MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scotty79 | 2025-08-27 13:09:55+00:00
We kinda do that blaming every new media for particular teens suicide.

Some teens are suicidal. They always have been. When you are a teen your brain undergoes traumatic transformation. Not everyone gets to the other side safely. Same as with many other transformations and diseases. Yet every time new medium is found adjacent to some particular suicide we repeat the same tired line that creator of this medium should be to blame and should be punished and banned.

And we are doing that while happily ignoring how existence of things like Facebook or Instagram provably degraded mental health and raised suicidality of entire generations of teenagers. However they mostly get a pass because we can't point a finger convincingly enough for any specific case and say it was anything more than just interacting with peers.
by rich_sasha | 2025-08-27 13:09:56+00:00
From a game theory PoV this is interesting.

Remember Jan 2025? US back then was allied to Europe, Japan, Australia and a bunch of other places. And these places, largely due to their own volition, outsourced their security to the US (it was a mutually agreed but stupid decision for non-USians).

Now Trump, stupidly or not, is using this leverage to extort things: money, land, power, influence.

The question is: should you start treating the US as a hostile power now, hope to stem this quickly, but potentially aggregate the hostile power more? Or should you go along, make some concessions, hope he goes away.

It is a little like Sudetenland, except we're not 20 years after a world war co-started by the US. And US is still largely a democratic country. What would make the pro-Trump camp lose the next election? Etc etc
by nabla9 | 2025-08-27 13:10:09+00:00
Reality check.

https://arcprize.org/blog/hrm-analysis

...we made some surprising findings that call into question the prevailing narrative around HRM:

1. The "hierarchical" architecture had minimal performance impact when compared to a similarly sized transformer.

2. However, the relatively under-documented "outer loop" refinement process drove substantial performance, especially at training time.

3. Cross-task transfer learning has limited benefits; most of the performance comes from memorizing solutions to the specific tasks used at evaluation time.

4. Pre-training task augmentation is critical, though only 300 augmentations are needed (not 1K augmentations as reported in the paper). Inference-time task augmentation had limited impact.

Findings 2 & 3 suggest that the paper's approach is fundamentally similar to Liao and Gu's "ARC-AGI without pretraining".
by dijit | 2025-08-27 13:10:12+00:00
There are two choices:

Local First stalwart that has some legacy || Cloud first "new kid" but you surrender your files.

The issue is, first: they changed the deal. Change by default is bad. People need to learn this because honestly it's an important lesson. Change is inherently bad, so if you're going to change: have a stonking good reason.

Second: Now the drawbacks of the second "hip" alternative is included the same drawbacks of the first. So, now, Google Office is a strictly superior offering.

Congratulations, I guess?

Yes, more people should use libreoffice, but most people are concerned with compatibility, a sunk cost on their office skills and it's pretty bad UX.
by e-khadem | 2025-08-27 13:10:13+00:00
Sometimes things happen in life, and we don't have any agency. The person apparently had some medical issues as well.

These excuses cannot be used to discount the role of ChatGPT in this. In highschool and at university I knew a few guys (n = 7) that attempted suicide. They all survived because they didn't have the knowledge of "known to work" methods and the survival rates of other methods. And then people noticed their struggles, they were sent to therapy and thankfully all recovered.

The point I'm trying to make is that, even telling someone (or not) that "this drug overdose won't kill you" and "you can hide the noose red marks on your neck like this" can literally be the difference between life and death. I would even lean on the side of "no information and straight refusal is the better action" here.
by tyleo | 2025-08-27 13:10:56+00:00
I feel like we’re in an era of dark monetization patterns. This “whale” monetization reminds me of online advertising where if you aren’t paying you’re the product.

It isn’t quite the same but it’s something like, “if you aren’t paying, you’re incentivizing whales.”

Underneath all the darkness a business has to make money. People are voting with time and money that the whale strategy is optimal just like they vote with time and money that advertising is optimal.

