MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pcaharrier | 2025-08-21 17:13:35+00:00
Note that this is not really a decision on the merits of the underlying claims in the lawsuit. Perplexity moved to dismiss "pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2) and 12(b)(3)" alleging lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue (i.e., claims that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York can't assert jurisdiction over the defendants and that that court is the wrong place to sue them).
by conductr | 2025-08-21 17:14:16+00:00
Sure it does. I can use words any way I want. But there are agreed upon legal definitions and there are agreed upon industry terms/definition; you are talking about one of them (which sounds like industry not legal). If there's no legal definition, that means it's not defined and the court could interpret it any way they choose.

Edit: it seems the law defined the term "facial recognition" so that was the only answer I was seeking
by ethagknight | 2025-08-21 17:14:36+00:00
Im imagining my actual experience of being transferred for the 3rd or 4th time, repeating my name and address for the 3rd or 4th time, restating my problem for the 3rd or 4th time... feels like theres an implementation problem, not a technological problem.

Quick and accurate routing and triage of inbound calls may be more fruitful and far easier than summarizing hundreds of hours of "ok now plug the router back into the wall." Im imagining AI identifying a specific technical problem that sounds a lot like a problem that a specific technician successfully solved previously.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-21 17:14:37+00:00
It's absolutely not true on Lion or on Mavericks. You can just delete Chess. I know because I've done it. I've been using the system for five years.

On Lion—or, well, at least on Mavericks, but I'm assuming this is all Apple did starting in Lion—there is literally just a list of Appications in the Finder binary that, should you try to delete them, Finder will pop up a message stopping you. You can hex edit the Finder binary and the message will go away for the hex-edited app.

(Newer versions of macOS have signed system volume stuff, I'm not talking about that! This was introduced right around the time I nope'd out and built my current Mavericks computer.)
by VanshPatel99 | 2025-08-21 17:14:56+00:00
Exactly. I agree with the leetcode part. A lot of problems in the world are composite of simpler smaller problems. Leetcode should teach you the basic patterns and how to combine them to solve real world problems. How will you ever solve a real world problem without knowing a few algorithms beforehand. For example, my brother was talking about how a Roomba would map a room. He was imagining 0 to represent free space and 1 as inaccessible points. This quickly reminded me of Number of Islands problem from leetcode. Yeah, there might be a lot of changes required to that problem but one could simple represent it as two problems.

1. Represent different objects in the room as some form of machine understandable form in a matrix 2. Find the number of Islands or find the Islands themselves.
by ajross | 2025-08-21 17:15:08+00:00
AML statutes don't invert the burden of proof! If the government wants to prosecute you for taking money, they still have to prove you took the money beyond a reasonable doubt.

I'm always amused by the paranoia in the xxxcoin communities. If the government had and exercised the power you believe it does, why on earth do you think putting your money in bitcoin or whatever would provide any protection at all?

Edit: case in point:

> KYC and AML invert the burden of proof and are essentially an exception to the 4th amendment

Oooph.
by olalonde | 2025-08-21 17:15:32+00:00
What I described is actually extremely mundane. Maybe you started with Bitcoin Core and later switched to a lighter SPV wallet like Electrum when the blockchain got too big. Maybe you bought a hardware wallet and moved your BTC offline. Maybe you sent some to Binance to invest in Ethereum at some point. There are countless reasons to shuffle BTC around - and countless reasons why you couldn't prove your full transaction history dating back to 2012 - none of which involve any crimes.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-21 17:15:33+00:00
My comment was originally much larger, but I trimmed it because it was muddying my original point.

Yes, you can choose an index fund that's not cap-weighted S&P 500. However, any index fund that didn't have a substantial portion of its investments in NVDA and friends did very poorly over the last few years.

So either way, you're screwed.

- If your index has a lot of NVDA et al, you're exposed to lots of risk.

- If it doesn't, your investment values are currently a lot lower than they otherwise have been.

So ideally you would be in cap-weighted S&P now and for the last few years, and switch just before the seemingly inevitable crash.

But that's no longer "put it in an index fund and forget about it".
by thisisit | 2025-08-21 17:16:01+00:00
You seem to be unaware of world history or local politics.

India US relationship has historically been bad. It turned around only during the Bush administration with the civil nuclear treaty. So, this good relationship has been there for last 25 years or so. In comparison India has a longer history with Russia.

India was one of the first countries to start working on a deal with US. India subsidizes agriculture as much as US. Indian farmers are a big voting block. Hence the trade deal has been at stuck:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...

That means it is a political suicide for the current Indian government to sign any sort of deal with Trump unless the agriculture part is removed.

And as much you want to tout IT services, overall GDP contribution is 11.47% and pharma is 1.72%. Someone has told me that the remittances from India to US is 3%. All that combines to less than 19% contributed by agriculture.

