MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drweevil | 2025-08-27 23:06:15+00:00
This is spot on. Life is what you make of it. You, your people, your community. Otherwise it has no real meaning. What do you matter, after all, to someone who isn't even aware of your existence? But to score their latest riches the would-be AI billionaires would disrupt this, destroying our reliance on each other within our communities. Because AI can do it better! Without understanding that "it" at all.

All this while consuming more electricity that ever before, during an emerging global climate crisis. And destroying our water supplies to boot. There is no good in any of this.

Miyazaki was absolutely right. Though I'll paraphrase him just a little: Capitalism is an insult to life itself.
by yesco | 2025-08-27 23:06:16+00:00
I definitely know what you mean, each model definitely has it's own style. I find myself mentally framing them as like horses with different personalities and riding quirks.

Still, perhaps saying "copy" was a bit misleading. Influence would have been more precise way of putting it. After all, there is no such thing as a "normal" writing style in the first place.

So long as you communicate with anything or anyone, I find people will naturally just absorb the parts they like without even noticing most of the time.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-08-27 23:06:31+00:00
In the street where I grew up they had to renumber most of the houses one year because a row of new buildings were built, so everyone that was further down the street than the new houses had to have their numbers increased so that the new houses could be given numbers that were in order with where along the street they were built.

I wonder if that sort of renumbering is common or not, and if Japan is better at planning that sort of thing also.

I was too young at the time to know if this lead to any mail delivery issues, and I imagine the postal delivery service was made aware of the change. But I would think that even if they were notified it would sometimes be the case that if your house used to be say number 53 and now it’s 73 that mail that was intended for you ends up in the mail box of the house that used to be 33 and is now 53.

Even if not at first then at least like 3 years later when some random company still has your old address on file and most other mail for everyone in the street is usually addressed to updated numbers.
Optimizing is not only for better performance
by jaharios | 2025-08-27 23:07:04+00:00
Developing using the optimize latter approach can lead to worse experience especially when you can save building/compiling time for a project with basic optimization.

I found out that I could cut the startup time (importing/ model loading time) in a project in half, after I started optimizing. (Running a profiler and finding out what takes time and cutting unused imports/stuff from used libraries and doing the work in parallel for time consuming stuff).

This lead to faster bug fixing and testing because less time was spend at startup. So I was able to add features and test them with multiple restarts in half the time without loosing focus on the waiting time, making development way more smooth.

In conclusion, yeah leave out optimization at start, but as soon you have something working, make sure you are not wasting time while developing.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-27 23:07:05+00:00
When I learned that AI was trained off of internet posts, and then LLMs were the new bots making internet posts, it immediately made me think that the entire internet would degrade like a jpeg that you keep compressing and sending around

I guess this is called model collapse

But now I’m wondering if people are collapsing. LLMs start to sound like us. We adapt and start to sound like LLMs that gets fed into the next set of model training…

What is the dystopian version of this end game?
by SchemaLoad | 2025-08-27 23:07:23+00:00
Maybe it's different by country, but I feel like fraud isn't a huge issue for the end user anymore. A couple times I've had random transactions on my account seemingly from database leaks / stolen card details, and every time the bank has either sent me a notification asking me to approve the suspicious transaction, or has refunded me the amount later.

As long as you don't initiate the transaction, you get your money back easily.
by deltaburnt | 2025-08-27 23:07:29+00:00
When I started, I was told that one of the easier ways to get promo at L5 was to become a manager. I don't know how true that was at the time, but I think this could be a consequence of that sort of local optimizing. I think now they don't even allow you to be a manager at L5 unless you're grandfathered in?
by sneak | 2025-08-27 23:09:09+00:00
Not all programs misbehave in this way. Signal desktop lets you turn off this vulnerability, and of course iOS apps and normal macOS apps are not allowed to self-modify, as it breaks their signature.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos/issues/122
by nowittyusername | 2025-08-27 23:09:41+00:00
A while back a study was performed where the researchers wanted to see how a young chimpanzee would adapt to living life with humans if it was treated just like a human child. And so it was adopted by a family with a human child for its sibling. What ended up happening was the human child adapted to behaving like a chimp to a way larger degree then the chimp behaving like a human.... Humans capacity for imitation is very strong, and so no one should be surprised that our behavior with chatbots will mold the minds and speech patterns and behaviors of the human users.
by lillecarl | 2025-08-27 23:09:49+00:00
Do we use the precautionary principle when we run nuclear, build dams and burn coal as well or is this an extra thing because it's a potentially good way to reuse EV batteries? I don't think we should build these hand-me-down EV batteries near population centers, but my understanding is that the worst case scenario would be the plant burning down and releasing bad things (hello coal & natgas) into the atmosphere?

