MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by treetalker | 2025-08-16 07:15:47+00:00
So instead of having a high level of accommodation (good and plentiful food and drink, enough comfortable seating, available showers, clean bathrooms, plenty of outlets, reliable Internet, etc.) for everyone in society, regardless of their and their predecessors' luck, it would be better to make sure that the less affluent know their place in the caste system — got it, boss.
by ayushchat | 2025-08-16 07:15:57+00:00
Not doing this for the money.. my corporate gig paid well but it was soul sucking.. as I mentioned.. doing this for exploring my curiosity and see where it takes me.. not to become the richest man in the world.. im happy im able to make enough to live a sustainable lifestyle and provide for my family.

And its not 8000 hours, I work 3-4 hours a day on most days..so around 1000 hours a year.. but even that doesn't feel like work..it feels like play..
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-16 07:16:55+00:00
The proper legal term is copyright infringement. Robbery and theft cover real property, not intellectual property.

"Common usages" of a word are irrelevant. We can't discuss legal concepts without precise terminology. Only the correct words and their precise meanings matter.

Equation of copyright infringement to theft and piracy is propaganda. People do this deliberately in order to draw on the negative connotations of the words. Good faith cannot be assumed if people insist on using these words.

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

> Theft, meanwhile, emphasizes the potential commercial harm of infringement to copyright holders.

> However, copyright is a type of intellectual property, an area of law distinct from that which covers robbery or theft, offenses related only to tangible property.

> Not all copyright infringement results in commercial loss

> the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that infringement does not easily equate with theft

> Judge Kathleen M. Williams granted a motion to deny the MPAA the usage of words whose appearance was primarily "pejorative"

> This list included the word "piracy", the use of which, the motion by the defense stated, serves no court purpose but to misguide and inflame the jury
by elcdodedocle | 2025-08-16 07:17:03+00:00
I like the approach taken by several authors from Asimov in "The End of Eternity" to Star Trek or Loki on TV: Time travel is not allowed except for entities that live outside of time in a way that is not meaningfully perceived by anyone else; When unsanctioned travel happens, it is easy to detect and retroactively suppress by these entities. Of course this can all be refuted or at least declared a transient state at most by the mess Time Cop is; Or how things end up in any of the other stories.
by bawolff | 2025-08-16 07:17:10+00:00
In fairness though, this is what you are selling - "ethical AI". In order to make that sale you need to appear to believe in that sort of thing. However there is no need to actually believe.

Whether you do or don't I have no idea. However if you didn't you would hardly be the first company to pretend to believe in something for the sale. Its pretty common in the tech industry.
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-16 07:17:30+00:00
Even ancient svn works much better out of the box for large binary files than git (e.g. a 150 GB working directory with many big Photoshop files and other binary assets is no problem in SVN).

What does SVN do differently than git when it comes to large binary files, and why can't git use the same approach?

I also don't quite understand tbh how offloading large files to somewhere else would be fundamentally different than storing all files in one place except complicating everything? Storage is storage, how would a different storage location fix any of the current performance and robustness problems? Offloading just sounds like a solution for public git forges which don't want to deal with big files because it's too costly for them, but increased hosting cost is not the 'large binary file problem' of git.

(edit: apparently git supports proper locking(?) so I removed that section - ps: nvm it looks like the file locking feature is only in git-lfs)
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-08-16 07:18:04+00:00
> This is not what happens. European public pension systems are mostly based on a solidarity system in which current wage earners pay for the pensions of current pensioners.

It is a big Ponzi scheme, and now that fewer people are joining the workforce, governments borrow money to pay pensions. And a duscretiinary power to decide how much a retired worker gets. Nothing scremas solidarity more than a bureaucrat deciding that from next month your grandma is only entitled to this much pension because there’s less money for it.

