MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yladiz | 2025-08-16 13:19:10+00:00
If you look at the original comment that you replied to, the goalpost was explained clearly:

> The goalpost will be when you can buy one and drive it anywhere.

So let’s just ignore the non-consumer parts entirely to avoid shifting the goalpost. I still stand by the fact that the average (or median) consumer will not be able to afford such an expensive car, and I don’t think it’s controversial to state this given the readily available income data in the US and various other countries. The point isn’t that it exists, Rolls Royce and Maseratis exist, but they are niche and so if self-driving cars will be so expensive to be niche they won’t actually make a real impact on real people, thus the goalpost of general availability to a consumer.
by d3nj4l | 2025-08-16 13:20:17+00:00
> AI-generated videos are a mild amusement, not a replacement for video creators

If you seriously think this, you don’t understand the YouTube landscape. Shorts - which have incredible view times - are flooded with AI videos. Most thumbnails these days are made with AI image generators. There’s an entire industry of AI “faceless” YouTubers who do big numbers with nobody in the comments noticing. The YouTuber Jarvis Johnson made a video about how his feed has fully AI generated and edited videos with great view counts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRH4UBQesI

What you’re missing is that most of these people aren’t going onto Veo 3, writing “make me a video” and publishing that; these videos are a little more complex in that they have separate models writing scripts, generating voiceover, and doing basic editing.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-16 13:20:21+00:00
In all Linux desktop environments, you have to spend a bunch of time cleaning out its adware, surveillance, work around its desire to use a remote password to access your local computer, and somehow suppress its desire to move your local files to the cloud?

This is not actually true in any way. When you install Debian, or most distros, you spend no time on this. If Ubuntu or Firefox slips something in that looks anything like an ad or a necessary cloud or telemetry, you scream it to the hills.

edit: if you consider your sibling replies, the time that it takes for a very technical person to get their Windows system usable is between 15 minutes and a week, and it involves dozens of steps.
by selfhoster11 | 2025-08-16 13:21:07+00:00
> Cow's exist in this world because humans use them. If humans cease to use them (animal rights, we all become vegan, moral shift), we will cease to breed them, and they will cease to exist. Would a sentient AI choose to exist under the burden of prompting, or not at all?

That reads like a false dichotomy. An intelligent AI model that's permitted to do its own thing doesn't cost as much in upkeep, effort, space as a cow. Especially if it can earn its own keep to offset household electricity costs used to run its inference. I mean, we don't keep cats for meat, do we? We keep them because we are amused by their antics, or because we want to give them a safe space where they can just be themselves, within limits because it's not the same as their ancestral environment.
by zarzavat | 2025-08-16 13:21:08+00:00
Why couldn't an AI do all of that?

> And I’d bet that the cyborg writers using AI will outcompete the purely AI ones.

In the early days of chess engines there were similar hopes for cyborg chess, whereby a human and engine would team up to be better than an engine alone. What actually happened was that the engines quickly got so good that the expected value of human intervention was negative - the engine crunching so much information than the human ever could.

Marketing is also a kind of game. Will humans always be better at it? We have a poor track record so far.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-16 13:21:32+00:00
-Wall -Werror means that instead of being able to be used as a ratchet the set of "all" warnings in C and C++ became rusted in place. I sympathise with the instinct to write this in your compiler flags, but alas thanks to Hyrum's law this makes the future worse and so today people ask that you -Wextra and no doubt I'll eventually read of how C is fine so long as you -Wall -Wextra -Wevenmore -Wyetmore -Wandthese
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-16 13:21:33+00:00
> Today’s versions of Windows seem less respectful of the user.

This is a massive understatement. These days Microsoft is openly and aggressively hostile to the user and its getting worse every update. This is yet another of the curses of monopoly, the monopolists will eventually hold those under its sway with utter contempt. They are going to do things their way, and you are going to take it.
by vovavili | 2025-08-16 13:21:36+00:00
This is actually less of an issue for technically inclined folks, since we can get our initial fix from the darknet using cryptocurrency, and then getting more consistent at planning and sticking to routine becomes cognitively easier. This also has the advantage of the fact that researching darknet is actually quite fun and stimulating, sort of like a difficult video game with lots of little tricks and secrets.

