MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darick | 2025-08-05 18:32:56+00:00
> - Buying a house: Is this the best return I can get on a downpayment. (Spoiler: It is not).

This depends entirely on how much the mortgage costs compared to the rent you'd otherwise be paying no? It is very much case by case depending on where you live and therefore completely wrong to state as a general rule? In my area mortgages are far cheaper than rent, even if you account for 10% annual returns on your house deposit when renting, you would still come out far behind in the long term
by tetromino_ | 2025-08-05 18:32:57+00:00
Short sighted cowards. The correct decision would have been to shut down Wikimedia Portugal, tell the Portuguese authorities to screw themselves and block Wikipedia if they wish, and to leave the article - if it was reporting verifiably sourced and relevant information - unchanged.

Instead, they demonstrated to all other infamous assholes of the world the easy steps to make Wikipedia roll over. Expect lots more similar lawsuits.
by yonixw | 2025-08-05 18:33:18+00:00
Layman here also, but I think you are correct about GPL and LGPL (this case), but not for AGPL which adds a requirement that: "... If your software can interact with users remotely through a computer network, you should also make sure that it provides a way for users to get its source"

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AGPLv3ServerAsUser
by dismalaf | 2025-08-05 18:33:19+00:00
> Great: an Intel that has TSMC as its largest single shareholder is essentially wholly under the thumb of the State Department.

They already are. The US defence industry buys from them no matter what. Which is why the US needs to ensure their survival. The concern isn't that Intel survives or not (the US would prop them up no matter what), but that they also remain on the cutting edge and the US doesn't lose out if, say, Taiwan falls to China.
by neilv | 2025-08-05 18:33:40+00:00
This improved update looks entirely like what could've instead been communicated asynchronously.

And some of it is not as timely as it could've been, because it was held back for the standup.

> Here is my attempt to improve such update:

> > Yesterday, I fixed a sidebar flickering bug.

> > Please review my PR soon as it is annoying for customers.

> > I started a video player story that we discussed at the last refinement.

> > Since it’s my first time working with the player module, I’d appreciate pairing up or any tips from someone familiar with it.

> > Today, my focus is on wiring up the play/pause functionality. Happy to sync after stand-up if anyone’s available.
by exceptione | 2025-08-05 18:33:41+00:00
Your post being down voted is unjust. There is a tendency to expect salvation from the system and the rule, but they only have power if they are kept by and defended by the commons.

This also applies to society as a whole. The role of the media as the fourth estate in the system is to inform the public when destruction is breaking the rules, to explain how it will bring down the house.

But when in a Res Publica the media susses the common man instead, when the outlets prostitute them to the destructive powers that finally will kill their enablers, all is too late. The common man will have exchanged his virtues for hate towards imaginary enemies. Then it turned out that the rules did not save the public.
by QuercusMax | 2025-08-05 18:33:44+00:00
I've only used Copilot, but this is just about exactly right. (I've only used it for Python.)

If I'm writing a series of very similar test cases, it's great for spamming them out quickly, but I still need to make sure they're actually right. This is easier to spot errors because I didn't type them out.

It's also decent for writing various bits of boilerplate for list / dict comprehensions, log messages (although they're usually half wrong, but close enough to what I was thinking), time formatting, that kind of thing. All very standard stuff that I've done a million times but I may be a little rusty on. Basically StackOverflow question fodder.

But for anything complex and domain-specific, it's more wrong than it's right.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-05 18:33:51+00:00
> I don't think there was ever a period of time where creative works were just created for sake of itself rather for sharing it with others at masse.

You don't think there was ever a time without a mass media culture? Plenty of people have furniture older than mass media culture. Even 20 years ago people could manage to be creative for a tiny audience of what were possibly other people doing creative things. It's only the zoomers who have never lived in a world where you never thought to consider how you could sell the song you were writing in your bedroom to the Chinese market.

It used to be that music didn't come on piano rolls, records, tapes, CDs or files. It used to be that your daughter would play music on the piano in the living room for the entire family. Even if it was music that wouldn't really sell, and wasn't perfectly played, people somehow managed to enjoy it. It was not a situation that AI could destroy. If anything, AI could assist.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-05 18:33:52+00:00
LLMs are what they are, calling them "AGI" won't make them any more useful or exciting than they are, it's just going to devalue the term "AGI" which has revolutionary, disease-curing, humanity-saving connotations. What are you looking for us to say exactly?

