "thermodynamics appear to work differently", in Exhalation.

I think the thermodynamics works the same and you've nailed it by describing it as hermetically sealed perfection. It's a simpler world where a self-aware being can see and almost feel the march of entropy and their own brief existence being part of that.
by faangguyindia | 2025-08-19 07:21:57+00:00
My parents moved from Tibet to India, recetly I learned the ancient art of 'Tummo.' I never realized I had a natural 'high altitude adaptation' until I went on a trip with a group of foreigners and people from India. It was an eye-opening moment when I saw firsthand the difficulty they had with stamina at high altitudes. Stuff like this is super fascinating for me.
by camillomiller | 2025-08-19 07:21:57+00:00
In the past people were blind as moles and still not wearing glasses just because, and/or of course because they perceived it as something that makes you look weak. Ask all the great generation. Has nothing to do with fixing anything. Another thing would be to say that they developed less eye-sight issues because they gazed in the distance more often as kids. Still debatable, but holds more water.
by closewith | 2025-08-19 07:22:02+00:00
No, it's a transitionary step before Governments introduce more comprehensive taxation regimes. You already can't work even a single day in many developed countries with becoming liable to the local taxation regime and as desirable locations developer, they inevitably have to restrict access due to overcrowding and taxation (along with visa availability) is the key lever available.

What AI is doing very effectively is allowing tax authorities to identify digital nomads illegally working in jurisdictions without registering for tax.
by internet_points | 2025-08-19 07:23:50+00:00
Is there any account that just shows boring stuff every day? Because now it says when I snooze that I won't see recommended posts unless I've scrolled past my friends' posts. So it seems I need to follow something that I'm totally uninterested in (I'm thinking gray boxes of unvarying sizes would be good), and that posts quite often.

OOh I found a use for AI slop! Getting me off instagram!
by ljf | 2025-08-19 07:23:59+00:00
Did you use GenAI to write that question? It looks like you want a GenAI answer.

Questions for you:

1. Does the start up have a clear product strategy? If so ideas should come from that.

2. What is the measure of success for the start up - other than £/$/€ - this is how you prioritise

3. What is your actual question? How to do this?

4. Entirely dependant on your product strategy, go to market plans and industry - vague answers won't help you.
by borzi | 2025-08-19 07:25:06+00:00
Absolutely crazy interpretation:

"At the same time, only 1-7% of all users want to be tracked for online advertisement if asked openly. However, "pay or okay" gets 99.9% of users to agree to online tracking. If more than 90% of users do not get what they genuinely want, we have everything but a "genuine" choice."

If I got to the shop and don't want to buy the product I should just get it for free, because that is what I genuinely want? Genuine choice = I get to choose exactly what I want, always?

Edit, because people seem to miss the point: Just because populist politicians want to legally restrict business from offering a choice does not mean that a "genuine" choice is not presented.