The American way is actually the mote fairer system. Could be even more fair if you did mot have to pay tax on your pension gains from stocks inventments and whatnot.
by oblio | 2025-08-16 07:18:18+00:00
> Anyone at the invention of automobiles with sufficient foresight could have seen the intersecting incentives that cars would wreak, same as how many of the future impacts of LLMs are foreseeable today, independent of technical progress.

Yeah, but where's the money to be made in not selling people stuff?

https://imgur.com/few-shareholders-had-good-value-least-jpsP...
by jmyeet | 2025-08-16 07:19:57+00:00
One thing I'd be curious to know about is the efficiency of pumping from 500 meters deep. That's a real issue.

Pumping up becomes really inefficient. Large buildings, for example, get around this by pumping to intermediate tanks [1].

This isn't really an option underwater so I'm curious how they'd handle it. Depending on how much more expensive that is to build and how much energy it consumes, this may just not be economical.

[1]: https://www.sloan.com/sites/default/files/2016-06/burj-khali...
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-08-16 07:20:54+00:00
Honestly the long-term consequences of Baumol's disease scare me more than some AI driven job disruption dystopia.

If we want to continue on the path of increased human development we desperately need to lift the productivity of a whole bunch of labor intensive sectors.

We're going to need to seriously think about how to redistribute the gains, but that's an issue regardless of AI (things like effective tax policy).
by sshine | 2025-08-16 07:21:16+00:00
> Is such paranoia warranted? Millions of corporate laptops run Windows 11 just fine.

Yes. With Windows Recall data mining surveillance screenshots taken every 5-7 seconds, completely disregarding if this may compromise your security, safety or privacy, we move from "you're the product" to "you're a pet in a zoo, and we want to learn from your behavior."

> I know M$ is evil and spying on you, but not to such degree.*

I mean, they could be recording every second.

I'm pretty sure that's a bandwidth issue.

Not because they really feel like giving you 3-4 second pockets of security, safety and privacy.
by motorest | 2025-08-16 07:21:20+00:00
> What makes you think that? Self driving cars have had (...)

I think you're confusing your cherry-picked comparison with reality.

LLMs are eliminating the need to have a vast array of positions on payrolls. From copywriters to customer support, and even creative activities such as illustration and even authoring books, today's LLMs are already more than good enough to justify replacing people with the output of any commercial chatbot service.

Software engineering is being affected as well, and it requires far greater know-how, experience, and expertise to meet the hiring bar.

> And when you talk about applying this same tech, so confidently, to domains far more nuanced and complex than (...)

Yes, your tech job is also going to be decimated. It's not a matter of having PMs write code. It's an issue of your junior SDE armed with a LLM being quite able to clear your bug backlog in a few days while improving test coverage metrics and refactoring code back from legacy status.

If a junior SDE can suddenly handle the workload that previously you required a couple of medior and senior developers, why would a company keep around 4 or 5 seasoned engineers when an inexperienced one is already able to handle the workload?

That's where the jobs will vanish. Even if demand remains there, it dropped considerably as to not justify retaining so many people in a company's payroll.

And what are you going to do, them? Drive a Uber?
by klipklop | 2025-08-16 07:21:34+00:00
The majority of “SF” tech works in the South Bay that has plenty of 100f days. Also almost all the condos there have thin walls and no AC. So that means 80f all night in your $3000/mo 3rd floor crap box.

I do agree there is no winter in the SF bay though. That’s pretty nice.
by yard2010 | 2025-08-16 07:21:51+00:00
I think so too - the latest AI changes mark the new "automate everything" era. When everything is automated, everything costs basically zero, as this will eliminate the most expensive part of every business - human labor. No one will make money from all the automated stuff, but no one would need the money anyway. This will create a society in which money is not the only value pursued. Instead of trying to chase papers, people would do what they are intended to - create art and celebrate life. And maybe fight each other for no reason.

I'm flying, ofc, this is just a weird theory I had in the back of my head for the past 20 years, and it seems like we're getting there.