I don’t know what to do about this all. It seems like it’s just a shitty fact of human nature.
by PedroBatista | 2025-08-27 13:10:57+00:00
The Github website is slow everywhere. It is truly a piece of shit software both in terms of performance but also UX/UI and everything in between.

It's a product of many cooks and their brilliant ideas and KPIs, a social network for devs and code being the most "brilliant" of them all. For day to day dev operations is something so mediocre even Gitlab looks like the golden standard compared to Github.

And no, the problem is not "Rails" or [ insert any other tech BS to deflect the real problems ].
by ballenf | 2025-08-27 13:11:02+00:00
I had a similar experience on a smaller scale (but it was huge to me). Spent around $300 on a mobile game that was on top the charts at the time. Before that I didn't think I was the type of person who could fall prey to such a thing. A bigger mistake was thinking that there was "a type of person". (Or maybe there is and I'm in denial!)

It was humbling to realize how warped and blind I became.

Had to google it, but the game was Game of War: Fire Age. At the time they had a gambling mechanic where you'd buy chest with say 1000 gems and, for a time, it would be guaranteed to grant you well over 1000 gems. That hooked me and I felt really smart. Then they set the real plan into action --gradually and silently nerfing the payouts. And I played right into it, spending a little more and a little more to keep up. This was 2018, or so, I think.

So, for me, it was my pride and ego combined with seeing a rise in leaderboards and esteem in my clan that hooked me.

The core game mechanic was one where everything you built up would be utterly destroyed by someone much stronger every day or two, but you'd be left with just enough that you felt like you could rebuild and get stronger. And just another IAP or two would prevent it from happening again. It would help, but it only meant that you were an even juicier target for an even bigger whale.

The game was slick, but not too slick. It had some rough UI elements which perversely made me less alert to how well-engineered the IAP psychology was.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-27 13:11:10+00:00
I got 10 upvotes on my first answer, and 4 on the next one, how many did you have?

Maybe not everyone is so enthusiastic to reduce their skill level while simultaneously lining the pockets of our corporate overlords? Have you considered that you are in the wrong, and that's why you are irrationally triggered by people questioning your stance?

The science is clear: you start cognitively declining the more you use LLMs:

https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artifi...

The current research on experienced developers (be mindful this study is on experienced developers so if your mileage varies, take a second look at the word experienced) shows that their performance also declines by roughly 19% while using LLMs.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

So, you are deskilling yourself while at the same time producing less than before and wasting money and burning resources, for what?

I already can see the opportunity for a business for those of us who didn't get our brains rotted by the overuse of LLMs, to fix the messes created by "engineers" using LLMs.
by fleebee | 2025-08-27 13:11:15+00:00
I came across a blog post[1] (HN thread[2]) recently that sheds some light on the issue. The tl;dr is that the PR view can render over 100 000 DOM nodes, many of which are invisible inline SVG nodes, and SPA routing makes navigation a lot slower.

[1]: https://yoyo-code.com/why-is-github-ui-getting-so-much-slowe...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861
by potamic | 2025-08-27 13:11:19+00:00
So many years of software development and we just haven't figured out a way to communicate project timelines cleanly across all parties. If leadership hears a project is going to take one year, what they actually hear is two years and panic, because that just won't fly. Management realizes this and says 6 months so they can win the project. Developers panic because they know it can't be done in 6 months, but management doesn't tell them in the hope that they rush and pull it through ahead of time. In the end the project most likely takes a year, leadership is happy but don't miss out on the opportunity to grumble about overshooting timelines which management aptly pass down to the poor developers who feel hard done by all of this. It's an unfortunate game of deception, mistrust and double-guessing which has no bearing on the outcome but to add some additional stress to everyone involved, and we just can't seem to get out of it.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-27 13:11:23+00:00
> Are you aware that RN, at this very moment, has by far the most seats of any party in the French parliament? Those far-right sentiments didn't magically disappear on election day.

And the Social Democrats has been the largest party in Sweden since the early 1900s. Given that the left, with all parties combined, haven't held a majority since 2006 while managing to rule with a minority government from 2014 to 2022.

