MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by caconym_ | 2025-08-06 19:01:06+00:00
Based on my own usage patterns I don't think this is too implausible. When I do use an LLM chatbot for a "search", I'm almost always gathering initial information to use in one or more traditional search queries to find authoritative sources.

It does kind of contradict my own assumption that most people just take what the chatbot says as gospel and don't look any deeper, but I also generally think it's a bad idea to assume most people are stupid. So maybe there's a bit of a contradiction there.
by nemomarx | 2025-08-06 19:01:20+00:00
Sure, but in the case of "he finally did X" without context passed in, how does the llm determine if it would be expanded as "this was a very anticipated change" or if the author is frustrated at how long it took? If the nuanced meaning isn't there in the input context.

obviously it can generate the longer message, but is it going to go look up what the sentence refers to and infer extra meaning automatically...?
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-06 19:01:38+00:00
I did some interesting things with folders full of GeoJSON files. It seemed fortunate enough that GeoJSON is a well supported lowest-common denominator for a lot of tools (esp. web tools) and if a thing didn't take GeoJSON there was some simple middle tool (usually a quick Python script). Pretty-printed GeoJSON gives you okay-ish diffs and if you go to an extreme like single feature per GeoJSON file (like I said, folder full of GeoJSON) and have other tools (often Python scripts) to reconstruct/deconstruct layers from all the separate files, you get things like commits/PRs where you know at a glance exactly which features changed (from the file list).

Certainly a lot more work than this new project, but as the old saying goes I suppose you should never underestimate the database power of a folder full of files.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-06 19:02:00+00:00
I don't follow

Xi Jinping has set AI as a national priority. This means that lenders (Chinese party run banks) will "lend" money to AI orgs with no financial strings attached. No business evaluation needed. This is how China does growth, they just fund it in the direction they want without much attention to profitability or returns. It's how you get billion dollar high speed rail lines that transport 50 people a day along the route.

Despite the many capitalist facets of China, it's core operations are still planned communist economy.
by SECProto | 2025-08-06 19:02:16+00:00
> Any idea why the meat of a wild pig was being processed in CA? What would they have done with it?

From the article:

Burton said his company discovered the affected animals when it was hired by an agriculture firm in late February and March to trap wild pigs that were going into the firm's fields.

His company traps the pigs and then euthanizes them according to state law, he said. He usually donates the carcass and meat of the pigs to low-income families.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-06 19:02:29+00:00
> The assumptions baked into the survey were obvious

Washington Post sent out a survey to people like me that stopped subscribing. The implicit assumption in all but one question was that WaPo was offering bundles of digital stuff at the wrong price, and not that the Bezos editorial about stopping endorsing Harris directly, and subsequent editorial meddling completely broke trust with readers.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-06 19:02:35+00:00
They can do nothing to Android because as the article points out Samsung or the entirety of China and the billions of other people in the world will just work on a fork and that will become consensus. If you have one company acting as the dominant player in an open source project, the fact that everyone else can walk away puts an implicit limit on what they can do.

To literally take Chromium as an example. Look at Google's manifest v3 changes. Brave and all the other chromium based browsers just put their own ad blocking shim on top and they're fine.
by thinkingemote | 2025-08-06 19:02:47+00:00
It seems very coincidental but totally unnoticed by many that this is occurring during discussions about AI bot activity and how to control access. ID access is a human check fundamentally with an on the surface primary aim of age checking.

To me its noteworthy that it seems that most of those who would agree that checking for human vs bot is a Good Thing are very opposed to checking for human vs human. It's advocating for the same tools, same machines, same algorithms.

I like to try to find a metaphor (or is it a simile?): it's a little bit like building surveillance and spying tools for nation states and campaigning and protesting to spying by nation states on your own person. It could be like protesting against selling arms to armies while advocating for personal gun ownership.
by unethical_ban | 2025-08-06 19:02:55+00:00
git specifically, maybe not, but something like source code control is reasonable.

Passing new legislation adds, removes or modifies text from an entity's legal documents (US or State code, for example). You see this in bills that say things like "This modifies Section 47, subsection 3, paragraph 2 to say 'people' instead of 'persons'".

So a bill can be thought of as the commit message, and implementation of the bill are the changes to the text. The executive is the "merge approver".
by Demiurge | 2025-08-06 19:02:56+00:00
I understand what you're saying. In a way, my comment is actually off-topic to most of your comment. What I was saying in my first paragraph is that the words you use in your context of a language runtime in-effeciency, can be used to describe why these in-effeciences exist, in the context of higher level processes, like business effeciency. I find your choice of words amusing, given the juxtoposition of these contexts, even saying "you pay, pay, pay".
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-06 19:03:21+00:00
> governments mandate that ... Websites/apps/etc. MAY label content (via headers) indicating when their content/service is/isn't appropriate

Which government? This list of pornographic film studios indicates they reside in many countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pornographic_film_stud...

