MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdaniel | 2025-08-29 02:57:01+00:00
A reference CI/CD architecture with a 2466 line helm values.yaml, whew <https://github.com/DoD-Platform-One/bigbang/blob/3.5.1/chart...>

I have no idea who would win in a fight between people with literal guns and IBM's legal team <https://repo1.dso.mil/big-bang/product/packages/vault/-/blob...> vs <https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/v1.20.2/LICENSE>. I guess to their credit, they do say at the top "licensing is complicated" but then go on to cite the old actual open source license that no longer applies https://github.com/DoD-Platform-One/bigbang/blob/3.5.1/docs/...
by rebane2001 | 2025-08-29 02:57:05+00:00
i'm not a "parasite" for having a personal threat model - i'm a person with a double digit number of browser CVEs, and i think it makes sense to take extra precautions because of that

and like, noscript doesn't mean you can't run javascript - it just means you have to consent to it, just like it was in the past with flash and java applets

your argument kind of assumes noscript users never run javascript, which is false
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-29 02:57:06+00:00
They make people think that.

The fact is that modern cars have astonishingly effective safety features that are likely to get you alive out of most crashes regardless of the size of your vehicle. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety publishes data that shows that larger vehicles are safer but it is not like you die in the smaller car most of the time, but rather you are more likely to break your ankle or something.

If your vehicle goes under the tractor pulled by a semi (any size) or if it flips over the guardrail because it's too big to be held by the guardrail you do die.
by skydhash | 2025-08-29 02:57:39+00:00
> Having the code compile means everything type checks and is not worthless. That's a huge constraint on valid programs.

In a business settings, what usually matter is getting something into prod and not have bug reports thrown back. And a maintainable code that is not riddled down with debts.

Compiled code is as basic as steering left and right for a F1 driver. Having the tests pass is like driving the car at slow speed and completing a lap with no other cars around. If you're struggling to do that, then you're still in the beginner phase and not a professional. The real deal is getting a change request from Product and and getting it to Production.
by bccdee | 2025-08-29 02:57:54+00:00
> I meant applying two instances to different problems. That very much scales.

You can't double the speed at which you solve a problem by splitting it in two and assigning one person to each half. Fred Brooks wrote a whole book about how this doesn't scale.

> this system is capable of producing another system by definition

Yeah, humans can produce other humans too. We're talking about whether that system can produce an improved system, which isn't necessarily true. The design could easily be a local maximum with no room for improvement.

> Humans are capable of following Moores law

Not indefinitely. Technical limitations eventually cause us to hit a point of diminishing returns. Technological progress follows a sigmoid curve, not an exponential curve.

> It isn't bound by inner problems like "(good nutrition, education, etc)", because it is a mathematical model

It's an engineering problem, not a math problem. Transistors only get so small, memory access only gets so fast. There are practical limits to what we can do with information.

> We are capable of accelerating "objects" to 0.99..c.

Are we? In practice? Because it's one thing to say, "the laws of physics don't prohibit it," and quite another to do it with real machines in the real world.

> > technical roadblock at (arbitrarily) 1.5x human intelligence

> I wrote "until the limit of information density".

Yeah, I know: That's wildly optimistic, because it assumes technological progress goes on forever without ever getting stuck at local maxima. Who's to say that it doesn't require at least 300IQ of intelligence to come up with the paradigm shift required to build a 200IQ brain? That would mean machines are capped at 200IQ forever.

> Note, that every intelligent system is completely able to be simulated by a large enough non intelligent statistical system, so intelligence isn't inferable from a set of inputs -> outputs.

This is circular. If a non-intelligent statistical system is simulating intelligence, then it is an intelligent system. Intelligence is a thing that can be done, and it is doing it.

> A system (humans) can never completely "understand" itself, because it's "information size" is as large as itself, but to contain something, it needs to be larger then this.

I don't think this logic checks out. You can fit all the textbooks and documentation describing how a 1TB hard drive works on a 1TB hard drive with plenty of room to spare. Your idea feels intuitively true, but I don't see any reason why it should necessarily be true.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-29 02:57:56+00:00
and Han Chinese culture

What kind of people do you think lives in Hong Kong and Taiwan?

It’s a very effective way of erasing and controlling people

I wonder who else has historically done the same.

Plus given that the government of China is very authoritarian and controlling and not democratic, I don’t think it’s good for the world when they get more land, resources, and economic power (which turns into military power).