You make a lot of noise for understanding quite little.

Yes. The US has a broken political system, and you the American people haven't done jack shit to fix it.

> So: Even assuming we grant your argument, Trump's power in the US has more to do with quirks of our political system than something fundamental about American culture.

Trumps power in the US is entirely because he is what the American psyche wants or tolerates.

You keep attempting to dodge the outcome and blame it on everyone else. But you need to own it.

Trump is personifying America, which is quite evident given how he has won twice. The American people wants him.
by simpaticoder | 2025-08-27 13:11:31+00:00
Well then, you live in the best of worlds because every laptop is repairable even at the chip level or individual capacitor/resistor/connector level. All you need is a workshop, a multimeter, oscilloscope, probes, a hot air gun, a microscope, a variety of soldering tools, a variety of solder, solder mask, access to schematics and donor boards, and a lifetime of experience. Here's a guy who repairs Dell laptops all day every day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsP1--ttQc
by Aurornis | 2025-08-27 13:11:47+00:00
> I’ve struggled with gambling issues in the past, and the more I look at this, the more it feels like the same pattern playing out again

This is a common theme: Someone has a recognized gambling problem, but they don’t realize that a game like this is feeding their gambling habit.

A similar thing happens with stock trading apps like RobinHood: People who know they have a gambling addiction don’t recognize (or won’t admit) that their usage patterns are just gambling in a different format. These are the stories that end up on /r/wallstreetbets where someone traded their $30K account down to $20 through options trading before they admitted that they had a problem.
by RajT88 | 2025-08-27 13:12:49+00:00
I have tried this tack. All fish everywhere are tainted by mercury to some extent. They seem not to care.

The thing which seemed to make them shut up was doing the math showing that the total weight of just coal ash from a coal plant running for a year is comparable to the entire weight of materials for a similar capacity wind farm (which is rated for ~20 years of use). I assume similar or less for solar (numbers harder to find).
by Aurornis | 2025-08-27 13:13:03+00:00
> like "the top 1% players of this game spent an average on $5,000 on it last year"

The top 1% don’t spend nearly that much. The number of people spending eye-popping amounts is relatively small. You have to get deep into the long tail before it gets into the hundreds or thousands.

Posting these numbers might have the opposite effect: Players who spend a lot of money want to be at the top of leaderboards. If they saw what the 1% were spending they might convince themselves that not only is it okay to spend that much, but that they need to spend even more.
by brenoca | 2025-08-27 13:13:12+00:00
I agree 100%, very valid and fair points.

Regarding moonshot projects, I expect those to exist in light of a potential breakthrough in technique. Kind of connecting point 3 and 1 that you made.

I predict that we will see a breakthrough like we saw on transformers in 5 years from now, due to the new interest, capital (financial and human) being dedicated to this cause.

I think the best OpenAI can do is to make their product a cash cow, by reducing cost and focusing on moonshot breakthroughs to stay ahead of the curve.

Keeping in mind that it was almost 3 decades between CNNs and transformer techniques. CNNs came out in 1989 while transformers in 2017. I expect this kind of window to dramatically shorten with the renewed interest in the field.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-27 13:13:16+00:00
Part of the value proposition for bringing in outside libraries was: when they improve it, you get that automatically.

Now the threat is: when they “improve” it, you get that automatically.

left-pad should have been a major wake up call. Instead, the lesson people took away from it seems to have mostly been, “haha, look at those idiots pulling in an entire dependency for ten lines of code. I, on the other hand, am intelligent and thoughtful because I pull in dependencies for a hundred lines of code.”
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-27 13:13:17+00:00
Some AV / endpoint protection software could flag those files. Some corpo deep inspection software could flag those if downloaded / requested from the web.

The cc/geminicli were just an obfuscation method to basically run a find [...] > dump.txt

Oh, and static analysis tools might flag any code with find .env .wallet (whatever)... but they might not (yet) flag prompts :)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-27 13:13:29+00:00
I worked for hardware manufacturers for most of my career, as a software guy.

