MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-01 09:16:52+00:00
To be fair, both you and GP are correct. Conda is really really painful to maintain, and it's also much much better for python stuff that relies on native libraries (i.e. C/Fortran/Cuda).

Like, I love uv but GDAL (to use a random recent example) is much easier to install and maintain with conda.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-01 09:17:19+00:00
Fancy has a lot of meanings. For me, fancy means higher quality, for you means glitter/shimmer inks, which I personally don't prefer to use. However, having different opinions are OK, though, this is how it should be.

For me, a good permanent or IG ink is fancy enough, because I can use them in my lab notebooks and be sure to open and re-read it five years later. For you, a fancy ink brings you joy and has different tricks IIUC, and is equally valid.
by tim333 | 2025-08-01 09:17:58+00:00
Re the capabilities of neurons, the argument in Moravec's paper seem quite solid, comparing the capabilities of a bit of the brain we understand quite well, the retina, to computer programs doing the same function.

My feeling is we have enough compute for ASI already but not algorithms like the brain. I'm not sure if it'll get solved by smart humans analysing it or by something like AlphaEvolve (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489).

One advantage of computers being much quicker than needed is you can run lots of experiments.

Just the power requirements make me think current algorithms are pretty inefficient compared to the brain.
by serallak | 2025-08-01 09:19:24+00:00
> JavaScript / Ruby / Python: All provide JSON-style literals ([1,2,[3,4]], {"x":1,"y":[2,3]})

The Perl syntax for this is pretty similar:

[1,2,[3,4]], {"x", 1,"y", [2,3]}

that can also be written, with a bit of syntactic sugar:

[1,2,[3,4]], {x => 1, y => [2,3]}

For many, if not most, cases, given a Perl data structure, the round trip "Perl -> JSON -> Perl" is transparent.
by mattigames | 2025-08-01 09:20:38+00:00
They are all controversial matters, therefore conflicting sources are not only expected but desired to be informed by the LLMs when asking such matters, the report by well-funded likely-biased sources (e.g. Israel government) would obviously needed to be given less credibility, estimates that are widely different that all the rest would also need to be given less credibility, and so on.
by Xss3 | 2025-08-01 09:20:38+00:00
I let thistles, ragwort, clovers, and other flowering native "weeds" grow tall and flower fully, let the grass seed at knee height before cutting it each year, keep some deadfall around, and pile sticks along the fence line. Its still perfectly navigable. The grass is flattened under foot.

When cutting i use a scythe and sheers to minimise the amount of caterpillars etc. getting killed.

For my protected potted/bedded plants i use a variety of natural methods to keep aphids and snails at bay, and they work brilliantly. Bait plants (some weeds fill this purpose too), Neem oil treatment, nematodes, and more.

The amount of life, happy bugs, birds, bees, etc. i find thriving, and the variety, fills me with far more joy than the equivalent of giving my garden a bowl cut.
by a96 | 2025-08-01 09:21:18+00:00
I once knew a manager who told a group of us engineers that they love getting contacted by customers. The angrier the better.

This was baffling, of course. But the explanation was that every time it was an opportunity to listen to their problems and ask questions and figure out what the problem was and try to work out a solution. Might be their expectations or their situation or it might be the company product or service. Either way, they could usually find a way to make things better and the customer would end up being happier than they were before the talk.

It's still pretty far down the list of jobs that I'd ever want to do, but I can really relate to the motivation. Made a lot of sense.
by tallanvor | 2025-08-01 09:22:34+00:00
Keep in mind that inertia is a thing. Businesses used to have to make an impression on your card on carbon copy paper and physically send the slips in to be processed. When they started swiping cards, restaurants would only have one terminal and it had to be connected to a phone line to work. Both of these situations made it common for you to hand your card to the waiter (usually in the book they brought the check) because they couldn't do it at the table.

Credit cards caught on later in other parts of the world, and they benefited from having more modern options with regards to the equipment used. Governments and banks also did more to mandate the use of security features (chip & pin) than in the US - American banks like people using credit cards - it makes them a lot of money and they're incentivized to keep the barriers low as long as the amount of fraud is manageable to them.
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 09:22:36+00:00
Not sure where you have (or haven't been), but I've been to several countries where I've tried to tip, and it's confused or even embarrassed the staff. They insisted I take my change. Granted, this was 15-20 years ago, and unfortunately tipping has become more pervasive, not less, so maybe if I were to revisit those places, things would be different.