If we could develop some basic standards for packs (which voltage steps per row and some kind of connector interface standard like for charging) I think we have a really good way to maximize the lifetime and use of EV batteries to help the environment.

I paraphrase Bill Gates: There's no one energy source which will save us, many will complement eachother.
by gruez | 2025-08-27 23:09:53+00:00
>But the TDP doesn’t have anything to do with how much power the cpu will draw or how much heat it will generate in practice. Those numbers vary quite a lot; the CPU continuously adjusts it’s own frequency multiplier based on it’s own measured temperature, meaning it’ll draw more power if you cool it better.

I don't get it, are you referring to the phenomenon that different workloads have different power consumption (eg. a bunch of AVX512 floating point operations vs a bunch of NOPs), therefore TDP is totally made up? I agree that there's a lot of factors that impact power usage, and CPUs aren't like a space heater where if you let it run at full blast it'll always consume the TDP specified, but that doesn't mean TDP numbers are made up. They still vaguely approximate power usage under some synthetic test conditions, or at the very least is vaguely correlated to some limit of the CPU (eg. PPT limit on AMD platforms).
by olddustytrail | 2025-08-27 23:09:59+00:00
What papers? Give me something solid to go on here.

What is the practical difference? If it's so obvious it should be straightforward to point it out!

Edit: let me put it more bluntly. If God had created the universe 6000 years ago and just made it seem older, how could you tell the difference from the creator of a simulation doing exactly the same thing?
by suriya-ganesh | 2025-08-27 23:10:05+00:00
I vibe with this entirely.

Rust to me makes a lot more sense. The compiler gives reasonable errors, the code structure is clean and it's obvious where everything should go.

I just can't deal with Typescript at all. There is a sense of uncertainty in TypeScript that is just unbearable. It is really hard to be confident about the code.
by hungarianhc | 2025-08-27 23:11:31+00:00
100GB of data storage doesn't cost us that much money, since we're based on object storage.

You're right that the word "forever" implies outlasting the life of our company. But while we're around and existing, we will not take away the free plan from anyone who has it, and we intend to keep it around for new users.

It's not just that we're raging philanthropists. We want to make money, but our business model is to make money off the larger use-cases, not take $100 / month from people with a credit card.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-08-27 23:11:40+00:00
Personally I'd like to see a move away from just giving your card details to a website and having them charge it for whatever they want. Because it just ends up that stolen details go around and get used for fraud easily.

Should be moving to a system where setting up payments with a new provider has them request access to charge you, and then on the bank app you approve it. Australia has this as a fairly new system called PayTo, where you can approve and later unapprove individual merchants the ability to charge you.
by lp0_on_fire | 2025-08-27 23:12:42+00:00
“Slip-sliding into fascism”? Please.

This is the same tired melodramatic trope that’s played out every time anyone even remotely to the right wins an election in the United States.

It should be no surprise that many people, myself included, aren’t interested in “discussion and debate” that amounts to “anyone who is disagrees with me is cartoonishly evil”.
by Sparyjerry | 2025-08-27 23:12:49+00:00
Shenanigans of its founder being falsely accused of doing a Nazi salute when he was just waiving and not agreeing with certain peoples politics. When someone tries to compare someone to the most evil person that has ever existed then odds are that person is lying through their teeth. On one had we have a 'wave,' literally, and on the other hand we have genocide. It's incredible to me how many people choose not to see through the lies about Elon Musk, even though they have the capability, and to this day think he is a nazi.
by mandevil | 2025-08-27 23:12:50+00:00
As someone who has worked in companies from <30 to >100k, I would say that what an EM does is more about communication. Think of a company with m employees as a m by m matrix, with a 1 where there regular communication and a 0 where there is no communication and a 0.5 for those hallway meetings which our CEO's assure us are why RTO is so important.

In a small company (let's say anything under Dunbar's Number), you have a very dense network organically, and EM's aren't necessary. As the company grows larger, the matrix becomes sparser and sparser- until you get to something like Google (180k employees plus maybe that many again contractors) and you have almost all 0's. So an EM's job is to solve the communication problem, because information still needs to flow around the company, in and out, whether it's "do this project" or "another team already solved this problem" or "this project is a never-ending world of pain and should be ended" to "employee 24601 is awesome and should be given more responsibility."
by charcircuit | 2025-08-27 23:13:11+00:00
>but rather that Google must not take away the device owner's choice to install any app he so chooses.

This is fair to make and a better strategy. My comment was about calling out the messaging or strategy that the author went with. Choosing an idea of people should be able to decide the apps they are able to run is more agreeable of a message than a message of "think about developers who want to avoid consequences of breaking the law." The latter is an antisocial message that I do not think is as agreeable.