In my experience, hardware people really dis software. It's hard to get them to take it seriously.

When something like this happens, they tend to double down on shading software.

I have found it very, very difficult to get hardware people to understand that software has a different ruleset and workflow, from hardware. They interpret this as "cowboy software," and think we're trying to weasel out of structure.
by Someone | 2025-08-27 13:13:37+00:00
I think it would be easy, but still not worth the transistors. Think of it: what programs contain lots of NOPs? Who, desiring to write a fast program, sprinkles their code with NOPs?

It’s not worth optimizing for situations that do not occur in practice.

The transistors used to detect register clearing using XOR foo,foo, on the other hand, are worth it, as lots of code has that instruction, and removing the data dependency (the instruction technically uses the contents of the foo register, but its result is independent of its value) can speed up code a lot.
by orwin | 2025-08-27 13:13:52+00:00
With such a terrain, I would guess that agility and the ability to land on highway of in fields without burning all avionics and electronics would have been rated higher than stealth, but it wasn't. Still, the Swiss were offered a fairly low price, and promised low operating costs, and that's the main reason they didn't choose the Eurofighter (which isn't a multi-purpose jet but an interceptor)
by justsomehnguy | 2025-08-27 13:13:58+00:00
> But you do see any 2.5" / SATA solutions?

> Nobody makes any SATA products.

Because there is no demand for it. 2.5" HDDs stopped to grow in size 10 years ago. If you need capacity you use 3.5" HDDs, if you need speed you use M.2/2.5" SATA SSDs and 2.5" SATA HDDs... what are these could be used for?

There is no capacity with 2.5" HDDs, it's only 1TB CMR HDDs x numdrives, ie 5TB RAW for 620slim, 4TB RAW for TS-410E.

Or you risk it all and use a 4/5TB SMR HDDs for a ~20~25TB of RAW capacity and now you can't use RAID.

So what the point?

> but the prices need to be somewhere in the middle of HDD/NVMEs per TB

... and why a SATA SSDs should be cheaper than the NVMe ones? Especially if they are both use the same flash modules?

https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-410e/specs/hardware
by jmclnx | 2025-08-27 13:14:13+00:00
And one has to wonder, will M/S used these cloud documents for their AI push ? Even if the Word Docs are encrypted, I fully believe Microsoft can read the text in those documents.

People should realize everything you do in Excel and Word is being spied on by Microsoft, this cloud push is making that process easier and faster for M/S.

At the very least, go to Libreoffice. But better yet, as you just did, people need to abandon Microsoft and Apple for Linux or a BSD.
by vharuck | 2025-08-27 13:14:26+00:00
Every set will introduce two or three new mechanics. Some of the cards from that set will be entirely based around those mechanics (for example, Vehicles as artifacts that become creatures when "crewed" by other creatures). Many cards will be staples needed in every set with a new mechanic attached (e.g., "Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains X until end of turn"). Also, sometimes mechanics are tweaks and improvements to old ones that didn't pan out well.

I listen to the lead designer's (Mark Rosewater) Drive to Work podcast. He's worked for MTG as a contractor or employee since the mid 90s. He's mentioned this problem a couple times. His solutions: (1) See MTG as a basic rules system for playing different kinds of games. Makes sense, considering it has multiple win conditions and methods of achieving them. (2) With each set, focus on a theme and dive as deep as you can. There's been a "World's Fair steampunk" set, a titanic Lovecraftian monsters set, a Greek mythology set.
by pxc | 2025-08-27 13:14:29+00:00
As someone who uses Nix and direnv to manage development environments, the additional speed will be nice for me. I don't need rv to supply a Ruby for me at all, but just a really fast Bundler would be nice.

My environment reasserts that the correct things are installed every time I change into the directory. A no-op Bundle install takes a couple hundred milliseconds, which is not great for something you want to run constantly and automatically. Getting that down to tens of milliseconds will be really nice for me!
by nemomarx | 2025-08-27 13:14:56+00:00
He's reported to have many more liberal friends when he was in college, used to be vocally anti trump, wrote a book criticizing rural Americans and their culture before running on a base of them. That kinda stuff.