Past that, the USA alone has thousands of governments. Many have opinions.
by ezst | 2025-08-06 19:03:23+00:00
I think it's a reasonable take after 15 years of seeing CSS/HTML/JS being abused for everything and more (when all you have is a hammer…), with the result being that many simple static pages are nowadays monstrous JS apps. My conviction is that, had those technologies stayed simple and focused on delivering the "Document" use-case, turning everything into an app would be a much bigger bridge to cross.

That's essentially where the web was at before the HTML5 days: you could already go as fancy as you wanted, at the cost of pushing your users into a java/flash applet (and through longer loading times, high CPU/Memory requirements, …), and that clearly wasn't the norm.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-06 19:03:26+00:00
> You made it personal: you left it because you don't like it anymore.

So wait, you're taking exception to someone on the internet expressing a personal opinion?

> I totally understand why you would be encouraged to think that everyone that does it would do it for the same reasons as you.

I don't think that at all. I'm very confused by your comments. I don't know what you're getting at here or why you seem to be offended.
by rybosome | 2025-08-06 19:03:38+00:00
Yeah, this is a case of "horses for courses", as you suggest.

I love Python. It's amazing with uv; I just implemented a simple CLI this morning for analyzing data with inline dependencies that's absolutely perfect for what I need and is extremely easy to write, run, and tweak.

Based on previous experience, I would not suggest Python should be used for an API server where performance - latency, throughput - and scalability of requests is a concern. There's lots of other great tools for that. And if you need to write an API server and it's ok not to have super high performance, then yeah Python is great for that, too.

But it's great for what it is. If they do make a Python 4.0 with some breaking changes, I hope they keep the highly interpreted nature such that something like Pydantic continues to work.
by WBrentWilliams | 2025-08-06 19:03:54+00:00
As noted above, I was working out of an academic lab developing new equipment. We had current-level commercial equipment at the time to use in comparisons. I matched data to the data dictionary, recovered backups, scripted backups, sent alerts to grad students that their results were done, maintained and expanded the visualization software, consulted and contributed code to a Monte Carlo simulation to demonstrate that data collected was better than random and by how much... Great little projects for a budding software developer. I had to learn just enough Chemistry and Physics beyond what I already knew to be dangerous (and also understand the what and why of what I was doing and be able to ask clarifying questions). It was fun.
by coredog64 | 2025-08-06 19:03:57+00:00
Having seen the AWS version of this type of data store, it's typically got information like billing account numbers, internal email addresses of stakeholders, customer notes about NDA'd strategy, and lists of bugs/feature requests the customer is interested.

Could totally see someone sending a message like "Hey, your TAM asked me to talk to you about $IMPORTANT_FEATURE_REQUEST, can you grant me read access in the account where you're developing $UPCOMING_SECRET_PROJECT so I can get some additional color?" It might even be enough to get someone on a conference call and pump them for MNPI about $UPCOMING_SECRET_PROJECT under the guise of ensuring that the feature request is helpful.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-08-06 19:04:51+00:00
I put all kinds of weird stuff in mine. Where/who I stole the alias from. Maybe some swear words. Broken stuff. Jokey stuff. I don't want people judging me. It's like publishing the worst of your sketch book or something. People just don't need to see it.

Which really annoys me that everything is effectively public at my place of employment. I have to mildly censor myself all the time.
by necovek | 2025-08-06 19:05:01+00:00
I never worked as an engineer like that: I always wanted to influence what I am being asked to do (I started with free software communities, moved to an open source company, and only worked "proprietary" work the last decade), and especially, challenging it when I was confident it made no sense, or when there were obvious improvements for the end user experience at lower, equal, or slightly bigger cost.

You can certainly be very productive by doing what you are told. I'd probably fail at that metric against many engineers, yet people usually found me very valuable to their teams (I never asked if it was 1x or 2x or 0.5x compared to whatever they perceive as average).

The last few years, I am focused on empowering engineers to be equal partners in deciding what is being done, by teaching them to look for and suggest options which are 10% of the effort and 90% of the value for the user (or 20/80, and sometimes even 1% effort for 300% the value). Because they can best see what is simple and easy to do with the codebase, so if they put customer hat on, they unlock huge wins for their team and business.
by OldfieldFund | 2025-08-06 19:05:18+00:00
I work at a fund, and you need millions in capital and infra. It really doesn't make sense to trade as a retail investor. Look up Dimitri Bianco on YouTube; he's quite reputable and explains why it's not really feasible to trade with your own money.