1. We aren't even close to AGI and it's unclear that we'll ever get there, but it would change the course of humanity in a significant way if we ever do.

2. Wow we've reached AGI but now I'm realizing that AGI is lame, we need a new term for the humanity-saving sales pitch that we were promised!
by jonahx | 2025-08-05 18:34:11+00:00
With a proctored in-person exam, we're talking about the difference between gaming the SAT, say, and gaming a take home English essay.

And rates of cheating of "well under 1%" vs "well over 50%".

Even if we allow for less rigorous proctoring standards, we're still probably talking about "2-3%" vs "well over 50%".
by pro-pigeon | 2025-08-05 18:34:38+00:00
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by jp1016 | 2025-08-05 18:34:45+00:00
This looks incredibly promising not just for AI research but for practical use cases in game development. Being able to generate dynamic, navigable 3D environments from text prompts could save studios hundreds of hours of manual asset design and prototyping. It could also be a game-changer for indie devs who don’t have big teams.

Another interesting angle is retrofitting existing 2D content (like videos, images, or even map data) into interactive 3D experiences. Imagine integrating something like this into Google Maps suddenly street view becomes a fully explorable 3D simulation generated from just text or limited visual data.
by viccis | 2025-08-05 18:34:59+00:00
>Händel used to be a bit like a pop musician.

Handel was never a "bit like a pop musician." This fundamentally misunderstands how music during his time, mostly funded and enjoyed under religion and wealthy patronage contexts, was listened to. Mostly only the wealthy listened to his works, and those elite audiences were prone to viciously enforcing stylistic norms. The only real way the working class heard his works were in the occasional public concert and occasionally in church. At no point in any of these settings was there a lack of stylistic gatekeeping or snobbery.

I know this kind of nihilistic "everything is good, I guess, good doesn't even mean anything" attitude is popular in some spaces, but this lack of standards or gatekeeping in favor of a tasteless desire for increasing slop production regardless of quality is how we got poptimism and the current state of music. No longer is there any taste making, just taste production via algorithms.

Sometimes we need a bit of snobbery to separate the wheat from the chaff, and being a gatekeeping snob against AI music is what our current day and age needs more of!
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by jakecodes | 2025-08-05 18:35:30+00:00
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by avemg | 2025-08-05 18:35:47+00:00
My advice is this:

1) Completely separate in your mind the auto-completion features from the agentic coding features. The auto-completion features are a neat trick but I personally find those to be a bit annoying overall, even if they sometimes hit it completely right. If I'm writing the code, I mostly don't want the LLM autocompletion.

2) Pay the $20 to get a month of Claude Pro access and then install Claude Code. Then, either wait until you have a small task in mind or your stuck on some stupid issue that you've been banging your head on and then open your terminal and fire up Claude Code. Explain to it in plain English what you want it to do. Pretend it's a colleague that you're giving a task to over Slack. And then watch it go. It works directly on your source code. There is no copying and pasting code.

3) Bookmark the Claude website. The next time you'd Google something technical, ask it Claude instead. General questions like "how does one typically implement a flizzle using the floppity-do framework"? "I'm trying to accomplish X, what are my options when using this stack?". General questions like that.

From there you'll start to get it and you'll get better at leverage the tool to do what you want. Then you can branch out the rest of the tool ecosystem.
by Dagger2 | 2025-08-05 18:36:49+00:00
It's still just one firewall. You can listen on a single socket too (sockets listening on :: will accept v4 connections by default on Linux). You can likely drop many of the v4 ACLs when things are going over v6.

It's not no work. I'm just saying it's not double the work. You'd think knowing that would make people more likely to do it, but...
by thefaux | 2025-08-05 18:36:51+00:00
I would suggest that instead of feeling demoralized by ai that you instead ask what can you offer musically that an ai cannot. I also would suggest trying to let go of the notion that music is primarily about achieving a certain level of technical proficiency. There are no limits on your growth musically unless you artificially constrain them because you are deluded by a technology to believe that you don't already have what you need inside of you.

Do you regularly play with other people? That is a good way to disabuse yourself of the notion that all that matters is technique.
by deepsun | 2025-08-05 18:37:07+00:00
In hotel industry they need to calculate and set a price for each room/night. Typically that's done by solving convex optimization (e.g. simplex method) and using "shadow values" from it as the price per room.