But I do know this is still the case in Japan. Some Japanese service workers or small business owners will even be insulted if you try to tip.
by xwolfi | 2025-08-01 09:22:50+00:00
"Are you an LLM?" poof, fails the Turing test.

Even if they lie, you could ask them 20 times and they d reply the lie, without feeling annoyed: FAIL.

LLMs cannot pass the Turing test, it's easy to see they're not human. They always enjoy questions ! And they never ask any !
by poszlem | 2025-08-01 09:23:05+00:00
Could Switzerland's prosperity instead be linked to its historical role in safeguarding gold taken from Jewish victims during World War II, its tradition of banking secrecy that enabled dictators like Ferdinand Marcos, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Sani Abacha to conceal their assets, or its longstanding willingness to accept money from oligarchs avoiding sanctions, tax evaders, arms dealers, corrupt officials, drug traffickers, and fraudsters?
by tim333 | 2025-08-01 09:23:08+00:00
>so far away from being able to construct anything that could think like a human being that the beginning of it isn't even in sight.

To me things like MuZero (learns go etc. without even being told the rules) and the LLMs getting gold in the math olympiad recently suggest we are quite close to something that can think like a human. Not quite there but not a million miles off either.

Both in human terms involve thinking and are beyond what I can do personally. MuZero is already superintelligent in board games but current AI can't do things like tidy your room and fix your plumbing. I think superintelligence will be gradually achieved in different specialities.

>like Leonardo Da Vinci and his aerial screw

that didn't function. Current AI functions quite a lot. I think we are more maybe like people trying to build things that will soar like and eagle but we presently have the Wright bros plane making it 200m.
by social_quotient | 2025-08-01 09:23:36+00:00
Unrelated, but this reminds me of a persistent headache on Windows. My screensaver refuses to kick in, no matter what. After tumbling down a rabbit hole longer than I’d care to admit, it’s clear I’m not alone… tons of apps and processes hijack idle detection, leaving my OLED panels stuck on static displays overnight (hello, burn-in risk).

Anyone know of a solid Windows equivalent to Sleep Aid for diagnosing and fixing these wake/sleep ghosts?
by bakuninsbart | 2025-08-01 09:23:48+00:00
On the contrary, Figma's value proposition is increased by LLMs. Current coding assistants are like savant-idiot junior devs: They have relatively low reasoning capabilities, way too much courage, lack taste and need to be micromanaged to be successful.

But they can be successful if you spell out the exact specifications. And what is Figma if not an exact specification of the design you want? Within a couple of years the Frontend Developer Market might crash pretty hard.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-08-01 09:23:53+00:00
I think the direction of this is awesome, though I'd also say there's a reverse argument to be made that I'm more sympathetic to.

Rather than figuring out the less glamorous side (i.e. coffee bean suppliers) and wondering if you'd like doing that thing, I think the opposite could be a good question too:

Do I love the upside enough to deal with the downside?

No cafe owner will enjoy getting permits rejected because your bathroom sink is too high to be wheelchair accessible, replacing a supplier because they no longer carry the butter you like or having a barista not show up for work (all real examples from cafe owner friends).

But they love it enough to go through with it anyway because they care about the result. I think we should view it more that way.

Ask an aspiring software engineer if they would like to do daily 9am standups, spend hours in Jira and be lectured by a product manager who last wrote code in 2012 and they'll say no.

Experienced software engineers don't enjoy that either. They do enjoy building software enough to put up with that stuff though.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-01 09:24:06+00:00
Well, people consider Hungary to be in Eastern Europe, but it actually is in Central Europe, and so is Poland.

I use "Eastern Europe" when I am referring to Hungary only because people typically think that Hungary is in Eastern Europe. Perhaps I should stop doing that and just use "Central Europe", since it is them who are incorrectly believing it is in Eastern Europe.
by gwd | 2025-08-01 09:24:17+00:00
> If someone said they were anti monopoly, that the government should do something to prevent businesses from operating like that, I'd never expect them to be from the right to be honest.