In my opinion: If you trade, trade with a firm.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-06 19:05:59+00:00
It's the signal that they have no idea what they're talking about. Always remember everything doctors said people should do to cure their stomach ulcers: the "why not?" list.

"Your medical team has carefully gone over the results of your tests, and we've finally come to the careful consensus that you should keep active, drink more water, get enough sleep but not too much, and eat your vegetables."

"But..."

"Why not? Do you think vegetables are bad for you?"

"But doctor, I have a broken leg!"
by echelon | 2025-08-06 19:05:59+00:00
> Stop trying to turn a technical specification into a generic marketing term.

It's already gone.

OpenAI, OpenArt, OpenWeb, OpenSea, OpenGov

The OSI is fucked too. The OSI definition of "open source AI" is horrible as you can't replicate or easily modify the systems without the data and tooling that the OSI definition doesn't require.

If AI eats software and the OSI definition of "open" AI wins, then we've already been captured by big business marketing.
by pryelluw | 2025-08-06 19:06:01+00:00
“Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now.”

One can also interpret this as search was such shit that the summaries are allowing users to skip that horrible user experience.

They don’t care about discoverability. It’s all ads as quickly as possible. Coming soon is ad links in summaries. That’s what they’re getting to here.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-06 19:06:01+00:00
With neovim, you have pretty good profile copy-ability. The app convention is very nice too, for isolation.

scp -r mydesktop:.config/my_bespoke_neovim $HOME export NVIM_APPNAME=$HOME/.config/my_bespoke_neovim

Using something like astrovim provides a very nice framework for declaratively bringing in and bringing together a very nice environment too. Great start, good patterns, the impressive `lazy` managing plugins under the hood.

Mason is one other core bedrock components of good neovim dx. It's the main library in the neovim galaxy for bringing in lsp servers and debug adapter protocols. It mostly just works, gives great out of box debug-ability. There's like a mini `mise` running, powering the plugins you bring in.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-06 19:06:31+00:00
87 people died in the 2018 CA outage, and PG&E was eventually charged with 117 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Nobody died due to power outages in Texas during the freeze, and the power companies were not charged with any counts of involuntary manslaughter.

In 2024, there were no deaths due to power outages in CA or in TX.

That said, comparing natural disaster deaths is a stupid way to measure the success or failure of a power grid. Success should be determined by factors like uptime or cost.

Why don't you look up the uptime and cost of the Texas grid vs the CA grid in 2024?
by MaxPock | 2025-08-06 19:06:46+00:00
I had a successful exit two years ago ,thinking retirement would be bliss,traveling here, exploring hobbies there. But it all became routine and surprisingly boring, faster than I expected.

Over time, I started forgetting things, which really unsettled me. I became increasingly lazy and unmotivated.

Earlier this year,I began volunteering as a systems administrator and network engineer for an NGO and I couldn’t be happier. The daily interaction with staff has significantly improved my cognition,which had been rapidly declining.
by Fomite | 2025-08-06 19:06:49+00:00
I do not have set hours, but I do have obligations. When a program officer wants to talk to you, and it's 6 AM because you're on the west coast, you say yes.

"You can offload as much work as you want to grad students and postdocs" is just untrue - there's always more work than there are people to do it, and I'm pretty sure a number of committees I'm on would be more than a little annoyed if I sent a postdoc.

Is it a job that has some nice properties to it? Yes. But the idea that we have summers "off", or that it's all time to contemplate blue sky research ideas, rather than go to curriculum meetings and work on monthly grant reports is a fantasy.
by seanalltogether | 2025-08-06 19:07:14+00:00
I completely agree. Android devices already have rudimentary access controls for kids through Family Link. I'd much prefer governments put pressure on Google, Apple and Microsoft to provide full control of locking down devices, apps and websites that can be managed through a kind of family service. Let me lock things down using government supplied blocklists, or google, apple blocklists with the ability to selectively enable whatever i want for the kids.
by jchw | 2025-08-06 19:07:15+00:00
Go MVS ought to be deterministic, but it still benefits from modules having lockfiles as it allows one to guarantee that the resolution of modules is consistent without needing to trust a central authority.

Go's system may be worth emulating in future designs. It's not perfect (still requires some centralized elements, module identities for versions ≥2 are confusing, etc.) but it does present a way to both not depend strongly on specific centralized authorities without also making any random VCS server on the Internet a potential SPoF for compiling software. On the other hand, it only really works well for module systems that purely deal with source code and not binary artifacts, and it also is going to be the least hazardous when fetching and compiling modules is defined to not allow arbitrary code execution. Those constraints together make this system pretty much uniquely suited to Go for now, which is a bit of a shame, because it has some cool knock-on effects.