Lo and behold, not every math package provides "shadow values". So you either buy a specialized math tool, or... use Excel, that has it built-in.
by jchw | 2025-08-05 18:37:26+00:00
JPEG XL definitely has advantages over PNG but there is one serious seemingly insurmountable obstacle:

https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

Nothing really supports it. Latest Safari at least has support for it not feature-flagged or anything, but it doesn't support JPEG XL animations.

To be fair, nothing supports a theoretical PNG with Zstandard compression either. While that would be an obstacle to using PNG with Zstandard for a while, I kinda suspect it wouldn't be that long of a wait because many things that support PNG today also support Zstandard anyways, so it's not a huge leap for them to add Zstandard support to their PNG codecs. Adding JPEG-XL support is a relatively bigger ticket that has struggled to cross the finish line.

The thing I'm really surprised about is that you still can't use arithmetic coding with JPEG. I think the original reason is due to patents, but I don't think there have been active patents around that in years now.
by gryn | 2025-08-05 18:37:44+00:00
I'm a late adopter to most things.

my estimate would bigger than others and I would put it at 30-50years.

I take smoking as a cautionary tale, in the beginning it was pushed as not just a recreational thing but a healthy activity that bring benefits with papers published to sing praises about it. my parents were even nudged by their teachers/doctors/etc when they were young to try smoking.

now we all know that smoking is beyond bad and all that early "research" was just people paid off by big companies to promote it.
by regularization | 2025-08-05 18:37:52+00:00
This is all tangential to the idea that "capitalism only makes people rich if they provide loads of value to others".

The heir who doess not work, and who has never worked, often the same being true of their parents, and their parent's parents, is eating food grown by the labor of others and so on. There are those that work, and there is also a parasitic rentier class who does not work.
by gorgoiler | 2025-08-05 18:38:07+00:00
I learned recently that the creator of the Iosevka typeface did so using their own Lisp implementation.

The typeface:

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

The language:

https://github.com/be5invis/PatEL

Their tool which they used to build the language:

https://github.com/be5invis/patrisika

These kinds of projects are deeply inspirational. Striving to achieve one percent of this output would be enough for me. Knowing there are people like Belleve / Renzhi Li and their team in the world -- that I might be able to do something like what they do if I, too, try hard -- is what makes me get out of bed in the morning. It is incredible that there are people like them, doing what they do, and sharing it freely. Thank you so much.

PS: Re: inspo: Hope 16 is next week :D https://www.hope.net/pdf/hope_16_schedule.pdf
by 4b6442477b1280b | 2025-08-05 18:38:29+00:00
>Many people had good faith worries about Llama.

ah, but that begs the question: did those people develop their worries organically, or did they simply consume the narrative heavily pushed by virtually every mainstream publication?

the journos are heavily incentivized to spread FUD about it. they saw the writing on the wall that the days of making a living by producing clickbait slop were coming to an end and deluded themselves into thinking that if they kvetch enough, the genie will crawl back into the bottle. scaremongering about sci-fi skynet bullshit didn't work, so now they kvetch about joules and milliliters consumed by chatbots, as if data centers did not exist until two years ago.

likewise, the bulk of other "concerned citizens" are creatives who use their influence to sway their followers, still hoping against hope to kvetch this technology out of existence.

honest-to-God yuddites are as few and as retarded as honest-to-God flat earthers.
by lukax | 2025-08-05 18:38:46+00:00
Inference in Python uses harmony [1] (for request and response format) which is written in Rust with Python bindings. Another OpenAI's Rust library is tiktoken [2], used for all tokenization and detokenization. OpenAI Codex [3] is also written in Rust. It looks like OpenAI is increasingly adopting Rust (at least for inference).

[1] https://github.com/openai/harmony

[2] https://github.com/openai/tiktoken

[3] https://github.com/openai/codex
by akash-bilung | 2025-08-05 18:38:49+00:00
Honestly, building solo has taken a toll on me in ways I didn’t expect. I feel like I’ve lost parts of my personality, especially the part that used to come naturally when talking to people. I was always good at conversations. I still manage in virtual calls and meetings, but it doesn’t feel the same anymore. The essence is missing. Nobody warns you about how lonely it gets. But also… no one tells you how free it feels, to pivot, to mess up, to chase ideas without anyone’s permission. It is weirdly both isolating and empowering. At the end of the day, I think it comes down to peace and self-satisfaction. Embrace the solitude, or get lost in the noise. Still figuring out which one wins.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-05 18:38:56+00:00
I've read (anecdotes from people in the fitness/body-building space) that the default dosing could be too high for many people. And the side-effects seem to ramp up with the dose.