Does it matter what form of government China has? Shouldn't we judge on what governments actually do?
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-29 03:00:27+00:00
Yeah I know I could leave. But if the site won't let me say no, then it shouldn't pretend to give me an option.

If they're acting like the GDPR applies, these choices are invalid. If they're not extending that courtesy, then I'd rather be left alone about it.

And they're allowed to have ads without getting consent. It's the tracking that's a problem.

And there's no chance in hell that data isn't being sold when there are hundreds of partners.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-08-29 03:00:57+00:00
that’s great! for the record, i am “pro noscript” (whatever that means). and i hope you didn’t take my comment personally. i think it’s more round what others will find compelling. for me, personally, i view “noscript” as valuable per se. i just don’t think it resonates well beyond our nerd-dom, such as it is. love the article brw, and feel ashamed that ancillary stuff like this dominates the discussion on these topics… :)
by pjm331 | 2025-08-29 03:01:09+00:00
> I have gone from using Claude Code all day long since the day it was launched to only using the separate Claude app. In my mind that is a nice balance of using it, but not too much, not too fast.

I’m on a similar journey - I never used it all day long but definitely a lot during a brief honeymoon period and now I’m back to using it very sparingly but I put questions to the Claude app all the time

For me the sweet spot for Claude code is when I have a very clear and well documented thing to set up that I really don’t want to do for the umpteenth time - like webhook signature verification - just paste the docs and let it rip - or setting up the most basic crud forms for an admin dashboard - ezpz

But otherwise I’ve gone back to mostly writing everything by hand
by Aurornis | 2025-08-29 03:01:15+00:00
It’s amusing to see these comments as if American tech companies don’t already have offices all over the world.

Even a mid-size tech company I worked for had over a dozen small offices around the world to collect as many qualified developers as they could. They had some remote work too.

Still hired a lot of Americans. Thinking that remote work will be the end of American workers has been the driving force behind outsourcing pushes for decades, but it hasn’t worked that way.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-29 03:03:03+00:00
Zhou dynasty lasted for 790 years. Does that count?

I think it's interesting to talk about. India is a democracy, yet its development is so far behind China in virtually all aspects. Democracy in India seems to create a ton of in-fighting, indecision, and lack of will power. It seems far more corrupt than China as well. India seems stuck while China leads the world in many areas.

So it doesn't seem like a democracy works for all nations (depending on what you measure). Democracy has clearly worked for many. But not all.
by tkel | 2025-08-29 03:03:15+00:00
Well said. The western definition of freedom as only individual freedom is not a good one. It is the same definition that allowed people to argue for keeping slaves, keeping other humans as their property, because "I have the freedom to do what I want with my property". And during the civil rights era, the same was true with "You can't tell me not to discriminate, I have the freedom to do what I want with my property, and my business is my property".
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-29 03:03:52+00:00
I wonder. A lot of single person GitHub projects are just people’s “hello world” or other personal experiments. Single file webserver written without “if statements” or other absurdity.

Not sure about NPM but a lot of PyPI projects are likely similar. Just now I hit “browse projects” and got this: https://pypi.org/project/helloworld-eduardo/

Nobody even extremely drunk would even think of using that stuff in a product…
by dhdjsjfjejd | 2025-08-29 03:05:01+00:00
For reference, NASA asked the group of aerospace engineers ("rocket scientists") who designed the Space Shuttle to provide them with a technical analysis of the effects of foam impacts, and then subsequently lost the Columbia with all hands because they couldn't exercise more than a high school level of reading comprehension. The engineers presented the facts as they were understood, only stopping short of doing NASA's job for them by deciding to abort reentry.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-29 03:05:15+00:00
A civil war wouldn't even necessarily be a reason for the U.S. to go into decline, it certainly wasn't the case in the 19th century. U.S. handily beat Mexico then went to war with itself then had some of the strongest economic growth in world history, as it rolled out telegraph, telephones, electricity and light bulbs, tons of rail line, invented powered flight and mass produced automobiles.

At any rate Mexico/U.S. situation is completely different than Japan/China.

Mexico is growing rapidly and America wants Mexico to succeed. It eases the burden on U.S. from excessive immigration if Mexico is able to develop its economy to a comparable level.