So consider several perspectives:

a. The government should be in charge of, or at least heavily involved in, planning and organizing most resources in a country.

b. The market is a good way of solving most problems, and it works best if you just leave it alone, enforcing only very minimal rules (like property ownership, contracts, and such).

c. The market can be a good way of solving many problems, if it's regulated so that it has the properties you want.

Now consider other questions: Should abortion or pornography be legal / easily available? Should we invest in a large military? Should the government actively support "diversity" programs? Should gay marriage be allowed? How should the government relate to transgender people?

There are LOTS of people who believe in c as a principle, but have very non-"lefty" opinions on the other questions. Loads of people who consider themselves "on the right" think that everyone "on the left" actually believes a, not c; and loads of people who consider themselves "on the left" think that everyone "on the right" actually believes b, not c.

My sense is actually that the reason he talks that way is to make sure that people who consider themselves "on the left" don't mistake him for being someone "on the right" (and therefore in camp b), and immediately dismiss his claims.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-01 09:25:03+00:00
My fuzzy understanding, and I'm not at all an expert on this, that the main benefit is that bf16 is less prone to overflow/underflow during calculation, which is a source of bigger problems in both training and inference than the simple loss of precision, so once it became widely supported, it became a commonly-preferred format for models (whether image gen or otherwise) over FP16.
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-01 09:25:13+00:00
I know several people who got burn out working in the js ecosystem and who went to php instead. Finally things are quiet, stable and fast. Older people I know don't really care (I worked with IBM software in the 80s/90s, talking about slow and bloated), but the younger ones get very upset with the churn, bloat, overhead, etc.
by petercooper | 2025-08-01 09:25:32+00:00
I agree with your post. But..

I'm from the UK and travel in the US a lot and US service is much better. I've never had to chase up the check or had to go and search for staff to serve me after sitting there for ten minutes. These are common occurrences in the UK for me.

Ideally, tipping wouldn't exist and everything would be priced in, but pragmatically, incentives grant extra benefits to both parties. Potential for more money for the server, better service (and the ability to punish bad service) for the customer.

(I know everyone making similar observations is getting voted down, so I appreciate I may simply be far off the bell curve on this and the majority experience the total opposite. But it's my reality.)
by lavarnann | 2025-08-01 09:26:21+00:00
Every praise of LLM is invariably preceded by some form of "I don't really understand their output but it looks great". That right there is the strongest signal I've caught so far that the whole thing is just a funny money pyramid.

In Sirens of Titan Vonnegut tells a story where governments decided to boost the space industry to drive aggregate demand.

This is exactly what is happening. When you realize that the whole thing is predicated on building and selling more $100,000 GPUs (and the solution to every problem therein is to use even more GPUs), everything really comes into focus.
by briansm | 2025-08-01 09:26:46+00:00
that's not true, consumerism is only growing, people are not giving up anything in that regard.

The planet is getting trashed and 'the children' are doomed.

Individually We try and help, driving less, recycling and so on, but it kinda gets diluted by a billion Chinese moving into the middle-class and burning coal like there's no tomorrow.
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 09:27:00+00:00
I dunno, I was in Europe (Belgium and France) last summer, and I thought the service was generally excellent. A bit slower in France, perhaps, than in the US, but I chalked that up to people just generally not being in as much of a hurry as they can be in the US. (And hell, there are plenty of places in the US where service is slower than I'd like.)

We tend to avoid touristy areas, though, when we travel, so maybe that explains the better service. If I had to work in a service job that caters to tourists, I'd probably be less happy too.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-01 09:27:38+00:00
That is typical Go design school, even the channels stuff, we already had that in Java and .NET ecosystem, even if the languages don't have syntax sugar for launching co-routines.

But go-routines!

Well, on .NET land we would be using Task Processing Library, or Dataflow built on top of it, with tasks being switched over the various carrier threads.

Or if feeling fancy, reach out to async workflows on F# with computation expressions, even before async/await came to be.

While on the Java side, we would be using java.util.concurrent, with future computations, having fun with Groovy GPars, or Scala frameworks like Akka.

In both platforms, we could even go the extra mile and write our own scheduling algorithms, how those lightweight threads would be mapped into carrier threads.