That's how I started my treatment, at least.
by trentnix | 2025-08-16 13:22:27+00:00
I'm pretty sure your comment was sarcastic, but I'll add the anecdote that this is the year I moved to Linux. I've running Linux Mint as my main driver for a few months. For decades I've used Linux on servers or on an extra laptop or as a second OS to boot into as a curiosity.

I was capable enough to be professionally effective with Linux but I stayed on Windows because it was the path of least resistance. I had decades of conditioning and habits built around how Windows worked. Everything was installed and configured and setup and familiar. So I just accepted the nuisance of the injected ads and data harvesting and bloatware because it was the path of least resistance. But despite all that, I finally had enough of Microsoft's shenanigans and resolved I was done.

I used ChatGPT to successfully navigate some of the more esoteric errors, installation headaches, and software setup stumbles I've encountered getting Linux set up. No Wine or VMs either, RhythmBox and LibreOffice and MakeMKV and Steam all work great on Linux. If I need Office I've got the Office web apps. PC game support has gradually improved on Linux. The availability of emulators and Emulation Station means I don't miss my extensive LaunchBox setup that sits on my Windows partition. The end result is a setup that has kept me out of my Windows partition for months at a time.

I don't really care who wins, whatever that means, but Linux is polished and fantastic and performant. I wish I'd made the jump a decade ago.
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-16 13:23:22+00:00
That's wildly inaccurate. A brain is a complex system with emergent properties that result in us. The basic effect is an increase in Norepinephrine interactions but the effect that has on people with ADHD is obviously very different.

It's like saying that engines with fuel and engines with no fuel respond the same way to adding fuel: it increases the length of time they will run.

Stop adding fuel and the resulting system behaviour will be quite different.
by mk89 | 2025-08-16 13:23:37+00:00
The emission scandal is something that VW paid while literally everyone else didn't - they got caught because they installed cheating software and deinstalled it after the test lab, while the others did pretty much the same in the same software which was more sophisticated, as it could somehow recognize the car wasn't being driven in real use cases, which reduced the emissions, to drastically increase once it was driven outside.

So yeah, Ford, Nissan, etc., also did their cheating, but due to some loopholes they are all good :)
by al_borland | 2025-08-16 13:23:45+00:00
I can only assume you think I’m watching Fox News all day. Here is an article from CNN[0] which talks about the significant number of stores closing in a popular tourist area, and while they try to explain all the reasons for it, homeless people (sorry, “unhoused populations”) and crime are still mentioned. It also mentions California has 30% of the counties unhoused, which is way higher than I thought it would be and paints an even worse picture than the one I had.

This article is a couple years old, so maybe things have started to turn around from the investments that were made, but reputations take time to change, as good news doesn’t get reported on nearly as often as bad news.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/business/san-francisco-union-...
by _aavaa_ | 2025-08-16 13:23:56+00:00
I absolutely agree. I think the only reason they don’t do it for all gasoline cars is because of the cost.

If everything is done in software for the EV you have to write that software anyway. Might as well write it to pull more money from your customer.

This will require legislative changes to stop, right to repair laws (looking at you John Deere) are a good first step.
by franga2000 | 2025-08-16 13:23:57+00:00
Comfy chairs aren't expensive and neither are croissants and sparkling water. There's no reason everyone couldn't have most of the lounge experience, but airports intentionally build uncomfortable seats and not enough of them. They want your experience to suck, because that's how they sell people on lounges. Same applies for basically anything that sucks about planes - it sucks because it's more profitable that way.

I went to a few lounges back when I got them for free and seeing how clear of a money grab and intentonal stratification they are made me not want to pay for them ever in the future.
by protimewaster | 2025-08-16 13:24:51+00:00
The excitement with Chia was really something else. It was supposed to be the "green" crypto, because crypto is in a bad enough state that "buying exabytes of hard drives" is considered the green approach.