Add the fact that previous US administration was okay with India buying Russian oil to help stabilize global oil prices: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-wanted-india-to-buy-russi...

That just pours more fuel on fire. Pun intended.

Additionally, I don't get why people keep thinking that getting deals is some sort of a master plan. Countries routinely break their deals. Its not only US - who you think has "lot of power" which gets to do that. Countries go to WTO to try and resolve it but US has chosen to side step that as well. Case in point US Canada diary dispute: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds103_e...

If you think US has "lots of power" and countries, in the long term, are not going to intentionally make things difficult, I have a bridge to sell you.
by adrr | 2025-08-21 17:16:47+00:00
I literally posted a deficit to GDP ratio showing the deficit drop when Labour came to power.

Here's a peer reviewed studies in major economic journals saying Brexit had negative affect on UK.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/iere.12541 - devalued pound https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002219962... - increased prices

Do you have any peer reviewed studies showing that it had no effect? THere's more studies showing decreased trade, huge decrease in foreign investments.
by MangoToupe | 2025-08-21 17:16:52+00:00
> So somehow Unity gave away or sold part of its engine and now China has a different fork of Unity that has some of the Unreal features built in along with lots of work on Cel-Shading.

Surely "china" had access to unity this entire time, no? Isn't this the entire point of open source? "Unity" needs to provide some value if it wants to retain control of what code is being executed.
by sillyfluke | 2025-08-21 17:17:07+00:00
You also will have saved them all the cost of the AI summaries that are incorrect as well.

The parent states:

>Not only are the summaries better than those produced by our human agents...

Now, since they have not mentioned what it took to actually verify that the AI summaries were in fact better than the human agents, I'm sceptical they did the necessary due dillengence.

Why do I think this? Because I have actually tried to do such a verification. In order to verify that the AI summary is actually correct you have to engage in the incredibly tedious task of listening to original recording literally second by second and make sure that what is said does not conflict with the AI summary in question. Not only did the AI summary fail at this test, it failed in the first recording I tested.

The AI summary stated that "Feature x was going to be in Release 3, not 4" whereas the in the recording it is stated that the feature will be in Release 4 not 3, literally the opposite of what the AI said.

I'm sorry but the fact that the AI summary is nicely formatted and has not missed a major topic of conversation means fuck all if the details that are are discussed are spectacularly wrong from a decision tracking perspective, as in literally the opposite of what is stated.

And I know "why" the Ai summary fucked up, because in that instance the topic of conversation was about how there was some confusion about which release that feature was going to be in, that's why the issue was a major item of the meeting agenda in the first place. Predicably, the AI failed to follow the convoluted discussion and "came to" the opposite conclusion.

In short, no fucking thanks.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-21 17:17:20+00:00
>For now, investors around the world continue to hoover up U.S. securities, which suggests they can't be all that pessimistic about the U.S. – or at least U.S. tech companies.

Say what you will about the valuations, but investors are often very headline narrative driven, and especially for foreigners, US markets are the place to be to gain access to the AI narrative. Buying SAP in Europe or tech names in China (where US style tech hyperscaling comes with a sword of damocles ever since the tech crackdown) just don't give the same exposure to that popular growth narrative.
by GabeIsko | 2025-08-21 17:17:26+00:00
I have been on the other side of this where engineers end up just being a technical support team, and are competed over to directly support accounts, and then there ends up being a plethora of hot fixes and custom solutions per customer. There is a ton of technical debt, because non of this stuff is tested properly and there are regressions all over the place. The whole thing goes under after a competitor, with their properly invested engineering resources makes a better and fully featured product than you.

To me, this screams a real failure of product management. They can't communicate the needs of their customer to their engineers or push back against them? Having engineers take sales calls is not going to scale when you have an actually mature base of customers.

If this product manager really wants Engineers to take sales calls, the Engineers need to earn part of the commission on the accounts. That is the only fair way to do this. I would never take a sales call without part of my compensation being commissions based.
by discardedrefuse | 2025-08-21 17:17:28+00:00
The end of the open web. That's what.

Sites will have to either shutdown or move behind a protection racket run by one of the evil megacorps. And TBH, shutting down is the better option.

With clickthru traffic dead, whats even the point of putting anything online? To feed AIs so that someone else can profit at my (very literal) expense? No thanks. The knowledge dies with me.

The internet dark age is here. Everyone, retreat to your fiefdom.
by ok123456 | 2025-08-21 17:17:41+00:00
The contents in question are statically generated, 1-3 KB HTML files. Hosting a single image would be the equivalent of cold serving 100s of requests.