(Regarding deterministic MVS resolution: imagine a@1.0 depending on b@1.0, and c@1.0 depending on a@1.1. What if a@1.1 no longer depends on b? You can construct trickier versions of this possibly using loops, but the basic idea is that it might be tricky to give a stable resolution to version constraints when the set of constraints that are applied depends on the set of constraints that are applied. There are possible deterministic ways to resolve this of course, it's just that a lot of these edge cases are pretty hard to reason about and I think Go MVS had a lot of bugs early on.)
by ben_w | 2025-08-06 19:07:35+00:00
> The truth is that we designed a system in which a majority of people cannot thrive and in which a lot of people end up developing problems like obesity or being labeled as ADHD.

We designed — if you can call this "design" — a system where most people are not the literal property of their feudal lords and most of them do not need to worry about literally starving to death.

Our genomes don't know we're not at constant risk of starving, they're not universally adapted to abundance. Heck, our genes are barely adapted to milk[0] or cooked food[1].

We don't know if our forebears had ADHD, but this not because they didn't, it's because approximately nobody in psychology wants to diagnose someone who isn't in the room with them — there's plenty of historical figures whose behaviour is compatible with such a diagnosis, which is a much weaker claim. Personally, I am suspicious of evolutionary psychology as being at risk of decorating "just-so" stories with just enough rigour to seem respectable, but even then one does need to make claims that at least add up, such as the ones behind this claim that it may have been an adaptation 50k years back: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-curiosities/20...

> The fact that all of these lifestyle disease increased 100 folds in the last 50 years should be a clear sign that the problem isn't the human body/brain, but whatever the fuck we're collectively agreeing to take part in.

Life expectancy over the last 50 years: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-birth-...

Here's ADHD, albeit the chart only goes back 35 years not 50. Biggest increase is (+444% ~=) 5.4x in Qatar, not 100x. "Upper-middle-income countries" was 2%, USA was 30%: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-with-adhd?tab=tabl...

> You could have used the same argument for decades about asbestos, leaded paint, leaded gas, freon, &c. and yet here we are...

Mm. And despite all those errors, where we are is "living longer and healthier lives in greater comfort… unless you're American for some reason, you guys should look at what all the rest of us have been doing and copy us". Even a few of those examples, like asbestos, were direct improvements over the previous status quo of "perhaps my house/factory will burn down with me in it".

[0] lactose tolerance

[1] Our mouths are too small for all the teeth we have, soft food diet does this, cooking makes food softer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_jaw_shrinkage
by unethical_ban | 2025-08-06 19:07:45+00:00
He is held to a much different, lower standard than other politicians. I respect the NYT but we had articles near-daily about (Biden's ) age and capacity for office, because decent people (Democrats) care about that sort of thing. Donald Trump daily shows he is mentally unfit for office and a terrible, lawbreaking citizen - but because it's expected of him and his party, it gets said and then we read about a cute cottage in Nantucket as if it's all citizens should be doing.

We should be organizing general strikes, shutting down cities and more. January 6 wasn't wrong for being violent, it was wrong because it was done for fictional pretenses.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-06 19:08:10+00:00
Yeah I really don't believe that this is really the case, especially when we had a report recently saying clicks are down.

It has become shockingly common to see people sharing a screenshot of an AI response as evidence to back up their argument. I was once busy with something so I asked my partner if he could look up something for me, he confidently shared a screenshot of an AI response from Google. It of course was completely wrong and I had to do my own searching anyways (annoyingly needing to scroll past and ignore the AI response that kept trying to tell me the same wrong information).

We have to remember that google is incentivized to keep people on Google more. Their ability to just summarize stuff instead of getting people off of google as quickly as possible is a gold mine for them, of course they are going to push it as hard as possible.
by internetter | 2025-08-06 19:08:18+00:00
"Google says" is editorializing. When others submit content from my blog they do not say "Evan Boehs says," they just take my title. Sometimes this leads to odd titles which I'm sure you notice from time to time, like product annoucements might be "Filibuster 3" and you're like "well what is Filibuster" but such is policy.
by lacoolj | 2025-08-06 19:08:28+00:00
That's odd cuz my daily task limit went up to 100.

Are you on Google Pro or using it free?

Also, I've found that even with 60, over an entire full day/night of using it for different things, I never went over 10 tasks and didn't feel like I was losing anything. To be clear, I've used this every weekend for months and I mean that I've never gone over 10 on any one day, not overall.

15 should be plenty, especially if you aren't paying for it. I will likely never use 100 even on my busiest of weekends