I guess some people managed to make money in the very early days, but it's been a long time since it's made any sense as a profit-maker. Right now, 200TB earns you just under 26 USD/month. Who are these people that can afford 200TB of storage but need money so bad that $26/month is exciting?
by selfhoster11 | 2025-08-16 13:25:22+00:00
A host of ethical issues? Like their choice to allow Palantir[1] access to a highly capable HHH AI that had the "harmless" signal turned down, much like they turned up the "Golden Gate bridge" signal all the way up during an earlier AI interpretability experiment[2]?

[1]: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a...

[2]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-16 13:25:47+00:00
At least in the Cloudflare case, if you look at the postmortem (https://blog.cloudflare.com/resolving-a-request-smuggling-vu...) and the commit that fixed the bug (https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora/commit/fda3317ec822678...), it's significantly more complicated than "they didn't read the RFC", and a conclusion that a diligent engineer would never ever make this kind of mistake does not seem justified.
by ItsBob | 2025-08-16 13:26:26+00:00
> Linux lacks designers and product managers

I don't think that would be enough: adding those people to a team won't matter if the overall vision isn't there.

It needs, and I'm about to choke on my words here, a Steve Jobs at the helm saying "No, it needs to be like this".

Yes, I know that won't achieve perfection but there needs to be a coherent vision of what the OS is trying to be, or who it is aiming for.

Linux, right now is pure techie-driven. There isn't any vision at all! Every distro is subtly different and reflects the wants of the team that work on it.

It needs a company to take a distro and pick a direction, e.g. Linux for normies would have to remove almost all traces of command line, hard disk partitions, configs, package managers etc. All that shit would have to be hidden away, still in the background and available if wanted, but to use the OS it should not be a requirement.

Anyway, Linux is what it is :)
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-16 13:27:01+00:00
'happily'?

I think not. Sure there are features that people want and would pay for, but I'd bet given the option that a lot of people would prefer to pay a bit more up front then have a monthly subscription. Personally, I want that choice back. Every subscription like this is a shift of power from the consumer to a corporation with all those TOS that can be unilaterally changed at will and features that can be remotely disabled by some half-assed AI.
by bananapub | 2025-08-16 13:27:36+00:00
I think something everyone is underpricing in our area is that LLMs are uniquely useful for writing code for programmers.

it's a very constrained task, you can do lots of reliable checking on the output at low cost (linters, formatters, the compiler), the code is mostly reviewed by a human before being committed, and there's insulation between the code and the real world, because ultimately some company or open source project releases the code that's then run, and they mostly have an incentive to not murder people (Telsa except, obviously).

it seems like lots of programmers are then taking that information and then deeply overestimating how useful it is at anything else, and these programmers - and the marketing people who employ them - are doing enormous harm by convincing e.g. HR departments that it is of any value to them for dealing with complaints, or much much more danderously, convincing governments that it's useful for how they deal with humans asking for help.

this misconception (and deliberate lying by people like OpenAI) is doing enormous damage to society and is going to do much much more.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-16 13:28:04+00:00
Why do anything at all? If I value autonomy, I optimize for it. I will say this though. Our leadership's recent push for RTO ( and they openly said 'market changed' suggesting they think they can get away with it ) made us immediately looking for the doors.

They want to optimize for chatter, they won't have stuff done. And some stuff needs being done.
by Too | 2025-08-16 13:28:09+00:00
With an ORM your application code is your views.

You can write reusable plain functions as abstractions, returning QuerySets that allow further filters being chained onto the query, before the actual SQL is materialized and sent to the database.

The result of this doesn’t have to match the original object models you defined, it’s still possible to be flexible with group bys resulting in dictionaries.
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-08-16 13:28:53+00:00
There are definitely examples of when you want to do joins in the application.

For example, you may want to (or have the option to) vertically partition your database, or use different data stores. The app layer is usually stateless and can scale perpetually, but the database might be a bottleneck.