Putting up a scraper shield seems like it's more of a political statement than a solution to a real technical problem. It's also antithetical to open collaboration and an open internet of which Linux is a product.
by didibus | 2025-08-21 17:18:25+00:00
> As someone who knows they are benefitting from AI (study shmuddy)

XD

Look, I get it, I still use it, but you have to admit, people also think that various bogus home remedy totally helps them get over a cold faster. There's absolutely a possibility it in no way makes us faster.

Now, you did say "benefit", that's more broad, and you implied things like polish, I've seen others mention it just makes the work easier, that could be a win in itself (for the workers). Maybe it's about accessibility. Etc.

I do think though, right now, we're all in the "home remedy" territory, until we actually measure these things.
by ranger207 | 2025-08-21 17:18:33+00:00
""a reduction in call volumes" by 2,000 a week" means people aren't calling in as much. How many problems people have per day is roughly constant, so the only change in how many calls they get is entirely dependent on how much people expect calling in is going to fix their problems. So a reduction in call volume means they're not fixing as many problems which means customers are less satisfied
by ramoz | 2025-08-21 17:18:35+00:00
We need to be integrated into the runtime such that an agent using it's arms is incapable of even doing such a destructive action.

If we bet on free will with a basis that machines somehow gain human morals, and if we think safety means figuring out "good" vs "bad" prompts - we will continue to feel the impact of surprise with these systems, evolving in harm as their capabilities evolve.

tldr; we need verifiable governance and behavioral determinism in these systems. as much as, probably more than, we need solutions for prompt injections.
by StevenWaterman | 2025-08-21 17:18:48+00:00
I'm currently working on adding a bot to our support chat at TalkJS. And it's great, it has probably a 90% success rate at handling complex queries. But that's because we're throwing money at it. That chat is normally staffed by senior devs, meaning it's not unusual for a single response to cost $10 of labour.

If you approach it as a cost cutting exercise, you end up with crap. If you approach it as a way to make a better experience while you sleep, it's achievable.
by tguvot | 2025-08-21 17:19:10+00:00
i won't deny that it was comfortable for bibi politically at later point of time. there was also hope that it will make hamas to behave more responsibly as they run "country" and to moderate.

but the fact remains that money transfers started because there was international pressure on Israel to do so in order to prevent "humanitarian catastrophe".

feel free to search contemporary news. it important to know history beyond recent flashy headlines.
by gpm | 2025-08-21 17:19:21+00:00
Fresh water isn't meaningfully a closed loop. We are draining fresh water aquifers, causing the land above them to sink downwards eliminating the voids where fresh water was stored, and moving the formerly fresh water into the ocean where it is no longer drinkable, usable for growing crops, or for most industrial purposes.

We do get new fresh water at a reasonable pace thanks to rain - but in many parts of the world we are using it faster than that, and not just depleting the stored volume of fresh water but destroying the storage "containers" themselves.
by SirMaster | 2025-08-21 17:19:22+00:00
For me, it's how can I get the slick and super convenient integrations between my phone, tablet, and laptop outside of Apple?

I am talking about Handoff, Continuity, iPhone mirroring (can use my iPhone and its apps while it remains locked somewhere), AirDrop, Continuity Camera, universal clipboard, iMessage, etc.
by kenjackson | 2025-08-21 17:19:32+00:00
AI definitely summarizes meetings better than me and _almost_ anyone else I've seen do it (there is one exception -- one guy was a meeting note taker god. He was so good that he set up a mailing list because so many people wanted to read his meeting notes.) I could probably do better than AI if I really tried, but I've only ever done that a few times.
by kazinator | 2025-08-21 17:19:38+00:00
You cannot teach "how to to think". You have to give students thinking problems to actually train thinking. Those kinds of problems can increasingly be farmed off to AI, or at least certain subproblems in them.

I meam, yes, to an extent you can teach how to think: critical thinking and logic are topics you can teach and people who take their teaching to heart can become better thinkers. However, those topics cannot impart creativity. Critical thinking is called exactly that because it's about tools and skills for separating bad thinking from good thinking. The skill of generating good thinking probably cannot be taught; it can only be improved with problem-solving practice.
by nneonneo | 2025-08-21 17:19:52+00:00
I mean, even back in 2021 the Clip model was getting fooled by text overlaid onto images: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/08/typograph...

That article shows a classic example of an apple being classified as 85% Granny Smith, but taping a handwritten label in front saying "iPod" makes it classified as 99.7% iPod.
by ethagknight | 2025-08-21 17:19:53+00:00
This highlights the potentially unrealistic spend on AI, where the proposal is to spend 10s of millions to save... marginal millions... that could have also been saved by a change in process with limited additional spend.

I also would assume that there are far more significant behavioral or human factors that consume the time writing those minutes, i.e. an easy spot to kill 5-10 min before opening the line for the next inbound call, but the 5-10 minute break will persist anyway.