>We all agree that some amount of criminal activity must be tolerated

I don't agree with that. Especially with the upcoming rise of AI law enforcement. Much more freedom than a cell can be given while maintaining effective law enforcement.
by sneak | 2025-08-27 23:14:20+00:00
I’m talking about the entire federal budget, primarily the big ones: federal healthcare and the military and adjacent paramilitary forces (like DHS/FBI/ICE). I also think the state should be entirely out of the education and research business.

It of course includes the social services you speak of too, but those are barely a drop in the bucket compared to the public-private wealth transfer that is the military-industrial complex.

The president simply isn’t permitted to dismantle it; there are too many stakeholders way more powerful than the holder of that single office that will not permit it.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-27 23:14:42+00:00
I wonder if these state laws are at some point going to collide with Apple’s Private Relay service. It’s included with an iCloud subscription, and very easy to turn on, so I imagine Apple has way, way more users than a typical VPN provider. And they make no effort to ensure your exit node is in the same state as you are. A most it will keep the same “general location,” and there’s an option to let it use anything in the same country and time zone.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-27 23:15:36+00:00
If someone wants to look for their lost cat in a snowstorm should they be able to make that decision even if they could regret it in the future due to health reasons of going out in the cold to save their cat? I believe they should be able to make that decision for themselves. It's not the responsibility of your door manufacter to deny you the ability to go outside because it knows better than you and it is too dangerous.
by mothballed | 2025-08-27 23:15:51+00:00
Consent can sometimes be a frustrated interpretation of it. Marissa Anderson missed an appointment (according to her, because she was feeling ill) after seeking a doctor's advice on dealing with some issues with her infant repeatedly vomiting and failure to take up food. Ultimately they figured out that the child was having trouble with some of the introduced food and would only take breast milk, but the doctors worked with police to have the child taken and "treated" against their will when she did not consent to show up to an appointment on that particular day.

During the forced intake the child was found to be acutely stable, with no emergent medical emergency (the kind often used to bypass consent)[], although underweight. The doctors tried to have the child put into foster care ( A doctor was recorded stating it was "not medically necessary" to transfer the baby, obfuscated as prolongation of medical care, to another location to assist in this attempt) to force the care that they wanted, but ultimately public demand (by Ammon Bundy, more notoriously known in association with 'militia' groups) forced them to relinquish on that pretty quickly.

So it can be very confusing with doctors. It is malpractice if they don't get your consent. But then also malpractice if they do.

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by ASalazarMX | 2025-08-27 23:15:53+00:00
I asked Gemini flash for a 200-word paragraph on a random topic, which most people would confidently classify as LLM-generated. It produced a verbose, big-worded, third-person slop about the concept of time that IMO fulfilled my prompt (although a phillosopher firnd of mine would be a strong contestant).

> The concept of "time" is a multifaceted and complex topic that has captivated philosophers, physicists, and everyday individuals for centuries. From a scientific perspective, time can be understood as the fourth dimension of spacetime, inextricably linked with the three spatial dimensions. This notion, introduced by Einstein's theory of relativity, posits that the flow of time is not constant but can be influenced by gravity and velocity. In a more quotidian context, time is a framework for organizing events and measuring duration, allowing for the structuring of daily life and historical records. It is a fundamental element in every human endeavor, from a scheduled meeting to the progression of a civilization. The subjective experience of time, however, is a fascinating aspect, as it can feel as if it is speeding up or slowing down depending on our emotional state or the nature of our activities. This divergence between objective and subjective time highlights its elusive and deeply personal character.

I asked it to add three spelling mistakes, then to make it so most people would confidently classiffy it as human writing, and it changed to first-person and small words.

> Time is a super weird concept when you really think about it, right? It's like, one minute you're just chillin', and the next, a whole day's gone by. They say it's the fourth dimention, which is a wild idea on its own, but honestly, it feels more personal than that. Your experiance of time can totally change depending on what you're doing. A boring meeting can feel like it lasts forever, while a fun night with friends flies by in a flash. That huge diverence between how we feel time and how it actually works is what makes it so fascinating and kind of confusing all at once.

It has the three misspellings, and if the topic was more casual, It could fool me indeed. Maybe I should have asked for spelling mistakes commonly made by Spanish speakers.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-27 23:16:19+00:00
That's a poster case for it being derivative works then. And of course, the more concentrated the input mixture the bigger the chance of some of that emotion leaking through.