Antirez you are the best
by geraneum | 2025-08-16 07:23:09+00:00
I do largely agree with you, however

> Mind you, the role of reserve currency today is largely hoisted by the rest of the world onto the USA

It’s the opposite [1]. Trump openly threatens anyone who tries to replace dollar. It even goes beyond Trump. I bet it will go to war if there are real threats to replace USD.

> there is no rule dictating its role

There’s also no rule dictating other countries to honor US sanctions, but they do.

Tarrif

1. https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/trump-repeats-tar...
by a_t48 | 2025-08-16 07:25:30+00:00
It was half a day of work to make a drop in action.yml that does this. Saved a bunch of money (both in bandwidth and builder minutes), well worth the investment. It really wasn’t a lot of customization.

All our builds are on GHA definitions, there’s no way it’s worth it to swap us over to another build system, administer it, etc. Our team is small (two at the time, but hopefully doubling soon!), and there’s barely a dozen people in the whole engineering org. The next hit list item is to move from GH hosted builders to GCE workers to get a warmer docker cache (a bunch of our build time is spent pulling images that haven’t changed) - it will also save a chunk of change (GCE workers are 4x cheaper per minute and the caching will make for faster builds), but the opportunity cost for me tackling that is quite high.
by taormina | 2025-08-16 07:26:29+00:00
> LLMs are eliminating the need to have a vast array of positions on payrolls. From copywriters to customer support, and even creative activities such as illustration and even authoring books, today's LLMs are already more than good enough to justify replacing people with the output of any commercial chatbot service.

I'd love a source to these claims. Many companies are claiming that they are able to layoff folks because of AI, but in fact, AI is just a scapegoat to counteract the reckless overhiring due to free money in the market over the last 5-10 years and investors are demanding to see a real business plan and ROI. "We can eliminate this headcount due to the efficiency of our AI" is just a fancy way to make the stock price go up while cleaning up the useless folks.

People have ideas. There are substantially more ideas than people who can implement ideas. As with most technology, the reasonable expectation is to assume that people are just going to want more done by the now tool powered humans, not less things.
Ask HN: Self-Checkin Terminals for Doctors
by momoelz | 2025-08-16 07:27:26+00:00
Imagine self checkin terminals similar to that of mcdonalds for doctors offices to replace or reduce the amount of staff needed?

Flow in europe: Client enters the office, puts in the e-card, and enters why he is here, gets a ticket for his place in the queue. His turn, goes to the doctors room, gets the service. Leaves the doctors room, goes to terminal puts in e-card and receives receipt for medication or what ever is due.

This is just a simple overnight idea, not thought through but a starting point. Looking to hear your feedback.
by mpweiher | 2025-08-16 07:27:49+00:00
With NeXTstep it was exactly the opposite: you could usually rearrange, recompose, override the pieces any way you wanted, including from scratch, but the demos and pre-built parts were of such quality that you didn't really want to.

But if you wanted: knock yourself out.

With the first version of Mac OS X, I was stunned that the high-level "convenience" APIs had capabilities that you couldn't actually replicate using the lower level APIs. And this seems to be getting worse. Fortunately with Swift we now have a type-system to enforce the "Apply way or the highway" attitude.
by devoutsalsa | 2025-08-16 07:28:23+00:00
I really wish they’d ban stock buybacks. When executives get paid in stock options, they want the stock price as high as possible. The easiest way? Buy back shares to make the remaining ones worth more.

But when companies do this while their stock is overpriced, they’re wasting shareholder money on expensive shares. Executives pad their own pockets while shareholders get screwed.

I’d rather see companies pay better dividends or keep the cash. At least then shareholders actually benefit instead of just watching executives get richer.
by motorest | 2025-08-16 07:28:27+00:00
> You can’t provide valuable things for “free” en masse without institutionalizing either slavery or robbery. The value must come from somewhere.

Utter nonsense.

Do you believe the European countries that provides higher education for free are manning tenure positions with slaves or robbing people at gunpoint?

How come do you see public transportation services in some major urban centers being provided free of charge?

How do you explain social housing programmes conducted throughout the world?