I fully believe AI will create a lot of value and is revolutionary, especially for industries where value is hidden within data. Its the pace of value creation that stands out to me (how long til its actually useful and better and creates more value than it costs??) but the bubble factor is not ignorable on the near term.
by qingcharles | 2025-08-21 17:20:00+00:00
I've seen a lot of discovery in these criminal cases from Walmart. They do typically wait until the loss reaches a certain point before acting and then they will come with a mountain of photos and videos showing the offender picking up the items all the way to them leaving the store on each visit.

I remember one I saw where the guy was filling two shopping carts with laptops at each Walmart, each one so high he could barely see over them. Then pushing the two carts out through the tire shop area. Did this at multiple stores. Walmart only called the cops once it was over $60K estimated loss.
by latexr | 2025-08-21 17:20:04+00:00
For many years now, every time I have to talk with someone on a call centre there has been a survey at the end with at least two questions:

1. Would you recommend us?

2. Was the agent helpful?

I have a friend who used to work at a call centre and would routinely get the lowest marks on the first item and the highest on the second. I do that when the company has been shitty but I understand the person on the line really made an effort to help.

Obviously, those ratings go back to the supervisor and matter for your performance reviews, which can make all the difference between getting a raise or being fired. If anything, call centre employees have a lot of incentive to do a good job if they have any intention of keeping it, because everything they do with a customer is recorded and scrutinised.
14 years of building my own 2D game engine
by encelo | 2025-08-21 17:20:05+00:00
Fourteen years ago I started writing a 2D game engine as a personal side project. What began as a way to learn has grown into something I've maintained across jobs and countries, through rewrites, feature creep, and shifting technologies.

I recently gave a talk at /dev/games in Rome about what it's been like to maintain it for over a decade, from the technical challenges, the lessons learned, and the community aspects of keeping such a project alive.

Slides: https://encelo.github.io/nCine_14Years_Presentation/

PDF: https://encelo.github.io/nCine_14Years_Presentation/nCine_14Years.pdf

A video recording will be available soon on the conference's YouTube channel.
by adamrezich | 2025-08-21 17:21:23+00:00
When my mom attended the same high school I graduated from, in the 70s, kids who were hunters would leave firearms in racks on the back of their pickup trucks in the high school parking lot. Not only did said firearms never once get stolen or used to shoot anyone, but, such a thing was simply unthinkable.

When I attended the same high school in the 00s, we once were put on a district-wide lockdown because some kid at the other high school all the way across town had inadvertently left his paintball gun in the back seat of his (locked) car—after a weekend of fun in the woods with his friends—in the school parking lot, and a security officer saw it.

Now, today, we get periodic local PSAs urging people to not leave firearms in their locked cars in their own driveways at night, because people are breaking into cars, stealing the guns, and using them to commit crimes.

I won't speculate on how we forsook it, but clearly something here has been forsaken. That the way things were a mere ~50 years ago seems unthinkably impossible today clearly speaks volumes.
by dunham | 2025-08-21 17:21:50+00:00
As I understand it, dependent type theory requires higher order unification, which is undecidable. So they typically use bidirectional type checking instead of Hindley Milner.

With bidirection type checking, I think it only needs the unification when solving inserted implicits. So a plain dependent type theory wouldn't need it, but once you add implicit parameters, you do need it. They usually use pattern unification, which solves a subset of higher order unification problems, for those unification problems.
by mothballed | 2025-08-21 17:21:54+00:00
KYC and AML invert the burden of proof and are essentially an exception to the 4th amendment, that's why they're so controversial.

I tried to open a bank account when I was moving states before I had a local state ID or any utility bill or proof of address, no one would do it because they stated the standard the feds hold them to for KYC would essentially presume I am guilty of lying and require me to provide documentation to prove I'm not.
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-08-21 17:22:08+00:00
The real evil people here are the "artists" that have this kind of attitude. I still remember the "Digital Art isn't real Art" people, which btw still exist among your snobby "Fine Arts" crowds.

I think we should actually ban all digital art platforms, no Photoshop, no special effects, all hand drawn. And I'll use some weird weaponized empathy calling out for the human soul and human creativity.

What a toxic bunch.
by paul7986 | 2025-08-21 17:22:22+00:00
Present day AI (chatGPT 5) is not a complete graphic/web designer or front-end developer. My job and skills are safe from it as it can't...

- Make edits to the solid looking logos & web designs it spits out. Instead it creates brand new logos and designs ..not what i asked it to do!

- Front end code it doesn't spit a zip file with all the images. It does speed up my design/development (I use code to design) process where I use to design/develop in the browser using a bootstrap template.

Maybe it will finally figure it out and or maybe its just the Wizard of Oz .. a facade that grabs designs off the web and mixes some up but can never make edits.