Mexico still has tons of problems though not least of which is the insane violence and heinous crimes committed by their cartels. It's far more likely Mexico cracks up from the cartel activity than the U.S. at this juncture.
by pentagrama | 2025-08-29 03:05:40+00:00
I like the general term "Web feed" as an umbrella term, I found about that on this article https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-are-web-feeds

Also that blog has some other good related articles:

- What is RSS: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-rss

- What is Atom: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-atom

- What is JSON feed: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-json-feed

- What are feed readers: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-are-feed-readers

- What is OPML: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-opml
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-29 03:06:05+00:00
As low as the number who buys a flagship or uses one they already have to run an immature OS may be, it’s still going to be higher than the number who buys a budget device with an immature OS, especially if your goal is to stoke developer enthusiasm.

Think about it.

The everyday Joe who might be interested in a cheap phone is going to be looking for bang for buck, which something untrusted doesn’t get them. For this person something like a budget Android phone from a proven company or a used iPhone is more attractive.

Technical people aren’t going to be interested in a budget phone because they know it’s not going to meet their standards just by looking at its specs, before even considering the OS. They wouldn’t have bought the equivalent Android phone either, and the OS just detracts further.

Lots of people buy flagships, on the other hand. It’s too not unusual for mobile developers in particular to have multiple. An OS that targets them can be put on a phone that these people already have laying around. If the OS is intriguing enough, yes, some will buy a flagship to be able to run it, because it’s low risk. Worst case scenario they have a nice Android device, which is vastly better than buying a low end phone that ends up going unused because the hardware+software combo is intolerable.
by beeflet | 2025-08-29 03:07:35+00:00
Not all software is sold as part of a business. Free software is one such example. So this comparison is inappropriate.

>I think this is something governments should have enforced long ago. Even linux distros with > N number of users should be required by law to id-verify package publishers.

There should be massive burdens and surveillance on linux and free software maintainers, because ???. I guess it's just too easy for them, so they should be shoeboxed into a business model for developing software whether they like it or not.

>You have the right to free speech, anonymity and privacy. But being able to reach and impact the public is not a right, it is a privilege.

This is just some nonsense platitude, not unlike the canadian idea of "freedom of expression". "You have the right to a completely weak and useless form of speech because I say so"

>but if you want to arrange a protest, you must give your id for the approval.

What are you yapping about old man? We have the right to assemble. There is limited radio and TV is regulated only because there is limited bandwidth.

Software is special because it is just information and Information Wants To Be Free.

You are making the argument here that because some old forms of information distribution are regulated due to technical restraints, that all forms of information should be highly regulated.

Software is just information, as I stated earlier. It could be encoded into any information medium, for example a book. So why not regulate software in the same way that books are regulated, which provides strong free speech protections?
by comex | 2025-08-29 03:07:36+00:00
I don’t understand what you mean. Training an LLM requires orders of magnitude more tokens than any one human will ever read. Perhaps an AI company can amortize across all their users, but it would still represent a substantial cost. And I’m pretty sure the big AI companies don’t rely on abusive scraping (i.e. ignoring robots.txt), so the companies doing the scraping may not have a lot of users anyway.
by kelnos | 2025-08-29 03:07:50+00:00
I mean, on one hand you have a professional psychiatrist who has treated many people for the disorder we're talking about, and on the other, we have a rando on HN who hasn't presented any credentials.

Not saying the latter person is automatically wrong, but I think if you're going to argue against something said by someone who is a subject matter expert, the bar is a bit higher.
by kev009 | 2025-08-29 03:08:22+00:00
I can see that. A little while ago I was working at a startup and we had a node.js thing that was really crucial to the business that did some gray hat browser automation stuff to scrape TikTok (the users opted into it, but TikTok itself was less permissive). For some reason a person wanted to move part of it to Python to orthogonally solve some other actual problem. They passed me the code and Pandas was there to effectively do an HTTP request and parse JSON and I thought to myself "woah, I'm not in Kansas anymore" -- I ended up not having to worry about it because I ported the idea back to the more mature node system and that turned out to be viable over time.

Libraries can overtake aspects of a language for better and worse. Ruby seemed really tied to Rails and that was great for it as an example.
by uz3snolc3t6fnrq | 2025-08-29 03:08:36+00:00
Nitter[0] seems to support it still, although it seems unmaintained - not sure how stable it is by this point. if you self host this, you should probably use burner account tokens, anti-botting measures might decide to shut down your X/twitter account

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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by TimeBearingDown | 2025-08-29 03:08:48+00:00
It's a nice sentiment. The companies with the integrations are the ones that could take it back, but they don't have the incentive to break legal agreements and share with the world.

Meanwhile the creative output of humanity is distilled into black boxes to benefit those who can scrape it the most and burn the most power, but this impact is distributed amongst everyone, so again there's little incentive among those who could create (likely legal) change.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-29 03:09:18+00:00
> No, if a company upholds their side of a contract, the customer must too, within the bounds of the law.