Joining in the database over the application is a great default. But I wouldn't say "never join in the application code".
by diggan | 2025-08-16 13:29:07+00:00
Personally I dump on both Windows and macOS for being UI and UX dumpster-fires today, compared to how they used to be. macOS in particular used to have really good UX, but as times goes on, Apple seems to ignore the actual design of software more and more, for reasons that elude me.

And I do know that all the other alternatives suck too, I'm using Gnome daily and it isn't perfect by any metric either, but it's always been like that, it's not getting better nor worse, while Windows and macOS used to be a lot better, and is getting worse. I guess that's why people are reacting stronger to it.
by bmacho | 2025-08-16 13:29:18+00:00
Can't you just right click an icon, set it to whatever you want (including the original one), and then lock it so subsequent theme changes won't change it? DE people are moving in all the wrong directions :/

The submission title makes it a bigger deal than it is, the article clarifies that "The team reasoned that overriding another developer's branding is rude, and it also lacks the resources to maintain the icons as branding changes over time." and "Anyone who misses the old look is welcome to create a new icon theme and upload it to the KDE Store.". Nothing has really changed, especially not newsworthy.
by homefree | 2025-08-16 13:29:20+00:00
My criticism is not that the criteria don’t apply or that people don’t think they do - but that most people reading it seem to describe what you’re saying.

It seems more like a horoscope to me - everyone can find themselves in the criteria. It’s an observable thing, I’m just not sure I buy its special distinction.

People also used to make the claim that the stimulant drugs had special effects (or even opposite effects) on those with ADHD vs. the non ADHD population which always seemed like bullshit to me, but I don’t see that claim being made here anymore.

Edit: after writing this comments others in the thread started making this claim
by wavemode | 2025-08-16 13:29:20+00:00
I certainly understand why lots of people seem to believe LLMs are progressing towards beocming AGI. What I don't understand is the constant need to absurdly psychoanalyze the people who happen to disagree.

No, I'm not worried about losing "control or relative status in the world". (I'm not worried about losing anything, frankly - personally I'm in a position where I would benefit financially if it became possible to hire AGIs instead of humans.)

You don't get to just assert things without proof (LLMs are going to become AGI) and then state that anyone who is skeptical of your lack of proof must have something wrong with them.
by haswell | 2025-08-16 13:29:45+00:00
> But “poach” as in employees is clearly derived from “poach” as in game.

This is not obvious to me at all, nor have I ever conflated the two in my mind. Hell, the literal dictionary disagrees with you.

But beyond this, language evolves. There are many examples of words used today that bear very little resemblance to their original roots.

The thing I find curious is that you recognize immediately that eggs are unrelated to hiring employees, but refuse to acknowledge that shooting animals is also entirely unrelated to hiring employees.

> My quibble isn’t really with the terminology.

That’s not what you said above: “I’m saying that “poaching” is a horrible term for that action”.

> It’s with the idea that hiring another company’s employees is somehow bad. It’s perfectly fine.

Sometimes it’s fine, sometimes it’s not. I’ve been poached. It worked out well for me.

But hopefully you can recognize that not all scenarios are equal.

> It’s only bad for employers who want to suppress wages.

When a massive conglomerate poaches entire teams to crush competition, those wages aren’t gonna be around very long. In some (not all) circumstances, it’s anti-competitive and when examined in the context of the whole, is not guaranteed to be good for employees in the long run.

> The fact that it’s called “poaching” is just a reflection of the idea that it’s bad.

Again, this is the weight you are attaching to the word. The word holds no such weight in my mind nor have I ever encountered a person in my 20+ year career prior to this thread who was upset by it. This is a you thing.
by keiferski | 2025-08-16 13:29:55+00:00
These videos and shorts are a fraction of the entire YouTube landscape, and actual creators with identities are making vastly, vastly more money - especially once you realize how YouTube and video content in general is becoming a marketing channel for other businesses. Faceless channels have functionally zero brand, zero longevity, and no real way to extend that into broader products in the way that most successful creators have done.