IE, if you're getting weight loss at 1/2 the default dose, you might want to stay there, even if your MD wants you to increase to the default.

[default uses loosely here - people build up from a low dose over the span of weeks/months]

And the weight gain is due to a lack of lifestyle change. The drug just numbs your appetite, so you don't eat as much. If you go off the drug and return to over-eating, yep, you gain the weight back.

I also suspect many people lose the weight too fast and go too far. "Ozempic butt" is a joke for a reason - people loose a bunch of fat, but the massive calorie deficit also means they aren't exercising (no energy, and they probably weren't before the drug either), so they've probably crashed their metabolism.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-05 18:39:02+00:00
> I like living in a world where I know that people who have spent actually time on nurturing a talent get rewarded for doing so, even if that talent is not something I will ever be good at.

That world has only existed for the last hundred or so years, and the talent is usually brutally exploited by people whose main talent is parasitism. Only a tiny percentage of people who sell creative works can make a living out of it; the living to be made is in buying their works at a premium, bundling them, and reselling them, while offloading almost all of the risk to the creative as an "advance."

Then you're left in a situation where both the buyer of art and the creator of art are desperate to pander to the largest audience possible because everybody is leveraged. It's a dogshit world that creates dogshit art.
by kingstnap | 2025-08-05 18:39:41+00:00
I agree with you on the idea of prompts and seeds leaving much to be desired. So that's why I think more sophisticated steering is necessary.

The models' latent space is extremely powerful, but you get hamstrung into the text encoders whims when you do things through a prompt interface. In particular, you've hit exactly an issue I have with current LLMs in general in that they are locked into wors and concepts that others have defined (labelings of points in the latent space).

Wishy washy thinking: I'd be nice if there were some sort of Turing complete lambda calculus sort of way to prompt these models instead. Where you can define new terms, create expressions, and loops and recursion or something.

It would sort of be like how SVGs are "intent complete" and undeniably art, but instead of vector graphics, it is an SVG like model prompt.
by Rhubarrbb | 2025-08-05 18:39:44+00:00
Generation is usually fast, but prompt processing is the main limitation with local agents. I also have a 128 GB M4 Max. How is the prompt processing on long prompts? processing the system prompt for Goose always takes quite a while for me. I haven't been able to download the 120B yet, but I'm looking to switch to either that or the GLM-4.5-Air for my main driver.
by leptons | 2025-08-05 18:39:58+00:00
So what happens when someone calls in and the "AI" answers (because the receptionist has been fired and replaced by "AI"), and the caller asks to access some company record that should be private? Will the LLM always deny the request? Hint: no, not always.

There are so many flaws in your plan, I have no doubt that "AI" will ruin some companies that try to replace humans with a "tin can". LLMs are being inserted loosey-goosey into too many places by people that don't really understand the liability problems it creates. Because the LLM doesn't think, it doesn't have a job to protect, it doesn't have a family to feed. It can be gamed. It simply won't care.

The flaws in "AI" are already pretty obvious to anyone paying attention. It will only get more obvious the more LLMs get pushed into places they really do not belong.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-08-05 18:40:05+00:00
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by jkaplowitz | 2025-08-05 18:40:09+00:00
Yeah, having to track (and under certain circumstances resolve) the liability is what I meant by financially worse on the accounting statements. An entirely real downside that’s valid to choose to avoid, but which is also not the kind of jeopardy that compares to operating a bank or selling securities without the proper regulatory approvals. That was my main point to the other commenter.
by dragontamer | 2025-08-05 18:40:52+00:00
> Then why the weak sauce denial from Mastercard?

https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/press/2025/...

> Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations.

This seems like a rather strong refutation of the discussion.

+-----------

> If the crux of the issue is that everyone has arranged a system where nobody has to take responsibility for anything, none of what you’ve said absolves Mastercard (or Visa) of any guilt.

Stripe has literally been saying no porn on their network since the freaking start of this controversy with Itch.io.