The company upholding their side by... doing nothing? Just give a refund if you're not providing service. And what is this about upholding your side if you're legally unable to provide the service in the first place?

> A chargeback in that situation is the _definition_ of "friendly fraud" and is actual criminal fraud.

They have to get the thing and then chargeback. Your definition is nonsense if it doesn't include them getting the thing.

> That's also criminal fraud.

It might be if they lie about something. But this isn't worth going on a tangent.

> It doesn't matter. If our terms prohibited VPN use to avoid geoblocking (which they did), it's irrelevant whether your VPN can or cannot access the cancellation page on a given day. You can email or write to us. All perfectly legal, lawful, and backed by merchant account providers.

Do they know who to email while the site is blocked? At least that's something.

But I'm not even asking about things fluctuating from day to day, I'm worried about a situation where a VPN can sign up but the same VPN at the same time can't be used to cancel.
by im_liukai | 2025-08-29 03:10:06+00:00
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by ewoodrich | 2025-08-29 03:10:27+00:00
I may not qualify as an "average user" but I shudder imagining being stuck using a 1+ yr stale model for development given my experiences using a newer framework than what was available during training.

Passing in docs usually helps, but I've had some incredibly aggravating experiences where a model just absolutely cannot accept their "mental mode" is incorrect and that they need to forget the tens of thousands of lines of out of date example code they've ingested during training. IMO it's an under-discussed aspect of the current effectiveness of LLM development thanks to the training arms race.

I recently had to fight Gemini to accept that a library (a Google developed AI library for JS, somewhat ironically) had just released a major version update with a lot of API changes that invalidated 99% of the docs and example code online. And boy was there a lot of old code floating around thanks to the vast amounts of SEO blog spam for anything AI adjacent.
by reissbaker | 2025-08-29 03:11:13+00:00
The datasheet isn't telling you the quantization (intentionally). Model weights at FP16 are roughly 2GB per billion params. A 200B model at FP16 would take 400GB just to load the weights; a single DGX Spark has 128GB. Even two networked together couldn't do it at FP16.

You can do it, if you quantize to FP4 — and Nvidia's special variant of FP4, NVFP4, isn't too bad (and it's optimized on Blackwell). Some models are even trained at FP4 these days, like the gpt-oss models. But gigabytes are gigabytes, and you can't squeeze 400GB of FP16 weights into only 128GB (or 256GB) of space.

The datasheet is telling you the truth: you can fit a 200B model. But it's not saying you can do that at FP16 — because you can't. You can only do it at FP4.
by RaftPeople | 2025-08-29 03:12:53+00:00
If you need to store a value that has two states, use a boolean, don't overcomplicate it unless there is real value in creating the complication (which there is value, sometimes).

Regarding contradictory states:

Given that just about no DB is in 5th normal form, the possibility of contradictory states exist in almost every RDBMS, regardless of booleans. It seems like an argument that doesn't really have any strength to it.
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-29 03:12:54+00:00
> I think the author needs to shop at "richer" places for the treatment they want.

I think this is the mentality that’s killing the service industry. When I order a $5 coffee that’s basically just a person pouring some coffee in a cup, they expect 30% tip for the service. The swinging the obnoxious iPad with the ridiculous tip amounts for basically doing your job is what is wrong with everything right now. It may not be the worker’s fault but it is what is wrong from a customer experience. Like you could order a cheeseburger and it’s missing the fries that come with it, and you’d be the asshole to point out that they’re missing in your to go bag after paying $30 for it.
by jimmytucson | 2025-08-29 03:13:10+00:00
That’s because every business is “scaled” to the point that the edge employees —- ie the people who interact with paying customers —- don’t own anything, and are 12 levels of management away from anyone who does.

My grandparents owned a grocery store. Their name was on the sign. If you brought home spoiled meat, that was their name and you as a member of their community that were put out.

When my mom brings home spoiled meat from Stop & Shop, she goes back there not just to exchange it, but to complain to someone about how it messed up her barbecue plans, etc. And I’m like seriously, why would anyone working at Stop & Shop give a rat’s ass about your family gathering? Stop & Shop is owned by a Dutch multinational “food retail” company.

But that’s not the capitalism she grew up with. She actually thinks capitalism is great because it allowed her parents to come over on a boat as teenagers and make lives for themselves, and have extra to send back home. But she hates it when she calls her cable company and ends up chatting with a girl in Singapore. Go figure.