At minimum he's made a never Trump - maga pivot for political expediency but it also seems like his positions are tied to whatever Peter thiel wants
by gritzko | 2025-08-27 13:15:15+00:00
I myself made a simple query language out of necessity. My key-value CRDT store [1] needed some syntax for basic queries. It was strictly minimalistic, like {type:fruit} would produce [{type:fruit name:banana}...] and so on. When I think how to evolve it I lean towards adding lisp-like expression support. Cause I have a small lisp readily available.

I wonder if there is a good birds-eye FAQ/HOWTO/overview of all the existing (families) of query languages. Just to systematize Datalog, GraphQL, SQL, there are tons of them.

[1]: https://github.com/gritzko/go-rdx
by the_af | 2025-08-27 13:15:20+00:00
> I guess what I am sort of getting at is that no amount of trusting labels to delineate intellectuals will protect you from having to actually look at something and decide whether the person has something useful or interesting to say or not.

I actually agree with this! I'm sure Deacon has interesting things to say. And yes, I can only find out about it by reading him, not by reading Wikipedia's summary -- or you.

Michael Behe didn't have the right kind of credentials: he was speaking outside his area of expertise, as was noted repeatedly during that debacle. He co-opted the mantle of capital-letter Science and misused it to maliciously confuse his audience.

> I think at the basic level of philosophy of science or physics or whatever, the idea that we can break up disciplines into clear chunks is just silly.

Of course all distinctions are man-made and therefore arbitrary. Yet you have a doctorate in Physics, and not in Neuroanthropology. At a fundamental level, you understood if Physics interested you, there was a path for you which was this path and not that other path. The border might be fuzzy, but at some level you understand not all regions are equivalent.

> At some point a serious intellectual just has to do the work for themselves to digest the ideas. I'd be worse off if I had skipped Deacon's book (which, incidentally and again, I don't think really lands) if I had skipped it because he didn't have a PhD that matched mine.

I fully agree and I'm not arguing anyone should skip Deacon (or anyone else) because they are not physicists. I just wouldn't pay the same attention to a Physics lecture by someone whose expertise doesn't lie in Physics (or to an anthropology lecture by a physicist who's not also an anthropologist). Doesn't mean I would necessarily skip it though!

I also understand you're not saying Deacon is right. Sufficiently interesting ideas are worth considering regardless of whether they are right. I don't think Julian Jaynes is right either, yet I consider "The Origin of Consciousness" an extremely interesting book!

I'm not sure how many times I have to explain I consider philosophy, epistemology and -- I'll say it -- the humanities essential? I'm not arguing about skipping anything!
by rvz | 2025-08-27 13:16:04+00:00
That is really dire. Equivalent to a SEV0.

Why would you allow AI agents like Anthropic and Gemini to have access to the user's filesystem?

Basic security 101 requirements for these tools is that they should be sandboxed and have zero unattended access to the user's filesystem.

Do software engineers building these agents in 2025 care about best practices anymore?
by massung | 2025-08-27 13:16:15+00:00
By that logic, if modern LLMs existed in the 80s, you’d have never learned Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Go, Erlang, … and all the cool concepts and ideas that came with them. You’d still be programming Basic and Fortran, simply because that’s all the models knew.

AI may be helpful at times, but to limit one’s self to only the knowledge and experience they have is… short sighted at best.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-08-27 13:16:45+00:00
This discussion started with somebody complaining that people are dismissing Neuralink because it's Musk's company. My point is that his ideas are getting way more attention than other people's ideas, stupid or not.

And he is an attention whore who will go after people who are dismissing his ideas. The cave guys in Thailand had to waste precious time thinking about his submarine. If Musk had really been willing to help, he would have done testing in quiet and published things only when it was clear that it worked. But he is an attention whore because he knows it's good for business.

Same for DOGE. They could have done their work in quiet and with deliberation. Instead they fired quickly some random people whose work they didn't understand or like.