Naturally not having some of the boilerplate to handle all of that, or using multiple languages on the same project, makes it easier, hence why now we have all those goodies, with async/await or virtual threads on top.
by arghwhat | 2025-08-01 09:29:07+00:00
But note that for Denmark, it's only correct by default in simple employment cases without notable investment, retirement, transport/house/mortgage related deductibles, etc.

And it's not at all simple once you have to actually check or change details. It's so complicated that the online UI will only show you a fraction of the available fields by default, and they often reset year-by-year, or get weird values. And then there's the whole real estate taxation scandal...

And more importantly than fixing the statement, you have to actually understand the whole taxation situation to make financial decisions throughout the year. How a mortgage partially interacts with capital gains taxation, dividend and income interact with progressive taxation, how your different investments are spread across a number of different taxation types and intervals, how your spouse's tax situation affects yours, etc. etc.

If you don't pay attention to that, you'll end up missing out on the deductibles the politicians promised you but intentionally handicapped to death by making it yet another obscure tax exception stacking on top of the rest. >:(

I'd gladly pay a bit more tax if I could just get it to be ONE flippin' rate.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-08-01 09:29:15+00:00
SecureBoot uses an existing certificate implementation which supported expiration, for a scenario where a having a reliable clock in unfeasible.

SecureBoot would have been better off with certificates that never expire. That's not a problem in cases where users (or organisations) manage their own hosts, since they can just changed the certificate when the previous one is no longer valid or leaked or whatever.

In practice, SecureBoot rolled out with a single CA for everyone, one controlled by Microsoft. This provides little value for anyone—restricting your computer to "only boot stuff signed by a third party" doesn't really protect from attackers in any way. They'll just boot into one of the many programs signed by MS. But because a single CA is used globally, you want expiration so as to roll them over every few years. But remember: there's no way to have a reliable clock. And so, we have the mess that we have.

The grand majority of Linux users could disable SecureBoot tomorrow and their system's security would not change in any meaningful way.
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 09:29:38+00:00
Ah that's the difference, then. You equate good service with bringing the check immediately. I'm afraid not doing that isn't bad service, it's just a cultural difference that you have to get used to when you travel sometimes.

Having said that, on the occasion when I've been in places like that and I really was in a hurry, no one has looked at my funny or seem put out when I've flagged someone down to ask for the check.
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by liuwei | 2025-08-01 09:29:49+00:00
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by skyzouw | 2025-08-01 09:30:57+00:00
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by znpy | 2025-08-01 09:31:43+00:00
> But I don't know, it's not completely rational, I still love my Raspberry Pis.

Feelings over facts, at least you acknowledge it.

The success of (and the issues with) the raspberry pi mainly derive from it being mistaken for a good home-server platform. It's not, it's awful for that use case. For pretending it to be an embedded systems platform (either for prototyping or to later target the compute modules for production usage) sure, it's great.

It's all fine as long as the (computing) needs are low and budget is not an issue.
by Ma8ee | 2025-08-01 09:32:40+00:00
I'm pointing out that there is an implied assumption that private always is better than public, and that assumption in many cases is just plain wrong. Not in all cases, market economy works great for many things, but there are also many cases it plainly sucks. When you warn that private initiatives might be crowded out, it is implicit that those are more desirable than public initiatives.

This kind of discussion is a bit off topic here, but I think it is important to remind people that the idea that private always is better than public is ideological dogma, not science. But your latest comment makes me believe you agree with that.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-08-01 09:33:06+00:00
I live in a country with near zero tipping culture.

For the most part I find the food gets to my table at some point but I'm rarely particularly happy with customer service. It's sometimes an awkward negotiation to get their attention or to ask something. The opposite was true in my time living in the US - soft skills, fast response, engagement are standard. And I've been on both sides of that in food service.

Now, the logic of what youre talking about makes perfect sense and I agree with that in principle. And yet there is something about dining that is somehow different. Escapes that definition.

There are also times I find that exchanging money is more honest. I want you to serve me, I'm paying you, I don't have to keep at the back of my mind a question whether I'm asking something beyond what your boss expects/pays you. I like that about the US - it's brutal but that's reality.

Don't get me wrong, I live in EU for a reason, but some things here are made unnecessarily complicated and oblique too.