Are countries with access to free health care using slavery to keep hospitals and clinics running?

What you are trying to frame as impossibilities is already the reality for many decades in countries ranking far higher in development and quality of living indexes that the US.

How do you explain that?
by wltr | 2025-08-16 07:29:01+00:00
For those running Sway on a MacBook, here you go:

``` # Copy-Paste re-implementation for Mac Keyboard

set $mod Mod4 bindsym --to-code $mod+z exec wtype -P XF86Undo bindsym --to-code $mod+Shift+z exec wtype -P XF86Redo bindsym --to-code $mod+x exec wtype -P XF86Cut bindsym --to-code $mod+c exec wtype -P XF86Copy bindsym --to-code $mod+v exec wtype -P XF86Paste ```

Where mod is the cmd key. It works well in most apps. At least in those I care about (terminal, browser, vim). Took me a very long time to find this solution, as a macOS refugee.

Not necessarily a MacBook, by the way. I have an Apple Keyboard with my PC (just a great keyboard I enjoy), so it works there too.
by treetalker | 2025-08-16 07:29:14+00:00
I'm a righty and I run an Apple trackpad on the left so I can write while scrolling. It also enables a desk setup that is far less clumsy and cluttered. And after using the trackpad for several years, I would loathe having to go back to using a mouse on a daily basis.

The switch to the left took a week or two to get used to, but it was worth the investment. Recommended.
by tzahifadida | 2025-08-16 07:29:24+00:00
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by alexrp | 2025-08-16 07:29:32+00:00
My desire to work on said projects is intrinsic; no one around me expects me to do so. In fact, quite a few of my projects add no value to broader society and exist only because I found doing them interesting. I don't imagine the surrounding culture valuing the hunting of giraffes would particularly affect this one way or the other. (Except if said culture doesn't have computers, I guess.)

> personally, this has been a very helpful reframing. If I simply can't bring myself to do something, that means not that I am bad and my willpower is bad, it just means that something is materially wrong and I should consider addressing it by doing things that my body will let me do.

To be clear, I don't think I'm "bad" or that I have a moral failing just because I can't bring myself to do some things. (If anything, that sounds like an internalization of some unfortunate cultural norms...) In my case, it's a contradiction: I want to do a thing for intrinsic reasons, but I can't bring myself to do the thing due to insufficient motivation/focus (for lack of a better term). It can be maddening at times.

But if we take a more typical example that many ADHD people struggle with like, say, doing the dishes or cleaning the house... I guess I don't really understand what might be "materially wrong" here, or how doing something else addresses whatever that is or, more to the point, actually gets those chores done...? This sounds a bit hand-wavy to me.
by 22c | 2025-08-16 07:29:33+00:00
Carmack's comments and the comments in the thread entirely surprise me.

256kbit/s was pretty much the standard ADSL speed 20 years ago. I remember thinking it was lucky some of my friends had 512kbit/s and 1500kbit/s was considered extremely fortunate.

Even still calls over Skype worked fine, you could run IRC or MSN Messenger while loading flash games or downloading MP3s. You could definitely play games like Starcraft, Age of Empires, Quake, UT2004, etc. on a 256k ADSL line. Those plans were also about 8x the price of this plan, not even adjusting for inflation.

Not only that, those lines were typically only 64k upload speed. The usefulness of a 500kbit/s up/down line is incredibly high. I think the only reason it might seem less useful now is that web services are not typically optimised to be usable on dial-up speeds like they were 20 years ago.

With the right setup and having feeds/content download asynchronously rather than "on-demand", 500kbit/s is still plenty of internet by today's standards.
by Greenpants | 2025-08-16 07:30:56+00:00
I really like this analogy! Many real-world tasks that we'd like to use AI for seem infinitely more complex than can be captured in a simple question/prompt. The main challenge going forward, in my opinion, is how to let LLMs ask the right questions – query for the right information – given a task to perform. Tool use with MCPs might be a good start, though it still feels hacky to have to define custom tools for LLMs first, as opposed to how humans effectively browse and skim lots of documentation to find actually relevant bits.
by nugzbunny | 2025-08-16 07:31:07+00:00