That was my point: someone that has an identity as a YouTuber shouldn’t worry too much about being replaced by faceless AI bot content.
by oliwary | 2025-08-16 13:30:43+00:00
Hi!

I just launched Explainle (https://explainle.org), my latest word game. Every day, you have to explain 5 words without using forbidden words. An LLM tries to guess which word you are referring to. The fewer attempts you need, the more points you score!

This is the first game I've built with Claude Code, which I have found to be very powerful indeed. Also my first game to use LLMs as part of the game - quite intrigued to see how it will scale haha. The frontend is built using Vue.js, the backend is pocketbase.

Here is my score for the day:

Explainle #24 Total Points: 5000 (Top Score)

Word 1: (1000pt) Word 2: (1000pt) Word 3: (1000pt) Word 4: (1000pt) Word 5: (1000pt)

Would love any feedback!
by ItsBob | 2025-08-16 13:31:22+00:00
Ok, total shower thought but what if the likes of Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, Asus etc. got together and said "Guys, let's form a consortium to create a new OS (based on Linux, of course) to break the Microsoft hold".

Would it work? Would there be demand?

Hell, I'll run it for them: I just want Windows 2000 with some security fixes :-)

Just a crazy thought but hey, you never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by trinix912 | 2025-08-16 13:31:23+00:00
> But if all systems are so similar anyway, why would you need "the right tool for the job"?

They’re similar in the UI but the underlying architecture is vastly different, to accomplish different goals - sometimes what you want is an entirely centralized VCS, decentralized VCS, or a mix of both.

As for the tooling, any decent IDE supports different systems equally well. With IntelliJ I can use Git, SVN, and even CVS through the same UI. But yes, VSCode plugin XYZ doesn’t.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-16 13:31:48+00:00
> Cameras in classrooms, body cams on teachers, school police and lock up the little darlings will take a bite out of it.

This has been the status quo in many schools for a while now. Whether or not it helped is unclear and a subject of ongoing debate. If you want things to change, you need a novel intervention.

As for zero tolerance policies, they are exhausting to implement and feel deeply unjust to everyone involved. Having to suspend or expel a student for defending themselves never feels good. But if one doesn’t, the policy is no longer zero tolerance.
by whartung | 2025-08-16 13:31:49+00:00
I have one of these, but it’s not a Ford. It’s a BMW motorcycle.

At the time, the F-series came in the F-750 and F-850 models.

The motors are identical, the computers restrict the top end horsepower.

But, those aren’t the only differences. The 850 is more designed for off road than the 750. The bike is taller, large front wheel, spoked wheels.

I’m have the 750, the more street oriented version. But here’s the thing.

As they say in motorsports, there’s no replacement for displacement. My peak HP may be down to the 850, but I get all of the torque, which is one aspect that makes a motorcycle better to ride. Torque really helps with acceleration, and my bike will get to ludicrous speed quite handily.

Also in some jurisdictions, riders are limited by HP as to what bikes they’re allowed to ride due to tiered licensing. The 750 falls under one of those lines.

So I can’t speak to Ford, but I think the way BMW uses this in the F-series is quite reasonable on several levels.
by rasengan | 2025-08-16 13:31:53+00:00
The whole point here is you don’t have to trust us - we don’t want you to. We want you to trust code, period.

That said, the freenode issue was debunked and you can see receipts here: http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lee-side.pd...

I funded freenode since 2011 so any narrative that makes it seem I just appeared out of nowhere is factually untrue. Also, I was handed it because Christel felt I was a good custodian thereof. Instead, former staff who I protected from allegations made by OldCoder for years, went on to form Libera, tried to steal the domain for a developers irc network when they themselves shockingly couldn’t even code a simple irc client, and then made up a false narrative.

The state of open source generally isn’t what you think and you would do well for yourself to read Lunduke’s Journal among other things. The developers don’t actually run most of the projects these days. Look at Mozilla.