I think there is a great case to be made here using purely synthetic sounds as the basis for emotion. Vangelis (Soil festivities), Klaus Doldinger (Skyscape) are great examples. These are sounds that have been produced exclusively by the mind and in spite of there not being a physical instrument involved they manage to convey imagery and emotion extremely effectively. This is technology used as an enabler. I've yet to come across someone using AI tech in the same liberating manner unlocking novel imaginary constructs in the way that those two did.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-08-27 23:16:23+00:00
TLM role was both the best and worst role in tech.

Best in that the TLM generally has complete control over the product execution (and can commonly bulldoze the PM). It's amazing if you have a solid vision of what you want and you want to get it done.

Worst in that the workload can be intense as the team grows.
by woooooo | 2025-08-27 23:16:25+00:00
Im saying that people live in a culture, and that sets the parameters of what's conceivable.

You're commenting from the post-reagan consensus, which inevitably leads to Intel's current situation. But it doesn't have to be like that, America had a different consensus from 1930-1970.

(BTW, deepseek was trained on nvidia.)

Xi doesn't personally set every industrial policy in China, its a ton of people all over the country. Culture.
by yesco | 2025-08-27 23:16:34+00:00
Perhaps a surreal one where we drill past the bedrock and start to communicate in raw tokens, conveying extreme levels of depth and nuance within a single sentence?

When humans carved words into stone, the words and symbols were often suited for the medium, a bunch of straight lines assembled together in various patterns. But with the ink, you get circles, and elaborate curved lines, symbols suited to the movement patterns we can make quickly with our wrist.

But what of the digital keyboard? Any symbol that can be drawn in 2 dimensions. They can be typed quickly, with exact precision. Human language was already destined to head in a weird direction.
by gruez | 2025-08-27 23:20:28+00:00
If that's "surveillance capitalism", what's your opinion on databases that map phone numbers to locations? eg. when you get a phone call from 217-555-1234, and it shows "Springfield, IL"? Is that "surveillance capitalism"? That's basically all geoip databases are. Moreover there's plenty of non "surveillance capitalism" uses for geoip that make it questionable to call it "surveillance capitalism". Determining the region for a site, or automatically selecting the closest store, for instance. Before the advent of anycast CDNs, it was also basically the only way to route your visitors to the closest server.
by Sparyjerry | 2025-08-27 23:20:35+00:00
Supporting DOGE is an extremely intelligent thing to do with the amount of debt our government has, 34 TRILLION last time I checked. Supporting a democratically electable party, and eventually the elected president of your choice is the right and moral thing to do by all objective measures, including if you believe in majority rule. Politics is always about disagreement and every generation thinks their disagreements are the most dire, but in reality live moves on. By siding with the literal winning party you are defacto 'moral' in the eyes of the majority.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-27 23:20:39+00:00
I know that ethernet MACs typically provide a dynamic mechanism to change the fractional phase increment of the timestamp counter, but it is clear from the gPTP specification that what is referred to as the "Local Clock" at each station is free running with respect to the PTP time base and with respect to connected peers. "Local Clock" is the time used to timestamp packet arrival/transmit times. "PTP Time" (i.e. TAI if we're GPS synchronised) is an independent logical time, separate from Local Time at each station.

It is very clear that there is no feedback loop in 802.1AS (gPTP). I can't speak to other PTP versions. Local clocks (used, among other things for peer delay estimation) are specified to be free running with respect to the PTP time base and to connected peers, not disciplined to PTP Time, asynchronous, not synchronised, not syntonised. The peer delay mechanism equations compensate for both time offset and rate difference in peer local clocks. Furthermore, in order to average estimates over multiple measurements, time offset and rate difference are assumed to be stable (i.e. messing with the rate of a local clock violates invariant assumptions of the peer delay algorithm).

A few more qualifications: I am talking here about non-master peers. I think it might be compliant for the grand master to discipline the local clock to the time source (e.g. GPS PPS), provided it appears stable to connected peers, but it is not at all required by the protocol. Similarly, you might discipline Local Clock to some other stable clock, or to perform temperature compensation. In principle you could synchronise Local Clock to system clock (both free-running with respect to PTP time) so that your packet timestamps are automatically in sys-clock timebase. Once again, there is nothing in the PTP spec that requires this, but the potential utility is clear on a general purpose OS (not necessarily so on an embedded device).
by TGower | 2025-08-27 23:21:04+00:00
I would disagree, for example section 230 reads "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." The content of the site is obviously speech/press, but the decision to operate the site doesn't seem like it is. Very possible I'm mistaken and there is case law to the contrary though, it's a nuanced argument either way
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-27 23:21:19+00:00
I'd assume most countries don't bother remapping when it comes to Street numbers ?

France has a suffix system, so you if a buildings are added between 24 and 25 you'll get 24 bis, 24 ter etc.

Japan doesn't care about the ordering in the first place, so a block added between 24 and 25 and 26 will be 32 without any issue.