I’ve recently started using chatGPT to create images for me to print and colour with the kids. I really like the concept.

A couple of feedback points:

I cannot ‘swipe left/back’ on iPhone (safari) after viewing an image. Took me a while to find the cross in the top right.

I clicked the tags expecting to see a list of images for that tag.

There’s no way to view the Pro page after viewing an image that required Pro. Took time to find the page so I could view the pricing.

Not sure how it fits in legally, but I’d like categories like Disney, Animals, Cartoons etc,
by LaurensBER | 2025-08-16 07:31:31+00:00
European here.

I feel that our priorities have been on social/climate issues. For a very long time the feeling was that we had enough prosperity and that more was nice but that it was not as important.

There was some serious talk about "de-growth" and the trend (for some groups) was mostly towards working less but maintaining the same standard. Among left political circles it seemed that the focus was on doing the most good, for the most people and this focus often lay outside of Europe. To put this in a historical context, many Europeans (especially Germans) feel that we have historical sins to atone for.

We trusted the US and were happy to see them succeed. To a lesser degree we trusted China and Russia and we figured that they would make (economical) rational choices to codependency was seen as a strength and not a weakness.

It's very clear that we were in some degrees naïve and lazy and wasted opportunities and choices. Europe occasionally needs a good crisis to get going again, I'm glad we're finally getting one.
by mmmore | 2025-08-16 07:31:55+00:00
Here's a thoughtful post related to your lump of labor point: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TkWCKzWjcbfGzdNK5/applying-t...

What economists have taken seriously the premise that AI will be able to do any job a human can more efficiently and fully thought through it's implications? i.e. a society where (human) labor is unnecessary to create goods/provide services and only capital and natural resources are required. The capabilities that some computer scientists think AI will soon have would imply that. The ones that have seriously considered it that I know are Hanson and Cowen; it definitely feels understudied.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-16 07:32:01+00:00
If the Supreme Court wants to have its rulings respected they'll need to ensure that they have buy-in from all parties. Secession would be very messy. But there are borders that some states will not cross and others will, when - and if, and let's hope it does not come to pass - that happens there are lots of things on the table that the Supreme Court can no longer put a stop to. This is why Trump is as dangerous as he is: he doesn't care one bit about how the USA became the superpower that it is, he'll burn it all down for ego and personal gain, no matter what the consequences.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-16 07:32:28+00:00
Is the ability to burn someone at a stake for making a mistake truly vital to you?

If not, then what's the advantage of "having skin" is? Sure, you can't flog an AI. But AI doesn't need to be threatened with flogging to perform at the peak of its abilities. A well designed AI performs at the peak of its abilities always - and if that isn't enough, you train it until it is.
by petre | 2025-08-16 07:33:23+00:00
True, but the Gripen is not a big strategic bomber and Sweden doesn't have nukes to threaten other countries with. They do air policing and would employ guerilla tactics in case of war, like put a gripen in a cattle shed somewhere and operate it from a road¹. It's a good strategy for a smaller country with lower population density to defend itself. Possibly not such a great option for Benelux, but for most of the EU, save for the big boys it's great. Even Germany could employ it, with the amount of sheds and the highway network that they have. Russia and the US needs aibases to operate strategic bombers from.

1. https://youtu.be/HbkScZFCgro
by onoesworkacct | 2025-08-16 07:33:24+00:00
ADHD isn't a personality quirk and also, it is fundamentally a disorder of regulation not attention. The education system (for all its drawbacks and inflexibility) works for most because they're able to regulate the urge to get up and climb random shit when they can't figure out how to start writing the answer to Q1 on the worksheet..

I also think its cope to take a disorder where a specific part of the brain tasked with very specific functions is physically less dense and performs than other people and go "ADHD isnt real he's just quirky!1"